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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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TEIIIU-: HAUTE, JAN. 1.

A SENSIBLE SUGGESTION. The plan of electing members of CongresH more than a year before they can take their scats, has been the subject of criticism by the press time out of mind. In England the members of Parliament are chosen upon some specific issue or issues and

take

their seats immediately

after tfie election. This is the proper way, because then tho law-makers come fresh from the people and know their sentiments on important questions.

There is now pending before the Judiciary ('ommittee of the House a proposition to make tho terms of Representatives begin with tlie first Monday in

January

after their election, and also to

make the annual sessions of Congress begin at that time instead of on the first Monday in December as now.

Both these suggestions are sound and sensible. The holiday recess now breaks in upon the sossion in such a manner that no work of

any

consequence is done

until the members get back in January. A month of the session is practically fritted away. A eontinous session beginning iii .January and of the same length as now would witness the accomplishment of much more legislation.

Hv changing the beginning of the term both sessions of Congress would 1Q completed before the time for re-election would come round. A new member cannot do himself justice in his first session in Congress. It takes time to learn the ropes, make acquaintances and get a standing with the old .members. Two sessions would give better idea of the capacif.v and Illness of the Representative and his constituents could decide with more intelligence whether lie ought to be sent back or not.

The changes proposed ought to be made unless somebody can suggest something still hotter.

S! rsTJi/A I, Eh 'A TION.

The important question of manual training in schools is one that is receding constantly increasing attention. There is a growing feeling that tho education furnished by tho common schools is not as practical and useful as it might or ought to be. II i« of course proper to stimulate and dovelop the minds of tho children, but the fact seonts to be overlooked that most of them are destined to make their living by some kind of industrial labor. It is too much the oflect of school training to carry their minds away from this necessity instead of titting thorn to meet it.

It Is argued with good deal of plausibility that it would be well to have some manual training in tho processes of mechanical labor in the schools, instead of so many

purely

book studies. To what

extent this might be carried in tho public schools is an open question, but even small amount of such instruction would oxevta good influence. Tn the Kpccial schools where head-woik and hand-work go together it is found that the students arc

the

brighter and quicker

in their books for having worked with their Imiuls. Perhaps it would he» wise change to lopolVa few oT the multifarious

branches

now taught and devote

a limited part of the time to instructing the pupils in tho use of tools. A workshop could be fitted up in the basement or attic and a teacher, could bo employed who could take the pupils by section*, giving to each

class

an hour or

half an hour. The subject is worthy of the thought of parents and teachers. The public schools cannot do everything and the danger is that they are even now trying to do too much, but a change in the direction indicated would rather diminish than increase the burdens now laid upon the pupil". _____

THE rAL Mnxomi.y. Tn the North American Review for January, Mr. James V. Hudson throws a Hood of light, which makes a very black shadow, on the operations of the anthracite coal combination in Pennsylvania. The effect has been to lessen the mini tor of days' work of the miners, to diminish their small wages, to raise the price of ctwil to consumers to enormously increase their own profits.

Mr. Hudson states that one company allowed its men to ork but lt»7 days in one year, 227 days in another year, and only Ui'J!S days in the last eight years, an average of about 200 days a year. During the same time the wages of miners have tecn cut down sixty per cent, while the rates of freight charged for hauling coal by this syndicate have been kept at double that charged in general freight transportation. Yet these heartless cival Iwrons. ho starve their workmen to make the prico of coal dearer to all, are protected by the tariff by the exclusion of foreign coal from our shores. It would soem that the duty might well to taken off of hard coal. But whether this would be tost or not. it is a shame and an outrage that the moastrous Pennsylvania monopoly is not shorn of tU power* of oppression Suits are now pending by the State against this odious ring but they have not progressed fiir enough yet to disclose the possible outcome. ____________

JOHN ROACH,

the great shipbuilder,

is dead. Will the Democrats now to xatisfted?

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PEACE OR WARt

Will thereto war in Europe this year? is the question of the time in all diplomatic circles. Everybody is asking it and nobody is able to answer it. The plain blunt speech of Prince Bismarck in the German Reichstag the other day has been varipusly viewed. In some quarters it is thought to mean that Germany is for peace in others it is construed to mean precisely the opposite. We are disposed to think that Bismarck means just what he said, Viz: that Germany will npt fight unless she is attacked but that the best way for her to keep the peace is to be fully prepared for war.

Germany will not attack France, but Francc may attack Germany. She did so before and the restless military character of her people, coupled with the ambition of some of her leaders, may easily find excuse for another attack. The loss of Alsace and Lorraine has ever rankled in the French heart and a war for their recovery would undoubtedly be popular in France.

It is a wretched state of a flairs, however, which necessitates the keeping of ",000,0011 men under arms in Europe at an actual money cost of #2,000,000 a day. Add to this the loss of what these enormous armies of men would produce if engaged in the ordinary industries of peaceful life and we can form some idea of what it costs the nations of Europe lo keep the peace. No wonder that men, women and children have to work so hard and get so small a share of the comforts of life. If all the powers of Europe should disarm they would bo just as equally matched as they are now. There is absolutely no sense in keeping up those great standing armies.

titsmark sitting for nrft mitTIt AIT. Professor Adolf Donndorf, of the art academy in Stuttgart, has lately completed a most successful portrait bust of Prineo Bisuiark. This important commission rendered it necessary that the great sculptor should become for ft time a resident of the palace of the German Chancellor atFreidrichsruhe. In a letter to Rev. J. L. Corning, received a fewdays since, the Professor rehearses tho story of his sojourn with Bismark and his impressions of the foremost ligure in European politics in the quiet retreat of his rural home. Prof. Donndorf describes the extraordinary intellectual strength of the German Chancellor as fully matched by his refined taste and amiability of disposition. Like all great personalities he is enveloped in an atmosphere of mystery. To employ Donndorf's- expressive ligure, "The man seems still to to be a myth, so little is he known or understood.''

The greatness of the sitter for this por-trait-bust is matched by that of the artist for Donndorf's name is associated with some of the grandest monuments of Europe, and he is conceded by connoisseurs on the other side of the Atlan tic to be one of the foremost sculptors of our time. 3

.1 FOOLISH CONTEST.

The Democrats are making a serious blunder in contesting the legality of Lieutenant-Governor Robertson's election Whether or not there was a vacancy in the office which could be filled at the election in November, is now beside the question. Tho Democrats, through their ofiicial head, declared that there was, both parties nominated candidates for the office, and the election was held in good faith. Tho question should not be considered adjmlicata, as the lawyers say. It is too late to open the case. Col. Robertson was fairly elected and should have the office without question. The courts will no doubt so decide, but whether they do or not, the agitation is unfortunate and uncalled for.

The wheels of legislation are blocked and discredit thrown upon the proceedings of the Senate. The Green Smith crowd should be sat down on. They aro stirrers-up of mischief and disorder. They are self-seeking politicians who care more for party ends than for tho public good.

Probably after the election of a United States Senator the political atmosphere will clarify somewhat. We certainly hope so. There is great need of it.

A NTf-POLYGAMY.

The National House of Representatives dealt polygamy a deadly blow in the passage of the Edmunds-Tucker bill on Wednesday. The measure is radical iu its provisions. It makes the lawful husband or wife of any person prosecuted for unlawful cohabitation a competent witness against the accused, provides for the registration of marriages and disfranchises polygamists. The financial corporations known as the Church of the letter-Day Saints and the Perpetual Emigration Fund eomjmny are dissolved. The President is empowered to appoint all judges of county and probate courts and the Governor of the Territory is anthorixed to appoint all justices of the peace, sheriffs, constables and other county and district officers.

The bill passed is really the Tucker sutotitute for the Edmunds bill and must now go to the Senate for the action of that body. The measure is the strongest blow which has yet leen dealt against Mormon,

IN Jersev City it means something lo lie a fat man. These over-fad, hulking fellows are horrid. They have their Fat Men's Association and the 68 "beasts" belonging to it weigh Jointly 13,000. lite other night they went to the theater in a body and there was no seat large enough to hold the President, who weights 416 pounds. A special chair was sent down from the stage and wtis presented to him in a formal speech by the mayor of the city. Evidently Jersey City is a good place for fat men to live in.

TEKRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

The boodlers in the Missouri legislature are getting in their work in attempting to secure the enactment of a law requiring every railroad within that State to furnish free transportation to every State officer and legislator during his term of office. A more corrupting law it would be difficult to conceive of. and it remains to be seen whether the people of Missouri will endorse such a scheme. It is well enough to say that a man is a very poor specimen of humanity whose influence can be bought for a railroad pass, but the fact yet remains that a law like this is legalized bribery or blackmail—bad enough in either case.

TKVIXO to grab thegroundupon which cities stand and which has become immensely valuable seems to be the order of the day. Scarcely a large town or city in the country but has been made the subject of attack bv these grabbers. We notice that Peoria is to come in for its turn at the business. A Pennsylvania family by the name of Reno announces its intention of recovering a large part of the ground upon which the city is located and which of course is now exceedingly valuable. There is probably nothing in the claim as is usually the case where such efforts are made.

Mi!. IIKNRY WATTERSON in his paper, Louisville Courier-Journal, suggests that if the Republicans should nominate Judge Gresham for President, the Democrats could not do better than to go to Indiana, too, for their candidate and make Judge William E. Niblack their standard-bearer. Mr. Watterson doesn't like Mr. Cleveland, but for all that it is hard to see how tho Democrats are going to get out of nominating him again. Indiana may come in for second place on the Democratic ticket but hardly for the first. Cleveland is inevitable for 1888 if he lives.

THE Edgar Thompson steol work of Pittsburgh, the largest concern of its kind in the country, has voluntarily increased the wages of its men for 1887. The Carnegie brothers (one of whom is now dead) always were liberal in the treatment of their employes and have thus kept their good will. The have prospered and their men have prospered with them, which shows that generons treatment of employes pays.

THE railroad journals are full of advertisements of appliances for heating cars other than by coal staves. Some of these, it is announced, are in successful use on certain railroads. Probably the only reason why they are not in general use is that the present system is the cheapest one. But where the lives of passengers are put in jeopardy the question of cost should be one of secondary importance or of 110 importance at all.

HENRY GEORGE, who made money by writing books, has undertaken a doubtful experiment in starting anew paper But he has this in his favor, that he was an editor before he became a bookmaker. He may know what lie is doing and may also know how to do it as well as how not to do it both of which are important things to know in the newspaper business.

HENRY GEORGE has undertaken a pretty large contract in fighting tho church of Rome. He will probably not vanquish the Pope but he has a right totackle Rome or anything else when he believes the righfcis on his side. Nobody can truthfully say that Mr. George lacks grit. He is a tighter from away back.

LAST year was a notable one in the firo record of the country, the losses aggregating ?U(,000,000. The usual annual average is about 8100,000,000. So far the present year appears to be inclined to rival last in the way of tire destruction, but it is to be hoped that it will not keep the record up.

IT is evident that no legislation can be expected from the present Legislature until the Tinted States Senatorship is disposed of. Whether anything valuable will be done then can only be determined after the fact. So far it has been distinctively a "fool Legislature."

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MR. BEECHERS LETTER.

WINTER 1ST THE COUNTRY AND IN THE CITY'.

SNOW A BLESSING IN THE COTTNTR? Btrr A CCBSE IL« THE CITY—THK EXHFLERATION OF WINTER SPORTS—THE SNOW

MONTHS SHOCLD BE THE UNIVERSITY OF THE FAMILY—AN INCIDENT OF NATURAL HISTORY. Correspondence of Saturday Evening Mail.

summer.

,£rief

shows that 450,000 men

were out of employment for some period during last year by reason of strikes and lockouts. This represents an enormous loss in wages tosides the injury to business. Let us hope the present year will to more peaceful. ,1

00 Oeronimo is too much for the Florida climate. It has not killed him yet and does not seeni likely to. He is reported as enjoying his rations of bacon and beans for all they are worth. It is a cold day when thoy get ahead of Mr. Geronimo. i,

CHARLES B. FARWELL, of Chicago, was hosen on Thursday by the Republicans of the Illinois legislature to succeed Gen. Logan, as United States senator. He is a three millionaire, who went to Chicago some forty years ago with fifty cents in his pocket.

THE tories are said to be worried because Randy Churchill keeps so still. Some of these days when he|breaks out again they will be still more worried liecause he doesn't keep still.

JAKE SHARP, the New York bribegiver, has been denied a change of renue 4o another county. This leaves Mr. Sharp in imminent danger of having to stand a fair trial.

THINGS HAD CHANGED.

HK.

Mce-ow, niee-ow, mee-on, My love I've came to woo.

Come oat on the tiles While the bright moon «mtle*, Mee-ow. mee-ow, mce-oo!

SHE.

Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-oo, I will not rome oat to you. I've nix little kit*,

A-glvtng me fits. Mee-ow. mee-ow, meeoo!

BROOKLYN, Jan. 13, 18S7.

Over the Wide Northern Continent it is a winding sheet a shroud which covers dead summer and hides the decaying leaves, grass and flowers. Over their burial the-winds sigh a requiem, while the gray air is filled with storm-whirled clouds of snow. This is winter desolation. But where towns and cities and villages have covered the land, and frost, that exquisite blind artist of the night, has etched the farmers' windows with rarest scenery, and roads are broken 9111, and sleigh bells are filling the air with clinking music, and boys are snow-ball-ing or building or defending snow forts, or merrily coasting down hill, or swarming on the ice with skates (which must be the wings which artists put on the feet of Mercury), winter is anything but gloouiy. The sports develop an exhilaration hardly to be equalled in spring or

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But winter in the city! For a night the snow is fair and incorrupt. Then, sullied by hoof and wheel, its beauty changed to grime and gray, it is utterly given over to ugliness. In the country the snow helps labor, makes new roads, frost bridges and rivers, hardens the swamps, opens the forests to lumbermen. In the city snow is not a blessing, but a curse. It obstructs the pavements, blocks the streets, oppresses feeble roofs, or descends from them on the heads of unwary travellers, and is altogether a hindrance and a nuisance. In the conntrjr snow helps church-going in the city it keeps people at home. The vonng man with his pleasing companion by his side in the country blesses the two miles to church and wishes they were ten nor is there any music in choir or organ like the whispered gospel of love in the sleigh. A Sabbath morning in the country after a snow-storm is the perfection of visual poetry. The horizon line is keen cut, like the edge of a widesickle, the radiant hills seem new created, no longer of earth, but of heavenly matter descending from the incorrupt heavens. The trees are etched upon a blue background, and the sky is arched over all like priceless bowl of sapphire. The very storm of the night seems to set for the quiet and beauty of the Sabbath morning. It comes out of darkness as, in Beethoven's symphony, after a dark and tangled passage of tormented chords, come forth, at length the melodious strains of joy. The very animals rejoice The cock sends wide through the air his

lialleluia. Th® lowing kine respond. The staccato dogs join in, and after this burst of sound far up in the heavens and over the forest, the priestly crow is heard pronouncing an aihen.

This is but the side ©f nature. There is a human and domestic interior. Winter drives in the sick and feeble. The old man hugs the fire, the feeble invalid shivers with every change of air. To one of sensitive skin, common houses are built for persecution. The house is full of draughts one slips in at the window, another under the door, at the top and sides, and though the keyhole, and then draughts come from the base board, and the whole room seeins to be filled with invisible imps bent on tormenting. On winter days, open or shut dry and cold, or moist and chilly, the air is full of malignant spirits whose office it is to give a twist of neuralgia or a swirl of rheumatism. Men call them diseases, but manifestly they are mis-chief-loving sprites, dealing in coughs, pneumonia, croup sind quinsy. They are so many maliguant engineers beleaguering tlic body, as an army would a fort, and, with sap and mine, or direct bombarding, or cutting off' supplies, secure its downfall.

But, thank God! all men, nor a large proportion, do not live in cities. Throughout the vast rural space are families apart, who, to the uninitiated, may seem to be thrown out of the world by snowiuuffied winter. On the contrary, no part of the year is more fruitful of enjoyment to intelligent people than the seclusive months of winter. Amusements in which the children are taught to take part, and in which music, dancing, recitations, stories and charades abound, drive away dullness and whet the ingenuity. Above all, in the leisure of country homes there is an element of enjoyment unknown to the city, where the excitements are so largely destructive of leisure and seclusion. Now it is that the family becomes an elastic and liberal school. Ever/ evening the household group gathers about the tire, and, while little hands are busy with netting, knitting or drawing, some one reads aloud the story, the drama, or the biography, the travels or natnral history. In every house there should to the indispensable concomitants of an encyclopedia, anjatlas, a dictionary and a geography. At every step the hearers should see that every place, every personage, every city, should be searched out, and thus poetry, novels and fanciful narratives should open the way to solid instruction. The habit of drawing real enjoyment from books will give to life more real satisfaction than honors or wealth, and a hundred times more than gay but effervescent fashion. The snow months should be the University of the family.

But let no one suppose that winter is without its natural history! A friend of ours with a kindly heart towards all living things, observing that many birds tarried through the winter, began to throw out food daily adapted to their

various habits of feeding. It was not long before it was known in air and forest, and birds came flocking by the hundred to the daily provisions—robins, sparrows, woodpeckers, blue jays, bluebirds and various others swarmed under his window seeds,Indian meal, rice and fragments of waste meat, finely chopped, saved many a biM-life, which repaid in summer by consumiug the insect pests of orchard and garden. This daily banquet of the biids formed a charming episode of every day. How large a population of birds remain with us all winter no one can imagine until he frequents sunny nooks of the forests, and warm and sheltered places or hill sides.

Let no one ever speak of the dull aud cheerless winter! It is tho holiday of. the year! The sleigliride, the snow-shoe, tho skating, the-tobogganing, the games upon the ice, the white battles of snowballs, the gay assemblies, the radiant home and household of children, till the days with excitement and tho nights with tranquil joy.

HENRY WARD REENREII.

ir/IA THE PAPERS ARE SPYING.

New Haven News The hot water cure —Marriage. \1 The Judge: The practice of honesty is generally confined to the poor.

Puck: Tennyson was once a peerless poet. Now he is a poetless peer. Merchant Traveler: Courtship 011 the tly is the latest in tobogganing circles.

Boston Bulletin: Much ado about nothing—The parting of two society girls. The Judge: A suit of clothes begins to wear thUi just as the cold weather comes on.

Philadelphia Call: None of us are so poor that we can't pay a compliment when it's due.

Life: A dollar will go further than it used to, and it makes the distance in quicker time.

Drakes Magazine: Two kinds of keys that should be hung 011 the same ring— Night key and whisky. -Tid-bits: If the waron high hats in the theaters continues the millinery will have to be called out.

New Havens News: The European kings are obliged to kiss each other when they meet. So are American women, but they don't mean it, just the same.

Murlington Free Press: We would respectfully request General Ha/en not to leave all the drawers of the weather bureau open at the same time again this winter.

Cleveland Sun: A11 Eastern exchange is authority for the story that a treo grows in South America callod the corset tree. Well, there's

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OUR GREAT

SAM JONES» SA YIN OS.

I'm a peculiar fellow I do love 111 wife. It takes a cold pew to make a cold pulpit.

There is nothing better in heaven than religion. Our actions of to-dav are the thoughts of yesterday.

A truthful woman is the greatest adornment of a home. It takes prayer, study and thought to get up a first-class sermon.

If you live in impure thoughts vou Avill be impure in your lives.

Profanity is more or less a profession of your lovaltv to the devil. A church that can't do anvthing but keen itself straight is a failure.

When a heart is chuck full of error there is no room in there for the truth. We aro in position to help or hurt the church until wo arc inside it.

Nobody ever went to sleep indifferent to religion and waked up in heaven. A child is loved by God because it has no opinions and wants to learn something. V"

It takes a first-class preacher and a first-class hearer to get up a first-class sermon.

Dishonesty in the church is really crippling the church more than anything else.

I want to see our young girls grow up better women than our mothers and wives are.

I never heard yet of a committee asking for a preacher that is popular with God Almighty.^

You can help your preacher, instead of everlastingly calling on your preacher to help you.

Don't get into anybody's way with your naturalness, but try'to be yourself whore-ever you go.

Run into heaven barefooted and bareheaded rather than miss it 011 account of anything in the world.

If we're right we can't to hurt by the truth, and if we ain't right we ought to be hurt righteously.

It's got so now "that if von steal $T they'll put you in a jail, but if you steal $15,000 they'll call you colonel.

The trouble with a church is that it is a vast hospital it takes all the well ones to take care of the sick ones.

You show me a man who keeps tho Sabbath day holy, and I'll show you a man that's a Christian all the woelt.

Tho in fidelity that hurts is tho infidelity of the man who makes out he's on God's side, and tlion won't live up.

Find 1110 a man preparing himself to hoar the gospel, and I can show you a man that is going to be benefited by tho gospel.

The man who will break one of God commandments habitually and continually, if you will turn him loose, will break them all.

nEVERTES OF A fiACIfEr.Oft.

TEN KA ITS A (JO.

A moonlight walk, a loving tullf, A question whispered low. A glance of scorn, I mil forlorn,

For she lias answered no And seems to glory In lier pride (Vr me, poor mortal 1 at her side.

-R A NOW.

is there Philadelphia North American: Women are charged with smuggling European Dashing and strong, not romantic and goods into this county in their bustles, clinging, is the latest type of popular Clearly the bustle is a thing to bo sat girl in the East. This sounds the doom down upon. ti,,* J? $*%*'! of fashiou's weakling, the dude. _•

(Every Cloak in our house must be sohl.)

Commencing Monday Jan. 17.

Ton can take your choice from the balance of our #15 $18 $20 and $2:

Finest Imported Newmarket

For Even

Hlie sit.s alone, her husband's gone, For tlits, yon know, is Ills elnli night, And ponders o'er the days of yore

When Hho a inald was glad aiid Wright. 'Tis my turn to smile in glee, She is married, but 1 am free,

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Seeing is Believing. Now Come. We mean every word

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'.Cutting and Slashing Priccs to "Down the Weak Imitators" is giving us the heaviest January trade we ever enioved.

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"Wft^otiA of the Up Stains Attractions this past wok. With our January Linen Sale in full blast on our lut floor,(business was never better at this time of the year.

Now for Another Cut!

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Short Wraps at Less than Cost.

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