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WEIR OF HERMISTON.
The Last Story of Stevenson.
On Sunday next, March 22, The News will
print the second installment of "Weir of
Hermiston," the last story written by Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson, upon which he was
engaged at the time of his death. The re-
mainder of the story will follow on suc-
ceeding Sundays. "Wier of Hermiston" has
been copyrighted in all countries of the
world, and the sole right of newspaper
publication in the United States has been
secured by The News' agents.
In regard to "Weir of Hermiston," Mr.
Sidney Colvin, -Stevenson's literary execu-
tor, states that, while it was his last work,
It was one on the theme of which his mind
had long been engaged. The chapters
which he lived to finish "were dictated by
the author to his stepdaughter and devoted
amanuensis, Mrs. Strong, during the month
of November and the first days of Decem-
ber, 1894, and the last lines were written
on the very morning of his sudden seizure
and death. None of his earlier work had
been produced at such a sustained pitch of
invention or with so little labor in the way
of correction or recasting, and the amount
of editorial revision which the text has re-
quired has been slight in the extreme. The
date of the principal action is the winter
and spring of 1813-14, the place partly Edin-
burgh and partly the toild hill country
about the wells of Clyde and Tweed (the
name Crossmlchael, borrowed from a vil-
lage in Galloway, must not be taken by
those who happen to be familiar with it as
indicating the real locality). The character
of Adam Weir, Lord Hermiston, has been
in some degree suggested by that of a his-
torical personage, Robert Macqueen, Lord
Broxfield (b. 1722, d. 1799), but the plot and
circumstances are wholly imaginary."
IT ISA PRESIDENTIAL FUNCTION.
It was held in the Itata case, tried by the
United States district court in California
in 1891, that the neutrality law of 1818 has
no application to what is going on in Cuba
until after the president (not congress)
shall have said that the Cubans have made
a new state-belligerent. In one of his mes-
sages President Harrison commenting on
this case said: "A trial In the district court
of the United States for the southern dis-
trict of California has recently resulted in
a decision holding, among other things,
that inasmuch as the congressional party
had not been recognized as a belligerent,
the acts done in its interest could not be a
violation of our neutrality laws. From this
judgment the United States has appealed,
not that the condemnation of the vessel is
a matter of importance, but that we may
know what the present state of our law Is,
for if this construction of the statute is
correct there is obvious necessity for re-
vision and amendment." Commenting on
this matter the New York Evening Post
has the following:
The defeat of the law of 1818 is, said the
Judges, that the words, "colony, district or
people," added In 1818 to the words "foreign
prince or state" in the old law of 1794, have
not enlarged the meaning of the former
words, because "colony, district or people"
mean a recognized nation or state. If that
is the law, then the Cubans are now free
to send as many military expeditions to
Cuba and fit out in o"r ports as many pri-
vateers as they can pay lor. only taking
the risk of capture In Spanish waters. If
the president (not congress, said the
judges) shall recognise the Cuban insur-
gents as having made a "state," then and
not till tlu?n, the law of 1818 will apply.
See in what a deep hole are the jingoes
and the war party endeavoring to put the
Cubans and our government as well. The
interpretation put on the law of 1818 by the
very keen, logical and learned Justice
Campbell of the supreme court forty years
ago at New Orleans, if sound, will impose
an obligation on our executive and judicial
officers well nigh impossible to discharge
all along our thousands of miles of sea
coast
ENCOURAGING EXPRESSIONS
FROM BENCH AND BAR.
There is on foot a concerted movement of
citizens of Illinois against the delays of the
courts, the enormous cost of criminal trials
and the tardiness and uncertainty of ju-
dicial machinery. To a committee who
asked for his views. Judge John Barton
Payne submitted the following "sugges-
tions cf means by which trials can be has-
tened without any one being injured in the
slightest degree;"
1. Absolutely no conversation between at-
torneys across the table.
Absolutely no discussion of the admis-
sibility of evidence unless the court indi-
cates a desire to have it argued.
3. Limitation of arguments. It is a re-
markable case that can not be argued in
sixty minutes on each side.
4. As to verdicts. If a verdict ought not
to stand the court should set it aside. There
ought always to be thirteen men in the jury
box. If there ought to be a verdict, and
the finding of the jury is excessive, the
court should ask the plaintiff to remit
enough to make a fair verdict, and If he
refuses the judge should set the verdict
aside.
5. When it Js manifest to the court that
a plaintiff has not made out a case the
bench ought to take the responsibility of
stopping the trial right there.
These suggestions were submitted to
leading Chicago lawyers, all of whom
heartily agreed to them, except the third.
They thought that there were cases where
more than an hour was needed for argu-
ment, at the same time admitting that
such cases were rare, and that the time
taken up in argument couldw be greatly re-
duced without any bad" consequences.
Many of the lawyers went so far as to
declare that they would personally be more
than pleased if the Illinois courts would
adopt Judge Payne's suggestions and make
them part of their rules. "This subject of
expediting justice has lately been very ex-
tensively discussed, and with reason,"
says the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
"Although new courts are being con-
stantly created in order to give prompter
justice, until now we have, in proportion
to population, eight times as many as
England, wre are dropping steadily be-
hind. In civil suits most of the American
courts are from two to three years back-
wards, while in criminal trials it takes
from two to five years to reach a final de-
cision. The delay is not due to the lack
of courts—we have enough for all our
purposes—but to the methods prevailing
in them, which appear to be conceived for
the purpose of delaying trials and draw-
ing out cases. Some changes in our sys-
tem are needed, and it is hoped, with the
many suggestions being made on this sub-
ject that we will get something that will
enable us to shorten trials." To shorten
the time wasted in the trial of cases is
certainly a proper and timely thing to
do. but the good work should be car-
ried further as a remedy for the de-
lays, continuances and new trials with
which the people of this practical age are
utterly disgusted. "It may be well before
concluding this case to say that the object
of a trial before a jury is to ascertain
with as much certainty as can be attained
in a human tribunal the guilt or innocence
of one charged with crime," said the su-
preme court of Pennsylvania when called
upon to reverse the finding in the cele-
brated Holmes case. "When as the result
of such trial a verdict has been rendered
against the prisoner, it ought not to be set
aside by the trial Judge or by proceedings
in a court of error unless in some essen-
tial particular the trial has been erroneous.
No merely technical or formal objection,
not affecting the result, should be listened
to. It Is neither for the credit of the courts
nor for the interests of society, nor does it
tend toward the repression of mob violence
or the preservation of good order, that the
course of justice should be blocked or
turned aside by technical objections which,
however valuable they may have been, are
now and have long been empty shells; or
by verbal distinctions that in this age mark
no real differences." It is exceedingly
gratifying to hear both courts and respect-
able members of the bar contending for a
reform demanded by the common sense
and conscience of the country. To
some attorneys the practice of law
is a sport rather than a profes-
sion. Take out of it the technical
advantages, the sharp practice, the shrewd
means of manipulation and advertisement,
the tricks of the trade, and to them it
would be a game of poker without a bluff
or a cold deck, a'horse race without risk
or jockeying. Take out of the practice of
law the chance and trickery and at least
a goodly number of attorneys would quit
the profession and betake themselves ex-
clusively to some more exciting sport.
What lawyers of this class want above all
things are unlimited opportunities to prove
their shrewdness and skill. The technical
terms, Latin phrases, eloquent forms, art-
ful shows and solemn ceremonies are to
them means of advertisement and glory.
To them the highest triumph is to win by
hook or crook a case in which evidence,
law and Justice are against them. They
are highly favored officers of the court
who spend a great deal of time pulling the
wool over the eyes of the blind goddess.
A contemporary contends that they should
be shut out entirely and that "the courts
of the country should be divested of the
pretentious form and ceremony anciently
observed by Judicial bigots in wigs and
gowns." In the matter of form and cere-
mony lawyers and judges are not unlike
members of other professions. Form and
ceremony are impressive concomitants of
even the clergy. .It is true that Rev. Sam
JoneB and some others decry many of the
solemn accessories by which even a very
weak preacher may be enabled to hold his
own, but the value of such means of com-
manding respect and of impressing the
mind and heart is very generally conceded
by the clerical profession. It Is safe to add
that many ministers are themselves deeply
impressed by the solemnity and ceremony
of the profession and without such encour-
agements would probably seek other fields
of usefulness. It can hardly be expected
that either the minister, the doctor or the
lawyer will voluntarily surrender his easi-
est means of impressing the public. Civ-
ilized society is built up largely on form
and ceremony. Life is little more than a
drill. To expect courts to leave off a "pre-
tentious form and ceremony" so generally
observed in other lines of life is to look for
something unreasonable and unnatural.
The dignity of courts should be maintained
and the order of judicial service should be
helped on by proper formality of demeanor
and procedure. It is not necessary in doing
this that attorneys should be permitted to
pass at will their sharp repartee, books,
jumbo inkstands or chairs across the table
at each other. Neither Is it necessary that
every groundless exception should be ar-
gued until a Juror faints or a witness
makes his way to another world. There is
no reason why argument should not be
limited, inasmuch as the attorneys in the
case, do not know it all. Time should cer-
tainly not be wasted over a case which all
the parties, including the court, know at
the outset to be absolutely groundless. Be-
cause an attorney enjoys himself writing a
swift and illegible hand his indictments
should not be quashed for bad spelling.
There is no reason why the court should
be Jed away from the fact that "the object
of a trial is to ascertain with as much cer-
tainty as possible the guilt or innocence of
one charged with crime." A trial should
not be set aside unless it has been "erron-
eous in some essential particular." "No
merely technical or formal objection"
should be listened to. The course of jus-
tice "should not be blocked or turned aside
by technical objections." which in this age
of common sense are "empty shells," or
rather shells depleted of all wholesome
substance and with nothing bu^ poison and
danger in them. Judges should not waste
time proving their aptness at literary
niceties and "verbal distinctions" when jus-
tice and the safety of society demand some-
thing more substantial than a show of
verbal dexterity. There is a world of re-
formatory work to be done in the court
house without Impairing the dignity and
power of the judges, without taking away
from attorneys any legitimate privilege,
without depriving the accused of any legit-
imate recourse or opportunity.
Ex-Governor Ireland died in San An-
tonio yesterday. This intelligence, though
not unexpected, will be received with genu-
ine sorrow throughout the state. The con-
fidence of the people of Texas in his wis-
dom and integrity was amply expressed
many times by election to positions of
honor. As a legislator, on the bench, In
the constitutional convention of 1866 and as
governor he discharged his duties with
courage, fidelity and patriotism. In private
life he exemplified all the virtues of good
citizenship. His public service will be re-
membered gratefully by the people and his
lofty character, rugged honesty and strong
Intellectuality constitute a heritage of
which his descendants may well be proud.
The sympathy of all the people of Texas
will go out to his bereaved family in this
hour of supreme affliction.
The man who is qualified for the place
has nothing to fear from a fair applica-
tion of civil service rules.
The New York Commercial Advertiser is
not at all pleased with the meaningless ex-
pression on the money question contained
In the recent platform built by the Ohio
McKinley straddlers. "The suggestion has
been made in certain quarters," says the
Advertiser, "that the republican national
convention at St. Louis should refrain from
making a new utterance in regard to the
currency, and should simply reaffirm the
republican financial plank of 1892. It is well
to say at this time, and to say It with the
strongest emphasis, that no such plan will
be tolerated by republican voters or by the
newspapers that represent republican sen-
timent. If there are any politicians so
short-sighted as to support this idiotic and
cowardly policy they should take notice at
once that nothing of the sort will be per-
mitted. The currency plan of 1892 has beeii
interpreted by some of the most radical sil-
ver men as favoring unlimited coinage at a
ratio of 16 to 1. That is sufficient to con-
demn it. The condition of the country's
currency as well as the tariff is an issue
that must be dealt with fearlessly and ex-
plicitly by the republican party in the dec-
laration of principles adopted at St. Louis.
No statement that Is evasive or that can be
construed differently in different sections
of the United States will meet the require-
ments of the situation."
Wheat, oats, grass and cattle are in fine
condition in Wilbarger county.
A dispatch from Paris says Congress
man Culberson's announcement that he
would be a candidate for congress came as
a thunderbolt from a clear sky. The peo
pie up there must be very easily startled.
Advices from Cuba insurgent sources In-
dicate that Weyler is about twenty feet
high and weighs a ton.
Senator Chandler's resolution calling for
an investigation of the expenditures of the
senate has brought forth many expressions
of indignation from the members of that
distinguished body. In order to ^cure the
passage of the resolution Senator Chandler
has addressed a letter to each senator call-
ing attention to the senate's extravagance
and urging him to assist in pushing for-
ward the investigation. He showfc that un-
der the present system it requires 353 em-
ployes to wait upon ninety senators at an
expense of $482,000 annually. The pay roll
has increased from $317,981 in 1887 to $481,280
in 1895. The total increase since 1888 has
been $162,348. When the total expenditures
of the senate outside of the salaries and
mileage of the senators is considered it is
discovered that since 1887 there has been a
net increase of $200,968. ' This includes dis-
bursements audited by the committee on
contingent expenses, authorized by resolu-
tions of the senate and paid out by the
sergeant at arms and secretary of the sen-
ate. No analysis is made of these expendi-
tures, which are, however, set forth in de-
tail every year in the letter from the secre-
tary of the senate to the vice president,
published as senate document No. 1. This
document shows that from July 1, 1894, to
June 30, 1895, the contingent expenses of the
senate amounted to $165,920.55, and the
whole senatorial expenditures to $1,121,876.
Colonel Baker has written a letter, but
forgot to say whether he would be a candi-
date. And that's what the people want to
know.
In a letter to a Detroit paper J. H. Web-
ster of Saginaw says: "In behalf of the
American people, I humbly pray the United
States senate to pass resolutions of sympa-
thy with the dead Armenians, the dead pa-
triots of Cuba and the dead industries of
the United States; then take a big does of
rough on rats and give us a rest."
Political prejudice should not prevent any
democrat from sympathizing with the com-
mittee on credentials of the St. Louis con-
vention.
Each senator of tbe United States has
four servants at the public expense to wait
on him. The senate has demanded and
voted unto ffkelf $482,000 a year for /family
snaps and attendance. The senate during
the last session of congress added to the
appropriation bill a demand for $1200 a year
clerk hire for each member, and forced
the house to allow this grab in order to
get the bill through. This and other grabs
at the public money are admitted to be
"without authority of law."
fierce desire to display anywhere and for
any reason our power to do violence, to
down arguments, to silence law, to
strengthen throughout the world the rev-
erence for might as against right, and to
treat the services or uses of foreign na-
tions to civilization and humanity as of
small consequence compared to the demon-
stration of our ability to destroy their
ommerce, ruin their cities, shut up their
colleges and slaughter their young men
without similar damage to ourselves. This,
>^nd more, we owe to our pinchbeck jurists
and they ought to be, and we hope are,
ashamed of their work."
The eastern souml money republicans are
beginning to look-seriously at the enthusi-
asm for McKinley in the western states.
They say the Cuban women are doing as
mfich service ia the rebellion as the men.
There is no doubt ot woman's ability to
hold her own in a great talking match like
that. _
Will the Greater New York bill make
New York greater than Piatt?
If congressmen of the United States are
determined to regulate the differences and
warfare Qf the countries and races to the
south of us there is apparently no reason
why they should confine their heroic
efforts to the Island of Cuba. Surely the
present war in Cuba is no worse in its
methods and results than a hundred revo-
lutions that have occurred from time to
time during the past twenty years in Mex-
ico and in Central and South American
countries. There are at the present time
bloody revolutions on ito both Nicaragua
and Bolivia, and insurgent outlawry going
on a^ a regular business in nine out of fen
of the countries settled by the Spanish and
Indian races. If our policy or purpose is
to prevent butchery in our half of the
world we certainly start out with both
hands and a lap full.
Minister de Lome and Ambassador Bay-
ard do not suit the ambitious trouble mak-
ers of this country who consider it to their
interest not to have the truth plainly told.
"Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities,"
by Rev. Munsell Bliss and others, is a
book soon to be issued by the Hubbard
publishing company of Philadelphia. The
Introduction Is by Miss Frances E. Wil-
lard.
The straws indicate beyond a doubt
that there are some enterprising traders
in Washington trying to finance the Cuban
trouble.
About the only/cure for the silver habit
is to keep certain men away from the pie
counter.
To the building of warships there is no
end. The Viedomostl of St. Petersburg In-
sists that because Japan has decided to
build more warships, therefore Russia must
largely augment her navy.
The Chicago Times-Herald contends that
"real permanent reform will come when
the city council is elected by the whole
city." It holds, as The News has held for
years, that ward organization is one of the
"great obstacles in the way of an effective
campaign." "Under the present system,"
says the Times-Herald, "neighborhood
quarrels or preferences, the kindly dispo-
sition of a popular saloonkeeper, the good
offices of a dancing club, decide the mem-
bership of the council. An alderman votes
upon measures which concern a wholo
city, but he is responsible only to the
neighborhood in which he lives. He may
even safely defy the 'central machine' of
his party, and the 'machine* is not likely
to bring him to book in self-defense, be-
cause it understands the difficulty of trac-
ing the authorship of a modfcst thief in an
outlying ward to the organization which
gives him only a left-handed acknowledg-
ment."
No one should grumble at the fact that
In Texas it has become more difficult for a
man to manipulate the ballot bo^t than to
control the convention.
Senator Mills writes that he .has not been
deluged lately with letters approving his
votes.
Colonel Morrison does not appear to be a
child of fortune. Just as his presidential
boom was fairly launched Governor Altgeld
declared for him.
O.AJSTIDIID.A.TJES FOR CONGEESS.
The "favorite son"
clamor for spoils.
racket is merely a
Friends of Judge George E. Miller of the
Wichita Falls judicial district claim a fine
record for that official in the matter of
criminal trials. The record, it is stated, is
remarkable for few reversals. This much
is said in view of the rece§t lynching which
grew out of indignation against the crim-
inals and sympathy for Cashier Dorsey,
rather than from specific complaints as to
any want of vigor by the local courts.
Valparaiso is enjoying severe earthquake
shocks. '
Referring to the direful work accom-
plished during the past year by the high
| priced jingoes of this country, the New
York Evening Post reflectively observes:
"We have, while nominally trying to see
justice done, roused the greatest of all
enemies to justice, the one which cares
least for the distinction between right and
wrong, the war spirit. We have seriously
dimmed in the minds of a large body of
the American people the idea of our own
subjection to the moral law in our inter-
national relations. We have developed a
The president has refused to interfere In
the case of Cherokee Bill, who Is to be
hanged at Fort Smith to-morrow.
If John L. Sullivan wants to reform pu-
gilism so that the public will take an in-
terest in it, let him introduce the sport
among mutes.
When we get that twenty-six billions of
gold out of the Utah mines we will seo
about free silver.
Leave it to some of the hot-headed lead-
ers and we would have in this country as
many revolutions and wars as any of tht
tan-colored warriors to the south of us.
The New York Journal holds that "mon-
archical rule is misrule, however mild;
that republican government is good gov-
ernment, ■ however corrupt." It is admit-
ted that the first proposition is sound and
it is submitted that the second proposition
Is foolishness.
It begins to look like the senate will tack
a free silver amendment to the Cuban res-
olutions.
If the next president it a republican he
might do well to consider the claims of the
chairmen of the district republican conven-
tions in Texas for the Spanish consular ser-
vice.
Senator Mills wants the United States to
take possession of Cuba. Weil, Cuba hasn't
asked this yet. J
A New York man arraigned for felony
Issued fashionable invitations to 200 friends
to attend his trial. In the lower left-hand
corner appeared In gold the beautiful let-
ters "S. B. M. O. J.." which being inter-
preted meant: "Stand by me on the Jury.'
Kentucky's beautiful women, fast horses
and mellow whisky do not divert public at-
tention from the fact that the legislature
of the Blue Grass state ought to be
ashamed of Itself.
There are 21,143 names on the pay roll of
New York city, or a pie-eater for every
seventy-five inhabitants.
ROBERT L. HENRY.
Robert L. Henry is a native of Texas, and a resident of McLennan county. He is
a free silver candidate fur congress from the Seventh district. He was born May 12,
1863, in Linden, Cass county, Tex. He was admitted to the bar in 1884. He received
his literary training at the Southwestern university at Georgetown, at which institu-
tion he took the degree of Master of Arts. Later he prepared himself for his chosen
profession at the university of Texas, graduating as a Bachelor of Laws. In both of
these institutions he acquitted himself with distinguished ability. In April, 1890, Mr.
Henry entered public life as mayor of Texarkana. He was elected over the incum-
bent at the time, a candidate for a second term, by a vote of three to one, receiving
the largest majority ever cast for a candidate for that position. Before the expiration
of his term Attorney General Culberson appointed him first office assistant. This po-
sition he held nearly two years, during which time he was required to give attention
to the routine business and civil litigation of the attorney general's office. In October,
1892, in recognition of Mr. Henry's efficient and faithful services. Governor Hogg pro-
moted him to the position of assistant attorney general. The duties of this office re-
quired him to represent the state before the court of criminal appeals in every criminal
case on appeal.
In 1888 Mr. Henry was married to Miss Loune C. Tyler, daughter of Judge O. T.
Tyler and slater of Hon. George W. Tyler of Belton. Mr. Henry located at Waco
between one and two years ago and Is now a practicing lawyer In that city. \n poli-
tics Mr. Henry has always been a democrat, true tt> principle and in touch with the
people. His brilliant record, his legal attainments, his ^leasing personality, draw to
him a host of solid supporters in his commendable ambition to serve his state in a
higher capacity.
The
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SNAP SHOTS.
A philosopher is a crank who loses all
the effects while he is wildly searching for
the causes.
Many a patriot has been beheaded be-
cause h% remained cool and fair and re-
fused to lose his head.
Many people never stop to listen to rea-
son until they are crippled by experience.
Elegant leisure is not rest.
After a Joke is cracked it is frequently
found to have nothing in it.
Senator Blackburn is still camping in the
cloak room and the outside world believes
he is armed.
Some people are known by their sour
grapes.
The South Carolina legislature has ad-
journed at last, but most of the members
will doubtless have enough to run them
through the summer.
President Cleveland Is a good shot and
rarely falls to bring In some ducks, but
surely this is no good reason why his de-
parture for Quantico should appear in the
tragedy columns of opposition papers.
Governor Altgeld asserts again tfiat he
bas "no compromise to make." If he
means It why doesn't he ope\i the gates of
the penitentiary and turn them all out at
once.
The Coreans have just eaten Ministers
Kim Kong Chip, Gu Kll and Kim Gun Slk
because of their obnoxious policies and
habits. While this means of ridding a
country of dangerous politicians is well
enough in Corea. it will not go in the
United States. Our Jnveterates are entire-
ly too fibrous and tough for food. The
only way to utilize some of them would be
to work them up into rope.
It requires a wife and a mother-in-law,
too, to keep many a fellow straight.
The fashion pages of the dally press an-
nounce not only the return of the hoop-
skirt and high heeled shoes, but the bustle
as well. After all men may conclude to
give bloomers serious consideration.
The Spanish newspapers think that the
United States can't get up an army of
more than 60,000 soldiers. There are twice
that many colonels in Texas.
High heeled shoes will be fashionable for
women next summer. This means there
will be an enormous corn crop this year.
Many Word* In Srnulk Space.
San Francisco Examiner.
L. A. Grlncourt, a young Frenchman now
residing in this city, has written 5454 words
on the back of a postal card. In doing this
he used a steel pen of the pattern common-
ly used by card writers. The written words
are a portion of a story—the first eighteen
pages of Emil Zola's historical romance,
"La Debacle"—"The War." Each word Is
on the card in the order In which it ap-
pears in the original text, a space of 3x5
inches, containing the same phrases, sen-
tences, words and letters as are contained
in eighteen pages of printed matter. So
minute are tne letters formed by the I
that the naked eye can scarcely distlngu.....
them, and the most perfect vision requires
the aid of a powerful magnifying glass to
enable one to read them. Each of the 110
lines across the card Is perfectly straight,
every word and letter being as exact In
form as If printed from a copper plate.
Nothing is missing. The shading of the
capitals, the dots of the i's and crosses of
the ts k Jcl the punctuation marks are all
in proper place and form. The magnitude
of the task which Mr. Grlncourt set for
) himself can be better understood when the
result of his work Is considered in com-
parison with more homely facts. For In-
stance, *o a person writing at ordinary
speed from dictation, it would require be-
tween four and five hours' time to write
what is written on the postal card. If the
person wrote in the size and style used as
copies used in Spencerlan school copy
books, it would require between 70 and 100
pages of ordinary note paper to contain
the words written on the card. If the
printed words were set together in a con-
tinuous line, they would reach a distance
of 1364 inches, or 113 2-3 feet. In all, no less
than 25,834 letters appear on the wonderful
postal card.
The best previous record for a similar
performance was made by a New York
man about eighteen months ago. He suc-
ceeded in writing 4200 words on a postal
card, and the performance was considered
to be out of reach of competition. Pre-
vious to that Mr. Grlncourt had written
3500 words on a sheet of paper of equal
size, and It was to exceed tnls record that
the New York expert set to work with such
wonderful results.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean compares thd
position of Ohio and Illinois with the posi-
tion of those states in 1860, as far as the
republican presidential nomination is con-
cerned. Then Ohio put forward Salmon P.
Chase and Illinois Abraham Lincoln. Now
the favorite sons are McKinley and Cul-
lom. It recites the events of the race of
that year, professes friendship for both the
present candidates and concludes a long
editorial as follows:
The convention may nominate the can-
didate wI\o has a plurality on the first bal-
lot. as in 1856; the one who was second oni
the list, as in 1860; one of the minor can-
didates, as in 1876; a coal black dark horse,
as in 1880; the prime favorite, as in 1884 and
1892; or. as in 1888, go to the candidate who
had the best managers. Precedents do not
warrant any pretension to prophecy, but
certain it is that Mr. Cullom's chance lieg
in a repetition of 1876 and Mr. McKlnley's
point of danger is that his friends may put
him in the place of William H. Seward, in-
stead of Abraham Lincoln.
• • • *
The Richmond Dispatch reviews the re-
cent message of Governor McLaurin of
Mississippi recommending an enactment
prohibiting the making of contracts pay-
able exclusively in gold and declaring that
all debts shall be payable in gold or silver.
The Dispatch concludes:
It is not at all likely that any state legis-
lature will undertake to give the force of
law to Governor McLaurln's recommenda-
tions. The sound mont-y advocates will be
as zealous in their efforts to carry out
their views on the currency question gen-
erally as they are to carry them but on the
silver question. There is, however, nobody
in the world who can tell how much cur-
rency Is needed in any given country. A
million of dollars turned over or used once
a day becomes two millions when used
twice a day.
* • *
The Philadelphia Times says:
extreme caution of the people of
.chusetts to keep the supreme power
ha
The political thunderstorm is causing con-
gressional terrapins to turn loose.
Learned Too Late.
Chicago Tribune.
"I've been told Rivers' name is in old
Rocksworthy's will."
"Yes, his name is in it. He signed it as
a witness. That's all, and—good gracious!
What's the matter?"
"Nothing, only I've lent him $500 on the
strength of it!"
TEXAS NEWSPAPER COMMENT.
The sincerity of Senator Quay's presiden-
tial aspirations is questioned because he
hasn't straddled on any of the leading is-
sues. '
They used to call Mr. Piatt "Me, too,"
but that was a long time ago. It is "Me"
now.
A New York woman sued for a divorco
on the ground that her husband earned
only $5 a week. In the meantime she asks
that he be compelled to support her.
It is a coincidence that Congressman
Crowley's maiden speech should have been
about the mall.
One thing noticeable about New York
politics is that the louder the enemies of
Piatt talk the quieter Piatt becomes.
Speaker Fish of the New York legisla-
ture swallowed Piatt's bait.
Governor Morton evidently realizes the
disad\antage of not having been born in
Ohio.
Chicago policemen charged in force upon
a harmless orchestra that was giving in
North Siue Turner hall a faithful imita-
tion of Tschalkowsky's overture of 1812, de-
scribing the war between Russia and
France.
Brownsville Herald: All that Mr. Spring-
er says of the resources of the coast coun-
try between Galveston and Corpus Chrlstl,
in the article which we copy from Tho
News to-day, applies equally to that por-
tion of the coast between Corpus Chrlstl
and the mouth of the Rio Grande, and
much more might be said with truth of the
wonderful natural endowments of thjs re-
gion.
Yoakum Graphic: The man who is nom-
inated by the Corpus Chrlstl convention for
congress will undoubtedly be elected, and
he will also likely hold his seat for a long
time; hence It Is essential that the wry
best man that can be found be put up by
the democratic party.
Smlthville Times: The Aransas Harbor
and Northern railroad is gradually ap-
proaching us, and before many days will
be knocking at our doors. All right, the
latch string hangs on the outside and a
warm welcome awaits It within our portals.
Wharton Spectator: Numerous letters
from prominent democrats over the district
assure Mr. Dennis of a hearty support in
his race for floater. All seem to thijk
Wharton county should justly be alIo\|hl
to name the mfcn.
Velasco World: Mr. Oscar D. Klrkland
of Richmond announces himself as a candi-
date for state senator from the district
comptsed of Waller, Harris, Austin and
Fort Bend counties.
Hempstead People's Paper: Charlie has
been absent from the state for several days
and the ship of state rocked along Just as
well with a Jester at the helm.
Brenhain Banner: Judge S. H. Woods of
Duval county does not believe that a sound
money (or gold bug) democrat can be
elected to congress in the Eleventh district.
Corpus Chrlstl Caller: Indications
that the democratic governor of Texas will
only get into office this
of his teeth.
year "by the skin
Farm and Stock Record, Del Rio: Judge
Reagan'# Colorado silver mines are receiv-
ing a great deal of advertising just now.
They All Had Corkscrews.
Now York Herald.
There was a pleased expression on the
stern features of the angular woman with
the rasping voice as she regained her seat
in the accommodation traip, She had just
walked up one side and down the other of
the long aisle and had spoken a few hur-
ried words to each man as she handed him
a copy of a temperance tract.
"Tho world Is growing better," she said,
leaning over and addressing the man in
the end seat. "You see, there is so much
difference of opinion on the subject that
you can't get any intelligent idea from
studying statistics. I'm a worker In the
noble cause of temperance, you know, so
I thought I would do a little Investigating
myself."
"Am I to understand, madam." replied
the man, turning his head half way round,
"that the result of your labors shows that
the world Is growing better?"
"That's it, exactly," she returned. "As
soon as I entered this train and saw that
It was nearly full of men I knew that tho
time for original Investigation had arrived.
When I handed out this beautiful little
tract I asked each man point blank If he
was a drunkard. It did my heart good, as
you may well imagine, to hear each of
them answer that he wasn't."
"But, my dear madam," argued the man,
"it takes a pretty heavy drinker to make a
drunkard."
"Nonsense." broke in the woman. "There
can be no distinctions in a question of this
kind. A man who drinks is nothing else
than a drunkard. I'm satisfied with the
test I made, for I could see that each man
answered my question honestly."
^1 won't attempt to argue with you,
madam," said the mu. "I'll just make a
little test of my own.
Stepping out Into the aisle the man sang
out In a cheery tone that echoed through
the length of the car:
"Say, boys, any of you got a corkscrew?"
In a moment a smile came over the man's
features Is he slowly counted seventeen
hands lifted up in the air, and he was
about to address the woman, when he saw
that she had fainted, anil that the con-
ductor was testing the virtue of her dearly
loved cold water by sousing a dipper of It
in her face.
commonwealth in their own hands
is shown in the present emergency, when
the death of Governor Greenhalge does not
advance the lieutenant governor to the
executive chair until he has been duly
elected by the legislature. Massachusetts
is one of the few states that still elect
their governors annually, but the stipula-
tion that the lieutenant governor does not
succeed to the governorship upon the death
of the regularly elected governor was not
generally known outside of Massachusetts.
• • •
■fche Omaha Bee remarks:
We can appreciate Senator Allen's wrath
at the performance of Senator Hale in ob-
jecting to his request for unanimous con-
sent to address a few remarks upon his
resolution directing the president to recog-
nize the independence of Cuba. It must be
extraordinarily exasperating to prepare a
speech upon a timely topic and one that
will not keep and then be compelled to de-
lay its delivery until after it has become
ancient history.
• • •
The Baltimore Sun, noticing Mr. Hart-
man's attack on the president for his
speech at the home mission rally in New
York, intimates that a little missionary
labor in congress might not be inappro-
priate at the present time. It says:
It is a pity that a mission can not be or-
ganized in congress right away.
• • •
The Pittsburg Dispatch, which sympa-
thizes with the Cubans, says:
While the British press is talking about
the "sensitive pride and honor of the Span-
ish nation," it might do well to recollect
that this pride and honor was not sufficient
to make good the promises of reform by
which Martinez Campos pacified the rebel-
lion of twenty years ago.
• • •
The Cleveland Leader remarks:
The European nations which are talking
of helping Spain if that country Is involved
in trouble with the United States should
offer assistance to Italy. King Humbert's
government is the only one which seems
to be in need of help at present
* » •
The Kansas City Journal says:
The fun will begin at St. Louis when the
favorite sons get up one after another and
move to make it unanimous.
• • •
The Florida Times-Union seems to have
caught the hen fever. It says:
The hens of this country lay eggs to tho
value of $125,000,000 every year. Let's tako
the hen for our emblem,
do anything but eat.
The eagle don't
ALL SORTS ASSORTED.
/
Hdl«on Outdone by Illi Disciple.
President Andrews In Scrlbcer's.
A more original genius than Kelson, Her-
itably a wizard, is his young disciple, Ni-
kola Tesla, who was born Ih Servia, and
found employment with Edison on landing
In America. For small electric lights he
dispenses with the filaments inside the
bulbs and makes dilute air do their work.
He sends currents of high tension through
space, without any conductor, at a voltage
many times greater than that employed In
electrocution, lie receives In his person
currents vibrating a million times a sec-
ond. of two hundred times greater voltage
than needed to produce death. He sur-
rounds himself with a halo of electric light
and calls purple streams from the soil. JI is
experiments are of the utmost promise to
the Industrial world. His aim Is to hook
mans machinery directly to nature's,
pressing ether waves directly into our ser-
service. without the intervention or the
generation of heat, In which such an enor-
mous proportion of the energy goes to
waste—90 per cent in arc lighting, 94 in in-
candescent.
Roumania is the highest-taxed country
in the world.
There are 132.000 servants, men and wo-
men, In Paris.
The population of Mexico is two and one-*
half times that of Canada.
The Turkish nose bears a tolerably close
resemblance to the Semitic type.
Small nostrils are said by physiologists
to indicate small and weak lungs.
Goethe had a large Roman nose, rather
more bent than usual In that type.
A sharp nose pointing forward Is the
characteristic of impudence and curiosity.
The sense of smell is probably more acute
In the dog than in any other animal.
The duke of Wellington was blessed with
a Roman nose of generous proportions.
The first duke of Marlborough had a
huge Roman nose, the nose of a military
conqueror.
In the year 1895 the value of the manu-
factured silk imported into this country
was $31,026,202; In the same year the value
of the unmanufactured which was brought
to this country was $22,626,055.
A deer's eyes command a wide field of
vision, and the animal can see behind as
well as before, though not so distinctly, for
when alarmed it will always turn so as to
gain a clearer view of the object.
The number of paid admissions to the
Columbian fair was 21,477,218, a daily aver-
age of 119,984The gross attendance was
27,529,400, exceeding by nearly a million the
number at the Paris exposition for the six
months ending with October.
The owl's eyes have no muscles by which
they can be moved. This deficiency is
atoned for by extraordinary flexibility In
the muscles of the neck, by which the owl
can move his head with incredible rapidity
in any direction.
Negotiations are in progress by which
the Art Institute of Chicago may become
the possessor of the sixty-four paintings by
Gustave Dore. which for the last few years
have been exhibited in this country. The
price is said to be $1,000,000.
A mole's eyes are believed to give the
animal nothing more than an impression of
light, which is probably painful or at least
annoying, the- sensation prompting the
creature at once to burrow into the earth
and escape the annoyance.
All writing Is originally picture writing,
and this has been found more or less fully
developed among most seml-clvlllzod na-
tions. The Egyptians used it, and by the
time the Phoenicians first constructed an
alphabet out of it—about 1700 B. C.—it was
in this condition.
The regular army of Mexico comprises
27,000 men of all arms, including a police
of 2000 men and a gendarmerie or 250. The
navy consists of two small unarmored ves-
sels and three gunboats. The annual ex-
penditure on account of army and navy is
from $12,500,000 to $15,000,000.
Tfto West Africa love birds, two king
penguins, one Persian gazelle, one puff ad-
der. one salt water terrapin, two Indian
jerboas and one Delalande's gecko, among
many other Interesting specimens, have re-
cently been added to the collection of the
Zoological society gardens, London.
It is stated that there were 2893 human
beings killed by tigers, leopards, hyeans
and panthers in India during the year 1894,
and in the same year tho same species of
beasts, aided by snake*, killed 97,371 head
of cattle. The number of human lives de-
stroyed by snakes In Indian in 1894 was 21,-
588. The number of wild beasts killed in
the same >«-ur was 13,447, and the number
of snakes 102,210.
During the reign of George IV a search
was made by his direction in Windsor cas-
tle for the purpose of discovering the spot
where Charles I was buried. A coffin was
then discovered, placed in a slanting posi-
tion, and the body it contained was consid-
ered to be that of the decapitated king, as
on examination the head was found ce-
mented to the body.
The celebrated "bottomless abyss" qf
France Is situated in the province of Vau-
cluse, and Is considered one of the most
interesting geological wonders in the world.
It is called the abyss of Jean Nauveah, and
has been known for centuries. It is from
three to twelve feet In diameter and prac-
tically^ bottomless. It ia sunnoaad to fa* thn
vent of an ancivut geyatit
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