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PRETENSE VS.. WORK.

The Democrats are constant in their
references to the alleged failure Of the Re
publicans to pass needed laws. IF only
they, the Democrats, were in power, what
wonders they would work in legislation.
Let US see what the record has to say The
Republicans are in majority in the United
States Senate. That body has passed, and
the House of Representatives which is
Democratic in majority, has failed to pass
some of the most urgently needed non
partisan measures ever proposed in Con-
gress. Out OF about 400 bills passed by the
Senate, and which the House has not
adopted, are the admittedly important new
patent law; the bill carrying out the solemn
compact made with the Ute Indians; the
bill to continue work on the new
steel cruisers the bill 10 remove
Instructions from navigable streams
the bill to improve the. coinage of
the country; for the relief of settlers on
public lands; the resolution of common
politeness recognizing the presentation of
the ship Alert by the British Government
to aid the Greedy search expedition; to
authorize the leasing of premises for post
Offices of the first, second and third class
fixing the salaries of the United States
Judges at a decent figure; to establish
uniform system of bankruptcy; to prevent
trespassing on the lands guaranteed to In
dians; TO ratify the agreements with the
Sioux Indians for a right of way through
their reservation; d much needed measure
to aid development of the Northwest; to
allot lands in severalty to Indians of GER
tain tribes TO check timber depredations
TO put the lands in the Iowa Indian
Reservation, in Nebraska and Kansas, upon
sale for the benefit of the people to pun
ish persons who falsely personatc officers
and employees of the United States; the i'm
portant bill relating to the quorum of the
Supreme Court of the United States for
the relief Of certain settlers on public lands,
and the repayment of fees and purchase
money paid on void entries; the bill for
maintenance of the Consular service The
list might be greatly extended of similar
bills, into which no political issues enter,
and that are demanded by justice, the needs
of the country and the dictates ofreason.
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a THING TO BE CKoKED.

The Paris correspondent of the London
Times last week telegraphed that James
Stephens. the ex-Fenian Head Center, had
forwarded to an active member of the
Brotherhood at Chicago 4 manuscript cir
cular summoning an early meeting at Chi
cago ofprominent Irish Americans who are
willing TO join a new movement in favor of
a military organization on the lines pro
posed by the late John O'Mahoney. 1t was
added that Stephens declared that the ser
vices of several distinguished European
officers have already been placed at his
disposal
We do not believe the statements of
Stephens. But that he and his class of
agitatOrs would a second time set up a mil
itary organization in this country in en-
nifty TO England, if permitted, is to be be-
heved The Government of the United
States was once so weak as to permit this
sort of thing 1t should never do il again.
We were treated to the spectacle of mounted
uniformed men, respondent in gold bull
ion and buttons, with sabers changing at
their heels, galloping about the streets of
New York, carrying ON the business of a
military headquarters formally maintained
for the purpose Of raising money, collect
ing munitions of war, and of enrolling |
troops to assault nation with which we |
were at peace. That sort of thing went on
for months, Millions of dollars were
wrung from the honest Irishmen in Amer
lea by appeals to their love for the old
home to support these military swindlers
and to furnish their chambers with tapes
hy and load their tables with wines. They
did actually enroll and arm men, and did
make an effort to march into Canada. At
the last moment the Government extended
It's arm, the bubble burst, and the cause of
Ireland was sadly injured in the house of
rs friends. This time the bubble must not
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SHOULD TEERB BE A CHANGE?

In the American Monthly for July the
| question. Should there be a change of
| Administration ?" is ably debated, and the
negative conclusion is reached, because no
| good reason for Q change has been ad-
vanced. But, if this IS not enough, there
| is affirmative reason-the country is pros
porous, the people contended, the govern
ment well administered, and any change
now would tend to disturb these conditions
unfavorably. But is there any reason why
the Democratic party should be given the
reins of power? The answer il, emphati-
cally, No" There is no urgent call
for great reform not already under
taken; the treasury is full, the debt
is being discharged satisfactorily, popula-
ton is increasing sufficiently, our products
are augmenting and becoming more varied,
and there is nothing in the way of change
to which the Democracy can put its hand
with any hope of lettering affairs. A
prosperous people always prefer to be left
alone, but people in distress, dissatisfied
and with short crops afford opportunity for
the agitator with the ever-ready cry Of
Reform a change means a great up
setting Of officials and consequent wide
spread agitation that is never beneficial
1t means the Furnishing of political foes
the overturning of half worked-out poll
cie5. 1t means the restoration to power of
q Southern element that has not stood
at the public crib for twenty-four
years, and the appetite of which is unduly
sharpened. 1t means that with that ele-
ment in power the electoral franchise will
be narrowed in the South, in effect. and the
right of some citizens at the polls be practi-
cally blotted out The change to Demo-
cratic administration means the placing in
power of party that has always been hos
tile to equality, that bids for and receives
the support of the baser class Of the foreign
element, and that is favorable to the aristo
cratic spirit, and the party is therefore IN
American. The Conservatives of Europe
want Democratic party victory in Amer
lea, while the Liberals pray for a Republi- |
can triumph, and for obvious reasons |
because the former party is reactionary. |
and the latter is progressive and truly dem |
ocra6c. The Democratic party is not a |
partisan of the free school system when |
compared TO its opponent, the Republican
organization. Such opposition as is
made to the systenn, such demand
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"a TRADE, NOT AN ART,

NJ. Regnier, the French dramatic and
literary scholar, told correspondent of the
&" Century" recently that there are made
great numbers of requests by Americans in
Paris for private lessons in the " art of act
ing" and for admission to the Conserva
toire, and that the number of such appli-
cants is constantly increasing. AS reason
for this, he said that in America acting on
the stage is treated as a trade, rather than
as an art, save by very few; and the few,
being forced to live like wandering tribes
of Israel to live at all, cannot teach That
is the simple truth. But he should have
added, that what has driven actors to be
merely wanderers in America is the de-
plorable star" system. 1t has about
crushed out good stock companies. We no
longer have general excellence and a per-
manent troupe, but single actor of prom
inence and host of flashlights to shine by
contrast with his effulgence Managers, in
their greed of competition, are, more than
others, to blame for this; but playwrights
are also blameworthy, for they have made
it possible for fellow with bit of wit to
| have sensational play written around
| him, with which he can take the road"
supported by actors, who must remain
subordinate to the star" or lose their
bread and butter The result Of all this
star, sensational and road" bust
ness is, that only at rare intervals do we
see any fine art-work upon the stage such
as characterized the old-time stock COM
panies. Naturally, there are now and
then troupes with good support " through
out, but in the fact that they are considered
especially noteworthy, is testified the alb
sence of that general excellence which
should obtain throughout the whole range
of the dramatic profession. The truth is
| the dramatic art in America is in a very
bad way, and unless we have schools for
the art soon, we shall have very little
worthy of commentator left upon the
stage, and must look to the European
schools for artists There long training,
analysis of the emotions, study of the stage
| in detail, instruction in the methods OF
probing the text and presenting its mean
ing faithfully-are made the subjects OF
most laborious application and are con-
sidered as art-works Of the higher order
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Love at First Sight.

The Reno Gazette publishes the following
sample of an easy matrimonial market
% A very quiet affair tinged with a little
romance, took place in Judge Youngs back
Office yesterday evening, being the marriage
of O. NJ. Johnson, of 9usanville, to Rose
Wilson, of San Francisco. Neither had
seen each other until they met at the La
fayette Hotel on Sunday last, although a
brief correspondence had been carried on
between them, having been initiated by
Johnson advertising for correspondent in
one of the San Francisco papers, which was
replied to by the lady. A second letter
from Johnson was proposal of marriage.
The young lady accepted, on condition that
the two were to meet at Reno, and if then
Cupid gave favorable report the marriage
was to take place at once, but if an affinity
did not manifest itself on first sight it was
to be no go, Johnson to furnish money
sufficient to pay the lady's round-trip eX-
penSes, to be used if she concluded not to
marry him. Johnson arrived on the 18th
inst, and Miss Wilson on last Saturday
Cupid reported favorably; a license was
procured and the two made one. Judge
Young performed the cermony and officers
Mershon and Green witnessed the romantic
union. The bride is aged about % years
and is a petite demi-blonde. The happy
husband is full blonde and a well-to-dO
miner. The pair left for Lassen county this
morning.
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,anv left Illinois with Cunningham, and
he also wrote to the press IN 1866 IN vinol-
cation of General Logan, saying that he III
no way aided or advised the company or
cave II encouragement, and he added
- This statement make without General
Jogan's knowledge, do so in justice to him,
and to ref1te the sianderous Charge made
AGAINST him. Colonel Brooks, of the com
yrsnd in question, bore like testimony, as
did a score or more of leading men int
mate with General Logan at his home IN
Illinois. The story w2S started by unscTu-
nulous men when Logan, returned to his
home with the dust of four years cam
paign upon his garments, was taken up by
the people as a candidate for Congress, and
was reseated in the place ne had vacated TO
enlist as private in the Union army. The
Washington Tribune has been energetic in
searching official and other records that
give the lie to the defamers Of a gallant
soldier, but it is within the province of al
most any librarian to present unquestona
Bile proofs of the hollowness and cruelty o
the story the Democratic press is so dill
gently circulating. Yet such journals a
the San Francisco Examiner, the Garlic
forms of which were being pitched out o
third story windows by enraged citizens
because of its secession proclivities, at tn
time Logan was fighting its rebel friends il
Georgia, lends itself to give circula
ton to the falsehood that General Loga
was a secession sympathizer and was onl
prevented from going over" by tn
shrewdness of his far-seeing wife.
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BLUSTER.

If the New York Herald represented any
thing but the plant that maintains it if it
voiced the sentiment of any considerable
number of people; if it had the influence
politically that its inflated ambition aims
at, the following from the editorial page
might be considered of grave moment. As
it is it is mere braggadocia, mere pitf paff
pouf, and entitled to be sung into the bur
leSque opera. Hear it, " We speak seri-
ously when we say that to avert great evil
the country must now put down this new
sectional domination, this attempt of the
Western demagogism, swagger and bounce
to make itself the controlling force of the
Union at the expense Of the East, the South
and the middle section. . Blaine
is the chosen favorite of the West and the
roWdy element . Ii is better for
the country-the people of the whole Union
to decide this question now at the ballot
box peacefully than later with rifles in their
hands" The gods protect us-bayOnets,
indcedl Well, well, the country must be
in danger, and the West will proceed i'm
mediately TO draw its head into its hole and
take the hole in after it. Bah The idea
of attempting to influence votes by such
twaddle 1t is insuferably disgusting, and
is a shame to journalism. Rifles, indeed; ;
rifles Really, Black Jack, there is work
in hand for you yet, if this modern Falstaff
of the press be not drunk with rage.
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FACTS OF INTEREST.
A crematory society has been organized

A crematory society has been organized |
in Boston.
Austria has eighty-four trade-schools,
comprising schools for textile manufact- |
ures, for wood and stone trades, for ceramic
and glass work and for small industries.
A portable oil-mill has been invented
which will enable cotton-planters to ex-
press the oil from cotton seed without tax
ing it off their FARMS, thus saving the refuse
valuable for fertilizing purposes
Detroit places itself near the front rank
of cities using the electric light by appro-
priating 800, 900 for the maintenance for q
wear of seventy-two electric light towers.
of these towers six are to be $50 feet high,
and sixty-six 104 feet high.
A Rochester gentleman offers a prize, in
the shape of a trip to Europe, to the two
students III each class who attain the high
est standing during the year at the Elmira
Female College the party to be accompanied
by a member of the Faculty.
The attempt in Georgia to preserve Lber-
ty Hall as a permanent memorial of its
owner, the late Alexander H. Stephens, is
failure, and the property is likely TO go to
citizen of Crawfordville, who proposes 10
make it his private residence.
In tearing down a portion Of the Wash
ington Hotel at Bordentown, n. j., re-
Gently, VIOLIN with the name of Thomas
Paine" branded on it, was found slowed
| away in the attic. Paine did considerable
writing in this old town at the inn named.
A Bible printed in the Russian language
was found in Castle Garden the other day,
| in which was slip bearing number OF
strange devices, such as knives pistols, a
| cows head and a bloOd-red cross and
heart. The owner is supposed 10 be So
cialist priest.
Pine trees in some portions of North
| Carolina are dying in large numbers, it IS
supposed, from injuries inflicted by the
1" bore worm or sawyers," which played
havoc with the pines in that State about
thirty years ago Their ravages are not
confined to the old trees, the young ones
dying Just as rapidly and numerously.
In the Senate gallery the other day nice
old lady asked the gentleman who sat be
| side her to point out Senator Butler, OF
South Carolina. " want to see the man
who killed SO many colored people al
| Hamburg she said. The gentleman hap
pened to be Il Southern man, and with bit
ter irony he pointed out the venerable Mr.
Hoar, of Massachusetts. The old lady
looked seriously at him for a moment, Their
remarked, i might have known it; ther,
is murder in every lineament of his face"
Calf and other skins are made to resem
bic very closely alligator skins by very
ingenious process. A photograph having
been made of a genuine alligator hide, ;
copy is produced in bichromated gelatine
which gives in relief all the curious mark
ings, and from this latter relief representa-
ton a metal die is readily executed. Thi
die is pressed heavily upon the cheal
, leather, with the result of making it lool
so much like the leather MANUFACTURED
from the skin of the alligator as to deceiy
experts unless it is examined and handled
Any suitable stain can be impaired to tn
| fictitious product.
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CHOLERA.

N. Pasteur, the eminent scientist, says
There is surely microbe of cholera.
Cholera comes from India, where it is cpl
demic. We know that cholera is both
infectious and epidemic" NJ. Pasteur
added that the best preventive is good
hygiene, and above all, the, avoidance Of
water from wells in infected towns. The
statement telegraphea that breathing ex-
cess of oxygen is found to be a cure for
cholera may have some basis Of truth in it.
The increased circulation and the augment
ing of animal heat as result may have the
effect ascribed But what concerns the
people of the French towns most at
this time is q preventive, and that
unquestionably IS a correct state of the sys-
tenn Cholera fastens soonest upon the
human being whose stomachic condition
invites it most Mere medicines, it is not
reasonable to believe, will prevent all
they can do is to aid a correction of the
system where artificial aids are needed.
But disinfecnnts and cleanliness are aids
resistance of the plague NJ. Vulpian, a
distinguished medical authority, is reported
by Paris paper as saying that corrosive
sublimate is the best disinfectant in drains
and closets for apartments. He recon-
mended picnic acid, and he advised every
body suaeringj from diarrhGa to take i'm
mediately ten drops of laudnum in glass
of water. When the cholera has once de-
clared itself, it should be treated with
opium. Since absorption is difficult and
sometimes impossible to cholera patients,
alkaoids should be employed, Of which
morphine is the most powerful. N. Vul-
plan continued by repeating that morphine
will be the great remedy should unfortu-
nately an epidemic break forth.
But there is another aid to the body, and
that is calmness of the mind. The fear Of
a pest is an invitation to il. Cholera viii
not probably cross the Atlantic this year.
But it may. Our authorities do not seem
10 have taken any steps thus far to prevent
it. We should follow the example of the
Egyptian authorities, and forbid communi-
cation between infected ports and this
country absolutely. If the plague, how
ever, reaches this country the one great
thing to do is TO preserve equanilnity of
the mind. Panicky fears are certain to
augment the evil and encourage its spread.
Since the foregoing was written. it has
been ascertained that Surgeon-General
Hamilton's advice to the State Department
TO adopt regulations to prevat the intro
duction of the disease into the United
States from France, will be followed, if it
is found that the cholera in France extends
beyond the control of the French health
officers. The Surgeon-General says that
cholera is, of all diseases, perhaps the most
difficult to quarantine against, and local.
ties threatened by it should adopt every
precaution in the way of perfect cleanliness
and attention to hygienic conditions. This
advice comes to US of the Pacific coast with
especial force since the reception Of the
news Of the breaking out of the cholera in
the neighborhood of Pekin and at Toxic.
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HOW to Say Ii.

Say 1 would rather walk, and not !
had rather walk"
Say :" I doubt not but I shall and not
" l don't doubt but | shall"
Say " for you and me, y and not :" for you
and l."
Say " whether I be present or not" and
not present or no"
Say mot that know" and not that
know OF"
Say "return it to me-" and not return
it back to me"
Say 1 seldom see him. and not that
| seldom or ever see him."
Say fewer friends" and not less
friends"
Say if mistake not" and not if I am
not mistaken
Say game is plentiful" and not game
is plenty"
Say Il am weak in comparison with
you,h and not q to you"
Say q it rains very fast" and not very
hard"
Say gin its primitive sense" and not
" primary sense
Saw he was noted for his violence" and
not that he was man notorious for VIC
lence."
Say thus much is true" and not this
much is true"
Say Il lifted it," aid not Il lifted it
And last, but not least, say ~ take my
paper and pay for it in advance.
change
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EFFECTS OF SMoKING.-Johann Strauss,
the composer, has been troubled for some
time by severe fainting spells, that have
caused his physicians great anxiety. They
were at first attributed TO fatty accumula-
tions around the heart, but q member of
the Faculty of the University of Vienna, a
warm friend of the composer and his
family, being called into consultation,
came to the conclusion that the diagnosis
that had been taken was incorrect, and
that the musicians illness was caused by
excessive smoking of strong cigars; and
this view has been proved correct by the
results of treatment designed to eountexact
the poisonous effects of nicotine.-lh Ned
cal Journal
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How singularly inconsistent is the position of
the handful Of "kickers." They declare that
they are devotedly and unalterably attached to
the Republican party, but while admitting that
10 the great majority of the Republican party
the nomination of Mr.. Blaine is a response to a
desire, still the party does not know what is best
for it, and therefore these doctors in politics
propose to diagnose its case and dose it without
even an invitation to do SO. How can they be
considered consistent in admitting that the
mass of the party is pleased with the act of the
Convention, and still declare that the party is
not nrnperlY represented by M Blaine2
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as is made for division of the
scbool funds comes from within the
Democratic organization. Certain 1t is, II
ever the school system of the country is
DESTROYED, the assaults will not come from
within the Republican party. But these
are only few of the reasons that may be
advanced against a change. The men at
the front in the opening campaign signify
little in comparison to the parties behind
them, and the effects of putting into power
political element that cannot give sin
gle guarantee that change will be benefi-
cial to the people and give strength to the
1ntinn
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DRs BRouARDEL and PRoUsT, of Toulon,
declare that the epidemic at that place is
disease, resulting from deplorable defects
in the local sanitary system-thatitisno not i'm
ported cholera and not contagious But since
they have given that opinion the disease
has spread to other cities, and DR.. German,
physician at the Hotel Dieu, Paris, is out
in statement that the disease is Asiatic
cholera, and NJ Pasteur adds, if it is Asiatic
cholera, " it will spread all over France"
He believes also that the disease is CON
tagious, and puts great faith in quarantine
against cholera.
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The New York San pats the Republican goody,
goody kickers on the back in this doubtful man
ner The Republicans have seen indifference
party give way before the end of the campaign
to confidence and enthusiasm. 1t cannot fairly
be said that the Republican prospects are more
unfavorable now than they were before the
Fifth avenue conference in 1908 The opposi-
ton to Blaine comes not from the practical poll
ticisns in the rank and file of the party, but
mainly from the people who do not always take
the trouble to vote"