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clinatioQ who profess to percelye no use
fop two words indicating tue future—shall
and will -and so want to keep "win" in all
cases and banish "shall." Languagesiuak-
in*, however, is the rubbish of philologic
art, it may safely be said, as regards a real
language, whatever may or may not be
possible as regards an entirely new one.
Anent this point cf tbe future tense the
Kansas City Times asks: "Who has yet
given an infallible rule in regard to the use
of 'shall and
Is not the rule contained in the
primary sense of the word "will?" For him-
self the speaker promises with "will." He
predicts with "shall." Where speaking of
another. If that other's volition i9 to be
the deciding element, the word "will" is em-
ployed, but If the third person has node
elding will in the matter the word "will" is
avoided. "Should" aud "would" are ems
ployed In consonance with the same law of
determination. Spoken language is a na-
tural growth. Spelling is au Invention,
and so far as English isconcerned the mech-
anism is a poor one. There is room for spell-
ing reform, but not for "reform" by dis-
missing words before they wear out.
Chunks of "plate" and
grams" are back numbers.
practically keeping Its subjects in a state of
slavery. The practice of usury, so much
complained of in Russia, isadirect conse-
quence of the financial policy common to
that aud other governments, which makes
a chronic famine as to the currency. Evi-
deucea of credit the value of which can be
realized only by foreclosure are the
inevitable result of the prohibition
of free action in the emplojment
of those admirable methods of credit which
ill,' of 'should and would?' " [ Jew? invented and which, under all the dis«
advantages of feudsl restrictions, accom-
plish over 95 per cent of the exchanges in
the wholesale bus* ness of the principal cities
of the western countries. Moreover, If the
Russian Jew differs In spirit and conduct
from the western Jew, no intelligent person
can deny that the cause is in Russian la*s
anil prejudices, for the Jew is a Jow all the
world over. In this couutry we treat him
as fairly as our little remaining bigotry will
allow, and we find him to be about as fair
toward us as we are to him or to each other.
Russia may defy the world awhile, but not
forever, and it will not be much longer than
the rest of the world is partly in the wrong
on the same subjects on which Ruasla is
very much in the wrong.
'delayed tele-
ing to
Powderly
of labor,
out labor
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1890.
THE NEWS' FAST TRAIN SERVICE.
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ion News train, rnn-
ri InC over the Galves-
ton, lionston and Hen-
derson division of the
Internstlossl and
Great Northern rail-
way, leaves Galveston
for llouston at 4 a. ui.
esch <1 av. It makoj
the following connections at Houston: Gal-
veston, Harrlsburg aud San Antonio rail-
way, leaving Houston at 7.40 a. in,, arriv-
ing at San Antonio at 4.40 p.iu, Teia « aud
New Orleans railway, leaving Honston at
C.05 a. m., arriving at New Orleans at ".45
p.m. Houston Ksit and West rail-
way (Breuiond's), leaving Houston at 8.80 a,
m., arriving at Slireveport at 10 p. m. 8an
Antonio and Arausas Pass railway, leaving
Houston at 7.46 a. ui., arriving at San / u-
tonlo at 0.45 p. in. Houston and Texas Cen-
tral railway, leaving Houston a.t 9.90 a.m.,
arriving at Denison at 10.45 p. m. The
prime object of The News train is to place
the paper over a considerable portion ol
Texas before breakfast* end It doe* IL
recognising Its great convenience to tLe
traveling public, a passenger coach Is at-
tached for their accommodation, by »hioh
means those desiring may spend the night
In Galveston and vet make connection wuL
ail the early trains out of Houston.
THE NBWB"tbavel.IMO AGENTS.
The following are the traveling represen-
tatives of Til* Galveston News and The'
Dallas News, who are authjnzed to soli-
cit and receipt for subscriptions and adrer-,
tisements for either of the publications:
E. P. Bajle, W. D. Carey, Joe Lee Jameson,
J. D. Linthicum and J. G. B. Phillips.
A H. Relo & Co., PufclliLer*.
Galveston, Tex., October 30, 1NQ.
LITERARY FORM AND LINGUISTIC
LA W.
A firm that is about to publish a new
dictionary recently sent our a circular pro-
pounding a number of questions regarding
some of the points upon which usage differs,
aud on some of which certain would-be re-
formers desire to simplify the English lan-
guage- The simplifying process must ne
cessarlly be looked upon with suspiciot
wherever it assumes to meddle witfc
any of the words themselves as found
In the spoken language. It may be
proper to reform the spelling and in this
respect, if there were not so many seekers
after fame for originality, the type designed
by Isaac Pitman would probably receive
more attention than it does outside the
phonographic fraternity. The great scbol
ars, such as Professor Whitney, certainlj
do not aim at leveling down the niceties ol
thought and their corresponding expressioc
In words. That sort of innovation or Amer
icanism is left for men of less cul
tore and more iconoclastic ia-
3/Ji POWDERLY AND MACHINERY.
Mr. Powderly's idea that if labor-saving
machinery were abolished the laborer
would be better off will be uo surprise to
those who remember that some year* ago
headvised that bottles should invariably be
broken when emptied, so as to rnako work
for the glass blowers. (But then there
should be no bottles or fewer bottles by his
rule, for they are au economical means of
preserving substances which if allowed to
waste would make openings for more
labor.) The surprise will be felt
wheu it is reflected that in talk-
the Farmers' alliance Mr.
was addressing employers
Agric i'ture is impossible withs
sariug machinery. The various
machines now used which render possible
the abundant production of grain and other
crops, and consequently enable the laborers
to buy indefinitely more with a given sum
of money than would be obtainable without
such appliauces, are not different in the
economic principle of their use from the
less perfect appliances employed thousands
of years ago. The plow is perhaps the
greatest labor saving machine ever invent**
ed. Hence, If the arguuieut of Mr. Pow-
deily be good the plow is a contrivance of
Satan, but it would be vain *o seek
an argument against the plow which
would not apply in principle to
its predecessor, the spade. Without
the spade men must dig with a sharpened
stick, aud without the stick they might
try to dig with the!:' Angers. Finger nails,
then, would be the work of the devil in
human nature. Why does Mr. Powderly
talk agAiust labor savin* machinery to men
whose interest is deeply concerned In its
use.* Aud how can it be that with all the
opportunity for study that his position
gives him, he has not arrived at the per-
ception of a fact which is clear to almost
every person of ordinary intelligence who
has ever giveu au hour to the study of
economic questious? That fact is that the
abundant production of any article, put-
ting more of it on the market, tends to the
advantage of every buyer. By labor-
saving machinery on the farm
the non-farming people get mord
produce for their money. labor-saving
machiuery in the factory the farmer gets
more cloth and hardware for his money,
and so on through all the circles of produce
tion and exchange. Suppose that there were
no cotton gins, of course cotton cloth would
be dearer. It would seem as if more people
might be employed, but that is not really
so. In the first place none could be em •
ployed in making cottou gius, and in the
next there would be less cottou grown. And
further, why does Mr. Powderly taik imprac-
ticable ideas* Does he for a moment imagine
either that people will cease to invent
and use labor saving machinery wherever
they can, or that it will be possible for him
to introduce and carry Into effect any
scheme of legislation to put a stoo to labor
saving machinery? It would be incredible
that the leader of an important organiza^
tion of skilled labor could advauce the doc-
trine of Powderly on this subject were not
the fact presented in Mr. Powderly's ad-
dress to the alliance. If instead of wasting
means iu strikes the followers of Mr. Pow-
derly were employing their organization
and savings to build and own labor saving
machines they would be noarer a solution
Of their difficulties witbiu a few years.
The News
from now on.
rill keep them busy counting
RUSSIA AND 7HE JEWS.
The Russian government has become sen-
sitive to the remonstrances ^addressed from
the United States and England against its
cruel treatment of the Jews, and one of the
leading newspapers of St. Petersburg re-
plies with mingled argument and defiance
to the expressions of humane sentiment
which have been heard. An attempt is
made to vindicate Russian policy toward
tne downtrodden race by affirming that it
is not for religious reasons, but for
economical protection of tho oeople against
usurers and extortionate creditors that the
Jews are severely dealt with. The western
nations are told that their governments
really dread the influx of Jews which will
affect their own people on the exodus from
Russia and that after all that may he said
Russia intends to permit no foreign in-
fluence on her management of affairs in
Russian dominions. This is the Russian
taik and is of course the mosl ingenious
line of address that could be chosen.
It is intended partly to satisfy the
Russians and partly to create a degree
of apprehension among the mer-
chants and laborers of western countries,
provoking them to hostility agaiust the
persecuted race. 1o assort that religion has
nothing to do wi#h the persecution is to
speak falsely, for though Jewish places of
worship are permitted in Russia the gov-
ernment offers various relaxations of its
iron rules conditional upon Jews abandon-
ing their religion and entering the orthodox
Greek c'uurcb. To assert that the Jews as a
body are usurers aud oppressors is to ignore
the fact that there are thousands of very
poor people among them who must work
for low pay to earn their subsistence. Aud
if intelligent Jews engage in tax farming
and usury It should not be forgot-
ten that the government restricts their
choice of business aud avails itself of Iheir
services in farming out the taxes, content
to throw upon theu: the unpopularity
which should fall upon the government for
its barbarous fiscal policy. While it re-
stricts the occupations of its subjects it
uses the force of frontier guards, soldiers,
to forcibly prevent emigration. This i9
Keep your tab more correctly or the
dealer will work a brace on you.
Dit Kocu's lymph is now 9aid to have
cured leprosy This, like many reported cures
of consumptives, lias about it one very unsatis-
factory feature. It Is reported too soon. The
reinedv is k very recent discovery, and sufficient
time has not elapsed In wliich to have icade re*
liable experiments with it Such diseases as
consumption and leprosy can not be cured in a
day or a vi ses One would naturally have more
oonftdeuce in the remedy If so many impossi-
bilities were not claimed for it. However, these
do not prove that it is not good.
Politicians will continue to peddle from
their band v%agons their pot patent nostrums
just as long as they succeed iu drumming up a
crowd. hen the people learn that artificial
stimulants are not merely valueless, but are
actually injurious to the health of the country,
then the profession of thefe political doctors will
be no more and public ulTsirswill be conducted
on business principled, just as other kinds of
important businedses are conducted.
Thk growing disposition of small towns
to incorporate is apt to cliange in the course ef<
a few years. The teudency may be tUe other
way. aud the smaller cities of the state will
probably return to one set of officials, who may
be held directly responsible to all the people in
tho county for any dereliction of duty.
Tilk: new constitution of Mississipnl has
brought forth a resolution by Senator Dolph of
Oregon instructing the committee on privileges
aud elections to ascertain whether the right to
vote Is denied to any male citizen of lawful age.
or in any way abridged, except for participa-
tion in rebellion or other crime. In case of such
abridgement the representation in congrese of
auy stale may be proportionately leduced under
tne fourteenth amoudment. The payment of
a poll tax and ability to reaa or understand
specified passages of the constitution are made
prerequisites to voting by the new constitution
of Mississippi. Senator Dolph contends that
these requirements deny or abridge the negro's
right to vote, and that the congressional re, e-
sentationof Mississipnl should be cut down lu
proportion to the number of freed men exoluded
from the polls by this requirement.
Among the rales of health issued by Sir
Frederick Roberts, prepared by the principal
armv medical officer in India, la the statement
that sleep should be taken before, not alter
meals. There U room for a different opinion.
Quite a number of newspaper men have found
that a little supper before retiring agrees with
sleep for workers. At all events the lower anl
mals sleep after eating and look about for
something to eat after waking.
It is a bad sign for litorature when a New
England magazine article which purports to be a
literary essay contains, even in three lines, the
brutal politics of knownothlngism. But such
defects of taste are not to be wondered at so
great hss become the corrupting craze for leg-
islation in place of social and business in-
fluences Still tbey show that the thing
labeled literature in not to be accepted on the
strength of the label.
A dispatch from Wichita, Kan., seems
to show that Kansas farmers have a plan of
campaign, too.
Birmingham, Ala., is one of the southern
centers of protection, and now with the regular
strike accompauiuent.
Whatever may be the dimensions of the
Indian tight there is certainly some work cut
out for the troops In the Cheyenne section of
country. Another day or two will see activity
all along the line from present indications.
Tea and baking powder dealers used to
give away sets of china and glassware. The
anti-lottery bill has broken up this branoh of
traffic ana now nine «oncerns engaged in the
manufacture are reported from PittBburg to
have closed down in consequence of this failure
to find their accustomed outlet for goods.
There is nothing In the crockery line
that The News is smashing except the "plate'1
fakes. Do you sec?
Inconsiderate people will continue to
borrow or buy more than they can pay for as long
as others are inconsiderate enough to lend < r
sell to them. The bustness of the world will
not be apt to get settled on a sound and stable
basis until people who have goods or funds
learn how not to part with them unless they
get an equivalent in immediate exchange or in
ample security. They must be taught this by
costly experience, as a rule, and many of them
forget the lesson readily.
Among the lotteries lu this country are
the courts. Nobody knows how long it will be
before the "drawing" takes place, and when it
does it is often an egregious miscarriage which
is so ridiculous tnat it makes all the lawyers
laugh.
Boys nill be boys; and they would be
boys much longer If it were pot for the unload-
ed pistol.
Senator Hoap. Is being abused more than
either Reed or Ingalls and may be the next re-
publican nominee for tho presidency.
Jupiter bolted the first convention.
The farmers have the earth, and tbey want
to keep it.
If one woman will create so great a stir
in Irish politics, what would beoome of the land
if they were all in it.
Ireland should not trade her statesmen
for politicians.
Mud is used in political battles to soil
the enemy. Lime is used to disinfect him.
Irish politics is the bane of Ireland. It
means bitterness aud war. The Irish are an
impulsive people who are quiek of entrance
into quarrel with a common enemy or among
themselves, and who slay in the swim very
lato. This characteristic might nave enabled
them to win their political rights from England
if they could have stood together. Bnt the spirit
of endurance whicn s ood ihem in hand during
the contest against a common political enemy
will doubtless prolong and intensify the un-
fortunate war which tbey are now waging with
clubs, stones, ash-piant sticks, blackthorns,
lime bags, mud and vituperation agaiust each
other. It would not be so serious if the leaders
in this unsightly struggle were ward bummers
without standing exc ept with members of their
own miserable profession and with the candi-
dates whom they served. But the leaders in
this promiscuous affray are the leading states-
men and churchmen of Ireland. Ho far as one
is able to judge from this distance the Irish
people are hopelessly divided.
The protectionists are joyed to find France
trying a very high tariff. So much so that they
do not quite see to what an extent the McKin-
ley act was the cause of it.
Republican congressmen seem to be
sawing board timber on a hillside with a dull
crosscui saw. We are up a tree, though.
Items of news! Rats.
CAUGHT ON THE CURB.
"There eeems to be a very general itnDfes-
sion that we are not doing much advertising,"
said Mr. Chandler, one of tne most active mem-
bers of the jubilee committee. "Nothing could
be further from the truth. We are pushiug
things to the limit of our ability and are leav-
ing no stonq unturned to make the coming fes-
tivities all that we hope to see them. It is true
we have not done mnch regular advertising in
the newspapers, but we are providing for that
and hope to have a large display advertisement
in all the leading daily and weekly
papers in the sute iu a tew days.
It has not been because we do not
fully appreciate tbe advantages of such
advertising that it has not been done. The
truth is that we have had such heavy drains
made on both our time and money that we have
been compelled to postpone this with several
other things which we have in view. Our sub-
committees have not been idle, though. We
have nad our jubilee advertised by letters and
ciroulara. and nothing has beeu neglected that
promised to promote the welfare of the under-
taking. We all have a keen appreciation of
the fact that Doth the trades display and the
Mardi Oras must be successful. It is now more
important than ever that they should be so.
There must be no room for complaint in any
quarter, and no one must be given tho slightest
cause to regret having come to Galveston in-
stead of having goue to New Orleans."
» • *
"I visited the wharf this afternoon," said
a gentleman to the curb man yesterday, "aud
I must say that I was considerably surprised to
find that after the ample notice givon and the
special request made by the mayor, scarcely
any of the vessels in the harbor displayed bunt-
ing in honor of tho launching of the new rev-
enue cutter Galveston. There was one remark-
able feature about the display that was made.
1 counted seven foreign vessels in port and
each one had the American flag at its mast-
head. Of the othor vessels, all American, only
one displayed a (lag. There was a large
schooner from Maine, the home apd birthplace
of patriotism aud all that pertains to love of
couutry, according to Mr. Blaine and Mr. Heed,
and yet this schoouer was quite as conspicuous
aa the others by its want of bunting. Tho cap-
tain of this boat tiad received information of
the mayor's requett outside of that made in The
News and paid no attention to it. It neems
strange that our v.sitors from abroad should bo
tho only ones iu an American port to pay honor
to an event that concerns only Americans and
yet this is exactly what took place to-day. Tbe
revenue cutter I)ix had the Union Jack dis-
played, but whether to honor the launching of
its successor or as an every day custom I am
unable to say." _
ABOUT THIS_AND THAT.
Texas gets two more congressmen under
the apportionment bill which has passed the
house. When Texas faila to get a piece of
everything that's good, will somebody please
write a letter about it?
* * *
Just the same, the "Old Lady," when it
comes to entertaining, is making some of the
blushing maidens take a back seat.
* » *
It is high time Grandma Hoar was going
to bed.
« « *
Among the other things that the racket
among the Indians in the northwest has afford-
ed is a chance for olU gray-headed writers who
have never been west of the Mississippi to
write thrillinsr "Wild Injun Huuip, or the lied
Chief of Standing Rook1' stories th-d will make
the youngsters1 blood tingle in the desire to go
after red scalps.
# * *
W. H. Pope, «he Louisville defaulting
treasurer, Charlie Hoss and Tascott have all
been captured a hundred times or more by de-
tectives. But no man has yet had them under
arrest.
• J * * *
General Miles is leagues from the battle,
but he knows all about what is going on—in a
pig's eye.
* * *
If a general of an army was not intended
to be near by when a war is going on, what was
he intended for?
* « *
A Kansas judge has adopted a new
method of obtaining quick verdicts from juries.
When they are out a little longer than he wants
them to be he sends for a preacher and closes
him in with the jury and has him to exhort
until the twelve true men are ready for an
agreement. As an attache of The News once
told an editor of a Kansas paper, who inquired
the reason he was leaving him: "1 do not
want to live in a state that is made up of
castles for cranks and liberty for lunatics." It
Kansas isn't a veritable pasture of the kind he
described, she should take down her sign.
# # *
The mother of Texas journalism is feeling
first rato these days, thank you. The trundle
bed crowd are not behaving themseives as their
old mother would like to see them, but ohildren
are foolish, and as they grow older they will
learn perhaps, and in learning they will be more
cautious. The old mother hates to put her
children to sleep, but when they behave
naughty, she pulls ont that «iear piece of furni-
ture that rolls in and out from under the old
folks' bed, sings them a little song and quietly
stops their noisy chatter
# # #
As the Christmas 6eason bounded
on
Little Tommy made a list
Of all the things he must have sure,
That nothing would be missed.
He wrote very hard and ho wrote
... . very long.
Till his work brought out the
sweat,
uElThis is the list of what he wants,
JBut this Is what he'll get.
[Philadelphia Record.
PERSONAL MATTERS.
Arcbnishop Ryan of Philadelobla is spo-
ken of as the most social prelate ever located In
that city.
The condition of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,
who hss been seriously ill in New York, is so
much improved that the doctors are very hope-
ful of her rapid recovery.
Captain Andrew Haggard, brother of the
famous novelist, is also a writer, and has astory
In pi ess. He is in the East Indian service, but
at present a sojourner in San Francisco.
Ex-Speaker Keifer i* to be seen daily on
the flonr of the house and senate. He is all
bundled up iu a heavy chinchilla overcoat,
which makes his bulky form seem more rotund
than ever.
Walt Whitman Is putting the latter
touches to a volume called Good-By, My
Fancy, containing his old-age songlets, and
intended as a "second annex and completion**
to Leaves of Grass.
Friedrlcn Wilhelm, the little crown prince
of Germany, is a handsome boy of 7 years, who
Is every inch a Hohcnzollern. Ho wants bis
own way as much hs any bay in the kingdom.
He does not like music.
Senator Palmer has sixty fine Percheron
horses on his farm near Detroit, where his
twel ve-thousand dollar log cabin is located. He
owns a great deal of real estate in Detroit, and
his farm is only four mile* from town.
The briefest notice in the new Congress
sional Directory is that furnished by Mr.
Whitelaw of Missouri, who sums up his life
history in three lines; two of which reoite his
name, place of residence and election as a dem-
ocrat.
THE ST A TF PRESS.
Whet (he Paper* 'furuuktunit Texas Are
Yalklns About.
A new light begins to show in Temple,
but it is more probably an ignusfatuus than
the dawu of a better day rising above tbe
political horizon. The Times say»;
A very general feeling ia beginning to de-
velop in this city that men who are needed
in office should be etected to placee of im-
Sortance rather than men who want the of-
ce.
The Times, however, squints at the idea
of a class of educated professional poli-
ticians. It says:
The question of educating statesmen msy
be considered at the same time we are pre-
paring boys to become practical business
men. It is a notable fact that ihe qualifi-
cations that make a man a first class buri-
ness man almost always disqualify him
from becoming a good public servant. The
business man views everything from the
standpoint of self and kuo«vs no such word
as public good or public welfare. It cau
hardly lie doubted that the greater part of
our present troubles are due to the banish-
raeut of the old school statesmen aud tbe
election of practical business men in their
stead. No doubt Gould would b» a power
in cougress. but a power for whom? Who
tvouUi be benefited by bis iutuitive busi-
ness qualifications? Not the man who
holds *he plow, but the man that mariipu-
la tes millions.
Tbe Austin Statesman says.
It is becoming more aud more apparent
every day, and especially since the Ocala
convention, that the leaders of the National
Farmers' alliance have ic in their heads
to run a presidential caudidate iu 1892. If
the alliance should adopt tbis idea it
would tend to play iuto the uauds of the re-
publican* by disintegrating to some extent
the democracy in the south and west. The
party in those sectious is made up for a
great part with farmers. There is not a
ghost of a show for the election of au alii*
ance candidate for president, aud all that
orgauization would accomplish by inde-
pendent actloii might be the defeat of the
farmer's best friend, the democracy.
The Statesman says:
Texas needs just such an efficient clerical
force as she has uow, and it is the worst
kiud of poor business seuse to make the
sweeping changes proposed in the land of-
fice.
The Sau Antonio Express expresses itself
as follows:
Mr. McGaughey of Hood county, the next
land commissioner of Texas, has been ac-
cused of utterances to tbe effect that he in-
tended to make a clean sweep of the present
employes of the office and put in fresh tneu
of his own selection. Rotation iu office
may be a very good thiug iu its way, but it
cau not be said to legitimately apply to
trained servants of auy of the departments,
who work faithfully aud efiicisntly for
mighty little money, aud by yexrs of service
have rendered themselves practically ins
dispensable to the proper conduct of gov-
ern munt,
Tbe Express remarks:
The Vernon Guard says that If there is a
doad "political duck" iu Texas his name is
Johu Ireland. As the ex-governor has not
been iu politics since the early part of 1837,
and has no desire to be, the adjective is sin-
gularly Inapplicable. There is not a more
honest, conservative or able man in the
Btate, but he is not button-holing his friends
or endeavoring to purchase his enemies.
The Brazoria Independent saysfifteen feet
rise in the Brazos will bring eighteen or
tweuty feet of water ou the bar.
Immortal Cress.*, dead aud turned today,
may stop a chink to keep the wind away,
and the old building that was once the cap«»
itol of the republic of Texas may help to
protect the printers froui the weatuer. The
Independent says:
The last of the Old Capitol. Last Satur-
day all that was left of the brilliant and
erratic creation of that great antiquated
genius,Victor Voluminous Hoso.was moved
to Brazoria, to be merged into the active
forces that go to make up the Independent.
Mr. O. O. Nation has bought tne Old Capi-
tol, lock stock and barrel.
At tbe first glance at the above the leader
may think that the old capitol building at
Columbia is alluded to, but a newspaper
outfit is only alluded to.
The Brenham Banne.- takes this view of
the probable course of the Farmers' alli-
ance:
The attempt of the third party move-
ment, through the instrumentality of the
national session of the Farmers' alliance at
Ocala, Fla., receutly, will be a failure. The
alliance are all right on the force bill and
bitterly denounced it in a resolution. Be-
fore the convention the republicans hoped
that it would result in disrupting the dem-
ocratic party of the south and make the
election of a republican president easy
sailing in '93, but since it met and resol*
uted the republicans have been abusing
it as a democratic meeting, the utterances oZ
which were to be taken as such. True,
some of its actions were democratic, but the
resolution in question was introduced by a
Kansas farmer. If the republicans are
hoping for any third party movement
through the alliance to break up the tolid
south, that hope is but an Illusive phan-
tom. The alliance and democrats are not
far anart now even ia Kansas, and very
nearly ail over the south they are too
strongly interwoveu for the republicaus to
hope for such alienation as would form a
third party that would break up tbe solid
south.
The Fort Worth Mail believes in confl -
dence and credit It denounces those who
have circulated rumors relating to the sol-
7ency of a moneyed institution of that city,
and says:
The prop and mainstay of the business
interests of this and all other cities is credit.
Confidence is the basis of expansion, aud the
necessity is supreme for unquestioned con-
fidence in the strength of those arteries
through which the tide of business ebbs and
flows. A blow at them, or at either one of
them, can not be limited in its effects. It is
a blow at every man, woman and child iu
the community. It is worse than folly to
pretend to ignore the danger which men-
aced the business Interests of this city last
week. The withered heart which bus al-
ready figured its profits upon public calam-
itv will not be satisfied while confidence is
maintained. Further attacks upon the
general credit may be looked for.
It seems tbe bulls and the bears are skir-
mishing at the Fort.
The Austin Capitolian does seem to
like Galveston. It copies an anonymous
circular by one who purports to be a Texas
publisher complaining that he could get no
adyertisiug patronage here, although an as-
sociation, consisting of all the real estate
men and a number of business men, had
formed for the purpose of advertising GaN
veston, aud agreed to pay $750 a month for
advertising purposes. The Capitoiiau con-
sequently calls Galveston all manner of
hard names, speaks of the saintly boomers
of the pirate isle resorting to such "ways
that are dark and tricks tnat are vain" to
rob tbe honest journals of the country,
calls the business men alluded to "silly and
puerile," and says:
They might have known that such tricks
could not be played with impunity—but
they didn't. They know it now. It is a
great combine, this aggregation of smart
Ikes, but the best plans, etc. Galveston
will have to carry out her contract with her
"imported boomers," the men who come
down here to teach the Texas people how to
a-ivertise, and who are so much smarter
thau the newspaper men who have worked
for Texas for years: but the time has passed
in this state wnen a few land pirates of
south Texas and a couple of pink-fingered
snow diggers from the effete west can pull
the wool over tbe eyes of the newspapers of
this country.
That 1750 divided equally among all the
newspapers of Texas would be about $1 a
piece. The Capitolian should draw on tbe
committee for its share for advertising the
city.
THE KILKENNY CONTEST.
HOW THE GREAT STRUGGLE WILL
BE DECIDED.
The Fernjalitles of the British Elective
(iikteiu—How the Hallet Papers
Will Be Filled and Counted
in Ireland*
[Chicago Inter Ocean.]
To those who may not understand the
form of returning members to oarliament lu
England it is nocessary to say that no elec-
tion cau take place uutil the speaker of tbe
house of commons issues what is termed a
writ. This w rit is usually moved for by a
member of the house officially notifying tbe
speaker in the presence of the assembled
parliament that the member for the vacaut
place has died ur accepted the Chiltern
Dundreds. No member of the house of
commons can retire of his owu tree will
without going through the formality of ap-
plying to the minister of the day for an
office in the gift of the crown termed the
stewardship of the Chilteru Hundreds.
The office takes its name from a range of
chalk hills in England, extending through
parts of Oxford, Buckingham and Bedford-
shire. At one time these bills were thickly
covered wi-h a forest of beech, anu in the
reign of James I and preceding bis time
they concealed baudits who committed dop-
rodations ou the surrounding country. An
officer was appointed to check thuse ravages,
and though the forest and tbe bandits have
both disappeared long ago a steward
is still appointed with the uleasaut
belief that he keeps the bandits or-
derly and well behaved. The salary is 15
a year aud the fees of the office, which prac-
tically aiuouut to nothing. As no ouehold-
iug a place of honor or nrofit under the
crowu can retain his sent, the member who
is tired of attendauco applies for tbis oflice,
and if appointed is relieved from attendance
on parliament. It is the only office in the
patronage of the crowu to which every one
who applies for it is invariably appoiuted,
though in 1842 an application was refused,
and again in the case of Mr. Parnell after
the Phcenix park murders in May, 1682.
When the post is filled, or, as in the case
of Mr. Marum, he dies, somo member ap-
plies for a writ from the speaker to fill the
place of the late member. This motion is
also invariably made by a member of the
same paity to which tbe prerious member
b«louged. Thus in the present case of Kil-
kenny tbe new writ was issued ou tbe mo-
tion of Mr. Deasy, one of Mr. McCarthy's
followers. Wheu tho writ is issued—it
simply rebates tho facts—and is addressed
to the high sheriff of the county in which
the constituency is situated aud directs him
ou a certain day to call together the electors
and nominate in the words of the instru-
ment itself "a fit and proper person to
represent tbe seat in the parliament of her
most gracious majesty." The high sheriff,
after receiving tho writ, appoints a day to
hear nominations and auy two electors may
put a member in nomiuation. These nom-
inations usually take place in tbe county
court bouse aud dignified order aud quiet
has to be observed. Each party puts for-
ward the name of their candidate and the
date of the election is fixed usually a wee it
or ten day* after tb* nomination.
The ballots are printed by the high sheriff
at the expeuse of the countv or city and
coutain the uames of the two men. Polling
booths are erected in the differentcenters of
population, where equal order is carefully
preserved by the police, who have no votes
and are 9imply the servants of the people.
On tbe balloting papers are printed the
names of both candidates, and the elector
on golug to the entrance of tbe booth—be-
ing first Identified as on the roll of electors
— he is then bauded a balloting paper and
he makes a cross opposite the man's name
for whom he votes. While he Is doing this
uobody, official or otherwise, is permit
ted in tne booth but the elector, and nobody
kuows how he votes but himself and his
God. It Is a sacred moment, and instead of
handing the ballot to be counted be folds it
up, puts it into a carefully locked and
sealed receptacle, walks out, and then ant
other voter is permitted to enter the booth.
Nobody gets but u single ballot, and the
ruie is carefully enforced that if a ballot is
spoiled it has to be torn up.
TLere are uo hustlers permitted in the
neighborhood of the boo^h. There are no
ticket peddlers, and the names of all the
electors entitled to vote are publicly posted
on the door of the courthouse several days
before the election comes off, so that every
one may see who can vote, and always
check the number of votes cast with the
number of electors on the roll.
Tbe following is the form of the ballot
iu the present case at Kilkenny, and the
seal can uot be broken until the ballot box
is deposited in the high sheriff's room in
the county court precisely as it left bis
hands when the actual papers—not returns
-are counted up In the presence of repi-e-
sentatives of both parties:
Sik John Popk Hknkksst. i
Vincent Scully. X
There is no further doscr.ptlon permitted,
no influences used, and the result is that
rich and poor have equal rights, for now
every housekeeper is a voter in Ireland aud
the franchise is practically a manhood suf-
frage.
The result of this system is to perfect
sanctity of the ballot. Another important
result the system nas is that the candidate
has to look for bupport to the mssses of the
people and not to caucuses. The newspa-
pers, as tbe vehicle which reach tbe public
aud influence their opinions, have great
weight, and. ;ndeed, here as well as there,
the Australian ballot will give the greatest
preponderance of powerto the platform and
the press and such legitimate agencies of
influencing public opinion.
There are in Iroland no judges of elec-
tions. and consequently no danger of
"cooked" returns. The ballot boxes are
sealed, and the seal must be unbroken when
they return to the sheriff's office, and if
evidsnee fs forthcoming of any ballot box
Ming tampered with that box is not
counted. But such a contingency never
arises, for almost the same minute that the
booth closes the ballot boxes are placed
upon cars and takeu to the sheriff's office
between lines of mounted police with
drawn sabers. Queen Victoria herself could
not be more jealously guarded than are
these wooden boxes of small papers, which
contain the results of the nation's will,
and which frequently alter the destiny of
tbe nation and change the fate of govern*
inents. Pat Gran'T, Railroad Laborer.
TELEPHONING FROM A BALLOON.
A Novel bat Successful Experiment Made
at a Prussian Garrison.
A gentleman who has just returned from
Thorn, West Prussia, tells of a balloon as-
cension in which he took part with an officer
o( the garrison, and during which a very
interesting experiment was made. Tbe
balloon is 15 by 13 meters snd required 1000
cubic meters of gas to fill it. During the
ascent tbe car was connscted by telephone
with the fortress: the apparatus worked
splendidly both ways, and the voice of the
commandant of tbe garrison could be dis-
tinctly heard at a height of 000 meters. The
war balloon department attached to all tbe
German fortresses on the Russian and
French frontiers are well developed, and
they could give scientific aeronauts valu-
able hints if military instructions could t>e
made subservient to the advancement of
science.
CURRENT COMMENT.
South Carolina has chosen a very young
man—Colonel Irby is only 3tf--to succeed
Wade Hampton in the United States eenate.
The newly elected senator was but a ebiid
of 7 years when the civil war broke out, in
which Hampton fought so gallantly for the
lost cause. Old things are passing away,
indeed, when the new blood of the south is
thus injected into onr political sys'tem.
With a corresponding retirement of a few
fossilized ante-war statesmen of the north
from the aenate chamber that body might
once more enjoy—as it does not at the press
ent time—the confidence of the people.
[PniladelDhla Record.
An avenging Nemesis has been getting in
Its work in very liyely Cashion among the
brethren of the repu> lican persuasion.
Piummer, Ammidown, Delamater, Dag-
gett, Dudley and Dudley's partner, Bate-
man, and others are floundering, and even
the Bethany Sunday school superintendent
who presides over the postoffice depart-
ment is said to be financially ailing. For
an administration that has been held up to
admiration as "a purely business adminis-
tration," tbe record of Us supporters who
have endeavored to profit ^y the amalgam
of business and politics ia not brilliant or
likely to challenge emulation.'**{Ne*ift York
Star.
It is evident thsy are raising some curl*
ons material out in Kansas in the alliance
senatorial cabbage patch. The next dele-
gation from that state in the bouse will be
a curiosity, a fine field for the wits in the
reporters' gallery, and it seems likely that
when tbe place which now knows Mr. In*
galls knows him no more forever, it will bo
occupied by a statesman of the origiual
sort, according to the alliunce ideas, hoiue«
spun iu intellect as well as in garb. Verily,
if these auiateur political reformers, with
their crude ideas and multifarious wants,
should come into national power, the ua-
tioual hobby horse would be ridden to
death in a very short time. [Philadelphia
Telegraph,
Mr. Frye does not think that the force
bill is one-tenth part striugent enough. He
would put a bayouet bebiud each ballot.
Mr. Frye was evidently born iu the dark of
the moon and he has not lived to learn. He
forgets that at this period aud in tbis coun-
try tbe ba!lot aud tbe bayouet are not
good running mates. He may believe in
a government by the bayouet and with the
bayouet for the republican party, but
there are some, begging the pardon of
tbe senator from Maine for such presump-
tion, who think otherwise. Bayonets are
nice thirgs to talk about, and perhaps Mr.
Frye, who seems to have gotten himself
into a very curious conditiou. will not be
averse to bearing one himself, but others
fail to see the necessity of impaling the
ballot ou the bayonet's point. What with
the vaporings of Hoar and the threats of
Frye, one wonders if the republican party is
afflicted with tnania a potu or hydrophobia.
[Coo rier-Journal.
Representative LangstOQ. colored, of Vlrs
ginia, who has beon studying the negro
problem, says the negroes • are working it
out satisfactorily by going ifdrth and scat-
tering among the constituents of those gen-
tlemen who receutly voted to seat him in
tbe place of Venable. There they work,
make money aud buy themselves homes.
"In time," he says, "instead of being con-
gregated in one section tbev will bo scat-
tered over the whole cou^ijry. Theu they
will be individuals and not a class." There
is a good deal in what Mr. Langston has to
aay on this poiut. Most of t'ie negro's mis*
fortunes come of his being exploited as a
southern class iu a northern class interest.
There is truth, too. iu Mr. Laugstoo's state-
ment that "as the negro starts out for him-
self he ceases to be a reliable republican
voter." "Some of them," he ados, "have
gone over to the democratic party." The
alliance is producing, it is stated, a decided
effect upon "solid Africa." The world
moves. [Baltimore Sun.
WITH THE WITS.
There a-e many idol words In the lani
guage of the heathen. [Pittsburg Chron-
icle. ^
A man doesn't have to understand mili-
tary tactics to drill a hole. [Birmingham
Ledger.
"Arise and chine," said tho herdic driver
to the recumbent bootblack. [Boston
Herald-
Johnson Sides, the messlah man, is still
at large, and the troops are anxious to lake
Sides. [Philadelphia Record.
The spectators may regard a ball player
as bad, but oftentimes he isn't half as bad
us he fields. [Binghamton Leader.
Peeler (before doors of wrecked bank):
What are ycu loafers collecting here for?
The Peeled (in "cborous): Because we can't
collect inside. [New York 6un.
'They say that Dr. Koch's lvmph is duti-
able under the McKinley bill. Now why
should it bef" "It interferes with home
consumption." [New York Sun.
His Employer: I can only say, Mr. Jones,
you have acted like a donkey iu this mat-
ter. "But you mustn't forget, sir, that I
acted as your represeutative." [Phila-
delphia Times.
'I have here." said the long haired dis-
ciple of the muse; "a poem in blank verse."
H'm! I see," remarked the editor, as ha
read it, "blaukety-blank verje." [Boston
Traveller.
Vfsitlng Friend: How are you coming on?
Sick Man: Well, the doctors have given
me up, and uow I have struck a way to get
well. I will give up the doctors. I will geft
even with them. ITexas Slftlngs.
A maiden becoming passe
For a wealthy yonng broker did le
But he countered her scheme
And frustrated her dreme
Adu her heart's on the market to-de.
^ [Brooklyn Eaglet
'In the winter season the bucket sbopa
get no little patronage from the ball
players," says an exchange. It would be a
novel sight to see a pitcher go into a bucket
shop aud come out a little pail. [Boston
Courier. _
A Natural Inference.—She: Whatever be-
came of Charlie Tackehead, who went to
college in '81? He: He's still there play-
ing football. She (after a momentary
pause): Where is Princeton, any way*
[Harvard Lampoon.
A CHILDISH FANCY.
Long ago in our childhood's years
We thought, my brother and I,
How the little stars in their golden thrones
As they shone in the evening sky
Were llttla holes la heaven's blue door.
Where the glory came shining through.
At each blink wo thought in angel passed
And hid the light from view.
As we older grew and wiser were
We learned that the stars were suns.
No more the little holes in heaven.
Through which the glory runs;
That the dark blue vault was only space.
And not the vault of beaven.
Oh! happier we, in oar childhood's love,
Ere wisdom's fruit was given.
Ah! had they bnt left us our childish faith«
I could think sometimes that von
Might kneel perhaps on the golden floor,
Hy a star hole, and peep through.
And, oh! I would care not how long the days
If only—say once a year—
I could feel tnat I saw you looking there.
And watching us all down here.
But the stars are suns, so the savants say.
And the heaven to which you've gone
May be very near, or very far,
Tbe place of it is not known.
You mty be near and watching as.
But we can not feel you so.
Ah! 1 think 'twas best tbe faith we held
In our childhood long ago.
[Midland Express.
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