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The SenAte, Recording to the programme now laid out, will derote most of the time for the coming week to the discussion of the various issues, real or imaginary, involved in the Duskin case and in the President's message. As nothing the Senators can say-or do will change tha situation materially, the country will not give very much attention to them. Mr. Hoab is going to try to get the Senate to consider the Electoral Count bill and the amendments to it, which is a much more important matter than Senator Edmonds's little political enterprise. Railway matters will also be pressed, if opportunity affords, and there is always in reserve, and, so to speak, in ambush, the case of Mr.

Frrz Jobs Poster which may be sprung upon a weary country at any moment Mr. Sewxll is awaiting his opportunity, but the only thing as to which ho can be entirely sure is that ho wQl not find Gen. Looar unprepared for turn. There Is a goodly number of appropria- tion bills which will claim the attention of the House this week, but the Committee on Public. Buildings and Grounds nev-- ertheless expect to open the pork barreT to-day as soon as the call of the States for bills ia got through with.

This is a matter that excites as much interest among the statesmen of the popular branch as any that they have to deal with, and, indeed, furnishes their constituents with a Tory exact measure of their practical usefulness. From beginning to end it bids fair to bo a game of log-rolling, with very little reference to tuo real needs of the public "When the great Lx Duo retired from the Agricultural Bureau to private life ho left behind him a monument in the shape of a tea farm in South Carolina. This farm was the apple of his eye. Cold and prejudiced critics pointed out that a largo sum of the people's money had been thrown away In buying the farm and carrying on useless experiments, but Lb Deo regarded the investment as an ex-eeUent one. His sooceaaor.

Dr. LoBcra. could see no merit in tea oultuxw; ho preferred to Invest the people, in too. of dead, sorsAum seed thai would, JTCEI TO CUSS3UT) ADT not germinate oven under the genial infloenoe of his own eloquenoo. And bo the tea, farm was no longer on exhibition.

But it continued to exist, for Commissioner Colmab has received a report from its Superintendent A blight has fallen on the Government's tea groves. Lb Dec's tender plants have been cruelly slain by IIaxenB villainous weather. The plantation is in a deplorable condition. This report leads Sir. COLKAjr to the opinion that it is time for the Government to go out of the tea business.

Probably he is glad to find a pretext for frowning upon the pet project of his illustrious predecessor. Now that the Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives baa favorably reported Capt Eaos's Ship Railway bill, it is discovered that the promoter of the great scheme has never exhibited a profile of the route to be followed on the isthmus. No officer of the Government has the report of any survey of the route, nor is even a map of the route to be found in the possession of any executive department There are persons who are disposed to marvel at the promptitude with which the Commerce Committee advised the House to guarantee the interest on $50,000,000 in bonds, because no profile has been shown. These persons should remember that with the committee this was not a question of profiles. The members desired to accommodate the perauaf ive EaDS, and it ia possible that he would have procured the report if it had been known that he desired the guarantee for a railway to the moon.

Mr. Andrew S. Draper is a politician out of employment That is his sole "claim4 to the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, an important post for which he has no natural or acquired fitness. His support comes exclusively from politicians. Mr.

IL Cunnino-ham is supported because of his recognised fitness to perform the duties of the office. His election would give great satisfaction to experienced educators and the friends of education in the State. The New-York correspondent of the London Economist makes the somewhat remarkable statement that a recent order of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad for 10,000 tons of steel rails was Bent to England because there the company received a guarantee as to quality he adds tbst other American orders for rails have gone to the United Kingdom for the same reason, and more are being negotiated." The statements are important if true. The Economist is a very careful journal, and the American steel rail makers cannot rest under this imputation. The comments of the English political philosophers upon the Irish situation exhibit in full force the qualities that have made British, rule so hateful in Ireland.

Mr. Froudk, who has submitted to an interview, is one of these philosophers. He rests bis opposition to home rule upon the proved incapacity of the Irish for self-government In reply to this it is proper in the first place to inquire whether the actual situation of Ireland presents a triumphant vindication of the capacity of Englishmen to govern Irishmen. In the second place, Mr. Froude ignores the fact that the right to govern one's self includes the right to govern one's self badly.

He might probably deny the existence of any such natural right, but he would scarcely claim the natural right of Englishmen to govern Irishmen. If he did the claim must be based simply upon the theory he has adopted from his teacher and victim that might makes right England has conquered Ireland, Mr. Froude might say, and her right to govern her possession is a right acquired by conquest Upon this it is necessary only to remark that Ireland has made English government so difficult and dangerous that England has practically abandoned the effort to govern Ireland without reference to the wishes of the Irish, and that every English party or faction admits that something must be done that some change in the direction of allowing more freedom to Ireland must bo allowed. The public sentiment of England, much to Mr. Froude'b regret, will not sustain an attempt to run" Ireland by troops alone, and there is no middle term between the free use of troops and an endeavor to meet the wishes of the Irish.

WHAT THE TREASURY HAS DONE. The Democrats in the House are following the bad example of the Democrats in the Senate in growling at the silver policy of the Administration. It is not a matter of direct practical importance to the country, because they cannot do very much but growL They may make speeches until the end of the session, they may oven pass the Bland Free Coinage bill in both houses but unless they tire Mr. Makximq to death, which is improbable, though not impossible, they cannot affect seriously the actual administration of the Treasury. That will go on so long as Mr.

Manning, under Mr. Cleveland, has control of it on the same conservative, practical lines that it has pursued. The two houses cannot, as at present constituted, pass any silver legislation over the veto of the President, which it would bo certain to encounter. And we give them the benefit of a warning, to which they will not listen, that if they pass a bUT for the unlimited coinage saver at this session they will have to spend the whole of the next session wondering what will bo done by the Fiftieth Congress with a majority entirely changed from the present one. The politicians in Washington seem to have a notion that the business men of the country have no votes, or, having vuem, wiu use taem as party conH ventions may happen to dictate.

The nnsinesB men do not as a rule organize for) political purposes. They do not threaten or cajole candidates. They do not run before they are called, and all they ask is to have the Government mind its own affairs with reasonable prudence sad sn4 JLerxrand they sH not very mrtt" to this end leave them to manage their ow i. But they have shown from time to tin that they are conscious of their po' rer and know bow to use it, and it will no bo safe to press them too close to the wa The great body of them un-dei stand that they owe their safety from a disastrous crisis to the inteUi-gei ice, firmness, and courage with which tb Treasury Department has been con-du ted, and they will not be very patient wi a House of Representatives that tries to nubarrass the department, to drive it frc its present safe and loyal policy, and to 'orce it to plunge the country into the slo lgh of silver payments. They have wa tched the course of the Treasury with thi care which sensible men devote to mi Iters directly affecting their own interest and they Tealize the service that has be done by the quiet determined, saga-cic as action of the Secretary.

They will kn what to do with their votes when thi i opponents of the Secretary's policy co ne before them, and they will not take on ere on the subject from nominating co lventions, either Democratic or Republic in. This is what the business men of the co intry are studying: In April last they sa the gold revenues of the Treas-ur 7 and the legal-tender-note revenues, kich are equivalent to gold, sink to less th 59 per cent of its total revenues from cti stoma at this port, and in the next nth, as a natural consequence, they sa the gold reserve of the Treasury, be-y nd the hundred millions of the redemption fund, go below $16,000,000. They ki ew that if this went on the Treasury must begin to discriminate against sil-v( by forcing it upon the country, ai that this would be the signal fo a period of disturbance and loss, the tent of which could not be measured. ley see now, in less than 10 months, the pi oportion of silver in the customs re-ci ipts at New-York sink to 8.8 per cent id that of gold and its equivalent rise to 9 .2 per cent, while the available gold serve of the Treasury has risen to over 4,000,000, or has been noarly tripled. ley know that for a good while now the inger is averted, and that this has been brought about without new legislation, without any violation or straining o' evasion of the existing law, the Secretary's wise use of his ear discretion.

They know that such rvice as this is invaluable, and that it is smething quite different from any-t ling they have known in recent years. Their opinion of the course of the Treas-iry is something that is confirmed by ieir daily experience. It is not merely Drmal concurrence in theoretical views. It is a conclusion formed from the daily observation of matters in which they can- i ot afford to make any mistake. And it onstitutes a reserved force in national olitics which the ranters about silver at Vashington would do well to bear in mind.

LEGISLATION FOR THE CITY. About half of what the session of the egislature ought to be this vear has passed and there is little indication of anv Active effort to push forward the bills A tl ec ting municipal administration which fvere introduced as the result of the Gibbs committee's investigation. A series of pills covering much the same ground has been introduced in the Assembly bv L.YOM which can hardly be intended to erve any other purpose than to complicate and hinder the effort to secure legis-ation. A prominent feature of both schemes ia bill providing for Spring elections. pothing has been heard of last year's prop- psition for an amendment of the State Constitution providing that eeneral and local elections shall come in different years.

If this plan could be carried out St would have certain advantages over bprlng elections for cities, but it would affect the whole State, and there has been no indication of a sentiment in its support giving promise of success. The need of separating municipal from general elections is most seriously felt in the large cities, and the easiest and most practicable method of securing the desired result is py providing that the former shall be held in the Spring. It is an arrangement to which the people of the State at large can nave no reasonable objection, and if the representatives of tho city would unite in supporting a bill for the purpose there wouia probably be no difficulty in carrying it through. The areuments in favor of such a measure are quite familiar, and it only needs able and earnest advocacy to attract support The bills reported by the Gibbs committee which relate to the city departments provide for single-headed commissions for most of them. The bills introduced by Mr.

Lyon provide for two Commissioners to be the head of each department except that of Parks, for which an unpaid commission of nine members is proposed. The principal argument in favor of single-headed departments is that it would promote efficiency and concentrate responsibility. With untrammeled power in the Mayor to appoint the heads of departments it would be possible to hold him to a strict account for the administration of the affairs of the city and induce the strongest effort on the part of the citizens to ecure the election to the office of Mayor of a man fit to, exercise the powers intrusted to him. It would materially aid in the effort to take the control of city affairs out of party politics. The vice of the two-headed arrangement is that its effect would be to keep the public service subject to party influences under an arrangement for a division of patronage.

It can scarcely be regarded as an improvement on tho existing state of things. One and well paid Commissioner of Parks is likely to do far better service for the city than nine mien who receive no direct pay. Unpaid service is very apt to be of little value, while it may cost more than paid service. Neglect and discord are the almost inevitable WBult of having a large commission the members of which are not paid to devote their time and attention to the public service. The Senate bUla are stm in the bands of theOmimitteoon Cities, and It is quite under consideration.

The committee has had time to study them, and if anything is to be accomplished with them they must be speedily taken up in the Senate itself. Public attention in the city has been somewhat distracted by other matters, but interest in municipal reform has not died out It will be speedily awakened when measures relating to the subject are put in a position to be discussed. Thus far the session has been rather languid, and it is time the important work which has been kept waiting should be taken up. OUR PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE. No apology is necessary for the submission to Congress of a bill to improve the architecture of our publio buildings.

It is undeniable that the national buildings of the country do not represent the highest level of professional attainment During the first generation or two of the existence of the Republic the publio buildings were, as they should be, models and exemplars for the country, being even more markedly in advance than they now are in the rear of unofficial architecture. Since the war we have probably spent more money upon public buildings than any Government ever spent before in the same space of time, and it is not too much to say that no civilised nation ever spent anything like so much money in Buildings and contributed so little to the art of architecture. A bill has lately been prepared in a consultation of the principal professional bodies the American Institute of Archi tects and the Western Association ofj Architects which is intended to remedy this deplorable state of things. The new measure is founded upon the well meant but crude bill introduced by Mr. Stock-s laser into the last Congress.

It provides that what is now the office of the Supervising Architect shall be a bureau in the Treasury Department, Under the immediate charge of a Commissioner of Architecture, and under the control of a Board of Public Buildings, comprising this Commissioner, three Cabinet officers, and the Chief Engineer of the Army. The Commissioner must be an architect of ten years' standing who shall have had "an extensive experience in the erection of important buildings. Such an architect can scarcely be had for $6,000 per annum, the salary allowed by the bill, even though he is to hold his office during good behavior, unless sooner removed for cause, as the bill somewhat unintelligibly provides. The gist of the bill, however, is in the provisions opening to competition the design of publio buildings. Every Government building costing $50,000 or more is to be under the charge of a special architect, chosen by an open competition of plans.

Plans are to be invited from every practicing architect in the United States. The first prize in each is to be the position of architect of the proposed building, and there are to be four money prizes in addition of unspecified amounts. The plans are to be judged and the architect appointed by vote of a special commission consisting of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Commissioner of Architecture, and four architects chosen by the Secretary from the architects most eminent in their profession in this country." Four new experts are apparently to be chosen for every competition, and it is of course provided that they shall not be competitors nor have any interest in the result of the competition. This seems to be a very cumbrous way of getting at a very simple matter. It is well, of course, that a separate architect should be chosen for every important work, but there is no reason why he should be chosen by a competition which architects regard as merely a lottery.

Whatever means may be taken to prevent favoritism, it is certain that busy architects will not waste their time in making drawings unless they are assured that they have a "pull" of some kind with the selecting body. The commission will be sure of being deluged with bad plans, but they will not be sure of receiving any good plans whatsoever under the system proposed. The bill itself provides for the contingency that the author of the successful design may not be a capable architect, by providing that in case he is not, another architect may be appointed with him by the commission to be paid out of the successful architect's fees. This is providing for a risk which there is no need to run. The underlying idea of the bill is the delusion, common among laymen, but not shared by architects, that an architectural happy thought" suitable to be embodied in a building may occur to any promiscuous architect, and that this casual emanation of genius might be lost if the competition were in any way to be restricted.

In point of fact there is no more reason why an architect should be selected after a competition of plans than why a lawyer should be employed after a competition of briefs, except that architects will draw plana for nothing but the chance of professional employment, while lawyers will not prepare briefs on those terms. But it will be the unemployed architects, presumably, therefore the inferior architects, whose plans the Government will get by inviting architects to take chances in a lottery whenever a new Government building is to be erected, or should be. The object of the bill is to improve the status of publio architecture, not to give every architect in the country a "show." This object can be attained if the architects most eminent in their profession in this country," instead of being employed to sift all the crudities that may be submitted to them, are employed directly to design Government buildings. There are in most of the chief cities of the country architects who have proved their competency to design important buildings by having actually designed and executed them. Only architects of this rank should be chosen as Government architects.

It is no hardship to a young architect to insist that he shall have proved his ability in private practic before aspiring to the charge of a publio building. The commission provided by the bill eoald adviaa, JLths Government quits as well whai architect in Boston, New-York, delphia, Cincinnati. Chicaro. fit Lxiia could safely be intrusted with a building in his own city or ia his own eec-tion before or after an examination of competing plans. In fact, they could do it better, for the reason that the architects of highest standing would bo tho least likely to take" part in the general scramble provided by the bill la case ot a building of great importance and costliness a competition might bo proper.

But in that case it should be confined to a few of the architect most eminent in their profession," and these should be invited to compete upon terms which they would accept, which would pretty certainly not be tho terms proposed by tho bilL Any scheme is foredoomed to failure which assumes that an architect who has done nothing is entitled to the same consideration, when the question is of employing an architect for a Government 'building, as an architect whose work already does credit to himself and his profession. CHINESE LABOR ON. FARMS. While it is undoubtedly true that a very large majority of the inhabitants of the Pacific slope are opposed to the admission of Chinese immigrants, and that thousands, especially in the cities, desire that the Chinese now in that region shall be driven out of it, there are other thousands who strongly oppose boycotting or violence or any other exhibition of hostility toward the resident Chinese, for the reason that they cannot afford to be deprived of Chinese labor. It does not appear that these persons desire that additional Chinese shall be admitted at ports of entry, but their published utterances show that even in California there are two aides to the Chinese question, at least so far as it relates to the'treatment of Chinese who came into the country before the enactment of the restriction law.

These opponents of the. anti-Chinese boycotters are farmers, fruit growers, hop growers, and owners of vineyards. An agricultural paper widely circulated on the Pacific coast declares that the expulsion of the Chinese means disaster to the farmer. More than one hundred prominent fruit growers in Solano County, owning 5,551 acres of orchard, have signed and published resolutions relating to this subject "The present condition of the labor market and the sparseness of our population," they say, make it absolutely impossible to carry on the business of fruit culture here without the employment of large numbers of Chinese laborers." Those whom they have employed are alarmed and ready to desert them. The departure of these workmen would, the fruit growers say, cost them a loss of $1,000,000.

The Hop Growers' Association of Mendocino County has also published significant resolutions. The members say that the hop crop is the only one to which they can look for money, and that nearly all of their capital is invested in machinery used in the production of this crop. We cannot pick and save our crops with white labor alone," they add, as it is not in the State and cannot at present be had." They declare that they will not submit to the boy cotters. They are willing to exert themselves to stop Chinese immigration, and they prefer white workmen if they can be found, but at the same time they assert that the Chinese now in California should be protected. There are said to be 80,000 Chinese engaged in agricultural pursuits on the Pacific coast Judging from the statements quoted above and from other evidence of the same tenor, these workmen have not crowded out white workmen by accepting lower wages, but are receiving high wages for which white workmen will not compete.

It is not a question of cheap labor," but the Chinese labor is the only labor that the farmers canfind. The anti-Chinese agitator and followers will not pick grapes or hops, nor can they supnjy men who are willing to it Men who come into California from the East prefer to take land from the Government or the railroad companies and work for themselves. Moreover, occasional experiments with white labor have led the farmers, we are told, to prefer Chinese, because they are steadier, mere faithful, and more trustworthy. The movement against the Chinese will in all 'probability cause the fruit growers of California great inconvenience and heavy losses. The wages paid are not low in comparison with farm wages in the East They are said to range from $30 to $45 a month, with board.

And yet it appears that, if the Chinese shall be driven away, white men will not come forward and take the money. URUGUAY AND ARGENTINE. The Montevideo news of a few days since, to tho effect that tho relations between Uruguay and the Argentine Republic were critical, and that the legation of the former country meditated retiring from Buenos Ayres, receives explanation now in the mail advices. The difficulty seems to consist chiefly in the plots which tho Uruguayan Government suspects its countrymen now in exile in Argentine of forming against it It believes not only that they have ben allowed to collect small arms and cannon for insurrectionary pur-pones, but that a prominent Argentine officer has been concerned in the expedition. The officer in question has tendered his resignation from the army, and the Argentine Government haa, called for neutrality on tho part of its people as to Uruguayan affairs.

This cautiously worded warning, however, seems to have added fuel to the flames, since what the Government of Montevideo demanded was the active repression of armed expeditions designed to make war on a friendly State. The diplomatic corps at Montevideo has labored to effect an adjustment of the difficulties which were considered at one time at Rio Janeiro so serious that a strong Brazilian naval force was made ready to start for the Rio do la Plata. The Uruguayan Government has for some time had its army mobilized, inasmuch as among the exiles are men for-merlr of high eommsnds in tho army who would be UkwIytopWoscided rnLutmrw little Uruguay- would, of morse, bo no match for her neighbor across tho river either in land or naval operations, Eh has only one-twelfth part ot the area ot tho Argentine Republic, rrsa excluding the latter. Patagoniaa aoqukitiona, and about a fifth part as much population. The Argentine Bepublie considers herself a match for Chili, and certainly is a respectable naval power for this aide of tho world.

Nevertheless, wo must not forget the stubborn fight once mad by Para-guay, which is smaller than Uruguay and with little more than half its population, against still greater odds. Brasu, also, which may, perhaps, now claim to havsthe most formidable cruising navy in the two Americas, might have something to say in hostilities between the Argentine Republio and Uruguay. Perhaps with reflection tho threatened trouble win be averted, Argentine seems confident that Uruguay exaggerates th power of the exiles to do harm, and bases ita refusal to apprehend them on this fact Undoubtedly, with tho warning thus given, tho Argentine Republic accepts certain responsibility for seeing that no successful expedition against Uruguayan Government is started from her territory. Tho groat generous heart of tho oohlo-craOo editor of tha Stm Is pained waaoarar aa falla to thlnklna of the wroor of tho woridasw man. He brooJa orar tbair mteariaa aa ba waJaa about his aU-thoaaaad-doIUr mushroom cellar on hia prlvata, porsonsl hdaad ia the Sound.

Be msdiut plans for the amaltoraUoa ot their condition as he esdbss4s It evar th country la Mr. Jay Oocus sumptuous private railroad r-'n-tn Xad ha looks forward hopefully to the time when by dint of demarogiq appeal the ear drivers sad meehaaics ana laborers will ba indaosd to come forward with their daily two cants and reatoro the decayed and desperate Sun to proe-pertty and dividend. The THoaae, also, wooes editor has never been anything more than the hired body-servant of thintble-riswias speculator! and monopolists, selaea the ooceatoo. of the recent strike of ear drivers to declare Itself a convert to the theory ot mob rovero-ment, sad it Joins the Sun In deoouadas the oold-biooded cruelty of Tn Ttxss aad toe vening Poet in venturlnf to Bursestthst the police were paid to preserve order, aad that a atreet mob wa not to be dlamliaed with a smile." The TrOnau, with ita usual cretinous facility In Dlunderlof. seised a moat unfortunate occasion for ita "flop" from the side of gorred capital to that of oppressed labor.

Bat, like the Sun, it ia woefully bard up, and Is wUUar to do anythins and everything to make friaods. LITTLE THINGS OF INTEREST. Very many society men wear' Handsomely worked cheat protectors with a dress tuiUPHUculeivhia Bulletin. The city courts granted 24 divorces yesterday. This Is one branoh of trade that so Joyt boo ya ail the exhilarating vivacity of a constant is.

rmawsma r-rem. AH over the South prohibition is so popular that the politicians have taken advantage of the boom, and are utilising it to rush them--selves Into office. Atlanta Constitution. Senator Jones, a man of the first Florida water, can aet up the claim that he 1b engaged ia leral businesa in Detroit. He la trying to aet aside a young lady's wiu.

hoeton Hteoni. It is an Ohio man who raises tho question: Is Bhakaapeare vulgar The Ohio man haa little to live for besides the gorgeous kick, and be Uvea for that. Cteceioad futeoj litaler. Everybody is glad that Mr. Edison Is married.

They want blm to Invent a method whereby the baby's midnlrht shrieks will be oar-lied off on a wire to frighten away the cats on the roof. Macon telegraph. Are you a Prohibitionist asked Cot De Stone, poising his pocket flask In the air as he regarded hia chanoe acquaintance suspt-cloualy. I am." Then you will exeuee me I drink before passing you tha flask." Macon Ttlegraph. Mr.

S. G. Spier, of New-Lebanon, announces that he will leave this city on Jane 1 for a run to Ban Francisco, acroas (Be continent, on a bloyele. Hie- purpoae ia to break the 100 dla-tanoe road record and win the obampionabip of the world. loony Argua.

West Brookfleld complains that since tha fire wiped out the factories the young people are all getting married. The theory for the many weddings at present Is that hafora the fire tbey were too buar to make love, and ainoe the fire have had nothing alee to do. SprinoJUid JU-pubtfean. The green old age of the venerable John J. Littleton, editor and proprietor of the Nashville Kotinnal Review and of the Republican Party of Tenneaeee, baa been gladdened by the appearance of the Drat young J.

J. It la acldotu that the cloaing years of a long and honorable career are thus adorned and glorified. We will wager a schooner that the boy turna out a good Democrat. ifcmpnU Ava-iancna. A teacher In tho publio schools had promoted a little pupil, sod meeting her a few days later said WelL Mary, how do you get on la your new claaar" "Oh, pretty well.

I mtesed In arltbmetio to-day. but It waa an awful hard Question." "Let me hear what the question waa," said the teaobor. It waa How many chicken bad tbe boy said little Mary, aad y.uo.7iyfliiputU HWlin linu HM 1 Was a pussier. Han ttaneuean. Mr.

and Mrs. Joaiah Bartlett, living about seven miles south of the dty. celebrated tbelr golden wedding anniversary last Friday evening. A goodly number of relative were present and the aged couple were tbe recipient of several valuable and useful tokens, among them some gold coin. Although both have paaaed tbe age of three score aad ten, they are in very good health and seemed to en)oy tbe evening aa much aa anrjone.

South Bend UndJ Tliouna. Not long ago a young man about town called on a certain young woman of his acquaintance. Be was promptly tuhered into the draw, ing room br a pretty eervant maid, who ran to tbe room of her mist res to announce her viaitor. "Oh, said she, that moat Ulbrant of gtntlemen who danced with me ooe night last Bummer up at the Phoenix Hill Park, ma'am, at tha graved lager' social. Is down In the parlor a-calllng on you, ma'am Tbe gentleman never called agal n.

ouUvill Oamwurrlnl. The absurdity of tbe claim that the Chinese stand in th way of watte labor In California Is clearly abown In the Importation of eaiioade of negroea Into the boeieat portio of tbe ooaat to take the place of tbe Coleatlala, It la certain that there la not labor enough tn the South, nor can that sectioa afford to hare their laborers taken away from them, it merely and only a meana of keepina certain agitators prominently before tbe country aad to enable them to live without work. A3 tvo (lasoa) Tribune. Nearly every man who gets downtown on Sunday morning has noticed that nearly all tbe who I weal bouses are half open. Spruee young men may be seen around the stores reading papers or discussing trad aad thlnga.

A watch on those spruce young men would aud. deoly mlas It object. They were waiting to All a poker party, and. It filled, retire to a nook and aa aaaMuoualy wait fo "fill a hand." Tbeae games are many aad harm leas. Their limit ia g-neraiJy below SS cents, and they last until dia-aar time.

Cleveland Plain Dealer. On of the ablest clergymen in Maine ass th habit of often making a pause of ssv enu minute in the midst of bla remark. This Is seldom emlmrrasaing to htmeetf or to hia audt-eooa, for when ho man me there le alway something-good vooogb to Justify tbe mic Oa Sunday a abort time since be made aa exebaag of pulpit, and during hia prater be made on of his accustomed pa ones. The orraaiet had not perhaps been paytnjr that strict attettoa whteb organlets ia geawrai are aoeoatemad to pay. Bat tbe aoiesna aUectoe fo i htm fna hie twverle.

Hie haade eoogbt tbe kere ead muaie floated aaoo the Tbe ooaaiegatto waa somewhat agitated, but tot ae the reveieod pentleman, He until tbe laet strain away, aa pegina ins. we rrtbe r. avavai orraa were beard, out thai Ua. Bweot tau fmL eorii- wake. I tautest but be prefer led te pour torU hi W-S atar orV7, Soma) of out parents and guardians want aa kaow Bcaeof, eoare.

liTiw assaaal raemectB six Bigbw "oy Dmtagham. JTso. of -voU4 thcmoMittrt-fc" or i There Isanawfiii it thsj-aai lUDoar anccrs robbing at Purpose or two an an Itboioaical I rarUKSogfcal raw ti- a 'Otpreaat wortTbut or birds, "eanuful to ooe or mmlLZi SSBL-H SB im icr eoeg or namarae namanti t.eaeisjte their bacl lirt. All WIT bachelor IF, A MnMti 1.u' ns dom received Parents of the runaway boy at Bmtaa Who th aoout a moata er six week aa away to Join the Texas PBoJoa ia Ckyago, but aaeapad tbe vtoJtZ the otBoer who waa bnutaV VT-TV? Mills On the Bangor read, not far from Dr. J.

Page' cottage. Is a pond inhabited by thorn JcVBly, lively creatures that alar the April mora. lbeVaM'roat jffsTeTr; rreet polaoa eaiera. water aad au apt the surface la tbe pond for their aauai oUee" aad to sin. raaaoitaat passes vMlas.

Oa bla murVTh, weather suddenly cooled, and aa be Beared the tas Taeboit thi Told U7 rZX Passed i rum noiDi waioa. and tbe squealing of the soprano frog Just aaat. HW the Methodist church, aad then allwa, atm. i Aa ba approached ntgber to tbe poad ha trotea ever, wlta th wSPL I Kteklnjr na through the ioa, wtth mouths wide open. Tbe cold bad cosmbb quickly that tbe poor fellows hadn't time to abut their mouths and draw tbelr bead under wale? before the toe eloaad around them, and tears tbey remain to-day, aa aambles of Maine Win.

ubw nipper. THE CHICAGO PLAYHOUSES. MabT. JklTOXSSOSfc XXTtA0BXCf 1XT TBACfOT POWxxS. Chicaoo, Marc T- Each of the Ave leading Chicago playhouses has Strom, mm, thing of interest daring the past weak, aad at boo of taem oaa the business ba said to have been bad.

Mary Aadanoa at th Columbia has wd all other attractions, of ooBrae. Tho ad vanes sale for Mias Andersoa was larga enough to war. rantth oxpeotatios that engagement would Prove a successful' one. but tbe buaineee Bat been i almost paoomenal. Hating all tbeseai la the lower part of the house aad tbe trN tour rows la the balooay at $1 aO amoaated to aa Increase In price, yet this, objectionable as it la to moat theatrearoera, haa not affected th bualaeas a far a oaa be judged.

Notsieoe Henry Irvine waa mmm an.tkin 1 1 t. neusMwblebbave greeted Mlm Aaderaoa bst seen at a Chicago theatre. Early in the vn( the ore nostra waa moved into tbe flies and the apace belonging to it filled with chairs. varrr night haa aeeo a full bouar. aodbe receipts for tbe seven p-rformaaeaa amouat to about ju.000.

Mr. James C. Dud baa ouad Caieago people as willing as earlier in the seaaoa to see hi com, pany In "The Mikado" st the Chicaro Opera House, and his r-ceipta for tbe week fail littx abort of $11,000. The company hi at MinnaapoUt the present week. At MoVlcker's the Tloreneaa Bare been play, ins to fairly good house, and yaaterday after noon filled tbe theatre to overflowing, playing "The Mighty Dollar." JaaiU's eaaagemeat at the: Grand, with, "Prince aadraa," has beea lee suocrui tbaa wa aatiripated.

Quarrels tn the company, a form of thaaineaf disturbance whlob Chicago seems to bread, have beea partly responsible for the lack of tnterett in tbe performances and the fact that Minnie -Maddern, piayinc the aame drama under the -name of "in Spite of All," waa aeea bers quite recently also bad aomethtng te de with K. Roland Heed hasn't been able to crowd Hooter with Humbug." and bis business was ptobaat the poorest of tbe week. There are change this week at tbe Chios Opera House, Hooter's, aad the Grand. Te tse house first named come Catherine Lewi aad Charles A. Stevenson with "Called Back," and tbey are to be followed cost Sunday by giralrr'f Blank Crook." Lyula Thompson aederuasd that bouaa for later in tbe is ion.

The Boston Ideals will open at the Grand to-morrow rree. log, tha engagement being tbelr second appearance at thai bouse that seaaoa, aad Martis Mitchell cornea to Hoo ley's for one week. Mas Mitchell I to be followed next week by Bouaa Yokes and her compear. Herman Gran anas to tbe Columbia next work tbe onraaisaaea with which he la td present Germaa opera, sad, df preliminary interest can be relied upon, ths engagement will be aa extremely successful one. Seasa will range In price from TS cent to Si SO.

People who predicted that BarUey Campbell would not aet bM "Clio" company out of the city without having trouble of some kind had their expectation realised last evening when three constables dam bared over tbe rebeetrs. rail at the Academy of Mnatc and. der the star, reached Manarer I ua-Brewa aad nerved a writ of attacbaseot on blm. Tbe writ was obtained by Frank U. Cooper, who asanaged the company which went to pieces here a ortnisbt Mo, and to whom Mr.

campoeu owed S30O. The playrwight went to New-York b) days ago, aad directed Brown to- pay Coop- er' claim. Browa didn't do so. and aweed orders that no unknown peraoa be admitted te the stage without a pas. Tbe eonatables a vaesl tbl order by going under tbe stage.

There ther levled oa the scenery, while a-tor aad supes" gathered around, sbouting Kill them" and Throw them out." Tbe constable est cased physical Injuries, though tbelr ferUntl were lacerated. A big audience outside bowled and shoaled, but kt took half aa hour for Brews to get out of tbe difficulty be repievtning tt nroperty, which be claimed belonged to w. w. Tillotson, of New Tors, aad not to Mr. Cams-be I Th Central Utbograpning an EnrravoK, of New-York yesterday Bled aa I mm.

davit of attack meat tbe to Supreme Caen against Mme. JaoJah to reoov hkih th th BCtreal for prtnooc iiwiut Aummne. As Janiah Is playing here ea so years teg. eea UB4wto, UYbj Tour sverag Congressman does not nan- at wire baa a i wk mn mat f-il 1 pnr nul i The boy Is in Taiaa. i He wantt to mbW btn-! Cowbeys are aot what tbey Peeked Wtm lar.nuUaV MB baa "a-0, an tkora appears to be atL wtuiog to own that the way of th br-wresM-- Beri-iwistoa Me Journal i a salary and own ae interest la Princee Andrea" the box office receipt were safe, and a effort was made to attach any of the actrewa POTwor25 3.

H. Meade, and David Ha derwo, leesees of the Chicago Opera House. arB made defendants In a fifteen ihenaaad-doila aui bv John B. Porter, who charges that he secured the lease of the Chicago Opera Boos them, but tbey failed to pay htm a eertaia earn promised for tbie-service. A Porter elaimedM have influence," said Mr.

Henderson tavntebV Bat we found he hadn't-" We got tbe Opera Hence by putting down fcsXOOO for the lea, aad Porter has ao sort of a claim oa us." Tbsses son st to Opera House will doss la Jan. TM Interior will then be tern out and some radical ebajurea made, Tbe pitch of tbe Boor and bat; cony will be made steeper, aew aad na-hter bases wUl be pat up la place of th prewnt oee. which are coneinered too- heavy, and tbe stars will ba brought forward two feet, Bsaking that much deeper, TBZ ACCIDtNT TO BXXBT IHTOO. from ths faU JfoS GawCta, Tab, IS. A startling; accident oocurrsd te Vtv Henry Irving and Mr.

Alexander at the Lyases! Theatre on Tuesday evening. Ia ta first seaws of -yauat." Mr. Irving as Mepalstophalasaod Mr. Alexander as Faoac are carried off la aotoo of vapor oat of Faust' study. This Is Bceoai-pUebOd by mean ot a slide, walcb, rtwul sa remembered, provoked aom amueemes tae flrst night bv moving with a aerie of Jertobet which ha since tbra proved a highly effective cootrrvaaea.

Oa Toeeday eveomg Mr.irvtog aad Mr. Alexander fell from this alio, thsjtar roar etriking a la bead upon tbe table and ertwj hat face very badly sa tare piece. Oa of wouoda, over tbcfef eye. bad to stitched Mr. Irving' face bled profusely, but thewouaA were covered with la tor.

and tha plaster cov eted with snuat. which had ta be rewed DV. oeUy durtaa- tbe evening. Teeterday taeapeoj cation ot a teach redwood tbe ewet ling they are bow aerdly perceptible. was more fottansvte, hurting ba law ta the fa bat not severely.

Tbe perlormnnor of wasaothasatiajmi brth asmdssaj i i.