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3 THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: DECEMBER 10, 1894. THE MACON TELEGRAPH. PUBLISHED EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR AND WEEKLY. Office 569 Mulbe-nv Street. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH—Delivered by earners to tbe city, or mailed, poetise tree, (S cents a month; $1.75 tor threo months; $$.50 tor six months; 57 tor one year;'every day except Sunday, $6. (THff TRLWEEKLT TELEGRAPH—Mon days, Wednesdays and Friday*, or Tues days Thursdays and Saturdays Three months, 11; six months, $2; one year, it THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH—By mall, one year. 12. SUBSCRIPTIONS—Payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or regis tered letter. Currency by mall at risk ot sender. COMMUNICATIONS—All communications should be addressed, and all orders! checks, drafts! etc., mads payable to THE TELEGRAPH, Macon, Ga. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS; The Telegraph Is sending out to Its stTrcribers a bi-weekly, which goes to ahem ou Mondays and Thursdays at a cost of etily SI a y:'r. Examine the label on your paper and see how you stand. If in arrears, send ia dues to the oflice. and send a dollar additional for renewal for another year. It Is impossible for our agents to call on you, and you should not wait for them, but remit at once. It requires cash to run a newspaper. Send remittances by registered letter, or postal order, or checks.' The Telegraph proposes Ito subscribers, and requests a speedy re mittance of all dues. Address iMacon Telegraph, Macon, Ga. LITTLE CHANCE FOR REFORM. The Washington dispatches show that while tho proposition to adept a cloture rule in the scuaie is 'strongly supported, there is little probability that anyth in; will be done at this short session. In the absence of such a rule, a small minority can prevent anything from being done. In fact, it requires practically unanimous consent to the adopt’on of a rule which will cease .to make ununimous consent nec essary before a vote can be taken in the senate. It is true that with the consent of the vice-president and his sctiVe aid In revolutionary proceedings, oven • strong opposition to the adop tion of tho now rule might be de feated, Hut it Is not all likely that be will consent to take part in such a rev olution. There Is no doubt, however, that Sen ator Vest has behind him tbe nublio opinion of the country in bis efforts to induce the senate to adopt this* neces sary rule. It Is true enough that tbe scutate can get nlolig, after a fashion, without it. It has done so, now for iiltmut ninety years. But during tho greater part of that time there was no such practice as filibustering. By the oourtesy of tho senate It was always possible to arrive at a vote on any propoaDt'on iwithln a reasonable time. Senators, without regard to party, were more strictly bound by tbe sense of propriety then than they have shown themselves to bo ot late years. Baring our recent history, it hap been common for a minority to take advantage of the senate’s inability to control tbe course ef Its own business, through tho lack of this rule, to practically block nil business for weeks uud moutbs at a time, for no better reason than that It had the power to do so. The-lack of a rule by which debate could be closed and a vote had, has, during, tho last, year or two, cost this country hun dreds of millions of dollars. The de lay over the tariff bill from the 1st of February to August was an experience which this country will not be slow to forget. It oost the sonue the confi dence of tho country un a law-making Ixsly, under Its present code of rules, and the public is quite ready to surren der whatever advantage there may be In tho conservatism which is compelled by the absence of a rule closing debate in the senate, If In exchange it can ob tain some guarantee that a few facuoa- ist* cannot obstruct legislation de manded by the groat major.ty of the people. Tho change in Lbe so jate’e rules by which the majority will lw able to oontrol Its law-making power may be delayed, but It will tome. As we have said, an overwhelming publio opinion condemns tho practice which permits any crank or corruptionists to block the legislative machine of this great country. A GOOD IDEA. A day or two ago the Telegraph printed an open letter written by H. Wsxelbaum & Son of thi« *;ty, wh'ch acema to have attracted cousderablo attention. The leading Idea in that letter iwss that many failure have been due to a lads of the proper de gree of confidence between debtors end creditors. It bos no doubt frequently happened that a Uobt-i?, finding him self hard pressed for means to meet Ids engagements, has come to look upon hs creditor* almost as enemies— as men watting to psuut upon It's e» tate at a moment's notice. Actuated by this idea, he has taken steps which made necessary tbe closing up of his bux'neas and perhaps reduced him to a state of complete bankrupicy when, if he bad given his creditors a clear un derstanding of the situation, they would liavo given him time to work out his debts, without sacrifice of his property. It Is entirely true, as stated in this letter, that even w.ih cotton u; five cents a pound the South i» better off than some other parts of tho country. Money Is scarce because It is <« cotton that the South roJies to bring money, but there is no actual want, anil there is 'o til's serHon n oolM tvtala on whirl' to build up the prosperity that is cer tain to oomc with a revival of business confidence. Thera is no reason why anybody should fall nto despair over the situation. Useless despondency will only render recovery more difficult and slower. If the course of conduct sug gested in this lot tar to both debtors and creditors U< generally adopted, very much will be done to make recovery prompt. The business community has everything to gain from standing to gether, and everything to lose by the unnecessary siorifloe of the business of Individual members. NOT AFRAID OF DEBT. ’ The French pubi c debt is by long odds tlte largest in the world, and amounts to something between seven and eight ibMion dollars. In the time of peace during the last twenty years, it has steadily increased at the ralte, perhaps, of fifty millions a year, the revenues of the republic always fati ng short of tlie expenditure. It would be come prudent statesmen, under cir cumstances like .these, to be cautious in spending the public mouey when ex penditure was not absolutely neces sary, but French statesmen seem to be anyth ng but prudent. So long .is the French people arc willing to lend the government money, they scent to think that the public debt Is no curse and do not look upon its Increase with any apprehension. It's for this reason, perhaps, that the chamber o' deputies votes tsri-A /ot» ijttle foreign wars without hesitation. Ouly a few days ago a credit for the war n Mad agascar wus voted without hesitation, though l-t is possible that the expedi tion, before '.It is successful, will have cost France a hundred million dollars Against this vast expense may be bal anced an amount of territory in that far oft island which s very considera ble In extent, but which can be worth very littlo so far as the actual returns In profits to tho French people are con cerned. Perhaps a hundred yeirs will pass before that island w.ll be a great market for French goals—and what may not happen in n hundred years? The French are not a colonizing people. They are not increasing in numbers, and it is entirely wtth'n the range of possibilities that if the count.} s de- slmble, the people of other races will go in and possess the land. The estab lish ng of military authority over Mad ngasoar or any other outlying territory can lie worth very little to the con quering state, unless conquest is fol lowed by an Immigration that w'U give to the noquired territory souiutiilrg of the character of that state. But the French seem to be particularly open to the dictates of a naltlotval van ty which leads them to Incur uny expense thht may be noocssary to make tho populace believe that France is more than hold lag her own in the race for greatness. The war In Anam grow out ot this feeling, and Anam baa been a costly and unprofitable colony. Perhaps his tory Is about to bo repeated in the rase of Madagascar. Many millions will bo spent, many Uvea w.ll lie lost, much nufTer ug endured, and, as a result, Franca will have a colony which is without profit and without honor to her. JAPAN'S TERMS. The dlspatchos report that Japan ha* stated to China the terms on which she Is w iling to make peace. They aro tbe payment of four hundred million yen and the oaMlon of all the territory Which lias been conquered by tho Jap anese armies. The yen Is a Japancso ooin worth about fifty centa In our cur rency, and tho Indemnity demanded, therefore, amounts to about two hun dred million dollars. The territory .n- Voiced lx nek large in extent, outside of Corea, but 't includes strategic points of the utmont Importance to tho safety of the Chinese empire among them Port Arthur, tho great naval sta tion at one side of the strait which con nects tho Gulf cf Pcchir with the sen of Japan. These terms are very hard. The sum of money is not beyond thu ability of China to piy, and if that alone were demand'd, perhaps Chinn would yield. But the cession of terri tory,’and particularly of Port Arthur, wotfifi endanger the safety of tho em pire, anil there is little probability that It will be oonsesited to by China or by the European nations which are inter ested in the preservation of the balniwe of power n tOo oast. In nuking these demands, however, it Is very probable thxk Japan did so with a view to com promise. In’ asking a great deal morn than will be yielded, she expect* to get what she’s willing to take a* tbe price of pence. That price really is the .pay ment of the expense* of the war and a dominant voice in the control. If not the posseaakn, of Corea, it is evident tbat Ch'na now knows that the war has gone hopelessly against her, and that she 1s witling to make peace on almost any term*. Tbe terms roust be satisfactory, however, not only to Chi na, but to England and Russia espe cially of tbe European powers. These two nations seem to regard Asa as a consist from which life is slowly de parting, and which, when dead, they expect to cot up between themselves. Their consent will be Mocsaury to tho terms of any settlement between tho two belligerent*. If etiter were free of iHh cpposR'rm of the other. It would simply dictate the terms of peace, but opposed as they are to each other, they have the common purpose of main lin ing the status quo practically un changed, and though they will consent to (he humiliation of China, they will not consent that she be so weakened as not to be able to defend herself against her Japanese enemies. NOT MUCH CHANCE. Mr. Carlisle's currency plan meets with general approval in the South, and the West seems favorably dis posed toward it. Tlte Btst, always ultra-conservative in suoli matters, re gards It somewhat coldly. In a long sess’on, with plenty of time for dis cussion, it is probable that the plan, more or less amended, would lie adopt ed by congress. In a shore session, when there is little time for anything except the appropriat'on bills, it Is to be feared that nothing w II ho done with it. It cannot be denied that a change in our currency laws so mo mentous as this requires most exhaust ive discussion. Every detail of it should be carefully considered, even Utougli Lite general principle on which the plan is constructed bo admitted to bo sound. It is not probable, therefore that relief from the present currency la ws w'H be had for n year or two yet, ami then only with tlte con sent of a Republican congress. Tills Is very much to be regretted. It is true that a change in the currency laws and the unavoidable uncertainty attending experiments, would do some Hi mg to increase the uncertainty n business .cin-lea already existing, but if the plan adopted were a wise one, this d'sndv.int.ige would bo very short lived nnd the recovery, resulting from the benefits of the now system, would bo far more rapid than it era be under existing conditions. In spite of the un favorable outlook, we have some hope that tbe universal sense of the neces sity at doing something may have its effect in congress. THE NICARAGUA SCHEME. The Wnsb'nghm dUqfcachcs indicate that n determined effort will be made ut this short session of .congress to se cure from tbe United States treasury the money to build the Nicaragua ca nal. No direct appropriation will bo sought, but tho effect is the same if the government guarantees bonds of the company, binding Itself to pay ^tr'nclpal and jnterest. It is this which the company seeks to have the govern ment do. There is no question that the build ing of tbe at mil is n work of grc.it im portance, nor that its open ng would bo greatly beneilcUil to the commerce off the United Slates, nod particularly to that off the Southern states. It* con struction is therefore very much to lto desired, but It is very much to bo ques tioned whether congress is Justified In lami ng either tho money nr the credit of tho people to pay for its construc tion. Experience in the construction off the Pacific nillroada-dk pretty good proof that the government would never got its money back, but that the- profits of‘tlte ootorprse would »o to tbe pri vate incorporator*. In our opinion, the canal ought to be built either by pr.- vote persons ns a money making enter prise, out of their own resources, or 't ought to lie built wholly by the govern ment. Tlte first plan is very much to be preferred, even though the cost lie greater, os It is said't would be. The advantages to be gained by private ownership would utoro titan offset this increased cost. But if tbe mean*'can not be obta'ncd by private poison* to build tlte canal, and It is absolutely nec essary that it be imitt, as many pcoplo contend, tln-n R should Ik- undertaken by tho government as a public work. The government then might lose some thing through the incompetoncy o.- dis honesty of Its awn servants, but ut hast It would liavo complete ownership and control of tbe property nrnl would nut be subject to loss from tbe sharp practices that have result'd in the loss of praccienlly nil the money invested by it in tbo building of -lie I’ae.Hc roads. There are difficulties :u the way of carrying out tit's pLfn ns well as the other, but they ore not insuperable. DESERTING ITS “PRlNClt’LES.’ Tlte development a ml decadence of now pof t cal parties la always a curious and aimiewhat Interesting study. When the l*i-'pie’s party first effected tin or ganisation and put out a platform, it stood for tile must advanced socialistic idea* ever advocated by a p.dOcql par ty in the United finite*. First of ail. It was for the sul'•treasury plan. Then It svas for government ownership of railroads nnd telegraph lines. Us mast trusted leaders demand'd that coal and Itron m'.ro-s should become common property, and perhaps a demand to this effect appeared In somo of the plat forms of the party. All In all, the par ty stood as the rupresentatlre of thd discontented people Who, having failed to achieve the success to wh'ch they felt themselves entitl'd, look'd to tho fort on tlu-ir part, the results of such success. But what a change is now ap- govemment to give them, without el- parent! I’cthaps men who were sln- cerely and ntelllgeatly Populists are still socialists—*till desire tbat the gov ernment shall absorb all power and undertake to core for and make com fortable all cititens—but the party It self, yielding to political exigencies, is apparently drawing *wiy from all of its origin.d purposes. It is becoming simply it free silver party and notb’ng more. A dispatch say* that a conven tion wilt Is- held la the next two months nt -which the Populists w'H deckle whether they wUl put aside all other questions nnd go to the country simply on the demand for the free coinage ot silver at tho 10 to 1 ratio. Tbe men who wore sincerely in favor of the sub- treasury plan and who ridiculed the free silver scheme by saying that it wouldodil someth ug like thirty cents a year per capita to the currency of the country must ttnd themselves in a rather painful position if they ar» still Populists. All the things which they thought were essential to the,wel fare of the country have been aban doned by their party, or are about to be abandoned. This change of policy is of course due to the conviction on Uto part of the Populist leaders that in this way they can best got into power. Poss.bly they are right. At least it is probable that they will get more votes as a free stiver party than as a semi, or wholly, social ist party. But If they hope, having once got into power, to carry out all of their original schemes, they ought to be taught by tlte recent experience of the Demooratic party that such hope is fallacious. It is practically impos sible for a party, even though it have possession of every branch of the gov ernment, to enact Into laws ideas which have not been fully understood and ac cepted by its mcmliers before the elec tion. WIlcii It comes to the actual work of legislation its representatives w'll refuse to be bound to any united action, just ns Democrats in this con gress refused to be lmind by any com mon policy as to the currency, because during the campaign there had not In-on a common understanding of tho pur poses to be achieved. It is possible, if the Populists ltecame merely a free sil ver party, that they will draw largely from llte R'<pul>l!oons of iho West trad the Democrats of the South, but, In our judgment, they will even then have no chance of Wiuu'ug uuyuiLug more titan mere local victories. In fact, we be lieve that a return of prosperity to tha country, with the passing away of the effects of the recent pait.e, w'll reduce the free silver Issue in politics to one of comparative unimportance, nnd w'th its importance will pass away the par ty making the demand for free silver coinage its only claim to public couald- eniition. This was the history of tho greenback craze, onco form.dablo in Its effect cm polit os, but which disappeared almost completely a fuw year* after tile panic of 1873. THE SUGAR TRUST. The straggle in the senate during (ho last session of congress to preserve the differential duty on sugar Imposed by the McKinley la w, or someth' ng equiv alent, was so fierce nnd protracted that it came near wrecking the Democratic party. Its effects were seen in the tre mendous defeat suffered In tile elections by that pi fly. It did more tlm any other one thing to conv'nee tlte couutry that the Democratic par.y otm'.d not be trusted to carry out its programme of reform, nud so disguai-Nl Democrats that ulvmt a milieu of them did not care whether or not tholr party was defeated. It would seem that tho belie- lielary of Ill's disoNnt'.nation, tlte su gar trust, would have learned a lesson finun tlte result* of the election. Its manager* should nave seen that tho popular bid gnation nguiu*: the trust and against the men who were it* ser vants was so g.mt that. If g veu tin opportunity. It would he spt In vent itself in action that would, wipe out tlte advantages which the trust enjoys unflor the law. But apparently the sugar trust offi cials are ndlffermvt to popular opinion. Our telegram* yesterday tohl how the trust had determined to squeeze out of the Louisiana planter* about all the profits that protection give* them Not content with the ndvanuge* deliberately given to the trust by the law, they aro determ in'd to take to tiiemsnlvsa al*o tlte advantage* which Uut law give* to their alT.es/ It is not wonderful that these allies, who stood by llte trust so faithfully during the straggle in con gress, are now 'ndlgnant. It canuot be pleasant to them to know that after being false to the.r ptrty for the sake of protection to their business, tne profits of that protection we to lie squeezed out of them by tltoae whom they served. Mr. Cleveianil's recom mendation that the dlffitrm’ial duty ho wiped out will probably have no more nrdent suppirters than these same Lou isiana planters, who went out of tbe Democratic party because It was not kind enough to them in bestowing fa vors at the eXipeiiKe of other people. But this is not the full extent of the sugar trust’* activity. Apparently, it* managers consider themselves perfectly secure, and after demanding nud re-> coving protection that puts fifteen or twenty million* a yeor in the pockets of tho few owner* cf rennet-;its, they abut down their works and throw twen ty-five or thirty thousand people out of employment, without notice, on the plea that more protection is needed. The president, In bis message, very truly says that “if, with all the favors now accorded the sugar refining inter ests 'Ji our tariff law*, U «.IU lan guishes to tbe exteot of closed refin eries and thousands of discharged work men, it wpuld seem to present a hope less ease for rcmonablo legMatlre aid.” A revenue duty on sugar Is about tbe best means of mis ng money which tbo government can adopt. It U a tax which wiU raise tbe most money with the least burden on tbe people. A duty on sugar, therefore. Is right and proper. It is imposed now and should be re tained, but the trust, by its acts, ha* made a differential duty, laid lor its benefit ami not produoiive of any rev enue, almost a crime. We hope it will bo repealed at this srasion of congress, and possibly it may be, uosr that tho trust has commenced war on its lata allies in congress. ITEMS OF INTEREST. At a Duluth elevator a cargo of 115,- 000 bushels of wheat, weighing 3,450 toe*, was poured Into the hold of a take steamship in just eighty minutes, xsuti is to say, the grain wtut loaded at the rate of forty-three tons a min ute until the work was finished. The annual report of the superin tendent of the Wfe-savtmg service shows <a retmarlcalbly good record for the past year. Three hundred and oiglhty vessels In distress were nsristed. On these vessels were 4,054 persona, of whom' only 61 lost their lives. The es timated value of Uhe cargo of these vessels was 110,000,000, and of this $7,638,000 was Raved. The cost of the service to the country was about $1,- 250,000. The Boston pottos commissioners think they have discovered « way to get biliter work out of the police by decorating thorn for any specially mer itorious aotpoa. They hive prepared a medal for the purpose, whbch will be aiMtnded to the ofllcvire on resolution of Che board in each Rpeoltal case. Patrol man John D. McCarthy is the first to be .warded the medal It ran* given for the arrest of a murtoroua e.-nun- drel who wounded two cf his pursuers. Ootrimarfdor Flack of he royal Swe dish navy, by penmlsBion of -the navy deparment, on application of the Swe dish government, was ia member of the war college class last year. He has returned to hie duties in the Swe dish navy, but It Is announced Shalt be will return tvi this country early nex month to marry Miss Bancroft, daughter of John C. Bancroft of Wash ington, and granddaughter of the late Hon. George Bancroft. The gallant young Swede apparently devoted some aitteMlon .to Venus as well as to Mars. Dr. George R. Fordmor of Camden, N. J .met htadetuth the other day from sn unusual cause. His tooth-brush was the death of him. It seems Shat he was cleaning his teeth some months ago when a paitdh of bristle* became detndhed from the brush and a sud den inspiration of breath carried them Into his bronchia. A. surgeon managed 4o remove Rime of itihem nnd attorned one unfortunate man some relief, hut a stubborn evugh fol lowed 'the Occident, nnd recently pneu monia- developed from it and quickly carried him off. St. 1-ouls has fallen into line In the procession to cleanse the municipali ties of hoodling and corruption. It has organized a eornmittee on safety, which is getting a lively mtove on It- se'.f .The committee, which Is under i the presideney of Nathan Pole, nnd Is composed of men of all political!' par ties. has Issued am address to the citi zens, setting form it* purposes and asking for financial assistance, and tt expect* to be soon In the midst of « thorough Investigation of the affairs of the city. If there Is a tiger cub In Bt. Louis he had better be seeking the solitude of the woods. Ut In said that a Oo-iman ef.ectriclam has Invented a wonderful electric light, which operat-es in the line of Nikola Tfisla’n high potential and high frequen cy experiment, but fnr winpetsees ony- itWti-r yet iproduend by the "wlnard. The practical utiiVty off Tertis's work has often been doribted. on account os ehe os! of the prcxlucUcn of the current necessary, but the Genmnn Inventor, Professor Ebert, bus mode a lumir.ee- cent 'lump, using a sort off luminoua P'l'int, Which given a serviceable light with oTsesmlMiontth part of a ' wait of electricity. Professor Elbert eays that Ills light cod** bu; 1*2000 OK much so no orilimary laitnp. Three brtttfh frequency currents are not dangerous, and give but 'the ismall«4t quantity of hea,t. eo the new light will probably bmxue popular. Mayor Plngee, of Detroit, seems to be o mat off Meas. but his latest wlil htirdly commend ltro*f to'the S. P. C. A. It Is ttohiln'g lere than to kill **l the horses bolonsilng to the clity. tm order to save the exipenne off feedlm* thorn dur ing tile winter. Tbe city <»wn« several hutslred ihorsnt. and has IIMe use for them during the winter mrrMbn. while tlh > emit of raring for them is a very cotstidenSble Hem. The mayor stys It win be mucli cheaper to kill thorn and buy more in the spring. He ha* the courage of his (tomlotlores, any way. He had come horses of bt* own. and mt'hor than carry them it It rough the wirier he gave ah«ih a sloie of chloro form the "(her 'lay and got rid of them. The nher officials of the e.tiy do not look •w'.tii fever on Ute mayor's pivipmit.ion. It Is time to stop talking of the Ital ian Hindletl and look to the present condition of our own country a little, when bandits get so bad as to make ihe running of iwllrovd trains impos sible. It 4s reported on good authority that the Missouri Paoitie RlilnxUd Company ha* decided to dieconrlnue all night passenger trains on Che Kansas and Arkansas Volley division of the road after December 9. The general maisiger of the company, who has Issued ihe order, says that the condition of affairs In the scotlon of the country traversed by the road, the numerous mln robberies and Che many bands of bandits make the step necessary for Che protection of pus sett ee r*. According to enrefu) and elaborate oalculatlon*t which have been made re cently by (be principal export* on na val matter*, says the Baltimore Sup, the gross value of British maritime In terest* amounts to slightly over $19,- m,000.000. These figure* comprise Uto total value cf the sen-borne commerce off ithe British empire, as well us attch foreign maritime commerce as l* car ried in British ships owned In England, the value of Che aecnritle* and mar ketable document* conveyed to nnd fro In British ships owned by British sub- JerHs, end tlte value of the mercantile shipping itself. In the tace of these stupendous figurte the sum of $160,000,- 000, which the British parliament vote* every yenr toward the maintenance of its navy cannot be regani-d ns ex cessive. The schools of Wood haven. L. I., have Joined In ihe crusade ngainst the use of cigareUes. The teachers Insti tuted an investigation and fouod that the cigarette wsa all but universal nmong tbe boys. Bo they took the boys, as they entered school one day, and searched their pockets, confiscating all the lung destroyers that they could find, and that waa a good many. The matter was reponted to the board of education, find they have Instituted proceedings ar^nst IIP* dealers, who, oontrary to the law, have been selling the things to the children. A large number of the boys were cxamlnd to find where they had bought their cig arettes, but as they prof eas'd not to be able to remember, but one of the deni er* was caught. The teachers, howev er, are p>lng ta watch the boys, and say that they are bound to break up the cigarette smoking. Several years ago, in the execution of munlcipnl works In the city of Buda Pest a number of piles, already driven, were required to support a greater load rhan had originally been contem plated. It was coosoquently necessary to drive those that yielded still deeper, mys the Phdlsdelphla Inquirer. To bring a pile-driving machine success ively over each pile for sn small an umount of work would necesiarily have entailed considerable expense, and It sra«, therefore, decided to try the ef fect of dynamite. For this purpoae tlm piles were cut square, and a wroucM- Irno piste nhotrt of teen Inches hi diam eter and four oae-buif tnches thick, mat placed on the top ot each. In tbe over that of the ifife, i : charge ef the explosive In, the e a a au-.e, six Lriohe* l n dianit T : three-quarters of an Inch thki/ » IMo over a ,2** 1 -«hub wrapped In n^rohJ aov £' ta with Sy an P d S3 Oiod the effect produced w-is r *1 equal to that of rrotft a 1,600-pound nusikey faliinel a height of about ten feet Trf I ptates-it was raid, resisted t,™* 1 ty to twenty-four explosions ft*® 5?^* “Tffitast the • nefures” ln New York by some Ptonvinent W. C T. U i fair to develop into quite a preliij It Is oald to be not unlikely : , living piaturea will make a cumt i to fight bock. The ■W. 5K5I «ha Gartlen Theekre have cult , J In thoit dlreotlon, and -lent a i.iiJ Mrs. E. B. Gratraia, the pnn JoumaJUt. thanking her for h« « trAri^r opposition <to the ftmuttol pcedloin .no nnimatc ant." j,, j declares ilhia.t “is undoubtedly 'there 1s no unohaste living n'ctii J Ntov York. ceraiUnfy'f Waif so shocking os those to L j displayed in 'toe boxes of the stl pollttin opera 'bouse." The you,,,! men «fls> figure in She plctur'e. twJ very hart for the W. C. T it 1 men to Wish to hake tlhe bread mil the mouths of women of their cUtl ANTE-BREAKFAST SMILES. Maild of Allhens ,ere we part i Give, <4h. give me back my h.J For unless there circulates my hi. J (My name, Athenian maid, i» m ,| —Doirolt News-Tribim, These days aj belle can look uJ the milky, way without leatkiwl young men to suspect 'thoit she K J Ice cream.— Dallas News. Tommy—When Dm a man I'm .J to be a Soldier. Mofher-Whnt, an ' killed by llhe enemy? —Tontmv-1 well, then I guess I'll be the ™,-TJ Yale Recort. Mrs. Gobbler—Children, see man over there with the full v . Young Gobblers—Yes. Mrs. ciobb’I Well, jnour poor faither belpe.1 to ml it thus.—Syracuse Post. -one people in New York are clad ing for a 3-cent loaf, while the «,i seekers In WsvdhUngton are insln upon a 33-a-day leaf.—^Yonkers su man. Voice at the head of the stall George, lhaivp you been drtnkil George—N’m. Voice—Say Cbrysanl mum. George—(silent tor <i mom-r I'm drimkoh, my dear.—Sym. Post. Sheriff (on toe morning of the cm thin)—Was toe prisoner Impuil when you to’.d 'him 'to get rtitiyl the scaffold? Deputy—Er—he oil he'd be bunged 4f he woukl.—Bufi Courier. It will not be very tang befl some wild, wooly Western collect f go down Ea*t and lick the stuflin* ] of Yale, Harvard, Princeton and L rest at fdotball. The football cultl centre Is rapidly swinging westward New York Press. NEW YORK'S BANK STEALS.! Including tlte 8-1,000.000 steal of ll C. Eui>, prcsklout of the Sivoml tlou.il Bank, it 1884, the total sltild of dishonest officials from the luntJ New York city in a little over tea j-j liavo reached 8o.-IUo.810. In d,-u:l losses, dales, defaulters and junni| were as follows: Jolm C. Euo, president Scornl J tlonal Bank, 1884, $4,000,0(10. Charles A. H nckley, payinj Mil West Side Bulk, 18S4, $80,*W0. R.cliord C. 8,-011. paying teller ll.il of tlie MauUottmt Company, lto.",, jlT 010. C'lmrles J. De Bnnu, cashier Nil < j Park Bank, 1888. $03,000. Ainencvra Excdurake Natlousl lluj 1888, stolen in transit, $11,000. 'Max (ioldln-iver, pr.vate Uinll iS8u, $a),ooo. John T. HIU, president Ninth t onal Bank, 1801, $4uo,0oo. Cluiries H. Pitikhnm, Jr., er.pra'i i ] Bank of Harlem, 1802, $91,00". Lewis A. Hill, rcce.v ng teller Nicholas Bank, 1803, $43,(too. Other rivcnt lost* to Unit; rq seined in tlx* Netv York clearing Ii ’i were: Shoe anil Leather National O'4 Isxikkceper, $3o4,000. Continc'Cii National Bank, spend ug clerk, foS.issl. Un.lnl htatos National Bank, b-| keeper, $43,000. A Ulrica n Exelung" ’ National Bia| buokkeoiKsr, $33,000. Harlem RivoP Bank, boekkwi'l $24,000. Tradesmen'* Notional Bank, il clerk, $17,000. Chemical Nailenul Bank, pay'1 teller, $10,000. National Bank of tbe Repaid r, eM] $11,000; coupon clerk, $.*>,•-’"0; $10,200. . This tDitkea the to:al d"faloail«n» (| the teu yens $3,493,810. The hulk uf this vast amount made g,»«l by live stookhold'r* <4 various banks from which It w*» thanks to the rig <1 requ n-ns ut* tbe national hanking law, and '» havo a keener IntereBt In the euipH meat off thoroughly Inmost offlektU 'M the (lepoRitors who were iwolectcl J their own expense. In v ow of lli.*n| it Kn'im almost Incredible th.il *> U ' J T defaleations should have gooe undiscovered. Tli" explanation Hint htuk stnokboldem as n <’las* ; engaged lu other bus nras, leaving m j I sink lnter«'st» to directors who r 1 times fall te direct, relying upoo ill lut'grity ef oflicals who have uur talned an outward shew 'iff pt"" and trustiworfliiness. It is clear, from a study of tb 1 *’ stances of hank deffalcntlens. that surest protection to both stopttoWj mul depoe tnrs is to bo f,iund I* l'"l holding slockholdet* te the nest raij acrountribility and the unflloch.M ' forcement of these ioss*. Bank r ployes wbo stool should be **• J prlwm if caught, snd nil prop-* j of compromise on tho surrender <>r i l»roperty of the defaulter or the nu good tbe loss by friend* f sternly rejectwl. A bonk office' " L trustee incharg - --f tbe nsmey of i“ j ethers, anil a rlolat on of sui'‘> »J is a tar more serious nffoue a- 1 'A the public than that of the burglar s-m robs dwdl'ng* or plsocs of the dead of night—Ph'ladetphla ioj PBRSON.VL. Women are rapidly acquiring rights. They are now, on «•“ *' e ^| two inchss taller than th.-y 1 twenty or thirty jrssm ago. _ Bias. M. L. Harrison of San FriJ cisco Ess'the unique honor of be!"* only woman manager of the w<**> s department of • Urge insurance ieoy in tbo country- The heir* of the kite Bstnuel Str« nviy be happy. For twen4yye*ri*" hive flight the govcrnim-nt tor J- . tor work done by Strong for *•» j trim of Oolumbta. ITavIng new » 1 their cause they have been pal' 1 '"1 full amount with $26,250 extr* 1 • “