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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1689.
THE NEWS FAST TRAIN SERVICE.
The special Galves-
ton News train, mo-
iling over tbe Galves-
ton, Honaton and Hen-
derson dlviaion of the
International and
Great Northern rail-
way, leaven Galveatoi.
for Ilouaton at 4 a. in.
each dav. It makes
the following connections at Houston: Gal-
veston, Harrlsbnrg and San Antonio rail-
way, leaving Houston at 0.10 a. n».. arriv-
ing at San Antonio at 4.-40 p. in. Texas and
New Orleans railway, leaving Houston at
6.05 a. m., arriving at New Orleans at 7.45
p. m. Houaton East and Weet Texaa rail-
way (Bremond**), leaving Houaton at 8.30 a.
no., arriving at Shreveport at 10 p. m. San
Antonio and Aranaas Paaa railway, leaving
Ilouaton at 7.45 a. m., arriving at San An-
tonio at 0.45 p. m. Houston and Texaa Ccn*
tral railway, leaving Houaton at 9.20 a. m.,
arriving at Denlson at 10.45 p. m. The
prime object of The Newe train Is to place
the paper over a considerable portion of
Texaa before breakfaet, and It does It.
Recognising ita great convenience to the
traveling public, a pasaeuger coach la at-
tached for their accommodation, bj which
means those deelrlng may epend the night
In Galveston and vet make connection with
all the early tralne out of Houaton.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
The attention of The Nfws management
baring been called to tbe fact tbat irreipon
■lble and unauthorized person, are travel-
ing in different portion, of the state solicit-
lng and receipting for subscriptions to Tbe
News. we beg to give notice that outside of
oar local agents, who are known in eyerjr
DEAR COAL AND NO EMPLOY-
MENT.
At this time of the year there are always
complaints in the northern cities about clear
coal and miners suffering for want of work
and waxes. There isan intimate connection,
ot course. between the two reports. The pro-
tectionists can doubtless say that the tariff
i* not the only cause of scarcity of supplies
on the market. The tariff affects the price
of coal, but something else also affects it.
This circnmstan-"'* really does not help
the protectionists with intelligent inquir-
ers. Tho tariff and whatever else makes
scarcity make it by analogous processes,
which must be condemned on the same
principle, but some mistakes can more
easily be removed by legal and constitu-
tional means than others. Until people
have wisdom to remove tariff monopoly it
■would be too much to expect that they will
see their way to oondemn the abuse of coal
monopoly which can ultimately be reached
with fairnests under the right of eminent
domain if necessary. The point to which
attention is now directed is that whether the
cornerers operate mostly by a tariff or by
control of area or by both means combined,
they throw the laborer out of work. This
is a prominent incident in their plan of
raising prices. Hence, when the protec-
tionist approaches the labo-ing man and
states that some aggression is more a case
of land monopoly than of tariff monopoly,
the laboring man should be able to pei-
ceive that high prices gained by limitation
of production do not make high wages,
but that high prices "'reached by any mode
of cornering involve stoppage of pro-
duction. Hence, though it may be
more by land or transportation mo-
nopoly in some canes thun tariff monopoly*,
the evidence goes to show that when tariff
monopoly works to raise prices against the
customer and limit production it also works
to throw men out of employment, and con-
sequently to reduce rather than increase
wages even while raising prices on a small
consumption. When the protectionists
speak of high prices they ignore the quan
tity sold. To illustrate, if a man had 1000
lots and he could sell them all at f100 a lot
the j- would be actually worth it;
but if by refusing to sell over
en he could sell those ton for $150 each,
that would be no-evidence that the value
of his property had increased. It is no proof
that things are.worth more if prices can not
ba maintained without restriction. The
high price which protection may maintain
by keening back both Importation and pro-
duction is evidently a treacherous reliance
for men whose hope is in demand for their
labor. Take another case. Suppose that
one company owned all the timber.
It could raise the price on what
was actually sold, but only by
restricting the output. Consequently it
could not make the whole timber supply
worth more. The coudltion of making it
seem worth more would be by not offering
it at prices tbat would procure a liberal
consumption. Obviously workmen in the
business Would have scant employment
under such circumstances. Consequently
they may all perceive that whether or not
tbe tariff has most to do in certain eases in
ffeotlng this abnormal result, these cases
will show that whatever restricts consump-
tion tends to lossen demand for labor, and
this is what injuriously affects wages. Even
suppose the products are European a lessen-
ing of demand may force thousands to emi-
grate and come upon tbe labor market of
the United States. Authentic statements
such as those of the New York World on
monopoly and starvation at Treverton, Pa.,
challenge e irnest attention. The facts and
causcs ueed to be fally understood that a
right remedy may be found, otherwise those
distresses must have a curdling effect upon
popular sentiment and futnre legislation
under the lead of men ot more earneitness
than mature judgment.
partment selected at this time accept the
situation? Such bodies often deem preju
dice the paramount law, taking the place,
in times of peace, of military necessity, un
dor which the rights of men and the de-
crees of civil courts of highest authority
are repudiated. It is with the people to
say.
THE RECORD OF THE NEWS.
Since the supreme court ha, dismissed the
suit against the International and Great
Northern Railway company by a decision
wblch confirms the valuable franchise*
and contract, granted and made by th, state
it is to be reasonably expected that the com
pany will in due season resume control of
its property in much better position to
meet the Just expectations of Its patrons
than has been possibl, while its manage-
ment has been hampered by continuous liti-
gation for ten years. There h.v. bean three
or four salts brought to forfeit the com-
pany's tax exemption, in which every possi-
ble ground for seeking this object has been
fully and finally considered and determined.
It was a valuabia privilege and tbe
incentive to deprive the company of it has
been so great that it is no matter for sur-
prise that lawyers of the highest repute,
entrusted with the legal business of tbe
state, have been tempted into repeated and
vexatious proceedings having in view the
confiscation of the company's property. If
the tax exemption had been a franchise
pure and simple, or a gift from the state
without consideration, these legal assaults
upon it might have been received from an
impartial standpoint as in a measure in-
vited if not justified by the delinquency of
the company. Bnt it is susceptible of
demonstration beyond dispute tbat the
state received fall and adeqaate considera-
tion for tbe value of th* exemp-
tion. It could not be taken for pub-
lic nse unless condemned and paid for by
due course of law. This was the identical
position The News assumed at the outaet
with reference to these attempte upon the
tax exemption, aid which will be found to
be the controlling principle of law protect-
ing tbe property of all railroad* and private
persons against condemnation, whether by
law suite or by confiscating regulations.
Tb*decision clears tbe ciouda upon tbia
property, authoritatively declares that the
OIL INSPECTION.
A lending oil company of St. Louis has
addressed a circular to dealers in illuminat-
ing oils in Texas and also to consumers
charging that the state oil inspector is re-
sponsible for the continuance of the burden
upon consumers, arising from tbe tax of a
second inspection. The circular sets fortn
that the inspectors refuse to prosecute deal-
ers or agents of the company for sales of oil
inspeoted in other states, but not Inspected
in Texas, thereby preventing a decision of
the question at issue, whether oils Inspected
in other states are exempt from Inspection
in Texas. It would seem quite unnecessary,
if the company desires a test case, to wait
unon the inspectors to institute it.
Any citizen can submit a complaint
upon whioh tho agent or dealer
would be prosecuted for the alleged offense
of selling oils unlawfully. Any profes-
sional juror or court rounder placed in pos-
session of the faots would doubtless, in the
interest of the publio and to Incidentally
furnish grists for the mills of justice and
costs and fees for bis olass, promptly insti-
tute a prosecution. Then again here Is i»
formal printed circular declaring that the
oil company has in several instances vio-
lated the law as construed by the state oil
Inspector, who is understood to be sup-
ported in his position by the attorney-gen-
eral. if the company will specify the in-
stances so that prosecuting attorneys and
grand jurors will be enabled to prosecute
the agents or dealers a test case will
probably be Instituted with satisfactory
promptitude. The truth appears to be
that oil companies and oil Inspectors are
equally benefited by the law as it is con-
strued. Oil companies, as this circular ad-
mits, shift tbe burden of the inspection
upon the people of the state. In so doing
something above the cost of inspection is
always charged. Tho companies mnst re-
coup for tbe trouble of paying the tax, and
it is probable that the people finally pay
more than double the tne inspection tax. Oil
inspectors derive support and the compa-
nies additional revenue, and under .the cir-
cumstances if theie is to bo any real at-
tempt to test the exemption clause, it must
come from the consumers, who are the only
actual sufferers. All such restricting regu-
lations and burdens UDon Interstate trade
in oils or upon free trade in oils tend to
monopolize the oil business for the benefit
of the companies best able to sup-
port the inspectors and most diligent in
collecting revenue from customers for that
purpose. But it certainly is a most remark-
able circumstance that in a state alive
with zealous reformers and able public
prosecutors and informers a law imposing
an onerous burden unon the dear people,
which as enrolled and published and as
oonstrued and is now attempted to be en-
forced is not the law passed by tho two
branches of the legislature, should stand
unimpeached. When the great oil compa-
nies, however, anticipate the professional
reformers In patriotic expressslons of re-
gard and sympathy for the tax-burdened
consumers it might bo hazardous to attack
the law. A corporation and a reformer on
the same platform would bo an anomaly in
Texas Dolitics of this time.
appropriation needed for the construc-
tion of the harbor and orders the work
, to be done. Considering tho enormous re
sources of the country lying back of tho
coast, it is not extravagant to say that tho
indications point to the building on Gal
veston island of-one of tbe largeBt seaports
of the south. The conditions for the growth
of a great city are more favorable at Gal
veston than at New Orleans. The natural
outlet for trade in the Bouthwest is by way
of the Texas coast, whereas the Mississippi
valley being so near tho great cities of the
Atlantic seaboard, finds an easy outlet
through the ports of Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and New York. Galveston will be
tho great seaport of the southwest, while
Denver will be the metropolis of tho in-
terior."
The supreme court affirmed the judgment
of the district court forfeiting the charter
of the East Line and Red River Railway
company, clearing its docket of state rail-
road appeals. The regret is that tho pro-
ceedings instituted by the attorney-general
were filed too late to effect any practical
good for the state or any protection for
shareholders in the company. The suit was
brought at a time when the East Line was
a subject of contention between two cor-
porations and the result could only be in
the interest of one of these and without any
possible advantage to tho publio. Which-
ever syndicate obtains the road as a matter
of course wiil proceed to repair it and will,
as purchaser under an act of the last legis-
lature, calmly proceed to organize a new
corporation. It was supposed that the aot
referred to had been passed to enable the
Houston and Texas Central to reorganize,
but it is a general law under which the East
Line may assume a now franchise promptly
upon tbe loss of the incoi'porial garment
confiscated by the attorney-general.
As a general rule the English newspapers
care very little for any except the broadest
features of Amerioan politics, and few of
them attempt to go into details. However,
one or two of them have attempted to show
off recently and they treat their readers to
long leaders on the situation in America.
The New York Herald is authority for the
statoment that the London Standard has
become hopelessly involved In such an at-
tempt, that able jonrnal having taken for
its guide the late message of Mr. Harrison.
It has fonnd so many complications and
contradictions that it is about to give up
the task as a bad one.
ministers are too apt to confuse the ques-
tion by presenting it as an issue between
Catholicism and Protestantism, whereas
Roman Catholic citizens have precisely the
samo rights as Protestant citizens, or He-
brew citizens or agnostic citizens, in publio
education. At Pittsburg one of the speak-
ers was the "Nun of Iienmare," who does
not appear to be a wise person, and who
thought the occasion suitable for a violent
attack on the Roman Catholic church. All
this is beside the real question, which
the maintenance of tho common school
system in giving an unsectarian, and in
communities where there is any difference
of religious belief, an exclusively secular
public education. [New York Times.
Monopoly and Starvation.
Thousands of men, women and children
in Treverton, Pa., and the villages round
about are suffering for food and will pres-
ently starvo to death unless relief is ren
dered from without. The trouble is that
the men can get no work. Tho reason tbey
can get no work Is that the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron company has
a monopoly of the only valuable product
of the country, coal, and ihe rich men who
own that monopoly nave decided that it
wil! pay them better to suspend operations
for a few months than to contftiue them.
The idleness of the entire population is
nothing to these rich men. The cries of the
helpless, starving women and children do
not plague their ears. They oonsider only
how best to manipulate their monopoly of
di -
it pay the
product so
the largest
upon watered
as to
possible
stock,
make
div-
every
share of which boars a lie upon its faco and
represents a grinding of the faces of the
poor. The case is not an isolated ono. It
represent, only tho condition into which
monopoly inevitably brings every business
upon which it can fasten its fangs—a con
dition that makes a few rioh men absolute
masters ond all the rest slaves, in worse
plight than plantation negroes ever
were, for they were &nre at
least of food as the gift of their
owners' self-interest. It is into this condi-
tion that tho monopolists seek to bring all
the Industries of the country, and it is in
aid of their scheme that iniquitous tariffs,
falsely called protective, levy burdens upon
all the people and exclude tbem from tbe
benefits of a competitive trade. This is the
use that plutocracy makes of the political
power it purchases wil h the money it has
wrnng from tbe unrequited labor of the
joor and helpless. fNew York World,
Dec. 20.
The Houston Post should dismiss the
artist who gets up its Washington specials.
That story about how Congressman Grain
helped The News to scoop all other papers
on the engineer's report won't wash. All
first class papers published tho report at
the same time that it appeared in The
Galveston and Dallas News. Perhaps
the Post thinks that Mr. Crain helped the
St. Louis Globe-Deinocrat and tbe St. Louis
Republic also. Both these papers publish-
ed the report when The News did.
community, there are five traveling repre-
sentatives of The News (Galveston and obl'«*tioa ot the to comply with IU
Dallaa edition,) detailed to canvass the I contr'lcU c*n not ^ «*P»dlat«d in any use.
■tate for ratweriptions to either publication,
whose names are E. P. Boyle, W. D. Carey,
Joe l«e Jameson, J. E. Steedman and John
C. Rose, while E. Levan nas been authorized
to canvass for snbacriptiona on the line,
of the Texaa Mexican and the Mexican Na-
tional railways, between Corpus Chri*ti
and th* City of Msxira Subscription*
ahould not be paid to any other persona
than those named.
A. H. Relo & Ca
Galve.-toc. Tex.. Decembers. 1698.
The Iowa prohibition party has been
torn into piece*. There are two part* of it
now, the atraight prohibitionists and the
teifiperance party And there really is as
great i tf;fferenoe between prohibition and
temperancf *b«r« is between
acd opens up to railway owners a much more
hopeful prospect fn Texas than baa been pos-
sible daring a long term of litigation and
hostile political agitation. In this particular
case the supreme court adverts to the in-
ducements the tax exemption evidently bad
exerted upon stockholders and investors
who advanced money upon the road. Such
considerations had been ridicu led and re-
pudiated by the politicians, notably during
the debates In tbe boose of representatives
last session. Now tbs court decides prop-
erty rights are inviolable though property
owners are unpopular and that the quality
of justice in Texas is unstrained. If tins
verdict is appreciated by tbs peopls and ac-
cepted by tbs politicians a new era of rail-
way construction a&;1 improrsmsnt may bs
iDtictpiteJ. tut will (tot iegulatlv* de-
THE PORTUGUESE IN AFRICA.
The dispute between the British and
Portuguese about possession of African
territories would under most circumstances
be settled in a short way like a dispute be-
tween a lion and a jackal. Indeed the won-
der would seem to be that Portngal should
ever have attempted to get in the way of a
great power. The recent acts of Major Pinta
were apparently among those exploits
by which individual character asserts itself
without much prompting from superior
authority, but they had some slight colo-
nial basis. Readers of Livingstone's travels
will remember his frequent references to
ruins of Portuguese forts which he passed.
The Portuguese had been In the country a
hundred years ago and more, but it seems
had abandoned it. There were no whites in
the country where Stanley found Living-
stone except thesa explorers themselves.
The British having been through that
country of late years and having
organized an East African company to open
it up and govern in a rudimentary way, tbe
Portugueae are reasserting old claims. The
native* in *everal cases hoisted British flags
and fought the Portuguese. This is the
beat evidence that the Britlih claim is su-
perior. for In these days the consent of tbe
people is the best title of any govern-
ent to authority—or at least It is
generally said so by tbe side tbat
baa that point In its favor. The
London newspaper* called on Premier Sal-
isbury to make short work of Major Pinta's
acqnisitions, but monarchy must bo care-
ful. think* Princ* Bismarck, who carries a
good share of the brain* of absolutism in
his hsad, otherwise tbe Portuguese will
cease to respect their government,will turn
out their king and then very speedily half
a dosen thrones may go tumbling like
card house*. The peace society corns*
forward and recommends the Portuguese
ministry to seek arbitration. To this sug-
gestion probably Portugal will be glad to
consent if the otber powers wish it. But will
Premier Salisbury consent to arbitration,
or will he do so unless he I* sure of the re-
mit beforehand P Ruiola would probably
Ilk* to *u*tain Portugal aa a convenience to
Impede British progress in Africa. France
would be of tbe same mind. Germany,
If sincere, could not but sustain the
Britiah claim. There could be no unbiased
abltratton by a conference of the great
powers. Possibly the matter could be de-
cided by some remote tribunal, but it Is al-
most too much to expect tbat one of tbe
great powers should voluntarily take It,
chance Id that way to having important
claim* admitted when seemingly It can
enforce tbem at ita pleasure again»t an
insignificant contestant Nevertheless
Premier Salisbury cao not altogether neg
Editor Reid having been sent to Franco
by Mr. Harrison the public now realizes
that Mr. Reid was not the only silly person
connected with the New York Tribune.
Just as much nonsense and poor stuff ap-
pears in the Tribune's columns as ever. The
paper keeps up its talk about tho new In-
dustrial south and credits all advance and
improvement to the wise national policy
of tho party against which the south has
fought bitterly for twenty-five years.
The republicans are afraid of Mr. Mills
and hiB influence. Although he belongs to
the minority they do all they can to Injure
him. Some of their efforts in this direc-
tion are laughable. For instance, they are
circulating tbe chestnut about bis retiring
from politics after the close of his present
term. If all signB do not fail Mr. Cleve-
land and Mr. Mills will each give the repub-
licans lots of trouble before many months
roll by.
The Chicago people are fall of life and
enterprise and manage to find time for
something else than the creation of sensa-
tions. Arrangements hare just been com-
pleted for a great ship yard in that city and
contracts have bean made for the building
of six large steel steamers at once. These
steamers are the first output and w'll be
followed by others.
The Denver Republican characterizes the
proposition of Senator Ingalls to organize
a system of national schools as a piece of
rank nonsense. The Republican is emi
nently correct. It is not the business of tbe
general government to interfere in anything
which belong, to tbe states, and which they
can and do manage effectively.
Senator Tkgalls is not as happy and full
of hope this Christmas as he was tbe last,
but life is still worth llvlDgas long as he
can enjoy the proud privilege of throwing
vitriol in tbe face of those whom be doet.
not love. Theloesof tbe senatorial plum
will not rob nim of all the pleasures of ex-
istence.
The assault upon Calvin 8. Brice, mainly
by republicans and newspapers outside of
Ohio, is said to have spent its force and it Is
now believed that he will receive the caucus
nomination almost without opposition soon
after the legislature meets, which will be
directly after the holidays.
Mr. Dudley believes In the washer-
woman's motto that aa long as there's
life there's soap, and Dr. Harrison evi-
dently believes tbat Mr. Dudley aDd "soap"
may be useful to bim in a campaign tbat
may be. Therefore they may interchange
tbe usual Christmas greeting.
lect tbe
Bismsrrk
Portogal
present
caution which sagaci-
impresses upon him.
must be dealt with g<
The star-eyed goddess of reform could
not fill the measure of Mr. Henri Watter-
son's stocking, bnt she dropped a ray of
sunshine from tbe splendor of her smlls as
sh* flitted gsily by.
The patriotic of all parties will wish for
President Harrison and tbe frisky Baby
McKee a merry Christmas and a happy new
year.
Senator Allison's stocking did not con-
tain a re-election certificate, but life Is full
of promts*, if not of fulfillment
Against Blairism.
Senator Blair has secured from the com-
mittee on education and labor a favorable
report upon his bill to promote mendicancy,
as was to have been expected, most of the
members of tho commltteo having indorsjd
the measure time and again in the past.
But though the committee on education and
labor may show no change, there has been
during three years a revolution in the pub-
lic sentiment of the country regarding the
scheme until, as that Minnesota republican
journal, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, says,
"noboby believes in it 'jut a few sentiment-
alist* and surplus killers." A striking
illustration of this change in sentiment is
aflofdart By tne present nUitude of tho Cleve-
land Lf s<3(ir, a tlfAKugu-goiug republican
organ of Ohio. At first the Leader favored
the Blaiv bill, but unw it considers "it quite
certain from tha tone of the journals oi: the
country that tho revival of tho Blair educa-
tional bill or tho introduction of any meas-
ure proposing national aid to education will
meet with small favor." It poiuts out that
no nnrt of President Harrisou's message
has been so earnestly dissented from by re
publican newspapers as the section in
which he indorsed thi9 idea, and alter quot-
ing tho deliverances of the Hartford Cou r
out, the Buffalo Express aiid 'he St. Paul
Pionoer Press. 1c says: "Such comments
from journals in such Widely sepisratorl as
well as such strongly republican sections
can not be misunderstood. They are by no
means all that might be quoted. Papers
that have Indorsed the recommendation
have done so for tho most part in a merely
perfunctory way, while many have treated
it with Hileut disregard. It is very evident
that public feeling has set in strongly
against this scheme, and the leas time con-
firress spends over it the better." [New York
Evening Post.
Montana's Freshness.
Undor the peculiar rulings of Lieutenant-
governor Rickards, who appears to be an
able exponent of statecraft as practised by
republicans, the Montana ssnate was organ-
ized yestorday. Tbe body was a tie, and the
democratic mombers had refused to vote to
organizo until one or the other of the rival
houses of representatives had been declared
tho legal body or bad come to some agree-
ment to adjust its own differences. On a
motion to proceed to the election of officers
the domocratic senators demanded the yeas
and nays. Rickards ruled against tbe dem-
ocrats, of course, and when his ruling was
shown to be in violation of a provision
in the constitution of the new state
ho promptly ruled that the con-
stitution did not apply to the pro-
ceedings of the senate, and would not until
the body was organized. The constitution
of the new state has a majority rule clause,
but when the republican senators nominated
a candidate for president pro tempore Rick-
ards decided that the seven republican votes
cast for president constituted a majority of
the Bixteen members of tbe senate. The
democratic senators declined to vote.
In this manner was the Montana senate
organized, and tbat body will in tbo same
manner now proceed to recognize the illegal
republican house of representatives aud
choose two republican United States sen-
ators. [New York World, December 20.
turned to St. Petersburg, af or paying a long
visit to Prince and PrlnceBb Bismarck at Freid-
ricksruhe. It is believed that his conferences
with the chanoellor wore connected with tha
betrothal of the czarowitz to Princess Margaret
of Prussia.
QueenVictoria now gobbles up all the big
prizes at cattle showB. Tldi causcs a trood deal
of dis'oyal comment and one ft her subjects
had actually the audacity to write to a newspa-
per on tho subject. "By all moans," said this
disgruntled Individual, "let her majesty show
as many animals as she pleases but let her leave
tho prizes alono, for how can we poor devils
compete against the queen?"
Stage Realism Overdone.
The tendency toward realism in singe art
was vividly illustrated at Pottstown last
Saturday night during the performance of
the ancient and indestructible drama of
Uncle Tom's Cabin, No Uncle Tom com-
pany is complete nowadays without a lot of
"genuine ferocious bloodhounds"' which
are generally paraded, heavily muzzled and
chained, through the village streets during
tho afternoon precedine tho purformanco
greatly to the amazement of the rural pub'
lie—the posters announcing that these gore-
loving jrutes "will positively appear at
each and every performance, or money re-
funded."
The company that played in Pottstowa
the otber night had a full complement of
the needful bloodhounds and the perform-
anco went along swimmingly until a scene
occurred in whioh the "center of the stage,"
as it is termed in the technical language of
the profession, was in possession of tha
bloodhounds and Marks, the deep-dyed, vil-
lainous lawyer of the play. Hero an episode
occurred which, while not included in any
stage version of the piece, afforded a touch
of realism not surpasaed even in any of tho
tank dramas and presented a situation
with enough thrill in it to excite the aver-
age audience Into a cold, damp and clammy
shudder.
It appears that in tho scone between
"Marks" and tho bloodhounds ono of tha
dogs took exception to tbo actor's elocution,
bis defiance of Dolsarte's rules of gesticula-
tion or something of tho kind, and made a
vicious attack upou him, ruining his cos-
tume and biting a holo in his neck, from
which real blood flowed profusely in full
view of the audience. It was ttie dramatia
climax of the whole performance, and tha
introduction of the realistic element- inlo a,
pla3r already so full of emotional fever must
command general commendation for tha
dog. Tho fact that "Murks" survived and
will continue to bo the same useless, villain-
ous character in the play that ha always
has been is all that prevents a long suffer-
ing public from shouting: "Avenged! ha,
ha!" with an exuitant rising inflection oa
the last "ha!" [Philadelphia Press.
How Ho Succeeded.
Minnie—I don't see how young Walters
ever got up the courage to marry tho girl ha
did. He is so awfully bishful, you know.
Mamie—That's just it. He was so bash-
ful that he didn't know how to get away
from hor. [Terre Ilauto Express.
FUNNY HITS.
Tho bost clause in a child's lifo—Santa
Clause. [Detroit Free Press.
Don't expect to find a brown stone front
inyour stocking. ^Philadelphia Gall.
l'he gfri who nanga up tho Ciggeat pieca
of mistletoe doesn't gut kissed the most.
[J udge.
Santa Claus can't come down the chim-
ney now, but he gets there just the samo.
[Somerville Journal.
Never look a /,ift horse in tbe teeth. It is
also wrong to look a Christmas gift iu
price mark. [Somerville Journal.
Kris Kringle insists on having a "rum"
time at least once a year. It's when ha
taken his Santycruisa [Yonkerg Gazette.
Everything is Lovyly, and—Mr. Kanoodla
—Aud wouldn't you lllo mo for a Christ-
mas present?
Miss Alert—Certainly, if you'll hung your-
self ou the Christmas tree. [Christmas
Puck.
McCracklc—Do you know what the boys
say to Santa Claus?
McCorkle—No; what do they say?
AlcCrackle—What ara you giviu' us?—
[Munsey's Weekly.
His Christmas Adventure—"Did you taka
Miss Phair under tho mistletoe last night?"
"Yes, and then went out under her fa-
ther's mis-siie-toe." IMunsey's Weekly.
Get the government to observe Christmas
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
U
old
>nc*
KtfKU found a great b
ntly at rebellion in her stocking
. ing mist bad cleared away.
g resubmission
when tfa* rnorn-
sp1ari50 ot th* report of tbe govern-
, ment engineer* recommending iv&lvestoa
aa th* best point on tbe Texas coast, th*
Denver Republican *ayv: 'There I* un-
1 <k>ut>tedly great rejoicing la Galvrttoa or*/
: tbe selection by th* engineer, of that place
: a* th* moat feaeibl* point for the construc-
tion of a deep water harbor. The fact that
! th* choice La* fallen upon Galveston mean*
that if there shall ever be • large city on
the Texaa oonat Galveston will be that city.
A great may be expected m Galvee-
ton a* soon M congren* ztste* tc*
Thb beat Chriatma* presen
have wonld be an intelligent
system of improvements of cc
uld
unty
rectiv
>ada.
Mrs. Pickler, wife of the South Carolina
representative in congress, is said to be an ac-
complished orator, and will be much in de-
mand this winter at temperance and woman
suffrage conventions.
Georgo D. Prentice, tb* poet, wit aud
journalist, was born eighty-seven years ago.
the With, and he died January 25,1670. lie made
the ljouisville Journal famous. Ills poems
possessed rare merit.
A number of prornlnent English writers
are gathering literary materials in remote lo-
calities. Rider Haggard baa gono to Asia
Minor, Robert ijonis Stevenson Is la the South
seas and Sir Edwin Arnold ie between here and
India.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes will nSt fol-
low In the footsteps of Tennyson and Brown-
ing. and publish a volume of poems In his old
age. He has not given up bis litersry pursuits,
| bnt it is said that he now destroys whatever he
| writes. This is modest but not wise. Ills muse
Is still young, whatever may be bis age.
Edgar Allen Poe of Baltimore, captain
of the Princeton foot ball team, is a slender,
intellectual looking young man, wbose athletic
I groatness Is not apparent in his phrsique. He
has never written poetry, in spite of bis rela-
: tionsLip to Poe tbe great, but be Is said to have
literarr ssplrstions In the line of prose fiction.
A friend and admirer once said to Robert
Prowning: "1 have studied long upon this pas-
ssgs in your p<sm and am unable to cotnpre-
! hand it. Pray tell me what is tbe idea em-
| t-odisd In it?" Mr. Browning read the passage
I over and replied: "Really, I can not tell, bnt I
j believe it will be worth your while to keep on
1 studylug it"
eqneeiof Italy, who 1* an exoellant
customs aud the surplus would soon enough
be reduced. [Now Orleans Picayune.
"The holiday spirit is an all-pervading
one," remarked a father as he bought hi*
little boy a 15-ceut tin horse; "but it costs
money." [Puck.
"No, my son, a 'green Christmas' Is noli
necessarily of Irish origin, though they do
wear tbe 'green' over there." [Dansvillo
Breeze.
When the Chicago girls hang up their
stockings for Christmas they are tbo envy
of the rest of the world; but they bankrupt
Santa CJaus. [Boston Post.
Santa Claus says that the modern chim-
neys are a nuisance, aa they laud him away
down in the cellar in a red hot furnace, and
then half tbe time the cellar door is locked.
fDansville Breeze.
Pater—You children turn up your no,eg
at everything on the table. When I was s
boy I was glad to get ouough dry bread to
eat.
Tommy—Say, pa, you'r* having a much
better time of It, now you are living wlta
us, ain t you? [Grip.
Charles (in love)—But you should see her
eyes when she is angry. They fiasb Ilka
lightning.
John (been there)—Yes, or when she's
looking for a new beau. Then she keeps
'em peeled like thunder. [Biughamton Re-
publican.
A farm journal asks: Why do the young
rush to the towns anu cities? The answer
Is easy enough. It is because they are
anxious to get there. And the fact that
there are no farms in the citv may havg
something to do with it. [New York
Ledger.
He—Well, it is growing quite lata. I fear
I must go.
She- Oh
sun rise.
Amy—What an absurd habit tbat is ot
young Dal ley's—always sucking his cane.
Susie—I tbluk it is a good plan. It keeps
him from talking, you know. [Life.
St*—How kind tbat old gentleman Is!
Every day be comes down School street and
presents tbe children with candy.
He—Yes, and he geta a liberal commis-
sion from th* dentist* for doing it, too.
[Lawrence American.
. stay a little longer and see tha
[Munsey's Weekly.
THE LITTLE SOLDIER.
"When I'm biir I'll be a soldier—
That's what I will he:
Fight for father, fight tor mother.
Over land ar.d over sea."
And before h:in on the table
?*to<»d Id bright airav
AM his little woolen soldiers.
Heat1.y for the fray
Then he charged bis little cannon,
Ringing out with glee:
"When I'm Llg I'll be a soldier—
That's what 1 will be!"
tbo firelight sat the mother;
were lu her heart,
t the swift time coming
Thl
When they two mas
Soon the shadow fell 1
£oon the refer* rteir
He h*A l«ft l»i« little a
Left her -tertitj* u
I T1
j tnusirU
, while in
last summer visited
Tbe
The Pabiic Schools.
ition of protecting tbe common
vhools is now fairly raised in perenU states.
Tbe maes meetings at Pittsburg on Thurs-
day gave etideooa of tbe Interest tbe ques-
tion has excited in Pennsylvania. It seems
to be well to point ont tbat tbe defense of
tbe common schools can not safely be In-
trusted to sectaries or fanatic*. Protestant
' St. Msfc's. and
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