Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 4, 1881, Page 4

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Opors Company, Afternoon, “Olivette.” Evoning, " Uilice i'sylor.” Hooley's ‘Theatre, Randolph street. hetwoon Clark and La Salle, Minstro}entertalnmont, Afternvon and ovening. Olsmpic Theatre, Clark strest, between Lake and Knndolph. Varie ely entortalnmont. Afternoon and evening. Enke Front. Foot of Atadison atreet. Forepaugh's Cirous and Menngorlo, Afternoon and orening. SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1881, Tne “ Bucks” assume that tho Legislature ot New York is persunded by the promise of patronage not to redteet Messrs, Conkling and Platt. If this be so, it must have been patronage which clected them in the first place, Tho character of this Legistature is no better and no worse than that of the Inst one, or the one before the mi and the per- sons who voted for Pintt last winter but re- fufe to voto for him now re ag pure and patriotic now as they were before. Tre New Orleans Demoerit, In its anx- iety to prove that grain shipped by tho Southorn route is not linble to overheating, proves too much, It say It fa nbont time that this silly cbargo be dropped. It was made yoars ngo, and was then disproved. Nover bas a propusition teen mare thorouhly tested than this, A ship has left this port In Juno loaded with wheat, and with cotton screwed on top of it, It has remained Huck un Vie mud-lumps at the mouth of the river for eightcen days, with the engines working under te grain alt the thine to yet her off; and yot, when thig grain reached Europe it waa found to be in perfect condition. Now, w6 should like to hear more about those “mud-lumps,” Are not the jetties n perfect success? They would seem not to ebe. ——_ i ——_—_ Some interesting statemonts have lately been made concerning the decadence of farm- ing in England. Amerlean competition Is gradually driving English farmers to tho wall In certain departments of agriculture, The senson of 1879 was one of unprecedented iigaster, In tho following year there was an nddition of 124,000 acres to the whole culti- vated area of Great Frltaln, but in corn crops a decrense of about 1 per cent. On green crops there was a decrease of 3 por cent, ‘There was an incrense of 260,000 acres in permanent pasture and meadow and in bare fallow of 90,000 acres, making a total of 850,000 ncres withdrawn from cultivation, dur- ing 1880. In tho matter of live stock, horned cattle showed an Increase of 50,000; but the number of horses, slicep, and pigs fell off, Mn. Froupe is not the wisest or the most , infallible of historians, and his dingnosls of the situation in Ireland is not likely to bo the correct one. ie Is too fond of eplgram to be very fond of truth. Whicn he says that the diNiculties and iniseries of tho Irish people are due to the alternations of tho English Government between firm goverumont and fenlency, ho overstates the case. Io says: Wo have attempted to govern, and wo have not governed or trivd to govern, except at Ine tervala vo brief that our attompts have beon ay if written upon water. We bave sought to Yeouncllo tho }risb puople to their loss of indo- pegaenee by leaving them to Hecnse, There as never been a tine since tho first conquest whon equitable laws, impartiity and inexorably adtninistered, would not have given freland peaco, and with peace prosperity and Wberty, ‘Tis is the mercst truism. ButMr, Froudo’s definition of “equitable Jaws” would not agree with that of Mr, Parnell, for instance, ‘The wholo problem at last Is reduced down to a mere question of the equity of the Jand Jaws, and not particularly to the manner in which thoy were administered, though the evil has beon aggravated by the disregard of even tho safeguards of bart Jaws in the inter- ests of the landlords, ; Asevate Philadetphin man read the re- vised New Testament with care, and found nothing In it especially to condemn until he reached Chapter 8, Verse 13, which reads as following in the two editions: Old Veraton. New Verston, And I boheld and| And Isaw, and | beard heard an awed Syl Ao cayle, iytng inemid through tho midst of|Heaven, saying with a Honven, suylng with alyroat volco, Woe, woe, loud voice, Woe, wue,| woe, for thom that dwell won, tu the’ Inhabitante)on the earth, oto,, etc, of the earth, ule., te, Whon the sedate Philadelpiiia person read this and saw that “eagle” was substituted for “angel” he wasshocked, and hinmediate- ly sat down and wrote a letter about it to his faully newspaper, Hesala he was “annoyed to ses such an error in au ‘authorized? edi- tlon printed at the University Press, Cam- bridge.” But, for all that, “eagle” Is right and “angel” wrong. In the best Greck ver- sion the word ts «ctor, though some mau- uscripts, which were followed by the King Janes translators, have angetlos. On many accounts “eagle” Is to be preferred to “angel,” though this rendering detracts from the dignity of the prophecy. ‘Tne friends of Mr, Conkling are striking out wildly and alulesly on lls behalf, They assume that he has been badly used by some Porson or perauns unknown In Now York; that te refusal of the Legislature to revlent him {s un act of rank disloyalty, if nothim- Piety; and that he und no other person has 9 divine right to sit as Senator for the term expiring Murch 4, 1855. Now, what docs a calm and senallle survey of the situation show? Simply that Mr, Conkling returned his commission to the power which gave it, because he could not tonsent to hold it Jonger on the terms orlx- Inally agreed upon. He aske for another soumlssion one djiferent basts, and bvites “pBepublican Legislature ty jolu with hi Inn war upon the recognized chil of the Republican party, Is it any wonder that o majority of the Republicans in the Legila- ture draw back from this uninviting pros: pect? They cannot go with Mr. Conkling or anybody else into the Opposition. He has acted the part of an honorable man in an- nulling his former contract. But he cannot binme tho Legisiature if St refuses to Join with him in another on an entirely different basis, el Tre most notable Incident at Albany yes- terday was tho failuro of the combined Demoernts and Conkling men to secure an adjournment over till Tiesday. The anti+ Conkling Republicans teared some trick In this attempt. ‘The United States Senate, governing tho clection of United States Sen- ators, requires that ballot shall be taken every day until thers shall be nn election. One of two results was apprehended from the proposed recess till Tucsday,—elthor that Conkling and Platt would make auch ad- Journmientn pretext for contegting the elec- tion of any other two men, or that taking a recess for a few days might prepare the way for adjourning over {nn similar manner till next fall. It{s possible that these Apprehon- slons are not well founded, It ls certainly a usual thing for a logisiative body to continua n single legistatlve day over a number of days. At tho same time nothing is to be gatned by ylelding to tho schemo fora recess, and there is no object in taking any risks, It isthe business of the Legislature to elect two United States Senators, and it shoutd proceed with that business In complt- ance with the United States statute, which should properly govern the chotce of Natton- al legisiators, ‘The choles of Senators will not be diMeult when the Conkling obstruc- tionists abandon the ditatory tactics of voting for two men in opposition to two-thirds of thelr party, and two men whe haye not the sinallest chance to be elected. ‘There was one other significant circumstance about yes- terduy's ballot. Mr. Conkling did not regain the yote he had lost the day before, while Mr. Platt not merely held his own, but galned an additional vote. Conkling started with 85 and Platt with 99, Yestorday Piatt lind 90 yotes and Conkling only‘. At this rate it will be only n day or two more till Platt passes Conkling. This would bo the most dreadful humiliation of all, The Opposition have shown no particular sign of concentra- tion as yet, and will probably be content to let the balloting drift. along till the disinte- gration now evidently taking plnce In the Conkling ranks shall assume a specific direc- tion. In another part of this tssue will be found a letter written by Maj.-Gen. J. M. Schofield nnd addressed to the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, in which the writer asserts his claim to the whole: credit for the battle of Franklin and to most of the honor of the Nashville cafipaign. It is Impossivie to characterize this letter properly except as an. attempt to rob tho heroic Thomas of his Inurels, If there were o basts of fact for it, Gen. Schofield should have permitted an- other hand to rewrlte history In his interest. A limited senso of modesty and delicacy would have dictated such a course. But we do not believe the records or the testimony of the officers in elther army will substan- tinte Schofleld’s claim, however made or by whomsoever asserted. He pretends (1) that the battle of Franklin was fought by iim independently and with careful pre- meditation; and (2) that he could have superseded Thomas before thg battle of Nashville, but magnanlijously chose to snc- Tifivo his own ambltlon“for the sake’of his commanding officer. The truth ts that Scho- field precipitated the battle of Franklin by his own blundering folly.and disobedience of orders, and thereby placed Thomas’ whole army ina position of extrome peril, from which he was only nblo to extricate it by a lucky accldent, As to the magnanimous refusal of Schofield to deprive Thomas of Mis command, wo belleye the records will show that heconstantly intrigued to that ond and was nearly successful, These are polnts, however, which will be more fully devel- oped In the discussion that Schofleld’s self- iandatory paper must inevitably provoke. ‘The letter, though dated Scpt. 15, 1880, has never been published before, It was written to be rend nt the Jost annual meeting of the Soclety of the Army of the Cumber- land, but was “necldontally’ withheld. ‘Thoso officers who wero aware of Its con- tenta, and who cherished somo regard for the reputation of Gen. ‘Thomas and Gen. Schotield, hoped that the latter when given time for reflection might reconsfilor his in- tention to asanil the memory of his dead commander, But he has aince caused the letter to be published for private circulation, and fs fixed in his determination to have it rend bofore the Society at its approaching reunlon. ‘There ean be no good renson, therefore, for withholding it longer from the public; and Tue Tpwune subiits It to those conversant with the facts in. tho bopo that they may be able to shed soine light upon its contents and sottle tho historical questions involved decisively one way or the other, THE STOCK INFLATION, ‘Tha abundance of money and the general prosperity of the country have glyen an ex- trnordinary Impetus to the speculation in stocks, nnd notably ot railroad stocks. The stocks now in the market ropresent 0 cash investinent of from 30 to 60 per cent greater than the saine stocks did a year ago, and in addition there has been added an immense smount of water to old stocks, and on fin- mense amount of stock issued for newly- constructed roads, Side by side with the enormous Increase of capital stock fa the almost equal increase of the bonded indebt- edness of the railroads, Never tn the his- tory of the country did the railroad bond and stock Indebtedness represent such an aggregate ‘of money actually in- veated, not only in the total amount, but also in the average per nile of railway, showing that ot thia thine the country ls subjected to a greater tax to pay Inturest and dlyidonds than was ever experienced, even in the days of inflated and depreciated currency. While the country 1s taxed to pay Interest on debts and dividends on stock averaging possibly 8 per cent on the whole, monoy actually has amarket value not exceeding 8}¢ per cent. ‘The business and production of .the country Ja taxed on transportation to pay interest and dividends on railroad debts and stocks ata rate two or three tlmes the value of the money represented by the face of the stocks aud bonds, The work of expansion of railroads and watering of stocks Is golng on at an alarin- Ing rate. The panto of 1873 suspended for brief perlod the construction of railways, but one of the first effects of the recovery of business was the resumption of railroad building. For Instance, at the close of 1877 the rallroada in the United States mcasured 7,070 miles; there were constructed fn 1878 2,400 miles, and in 1870 4,430 miles, while In 1880 the construction was 7,150 miles, At the clogo of 1880 tho total mileage was 09,650 wiles, At the close of 1881 this mileage will be so Increased that it inay not bo much, If any, tess than 100,000 iilles, Frou Jan, 1, 1877, ta Decomber, 1831, a turm of five years, the aggregate addition to the railroad con- struction of the country will exceed 20,000 lle. ‘This, computed at $20,000, $25,000, or $50,000 a nille, will represent an actual cash uyestiment of $400,000,000, $500,000,000, or 2600,000,000, according to the proper estimate, In January, 1873, the railroads of the United States had outstanding stock and bonis and other Indebtedness as compared with drun- ary, 1880, as follows: 1873, 1890, Capital stock $2,019,000 82,47T08,000 Ronde deb! 2255 F1N,000- 22825 10,000 Other dobts.iccovece SOLOW 150,881,000 TORANB. oe sene eo $4,800,208, 000 84,919,87,000 At the close of 1831 this aggregate will not fall much short of $5,000,000,000, This debt, 1m the shape of interest and dividetids, has to be sispported and maintained by the charges on transportation on tho few great agricult- ural and mining productions of the country, From an article in the New York Graphic on this subject we have compiled the fizures we have gen. They serve (o show tho cnormots burden by which the business of the country fs borne down, This array of Anterest-bearlng nnd dtyldend-earning debt docs not represent an honest bona fide In- vestinent of capital, ‘Tho capital stuck ts greatly exaggerated by water, fresh and scl- ditional stock being tssued withoutany addl- tlonal enpital being invested. ‘ho bonded debt is also Inrgely fletitlons, But the coun- try ts taxed to pay interest and dividends thereon. Sfow long will the country aubmit tobe thus taxed? If aratirond now tn ex- istenes ean be duplicated at a cost of $25,000 per intle, how long will the country submit to bo taxed to pay dividends and Interest on a stock and bond debt of $60,000 to $80,000 per nile? Low long will the country sub- mit to pay tho rates of (ransportation exacted on rallronds whose debts double the value of the property sufliciont to pay yidends that will warrant that stock to sell for 150 to 100 in the market? ‘The grain, the cotton, tho provisions, and tho cual produced in the evuntry are taxed under tho form of rates for transportation so as to givé a market yalua to stocks of 150, when, in point of fact, those ratlrond companies are practically bankrupt. ‘Cheir property, taken as a whole, is worth no more than thelr funded debt, excluding the whole of tholr so-called capital stock. ‘Cis stock-gambling, which {3 made fn success by the system of pouling, is in- ereasing in magnitude avery day, All these ralirond stocks ara now selling in the market at prices representing twice tte actual vatue of the property thoy represent. Iow long will the country submit to such oppression, such extortion, and to auch contiseation of the products of their Inbor? Of the progress of this infintion of these stocks we cite the following Instances: ‘Tho Stock Exchange murkets have on outaldo support that has hardly ever been equalod. Not only ura the stock operators numerous In all the minor oltles throughout the Eastern and Middlo Slates, bit tho riec In Southern stocks has been 0 Inrge and tho ftuctuutions In sich markets a3 Haltimore and Richmond have been sa netive ‘that tho South is Interested in stock operations toa xreuter extant than evor before, ‘Tho fol- lowing range of prices of n few of the new Southern stars {a from a Baltiinore clroular of lust week: May?. Mayts, May ?t. M Mi aT ichmond & Danville R. i.....08 Richmond & Allegheny Rt. 1t,..43 ou vy Churlotte, Col. & A. Hy It. i all oo Atantio & Charlotte it, It. 0 89 Norfolk & Wostorn It. it., pf 65 68 ‘The Missouri Pacific Iuilroad was bought in 1876-'7 for $800,000; it wns sold In 1870 to Jny Gould for $4,000,000, and Is now selling at $30,000,000 and at 108, A Iittlo less than threo yoars ago—in Sentem- ber, 187é—the entire Issue of Loulaville & Nash- vite stock was worth ut current prices €3,04l- 10U; a duy or twu nyu, nlao at curront prices, tt would havo taken €10,106,000, and this after a stock dividend of 100 per cent. Nock Island, one of the ateudlest of stocks, could have been Dought up entire for $20,375,000 in 1878; now It take $00,742,000 to’ buy the outstanding New Jersoy Central, at tho same time In its lowest pont; T7300; to-day, with & v= ser debt before it and very little increase in property, $18,000,000 would bo needed to buy it, ‘This ts largely the character of the rall- rond indebtedness of the country. ‘The pro- ducers of tho country aro taxed to pay an average of 8 per cent on’ on Indebtedness thus manufactured. These raliroad stocks hiave no substantial value justifying the pres- ent quotations, Thore must be In duce thine asmash, The country will at Inst emancl- pate itself from the extortion to which It !s subjected. Congress will have to choose be- tween the people and the rallways, and when that choice is mnde these watered stocks and Inflated indebtedness will recede to their proper level. —_—— SUGAR REVENUE FRAUDS, The controversy botween Sceretary Sher- mun and the sugar Importers is a fino illus- tration of the difficultles whieh beset the path of tho oflicers of the Government In their efforts to collect the customs revente, ‘Tho law provides that sugars shall be dutia- blo according to color by the Dutch stand- urd,” Tho law also provides that: “Tho Secretary of the ‘Treasury sha by regulation preseribe nnd require that samples from packages of sugar shall be taken by the proper officers in such manner aa to aecer- tain the true quality of auch sugar”? Dur ing Mr. Sherman's administration of the Trensury Department it was found that the sugars made for this market were being artl- ficlally colored with the design of defraud- ing the revenue—that {s to say, high- grado sugars were colored to resem- ble low-grade sugars, and entored at the low-grade rate, When Seeretary Sherman learned this state of facts, learned that tho revenue was being defrnuded by wholesnto through the * Dutch standard,” he lnstructed IMs agenta and subordinates to look, with the ald of the polariscope, through the falso colosing matter, und to classify the augur according to its “true yalue.”” Tho sugar {importers at once became righteously in- dignant, protester! ngalnst tho gross InJus- tice, and appented to the Courts, This was thelrcase, Thoy sald: ‘It ts conceded on all hands that for the purpose. of evading duties It is a fraud to color sugar after it becomes sugar.” But, thoy proceeded, the sugar manufacturers have Invented o method of coloring sugar during the process of making, before {t becomes sugur,—that is to say, before It becomes the sugar of com- merce; and the sugar of commerce, say the yirtuous buttechnical hnporters, is the sugar covered by the Iaw which declares that the classification shall, be according to the Dutch standard of color, - You must not, Mr, Secretary, continued the sugar Importers, try to nscertuln the true quality of oursugats by looking through the fatse ebdlor «liven them by the munufacturera, In order to enable us to enterthemn aslow-grade sugars,°when they aro In fact high-grade sugars, beenuso they were colored before they became “the sugars of commerce”; and it{a Iawful to color sugars before they become “the sugars of commerce for the purpose of evading dutics,” although it is 8 fraud to color sugars after they become the sugars of commerce for the purpose of evad- ing duties," It was a very nice question for the Courts to determine, but the Courts nt Baltimore and San Franeclsco followed the reasoning of the virtuous but technical sugar huporters. ‘These declslons left a very nar row foothold for the Secretary of the ‘Tronsury ou which to protect the revenue. However, Mr, Sherman, os ho was bound in honor to do, planted himself on what re- mained. He instructed his subordinates to solze and forfelt the frnudutent- ly colored sugars whonever they should be satisticd that “the owner, {mport- er, agent, or consigneo had knowledge that thoy were artlitelally colored.” For this order the sugar luporters Induced the Chamber of Commerce of New York City to traduce and vilify the late Secretary, Ailll- fons of tlollars ara already involved in the contest, and the yuu is increasing from day And as the stake Inereases the in- dignation of tho virtnous sugar Importers grows hotter and hotter, They control the Chamber of Commerce, and on Wednesday that body adopted the report of Its Special Commitice, submitted In teply to the sting- img ietter of Secretary Sherinan, under date of Feb, 10 Jast. The report fs a precious plece of special pleading, whieh innkes, of course, no account of either juatlee or equity. "rhe pettlfogglng character of tho whale re- port may be propefly estimated by the singte fact of Its adufission that the law ought to be changed so as.to prevent the continu. anes of the color frauds, which the sugar importers claim are frauds according to the letter of the law! Itts astonishing that n great commercial association of the chief city of the country could be reduced to tho humiliating position of defending 1 wholesale evasion of tartit duttes on the filmay pretense that the frandulent colorlinys- mattor fs Introduced ‘nt an earlier Insteatl of nator stage of the manufacture, Let ithe borne In mind that itis not dented that the stignrs are colored to, make them appear to be what they are not, and that they sre col- oredin the country of export solely to en- nble the ngents or consignees of the inanu- facturers here to svenre thelr passage through the Custom-louse at a lower rate of duty than they would bear tf they had not been tampered with. ‘This Is the cluss of business the New York Chamber of Com- merce indorses; and {t is solely on the ground of his refusal to become n consenting party to the disrepttable transaction, notwithstanding Sts sanetion bya cotiple of United States Cir cult Courts, that the Inte Secretary of the "Treasury has been made the target for re- ented agsautts by the sugar tinporters and their subservient tools, tho members of tho Chamber of Commerce, Only onemnn voted aguinst tho adoption of the report. Col. Frederick aA. Conkling, who Intely sovercly criticised his brother Roscou for resixning from the Senate, was equally plain-spoken in reprobation of the disgraceful attitude as- sumed by the Chamber of Commerce. Col. Conkilng’s speech 13 worthy of reproduction, and we ask for Ita careful perusal, for it shows that thore Is need of reform in the cus- toins service ns well ng in the Postat Depart- ment. It may be necessary, too, to commence the Work of reform In the bureaus of the ‘Treasury Department. Secretary Windom has found that crooked practices are carrled on very near to his person; let him extend hls search, strike where and who {t may. Col. Conkling said: [ was not surpriscd that, in his letter, the Seeretary of the Treasury made commont on the nutborship of that report, for, avcorting to tho highest parilumontary authority, no mag can with deceney sit asa Judgo in hla own exse. No onu need be told that, whero tarlits exist, thoro ia: alwnys a numerous body cagayed in defraud. fox the revenue. I have known of blanks stripped through tho middie tar tho pur; poae of entering one as three, [Lbuyo known of nwhite lead company not many blocks away who imported lead Ngures welghing many buns dred pounds cach ay objeats of urt. havo known of insting ontered us woolen rags, and the finost quality of cast-stoul a8 sorap-iron. Bvery Seorctyry of tho Preasury, from Seore- tury” Chose down, has -declared thar no set of men gave them so mitch trouble us these stigar importers. Tho duty on sugar {fs the most important in the United States, Out of $180,000,000 collected last Year, £42,000,000 was derived from sugar. 80 tho Secrotarg! of tho Treusury, as xuardinn of tho revenue, naturally looited sharply after tho -suyzar interests, “Having evidence | that, after ft becaine sugar of commerce, it wie colored by injecting coloring matter into It, he gnys: "Wo will unply the now test of tho poluriacope,” and he finds sugar cutered as No. 7 that should bo 13, If he permitted this to pass he would not be acting in tho intorests of tho Government or of honest importers, Somebody appears to have been “hit”? by this vivid picture of high-tonod rascals, for Royal Phelps became go indignant during Its delivery that he rushed from tho Chamber, exclaiming: “I thought I was among mer- chants.” No doubt ho was, but what kindof merchants? That's'the question Mr. Phelps should ponder over. re CONELING'S ANTI-MONOPOLY OAREER. ‘The most preposterous phase of Conkling’s recent enndidacy for reClection to the United States Sonate was his appearance as nn oppo- nent of corporatiou® monopolies, Conkling as a Granger would bon good subject fora cartoon in one of tho illustrated newspapers. Conkling with hnyseed {n his hair would entise that one particular lock in the middle of his forehead to stand on end like the Inrgest quill on an extravagantly fretful por- cuplne, The ausocintion of Conkling with the farmers or the commercial community must have been amore humiliating to his proud spirit than the consclousness that la could muster no more than one-third of tho Republican votes In the Now York Legisla- ture. It is hard that his aristocratic nature should have been subjected to such contam- ination without avail. ‘The act of exhibiting Mr. Conkling as a Granger was caleulnted not only to make him ridiculous, put to bring out some ugly polnts in his career, It cnuscd people to ro- membor that, during hts entire Congresstonal service, ho made not the slightest effort in belinif of legislation for the protection of the people nguinst the assaults and aggressions of the monopoliats, Mr, Kernan, a Deno- erat, was during six yenrs a colleague of Mr. Conkling’s In tha Unite States Senate, and earned for himself an envinbio reputation for fighting all the subsidy schemes that camo up, and assisting all the movements for public rights as against the corporntions. But Mr, Conkling was either absent or silent during discussions Involving such Issues, Ho left to others to originutoand prosecute measures looking to tho reatraint of corporate powers, aud quietly avalled himeelt of the foes which the corporations were willing te pay him in umergencles, Mr, Conkling ts sald to havo lad the following professional connections with corporations: Tle was one of the confidantial counsol of tho Western Union ‘Telegraph Company dur- Jug the lifetime of Prealdont Orton. He was a member of Congress at the time the Cevtral Pacitic Rallrond secured the fa- yors and udvantages which have sluce given the Government so much trouble, and. has been charged with an intimate connection with that Company, Ho was Vandorbilt’s counsel in the suit in which the New York Central Rallroad sought to recover a large sum of money which had been pal under the Internal Revenue lawa, Tie is snl to have recelved a fee of $25,000 ‘on that occasion, He has made public appearances as an ot- torney for the Pacific Mail Steamship Corj- pany, which is notorlous as a subsidy-beggar and corruption{st, . ‘It is stated that tis present absence from Albany Is due to an engagement to appear In New York in one of the elevated railway cuses, "The charge has been made by Judge Rob- ertgou’s friends that Coukling is to-day and has been for years on the régular pay-roll of the New York Central Company, It may de sald fairly enough that Mr, Conkling, as a lawyer, has the right to enter into these and slinilar professional engage- ments, But tt Is equally fair to contend that, so Jong as he places himself under such. obligations to the corporations, he canuot gain much confidence as an antl-monopoly reformer. The lawyer caunot complotely disassociate himself from the United States Senator, Mr, Conkling in his political ca- puclty cannot make au aggressive or effect- ive fight on the corporations while Mr. Couk- ling tn his capacity asa lawyer Is drawing pay from the corporgtions. As a matter of fact, he hos made no such fight. In one case, indecd, Jt {s {ntimgted that he permitted his Senatorial Influence to become susplelou; entangled with his obligations as an attor- ney. A very sucelnct statement of the case ia made In the following paragraph from the Rhode fatand Starz Roscon Conkling Indneod Gen. Grant to ape pont Wittain d. Wallace United States Clreuit udge, and thon himsell becnine the attorney for tho Now York Contral Ratleond in tte suit with tho United States, fi which tho, Inttor sotight to recovor hetwoott #1000 and 2.000, 0.9 Income tax wrongfully withheld. ‘The Judge whom Conkling appointed decided this case in favor of Conkling's ellont, but on nppeal this decision wns reversed, It is very certain that Judge Thurman In the Senate or Jide Rengan In tho House, or any other of the few members of Congress who have mundo a record ns antagonists of the corporations or as cliampions of the | rights of the people ngalnst tho encrondli- ments of the monopolists, would not lave subjected themselves to susplelon or weak- cneil.thatr influence by any such complicn- tlonns fs deseribetl above, But Mr. Conkling never attempted to make 9 record as an anti- monopoly reformer, It might ns well be elatmed for him that he was a Civit-Service reformer, Heneo the peculiar tmperttnence of his recent effort to obtatn publlesympathy and support uncer the false pretense that the corporations were using thelr influence to de- fent his redlection, UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE KANSAS PROHIBITION ACT. It fs but a few weuks sinco that the columns of Tun CHicAgdo Trinuns contalned the details of n stringent Prohibition act passed by the Legisinture of Knusns, also a Ictter from our correspondent at Leavenworth in which its effect upon the people and the plans of tho Anti-Prohibitionists to oppose Its operation were enlarged upon. ‘The Pro- hivitioniats started in promptly and vigor- ously to enforce the law, but have already run agalnst a very serious obstacte—uamely: the unconstitutionality of the act itsulf a3 decided by Judge Crozier, formerly of the Supreme Bench of the State and now of the District Court of Leavenworth County. A test enso was mado up ngntust G. I, Holmes, a druggist, at the instance of the «Kansas Pharmaceutical Associntion, to de- cide the status of druggists under the new law. The information alleged that Mr, Holmes had sold bay rum, tincture of men- tian compound, Dr, MacLean's Invigorating Cordial, and essence of lemons; that they contained. large percentage of atcohol; that thoy would produce {itoxfcation; and thnt the defendant had no pormit to sall un- der the provisions of the act, Tho defense sot up was that the Iutoxivating liquors men- tioned in the amendment do not Include theso compounds. ‘The amondmont reads: “The manufacture and gale of intoxicating Nquors shatl be forever prohibited In this State, except for medical, scientific, and me- chanical purposes.” The Court understood this to mean that the Legisinture may enact prohibitory penal- thes for the snlo of intoxicating Iquors for any other than the excepted purposes, but for the excepted purposes the Legislature may not enact such laws as will absolutely prohibit thelr sale, but may make the neces- sary provisions for the regulution of thelr sale, whieh shall not amount to an abso- lute prohibition, ‘The defense elim that the phraseology of the act docs not include the compounds mentioned. Sec. 10 reads: “All Manors or mixtures thereof by whatever nome called that will produce intoxication shall be considered and held to ‘be Intoxleating liquors within the meaning of this act” The Court held that this Inn-. gunge js so plain that it leaves no room for interpretation other than tho precisa: metin- Ing of the words used. It further held that it was evident the Legislature intended to compel the Courts to say that whatever com- pound contains alcoholic ingredicnts that will produce intoxication fs within the inean- ing of the act, and as these compounds con- tain alcvhol and will intoxicate, the Court inuat declare a public offense Is charged, un- less something else in the act requirea's dit- ferent construction, If the matter stoppod here the Court de- clared that the motlon to quash tho Informa- tion would bo overruled, but the act provides further that to obtain a permit to sell Intox!- eating Iquor for exceptional purposes an appilention must be made to the Probate Judge. After a cnreful examination of the provisions of the act concerning the duties of that ofllcer, which Jt is unnecessary to repeat here, the Court holds that it was the Intun- tlon of the Legislature to confer the power to grant permits not upon the Judge, but upon the Probate Court. i After many citations from the authorities and a long discussion of this distinction, the Court arrives at the conclusion that the Leg- isinture attempts to confer upon the Probate Courts of tho State all the powors requiait to tho Issue of a permit for selling intoxicating Naquors, This being the clear intention, it. follows that th¥® attempt of the Legisinture is beyond the powers conferred upon it by the Constitution, The declaton concludes as follows: = It is well to observo that Und of tho decisions of tha Suprome Court of this State baye clearly stated the distination bofweon thn ‘Probate Court" and the “Probate Judwo.” I da not deny, and did [{t would be useless, because tho Suprenio Court has settled it, that otbor than the probate jurisdiction may be conferted by Mhectanplatatiire upon the "Probate Judge.” flo mag allow an Injunotion, appoint o Novolver, take uo exainination of adgbtor, and do other thi of a Jud{ulal nature In proceedings pond- the District Court. But f£ can tind na instance in which ho has beon bold nuthorlzed to exercise othor than probute jurisdiction, while occupying the Bench as judgo of tho Probate Court, My conclugjon upau tho whole subject fs, that, constitutional or Inwful provision for obtaining A permit to aoll intoxicating lquora for the ex- capted purposes has beon madu by the Legisine ture, and that aa no snle for the exceptol pure poses can be awfully mudo without such pore init, tho ante for such urns, must bo consid. ered to be prohibited, which would bo a result beyond the power of the Logislaturo to accome plleh. I think the motions to quash tho informn- Uon ought to be sustained. This decision compels a truce between the contending. parties, ‘The cnse now goes on appeal to the Supreme Court, whose decision will be awalted with Interest, pa Tne good ond genial. Deuster, member of Congress frum tho Milwaukee District, has in+ ourred the displeasure of nearly all tho better olnss of papers In Austria and Germany because he bad tho Impudguce (#) to Introduce tho Bo- olalist Hritzsche, during his Jato visit to the United States, to Presiucnt Garfield, Fritzsche isa highly educated and in evory respect bon- orable man, and according to our modus vivendt there is not the slightost ‘reason why 8 member of Copgress should under such circumstances rofuse to introduco a forelgn gentioman, even Jf ho is a Sociallat, to the Presidont of the United States. Of course they think diforently on the other side of the Atlantic, Many German and Austrian papers therovore do not speak of Mr. Douster in very select language. The Vienna Neue Freie Presse, for instance, says: ‘This Mr. Deuster lea Ropresotative In Con. gressfor apurt of Wisconsin. He has by bis ultramontaniam and the infuencont bis 1 Der Seebute, vruw! & party for bimeelf fos Ulstrict inhabited chiefly by bigoted Irehmen, Rbelnlandors, and Luxumburgers, and hus su- Lh wmverat to the Preaidunt of the United States, But the President w compelled (7) to roovivo overy visitor under cortalu pro- scribed formalities, and from tas it cau uature ally bo inferred that not tho louxt {mportance can bo wttuched to Fritzscho'a Introduction, Deuster is a Democrat dyed in the wool, and not @ Hepublican, ___——————_—— Mu. Henny Wann Bercnen came to Chi- cago, ‘Tia Trmuny instuntly bad bin ‘inter- viewed," first about the rovised version of whe Now Testament, and, seoondly, about Conkling. Mr. Beecher {oft Chicago tho next day, He wontto Nashville. Us opinions af the revised ‘Veatament and of Conkling’s resignation wero Selegrephed to ‘Tun TRINUNS fron) What city; polis; alse from New Albany « io say nothing of Memphis and Chattanooga. Finally ho renched, Cincinnatl Mia state of complete extnustion. ‘The walter brought up two cards on his first trip. They’ bore the nnmesof two newapaper repurters,, At Innt the angelic tomner of a Tuscher was Worn out. “Mr, Beecher,” said one of the raportors, “your opinions on the rovistonof tho Now 'leatu- nient would be of interest Jurt now. & Wht, have been interviewer so atten on that subject, was the answer, “and have said so mutt, Unt all Lbave tu eny Is known from San Iranelsco to tho Shah of Porsin, In tho tirat place, I have nothing to aay, and In the second pluce, T have said it.” “ Well, that docs soom to cover tho pround,” ejaculated the reporter. “Yes,” re-" plied Mr. Beecher. “Now, why don’t you nk me about Conkllug?" " Wall, now, Iwas going to nate about him," sald the reporter, avothingly. “Your views on tho polition! situggon aro par tioularty dealrod.* Gaeta has but ono eye, and that Is not avery goodone., It hus always beon said that ho would romain’ a buchelor beeause he could ‘watch awoman from only one side, while a French wite needed watching from both. Tut the Paris Flyaro now insists upon marrying Gambetta, or, ut lenat, In decinring bim deeply intave, The girl who bug sct fire to tho hereto- fore ndamnntine heart of the coot hud enteulat- ing Gonoese Jow Js thio daughter of a wenlthy South Ainericnn planter nemed Durand, who lives alternately nt Yaris and Nice, The Figaro says: Since Gambotta’s first acquaintance with Miss Durand at Nice ho bag contrived ft to bo possi~ dle to moet hor at all the solrées of tho official world in Paris, eapecinily those of President Grévy, with whom tho Durand fitnily stand in {ntiniate relations, Mr, Durand isa Frenchman by birth, being 9 untive of Provence. Aga boy ho emigrated to South Amertea, where, by his Intelligence and industry asa planter and merchuut, ho act mulated an Immune fortune in tho coffee trade, He is sald to be one of the richest men in the world, Ho hns three daughters, one of whom 13 married to the Swedish Count von Fiaten, who faun officor tn tho Scandinavian ary. Mr. Durand married a lady from Havana. ——— AxsAxow ts the Ieader of the Panslavists in Russia. Hts orgun, Hossta, publishes In au article tho following program of that party: God save us from any ond all action which might bo constried into a concession towards Suropean Iberallain, tussia needs its nrtistoce racy ng x close connection betiveen ber Cznr and tho people. Napoleon Lsatd: “if 1 wore tho Czur of Itussin LE would lot my venrd grow, put on iy kaftan, and conquer the world.” If tho Emperor would ropresent nothing moro than a Russian Czar after tho old fashion, and if ho would look for hig support on Russian soll (not among tho llborals, but among tho gront tnatturn Mussinn masses) then he would be victorious over his cnemica, andthe new Hussia would soon attain tho netne of her glory and pewer, In order to gain this object we recommond the abandonmont ot Western culture, and that we return to the sta- tuang lt oxisted before; Peter tho Grent, who foolishly directed the doyelopment of Itussin Into wrong channols. But above all wonesert that Moacow shall again be the Capital of Holy Rus; sin, Inthatanclont city the inate monuments of Russin’s uncient grentnosa will inspiro us with ndvice as to our future actions. In that city our amnporlet puthority will suon compres hond that all those silly political nutions tin. ported from Western Europe stand in direct ‘opposition to the foclinga und spirit of tho Rus- sian pooplo, ————_—_- Vassar Contecr follows Tarvard and Yalo !u coming to Chicago to hold examinations for tho admission of Western students. Prof. Backus, of Vassar, will bo at the Palmor douse June 9-11 to examine candidates for namis- stonto Vassar, Candlintcs must ba 16 yenrs of amo, and pass a written oxamination in English grammar, geography. Unitea* States history, nelthmetio, algebra and gootnotrs, Latin and one other Inngunge, svhich may be Greck, French, or German. Vassar ocounics the samo pluco in tho educatign of young women thut Yale or Harvard docs in the cducation of young mon, and ita considornte avtion inmecting Weat- ern students balf-way nt Chlenzo shows that Its management has the cloments of an oqual suce coss, Gov. Conner wisely vetoed the preposter- ous bill excluding forvign Insurance companies: from domg business in New York unloss thoy woutd ayreo bofurchand to sue and bo sucd only in tho Stato courts, A similar mensire was proposed in the Illinois Leglalaturo, but not acted on, ‘Tho tenning of it 1s, of course, that suitors cannot got justice In tho United States Courts, or that thoy can get moro thin justica in the State Courts, or that tho Insuranca com- panies have’ noglected the bone and sincw " of tho Legialaturo. . Tins Toronto Afall inust havo tts jest over the proposed marringo of Sarah Beruhardt and M. Angelo: * So Sarah fs * gotog to bo married,” and Mr, Augeto fs the during man who proposes tho ex- poriment to her, Here begins the matorin! for 4 now and ively sensation for the world of two onra henee, When Mme, Vostris marric! aries Mathews tho othor thentricn! Indies said sho “told’him everything.” What courage!" sald one, * fut what a memory!" sald sncther, ——_—___—_ By a typographical error yesterday fn that portion of The Now Code" which relatos to tha acts in roferonve to the tenure of office of county officers, it was atated that State's At+ torneys, County Surveyors, aud the Clork of tho Superior Court of Cook County are to be olected on tho Tucsday uftor tho first Monday of No- yomber, 188, and every five yonrs thereafter. It should have read “every four yoars thoro- aftor."” Present GARFIELD has accopted nspan of blooded horses. How fortunate for bim that: his numo ts not U. 8. Grant, or whatn bow! tho Half-Broeds would make ubout 1t]—Jachsonvilie (iL) Journal. % President Garfeld not only “accepted” the horaes, but pald for them. thelr full valuc. —————$___——- Tux talk in the New York clubs fs thattho botting-mon put inost of thotr monoy on Bary rott, the other American horac in tho Derby, bo- Neving bla chance of winning to be much bettor than Iroquots.” Honce tho restrained enthu- alnsin of Mr. Lorillard whon ho hoard ofthe ro- sult. ———— U Wnuen a consumptiye-looking person slaps bimselt on the chest and says, * I'ma Stalwart," ho rosombles nothing ro much in tho world os tho confidence man who introduces himself as 8 young Christian, Tie Cricaco TamuNneE remarked when the appointment of Mr. James to be Postmastor- General wis announced: “ifo will rip open the rotton, foul, and extravagant starsecryico." Ho has done It, “ Puck” puts tho late sentor Senator from Now York on tho outor end of a limb and the gaw betwoen him and the trunk. ‘Afc, too,” tooks Insawclantly on. Ir Chester A. Arthur would cut balt or fish he might bo thought ns decent a man as his predeccasor. : PERSONALS, It was very mean In Mr. Conkling to saw off the Jimb upon which Mahono was sitting. Ex-Vice-President Whoeler fs In New Hampshire, Itis rumored that ho hada bito jast wock. é “T see that Mr, Hayes thinks I am a mono- maniac. Bir. Hayes tad bottor keep right un with his fonce-painting."—R, Conkting. o From the accounts given by the London papers tt soems that Arobor won tne Derby all by himectf, Of courso Jt was handy to havo Troquols along, but his prossnco did not affect the result. i] : Mr. Watterson tells the Democrats that their polloy isto walt, Mr, Watterson has evi- dently been reading the atory of the small boy who saw a man bolug obnsed by # bear, and ad- vised him to run ike ~~." It 1s now understood that the renson of the non-return of the Princese Louise to Canada is adigugreoment with hor husband, Wo thought the wearing of those Canadian coats by the Mar- quis would eventually cause trouble, The cable dispatches state that the Queen bas tukon under her protection two favorit pen- | cucks that belonged to Lord Hoaconsftcld. Tha thoughtfulness displayed by the cable mua jn keoplng the Amorican public Informod concert ing importuny matters of Btate is deserving of recogultion, A club is often a useful toy to reo- oguize a man with. 7 A young girl leaned fdly against the rlctily- carved plalroase of @ manslun In the North of Hn gland, und gazed languldly tate the beililantly lebted parlor in which yroups of thuse on whose atiooks tio dright tush 6f bealth was glowing, sided gracefully through the furs of 5 walts. ‘Tristusins Vero was an only shi. As ber upme Indicated, a geaat trance Into wool, eruol world of Henuty, whow 1th birthday sme he brated by the morry throne to whan alter hoon made, On the night of her wren hs fnthor, who had tooket forward wilt mae wee Joy to this crowntnut point in his ite, had eee hutrsludly for tho dyetor and ta attod ont "Tho nurse vali te wa * C Wats resstip, bad eee nied tho elty for E2400 da mazes nnd enn eyes Set onlz conta, ho romomberod this, ‘Turninue ete ee? tram the Court-Housg, an old using womens att HMIAN stopDE, “ Do you know me, W. If, Vero” low votes, or free lighting a mh ee tied ma “No, woman, what erouli'at thon with meyn | oe _ “Farly-oven oars neo,” minitred the wid hoarmoly, “your don nnd kono fathon ‘gt Duke," they called hin, pus teen In seine gee Unt were rowing In tho bickeyacd of ven et ‘Tho next any one antiro farnily throw un ere Wo ponoanad, Iwasonly tittle yirl themes htombur tha colt, pltttess smilic on tho free wee hnughty fathor as ho tude by our humble cet sawany younuort brother golnw to the drugse donaothing to sattte bis momach, und swore ee OF vonged. Thave kept my ontt. Sty aon wae eee Jury that tried your caso, und hs vote dofeney set Hut donut think my augor ts sated, ‘Thoo te nover foraiva, Ero anothor atin shalt hnee ate depp sorrow will fall on your hone, Remen uypay'a warntig, and tremble” —nnd wlth ake? words the toothless virago stepped sflenti ve tlie eornarand wan loxt to aight. ig ‘That night the colobration of ‘Tris birthday took place. In the exeltemens Ww Stay ore aaNet vr nothing but hy kuosts happy, Avant Mo'elock the but ils mtstrees and whilsperod a fow wont ree frightonod look passed ovor her face. and tei wonting hursalf on n fautoull sho entascren sane her husband, Hocama, aah es ; Ae" abe anid honrealy, “sumo ono bas stoten the "Gaul help wat” orcutated the geet. bl did I not heed the gypsy's aoe mal He party was o fallure, und tho lint tho Voro family was hittnbled. ‘Cha most aseet Mitta oy | brousht home nOVEN oMpty teencream fruczors paying that w dark-visnged thom to i fe colinrr. ARE SSC he old gypsy woman dlsuppenred and wos not hoard uf for six month tae thnt thn he xut autor tho Heldowoll.—airs, Huddso, Twas a bie girl, daring, Py When that birthday presont came Almost too old {dy doilles, But Love It Jugt tho sane, ‘Ob, such a charming dolly} Itopened both its eyes, And fyghteued the whole household Witt Its loud and ploreing crica, Yout might go tho wholo world over, And soareh from bound te bound, Anothor birthday present, Liko mine could not be found, Tnamed my dolly Susie; Ab, you begig to smile; You've guessed iny little riddlo; I mennt you all the while. —Gall Hamilton to Mies Anthony. ——— PUBLIC OPINION, Now York Tribune (Rep): Itis sate to predict that thé now Senators from this State, whoever thoy may be, will not try to boss the Prealdeng and tholr fellow-Senators, and will not resign ina litof Anger when the: Y hale own way BS YY cannot bave Milwdukee Republican and Newa (Rep): Ex-President Hoyos is not go far ont of tho way about Conkllug's monamunta on the aubject of hisown grandeur. Ho is moro like a parrot which dmootbos its feathors constantly a5 it erlea “ Pretty Poll” to itself thin apy oth publio lire, pupae + Philadelphia Times (nd.): Mr. Wheeler is a very quiet man, and peoplo luugh good. naturedly nvout his Hshlng proctivitics, Ho shows up to excellent advantaye, however, alongside of his suceeasor, Mr. Wheeler nover disgraced his oflice or himself by doing “the dirty work of a ward-pohtician,” New York World (Dem.):; The Herald informs a deoply uninterested universe that “Mr, Conkling muy gay whut probably no other statesman in American blstury cau say,—that he has declined anu resigned two of the hichest posidons In tho gift of the Government or the peoplo,—tho Chict-Justicestip of tho Supreme Court, whon tendered by President Grant, and tho Sonatorship of the United States." Every+ body knowa that Sr. Conkling recently wis twa Senatora for tho State of New York and the presiding otticer of the Sennte also, butitis as towading to learn that ho beld the * seuatorship of the United State or of the whole Nation, ou it were, with a largo Nt Green Bay (Wis.) Gazette: The Eventny Weconain, of Milwaukco, recently printed an editorinluipon whatiteterincd the “conscience of fawyors,” in which soine severe criticism was made upon the habit of badgoring and bullying witnusses. An attoracy feclivg bimeclf perton- ally aggrloved in tho urticlo sued the editor, Me. Cramer, for eriminal Mel, Judge Mallory bas rendered an opinion in thy defendants favor as to the tnalt portion of the sult, eaving some points still to be determined. ‘The critl- clam in queation was a icgitimate une, condemn ing a purniuious practice In the Interest of the public, ‘The preas in eriticlsing tho irregulacl« Ues of ny profeaaion practiced agatust the rights of citizons is simp Yi fultilitog n part of ite inigalgn and the people will sustaln it. Jo Pulitzer, of the St. Louls Post-Dis- patth, 1s out of patteneo with Rrother Watter- son, of the Loulaville Cuurier-Juurnal, Ho sayy “Brosh from tho lobby at Waskington, where bo labored to secure Dumocratle votes to plucoa notorious Itepublican corruptionist on tho bus Hae Boneh, and ,betweon his sherry at chumpagne, Mr. (Wattenion fs once moro m boriug about tho future of the Democratlo party.’ Passing thon to Watterson’s susrce on that tho tho party must walt, Puller noroatns: _ Wo wiat to remark that thore never was n party tu tho world 60. amply wble to wait aa tha Domocrutic party. ‘Thanks to such falso leaders and incompotent advisers as Sr. Wate terson, it bas boon rolloved of all respousiblilt and it hasn't the allgbtest expenso in the world The party aan walt totll Gabriel blows bls bora, but u frev-lunch ot hope about every tweatys five years would be vory encouraging. Albany (N. Y.) Journal (op.): “Sem ntor Conkling sald to-night that this was not & fight for the offices, but was an attempt vo the part of big oRomics to provent his getting con trol of the delogution to the National Conteh tion in 1684," The nbovo remark appoars to the dispatches of the Assocluted Press, and nat~ urully excites a great doal of criticism, Toe sition of tho ox-Benator soins to be that “bi enemios" have no right to abject to His Bobs trolling the Convention uf 1884 In favor of Get Grant. [ft has been shpposca that tho ant torm fallacy was abandoned after, Its defeat at Chicago. Vo say now that tho “enemies, ot Mr, Conkling are to sattle tho caso of that hae esy nguin, isonly to sity juferentially thst a Sonntor's tridnds aro In pititule mine a the Republican party. ‘Tho rank and file mie solid against the third term Inst June, and te now, {t is Sham so" abould ‘bo on hand to prevent such & catastrophe, = x Mr. Conkling, while In New York, In oo yersntion with a frond, romarked that Lane tha worat obstacles ho had met with wa hed much nowspupor.”” Tho so-culted organs oO! ibid Btalwarts, he eatd, had been wrotebedly editets Thos ‘romlnded bim of certain old nit pe women who always want tosay wore th ue £3 ono clas. Thoy havo kept ates! oad wa aye aud yot thoy know tot what they bavo bo hey ing. Thoy went on, tho defensive, yn hen ove ahuuld have taken the sugrestlvo. eae and found fault,” ho auld, * with wy tak! ba Per rr to fight my battle, when thoy neither guithoy towers bontan. ten tay aald 88 Wad caucus. Bere wenything out of tholr columns on subject 0 long.as thoy could not te nor givo an) 4 . mora ‘thaw anotbor, fe is buttor edited niowspm* Pee: 7 lot New York Times (Rep.)? When tet turmoll is over, men will pegin es auch lessons as may be Joarped there! gies aw one that Nes on the suriaco and 1 nlspete reach of every man {s thle: Nene vulgbt gO sablo to his country or bis party. * ssabte 10 further and aay that no man ia indlspe pantie anybody or anything. Willows eg solves snd marry again. Vathorts find pew and better protecto! have Jost. Lad lopped tw And even maidous who Der have dg #6 when boroft of & cath ad have ten the recroant ON Nie days beats fore tivoa ‘as bupplly tule dare s veh Oris if bo bad nover been Oe tineima’s Noth t Uf the event ww to make bis attempted hinory. when Abranam Ligcolis f° ° he hagasiy and tiild people rough oud of all things was ut bane hours the wheels rovolved bx dont sat in the goat of power BATT real tlye souls, it really guemed us HE weit We Hiidaeystem of the Hepuvlle waved ye waa soke baates dt asa sud cnlug £0 Bes bus to find out bow smidl by relates © niliuting for any of uste di terial our actititios are buwsao mrovemunts ay tna must learn, , " fortunately for Br, Cooking. 1° ¢ pul Ditter lousgu in that § keen riaelbe fa which be bas delighted to wr = t