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'M'ih--' WWtWW -f i ht WHitWxt pactlij n$e: itcstlag formttcj, Iplau, 19, 1891. JI. 3L MCKDOCK. Kdltor. Wliether the political conglomeration at Cincinnati may resolve a third party, the southern wing of the Alliance will stand true to its Bourbon Democracy. Judge Botkin had to return home and open court yesterday in Seward county. The judge whose impeachment case will terminate this week, seems to have a tough row to hoe. The president compromised his opposi tion to free silver, the Topeka Journal thinks, by accepting the gift of the silver brick presented him by the Leadville smelters. Don't see it. envious, Missouri Some American papers are advising Eudini to attack Blaine while he is sick jn bed. The macaroni eater don't dare. You couldn't get him within a mile of the Blaine graveyard. The Star says that Kansas City is moving like a snail, if indeed it is not moving like a crab. Most people out this way had somehow got the impression that it had ceased to move altogether. One of the laws that the Farmers' Al liance of Pennsylvania demand is that horses shall not be taxed until they are four years old. Another special privi lege. Some of the most valuable horses in the country are under four year3 old. It is seldom that an editor is yet there seems to bo " one in who is affected that way. His sarcasm is more pointed than his logic: "We are always in sympathy with the poor In dians. They have truly a hard time, be cause of the horrible way this govern ment has treated them; for instance, the Osage Indians are now worth only about SoO.OOO each, and the value of their land is increasing so slowly. Taking this into consideration, the government each year gives them only about three times as much provisions, etc., as they can use, and they are compelled to live in those fine houses, ride fine horses, stop at a $2.50-a-day hotel, smoke and chew fine tobacco, etc. Poor Indians!" The facts are presumed to be about as stated, yet there is not a cent of gratuitous money given them by the government, but sim ply the fulfillment of treaty obligations. And if the Indians choose to enjoy what they have in the ways mentioned, whose business is it? mills promised as the result of the tariff are built and in operation, and then we will have an abundance of tin, if the materials of which the plate is made do have to be imported. The world wasn't made in a day, and ifc took longer than several days for the "World to climb to its present exaltation. Johii A. Cockrill, who has done so much to make the "World so groat a suc cess, leaves it, and a new daily is liable to appear in New York. John A. Dillon for years managing editor of the St. Louis Post, takes editorial control of the "World. Lawrence Journal: "The general im pression has been that Oklahoma is set tled principally by Kansans, but the fre quency with which trains are held up in that country of late seems to indicate that there are more Missourians there than any one had suspected.' The Winfield Tribuno says Jerry Simp som will deliver the Fourth of July ad dress in "Winfield, and not in Atchison as the Eagle announced a day or two ago. Don't know where the Tribune gots its information; but no matter we told it to vou as 'twas told to us. The partial canvass of the Democratic and Alliance members of the Fifty-second congress on the question of the speakership would seem to indicate that the extravagant claims of Mills' and Crisp's friends that one or the other is dead sure to get the coveted position, were prematuie, to say the least. In stead of leading the race, Mills is the hindmost man but one, and Crisp is but little better off. The significance of the showing is in the evident fact that the southern contingent is not going to be permitted to dominate the policy and action ot the party, but that the northern and western portions together, being in the majority, will take the lead and con trol. There is heaps of fun ahead. The western congress, which is to meet in Denver today, will be composed of nearly 1,000 delegates from the states and territories west of the Mississippi river. It will not be held in the interests of any political party, but of the whole people of the states represented primarily and of the whole country in a general way. It is hoped the effort will be a success in its aims and objects, and if it is it will be followed by other meetings of a like character at proper intervals until the ends sought shall be obtained. The Paola Republican tells a good story on a Miami county Democrat, who went into a store and ordered a dollar's worth of sugar. The merchant tied it up for him. The Democrat looked at the bundle and said: "How much have you got there?" "Nineteen pounds," said the- merchant. "It's too much," re plied the Democrat. "If I take nineteen pounds home and tell my wife I got it all for a dollar she will make me vote the Republican ticket. Take out some and make it thirteen." KANSAS A FAILURE. From the Emporia Republican. The Great Bend Register, an Alliance paper, remarked the other day that Kan sas is an ideal state, and the Syracuse Journal "calls down" the remark in the following language: "Oh! No, it is not! Kansas is decrepit and bed-ridden, its farms are plastered over with mortgages; its people oppressed and down-trodden, can hardly manage to keep soul and body together. Misery and want stalk hand in hand through its cities and towns and over its wind-swept prairies. Wheat in the bin is only worth 93 cents a bushel, oats 47 cents, rye 60 cents and corn 5S cents. Beeves are driven away for o cents a pound and prairie hay sacrificed at $10 a ton. Kansas an ideal state! Kansas is h 1, and we can prove it from the above figures and the testimony of Senator Peffer, Congressman Simpson, Mrs. Lease and other prominent Alliance statesmen." WE ALL KNOW HOW IT IS. Over a million dollars have been spent at Fort Riley in new buildings and im provement of grounds, and the design is to make it the finest military post in the world. It will no doubt soon become a favorite resort for excursion parties from all parts of the state, being easily accessible by rail from every direction. Forest fires in several of the northern and eastern states have caused great destruction of propercy, the value run ning up into the millions. Such occur rence at this season of the year is very unusual, and was consequent upon the extreme dry spell of weather that has prevailed all over for tho past three weeks. Wichita last week with its State Med ical association, its meeting of railway agents and its annual convocation of the Traveling Men's association, was the liveliest city in tho state, but from pres ent indications tho Knights of Pythias, with their drills and contests, their meet ings and marchings of thousands will combine to make it surpass itself. Tho peach crop throughout the whole country promises to be large. The Atchison Champion tells of one orchard in the Ozark mountains of Missouri that expects to supply the market with 150, 000 bushels. This farm has 75,000 peach trees on the highest ridge of the Ozarks. The peaches are now larger than part ridge eggs and of every variety. The manager of the farm thinks he can be gin marketing them about June 10 and continue four months. If tho trees yield as expected there will bo 563 cars of peaches. Only one state, New Jersey, has so far reported any material damage to the peach crop, and present indica tions for full crops of all fruits are the most promising. There is a well near Wheeling which is a mile deep lacking 1180 feet, and the government proposes to help pay the expense of finishing the full mile, when it will be the deepest well in the world. It will bo sunk for geologic, scientific and sheolic purposes, and accurate ob servations will be made to seo if there is an increased smell of brimstone as they go deeper. In view of the natural tendency of man this exploration is an odd pieco of business. A BRAINY COMBINATION. The timely and copious rains and cool weather of the past three days, which condition has been quite general throughout the state, as far as the growth and maturity of the wheat crop are con cerned practically insures it; but the crop is never safe until it is in the gran ary. Until tho crop is harvested it is lia able to bo damaged by excessive ram, hail, wind and whatnot, and after it is in the shock and stack it is an easy prey to tho same elements and fire in addition So, while the present prospects are favor able, even to flattering, wo are not yet assured of a full yield. This morning's dispatches tell of a cloud burst and hail storm in Saline county which did con sidaerble damage. According to the Topeka Journal, Dun can of Puukin was very sick of tiie old soldier racket last winter, but it is note worthy that ho has applied for a pen sion. This calls to minds the couplet: When the Devil is sick, the Devil a monk would be; But when tho Devil is well, the devil a monk is he. Wouldn't Cleveland cut a nico figure if he was compelled to follow Harrison's track of ten thousand miles in thirty days and to make one hundred and forty different speeches? President Ben may be a littlo gone on Hoo'sierdum but it would take a Depew or a Blaine to hold a candle to him in speech making, in genuine eloquence. Every day brings additional evidence of an effectual break between the Kan sas Democracy and Alliance. Here is the Atchison Patriot's contribution to tho fund of such evidence: "Judge Bot kin may be a disgrace to Kansas, but ho is not as much a disgrace as the law makors who spent $50,000 of tho people's hard earned money to get him out of office.'' Up to Friday of last week Secretary Mohler of the state board of agriculture had received advices from a number of localities in differt parts of the state of injury being done to the wheat crop by insect pests. All attributed the trouble to tho dry weather, and nearly all agreed that a timely rain would put a stop to tho ravages and repair much of the damage already done. The rain came Friday night and Saturday, and ex tended all over the state, and with the rain came a change in the temperature that has likewise been of the greatest benefit to tho small grain crops, which aro now regarded as safe and will be immenses. From tho Atchison Champion. The Wichita Eagle has Wichita on the brain, and the people of that wonder ful city have the Eagle on the brain, and both together very naturally make tilings hum by this brainy combination. GOOD NEWS FROM RICE COUNTY. If all tho planks that have been pre pared for that purpose aro placed in tho third party platform to bo constructed at Cincinnati this week, tho Alliance can well afford to abaudon tho government warehouse scheme: tho said platform will be big enough to afford all tho shelter for crops that is needed. As for tho protection of thedepositsthus placed, tlio crowd on tho platform will look after that Tho Leavenworth Times claims to have caught tho Kansas City Gazette telling tho truth, and thereupon advises George to keep it up, assuring him that it will pay m tho long run. That about tho incident which worries us is how the Times ever got onto a fa.t which is hard ly ever learned outside of actual exper ience of such papers as have made the rum uue oi mo sucn papers lor in stance as the Eagle. There has been a great roar from the Alliance over poor farmers who have beon crushed and their homes taken from them by the eastern money loaners. A general inquiry is being made through out the counties of the state, and the fact is being developed that very few fanners have been sold out under fore closuie against their will. The foreclos ure is the money loaners last lesort. It is an expensive process, and the evidence is all one way, and that is that where there has been good faith on the part of the farmer and a promise to do the very best, foreclosure proceedings have not been resorted to. It now turns out that a farmer near Lawrence, and not Harry French of Topeka, was tho inventor of tho drink called tho Fishberry mixture, and which gave Mr. French no littlo notoriety at the time it was given to the public, and also gavo him considerable trouble, the new decoction being declared contra band under the prohibitory law of the state. The composition of the beverage is also made public; it is simply hard cider with a given proportion of the juice of the fishberry. Itis&aid to make a very pretty "red licker.'' and is withal quite palatable and a very prompt drunk provoke. Lyons, Kan., May 10, '01. To tho Editor of the Eagle. A splendid rain last night turns up the bright side of vegetation as well as tho countenances of our peop'e. We did not need rain as badly as we have at other times, but we heaved a sigh of re lief when it came. Prosperity in an unusual degree ap pears to be dawning npon Lj'ons. Dur ing tho past week the Midland Salt Min ing company commenced work, under the direction of our citizen, Col. John Brisben, sinking a salt shaft tho capacity of which is to bo 1,000 tons per day. This is the same size as tho one already sunk by the Lyons Rock Salt and Mining com pany, wun tueso two snaits in opera tion wo will be able to take out enough salt to save anything even a calamity howler. By the way the business of the calamity howler is fast fading away. These immense fields of wheat will ruin any cause based on the misfortunes of people. But to return to my subject our prosperity I will says in addition to these immense salt plants wo have an even greater mark of prosperity in the woik of tho Omaha, Kan sas Central and Galveston railroad which is pushing its work as vigorously as men and means can. The past week the company have opened up their gen eral offices. Ihey have engaged a line suito of rooms in the electric light build ing and the D. M. Bell building and aro furnishing them in a style becoming a largo and wealthy corporation. Vico President and Manager C. M. Rawlings, Col. Yates, 1st asst. engineer and Messrs. Dodge and Captain Andrews, of the en gineering corps, came in from Oklahoma first of this week having completed their work uf surveys and estimates through the territory. Lj'ons has manv other improvements on foot which will doubt less materalize before the summer ends. Politics begin to work up some m this community and wo have all evidence that tho everlasting "diubbiug" us Re publicans got last fall will have little effect on the fellows that want in; every fellow believes his personal popularity will carry him through. A serious runaway occurred on the street yesterday by which Mrs. E. K. Miller and Mrs. L. K. Pyatt narrowly escaped being killed, Mrs. Pyatt being badly stunned but tho physicians' diag nosis indicates their injuries not serious. We anxiously look for our Eagle and enjoy hearing her sci earn; but her scream is notqiug compared to the roar of our Lyons. Respectfully, "a. S. Thomson. I"i om the Kansas City Gazette. The Kansas City Times company has reorganized with a somewhat remarkable board of directors. Morrison Munford, William B. Clarke, president of the Mer chants' National bank; S. M. Jarvis, president of the Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust company; Howard M. Holden and Frank N. Chick of the National Bank of Kansas City, are now the board in con trol. It seems that for some time past the Times has been managed by an exec utive committee, consisting of W. B. Clarke, S. M. Jarvis and Witten McDon ald, president of tho Midland National bank. The Times office will be removed from its present location. to tho Water works building at Sixth and Walnut. Two papers in Kansas City have died within a year, the News and the Globe, tho former at a loss of at least 50,000, while the latter absorbed over 100,000. According to gossip the Times has been floundering in the soup foj- some time, while tho others are more or less there. The Times is the only enterprising paper in the city, and it Bhould be away ahead on finances, but tho paucity of all adver tising columns for the past year has been and is enough to pull down any newspaper. EXCHANGE SHOTS. Strained Relations in Prospect: From the Intonapalis SeatinaL If the president doesn't muzzle Prince Russell pretty quick the reciprocity be tween Mr. Harrison and Mr. Blaine will hardly survive tho summer. Not Greatly Handicapped. From the Chicago Mall. Foraker says that hereafter he will allude only Co dead men in his political speeches. This will not prevent him from extolling several Republican leaders and blowing his own little horn. Betwixt Two Fires. From the Albaquerque Citizen. "It is unsafe to trust a man who says ho is afraid to die,' according to a clergyman. And it is unsafe to believe a man who says he is not afraid to die. What are you going to do about it? EPWORTH LEAGUE PLEDGE S: Over Twenty-Two Hundred Winks. From the Chlcazo Mall. Twentv-two hundred and fiftv glasses of soda water in one day is the lecord made by Rhodes & Troxell's big fountain on the opening day. It was a free blow out and everybody was invited to the inaugural. Costly Luxuries From the Philadelphia. Ledger. A Brooklyn clergyman in his discourse the other evening observed that "it is often those luxuries that cost us most that prove the most harmful.' This is another severe illusion, possibly, to the late billion-dollar congress. Made Good It3 Damages. From the Leaemvorta Standard. Near Leavenworth a farmer had his entire farm gradually washed away by the Missouri river some years ago. Soon after the river began to deposit rich soil along the banks where the farm once was, and recently the owner went to the county clerk and had his farm, which was much larger than before, replaced on the tax record. The meeting of the national board of coutroal of the Epworth league doveloped seme unpleasant feeling. The most im portant matter was the report of the committee on constitution. They pro posed several changes. Ono of these was an amendment to article 3, making two classes of members of tho Epworth league, active and honorary. Active members must be membera of the Methodist Episcopal church or some other Evangelical church, and sub scribers to the constitution of the league and take the pledge. Only active mem bers can be elected officers. The pledge, the committee suggested, should be amended so as to include the promise to abstain from worldly pleasure, not per mitted by the church, and to do all in their power to spread the teachings of the church. Then came in a debate. Bishop Hurl bert said not one-third of the leaguers in the country had a pledge and if the pledge which now keeps out many members was made stronger it would break up the league. The amendment was voted down. The memorial to the general conference of the Methodist church, requesting that body to adopt me Jirpworin league ana mane it a branch of the church, was adopted. Tho Veteran of the Press. From tho Kansas City Gazette. A. G. Patrick, of tho Oskalcosa Times, is undoubtedly the veteran of Kansas journalism. He could set typo in 1823, commenced regularly at the business in loot, served four years apprenticeship, and in connection with an association of printers started the Louisville Courier in 1813, and published a paper in Indiana in 1847, at a time when half of the edi tors in Kansas Avero not born! Even old Sol. Miller, of the Troy Chief, is his junior, being only two years old when Mr. Patrick first went to "case." THE WHITE HOUSE DRY GOODS CO. Is now open and ready for business AT THE OLD STAND. We are showing a fine line of Entirely new Dry Goods, jSTotions and Fancy Goods especially adapted to the present season. Everything is NEW, BRIGHT AND FRESH. No Old Stock. No Back Numbers. No Chestnuts. Ve Have No 0M Goods To Unload. We trust that our reputation in the past as a Thor oughly Reliable Dry Goods House, is a sufficient guaran tee that those who patronize us in the future will profit largely by so doing. We cordially invite our friends, customers and the public generally to give us a call and examine our rJew block. fie Ml se w booos INNES & ROSS, Managers. Co. Orthodox Doctrine. Rev. Hays In Mid-Continent. It now comes out, however, that the probabilities are that tho aforesaid de structive chinch bug is a two-legged ani mal in ihe shape of a lazy farmer. Too lazy to plow deep and harrow well and take pains and care in tho planting of his wheat, ho drilled it in between the old stump rows of former corn fields left unplowed. It is remarkable how mairy of nature's unkindnesses aro due to our own indolence. It is not all suro that sometimes theological difficulties aro not as much in ourselves as anywhere else. Patience and hard work on tho farm, aro about as essential there as they are any where else in tho callings of life. A CHURCH CRISIS. Globe-Democrai: "Now is the time for the Republicans throughout the country to be perfecting their organiza tion and strengthing their lines for the great conflict of 1S92. The chances of victory are always increased by early i the knights of reciprocity may have Iola has developed a quarry of splen did marble. It has been officially tested at "Washington and is found to bo 9S per cent pure, and to possess a crushing strength of 13,300 pounds to tho inch, thus ranking it, in purity and strength, among tho very best marbles in the world. It takes a fine polish, is nearly as hard as granite, is not susceptible to the influence of the weather, and is beautifully marked. Quoth the Newton Republican, the Kau&as editor man always has an opin ion. "Rev. Talmadge last Sunday bap tized a number of infants with water brought from the river Jordon," says tho Burlington Republican. "It was in no respect any better than the ordinary creek water.'' So Naaman thought when the prophet told him to go dip himself in Palestine's stream. It may be that the Brooklyn divine lays special store by the consociation of ideas and incidents. And k doesn't hurt anything or anybody. and thorough adjustment of tho prelim inary condition." A sensible and timely suggestion, and it is gratifying to note that it is already being acted upon in many parts of the country. Evidently there is going to be no lack of organiza tion along party lines from now on to the end of the great conflict for su premacy in 1S92. REPUBLICANISM AND SECRET POLI TICAL SOCIETIES: Go.-k1 crops at cooJ prices moan the end of secret political societies. Abilene Keilector. How about the kaights of reciprocity? Wichita Eaglu. The observation includes them all. ,We do not believe that the knights of reciprocity will ever do the Republican paityor the country any good. In a somewhat wide acquaintance e have never met a member of the order and its work has thus far chiefly been con fined to 'newspaper talk. " There is no more need of secret societies to advance republican politics than to advance those of any other party. The Ameri can people need no secret signs, grips and passwords in the management of their public affairs. To bring these into politics is antagonistic to the true American ideal of government. While From the Xow York Herald. The Presbytery of New York yester day voted to arraign Dr. Briggs for trial. That action is likely to prove of momentous consequence to Presbyterian ism in America. It is tho beginning of a contest which, if waged to the end with the zeal and determination that have characterized its opening, can only re sult in either a revision of the established creed or a splitting of tho church. If Dr. Brings be found guilty of heresy he must either renounce his heretical views or leave the church. It is not like ly that he will change his convictions, and hence the only alternative will be to leave the church. If he stood alone in this controversy the result would concern himself chiefly. But he does not stand alone. Uo repre sents a party, and no small party, of Presbyterians. If he can not remain m the church it is not easy to see how those who believe with him can remain. If on the other hand tho accused pro fessor is not declared a heretic the church must accept his views and accordingly revise its creed as now understood by many, if not a majority, of its theologians and members. It is therefore no less a problem that confronts these Presbyterians than whether there shall be in the future one church with a creed broad enough for all who are now in conflict, or two churches the old and a new one. In Small Business. From tho Chicago Vw . Those correspondents who are dwell ing upon 3Ir. Blaine's illness with the apparent belief that in some way they aro thereby' damaging his polit ical chances should curb their tempers and their pens. Whatever tho public thinks of Mr. Blaine's work as a public servant, it is hardly ready to sympathize with anybody's ghoulish glee" over his misfortunes. That the secre'ary of state is ill must be a matter of regret to any one who pretends to any sort of decency. It is one thing to oppose a man's politics; it is quite another to rejoice over his sufferings. and his pos-ibly forced retire ment from public service. Tho Royal Road. Barnum admitted that he could have done nothing in his speculations without the aid of advertising. He called it "the royal road to business."' Forney mar veiled that there was not a hundred times as much advertising as there is. Bonner confessed that his success was due to his liberality in advertising. Stephen Girard said that constant and persistent adver tising was a sure prelude to wealth. A. T. Stewart asserted that "he who invests one dollar in business, should invest an other dollar in advertising that busi ness.' Amos Lawrence affirmed that advertising had furnished him a compe fence. Nicholas Longworth testified that ho advertised his wine products and made money. These gentlemen ev idently knew what they were about. THE WORLD'S FAIR. THE PRESIDENT ON STATES. THE CORN The nomination of John Young Brown for governor of Kentucky by the Demo crats of that state (which, of course, means his election") will no doubt renew a yearniug in old General Butler for a return to official life. Brown is the only man whe ever got tho better of the Es sex statesman in a flat-footed bout. It occurred in congress when both were members of that body, and the achieve ment did Brown so much good that he retired on his laurels and has remained in private life ever since. Tho New York "World sys: "If scarcity means anything American tin ought to be reckoned among the precious metals.' The "World is in too great a hurry. Just bide a wee until the plate been organized witn good enough aims and good enough men, but the principle upon which it purports to work is all wrong. No one for a moment supposes that if the secret society feature of the people's party had not been temporarily successful that the knights of reci- f rocky would ever have been heard of. ts object is to fight fire with fire. But tiiat is neither necessary nor politic There is nothing in Republicanism that needs closed doors or secrecy. There is nothing to conceal or be ashamed of. Tho Republican party has always fought its battles squarely, fairly and above board and the Reflector would rather go down on such a platform than win on one that has secrecy, distrust and bull dozing for its chief planks. But the Republican party will not go down. It will meet with temporary defeats, of course, as now and then some of its members are led off after strange goods. Still it will always remain the one party of progress, of" education, of freedom and as great victories will crown its future as have honored its past. To gain them it is not necessary to enlist any "knights" or prepare any rituals. All we need is loyalty to Re publican principles and hearty shoulder to shoulder work for their advancement. Abilene Reflector. From the Brooklyn Standard-Union. The president is looming up iu more senses than one on the western horizon. The waters of the rivers beside which he i ides flow this nay. lie says so many happy things there is uo keeping count of them, and perhaps the Democratic newspapers have been prudent in not at tempting to publish his speeches. We must, however, find a placo for this, spoken at Omaha: "As I turn my face now towards Washington, as I hasten on to take up public duties, partially laid aside during this journey, 1 rejoice to receive here in Omaha that same kindly greeting with which wo were welcomed as wo jour neyed from Washington through the south to the Pacific coast. Cheers, If anything were needed to call for a per fect surrender of all personal thoughts in an absolute consecration to public duty, to the general good of all, I have found it in this magnificent demonstra tion. CheersJ We shall always have parties. It is characteristic of our people. We need to have parties, divi-: sions, debate, political contention; but it is pleasant to observe in all this journsy we have taken how large a stock of com mon patriotism we find in all the people. Cheers. You have hero in Nebraska a state of magnificentcapabilities. I have seen the orange grove and all those fruits which enrich and characterize the state of California. I have seen these summit cities, these mining camps upon the peaks where the men are delving into the earth to bring out the riches stored tnere, but i return again to the land of the cornstalk with an affection I cannot describe. Laughter and cheers. I am sure these triends who have delighted ua with visions of loveliness and prosperity will excurse if my birth and early train ing in Ohio and Indiana lead mo to the conclusion tiiat the states that ratio corn aro the greatest slates xn the world. Cheers. n. si Death, tho Great Equalizer. Trora the Atcauoa C2un:poa The hope of this country and the race is that death steps in at regular intervals to scatter large fortunes, Uirougli spend thrift and prolific heirs. Death is a great Hunt's UutlEot of Goriln About the Columbian Exhibition. Special Correspondence. Chicago, April 2S. Thousands of visit ors are journeying down to Jackson park nearly every day for the purpose of watch ing the progress of the work of preparing the gronnds for the main buildings of the World's fair. With balmy winds and a bright spring sun it is worth the long ride on an open grip car, if only for the pur pose of getting a mind's view of things as they are now, to.be resurrected by way of reminiscence a couple of yeare hence. Nothing is now left of the acres of trees, stumps, bushes and undergrowth that in cumbered the site but a few weeks ago, and the GOO or more inr-n that hare been steadily employed since the frost went out of the ground have taxed their muscle and energy to such good purpose that two thirds of the grading is practically com pleted, thus clearing the way for begin ning the actual work on the foundations. Meanwhile dredges are kept at work eighteen hours out of the twenty-four pre paring the approachea to the inland lake, while the labor of a small army of land scape gardeners will very soon metamor phose the island in its center, and make of its barren earth a beautiful little park. The contractors are not making ranch noise, but they are putting their best foot forward all the same, and the responsible officials are more than satisfied with the progress to date. Borings for the big Co lumbiaa tower are now going on, eastern mills are working on the structural iron, and the work of building the elevators has also commenced. It is now more evident than ever that not a state nor territory wall be unrepresented in the big show when the band phjya "Hail Columbia," and the orator of the occasion faces his audience on Inauguration day. A spirit of patriotism is manifesting JtI: in :hoe states the legislator of which have failed to make any appropriation for state representation, and what the repre sentatives of the people refused to do the people themselves propose to accoraphjeh. In Teaaes&ee, for instance, the mo; im portant cities have taken tbt raaiier la hand, and propose to raie a rolairaom ot JSO.uXfor a display thathall be at once representative and creditable to the com monwealth. In South Dakota Sewttor Pettigrew pro poses to make up for the -boricotnijisat oJ hastate assembly by orgasfcaag aiock company with a capital of ,, and thus insure a Soctti Dakota exhibit. One r - i r r i r .1. . .. - I -- iiieuu. ui iciurm acu 01 wiutJouiiiiuu pw i r.- -. ts t . ,- -..t t pie and the relentless foe of plutocracy. J 3- w atn. ma has come noDiy to tno rronc with an appropriation of $300,000, and tho indica tions aro that Massachusetts will contrib ute one-fourth of that amount. In far away Washington great World's fair en thusiasm is being manifested, and the state appropriation of $100,000 is likely to be doubled by private enterprise. The plans for the building to be devoted to the electrical display and kindred ap pliances indicate that it will be a magnifi cent structure, and fully in keeping with the great object for which it is designed. Its cost will bp in the neighborhood of 000,000. It will cover fivo and a half acres of ground and will bo in tho Italian Kenais sance style. Encouraging reports from abroad con tinue to pour in on the various depart ments. Peru is giving a cordial welcome to the American commissioners, and so is Colombia. Cuba is really doing a good deal more than even many of the states of the Union, for a commission has been or ganized in each one of the provinces under the auspices of the governor general in order that everything of interest pertaining to the island may be properly represented. A somewhat emphatic denial is given to tho reports of lukewarmness in Germany by th& great meeting of manufacturers which was recently held in Berlin, and at which resolutions in favor of hearty co-operation and a government subsidy woks unani mously adopted. Our friends tue Japs are evidently in dead earnest, for not enly has the lower house and the chamber of peers adopted a government measure ap propriating a half million dollars for a na tional display, but n number of the prov inces are actively engaged iu organizing exhibits on their own individual account. In Mexico the interest in general, and a large number of wealthy individuals have combined to organize a private exhibit to be independent of the national department, the entire expense to come from their own private purses. Their enthusiasm, how ever, may carry them a Hbde too far, inas much as it is gravely .osc" to inflict upon Chicago a village oj upft Vatican In dians in native costume, onw-hryrrof them to be women with babes. This may possi bly bo intended as a delicate compliment to the board of lady managers, but it Is not at all certain that President Palmer and her associates albeit many of them have had experience in the rearing of tho rising generation will care to be burdened with ten score, more or less, of the fairer sex ot tho Mexican Indian variety und their otE- spring to boot. Evidently Guatemala proposes to be en rapport with the exposition, for its presi dent has taken a long stride to the front by appointing his secretary of foreign rela tions, as well as his secretary of tho inte rior, as official coinmLssiiJners to the show, while the railroads of that republic have been public spirited enough to offer to con vey all freight intended for tho exposition free of charge. The Brazilian' are mani festing a mot amiable disposition, and n full exhibit of the resources of that repub lic can be relied upon. All these facta and they are facts are more than encouraging; and when it is said in addition that natives of far off Da mascus have applied f-pace in which to exhibit Syrian engag In inutical per-fornv-nces, embroidery making and coffee servfcijj a la Damascus, and that a deputa tion c? orientals from the edge of the Sa hara, within a few days' journsy of Moroc co, have journeyed all the way to Chicago to secure a site upon which to erect a min iature of their own fortified city, there is no longer reason to question the truth of the statement that what Chicago has in etore for 1S93 has penetrated almost to tho uttermost parts of the earth. So much for abroad. Just a word now regarding our own country. Nineteen state legislatures have already pasHHl bills making appropriations which Aggregate ver a minion ana a quarter of dollars. Ten other states, the legislatures of which are now in session, are pretty certain to in crease this by two millions more. Seven legislatures, to assemble in ths fall, are iuuu w in proportionately generoua, while reports from fourteen coniiaoa weaiths indicate that an aggregate of any where from two and a half to three mill ions of dollars will be raised by private ECbacriptiona. And yet there are wise acres, not in the wilds of the far wert, but right in the metropolis of the Eraph- State, who -ire i,peculaung on the possi bility of the Worlds Fair proriag a faU nre. Perhaps it is even now not too kmsIj or too late to conviace tbeia that a more than abandaat fcucces 13 already as ortL IIete- :.L IIckt. XteliaTlor at Tabl.' Etiquette at the table shoald be very closely observed, for there is nothing that marxjs the well bred so much as mannera at table. There are so aany little pomta to be observed that xrnltnA & person is ha bitnaHy accustomed to o'uzrti tbem, h uncoasaoaaly commits some error, or wiil appear awkward and constrained upon oc caskro when it Is important to be at &. To be fully at ease at aaeh times is only acquired by the hairftcal practice of good raaaaers at the table, and i the resell of proper home training. It i only by the conctaat practice of tb rule of good b harior at bom thai good manners become trzsj when one goe abroad. Oa taking Maa ai the table, as cixj up right position Is the proper one. The feet khoold w: on the floor, aad one thaid fit far enoaga from her plate to ex&ble her to handle her knife and fork vrtth eaae. The elbow shonid be held mtxly to the tide as ja compatible with grace aod eae, and only the wrisi movtd In tuicjc tie knife, fork, etc The handle of the hand, and no part of tho hand should toucfc the knifo above tho handle. In uslu -fork, only half of tho handlo is covered by the hand. If bread or a roll is in tho na. kin it should bo placed on tho left Saad, and unfolding the napkin, placo that on the lap; do not tuck in tho neck or drcsa under any circumstances. After this, if yon have worn gloves, remove therm Housekeeper's Weekly. Boxing for lloys. There Is absolutely nothing in tho way of recreation so beneficial in every respece to a boy as boxing. I am positive and I know whereof I write, for as boy and man 1 have tried them all, fencing, wrestling, rowing, swimming, riding that no one of them has tho many advantages of boxing. As an all round developer it is uncqualed; not one of the boy's muscles remains in active; back, stomach, legs, arms, all are called npon for vigorous service But what I consider its best feature in its recom mendation for boys is tho very thorough drilling which tho disposition of tho boy must undergo. If a lad is quick to loso his temper lwx ing will euro him. It will teach him that no one who lets his temper get the bettor of him will become an export aparrcr. It will speedily convince him of tho absolute necessity of keeping cool and in entire pos session of his wits in order to sustain his efforts and avoid defeat. Tho boxer who cannot control his temper is practically at the mercy of a cool, skillful onnonent. 1 One cannot spar successfullv and become flustered. A boxer must ever bo on tho alert, h.d wits constantly alive, looking for an opportunity of assault. Ho must bo able to act instantly and with cool delib eration as distinguished from wild, undi rected action, lie need do no running to develop the musics of his legs or his lung?. Thesoareullcontinuouslyinactioa- Harper's Young People. "Waste llaskeln. An almost indispensable articlo In every room is a wate basket, and when a very pretty and serviceable ono can be made nt a cost not to exceed twenty-flvo cents there is no good reason for going without it. An ordinary half bushrt peach basket, which will cost about live cents if ther ure not half a dozen about tho house thut onois glad to bo rid of. This may bo lined with colored cambric, fastened in place by upholstery tacks. The outeido should ba covered with cambric of contrasting color, or tne same it preferred. The outsldo can bo shirred on and finished with loop and ends of worsted braid to match In color. A basket of this sort lined with cambric and painted on tho outsidn is vory pretty, or the outside may be gilded. Another useful and very durable recop tocle is made from an ordinary butter tub. A very pretty one is made by painting the inside and the outside of tho tub a pure white. Whori thoroughly dry, ilnlsh Urn hoops in gold paint. Make holes In either sido, and put in handles of manlla ropo painted and gilded and with tassels of the rope fringed nt tho ends. A pretty stylo has three or four rows of holes all around through which ropes are puMed, loops be ing left for handles. The ropes are gilded In several phodeg of bron7.o powder, aftcf which they may be varnished in wjvrral coats. Clear shellac varnish Is best. Xe?r York Ledger. Kara to Get Them. "That flannel shirt yon bought for m Is too email. Let Willie have it." "It's four Hizes too large for Willie." "We'd, wash it till it fli3 bim." Na York Una. oeI I'awncrr Car. A passenger car without cad platforms has been patented- At each end of the car are ride doors at the bottota of tho ordinary steps, tho doors being Hash with the aide of the ear and opening inward. The aVps may be covered with a trap door whiia the tram is ronniig. In the end of the car i a door and vra&bcle arraogemeae, afford" lng cotntrxmkatioa between th cars. New York Commercial Adircrtlaec. Baking Powder A Tnze. Cream of Tarttr Powder. Superior to every other knoirn. 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