Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1884, Page 6

THE OMAHA BEE Omaha OfMce, No. 016 Farnam St. Council Bluffs OfficojiNo. ¥ Pearl Btreet, Near Broadway. New York Office, Room 65 Tribune Building. TR eveey worning, excopt Sunday The worniog dally. RS FT MATE. Pablished ©aly Monday THN WRAKLY RER, PORLISIND BVERY WRDXVSOAY, ToMn TORTPAID, 00 | Throo Months. 00 | Cue Month Amettoan Nows Company, SolefAgente.: Newsdoal- o in the United States. CORRRSCONDRNOR.! A OCommundcations retating to News and Editorial ~uthers hould bo addrewed to the Epiron or Tns B e 0 » BUNIAS LETTRRS. All Businoss Lettore and Remittances shonld ho “ddrossed o TrR Ban PUNLISIING CONPARY, QWATIA- Drafta, Cheoks and Pestoffice ordees to be made pay ble to'$he order of 1o company. THE BEE PUBLISHING C0., PROPS, E. ROSEWATER, Editor, THE PIVOTAL STA% Under the new congremsional appor- tionment the states wili have four hun- dred and one electoral votes, of which two hundred and one will constitute a maijority. The nimoteen states which four yenrs ago gave their votes to Han- cock numbered 135 electoral votes, and by the new apportionment theso states have an addition of 17 votes—making their total electoral vote 172, Add to this the thirty-six votes of New York state, and it would amakedemocratic vote of 208, being a majority of seven. New York is therefore the one state which the democrats will do their level best to carry, Ir no provious contest has the possession of that state been of such vital importance to the democrats. At no other election in twenty-five years have they had the certainty of enough votes eloewhere to elect their candidate even if they did carry New York. A. H. Fiich, Manager Daily Oirculation, P. 0. Box 458, Owmaha, Neb. e Lincoln Democrat asks what has become of Finch, anyway?! It is a very long time since Mr. Finch has been seen iin Lincoln. A Curzcaco paper remarks that the statasmanly form of eme gentleman at the oontral committeo loomed up like a jack rabbit on a Nebraska prairie. Twx: epring trade promises to be large in volume; whethor it will prove profit- able remains to be seen. Tho clouds are . breaking up, but the general situation calls for caution in business. Bex Burier has a very extensive cor- respondence with citizens of every west- ern states, There is said to be a big Butler presidential movement only awaiting organization to make it formid- able. Tar prestige of King Log depends upon his silence, and the Chicago News trusts apropos to Queen Victoria's re- cent book, that royal personages who have not as yet written books will take warn- ing 1n time, SramesyMaN Vest, of Missouri, goes in heavily for removing the Flatheads from Montana. Now if he will follow that up by attempting something which will re- move the wooden-heads from congress, the people will commend him. PresipeNt Artaer will sign the Fitz John Porter bill when it comes to him. By rescinding so much of Porter's sen- tence as he had power to rescind he has already shown himself in sympathy with the wronged and persecuted man. KorKELBECK, & compositor on the Inter-Ocean, threatened his wife with a xazor the other day, and was sent to the bridewell for 103 days, Had he decap:- tatod his wifo, in all probability he would have escaped imprisonment by this time. ‘TaE recent foreign news may be taken a8 an announcement of the political re- tirement of Bradlaugh, The New York Zimes thinks that while, personally, Bradlaugh has got no more than he de- served, none tho leas has civil liberty been outragad in his person. Ir the False Prophet had stretched out his long arm and gathered in Baker Pasha, who that remembers the dirty scoundrel’'s own attack on a defenseless girl imprisoned in the same compartment with him, would waste sympathy on the dirty dog? Junee DICKEY, in the supreme court of 1llincis, has granted a supersedeas in the case of Ker, the defaulting clerk of Preston, Kean & Co.. the Chicago bank- ers, This will take Ker out of Joliet until the motion for a new trial is con- sidered. eT———— DryocrATIC managers are opposed to holding the national convention in St. Louis, fearing that, reminded of 1876, the delegates might, in an unguarded moment, renominate the old ticket. They are quite right, the OChicago J/cr- ald thinks, fox the human mind natur- ally reverts to the past in St. Louis us it pierces the future in Chicago, SEe——— Tug Chigag® 7ribune suggests that *‘it Investigator Springer wants to gratify his passion for now scents let him start an investigation in the use of railroad passes by members of congress, and es- pecially the judges of the United States courts, up to the top. Tt would be in- ~ tereating to know which of the judges of the supreme court sometimes enjoys the luxury of special cars across the vonti- nent. Here is & rich field,” —— To-paY, in the house at Washington, Keifor will have an opportunity to bring out his proof that the charge he made - sgainst General H. V. Boynton that he had approached the ex speaker with a corrupt proposition, is true, General Boynton, who is the special correspond- ent of the Oincinnati Commercial-Ga- §m has requested. that the committee hold its investigation with open doors, Ho desires that the public have the llost pessible opportunity of learning he did conuit the offense with Keifor has publicly charged him. regards the chargo of such a serious tor that if it be proved the com- o must exclude him from all the exteuded to honorable repre. ‘of the press. 1f Keifer doca s the charges the consequonces wqually disgraceful to the ex. Genoral Boynton evidently lhhmfixnu::’ia! s ljudmnnt of such men as Grant, Terry, after the i o one. the nouse sud Keifer The problem which the republican party has to meet is vo nominate a ticket which will carry New York. Tho results of the election of delegates to the coming state convention will be looked for with intense interest. Tuerk is no issue in congress be- tween freo trade democracy and repub- lican protection, The Morrison bill is not free trade, and opposition to it is not the support of protection. The bill is, in effoct, n moderate attempt to deal with the preesing business needs of the country By treating it fairly and intel- ligently the rupublicans can serve the country without harm to themselves, and with no decided advantage to their op- ponents, By blind adherence to the tarifl as it is, they will do themselves in- jury and may greatly help the demo- crats, T first state clection, this year, will bo that of Oregon, which takes place on June 24, just before the republican na- tional convention mects in Chioago. Tho election is an important one. It com- prises a governor and full set of state officers, a supreme judge, a congressman to succoed M. C. Gioorge; also a legisla- ture, which will elect a successor to Sona- tor Slatter. The chances are in favor of ropublican succoss, owing to a large im- migration from republican states of the northwest, which has gone into Oregon over the Northorn Pacific railrond. Ou this account, Oregon may be safely counted upon by the republican column makers, Tk secretary of war has sent to the senate the compilation of the militia re- turns from the various states. The re- turns show that there are of orgahized militia 81,268 non-commissioned ofticers and men and 6,802 commissioned officers, and that the unorganized militia is 6,412,921 men. New York has the larg- est organized force, 10,779 men, and 788 commiseioned officers; Pennsylvania is second, with 7,454 men and 552 ofticers; Florida third, with 6,261 men and 455 ofticers; Ohio fourth, with 5,515 men and 300 officers, and Seuth Carolina fifth, with 4,612 men and 507 officers, Dela- ware, Nebraska, Nevada and Vermont report the smallest organized militia, the first named having 234 men and 21 of- ficers; Nebraska, 450 men and 42 officers; Nevada, 616 men and 76 ofticers, and Vermont, 624 men and 05 officors, AsKED by a representative of the New York Zimes in regard to Arthur's pros- pects for the nomination, & prominent Ohio politician says: Inmy judgment the more the people have to u{l about the decision of the con- vention the stronger Arthur will be. You saw what Charles Foster said the other day. Arthur, he thought, could not carry Ohio, but you saw how quickly the Ohio republicans in congress contrs- dicted him, and they spoke for their con- stituents, the voters. Arthur may come up too strong before the convention for the mlmgeu there to resist the popular impulse for his nomination, ut, on the other hand, he may refuse to let his name be used at all at Chicags. So far as New York and New England are con- cerned, in the last case fbuliuva they would go almost solidly for Edmunds, for I believe the Arthur men, if they are not to support him, will stand for ¥d- munds. and at loast half of the half. breeds in New York will go for him from the first. — Tuk Chicago Zribune's special from Cincinnati, ‘on Thursday morning, re ports an old steamboat captain as sa; ing that it takes as much water as there is in the Ohio atits usual stage to raise it one inch after it passes sixty-five feet. The fact that from fifteen to twenty-four inches have been added daily since the rise exceeded sixty-five feet is the indica- tion of the tremendous amount of rain- fall, Says the Zribune’s report: The city has @ river front of nine miles, and extends five miles back along both banks of Mill creek. There is, therofore, a flooded district nineteen Front street, for two miles in le; miles, hfluflflz warehouses and fac- | b tories, and along this distance the water is from twelve to sixteen feet deep, Un Becond street it averages ten feet doep, and on Pearl street there is a_depth of from two to four feet. In the West End the water is running along the greator Fn-t of Freeman avenue at a depth of rom one to four feet, and all the streets west of Freeman avenue are floodod to depths ur{::g from four to ten foct. "The streots here mentioned are all closely built #p with business houses, ware- houses, factories and residences. The Qistrict west of Baymiller stroet and #outh of Kighth street, which is filled with raiiroad tracks, dustilleries, lumber yards, ete,, is tlooded to & depth of from eighteen to twenty-five feet. S—— Tue Chixago Zribune publishes a lot- ter from Lawyer Swett, of Chicago, giv- ing Lincoln's views of the Porter twenty years ago. The motive of Swett's letter sooms to be to interpose Mr., Lin- coln's opinion at that time, when he shared in & common error, against the ] 5, VA Scofield, Slocum and Rosecrans. This s'atement by Lawyer Swett is no new one, The 8t. Paul Press says it is to- day a matter of universal knowledge that the whole point and force of the Porter case lies in the weight of evidence, which was not only unknown when Lincoln’s opinion was formed, but which is contra- dictory in every particular to that on which he hased a hasty and confessedly imperfect judgment. Says the Press: Of all the twaddle talked in the Fitz John Porter case, the Lincoln twaddle is the silliest and the meanest. 1t is silly because it declares that the personal opinion of a man, formed on imperfoct information, is weightier than the might of incontestable proof adduced after his health. It is mean because it isjan ap- peal to prejudice and passion by those who have been worated at every point in the examination of the facts of history. Among all the uncertainties of the case there 18 nothing more certain than that the great-hearted and just-minded presi- dent, whose memory is outraged by the partisan l{:}mula sheltered under his name, could he live again and know what none of the men who sentenced Porter knew, but what every man who is not too lazy or too wickedly prejudiced may know to-day, would be found on the sida of Terry and Schofieldand Grant and hundreds of others, demanding that the wrong 8o cruelly done to an innocent man should receive what slight repara- tion it may. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Fgyptian affairs still engross the atten- tion of the English parliament. The fall of Sinkat—in which Tewfik Bey and his six hundred men were all massacred by the rebels | has painfully impressed the English cabinet with the rgessity of im- mediately sending heavy reinforcements to the front. The vacillating policy of the government is being severely criti- cised, particularly by the marquis of Salis- bury, who said in his speech in the house of lords that England has been defeated again and again, and was uow being hunted out of Egypt. England’s name, said he, would be a legacy of hatred and contempt to Egyptians. The news of the fresh disasters would now run through the whole Mohammedan world. Granville, foreign socretary, in reply to Salisbury, protestod against the idea that because the foreign army had select- od English officess, England is thereby made responsible for that army’s success. England and India had no interest in Soudan, nor, indeed, had Egypt any per- manent interest in that country. The government, said Granville, had no in- tention of annexing Egypt. It would remain there simply long enough to se- cure a stable government. Tho only thing that could be done would be to ap- point a first rate man to represent Eng- land and Egypt, and then commend efti- cient men to civil and military pesitions, and givo them English support. The force of circumstances had obliged the government to go further than it had proposed, but the cabinet cught to re- strict England’s connection with Egypt to the objects declared by the govern: ment, The Marquis of Salisbury’s motion censuring the Egzyptian policy of the government was debated at considerable length, and was carried by a vote of 181 to 81, and the same motion was made in the house of commons by Northcote. (iladstone, of course, defended his Egyptian policy, and maintained that there had been no vacillation or incon- sistency, General Gordon, he said, had a plan of his own for oxtricating the gar. risons and restoring the country to its former pacific condition, General Gordon's plan would restore the former rulers to their ancestral power, usurped by Egypt. He denounced as a gross error the dual control which had beon left him as a legacy. England had not withdrawn from the hands of the Egyptian government the control of its institutions, He had simply made Egypt understand that British military occupation of ¥gypt entailed the neces- sity of seeing that British advice was followed. Gladstone strongly opposed the reconquest of Soudan. In conclu- sion he said the house should accord the government the acquittal to which it was entitled. Mr. Gladstone's ministry is certainly better and stronger than any that his op- ponents could compese, A m-pucubfia nullity like Sir Statiord Northcote and a political guerrilla like Lord Randolph Churchill, even a cultivated cynic like Lord Salisbury, would be very far from meeting the requirements of the situa- tion, Upon the Irish question the con- servatives are bound by all their acts, while in opposition, to undertake a poli- g of more rigid coercion, Whatever an nglishman may be moved to say in the hoat of his indignation at Irish excesses, no reasonable Englishman can doubt that the couciliatory policy pursued by Mr Gladstone is better for both countries than any policy the conservatives would or could pursue, The Irish question con- stitutes the real and continuing problem of British politics, to which the Kgyptian tectorate is merely an episode, The tred of 600 inn cannot be allayed in a day or a year by a policy of conciliation, ut it can be ambiner(? and reinforced by a lapse, even for a very short period, into a policy of repression unmixed with conciliation, It would be unfortunate for England and for Ireland if the Gladstone ministry should be put out of power on what is really the side issue of the Egyp- tian question, although that question iu by accident and for the moment been brought to the front. Bradlaugh has applied for the steward. ship of the Obiltern Hundreds, This is & rather roundabout way of eaying that he wants to resign the seat which par- liament will not let him oceupy. There is no way in which a membar of parlia- mont can voluntarily leave that body save by suicide, during the term for which io is elocted, All he can do is to ask for the stewardahip of the Chiltern Hundreds, and when that mythical oflice is given him he is absolved from all further attendance upov the duties of legislation. Chiltern Hills are a broken distriet in Buckinghamshire, to which is attached a nominal office of steward under the crown. As members of parliament could not o:filn.u ly resign their seats when they wished to leave, Gladstone said | 2 ilmih districts n, they accepted the nominal office of steward of this district, and thus vacated their seats, It thus rew into established custom, like many other fictions of English law. Mr. Bradlaugh can well be spared. He is & very obstinate man, who started out as a reformer some years ago, and there is very little reasen to suppose that he will ever get over his original folly, The onth required of membors was always stuck in his throat, and for that reason he has never been permitted to take his seat in the house. His constituents seem to be about as pig-headed as himself, for they have persisted time after timo in returning him to renew his hopoless struggle with the majority, Mr. La- bouchere, in speaking in behalf of Brad- laugh, expressed his contempt for any form of oath, which, he declared, was a superstitious incantation and sanctimon- ious sophistry. This hypocrisy, he said was being exvosed, and it was his opin- ion that Mr. Bradlaugh would ultimately win, The story of the fall of Sinkat has been told in detail in our dispatches. Towfik Bey and his_garrison of six hun- dred men, who had been besieged for a month and were in a_starving condition, made a desperate effort to cut_their way through the ranks of El Mahdi's troops. It was a forlorn hope. The gallant Tewfik and his followers met a heroic death. Although fighting with the greatest desperation and bravery they were mowed down like gruss, and not one of the brave six hundred escaped. Encouraged by this victory tho FeBAlINL once turned their attention to Suakim, which is now seriously threatened. Re- inforcements ure being dispatched as rapidly as possible to the relicf of Sua- kim, which is said to be a stronghold which can be easily commanded by a fow gunboats. There is a universal feeling of humiliation and shame that Tewfik Bey and his men were massacred almost in sight of British ships. jeneral Gordon has arrived safely at Borber, and has begun . the work of straightening out Egyptian affairs. Whether he will be successful, now that the rebels have won 5o many victories and are in a state of jubilant defiance, is a question which time alone can answer, But vory littlo news has been received from Tonquin during the week. Admiral Courbet way making preparations to at- tack Bacninh, when he was_superseded by Genoral Millat, and of this action he complains as unjust to himself. The re. inforcements which he asked for reached him too late, and even now he says the forco is too small. Tseng, the Chinese ambassador, has received instructions to remain in Englaud until farther orders. The report, therefore, that he is going to Paris to resumu negotiations is prema- ture, About three hundred Christian missionaries have been massacred by tho Chinese in Tonquin, and their mission housos have been destroyed. It is re- portea that the court of Hue punished mandarins who permitted the massucre. How the Egyptian soldier acquired his phenomenal nou fighting qualities is well told by Mr. Mackenzie Wallace in his re- cent volume on Egypt and the Egyptian question. The method of recruiting for the army is simple. The village sheikh gives the names of a certain number of men to the local police, who go to the hovels of the luckless fellahoen and drive them into tho street, put iron collars or yokes around their necks, fasten the several collars together by a chain, and drive them, as cattle are driven in other coun- tries, to tho prison, to be examined by the medical officers, The great majority of the recruits endeavor to prove by wordy arguments, solemn asseverations, expressive gestures, aud revolting contor- tions that they ars totally unfit for mili- tary service; and when arguments fail, importunate entreatios, heart rending ap. peals, or indignant protest are employed, In vain the police, with the aid of their sticks and switches, endeavor to keep or- der and impose silence; the more obsti- nate persistently break from the ranks and have to be'kept in their places by force. Those who have no glaring cor- oral defect, and who have not succeed- ed in privately conciliating the medical officer or the military authorities, are marched off, Once in the army the recruit is given up for dead by all friends. His term of service is fix:d by the will of the government, and if he sur- vives the hard treatment of his officers and the casualties of war until old age, he is turned out almost pensionless, to be a burden upon relatives who have forgot- ten him, and who have scarcely enough for their own support. It is no wonder, with such prospects before them, that those liable to conscription mutilate themselves hy cutting off the right fore- fincer and putting out the right eyo. This practice was 80 common in the time of Mohemet Ali that that enlightened prince formed battalions of one-eyed men and sent them into battle wtth I'urkish bashi-bazouks and artillery behind them, with orders to shoot down every man who attempted to run away. . Khartoum’s chief importance consists in the fact that it is the first post beyond the desert which is next to the fertile southern end of the Soudan, North- wards, towards Egypt, the desert lands are almost worthleks; south of that pomnt they may be made to yield an abundant trade. The evacuation of Khartoum would, therefore, mean the abandonment of the attempt to enter equatorial Africa from Egypt. This fact will be lefc to Stanley, on the Congu, whom General Gordon is soon to joi Tho insurrection which is said to have broken out in Crete is the violent ex- pression of a grievance which has for somo time seemed inevitable, and which is not unlikely to yet beceme rievously felt throughout Turkey itself. The trouble is the religious one which has already resulted in Turkey in the resig- nation of the patriarch “of the Gree! church. This body has sinco the days of Mahomet 1Lin the 15th century, settlod by its own laws all matters regarding wills, hor‘nauu. marriages and the priest- hood, The porte has, however, within & year withdrawn this venerable priv- lege, aud ‘now insists that tho Greek Communities must in every way be sub- oct to tho general laws of the empire, 'hat is, Turkey insists that the Greok church ghall even in ecolesiastical ques- tions hiave affairs adjusted by Mussulman religious law—since that 1s the only Jaw Turkey has. This curtailment of re- ligious liberty has aroused throughout tho great body of the Greek church in the Turkish empire a storm of indig- nant but thus far unavailing pro- test. Creto has, moreover, & special and pressing grievance, Nearly half of the real estato of that classio island is either owned arat least taxed by the mosques, The treaty of 1878, which practically gave self-government to Crete, aimed ;1-27 J: llgl}ll:n this burden of taxation; u gs have apparently been little bettered, and it is dpgl:;n‘d {hn in somo carly the whole land is levied upon to support the mosques, But wnatever the immediate cause of the outbreak, its origin lies back of present maladministration in_the national spirit which has been steadily gaining power in Crete nince memorable insurrection of 1866-8, That crntest, too, began in a demand for the freer exercise of Christ- ian liberty; it ended in giving further privileges to Crete, and it had a still greater offect in that it brought to the brave Cretans the knowledge of the sym- pathy of the great powers of Burope. The love of liberty and the ability to en- joy it wisely have steadily grown in Crete in the last fifteen years, and if any considerable expression is given to the feeling, decaying Turkey will find it dif- ficult to suppress it now, perploxed and almoat helpless as she is before the grave problem which the state of Egypt pre- sents to her, WHAT THE LAND GRANT RAILROADS MEAN. Chicago Tribune, The land-grant railroads are showing their usual stolid contempt for the public by their opposition before the commmit- tee on Pacific railways to the bill requir- ing them to pay taxes on their lands. That they have the least obligation to contribute towards the maintenance of the community that protects their pro- perty, as other citizens do,is an idea that has apparently not yet entered the aver- age subsidized corporation manager's hoad. To grow rich by the appreciation of the value of gift land by the pioneer’s developement of the country despite their eatortionate charges, so that, after having charged twice as much as tho should have done for transportation, they may chavge two prices for all the gift land they hold, and to secure all this without contributing a cent towards the support of the institutions by which they exist, is ovidently the sole thought of these subsidized” corporations. They hold, according to Senator Van Wyck, 100 million acres of donated land on which they areevading the payment of state and territorial taxes. They are beginning to lease largo tracts ol this for grazing pur- poses. The next step will be that they will possess vast untaxed catates, which they will hold tv be rack-rented in the most approved Irish landlord fashion. If they succeed we shall have all the hor- rors of British landlordism reproduced in this country, with thix all-important difference against us; that our landlords will be subsidized corporations whose en- tail is absolutely perpetual. That is the state of things towards which our land_grant roads are dragging us, the perpetual ownership of vast landed es- tates by landlord corporations paying no taxes The supreme court has twisted the law against the people to prevent the local taxation of these corporations, and a congress of faithless demagogs have not untwisted it but lets the unjust laws re- main untouched. VAN WYCK IN 1. ATE, (Lincoln Democrat:)—0ld Van's reso- lutions always pass. The railroad cap- pers in the senato at the start endeavor- ed to bulldoze him, but he sat down on them so heavily that they have disap- peared from public gaze. It will not be out of place for us to say, democrat though we are, that the resolutions of Senator Van Wyck always mean busi- ness, and that the people regardless of party afliliations are the gainers thereby. Why He Was Bounced, He kicked him and clubbed him and showed him the door, And told him to enter his sanctum no wmore; And what was the cause of the whole blessed thing Give it up, I sippe? 'Twas a poom on Spring, IMPIETIES, Barnum's great white elefant hymn for next soason will be: “Just as Siam without ono flea.” Mr. Talmage hae been lecturing on “‘Chufs- tianity in street cars.” Talnage is always discovering somothing which nobody else ever noes, A New York pastor preached the_other Sunday on “The Shameless Age.” It was robably a hit at some of the G0-year-old bal- ot dancers, Alittle 6-your-old witnoss at court proved her right to bo sworn by saying that she went “‘rogularly to a church and Sunday-school and once to church fair.” A western woman prayed for money, and found it, As though this was a muracle! ' We know of several oastern men who have preyed for money and found it. Wilow Van Cott says she saved thiry thousand souls during her ministerial life. From this it appears that the Lord retired from bnsinoss some time ago. An exchange says a little four year old lis- tened attentively to a Scandinavian preacher last Sunday, snd then whispered, *Mamm, if Dod tan understan’ zat, He'sa dood one,” A priost visited & coachman who was_ seri- ouslyill. ‘“Have you the habit of going to tho “church?” *T “caunot say chat I have,” said the conchman in a feeble voice; *but T have driven great many persous there!” *Aro you certain of sccuring the dindems” asked the minister of the dying man, And when the man said that “le did't want to diadem bit,” the minister and the doctor flow and, asa natural consequence, the wau got better, Thero are no oaths in the Chinese lauguage, When a Chinaman has his logs knocked from under hin by a boy on a clipper, he probably hurries home and clams the dooe with thun- doring emphasis. There must be some way to give vent to his feelings. STEELE, JOHNSON& CO,, Wholesale all grades of above; also pipe: stock. 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A man who at- tonds u dog fight or sluggivg match on Satur, day night, and doesu's get into bed until ook Bunday morniog, uaturally dislikes v have bis slumbers disturbed by the clavging of & church bell o few hours later, A piacty of Baptist clergymen were bluofish- o o Mastnan Viuspasd lay, yard the other day. A «question arose as to whether a certain “speci- men was really abluefish. ‘‘We call em Bap- tists,” said anative fisherman, The Baptist clergeman rather eagerly asked why. *'Cose they spile 80 woon arter they're taken out o’ tho water.” A old-time clu-iymm of Eastern Connecti- cut was very quick at repartee, Once when on an exchange he was annoyed to find the room 80 dark, and beckoning to a person near the pulpit he asked him to open the blinds and let in more light. ‘‘We expect light from ou,” said the gentleman, ‘I must get it roms Heaven first” was the quick rejoinder, *480, my litile man, you would like to join our Sunday school, would you?” said the super- intendeut, ki dly, “Yes, sir,” replied the Jittle boy. ‘W uat i your name;did you say?” *Johuny Siwps.n.” * “'O yes, you are the son £ {0 g s gl PP X papa & Presbyterian or an Episcopalian®™ “No, sir, he isn't either; he's & newspaper man,” Tom, 6 years old, noticed one winter morn- Reina Victorias, Especiale to $120 WE DUPLICATE MAX MEYER & CC IMPORTERS OF HAVANA CIGARS! 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