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A MODERN PROMETHEUS.
Communities in Texas continue to speak
cut on the relations existing between strik-
ing railroaders and their former employ-
ers. Weatherford, Piano, Rockdale and
Denton have joined other communities in
their public denunciation of the methods
employed by the disaffected workers. The
positions taken by Receiver Brown and
Colonel Hoxie in the present emergency
are sustained and encouraged by the moral
aid which outspoken indorsement is sure to
convey. The conservatism of Texas at
this particular juncture is an exam-
ple to the rest of the United
States. The issue being fought out
here is an issue in which the entire
country is interested. The pretensions of
the Knights of Labor, as individuals and
as an organization, are in dispute. The
struggle is being made at great cost to cer-
tain railroad corporations, and to the busi-
ness and mercantile communities immedi-
ately dependent upon them in the vital
matter of transportation, and there is
apparently no thought entertained of
yielding to the immediate demands
of the strikers, cost what it may.
The issue involves distinctly a matter of
principle, and it is clearly defined and now
thoroughly understood. What results may
follow, of course, it is impossible at this
time to say, but it may be relied upon that
every railroad corporation in America feels
the cause espoused here as in a measure
tbeir own, and the fight will be made to the
complete and bitter end. Features in this
contest have been developed within the
past week in Texas to which The News
directs attention. They are dangerous fea-
tures. The receivers of the Texas and Pa-
cific railroad haye sought to operate that
line with such labor as they could com-
mand. They have been met with intimida-
tion and obstruction. There has been bridge-
burning, well-poisoning and other deviltries
perpetrated. Coming, as these events have,
during the presentperiod of excitement and
disaffection, they are naturally attributable
to the membership of the Knights of Labor.
It is not supposed that the Knights of Labor
as an organization tolerates any such
methods. It is understood on the contrary
that that organization prohibits and dis-
discourages such methods. The methods
are here, however, and they are here at a
time when the Knights of Labor are out on
& strike, and it is the property of the corpo-
ration V/ith which the knights are disaffect
ed that is being injured and imperiled. It
is just possible that a power has been in-
voked which organized leadership and
organic precept may be unable to con-
trol. The malicious and unlawful offenses
alluded to may be the work of individuals,
merely as individuals. Has there been a
modern Prometheus turned loose in the
State which no local assembly or grand
master workman can command to obe-
dience? It is true that the outrages com-
mitted within the week may have been the
work of persons in no manner con-
nected with the Knights of Labor,
and this may be assumed with-
out detriment to any one. Meantime
the lives of the traveling public are being
imperiled and property destroyed, and
United States marshals are calling for
bloodhounds and shotguns, in the hands of
conservative citizens of the State, to track,
capture and punish the depredators. And
the conservative citizens and the shotguns
and the bloodhounds have been forthcom-
ing. It is time to' think. Within the law
all men must have equal and undisputed
authority to do what is right—outside the
law all men must be responsible to the
higher power alone recognizable. There
can be no superior power to the law of the
land.
GOVERNMENT IN NEW BUSINESS.
A bill for the establishment of postal
savings banks was recently introduced in
the House of Representatives at Washing-
ington and referred to the committee on
postofflces. The proposal is to allow 2 per
cent, interest upon deposits. What will be
done with the money which the institution
would accumulate? It is fair to assume, in
view of frequent bank failures, that a gov-
ernment guarantee of safety would draw
savings in large amount to the government
institution. If this money were locked up
there would not only be a loss in paying
interest, but there would be a contraction of
the amount of money in circulation. Banks
put into circulation the moneys received on
deposits by making loans and discounts.
Would the government of the United States,
or the postofflce department, become a regu-
lar banking institution, taking mortgages
and discounting commercial paper as it
had funds to invest, or would it simply go
into the market and buy in its own bonds,
thus bulling their market value to some ex-
tent and incidentally creating a new argu-
ment for the perpetuation of the govern-
ment debt in order to have the most excus-
able form of investment for government
trust funds? Assuming that the
discount feature would not be al-
lowed at first, what is there to pre-
vent it from being added to the
scheme by another bill in another Congress
after a considerable amount of the people's
savings shall be in the hands of the gov-
ernment? What is there to prevent corrupt
officials at some time from making a haul
upon the funds of the postal savings bank,
the same as upon a full treasury, which
Democrats have always considered to be a
serious temptation? Suppose that only
mortgages are allowed as investments
when bonds may not be available. Would
the money, drawn from all parts of the
country, be loaned out in all parts of
the country, or would it be invested
in a few favored localities in the
past, where money is already far
cheaper than in the western and
southern States? Suppose the government
bank to be carefully managed and to super-
sede private banks to a very large extent,
would not the advantages derived from the
scheme have a tendency to create a public
opinion favorable to government engaging
in other forms of business? If the govern-
ment can lend the people's deposited cash
on security of mortgages, why can not the
government issue currency on the same
security at 1 per cent., the same rate it
charges national banks for currency issued
on deposit of bonds? While there is an
alarming degree of insecurity in banking,
there is perhaps about as much insecurity
in many other forms of enterprise
and employment,. There is, therefore, some
reason to consider any proposal to resort
to the direct agency of government in one
line of I usiness as tending to bring trade
and labor under a similar rule. Unless,
then, this be deemed a desirable prospect
as a whole, there ought to be a thorough
scrutiny of the relation of one measure pre-
senting possibly an appearance of needed
protection, with a concatenation of mea-
sures or a general policy which the success
of such measure would invite. Government
socialism is making headway the world
over, following up its precursor, the
still dominant regime of special
privilege by statutory authori-
ty. Government will have to be
unprecedentcdly good if the people are not
to be finally worse off by extending its
operations to the control of their ex-
changes, savings, investments and employ-
ments. Democrats do not believe that
there is any magic in officialism which can
render business management either more
sagacious or more honest and responsi-
ble, but that there is much in governmental
formalism that renders its action too in-
flexible where alertness and pliability are
needed, not to say anything of functiona-
ries in office being at times pliable on one
side where unswerving fidelity 1s the one
thing most needful.
STATE AND FEDERAL AUTHORITY.
The protection that the Texas and Pacific
railway and other public highways receive
through the federal courts and the inse-
curity to which such property is exposed
during strikes, when it is not within the
control of these courts, will increase the
growing discontent with the state govern-
ments as agencies for the protection of pro-
perty and property rights. It is noted that
in Mr. Hoxie's letter on the strike he takes
occasion to emphasize the proposition that
the current expenses of the railway compa-
nies under his management must be paid
from the current earnings. As the rail-
ways are prevented from earning anything
by the action of the strikers, current ex-
penses can not be met. Then, it is pre-
sumed that it was Mr. Hoxie's intention to
intimate that a condition is brought about
under ■which the railways may readily be
thrown into the hands of a receiver ap-
pointed by a federal court. Here is a no-
tice, in effect, to the central and local au-
thorities of the States that unless the pro-
perty of these railway companies is pro-
tected the owners of the property will ap-
peal to a higher and more efficient power.
The notice is not addressed so much to the
strikers as it is to the states of Missouri,
Arkansas, Kansas and Texas. The Mis-
souri-Pacific system of railways may have
ample protection from one or more of these
States, and not from another one of them
or from one or more, and not from other of
the county or district authorities in these
States. The failure to protect in one lo-
cality may- measurably paralyze the I
business of the entire system. Such
conditions present a strong inducement
to the owners of the railways to invoke the
protection of the federal authority which
is effectual in all the Sttites and in every
locality. The result doubtless must be to
hand over the railways to the ownership of
tho few strongest and most wealthy capital-
ists, the weaker corporate organizations
being weeded out in the reorganizations
which are brought about in the courts. It
must follow that the federal courts will
grow in power, as pretexts for the exercise
of that power are increased. This engenders
disrespect for local authority and state
courts, even upon the part of the citizens
of the State. It is evident that the federal
courts are appealed to in thousands of
cases, when it would be as convenient to
ask redress from state courts. This is a
growing tendency, fully met by the ingenuity
of the legal profession in manufacturing
pretexts. As a consequence the establish-
ment of new federal court districts is the
principal business of Congress. The fatal
inefficiency of state devices for the protec-
tion of property, and the liability of local
judicial and governmental agencies to be
controlled by local prejudice which often
denies justice to the citizen in his appeal
for redress or protection, strengthens
federal authority, encourages federal
courts in the extension of their powers, and
increases the number of these courts by in-
creasing their business. Even under Demo-
cratic administration, federal and state, it
is noted that here in Texas a United States
marshal, acting under authority of a feder-
al court in protecting the property of a
railway company, sneeringly announced
that the state authority is so inadequate
that other railways will probably seek the
protection of the federal courts. The fatal
habit of state officials shrinking from duty
and shirking responsibility emboldens ag-
gressions which these same officials are
loudest in condemning. They will proba-
bly denounce this United States marshal
while directly responsible for his employ-
ment by federal authority to discharge a
duty properly belonging to the State.
Whatever it may signify, it is a fact
that every paper in the State that advo-
cates Ross for governor favors Ireland for
the Senate, and every paper that pushes
Ireland for the Senate is hot for Ross for
governor. Who can pluck the heart out of
the mystery of this coincidence?
A northern paper says that a young
man of Leadville, enamored of a young
married woman of the same town, made
arrangements to elope with her. Each
thought the other rich. The inability or
unwillingness of each to buy the railroad
tickets to San Francisco caused a postpone-
ment of their plans, and the remark is
added: "Another home is not broken up."
No; but that is not the American home,
that is no true home whatever, where the
young wife could for an instant weigh the
thought of leaving for the companionship
of greater wealth. The breaking up of
many such alleged homes of those governed
by a horrifying sordidness is but the dis-
closure of the utter unfitness of some per-
sons for the domestic union or the actual
relationship into which they have entered,
so that it seems as if nothing but evil could
result from their existence. It is not from
such that a worthy and noble race can arise.
Louise Michel is said to be coming to
the United States to lecture. The slur is
cast upon her that she would still have been
in prison had she not been pardoned. That
remark is unAmerican. She was in prison
for the political offense of free speech.
A Washington dispatch this morning
states that Mr. Blaine is already busily en-
gaged laying wires to capture the next Re-
publican nomination for the presidency.
Mr. Blaine's book is now completed, and he
has plenty of leisure moments. Mr. Blaine
is tho kind of person that can not rest
easily unless he has some project on hand.
He wants the presidency and wants it badly,
and he will exhaust a good deal of planning
and hard work to attain it. Well, the De-
mocrats should give Mr. Blaine all reason-
able encouragement for two reasons: First,
he is about the best of the Republicans,
taking him as an individual whole, and se-
condly, the Democrats have already beaten
him, and should be able to do so again.
That English Tory should have waited
till Gladstone relapses into "innocuous
disuetude " before he alluded to him as the
" ossification of inconsistency." Incon-
sistency bothers the Tory. Inconsistency
is change, and is allied, in idea, to other
states than ossification.
An American manufacturer of saws testi-
fies before Mr. Morrison's committee that
he sells for 15 per cent, less in Canada than
in this country. In Canada he has to com-
pete with British manufacturers. Here the
tariff protects him. How do American con-
sumers like it? Other evidence shows, as
has often been proved, that American hard-
ware is sold to Mexicans and South Ameri-
cans very much lower than in the markets
of the United States. The tariff does not
cause wage-workers to contribute to each
other's benefit, but cause those in each
trade to contribute to the profits of the pro-
tected employers in the other trades.
The Russians, it seems, are not satisfied
with the attitude of Prince Alexander of
Bulgaria. Alexander is in fact a thorn in
the side of more than one European power.
He was elevated to the princedom of Bul-
garia by the powers, with the expectation
on the part of each, that that particular
power would control him. Alexander,
however, developed a character of his own.
He proved to be a wise, judicious and
spirited ruler, and on the field of battle dis-
played qualities that endeared him to his
people. The czar, because he can not use
the Bulgarian ruler, refuses to officially re-
cognize him, and is massing troops on the
Bulgarian border for the purpose of ter-
rorizing. The Bulgarians, however, can
play one power against another, and in the
meantime look out for number one.
That massacre of negroes at Carrollton,
Miss., was a lamentable affair. Viewed
from any standpoint, it was wanton and
cruel. Of course neither the State nor the
local community can be held responsible
for it, because ruffians frequently get in
their work in all communities. The State
authorities, however, should make it a spe-
cial duty to arrest and punish the authors
of the outrage. Had that Carrollton affair
only occurred about the middle of October,
1884, James G. Blaine would now be presi-
dent of the United States almost without a
question of doubt.
The conceit of inventing a universal lan-
guage raises its own difficulties as it
spreads. An American, a Dutchman and a
Swiss, all of them fine linguists, have each
produced a different system, and each is
pronounced decidedly excellent. The Dutch
government has given a large prize to its
subject, the Swiss invention is being culti-
vated by numerous societies, and that of
the American (8. P. Andrews) has been
studied by quite a number of persons. Still,
the trouble is to get all to adopt any one
system. Perhaps somebody will try after
a while to universalize the points of agree-
ment in these different universal languages,
if such points can be found.
The New York Commercial and Finan-
cial Chronicle of March 13 takes up the offi-
cial crop report for March, of the agricul-
tural department of the federal govern-
ment, to note its statements regarding the
wheat surplus, and makes the following
serious reflections:
These statements seem to have been Insert-
ed for speculative use in our breadstuffs mar-
kets. We doubt the w isdom and propriety of
the agricultural department giving its views
on points outside of strictly crop news. It
probably does it with good Intent, but It Is all
out ot place and frequently very misleading.
Last August, for instance, it took occasion In
its report to say, speaking of wheat, that" the
price must rise as soon as present commer-
cial stocks show signs of depletion. In
tin' rise that appears Inevitable It Is desirable
that the producer should get an equitable
share." Ever since that date the market lias
been dragging and lower, and In Liverpool tho
decline hus been almost constant, so that as
far as the producer has followed the agricul-
tural department's advice he has been a suf-
ferer. This week's report makes another at-
tempt to bolster prices.
The criticism is continued at some length.
"Wisdom" is one idea and "propriety"
is another. The News has frequently re-
ferred to consular and other reports which
seemed to very improperly boom ideas of
tariff protection and subsidy, but the wis-
dom of their authors will not be questioned
until there is such an instructed public
opinion as will not allow such documents
to be issued at public expense. If the agri-
cultural department is going the usual way
of political machinery—into a vicious pro-
pagandism of special interests—it will be
no wonder to careful observers of the gen-
eral tendency of officialism.
The two-thirds rule is the friend of the
dark horse. The dark horse is not to be
commended on general principles, but on
certain occasions there is no reason why he
should not be welcomed.
The Knoxville Chronicle characterizes
the senate vote in favor of the Blair bill as
a " hard blow to the old doctrine of states
rights," and interprets the votes of south-
ern Democrats in its favor as a practical
admission " that Congress not only had the
constitutional right to appropriate money
for educational purposes within a state, but
to prescribe the manner in which and the
classes for whom it should be expended."
Oh, no; it only means that if Congress,
having no right to take the hog, is deter-
mined to take and kill it, " we want our
share of the pork."
The Boston Journal thrusts a dagger un-
der Edmunds's ribs in saying that" there
is reason to believe that the mass of the
people will take sides with the president on
the general issue of suspending or remov-
ing officers. In short, the country believes
that removal is a power of the president,
confirmed by the precedents of years."
The state officers have not yet denied the
charge made by the Texas Figaro that a
state officer was with Mrs. Phillips the
night she was murdered at Austin. Let us
have a distinct and specific denial or expla-
nation.
If Blaine had become president he would
doubtless have removed more Republicans
than Mr. Cleveland has done, and he would
not have given the Senate his reasons for
doing so, nor exhibited private corre-
spondence. If Edmunds were president,
would he disclose to hostile partisans the
information given his administration? If
John Sherman were president would he be
more complaisant than he was when secre-
tary of the treasury? It is not likely.
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Newspapers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
The Moscow Pinery asks State Press:
Please tell how you know that three
righteous men were not enough to save
Sodom. That was just two less than Abra-
ham raised it to.
Well, Sodom wasn't saved. The Pinery
says:
The Galveston News and the drummers
have buried the hatchet; in fact, there was
no hatchet. The News never makes such
foolish mistakes as was made to appear
that it had made.... Let Galveston have the
State convention. A sniff of the salt-la-
dened breezes would have a beneficial
effect on the delegates.
Texas papers continue to print reminis-
cences of the early settlement of the coun-
try. Although egotism and family pride
have a large share in them, they are inter-
esting to a majority of readers of all ages.
As William A. Collins remarks of things of
this kind in the Pittsburg Chronicle:
These reminiscences keep green the me-
mory of those who were distinguished for
talents, virtues or eccentricities. They give
an air of permanence to social life, and de-
fy the grave to hide away forever the recol-
lection of striking personalities. Where
these records revive the story of useful
lives they inspire emulation ot traits that
seem to leave a halo behind them, and they
promote a laudable family pride among the
survivors of those who have genial Bos-
wells to recall their careers and with fond
detail almost bring them back on the stage
again.
It is an old remark that next to the can-
didate those who have nothing at stake
take the most interest in elections. Men
quarrel and fight over candidates and is-
sues in which they have no perceptible in-
terest, and newspapers abuse each other
and use insulting epithets for no better rea-
sons. The London Lancet says:
There are reasons for thinking that " the
mental disturbances set up by political ex-
citement may be a specific disease." " Elec-
tion fever" and "politico-mania" are at
present current terms in the English medi-
cal press.
In reply to the attack of another paper on
the laws exempting homesteads and a cer-
tain amcunt of personal property from ex-
ecution, and the assertion that " if a man's
liabilities are greater than his assets, then
all he has, in strict justice, belongs to his
creditors," the Flatonia Argus remarks:
The law-making power has, in Texas,
deemed it for the best interests of society
that certain property should be placed be-
yond the jurisdiction of courts. The credit-
giving portion of the community knows
what these exemptions are, and does not
consider them as a portion of the assets of
the debtor when such debt is contracted.
It does not base the credit given upon such
exempted property, and has no moral or
legal claim upon it. The collection of any
debt by legal process is just as essentially
by grace of the law as is the exemption of
any property from forced sale. The state
of Texas does not consider that " all that a
man lias " belongs to himself, but that a
part of it belongs to his wife and family.
The Argus expresses itself as follows on
the subject of the effect of horseback exer-
cise on health:
Dr. Holmes says that "on horseback a
man's system becomes clarified, because
his liver goes up and down, like the handle
of a churn." The doctor has evidently
taken a deck passage upon a Texas broncho
some time during his existence, but is dif-
fident about telling the whole truth. Liver,
lights, stomach, lungs, heart, and even feet,
go up and down, and if a man's system is
not clarified, a portion of it is generally
scarified, and when the operation is con-
cluded he invariably acknowledges that he
is " well off."
The San Antonio Light says:
Messrs. Yeater and Burcham, of Sedalia,
Mo., and Naylor, of Baxter Springs, Kans.,
have returned to their homes. They came
here to buy some 2000 head of three and
four-year-old steers, but the strike coming
on so that they could not get the stock into
their State before April 1, the date of quar-
antine. they returned home without a head,
and .f40,000 has been lost to the circulation
of this section. This is only one instance
of many.
The Greenville Banner reports the ad-
vent of a party with a popular platform:
The organization of the Sons of Rest is
to be started in Texas—according to rumor.
No one will be entitled to membership ex-
cept those who never work unless forced
to. The main plank in their platform will
declare in favor of boycotting all mer-
chants who refuse them credit and all peo-
ple who make any efforts to induce them to
work. The membership is expected to be
large.
The Banner says:
Suppose all the farm hands in the coun-
try should organize and go on a strike at
harvest time, and suppose they should take
off the wheels from the reapers and binders
and side-track them in the fence corners,
and should, by threats, keep any other
hands from doing the work? Such a thing
is possible if we Keep drifting in the direc-
tion we are now going.
The Dallas Times is a religious paper to
this extent: it would not exclude preachers
from office. The Times says:
Some of our wicked contemporaries seem
to be much surprised that we support Pro-
fessor James Collier, of Johnson county,
who is a preacher, for the position of super-
intendent of public education. The Times
has never yet failed in its support of the
clergyman. It is violently opposed to the
shoddy sort, but when it believes one is
worthy it never fails to not only give him
its aid but to urge all other people to do so.
The Waco Day remarks:
The business men of Shermanheld amass-
meeting on Monday night to define their
position in the pending strike. While
recognizing the rignt of any man to refuse
to work for any cause satisfactory to him-
self, they declare that the recent violent
interference with the liberty and property
of others merits severe condemnation. The
resolutions have no uncertain ring, and
show that public sympathy is decidedly in
favor of law and order.
The Post says Houston needs about two
more good banks. Good ones that will al-
low people without assets unlimited credit?
The Luling Signal says:
The oil mills were closed up by Mr.
Henry Muenster, the president of the com-
pany, last Thursday night. The heavy ex-
pense of running and the low price of cot-
ton-seed oil made it unprofitable to con-
tinue.
The Laredo Times remarks:
The last boycot of the Mallory Steamship
line at Galveston was more disastrous to
the knights, if possible, than the former
one. It has forced hundreds of poor people
out of employment, and without any effect
whatever on the Mallories. It is the old
thing of cutting off your nose to spite your
face.
The Houston Age says:
The boycotters are brave, valiant fellows.
They made a couple of worthy colored men,
who are running a restaurant, take their ad-
vertisement out of the Age The Age
would like exceedingly well to see every
laborer constantly employed at good wages.
The bigger the wages the better the Age is
pleased. For the more money paid to la-
borers the more money is spent, and the
more money spent tho more money circu-
lated; and the more money circulated the
more business done; and the more business
done the better the times; and the better
the times the more the Age prospers.
The Age thinks that circumstances
are sometimes such that to get up
an organized strike is a virtue, almost
a necessity. But the strike to be justifiable
in any case must be simply a withdrawal
from'the particular employment against
which the strike is aimed. An organized
withdrawal of all who are engaged in that
particular work. To bo boisterous or vio-
lent; to forcibly prevent any man from
working who wants to work; or to forcibly
take possession of an employer's property,
can never be justifiable. In quitting work
whenever a man wants to he but exercises
the Inalienable right of an Amerfban citi-
zen. In trying to prevent any man from
working who wants to work, there is an at-
tempt to prevent that man from exercising
his inalienable right as an American citi-
zen.
The San Antonio Express remarks:
The boycot and strike idea is becoming
more and more tangled. The strike on the
Missouri-Pacific is to compel a certain per-
formance on the Texas Pacific, over which
the Missouri-Pacific has not the slightest
control, and while the Missouri-Pacific is
tied up in its business, the Texas-Pacific is
running its trains right along. Those
Knights of Labor at Galveston have raised
the boycot ®f the Mallory line as far as they
are concerned, but expect the people of the
State, having no particular interest in the
matter, to continue the boycot of that line.
There has been a departure from reason
somewhere, and an early return is very de-
sirable. .. .Sympathy with the oppressed is
natural to the American heart, but its love
for law and the glory of the American
name, and the use of legal and constitu-
tional methods, will assert itself over all
namby-pamby or mobocratic proclivities.
The Fort Worth Gazette says:
When reason again resumes her sway
among the Knights of Labor they will see
that their action in one respect is prejudi-
cial to their own interests. Doubtless there
are many of them who see this now, but
while the fit of passion is on they know it
would be useless to protest.
The Brenham Banner:
It seems that this is not a free country.
Men who are willing and anxious to work
on some of the railroads are not permitted
to do so. The boycot is making no friends
for the boycotters.
The Luling Signal says:
The United States government recognizes
their right to quit work, but when the pro-
perty of others is interfered with steps in
to protect the rights of its citizens.
There is a question of mistaken identity
or veracity out between the Texas Vor-
waerts, a German paper published at Aus-
tin, and Hon. J. W. Stagner, a member of
the reviled ^ legislature, from Caldwell
county. Vorwaerts says Colonel Stagner,
while in Austin the other day, walking on
the street in company with some friends,
among whom was Governor Ireland, was
suddenly halted by a strong woman, say-
ing:
" Have I found you, faithless villain, at
last! Twelve years ago you secretly left
me in Germany, but I recognize you, even
though you have cut off your whiskers, and
now I will not give you up,my man." The col-
onel looked puzzled and didn't understand
a word. A German who happened to be
present translated what the woman said,
and the colonel tried to answer in English,
the only language he understands, but
the lady said he need not try to play off,
to her sorrow she knew him only too well.
Those present explained to tho lady that
they had known the colonel for the last
twenty years, and, while they were not will-
ing to vouch for him in all cases, they could
prove that in the German language he had
never advanced over " zewi glas bierthe
woman shook her head unbelievingly and
went away. This all scared the colonel in
such a manner that he at once telegraphed
home for somebody to come and claim him,
and next morning left the city under police
protection.
As might be expected, the Solon denies
the whole story, and says it is the result of
a hideous nightmare on the part of the re-
porter; that it is a right clever fabrication,
and must have happened when he. was
aBleep, as he never heard of it until it was
read to him from the Vorwaerts. He is en-
titled to the benefit of the doubt, or a sus-
pension of public opinion, until the matter
can be investigated by volunteer detectives.
Books and Periodicals.
The Sporting Man's Companion. By Wm.
E. Harding. Published by Richard K.
Fox, Franklin square, New York.
This book is a general history of the
sporting fraternity, containing a thorough
account of the prize ring, pedestrianism,
running records, base-ball scores, and
other interesting sporting statistics in all
branches. It will be serviceable in its way,
as well as interesting. A prominent fea-
ture of the volume are numerous photo-
graphs of prominent sporting men and
great actors and actresses.
Dogs; Their Management and Treat-
ment in Disease. By Ashmont. Pub-
lished for the author. For sale by Victor
Phillips.
To those desiring information of the nu-
merous diseases that assail the canine
breed, this volume is peculiarly applicable.
No finished treatise is attempted, or any-
thing liable to confuse from an over-indul-
gence in scientific technicalities. It is a
simple treatise, describing the appearance
of the disease, and the proper remedies to
apply.
No. 7 of Cassell's National Library
contains Sermons on the Card, by Hugh
Latimer. Those religiously inclined will
find the book interesting, from the fact that
the author gained the distinction of being a
martyr in 1555. For sale by Victor Phil-
lips. Price 10 cents.
Adami and Heva. A New Version. By
Samuel P. Putnam. Published by the
Truth Seeker company, New York. Price,
10 cents.
This little volume is a beautiful poetics
version of the Indian legend of the garden
of Eden. The thoughts of the author are
vividly and picturesquely expressed, while
the measure and arrangement of the verse
show a skillful hand and scholarly con-
ception.
The Quiver, an Illustrated Sunday Maga-
zine ; for April. Cassel & Co., publishers.
This number contains matter that can be
read with profit. It is replete with articles
of merit and interest, embracing all classes
of literature and combining entertainment
with instruction. Some of the most in-
teresting of the contents are: Famous Pic-
tures and the Lessons They Teach; As
Others See Us; Discontent, etc. Numerous
illustrations and bits of poetry help to-
make the book more attractive.
A Popular Family Atlas of the World.
J. B. Lippencott& Co., publishers, Phila-
delphia.
The pamphlet contains twenty-four maps.
It is a very neat and handy volume, well
suited for home and office use, and is well
printed and edited. Price, 30 cents.
The Order of Creation—This is the title
of a collection of controversial essays put
together in book form, making a neat vol-
ume of 178 pages. ' The writers are Mr.
Gladstone, Professor Max Muller, Profes-
sor Huxley, M. Revelle and Mrs. E. Lynn
Linton. There are two papers by Mr. Glad-
stone. The work is published in handsome
style, by the Truth-seeker company, JNew
York. Price, cloth, 75 cents.
notes.
Mr. A. T. Rice, proprietor of the North
American Review, is in England.
Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson has caused a , 5
genuine literary sensation in his weird,
fantastic and enthralling story of the
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Iu their general language and expression,
his works remind one of Edgar A. Poe,
though not, perhaps, as intellectual.
Watson Griffin, of Montreal, will publish
an article in the Magazine of American His-
tory for April, entitled The Consolidation
of Canada, in reply to an article, The Dis-
integration of Canada.
New Music Received.
The News has received two pieces of new
music from Thomas Goggan & Co. The
pieces were composed by E. Wiehle, and
are entitled The Island Wild W altzes and
Cyrill Gavotte;
WOMEN IN WASHINGTON.
An Astonishing Lack of the Reserve and Femi-
nine Delicacy Seen Elsewhere.
Washington Letter In Troy Times.
The utter recklessness of the female por-
tion of Washington society is often remark-
ed by persons of experience. There is a
freedom among strangers that is never
shown by the well-meaning young women
of other cities. Society is fully as kaleido-
scopic as politics. You do not always know
who is who in either sphere, and a great deal
is taken for granted. The modes of flirting
which are known in the North, and which
are supposed to be innocent, though to some
extent mischievous, are altogether too slow
for Washington. A great many cheeky young
society men here are in the habit of in-
troducing themselves to ladies, and they
are not often snubbed. Women who move
in respectable circles are accustomed to
send notes to members of Congress with
whom they have no acquaintanceship, so-
liciting private interviews. Usually they
want an office, but are not above accepting
gifts from these men. It is very difficult to
draw the ltne between the good and the
bad. Anybody attempting to do so is apt
to become terribly confused. Probably the
marks are not intended to reflect upon the
virtue but upon the discretion of the female
population of Washington. Ladies in good
standing here do with impunity things
which would cause them to be socially os-
tracised in other cities.
Breaking a Broncho.
Denver Tribune.
When a broncho gets so that he be-
haves himself decently all the time, if you
own the broncho, you had better sell him as
soon as possible, because you can bet your
life that he's got his will made and is going to
croak very soon. A broncho is only a pony,
a kind of small horse, and so we try to
break him the same way—that is, by the
same methods which we use when we start
to break a colt—but the difference between
the two animals is that a colt will always
be wild at first and always be more or less
mischievous, and a broncho is always
vicious and full of deviltry, and this devil-
try can never be entirelytaken out 01 him.
A few days ago the Lawrence (Kan.)
Herald gave an account of the Cesarean
operation performed on a mare which had
been bitten by a mad dog and had several
hydrophobic fits. The colt removed by the
operation lived and continued to thrive un-
til Inst Friday, when it gave symptoms of
hydrophobia, which was soon followed by
violent fits. These became so frequent that
the colt had to be killed. This case is said
to be without a parallel in veterinary prac-
tice, and shows conclusively that the virus
which brought on the fits in the mare was
communicated by means of the blood to the
colt, which developed, as stated above, into
rabies in fifteen days.
The British Inventions exhibition has re-
sulted in a deficit after all. The loss will
not exceed £5000, but the surplus of former
successes has now disappeared. The elec-
tric lighting was,perhaps, the most attract-
ive feature in the inventories, but it cost
nearly $40,000.
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