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f N EDMISTEFS GLISTENING STEEL.' rhe Loatler In tlio First Groat Plghting A Splendid liCtlor to tlio Itcform Voters or Nebraska From Hon. T. II. Edmtsten, lix-Ohalrmau of Populist Committee. , Iilncotn, Neb., Aug. 0. There must bo ' victory this fall. After the splendid administration of the past two years of the state ofllccrs there must bo no backward step. This Is the state of Bryan and Allen, and as such the eyes of reformers everywhere are turned on uo. "We must not disappoint them. Ne braska must lead In the battlo for hu man rights, ns she has led in the pnHt. The selection of Hon. W. A. Poynter na your candidate for governor Ib, I believe, a wise one. I havo known Mr. Toynter since 1891, having formed his acquaintance through the workings of tho state alliance. To say that he has been at the front and In the lead of the reform movement from that time to the time of his nomination Is stating the facts; and his recognition Inspires every worker with renewed zeal and energy. Ilia business qualifications are a safe guarantee to all business inter ests that no legitimate enterprise with jln the state need fear his ability to ,comprehend and appreciate the needs of the various brandies of business. Mr. Poynter Is their friend. We have no doubt that he will be fully able to take up the duties of the governor's omcc where and when the present chief ex ecutive Jays them down, and no per ceptible change will be noticeable. In addition to tho above It can be said, and truthfully, too, that Mr. Poynter being a farmer, adds materially at this time to his strength as a candidate, "When it is taken Into consideration that three-fourths of the voters in the state are farmers It can then bo understood why this class should have a repre sentative In the governor's olllcc. The candidate for lieutenant gov ernor, Mr. Gilbert, commands the high est respect of all who know, him, and In point of ability will be equal to all expectations. His nomination Is but a fitting recognition of tho silver repub licans and the yeoman service done by them In the cause of reform. As to the other state onlccrs, who aro, now candidates again, they need no Introduction to the public. Their records furnish stronge.' evidence why they should be re-elected than any Individ ual can offer. That the entire tlcke wilt be elected this fall there is no doubt, and we desire to assert to one and all who heretofore assisted in the election of the present state officials that we aga'n have the opportunity of continuing the good work and holiest government that have resulted from your votes two years ago. To say you made no mistake then in selecting these 'gentlemen Is fully supported by the records made by them. Upon the other hand, there cannot be one good reason Khfen why the itato government shou'd 'be turned over to Oie republican party, whose record is In such bad repute. In tho selection of Hon. J. N, Qafrin as chairman of the state committee, and Hon. J. M, Thompson as secretary, there has, been no mistake made., Mr. Gafllrr is well known te- the citizens cf ihls state, having been a member of the legislature three times and twice speaker of the house. His excellent records make him one of the most val uable and suitable men that could be found In the state to fill the position of chairman, and we predict for him In this undertaking a splendid success. Mr. Thompson was one of the first to be allied with the alliance movement and was secretary of the state alliance most of the time during Its history, proving himself to be efficient, courte ous and painstaking. The wide and favorable acquaintance of these two gentlemen Is sufficient In Itself to Inspire confidence in all the parties, and we take great pleasure In calling upon each voter and worker In the cause of reform In the state to come to the support of these gentlemen, as you have faithfully and harmoniously, in season and out, assisted our state committee in the past, we ask you. whether populist, democrat of silver republican, to enlist as a committee of one to see that the majority this fall for our candidates shall be so pro nounced that It will virtually remove the republican party from the field and reform will have full sway.,, That these reform forces have more to consider at this time than the elec tion of the state officers Is true. The election of a United States senator Is a matter of great Importance, and no doubt the importance Is so great that it will cause one Marcus Hanna to disgorge a considerable portion of the corporation funds he has succeeded In pulling out of his fellow craft. Yes, friends, look well to your selection In the legislature. Strong, able men should be chosen. You thus assist the state and congressional ticket; you thus strengthen our cause all along the line, "While personal ambitions may at times seemingly cause some to overlook .the real objects of this reform move ment, yet we are Inclined to the Idea that in due time these matters will of their own accord adjust themselves; and .when the command is given by those placed in power, the response will fce. all along the line: "Here am I; what will thou have me to do?" And let me say with a positive assurance that vlc t6ry again will perch upon the banners of the reform forces and a stronger and more, powerful army will come out of the field of battle to carry the princi ples they now advocate to victory in 1900. Let us not be satisfied with any thing short of the election of the en lire state, legislative and congressional Victories Was Nevor in Hotter Trim. , , . v . r , tlckots In the Btato ot Nebraska, and thus hold our position In the, causo of reform ns the banner state. We thus enthrone principles and lay tho foundation for a brettcr govern ment. With profound gratltudo toward all who have so loyally In tho past stood side by side In political contests, ar rayed against a common enemy, I, with all such, say again, duty confronts us. Let every man prove his steel. J. II. EDMISTEN. ON A BURNING SHIP. Peril in which Nebraska Boys Crossed tho Pacific. New York. Special. Tho third Phil ippine expedition is at Manila, twenty two days" out from Honolulu. Never did an expedition encounter more dan gers or endure more perils. On the voynge six men and oho officer died and fifty more were taken sick. Ty phoid and meningitis played havoo on the transports. Two firemen went Insane and leaped overboard. Hut fire was tho worst peril of all. The dead at sea wire: Ralph Powers, signal corps, of Los Angeles, July 20; Ernest Bowker, Wyoming battalion, July 20; Frederick Buckland, Thirteenth Minnesota, of St. Paul; It. D. Kerr, lieutenant of engineers, of West Vir ginia, July 21; Stephen Roddy, Twenty third Infantry, of Dallas, Tex., July 14; W. D. Kelly, fireman, San Francisco, July 19; John Stockvlllc, fireman, of San Francisco, July 4. Tho fleet of transports and their con voy, the monitor Monterey, were three days out from Hawaii when fire was discovered aboard the transport Mor gan City. One of tho crew reported to Captain' Billon that there waa a blaze In the coal bunkers. "Gen out the hose," whispered the captain. At midnight, when all the troops were asleep, Captain Billon as sembled the crew and told them the neVB. Every man was pieugea to se crecy. To let the soldiers Know mat they were over a raging fire would pre cipitate a panic. Silently the men coupled on the hoso and the steam pipes. Then they began battling the flames In the hold. Next morning tho fire was as fierce as ever. Night and day the heroic crew fought the fire, but with little nuccess. And still the troops aboard did not know that a fire was burning beneath their feet. Tho Morgan City foil off In speed and tho whole fleet was delayed. Captain Dillon did not signal the flagship. Ho kept his men nt work fighting the Arc in the bunkers, while tho troops went ubout on deck, all unconscious of their peril. The bunkers were still burning when the Morgan City arrived at Manila. Then, for the first time, the troops learned of their danger. The names were extinguished after the ship had been In port a few tours. The next most Interesting Incident of the voyage was the sight of the ac tive volcano Farallen de Pajaros. The ships passed it on the night of July 23, when It was In full operation. A col umn of flameB mounted far into the air and illuminated the sea. The, i.ien crowded to the rails and .enjoyed the spectacle until It sank beneath the horizon, leaving only a pillar of flam mirrored In the clouds. All through the voyage a watchful eye was kept for hostile sail, but none were Been. The men half expected to encounter Camara's squadron In mid- ocean. Dewey was prepareu iur sam ara to come through the Suez canal and the officers ot the American neet say that there would have been a repe tltlon of the battle of May 1, when Dewey disposed of Montejo's fleet with out the loss of a single life or any In Jury of any Importance to any ship. About 12.000 pounds of fresh beef was spoiled on the Indiana and several thousand pounds more on the other transports. The first Nebraska, sailed on the Senator. The recruits for this regiment who sailed on the Morgan City were those to All up tho regiment. Editor. HOT TIME. Oh the Popocrats are right In line, to win, win thlB fall, And they sure will win the battle, don't you hear, the call Oh they'll down the gold-bug lobby and they'll elect, elect their man, For they've got the votes to do It sure they can. When you see the Popocrats about, Just you watch they'll knock the gold bugs out. And when the ftght am through, they'll elect sure every man, There'll be a hot time In Nebraska this fall. CHORUS. Oh, voters when you see the Popocrats In line, All fall In we're goln to win this time, and when the fight Is through, We'll elect sure every man. There'll be a hot time In Nebraska this fall. Oh, the gold-bugs won't be In It, they have lost, lost their grip When the wheat it took a tumble and the farmer got the 6llp. We remember all their stealing that they did upon the sly. And the voters they will spot them and give the go-bye; When you see the Popocrats about, Just you watch they'll knock the gold-bugs out. And when the light am through, we'll elect sure every man. There'll be a hot time In Nebraska this I fail. THEY COME HIGH. Prices Paid to Artists at Private Entertainments. Ignnco Padercwskl received $2,B00 for playing recently at a muslcald In Lon don, and Mclba, who Bang at the same function, got $1,600 for three songs. Plancon was among the other sololBts nnd received sums proportionately as large. Probably tho price paid to Paderewfikt is tho largest given to any musician at a private cntertnlnment. The London muslcnles are arranged oh quite a different sonic from that which Is customary here. Tlioy arc not nearly so expensive In this city, says the New York Sun. Molba was engaged last year to sing at a muslcalo and received about the price paid to her in London. But that was tho only engagement of the kind which she hnd during tho winter. In London she has appeared frequently at private houses, and sung but three times at Covent Garden. For a per formance of an entire opera Bho re ceived nt Covent Garden $1,000. With the assurance of a certain number of drawing room engagements It can be well understood that Covent Garden could bo neglected, with Its greater de mands and its smaller compensation. But the situation Is exactly reversed In this city. It Is the public perform ances that pay, while private engage ments are scarce. Melba's appearance Inst, winter was followed by that of Nordlca, who is said to have received $600 for singing nt n fashionable mu slcale. Scmbrich sang before a club here and her fee was $1,250. After that ap pearance she announced that In thi future the price of her services would be considerably higher. Calve, who rarely appeared nt prlvnte muslcales, got $1,000 for singing one afternoon at the house of a well known merchant. After that she declined to appear any more In private on the ground that it wua as much as she could do to attend to '?r work nt the Metropolitan. Emma Karnes has not sung at conspicuous pri vate musicolcB since her first season here. IteJane played with several mem beru of her company at the house of a millionaire, and her compensation for acting in a twenty-minute comedietta was SC00. Yvetle Gullbert proclaimed on her ar rival hero her willingness to sing at muslcales for $1,000. But there was little demand for her ser vices, und she appeared only ojico or twice under circumstances which made it seem that she had not re ceived anything like that sum. She had supposed that her services would be very much in demand, and her chagrin at tho Indifference of society to her presence was frequently expressed with great emphasis. There seemed to be a prejudice against her by the people of society, who seemed to think that she would not bo restrained by the atmos phere of a drawing room, but certainly sing something that would shock every body. Yet she finds plenty of drawing room engagements In London and Paris. The singers who entertain the guests at the New York muslcales are usually the local artists, who receive compara tlvely small compensation for their ser vices. They are really more novel than the opera singers. The set of Boclety people In thlB city who entertain In a way that would be likely to Include tho presence of the operatic singers at their muslcales all go regularly to the opera, and constantly hear these singers under much more favorable circumstances than are possible In a residence, what ever the size may be. In London, on tho contrary the art ists appear only a few times, and It is greater luxury to hear them. New York would rather listen to them at the Met ropolitan, and for that reason they are not often engaged for private houses. The singers who do appear at these mu slcales arc of.a class almost unknown to the fashionable society. They oie choir and concert singers, who are rarely heard in this city, and they are more Interesting to society than the performers they hear regularly at the Metropolitan. The men of the opera companies are rarely heard In private. Jean de Reszke has always refused to appear at musl cales, although Edouard, during Jils first season here, sang at several houses. He explained the difference be tween his action and his brother's by saying that he was a married man with a family and could not afford to lose the money he made In this way. Slgnor Campanarl has sung more frequently in private than any other member of the company, although Slgnor Cremonlnl used to be popular during his first sea son here. David Blsphnm has appeared ssveral times. But the list of men sing'-' eis who entertain society Is small. The Instrumentalists are more In de mond. Among these the pianists are foremost, but, ns society here does not pay anything like the prices It doe3 in London, the number of these eminorit' ones is not very large. Josef Hofman lost year appeared only once at a private house, and Ysaye was not" In great demand. There Is enough music at the opera and in the concert rooms to entertain society. Becent experiments at the Indian Head proving grounds with steel armor plates made by the Carnegie company, after the new Krupp process, Indicate an extraordinary degree of resistance under ballistic tests unusually stringent and severe. One six-Inch Krupp plate tested by four shots showed no radical cracks, although the points of Impact of the six-Inch projectiles were but 8 Inches apart. . Now who would think tovlew that girl, With ruby lips and teeh' of pearl, With sweet, pink cheeks and brilliant eye, . That she could make such soggy pie? HER BONNET. An old-fnshloned bonnet, with lis queerly shaped brim, And a fringe of smart ru files that bor der Its rim; A flambeau-like crown In short, It's a poke In Us style and Its make-up; yet its beauties provtke My heart to a flutter whene'er you be gin To tie Its brnd ribbon down tinder your ehlr. This dainty white bonnet tied under the chin It a very nice place to hide yourself In. Its brings out a pink like tho rose of the morn, It accents the dimples whero blushes are born. Some say it's naughty, yet were It a sin, I'd peep 'ncath tho bonnet you hide yourself In. When we walk in the garden, when wo stand by the sea, When we pluck wild flowers far out on the lea, When you pout me and flout me, swear. Ing sottly 1 say, "As the Lord is my helper, before 1 am gray, I shall kiss the red lips that are shade, within By the folds of the bonnet you hlcu yourself In!" rp T ALU AGE'S SEBMON. Washington, D. C, Aug. Dr. Tal mage in this discourse arraigns the various modes by which some people get money that does not belong to them,' and commends the fair dealing that succeeds best at last. Text, I. Timothy, vl., 0: '"They that will be rich fall Into a temptation and a snare, and Into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdl tion." That Is the Niagara falls over which rush a multitude of souls, namely, tlu determination to have the money any how, right or wrong. Tell me how a man gets his money and what he does with It, and I will tell you his character and what will be his destiny in this world nnd the next. I propose to speak today about the ruinous modes of get ting money. In all city, btate and natlonnl elec tions large sums of money are used in urioery. ruimra, nam utniu wit science or good government, has often been be draggled into the synonymn for trucu lency and turpitude. A monster sin, plausible, potent, pestiferous, has gone forth to do Its deadful work In all ages. Its two hands are rotten with leprosy. It keeps Its right hand hidden In a deep pocket. The left hand Is clenched, nnd with its Ichorous knuckle it taps st the door of the court room, the legis lative hall, the congress and the parlia ment. The door swings open and the monster enters, and glides through the nlsle of the" council chamber as softly as a slippered page, hnd then it takes Its right hand from Its deep pocket and offers It In salutation to Judge or legislator. If that hand be taken and the palm of the Intruder otosses the palm of the official, the lep rosy crosses from palm to palm In a round blotch, round 'as a gold eagle, and the virus spreads, and the doom Is fixed, and the victim perishes. Let bribery, accursed of God and man, stand up for trial. NO LIGHT TEMPTATION. It !? no light temptation. The mightiest have fallen unde It. Lord Bacon, lord chancellor of England, founder of our modern science, author of "Novum Organum." and a whole library of books, the leading thinker ofi hts century, having an Income which you would suppose would have put him byond the temptation of bribery $3G, 000 a year, nnd Twickenham court, a gift, and princely estates In Hertford shireyet under this temptation to bribery, falling flat into ruin, and on his confession of taking bribes, giving aa excuse that all his predecessors took them, he was fined $200,000 and im prisoned in London tower. The block chapter In English, Irish, French and Ameilcan politics is the chapter of bribery. Some of you re member the Pacific mail subsidies. Most of you remember the awful tragedy of the Credit Moblllcr. Under tempta tion to bribery. Benedict Arnold sold the fort in the Highlands for $31,575. For this sin Gorgpy betrayed Hungary. Ahithophcl forsook David and Judas kissed Christ. The lobbies 'of the legislatures of this country control the country. The land Is drunk with bribery! To offer a bribe Is a villainy, but It Is a very poor compliment to the man to whom It is offered. APPEAUANCE IS INVITING. I have not much faith In those peo ple who go about bragging how much thoy could got If thty would pnly sell out. Those women who complain that they are very often Insulted, need to understand that there Is something In their carriage to Invite Insult. There are men at Albany, and at Harrlsburg. and at Washington, who would no more be approached by a bribe than a pirate boat witn a lew cuuasses would dare to attack a British man-of-war with two banks of guns on each side, loaded to the touch-hole. They are Incorruptible men, and they are the few men who are to save the city and save theland. Meanwhile, my advice Is, keep out of politics unlets you are Invulnejable to this style of cmptatlo'n. REIGNS AT HOME. My charge also to parents Is. remem ber that this evil of bribery often be gins in the home circle and in the nursery. Do not bribe your children. Teach them to do what 13 right, and not because of the 30 cents or the orange which you will give them. There Is a great difference between rewarding virtue and making the pro fits thereof the Impelling motive. That man who Is honest merely because 'honesty is the best policy" la already a moral bankrupt. We cannot .bribe death, wo cannot bribe, sickness, we cannot bribe the grave, we ennnot bribe the Judgments of that God who thunders against this sin. "Fie!" Bald Cardinal Beaufort, "fie? Can't death be bribed? Is money nothing? Must I die, and so rich? If the owning of the whole realm would save me, I could get It by policy or by purchase by money." No, death would not be bribed then; he will not be bribed now. ABUSE OF TRUST FUNDS. Another wrong use of money is epen In the abuse of trust fund; Nearly every man during tho course ot his life, on n larger or smaller scale, has tho property of others committed to his keeping. He Is, so far, a safety de posit, ho Is an administrator, and holds In his hands the Interest of the family of a deceased friend. Or he Is an at torney, and through his custody goes the payment from debtor to creditor, or he is the collector for a business house, which compensates him for the responsibility; or he is treasurer for a charitable institution, and he holds alms contributed fqr the suffering; or he Is an official of the city or the state or the nation, and taxes and subsidies and salaries and supplies are in hts keeping. It Is as solemn a trust as God can make It, It Is concentrated and mul tiplied confidences. On that man de ponds ,tbe.sUpport, of a 'bereft house hold, or the morals of dependents, or the right movement of a thousand wheels of social mechanism. A man may do what he will with his own, but he who abuses trust funds, In that one net commits theft, falsehood, per jury, and becomes, In all the Intensity of the word, a miscreant. SAMPLE IN NEW YORK. There Is not a city that has not suf fered from the abuse of trust funds. Where Is the court house, or the city hall, or the gaol, or the postofflce, or the hospital, that in the building of it has not had a political Job? Long be fore the new court house In New York city was completed It cost over $12, 000,000. Five million six hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars for furni ture. For plastering and repairs, $1, 231,817. For plumbing and gas works, $1,231,817. For awnings, $23,553. The bills for the three months coming to the nice little sum of $13,151,198.39. There was pot an honest brick, or stone, or lath, or nail, or foot of plumbing, or Inch of plastering, or ink stand or door knob in the whole establishment. That bad example was followed In many of the cities which did not stenl quite so much because there was not so much to steal. There ought to be a closer Inspection, and there ought to be less opportunity for embezzlement. Lest a man should take a 5-cent piece that does not belong to him, the con ductor on the city horse car must sound his bell nt every payment; and we are very cautious about small of fenses, but give plenty of opportunities for sinners on a large scale to escape. For a boy who steals a loaf of bread from a corner grocer to keep his mother from etarvinc to death, a prison; but fcr defrauders who abscond with $300,000, a castle on the Rhine, or, waiting until the offense Is forgotten, a castle on the Hudson! Another remark needs to be made, and that Is that people ought not to go into places, Into business, or into po sitions where the temptation Is might ier than their character. If there be large sums of money to be handled, and the man is liof sure of his own In (egrlty. you have no right to run an unseaworthy craft In a hurricane. EVERLASTING CROP. An abbot wanted to buy a piece of ground, and the owner would not sell it, but the owner finally consented to let it to him until he could raise one crop, and the abbot sowed acorns a crop of 200 years! And I tell you, young man. that the dishonesties which you plant )n your heart and life will seem to be very Insignificant, but they will grow up until they will over shadow you with horrible darkness, overshadow all time and eternity. It will not be a crop for 200 years, but a crop for everlasting ages. I address many who have trust funds. It Is a compliment to you that you have been 60 intrusted, but I charge you. in the presence of God and the world, to be careful: be as careful of the property of others as you are care ful of your own. Above all, keep your own private account at the bank sep arate from your account as trustee of an estate or trustee of an Institution. That Is the point ot which thousands of people make shipwreck. You have no right to use the prop erty of others except for their advan tage, nor without consent, unless they are minors. If with their consent you Invest their property as well ns you can. and If It is all lost, you are not to blame; you did the best you could; but do not come Into the delusion which has ruined so many men, of thinking because a thing is in tneir possession, therefore It is theirs. You hnvn n. solemn trust that God has given you. HE TALKED TOO MUCH. A blustering young man arrived at a hotel In the west, and he saw a man on the sidewalk whom he supposed to be a laborer, and In o rough way, as no man has a right t address a laborer, said to him, "Carry this trunk upstairs." The man carried the trunk upstairs and came down, nnd then the young man gave him a quarter of a dollar which was clipped, and instead of being 25 cents it was worth only 20 cents. Then tho young man gave his card to the laborer and sald,"You take this up to Governor Grimes; I want to see him." "Ah," said the laborer, "I am Governor Grimes." "Oh," said the young man, i"you I excuse me." Then the governor said: I was much impressed by the letter you wrote me asking for a certain office In my gift, and I had made up my mind you should have it; but a young man who will cheat a laborer out of 6 centB would swindle the gov ernment of the state It ho got his hands on It. I don't want you. Oood morning, sir." Oh, Is It not high time that we preach the morals of tho gospel right beside the faith of the gospel? Mr. Froudc, the celebrated English historian, has written of his own country these re markable words: "From tho great house in the city of London to the village grocer, the commercial life of England has been saturated with fraud. So deep has it gone that a strictly honest tradesman can hardly hold his ground ngalnst competition. You can no longer trust that any nr- tlcle you buy Is the thing which It pre tends to be. We have false weights, falso measures cheating and shoddy everywhere. And yet the clergy have seen nil this grow up In absolute indif ference. Many hundreds of sermon have I heard in England on the divine mission of the clergy, on bishops, and on justification, and the theory of good works, and verbal inspiration, and the efficacy of the sacraments; but, during all these thirty wonderful years, .never one that I can recollect on common honesty." Now, that may bo an exaggerated statement of things In England, but I am very certain that In all parts of tho earth we need to preach the moralities of the gospel right along beside the faith cf the gospel. ALWAYS BE HONEST. Ah, my friends, be honest before God, be honest before your fellow men, bo honest before your soul. If there bo those who havo wandered away, come back, come home, come now, one and all, come Into the king dom of God. I am glad some one has set to music that scene In August. 1881, when n young girl saved from death a whole rail train of passengers. Some of you remember that out west in that year on a stormy night a hurricane blew down a part of a railroad bridge. A freight train came along and It crashed Into the ruin, and the engineer and conductor perished. There was a girl living in her father's cabin, near the disaster, and she heard the crash of the freight train, and she knew that In a few moments an express was due. She lighted a lantern and clambered up on the one beam of the wrecked bridge on to tho main bridge, which was trestle work, and started to cross amid the thunder and the lightning of the tempest, and the raging of the torrent beneath. One misstep and it would have been death. Amid all that horror the lantern went out. Crawling sometimes, nnd sometimes walking over the slippery rails, and over the trestle work, she came to the other side of the river. She wanted to get to the telegraph station, where the express train did not stop, so that the danger might be telegraphed to the station where the train did stop. The train was due in a few minutes. She was one mile off from the telegraph station, but for tunately the train was Into. Wltb cut and bruised feet sho flew like the wind. Coming up to the telegraph station, panting with almost deadly exhaus tion, she had only strength to shout: "The bridge Is down!" when she dropped unconscious, and could hardly be resuscitated. The message was sent from that station to tho next station, and the train ft-tlted, and that night that brave girl saved the lives of hun dreds of passengers and saved many homes from desolation. But every street Is a track, and every style of business Is a track, and every day Is a track, and every night Is a track, and multitudes under the power of temp tation come sweeping on and sweep ing down toward perils raging and ter rific. God help us to go out and stop the train! Let us throw some signal. Let us give some warnng. By the throne of Gad let us flash some Influ ence to stop the downward progress. Beware! Beware! The bridge Is down, the chasm is deep and the lightnings of God set all the night of sin on fire with this warning: "He that, being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." Theories of Heredity. According to one of the theories In regard to acquired characters being In heritedthe evidence in support of this, it is even claimed, being found in our very skeletons "Science" points out that Prof. Arthur Thomson has found that In certain races of men who habit ually adopt a squatting position the tibia and the astragalus present addi tional articular facets, allowing greater flexure of these bones upon one an other than Is possible, or at any rate normal, In European and other civilized races who have given up squatting, and in which these facets are absent ac companying which facets there is also a retroversion of the head of the tibia. Both of these characters are present In apes nnd In certain prehistoric races. Reviewing the various facts which In vestigation discloses, tlie conclusion is generally arrived at that the presence of these characters, viz., retroversion of the head of the tibia, and Thomp son's facets, Is a more promltlve condi tion than their absence In normal Eu ropeans of the present day, that they have been Inherited from early times, and in those people, which habitually adopt the squatting position they havr become grardually developed. A Texas inventor has made a non puncturable tire, which has two layera of fabric, with the threads crossing each other, between which Is placed a layer of rawhide, tlu whole being cov- ered by au outer Jacket of fabric of ' rubber. & M r .! i i "V M -fl Y r y