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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-27
A wOMAN's HONOR.

One Of Georgia's Prominent Legislators
Involved In = Disgraceful Scandal.
Gainesville, Ga, special to the st.
Louis Republic says: The news has
reached here of n sensational affair in FL
bert county in which political indignation
followed cowhiding scrape. The editor Of
the Elberton Gazette is Mr.. j. L. Harper,
gentleman Of considerable means and in
fuence. Hon. Phil w. Davis has for years
been the member of the legislature from
that county. He is q prominent practitioner
before the state supreme court, and in all
political compaigns is appealed to az the
political boss of eastern Georgia. Some
years ago he married the first cousin Of Mr..
Harper, and thus the two families became
merged and stood together in political and
business matters. The harmony, however,
which has SO long reigned between the FAM
lilies has been broken up.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Harper emerged
from the Office of the Gazette and, walking
quickly across the public square toward .
drew out cowhide and exclaiming, "You
internal scoundrel," began laying the lash
on Davis back. In moment the group
stood back to watch developments, whom
they saw Davis cringe to the sidewalk in
pitiful manner, making no effort at self-de
away, while Davis was taken to a neiRhboring
drug store to be bandaged with court-p plaster,
The men who took Harper away soon re-
turned and reported that the offence for
which Davis had been cowhided was such az
to call for popular indignation, and meet
ing for that purpose was called. The meet
ing was held at the Office of the Ordinary.
where Mr.. ID. p. Oglesby was called to the
chair and Judge Almond was made score
tary. The secret was confided to q COM
mite, who reported the following resolu-
ton, which was unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That p. W. Davis be requested
TO resign his position as representative in
| the state legislature from Ebert county,
and that committee of five citizens be ap.
pointed to notify him of this action.
Another resolution was passed to the effect
that:
In the name of the honor, virtue and
peace of the county we request Mr.. Davis to
leave the town and county in SIX hours,
never to return.
A supplementary motion required copy
OF this resolution to be sent to Mr.. Davis,
with the signatures of those present at the
meeting appended. The committee at once
sought Mr.. Davis, but he had left. Late
last night, however, they found him and
presented the lltimatum of the citizens
that he should leave at once. He was
placed in q buggy and the driver instructed
to drive him to whatever point he desired.
II Mr.. Davis resignation of his ssat in the
legislature does not reach the governor by
tomorrow, the citizens committee will
proceed to Atlanta and lay the whole mat
ter before him. Further than that lady'e
honor is concerned in the case, the affair
ia complete mystery.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-27
Some Of the Biggest Things.

To the city of Liverpool must be awarded
the somewhat doubtful distinction of hay
ing the biggest work-house in the world.
This huge institution has ample acoommo-
dation for 5000 inmates, which, happily, is
scarcely ever needed at one time.
The biggest workshop in the world is
said to be that of Herr Krupp, the famous
gunmaker of Essen. The growth of this
vast establishment has been wonderful. In
1888 it employed nine workmen; in 164S, ~;
in July, 1888. 0.96o men we're employed,
IS, 769 souls. OF these, 4,l93 reside in
dwellings provided by the firm.
There are at Essen l, 1856 furnaces of vari-
GUS constructions, 2S6 boilers. so steam
hammers of from 200 to 100000 pounds, $40
steam engines, with total of $1,000 horse
cranes. OF GOAL and coke 2,735 tons are
used daily, and II high furnaces of the
latest construction produce about 600 tons
of iron every day.
The largest sailing ship in the world is
said to be in the possession of France. Her
name is the France" She is a vessel with
carried. The length is 344 feet, with
beam of ~ feet. The cargo which the
France could carry is no less than 81 GOO
tons. The ship is built of steel, her masts
and yards being of the same material. She
Is al present tIdOluk OetwoeA france ana
the Pacific.
The biggest ruby in the world is found in
the czar Of Russia's crown, which has the
distinction of being the finest ever worn by
any sovereign. In shape it resembles
bishops mitre, and on its crest is CROSS
composed of five superb diamonds, which
support the biggest ruby. A foliated
arch, composed of eleven magnificent dia-
monds, supports this cross, and on each
side of the arch is hoop of thirty eigtt
pearls, than which there are none hand
somer in the world.
The biggest flower in the world was re-
Gently discovered by DR.. Alexander Schad-
enberg. 1t was found ON Mount Parag,
which is situated on one of the southeastern
Philippine Islands. The native who ac-
companied DIR. Schadenberg called the
flower 'bolo." The bolo in bloom is fine
petalled flower, nearly yard in diameter,
as large as carriage wheel. A single
flower weighed over twenty-five pounds.
The five petals of the immense flower are
centre filled with countless long violet-hued
etRme1R.
The biggest telescope in the world, erect
cd at Ealing, in England, has just been
made single-handed, by Mr.. Common, the
astronomer. Its whole mass weighs nearly
twenty tons. The enormous iron cylinder
which forms the tube is twenty feet long
and eight feet in diameter, resembling the
ordinary boiler of stationary engine. In
side this is delicately distributed some ten
tons of pig iron, the whole instrument 90
ing to form the most wonderful machine
which the planet possesses. Through Mr..
Commons telescope it will be easy to see
NO fewer than 0,O0OOO stars.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-27

same material that she called ''chemi-
lette," which began in bodice and ended
in two legs with lace frills, and inside all 2
union garment reaching from her throat %
her wrists and ankles. And with little
disquisition on the garter, which she in
clasped below the knee, she bowed herself
mt
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-27

The man Who can govern Q woman ca
govern nation.-Balxac. "a
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-04

proper parliamentary interventions and
tactics. If it so happens that there are
not enough votes in opposition to defeat
measure and there are enough legal
votes to pass it, then the will of the people
is reflected by the majority, and it is the
duty of the minority to submit-under
protest, if they please-but not to defeat
all legislation by absenting themselves so
as to prevent business quorum and the
dispatch of public business.
By his presence the Democrat does not
help pass a measure to which he is OPP
posed. His presence makes up quorum,
it is true, but that is the right of the peo-
pie irrespective of any particular measures
that may be acted upon. The people, in
other words, are entitled to have quorum
in the House, and if an opponent of any
measure votes and speaks against it be-
cause he thinks it error in government
and is then defeated, he has discharged
his full duty and is free from any blame
for the consequences of i'll legislation. He
is in the House not primarily as Demo.
crat or Republican, but as a represent.
alive of a constituency made up of mem
bers of both parties. He is there as the
choice of minority and it is his duty tc
submit to the legislation of a majority
also
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-04
THE PROTESTS IN WISCONSIN.

The campaign in Wisconsin has taken
direction the Democratic managers never
expected. They counted upon the whole
party marching to the tune the managers
set, antagonism to the Bennett school law
and coalition with the churches that have
made the law the chief object of assault.
In the first place large number of
Lutherans have discovered that their
church has been dragged into political
contest on an issue upon which the great
mass Of the American people are hostile
to them. They are now beginning to see
that if they are to enjoy religious liberty
and establish schools in America, they
must accord the people differing with them
the same privilege. They have awakened
to the fact that the Bennett school law
which requires English to be taught in the
common schools, and all schools recognized
by the law, or that the pupils shall other
wise be taught the English tongue, is
neither unreasonable nor an assault upon
religious freedom. Accordingly the Luth-
Grams of Wisconsin are very largely sign
ing protest against the further discussion
of the subject by their people, a. against
the church being dragged at tHOeheels of
the Democratic party to secure for a
coterie of Its greedy members few fat
offices in Republican State.
A thousand Democrats in Wisconsin
have to this date also protested against the
position into which their party has been
forced by its managers. They have issued
a long and imprisoned address to the
membership of the party with thousand
signatures attached, and which is daily re-
ceiving many more, in which they say:
The pretense that the law attacks or interferes
with parochial schools has its origin either in
ignorance or In dishonest intent The only
foundation for such claim is that the lew re-
quires that children be taught certain element
airy studies in English, and that there are paro-
chial schools where that language is an I'M
known tongue.
Under this law, if a parent chooses TO send
his child to the parochiai school. and the
church sees fit to have all the instruction in
such school impaired In q foreign tongue. SO be
IT, only in that case let the parent see to il that
his child, growing up as citizen of an English
speaking state, shall receive, in some other
school or at nome, the requisite amount of in
struction in English, and he will have complied
with the law. 1t is at once absurd and mon
strous to accuse the State of unlawful usurpa-
ton of power because, for its own selfprotec-
ton and to secure the proper equipment of its
children for the suties of citizenship, it de.
mands that such children be taught to speak,
read and write the legal language of the State.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-04
SUPERIOR COURT.
artment One-Armstrong. Judge

FRIDAY, october 3d.
Maria C. Bussey VS.. Charles L. Hussey-Di
vorce granted.
Joseph Waite a native of Switzerland, ad
mitted to citizenship on the testimony of Jacob
Gebert and w. A. Anderson.
In re Marco Ducich, an insane person-Com
mitted to Stockton.
Their Creditors vs. Wilson & Kinney-Contin
ued
Melissa J. Smith vs. Edward S. smith-Con
tinued.
Z. W. Miller vs. Odd Fellows Hall Associa.
tion-Continued.
In re ]. B. White, an insolvent debtor-Con
tinued.
In re W. C. Pike. Observation-Disclosures
Joseph Fol VS.. Frank Perry-Continued-
B. II. Covell ct al. VS.. W. w. Washburn, Ad
Observation-Disclosures.
Estate of Henry Hooker, deceased-Exeeutoi
discharged and decree of distribution con
firmed.
People VS.. Leon stillon-ordered that judg
ment of lower Court be reversed, and action
dismissed.
Department Two-van Fleet. Judge.
FRIDAY, October Sd.
Callins Downing VS.. A. S. Tryon-Submitted
Annie Price VS.. C. F. Price-Defendant di
rected to pay plaintiff SIS per month alimony
also costs and attorneys fees.
L. Kreuzberger VS.. J. H. D. Wingfeld-Motion
to file amended answer granted and case con
tinued.
Cooper vs. Hopkins-Ten days stay of proceed
luSS kIduteU. 4,
John Gottlieb, native of Germany, admitted
to citizenship on the testimony of w. Guten-
berger and C. Heyneman.
Estate of Ann Valleau, ACKNOWLEDGMENT
that bills be paid in fifteen days.
Estate of J. Horn, deceased-Attorney fees
| allowed and case continued.
Estate OF E. Enrich, deceased-order to sell
personal property.
Estate of J. NJ. Dufour deceased-Continued
Estate of NJ. Rose, deceased-order made to
| take dispositions.
Estate of Quicker E. Wilson, deceased-OrdeI
settling account and distribution.
Estate and guardianship of NJ. F. and W. j.
Hennessey, minors-Order confirming sale OF
real estate; guardianship of minors continued
one week.
Estate of c. Hansen. deceased-Order made to
sell accounts
Estate of R. oppenheim, deceased-Contin-
ned.
Estate of A. B. Nixon-Continued.
Estate of L. Tomlin Observation-Disclosures
ordered to file additional bond of S., 600.
Estate of Johanna Keller. deceased-0rdered
that payment be made for translation of docu'
ments.
Estate of S. W. Morgan, deceased-Adminis.
tration issue to 6. A. Morgan, with $500 bond.
Estate of the Monsch minors-Order made to
sell real estate.
Estates of Thomas Dwyer, Nicholas Schadt
and A Gonnet-0rders made in each case of de-
cree: notice to creditors.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-04
THE DUTY OF THE LEGISLATOR.

The New York Erening Post defends the
Democrats of the House in absenting them
selves in order to prevent quorum and
the passage of bills to which they were
opposed. In answer to the claim, that it
is the duty of Congressman to appear
and to vote, and if out-voted to submit to
the rule of the majority, the Post says:
This would be true enough if it were possible
for the Democrats TO vote without thereby help
lug TO pass the measure which they vote against,
but under the present system this is not pos
sible If at any time during the past week
twenty Democrats had been present and voted
nav, those very nay votes would have made up
the quorum required for action. and thus has
tened the contamination of the outrage which
they SO stoutly opposed. 1t is not the duty OF
CONGRESSMAN, any more than OF legislator IN
Pennsylvania, to help to pass measure which
he considers wrong. and in the Harrisburg Cap
itol his presence or absence is matter OF indit-
ference when bill is up to which he is OPP
posed: but under the present regime IN the
House at Washington the physical presence of a
Democrat helps TO pass Republican measure
lust as much as though he voted yea.
But the obvious response to all that is
this: That men are not sent to Congress 20
defeat measures by such tactics as the
Democrats have adopted. They are sent
there to pass or to resist the passage of
certain measures determining the policy of
the nation. But this is to be done accord
ing to the methods appointed by the law
that is, by arguments and votes and by
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-04
A MILITIa NAVAL RESERVE.

The National Guard of Massachusetts
has organized in Boston a Naval Battalion.
1t has twice appeared in public drill, and
the efficiency the two hundred and fifty
men have attained gives the friends of the
new organization the liveliest satisfaction.
At the last open drill of the battalion the
men turned out in heavy marching order,
for work in the field, and went through the
maneuvers incident to an attack from the
sea upon the Notifications at Salem Neck.
When the organization was proposed, a
few months ago, the officers of the Ma
tional Guard looked upon it as chimerical.
Not so the officials of the United States
Navy. They gave it every encourage
ment, and now their judgment as to the
value of trained marine reserve has been
verified
1t is said by those competent to Judge
that the young men in the Boston battal-
ion will be competent in another quarter
to go on board any one of our new war
ships, and man and fight the guns effect
lively, or man the boats and fight them at a
moments notice. So then Boston is prov
ing that the idea of militia naval re-
serve is not mere fancy, but that it is a
practical and useful arm of the National
Guard. If such battalions were formed in
all the great seaport towns, in time OF
trouble our navy would have trained
body some thousands strong upon which
it could rely for assistance, especially in
port duty and harbor defenses.
There are no States in the Union in which
such force would be of greater value in
time of danger than those of the Pacific
Coast. The remoteness of our position,
difficulty of speedily commanding trained
men for the navy upon this coast, and the
necessarily limited naval force that can be
allowed to the Pacific, renders the reserve
organization very important one for
these shores. There should be such bat.
talions organized in San Francisco, San
Diego Portland and other northern ports.
Such auxiliaries to the navy are encour.
aged by the Naval Department, which
renders them all the aid it can, and details
skilled officers and men to drill them and
initiate them into the mysteries of han.
ding big guns, fighting a ship, manning
and handling small boats, and defending
shore Notifications.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-04

large retail stores. Her attendant. mana
real live man-came 10 some statuary. To use
her own words: Il saw the statuary before we
got there. One was Venus in the she and the
other was worse yet. standing nude figure
with tambourine in her hand. l thought ne
would pass by and not stop near those but, my
gracious he didn't He stopped and not only
stopped but took them up, and pointed out the
translucent marble and told me how many
times they were mechanically reduced from
the original. and al about them. Just fhougnt
l would die. didn't know which way to look,
nor which way to turn. He never noticed my
embarrassment. got away lust as soon as |
could. 1t is q perfect shame that ladies' are
subjected to such things. There ought 10 De
some law prohibiting .tatuary ana pictures OF
statuary being in public places Anyway, that
clerk had no business to make point OF show
ing re those things. and am going TO nave
my husband report him TO the manager
That woman is the legitimate product
of the school that finds immodest sugges-
ton in Longfellow's immortal poem. She
has not lived in vain, however, since her
prudery gives US, by contrast, glimpse of
man infinitely her superior, and who
showed her the noble beauty and artistic
worth of the statuary that so shocked her
ultra sensitiveness, without so much as the
shadow of thought OF lndellcacy. lie
could enjoy that exquisite bit of chiseling
without contamination-she could not,
and therein they stood apart, the pure and
the impure.
But after all, these prudes are the prog
eny of ignorance. Having knowledge of
neither art nor literature IN its purity,
ribbed in by a school of morals that is
grounded in suspicion, and conceives all
men and women to be children of Satan,
who are not of its fold, they are neither
capable of approaching artistic purity nor
poetic imagery. But still it is pitiful,
very pitiful, that they should be visited
upon the generation, and that for our sins
we must endure the affliction of their pres
ence in our midst,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-04
THE RACE PROGRESSING.

The disposition to decry our own time
and its men is sharply rebuked by Presi-
dent Andrew D. White in a recent essay in
the Popular Science Monthly. He says that
mans tendency is upward; that
Nothing is more evident from history than the
fact that weaker bodies of men driven out by
stronger do not necessarily relapse into barba-
rism, but frequently rise, even under the most
unfavorable circumstances. TO civilization
equal or superior to that from which they have
been banished. Out of very many examples
showing this law of upward development, few
may be taken as typical. The Slavs, who sank
SO low under the pressure of stronger races that
they apparently gave the modern world a new
word 10 express the most hopeless Servitude,
have developed a powerful civilization peculiar
to themselves; the barbarian tribes who, ages
ago, took refuge amid the sandbanks and mo-
rasses of Holland, have developed one of the
worlds leading centers of civilization the
wretched peasants, who about the fifth century
took refuge from invading hordes among the
lagoons and mudbanks of Venetla, developed, a
power in art, arms and politics which is among
the wonders of human history the Puritans,
driven from the civilization of Great Britain 70
the unfavorable climate, soil and circumstances
OF early New England; the Huguenots, driven
from France country admirably fitted for the
highest growth of civilization, to various coun-
tries far less fitted for such growth ; the Irish
peasantry, driven in vast numbers from their
own island to other parts of the world. on the
whole less fitted to them-all are proofs that, as
rule, bodies of men once enlightened, when
driven to unfavorable climates and brought
under the most depressing circumstances, not
| only retain what enlightenment they have. but
| go on Increasing.
1t is also true that as the age is one Of
progress intellectually, so too it is physi-
cally in man. The men of to-day in size
| outrank those of the ages of proves and
mighty warriors and stalwart knights.
The average modern man cannot squeeze
into the armor of Crusader. The waist
girth of the standard soldier of this day is
greater and his body development better
than were those of men in any period OF
the middle ages. The physical marvels of
the Grecian and Roman games were not
better developed than are the athletes OF
to-day. The brain measurement of the
men of the nineteenth century ranks that
of any preceding one. If we have not to-
day so many illustrious examples of great
intellects, of pre-eminent statesmen, poets
| and scholars, we have wider diffusion Of
knowledge and thousand well-informed,
brainy, capable men to-day where there
was one three hundred years ago. 1t is a
better age than any that has preceded it,
and it is a better populated globe to-day
than it was century ago, physically and
| intallactuaIly
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-04

g The statement, originated by the German Re
publican Lutherans land Catholics), and shame
iessly reiterated in the Democratic State plat
form as bid for their votes. that this law de
MES to those prosecuted for its violation the
right of trial by jury, is absolutely untrue.
The question now confronting US is, Shall we.
as Democrats, give our sanction to such base
prostitution of the party we love and revere
shall We as Democrats, permit. even by mac
ton, the triumph OF such a shameful sacrifice
Of principle and Of the faith and honorable ira,
securing the briet and discreditable support of
the German Republican Lutherans? 1t is time
that such unclean and laundering leadership
should be rebuked. Mere inactive disapproval
can accomplish nothing. The only way to free
sacrifice all principle, all patriotism, and all
Democracy to vicious Determination to gain
votes at any cost is to vote against the State
ticket nominated on ard pledged TO that shame.
full platform. The election of that ticket will
not be a Democratic victory; it will mean the
degradation of the Democratic party. Defeat
now will strengthen and purify the party. not
weaken it; it will cleanse it from the stain
placed upon it by INSCRIPTIONS bosses"