Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-05

in Harvey, new manufacturing suburb of Chicago. In every deed for land sold in the township is an iron-clad provision that if alcoholic liquors are ever manufac- tured, sold or given away on any lot with in it's boundaries said lot shall revert to the company. This plan has long been tried with success in two Colorado towns Greeley and Colorado Springs.
 The Topeka Kansas) Capitol has investi- gated the foreclosures of farm mortgages in forty-three counties in that State dur ing the first six months of 1890, and finds 1,1O3 foreclosures, or only about twenty five to a county. On the same basis the whole State would show 2,65O, amounting to about $2,OOO,O ,O00. It is worth notingl that these foreclosed mortgages are not all farm mortgages, by considerable ma jority. A large portion of the foreclosures are on occupied lands bought up and mortgaged for what they would bring by speculation Mortgages on actual Kansas farms are not, as rule, bad in vestments.
 Patriotic Japanese regard foreign gram mar and composition with considerable contempt. A native book on foreign liter ature censures the westerners for not put ! ting the verb at the end of the sentence, 'sthe only sensible way, as we do in Japan" Evidently the author has not studied) ''If. for instance" he continues, 1 "you want to talk about the moon, how | can you say sTo see the moon? You must say sThe moon to see, because if the | moon were not there first you could not | see it. You can see the crookedness of European hearts by their writing. They write crooked-across the paper instead of up and down, as any sensible person would"
 An Anti-Treating league has been formed in Chicago, the members of which pledge themselves not to treat under any circumstances. The badge of the order IS a bronze four-leaf clover, and about all the ceremony attendant upon joining the league is to adopt the badge and stick to the anti-treating idea, for this Anti-Treat- l ing league is society without any officers, bylaws, constitution or meeting place. No meetings of any kind are held, and the members of the organization, if it can be dignified by the name, have no opportuni- ties to confer with one another unless it IS when they meet upon the street. They are not all teetotalers by any means, and they do not all scornfully refuse to be treated, but they are supposed to refuse to return any compliment of the kind that
 may be, rendered to them.
 The story of Fred Kimball, the abscond- | ing cashier of the Peoples Savings bank | of Worcester, is being used to point l moral. Having conceived an absorbing | affection for a courtesan, he abandoned
 his wife and children, happy home, comfortable business position, and fail 1 reputation, stole over $5,000 in cash and
 over $40, ,OOO in securities from the bank and with his paramour ''took his journey
 into far country" In Paris he 'spent his money in riotous living" and when the
 first glamour of his vicious course had
 passed away, in a fit of drunken madness he ouarreled with his partnAr in sha1aA
 and she returned to this country and be
 trayed him to the officers of the law for
 reward He is now in the hands of justic
 and dozen years in the state prison likely to be the result of his escapade.
 l Mr. Clarkson, of Iowa, who IS to talk
 general charge of the work of the Repub
 lican congressional committee, says tn
 prospect of Republican majority in tn
 next house is not first rate, but is fa
 from hopeless. If he could not see
 fighting chance of success he would no
 waste his time in the work of the commit
 tee, he says. At the beginning of this ses
 sion the Republicans had scarcely major
 ity of the house, and since then the Demo
 crats have so gerrymandered several state
 as to make thirty-one districts apparent
 Democratic which before were surely Re
 publican. The Republicans, therefore must gain at least twenty-five district
 somewhere to make up for those gerr, mandered away. MT. Clarkson believes can be done, but it will need hard an ; skillful work, of which he is willing to d
 his share.