lie FlattsmouOi Herald Quekn Victoria in m-venty-three years old ntul has reigned nearly lift j -live years. THE estimate of the damage clone by the recent floods in Sioux City reaches the enormous stun of $4,000,000.' HlLL dodged the vote on the sil Tcr question in the senate the'other day which emphasizes the fact that he is nothing if not a democrat. The democrats are so hadly tore up down in New York that the re publicans will carry that state this fall by a handsome majority. TllE democrats of Kentucky seem to hare the idea this year that it matters not who they put up for president they cannot win; which is about correct. In two weeks more the Milwaukee convention will he held and all questions in regard to who will be the next president of the United State will be settled. THE German government has or dered INI) Maxim guns lrom Amer ican gun makers. Europe is slowly learning that the best of most things are made on this side the Atlantic. The name of David It. Hill was hissed in the New Jersey democrat ic convention, a fact which will hardly facilitate the writing a letter of withdrawal on his part in favor of Cleveland. The largest per capita expendi tures for municipal purposes in cities of the first class are made in New York, of course, where the democrats have full swing and the Tammany tiger has to be fed. It is true, as Senator Sherman, says, that "the only way to make gold and silver work in harmony is to put them on a ratio fixed upon market value," and (he republican party will never consent toa.?y oth er method of adjusting the matter. Pl'KlXO the year 1S01 t,'J07 vessels passed through the Suez canal, and of these only twenty-six carried the American Hag. Hut just wait until I'ncle Sam can have four years more of just such an administration as the one now at worts and things will change. It is altogether probable that flrover Cleveland will write a letter to Lord Salisbury reproving him gently for giving the snap away. The accomplished nobleman cer tainly did select an awkward time for confessions, so far as the stuffed prophet is concerned. Fremont Tribune. The country was never before so prosperous as now. The necessa ries of life were never before so prosperous as now. The wages of labor in honest money were never before as high as now. The syndi cate of political liars was never be fore as voluble, as mendacious and as impudent ns now. An Irish linn is going toestablish a linen factory in New York, the cost of the machinery alone to be used by it will be ?;K),tKX); and this will be spent in American shops. And just a few weeks ago a firm that has been making carpets in Kng land for two centuries, moved its plant to the Tinted States. The Mc Kinley bill is doing its own talking. THE DO-NOTHIWG CONCRESS The absenteeism in the house of representatives is a disgrace to the democratic majority If enough members tor a quorum out of a ma jority of 1.T0 cannot retain in their seats and attend to the duties for which thi) are chosen there is a very bad state of alfairs, which ought to be remedied by some res igintions, to be tullowed by the election of s'uve.-sors blessed with industry and ,1 sense of duty New York World, democrat. A Nl'.MHiiU of the leading demo cratic papers of the country have become utterly disgusted with the proceedings of die present house in congress. The New York Adver tiser, a thoroughly democratic sheet, says: What an unscrupulous lot of frauds these democratic leaders are! After shoo ting about economy all over the country, and after con demning the billion dollar con gress, they put through the house of representatives a river and har bor bill which for downright rob bery has not been excelled since the war. What would happen if these basin bazooka had control of the executive, legislative and judi cial branches of the government? Just pause and think! Uncle Sam still leads the van. Just last Monday the goTcrnment made a test of the new nrmor plate material, nickle steel. The armor plating used is the heaviest yet manufactured. The .rxK) pound pro-1 jectile rebounded from the plate without breaking or penetrating it in a dangerous extent. One ot the : balls bounded back to the muzzle of the gun, a distance of 135 feet. One ( of the projectiles was of recent American manutacturejaud was un injured by the contact. The for eign projectiles used were broken by the impact. This shows that the United States is on the lead for both offensive and defensive armor. The dedication of the new court house evidently threw llrother Race of the Weeping Water Kagle into a lit, as the Kagle rose on high this week with a scream and a Happing of wings which was intended to cause the court house to tumble in to the Hig Muddy and be swallowed up by the raging torrents. Hut it did not even shake the walls there of, and the building still stands, so that when Itrother Race comes over to the county seat he can walk into one of the county offices in the building, sit down in a chair, take olf his hat and cool his over-heated brow. ON the tith of last February Mr. Hlaine wrote to Col. Clarkson as fol lows: I am not a candidate for the pres idency, and my name will not go be fore the republican national conven tion for the nomination. 1 make this announcement in due season. There is no evidence that Mr. Hlaine has changed his mind since writing the above. On the contrary, it is well known to Mr. Hlaine's inti mate friends that he still adheres to his determination not to be a ciuididate. TllU Atlanta Constitution is dis couraged, and closes a longeditori al on the democratic situation with ' We do not have the faintest hope that Mr. Cleveland can carry the country. lie can not carry his own state, and we are firmly convinced that his nomination will divide the solid south." If it will do this, Mr. Cleveland should be nominated. He could alTord defeat for the sake of knowing that he had broken up the fraudulently solid south, which is a disgrace to the country. It is solid only by corruption and bull dozing, and democrats even in the south no longer defend it as honest. They simply justify it on the ground tlut the end justifies the means. Inter Ocean. The experiment of frightening a man to death has again been tried, with perfect success. Joseph Har din of Wellington, Kan., was the victim and practical jokers con demned him to death, blindfolded him, placed him on what they called his coffin, gave theconiniaud to tire, fired in the air while one of their number tapped him on the head with a small stick. Hardin died instantly. 1 he bullet did not strike him, but the idea of the bul let was just as successful and stopped the heart beats. There is nothing new in such shocks, hut it is something of an argument in favor of inlluencing the mind when the body is diseased. If a man is killed by the idea that he has been shot, why should he not be helped to get well by the idea that he will get well? One is ns reasonable ns the other. Ex. Com m t: rc i A L d i saster has f ol lowed the repeal of taritf laws or the rad ical reduction of duties in every in stance in the history of this country except in 1S10, at which time we were engaged in a war with Mexico, which was followed immediately by the Crimean war, when England had most of her pauper labor en listed as soldiers. Even then dis tress was only delayed. When the fects of war abroad and of the dis covery of gold in Caliiornia wore off, the free trade taritf of 184(5 got in its work and brought on the de layed but still inevitable panic. In isr7 the country learned that while the evil might be retarded and de layed, ultimate escape from the panic that always follows demo cratic "taritf reform" was impossi ble. THE PARTY CAN STAND A CON. TEST. Senator Oiiay, in saying, as he has just said in a newspaper inter view, that "a forced nomination of any one would be unfortunate,' shows a nervousness regarding the situation which is altogether tin warranted. According to this no tion a contest in the Minneapolis convention would be hurtful to the party. The nomination must be practically unanimous, or at least must be conferred on the first bal lot, to be of much service. This is n theory which was never promi nently suggested on either side in the past, and which will not com mand ready assent now. It might be well, of course, to settle the question of the nomination without a fight. Cotitests are apt to pro voke ill feeling between the rival aspirants and their friends, and sometimes they produce feuds which endure for years, and which hamper the party in which they ex ist. Such results, though, come 8 Idom. Rivalries subside after the convention, and, in most cases, the jealousies and bitternesses en gendered, so far as regards their active manifestation die out before the campaign is ended, or, at any rate, are confined to the unsuece s fill aspirants themselves, anil do not affect their friends. The esprit de corps winch exists in both the great parties prevents any extensive or prolonged sulking among the defeated men and their followers. The excitement of the canvass and the remembrance of former battles stir the blood and make the rank and file on each side eager for vic tory. For these reasons contests in national convent ions seldom reduce a party's strength at the polls. It will be conceded, of course, that Mr. Hlaine could not afford to take the nomination, providing he were willing to take it in any contingen cy, unless it came to him without a struggle. His position is peculiar in this respect. He is the foremost in his party, he once led the parly to defeat, and he has repeatedly die' claimed any further aspirations to ward the nomination. Nothing short of a spontaneous, overwhelm ing and virtually unanimous de mand from his compatriots for his candidacy would justify him in ac cepting it. None of the other men, however, whose names have been coupled with the nomination, not even Gen. Harrison, are under any such embarrassment. The presi- dent could take the nomination after two or three ballots without any material sacrifice of dignity or pres tige. It is true the renniniiiation of Jackson and Grant was unanimous, but either of these men wottld un doubtedly have accepted the can didacy if it were gained by them as the result of a struggle. Lincoln's second nomination came to him on the first ballot, but not by the unan imous voice of the convention, as the Missouri delegation voted for Grant. A contest in the convention would not have hurt any of these men at the polls to any perceptible degree. Nor would Harrison be in jured if he were compelled to make a struggle to regain the prize. Neither Sherman nor McKinley would sutler in any way in the esti mation of the party by the accept ance of an honor which part of the members of the convention pre ferred to give to somebody else. Therelore, the party is not at all alarmed at the propt cts that a con test may take place in Minneapolis. The longest and most exciting struggle which ever occurred in a republican national assemblage took place in 1880, in which thirty six ballots were taken, but Garfield, the candidate, was triumphantly elected. Globe Democrat. OUK' treaty with Honduras brings with the scope of reciprocity all the nations and dependencies of the West Indies and Central and South America, except Venezuela and Columbia. "If Hoies or bust is really to be the democratic slogan," says the Pio neer Press, "about now is the best time for the cautious to break for cover. Since the war the republicnns have lost the senate but once, and that was in the Fourty-sixth con gress, the second half of President Haves' term. Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, Rays: "A fighting democracy al ways wins," It didn't seem to in 1801 3. All this country has to do tojmake it independent of the world, and maintain a market which shall con tinue to be the best on the planet, is simply to keep right along develop ng its resources, which are limit less in every direction. As Senator Hawley has so forcibly put it, free trade is a positive duty for England. The kingdom of Great Hritain, with its limited area and resources, im ports !M per cent of its raw material. The United States finds').") per cent within their own limits. The ab solute daily dependence of Great Hritain upon the rest of the world for food and the material for manu facture, ia obvious. Cedar Rapids Republican. FRUIT JARS ARE ALSO CHEAPER "livery poor man buys fruit jars, and fruit jars are going to be high er on account of the McKinley law." That was the cry of the free traders two years ago. A year ago it was actively proclaimed that the prices had "gone up." Terrible thing, and all on account of the McKinley law. Hut thrifty house wives went on canning cherries and raspberries and all the berries in their season. Meanwhile, prices on glass fruit jars are lower now than they have ever been before in the history of the United States, This declaration is made on the statement of the agent of one of the largest glass fruit jar dealers in the , west Prestimab'y he knew what : he was talking bout, for he was prepared to sell the article in any quantity desired. He stated that last year for a short time there was an advance in prices, but it was not legitimately due to the McKinley law, or to any other law, except that the demand exceeded the supply of jars. I lie iilvauce did not come early in the season. It came after the dimensions of the fruit crop be gan to be realized. Hut this year fruit canners can buy all the jrs they want for lower prices than they ever paid before, and they will get American made jars for their money. Till-: Hiirlington, fa., Hawkeye has made a new discovery in the road problem, which at least has the virtue of cheapness. It says that the discovery of his new idea was made at Carthage, 111., several years ago during the fair of the Hancock county agricultural board. The weather had been very dry and by the middle of the week the roads leading to the fair grounds had be come near ly hub deep in dust, no amount of sprinkling seeming to have any ellect. Finally as a last resort a number of loads of straw were scattered filong the principal highway to the fair grounds and water sprinklers kept going all night. To the surprise and gratifi cation of the good people of that city the plan proved a fine success and the dust was kept "laid" during the remainiugdays of the fair with out difficult. Now comes the inter esting part of the story. During the various muddy spells that have ocurred since the plan was utilized, it was found that the highway thus "strawed" was always in the best condition. Some wise farmers down in the lower part of Hancock county, continues the Hawkeye, taking note of this have spread straw over several hundred yards of very bad roadway in their vicinity, and it is now stated that this piece cf road is to-day the only good road in that part of the country. The Howen Chronicle, in referring to the matter, says "htraw makes a road that is not muddy in wet weather. Don't burn up old hay or straw; it is just as easy to have it on the roads. There is enough straw wasted each winter to cover the roads of the country." HOME PROTECTION COLUMN. I'ONIUTTKI) ltv TIIK W. C.T. I'. O the wrongs, the misery, the suf fering, the woes unnumbered and unutterable w hich are being heaped tc-day upon the heads of the help less and the innocent, upon wives find mothers and little children through the agency of the drink tralic! Murder, outrage, suicide, ruin, disgrace so the awful story of the work of nun goes on day by day through the hideous catalogue of vice and crime. What are you doing, christian men and women of the land, to turn aside this torrent of death ami desolation? What have you done, wdiat are you going to dor The national commission of the Columbian exposition has decided to have a synopsis of all petitions against the opening of the gates on Sunday and the sale of liquor on grounds printed for the benefit of the commission, in order that the members might have them for ref erence when the time conies for the discussion of the questions. The right of petition was eulogized as one of the dearest of American in stitutions. The NJrrfeylrisiateitjjaJ with butf three dissenting votes, a bill ti cjpae the state exhibit, and requeetilW the closing of the Colum bian exposition gates on Sunday. This m;fres five states that have re sponded ,o our women's earnest pleading;. We nit glad to see that increased cinphaais is being laid in many quartets upon the importance of temperance work in and through the churches. We need stronger, more frequent and direct teaching on thii subject from the pulpit, and w J need more of the practice of tenipeaince, and especially of total abstinince, in the pews. A tremen dous responsibility is resting up. on tint Christian chutch to-day with gard the liquor truffic. It had Uje power within it to sweep thia traffic from the earth, if it wouldftmt st forth. The only ques tion ii when will it put it forth? Surel;jf the cry of the mul'itudes who Ire being crushed under the merciless tread of liquor monster is not gling up to God in vifiti: "Yen geanc j mine;' saith the Lord, I will r jpay Wotien throughout the stateof III incus WM'THry.5jsw 8tet-8. In Evanston Madame trustees u iiiaru, in iter eignty-nintn year, cast the first ballot of her life, ns the fulfillment of a lofty purpose. lif 'ii i . To labor leaders, t.-mnetanee leaders, one and a we have to say: He of brave heart, ye eager scouts of humanity's vast army. Strike out into the forest and blaze the trees. Slowlv w,- ,,, , , i, s ,i... rank and hie, but ,v i straight behind ou. catch sometimes away the nnililed music of it i i iii following Dn't you ahead there our coming- feet? Oh, yes, the human biped is a timid creature who loves to march in piaioons ratner tlian to stnlo- out swiftly and alone. bi) he cadres a jewel here behind the forehead, and is therefore the single sentient creature concerning wi-.om there is hope. 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