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liance vnd Grange to furnish it for publica-
tion all notices of meetings, news notes of
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question saw an opportunity in the local
campaign ta emphasize their views upon
the economic question, and so they voted
for Boies Had for free trade democratic can-
didates, ?or the legislature."
A JUDICIAL TRIBUNE.
The battle for rights of person aud of
property against a promiscuous spirit of
usurpation and rapacity may yet have to be
fought In this country along the line of
organic division between the judicial and
legislative departments of government.
The prospect of such a battle on such a line
arises from the naturally conservative cast
of the judicial mind contrasted with the
restless and aggressive propensities which
naturally seek gratification in unbridled
and inordinate exeroise of legislative au-
thority. Lawyers and judges on the aver-
age may not be of any higher or better
moral strain than state assemblymen or
United States congressmen on the aver-
age. But from the character and tenor
of their learning, their training, their
manner of reasoning and methods of
procedure, they must have principles of
axiomatic rigidity and immovable fixity
upon which to maintain logical equipoise
and intellectual integrity. Under these
conditions they necessarily settle down to
the recognition of laws established in the
eternal equities and the natural and divine
ordination of things, and which no legisla-
tion can repeal, and of inherent and in-
alienable rights which antedated all consti-
tutions and which it may bo the proper
function of such instruments to assert, to
formulate and guarantee indeed, but never
to deny and sot aside. Among a series of
ruling or obiter opinions falling from tho
United States supreme bench this idea has
been more or less explicitly expressed, and
from time to time it has equally cropped
out in utterances at state bars and by st&te
courts. Under tho latter head a somewhat
significant instance in point is the decision
recently delivered by District Judge Tucker
of Dallas in the case of Tompkins vs. the
Texas and Pacific Railway company, de-
claring null and void an act of the Texas
legislature, plainly designed under the
guise of a general law to enforce in a specific
and summary manner the disputed terms
ofpaiticular contracts. With incisive em-
phasis of protest agafnst such legislation
Judge Tucker saW:
Without passing upon all the constitutional
objections to the said act urged by counsel
this court is of the opinion that in undertaking
to enforce by its provisions contracts that may
have beon heretofore made by railroad compa-
nies in the myttcr attempted by said act the
vg daturo has invaded the exclusive function
ot the judicial department cf the government.
The railroad cpmpany misUt tave a good and
sufficient legal and equitable defense against a
act it may have made to establish its
contract
offices in some particular place which in a
court of law or equity would relieve it from
performance of the contrac t, yet by the tonus
■ f this act of the legislature it has no opportu-
nity of availing itself of such defense and is
held to specific performance without a hearing,
w ithout a day in court. The enforcement of
contracts is a funotlon peculiar within the
piovince of tho courts of tho land and is beyond
the province of the legislature Said act there-
fore, in so far as it requires under penalties a
railroad company to maintain its offices in any
place where it may have theretofore made a
contract to maintain them, is considered by
tliis court to be In contravention of the consti-
tution of Texas, and therefore null and void.
It is plain that if legislative, authority
may at pleasure proceed to construe con-
tracts and provide for their enforcement by
penal procedure, it may at pleasure make
that a cootraet which was not a contract,
and make that which was a contract no
longer a contract—that it may, in short,
substitute its own arbitrary and irrespon-
sible will for contract stipulations aud bus
iness arraugements and subject all rights
of persons and of property involved in the
dealings and relations of men to the cap-
rices of despotic power. It is scarcely less
plain that the tendency of a fashionable
craze for applying to legislation for the
remedy of all sorts of troubles and all
orts of real or fancied grievances is toward
the accomplishment of just such a climax
of usurpation. And in the way of arrest-
ing this tendency by regular and peaceful
methods—and it must be arrested by some
means if liberty and law are to be Raved—
nothing can be more appropriate than the
consistent and strenuous exercise of its
proper and distinctive functions by the
bench as a judicial tribune, always ready
with tho courage of official duty and of pro-
fessional dignity to interpose its veto be-
tween the citizen and tho lawless
hand of power outstretched to strip
him of his rights. It makes
no difference in effect whether tho
outstretched hand represents the freak of a
mob majority intent upon unlimited com-
munistic confiscation or the mors select and
discriminating appetite of some faction or
clique scheming to exploit tho property and
the industry of the citizen for the unlimited
aggrandizement of its class or order. In
either case the need of such an institution as
a judicial tribune to stand up for liberty
and law against usurpation, revolution and
anarchy is equally urgent, and in either
case the service which it may render under
the administration of men capable and fit
to maintain its grand purpose in the civil
fabric is simply inestimable. It may be
suggested, however, that some judges as
well as some lawyers are found leaning,
and perhaps headlong committed, to politi-
cal theories or movements that involve de-
nial of any inalienable rights of person
and of property, aud point to the submer-
sion of all such rights in a final deluge of
state socialism. But, depend upon it, so-
called judg s aud lawyers found so loaning
or so committed have become alien alike to
the true judicial mind and the true legal
mind in becoming political time-servers or
quasi-revolutionary theorists and agitators.
A WHEAT TRUST.
Tho interstate wheat-growers' conven-
tion, recently in session at St. Louis, deter-
mined to fix the minimum price that wheat
shall be sold for in the Chicago market.
The plan is to purchase and hold the surplus
wheat in the country, letting only the
amount go upon the market that can be
sold at the prices fixed upon. The price
abroad is expected to respond in obedience
rati
jf .
id
apply.
ti»e
pn
as easily without a tariff as with one."
Before triumphantly drawing any conclu-
sions as to raonopolisticypower by combina-
tion independent of p'fotectivo law the Call
and others should WAit for the realization
of its evidence. It^ is one thing to assert
that the price of wheat can be raised—im-
plying with, a oertain permanency—by the
wheat combine aud another thing to prove
that. The combination will raise the price
of wheat, but for how long a time? An
agreement to lessen supply in market can
not of itself lessen the produc-
tion, but may stimulate greater
production. The upshot of a speculators'
combination on a former occasion was to
stimulate development of wheat land in
India and there is plenty more land there,
in Africa and other countries. The western
wheat growers are simply playing with fire.
The outside world can get along without
them if convinced that it has to do so. But
if they are not going to raise prices so as to
tempt importation, they are not going to
raise them much, for freight is not much
from Liverpool to New York or
any eastern or gulf port. The Call
is hasty and has not made a close examina-
tion, therefore its conclusion is not ^ound.
Thojtariff both sustains combinations Cy, so
to speak, permanently raising prices, which
the unprotected combinations have never
succeeded in doing, and supplies the motive
for making such combinations. It is true
that the unprotected wheat growers have
all the desire in the world to do likewise.
They are lured on by protectionist asser-
tions that any body of producers can form a
trust without protection. Experlefioe will
teach them what they refuse to learn from
reason.
WEDDED TO IIIOH TARIFF.
The San Antonio Express says: "We
would like to know what The Galveston
News means by saying that the Express
'masks as a democratic paper.' It is true
that the Express is not in line with a ma-
jority of Texas journals on the tariff, but
does a mere financial policy bar it from
party councils? The Express is a democrat
from principle, and if the national platform
should announce A dozen differing policies
concerning customs duties in as many
conventions it would bo a democrat still."
If the Express is democratic from principle
it should support the principles of the dem-
ocratic platform and party. Opposition to
a tariff for protection or for the benefit of a
certain class at the exponse of others is the
leading feature of the democratic faith,
and the Express is opposed to this principle
and for a high tariff, not for revenue, but
for protection. Another singular feature
of the democracy of the Express
is its constant assertion that
the democratic majority in Texas is too
large and ought to be reduced. Save for its
assertion that it is democratic no one would
ever Buspect that the Express was of that
faith. In all the states where the democrats
achieved their late triumphs, and even in
Pennsylvania, tariff reform was inscribed
on their bauner. It is hard to believe that
tho Express would not prefer the success of
the republicans with a protective tariff to
tho triumph of the democrats with a tariff
for revenue only. The News could assume
such preference in the Express from the
coarse of that paper.
Governor Forarer talks very meekly
about bis defeat and expresses a tolerant
kindness for all his enemies within and
without the republican party. He says
that the order of his getting out of politics
was not exactly of his own choosing, bnt
that he is really glad to return to his long-
neglected private affairs. lie shows that
he has not lost his head by saying: "I hope
to be fully occupied with the practice ol
law," and then throws a log chain
around the 1892 stake by adding: "But I
shall always be ready to help the party and
my friends, to whom I am so much indebt-
ed, in any way that I may be able to in the
future." Hope and faith are beautiful
qualities in human character, but under
certain circumstances they can provoke
only derision.
The friends of ex Treasurer Burke of
Louisiana are Betting forth in golden colors
the prospects for immense profits iu his
Honduras mining schemes, which seem to
havedemanded his personal attention about
the time revelations of treasury and bond
exploitations were being made at home.
"The Jingling of the guinea" too often
"helps the hurt that honor feels," but all
the gold of Hondu-as can not gild the gal-
lant's major's blackened reDUtation till bis
accounts with the state of Louisiana are
made to balance.
Tre sultan of Turkey should now take to
the woods. The czar of all the Kusslas has
announced his intention of paying him a
visit. The sick man of the east is hope-
lessly Involved in debt and his embarrass-
ment was further increased by the expendi-
ture of (1,000,000 to entertain Kaiser Wil-
helm, and now if the czar Imposes a similar
burden upou him he will go dead broke.
No wonder he Is sick.
Mrs. William Casshts Goodlob has
made application for the position of col-
lector of internal revenue in the Seventh
Kentucky district, mads vacant by the
death of her huiband. President Harrison
was a warm friend o( Colonel Goodloe, and
ma7overlook the claims of ambitions poli-
ticians and give her the place. If so she
will be the first female Internal revenue col-
lector in this country.
Old Hatch is dead I Peace to his ashes.
He accused Cowboy and Cowboy's brother
of stealing bis blanket, ami Old Hatch slept
with his father. Soon after Cowboy and
his brother were sent to tho happy hunting
grounds by 'the friends of Old Hatch, and
thus began the war between the Ctes and
the Plutos. which now threatens thu peace
of the Blue mountain range.
Dr. Norvi* Gi
blade. His letter t
was eminently res]
and that dlstingUM
muil have winced i
sentence* At th<
Me-
a keen
-<enenU
tinging,
ctionary
i cutting
iir Mr.
service as to fast or slow passenger service.
Honce it is pertinent to suggest that tho
exchanges and commercial boards in Texas
cities most nearly interested in this prob-
lem of shortening both mail and passenger
time, proceed at onoe to request the Texas
delegation to urge the subject UDon tho at-
tention of the postal authorities at Wash-
ington. If action is taken in that quarter
for the desired fast mail service, that will
be In itself a clinching clause for the de-
sired fast passenger service.
TnE Chicago Herald sends out this greet-
ing to Our Pan-American Visitors:
May your oall which brings us cheer from all
your distant lands
Unite uh one another In closer clasp of hands,
AdJ haste the day when we shall be across the
country borne
By "air line, through train" railways from
AlaBka to Cape Horn;
When we may travel with whom wo please, no
mattor where or whence.
And not be separated by a high board tariff
fence;
When wo shall better methods find our inter-
est to protect
Than building ancient Chinese walls which
some weuld now erect.
Citizen Train has bitten off a very large
chunk and has evidently given up all hope
of ever seeing New York again. Since his
release from prison he announces that be
will never leave Boston until he has probed
and laid bare the full extent of its wioked-
ncss and corruption.
Sam Jones is trying to convert sinners in
the black belt of Mississippi, and as he car-
ries a big tent the colored population flock
around him in great numbers. A perform-
ance under a tent catches the darky every
time, if he happens to have the price of ad-
mission.
The republicans were not a bit frightened
by their recent rout in Ohio and Iowa, but
since it happened they are having a good
deal to say about the futility of trying to
enforce puritan blue laws in the west and
the republican inclination for tariff revi-
St. Louis is going to establish a bureau
in Washington to furthor the interests of
that city in reference to the world's fair.
As Washington is a candidate for the honor
of which St. Louis is ambitious this looks
like fighting the lion in his den.
Mr. Calvin S. Brice having formally
announced himself as a candidate for
United States senator to succeed Henry B.
Payne the opposition batteries will now be
turned loose upon him.
The very magnitude of the recent demo-
cratic victories precludes any thought that
they wore due to men, not measures.
Mns. Fostkr was in the Woman's Chris-
tian Temperance union convention only one
day and in the soup the next.
Iowa republicans are almost breaking
their necks in their haste to get out of the
prohibition camp.
In the French chamber of deputies it is
apparent that whoever may be right Bou-
langer is loft.
Anti-prohibition, or resubmission, as it
is called, is marching on in Kansas.
Democrats will enjoy next thanksgiving
more thau they did tho last.
Montana—The Law.
The condition of things now existing in
Montaua illustrates or proves the uncon-
stitutionality of the act of congress under
which an attempt is to be made to seat the
persona claiming to have been elected to
the senate and house of representatives of
the United States from the four northwest-
ern territories, now spoken of as if they
were states. The electiousffor members of
the legislature in Montana a*e to be con-
tested. The two parties, the democratic and
republican, cau not agree as to what men
were lawfully elected to the lower house of
the general assembly of that torritory. It
is now »upposed—certainly it is possible—
that there will be two rival lower houses.
President Harrison will be called upon by
the so-called legislature of the republicans
to put down "insurrection and rebellion"
in Montana, and will do so, thereby dofraud-
lng vhe democratic house out of its rights,
aud causing the new state so-called, to owo
its existence to force. Montana will be
made a republican state by the army of the
United States under the oomuiand of the
president of the United States.
All these proceedings will be clearly lii
violation of that section of the federal con-
stitution which provides that new states
may be admitted into the union "by the
congress." Here will tie a territory con-
verted iuto a stute by fraud and force. First
the democrats elected to the lower house
Srom Silver Bow county are fraudulently
deprived of their credentials. The courts
interpose in the interest of justice, and seek
to soat the democratic members. The clerk
of the county certifies to their election. But
the republican secretary of state iu a bogus
or imperfect or inchoate state takes it upou
himself to certify to the election of the re-
publican candidate. The consequence will
be that the democratic hou^e ot delegates
will disappear: the governor of the territory
THE STATE f-IlESS.
r»Ky
of Montana will certify to the president of
the United States that all the requirements
of the enabling act have been complied
with, and the wrong and outrage
will then be completed by Mr. Ham-
son, who, as president of the United
states, wiH issue bis proclamation an- |
nouncing the result of the elections in |
Montana: and, wonderful transformation,
tho iHuinn of this proclamation will, un-
der the enabling act, convert a territory
into a state without any further action on
the part of congress, the only body having
power under the constitution to declnre 1
tlir-1 new states have been admitted into the 1
union, or to decide whether they hare been
admitted or not. The enabling act makes '
short work of the serious and solemn busi- i
tiesaof creating new states. It provides in
so many words that "if the constitutions
and governments of said proposed states i
are republican in form, and if all the pro-
visions of thU act have been complied with i
in ths formation thereof, it shall be the 1
duty of the president of the United States
to issno his proclamation [not admitting ,
the state—that would have been too patent
a violation of the constitution, but] an-
nouncing the result x>( tho election in each,
and thereupon toe proposed states
. ♦ * shall be Seemed admitted by i
congress into, the anion." "Deem-
ed admitted by congress" Is good, i
h ts a falsehood. These words are employed
as a means of concealing aclear violation of
the federal constitution. Who has power
to decide whether the constitutions and
governments ot the territories are fepub- 1
■lean in form* Congress and congress only.
isl
on-
, of
What the Papers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About*
It is pleasant to see that tho town of Lu-
ling, which was seriously set bock by tho
drouth two years ugo, is again prospering.
The Signal says:
The fall trade continues to boom. Every-
body in these parts is busy and happy.
Dwelling-houses are in great demand.
Health of the community is very good at
prosent. Our streots are a study to the
stranger who visits our town. Amerioans,
Mexicans, negroes, horses, mules, cotton,
wood, etc., come and go, and no one has the
time to raise a row about auything. Verily,
Luling is an orderly townl
The Signal says:
A good many lottery tickets are sold here
but it is noticeable that winners are few
and far between.
Perhaps every town in Texas might say
as much. Buy lottery tickets if you will,
but remember you have ten chances to die
to one for a prize. ,
The Calvert Courier says:
Some of the Brazos bottom fields are said
to be full of cotton yet. Twenty thousand
bales this season is about the mark the me-
tropolis of Robertson county will reach.
The Colmesnell Times strikes:
It will devolve upon the next legislature
to redistrict tho state. This congressional
district needs to lie specially looked after,
and we mUBt select a man next time who is
able to cross words on the floor of the houso
with the best men there. No figurehead
will do us. If we are true to Sabine pass,
if we desire its development by the general
government, we must get out of the district
with Harris county. Houston and Harris
county, in- the very nature of things, are
not interested in deep water at Sabine pass.
All their professions of friendship
are the merest bosh and made
to deceive, and every man with
an idea above a billy goat can see it.. As
long as the district remains as now estab-
lished Harris county is going to dominate
us. If we would elect a congressman who
will fight the good fight for Sabine pass,
and will be true to her, faithful to her,
zealous for her, we must select a man Who
will be under no obligation to Harris
county, and we must therefore put Harris
county out of the district. The people of
Harris county are good enough—we have no
disparaging remark to make about them—
but their interests and our Interests in tho
matter of deep water on the Texas coast are
directly antagonistic, and wo must protect
ourselves.
This is rough on Congressman Stewart,
who ha9 stuck to Sabine pass all tho time
without regard to Gajveston's wishes.
Tho Beaumont Journal copies from a
Missouri paper an article on the subject of
connecting Dulutb, the city of the unsalted
sen, with Sabine pass, where there is 4 por
cent of chldride of sodium in tho water-
not by canal, but by iron bands. The
Springfield (Mo.) Herald says:
The project advocated by our friend
Colonel Hunt, to build a railroad from Du-
luth to Sabine pass, on the gulf of Mexico,
via Springfield, is the revival of a scheme
that originated in this state in 1857 under
the name of the Lake Superior. Cameron
and Gulf Railroad company, which received
a charter from the state, granting to coun y
courts the right to subscribe to tho capital
stock without a vote of the people. To carry
out the original plan we hope to see Colonel
Hunt succeed in building the Duluth and
Sabine Pass.
The Beaumont Journal says:
Messrs. W. A. Fletcher and JohnN. Gil-
bert loft Thursday evening for New Or-
leans, Mobile and other poiuts iu that sec
tion in search of a tug of heavy draft to be
used for towing purposes and to plow
through and agitato the soft mud on tho
bar at Sabine pass and tliUs assist the scour
now in process at that point. The use of
this tug is a part of the plan to aid in deep-
ening the water on the bar with private
capital Three carloads of iron and other
matorial passed through Monday for Sabine
Pass, where additional sidings are to bo con-
structed to facilitate the exportation of
lumber shipped thero by rail.
The Colorado Citizen gets as many or
more good words from its Texas contempo-
raries than any other weekly. Pile it on.
Flattery will not spoil him, or that fine
portrait painted by a lady who is a fine post
as well as an accomplished artist would
have epoiled him long ago. He does not
devote a day to receiving the congratula-
tions of his friends like Mr. Turvetrop,
but works all the time.
W. H. Ellis, the Fort Bend county colored
Moses who proposes to lead the exodusters
of his race to the Canaau of the hot laudB
of Mexico, publishes a long pronunciamien-
to in the Two Republics, in which he sa^g:
The question of emigration of Afro-
Americans from the United States of Amer-
ica to Mexico for the purpose of raising cot-
ton, corn, ramie, sugar, wheat, barley,
beans, coffee, fruits,cocoa and all other pro-
ducts grown both in temperate and torrid
zones, seems to have created among some
of tho leading Mexican papers quite a
sensation, which behooves me as one
of tho promoters of the enterprise
(known as Ellis & Ferguson's colonization
enterprise) to write an explanation. No-
ticing that the Tiempo and the Monitor
Republlcnno have stated that the clnss of
people we purpose to emigrate into Mexico
would be a lazy people that were full of
vice, I feel it my duty to fully explain the
character, business capacity, intelligence
andob ectsof theso people. These people
are not leaving the United States because
they can not make a good and honeBt living
thero, neither are they leaving on account
of non-protection, nor are they being driven
away. Mexico to-day depends partly on the
United States of America for her cotton.
Why is this? Has not Mexico her own soil
to produce cotton enough for her own con-
sumption and a surplus for exportation? 1
have traversed nearly every state of its re-
public with Mr. Ferguson, who is one
of tho best judges of land in ihe
country; and he says Mexico has lands In
the states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaea, Guerrero,
Mlchoacan and San Luis Potosi just as
good aud In many places superior to any
lands In the United States. This being a
fact, why doos not Mexico raise enongh
cotton for her own consumption? It is
wholly on account of not having labor. As
to the reports that have boen circulated by
some of the opposers to this enterprise, that
these people are all ignorant and can not
teach the Mexicans auything regarding ag-
riculture or other industries that are per-
taining to the advancement of civilization,
I will only say these people twenty-five
years ago were slaves and deprived of all
scientific Instruction. Since that period
many have bccome wealthy and have in
every community schools of the highest
order, and there have beon representatives
in almost every department of the Ameri-
can government from this race. They have
bad state legislators and state senators in
almost every state in the south. To-day the
highest federal position in the state of Tex-
as is held by Hop. N. W. Cuney, a personal
friend of mine, and a member of tho race.
There are numbors of professional men
among them, such as doctors lawyers, etc.
The reasons that these people aro willing
to leave the United States are: The differ-
ence in the price of lands between those of
the United States and Mexico. The African,
like tho European, is in search of cheap
laTids. Mexico is a sister republic to
the United States, with Vast tracts of rich
and unpopulated lands well adapted
to the growth of cotton, corn, tobacco
a half bales per acre on the rich lands ot
Mexico. Thus it can be easily seen why the
African intends emigrating to Mexico.
Colonel Medill's Mendacious Fancies.
The Morning News had repeatedly asked
the protectionist journals how it was, not-
withstanding their reiterated statements to
tho effect that Britain was being driven to
such povertv by free trade that tho entiro
nation was compelled to live on its past*
earnings, she was now investing iu proper-
ties in this oountry to an immense amount,
to say nothing of her previous enormous
investments here in railways, land, etc. To
this our newlv fledged champion of protec-
tion, Colonel Modill, [the Chicago Tribune]
presents a highly characteristic answer. Ha
first assumes we safd that Great Britain
was advancing in wealth faster than tho
United States, thos raising an entirely new
issue on an utterly false assumption. Ho
nextassumes that these British investments
are comparatively small, of which he offers,
no proof; also that they are generally th»
transfer of British capital from railway to.
other American properties, a hypothesis ia
direct variance with all the facts presented.
Finally | the wculd:be-astute colonel argue®
that returns of capital are so unprofitable ia.
Great Britlan that money in largo sums is.
awaiting investment on this sido of lha
ocean in various properties—capital "suffi-
cient to buy up all the profitable industries
of England"—but that there are no invest-
ments to bo hnd in that country which
would yield a fair interest on the money.
In reply we give a few facts as opposed to
Colonel Medal's fanoies. Mulhall, in his
Balance Sheet of the World, page 81, gives
the wealth of Great Britain for 18Si) as
£8,960,000,000, and for the United States,
same year, at £7,880,000,000. Ho gives tho
ratio for each inhabitant at £250 in Great
Britain and £150 in the United States ia
that year. Again, in his History of Prices,
page 22, Mulliall says that the amount of
new capital mobilized for loans and rail-
ways in the world from 1850 to 18!3
amounted to from £250,000,000 to i,:i00,000,i
000 (11,500,000,000) per annum. Of this
total he says that ai least one-third, and
possibly one-half, has beon raised in Eng-
land. Of this eapital — half of whicii
was raised in England — the larg-
est amount (57 per cent) was
placed in the United States, the next larg-
est (38 per oent) in Great Britain and her
colonies. AgMu, in his Fifty Years of Na-
tional Progress, page G7, Mulhall places tho
banking capital of tho unitod kingdom ah
£260,000,000 in 1850 and £840,000,000 in 1SS5
and of the United States at £212,000,000 ia
1850 and £530,000,000 In 18S5. Now, as to
the prosperity of England under freo
trade and of the United States under
the highest, tariff in the world,
Mulhall, in his History of Prices (1885).
page 24, shows that, while tho number of
bank failures is declining in Great Britain
at the rate of 82 per cent iu ten years, it ha#
rise 60 per ceiit in the United States in leas
thar. ton years, and that during tho last
seven years tho average aifiount of liabili-
ties to eaeli failure was £2600 in Great.
Britain and £4200 in the United States.
Finally, if Colonel Medill is in possession
of any more fancies with which to break
the force of tho above cold facts, then lei
him trot them out; he is badly in need of
them. [Chicago News.
Advanoo of Silver.
Tho continued advance of silver is one of
the surprises of the season. It i3 now
quoted at 05%c an ounce, or about 2o
above the average of 1888. Tho silver men
will have some reason to bo in good humor
when they assemble in convention in St.
Louis two or three weeks hence. [Sc. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
FUNNY BITS.
"Ploaso tell me where I am to go. I waft
invited to see the transit of Venus."
"I am oxtreniely sorry, madame, but you.
are too late. The transit was over fifteen
minutes ago."
"Oh, that's no matter. The superintend-
ent is a friend of mine and 1 am sure lie will
have it done again for me." [Fiiegendo
Blatter. .
Book Agent—The bible is a good book,
ma'am, and every ono should havo one in
the houso.
Woman—Yes, that's what my daughter
Jonnie said to-day.
Book Agent—Your daughter, ma'am,
knows the real value of a good bible.
Woman—Yes,Indeed she does. She presses
more autumn leaves than any girl in tho
neighborhood. [Boston Beacon.
Little Girl—Do folks always dia that
swallow pins?
Mother—Oh, no, but they are not consid-
ered good for food, and sometimes they kill
people.
Little Girl—I heard grandmother say that
she had eaten lots of them and liked thom
so much and that they made her fat.
Motnor—I guess not. When did sho say-
that?
Little Girl—When we were down east to
her house last summer.
Mother—But It was not pins, was it?
Little Girl—Yes, I'm sure; some kind of
pins.
Mother—Oh, yes. I know now. Terrapins,
you mean. [Detroit Journal.
Lawyer for the Prisoner—May it pleas*
your honor, we have shown by the evidence
of the barkeeper that on the day this of-
fenso was committed ray client drank forty-
seven whisky straights. Under the circum-
stances, therefore, my client was too fa*
gone to know what he was doing.
Prisoner (jumping to his feet)—Hold up,
there! By gad. sah, whisky had no effect ott
me. I'm from Kentucky, sah! [Texas
Sittings.
"Why are you so bitter againet her, Car-
rie?"
"Well, you see, she heard that Harry wsi
going to propose to me and she spoke to ma
about it aud asked if I thought he intended
to do so."
"Yes "
"I wanted to make her think that I didn't
care anything about a proposal, so I said
that if he did propose he would find him-
self in the soup."
"Yes."
"She went and told him what I said, and
he proposed to hor and she accepted him on
the spot."
"So it's you that's In the soup, then?"
"I guess so." [Boston Courier.
Farmer Blenklns,whose wife, Mary Jane,
_j noted for never being pleased with an
thing that she sees or hears, seldom has
is noted for never being pleased with any-
thing that she sees or hears, seldom has a
chance to administer a rebuke of her dis-
agreeable critical habit; but one day
his opportunity came, and he did not miss
it.
They had been to Boston together, and on
their return home one of their neighbor*
dropped in, and began a conversation:
"Ben to Boston, nev ye, Bienkins?"
"Yes."
"Mia' Bienkins go 'long?"
"Um—hum."
"How'd like It, Mis' Blenklns?"
"Ij»w's sake!" snapped out Mrs. Bleu*
kins, "everythin' I see there wus jest fright-
ful!"
"I believe ye. Mary Jane," broke in farm-
er Bienkins. "Ye wa'nt doin' nothln' tho
whole day but stoppln' in front o' lookin'-
glasses!" [Youths' Companion.
EVEN TEMPER.
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