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THE WEATHER.
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Indian Territory Generally fair during the
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For Missouri Fair in the morning: show
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I UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT.
The friends of higher education through
out the state will be greatly pleased at the
favoiable passage of the bill now before tlie
, Missouri legislature for 'increasing the en
dowment of the state university. This bill
was Introduced in the senate by Senator
Anderson, a. Democrat, and in the house
by Major Bittlnger, a Republican, and
hence It is relieved of any political compli
cations. The means' proposed are so sim
ple that it would seem there could be no
opposition. The- state is pledged, through
' Its ccnstltution, to maintain the univer
sity, and this has been accomplished by ap-
propriations every two years by the legis
lature out of the general revenue fund. On
this fund there are always great demands,
S and hence there is a regular light every
two years by the friends of the university
I to secure any reasonable appropriation, and
I even then the amount is less than is neces
! sary- to carry on successfully the work ex
; peeled. By this bill all this is avoided, and
ri the 5 per cent annually on the two million
dollars" certificates will be paid out of the
i Interest fund, and there will bo'no Increase
I of taxes, the only difference being a delay
?- of a few years in paying oil the state acDt.
This will work no hardship on anyone, and
1 put the university on solid financial
I ground.
( No other state of the Union since the war
1 has mado greater educational strides than
Missouri. The university should be con-
sldercd as the head of our educational sys
tem, and as such It should be so supported
as to be mado worthy of the state.'
A BOOMERANG MEASURE.
The Populists in ther'Knnsns legislature
admit that the railroads have power to re
taliate upon farmers and other shippers
In the matter of freight rates to points
outside the state. They place this admis
sion on record in the bill which has been
reported to the house by the railroad com
mittee, in which it Is provided that it shall
be the duty of the attorney general to rue
the Interstate commerce commission m
the federal courts and compel it to con
struct a maximum interstate commerce
freight rate, which -will force the railroads
1 to haul coods to a foreign., market at the
same cost per mile as Is fixed by the pro
posed Kansas law
In the course of an article yesterday wo
remarked that Judge Gage, of the Ohio dis
trict of the federal courts, has already de
cided that the interstate commerce com
mission had no such power, and it mignt
have been added that In the opinion of a
great many of the lawyers the United
States supreme court has decided the same
thing. After Judge Gage had. madea his
decision the government attorneys ap
pealed the case to the United States cir
cult court of appeals. It came on for hear
' lng In Cincinnati on Wednesday, when the
presiding judge stopped the argument per
emptorily and said that the case would
be certified without a decision to the su
preme court at Washington. This was
done, he said, because it involved the con
struction to be put upon a decision which
had already been made by the supremo
court, and the circuit court deemed it he
correct thing to allow the higher court to
define its own opinions so that there could
be no question of their meaning. The opin
ion in Question was delivered by Mr. As
sociate Justice Shiras, and in effect it was
this: "We do not find that congress, "by
express or implied meaning, intended the
commission to have authority to arbitrar
ily fix rates." It was contended by thel
attorneys for the government that this
did not Imply that the commission could'
not fix a maximum freight Tate, thought
Judge Gage held that it did and two other'
United States district judges have held
with him.
At any rate, the supreme court will soon
settle the contention, and upon the pre
sumption that it Is held that the interstate
commerce commission has no power to fix
interstate rates, we feel Impelled to ask
the farmers and shippers of Kansas wiiat
bort of a fix they will find themselves In
then. Having secured a law In Kansas
which cuts the rate below what Is shown
to be less than the cost of .transportation,
they need expect no other procedure upon
the part of the railroads than an increase
In the interstate rate which will make
the railroads whole. Nor is this the limit
of retaliation, for the rates are likely to
be Increased until, as In the case of Iowa,
the through rates to market are greater
i than any were before the legislature com
menced Its -unjust reductions.
Kansas has remarkets of her own. -She
must to abroad with everything she sells.
, It 'is to her advantage to gel into these
' markets as cheaply a3 possible If freight
were hauled within the metes and bounds
1 X Kansas for nothing It would avail her
naught so long as she must. pay an ad
vanced rate over the portions of the route
which she does not control. She has noth
ing to gain by the destructive bill .now
pending before the legislature. Its only
possible result is the Inauguration of a war
between the people and the railroads,
which will result in Injur' to both, but
most seriously to the people. It is safo
to say that if this ruinous bill becomes a
law the wheat and corn and cattle of Kan
sas inside of two months will be paying
greater freight rates to their final market
than at any time within the past five
years.
SHOULD MARRIAGE BE COMPULSORY
The vagaries of current legislation are by
no means confined to antt-corporatlon meas
ures. There has been an alarming tendency
to break Into .the domestic circle with rro
hibitory, restrictive or compulsory bills.
It was only p. -few days ago that the Ok
lahoma legislature passes a bill to prevent
a man from marrying his mother-in-law.
Now a dangerous example has been fur
nished by the' Argentine Republic, whose
lawmakers have' mado matrimony practic
ally compulsory in that South American
country: The purpose of the law is to cor
rect the weakness cf a sparse population.
The first clause reads:
"On and after January 1, 1S97, every male
from the age of 20 to SO shall pay a tax
until he. marries, -and shall pay it once
every month.' The second clausa says;
"Young celibates' of either sex who shall,
without legitimate motives, reject the ad
dresses of hint orj her who may aspire to her
or his hand,andwho may continue contuma
ciously unmarried, shall pay 500 piasters
for the benefit of the young person, man
or woman, who has been bo refused."
The Kansas legislature is respectfully in
vited to consider fhe example of the sages
of the Argentine Republic, and. If expedi
ent, to send a committee to study person
ally the operations of the new law. The
effect of this unprecedented tax on wild
loats should he carefully watched by the
greatest Tof all agricultural states. There
Is something "the matter" with the popu
lation of Kansas. There are those who in
sist that Its growth is retarded because the
state Is Pop-ridden; but here is a sugges
tion that th3 causd may be a deeper and
more subtle one.. Is It possible that our
virile young Jayhawkers and our buxom
Sunflower maidens, demoralized by the so
cialistic exaltation of the individual, ara
luxuriating in celibacy in open defiance of
their first duty to their state?
If investigation should prove that there
Is any basis to this suggested theory, then
the wise men at Topeka, most of whom
have done commendably well toward pop
ulating the state, should immediately re
sort to the ever feasible remedy of legisla
tion. Once married, the people of Kansas are
all right. The light increase in population
may be due to fewer marriages ordecreased
Immigration, but it cannot be traced to re
luctant propagation.
SOCIALISM AND ANARCHY.
A writer in a recent issue of a Chicago
paper speaks of Chief Justice Doster, of
Kansas, as "one tlnctutcd with the venom
of anarchy." This is neither an accurate
nor just characterization of the Kansas
chief justice. He is a self-acknowledged so
cialist, but never has he given utterance to
anything which would warrant the charge
that ho is an anarchist.
The Chicago writer has no doubt been
led astray by the indiscriminate manner
in which the Kansas press and Kansas or
ators have mingled the terms anarchist and
socialist. They arc as wide apart as white
and black, and have nothing In common
except the single feature thabt each is en
deavoring to overturn the existing order of
things. Socialism means the exaltation of
government, while anarchy seeks its total
destruction. The socialist wants the sphere
of government enlarged until it embraces
every conceivable division of human action,
whllo the anarchist believes that all gov
ernment Is wrong and should be abolished.
Carried to its ideality, socialism would ut
terly destroy tho Individual and merge him
into an atomic part of a great govern
mental whole without power to say or do
anything independently, while reduced to
practice anarchy would reject the exist
ence of any community interest at all and
set up every fellow as a government on his
own account.
Judg-e Doster Is a socialist. The Populist
party which elected him Is traveling along
toward the same destination. Its prpsent
attempt at Topeka to regulate pretty
much everything in tile universe is tho
manifestation of its socialistic tendencies.
In a public manner the party refuses to
confess to a belief in socialism, but In pri
vate its leaders will admit that such is the
goal at which they aim.
Socialism has several stages, and tho
Kansas Populists have only reached the
intermediate. It might bo called tho gov
ernment ownership stage, or the publlc-
,rIght-to-d!ctate-private-busincss stage. It
offers a refuge for all those who believe
that the greater business enterprises of tho
country should be owned by the govern
ment or else be placed under governmental
control In the methods of their manage
ment. But those who join it cannot stop
here. Thej wtould be Illogical if they did.
Tho process of reasoning which brings
them to the intermediate stage will force
them to the final stage, which means gov
ernment ownership of everything and the
denial of the right of a citizen to the pos
session of anything to which his neighbor
does not hold a mutual titles with him.
We do not believe any great portion of
the Kansas people or tho Populist party
wlll go to the end with their socialistic
leaders. Indeed, they are already com
mencing to shy at thirgs In the road like
a young colt being first driven, and by and
by they will bolt the track entirely. "We
have always contended that the best cure
for socialism was socialism. Scattered
over the state now are a number of people
who participated In John Breidcnthal's To
polobampo scheme, and they are well
equipped to tell the people of Kansas how
an ideal socialistic enterprise works out In
practice. By the same token the Kansas
legislators will have only a few short
months to wait to discover what an utter
failure it has made out of this winter's
attempt to build a smiling heaven upon tills
earthy earth.
THE ACQUITTAL OF ALICE TLATT.
Tho verdict ot the jury In the Alice Piatt
case was not so much a surprise as it
was a disappointment to tho public. "While
comparatively few expected conviction,
most of those who followed the testimony
of the witnesses and the argument of tho
attorneys hoped for at least a hung Jury
to sustain what they regarded as the moral
certainty of the woman's guilt.
It should be remembered, however, that
tho least responsible are proverbially the
most positive. Great obligations beget ex
treme conservatism. In returning a "ver
dict that carries with it the death penalty
it is not enough to believe that the ac
cused' is guilty; there must be no possibil
ity that he or she is innocent.
Whllo circumstantial evidence pointed al
most conclusively to Aliee Piatt as the
murderer of tho Mussey children, the chain
was not direct enough to dispel all doubt.
Again, tho lack of a logical motive for the
crime must have told forcibly jvih the
jurors. Admitting that tl)e motive was
the desire to fulfill her strange prophecies,
thcro was the possibility of imposing the
deatli penalty upon one who was not men
tally responsible.
Whllo the belief will remain with many
that Alice Piatt is guilty ot deliberate
n-urder, and that she was wholly responsi
ble for her act, a thoughtful and dlspas-i
slonato review of the case will make clear
the fact that the jury did Its duty accord
ing to the letter of tho law, which was
fully defined in the instructions.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
It seems the press correspondents who
withdrew Uncle John Sherman from the
cabinet neglected to get Uncle John's con
sent. Possibly the story that Bushncll will
refuse to appoint Hanna is also without
foundation.
As a poultice to England's feelings we
might consent to lend her Mr. Bayard
six months in the year.
In a short time now 70,000,000 people will
have to do their pounding on some other
anvil. Mr. Thurber will be no longer avail
able. Spain has not granted Cuba tho con
cession of allowing her hospital patients to
go unbutchered.
It occurs to us that if the powers would
send the sultan an ultimatum It might help
matters. Have the powers thought of that?
The present congress is determined not
to be guilty of legislating too hastily es
pecially In the matter of abolishing tho
capitol saloons.
The McKtnley administration having
proved a wretched failure in the imagina
tions of free silver howlers, we shall soon
begin to see what it is in fact.
The belief that Cleveland has not mado
a successful president is not universal.
Those 75.000 Democratic officeholders re
cently placed under protection of civil serv
ice rules have a quite different opinion.
It 'is surprising how well tho Cuban in
surgents hold out, considering that Senator
Turplo's battery has been silent for nearly
two weeks.
The Populist statesmen should be care
ful not to "reform" Kansas into the pau
per column.
Tho fact that the arbitration treaty has
been indorsed by tho South Carolina legis
lature is not conclusive that the treaty
is bad. Tho South Carolina legislature may
have misunderstood it.
Common whitewash is said to bo death
to typhoid fever germs. The Kansas City
police commissioners will not suffer from
typhoid fever this winter if Mr. Pope's
investigating committee can prevent it.
Tho czar has been compelled to quit
smoking, but not as a matter of economy.
Tho czar could afford straight 10-centers
every day In tho week if he wanted to.
If all. the Kansas legislatures had been
liko tho present one Kansas would occupy
a mighty small notch lu the history of
this great commercial country.
Joaquin Miller has been visiting Mr.
Cleveland, and may write some verses
about him. If Joaquin can get any poetic
inspiration from contemplating Grover he
is Indeed a genius.
The Tennessee legislature has passed a
bill to prevent election stealing. Having
stolen every election for tho last four
years, Tennessee Democracy has concluded
to sprinkle a little lime on its reputation.
Let It be remembered that Sherman, .and
Gage were taken Into the McKinley cabinet
in spite of the disapproval and solemn pro
test of "Coin" Harvey. If tho country
goes to the bow-wows in tho next four
years no man can fairly say that Harvey
ought to be held responsible.
In any event, remarks a Democratic con
temporary. Hanna will keep "near enough
to Washington to watch things; but who
will watch Hanna?" That is easy. Every
Democratic organ in the land. They will
not only watch him, but they will continue
to lie about him.
There Is considerable talk about Jonah
and tho whalo sinco Dr. Lyman Abbott
got gay on the subject and aroused the in
dignation of his church people. Some In
sist that the whale's mouth is not large
enough to swallow a man. Others declare
that this particular whale was prepared for
the occasion and that its mouth was a
whopper, and still others say the story it
self is a v hopper. It is a troublous subject
and Dr. Abbott would better havo let it
sleep.
MISSOURI TOINTS.
By taking the number of names in Se
dalla's new directory, and using a suffi
ciently liberal multiplier anyone can see
for himself at a glance that that progress
ive city's present population Is a plump 23,-
000.
The Nodaway county patriot who was
the successful one among the twenty-seven
applicants for tho Maryville court house
janltorship very appropriately goes on the
pay roll as Mr. Gladman.
A telephone war Is impending In Mary
ville. A new company Is just completing
a plant there and has secured a list of
seventy-five subscribers, while the Bell peo
ple Intimate that they will hold their pres
ent patrons even though they have to pay
them a moderate salary for using their
'phones.
George Brokus Is a Northwest Missouri
savant who declares the enrth Is square
and flat and challenges any doubter to de
bato the proposition with him. George's
escapo from membership In the present
Missouri legislature Is wholly unaccount
able. Frank Airy, a former Nodaway county
boy, has just beep appointed secretary
of tho traffic committee, a joint organiza
tion In which till the leading- express com
panies are Interested, In New York city,
nt a salary, of S2J500 and expenses when
traveling. A few years ago when at home
on tho farm Frank's father considered him
tho "no good" member of the family.
;
A Maryville saloonkeeper who has be
come tired of drug store competition has
been urging the city council to raise the
municipal license to 53,500 a year, but thus
iar'TvIthout success.
The News-Graphic Insists that, it Is the
duty of all property owners in Hamilton
to unite in painting the town this spring.
Political gossip over in that section is to
J the effect that the difference between a
cinch of the orthodox lead plpo variety
and that which Frank Fllson has on tho
Cameron postoffice is positively Indiscern
ible. A scheme is on foot in Carthage for
prospecting under the local fair grounds
for mineral. If only the gold and sliver
sunk there could be recovered there ought
to be considerable money In tho enterprise
for its promoters. .
Gravel from tho Jasper county mineral
district Is being experimented with by tho
Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway
Company as ballast for Its roadbed. All
tho roads in the vicinity of Joplln havo
mado satisfactory use of it In that way
for somo time.
W. R. Hacker, George Kettner and Tom
Field are three prominent citizens of Jop
lln, each of whom is exactly as tall as tho
others, and their aggregate height is eigh
teen feet and six Inches.
A bill appropriating $100,000 for a govern
ment building In Joplln was passed by the
senate a day or two ago, but unfortunately
there is very little hope for it in the house.
Hamilton's cemetery population, not in
cluding tho stiffs who are still walking
around ahiMWground to save funeral ex
penses, is estimated at 2.S75.
Daviess county will make its county pris
oners earn their board hereafter, having
provided a rockpilo and a supply ot ham
mers for their especial and exclusive use.
Representative Wood, of Mercer county,
is a statesman whoso name should be held
in fond remembrance by all Missouri
wheelmen. Ho is the paternal ancestor of
a bill which provides for an annual tax of
$2 each on bicycles.
KANSAS TOPICS.
The initiative and referendum has given
Annie Diggs another opportunity to
bleak in.
No one needed to be told of the serious
ness of Sol Miller's illness. He allowed
groundhog day and Lincoln's birthday to
both go by unnoticed.
.
Someone has figured it out that eighty
seven of the klnfolks of state officers and
members of tho legislature have already
been ensconced In fat positions. .
The Kansas newspapers bullyragged the
state senate into adopting an anti-pass bill
after all. It was voted down once, and
then the newspapers commenced to howl.
Jim Simpson announces in his local paper
that he is seeking no federal appointment,
and that he will not become a candidate
for anything two years hence.
Bent Murdock nominates Colonel O. E.
Lcarnard, of Lawrence, for governor in
1891. He also predicts that Senator Baker
will smash tho Cy Leland slate.
Mrs. W. P. Badger, who recently died at
Mu.scotah, was a sisteV to Senator Pitt
Kellogg, of Louisiana.
It remained for Victor Murdock to ob
ject to the historical completeness of tho
Bradley-Martin ball because no one ap
peared In tho costume of Mother Eve.
It Is hard to identify a man who is
sti etched out In a barber chair or who is
lying dead in a morgue. At Arkansas City
a man testified beforo the coroner's jur
that he knew the corpse, and was positive
about it, for they had slept together six
j ears. While he was testifying the man ho
believed the corpscto.be walked Into the
room.
There is a horrible scandal among the
church peoplo at Troy. Tho Pickwick
Club gave a mask ball recently, which was
attended by a. mysterious woman, who es
caped just before unmasking timo came.
She was marked by the zest with which
she threw herself Into tho dance, like a
starving person at a feast. It has now de
veloped that sho'ls one- of the most saintly
sisters of ono of tho local churches, and
they are trying to think up somo frightful
punishment for her. Sho cries as she con
fesses, and declares that she had been
good so long that it just seemed impossible
to keep from breaking out in wickedness
somewhere.
There is at least ono citizen of Kansas
who will grieve at tho death ot General
Jo Shelby. His name Is Don Kinney and
his home is at Newton, though for years
he lived in Bates county. Mo. "Never to
my memory," says Mr. Kinney, "did Gen
eral Shelby come to town without bringing
mo a bushel of fruit or some other of tho
products of his fine farm. He was tho
most generous and kindly hearted man I
ever knew."
"We asked three married women at the
breakfast table In tho Copeland hotel In
Topeka the other day," says Colonel Bent
Murdock, "If it was possible for a woman
to be in love more than once. The first
said: 'A woman can fall In love every
month.' Tho second said: 'Oh, yes, a wom
an can oft with the old and on with the
new love every week. The third said: 'A
woman can love a different man every day
in the week.' These ladles were not sitting
at the same table and did not know tho
answers the others had given. They seem
to think the chemical atoms in men and
women, which unscientific people call love,
can form an affinity every day of the week
without causing any moral disturbance In
the equilibrium. Love Is simply a chemical
affinity which can resolve Itself Into a
negative and positive force in an hour,
provided the volatile chemical atoms are
held in subjection and are not permitted
to go topsy turvey. An Eastern school ex
pects to scientifically demonstrate that .1
woman can really fall in love four times an
hour."
Ex-Chief Justice David Martin has not
found his new occupation of lecturer at
the state university law school to bo tho
picnic which It was described to be. For
fivo straight weeks he must deliver five
lectures each week. It makes no differ
ence how much a man knows about a sub
ject it is a severe task to deliver twonty
flvo different lectures upon it with hardly
a day's Intermission. The first two weeks
took fifteen pounds of flesh oft Judge Mar
tin. Senator Forney Is a plcturesquo example
of a man who Is trying to be somebody
without knowing how. He has Introduced
more bills In the present session than any
two other men, and the fact that they are
knocked out with clock-like regularity
does not seem to discourage him In the
slightest. A lot of his bills havo been ex
act copies of laws already upon the statute
book, and in one or two Instances ho has
gravely submitted measures which were
part of the state constitution. He has be
come notorious for his ignorance, and both
Republicans and Populists were therefore
pleased at the shot he received from Sen
ator Hessin yesterday. The initiative and
referendum resolution was under discus
sion and after tho other senators had said
their say Forney blundered In with a
speech which was chiefly marked for its
misinformation upon the subject. After he
had finished Senator Hessin arose and in
solemn tones recited the following verse,
after which he took his seat without an
other word:
And still they gzed
And still the wonder grew,
How one small head
Could carry all he knew.
"This is the only trouble I ever got into,"
said a citizen of Arkansas City as his
neighbors drew him wet and shivering
from a cistern, "that didn't have a woman
at ine uuuuiu ui iu j
' t
A 14-year-old girl, who Is described by
uie iuuu4 ijuyei txo a, uu. xrom uttawai"
was passing along the main street in Bald
win City last Wednesday when a nunif.er
ot the schoolboys commenced throwing
snowballs at her. Sho stood the playlfor
awhile, but at last dashed In among, the
boys and seized the 13-year-old son of a
well known business man, upon whotft she
bestowed kiss after kiss despite his l.owis
at the same time hugging him eloseto her
)
bosom. In the eyes of 'the good Methodist
brothers who guide the destinies of .Bald
win this was the most shocking crlmo tho
town had ever known. After prayerful
consultation, they caused the arrest of tho
girl and held herbefore tho local justice
of tho peace on the charge of assault and
battery. A good-natured farmer who hap
pened to bo In the crowd volunteered to
defend tho prisoner, but, in spite of his
speech) in whlch ho declared that In his
time a boy who was hugged by a girl didn't
look upon it as an assault, but a picnic,
the court found her guilty, assessed a fine
of $3, and committed her to the county jail
In default of payment. Joe Bristow, who
writes an account of the affair for his Ot
tawa Herald, says It caused more excite
ment in Baldwin than anything since the
day when General Price and his raiders
were expected In tho town to burn It.
An Egyptian young fellow named Ed,
Grew volublo once, and he said:
"You havo but to hark
To hear the dogs bark
At a pyramid's foot, not its head."
Senator Harris should read up a bit be
fore he drags Greek mythology into any
more legislative proceedings. His resolu
tion yesterday against the arbitration
treaty recited that "Great Biitain lias
always been our Nemesis" meaning our
oppressor. Nemesis was a goddess who
presided over the normal and proper order
of things and visited well-deserved punish
ment upon any transgressor. In short, she
stood for divine and retributive justice,
and Senator Harris is putting us in a dick
ens of a hole when he denominates En
gland our Nemesis.
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Joe Lowe has got out the first Issue ot
his new Washington county newspaper and
Its editorial matter is made up principally
ot "roasts" upon tho present Populist
state administration. He accuses Chief
Justice Doster of being a lobbyist and
scores him for placing so many of his
own family in office. He calls the new at
torney general "Mr. Boil." and spells Sec
retary of Stato Bush's name with a little
"b." He says Superintendent Strykcr Is
so much of a sleepy-headed dunce that his
wife tucks him into bed at 7 o'clock every
night and then hangs quilts around the
bedroom door so his snores -will not disturb
tho evening company in the house. He
doesn't say anything about Governor
I.eedy, but next week It is confidently be
lieved that he will spell the governor's name
in small letters, and perhaps put It in tlie
paper upsido down. In his "salutatory"
Mr. Lowe says he wants peace and ex
pects to fight for It.
"An Atchison boy has discovered a novel
plan for making money," says the Globe.
"Ho has discovered that there are a lot ot
nice old girls in his neighborhood with no
fathers, brothers, or steadies, to take them
out In the evenings, and that often they
stay at home for lack of an escort. Ho
hires himself out at the rate of 5 cents
per girl. He takes them to church, escorts
them to parties, and takes them to tho
theater, returning them when the play is
over. Ho makes himself so entertaining
that on several occasions the girls have
clubbed together to buy him a ticket for
tho performance."
The Immigration Bill.
From tho Chicago Tribune.
Tlie house by a large majority has adopt
ed tho second conferenco report on the im
migration bill. All tho previous objection
able features havo been removed. Immi
grants in future who can read tho En
glish or somo other language will bo ad
mitted, other conditions being satisfactory,
and this amendment removes the possibil
ity that some who might not be ablo to
read English or the language of the coun
try where they resided would be excluded.
There Is littlo question that the bill as
originally drawn would have answered the
same purpose as now, but It was ns well
to removo even a technical objection. An
other and ' more serious objection was
made that the bill as originally drawn
might separate families, but this was re
moved by an amendment which provides
for admitting literate male immigrants
with their wives and children, though the
latter may be Illiterate. An objection that
Canada might retaliate by preventing
American miners from crossing the fron
tier to work in the British Columbian
mines was also removed by allowing Cana
dians to cross and work on this side of
the frontier while they retain their Cana
dian residence.
Tho bill as it now stands has no features
in -rfhlch serious objection can be made or
against which foreign nations can reason
ably make complaint. It will now go to tho
senate, where It will bo promptly adopted,
and there Is no reason why the president
should not sign it. When put Into opera
tion It will give this country a better class
of Immigrants and will keep out many of
the representatives of tho European slum'
who have hitherto been dumped upon ou
shores. It Is probably not the end of r
strlctlons, however, which congress w
bo obliged to apply to immigration. 1
time may yet come when it will have
devise drastic legislation to keep out crj
inals, professional paupers, and anarch
pests, who manage to evade all condlt
and pour over here with no other pu
in view than to stir up resistance tc
and Incite hatred ot the govern
Whenever this form of Immigration
sumes a dangerous aspect some n,
measure of restriction will havo to '
vised. As the country settles up als
as thoso of native birth and foreli
traction already here find it ciiffic
obtain employment, the law of supi
demand will of itself call for tho
ment of new restrictions. For the pir
however, the new law will be sufllci
and when enacted it should bo rigidly
forced.
Je and the Inltlntle nnd Rcferen.
From the New York Sun.
The Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, the sage ot
Ninlnger, Is a not uninteresting and a
particularly sturdy American citizen with
no more rotary motion In his topworks
than his vocation as a Populist chief in
Minnesota makes necessary. In view of
his eminence as a Populist and a sage. It
Is saddening to find him In a limp mood.
"I am afraid," he says, "that we are not
yet educated to the pitch of the initiative
and the referendum." To what education,
then, may a Populist hope to attain? Of
what use or 'beauty, then, Ms anything?
The initiative and referendum-ls or are
something which every good Populist fam
ily ought to havo in the house. As a mere
exercise in pronunciation the initiative and
referendum are or is beyond price. It or
they is or are promotive of memory arid
deliberation. Tho ancient habit of walking
or trying to walk the chalk line after
lying "supine beneath the vine," as Mr.
Flaccus and Mr. Eugene Field sanir, has
been superseded by this more efficient test.
"Say 'initiative and" referendum,' and say it
quick," is an inquiry which students of
equilibrium now address to doubtful ex
amples of the same, nil over tho world.
The initiative and referendum must and
shall bo preserved. It or they, and even It
they arc it, must nof be allowed to follow
the agricultural sub-treasury Into the vale
of Populist magical dark mysteries for
gotten. "Wntterxon' Advice to Democrat.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The men who made the fight last year
for the integrity ot the Democratic party
and the life of the nation should stand to
gether as one man on the lines laid down
by the Indianapolis platform. They should
In every state, district, county, and pre
cinct in the United States where an elec
tion Is to be held put a ticket in the field.
They have already borne all that Intol
erance and Ignorance can inflict. They
have everything to gain for their country
and nothing to lose for themselves by
spurning tho greedy and needy hand of
sheer office seekers' politics, which the self
ish and short-sighted professional politic
ians would extend to them in tho name ot-j
a uemocrucy which iucsc uiiskiucu per-
sons have already dragged to defeat and
would more hopelessly discredit. No party
on earth can stand on the Chicago plat
form. No party on earth can live and
thrive under such leadership as that plat
form called into being. Tho only future for
a Democracy unterrlfled and undefiled is
the obliteration, the annihilation of the
evil features of that platform nnd the ex
tinction of the politicians who may hence
forward seek to keep those evil features
alive. All such are Populists and their
otily place Is in the ranks of Populism.
None such are Democrats or can bo Dem
ocrats, for. It we are to have a Democratic
party. It must and will be the party ot
the nation, not the party of an omnium
gatherum of bankrupt office seekers and
office holders playing their last desperate
stake for existence.
Costly Cubic MensnRCK.
From the Chicago Times-Herald.
Few persons who have not experimented
with telegraph tolls appreciate the ex
pense of cable communication. Cable rates
are so much per word, instead of per mes
sage of ten words, and the figures are very
much higher. Messages to England,
France and Germany cost 31 cents per
word from Chicago. Belgium's rate Is 30
cents, Holland .and Italy, 3S cents; Austria,
40 cents; Greece, 44 cents; Egypt. 62 cents;
Switzerland, 36 cents; Sweden, 43 cents;
Turkey43 cents and 53 cents; Russian, 49
cents.
The Cuban war has greatly increased the
volume of telegraphic business in the West
Indies. The lowest rate is 40 cents per
word for messages to Havana. Other Cu
ban points are higher, and no town in the
West Indies outside of Cuba can be
reached for less than $1.01 per word. Mes
sages to Porto Rico cost $1.83 per word.
Central American rates range from 50
cents (Guatemala) to 73 cents (Costa Rica
and Nicaragua). South American rates
take a big jump upward. Brazilllan mes
sages cost from S1.33 to $1.S7 per word;
British Gulna points cost $2.17.
Communication with Australia is expen
sive. Queensland reaches the highest fig
ure, $2.C2 per word, while South and West
Australia rates are $1.47. Messages to
China cost $2.02 per word, and the same
figures apply to Corea. Japanese rales are
$2.27 per word. Java, $1.53; Formosa, $2.27;
India, $1.29; Madagascar. $1.70; New Zea
land, $1.5S; Philippine Islands, $2.51; Slam,
$1.41.
African rates are lowest for points along
the Mediterranean and highest along the
west coast. Algeria can be reached for 3S
cents per word, the minimum rate for the
dark continent. East African rates are
$1.54 and $1.04, while South African points
range between $1.5S and $1.70. West Afric
an points as a rule range above $2, while
it costs $3.02 to send a word to Mossamedes
from Chicago more than to reach any
other telegraph station in tho world direct.
However, a message to Bassldore or Lln
gah costs the Chicago sender $1.19 per
word to Jask, Persia, and $11.75 extra for
special dispatch boat lino from that point.
Another "Bowlder."
From tho Chicago Chronicle.
Somo time about the beginning of the
century a worthy English clergyman
named Bowlder set himself to the task ot
producing an edition of Shakespeare
which could be read aloud In families and
used In young ladles' seminaries "without
bringing the blush of shame to tho cheek
of modesty." And after great labor he did
it. His name has been handed down to
fame, not by his editing of Shakespeare,
for tho expurgated edition is now known
only as a curiosity, but by the addition
to his native language of tho verb "to
bowlderlzc," the meaning of which is ob
vicus. Undeterred by the questionable no
toriety of her prototype. Miss Fielding, a
granddaughter of tho novelist, has done
for "Tom Jones" what Bowlder did for
Shakespeare. And, like Bowlder, sne found
no trouble In securing a publisher for the
volume, in tho preface of which sho says:
"There is no valid, reason why the book,
as now revised, should remain In tho in
dex expurgatorious of tho domestic library,
nor why It should not bo read wherever
Dickens and Thackeray arejeead." It has
not been the ChfonTcle'S'Viuestlonablo good
fortune tcj i"?ad the mutilated version of
tho immortal book, but ono can easily be
lit1vC"thiit the critic who says that "she
lias succeeded, through her wholcsole tx
.cislons. In demoralizing what Is really a
I very moral book, no matter how coarse it
may be. '".id has robbed the tale of every
contemporary phrase which lends col
,or assigns a period, Is
rjrformance.
doubt, sincerely believes that ho has
made a most generous offer to the Cubans;
indeed, from the point of view of his ultra-Conf-trvatlve
colleagues In the ministry the
reforms are entirely too far-reaching. Ac
cording to Minister Dupuy do Lome, the
Spanish premier proposes to go even
fuither than Is Intimated in tho decree,
and contemplates a large extension of the
franchise In Cuba so that the insular as
sembly might become a really representa
tive body.
With this amendment the reform bill
wculd seem to the disinterested outsider to
be as fair a measure as Spain could rea
sonably be expected to consent to except
after a crushing defeat and at the dicta
tion ot a victorious foe. The trouble is,
however, that the concessions have been
made by Spain nearly a quarter century
too late.
The Nevrent Thing In Ekk.
From the Boston Globe.
An Illinois genius has Invented a ma
chine that may prove of great importance.
It is no Jess than a machine to register the
age of an egg.
It Is well known that ns soon as a hen
has laid an egg she gives an impulsive,
kick, as if to herald the new arrival.
All the Illinois Inventor had to do was
to Improvise a machine with stamp at
tachment, so that the date ot tho advent
of the eee might be registered in indelible
figures.
Here we find another uso for kicking in
mundane atlalrs. When the hen's Infant
industry has -worked out its purpose a
simple kick settles It, and she finds her
production labeled, certified and ready for
market.
When tlie Illinois machine becomes fully
popularized no device of sawdust, cold
storage, or even lying, will avail, anJ
every egg will tell the story of its age be
yond dispute.
It'jnay be safely predicted that In the
nearfuturc. nothing but up-to-date hens
will So ablo to do any business.
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OF CURRENT INTEREST.
From a report of John D. Connolly, "Unit
ed States consul at Auckland, New Zeal
and, It would appear that that country has
just claims to be considered as the most
democratic In the world and has some leg
islation that would make it a simple para
dise for the most pronounced calamity
howler In this country. By law the govern
meit advances to farmers money at 4 per
cent Interest and has no direct system of
taxation, except for local purposes, and
even In such cases no taxes are collected
from persons who are worth Jess than
$2500. Besides this, it has granted unlimit
ed suffrage to women. The consul declares
that "no 111 effects from recent radical leg
islation are yet apparent" and that "the
country Is more prosperous than It was un
der tho old regime." and. stranger still,
that "the government Is at least as honest
ly and economically administered."
So much trouble has been caused by
pester collecting In Paris that now it is no
uncommon thing to see the following no
tica printed across a new design by some
well known poster artist: 'This poster
can neither5 be given away nor sold; any
one in whose hands It is found will te
subject to prosecution." The necessity for
the sign originated in the dishonesty of
me Diu sticKers. Instead of pasting up
the advertising posters when they were
from designs of men like Cheret or Pals
or Mucha, the stickers found it much
more remunerative to sell them to tho
collectors. As a result the advertiser suf
fered and something had to be done to
protect him from the- collector. The pres
ent system makes It far more difficult and
expensive to get copies of the new designs
and a possible corner in French posters
may bo looked for In the future.
In the pension office a few weeks ago
one of the examiners, to whom was re
ferred the application of a veteran, ascer
tained fiom the recordskhat a woman had
been drawing a pension for several years
as his widow, says a Washington writer.
When he was notified of that fact he wrote
back for further information, and within
a few weeks husband and wife were re
united after a separation of thirty-two
years. For some reason that has not been
explained they ceased to correspond dur
ing the war, and he never returned to hi3
old home. In the meantime his wife sup
ported herself and three or four children,
who have grown up to manhood and wom
anhood, and several years ago made appli
cation for a widow's pension, and It was
granted her.
A New York physician declares that tho
woman who drinks, too much tea is a dipso
maniac in practically the same sense that
a whisky drinker is, for she is ruining her
nerves and weakening her brain. Speak
ing of a woman who absorbed twenty or
more cups ot tea a day he says: "When her
husband brought her to me for treatment
I thought she had been experimenting with
morphine. Her heart wa3 weak, her brain
muddy, and as she walked she had a habit
of putting her foot down like one who has
miscalculated a step. She had no moral
strength, either, for when I left It to her
own honor to refrain from tea I ascertained
from the servants that sho took it on tho
sly."
A new dynamite projectile, the Invention
of Mr. James K. Bakewell, of Pittsburg,
has been tested at the naval proving
grounds at Indian Head, Md. The remark
able feature of this new missile of war la
that tho shell is filled with frozen dyna
mite, which will not explode until it pierces
the object at which it is discharged. A
slow burning fuse, sufficiently Insulated
from the charge, prevents premature ex
plosion while the shell is In flight. The en
tire principle, however, rests upon the
freezing of the explosive-. Tho preliminary
te3ts have proved very encouraging.
Speaking of the price of whisky," which
sells at wholesale for $1.17 a gallon, a Syr
acuse, N. Y., bank" president said the other
day: "When I was a clerk In a country
3toro on Pompey Hill many was the gal
lon ot whisky I sold for 10 cents. And it
was. the best kind of liquor that was ever
made. -There was hardly a farmer In that
section but used to but a fivo gallon jug
of it to uso during haying time. That 10
cent whisky was the pure quill."
"Dictionary Snyder," long known as the
genius of the Latin quarter in Pans, Is
said to have lived through tho siege of
tno city on lo francs. Olive oil and bread
imlxed with water to form a soup wera
rns main articles of diet. Snyder is cred
ited with having sustained life for a pro-
raciea period on 4 cents a day, and withal
alntalned an outwnrrl RAmMnna f
betrfulness and content that was cdlfy-
g to nis companions.
Three aunts of C. F. Rockwell, of Hones-
,ile. Pa., are surviving children of a sol-
r of the Revolution. They ara Mrs.
ebe Galnford, 91 years old, of Ellenville.
Y.; Mrs. Catharine Bowden, !J. of
rcudsburg, Penn., and Mrs. Lucinda Val-
r.tine, 81, also ot Stroudsburg. Their fatb-
was Jabez Rockwell, a. native of Con
:ticut, who served through the Revolu
aary war In a Connecticut regiment.
irofessor Charles A. Brlggs, of Union
ologlcal Seminary, -vfrho is taking up
1 of tho attention of tho PrphvfArlnn
eral assemblv than het wiw twn nr thrm
rs ago, will sail for Europe Saturday.
Is to have a long leave of absence, and
intends to bo awav fnr n vpnp Hpvnt.
'; his time to study at Oxford and In
ime.
'Mrs. Mario Llovii Stppliv whn Hf.i ,
finer aay in ivnnapous, Md,, In her 92nd
rear, was a daughter of Francis Scott Key,
me uuwior ox tne atar apangica Banner."
She was born Jn the old Key homestead at
jjitnucim. tormeriy iiiaaensburg. She was
a descendant of Governor Lloyd, of Mary
land, and a niece of Chief Justice-Taney.
An official enrollment of tho Christian
Endeavor Societies shows tho 'whole num
ber of members to be 2,836,745. There are
now over 47,000 societies; 231,000 of the
,ytung people connected with these organ
izations united with the different churches
during the last year. Since 1SS3 they have
received a grand total of 1,015,233 members.
"John Gabriel Borkman," Ibsen's latest
play, fell flat at the first performance In
Chrlstiania, the stage management, which
Ibsen had taken Into hl3 own hands, be
ing particularly bad. This fact Is ex
plained by thelstatement that the author
is too silent and too polite to manage the
actresses.
M. Devlc's plan for a revolving palace
lias been seriously taken up by tho com
mission for the 1900 Paris exhibition. Tha
plan is for a tower 362 feet high, divided
Into stages that will contain restaurants
and theaters, and moving slowly around a
central pivot by hydraulic machinery.
Mrs. Hannah Rose died on Monday In
the Orange county, N. Y., poor house. She
was 106 years old, was never on a railroad
train and saw a locomotive for tho first
time one year ago. It frightened her to
such an extent that she was prostrated
for several days;
inn One Drawback.
He has money by the bushel.
He has servants by the score;
He has a splendid coat-of-arms
Upon his carriage door.
His wife wears costly Jewels,
His daughters arc the rage.
And his son will have a million
On the day he comes ot age.
He shines at social functions.
He leads In everything, '
And he's known in common parlance
As a modern money king.
A bushel box would hardly
Hold this magnate's monthly rents.
But, on entering the office.
Ho says: "Good morning, gents."
Cleveland .Leader.
A Cold, Hard Teat.
Love's flame is brightest when, at morn.
It burns with keen desire
To be the first to leave tho bed.
And go and build the fire.
Chicago Journal
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