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THE GALVESTON DAILY NKWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1891-
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which the? ar« doubtful. The? should take
no riak for the country, but *»heo rar© thnt
tber are right they should have the courage
to pass a bill embodying their opinions
•»iuarely. The Herald is not altogether
fair or not correctly informs 1 in saying
that the free coinage of silfer is simpiy a
miners' demand. It is a popumr demand
iu sections irljere there is not au ouuee of
silrer mined. The argument that goid will
leave the country and produce a urent con-
traction is old, but it is oue which appeals
for consideration. I'nfortunately for the
golumen, they have cried "woif!" before and
have thus discredit*! their gloomy prophe-
cies. Most people in the south and west
regard such piediction» as scarecrows. The
Denver Hspublicau expresses a generally re-
ceded opinion in the*e sections in saying:
Sherman, Morrill, Bayard and all the other
goldhugs insisted whan the Bl.uid bill was
pending that the coinage of £jd.tR»0,WiO of silver
would drive gold to a premium nnd force It to
!ea\s this country. The advocates of silver
coinage then maintained tii-st none of the evils
predicted by the goldbujs would follow the
free or limited coiuage of silver, and tlie ex-
perience of the country during the past twelve
years has proved conclusively that the advo-
cates cf silver coinage were right. But exporl
euce seems to have no weight with the gold ungs
or their tools in congress. The old fal lacios about
the xisk of forcing uoid to a premium and driv-
! ing it out of the country are related as glibly
now as ever, notwithstanding the fact that tn«
, circulation of silver iu the I'nited States has
iucreased from practically notain^ when the
; HisuU bili was enacted to about $j42H,UllO,ttO at
| the preseut time. As a matter of course the
I goldbug senators kaow that their opposition to
silver coinage is wrong, and that ii it could be
' made effective it would bring untold disasters
upon the business interests of the country.
There is auother reason for the readiness
of the people of the west and south to dis*
creuit the predictions of the goldmen. They
are familiar with the dismal croakmgn of
protectionists to the eiTect that the country
would be ruined by freer commercial inter-
course with foreign nations. They no longer
yield tJ fear on that Rubject and they will
not hereafter be so ready to desist from seek-
ing relief when they hear that sort of
nursery tale about any other project. Of
! to the commonwealth. If your party has
surrendered to the commonwealth's ene-
mies get out of it Until you do crime will
not be punished as it should be in this coun-
tfT'
Mr. Blaine has established a bureau to
j to give information regarding South America.
■ Would he establish a bureau for the benefit of
American artisans and laborers seeking em-
ployment, or farmers, gardeners and merchants
seeking markets in their own country'.'
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 18#1.
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uIng over the CiaWcs-
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| dei son division of the
International and
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lor Houston at 4 *. in.
each day. it makej
the following connections at Houstou: Gal-
veston, Harrlaburg and San Antonio rail-
way, leaving Houston at 7.40 a. in,, arriv-
ing at San Antonio at 4.40 p.m. Texas and
New Orleans railway, leaving Houston at
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p.m. Houston Fast and ITest Texas ratl-
w ay (Bremond's), leaving Houston at 8,80 s.
m., arriving at 6hreveport at 10 p. in. Rao
Antonio and Aransas Pass railway, leaiinft
Houston at 7.45 a. m.. arriving at San / n-
lonio at €.45 p. m. Houston and Texas Cen-
tral railway, leaving Houston at tf.ll) a.m.,
arriving at Denlson at 10.45 p. m. The
prime object of The News train Is to plaoe
the paper over a considerable portion ol
Texas before brenlifast* and It does it.
Recognizing Its great convenience to tl.e
t i avellng pnhlic, a passonger roach is at-
tached for their accommodation, by vihieh
means those desiring may spend the night ,
inG-alveston and vet make connection witL '
a Ii the earlj trains out of Houston.
THE NEWS' traveling agents.
The following are the traveling represen-
tatives of The Galveston nr^sandtae
Dallas News, who are authorized to soii-
c it and receipt for subscriptions and adver-
ilaeraents for either of the publications:
E. P. Eojle, W. D. Carey, J. D. Linthicum !
and J. G. B. Phillips.
A H. Belo&Co., Publi»Ler«.
Calveston, Tex., October 30, 1&0.
ItEPEATIXQ 0L1J ARGUMENTS.
The silver debate in the senate need not
bo a long one if there be no obstructive pur-
pose in it, for both side9 are agreed that the 1
subject has been t'nrsshed out on former
occasions. The New York Herald apeakiug •
against free coinage, and the Denver Hepnb- j
lican for free coinage, concur in the idea j
that everything has been said, and that
speeches are repetition of old arguments. It !
.» true that many year- have elapsed since
the so-called Bland bill was passed am.
many citizen* either do not remember qr did
not read the arguments then. It is proper
to refresh their minds and instruct the ris-
ing generation. Senators, however, a.'enot
necessarily engaged in reviewing arguments
to convince everybody or the popular ma-
jority, The best way for policies to be ap-
proved or condemned by the people is by
testing them and teeing how they operate
This does not mean that states-
men should try any experiments of ,
| courae this state of mind does not deter-
mine whether gold will leave the country
| or not wheu bilver is freely coined; it only
! goes to deprive the goldmen of the influence
| which they in common with protectionists
have exerted by appealing to people s fear
: on the subject, which they have done not very
j ingenuously. Have not numerous contracts
been made stipulating for payment in gold?
' Will not American wheat and cotton com-
: mand so much gold in Europe whether the
j gold be wanted here or not; and if gold goes
; abroad does it not bring au equivalent
either in the stopping of interest or the
gain ing of interest or imports:' As to gold
leaving a country wheu it is at a premium,
there are experiences to the contrary. It
went to South America lately to gain the
premium. All that is nothing to the far-
mer, of course, for he sells his wheat and
cotton either lor gold or for higher prices
in any currency which may be below par
and which pays ordinary debts.
The Petersburg (Va.) Index-Appeal ob-
jects to the way Mr. Cleveland is working to
keep himself before the public, and says his
"plan of campai&n for a third nomination for
the presidency is economical and ingetiioas, if
not unique." This refers to the fact that Mr.
Cleveland accepts numerous invitations to
speak at banq lets, and always "obligingly fur-
nishes the press associations with printed copies
of his speeones in advancc." The Richmond
Dispatch says; "For our pp.rt we print his
speeches, not necause he wishes them printed,
but bechuse the public desires to rsad them. No
other man in this country commands as much
attention." That is the truth of the matter.
PARTIES AND CRIMISALIT 1*.
In consulting with ignoble complaisance
the claims aud exactions of thu most un-
scrupulous aud vicious classes, both of the
old political parties have often shown them-
selves to be downright enemies of law and
order and of the public welfare. It is safe
to say that, in a majority of cases, the ma-
chine bosses of close party organizations in
this country have been more considerate of
the truculent clamor of prejudice and selN
ishness than of the conservative and quiet
solicitude of the law-abiding and laws
loving citizen. The reader will doubt-
less be ready to recall more than one
instance in which some excellent citizen
has been chosen to ofTlce for a single term
and afterward promptly shelved by his
party. Nobody questioned his integrity, his
capability, his ediciency, his success in car-
rying out faithfully the requirements of
the office. In fact, he may have won singu-
lar reputation by bis persistence iu the line
of official integrity. Yret he was laid anide
because his party's managers aud campaign
organizers adjudged him to be n stumbling
block and incumbrance that mu3t be re-
moved ns a sacrifice to the enemies which
his virtues had made. This being true, it
being quite clear thAt this or that pArty has
pandered to vicious instincts and lawless
proclivities, has rejected the man who held
fast to his moral convictions and to his
official oath and has chosen the adventurer
with the elastic conscience and an abiding
sympathy for eyerythiug fast and loose—
this being true, what better is the practical
politics of the aforesaid democratic or re-
publican party thau organized promotion of
maladministration of public allairs and of
comfort and satisfaction for enemies
of the public welfare? Who can
doubt that this baleful species of par-
tizauship appears sometimes oven in
the courts? Where the political lines are
not drawn other party lines are too often
visible. The most dangerous of ali parties
is one without a name. It is thecrimiual's
or quasi-criminal s friend. It is the gang
to which both of the political organiza-
tions so often j-ander. Its members are
bound together by bonds with which out*
sidersare wholly unacquainted. They use
the law iu their business. As long as they
are organized and others go heedlessly, they
will succeed in terrorizing or corrupting
the parties and defying the law aud the peo-
ple. They are said to be organized because
they stand together. They belong to some-
thing. They certainly do things by com-
mon consent. One of these things is to vio-
late the lav? with impunity or reduce it to a
practical nullity. Another is to vote to a
man for the candidate who permits them lo
do so. Still another is to sympathize with
the lawbreaker and to begin a campaign
in his behalf before the sound of
his revolver has fairly died away.
This campaign is kept up until the crimi-
nal is acquitted or until he is pardoned by
the republican or democratic governor. I'
there is to be a law and order crusade in
Texas one of the first things for friends of
the movement to inquire into is the atti-
tude of their political organization toward
the vicious and law-hating element of the
community. Take its record rather than
its platform of promises in making the in-
vestigation. Many will find their parties
standing in with the most dangerous ene-
mies of law and order. Do not let your
politics make a quasi-criminal of you. No
citizen should belong to anything that ex-
acts an allegiance in conflict with his duty
A PRESIDENTIAL PAR DOS.
The convenience in having national banks
under federal law is liable to be viewed as
. connected with a drawback if there be any
fault in the federal administration of jus-
| tics. Now banking and every operation of
that character, as well as the handling of
trust money and the keeping, auditing and
certifying of accounts more vitally affect
, the welfare of society than in any previous
condition of civilization. Crimes against
the currency, again-t banks, forgery,
breach of trust And other fraudulent
financial operations are fraught with
greater mischief and entail more misery
upon numbers of people, including inno-
cent women and helpless infants, than the
; most serious crimes, such as robbery with
violence and even murder. One man kills an-
1 other and a family is deprived of its support.
: Another defrauds depositors and wrecks
a bank, whereupou thousands are rendered
I homeless. Which of them is the greater
| criminal as judged by effects upon society'
; Justice is no longer a question of severity
! in punishments, but it is stall times a ques-
i tion at least of preventing the criminal
| from returning to the practice of his uefa-
| nous operations. The business men of the
j United States will have little patience with
j President Harrison for yielding to the sol-
icitations of a wealthy and fashionable co-
: terie, and pardoning one of the most hein-
i ous offenders who ever drew breath in the
state of Maine. A Sunday school teacher,
ejborter, lay preacher and bank thief, who
took $100,000 from the 1 irst National bank
of Portland, Me,, was convicted in 1886, and
should have served ten years. President
Cleveland was petitioned to pardon him.
Prominent politicians and society people
signed the request. There was a marked
absence of the names of the trial judge and
prosecuting district attorney from the pe-
tition. Mr. Cleveland did not pardon
him. The same influences have reached
Mr. Harrison aud prevailed upon
him to exercise bis great prerogative.
This action is a terribly wrong and mis-
taken example. Speaker Heed never would
put his name to the petition. Messrs.
Blaine, Frye and Hale were prevailed upou
to sign it, aud so were the other congress-
men from Maine. Persons may say what
they please of the father's respectability and
of the family's grief, but they will not per-
suade any one that the pardon is other than
a stab at justice. It will not make anybody
inoro respectable, as the crime of one can
never really place guilt or merited disgrace
upon auother and for the father, if he gave
his son a proper training, none exists to be
removed. These, however, are not the
practical points in the example. Since cruel
and barbarous punishments are abandoned
and the first endeavor is to prevent further
harm by dangerous persons, and another is
to make suitable examples of them; and
since the pardoning power now exists for
uothing else than as a means of correcting
mistakes in trials and imperfections in laws
that do not fit all cases, it is a crime in all
but the technical sense of the word for a
president or governor to pardon a criminal
in cho absence of evidence of at least a
probable miscarriage of substantial justice
having occurred^^
The treasury surplus was on the increase
last week. On Friday it was reported at $18.-
OJO.i/OU. Money being easier, goods are being
taken out of bond. The treasury lias purchased
over $'.>2,UOO,OQO worth of bonds since the begin-
ning of the llsoal year.
Senator Ingalls considers that his
bounty has been given out witii unsparing lib-
erality in the shape of heavy loans on farm
mortgages. He has set 'em up as long as his
means would let him. Now he wants five
talents from Torn, fifty pounds jfrom Dick, a
trifle from Harrv. If he Is refused he will be-
come a rip-roaring Timon of Athens, and will
convert all of his favors into cursed foreclos-
ures. He ii pluming himself to take to the
woods.
We shoot the aged squaw with the Hotch-
kles gun and put the colicky papoose to the
swordl
A serious proposition has been made in
the (ieorgia legislature to tax bachelors for the
support of the branch colleges in the stAte.
The bill to that effect is carefully drawn, with
a graduated bcale of taxes. Bachelors over 30
and under 35 years of age are to par an Annual
tax of S-'u. From this beginning tK iiguros
gradually rise until a tax of $200 a >ear is im-
posed upon bachelors over 60 years of age. So
that about the time a man has beoome unable
to support himself, he is expected to support
nearly a whole college or persuade some woman
to take care of him.
We speak of "carrying*' elections in this
country when we mean to sas that the "party"
has put the people in its saddlebags aud loped
off with them. ___________
One of the Si oux warriors is named
"Big Turkey." Wo suggest that the republican
congress pass an act changing his name to
*'Job's Turkey.^
Magnificent thunder and the Rocky
mountains! Three hundred bills and over are
already in soak And half of the solous have not
been heard from!
This i« an at*e in which a couple fre-
quently marry with a common purpose to get
the better of each other.
What Is the law of your county or city?
Do not answer this with a real estate adver-
tisement, and bear in mind the fact that dead
letters are not laws.
Galveston sometimes gets credit more
tiiAu is due. There is the New York World's
news columns telling of an earthquake and its
effects. Remember that Galveston is the tele-
graphic clearing house for Texas, Mexico and
South America. In the last mentioned coun-
tries they have jnst as muoh opportunity to
give Galveston credit for seventeen feet of
■now.
Electricity ie a most revolting thing to
a Sew York murderer.
Will the alliance permit the old parties
to play leap-frog over its beaded back and
bowed head? That is the question. If the alli-
ance will permit this we shall have a great
game of leap frog, but what is fun for the par-
ties may he a little rough on the frog.
On: blue-stocking president does not con«
aider the ghost dance orthodox.
To the Texaa Press Association.
The next annual convention of the^Texas
Press association will take place in the city
of Corsicana May l'j to 14, inclusive, and it
is especially desired that the meeting shall
be largely attended, as matters of vital im-
portance to the newspaper business in Texas
will come before the association for action.
Kvery publisher or editor of a newspaper in
Texas who is not a member should become
so at once. Application blanks for mem-
bership will be furnished by the secretary
Membership in the Texas Press association
carries with it privileges of the National
Publishers oasociation.
Annual dues are payable in advance and
should be sent to the eecretary before the
assembling of the association.
By order of the executive committee, no
applications for transportation which are
not received by the secretary before April
15 will be considered. This has been found
absolutely essential to prevent confusion
and accidents. Copies of annual proceed-
ings will be mailed on application. Fra-
ternally, John M. Connor,
Secretary Texa* Preas Association.
ABOUT THIS AND THAT.
Senator Vance of North Carolina has
What will the governor of
THE STATE PRESS.
been re elected.
South Carolina say to that?
Wbst ch« Papers Tb roof bent Te.ce« Ars
Talkies About.
The Eagle Lake Canoe says
Probably the oldest "railroads, in this
I section is Mike .Smith, who has scored
j b3 years off life's reel, and even at that ad-
vanced age is a vigorous worker. He is
certainly a veteran in hie line, having come
to Texae with the first locomotive, via., the
General Sherman, which ran on the Buffalo
Bayou and Colorado railway in '54.
That road, from Harrlsburg on Buffalo
bayou to Richmond on the Brazos, woe the
first built in Texas.
Ths Bastrop Advertiser says:
Parmsrs are rejoicing over the receut
heavy rsins. Oar farmers are busy pre-
If young married people woula get aoove
board and go to housekeeping they would be
happier.
« « *
When Jerry Simpson was nominated for
congress he was heard to remark: "Well, now,
wouldn't it be U—11 if I was elected. " And so
it was both ways.
« • •
A Kansas country sheet, in speaking of
the democratic party abbreviates by saying the
dem party. The author of the abbreviation is
a deui fool.
* * »
Because the gloom of the sky dissolves in
sweltering teara is no reason why the gloom of
maukind should try to do likewise
Common La* Kight to Privacy.
It is no secret that a good mauv peopln
think that the newspapers iu this blessed
laud of freedom huvo too much to say about
private people and their private nfT.-iirs, It
is au important part of tho object in life if
a good part of the community, including
persons of tho dramatic profession, authors,
quack doctors, meu in tne show business,
patent medicine gentlemen and soap boil-
ers, to be thoroughly exposed and ven-
tilated in the periodical press, and the
more that is said about them—let it be
pertinent or otherwise—the better they like
it. But there are others, and the class in-
cludes ladies and gentlemen, criminals aud
people of sensitive respectability, who feel
it to be detrimental to their comfort, their
reputation aud their best iutorests to have
their names in the newspapers at all. Such
persons can not understand why their ap*
pcarance should be described, their move*
merits chronicled, their possessions cata-
logued, or the amouiio of tueir incomes es-
timated in the public prints. They do not
even like to have their likenesses pubiished,
nor those of members of their families, and
the mstter has comc to such a point that au
enterprising journal can not reproduce the
photograph of a gentleman's daughter with-
out running 'he risk, somewhat remote, of
a call, and a more or less spirited remont
strance from the parent. The feelings of
these thin-skinned Americans are doubtless
at the bottom of an article in the December
number of the Harvard Law Review, in
which two members of the Boston bar have
recorded the results of certain researches
into the question whether Americans do
not possess a commoo-law right of privacy
which can be successfully uefeuded in the
courts. The article traces the gradual
growth of the protection afforded by the
common law to the person and property of
tho citizen, showing that, from forbidding
him to be hit with a club, it came presently
to protect hi m from bei ng assai led by a stench
or a slander, from having his light shut
off, or his family relations invaded. As
social relations became more complicated it
gradually extended its protection; and to-
day, our Boston lawyers aver, it has us
much power to ayenge violated privacy as
ever it had to deal with broken heads or
cases of trespass. Whether th;s Law Re-
view argument is good law or not la for the
doctors of the law to determine. If the
common law can be made to take some
notice that the abseuce of adequate legal
protection to the privacy of individuals is
the occasion not only of much discomfort,
but uow and then of shocking wrongs, that
will help matters muoh, and there will then
be much better prospcct than at proseut of
getting legislation upon the subject, which
will thoroughly cover the ground. [Life,
Better Off Than He Knew.
a man who was eating a large, raw carrot
•topped a woman on Duffield street the day
after New Year's and said:
"Madam, could you give me 10 cents to
buy food with?"
"Why, you seem to have plenty," she an-
swered.
"Raw carrot~sse?" he eaid, as he ex-
tended it.
"Yea, but don't you know that raw carrot
contains 03 per cent of clear nutriment,
against only 33 in mince pie or plum pud-
ding' You ought to be thankful, sir—very
thankful." [Detroit Free Press.
PERSONAL.
a new biography of Cotton Mather, by
Barrett Wendell, the novelist, who is also as
sistant professor of English at Harvard, is
nearly reAdy for the press. Mr. Wendell
devotes his whole summer vscAtion to this
work
The BAltimore American seems to' favor
a tax on bAchelors. But it should be remem-
bered thAt tht bulk of them Already tAX them-
selves in a wild, reckless way, and niAny spend
their last days in hospitals or poorhousea in
consequence.
Odetta Tyler, the actress, who is Bessie
Kirkland at her home in Nash^JIle, is consid-
ered a beauty on or oiT the stage. Goneral
Kirkland, her father, is a West Point graduate*
and made a line record in the confederate army.
Miss Kirkland is a niece of General llardee,
author of the famous works on military tac-
tics.
Miss Mildred Fuller, daughter of the
chief justice, who became Mrs. Wallace
Wednesday evening, is a dainty little woman.
She Is nlendor and a perfect blonde with short
curly hair, worn in ringlets on hor shapely
head and in a soft coil at the nape of the neck.
She is undeniably pretty, and her manners are
gentle and graceful.
Chicago considered Stanley one of the
worst speakers that ever made a good speech.
He appeared ill at ease in evening dreBs and ra-
ther shy and self-conscious, flis gestures were
few and ungraceful,his words were slurrei and
mispronounced, audit was only when he forgot
himself that he showed a little of the fire of elo-
quence.
Ed Howe, the Kansas newspaper man and
novelist, has been offered $100 for the original
manuscript of the Story of a Country Town, the
novel that made him famous. And yet. accord-
ing to the Kansas City Times, "there were lots
of nights while Ed was writing the story that
he would have taken CO cents for the whole
business and thrown up the job."
Colonel James M. "Williams, who is seek-
ing restoration to the army and appointment
on the retired list as captain of the Seventh
CAVAlry, is known in army circles as "colonel of
the first nigger, 6ir," from the fact thAt he was
the origlnAl coinuiAnder of the first regiment of
western colored troops. He is well known from
the Missouri to the Apsche country and was
desperately wounded by the Indians in the Ari-
zona campaign.
They say that the ahrewdeat politician of
the present day in Ohio is Mrs. Campbell, the
wife of the governor. She was educated iu a
political family and knows every local and na-
tional party leader of oonsequence in the coun-
try. V ere it not for her inspiration Governor
Campbell would not be In polit ics to day. She
has urged him forward in all his undertakings,
and whenever he has grown disgusted and
tired of the affairs of state it has been her en-
couragement and persistence that haye kept
him to the point.
paring the ground for the coming crop.
The acreage planted In corn will be mnch j
greater than last year, l'nis is right. Raise
plenty of feed and there is no dsoger of j
suffering R. L. Bell and *£. J. Carter I
fought at San Antonio, and Bell bit off a
piece of Carter's esr.
Bell should give bond to keep the piece or |
the peace, unless he should be punished to: j
manglina.
The Nacogdoches Chronicle reports a co-
incidence:
As Dr. Mavfield was coming down the
Irion bill, in the west edge of town, his fa-
vorite old saddle h -»rse,"Blue Dick," stepped
into aguily end fell down. The doctor's
left leg was caught under the horee and the
smaller bone was fractured just abovo the
ankle. eighteen years a jo the doctor hod
his right leg brokea, the large boue, by a
hurse lalliug on it. This happened not fur
from the same place.
j he Fort Worth Gazette devotes au eveu
column of small type tn the subject of free
passes on raihoada. The writer professes
to have seen a good deal of the ways iu
which such passes work on public officers:
Justice, merit, the wishes and interest of
the people, all fade like the snow before tne
sun when some men the people call aud
look upon as loaders are found with a free
pass. No state official or member of our
legislature should accept from any railroad
company a free pass, unless our laws are
amended to require the different railway
companies of the state to furnish those rep-
resenting the state with free transportation.
If this wore the case the state officials could
consistently accept passes from ihe roads
and at the same timo not feel under any ob-
ligations to any one for them.
Tho Center Champion says:
The Galveston Nrws has added to ita
facilities forgathering news until it has
about reached the limit, no other avenue or
meaus bein^ left to seize upou.
No; The News la not yet like Alexander
the Great, weeping because there are no
other fielda to conquer. The limita of ex-
pansive jouruaiiam have not yet been
reached. The good uewspaper, like the
cyclopedia, iadeatined to embrace the whole
circle of the arte and acieucea, or human
knowledge, as well a6 the current eveuta of
the day.
The Henrietta Chieftain says:
The politicians of the country "scent the
spoils afar off" aud are hastening into the
alliance fold. The old party evnugelists
know their sheep and when the time of
uaefu'.nesa is ripe will call them back to
tueir own fold.
The Orange Tribune discusses the school
book question and aay6:
Just for a moment think what a saving
to the people of the state ir. would be should
our legislature pasn a text book law, re-
quiring all books for use iu our public
schools to be published by our state printer
und sold to the pupila at a very close mar-
giu. At a rough guess we will say that
there are $3000 spent annually for achool
books in Orange alone, and If by pub-
lishing them ac the state printing
office we save one-half, then there
would be saved to the people of Orange an-
nually 11500, and to the people of the stai,e
annually over $800,000. Why shall orr peo-
ple continue t*> bs roobed by the great book
combines of the country? This great thiev-
ing combination paid one publiabing house
11,000,000 to quit publishing school books,
aud of course the parents aud guardians of
school children throughout the country had
to pay back thia money to the thiev-
ing truat. Our state democratic con-
vention adopted reaolutioua denouncing
truats of all kinds, aud pledged the party to
do everything in its power to drive out and
kill all trusts. Let tho good work com-
mence by jumping straddle of the school
book trust and riding it out of the state.
Thia matter ia of greater moment to the
people of Texaa than ia the long tulked
of railroad commiasiou bill. By pass«
ing a law authorizing our state publishing
house to publish all books to be used by
our public schoola five times as much money
will be saved to the people as will over be
saved by any bill croating a commission for
the purpose of regulating railroads.
The Crockett Courier calls Houston the
banner county of eastern Texas for variety
and fertility of aoil, native woods adapted
to the manufacture of all grades and atylea
of furniture, vehicles, etc., good schools,
good and abundant water. The products of
the county are cotton, corn, oats and other
amali grain, sorghum, ribbon cane, fruits
and vegetables of every variety, bay, and lu
some places, rice, etc. The county produces
on an average every year from 15,000 to ^0,-
000 bales of cotton, 75,0000 bushels of corn,
100,000 gallons of ribbon cane sirup*
Unuer the regretful caption. Classic Cor-
bett, the Intellectual Treat Which Many el
Pasoana Sought but Missed, the li Paso
Herald says;
a number of the leading citizens of el
Paso were sorely disappointed a few days
since when they arose from their dowuy
couches at a late hour to find that Mr. j. j.
Corbett, the world-reuowued prize fighter,
had spent two hours in our city, but had
gone off.
The Herald iuterviewer was evidently
one of those moat disappointed, but he
makes the bes*; of the situation by copying
the interview of the San Ancouio Times
with the boaa of the ring the day after he
left el Paao. The Times says:
lu answer to a number of inquiries the
big prizefighter said: "No. it don't make no
difference to me which one whips, soe? Jack
Dempsey ought to mash tie big duffer from
Australia all over de ring, see? Jack's the
most, scientific man iu de world and don't
you say he ain't, now, see' i guess Jack's de
winner." "How about your match with
Slaviu?" "Oh, i'll fix Slavin. He'sa great
big duffer aud i can do him. He's
no good on de face of the earth and i'll
wipe up de ring wld him, see?" and Cor-
bett threw both shoulders out of place
as the muscles oi bis great arms almost
burst the sleeves of his coat. "How soon
will you complete arrangements with
Slavin?" inquired the reporter, as he pro-
ceeded to raise the hammer of his six*
shooter. "Well, if de big bluffer's backers
come to time de pspers'll be signed at New
Orleans. He thinks he's got some big Eng-
lish blokes to back h!m, and he says dey'il
be at 'de 'pronching fight, see! If dey's got
any stuff i'll cover it," and Corbett swun~
himself on the train as the conductor
shouted "all aboard."
The Herald seoms not to admira either
the literature or the ethics of the riug. It
says:
p. j. Pitzlin, the pet prize fighter of Gal-
veston and Houston, shamelessly pub-
lishes to the world that he "threw off" tho
late prize fight in the former city, and at
the same time asks for another chance to
bilk the people who patronize such brutal
pastime. He asks the Galveston Athletio
association to pnt up another purse for
himself and Arthur o. Upbam, his (possi-
bly) more honest antagonist, to indulge
in a brutal though sham battle for.
The Authorities or the people of
Galveston ought to see that such shameless
frauds and useless brutes leave that fiour«
ishiug city or go to work improving its
streets, and au athletic club ttat will in-
dulge. much less encourage, auch should be
declaied a public nuisance and abated.
Which reminds one of the English wo*
man's response to Hugh Miller's remark
that he feared that there had been bad work
at a mob attending a brutal priza fight.
She said, aye. indeed; if there had not been
foul work done her hero would have won,
or wordv to that effect. The Queenabury
code ahould be observed. "Gentlemen, let
ua have more order about this busineos," as
a man said to the mob that was about to
lynch a negro in the early days of Galveston,
The First Tar and Feathers
Once upon a time Charles the Sixth of
France gsve a masquerade ball, and he and
five of his courtiers took t^e part of satyrs.
To do thia artistically they were clothed in
looea liuen habits besmeared with reain aud
then atuck all over with dowu. Oue of the
compauy, in a frolic, lighted one of the
satyrs with a torch and as a consequence
four of them were burned to death. Thia
ia suppoaed to be the origin of the tar and
feather cuetom. Charles the Seventh had
a pair of ill-made legs. He wore a long
coat to conceal them. Reault: Everybody
else wore loug coats.
Peter the Great adopted a rather novel
means to convince his subjects that they
must chsnge their clothes to confor n with
the modern costumes of western Europe.
Believing, ns it ia well knowu historically,
that the future greatness of Russia de-
pended upou the facility with Which it was
made to ussimilate all that was best in
other countries, be had succeeded in intro*
dticing some iunovationa into the half civi-
lized region over which he held sway. At
leugth he had patterns of cloth buug up at
the gates of the towns, and those who did
not conform to the fashions thus aet were
docked publicly. A belt, thia was done in
as pleasant a manner as posaible, for Peter
believed in beiug good-natured with hia
people.
They on the other band, loudly demurred
aud used the argument, that what was
good enough for their forefathers was good
euougb for them. "Very well," said the
sagacious Peter, in 1703 he gave a dinner
at Moscow to celebrate the tuarrige of oue
of his jesters, and insisted that it should be
conducted in atrict conformity with ancient
usage. There had formally been a auper-
atitmns custom of not lighting a fire on a
wedding. So Peter made them do without
a fire, although it was colder than Christ-
mas iu a Hobokeu boardiug houae. He
wouldn't give them any wine because their
forefathers uever drank it. When they re-
monstated, he remined them that it was a
poor rule which did not work all around,
and thus, by hia good-natured greatness,
wheedled his people into new coats—about
the hardest thing that can be doue with
humanity. [Philadelphia Press.
The Annual Fire Loaa
The total tire loaa for 1690 Is estimated at
$108,000,000, as compared with $144,000,000 In
1881), $100,000,000 in 1888, $130,000,000 iu 18s7
and $115,000,000 in 18s6. This matter is of
more importance than is generally believed.
To the country at large there is no compen-
sation for the loss by fire; insurance dis-
tributes thia tax, but doea not in tho least
make it good. On the contrary, to the
actual lose by fire must be added the cost
of distribution, or in other words the
expeuse of all the insurance companies do-
ing Lusiness iu the country; a large sura iu
itself. To this, again, must be added the
cost of sll the fire departments and the cost
of all the devices for avoiding fires snd for
making houses fireproof. The coat of the
fLe department of Louiaville is now moro
than $1 ">0,000, from which statement one
may get some idea of the total expense, re-
membering that there are twenty cities in
America larger than Louisville. The actual
loss by fire was for last year about as large
as the money appropriated for the pay-
ment of pensions. a decrease in
this item of $30,000,000 is especial'y
at this time, a cause for congrat-
ulation. It is not merely "money," but bo
much capital; it ia juat £.30,000,000 added to
the resources of the country at a time when
these resources have been subjected to se-
vere drains. It is well always to remember
that, while times mav be hard and business
disturbed by vicious legislation aud certain
temporary causes, the energiea of the
American people are almost inexhaustible:
hence wo are able to do and endure what
would permanently cripple any other peo*
pie. The loss, as we have aaid, is total; and
it ia a good report, a healthy and hopeful
aign, when the inaurauce companies say
that thia tax of 1889 was less by $30,000,000
than it was the year before. [Louisville
Courier-Journal. _
Materialism of the Time.
The Rev. Dr. Wayland of Philadelphia
thus describes the materialism of the day:
"Our standards of aucceas or failure are
material. We aay: 'Did you hear of the
great misfortune that haa come to our
friend Brown?' 'No, what ia themattet?'
'He haa lost everything he had in the world.'
'What! Has he lost hia character? Has he
lost his conscience? Haa he lost hia health?
Has he lost his wife and children?' 'On,
no; but he has lost his money; he has not a
cent left after paying his debts.' 'And do
you know of the great success gained by
our friend Smith?' 'No; 1 am glad to hear
it. lias he conquered that habit of lying
that he hAd? Has he -left off drinking And
bweAring, And has he become an honest,
cleen man?' 'ob, no; but he has beeu elect-
ed to congress.' And the mind stands dumb
before the vision of possibilities." [New
York Tribune. ^
Copper Production in the United States.
The production of copper in the United
Statea in 1890 amounted to 278.610,000
pounds, thus far exceeding any previoua
tecord, and being 20 per cent greater than
the output in 1s89. It now amounts to more
than 50 per cent of the world's total output
of this metal in 1s80. The production of
lead in the United States amounted to
187,000 tons of 2000 pounds, or a little leas
than in 1889. Of this amount 53,000 tone
were classed as soft lesd, And 134,000 tons as
refined or desilverized. We hsve not been
able to learn the exact amount of lead that
has come in from Mexico in silver lead ores,
but it haa been approximately 20,000 tons, a
considerable reduction from laat year'a
entries. [Engineering and Mining Journal.
Locomotive Building.
The locomotive building by private flrma
was considerably more in 1890 than in 1889.
In 1889 sixteen firms built 1860 locomotives.
In 1890 fourteen firms built 2313, aud we
know that several of those who have not yet
reported were very busy through the year.
We may therefore conclude that the year's
product has been materially greater than
that of 1889, when seventeen firms built 2180
locomotives. Eleveu of the firms that have
reported up to date built over 18 per cent
more engines in 181k) thau inl8S9. [Railroad
Gazette.
Petroleum Exports.
The exports of petroleum, crude equiva-
lent, from New York from January 1 to
December 20. 1890, were 561,129,493 gallons,
against 533.493.ss4 gallons last year. The
exports from the United States during the
same period this year were 731,451,127 gal-
lons, against 730,550,439 gallons last year.
[Bradstreet's.
The Sugar Crop.
It ia agreed by everybody intereated in
the augar induatry that the crop now being
marketed will prove much larger than any
crop grown aince the war, the total yield
being varioualy estimated all the way from
300,000 to 350,000 hogsheads. [New Orleans
Picayune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Whi'e Pattiaon the victorious woa glori-
fying and being glorified in the Philadel
phia democratic love feed, hia ancient fo*.
Delamater the vanqulahed, waa being pre-
aented to the grand jury in Meadvllie on a
charge of embezzhng county funds. Ihls
make* rather a atriking picture, and shows
that the people souietiinea choose the r.gnc
man and plunge the audaciousiy asp»ring
roacaia into the metaphorical aoup where
the temperature ia decidedly torrid. [Savan-
nah News.
Now that Rasaell Harrison is out hus-
tling for hia father's renominate for tha
presidency, it behoovea John Sherman 10
declare himself. a republican presidential
convention without Sherman's name before
it would be Hamlet with the prince of Den-
mark omitted. [New Orleans New Delta.
Most of the talking for free coinage iu
these days is done by eminent leaders of the
republican party, and even the New \ork
Tribune thinks it is regarded "with less of
apprehenaion." The republican eilver
straddle of 1888 Is working out its natural
results. [Albany Argus.
Alas, poor Ingalli! Even the towu
named in his honor is in danger of extiuc-
tion. In a short time ali that will be left
of the Kansas senator will be Massillou's
sermons and the "flap" of a bloody shirt.
[Kansas City Times.
With hostile Indians oa her border and
rival governors in her stste house, ne«*
brsska's condition during the past week
needed only a b'iz/.ard to complete its mis*
ery, [Kansas City Journal.
a crank in New York recently wrapped
his overcoat aronnd the legs of George
Washington's statue. Hero is a man, at
last, after Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' own
heArt. [Boston Globe.
If the business meu of New York are op-
posed to free coinage why do they not meet
in a non-partisan gathering and communi-
cate their opinions to their representatives
in congress? [Cleveland Leader.
The seuate proposes to spend $1,000,000 to
enlarge the irhite house. The country could
well afford to spend a good deal more than
that to enlarge tho man in it. ISt. Louis
Republic.
Aa a hostile. Granny Hoar cuta a very
poor figure. He ought to let his back hair
down and tie bianketa on hia legs. [At-
lanta Constitution.
If the aeal sacque should pass out of
fashiou suddenly, what would become of
the Bebriug sea controversy? iFiorida
Times-Union.
The Prince of Wales is like the republi-
can party - be began with a surplus but is
now a million dol!ars in debt. [New York
Herald.
Raln-In-the-Face seems to hayj been wise
enough to come iu out of the wet juat at the
moat opportune time. [Chicego Mall.
Iudiana frequently deserve killing. They
never deserve cheating and starving. [New
York World.
Thero is more Punch than .Tudy abjut a
prize lighter. i New Orleaus Picayune.
WITH THE WITS,
Song of the cheese: Wilt thou love me
when 1 mould. [Battleboro Battleax.
♦
Photographer: ! can take a much better
picture if you'll smile.
Customer: You'll have to excuse mo, sir.
i'm a probibitiouidt. [Detroit Free Press.
Sunday School Teacher: Now, little boys,
what do you know about Goliab?
i- ready tangle: Please, ma'am, be
rocked to sleep. [Boston Traveller.
When on the redskin's foot the shoe,
And not the moccasin is worn,
kirrtt thero's discomfort; squeezed of toes;
Then ooines the Indian corn.
[Washington Star.
Mr. Selphmayd: Let us bare some truf-
fles with our steak.
Mr. Bawnao: No, I don't like trull i es.
Mr. Selphmayd: You don't? Why, mm
alive, tbey cost $3 501 [Puck.
"We bad some mind reading at our party
last night. Johnny had a pin and the new
minister tried to find it."
"And did he succeed f"
"Ob. yes. be found it when be sat down."
[New York Herald^
a justice of the peace in a county tn Wis-
consin has had 240 appeals taken on bis de-
cisions during the la^t six years, and only
one of tlieui failed to be sustained. He
started out to decide esses according to
common seuss. [Detroit Fr„ Press.
Mrs. De Sour (angrily): I want you to keep
Tour dog out of my bouse, Mrs. De Smart.
It's full of ileas.
Mrs. De Smart: Mercy on me! Fido! Come
here, air! Don't you go into that bouse
again. It's full of ileas. [New York Weekly.
G. W. P. sends to the Journal the shortest
letter ever written containing tho entire
alphabet. The epistle of which be is tha
author has but one letter duplicated, the
letter "u.'' It reads as follows: "Qniz
Jack: thy frowus vex G. D. Plumb." [Bos-
ton Journal.
A member of an opera house orchestra
has composed "a very pretty polonaise."
Now, if be can only Induce certain mem-
bers of the opera company to wear it, bo
will have done something toward elevating
the stage. He sbonld also compose a man-
tilla for the fashionable ladies who occupy
the boxes. [Norrlstown Herald.
The custom of the Japanese in not per*
mitting a father to see bis child until ft ia
three mouths oid was founded upon tba
Idea that the youngster wouldn't know bia
dad at an earlier age. Having never seen
blrn how could he know him at three
months? is a question the Japs entirely
overlooked. [Detroit Free PreBS.
Our esteemed contemporary the News
talks editorially of the worm which will
eventually turn when "trodden under tha
iron heel of tbe remorseless band of fata."
This simile is evidently mixed. The worm,
as the News will observe when it consults
lb. authorities, turns when bruised by tba
serpent's heel, or something of that sort.
[Chicago Journal.
Briggs: While Robinson was reading*
poem of his the other night at the Canvaa
clun, a lady in the audience fainted dead
away. Hobinson bad a hard time of bring-
ing her to.
Griggs i don't see what Robinson bad
todowkhit. i should have thought soma
of tbe audience would bave helped ber
Briggs: Tbey left before it happened.
[Harper's Bazar.
NocruntfK
Mere at the garden gate,
in th« dastc and dew,
i'nderthe sure 1 wait
For my sweetheart true.
h ere is the trusting place.
Here i shall see her face.
Like a lill j bloom
la tbe fragrant gloom.
Marvel of light and grace'.
Softly tbe leaves above.
In the winds that blovr,
■\Vhiaperof her i love
While i linger so;
Dreaming, 1 linger here
Under tbe starlight clear
Till tbe wind goes by
With a joyous sigh.
Telling m. she Is near!
Hark, on tbe grass how light
Fall her footsteps now!
See—lik. tbe orescent white
Of the moon—her brow !
Under the stars alone.
Ililher my sweet has flown;
She is here at laat.
And her b.art beats fast,
Happy against my ewn!
ii'rank Dempster bbsriaaD, ia Cefa9{»UUfe
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