Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.

One of the reasons urged in favor of the
 election of Henry George is that if he is
 elected the authorities will not dare to hang
 the Chicago Anarchists.
 The Republicans of the Seventh senatorial
 district made an excellent nomination yester- day. MT. Graham has already done good
 service in the legislature. He is an able,
 sensible and trustworthy man. He ought to
 be elected, and it is probable that he will be-
 The prohibitionists are active and vocifer-
 ous in Michigan. Until the campaign open
 ed they were organized in but eighteen of the
 seventy-seven counties in the State, while
 now they have fifty county organizations,
 congressional candidates in every district but
 one and seventeen prohibition papers plead
 of 25 1000, gain of 1000 in two years, and
 privately say that their State canvass indi-
 cates vote of from 30,000 up.
 The adulteration of butter is serious mat
 ter in India. Ghee, or the native clarified
 butter, enters into the composition of every
 kind of cooked food used by all classes of natives, so that it's adulteration with beef or pork fat means loss of caste to Hindus and deflement to Mohammedans. So great has been the panic that the wealthier natives are importing ghee from Persie and the poorer have been abstaining from cooked food. The Bengal council has passed bill to prevent the adulteration of food, and the supreme government is discussing the advisability of passing similar act.
 Odessa and St. Petersburg papers publish l singular document in the shape of formal l treaty between one Ljasjkevich, the manager of an estate in the government of Kiev, and l neighboring peasant woman who passed for l a very powerful witch. He greatly feared 8 blight for his crop of beetroot, and for the honorarium off IS rubles she undertook to l ward of the danger by her magical spells | after the 21st of May. Should the blight re- appear, she was to be bound to repeat the in- | cantations gratis. One portion of the en- chantment consisted in the witcn's walking
 over the endangered fields at night in cos 1 tune the meagreness of which may be more l easily imagined than described.
 Honesty is the best policy always, and l sometimes its value is very plain. A young country lawyer met last summer at Poland | Spring, whither he had gone with an invalid sister, rich old gentleman from Philadel- phia, who wanted an honest man to send to Europe on an important business mission.
 He thought this young lawyer would fill the | bill, but proceeded to test him first. After | gaining his confidence he told him of plan
 he had for making money by short but very dishonest method. The young man | listened attentively and then firmly declined to be party to any such arrangement. In | vain the old man pleaded that scores of men
 occupying high positions to-day had made l their start in precisely the same way. The young man was as firm as a rock. The re-
 suit was that the Philadelphian, being con-
 vinced of the yonng mans integrity, engaged | his services, and he is now on his way to
 Europe.
 | The state of the dead heathen has troubled other theologians besides those of our own | day. quotation from the "Rise of the
 Dutch Republic" Illustrating this is going the
 rounds. Mir. Motley states that about A. D. | e92, when the pious Merovingians were try l ing to convert the Pagan Frisians to Chris l tianity, their leader, Radbod, becoming a
 convert. was about to be baptized and had immersed one foot in the baptismal font | when a thought struck him. 'Whers are | my dead forefathers at presentF' he asked, | turning suddenly to Bishop Wolfram. "In | hell, with all other unbelievers,' replied the
 bishop-imprudently, as MT. Motley says.
 Mighty well," replied Radbod, removing his leg, ''then will I rather feast with my
 ancestors in the halls of Woden than dwell
 with your starveling band of Christians in
 heaven. Radbod would yield to no en- treaties or persuasions to engage in rite which was to separate him from his dead
 kindred and died heathen.
 l The new governor of Utah is evidently not