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Patrons and friends are cordially invited to visit and avail them selves of the" facilities of our Eactern Office while in New York. TO-DAY'S WEATHER. Washington, D. C, July 12.— For Minne sota: Fair; southerly winds: cooler in north • Brn, stationary temperature in southern por tion. For North and South Dakota: Fair; ■ Stationary temperature in eastern, lower temperature iv western portion northwest erly winds. For Wisconsin: Fair, preceded In Boutnern portion of lower Michigan by jshowers; southerly winds; wanner, except In western portion of upper Michigan sta tionary temperature. For Iowa: Fair; ■outherly winds; stationary temperature in lowa, slightly cooler in Western Kebraska. , GENERAL OBSEBVATIONS. "" a 5 ' "a 5 02. 3* «a siJ Place of gS |g I Place of g« |S Obs'vatiou |° g«- Obs'vatiou gg, g & sr H s "^ • ;g- * :s" : : >ji ■: ■ : 7 St. Paul.... 29.80 84 Helena 29.82 76 Crosse.. 29.90 84 ' Ft. Totten.l puluth ... 29.78 HO I Ft. 5u11y. .12H.62 98 Huron 29.68 88 Minuedosa 29.C2 72 Moorhead. 29.C8 82! Calgary.... 29.7b 54 St. Vincent 29.74 7S Edmonton Bismarck.. 29.74 82 Q'Appelle. 29.70 f»8 ft. Buford 29. 7S 78 Med'e Hat. 29.70 66 Ft. Custer. 29.72 8(> Winnipeg.. '.'9.70 76 LOCAL FORECAST. For St. Paul, Minneapolis and vicinity: iTair weather; stationary temperature. THE STORY OP A DAY. Explorer Stanley is married. The weather is favorable to crops. Walter Dean becomes proprietor of the Harris. There is no charge of fraud against tne St. taul census. Many candidates spring up for Auditor Braden's shoes. The governor reviews the First regiment at Camp Lateview. President Harrison urges an international monetary uuion. Many Republican county conventions name Merriam delegates. Deacon Nettleton is nominated assistant secretary of the treasury. The senate prepares to reduce the surplus by passing subsidy bills. The national house pusses the conference report on the silver bill. A friend of Kuute Nelson ■nunouuces that he is a candidate for governor. Many Republicans of the Third congres $ional district repudiate Representative Hall. The Western association games are won by Kansas City, Minueapolis, Milwaukee and I)es Moines. John D. Mueller, of Minneapolis, commits suicide because a friend ran away with con siderable of his money. A DAKOTA ANIMAL.. The word brontotherium does not fall tipon the ear with the suppleness of a familiar acquaintance, and yet it is not the fault of the party represented, or an indication of phenomenal ignorance in the recipient. The brontotherium was one of the early settlers of the Black Hills— at least, he left his bones there. They were laid away with the tin, and discovered recently by the mine delvers. The latter did not recognize them, but the wise man, Prof. Fowler, was called in, and he at once classified them. He penetrated their history, and unfolded a wonderful tale to those who were his disciples. The jaw bone was the only part of the fossil that was perfect, but the learned man was able to reproduce the entire animal from that. The jaw Lone was tweJve feet in length, and this gave a monster over forty feet high. The construction was on the kangaroo plan. This furnished for the photographer of that indefinite era a beast that could leap 200 feet in the air and leave 125 feet of earth surface without a scratch. The enlarged and back-reaching vision of the scientist has this vivid portrayal iv one of his lectures upon the great discovery: "1 can see in my mind's eye this noble animal sitting up ou his haunches on a little rise of ground. Anon he reaches his nose up 120 feet into the air and whistles to his mate five miles away. Getting a response, he whisks off a giant oak with one stroke of his tail and bounds away, leaving tracks fifteen feel long and six feet deep." Hunting buffaloes used to be lively sport on the prairies, but it was tame iv comparison with what might be had ■with game like this.- A flock of a few hundred brontotheriums might make intensely exciting sport for a hunter ■who should have occasion to conduct a retreat to get out of their way. The 3)akota sportsmen will see what they missed by their carelessness in coming In too late for the fun. Possibly there would be annoyances at times in having such an overgrown beast about. He ■would suggest a cyclone if he trod over a wheat field or lost his temper and liunted it in an ordinary city. But he wight be as noted for his amiabilty as size, and quietly present his rear limbs for the artillery of the hunter. Incidentally, it may be noted that an other interpreter of the unknowable in the unknown past has arisen in the Black Hills, and he focuses his mental rays and asserts that it was a true bron totherium, but that was not the name of an animal, but a tree. The twelve foot jawbone was a branch of the tree. This man, however, is discountenanced by most of the indignant citizens. A quarter of a century earlier a vigilance committee would urobably have waited on him. He is a type of a class that is always trying to spoil good things. It was designed to find or rebuild the other bones of this skeleton and take it to the Chicago fair as a sample of the animal products" of the couiitty in a period before the Garden of Eden was operated there, as the local traditions have it. The idea that the brontothe- rium was but an innocent, legless tree is not to be countenancedfor a moment. THE CAMERA OUTRAGE. It may be that a law will ypt be re quired restricting the use of the camera to licensed and responsible parties. It is revolting to see the absence of de corum and delicacy on the part of these amateurs, and especially those who go loaded with the snap-shot camera. It will be remembered that the good, motherly lady who performed in tights was grievously shocked at being photo graphed in that slight costume. Some barbarian the other day turned his camera upon the head of the nation- in his bathing rig. Immediate drowning, of course, should have followed. It is funny to lake people unawares aud picture them in grotesque or laughable attitudes. Most persons will laugh at it, but it is no less an outrage to picture people in the garbs of privacy or on oc casions when the individual has a right to himself exclusively. NO AGNOSTICISM THERE. The statement is made upon high clerical authority that our public school system is the hot-bed of infidelity, and that its whole tendency is toward the spread of a demoralizing agnosticism. Is it true? This is a most serious ques tion, and should be considered thought fully. To-day the common school is the pop ular American idol. The people hold it in more veneration than they do their household gods, and it is exerting more influence upon American character than press and pulpit combined. Hence it becomes a matter of most serious im portance to determine whether or not the influence radiated from the common school is elevating or demoralizing in its tendencies. We deny the proposition submitted by Archbishop Ireland, in his address before the educational convention last week, that the exclusion of religious in struction from the public schools neces sarily encourages the growth of infidel ity; but before entering upon a discus sion of this question we wish to empha size the fact that in their idolatry of the common school system the American people are blind to many of its defects. Among other things they are permitting it to become so top-heavy there is actual danger that the whole structure will topple over. In their ambition to build up a system of higher education they are sacriQcing the interests of the com mon schools. In thus removing the structure from its original foundations they menace the perpetuity of the sys tem. But to return to our argument, we deem it a duty to vindicate our existing educational methods from the charge that they are breeders of infidelity. The common school system is part and parcel of the machinery of state gov ernment, nothing more, nothing less, and operated tor a wise and useful pur pose, just as we operate any other de partment of our complex political machinery. It would be just as reasou able to demand that relieious instruc tion be made a part of the duties of the railway commission as that it be incor porated is the state schools. Both are organized and operated for a secular purpose exclusively, and when either passes beyond the domain of secu larism it gets beyond the reach of state control. Under our pe culiar system and form of gov ernment the state has no right to meddle in any matter where conscience is involved. The very purpose for which free government was established on this continent was to secure to the individual citizen the freedom of con science in all matters of a social, politi cal and religious nature. For the state to attempt to establish any sort of re ligious instruction in any department of its governmental machinery would be subsersive of the very object for which our government was founded. So that whatever may be the effect or tendency of our educational system in regard to religious matters, the state has neither the power nor the right to change its attitude in this particular. There is no middle ground, no compro mise; for the secularism of the common schools must be maintained, or the sys tem must be abolished. That is the only alternative that can be presented. We fail to see why the acquisition of secular knowledge, the only knowledge the state has the right to impart, should tend to infidelity. Religion is an in herent trait of human nature, common to all races. It is as true to-day as when Hokace wrote it: "You may pitchfork Nature out, but she will ever return." It is impossible to eliminate the relig ious element from man, and if qur educational methods embodied a course of agnosticism to be taught in the schools, it would fail to turn mankind from a belief in a God. The Creator of the Universe has too indelibly im pressed Himself upon His works to ad mit of the conclusion that He can be obliterated from the minds and the hearts of men. It is a denial of God's omnipotence to assume that it is necessary to invoke the power of human government in order to establish His power and do minion. The fact that men reject dogma is no evidence that they are irre ligious. If the spread of secul knowledge has a tendency to eliminate dogma, then it is all the more proof that dogmatic faith ought to be eliminated. The mistake that is being made by many who advocate religious instruction in the public schools is that they confound dogma with religion, and wish to es tablish human creeds in place of the laws which God Himself has written upon the minds and hearts of mankind. THE MORAL. EFFECTS. The growing fact of the cities and their rapid accretions at the expense of the rural districts, as shown by the cen sus, is a fruitful theme for the uioral izer. In the vicinity of some of the cities that have made the most rapid growth are farming regions that have actually decreased in population. Even in New York state there are counties that have been stagnant, or a little worse. Except in the new regions of the West, it may be stated as a general fact that the growth is chiefly confined to the cities. This opens up the field for the socioloaist and tho pessimist. The moral philosophers hive usual ly concurred in the view that the larger the cities the more fruitful the agencies that involve peril to society. Some very em inent moralists nave connected the satanic domain with the vast asgrega tions of hninan life. The sarine ele ments of the civilization of the times are credited largely to the districts where there are few artificial obstructions to atmospheric purity and clearness of celestial observation. With no abate ment of the estimation of the country in the way of moral sanitation, it may be noted that the modern city is by no means the historic center of human life. In the earlier time business and the residence were necessarily crowded to gether. There were solid masses of population in the midst of business activities. This was peculiarly the case in the last century and the first half of this. Then commenced the use of suburban railroad trains and the animal motor car. These enabled the more prosperous to find suburban homes. The means of transit have wonderfully multiplied, and the eager inquiry is for slill greater facilities for passage. The cable, and especially the electric agency, promise to effect vastly greater changes. The means of reaching homes miles out in the country are becoming so cheap and rapid that almost any element of the population can have its home in the quiet of the rural district and away from the demoralizing influences of the city. The population of all great cities will have homes stretching out miles from the scenes of business. The THE" SAIOT? PATJ£ EAILY GLOBE: StHSTDAY MORNING. Ktt,Y IS, 1890. — SETTEES' PAGES. workmen will have such speedy and inexpensive transit that they can avail themselves of the rural advantages. This condition will have an important bearing upon the moral features of the situation, and may make the great cen ters less to be deprecated as developing forces iv the national life. DO STORMS INCREASE ? There is an impression, perhaps not quite so well matured aa to be given definite shape, that the interlacing of the towns and country with the metallic connections of the telegraph, telephone and railroad tends to dissipate the electricity and diminish the frequency of thunder storms. It is not observed that any of the statistics gathered the census takers are likely to afford light upon the subject, and there are no data that can do much service in suggesting a conclusion. Although facts have not been had to rest it upon, it has been regarded as scientifically plausible that the electrical gatherings should seek these convenient lines of transit. An investigator in Germany. Dr. Kast.net, has evolved a different theory from inquiry into the facts as recorded. His researches, extending over twenty-six years, show, as he claims, that; lightning strokes have in creased in that time 129 per cent. Should an exhaustive scrutiny of his data afford no casual or incidental ex planation, the fact must be regarded as surprising. There can ba no sufficient climatic influence adduced to meet the requirement. The increase of wires and rails must be conceded the chief agency in the multiplication of electrical en ergy. If this is the fact iv Germany the conditions are sufficiently similar here to presume that the effects will be in the same direction. If there Is any thing in this view, it will assume greater consequence as the uses of electricity multiply. The Get man inquirer was able to locate the four paths chiefly fol lowed by the storms, ail starting in the hills and taking courses where there were fewest obstructions from trees and hills. There is much to learn about the disposition and habits of electrical en ergy. LARGE ARMIES. There are several lines that would draw Russia and France together in case there should be war among the leading powers of Europe. In fact, in history or interest, for some time past, there is little to prevent them becom ing allies. They could put a tremen dous force in the field; in fact, several hundred thousand more thau Germany, Austria and Italy combined. The pop ulation of the latter three countries is estimated at but 114,000,000, or 30,000,000 less than France and Russia. The lat ter could put on their army rolls more than 5,500,000 of men. With such armies, and the wonderful devices for the de struction of armies likely to be brought into use, any protracted contest would be fearfully destructive to life. There would be a horrified fascination to the observer, surpassing anything in mod ern times. It has not been the common i mpres sion that the prominent cities over in Canada were keeping pace with those on this side in growth. Some interest may be had in them from the fact that manifest destiny will in good time put up the stars and stripes in them as a home picture. Toronto has changed its 86,000 in 1831 to 216,033 in 1830. This is claimed to insure 170 per cent in the decade. This is a pretty fair pace for this side, even. Montreal now claims over a quarter of a million, about double its 1831 figures; and the smaller cities over there are keeping along at a lively pace. They would do a little better, probably, if they had the dividing line rubbed out, as they will by and by. An English engineer proposes to obviate the objection to a tunnel under the English channel by the device of two parallel tubes, like the double bot tom of a big ship, each large enough for a railway train. It is to be sunfc in sec tions of GOO feet, and to be made solid and safe from the action of the tides and other dangers. This is to be laid, if de cided upon, in five years, at a cost of $75,000,000. It is alleged that the bed of the sea is smooth enough to admit of it. This can easily be filled with water in case of war, and the uncomfortable apprehension would exist that passen gers might find the waters coming in on them. It is related in the Baltimore papers, with au equanimity that seems incred ible, that one of those beautiful and re fined young ladies for whom the city is noted was arrested and . escorted through the street by the police to a station house and fined, for simply ex ploding a firecracker on the Fourth of July. If shame has not "fled to brutish beasts," there will be a revolution in that city, and such officials shipped to China. A controversy has grown up as to the rightful fate of the man who at tempted to work his photograph ma chine on the president as he was taking his first sea bath at Cape May. proba bly for the use of an illustrated paper or cigarette factory. The more radical opinion is that he should be experi mented upon with an electracutor. Ec was evidently carrying his art too far. There have been of iate threats of a strike by the London police. There would be questions of interest palpable in any large city with all the police on a strike. But the men with clubs and bayonets rarely go out. If all the ar mies of Europe were to go home on strike, it would be a big thing, and mieht not be altogether au irrational course. Evex in Boston it is allowable by both city any social ordinances for the reputable citizen.and even the travelers, on Beacon Hill, to wear an unlaundried flannel shirt and russet shoes that have suggestion of comfort in the hot peri ods. Only the laundrymen and boot blacks kick at the custom. It is to be hoped that no visitors in the city the past week heard envious disparagement of any neighboring com munity or its accessories and environ ments. Such intimations are usually discounted at their value. Petty local divergencies should not be obtruded upon strangers. The proposed bridge over the Hud son river at New York is to have a span of 2,860 teet, which is 1,265 longer tha n that of the Brooklyn bridge. It will be higher, also, and the towers 500 feet aboye the water. It will be a great demonstration of engineering skill. KnoDE ISLA.XD comes in for a liberal share in the appropriation for the im provement of water-courses, but the idea of a river in that state is absurd. Perhaps, however, it is not necessary to have streams to secure appropriatious. Out of. a possible ! 550 the Enslish house of lords usually has but about 40 members present. It is not probable that it would disturb the state economy much if it had no_ attendance. . It will be outgrown at no distaut time. There may be peril for men in the absence of divorce possibilities. In Hungary recently there were ten women on trial for poisoning their husbands, and eight of them convicted. They have no.Cbicago there. Boss Quay had his man nominated for governor in Pennsylvania, and no challenge arises to his statement that he wanted to have a governor to en tirely own for once, but he is not quit^ having his way in the party since. In, his own district his man for congress ' was defeated after a long contest, and in another one his proaramme was up set. The indications increase that h will not have the ownership of the gov = eruor elected in November. Pittsburg is a manufacturing pom that believes in getting all the protec tion possible, and has some very wealthy people who have been fostered by the tariff. The home market there should be a bonanza for the farmer, But the census shows a decrease of the agricultural population of that section the past ten years. "Some even allege that the duties that have enriched the Carxegies have damaged the farmers. It comes queerly to the ear. The Ohio wool growers and protectionists proclaim that "Mr. Cleveland's free wool recommendation was no worse" than Mr. Blame's scheme to recipro cate with the Pan-Americans. They nsist that it wrecks the plank in the Republican platform that promised things to the wool men. Mr. Blaise is away off of the protection platform ! The educational work goes on. If you want to tone down your ice man this weather, you Ihust keep your ice warm; keep it snugly wrapped in a good coatiug of newspapers and you will be surprised to see how long it will keep. Minneapolis papers, however, have too much caloric in them of late for this use. It affords Republican friends a vast amount of delight to see the farmers' movement down in South Carolina and Georgia making trouble for the Demo crats. But the farmers down there are all Democrats, so that no good can be picked out of the contest for the Repub licans. Chat'XCEY Depew has not gone abroad to see scenery. He says a man is a fool to go for that purpose when there is so much that is grander in the United States. Nor can there be found any climate to surpass this of the North west, on the average. At a dance in the East the other day thirty young people were poisoned, some of the ladies falling npon the floor as they were dancing. It was attributed to the flavoring. Still, the ladies heroic ally take the peril. QUIPS AND QUIRKS. Political The sudden deter mination of Auditor Pot-Pourri. Braden to decline a re nomination when he had it within his grasp is causing no little stir among the politicians, Some construe it to mean Capt. Braden's pur pose to bob up as a candidate for gov ernor, but this theory has comparatively few advocates. The general impression is that the instinct which causes a rat to desert a sinking ship is at the bottom of Auditor Braden's sudden inclination to drop out of the political rinse. This impression is further confirmed by the current rumor that Attorney General Clapp has likewise served notice on the Merriam combine that he will no longer affiliate with it. Lieut. Gov. Rice went out some time ago, and as Col. Hans Mattsou has been pushed out, with a prospect that Col.Bobleter will also have to walk the plank, it begins to look as if there will be nothing left of the original 1 combine except the head. Knute Nel son's appearance in the city yesterday, associated with the rumor that he was posing as the joint candidate of the wheat ring and the Great Northern rail way, had a demoralizing effect on the machine. It is observable that there is a good deal of hurrying to and fro among the bosses these clays, and the possibilities are that something will drop pretty soon with an awfully sickening thud to some politicians who lately thought they were going to have everything their own way, Cooking as a lion. Albert Solicitor is not only an advo- Fine Art. cate of industrial training, bnt he prac tices what he preaches. Among the many accomplishments possessed by his daughters the one he takes most pride in is their skill in cooking. They have a young lady visitor from Albert Lea, Miss Wedge, who is also the gradu ate of a cooking school. One day last week Mr. Scheffer bantered his daugh ters and their visitor to get up a dinner for him that day to be prepared and cooked by their own fair hands. The young ladies accepted the challenge, and as Mr. Scheffer left home for the bank that morning he told the girls to be sure and have the meal ready at the usual time, as he would bring a friend home to dinner with him. Think ing to play a joke ou the young ladies he went around that forenoon aud in vited the hungriest looking lot of epi cures that he could find in the city to dine with him. The list of guests in cluded EL P. Hall, Col. J. H. Drake, Hon. Eugene Hendrickson, Col. We lz, of the Merchants', Dr. Staum and other gentlemen of well-known epicurean tastes. Imagine the astonishment of the young ladies when, just as they had concluded the preparation of the sav ory meal, they went to tiie kitchen win dow aud saw a procession of carriages, filled with hungry guests. With woman's quick instinct they took in the situation and turned the joice on Papa Scheffer. The menu was quickly en larged, and by the time the guests were ready for the meal dinner was served, and a more sumptuous feast never de lighted the hearts and stomachs of epi cures. Col. Welz admitted that the bill of fare surpassed anything that the ieading hotel ot the Northwest had ever gotten up, while Mr. Hall, who had taken a sandwich alona with him for fear of an accident, confessed that his suspicions of a St. Paul girl's ability to cook a good dinner were unjust and unfounded. Not a Pad- The hubbub that somebody tried to kick ded Census, up about the St. Paul census being padc*e<l qnickiy petered ont when Superintend ent Porter was applied to for informa tion. Any return showing less than 150,000 population for St. Paul can have no padding in it. There isn't a person of common Intelligence who will look over St. Paul and say that less than 150,000 people live here. It is one of those self-evident propositions that doesn't have to be demonstrated. Yet, if there is anywhere a suspicion thaj crookedness prevailed in the taking of our census, the St. Paul people urgently ask for an investigation, auri will to a man aid the government in bringing the offenders to justice. A WORD. I caugh; one word— one whisper low — The word of a thousand meanings, "No." Have you heard the organ's tones grow dim At the* closing of some grand old hymn, While echoed and tossed from arch to stone That sweet "Amen" when the hymn was done? Have yon heard the birds Uieir carols sing Till the whole wild forest seemed to ring, As the golden sunlight swept the plaia After a day of mist and of raiu? Have you heard the bells of eventide . - In the distance o'er tue valley wide, •■>'- ' And then stopped to catch the minor plaint Of Oru pro Nouis, sweet and taint? _ . ; As sweot as these eatna the answer "No," 'ij t When he whisDered aofily, '-Shall I goi'l^'.^ "—Flora Scott Alines iii New York Home Joar ;-ii ; tt&L. ~ "'-■"* • • '';; EDUCATIONAL ECHOES. The big convention is over, and the popular question is, was it a success? Well, that depends. It depends on what light you view it in. If the com ing together of a big crowd of people in which the female element largely predominates Is a success, then the con vention was a grand achievement. If interesting papers and discussions on ..educational topics are a success, then the Convention was fairly a scccess. But if you mean the dropping of big piles of money in St. Paul, then the convention was a failure. Outside of the hotels -and boarding houses there was Very lit tle money left behind. Still, we were awfully glad to have the edacators with us, and to be able to extend the hospi tality of the city. Our compensation is -In the consciousness of having per formed our duty in entertaining our and of the good advertisement these people will give our city. New England had the most solid dele gation in attendance, and die most mod est. They made no flurry, and showed no disposition to push themselves to the front; yet they were a way-up class of teachers. The Chicago delegation kicked up the most racket. They had a candidate for president, and because he was beaten by a Southern man they hoisted the bloody shirt and attempted to wave it over the ceuvention. But through the good sense of President Caxfield the ensanguined garment was speedily hauled down and the riot squelched. In view of the fact that Chicago would like to have the Southern people visit that city in a body in 1892, a little more modesty and a degree of wisdom would have been more appropriate on the part of the Chicago delegates. There ought to be no sectionalism in this educa tional work; no more than there should be in the world's fair exhibit. It is a matter of local pride that, by universal consent, the St. Paul schools received credit for the best exhibit. Considering that no special effort was made to get up a St. Paul exhibit, our teachere and our people are justly proud of their triumph. President Canfield is a man of nerve and great executive force; other wise the convention proceedings would have been awfully tangled up. It is no little task to hold in subjection 5,000 school teachers who think they know it all. Now that the convention is over, the most fatiguad man in town is Secretary Sherin. He has been a walking en cyclopedia for the last week, and has had to roll off information with the rapidity of a railway station master. I saw him the other day down in the En dicott buildim: when fourteen school ma'ams were besieging him with ques tions at the same time. He answered every one of them with a suavity of manner that would have dove creeit to a French parliamentarian. 1 don't know that he answered them correctly, but the marvel to one was that he could answer them at all. It takes a cool brained, level-headed,slick-tongued man to talk to fourteen women at once and yet please each one. ■ * .-: The colored • brother made a good showing in the convention. The ~ de portment.of the colored delegates was unexceptionable in every respect, and tbeir scholarly, attainments are the best ■evidence that the cause of education is ' not being neglected in ■, the Southern .states.* vV-.v' 'J' .-.•,-;;-:..■ - :: ■'■'•,• '-.i. •< ; The weather clerk stood In with the local authorities aud gave our visitors a first-class sample of Minnesota summer climate. It is a pity we couldn't have made as good a showing in some otner respects. The lack of a more commodi ous hall in which to hold the convention was a source of genuine mortification to our people. And then the convention came at a time when we had no first class places of amusement to which they could resort. In another year we would have had two good theaters. Fortunately, we were provided with tip-top hotel accommodations, and that counts for a good deal. -» • ■ The speeches which invited- -most thoughtful study were - the ones deliv ered by Archbishop Ireland and Sup erintendent Thavek. The topic of most general interest was "The Race Prob-: lem," and it was generally conceded that the addresses delivered by Judge GuiTßYand Prof. Price were the speeches of the convention. Both were ornate, thoughtful and impartial discus sions of the nibst '. serious - : problem re lating to our social conditions. - A REVOLUTIONARY BILL. A Selfish Object. Hartford Times. - The one object of the force bill, by which congress and the executive are to throttle the elections in the South, is to secure for the Republicans a majority in the next congress, and to gain a po sition for the presidential election. Without some such rough and arbitrary act as that — itself a violation of the constitution— the indications all are that the Republicans would be very decid edly in the minority in the next house. Will Make Democratic Votes. Louisvillo-Times. From a party standpoint, the passage of the force bill will make votes for the Democrats at the South, for in all the cotton states, and in Virginia, it will draw the color line, and that means white supremacy. Pass the bill, and there would not be left in Mississippi enough white Republicans of whom to make enough supervisors to put the measure in operation; it would heal all local dissensions in the Democratic ranks in South Carolina, and make every Farmers' alliance convention through out the South a Democratic ratification meeting. A Crime Against the Constitution. Omaha Democrat. With the South already rivaling the North in manufactures, and the old spirit of hostility to Northern ideas completely buried, is it not wicked for party ambition to seek to reopen the old •ores and sow the tares of discord among the wheat of harmony? D Soap I Utica Observer. The federal election bill will never avail to scoop the colored vote into the Republican maw. If they want the votes of the colored men they must use "soap"— "laughter" — just as they do in enlightened Maine and New Hamp shire. The colored citizen, if left to follow his own inclination, gravitates toward the Democratic side in politics. They Grin aud Bear It. Waterbury American. Once said Hon. J. S. Clarkson, first assistant Dostinaster general, when compelled-: to support for : congress a.' man ■-' ivhoni •-; he ' thoroughly ; - detested : "In walking ' you ; cannot • alvshys avoid offensive, ill-smelling - garbage n- heaps. l^ •You have - to = pass ; by I tliem— and hold yonr nose." We fancy that not a few of our l. esteemed Republican contem^- ; porarie3, :; y who irave to passv-by that fed eral election law, are busy holding their noses. Force to Supplement Fraud. Omaha World-Herald. The federal election bill was the first thought of the Republicans, and its en forced passage was determined upon even before the meeting of congress. In the hauds of such unscrupulous schemers as Quay, Reed and Dudley, and backed by tue millions of the treas ury, it is expected to gain by force that which fraud might; no longer give to them. Will Cause Bloodshed. Albany Union. The force bill now pending in con gress is a measure to cause the shedding of blood and riotous conduct at the polls. The people of this country love liberty, and they will fight for it. They will not be deprived of their right of suffrage, and a desperate congress, whose con duct has forfeited the respect of the people, caunot perpetuate its power or re-elect its majority at the expense of the freedom of the American people. There Is a Storm Brewing. Washington Post. Are the members who support this shameful bill aud who are pooh-pooh ing its cost on the floor of the house prepared to answer to their constituents for the imposition upon them of this new and needless burden? Do they ex pect that the people will be as easily bulldozed into accepting this bill as they themselves are in passing it? These are too serious questions to be put off without answer until the day of reckoning, when answers will be of no avail. The member who is wise will put his ear to the ground and listen to the coming storm before it is too late. : Playing Their liast Card. : Houston Post. • ' ; The federal election bill is the last card of the Republican party, its der nier resort. The administration has been "'/a allure. The attempt of " the party to propitiate the tariff barons of ; the East and the tariff victims of the ; West has provoked a storm of ridicule; its pension measures have failed to sat isfy the old soldier- element, while : dis gusting the rest of the country, and in bidding for the support of both the East ern goldbugs and the Western: silver ; men, it has incurred the suspicion of both. ; THE RACE PROBLEM Discussed by a Northern Edu ,. cator Now Living in the South. There was no topic discussed during toe late educational convention which excited more '> general interest or called forth a . larger attendance then .': the "Race Problem." It was regretted that Senator Blair was • not present, and it was furthermore regretted that a free discussion was not arranged for to fol low the papers ; read 'by Judge : Gunby and Prot Price. These two gentlemen handled the question in a masteriy, manner and treated the subject in purely judicial style. . Viewing the ; question from opposite standpoints, the marvel is that ; they should : have so nearly . reached the same conclusions. The public were anxious, however, to hear from others who had equal opportu nities ;to study this ' subject, in order to : ascertain whether or not there is a gen eral concurrence of ; opinion v as to the availability of our educational standard as the proper solution of this problem v and for that reason there was some dis appointment that : members lof both colors were not allowed the privilege of ; : a free f discussion. Among those whom . the Globe ; interviewed on the subject, i we select the statement given by Mrs. H. K. Ingram, principal of the Duv al ; high school, Jacksonville, Fla., because ■ it is " perhaps .as impartial and un prejudiced as it is possible to get, for , reasons that are set forth in the inter- • view. :«mM When asked for her opinion by the Globe Mrs. Ingram said : "I have some right to a hearing on this subject, as I was born, brought up, and educated in New York state. For years my nearest neighbors were the intimate friends of Gerritt Smith, de vout followers of William Lloyd Gar rison, and active officials in that mys tenons transit line— the underground railway. I went to the South before the war of sections and saw the genuine old planta tion life. 1 was in the South during the war. I have lived in the South ever since its close. 1 have seen the ueero as slave, soldier and citizen. I have had abundant opportunity for observa tion, and I have studied him closely in each character. In the slave of the olden time I failed to see the oppressed, depressed look of the European peasant— the European peasant, whose step is without spring, whose thin lips never part in song or jest, who never thinks of giving his arm to a woman except during his weddine march, who never has a thought of en tertainine the companion who walks or works by his side. His life-long duel with the soil and the elements absorbs every faculty and leaves him few ideas and no life to express them. I saw the Southern slave go forth to his work with jest and sons, imitating and rivaling the mocking bird above him. He was gallant and gay to Dinah beside him. makinsr love lightly and jesting in stinctively as he went to his work, and whistling as he returned. His laughter came easily from wide-open throat, and rang out over the cotton field and above the rustling corn. 1 heard none of the plaintive melo dies, with their pathetic, heart-break ing resrets for the "Old Kentucky Home," "'Way Down in Ole Virginia," " 'Way Down in Tennessee," "The Suwanee River," or the "Massa" that was in "the Cold, Cold Ground." These mournful ditties were never conceived, and were never sung by the slaves of the South. They were written, words and music, by Stephen R. Foster, of Pennsylvania, who never lived south of Cincinnati, and who knew more of melody and the Northern fancy than he did of" the Southern slave. They were heard on the stage, but never at the cabin door. The truth is. the negro slave was a picturesque feature of our country. He naturally attracted a certain interest from two classes — those whose sympa thies were easily touched by far-off woes, and those who find a pleasure in pointing out fauits in men and meas ures—a far easier thing, we will all agree, than to suggest remedies. Many people belonged to both classes. Hence the negro slave became a favorite theme for poets, romancers and song makers, but the negro of the Northern fiction writer was about as true to natnre as Cooper's noble red man of the forest is to the crafty, cruel, filthy Indian of reality. I saw the negro a Kappy, carefree, careless peasant— a slave in little but a name. What do I see him now as a freedman? The best dressed man on the street; the most persistent aud con stant patron of the street cars and liv ery stables. Every avenue of trade is open to him. Many of our friends in this section have never 3een 100 colored people in one town at one time. Many intelligent thinkers have the freedmen classified as barbers, porters, hotel wait ers and whitewashers. My dear read ers, come to Jacksonville next winter, and walk with me along Bay street.' We will enter a shoe store. A white man and a colored man stand side by side behind the counter, and it is a mere chance which will bend forward and ask us what is our wish to-day, and I will defy you to decide which does it with the more persuasive aud flattering courtesy. Come to the oldest and wealthiest drug store on the street, the proprietor of which raised a regiment on the Southern side twenty -five years ago, and present your prescription. A young fellow, whose hair kinks to the skin, and whose eyes shine like stars in a midnight sky, will concoot your poisons while you wait, in groceries, hardware stores, anywhere you choose, the same equal chance is given. In the busiest portion of this thoroughfare our December violets, January roses aud midwinter lilies are displayed by n middle-aged African. He has proudly decorated his stand with a framed letter of thanks from Mrs. Cleveland, who sent it in return for a tastefully ar ranged wreath of her favorite pansies. All lovers of fragrance and beauty are tempted by the graceful show on the old man's stand, Not a war of races, but a war of roses is what he carries ou with a white lady who spreads her blushing wares a block further on. It is a contest in which the darker hue has gained the decisive advantages, for the negro has been appointed florist-in-chief to the grand Ponce de Leon hotel in St. Augustine, and prepares all the table decorations for that elegant and fastid ious hostelry. A colored photographer has a conspicuous gallery in a central location on the principal street, and cares not which color comes up his winding stair. A colored dentist last week opened his dental parlors in a choice location. The first school houses in the city are those built for the use of the colored race. Their churches are the finest edifices, and are well filled with not ouly well-dressed, but very elegantly apparelled congregations. Yet with all this 95 per cent of our criminals are negroes. The cure for this, yon will say, is education. Let us see. Of these criminals 80 per cent can read, write, and have always voted the Republican ticket. It is want of jus tice, perhaps, you think. They are tried by juries, in which their own color is often in the majority. Sometimes, as in Jacksonville, one of their own color pre sides as judge. Within the last year a writer in the Epoch summed up the twenty-five years of experiments with the negro as a citi zen as a failure. He quoted statistics showing the thoroughness aud sincerity of the efforts to educate him, and proved how completely it had all come to naught. A Florida "new-comer" an swered through the columns of our lead ing daily, the Times-Union, and pleaded that the author of the article was too easily discouraged, and looked too im patiently for ripened fruit. He urged that it had taken the Anglo-Saxon cen turies to develop from the wild Norse man to the polished resident of Nor mandy, London or Boston. Let us grant it. To help the argument, another illus tration may be added. Less than thirty five years ago the capacity of the horse for speed began to receive attention. A 2:40 gait was a marvel of trotting. When Flora Temple lowered it to 2;l9>£ the world stood in wonder. The educa tion of the horse, its development by training, in-breeding, and care, was sys tematic and progressive, and the nag ging pace ot Flora Temple has given place to the 2:08& of Maud S. But we must remember the nature of the material. The same time, training and money spent on a mule or a cow could not have produced such a result. The Anglo-Saxons were dignified,spir ited, valiant, truthful, fearless, ener getic. The negro has no dignity, is sly, deceitful, improvident, wholly unreli able, simply imitative in small matters, self-sufficient and important. All who have risen to any distinction among them are nearly white. Fred Douglass is a quadroon, and married a white woman. James Sanderlin, the wealthy negro of Colorado, is a bright mulatto. The South, for her own sake and safety, and with the eyes of the North upon' her, has tried conscientiously and persistently to do a thing never before attempted by any nation or any people. She has given the negro careful training in equal schools with her white popula tion, and she has given him equal op portunities for using that education. Not an occupation, trade, profession or business of any kind is barred to him. His success in any line is commended and warmly encouraged by his white colleagues in the same calling. Yet the results are not encouraging. In the words of that grand apostle of peace and good will, Henry Graay, '•This is a problem in the solving of which the South must stand alone. On its outcome depen/ls her very existence. The problem is to carry within the body politic two separate races nearly equal in numbers. She must carry them in peace, for discord means ruin. She must cairy them in equal justice, for to this she is pledged in honor aud in graU itude. She must carry them unto the end, for in human probability she will never be quit of either. She must carry them separately, for assimilation means debasement." And this is true. It would mean a debasement which would degrade not the South alone, but whioh would be a blot on the nation and the continent, and a disgrace on the century which saw it. This burden no other people bears to-day; on no other has it ever rested. In the history of eighteen centuries the situation is without a parallel. En gland, which possibly by the prophetic blessing of the aged patriarch is typified in the Ephraim who was to rule over all races and peoples, and who was to be the keeper of the gateways of the na tions, has never attempted assimilation or equality with the Malay, the Hindoo, the Australian, the Indian or the Esqui maux. The civilized world would have revolted at such efforts had she made the attempt. She has conquered, she has civilized, she has converted to Chris tianity, but she has nowhere ceased to dominate. Why? Because she is the Anglo-Saxon race, the superior race. So ' will the supremacy of the white race in the South be maintained forever, be cause it is the white race, and the su perior race. It is a truth that carries its own con viction through every heart that pulses with Anglo-Saxon blood. It is simply a race issue. It is not local or sectional. It concerns the North only in a less de gree than it does the South. The races and tribes of the earth are of Divine origin. As Mr. Price Friday night re marked, Paul standiug on Mars' hil 1 and speaking to the haughty Athenians said: "He hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth;" but, as Mr. Price did not say last night, Paul also added, "And God determined the bounds of their habitation." While the Christian re ligion acknowledges the brotherhood of all men in Clirst, and the South to-day holds her white and her black Christian by the same hand, Christi anity has never, in any age or country, attempted or professed to wipe out race distinctions. "Behind the iaws of man, and the de crees of war, stands the law of God. The Indian, the Malay, the negro, the Caucasian, stand as workers of God's will. Let no man tinker with the work of the Almighty. No race has risen or will rise above its ordained plane. Here is the pivotal fact. Two peoples are made equal in law, in political rights, between whom the caste of race has set an impassable gulf. This gulf is bridged by a statute, and the races are urged to cross thereon." The one cannot, and maintain its race integrity; the other cannot through con stitutional disability. In spite of statute the gulf remains impassable, and the problem unsolved. Yet the South must meet It, and meet it alone. The North cannot meet it for her. Interference simply irritates and aggravates. The North could, if she would, give her prayers, encouragement and sympathy; could offer kindness for carpiugs; careful consideration for cold criticism. Every instinct of our common blood cries within us all for Anglo-Saxon domination. It is shown in the unanimity ffpon the Chi nese and Indian questions that all agree that the Caucasian shall rule America and every part of America. The North cannot afford any other position; then why can she not give the South a God speed? At least give the South credit for what she has done. Florida has a school fund— scant enough, the more's the pity— raised by her white taxpayers, and 52.3 per cent of it goes to support the schools for the non-taxpaying colored pupils. She has one state normal sc hool of whites and a state normal school for blacks. When she holds a con nty institute for whites she furnishes the same for blacks. Her six weeks' sum mer normal schools are two in number, one for each color. She re ceives from but one, but she dis burses with equal justice to both. She receives no aid from the Peabody fund or from any other Northern source. It is a voluntary load with which she has burdened herself. Has Massachusetts, Indiana, Kansas or ■ Minnesota done more? When it comes to real personal sym pathy the colored man knows his friend. The Northern theorist is seldom practical. Consistency- is a jewel, and like all other jewels is valuable on ac count of its rarity. Harriet Beecher Stowe. whose orange grove is but ten miles from my own home, employs from ten to twelve white men constautly, but no colored need apply. Mr. Trice, in his lecture of ' Friday night, attributed all the degradation, moral depravity and inherent indolence of the negro to slavery. Slavery was the cause of all his woes, according to Mr. Price. I would like to ask Mr. Price, had it not been for slavery where would he be to-day? instead of ad dressing a representative audience, if his ancestors had not been brought by force from the wilds of the dark con tinent to the home of the white race, Mr. Price, in all probability.would have to-day been roaming the howling wil derness of interior Africa. Mr. Price and all his race owe whatever of elevation they possess to-day to slavery, and slavery alone. It was God's plan for their development, and, God's plans are always best plans. It is only a crooked-eyed man that cannot see them aright. While I denounce as a glaring impropriety the introduction of the race question into the delibera tions of such a body as the N. E. A., I appeal to my co-educators to rise above the partisanship that leans to the heavy side for political profits or spoils, and, as just, candid men and women, to lay aside forever the prejudice that be clouds judgment. I beg them all, as commanded by that Great Teacher whom we all obey, to do to the South, feel towards the South, as they would have the South feel towards them had their own section a similar perplexityf TALK OF THE DAY. •'He's a pessimist. Very widely read." "That's strange. A pessimist ought to be very largely blue." — Puck. A lady in this city who owns a cat that scratches a great deal has given it the descriptive name of "Clawed."— Hartford Times. The best cure for obesity is to board for the summer at a farm house wiiere you will be treated like one of the family. — Boston Gazette. Jim— "Jack, lend me a fiver, please?" Jack— "Certainly. Lend me the fiver I last loaned you aud you can have it." — Boston Courier. Mendicant — "Can't you give me a few pennies for my poor family at home, sir?" Merchant— No, no. man;! don't want to buy auy poor family.—Yonk ers Statesman. Incongruity — Mr. Figg— What are you thinking over so deeply, my dear? Mrs. Figg— "l was just wondering whether to cut off Tommy's curls or to make him stop swearing." If there is anything that exceeds all else for appallinguess it is the situation of a man who gets caught in a rain storm in a flannel shirt that is already too tight for him.— Washington Post. Afraid It Would Follow Him.— Waiter (to diner)— " Excuse me, sir; but whis tling is not allowed in this restaurant." Diner— "l'm not disturbing any one, am I?" Waiter— "No, sir; but that last lot of cheese we got iv is very sensi tive."—Judge. "Hands wanted on waists," are the significant words borne by numerous signs displayed at intervals along Broadway. This is a novel demand. We have always believed that waists were peculiarly objects that hands were to be kept off of.— American Grocer. Suspicious Questions. — Binks—"Hel lo, Jinks, how is your health and how are the folks at home? By the way, did you succeed in getting out of that financial difficulty you were Mn last month?" Jinks— "Why, Binks, I didn't know you'd been appointed a census taker."— New York Weekly. There is a sadly frivolous Boston young woman, who says that her "pa" can turn out bachelors more expediously than any college, because he doesn't do it by degrees. He begins the gradua tion exercises at 10 p. m. sharp, and they are always finished at 10:01 sharp by a stop watch.— New York Tribune. ODD ITEMS. Carmencita, the famous dancer, can neither read nor write. Adelina Patti speaks English without a foreign accent, and converses freely in several other languages. The grave of Major Ogden in the national cemetery at Fort Leaven worth, Kan., is said to mark the geo graphical center of the United States. Mrs. Henry Mullen, of Middleton Cor ners, Ohio, has given birth to two pairs of twins within a year. Miss Grace Griuley ,of Amboy, HI., has been sleeping peacefully since the 15th of last March. There are 1200 rosebushes on the lawn in front of John F. Wright's house at Cockeysville, near Baltimore, and he boasts that they embrace 380 varieties. A wealthy citizen of Kansas City has spent every night for the last two months beside the grave of his wife and son. At about 11 o'clock every night he goes to the cemetery and makes his bed on the ground close to the graves of his loved ones. A gold nngget worth fC.700 was taken recently from a mine in Arizona. Dr. Skilkakowsky, a famous phy sician in Russia, has received what is said to be the largest fee that was ever paid to a doctor in that country. A millionaire residing in Odessa sum moned him specially to come tuere to perform some surgical operation. He performed the operation and was in Odessa but five hours, receiving 11,000 roubles, or over §8,000, as a fee for his trouble. The larynx of the great tenor Gay arre, who died not long ago in Madrid, was removed after his death, and was found to be of such peculiar formation that it will probably be preserved in some Spanish museum. Gayano received $1400 a night in opera, the largest salary ever paid a tenor, aud his fortune is estimated at 1800,000. 110 was the. son of a blacksmitli and a com mon workman when his voice first attracted attention, and he was only forty years old when he died. THE PEOPLE Appreciate a Large Assortment* Our stock is now complete. Every floor of our six-story building is full of Furniture— all New Patterns and New Finish. 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