The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-18

A western editor, says Newspaperdom,
is said to have hit upon plan to keep
subscriptions paid up, that takes the
cake Every time a delinquent sub
scriber is mentioned in his paper his
name is inverted. For example, "Uqof
ssuof and wife are spending a few days
in New York" Every other subscriber
understands what it means, and there is
a grand rush to get right side up again.
Speaking to the Republican Editorial
Association in New York Monday night,
Cnauncey Depew said "The theory of
the Republican party should be clearly
defined on this excise question. 1t should
not hesitate or shiTk. 1t should come
out squarely one way or the other, either
for enforcement or against it, If for it,
you will not get the German vote; if
against it, you will not get the church
and school vote; but if neither for nor
against it, you will disgust the people,
make them doubt your sincerity, and
lose their entire vote
Hon. Horatio King, who was Post
master General under President BUchan-
en-, has prepared for publication by the
Lippincotts, book entitled, Turning
on the Light" Mr.. King takes up the
whole question of President Buchanan's
responsibility for the war, his alleged
Southern leanings, and his questioned
loyalty, and treats them extensively,
reaching the conclusion that Buchanan
was spotless patriot who endeavored at
all hazards, as did also Lincoln in the
early months of his firm term, to avert
civil war which, he argued, would
destroy the country he so well loved.
The charge in Sweden for telephone
service is six dollars per year The State
has combined the telegraph and the tele
phone systems. Compare this with
charges IN this country. In New York
City, the charges are for business houses
from $3.50 for ground circuit to $240
flor metallic circuit. Washington, D. G.,
800 to 1925, radius of one mile
Chicago, 800 to 1925. Boston, $3.50 to
$3.50; long distance rates $3.50. New
Orleans, $3.50 Salt Lake City, $50 to
$500 Across the Canadian line the rates
are much cheaper than in this Republic;
though still from four to eight times
higher than in Sweden At Brockyille,
$25. Toronto, $40. Montreal, $50.
''It is disappointing" says the Phila-
delphia Times, to find that the emanci-
patton Of woman has not yet reeched
the point at which women can put their
work in open competition with the cor
responding work Of men. 1t must still
be exhibited separately, like the work
of the freedmen, the Indians, the blind,
the predetermined and other detectives,
whose achievements it would not be fair
to judge by the usual standard. As this
discrimination is not insisted on by
envious man, but is apparently quite
voluntary on the women S part, we must
accept it as expressive Of their own esti-
mate of the position to which all this
talk has brought them.
Upon being asked who would make the
strongest Democratic candidate in 1896,
Senator Mills, of Texas, said; "Wm r.
Morrison, Of Illinois, is, in my judgment,
many thousands of votes stronger than
any other whom we could name. Nor
rison's makeup is very much like that
of General Jackson. He has strong
Democratic convictions that no pressure
of friend or foe could make him aban-
don. His sympathy is earnestly with
the masses. He is for equal laws, equal
burdens and equal benefits. He has ad
vocated these principles and stood i'm
moyably by them throughout his public
life. He has the confidence of the Dem
ocgatio people everywhere. With good,
clear, unequiyocal declaration of Jack
cn,,sars ouI Morricp,