The Montgomery Advertiser from Montgomery, Alabama • 4

OUt ttirBOTIOX to have the test this fto so much below that la nWghborRat8 that cent, mors oa tha, sUveriio gained? Aye, sd what profiteth ths poor man aUoa T. Taa Jfg la It is svldea iam Otseks roshed ata'l ssis war.wcaoMl knowing their -own weakness, Thstr etrthusaasn eff erves- TAttvtrUserC The Jacksonville Democrat is nr anxious for some one to give The Ad verttser definite taformation cm. the der licit quesUonu Our contemporary says: When the proper time arrive ave lie doubt that State Auditor White will render a satisfactory statement to Tbe Advertlserv Meantime we are willing to accept the statement-and do not believe that Governor Johnston wants any mere credit later on than Is due him. We have a firm faith in his financial ability, and although he may have not been aa astute a politician as some we know ef. nevertheless the people ot Alabama are satis fled with, his administration up to date, We have no idea that he proper time" is going to arrure before next January, and thereby isrobably will be farther demonstration of the lack of astuteness cn the part ot the Governor.

The public can not be fooled to the condition of the State Treasury on January 1st, at present, and it has been a blunder to" assume that the'publis would not see through the whole play, The figures front the Auditor's office April 1st. showing that the State had met its current liabilities, itave no doub tof the real situation. 1 -css Uka tho gM fronv bottle --ot pep- new. iTie nmropss rowers now m-Urvene and call ispoa ths aombatanta to ceass hostlKUes-J tt would have been hotter for Greece -bad her people first ascertained their own capacity or incapacity to fight the Turks, and counted the cost hetoro rashing tnto the aneqaal fight. "The blind hysterics of the Celt," or of the modern Greek, cannot count far victories in actual war.

But It Is well that this worse than useless war between two unequally matched pow- era is now to cease, and that aa end Is to be jiut to the senseless sacrifice 1 of llfe THB SOtlTHBHS OAlrE8, IV: Matters of Iwtereat They AM DlsesuUnw, It. la Urttera are Dbs Whag Theat' Nashville American. The postal receipts. 'of the Govern-: meat are usually a barometer of bust- ness conditions. These receipts for the first quarter of 1897 were over the largest in the history of the de partment.

V-A Bally and a BrstwT Chattanooga Emperor William has done a great dtal lately to prove that he is a blood- -ler-ffltnded man than the truculent Sul- tab of the Turks; and-William seems to be Uttie, spiteful, Infinitely mean, in his A demands that poor, foolish and sorely pressed Uttle Greece shall be humlli- -ated Into the very dust. What a bully and bfute his majesty is, to be sure. Laborer to be Ground to Powder. Chattanooga must come down before the country can says Senator Elklns of West Virginia. the same time he and bis colleagues are saying by their support of the Dingley bill that the necessaries which the consumer must buy must go up before there can be a return of prosperity.

The la- boring people are thus to be caught between the upper and the nether mill and ground to powder for the 1 benefit of tbe capitalists. And yet to these deluded victims McKinley owed his election. Alas! that they should bring such calamities on themselves! 7 They Distrust England. Jackson Sun. The Senators who voted against tha arbitration treaty are not antagonistic to the principle involved In the measure, but they distrust England.

The foreign policy ot England has ever been to grab everything in sight, and a wnoiesome tear that the treaty would enable that country to make more effective that policy, to the detriment of this country decided a number of Senators to oppose the measure. It is also said England's leaning toward the -j-uncs in tne present Eastern war militated against the success treaty. The however, should not ba abandoned, as the interest of peace demands that a friendly compact be made between the two greatest nations of tha earth. Senator Martin's Bstlvmste. Richmond Times.

Senator Martin in a recent deliver ance in favor of the readoption of the Chicago platform by the Virginia Democracy, makes light of the strength of the sound money Democrats in Vh ginia, and says In substance that their entire vote at the last Presidential election was only 2,000. If that is Senator Martin's Impression, then he has studied the late election returns to very little profit In -1892, Mr. Cleveland's vote in Virginia was 163,977 without the Populist vote of more than 12,000 which went to We. ver. In 18M, Mi.

Bryan's entire vote was 154,709, including at least 15,000 Populist votes. "Leaving out the question of annual Increase which is estimated at about 3 per cent, a year, or 12 ner cent fnr tha four years, tt is clear that the number of Democrats voting for Bryan was at least 23,000 less than the number ot Democrats voting for Cleveland, We are interested to hear an explanation from Senator Martin. If there were only 2,000 sound money Democrats In Virginia in 1896. we would like to knoi) how hp accounts for the fact that the silver Democrats and the Populists combined were not able to muster out as many voters, by more than 9,000, as Cleveland polled four years previously. In point of fact if we are lustiftaH in presuming that the natural increase of the Democratic vote In Virginia in four years was 12 per cent, or about 20,000, tten.MJ;.?.r.an should have polled! about 184,000 Democratic votes and this with the 14,000 Populist votes which he polled would have given him 198.000 votes Instead of only 154,709.

GOOD ADVKSI FOBi TBB HBGBO. Ho la MaldBsr Satisf BhOBld Avoid Sum Nashville American. The Republican Mrt. na, yivuwu by the negro vote and drew largely on tba negrophile sentiment at the North w. campaign material.

Neither is longer of much avail an obrve phenomena like its "Ulv vvmie- movements among the Republicans of the South and deprecatory references to: the brother la black la iwpiuiuuKi papers. s. i me negro is making very aatisfac- i torg progress, both in education' and I the acquisttionof wealtih. ia. inriA I a meanrsplrited and unworshy cltlsen.

no matter what his secton or his poll, who is-not wining to help along tills progress in every way possible, but Is not conducive to the negro's wel i fare to thrust him Into unwelcome so- I society contact wttb the white man. it -sns a. race antngonUHn which would not otherwise exist, and tha has more to dread than the white man irora ucn a reoung. He should always avoid Unnecessary Motion s.with tiu. i v'.

Tha negro youth who seeks a place at i AnnapoliB or West Point la viu and the Congressman who appoints negroes to cadetahips In these sohools is no true friend of the rao. wlLD nWi FROM Th lUeord of The OaaatitaUoBi tat Thto State. 75 Union Springs Herald. who mast stind ths result of such ex- traordlnary protection for the Colorado buinobaJra and has no silver ot his cwa toaeli? Free-coinage ot silver at to 1 to the most preposterous pro tection every proposed by any party. -THB STATS HAIUES.

Some These Mora Notable jlosm mm Ttes. Sewawsay-, Htfntsvllle Mercury. t'ha United States Senate practiced raise economy in refusing to appropn-at S4M.0OO to complete the canal around Colbert Shoals. An amendment to the sundry civil bin probosing that amount was offered by -Senator Foraker, who, was ably seconded by Senator rettus, but to no avail. The amendment was defeated on a.

point ot order raised by Senator Allison. The point was that since estimates had not been tarnished by the proper department it appeaiei that he work was contemplate rather than in actual progreSH, and tha: under, the. Senate rules the' -xmeniroent was out ot order. The sundry civil: bill carried appropriations for rivers end harbors amounting to more than to be expended all m-ef the caimtry, but when a paltry 140,000 was proposed by Alabama it was antagonised and defeated. there is not an item In the sundry civil bill that will benefit sr many people as would the opening ot the Tennessee River to large vessels.

Under present conditions the spent by Alabama and the United States in opening Muscle Shoals has bees! wasted and will so remain until a small appropriation is made tor Colbert Shoals. The next Congress, of course, will provide the required appropriation, but in the meantime work, should have been completed and tbe vast shipping interests of -the great Tennessee Valley opened to the world. When convenes in December a body ot citizens should go to Washington and urge a- suitable appropriation for this important work. The Brilliant Admlaistratio. Eufaula Times.

According to Auditor White the State owed $620,000 on January 1st Treasurer Ellis's statement is that from October 1st to May 1st the receipts were J1.66S.058 and disbursements Sl.605.384. which would allow a comfortable little margin an unearning month or two. So that, what ever the State may have been behind on January 1st it was not behind at all on May 1st. Now, of course, no taxes will be collected until late in the fall and before that time the State will be in debt but nothing like six hundred thousand dollars or the half of it. And there is another thing taught by the statement and that is that $620,000 is no money for a great-State to pay.

There was no occasion to be excited at all, and now, especially, one may dismiss one's fears since the is paid. There may be some people who would want to argue that the quickness with which so large a sum was paid, shows what a brilliant administration we have and we incline kindly to the idea, i It makes us wish we were a million or so in debt so that the world could be daisied by a piece of extraordinary financiering. But we are-not in debt at all all paid, which makes the summer and the balance of the Governor's first term lie out bleak arid uninteresting before us all. And that suggests, what does Alabama need with a brilliant Governor? Why can't we put up easily enough with men, ordinary men. In the chair, like Georgia has.

Now, Georgia does not hustle about to see how great a man she can get to fill the place. Any good, ordinary, honest man is sufficient in Georgia, Hereafter we shall insist that sort of a man shall win in Alabama. We see no occasion for great virtues going to waste in the office ot Governor, and we out of debt, too. Pern aad Silver. Birmingham News.

Our Government Is an vised that Peru has not only suspended the coinage of sliver, but has taken measures to pro-Itibit the importation of any silver coin, Such coin as may be imported must come exclusively through the port of uaiiao and De delivered to the milnt by tbe customs officer to be metted into bars to be returned to the owner. Travelers entering Peru are not to be allowed to bring more than fifty soles (Per uvlan dollars) each In Peruvian money. Silver coin, sent from place to place in nNKj, wuiuuku uj mix ill-VOiCe showing it has not been Imported, or that the custom house authorized the importation. i Tills action is rendered necessary to check, if possible, the rapid depreciation of the Peruvian silver currency, so advices from that country state. This furnishes a valuable object lesson which the silver standard advocates should Here is a country not on-)y forced to suspend the coinage of silver entirely, but driven to the necessity of exercising- the most stringent reg-iilatlons to prevent a further enlargement of the volume of silver money in order to check its depreciation.

Peru has joined the family of progressive nations by abandoning the fickle and ruinous sliver (rtandard. A roll 'call of the countries which have within Dhe past year rejected the Whit metal standard shows tbe follow ing: -Costa Rica, with a population of 266,000: Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Japan, Russia, 139,000,000.. Add to these China, with her 400,000,000, wfcicb has taken a long Stride' toward the gold standard and whioh uses sliver only by weight and it will be seen that the cause of the silver standard has not flourished during the year. A' Usdverwlty Dun, Tuscaloosa Gasette. The University boys gave a Mess Hall Hance on last Saturday evening.

Of all the different balls and germans none can surpass a mess hail dance and this fact' was well proven on Saturday evening. The dance was arranged 'out ot compliment to the Auburn boys but their not coming did not deter the home crowd from having a thoroughly delightful time. fc The german was led by J. Ii. McCbn-nell who displayed pronounced skill In the difficult art.

In the pretty- march led at the opening he was gracefully assisted by that fair and altogether charmina visitor from Birmingham Hiss Marie Nelson. The masculine dancers were as the sands of the sea in number. The young ladles present were Misses Ella, Alice and Abbie Searcy. Marie Nelson. LMa Inge," Mamie" Jones.

Julia Jui as Smltb. Sue and Gasste Clarksnn, Belle ClewiertU, Alyce Wildman. Mary Calhoun and Fanetle Crawford, i Ur-km Springs Herald. Brown's- Milt lr Pike County, seven mitea above Troy, ss one of the most delibtA)l places to go on fishing trtft and this week there is a gay and jolly party of our people there. The party went seetfcms, as it ware, some leaving on Monday and otters later, until now ft is composed of Messrs.

J. L. PaaUt, R. L. MoAodrew.

L. HigMovssrv Jv H. Hanson. T. 8.

Fm-aer, sw Cowan, all under the tappyawtdanea of Mr. C. R. Radford. whTsew 4sss chars of tbe mm al who.

will jsss that the bevs kam vivrsBdmr iaey eoma wssb io their aHHfX delsjtataal. There is oouM hot toAi the)' will tsv as fine a time, so sr a pleswore is con- oeraed, a any of the Florid WSeaSii the MW CitT IQIWI BSIIHt at Ix nA hXe tt is a fact that nil rejected there can be put on sals law has many defects Mdl tolhoped that the courts wiH sooji Tid jeople of Its Iniquities. Is 't i Governor Taylor of JTvT, ft to unofficially, though will resign is, Cctober to a-8ume, the lecture field. The Bary the office to only $4,000 a.year and he can make $5,000 at lectuting- solely from a monled tensideration, it to surely a very wise under the circumstances, it seems to us that it is not at all a question of jnoney but One of honor and obligation to the people of Tennessee. Governor Taylor knew Just whathh asp to licet; as Governor, and what he was getting at lecturing before he was elected, and there can be no manner of excuse for his abandoning the office now.

It may be true that he was tha, ony Demo crat who could nave been elected at the time, but did he not owe it to hfs State and his Party -to make the sAo rlfice. If he should take the step, he had as well retire from politics and bury all future ambition. George Gould has evidently put his foot in it, and not only his foot but all the rest of his personal property. He removed his refiience from New York to TarrytovnCN. because the tax officials of the former oity wanted to assess his personal property at its proper value, -and-theNelir' Jersey officers allowed him put his own valuation oa it The present year the Tarrytown officsrs have spread a very comprehensive drag-net which catches the big fish as wall as tha little ones, the.

assessments for, this year beiug about four times as much aa for pre vious years. As a consequence "George, dear" and Other habitual tax dodgers will be forced to pay something like a fair tax on their property, Just as poor folks doIf these multi-millionaires can thnsfhe forced to pay something like -Iheir iionest proportion of taxation. It be a i consummation town officials for which the deserve much Tarry praise. Evidently George will have to move again. i A few days ago we suggested to The Arnislon Hot Blast thst eyeliJs, and cast a glance or two around to see if it hadn't some' signs of the incipient boom' reportei from Decatur and Florence.

Wj are plsaSed to observe that our contemporary has carried out the suggestion. Its" last issue says: i (Prom lnformaUon- which we received from Mayor Hijcht we are cohfldent Annlston will have a nicemarket bouse during the present year, ench a building 1 greatly needed and all Anniston- will rejoice when it is an assured, fact that It will lie built this year. It is now in order for all Alabama to rejoice over this glad tidings of good pews furnished by The Hot Blast We expect to hear of AMteton'r Dooming before long. Speaking of the tariff bill in the Senate, a Washington special to The New York World has this paragraph: The threatened abrogation of the Hawaiian sugar treaty has -aroused such sturdy fighters as Senators Prye and Morgan. The latter placidly remarked that he can talk a year in opposition to the attack on Hawaii.

Under the mles of the Senate no one doubts- the' Old gen-tleamn's capacity and determination to do exactly as he said. It will require a great deal of party whipping to induce Senator Prye to cease the powerful opposition that he can interpose on this same subject. If the senior Senator from Alabama had given a Democratic President and his policies the same consideration and support that he has -accorded Republican Presidents and their administrations, he would not now be opposing Republican tariff bills In the Senate. Allen W. Thurman.

is reported as a Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio this year. He to quoted as saying: This Government is going to hell as fast as the creed and rascality of the two old parties will let It. We young fellows have got to take a hand in the affairs of this Government, or else we will see a civil war. more horrible than the one that was fought a little over a century ago. t.T, It in very plain that the young man does not belong in the Party of his revered father.

It would seem that he had best Join the Populists, 5 cr eke start a party of his own. The reports of the secretary and chairmen of several of the principal committees of the Commercial and Industrial are presented elsewhere, They wilt be read with especial interest as they present in a precise and comprehensive way the work of the Association for the past twelve months, and show what has been done in the several lines of business during that period. They make a fine showing for the commercial and industrial progress of the city, and are presented with special pride. Their careful perusal. earnestly invited.

Ii there a city in the State which has done half so The "Epworth League of -Alabama completed iti two days' session In this city This is one of the largest organisations tn conjunction with the Methodist Episcopal Church, sad next to' the Sunday School. -to doing a nwet powerful "work. The' proi ceedings of the nieetfngs J4 this ctty have been of unasual Interest and have attracted a great deal of atten-ticn from people oT denbniinationaj Some of the speakers were from the most' influential clerical aad Jaymembersf eCtheTMethodlst Episcopal CTiurch their presence in oor midst-has been a SDorce ot peculiar ptoasure and profit to' our people Wliot oroftteth t' a Klt if he cain eeftts pound a lew sounds' of wool and payees te per cent, on mnmas Of clothing tr so'dolngl Aye.ad what profiteth anaM aiul IM M. SMS tM 1 desa Newe-Resortsf. nan ju, an JMUfWS Ifsr capita I tn circulation aa ayssa-ane hnndssd Is netesMI mf iwsjssstow AUaai tsw Bishth Otatrlet.

Commn nica tlon la The Blrminsbszn Slate-Httald. a was to be sxfwcted that ths Inspection law nassinl the. kit iMrta. lstttiw would not entirely meet the approval of oil companies. The object ef that lawta not only to afford to users a guarantee that they are being sold oil which is safe to use, but also evidences a to what the oil Is wsth regard to fire The Tennessee law does not require a fire teat of ISO degrees, nut a flash test of 12 degrees.

This Is also the Georgia law. the Oaasetty Oil company to the contrary notwithstand ing- The Alabama law places the minimum fire test at 110 degrees; but as a matter of fact since rbc law went into effect I venture to say that no oil has been shipped into the State which bore nre test oeiow 120 degrees, and most of it baa averaged between 130 and 140 degrees; whereas, before the law was enacted, the oil companies shipped In all classes of oil, regardless ef Infer iority. The law has at least accom- pUshed its purpose 4n this respect. As an evidence of this, I Inspected oil in stock in this district wttchjthe oil companies labeled and sold at a high price as 175 degrees fire test which burn a i aegreea ana was. therefore, As further evidence, osr- wn dealers in Ml objected to my plac mg the number of degrees fire test upon -inspection certificates, because such certificates Showed a greatly low.

er degree fire test than their own labels degrees) upon the same barrels aad Interfered with Ha sale. This, of course tne law does not permit, and the re sult has "been that sales are now made accordance with the Alabama test and purchasers are assured ot getting exactly wnat tney pay for. A far as tbe editor of the Athens I www ja i migm- suKKesc roat Ms evidence is not verv snl. he appears to- have -undergone quite a cnange oi opinion on Mie law since March when he made an unsuccessful application for aooohitment as i deputy inspector ot oll for this district: although the taw may-have appeared to Mm at that time as "iniquttous" and in opposition to Ms "conviction" he was desirous of being employed 'to enforce "iniquity upon the dear Similar laws to this Inspection law are In force in nearly -every State In the Repeated efforts have been maae oy tne ou companies and others to repeal the law in Tennessee, but without effect. It is a good thing after years of trial in other States.

Why not give it a ralr trial in AlabamaT J. V. Allen, Inspector Eighth lMstriix. THE WAY TO VICTORY. Clearly PeSatwd Oat by the Trend of I Kveats.

j1 Louisville Post. f. The sJUance between Democrats and Populism In 18H6 proved disastrous. It wm prove just as aisastrous in 1909. to 1871 the Democratic party nearly destroyed by Us alliance with the Greeley' ring of the Republican party.

Democrats can afford defeat but they can Hi afford to compromise their principles for votes. General Wheeler ot Alabama, calls for a straight Democratic fight in 1888 ana thereafter, ana ne says "The Re publicans are now making an upon which ail the elements of the Democracy can unite." He aim's: "That issue is, of course, the tariff; we won an issue in 1892 and we can win on it again." This is true; we have the Issue, and we have -the votes, but there are still among us a ring of Bourbon leaders who ilnstot that a political organisation is great just in proportion as it alien ates its-supporters. Commenting; on the atatement-made by General Wheeler, The Philadelphia Times says: "Representative Wheeler is one of the moat intelligent of the Southern leaders, and his intelligence is ot ah eminently practical order. He well understands that the Democracy cannot mate another battle on free silver, as not one-halt the Democrats who aup-ccrted Bryan for President believe in establishing our financial system on a silver basis. They Know tnat tree silver, under present conditions, would mean sliver monomertaJUsm, and would tbus make the great republic of the world sever Its financial relations from all civilized netiens of the earth, and relegate Itself to the rear along with the semi-civilisud countries, which alone masntoin tbe stiver That victory is possible to a united Democracy, The Philadelphia Times thinks is plain, and it auggwts the way to victory in this paragraph: "If the Democratic leaders are wise their State conventions of this off political year will relegate national platforms to the rear, and organise their forces Solely In favor of honest national taxation and honest State government.

There are no Congressmen to elect: there are no national issues directly Involved, full to every State the question of -unequal taxation of the masses for the benefit of classes is certain to be felt and -popular protest agn st it demanded. With this issue and the vMal State Issues which present themselves In almost every State, tbe Democracy could soften the asperities of the divided counsels in their ranks and bring to their support hot only the ettHre Democratic vote re gardless of financial but probably command large accessions ot conservative RepisbUcans who are opposed to monopoly taxation and would, be glad to ald' political reforms in thtSr MspcetWh States." That Is the Work begun iti Kentucky tiy The Evening Post in January, ihe Democratic party will get together on such a platform before long. The work is going well in all sections, tt is obstructed, by a few. fanatics, by. a tew selfish leaders, by a few men who nev.

er begin to fight until the battle Is cter. But in spite of all this, harmony la as Inevitable as it is essential. It cannot be prevented; it can only toe ry: r.RccMn aad common sense will prevail. Democrats will tire of marching to defeat merely to oblige a fer men who have been decapitated and who do not know it. MCOiiOWAI, MOBIIiiV A IVew Book by Mr.

P. J. Hamilton oa th Carir History of Mobil. Mobile -Register. -A literary esmounoement of high vaioei'both generally and locally, is that made yesterday by Mr.

Peter Joseph Hamilton of this ctty. namely, of the approashinK publication of his work on CcJonial eMobile." which an Ustorioal study; largely from original sources, ot the Aiaabma-Tombix--bee baein from the dtseovery of Mobile bay in U0 until the demolition, of Fort Charlotte 1811-M. In the preparation of this history Mr.1 Hamilton has been engaged tor many years, ond baa brought to it a mind well trained- if sweh work. He has.tieen fortnravU la finding much hitherto unused snatert-at wWoh has thrown a flood of lsgbt upon chapters of Alabama history which bave long been forgotten. The book will be ta forty-seven chapters, grasped so as to treat of general topics, such aa -Bxptoratlon," "Tb French Capital, "The Depart met of Mobile, -The British DonUnatlon." "Under tbe and "Amert-hantratlon." The preface, which fairy describes the scope of iho work, will He printed to Tbe Register next Saa-day.

MessawbUe, we content ourselves with this saying- that we know tbe work has hem well aone, and tha it ought to, aad reroaps will, reeeLvs widw wad Bbaral nosgnition. 4 tarhst" ettPM) Is lost 'T4ir: was fr ttast Hhsvabna i only a osotina- i CKFLBT WBPOM OF lE ASSOCIATED- lPH PER annum Mk months JJ 1j MRien. delivered In 8" 4 lWn except Sunday dWok elon (PW" on 5 WEEKliTf. annum tXrsnsiant advertisements will Sally U.W iT S2L4S2 fc Uhes or toss) tor the am ciSS lor each M'Sfi i sertiou and in the Weekly tor Ior each -iA Motica of damns, arriagS i end. births.

art given laTetJbeBushises OtSce in person, or addressed by aau to the Business Offlnca Rejected communications wilt not as iw 'nnW and discussions of HV solicited, but they must be b-J wrtueiupozi but one aide ofths paper 4 to hare attention. JUmitianoee must be made byepr postal Dote, money order or res tend tetters. -m XU communications should, be eanrsssoo and all money ordera. checks, etc, OS made payable to -r THE AOTBRTISBB CO- Montgomery. Ale.

g. g. VRBEJLaJfDt Vract, gelty Batistas, 180 Jasaaan Itntt, New -City Is iur sole advertising rprKntatljet foreign, advertising, outsiqj oi Dl3T of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and XjouLiaan. lie la ao-hortsed by us eon- tracts soon tbe same terms as the Bom eflce. Communications sent to him will receive prompt and careful attention.

GOOD ADVICE. The Geo. P. Rowell Co of New York! the leading circulation. 'fcuthorlties of the country, tXn this advice to hoee irho want rduh the public: "The best Rtvertising medium Is THE DAILY PAPER.

The best advertteemeht to the oae that telle what you want to say la the fewest and plainest words. So word your advertisement that It will be understood. So display it thai it will catch the eye. Insert It the best daily paper mind you THE BEST. If the adver-tlsemgnt Is as good as it should be and the display to aa good as it can be.

one insertion pngUt to do the business. To do tndre business prepare a new ivoimisni PAD A Washington, May 12. For Alabama Threatening weather with showers; southwesterly winds. By the time tne senate gets lurouBn 1 with the tariff bill, if that ever occurs, Its originator can't tell it from a Greek war map. The Chinese claim that bicycles were used in that country ever two thousand years ago but then they also clain that Noah was a Chinaman.

It is stated that President McKinley is in favor of the Republicans passing the tariff bill and then stopping. But the question is where will they stop? Nowhere short of complete defeat we surmise. A congress if mothers has recently been held. An exchange suggests that "how the children should be gotten together and have an expression as to' how they would like to be raised." In this advanced age. the children come very near dictating to the mothers how they shall be raised.

The Providence Journal says that "if the voters ef this country 3hould ever have to walk to the polls on taxed shoe-leather, we may be rare that the result of their voting would be decide-ily uncomfortable for the party that put the tax on." And why not the same result; as to other of necesity open which taxes are Toted? Singular, isn't it, that although the present administration is following the precise policy respecting Cuba that was pursued by the Cleveland admin- i-itration, the Jingoes have almost entirely ceased their abuse on the subject? Senator Morgan, it is true, continues to unravel his voice for Cuba, hut that is expected. He got into such a habit of abusing the administration during Cleveland's that he can't top all at once, without Jolting his Intellect. The Union Springs Herald makes wis nappy suggestion as to a way ox relieving the alleged deficit in Mm Treasury; If the Stat treasury la really In so bed a condition, since the report of Aoditer White, just let the State dmw, in ad-vaaoet ob all that enormous Sua ef meaey that the "back tax law" is gotas; to pile as. 7m Is the solution at the matter. ana tne, sooner it is aone a setter- it will be.

Wont The Herald please give an estimate of the amount that will be yielded xrbm Bullock County? The Adrrrtlaer is trvlne to Drove cluMvly that Alabama does not hate a deflctt of over KOO.OOe as shown by 8tate Auditor White's statement. "Flggers are csswvuie uemocrat. That reminds as of the old eouplet: Ksnght's a naught and agger figger, "Cotton's all mine and aotaia far ae nigger." -Most of the figuring at the Capital of late baa been done somewhat on that Uit: has been against the State. There Is nothing to deceiving as tg- i rin rnnETasman Lewis, nailing from ht State of Washington, has spoke a speech, free silver being in vhfah ha remarks "If the we are friends to silver, let us he friends to her." etc. xTn hov the jrv to talk.

As Bill TT nsed to nut it: 'What's the use lis falloa- iiiiIms VOII BTS a 11 of a feller?" Shall siiver be maltreated, nr. InoiiHiut nft ravished, and SQS- UJ1U bashed and everlastingiy flabbergasted while her friends stand loosing with their hands in the seats ot their breeches? Will not her friends gird on their snickersnees ana sau mm Won't some wMioiwir snbatitute take her by the bangs and yank her out ot the abyss, 0T; wherever Bhe Is" I Where's Stewart the yawping yaw-doodle from the Empire of Nevada? Where's the Bookless hlrsutes from the grasshopper-bitten wilds of Kansas? Where's the argentiferous wind-Jam-fervescent cr- atory knocked the Chicago Convention head over heels? What oecome the tridentiferous statesman from Carolina? Can it be possible that silver ls'to be trodden down by the feet and claws of gold-bugs, flattened by the Kanchulla of money-devils or swallowed by the squamigerous hydra ot WaU Street? Won't somebody do something? A BLVNDfitUKCI MOVKJUa. in Virginia there is a movement to nnlte the Party, but it is objected to by the men who in a State campaign of the Chicago Convention of 1896 in the Presidential campaign. Of trns contest over the platform The New York World says: -what Si8iiSt of the chaos at Cju- Popullstic ana ---n a( pouge that came out jj0 the What sense to there i Democrats of VU-S fa. iter did When he Us- "rso5 STthTallssS 5pSt ommunlca-lened to the aliegejx tions" from VirglnU aKSCSrc; sss: Sat dollars than tney were last year.

At all evenu the currency Is not In issue this year? No Congressmenare to Selected. The Bepublican Congress and adm nutrition at Waahlngton are sup-SiViag aU the issues that the Itemocrats Seed to win ohln November. And upon these issues Democrats are united. Upon colntgeTe1 divided this not a good time to unite and win? The common-sense ot The World upon this line to unanswerable. And it we mistake not, it Is going to be discovered that the common-sense of the people runs the same way.

The fanaticism of some fossil politicians and mischief-making newspapers to not going to be imbibed by the rank and file of the Party. The Chicago plat-form was a failure, and the quicker It is acknowledged on all sides and abandoned, the better it will be for the Party. 'I, The Greater New York, which to composed of the former city of New York and surroumiing towns, was created by on act of the recent Legislature of New York, and begins its official existence on the 1st of January next The first election will he held on the 2nd of next November and the Marsr will serve for tour years, being at the head ot employes, at a salary of $15,000 per year; The area of the new city will be 317.77 square miles with a popnlation of 3,400,000. Its extreme length will be thirty-two miles and the width sixteen miles. There will he 1.S0Q miles of streets.

1.186 places Of worship, 149.000 inhabited houses, 166 banks and 6.000 acres of parks. rne tax rate of Long Island to $2 per $100 of actual valuation. Brooklyn $250 and $2.90 for New xorK. it will ne ine larsest citv in the United States and next to London, the largest In the world. Mr.

J. V. Allen, the coal oil Inspector fcr the Eighth speaking of the taw fays' that "similar: laws to this inspection law! art in force in neariy-every Stats te theUnion. Jte- peated efforts have been made by the oil companies and others to repeal the law in Tennessee, but without effect It to a good thing after years of trial In other States, why not give it a fair trial In We venture to say that there is not another State In the Union that does not require some of the fees from the inspection of oils to be paid ktato the. State and thatj gives all to the Inspectors as to done by the Alabama law.

The mam objection to the law is that Stats inspection is axpresely prohibited by the Constitution and the people are not to be hnrddned with it very sack longer. Mr. Allen think it to the 1 proper protection to ths at ofl la became so widespread in this State, Tho auwiH usnunuai nas been eivino- its readers telegraphic reports from Alabama. -Vkn put much conndence in the reports he iw-s un paper rrom tnis State. The sates is tne account or the fir at the IP nlf TT aH -i-r-s? wBigosiiery last vwu-uiuuon nan tn vmoie building a total wreck, and a whol lot wi.

vmotkuu. Aaveruser hasn't done a thing to The Constitution's re- 1 port Greenville meenville fs "strlctly'in tt with va- TlaMUBBT AStrSCSBSBl ASF slk A Bteitthart is Supreme Prelate of tha 25 IdfJ Knlghto of PytWaa. si; SZ-v raaB Mcuttor Kntgbta of Honor, -j. b. Stanley tiSra Ke TT a UW' 0i aad Mr.

W. R. Slower nairman M.m.i a. M's. V'H bat the Mat that Greenville don't take fa say the rreat Frater-, biats.

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