GALENA-SIGNAL OIL COMPANY ,
FRANKLIN , PENNA.
SUCCESSOR TO GALENA OIL COMPANY AND SIGNAL OIL COMPANY ,
SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED
Galena Coach , Engine and Car Oils and
Sibley's Perfection Valve and Signal Oils.
CHARLES MILLER , President.
JOHN P. IRISH.
B. T. Tillinghast's Washington let
ter in the Davenport Democrat :
the 1st of January
Fifty-nine years ago , -
' uary , at Iowa City , John P. Irish was
| . born and though he has roamed wide
ly , he has never been untrue to the
i state of his nativity. I met Mr. Irish
at his hotel in Washington one night
this week after he had delivered his
i
; closing argument for the claimant in
I . the case of Salvador or rather the
i _ Salvador Commercial Company against
1 - the United States , before the inter
national arbitration court , composed
of three arbitrators ; one from Canada ,
one from Salvador and Hon. Don M.
j , Dickinson , of Michigan. The amount
( -1 involved is about half a million del
lars. Mr. Irish is read in the law of
nations , as in almost everything else ,
L and his eloquence goes with logic.
He has been in Washington two
; ' ' , mouths attending to this question and
I * . . doing it with a singleness of purpose.
, " ' , < . , - . Ho will get hack to San Francisco ,
'
: ; \ , where lie is'naval officer of the port ,
ij X i" a few days.
' ' $ : $ ' - Mr. Irish lives at Oakland some of
, " * - the time , but in his log house upon
his ranch 150 miles from 'Frisco
whenever he can. Ho calls the house
a hut , but it is an ideal home with
books , art treasures , and better than
those a wife , a son 21 and a daughter
a little older. The sou stands 6 feet
2 , a chip out of the old tree. Mr.
Irish carries with him an album
showing the rooms of his cabin , pic
tures of his family and a photograph
of the boy yearly from the time he
was six. The pony and the cart are
pictured too and the growing fruits.
CHEERFUL KANSAS.
The word "gold" always makes a
white man prick up his ears. Gold
is the first metal mentioned in the
Bible ; on the second page of the
holy scriptures , it is. spoken of with
a simple comment of approval ; it is
said to be " good. ' ' This tenet has
been religiously adhered to by Jews
and Christians alike ever since. For
a year or two past , stories of gold in
western Kansas have been circu
lated. It is said that there is an ap
preciable trace of the metal in the
shales of that flattest country on
earth. Some have believed , others
have doubted. The aged and wise1
Atohison Globe , usually prompt to
denounce anything new as a fake , has
seemed to hover on the verge of
credulity. Now we are told that
careful and long-continued tests show
gold to the amount of $1.20 to $6.75
per ton in this shale , averaging $2.80 ,
which would mean a profit of 80
cents per ton. So now we may ex
pect to see the Kansas farmers beat
their plowshares into rockers , and
their pruning hooks into picks. As
for Nebraska , wo hope she will con
tinue to raise more corn and less hell
every year. We are used to seeing
surprising discoveries made over the
fence on the south.
RELIGION AND SCHOOLS.
At the meeting of the Baptist minis
ters this week in the Fine Arts building ,
observes the Chicago Chronicle , Kev.
D. B. Cheney denounced the exclusion
of bible study from the curriculum of
the public schools , and deplored the at
titude of the civil authorities in refus
ing to let the influence of the bible
permeate the education of the Ameri
can youth.
Mr. Cheney does not seem to under
stand that the constitution of the United
States permits each individual his own
religious rites , in his own way , pro
vided they do not interfere with the
rights of his neighbor.
It would be unfair to the Jew to com
pel his children to study the New Testa
ment. It would be unfair to the Chi
nese to force upon him a bible which
was not acceptable to him. The agnostic
would be right in protesting against re
ligious instruction for his children
which to him seemed false.
But the influence of the bible does
permeate the education of most Ameri
can youth , for the chiiroh and the home
furnish its teachings in most American
families.
Confusion and discord would be the
result of any attempt to put the bible
into our public schools. The Califor-
nian.