Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-13

qualified for the place for which he IS nonli- mated. He is a son of Henry Farnam, a | graduate of Yale and of Columbia Law School, and has done good work for the in terests of the city as Alderman He ought I to be elected.
 1 The thirtieth anniversary of the first meet ing held in New England for the promotion | of woman's rights will be celebrated in | Worcester (Mass. on Wednesday and Thurs day, October 20 and 21. Mrs. Howe, Mrs Livermore, Lucy Stone, Senator Boar, Col. 1 Higginson, Wendell Phillips and many other advocates of the cause will be present and l make addresses Thirty years have wrought | great changes in the popular estimation of l the cause of woman's rights. The people understand better what women demand, and l the women themselves have sifted the proper from the improper in their purposes and placed themselves upon a platform which has gradually won the approval of intelligent | men.
 In a controversy between President Lin l coin and ex-Governor Bradford of Maryland, ! who is an ardent Hancock man, our great
 
 1 tion that nearly all the candidates are loyal do not think quite meets the case In this strug- gle for the nations life, I cannot so confident 1 ly rely on those whose election may have depended upon disloyal votes. Such men, | when elected, may prove true, but s,tch UOtes ere gi0ena them t1e the expectation t0t they soiU pr0Ue faIsc'' This characterization by the l late President applies with great force to the l present situation. Hancock was true to the | Union in the civil war, but those who SUD- | port him were not. The ''solid South" is a unit for him, because it expects him to carry out it's plans.
 M. Alfred Naquet reports that the question of divorce in France is at present in the fol I lowing condition: His bill was first laid on 1 the table of the Chamber of Deputies in 1876 and rejected by the committee. It was again l brought forward May 20, 1878, and rejected | by the committee. The Chambers, however, decided that it should be examined, and a ! committee was appointed to that effect the majority of whose members were favorable 1 to the bill The report of this committee 1 was drawn up by M. Leon Renault, and laid on the table of the Chamber January 15, l 1880. To those who are disheartened by the slowness of parliamentary procedure M. l Naquet cites the instance of the English peo- ple, who have been struggling for twenty years to obtain the legalization of marriage with a deceased wife's sister. s'We,'' he says, ''shall not have to wait twenty years for l divorce. Opinion on this point is now made | up both in and out of Parliament, and a 1 simple question of procedure still retards the 1 final result, which is certain" | The English papers relate that the search CTS in the Seaham colliery after the recent 1 terrible disaster came upon several affecting memorials of the doomed men shut up in the fiery mine. On an old ventilation door was chalked, ''AIl alive at o'clock. Lord have mercy upon us. Together praying for help Robert Johnson" In another part were written with chalk on plank the words in a bold clear hand: ''The Lord has been with | us. We are all ready for heaven. Richard Cole-Half- past g." Another poor fellow, | Michael Smith, had scratched with nail upon his water-bottle the following message to his wife: 'fDear Margaret There were forty of us altogether at A.. M. Some were singing hymns, but my thoughts were on my little Michael. I thought that him and I would meet in heaven at the same time. Oh dear wife, God save you and the chil- dren, and pray for myself Dear wife, fare well My last thoughts are about you and the children. Be sure and learn the children to pray for me. Oh, what terrible position we are i'm "Little Michael " was the child he had left home ill It died on the day of the explosion.
 Senators Wallace and Bayard have been making speeches in Pennsylvania upon the tariff question, and like Senator Eaton, they have been trying to make their hearers be- lieve that it is safe to trust the Democratic party with the ordering of public affairs. The Philadelphia NorA American does not think these speeches have been honest ones and would like to have Messrs. Wallace and Bay ard answer the following questions 1. Which was more favorable to national | prosperity, the tariff of 1924 or that of 1916 l ?. Which was the more favorable to na- tional prosperity, the tariff of 1924 or that of l 1928.
 3. Was the tariff of 1883, as regards the protection of domestic industry as favorable as the tariff of 1928?
 | f. Was, or was not, the tariff of 1S42 | more conducive to national prosperity than | the compromise tariff of 1883?
 D. Do Senators Bayard and Wallace re- | gard the tariff of 1846 as better measure for the nation than the tariff of 1842?
 | G. Do either of these gentlemen now re- gard "a tariff for revenue only,n as declared for in their party platform, and as the tariff | of 1846 undoubtedly was in intent, better for 1 the country than the present protective tariff! And when they declare that the Democratic l party is as favorable to protection as the Re- | publican party, do they mean to refer the | public to the tariff measures enacted by their party since 1883?
 If the Democratic party has been in the industries the fact can be shown from the record. Why don't somebody show it
 A writer in the ScieratiJfc Neaos who has passed many years in Southern Asia has something interesting to say about monkeys | According to him the monkey makes the most reliable cashier in the world, and, when well trained is able to discriminate between true and spurious coin with delicacy to which his master cannot approximate. When coin is placed in his hand, he first examines it's design and inscription with. great gravity and attention, and then puts the piece in his mouth and tests it by the sense of taste. If it is all right he passes it to his master with a nod of approval, but if not, he places it upon the counter with severe and forbid ding expression of countenanee. Monkey cashiers possess such reputation for acu- men in the detection of spurious coin in the countries where they are employed in this ca pacity that no one ever thinks of appealing