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Galveston, Tex., Qoto> or 29, 1891.
In Massachusetts the high tariff policy has
become oppressive to many advanced indus-
tries. Henoe Massachusetts begins to kick.
Naturally Pennsylvania and Ohio ars not so
fax akin* But a fsw years' tuns will makes
TENNESSEE AND IIER ARMY OF
FELONS.
It is too lato for tho Memphis Commercial,
Chattanooga Times and other Tennessee news-
papers to bewail the startling condition of
affairs at Bricevillc. The miners have done
just what these papers and others incited them
to do. They condemned Governor Buchanan's
action in orderiug the militia to Briceville and
applauded when tho miners packed the young
soldiers in boxcars and shipped them back to
Knoxville. They clamored for a law clearly
violative of a contract and condemned tho
representatives who failed to provide for the
insurrectionists just what they doinanded
They stood in with tho miners and encouraged
them in their disregard of the peaco and dig-
nity of the state. It is too late for them to
condemn the latter for a high-handed destruc-
tion of property and for enlarging upon tho
people over 400 murderers, robbers, thieves
and other daugerous malefactors. The con-
vict question is a complex and difficult
problem in Tennessee. There is less than
half enough room for tho prisoners in tho
penitentiary of tho state. In order to
provide for keeping all of them within the
walls a heavy appropriation must bo made,
rendering necossary an increase of the present
rate of taxation. The voters of tho state re-
fused to olect to the legislature men who ap-
proved any increase of taxation. Thus tho
matter stood whon a contract was made with
the coal companies to hold nnd to work quite
an army of the convicts in the mines at a
much needed prortt to tho state. It is held on
apparently good authority that this contract
binds the state of Tennessee under the pro-
vision of the federal constitution that "no
state shall pass any law impairing the obliga
tion of contracts." Aside from the necessity
under which the convict leaso was brought
about, to relieve which the people of the stato
declined to sanction an increase of the tax
rate, the legislature in called session concludcd
that the contract with the owners of the mines
could not be anulled without tho consent of
the party of tho second part. Many of the
papors of the stato joined in a heedless con-
demnation and abuse of the legislature, but
abstained cautiously from advocating in-
creased taxation. It was quite apparent that
tho increase must bo provided for before the
state could keep and support tho convicts in
intra-mural confinement and before the legis-
lature could be in a position to annul the
lease law, even with the consent of the lessees.
The miners were made the pots of tho papers
and tho people who opposed higher taxation
wore pandered to by the low tax demagogues.
Thus the miners were encouraged in /violent
efforts to regain the employment of which
they had been deprived by convict labor. That
they have a grievance many who condemn
their lawlessness will agree. That they are
oven less to bo condomned than tho dema-
gogues who incited them to riot is also true.
But these and other facts and conditions in
their favor do not excuse or palliate their
detiance of the civil authorities of the state
in burning property and in roleasing hundreds
of folons upon tho ]>eople. The convict
quostion in Tennessee is a serious problem
beset with mischief and trouble and which
it seems at present that noboby but the
irresponsible demagogue can use to advan-
tage.
In the local columns of The News on Octo-
ber 28 there was reprinted a dispatch sent
from this city to the Globe-Democrat con-
cerning the effect of the Morgan line's with-
drawal from here somo two months ago. The
News took the pains to show tho error and
animus of the dispatch and hoped it had seen
the end of false statements from that source.
The exposure ought to have mado tho cor-
respondent ashamed of himself for having
libeled the very commercial interests which
afford him opportunity for earning a living.
But ho seems undeterred in a mad determina-
tion to wreok his standing in nowspaper circle?
and to make himself and the papers he mis-
represents obnoxious in this city. The identi-
cal dispatch appears in the New York Herald
of November 2, dated "Galveston, Tex., No-
vember 1." From this Toe News infers that
the correspondent has enlisted for the war.
It is therefore time for Galveston's represen-
tative men or bodies to take such action as
will acquaint the respectable nowspapors of
the country with the facts in this case so they
may be on guard against like slander in fu-
ture.
uct, and Mr. Broadacres was not strictly pos-
sessing and using all his land, but was going
to sell a good deal of it at an advance on what
he gave for it. But Mr. Broadacres was honest
and upright. The stato had taken somo of his
money and induced him to enter upon laud
investment, the public not having discerned
that the quostiop what is property is a ques-
tion of fact which all the lawmaking in
tho world can not change. The News
agrees with the suggestion that by the
timely abolition of unjust privilogo
tho evil luoqualities in fortuno would
give placo to an approximate oquality
of condition, or to a practically satisfactory
condition. Hero it will not do to blink the
truth as against usurpation that the justice of
equal freedqm never dies; that no number can
waive it for a single person. It can only bo
said that violent rovolution would destroy
more than it would save and that till a people
are intelligent enough to got equal liberty
without internoeine war thoy are not intelli-
gent enough to maintain equal liberty.
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Newspapers Throughout Texas
Are Talking About.
Tho San Antonio Light says:
The Tennessee miners have been as good as
their word. The extra session of the legisla-
ture gave thom no relief and thoy have taken
matters into their own hands. The convict
miners have been turned adrift, their guards
dispersed and the whole outfit of 500 criminals
turned loose to roam over the country. The
work was done as quietly as it was thoroughly.
All their plans woro ripened and kept, secret
PROPERTY A NATURAL FACT.
In discussing a communication on conser-
vatism as regards property The News recently
took occasion to direct the thought of such
readers as care to go into tho subject theo-
retically, to tho import of the word proper as
contradistinguished from common. It is a
short step from realising this to allowing that
tho state, when not an absolutism, represents
at tho state's best that which is common to its
citizens. It holds their common possessions
in trust and guards thoir common liberty.
Under a democratic government their effort is
to avoid community in material goods as far
as possiblo. Hence the ideal of tho democratic
state is tho protection of equal liberty
for all the people. Mr. Tarver of
Eagle Pass undertakes to restate The News'
position, but begins by varying it, speak-
ing of the conditional maintenance of a "prop-
erty right." This, however, is more abstract
than tho conception of Tns News to look for
an answer to tho quostion, What is property?
If wo find what property is, then if the state
invades that, it does wrong to the individual.
The state can invado property or can protect
tho individual in his property. How, then,
can it bo assumed that any action of tho stato
dotermines what is truly property? Mr.
Tarver is not statiug The News' position
when ho says: "Property rights are grantod
solely for tho benefit of the state,
the benefit to the individual being a mere in-
cidence." That doctrine is affected with com-
munism. No doubt tho provalont view of tho
stato has such a content, and this explains
how tho state cotnes to do so much violence to
men and their socurity in thoir property. It
seoms to The News that individual right
should bo recognized by the stato, noither con-
ferred nor frustrated. Individual benefit is
all tho benefit there is in tho world, and the
perfect recognition and protection of indi-
vidual liberty to tho extent of equal rights for
all men is the only just purpose in col-
lective action. That is all that law
is for when lsw means liberty to
live undor equal right. As regards
Mr. Broadacros of tho olden timo, he hold a
grant to privately tax future labor. That was
not very oppressive while thore wero broad
acres of state domain. But that was fore-
stalling privilege, lor the land is not s prod*
Chairman Finley and lion. Hamlet Gossett
are the end mon of tho administration.
Colonel Gossett asks questions and pounds tho
loud tnmbourine with his great head, while
Colonel Finley rattles tho dry bones in tho
faco of the audience and spits like an ugly
cat.
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WHAT BREAKS MEN.
One of tho features of American business
life about which mon are compelled to think
whon they have timo, but of which certainly
those wtio know and feel it most can not be
expected to write, is the irregularity with
which the strain of mental and accompanying
physical exertion falls upon them. Busi-
ness comes with a rush and for somo
months thoho in positions of responsi-
bility and greatest usefulness are compelled
by circumstances to wrestle with figures, facts
and circumstances at a rate and during an ex-
tended day, the result of which must bo to
wreck the nerves of tho strongest and most
determined who undertake to do their duty if
in employment, or to keep their heads above
water if in the swim for themselves. There
is no patent method for roforming this under
the actual conditions, but tho thought that
ablo mon are being worn out too
quickly by tho system will suggest
that where a saving of timo
can be effected no routino should bo adhered
to that is not strictly necessary to safety and
efficiency. Another thing is that as sorvice
becomes more valuable by experience in
place, those whoso businesses which can by caro
in management be shai>ed to employ a steady
and adequato personnel by tho year will gain
something in the course of time by making the
endeavor intelligently. Other points aro that all
facilities to bring busy men to and from their
places of business are of increasing im-
portance as to saving that time which
should be dovoted to rest and meals. The
motherly housekeeper, also, needs to be aware
that upon her devolves no small portion of
responsibility for tho health of tho toiling
man. It is business rush and worry that
break men down more than manual labor
ever did. Tho temperance advocates, too,
may stop and think that they have to deal
with causes, and that often, indeed, tho habit
of taking stimulants to excoss is merely a
result of business pressure. On tho other
hand, enforcod idleness is as bad mor-
ally, whilo less injurious m its
direct physical rosults. Overwork and
strain fall upon the clerk and book-keeper as
upon tho manager, but on the former classes
the blight of no work at all is more likely to
fall. While apparently small guards aro nto
that can at present bo practically suggested, it
should not be forgotton that safeguards, in
appearance small, aro often suro and effective.
It should be in the power of every reasonable
man at least to banish worry; to sttond
closely to what is presented, decide
promptly, press forward serenely and
caro nothing for consequences while
doing what seoms best in the time which
naturo allows for work. A good, strong reso-
lution in competent managing men, when
they are able to take leisure and save health,
to do so, no matter if it costs much in money,
would be very wise and would have a whole-
some effect in making places for others and
in compelling corporations to seek thoir in-
terest in a reasonable conservation of the
health of their oapable employes.
It looks more and more like Cleveland.
Chairman Finlby's matured viows aro full
of dry humor.
People who sell theifc ballots aro not quali-
fied either mentally or morally to govern
themselves.
The American congress is a great auction at
which the political parties sell snaps.
The law doos not give the high-toned citizen
a right to carry a pistol, but the courts do.
No 6tate should be permitted to do busi-
ness unless it is ablo and willing to pay its ex-
penses and enforce its laws.
In counting up the cost, all of her sister
states are expected to provide for Louisiana.
She sells her virtue at $1 per ticket.
Governors Campbell and Pattison are
young men who will bo heard from later.
If Governor Buchanan and Mr. Blaine could
only ateor tho Rricoville junta and tho Chilean
Junta together, both those wsr-liko bodies could
ho accommodated with a fight, and tho tronble
of the two afatoexnon would be settled. [Mem-
phis Avalanche.
Better steer tho Harrison and Quay junta
down to Chile and lot them do thoir own fight-
ing. Tho Bricevillo junta has boon attendodto.
Analysis of tho vote in Now York appears
to show that tho voters throughout tho state
and not the Tainmany society elected Mr.
Flower. ___________
The Tennessee sonato is absolved from re-
sponsibility for the present disorganized con-
dition of affairs regarding the convicts. It
passed a bill to build a largo penitentiary.
The houso disagreed. There is talk of a con-
vict lease ring lobbying against harmonious
action.
SNAP SHOTS.
If you go too slow you will run out of dato.
Satan uses tho blizzard, but doos not koep it
at homo. ______
Every girl should be taught to cook biscuits
and clean out the house.
Tho wink is a poker dot that will never go
out of fashion.
Every man on earth has carried in his
pocket for months letters that his wife or
daughter requested him to post. Strange to
say, the delays have nover affocted tho mar-
kots or politics of the country in the least.
The only Amorican citizen who does not say
"I told you so" is the man who bet on tho
candidate who lost.
Ileal honesty is asver highly polished.
until the hour for action came and then the
success came as complete as it was sudden.
Tennessee can take warning by this lest a
worse thing come upon her, and other states
may also learn a lesson of the danger that
lurks around a labor question with a buzz
saw attachment.
This reads like a threat or prediction of an-
archy in states that allow convicts to be em-
ployed outside of thoir penitentiaries. Setting
tho laws and publio officers at defiance and
turning hundreds of convicts loose to prey
upon the earnings of honest citizens and be a
terror to women and childron is quite as great
an evil ns the conflict between convict and
honest labor. The Light says:
Texas wants to tako time by tho forelock
and do somo judicious legislation in tho direc-
tion of regulation of convict labor. The leas-
ing of convict labor is a barbarity and only
brutalizes whatever it touches. Separate tho
short term convicts from the long term con-
victs and put tho former at work upon tho
public roads. Texas wants better roads. She
does not want to perpetuate a system of leas-
ing convict labor that bears unhappily uj>on
all labor and degrades it by bringing into
competition with the slave labor of the prisons.
The Corpus Christi Caller calls on people to
halt or suspend judgment as regards the faults
of others:
The wholo dogma, the creed, the every pre-
cept of the world's best faith in life is con-
tained in the admonition against sitting in
judgment, against oastita: a stone in self-
righteous condemnation. The mocking crowd
about him. each passing conviction and itch-
ing to punish the poor guilty one, each im-
patient for the sentence to be carried out, the
great Judge of the world stooped, undisturbed
by them, writing with his hand in the sand.
Tne imprecations grow more intense. The
impatient crowd has all but set upon the de-
spised one, when they receive the most fitting
rebuke the world has over heard. And it oven
strikes home to the proud hearts of tho Phari-
sees. Ashamed, abashed by tho majesty of
the idea they slink away, one by one, not now
oonvicting but convicted and that in their own
hearts. "Let him that is without sin cast the
first stone."
Nevertheless, tho foar of censure, like the
lovo of praise, is calculated to keep people
from doing things that are wrong. Besides,
it is very handy to
Excuso the sins we arc inclinod to
By damning thoso we have no miud to.
Tho Austin Statesman says:
It is protty well known that Mr. W. L. Ma-
lono has resigned his position as editor and
general manager of the Fort Worth Gazette.
The reasons for tho action on his part have
not been given to the public. Whatever they
may be the Statesman has this to say: If the
people of Fort Worth permit him to carry his
purpose into effoet they will make one of the
biggest mistakes in the history of the town.
Mr. Malouohas beon tho strong hand at the
helm in that exceUent\naper's course; he it is
who has mado it the splendid sheet it is nnd
thcGazetto has done more than all other
agencies combined to tnako Fort Worth tho
big town it is. Mr. Mulone is a thorough
newspaper man in every sense of the woro,
and ho has pro veil himself a stanch friend, an
invaluable ally of Fort Worth. It will pay
those people to buy him u controlling interest
in tho Gazette and give him a free lance.
Thore is money and glory in it for Fort
Worth.
The Denison Herald is going to give place
to a department devoted to tho new jargon,
and gives due notice that those who intend to
become learners may get their talkers ready,
prepared to pucker, as the man who under-
took to teaoh whistling said to his class. The
Herald says t
Many people think that Volapuk is destined
to bo the international language of scholars.
Whether it is or not intelligent mon and
women in all parts of the United States are in-
terested in tho study of this unique tongue,
and thousands more would bo provided they
knew just how to l»»'gin. The Herald will
shortly begin the publication of a series of
twenty Volapuk lessons, which, whon thor-
oughly mastered, will enable tho intelligent
student to master the fundamental principles
of the language. Tho officials of tho National
Volapuk society have consented to take an
active interest in tho work of pupils who may
be interested in those lessons and will correct
those sent to them free of charge. We con-
sider tho Volapuk lessons an attractive feature
and predict that they will at onoo find favor
with tho intelligent reading publio. Due
notice of tho date on which the first lesson
will bo published will be given in tho Herald,
and a regular date for the publication of future
lessons will be announced.
Tho Corpus Christi Caller remarks:
If the democratio platform of last year did
not denounce the subtroasury scheme it did
not donounce anything.
That platform declared opposition to the
collection and distribution by the federal gov-
ernment of any money in the way of advance-
ment "or loau to any citizen or olass upon
any sort of security, whether government or
commercial bonds, farms or other products."
The Houston Post remarks:
Tho courts are becoming more reasonable
in their construction of tho law regarding the
competency of jurors, and the effect can not
be other than wholesome. Tho Post has al-
ready not ad that the Texas court of appeals
has dceidod that the mere fact that a juror
has established iu his mind a conclusion of the
guilt or innocence of tho party on trial is not
a sufficient cause for disqualification, and now
pomss adf lision of the sunrsms oourt of
Michigan, which says: "Intelligent men,
Who are tho mont eompetent jurors, are usual-
ly readers of the newspapers. Newspapers
have the right to publisn verdicts ana judg-
ments rendered in courts. However unwiso it
may be to publish thom at the time of the
trial, no violation of tho law is oommitted in
so doing, nor will tho roading of them by ju-
rors render them incompetent." The laws
will bo bettor administered when the most in-
telligent men, instead of the most ignorant,
are generally preferred as jurors.
Tho Post says Houston has already experi-
mented with the vitrified brick pavement and
is very well pleased with the result, henoe her
determination to have more of it.
The Woodville Eureka says East Texas is
now furnishing nearly all the pine lumber
used not only in Texas, but also throughout
Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and tho Indian
territory. It is an immense business that
grows larger every year. Tho editor can well
romember tlvo timo when the tall and graceful
pine, though it almost pierced the sky as it
stood in its majesty, was considerod worse
than a useless cumberer of the ground. Men
woro out their lives destroying it in order
to till tho soil that grow it. But times have
changed and there is gold in the pine now.
In it east Texas has a mine that will yield
more wealth than tho silver mines of Colo-
rado.
Another Jeremiah or Jonah the prophet,
predicting tho downfall of Galveston, is quoted
by the Woodville Eureka t
If tho water that is at Ouintana was at So-
bino Pass Galveston would have to put more
labor on her extraordinary combine, called
the chamber of commerce. Sabine Pass has no
Houston between it and the balance of the great
eastern part of Texas. If Huntington's'Trunk
ever gets to Sabine i'ass Galveston will feol
something drop. Mr. Huntington, drive your
road to Rockland, and listen to hoar tho cham-
ber of Galveston drop.
In the moantime Galveston goes on, like tho
people of tho world when the flood was pend-
ing, and is aided and abetted by the rest of tho
state in exteuding her business as if regardless
of her coming fate. The oommercial columns
of Thb Nbws reports the demand for goods
from the interior increasing; the receipts of
cotton from 8000 to 10,000 bales a day; tho re-
ceipts of wool nearly 90,000 pounds a day;
now houses are boing built all ovor the city;
manufacturing enterprises are being extend-
ed, and work and good wages aro offered to
all who want them. History may not literally
repeat itself, but a glanco back half a century
may bo interesting if not instructive.
Kennedy's history of Texas, as far
as it goes, ono of the best ever published (it
api>eared in 1841), says the bar at tho entrance
of Galveston bay varied from 13,to as low
as 10 feet at extreme low tides, while tho depth
of water at San Luis pass was upward of 12)tf
feet. He says "a company has purchased tho
island [San Luis] for the purpose of laying
off a town, which they propose to connect
with Brazos river by a railroad or canal, and
thus obtain the shipments of tho produce of
the great cotton region of Texas." He adds:
"There is considerable differonco of opinion,
originating probably in conflicting interests,
as to the maritime advantages of San Luis."
"Tho Brazos enters tho gulf without forming
any bay, and a shifting sand-bar extonds a con-
siderable way from its mouth. Volasco and
Quintana aro situated on opposite sides of tho
entrance of the river. Tho depth of water
over tho bar ranges from G to 11 foet, accord-
ing to the winds, averaging during the year
about 7 feet. So early as the year ltfiU a small
steamboat pliod from the mouth of the Brazos
to San Felipe de Austin, 150 miles by the
course of the river."
MALICE AFORETHOUGHT.
THE MOfiflAN LINE 0HE3TNUT IN THE
NEW Y0EK HERALD.
A Penny-a-Liner Still Peddling False
Statements About Galveston^ Ship-
ping Without Even Revamishing.
PROPERTY VERSUS PRIVILEGE.
Thought, for Student, and Reformer..
The Peaceful Way Out of Trouble.
Eaqlb Pass, Oct. 31.—To The News : The
News very properly suggests that whether tho
public is benefited by the strict maintenance
of a property right will depend whether tho
exorcise of the right is beneficial to the public.
The state, as I understand it, extends to the
individual the right of possession and usufruct
to a thing whon tho thing will only produce
through the possessor's labor, the enjoyment
of the individual being limited to the product
due to his labor. In other words, property
rights aro granted solely for the benefit of tho
stato, the benefit to the individual being a
mero incidenco. If this, the true principlo,
be kept strictly in view and honestly and in-
telligently adhered to by law-makers, evi-
dently instancos, as supposed by Tub News,
could not occur in which security in a prop-
erty right would bo a burden instead of a
benefit to society.
But either through non-recognition or will-
ful disregard of tho principle by our legisla-
tors it is certain that many so-callod property
rights do oporate decidedly against tho common
wolfare. I say so-called property rights be-
cause much that is spoken of as property
rights, as the right to bathe in tlio ocoan and to
trade in a certain market,as citod by The News,*
aro really privileges and not property rights
Of late years many such privileges have been
actually grantod, most of the immense for-
tunes of the present having beeu acquired
through them.
The change in thi« respect has beon notable
in the last thirty y« ar*. Before tho war the
popular name for tho citizen of solid wealth
was 'Squire Broadacros. but now wo have oil
kings, railroad magnates and factory barons
while 'Squire Broadacres isonlv remarkable for
tho greatness of his burden, if an analytical
study of the situation be mado it will l>e found
that these exaggerated fortunes that have
justified tho bestowal of lordly titles on their
possossors have all been act]uirod through
privileges grantod by tho state. If a further
analysis be made it can be demonstrated that
these privileges have all been invasions of
property rights, the invasions to a great ex-
tent bjing upon tho rights of ths aforesaid
'Squire Broauacres.
A complete demonstration of this conclusion
would require more space than Tiie News
would willingly give, but to the intelligent its
correctness should appear a goljie de vista,
os the Spaniard ssfs. The remedy natural
would be tho withdrawal of all privileges,
whilo strictly respecting all real property
rights that had beon acquired through them.
In other words, tho true reformer should seek
to amend tlio manner of acquiring property,
but not interfere with its present distribution.
He could feel Hire that under pro|>er laws all
unjust inequalities would be soon removed.
To attain such reform there would have to bo
a change in our lawmakers, the change to be
made rather in regard to thoir character than
their quality. Our prosent legislators may
oosscss average honesty and capacity, but it is
doubtful if they aro selected on lines best
adapted to the work to be done. To illustrate by
comparison, the physician who is consulted as
to tho hotter regulation of our bodily functions
to be competent must have passed through
years of patient study of our physical struc-
ture and tho principles governing health and
diseaso. Now the structure upon which so-
ciety is built, the tios of sympathy and inter-
est that normally bind together its various
members and tho passions aud prejudices that
enter as disturbing or diseased elements, form
a mnohiiiery as intricate and delicate as that
upon which life itself depends.
Notwithstanding it is considored that any
ponular fellow who hapi>eus to be a good
talker may be called upon to interfere with
the working of this complicated social ma-
chine, though popularity and ghbncss of
tonguo no more indicate* a capacity to mako
laws than it does to make pills. Can we won-
dor at the growth of tho belief that tho coun-
try least governed is tho best governed?
CUAS. Takveh.
Peouliar Prayers.
Atlantic Monthly.
In a Maine town, near the seacoast, was ono
of many communities where the men were, so
to speak, a cross botween farmers and sailors,
aud whore, as a natural consequence, the cul-
tivation of the soil was somewhat neglected.
The minister of a neighboring town ox-
changed with the minister of this community,
and, as a drouth was upon them, the people
sent him a request that he would pray for rain.
This he did as follows:
"0 Lord, thy servant is asked by this
people to prny for rain, and he does so. But
thou knowest, O Lord, that what this soil
needs is dress in'."
A member of a certain Massachusetts parish,
prominent for his thrift and personal conse-
quence, was also notorious for his overbear-
ing assumption and pompous airs. Under
the distress and fright of a dangerous illness
he "put un notes" on several successive Sun-
days, and after his recovery, according to
usage, ho offered a note to be read by the
minister expressive of his thanks.
The minister was somewhat "largo" in this
part of his prayer, recalling the danger and the
previous petitions of the "squiro," and return-
ing his gratoful acknowledgments with tho
prayer that the ex]terience might bo blessed to
tho spiritual wolfare of tho restored man. He
closed with those words:
"And we pray, 0 Lord, that thy servant may
be cured of that ungodly strut, so offensive in
tbi sanctuary*"
Dr. Barnes of Scitunto had for a parishioner
a rich but hard, grasping, penurious and quar-
relsome man. In course of time he died and
at his funeral tho minister dealt with him in
no gentle phrase.
The next Sunday the bereaved widow came
herself to the parsonage, bringing tho usual
"noto," and at tln< same time preferring an
earnest request that, as the minister had al-
ready givon her husband such a raking at the
funeral, ho would uuiotly pass him over in his
prayer. She added that hor husband had al-
ways beon kind and good to hor and his
family.
"Well, well, we'll see," said tho agod and
veneratod pastor. His curt reliof of himself
in his prayer was this:
"Thou knowest, 0 Lord, that the departed
servant was a good provider for his family |
but beyond that his friends think and we think
the less said the better."
An unsophisticated reporter when removed
from tho usual channels of news gathering and
pluced in a now field whore he has to deal
with unfamiliar subjects and analyze matters
with which he is seldom brought in contact
may, without the slightest intention of doing
so, bo guilty of the most egregious errors and
do almost irreparable wroug. It was a knowl-
edge of this fact that led The News a few
days ago when discussing a dispatch uont from
this city to the Globe-Democrat about the
withdrawal of the Morgan steamers from this
port to deal lightly with the local correspond-
ent, Tue News fooling that the correspondent
had beon led into sending the dispatch by
some one having a grudge against this city.
The charactor of tho dispatch showed this, as
it was a compilation of oommercial and ma
rine statistics such as could havo boen mado
only by one somowhat familiar with such sub-
jects, lying, as they do, almost entirely out-
side tho usual nows channels.
The News argued then and it still so ap
pears that the dispatch was written for the
solo purposo of injuring the commercial
standing of this city, for while part of the sta-
tictics wore true enough, they, as a whole, were
false and the deductions drawn from them w?re
entirely eroneous. Tho malice of the con
coctcr of the dispatch is mado evident by the
same dispatch being sent to the New York
Herald from this city on November 1. It ap-
peared originally in tho Globe-Democrat of
October 24; was refuted by The News on
October 28, and now appears word lor word
in the New York Horald of November 2. Tho
Globe-Domocrat correspondent might havo
beon imposed on but the Herald correspond-
ent certainly was not, and in order to give
vent to his spleen he used matter which ceased
to be news moro than two months ago and
which hud just been printed in another groat
paper only a week boforo and the truth of
which had been denied by The News threo
days boforo ho sent the dispath to tho Herald.
The dispatch itself is as venomous as un
truthful, and displays au unpardonable
amount of ignorance. For instance, great
stress is laid on the fact that the Morgan
steamers took from Galveston 101,192 bales of
cotton last season; that the Morgan steamers
have boen withdrawn, and, therefore, tho ox-
ports of cotton from Galveston to domestic
ports this season will fall short just that
amount or something like it. Even the weight
and value of the outgoing and incoming oar-
goes are given and Galveston is shown to have
lost something like $8,854,300 by the with-
drawal of these steamers. These statements
show the great ignorance of tho compiler of
the dispatch. Had ho been more familiar with
his subject ho would have been able to tell at a
glanco that thus far there is no evidence of
Galveston having suffered in the least from
the withdrawal of tho Morgan line. The local
receipts have becu just as great as were those
oi last season up to this time. Galvoston has
received just as much cotton as ever, and the
fact that domostio exports have fallen below
those of last year arises solely from a lack of
buying on the part of eastern spinners, and
certainly not through any want of transporta-
tion facilities from this city. Con-
siderable Texas cotton hus gone to New
Orleans this season that might otherwiso
have oome here and thus increased Galves-
ton's receipts largely over those of last season,
but this cotton was driven out of the stato by
tho railway commission and not by tho with-
drawal of tho Morgan liuo of steamers, for no
sane or thoughtful man can say that thero has
been the least shortugo in coastwise tonnage
this season. Every balo that has gone to Now
Orleaus this year would have gono thero hud
there beon a dozen Morgan steamers each
week between New York and Galveston. It
is to the interest of tho Texas and Pacific and
the Southern Pacific roads to take it there,
and that is enough to explain why it goes
there.
But it is a waste of time to back argument
with facte in doaling with such a subject. The
dispatch was framed sololy for the purposo of
injuring Galveston commercially. This is
made ovidont by the reference to the busiuess
of the Houston Direct navigation company,
which is treated as a powerful and important
part of tho Southern Pacific system, when in
fact it has only a remote aud incidental con-
nection with .it. It will be noted that the Di-
reot navigation company is spoken of as a
thing of the past. The dispatch says:
Tho hulk of tho cotton thus shipped wa» con-
centrated In Houston by tlio railway con-
trolod by tlio Southern Pacific system, whoro
inueh of it u'tw compressed aud then brought to
(ialvoston in bartf<»s and discharged into utoum-
nhipM. A largo number of uwn were employed in
Houstou, as well as in Galveston, causing a
weekly distribution of a largo amount of money
hero and in that city, which hat now ceatwd lu re,
ami, to a certain orient, there, by reason of tlio
withdrawal of the line and the absorption of tho
buhinens by New Orloans.
This is every word false. Tho Direct nav-
igation company has done a larger business
this soason than for several years. Its barges
havo brought moro cotton and oil cake to Gal-
veston than in years, and more men have
been employed and more money paid out
both in Houston and in this city than in years.
Making an Impression.
Philadelphia Press,
The girl is unlucky who finds out suddenly
that she has something nioe tho mattor with
hor. I knew ono who learned that she had
lovely hair. She took to doing it up with ouo
hairpin, nnd she used to look liko a mop on
the third day of a houso cleaning. She took
to jerking her head, too, so that tho hair
would oome down, and then she did look love-
ly, especially if it happoncd at the theater, at
luncheon or In the cars. She would wagglo
her head so that hor words would oome
out scalloped, and her noso got all
spread around. A girl with a neat foot is the
worst nuisance I know. She always hns
it stuck out in tho car. Her shoestring Is al-
ways coming undone. She is forever lifting
her dress up nnd making you nervous. It just
about spoils a girl if she finds out that she has
fine eyes and pretty teeth. Good-by to quiet
expression at once. Her eyos roll, droop, snap,
shut, opon, dance and sparkle all over the
place till you wonder why they don't jjet
sprained. Meanwhile her teeth are working
just as hard. Sho smiles twice a minute, and
often her eyos are getting in some fine touches
that don't go with u smile at all. Tho effect is
awful. I got so tired looking at a girl the
other day that 1 wonered why the man with
her didn't marry her just for the sake of tying
hor eyes fast to her nose nnd knocking her
tooth out. As for mo, give me a girl who
knows sho is homely or one who is so good
looking that she doesn't earn.
His Only Ohanoe.
Puck,
"Do you think that Withers, the poot, will
live?"
"Ho may—if ho hides."
CUKBMT POLITICAL COMMENT.
Mr. Quay's explanations of that $8877 cer-
tificate of deposit in the Keystone bank are so
vaguo that oven tho Philadelphia Proas serves
notico upon him that "explanations of an af-
fair of this kind, brought into a political can-
vass as this has beon, to have due effect
should bo made at Harrisburg, under oath, in
the face of his accusers." Tho Press even goes
so far ns to condemn the wholo policy of the
republicans in the Pennsylvania senate.
"The tolling and courageous way of meeting
this matter," it says, "would have been to let
the due bill in with the other political mate-
rial that Mr. Heusol calls evidence, and then
summon Mr. Quay to explain it. The ex-
planation which Mr. Quay has made to news-
paper reporters will not silence tho democrats.
Ifo owes it to himself nnd to the republican
party to insist on being sworn and put an ef-
fectual extinguisher on this Pattison-Hensel
attempt to use a private transaction of Mr.
Quay in 1889 to defeat Gregg and Morrison in
1891."
It must bo remembered that tho administra-
tion gets its news from Mr. Patrick Egan, and
no intelligent person will put much confidence
in Mr. Egan's rendering of tho Chilean dis-
patch. When he says that it is "couched in
strong language, and amounts to a refusal to
accept responsibility for the affair"(the attack
on American sailors in Valparaiso) it^ ought
not to make any serious impression. Wo must
soo the dispatch itBolf, which he would doubt-
loss have given in full if it were us inflam-
mable as he says it is. All news from him
has to be read and construed in tho light of
his position nt Santiago. He has tho strongest
possible interest in producing an explosion of
hostility of some kind botween this country
and Chile in order to effect his retreat undor
cover of the patriot excitement which au
armed quarrel would produce. [New York
Evening Post.
Emperor William, a few days ago, cracked
a joko with Von Berlepsch, minister of com-
merce, which bids fair to seriously embarrass
Germany's treaty negotiations with Switzer-
land. Ho said laughingly thnt if the Swiss
delegates continued to mukctroublo about tho
abolition of compulsory passports in Alsace
the Swiss frontier might ns well be moved to
the boundary of the annexed provinces. The
Swiss delegates got information of this re-
mark and failed to appreciate its humor. Con-
sequently thoy havo become rather roticont in
their endeavors to facilitate closer trade rela-
tions between their country and the German
empire. [Berlin dispatch.
The Kansas City Times quotes census bulle-
tin 28 very extensively. It gives the existing
mortgages on land at $243,14U,82ti, of which
over $171,000,000 is on farms. During the ton
years 63,768,190 acres of land, exclusive of lots,
were put under mortgage, the average in-
eurrod indebtedness on every acre for this pe-
riod being $0 39. The exist ing debt of thestate
secured by mortgages on land alone, and ex-
clusive of tiie debts of railroads, towns, coun-
ties and of the state, averages $105 i»er head of
l>opulation, or $825 for every family in the
state.
Just now the welfare of the English farmer
is a matter of extraordinary solicitude in both
the conservative and liberal parties. This is
what comes of extending the suffrage. Before
agricultural laborers were allowed to vote In
England their social status was about equal to
chattels, but now there is nothing too good for
them. [Chicago Nows.
When tho foreign exchange value of Kansas
produce is taxed down 54 per cent by the re-
publican tariff, it is not strange that this pro-
gressive western state feels like revolting
aguinst tho present administration. This
sizes up the whole situation. [Atlanta Con-
stitution.
Advice to country visitors and others: If
anybody accosts you on tho New York streets,
inquires when you came to town and how you
left the folks at home, just mention to hnn
that you aro Recorder Smith. Then ring for
for an ambulance. [New York Evening Tele-
gram. ^
Bringing Ilim Round.
Chicago Tribune.
Fond but bashful youth: Julie, is thero
any—er—constraint placed j»pn you in regard
to—letting me come to soe you so often?
Julie: No, nnd there doesn't seem to bo
much—er—constraint piaoed on mo when you
do come.
[He immediately constrains her.]
WISE AND WITTY.
Everything gets round in a sowing circle.
[Eimira Gnzotto.
The householdor who paves up his dooryard
is uot a sodder, but a wiser man. [Washing-
ton Star. _
"Time's up," as the workman announced
when he fixed the hanging dock. [Baltimore
American.
A man's declining years begin at 50; a
woman's begin from 15 to 18. [Atchiuson
Globe. t
In breadmaking, as in baseball, there is
nothing liko a good batter in tne hour of
knoad. [Birmingham Leader.
Cora: Did you ever go to a fortune teller's?
Morritt: Yes, my dour. I wcut to Brad-
stroet's to find out about your father's fortune.
[Epoch. _
Jack: Well, Jim, I proposed to Miss Sum-
mer last night.
Jim : Did she give you h^r heart?
Jack: No: but I got a piece of hor mind.
[Yale Record.
Little sins carry
[Ram's Horn.
big ones in their arms.
Whon a man is half-seas-over his faculties
aro very much abroud. [Boston Transcript.
aro usually ar-
peace. [Lowell
Offenders against the luw
rayed in breaches of the
Courier. ^
Dr. Hammond says we have two brains.
This ought to be encouraging to cigarvtto
smokers. [Yonkors Statesman.
Says an exchange i With money come poor
relations. But poor relations never couio with
money. [Texas Siftings.
How seldom it is you see a man wise enough
to keep his eyes away from tho key-hole of his
skeleton closet. [Atchison Globe.
McPingle: How is
turned prohibitionist?
to open a drug store.
it that Drupger has
McKangle: lie's going
[Boston News.
Bulflnch: I toll you what, it is, that Miss
Smilax is simply out of sight. Wooden: Yes,
I've noticed it ovory time I've called. [Boston
Courier. _
What are the great parallels of the earth?
phy tsaohsf* And the boy,
whose father was a locomotive engineer, an-
swered: The railway tracks. [Washington
Star.
Boil It Down.
When you've got a thing to nsy,
H d's got h| ,
Crowd tho whole thing in a minute I
Bay
When your talo'f
Crowd
Life is
' a day.
got little in it,
short—a fleeting
Don't fill up tlio wholo blamod paper
With a talo, which, at a pinch,
Could be cornored in au inch I
Boil her down until she simmers,
i'olihli her until she glimmers.
Whon you'vo got u thing to Hay,
Buy it I Don't tako half a day.
— Atlanta Constitution.
Fringed Gentian.
Ood mado a little gentian {
11 tried to be s ross
And failed, aud all tho summer laughed.
But just before tiie ttuown
Thero came a purple creature
That ravif-hod all tho hill;
Ami summer hid her forohead.
And mockery was still.
Tho frost* wero her condition |
Tlio Tyrian would not come
Until tho north evoked it.
"Creator, shall I bloom!
-Emily Bftekiaas*
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