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the Atchison Topekaand Santa Fe Road
Theres millions in this simple announce-
ment for the Fort
The prohibition canvass will warm
with the summer days It will be a bat-
tle of brains and argument and the
party that loses its temper or tries to win
on prejudice or false issues will gain
nothing by such course
The constitutional amendment to be
voted on In August and increasing the
pay of members of the Legislature to 5
a day for ninety days should be unani-
mously adopted Texas ought not to
want laws made at 2 a day
Siiould tne Standard Oil Company suc-
ceed in the negotiation for tne principal
iron mines of Canada England will doubt-
less have a proposition from this corpo-
ration to hand over the whole Dominion
This monc poly has a reputation for grasp-
ing and the whole realm of nature will
scarcely meet the demand of its capacious
maw
BeiOre the Legislature adjourns The
Gazette desires to congratulate Mr
Newton on his evident desire and intent
to faithfully represent Tarrant county
Having been opposed to Mr Newton in
his canvass and being always opposed to
those who appear to be representative of
class interests and class demands The
Gazette is impelled to say for Mr New-
ton that he has been a representative of
all the people and not of any one class of
people Justice to the Representative
of Tarrant county demands this from
va newspaper that opposed him because it
feared him and the trioute is rendered
voluntarily and with pleasure
A private letter to The Gazette from
Washington city says I hope the pro-
ject for a state geological survey for
Texas will not be defeated There is
great interest manifested in this matter
by the United States geological survey
and the eminent geologists connected
with the government Alas Texas
must wait The opponents ot the meas-
ure demonstrated to the satisfaction of
the Lower House that a knowledge of the
mineral wealth of the state would not kill
the potato bug or make the culture of the
South American plant less laborious and
the appeal to ignorance was successful
Colonel WE Sinn of the Park Theater
Brooklyn proposed to give a performance
in which Lotta would appear the en-
tertainment to be for the benefit ot the
Beecher statue fund Tim proposition
was met by T McCant Stewart a colored
lawyer who has been trying unsuccess-
fully for several years to induce Colonel
Sinn to admit colored people to his
theater with ihe expression of the hope
that on the occasion of this benefit in
memory of a man who never slighted the
slaves there would be no distinction on
account of race or color This provoked
a somewhat angry reply iQm Colonel
Sinn Chroniclers will please observe
this occurred in Brooklyn N YA and not
in Birmingham Ala
THE NE W ELEC TLpN LA W
There is one blessed feature about the
prohibition election to take place in
Texas next August the people wont
have to wait until September to learn
whether John Barleycorn has been
routed or held his own If the
telegraph wires are in good working order
on the night of the election day The > Ga-
zette will be able to tell the tale oil the
nest morning for all over the state ttfec
alert workers hundreds of Ihem who
gather the news for The Gazette will
be rushing in the returns and deft workers
in the home office will be putting them in
shape for publication There are so few
counties that are not accessible by wire
that the general result will be obtainable
before the night is ewer For this thanks
will be due to the new election law pro-
viding for prompt counting of the votes
which has now been signed by the Gov-
ernor The Gazette put out its tow-
line and worked hard to secure this law
and now that it is secured The Gazette
may be pardoned if it looks back with
calm Complacency on the aid it rendered
in the premises The Gazette and other
papers reasoned and argued with the
Leeislature to change the old law and for
one time the law rasters put aside moss
backiem and adoptea the common sense
method The people will like the new
law and when they see how admirably it
workswill wonder why they stuck to the
old cumbersome tedious method so long
talc
that Professor I A
HEW TO THE LINE
As the aggressors in bringing on the
prohibition contest the gentlemen favor-
ing the measure proposed met at Waco
and issued a proclamation of war It
was a document that bepoke the wisdom
of its authors it eliminated everything
from the struggle that had made prohibi-
tion offensive to that third great party
which decides all questions It has been
generally agreed that this canvass s all
be conducted on the merits of tJfie im-
portant question involved in it and the
men whose votes and influence are to
turn the scale of victory ask for aigu
ment and reason an < i information to the
end that they ma vote intelligently and
these are theyinen who will resent the in
troducti a of religion sentimentality
prpjudice political trickery and mis
Mrepresentations and falsehoods into
thp discussion The Gazette
has warned the Prohibitionists
against certain dangers to their cause
and it now warns the autiProhibitiopists
against the danger of efforts to pervert
the significance of this canvass The Ga-
zette ventures the opinion that from 25
to 30 per cent of the intelligent influen-
tial voters in the state cannot say today
how their bal ots will be cast in August
The issue has been presented to them in
a manner unexpected because of the
manner in which it has heretofore been
presented to them in the state They
have the authority of the Democratic
platform for the fact that the issue is
nonpartisan They are now absolutely
free to vote for or against the proposi-
tion Is it best for Texas that intoxi-
cating liquors shall be manufactured and
sold in the state or not And it is to this
proposition that the parties to the contest
must address themselves or incur the
risk of disgusting and repelling the vote
that is to decide the election The Ga-
zette is impelled to these reflections by
reading the following letter sent it from
Waco
Wco Tex April 2 There 13 general mer
rlaient here over pn Austin dispatch In the
Dallas News vesterday setting forth the ap-
prehensions of the an 1 prohi > ltlon True
Blues that the Prohibitionists aspire to shelve
Senator Coke In S3 and put lit v Dr Carroll In
his Ilac or to eecs a Methodist or any other
preacher governor of the st tc Such a theory
will not find Indorsement liee by filrmlnded
men on either side of the question and only
evokes laugnter Prohibitionist point to the
fact that severil gentlemen of this city who are
well known a infidels or skeptics are actively
enlisted in the prohibition work There Is a
growlne lntcnsltv of feeling in thlB city over
the issue but as yet very Utile or no bitterness
had been developed on either side and It is not
probable the common sense of the community
whl eanctlon a resort to bitter tactics
Just as the undetermined vote would
have resented and rallied to oppose a re-
ligious crusade or an antiDemocratic
canvass just so will they resent and op-
pose such tactics as those described
There are thousands of good men in
Texas who are seriously
question and they are in
any nonsense or trickery
honored and esteemed
debating this
no humor for
in connection
with it The Prohibitionists must show
the right to prohibit and the benefit of its
exercise and the antiProhibitionists
must show the absence of the right to
prohibit and the evil of its exercise if the
right exists This is the plane upon
which thi3 canvass must be conducted if
the party that deviates therefrom would
not aid its oppopent to victory by repell-
ing earnest seekers after the rights
BEGGING FOR TEXAS
A subscriber of The Gazette at Wins-
ton N C sends us the following
poster with all its glaring head lines
3 he Governor of Texas bees for them 6eo
his letter In the Mlana Constitution January
ISISsT Some of the friendly tribes of Indians are
killing and eating their dog to sustain life and
sendh g their cr lefs east to beg for tnem Whl e
men have killed all their game
War Cloud Chief of the haws a fullblooded
Indian who was General Custers old friend
and guide against wild tribes wll make a
speech at Winston Thursday March 311SS7 at
10 oc ock a in on Indian affalis and rontlor
life He will jO dressed as he was when he
visited Washington cltv seventeen years ago
to treat away his lands in Kansas After his
spcecn he will ask ever > man woman and child
to give h m some hlng for his starving people
Over tnlity counties In West Texas never
raised one peck of corn or wheat last year
After the Indians speccn and Interpretation
for he cai not tpcak EngLsh we win lecture
on education the arts and scl nces and ex-
plain some new useful and Invaluable discov-
eries In science never bfore know l Educa-
tion and religion are twin Ms ers which when
separated die We hope to have the largest
churches filled with Intelligent generous peo-
ple Ministers will please publish these lec-
tures from the stand editors from the press
and all send the news as far as they can
Heaven aids the generous and good
I A Dodgb of Brad Tex
Those who fail to hear Professor Dodge lec-
ture v ih nlss an intellectual treat and hla new
scientific discoveries are lispiy Invaluable
NORTuN Moses
Texas State Masonic Lectuer
Wc the undersigned citizens of McCull ch
county Tex g > eat pleasure In sajlng
Dodge is one of our most
feltowcldz ns and
wleh ur country a filled wltn 6uch men
G L KEATTV Count > Judge tf
W Mcmias ountv and Dlstrfbi Clelrk
J < HN it MffcyiiE Connty Treasurers
F M Miller Sheriff-
S II Gholston A seKsor
Brady Tex November 41SS6
Our subscriber writes
chief
Clcud of the Kaws
that
and I A
Dodge of Brady Tex are getting lots
of money from our peopIeJv 5and very
naturally the writer wants to know if
War Cloud and I A lpdge areac
credited agents of Texas 6r McCulloch
county
The Gazette has no knowledge of
either the Indian or the paleface Will
the officers of McCulloch county tell us
what they know of I A Dodge who ad-
vertises himself in North Carolina as
recommended by them
NEWS AND NOTES
A babe born at Rockford Ind last
week weighed but forty four ounces and was
only eight Inches long It was perfectly devel-
oped aud Is as 1 vely as a cricket
f Considerable excitement has been
caused In Khmmond Wis by the dlscoverv of
goiu on the farm of A C Camming0 one mile
wesof the town A specimen ha3 been ex
amlnea by a chemist and pronounced cl ar
quill A conslaerabie quantity wa3 dug out of
a rock with a penknife
The Cnoperative Grain Association o
Sheldon III have completed their organlza
tl > n Sixty sua es at 50 per fchare wtre all
taken Toe purpose f t is organization is to
irotect thegrai producers uguinst the urain
Buyers Assoc ion which rrganlzatlon ro
trol the pri e of grali throughout Ii lnois
with ut competition The aesoclail n is com-
posed of the largfft grain producers In the
vicinity ard they propose to ship th Ir own
product This is the firit attempt on thts part
of the frtrmerd of Illinois to protect themselves
against buyers
Strictly speaking with the tip of the
tongue one rea ly cant taste at all If yor pt-
a emal drop of honey or oil of Dlt cr mnds
on that part of the mouth you < firi no
doubt to your great surprise u it produces
no effect of anv sort yon taste It wh > n it be-
gins plowly to dlifuse ltselt and reaches the
irue tasting region In the middle distance Bu
If you put a llttl CfVjerneor mustsrd n the
same part ou will nnd that It bit s you Im-
mediately while 1 jou put It ower down in the
mouth you will fvallow it almost without no-
ticing tne pungency of the ttlmulant
Governor Marmaduke of Missouri has
Mgnoi the bill passed at the recent rCBsion rf
the Legislature which repeals the lew of 1S > 7
Vna permitted lne and beer to be sod in St
Louis on Sunday T ie brings St Louis under
the r > ction of what Is known s the Dow lng
la whl < h e bracks all tin provlelons of a
strict Snday law and no only loses ail sa-
loons and beer gardens tut If rig dy enf reed
will slop the running of stree railroads the
publication of newspa e s all maial 1 bjr
andalkndsof mflic As a result herels
constmatlon among the salon keei era and
an uneasy lei11 gothe part of all persons
> ind lnterets affected The saloon rrn n will
p oo blv resist the law and there la llkel to
be some kind of a public demonstration
against It
Samuel Tepper an old citizen of Cam-
den Ala co i mitted suicide at that place Sat
urdtyafternoon Ills history Was eventful
Aft r about twenty y araof llf In Cmdn
unler very dlrcoura Ing crljumstances hli
highest o mlngs tor himself and iiriie tamlly
bein 550 per month he was shown an aaver
t sement Inquiring tile where bunts He was
1covered to be a con in of J urn < r the famous
English landscap painter and heir thrcueh
he death o hl brother to a 1 rge part of the
Turner estate He went to Eng and whee a
parti Ion Bale of the cstjtte took ulace and l ep
pers portion waB nearly 00000 and sevtrul
thousand dol ars w th of steel plates of en-
gravings cf irrners pami < g These plates
ar now In Camden also several paintings by
Turner In the transfer ot the proie tv In
oartiIon ncertain piece of land ca rled a title
and durng the itgal oroceedlng Topper was
adore sed as My Lord For a brief half hour
he was a ti led arl > ocrat of Enuland Tepper
r turned to his home and has lived vey
qultty He sppnt little monty on hlmsel or
famlh bat was ever gcner us in lending and
giving to those who had iief > ipnded him In
days of poverty He leaven nearly the whole of
his Inheritance to hts four children
A Gaueronn and Kzonslve XiO n-
An earnest Christian lady makes the
following offer to our readers I will
loan free of postal and all charges to
such of your readers as will promise a
cartful reading and to pay returu pottage
after reading it a book which in an inter-
esting style shows the Bible to be a self
interpreter and its teachirgs grandly
harmonious viewed in the light of sanc-
tified reason and common sense
I want to put this bo < k into the hands
of all the skeptically inclined as an aid
and guard against the growing scientific
skepticism It is not dry musty reading
but truly meat in due season to the
truthhungry The light of this precious
little volume has made the Bible a new
book a treasure a mine of wealth to
many as well as to myself Aud I feel
that I cannot better flse my means than
in circulating this work by the thousand
Address postal card to
Mits C B Lemuels
Allegheny Pa
Shermans Method
Philadelphia Eecord
A familiar example of Senator Sher
mans method of dealing with the tariff
problem may be found In his Nashville
assertion that luxuries consisting of
wines liquors and ciears silks jewels
and other articles consumed mainly by
the rich yield the largest portion of the
revenues from customs The fact is that
in the total revenue of 188000000 from
customs Jast year the duties on these
luxuries did not amount to 30000000
The duties collected from wool and wool-
en clothing were twice as great in amount
as the duties on silks The duties on
flax hemp and jute and their manufac-
tures were greater in amount than all of
the duties collected last year from wines
and liquors The duties collected from
Iron aud steel greatly exceeded the duties
collected from tobacco By misleading
assertions concerning the character of the
imports on which revenues are collected
John Sherman and other protectionists
seek to deceive the public in regard to the
tariff system The oppression and
inquity of the tariff do not consist so
much in the duties actually collected from
imports as in the enhancement of
the cost of domestic commodities
During the Fortyninth Congress the
people of Eatport Me a town which
had been nearly destroyed by fire asked
for relief from the duties on lumber and
other building materials These poor
people when they came to rebui d their
houses found that the tariff bad arti-
ficially enhanced the prices of lumber in
a great lumber producing state But
John Sherman would have them believe
that most of the revenues from customs
are derived from duties on luxuries
A Journalistic Plrato
Florida T mesUnlon
The southern protection organs are
quoting the New York World as a Demo-
cratic paper that objects to the excom-
munication of Mr Rindall The World
is a very poor Democratic authority in
fact it is no Democratic authority at all
Its policy is dictated by a political free-
lance or journalistic pirate wno knows
little and cares less about Democratic
principles or the Dtmocratic party
Fire In Their Rear
Cincinnati Enquirer
While the Republicans are vainly try
inrr to win for the national struggle of
18S8 a state or two in the south it begins
to look very much as if they might lose
in the north both Illinois and Massachu-
setts
Edncationnl Matters
New York Sun
Little Scholar Why is man called a
noun
Elderly Schoolmistress with acidity
Because its the name of a thing
Longfellows Birthday Book
Is a beautiful present to give any lady
But there is a little book published in
pamphlet form with no pretensions to
literary merit that would be as appropri
ate and might be the means of saving a
aife Jt is called Dr R Y Pierces trea
tise n diseases of womenor whosepe
culiar troubles tie Fajarite Prescrip-
tion is l eciallydesigned It is prcj
fuselyoillustra ed with wood cuts ancr
colored plates and will be sent to any
address for 10 cents in stamps by the
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo N Y
gi
Klllrd In a Church
London April 4 The roof of a church
at Lingua Glossa Sicily fey without
warning during the service yesterday
burying beneath it 100 persons forty of
whom were killed or injured
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CARDINAL MARKING
A Letter from the Engllnh Ecclesiastic on
Knlchta of Labor
Baltimore Md March 31 A special
from Rome gives the following as the text
of a letter of Cardinal Manning regarding
the Knights of Labor to a prominent di-
vine
Archbishops House Westminster j
ONDoN March 111SS7 J
My Dear Lord I have read with
great assent Cardinal Gibbons document
in relation to the Knights of Labor The
Holy See will I am sure be convinced by
his exposition of the state of the new
world I hope it will open a new field of
thought and activity Ic passes under
standingthat officious persons should be
listened to rather than church officials
jfvurely the episcopate of the whole world
is the most powerful and d uect instru-
ment in the hands of the Holy See fur
gathering correct local kuowledgt and
enforcing its decisions Who can know
the temper of America England and
Ireland as they who have a finger upon
the pulse of the people Hitherto the
w rld has been governed by dynasties
henceforth the Holy See will have to
deal with the people and it has bishops
in close daily aad personal contact with
the people The more clearly and fully
this is perceived the stronger Rjme will
be Never at anytime has the episcopate
been so detached from the civil powers
and united in itsvlf and so well able to
see to realize and to use its powers
Failure to see and use these powers will
bring muci trouble and mischief My
thauks are due tbe Cardinal for letting me
share in his argument If I can send a
copy of my lecture on The Dignity and
Rights of Labor I will send it to him
Ifewiil I think qualify me for knighthood
in the order Brentano some years ago
published books on guilds in which he
proves that association of labor and craft
goes back to antiquity but there is thi3
notable fact In English aud Teutonic
laws they were recognized favored and
chartered In imperial and Latin laws
they were rigorously prohioited We are
at this day 8s a church the mother and
friend and protector of the people As
the Lord walked am mg them so His
church lives among them The Cardinals
argument is irresistible Your affection-
ate servant in Christ
Henry Edward
Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
THE WHEAT CROP
Kansas Complains of Dry Weather and
Illinois of Frost
Chicago III April 3 The following
is the Farmers Review report this week
Reports from the winter wheat growing
states are still of a favorable tenor
the majority of the returns indicating that
fall sown grain is in full average condition
The weather continues dry in Missouri
and Kansas and there is a great lack of
moisiure particularly in the last named
state but as yet the crop has not been
seriously injured on this account over
any widely distributed area
In Michigan and Wisconsin large por-
tions of the state are still under snow
and in Grand Traverse county of Michi
ban the wheat fields are reported to be
covered with two feet of snow
Returns from twentysix counties of
Illinois r port winter wheat as looking
fair to good while in four counties the
crop is looking badly Freeziog winds
during the week had a bad effect on
wheat throughout the entire state
Fifteen Indiana counies make favora-
ble returns and in two couuties Adams
and DeKalb the situation Is described as
badThe
The general tenor of reports from
Kansas are mere encouraging A pros-
pect of a fair to good yield is reported in
Bourbon Brown Clav Cowley Davis
Dickinson Douglas Ellaworth Harper
Montgomery Norton Rush Pratt and
Woodson couuties but complaints of dry
weather are made by all correspondents
In Mitchell county prospects are poor
Favorable reports are made from four-
teen Missouri counties and the outlook is
described as di couraging in only one
Btnton of those reporting this week
Fourteen Ohio counties make favorable
returns while seven counties Ashland
Cnampaign Hardin Medina Mercer
Vanwert and Wood describe the crop as
looking poorly
FEMALE TOTERS IN KANSAS
Its Effect on Political Kaznlts Will It Be
Reform or War
Chicago Hrald
The registration of voters in Kansas
where by a recent act of the Legislature
the women are given the right of voting
at municipal elections shows that the
women have taken an unusual interest in
their newly acqu red privilege They have
registered by the thousandin some places
they have met and nominated tickets
without the interference of men and in
others they will have representatives on
the election boards The situation in
these respects is so different from that in
some other states wnere the franchise has
been conferred upon women that hereaf-
ter it will be to Kansas that the
student of social and political
problems will look when he wishes to ex-
amine the experiment of woman suffrage
In Leavenworth where the total regis-
tration amounts to 6991 the women who
have registred number 2G7s all but 617
of these being white In Fort Scott 500
women who are organized and who
nounce that they are mugwumps have
placed their names on the poll lists Tne
same number have registered at Empori3
where it is said they include nearly all the
educated womtn of the place In Par-
sons of the 3330 voters registered600 are
women In Atchison the women have
not taken much interest in the
matter only 300 registering out of
a total vote of 3000 In Olathe the
women are organized have a can-
didate for mayor and have succeeded in
getting nearly every member of the sex
to register her name and promise to vote
In Junction City out of a total vote of
789 nearly 200 are women The ladies
of McPherson have nearly all registered
but though they have held several cau-
cuses and conventions they have been
unable to agree upou any line of Jacticn
In Ltwrence out of a total registration
of 3011 no less than 1157 are women and
of tnese onehalf are negroes In Salina
Paoli Osage City and Garden City the
women have registered in consider-
able force and are preparing to go to the
polls on election day to support candi-
dates already agreed upon
Taken as a whole it is probable that
the womens vote at these elections will
amount to about onefourth of the entire
vote If evenly divided as many think
it will be it will make little difference
with the result If thrown solidly in the
4 n erest of particular candidates as it
eertainly will be in many cases it will
make lots of trouble for the politicians
w bo have not cultivated it with that
industry which they may exhibit
im the future A marked feature
o the appearance of women in
poll arf lS these municipal contests
is saiuto be the fact that they are as a
rule preparing to oppose every man who
has a reputation for immorality for
cruelty or stinginess to his family for
recklessness of speech and for the rmny
THE WEEKLY GAZETTE FORT WOKTH TEXAS FftlDA APRIL 8
offenses
other against the proprieties
which men in dealing with each other
have not deemed it best to be too severe
upon It would not be surprising there-
fore if tie appearance of this new ele-
ment in local politics would have the re-
sult of embittering the contests and of
adding immeasurably to the personal
rancor which has attended them
If in such a warfare the women who are
actively engaged do not occasionally find
themselves attacked in kind it will be be-
cause the men of Kansas are all high
minded chivalrous and unwilling to re-
sent an injury and because the women
themselves will do what they never have
yet done agree as to the objects of their
dislike and their favor
UNDER FIRE
Henry George and Hla Land Theory Criti
cised
Chla o Inter Ocean
Mr Henry George does not show to
good advantage under a fire of questions
He gets along well enough n hile such
platitudinous assertions as Nature has
provided means lor the sustenance of the
human race without the operation of pro-
tective laws awake the soft concussion
of applauding gloves from wellfed
theorists the last of whose intents is
that of earning their own sustenance
from the sources which nature has pro-
vided But when asked to descend
from the barren empyrean of generality
to the solid earth of detail he treads with
a lame foot
The origin of law is in the fact that
while nature has provided means for the
sustenence of the human race a very
large majority of the members rb ° race
are averse to the using the means One
patient drudge raises corn in the hope
that it will feed himself and children dur-
ing the cold of winter and three men who
have berries and flesh all summer kill the
drudge and take his corn Gradually the
drudges form a protective society they
make laws they say that he that will not
work shall not eat they define personal
property assigu punishment to theft
and as quarrels between themselves
occur about the choice of lands
they defioe the rights of realty All this
has to be done that the means which
nature has provided may be utilized
Right of property once established it fol-
lows naturally that some men acquire
more of it than others Equality of ac-
quirement is not one of the qualities
which nature has provided Even Mr
George himself acquires more money by
writing books and delivering lectures
than he could do by sticking hogs or
weaving wool or planing lumber Mr
Powderly acquires more by the exercise
of those great abilities which his
office of Master Workman contin-
ually calls into use than he
could do by mining coal or chopping
wood And very properly Messrs
George aryi Powderly bring a scarcer ar-
ticle than mere labor iuto the publJc mar-
ket and receive a higher price for it
Neither of them could find sale for their
wares in Mr Georges ideal country
where lacd is eitherctieap or public prop-
erly Land was public property in
America till the white man came but
there was never an Indian market for tbe
executive force of Powderly or the liter-
ary skill of George but m all Iodian
tribes disease and hunger were constant
guests pestilence and famine frequent
visitors It is not as men near the con-
ditions which nature has provided that
they are happy it is as they recede from
tnem
Some perception of all this appears to
have reached the person who pro-
pounded this question
If the land was all made4 public and
the banks and factories repjam as now
how could the elple startin business
To which Mr < 3rge maae answer
As they did in the vilrst place on the
land
f
It is lair to assume that the orator was
rattled it would be interesting to
know how his reply looks to him in the
rigidity of type Mk George denounces
communism ttfojjdollars wnich he has
honestly earned by te sale of his
books and delivery jjf his lec-
tures he r jrjatly believes
are his own he does not think that any-
one should force him into a division of
them with his p borer fellow creatures
and so with the money which banks own
But land is to be common Now let him
reconsider question and answer A
hundred or a hundred thousand men
none of whom owns a cent ars placed on
the land which nature has provided
they did jn he flrsi
land We beg fo assure hi that they
wont J
When men started in business in the
first place on the land man was a very
different being from what he now Is He
clothed himself in skius of wild beasts
THE BABY
A Series of Letters from 2Tarion Bar
land to Tnoso Who are the Mothers
of Immortal Beings
Showing Off Babies Tho Dangers of
Precocity Baby Bon Mots Tho
Way to dtop Children
Copyright 1SS7 by the Autfor
It has been already granted in the
course of tnis series tnat each new babv
i3 and ought to be a unique to its legal
proprietors Furthermore that the
mothers vicarious vanity in its graces
and accomplishments is natural andTbeau
tiful The exhibition of it bores a great
many people but then a passable num-
ber make allowances for her swal-
lowing their yarns and remem-
bering classic Cornelias undiguised
pride in her jewels who by the
way dropped out of their settings prema-
turely through the desire early instilled
to keep themselves before the people A
pious minority friends of humanity and
human babies sympathizewith the dot
ing parent Nobody ever died of bore-
dom near as some of us came to it so
mammas desire to show off the incom-
parable points of her offspring really
harms no one but the marionette she
works There is no better way known to
the race for converting a bright interest-
ing child into a nuisance
To do the puppet jusMce he does not at
tirct take kindly to the business Native
disinclination to the role crops out so
constantly that it has passed Into a nur-
sery proverb Why will children not
show off when they should sigh ex-
hibitors The answer is ready Because
they are wiser in their generation than
their elders and wouldbe guides The
unconsciousness of infancy is like the vel-
vety almost invisible down that makes the
touch of tne babys cheek a luxury en-
hancing while it mantles the delicacv of
the skin Remove it and a coarse
roughened cuticle is left Your babys
gam ols and sayiDgs are perenonl spring
breezes in the house the only fresh and
original things in a life from which the
velvet is pretty effectually rubbed by tne
fronts and friction of forty or fifty
winters Heaven be praised for the
infusion of new young blood into our
shrunken veins through the instrumen-
tality of our children and childrens
children But home is home a garden
inclosed wherein ia such sweet
and pleasant s < > U as the old hymns tells
us ibounds in Paradise flourish the best
loves and virtues and the finest order of
happiness sin has spared to the world
We desecrate the name and the reality
when we make of it a conservatory open
to the public stare and criticism Let
baby grow naturally Train him gently
prune judiciously when necessary but
never force his budding powers Encour-
age him to pratte in the nursery
Do not let him declaim on the stage
We all know the method fshoflingoff
Robby amusing himself in building a
blockcastle in his playcorner is
snatched away from it without apology
his face and hands are scrubbed his hair
brushed hi3 protesting frame thrust into
a clean frock and before he can recall his
flushed wits he finds himself on exhi-
bition in the unfamiliar pari rs He is
fortunate if the spectator who could
not think of going without seeing
the precious petseywetsey does
not swoop shriekingly upon him suf-
focate him with kisses and strangle him
with embraces Unless phenomenally
amiable or stupid the devoted chdd
struggles to escape and succeeding runs
to his mother buries his face in her
gown and repels further overtures
Mamma soothes bribes and scolds his
ideas into shape He is not shy gen-
erally apologizes the chagrined modern
Cornelia When he knows you better
he will talk fast enough Nov Robby
Tell the lady the story of Little Red Rid-
ing Hood or the pretty verse you
learned yesterday or etc etc etc
etcRobby
Robby needs much persuasion perhaps
yields sulkily perhaps remains stubborn-
ly prool against all seductive arts When
primed by vanity ie graciously consents
to be put through his paces his memory
is hard pushed to f urniah what he has
learned by rote and his imagination
racked to supply impromptu replies He
pipes his ballad tells his story shrilis his
piece and is usually inebriated by flat-
tery into buffoonery and impertinence
The curtain falls upon an uncomely tab-
leau and mamma conducts un unruly
boy back to the nursery wonders fret-
fully why children never known when
to stop-
S e hyar dad who begun dis hyar
war whimpered the small darkey whose
parent objected to the bate dealt by the
teeth of the lad he was licking If
Robbys powers of ratiocination were
i wr at his mother believes them to be he
when he clothed lymself at all he shel
j would take up Sambos line of retort
tered in a cavee plowed with a crooked
stick and he ateibarrlesand flsh or the
flesh of game whilehis oropwa5 ripening
The meanest of the prdletf riat of the
meanest country of Europe Hl return to
no such savagery Jto develop Georgian
Utopia Progress has retfroved man
too far from poverty forjsucha relapse
to be possible Mr George knows this
well enough He made his answer in a
hurry But at his leisure he can make no
better one unless he renounces hisjclaimto
personal property For when the money
less men were put oa the land which
nature has provided the vpultl ha veto
be furnished with tools to werkiwitlrand
with food and clothes to last them till
their crops ripened Thebanks might do
qU ihis but they would wat4 a mort
gage on the land which nature has
provided and the absorbing of land by
great proprietors would begin again If
a government taxed the banks on their
deposits or Mr George onthe sale of his
books for means to equip and subsist the
new farmers1 h > t wouldtfe the firs act
of an absolute cb bmuneja ifd it would have
to be followed by iko s until all the
personal property of be cjuntry were ex-
hausted for nothingTfsTaoie certain than
that men will not work < eVien on the
lmd which nature has pxovidej jso long
as they can live witfaout work
IS is
reported irfrm TJherryhill
that a farmer ther ha a
Sate
pet crow tbafrj jjj
chickens sn Inner riii
has associated withrhlS
that it actually imagines ifetlf one It
struts around the barnyard all day
scratching for grain gb to5 roost with
the hens at ni2ht and in awnings tries to
ape the manners of its associates During
the late warm spell one of the hens took
a notion to try to hatch out china egg
and the crow not to be outdone hunted
up an old bone and followed sttit
General Bourlanger is fond of cricket
a taste which he acquired i during
dence in England when a
boy
a resi
ConsnmpUon Cured
An old physician Sitlred frorrutpractlce
having had placed in his bSuds by an Ia6t India
missionary the for ula or simple vegetable
remiSjf or the speedy andpermanent cure of
consumption broncisl iJtarrh asthmn and
all throat aad lung aUccti ns also a positive
and radical Sure for Nervous debility and all
nervousOteJpjajntsaf having tested Its won-
derful curBltoi j powere in thousands of cases
has felt It hls ij to make it knotf n to his suf-
fering feUows SqfsJKed b ti 13 motive and a
desire to rellevehunsStsnfferlng I will send
free of charse dJ U who desire It this recipe
in German FreirCIf or English with full direc-
tions for prejiarIngirKlinslnc Sent by mail by
aodressl
W A iN ra > iJU9
ng th starrfpSnamlng thla paper
rowers Block Eoches
Discretion Is or should be the offpring
of mature years Robbys tale of months
warrants no expectations in this quarter
Mamma should not begin the war of wits
ana torgues
It the baby er joys posturing and prat-
ing before an audience the symptoms are
more ser ous than whet the dawn of self
consciousness makes him uneasy and
naughty Growing by what it feeds
upon hi3 self conceit speedily attains ab-
normal proportions He is not happy
unless kept in the foreground and plied
incessantly with praise If no one else will
vaunt his accomplishments and retail bis
bon mots he souuds his own trumpet
Mamma cried a youngster of this type
pinching her arm when the conversation
strayed from his performances Say
tell the ladies some more that I said
My bird died last night said a little
girl to me with a mournful smirk more
comical than I can describe I just
screamed and hollered and lay down on
the floor and relied Mamma told Mrs
this morning she was really afraid
I would have convulsions She said she
never knew anybody who had so much
feeling as me
When the exhibited article i3 of the
feminine gender coy and coquettish
tucks give flivor to the entertainment if
there is a man in the room The sweet-
est daintiest most bewitching plaything
on the earth a loving wellmannered girl
is stiffened and inflated into a min
iafere flirt versd in the fooleries that
disgrace veteran coquettes insatiate of
admiration rating kisses and
smiles at the highest price they
will bring As she grows older
what was amusing becomes offensive
Mortified mamma has to hold her in and
put her down lamenting with Ribbvs
maternal progenitor that children never
understand when to stop The best
way of stopping them is not toletthem
get started Yet where one mother errs
oy repressing her little ones in the pres-
ence of others than the family 100 ob-
trude them upon the notice of friends and
acquaintances
I saw the other day an amateur horti-
culturist of tender years forestalling na-
ture in opening a crocus Kneeling on
the damp cold mold he arched his hand
about the reticent bud breathing on it to
bring up the temperature and finally
poked a hotdirty little forefinger between
the folded petals to the heart My
dear remonstrated abystaudex jitisnt
time for the poor littleit in wi aonii
You only bruise andnake it tigl
Dont care said the incfpJ r CTW
der I want it to be open time or no
time t Marion Harland
MR WATTERSONS TIEffS
Cleveland a Democratic JfcceaMty Th
Solid onth RrtHdy to Br alc
Interview In the Chicago Tribune
Mr Watterson what about Cleve-
land m f
I do noi believe there the slightest
chance of the Democratic party winning
next year unless it does nominate Cleve-
land He is the nlytnan that can under
present conditions carry the party to
victory I dont see how they are going
to get around it Tney must take him
It will be perhaps to soma like a dose of
medicine but then as the quack says
Its compound or death
my
Oae object of John Shermans tour
south it is said by a Virginia paper is to
prepare the way for reviving the Repub
licsn party thr > re outtIde of negroismand
sectional prejudice Do you believe such
a thing possible
It is not only possible but probable
I am looking every year for a breakup of
the solid south and it will be a good
thing for the country when It comes Bat
it will never come until the Republican
party of the north drops its sectionalism
ceases it attempts to array race against
race and buries the bloody shirt
That garment should be burned and its
ashes scattered Just so long as the
Republicans keep alive the memories of
the war keep aloft the banner of sec-
tionalism seek to aid and maintain negro
dominance under the sentimental guise
of equal rights and all that just so long
will the white people of the south main-
tain a solid front They must do
it It is their protection Their
safety and tneir honor and pride
to say nothing of jelf interest will
keep them up to the rack But the old
Whig leaven is there i all the states and
especially in those where once it was the
strongest You couldnt get any south-
ern man now perhaps to avow himself
ia sympathy with the old Whig principles
but they all love the memory of Henry
Clay and the idea of protection internal
improvement centralization and simpli-
fication of government is strong with a-
very large proportion cf them
It would be the easiest thing
in the world to develop these
ideas if the south could only be assured
that the effort was made in good fditb
and that the sectional cry was to cease
forever The country is ripe for a break-
up A new era has begun New blood
Is coming in Capital is pouring to the
front Railways are building aud ex-
tending There is indeed a New South
and now it only remains for the politi-
cians of the north to uudertanif their
duty You may thitk this queer talk
from a Democrat but then I in-
dulge In queer talks sometimes I
believe it would be a great thing for the
whole couutry and for the Democratic
party in particular to break up the so id
south aad cease to elect presidents and
congresses on sectional lines It is com-
ing as sure as the sun shines Look at
Virginia with her six Republican con-
gressmen out of eight North Carolina
is trembling on the verge of
political revolution Tennessee doesnt
dare go out after dark for fear
of finding the house occupied by some
stranger on her return Alabama is filling
up with northern people and is bound to
be a protection state All these things
point to a new era in American politics
and I welcome the day of its advent If
Mr Sherman caado anything in his next
weeks tour to prepare the people of the
south for the reception of new ideas or
make them believe that the old ones are
dead and buried he will be doing a great
work
POSTAL CARDS
Where They are Manufactured and Hnw
Supplied f
The head of the concern which manu-
factures postal cards for the government
is C C Woolworth of Albany N Y The
factory where the paper is manufactured
and the cards prepared is located at Cas
tleton Heretofore the cards have
been sent to Albany and were
distributed through the railway postal
service to such points as they were
ordered Recently it was determined to
make supply depots at Chicago St Louis
and Atlanta We have an order now
said Mr Woolworth for a trainload of
postalcards to be sent direct to Chicago
The weight of the cards t y be sent will
be about 125 tons and the total number
about 45000000 After Cnicago has been
stocked up we shall send supplies in a
similar manner to St Louis and to At-
lanta We manufacture between two and
three tons a day the year around
The largest order we have ever filled for
one city was 4000000 cards or about
twelve tons of paot r It was for New
York city New York uses about 6000
000 postal cards a month Cbirago comes
next on the list with aiout 5000 000 cards
in the same period There are 450000000
postal cards manufactured annually The
adoption of the twocent postage did not
cause any lessening of the use of postal
cards but checked the growth of their
use for some little time That check has
Deen overcome and the public is using
more and more postal cards every day
the ratio of increase being constant and
steady
o
A PRICE ON HIS IIEAU
An Exasperated Chinaman Offers SuOOO
for KalakuHx Taking Off
San Francisco Cal April 3
Cap
tain McCullough who arrived a few days
ago in command of the brig William G
Irwin from the Sandwich Islands relates
a remarkable s ory of Cninese enmity
against King Kilakua He states that a cer-
tain Chinese firm paid bribes of 70000 to
a native efficer holding a high position
to secure his influence in obtaining the
exclusive right to sell opium in the Ha-
waiian kingdom and that the Chinese firm
in question failed to secure the prize
They then demanded a return of the
bribe which was refused McCul
lough further states that the Chi-
nese have decided not to submit
to what they consider an outrage and
when he left the walls of Honolulu were
covered with handbills in Chinese offer-
ing a reward of 85000 for the head of
King Kalafeua I is said that the guards
have teen doubled ahtmt the palace
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of the stonrach and can be lntJirKiy cured If
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Let all w
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