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ESTABLISHED1 -K. NEWTBISEDB6 RVLRY, S. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1890. __PRICE $1.50 A YEAR R THE SUB-TREASUiRY SCHEME. COl. Ellison S. Keitt Argues in Favor of it. [From the Cotton Plant.] Last summer in my argument dis cussing the sub-Treasury bill the fol lowing language appears: "Wherein it is unconstitutional? The writer who has been a student of the government and of constitutional and international law for more than thirty years, unhesi tatingly affirms that no mau who un derstands the constitution of the coun try and the legislation of the govern ment and is familiar with the decisions of the Supreme court of the United States and has analyzed the "bill" ana lytically and synthetically, if he has any pride of opinion as a constitutional lawyer will say it is unconstitutional." I will now proceed to make good and clear the above allirmation and demou strate as clear as a mathematical prob lem that every principle contained in the "bill" prepared by the Legislative committee and introduced in the House of Iepresentatives by Hon. Mr. Pickler is constitutional; and the chosen leaders of the Alliance in its preparation displayed more wisdem than has been accorded to them. Upon an analysis of the "bill" it will be found that it contains six principles. The right of the governmeut to pur chase land and to build warehouses, to appoint agents and to receive deposits, to create motley and to lend money. These and these alone are the princi ples involved in the "bill." There can be! no dispute as to the LILU01 oe goverlii~fft to pTrase land and build warehouses, to appoint agents and to receive deposits of whis ky, merchandise and the precious metals, in the execution of the internal revenue laws and the custom's law, which are intimately interwoven with the United States Treasury. That right has been and is now in full prac tical operation. We have now only to make clear the right of the govern ment to create money and to lend money. In regard to the former, the following is the decision of the Su preme Court of the United States, opinion delivered by Justice Gray: "The Court holds, therefore, that Con gress has power to issue obligations of the United States in such form and to impress upon them such qualities as currency for the purchase of merchan dise and payment of debts as accord with the usage of a sovereign govern ment * * * This power of making notes of the United States legal tender in payment of private debts included in the power to borrow money and to provide a national currency is not defeated or restricted by the fact that its exercise may affect the value of private contracts * * * Congress as the legislature of a sover eign nation, being e:xpressly em:pow ered by the constitution to levy and collect taxes, to pay debts and prov'ide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States, and to borrow money on the credit of tihe United States, and to coin money and to regulate the volume thereof and of foreign coin and being clearly author ized to coin as incidental to the exer cise of those great powers, to emit bills of Credit, to charter national banks and to provide a national currency for the whole people in the form of coin, treas ury notes and national bank bills, and the power to make notes of the govern ment a legal tender in paiyment of pr' vate debts, being one of the powers be longing to sovereignt y in other civilized nations, and not expressly withheld from Congress by thbe constit ution, we are irresistibly impelled to the conclu sion that impressing upon treasury notes of the United :-t ates thle quality of being legal lender in paymenlt of p)riva~te debts is an appropriate means conducive and pili l dpted to the execution of the undoubted power of~ Congress consistent withl the letter and spirit of the constitutio: therefore within the mean ing of t hat instrument necessary and prIoper for caryn into execution the powers ve".t*d by this c'onstitution ill the governm,enit oDf the Uniited States. ''Such being our. c*onci nsono in the matter of law, the q1uestion whether at any time in war or p'eace the exige'ncy is such, by reason of unusual and press ing demands onl the resources of the governimenit, or of in:adequaey of the supply of gold and silver coin' to furnish the currency nieeded fo use of the government and( of the pl)'le tihat it is a matter of fact wise and ex Xped(ien lt o resort to this means,l5 is a poitica'l qlue' tion to be determined by (Congres when a qjuestion of ex igency aritses, and not a~ judicial qut~on to be afterward passed upon by the courts.'' It is clear from the~ above decioin that Congress has theC con-titutio nal right to order an issue of treasury notes, such as is contempl;ated in the sub Treasury bil!, and ma:ke themn at le'gal tend,er in paymen.~t of all deblts, bothi public and pirivate. The only quet ion no1w rem:aining for solution is thle conistitutio'nal right of the government to lend money, which I wi'll p1roceed1 to show. To comple)hte the arramr~ement ini Philadelphia for tihe ( enito!nni al E~x position, aid was asked of the~ govern ment. Oni the luth day of Feb ruay 1876i, an act was patssed by (ogrs placing $1,5'P%,000 of goverfniment mnoney in the hands of the (Centenmniat Finanflce Committee for thatt prpose,- andl a bond for 8300,000 was taken for. the e turn of this money to the governmient out of certain funds after tihe closin:: of the exposition. After the expositioni was closed the comiti tee in windilng up its afitirs refused to return the mornmuentc mome to the Treasu.c A law-suit followed which was carriled up to the Supreme Court of the United States and exhaustively argued. The following is extracted fromn the deciion of the court-opiuion delivered by Chief Justice Waite : The act of 1S76 requires paymient of the United States before a distribution of profits to stockholders. Not a word is said about restoring capital; in fact there is no mention of capital at all. The act of 1872 is not repealed. On the contrary it is left in full force in every particular save that the liberty incurred to the United States is made payable after those contemplated by the act of 1872 are satisfied in fuil. In this the United States made a conces sion to creditors, but not to the stock holders. Neither was anything taken from the stock-holders ; they retain all the rights which the act of 1872 gave them. If there had been no op position by Congress, the corporation would have been driven to the necessi ty of raising the required means, by borrowing or a further sale of stock. If by borrowing the debt so created wculd have to be paid with the others before there could be any dividend to stock holders. If by sale of stocks the new stockholders would come in pro rata with the old upon the final division of assets, Congress might have advanced the money by loan as well as upon the :onditions it did impose. It might Aso have subscribed to the stock. If i loan had been made and there had been no waiver of the legal rights of the government as a creditor this debt would have preference over all others rB4h trder of payment. If stock had been taken, the government would have participated in the final distribu Lion like any other stockholder. It 5eenied best, however, to adopt neither >f those plans, and another was de vised, by which creditors were given preference, and the United States re nitted for their indemnity to the fund which might remain after all the debts were paid. "To this the corporation operated and :he stockholders cannot now com plain. Creditors were protected ani stockholders not injured. "The decree of the circuit court must be reversed, and the case remanded, with instructions to enter a decree di recting the payment of the sum of %[,500,000 into the Treasury of the United States by the commercial board >f finance before any division of the re maining assets of that corporation is made among the stockholders." In pursuance of the act of Congress passed on the 16th day of February, [S76, and the above decision of the Supreme Court of the United States the board of the World's Industrial id Cotton Exposition held in New 3rleans, applied in 1S4 to the Govern :nent for a loan of $1,000,000. The followving act was passed by Zongress : "An act to make a loan to aid in the yelebration of the world's Industrial tud Cotton Exposition." "Section 1. That the sum of $1,000, 200 be, and the same is hereby, appro priated out of any money in the pub ic Treasu rv not otherwise appropriated is a loan to the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, to be used and employed by the board of m)anagers thereof to augment and en hance the success of the World's In lustrial and Cotton Centennial Expo 4ition in such manner as the said board f management may determine." Is it not clear from the abuove cited acts of Congress and the decisions of the Supreme Court of t he Un ited States that Co ngress has the constitutional right to) (rdler an issue of Treasury notes and( make them a legal tender in pay ment of all debts public and private and t.o lend money? Where were those members of Congress who say the sub Treasury bill is unconstitutional, and thle Government has no right to lend ;omonev when these bills were enacted into laws and these decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States were promulgated? Cao it be possible they were ini their seats in the Legisla t ive -Hlls? If they were is it not clear fromu t he ignorance they have displayed they are utterly unfit for the position they hold? As long as such men are miembers of Congress the peop)le may go through the hot and the cold, the wet and the dry, they may wear shoes without soles and clothe themselves in rags and live in huts on the coarsest food and their condition instead of imuprov-ing will grow worse with each a.That noble order ''The National Farmerd, Alliance and Industrial Union "has not conme a day too soon to trace up the acts of these "'little fel lows'' and expose them. Slick and fat, andl dressed in purple and fine linen, from spoils wrung from the oppressed, when inl Washuington city, they feel their o:its, anid care not a stiver for the p.eop)le: only for their votes. The comn mon good demands that every one of them should be left at home and thir. piaces filled with solid, successful, businecss mn of known integrity acu men and( preservance, if the dlemands of the people are to be heeded and their rights asserted and the country blessed with prosperity and contentment. H avinag demuonst rated fronm the legis lat:on of the Government and the de ci sions of the Supreme Coturt of the U nited States and the practices of the Government that every principle con tained in the sub-Treasury bill is in full accordl with the constitution, I w'ill now p'roceed to showv that its enact ment inito law will be a wise thing. Before I proceed, however, I will make clear two minor points. It has been asserted that the Government cannot: it to the pePol i 1 r -;er 1 num. The (overnment will not have to borrow any mone. Al -he will have to do is to order an issue of Trea surv notes to neet the demnand of pro duction and dcclare tiem. a full legal tender in payment of all debts both public and private. For this she will get i per cent. per annum for all notes advanced. IIstead of an expen.e it will be a source of revenue to the Go vernuient. It basbeen objected to the bill that the manager of the su-Treas ury, and under it. is elected by th peo ple when the consti:ution retquires the president to appoint. How does the president make his appointment ? are they not made on the recon-niendation of members of Congress or of personal friends? Would it not be better for the manager to be recommended by the votes of the people of the locality whoil he is to serve and pass up through tile members of Congress to the pre.-ident and he, then make the appointmenl!? If the people get a bad ofller they will have no one to blame but themselves and Congressmen and the president will be relieved ofa great responsibility, and it will be in keeping with a (ov Prnment of the people, by the peop!c, and for the people. Instead of its being an objection, it appears to be a good thing. I will now proceed to make clear my last proposition ; that the enactment of the sub-treas ury bill will be a wise thing to do. Moncy is oil upon the spindles of civilization and progress. There can Le no advancement without it. This fact, the history of mankind as they traveled down the ages, clearly demonstrates. As a gentle and softly falling April shower gives life and vigor to all vege tation, so a suMLeient supply of nioney for the transaction o business infuses energy into the people and vitalizes every enterprise. The enactment of the sub-Treasury bill into law will evolve a new principle in economic science. It will give the country a flexible currency, which is badly needed possessing the power of expansion and eontrattion to meet the demands of production and trade. The volume of notes can never exceed the urgent de mand for them as they will be cancelled within the year in which they are issued. One business year will be so blended into another it will be impos sible to distinguish theni except by the date of the notes. Under this system there can be no forced contraction of the currency by a combination of men to the detriment of business. The peo ple will be as happy as "morning around the mountain spread" is beau tiful. Mankind will be under a last ing debt of gratitude to the chosen leaders of the Alliance for involving this new principle in economic science which is a movement forward to the next station on the highway'of pro gress. We have now demonstrated by the legislation of the Government and the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States and the practice of the GovL rument that every principIle i tile sub-Treasury bill is constitutio nal and the enactment into law of tihe bill will be a wise thing to do. Whlat now n ill those Congressmen do, who hearing some ignoramus, no doubt soaked with whiskey, say the sub Treasury bill is unconstitutional and caught it up and repeated it, saying "it is uncounstitutional, and that is all I want to know." What will thley do? Will they st iaighten up and stiflering their baickbone vote for tihe bill; hoping to appease an outraged peopIle and hold their places, (Jr will they crawl into their holes an.d sulk. TIhe p)eople are not petitioniers. Tihey ask no0 favois. They demand their rights and they intend to have themi or know tile rea sonl why. Let them rouse thiemselves and rally upon hilltop and in valley throughlout tihe land, and mol've in solid columns wih a firm and steady tread. without a waver in the linIes, under their chosen leaders, and the (lay is near at hand whenh t heir rights will be asserted andi prosperity bless tile land. Respectfully, EiAIsox S. Kfu cr. Entor( e Planltationl, S. C., October, 2), 1890a. The Fa,rzmers' AniUance. LNewv York Herald.] Keep) your wecather eye on the Fawni ers' Alliance. It is getting to be a powerful organization, and if It conU tinues to grown inl tile ne.Xt two years as it hais grow (du1ring tile last t.vo it will become a political raetor inl the cami paign of N.. It represents a tendency oft lhe times -tile tendien~cy toward a paternal gov. ernm1ent-whichel inl our jundgmlent is fraught with boandless danlger. The Alliance must think a little mol're pro foundly onl this subject. Its p)resett positin is that of a tyro) ill poiitical econlomiy. As it grows older, however, it will probabiy growv wiser, and so be come a hlealthy, heartyV, vigorousf and inspiring elementI (iou Americanl life. T1he bottom i ac' 's that the govern mlenlt at WVashiington' should be curtaih d more than tile pople's servant. If hve is ever allowed to become their masl:ter, von may as well o.rder a tomlbstone. for our lib~erties will ianguish and die. Thle less government von have, the better oft the people are: the more you have. the~ w.orse oft are tihe people. it is the people's busi ness to run thiis couintry, not the president's. The Alliance folk muitst comle roundl to thlat basis before they can stand firm. If you feel "out of sorts.'' cross and parilla; cheerfulness wvill return anld life by men reporters of twoconventions ol women which were held recently in New York city-conventions by many delegates representing thousands ol women all over the land-were, for the most part. perfectly exasperating in their blundering inaccuracy, their stupid indifference, and their utter frivolity and flippancy. There are scores of clever newspaper women in New York; but only two or three pa pers thought it worth while to see that they were set to do this work. TUE VICTORY IN MICHIGAN. Bigger Than It Looked a Little While Back. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.-Frank H. Hosford, Secretary of the Democratic State Central Committee of Michigan has arrived here for the winter, and gives to the Evening Critic interesting facts about the results of the recent election in the Wolverine State. Ac cordig to Mr. Hosford, the Demo crats have gained much more there than is generally supposed. He says they have elected nine of the eleven Congressmen, and that this number will be increased to ten when the Fifty second Congress ousts Julius Cesar Burrows of Kalamazoo. According to Mr. Hosford's statement, it seems quite likely that this action will be taken. Mr. Burrows, he says, has a plurality on the face of the returns of about 200. His competitor, George L. Yaple, who defeated him fAr re-election to the Forty-eighth Congress, will contest the election on the ground that more than 200 negroes were brought over the Indiana line and voted for Mr. Bur rows. This claim, it is said, can be easily proved, and, if so, the calliope voice of the gentlemon from Kalama zoo, who is a leading member of the Ways and Means Committee, will not be heard in the new Congress. Mr. Hosford says that the Demo crats have elected their candidate in the upper peninsula district, although it was generally supposed that he was defeated' The "upper country," as it is known in Michigan, is the mining region of the south shore of Lake Su perior and has always been the strong hold of Republicanism and the place where the G. 0. P. always got the big majority that offset the Democratic gains in the lower part of State. The real importance of the Demo cratic victories in Michigan, however, Mr. Hosford says, lies in the fact that the Democrats having carried the coun ties and the Legislature, will at once proceed to redistrict the State and pave the way for the easy election of a Dem ocratic Legislature in 1892, which will promptly elect Don Dickinson Senator to succeed Stockbridge. The programme which the Democrats have marked out prov:des also Mr. Hosford says, for re tiring Senator James McMillan in 1895, and sending in his place the elo quent young tariff-smashing advocate Yaple, who is to get Mr. Burrows's seat in the next House. Christmas Numba. The Christmas (December) nnmber of Frank Leslie's Popular-Monthly is bound in a special illuminated cover of beautiful design, in lithographed colors and gold; and the contents amply ful fill the promise of this elaborate exte rior. The leading article is a richly illustrated narrative of "Dr. Talmage in the Holy Land," describing the Palestine of to-day as seen by the great p)reacher during his recent visit. The life-story of Louisa, "the ideal Q~ueen and ideal woman of Prussia," is told, accomplanied by Mine. Lebrun's exqui site p)ortrait, and many views. "An Old-time Chronicle" is gleaned from the famous Paston Letters, familiar to all students of med iteval English litera ture. Other articles having profuse pictorial embellishment are: "Bits of the Black Forest," "Canine Pets," by Edwin H. Morris, "The Early Cali fornia Missions," by Caroline Stevens Walter. "One Christmas in Egypt," by Colonel J. Milliken, and "China-paint ing" by Lily Marshall- There are short stories by Lucy Hooper, Nora Marble, Etta W. Pierce, Fanny Isabel Sherrick, and others, and illustrated poems by W. E. Henley and Georgia A Davis. She Knew. [From the Philadellduia Itecord.] An up-town teacher asked a girl how many bones there were ini her body, and the glib girl nearly swallowed her chewing gum in her haste to answer 20S. "Wrong, there are only 207," said the teacher. "Yes'm," wvas the triumi pha~nt response "but I swallowed a fish bone to-day." Barefooted scotch Girls. [From the Chicago News). In the rural parts of Scotland the young womenl go barefooted most of tile year. On Sundays these buxom damsels may be seen proceeding to church with their shoes in hland and their stockings hung properly over their arms. WVhen they reach the churchyard they sit down on the grass and with more ease than modesty pro ceed to don their hosen and shoon, for it would be regarded quite improper to enter the kirk without these articles of attire properly disposed. The quality of the blood depends niuch upon good or bad digestion and assimilation. To make the blood rich in life and strength-giving constituents use Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsaparilla. It will nourish the properties of the blood, from which the elements of vi tality are drawn. Children who are troubled with worms may be quickly relieved by giving them Dr. J. H. McLean's Liquid Vermifuge. It kills and expels worms KOCI'S CURE FOR CONSUMPTION. The Wonderful Discovery Still Creating Great Interest Throughout the World. [From the New York Herald.] VIENNA, November 1S.-The first Vienna doctor who went to Berlin to study Koch's cure has already returned, and his report of his experience is very interesting. He is Dr. Carl Hochsenger, of the Rudolph Hospital, and his earnest advice to pa tients i-i at present to refrain from going to Berlin. The influx of doctors and patients is so very great that it will not be possible for Koch to hold backi the composition of a remedy which is being applied for to such a degree thal it would be cruel not to place othei cities in a position to make the lynipl for themselves. Dr. Hochsenger was five days i: Berlin, and has had every opportuuit. of watching the immediate effect of Dr. Koch's remedy upon tuberculous diseases. He saw the injections made by Drs Cornet, Krause and Levy upon consumptive adult patients, cases of diseased larynx and scrofulous or tu berculosis children, whose glands or bones were infected. He says it is as if Koch's lymph bt tle contained some magic fluid, the immediate influence of which, watched by a physician's eye, is indeed a mira cle. A miligram, the thousandth part o a cubic centimetre, was injected under the skin of a child which had scrofu lous glands on the neck, each as large as a man's fist. Six hours after the in jection bad been made the glands begau to swell, the skin over them reddened and became hot and gave pai. Still the gland did not burst nor show signs of becoming an abscess. Six hours later the swelling had abated and the glands were hard and gave no pain. They were only a third smaller than before the treatment began. The impression produced upon a me dical man is overpowering. That a remedy should have been found which destroys the tubercule without hurting any other part of the body, and that through the blood it should- be able tc approach the infected tissue, is a tri umph of science. After having expressed himself in the most enthusiastic words respecting the discovery, Dr. Hoching;r e:;plains that the way in which the Koch method is practically applied in Berlin at this moment is by no means worthy of its great master and discoverer--that those doctors whom Koch has designated as his assistants, Drs. Cornet, Levy anc Dengler, make several hundred injec tlons every day upon as many patients in ten sanitary establishments. Each of these doctors treats between twc hundred and two hundred and fifty patients daily. These three doctors alone have the lymph. They are not assisted by any other medical men. They have no time to question theix .patients or observe them. They make no notes and do not control the effect of their powerful medicine. The man ner in which the patients are treated is absolutely scientific. Dr. Levy has taken the Germnania Hotel, and Drs. Cornet and DJenglex have reuted seven and eight boarding houses respectively. These are filled with wealthy patients, and scientific observations and treatment are alto gether out of the question. Professor Von Beigmann only treats such pa. tients as have skin tuber culosis, but the much more impor-tant consumptive patients a-e t--eated so that men of science can learn nothing concerning their eases. It would be very dillieuit if such men of science as Dris.- Leyden, Ger hardt, Secator and Fr-anzel were those whom Dr. Koch had instructed with the p)ractical application of his remedy. It is, therefore, but fair that a general demand should arise that the remedy should not be kept a secret, but that Koch should make both the lymph and the mode of application the properly of science. Another eminent physicia~n, Pro fessor Schnitzler, who has also just re turned, says the effects of the miedicine are p)henomenal in a very short time. The healing eflects aie no doubt great est with lupus; not quite as etfective, but still very favorable, are its effects upon tuberculosis in the bones; where consumption of the larynx or lungs is in the very first stages, there seems to be a good chance of cure, but where the disease is advanced thmere is certain ly danger in appiyillg the remredy. The Professor saw a female patient who, after the first injection?, lost con sciousness for thirty-six hours, and was fever:sh duiig the whole time. After the secondl injection she was uncon scious for eighteen hours. Several other patients had high fever and showed signs of irresistible sleepiness. Light attacks of pleurisy also result from the injection in some cases. BERLIN, Nov. 19.-Professor Ger hard t to-day ex plainled Professor- Koch's method to a large nlimber of foreign doctors, exhibiting three cases in illus tration. The first was a elo>:e of aggra vated disease in the throat. The pa tient received an injection yesterday of two milligrams of the lymph. To-day there was a decided reaction and a cure is expected. The second was a case of phtbisis, in which the treatiment had already attended with marked success In the third case the treatment was applied as a means of diagnosis, and as no reaction followed Professor Ger bardt assumed that the patient was free from tubercolosis. In the course of a lecture Professor Gerhardt warned -his hearers against the idea that Koch's treatment merely required the injec tion of the lymph to drive out the dis ease. Prof,_ssor Koch is chagrined over the reappearance of lupus in a patient re ported as cured. This is the only in stance, however, of the return of the disease after a supposed cure. THE LONE "LYNCHER" CONVICTED Case of David Ready, Who Tied a Negro to a Tree and Blew His Head Off. [Special to News and Courier.] BARNWELL, S. C., November 17. The jury brought in a compromise ver dict of manslaughter against David Ready, after being in the jury room from about 10 o'clock ou Saturday morning until they agreed on a verdict. The jury stood six to six between ac quittal and conviction. The prisoner was remanded for sentence. THIRTY YEARS IN THE PENITENTIARY. BA RNwELL, November 18.-Ready's ,entence is thirty yearsat hard laborin the penitentiary. The Judge said that inasmuch as the jury had recommend ed him to mercy be had been some what puzzled to decide what weight he ought to attach to it in passing sentence. By their verdiet the jury had said that Ready was sane. Whatever weight the recommendation might have with the Governor, so far as he was con cerned it was merely advisory and con ferred no legal rights on the prisontr. He was under his oath of office to ad minister justice without fear and with out favor. He was sorry that consist ently with his conceptions of duty he could not regard the recommendation. The Legislature had fixed a maximum punisbment to the crime of manslaugh ter, and if he were to address himself to the task of conceiving a case involv ing circumstances calculated to induce a recommendation to mercy he could thilk of none with fewer mitigating elements. It is, therefore, considered and adjudged, &c. There will be an appeal to the Su preme Court. The motion in arrest of judgment was overruled. Two Big Pensions. LFrom the Washington Star.1 One of the biggest pension allowances made to disabled private soldiers of the war of the rebellion has. recently been secured by John Jones of the town of Richfield, N. Y. Jones belonged to a New York regiment of volunteers. He claimed a pension on the ground that at the battle of Chancellorsville the ex plosion of muskets or cannon caused inflammation of his eyes, which has since terminated in total blindness. He is allowed $72 a month during life, with S15,806.27 back pay. A pension allowance only a trifle less in amount has been awarded toanother blind veteran of the ranks-Henry Wrighter, of the town of Windsor, N. Y. He served in a Pennsylvania regiment, and while on a long march su flered a sunse.oke, which caused total blindness. He has been awa~rded $)5, 750 arrears and $72 a month. The vete-'an has a pass:.on for horses, and his first move after getting the check for his back pay was to pay $5,5300 for a farm and then to stock it with twenty two horses and fourteen sets of harmss at a cost of nearly as much more. Destructive Fire In L.e.ington. [Lexington Dispatch.] Thursday evening, about 8 o'c'ock, a kerosene lamp exploded in Mr. Simeon Corley's residence on upper Main street. Thc flames were quickly extinguished by Mrs. Corley. An hour later Mrs (Corley made a careful inspection of the premnise's, to be certain that there was no fire about, and returned feeling that all was safe. A bout 12 o'clock the in mates were awakened to find the house in Ilamies. They gave the alarm and went to work to save the property. The building, with its entire contents, was comiplely destroyed, including Mr. Corley's tine library. A friend of the family, who was spending a night with them, lost an India shawl valued at ss00. A Midget will Wed a Tall Man. QC -Ncy, Ill. Nov. 13.-Nellie Bran ham, the-dwarf of Paris, Mo., is to wed one of the leading society men of Quincy in a few weeks. She is 23 years old and is twenty-two inches high. She has a faultless form and a charm ing address. Her intended husband has lately come of age and will disre gard the protest of his family and miarry the beautiful midget. He is unusually tall, and as the couple walk along the street the young lady can hold to the tip end of her lover's coat tail, provided it is a long one. Th,e Old Man's Opportunity. [Fromi the Chicago Tribune.] "What is your idea, Mr. Smith," asked the friend who had dropped in to look at the baby, "in calling the lhttle fellow John? Aren't there enough John Smithsalready?" "1 named that boy John instead of Mont morency or Vere de Vere or Alger nion," said the father, looking dubiously at the infant, "because I want him to fe.el, when he grows up to be a young mani of the period, that there was one time in his life when his father had the bugle on him." F~or rheumatic and neuralgic pains, rob in D)r. J. H. McLean's Volcani Oil Liniment, and take Dr. J. H. Lean's Sarsaparilla. You will not d long, will be gained with a s eflective cure. -- --anish all A course of P. P. p. our health bad feelings, and res -urative pow to perfect conditio ut of sorts and ers are miarvelo yourself and the in bad humo - P., and become coi--- nal. Home. 'ffce Factor,~ RlAVE WOMEN GOT SENSE? The Viewii of Women Newspaper Writers. LFro:n the Business Womian's Jour nal.] One of the eieverest newspaper wo rmcn I know confessed to me recently that she had become an utter pessimist in her opinion of newspapers and ofthe stuff they print. Her writing is prin cipally along the line of specials sup posed to be of gei ieral in terest to wonn and adapted for the columns or depart. ients designed for the feninie mind. She also handles for her own paper most of the out-of-town exchanges, and she has found it, she says, to be an al niost invariable rule that the sillier and more trashy of her screeds are widely copied in the newspapers, while those w hich are of a better sort in both sub ject and treatment are left unnoted. "The fact is," sil she, "if I should wI ite as well as I can, so thi:t I really could take pride and pleasure in it, I should very soon lose my situation. If, i on the other hand, I could bring myself to write the perfect 't rash' wh;eh I see is most popular, I could double my in come. As it is, I reconcile my self respect and iy pocketbook by pursuing a medium course. I have talked with many experienced newspaper women on this topic of late, and their testiiony is invariably like that quoted above. Many, however, unite with her in drawing from these facts an'erroneous conclusion to the effeet that the women readers of the newspapers do not want good things, nor even know them when they see them. The contrary is proved by the success of really first-class periodicals designed especially for women, such as Harper's Bazar, the Womans Journal, Good Housekeeping, and those newer claimeuts of popular favor, the Busi ness Woman's Journal, the Woman's Cycle, and the like; while the high-class monthlies confidently count on three fourths of their readers being women. The fact is that women have no voice and no choice as to what shall be sent for their perusal in the newspapers. With two or three notable exceptions among our large newspapers, the wo men's departments are edited by men. The stuff furnished by the syndicates comes next; and the articles to be used are usually chosen by men who almost invariably select the most fantastic and improbable, the slangest and loudest. When a paper has women writers upon itc staff even, who are expected to fur nish original articles for the woman's column.they seldom have much libe-Ity, writing usually only what is ordered, while the final authority which accepts or condemus remains a man, who known nothing about it. What can one do, however good in tentions, abounding enthusiasm, or broad an outlook she may have, if the manager of her paper says, "The trou ble with all you newspaper women is that you shoot over your readers' heads. The average woman never gets to be more than 16 years old. She leaves shlool then and marries and settles down. After that all she cares for is her crochet wvork and her babies and new cooking receipes; and that's what she wants to read about in the newspapers ?" And yet the man w ho to my kuow ledge, made the above remark is an unusually clever and able editor and manager, who h -s achieved an almost phenomenal success. With eyes wide Iopen to every new thing in b s profes sion, and brain qjuick to grasp auy idea which might be turned to the advant age of his paper, the modern edlitor yet fails to read the signs of the times so far as women are concerned. Hie still persists in holding to his preconceived ideas oIf her, ideas obtained from good ness knows what source; for the type dlescri bed above is as surely extinct as the dodo! He obtains the services of high-priced experts to take charge of his yacht ing, base ball, military, politi cal, labor, secret society, and a score of other columns, but he thinks anybody, especially any man, can manage the womian's dep)artmuent. The material wvhich goes to make up that depart ment consequently is not what a little honest investigation would show wo mxen to be interested in to-day, but what some man thinks women like, or should like. *That newvsp-aper will certainly score high in famne and fortune which shall be the first to give to woman's distinc tive ac:ti vities and interests-her clubs and soc-ietie-s, her education, her philan thiropies, her duties public and private, her amusements, her thought, progress, and pulrsuits-thie same attention now~ accorded to those of men; wvhich shall rep)resent fairly, in short, the wvoran's side of life. Tis. cannot be done in a column or a departmnent. The trouble is that most edit' rs, when~i they devote any attention to wvomen's affairs whatever, think they must give a lot of stuff which in realiy no woman expects a newspaper to print or thanks it for printing matter which she can find in better reliabe form~x in the class periodicals on fashions and hxouseholdi matters. Let a neswpaper keel) to its text and p)rint the news. Mluch of this is of equal mioment to both men and women; but let it give news wvhich is of importance to women alone as well as that which interests men only. If a prize fight wit nessed by ~0) men and a convention atte-nded by as many women occur on the same morning, why is not one worth a coinun of space as well as the othed~ Aud if a man who knows all about prize fights and fighters be sent to the first, is it too much to ask that the reporter assigned to the other shall be able to grasp at least the idea of what it's ali aount9 The reports marle Sebool Districts and Trustees. "We demand that the school districts in the varions counties of the Statebe as nearely square as practica4le, and of an area to allow only one white and one colored free school in each district , and that the school trustees be elected instead of appointed." Sixth Article in the platform of the March Conven tion. To the first part of the demand (school district), I ani not so much op posed, am even in favor of its being tried. Should it prove a failure, we can return to the township system. There are a great many, however, who have studied the system carefully, believe that the township system is the better. There are a few objections to the dis trict system that should be noticed. First: The school fund is apportioned according to the average attendance of pupils in the different districts. Suppose that a certain district has an average of one hundred and fifty pupils, and an adjoiting district has only fifty. The first district then would receive three times as much money as the second, could run its schools three times as long. Theschools of one district would run six months perhaps, those of the other only two months Under the old system this is not the case. All the schools in one township run the same length of time.. second : It would necessitate the-O building of a great many new school houses. Very few school houses now in existence would be in the proper places were the districts changed. In consequence of this, there fore, there would necessarily be a con siderable outlay of money before the new system could be carried into effect. Third: It would create a great many more office-holders than we now have, and as a consequence some, if not many, would be incompetent. Not every man is qualified to discharge the duties of school trustee. - Fourth: The lines bounding the new districts would have to be run, and at a good deal of expense. In dif ferent locajities this would cause much dissatisfaction, because certain parties would wish to be in particular districts. As to disaffection, however, this would be nothing unusual, for there are al ways chronic grumblers in every com munity. Notwithstanding the foregoing objections let us make the experiment. Should the school district plan be adopted it would settle the matter as to the location of school houses. There could be no changing of school house sites on account of prejudice, or for convenience of individuals. There would be only two schools for each board of trustees to attend to, and and they would attend to them much better than they do when they often have ten or fifteen. The trustees would be anxious to have a large attendance and would see to it that every child in the district went to school. The legislature, however, would make a fatal blunder should it pass a law to leave the selection of trustees to the people. But why, some one will ask. Because as soon as this is done' the trustee becomes a politician. All offices filled by the people have, very wrongly and injuriously, been made more or less political. The best men would not always be selected, for party strife and prejudice would often run high-we have all noticed this, even quite recently-and the most incom petent might be chosen. Yes, let the trustees be elected by the people, and we would soon find that very few hon- - est, faithful and competent men would__ permit their names to go before the Trustees would often be selected, were you to leave their selection to the people, simply because they were in favor of some particular teacher, or of some special nmeasure. Their fitness would not be called into question, only their position on certain measures. I object to the election or trustees, again because nearly every trustee in fact, every one, that I have spoken to about the proposed change thinks that it would be unwise and a great mis take. The last and greatest objection, is that the intelligent and ruling race can, by the old system run the schools. Let the trustee be elected and we would soon find a party holding office who have not done so for the past fourteen years. This is sufficient ob jection itself to condemn the last clause in the Sixth Article of the Platform. Let us have the new district system made a law, "let the other parts of the existing school law be changed so as to conform to it," but let us consider our own safety and have school trus tees appointed as heretofore. AELHUE KIBLEE. Political Tidbits. [From the Louis\-ille Courier-Journal.] As an impartial observer of current events, we desire to say that there ap pear to be entirely too many Demo crats in the country at the present time. There are about 2,000,000 fewer peo ple in the country in 1893 than were looked for, but the elections show that there are at least 1,000,000 too many Democrats. The returns from Pennsylvania show that while most of the Republicans of the State must have gone to the polls, a large portion of them voted the Dem ocratic ticket.* The chastening rod of defeat may occasio)nally be appiied with advantage to a political organization, but wear ing out a hickory stick on the soft parts is a little too much of a good thing. 1)id Not Vote for Tillman. [From the Greenville News.] A correspondent of Spartan burg asks us to decide a bet made there just fore the election that the editor ie Greenville News would not Le for Tillmnan. The editor of the cnil News did not vote for 'ocan Hce voted the straight hcai tce from top to botto bee always has done since he ben a voter and hopes to do a y. 'The ticket, we hav. ben ned, had on it the have. bee 'i illmnan for Governor. name ot 1 'r, was not the fault of that Tht.o oter and was not important, partic arison with the principle andi by nt involved. It was merely an pr ent of a process. 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