Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-12

track as light as day and thoroughly visl- bls throughout Its entire length. Horse racing by electric light Is old in the wild and woolly West.
 Of course. While so many worlds fair hotel enterprises went to pieces the wo- man's dormitory made money. This is the report of the treasurer: Total receipts from June 4, 1892, to June 5, 1894, $73,- 70S. 18; disbursements, s73. 3.029 25; unex- pended balance, $67s 9l. This amount will probably be donated to some insti- tuition for the advancement of the interests of women.
 Two churches in Cleveland, Ohio, have been split in two over the temperance question. From one of the Presbyterian and one of the Methodist churches the pro- hibition party has seeded. The Methc- dist seceders have organized the 'First Prohibition ohurch of Cleveland" ," and the Presbyterisns have made of themselves 8 Congregational church on total abstinence and prohibition foundations.
 A new process for the manufacture of waterproof paper material has been patent ed In Prussia. By this process, according to an exchange, @ nonstratifed and per fectly homogeneous product Is obtained, which is of uniform strength throughout Its mass, and capable of being used for the manufacture of horse shoes and also for covering floors, roofs, walls of sheds or huts, etc. The method consists esssntisl- ly in causing the sheets made from the prepared paper pulp to pass. In spiral con- volutions, before they have become dry, round 8 pressure roller in such manner that the separate layers of psper lie upon one another and counter roller presses them together.
 The reckless destruction of timber Is go. ing on, 1t appears, In Africa just the same as in many other parts of the world. The Pretoria Weekly Press says that "ths de- struction of trees for fuel has been carried on so long, that there is good cause for alarm. The timber In the Waterberg dis tricta Is not nearly so thick or of such val uo dS a ChsuSl ouscINC1 boiACfct oAo the cutting here and in the Woodbush Is going on go promiscuously and without any replenishment that the end of the splendid timber supply in the northern districts must soon come. Very strict sur- veillance of the timber cutting is needed, and those who are supposed to look after the Transvaal forests should see that no tree is cut down unless three or four are planted in its place."
 The Southern Statesman of Chattanooga has made sn examination of the wages paid to white and black wage earners. Replies were received from nearly 100, 900 employ CTS, showing that 5S per cent. of the em ployes were white and 42 per cent. were black One third of the whole number were classed as skilled laborers, cnly 10 per cent. being black. Skilled lsborers are paid a1 average of $2 5l per day for whites and $1 5s for blacks; unskilled, whites average $l.14 per day, blacks $1.O2. In explaining the absence of Coxey move ments in the Southern States MT. Frederick Douglass, than whom no man mas better right to speak for his race, said recently: :'Now that the negro is free, his condition Is but little better than serfdom. Through out the South about the only people who work are the negroes. The average rate of farm wages is from sS to slO a month, payable in orders on the store. No money is paid; hence the negro has no opportuni- ty to lay up money. At the end of the season there is no reckoning and the labor CT Is always brought out in debt. There Is law in some of the Southern States that lsborer in debt cannot go away until that debt Is cancelled. The result Is that the negro Is fastened to the soil and Is lit tie better than a serf The determination of the whites of the South Is to keep tine b1 cIa