Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1886 — Page 2

®lje Hfinoiratif Sentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - Publisher.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. A train on the Fitchbttrg Railroad jumped the track near West Deerfield, Mass., the cars tumbling down an embankment 200 feet in height, some of them falling into the river. Reports from the scene of the wreck state that thirteen bodies had been recovered, but it was feared others were swept down the stream. Several persons have died of their injuries, and of the fifty or more wounded, some will not survive After eating dinner at Erie, Pa., the family of Henry McLaughlin were seized with convulsions, and the father,•mother, and one child cannot recover. It is evident that poison was administered, but by whom is not known. The failure of Roger Brothers, of Bristol, Pa., proprietors of very extensive flouring mills, is announced. Their liabilities are over $2J0,000. Assets unknown. In the railway wreck at Deerfield, Massachusetts, several lives were saved through the heroism of Henry C. Couillard, of Charlemont, who was being taken to jail for selling liquor. The railroad authorities 'nave started a movement for his pardon. Ex-Alderman William H. Milldr, of New York, gave $50,000 bail and was released from jail It is expected that he will ‘•squeal” upon Alderman Jaeline and others interested inthe Broadway railway franchise, in which case they can not hope to escape conviction The Hon. John Welsh, Minister to England under the Hayes administration, died at Philadelphia last week.

WESTERN.

Mrs. Grindal, residing on a farm near Eau Claire, Wisconsin, gave birth to four healthy male babes. At Chariton, lowa, an old man named Charles Archibald was beaten to death with a soldering-iron. Thomas Kelley and wife were arrested for the crime, on overwhelming evidence. In a tin can in Kelley’s coal-shed was found $1,230, which is believed to have been the object of the murder. After listening to a number of speeches at a meeting in front of the City Hall, a large body of East St Louis strikers marched to the railway yards with the avowed determination of making every man on duty quit work. Most of the engineers, firemen, and freight handlers obeyed without opposition. Sheriff’s deputies, with drawn revolvers, were hooted at, pushed aside, and in some cases disarmed. Finally a few determined men with leveled Winchesters overawed the strikers, and they withdrew. The steam-yacht Welcome arrived in Chicago the other day with clearance papers direct from Mobile, the trip having been made via the Gulf of Mexico arid the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. The Gem City Flouring Mills at Qnincy, 111., were burned, the loss reaching $200,000. Fire also swept away the iron works at Florence, Wis., entailing a loss of $50,001). Robert J. Phillips, colored, who a year ago killed his wife, to whom he had been married three months, was hanged at Indianapolis, Ind., on the Sth inst. The murder was the result of jealousy. A postal car on the Lake Shore Road was burned at Oak Harbor, Ohio. It contained Western mail matter for all points east of Toledo. The body of a young married woman, which was being taken to New York State for interment, was cremated in the blazing car. The Court House at Carroll, lowa, was destroyed by fire, but the records were saved. Charles Pennor, foreman of the hook and ladder company at Battle Creek, Mich., was arrested for incendiarism, and confessed to an attempt to fire the shops of, Nichols, The Federal officials at San Francisco unite in a telegram to the Secretary of the Treasury, stating that unusual indulgence was extended to tho Chinese Embassy, which landed at that port; that no discourtesy was shown, and that no complaints were made by the envoy.

SOUTHERN.

Dr. Brin ton H. Warner, of Baltimore, Md., who was bitten by a dog Christinas Day, died last week of hydrophobia. Fire in the Central Railroad warehouse at Savannah, Ga,, consumed forty-five carloads of corn and damaged 390 bales of cotton. Ex-Aiderman "William H. Miller, of New York, was arrested in Florida in connection with the famous bribery cases in the city named. Miller' is a Republican, and represented the Ninth Ward in 1884. Three members of a surveying party were drowned while crossing the New River at Sunnyside, W. Va., by the- upsetting of .-a. boat On account of the strange order of Judge McKay, of the United States Court, Atlanta, Ga., in postponing certain railroad damage suits, the attorney in the case commenced proceedings looking to adjudging him insane.

WASHINGTON.

The majority of the House Committee on Elections has decided to reject the claims of Frank H. Hurd to the seat from Ohio now held by Romeis. Solicitor General Goode testified before the Pan-Electric Investigating Committee at Washington, on cross-examination, that he was not aware of using any undue or unusual haste in ordering the suit against the Bell Company. If he had known of the Attorney General’s connection with the Pan-Electric Company, and an application for a suit had

been made, his action would have.been the same as it was. When asked if it had not occurred to him that it was late in the day to charge fraud against the Bell patents, witness replied: “No; and I want to say further that I did not know that the Bell Company was hedged about with such divinity that it could not be brought into court like other companies. There is one point I desire to make clear, and that is that the Attorney General had no more to do with the institution of this suit than any member of the committee.” Witness admitted that fie could not recall a single case where a patent suit had been ordered without reference of the papers to the Interior Department, but the practice, he said, was merely one of courtesy. The witness said he had directed the discontinuance of the Memphis suit because he knew it would be agreeable to the President The House Committee on Coinage has voted to report favorably a bill for the establishment of a sub-treasury at Louisville. The Secretary of the Interior has revoked the order of Commissioner Sparks of the General Land Office of April 3, 1885, suspending final action upon entries upon the public lands. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Commissioner of Railroads, testified before the Telephone Investigating Committee that the idea of using official influence to further the interests of the company had never been thought of by his associates. He had never heard until now that Senators Garland and Harris had written professional opinions touching flic validity of the patents. He saw now that the opinions of the associates as to the value of the Rogers patent were highly extravagant. Witness remembered that a suit before Judge Baxter was not regarded as particularly advisable, because he was said to bo hostile and antagonistic to Senator Harris. The office of Public Printer, now filled by 8. P. Rounds of Illinois, has been more eagerly sought by Democrats than any other one place in Washington. Mr. Rounds’ four years’ term expires this month. To a Congressman who was pressing a friend the other day, says a Washington dispatch, the President impatiently announced that he had about made up his mind to make no change in the Government Printing Office until after the adjournment of Congress. “I know that Mr Rounds’ time has about expired,” said the President, “but he seems to know how to run a printing office, and I will make no experiments during the middle of a session. ” Before the House Telephone Investigating Committee Stilson Hutchins, of the Washington Post, said he had, in a spasm of generosity, offered to buy Senator Vest’s PanElectric stock at what he paid for it. The latter finally declined to sell, as he considered the newspaper claim unjust, and would not yield to it. Witness had been offered some of the stock to publish Dr. Rogers’ poetry, but thought both the poetry and stock bad. The rupture between Secretary Lamar and Commissioner Sparks is said to bo so complete that one or the other must go.

POLITICAL.

The annual Stale election in Rhode Island resulted in the success of the Republican ticket, which is mainly made up of the present officers. An amendment to the Constitution providing for prohibition was also successful. This latter feature of the voting made the election extraordinarily exciting. At the municipal election in Dallas, Texas, on the heaviest vote ever polled, the Knights of L ibor made a clean sweep, every candidate supported by them being elected by majorities ranging from GOO to 1,000. The result was a great surprise. Dallas is the point at which the big public meetings about a month ago started in Texas to denounce the strike and uphold and indorse the attitude of the railroad companies, which was done by the Merchants’ Exchange, and many other meetings in the State followed the example. At Fort Worth tho candidates of the Knights of Labor were also elected to a man. Henry C. Krumpp, Republican, was elected Mayor of Kansas City, while the Democrats obtained control of all the remaining offices. Joseph Pulitzer has resigned his seat in Congress, from New York, as his newspaper, the IForW, demands his whole attention. At Effingham, 111., Mrs. H. B. Kepley ran against her husband for School Trustee and “knocked him out,” receiving a majority o*f twelve votes.

MISCELLANEOUS. The Governor of Texas has withdrawn from Fort Worth all the militia used in suppressing the railroad strike, except two companies of rangers. ASt Louis dispatch of the 7th inst says: “It is reported that the locomotive engineers contemplate taking a hand in the Missouri Pacific strike. The Knights’ executive have issued an address to the working men of the world denunciatory of the doings of Mr. Gould No attempts to prevent the movements of trains are reported, but the strike of the Bridge and Tunnel Company’s men at St. Louis has had a bad effect npon the business of that concern. 11. M. Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific Railway, telegraphed Jay Gould that 258 trains were moving on the various lines, and that seventy-six more were ready to start The Grand Jury of Essex County, Canada,-has indicted Sol White, M. ,1’ ,-for-an aggravated assault on an old farmer. BueSos Ayres advices are to the effect that the revolutionists have been completely defeated and have terminated their campaign. In order to Germanize the children in the Polish provinces, the landtag has passed a bill providing for compulsory attendance at the evening schools. “I think the railroad managers are making a big mistake in the course they are pursuing,” said Mr. Powderly, in an interview at Scranton, Pa. “Suppose Mr. Hoxie does succeed ’in crushing out the Knights of Labor in that section? It will avail but little. The men that are trodden under will never forget it, and weuld be likely to repay him in the future should the opportunity present itself. Then, the men they have are not organized, and care nothing for the railroad com-

pany. They will be apt to fall out at any time or finally become members of our order. I repeat, the railroad managers would have been wise to accept the terms offered two weeks ago.” The House Committee on Commerce has instructed Representative Dunham to report favorably his bill to authorize the President to appoint inspectors of live stock, dressed meats, and hog products intended for foreign shipment, to a number not exceeding fifteen for any customs district The April report of the Department of Agriculture showed a decrease of 5 per cent from last year in the acreage of winter wheat, Illinois leading in the decrease. Everything* vzas quiet at East St. Louis on the 12th inst. Seventeen companies of Illinois State troops, under command of Gen. Reece, covered all strategic points in the city. The funeral of the victims of the recent tragedy occurred on Sunday, and was attended by 1,500 Knights of Labor, Knights of Honor, and other organizations. At Parsons, Kan., and Fort Worth, Tex., several strikers were arrested, and there was more or less excitement. The troubles on the Union Pacific at Omaha were adjusted, and the men will hereafter bo paid by the trip system. The freight brakemen on the Mobile and Ohio Road struck for $55 for twenty-six trips of one hundred miles each. The members of the paid fire department of Philadelphia have decided to join the Knights of Labor, in the hope of securing an increase of compensation. At Sedalia, Mo., a woman shot at a Deputy Sheriff who was doing guard duty at the Missouri Pacific shops. Many telegrams from Knights of Labor have been received in Washington, asking for speedy action on the Curtin resolution for a Congressional investigation into the Southwestern Strikes. T. V. Powderly has written to Congressman O’Neill that the labor arbitration bill is the bast that could have been passed, although it will * not be the means of settling all disputes between capital and labor. A New York dispatch says the Vanderbilts, Astors, and Gould are closely guarded by private detectives against cranks. The Executive Board of the Knights of Labor at St Louis sent the following telegram to Jay Gould: “To Jay Gould, New York: “The following advertisement appeared in many of the leading papers of the 7th inst., dated from the office of the agent of the Ixiuisville and Nashville Railroad Company : “Ten good men from here are wanted as Deputy Marshals at East St. Louis to protect Louisville and Nashville employes. Five dollars a day and board will be paid. Also a number of platform men can be given employment. Only men who have plenty of grit business need apply. Apply at onee to T. S. Genung, agent. “How well this advertisement has been answered is seen by their work in East St. Louis. Six men and one woman were murdered by those who ‘had plenty of grit and meant business.’ By your actions in refusing the peaceful negotiations solicited by the Board of Arbitration you and you alono must be held responsible by the world for the lives of these innocent people.”

FOREIGN.

A movement has been started in Germany to adopt a system of legal education similar to that in vogue in Great Britain. Mr. Gladstone s long-expected plan for home rule in Ireland is at last before the world. Amid scenes of excitement, such as have been rarely witnessed, the “grand old man” laid his measure before the British House of Commons on the Sth inst Its foundation may be described in his own words: The mainspring of the law in England is felt to be English; in Scotland to be Scotch; but jn Ireland it is not felt to be Irish.” That mainspring he announces to be a Parliament in Dublin “for the conduct of business both legislative and administrative.” In detail, the Parliament, should the scheme be carried, will consist of two orders sitting and voting together, except when they may disagree, each order to have a veto on the legislative action of the other for a period of three years, or until dissolution. The first order is to consist of the twenty-eight representative Peers of Ireland—all Tories, by the way—should they choose to sit in the new Irish Parliament, and seventy-five members elected by ratepayers taxed on an assessment of $125. The second order will consist of 206 members elected on the present Irish franchise. The duration of the Parliament will be five years. It will have no power to establish or endow any religious sect, to interfere with the prerogatives of the Crown in army or navy affairs, or with the foreign or colonial policy of Great Britain. Its prerogatives are to be purely local, such as the passage of laws affecting trade and navigation, weights and measures, local taxation, and postal arrangements. It does not contemplate such relations between Ireland and Great Britain as exist between one of our States and the General Government. Mr. Gladstone says: “As Ireland -is to have a domestic Legislature, it will therefore be impossible for the Irish representatives to come here,” meaning that there will be no Irish membership in the House of Commons, leaving Ireland in the condition Illinois would be if it had no representative in Congress, free to regulate its local affairs, but having no voice in national. Other details of the bill provide that the office of Viceroy shall continue, but be made non-political, while the control of the constabulary remains, for some time at least, as at present, which will not be very palatable to the radical Homo Rulers.—Jbajiscal unity of the empire is tn bo preserved, but the revenue from customs and excise duties is to be held for the discharge of Irish obligations. The general power of imposing taxes is also vested in the Legislature.' The famous Cock Tavern, in Fleet street, London, is to be demolished. The Army and Navy Gazette says that much uneasiness is felt among the European officials in India in consequence of the existence of Brahmin plots against the English regime. The newly appointed British Minister to China, Mi-. Walsham, has been directed to concede the claims of China to Upper Burmah, now in dispute, in return for concessions to English capitalists and contractors in respect to the construction of railways to central points in China and the building of Chinese fortificatioun

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Hoose Committee on Territories has agreed to report favorably a bill to provide for the organization of Indian Territory and the Public-Land Strip into the Territory of Oklahoma. The bill provides that nothing in it shall be so construed as to disturb the existing property or treaty rights of the Indians, and that the Public-Land Strip shall be opened to settlement under the provisions of the homestead laws only. The President is authorized to appoint a commission to deal with the Indians. Jay Gould states that H. M. Hoxie has full powers touching the trouble on the Southwest system, and that he will enter into no further negotiations for the settlement of a strike which, he says, is now a thing of the past. The Central Labor Union at New York adopted a preamble calling Jay Gould “an arch-enemy of the republic,” and saying that “it is the intention and purpose of the great enemy of the American people to destroy all labor organizations.” They adopted, also, resolutions denouncing Jay Gould and his minions for their refusal to treat with the representatives of the workingmen of the Missouri Pacific, and holding him and his representatives responsible for every act of violence. A committee was appointed for executing a general boycott upon Jay Gould. At the regular weekly meeting of the Methodist clergymen of Chicago, where ths eighthour question was discussed with much spirit, Bishop Bowman said be should like to see Jay Gould kicked through the streets of New York. At the inquest on the victims of the East St. Louis emeute, evidence was given to the effect that no attack had been made on the deputies when they began firing. The deputies who did the shooting were released at St. Louis under writs of habeas corpus, but were rearrested and held to await requisitions from the Governor of Illinois. Numbers of coal miners in St. Clair and Mailison Counties, Illinois, have abandoned their work, and say they will not resume operations until the railway strike is settled. Sir Thaddeus Fairbanks, inventor of the Fairbanks scale, died at St Johnsbury, Vt., in his 90th year. Mr. Fairbanks was born in Dedham, Mass., and emigrated to St Johnsbury, Vt, when 15 years old. After working in a saw and grist mill he started an iron foundry in 1823, making newly invented styles of cooking stoves and cast-iron plows, the first iron plowshares ever made. He invented, in succession, a heinp-dresscr, a steam-heating apparatus, an arrangement of refrigerators which has everywhere been adopted, and finally the famous scale. For the last invention ho was made a Knight of the Imperial Order of Francis Joseph by the Emperor of Austria in 1873.

The Indian appropriation bill, including an item of $20,000 for schools in Alrska, passed the Senate on tho 12th inst. Mr. Sherman offered an arbitration bill in the shape of an amendment to the House bill pending in the Senate. Mr. Chace reported adversely from the Committee on Postoffices a bill to increase the rate of postage ou fourth-class matter to two cents an ounce. A resolution offered by Mr, Beck was agreed to appoint Mr. Gibson,’of Louisiana, to the membership of the Senate Committee on Commerce in place of Mr. Jones of. Florida, during the absence of the latter from the Senate. The President sent the following ncminations to tho Senate: Howell E. Jackson of Tennessee, to bo Circuit Judge of tho United States for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, vice John Baxter, deceased ; Frank H. Dyer, to bo Marshal of the United Statss for the Territory of Utah. The President withdrew the nomiuatio.r of Orlando W. Powers of Michigan as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. Republican Senators and Representatives at a joint caucus in tho evening adopted resolutions authorizing each State delegation to select a representative on the Congressional Campaign Committee. In the House of Representatives Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, from the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution for the appointment by the Speaker of a select committee of seven members to investigate the causes and extent of the disturbed conditions now existing in tho relations between railroad corporations and their employes. The committee shall have power to send for persons and papers, to sit during tho sessions of the House, and to visit such places as may be necessary in order to facilitate the investigation. It shall report during the present session, with such recommendations as it may deem proper to make. The resolution was adopted without division. The Morrison-Hewitt tariff bill was reported to the House with majority and minority reports.

THE MARKETS.

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CONGRESS.

What Is Being Done by the National Legislature. General Logan’s army bill was again the subject of debate on the Bth inst. General Logan and Manderson spoke in favor of and Messrs. Hale and Toller in opposition to the measure. Mr. Blair presented a memorial from the Mormon women of Utah, complaining that, the Edmunds law has been so construed as to bring its penalties to bear on the innocent, and has inflicted upon the women unprecedented indignities and immeasurable Borrow. Mr.- Blair reported favorably, without amendment, from the Committee of Education and Labor the arbitration bill recently passed by the House of Representatives. The postoffice appropriation bill passed the House after amendments to increase the appropriations for postal clerks and the transportation of foreign mails had bean rejected. During the debate of the measure Mr, Phelps attacked Postmaster General Vilas, calling him the Pooh-Bah of the administration, who usurped the functions of the President and of Congress to defeat the laws. Messrs. Holman and Randall defended Mr. Vilas. Mr. Lawler, of Illinois, from the Committee on Labor, reported back to the House a resolution for a Congressional investigation of thecauses underlying the differences existing between employers and employes on railroads, and it was referred to the committee of the whole. I Gen. Logan’s bill for an increase of the army was defeated in the Senate on the 7th inst. by avote of 31 to 19. A bill appropriating $200,C00 for a public building at San Antonio, Tex.f was passed. Mr. Blair introduced a bill to provide that eight hours shall constitute a day’s work for all letter-carriers, and that their 'salaries shall not be reduced by reason of the decreasein the hours of labor. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: John A. McClernaud, of Illinois, member of the' Board of Registrat on and Election in the Territory of Utah; Obadiah W. Cutter, Collector of Customs for the District of Niagara, N. Y.; Edwin Warfield, Surveyor of Customs at Baltimore; Thcmus G. Hayes, United States Attorney, District of Maryland ; George H.Cairnes, United States Marshal, District of Maryland ; Cyrus P. Shepard, Register of the Laud Office at. Worthington, Minn. ; Edmund James, receiver of public moneys at Carson City, Nev.; Samuel I. Lorah, receiver of public moneys at Central. City, Col.: G. S. Lake, pension agent at Des Moines; Charles W. Johnston, register of the land, office at Roseburg, Oregon; William T. Barney, register of tho land office at Oregon City, Oregon ; Charles R. Sauser, of Ohio, agentat Yakima Indian Agency, Washington Territory ; James I. David, of Michigan, agent at Osage Agency, Indian Territory. The House did nothing worth recording, the business transacted being purely routine, and relating to matters Of no interest. The Washington Territory bill was placed before the Senate on the Bth inst., and Mr. Voorhees spoke in advocacy of his amendment, which consists of an enabling act for the admission of Montana Territory, but the amendmentwas voted down by a party vote—yeas 19, nays23—the Democrats voting in the affirmative, the Republicans in the negative. The Senate passed a bill granting to the Kansas and ArkansasRailway Company right of way through. Indian Territory, and the House measure to ere.ct a building in Washington for the Congressional Library at a cost of nearly $3,000,010. By a vote of yeas 84 to nays 291 the House of Representatives defeated the amendment offered by Mr. Dibble of South Carolina, suspending the further coinage of silver under the Bland act. after July 1,1889. The House also defeated the free coinage bill by a vote of yeas 126 to nays k',3. The Judiciary Committee authorized Mr. Culbertson to report bis bill relating to captured and abandoned property, involving over $10,000,000, with tho recommendation that it be passed. The bill to admit Washington Territory was before the Senate on the 9th inst.,-the pending, question being on the proposed amendment cJ Senator Eustis limiting the right ot suffrage in. the proposed new State to qualified male electors only. After a somewhat protracted debatethe amendment was rejected—yeas 12, nays 25. The yeas were: Messrs. Beck, Berry, Coke, Eustis, Gorman, Gray, Ingalls, Jackson, Maxey,. Pugh, Saulsbury, and Walthall. Among tho Senators voting against Mr. Eustis’ amendment was Mr. Edmunds. Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill for the appointment of a board of arbitration to settle differences between railroad companies and their employes. George Hearst was sworn in as Senator from California. The following nominationswere sent to the Senate by the President: Lawrence Harrigan to be appraiser of merchandise" for the port of St. Louis, Mo.; William H. Waldy, of Michigan, to be a member of the .Board of Indian Commissioners. In the House of Representatives Mr. Forney,, of Alabama, asked unanimous consent for the present consideration of the joint resolution, making an appropriation for the relief of sufferers from the floods in Alabama. Mr. Beach, of New York, objected. The House then went into committee of the whole on the private calendar. Several bills were agreed to, when, the committee ran against a snag in the shape of a bill directing the Quartermaster General tosettle with the McMinnville and Manchester Railroad Company of Tennessee. The amount Involved in the bill is $246,000, and a long discussion ensued upon the measure, but no action was taken. The bill authorizing the formation of a new State to be composed of parts Washington and Idaho Territories, to be known as the State of Washington, passed the Senate on tho 10th inst. by a vote of 30 to 13. Senators Butler, S. C. ~ George, Miss.; Jones, Ark.; and Morgan, Ala., voted with the Republicans inthe affirmative. Senator Hearst, Cal., cast his first vote with his party in the negative. The President sent fifty appointments to the Senate. They include the successors of "suspended” officials whose terms have expired since their names were originally presented. They are now sent in to till "vacancies.” The Hous» passed a bill authorizing the establishment of sixteen new life-saving stations. Bills were passed authorizing the construction of bridges as follows: Across the Mississippi River near Alton, Ill,; across the west channel of the Detroit River, to connect Belle Isle Park with, the main land ; across the Tennessee River, by the Nashville, Jackson and Memphis Railroad Compnay; across the Mississippi near Keithsburg, 111. ; across the Illinois and Des Moines, by the New York and Council Bluffs Railroad Company;. over Bayou Barnard, Mississippi; across Red River near Brown's Ferry, Texas ; across the St. Croix at some accessible point between Prescott, Wis., and Taylor’s Falls, Minn. ; across the Mississippi at Winona, Minn.; across the Missouri at St. Joseph, Mo.; across the Missouri atCouncil Bluffs; across the Missouri at SalineCity, Mo.; across tho Kansas by the Interstate Rapid Transit Company; across, tho Missouri in Clay or Jackson Counties, Missouri; across the Missouri above St. Charles, Mo. ; across tho Yellowstone in Montana; acrossthe Mississippi at Red Wing, Mimi. ; across the Missouri near Atchison, Kan. ; across the Tombigee, Warrior, Tennessee, and other navigable rivers in Alabama, by the Gulf and Chicago-Air-Line Railroad Company; across Youug’e Bay, Oregon ; across tho Missouri year Cfaamberlain, Dakota; across the Missouri at Pierre,. Dakota.

Would Wait.

Editor of country paper (to publisher) —“I wish the mail would hurry up and come. If I don’t get some exchanges pretty soon I’ll have to hold back the paper, or fill up with original matter.” Publisher (who well knows the editor’s original matter)—“Hold back the paper. ” “How long?” “How long is the mail likely to be delayed?” “Two days, perhaps.” “Well, wait for it.” “I can fill up with original matter.” “Yes, and that’s the reason I want you to -wait.”—Arkansaw Traveler,