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ANIMALS THAT FEIGN DEATH.

The habit OF feigning death for the sake
OF protection can be observed among many
of the lower animsls-animals which diff
fer widely in family. genus. and species
Indeed, this habit is 10 be observed In
creatures microscopic In size and OF ex-
ceedinsly low organiza ton, as well as in
those as high in the scale OF animal life
as man himself: for even man does not
hesitate on occasions TO avail himself of
this natural subterfuge when he thinks
IL will aid in the preservation OF his life.
With the aid OF the microscope one can
observe and study the natural history OF
the minute animal world which otherwise
would remain a closed and unread volume.
This instrument has shown me. beyond
cavil, that creatures as low IN the scale
as aetino-phryans. very minute. micro
scopic animSlcules, practice death-feign-
ing when surprised by an enemy from
which they cannot otherwise escape.
Thus, have repeatedly seen actinODhry-
ans fold their delicate. hair-Ike legs or
ella and sink 10 the bottom OF their min
faturo lake "a drop OF water when Rp-
preached by a waaer-louse. which prsys
upon them. They remain TO all appear
ancss absolutely without Hfe until the
water-louse swims away. when they I'M
fold their ella and go hack 70 their feed
ing grounds bit OF water-weed. or
moss. or decayed wood.-James Weir in
I.IppiucOtt'z
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BORROWING TO THE DEATH.

4 greater number Of Americans are
going % Europe this summer than at
any time in the history Of the country.
Every berth and Stateroom Of all the
great liners are engaged for June and
July. Ten thousand Americans are TO
be in the London hotels the last week
in June, who have rooms already en-
gagged. Ii is estimated that two hun
dred millions of dollars in gold viii be
spent in Europe by Americans this
year. Even this drain alone will in
evitably affect the gold reserve Of the
treasury. which Is again getting down
TO the S1o0,o000Oo mark. The PhiIa-
delphia American declares that the best
Informed see no reason TO anticipate
a check to gold exports during the com
ing summer, unless a suspension of
specie payments should intervene 10
put a fitting end 10 the comedy. 1t IS
with this IN view that So many Of our
dealers in money deprecate any agla-
ton of the silver question. They plead
that it damages our credit with Europe,
by which they mean that ii checks the
power of borrowing from Europe, and
thus adding to the weight OF q burden
already too great for our strength We
have mortcaged almost all our interests
snd our resources already. thanks 10
orr policy with regard 10 trade and
money. BY all means keep up our
credit Al the signof the three balls. thar
We may get sin farther advances on
what i left Us,
The banks. which unite in UNFOLDING
this bad system, are among the worst
sufferers from il. The weaker are sue
cumbing: the stronger, in many cases.
keep their heads above water by carry
ing notes as good which should be put
In the suspense account \ few New
York banks are making money out OF
the situation, but the average bank is
doing worse than In any recent years.
OF course borrowing and borrowing
and borrowing maintains an easy
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APPETITE FOR WAR.

There are two little boys now conspic-
uous In Europe; one is II and the other s
years of age; one is a crown prince and the
other crowned king; the former is the
most dreary and self-conscious little prig
that ever as drilled in pipe-clay and buck
ram, and the other is still high-spirited
child, bold, saucy, and lovabIe; but both
the Prussian kronprinz and the Spanish
reg nino have already but one thought IN
their young heads-war The pompous
little German lieutenant only lives for
dreams of strategy. manoeuvres, krieg-
spiel, the importance of buttons, the dig
nifty of stripes and grades, the superiority
Of gunpowders and chemicals; and the
bright nino climbs on Marshal Campos's
knees and bess to be told how Moors were
killed in Morocco, Cubans in Cuba, and
how many years he will have still to wait
before he too can have the joy of killing
them. Divine education of Christian
princesi Those children are taken, respec-
lively, TO the Lutheran service and TO the
Catholic mass: and they are alike told
that they are the servants of the Son OF
Peace, and what are they in truth being
made both by education and example?
They are being made the scourge OF their
own genera ton and of the generations 20
come. They are being taught to hope
for. and to aspire to direct, the slaughter
of their people and of neighborirg peo-
Piles, TO find their toys in military science.
their theater in the battlefield. their am
brosia in blood The little lads of their
own age who run now before their car
riages in the dust, shouting their names
with joyous outcry, will be for them a
score OF years hence crippled, MANNED,
riddled with shot, torn with explosive
bullets, drowned by torpedoes, blown up
by mines; thousands yet unborn will arise
TO curse them; mothers viii ask their dead
sons at their hands, and ask IN vain; vii
lagos will burn like wisps of straw, and
cities crumble Ike trodden ant-hills. at
their word; they are innocent themselves
as the atoms of tubing or the tin sardine
boxes which hold the detonators and iron
nails of the bomb: but as these are filed
with the deaduest fumes and fires Of he'll,
so are those boys from their earliest in
fancy filed to the throat with the lusts.
the pride. the APPETITE OF war.-OUida in
the Eoruun
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HENRY CLAYs DEFEAT.

The Wing convention Of 1879 was held IN
a new Lutheran church in Harrisburg,
Pa, and il is a safe assumption that never
before or since has a house OF God been
made the scene of so much and so adroit
political manoeuvering as went on there
Tor Vhe purpose of preventing the nomlna-
ton OF Henry Clay for the presidency.
The chief manipulation was Thurlow Weed,
who appeared there as the friend OF Gov
erROr Seward, and the future member OF
the powerful firm OF Seward, Weed. and
Greeley. This firm was, indeed. the out
come OF the ensuing campaign Greeley
was az the convsation.-liItle dreaming
that the campaign which was 20 follow
would give him ne opportunity for de-
ve!oping The qualities which were 20 make
him the first editor OF his time, and lead
20 The foundation OF a great newspaper
20 be forever linked indissolubiy with rs
name Weed went 20 the convention
with the determination OF defeating Clay.
he says II his ',Aatoblography" that Re
had had the New York delegation n,
structed for Scott 10 keep IL from Clay.
his real candidate being Harrison. he
entered into an agreement with friends 81
Webster. OF the way 70 Harrisburg from
New York City, % act together for Claws
defeat Webster was n Europe AZ the
time. ana had sent word 70 his friends
declining 10 be candidate, primarily be-
cause % Weeds refusal 70 support him
After detailing these facts. Mr.. Weed
goes on 20 $50 that. 0, reaching Hairs
burg. I'VE fouad 4 decided plurality =
favor OF SIr. Clay" bUV hat "a ne
opinion OF The delegates from PezzEyI-
yaniA and New Ye-k. AZ. Cay could no;
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POLITICIAN AND PUBLIC SCHOOL

Members OF school boards are usually
chosen on account OF other reasons than
their professional knowledge Of school
work They are manifestiy not the COM
petent professional authority here advo-
Gated The creation OF the ONCE OF sup
erintendent is a recognition OF the need OF
an executive officer who is an expert in
this very work which the members OF the
board are unfit, through lack OF training
10 perform Having, then, provided an
expert executive oficer. IL = absurd not
70 allow him 10 use his expert knowledge
il the highest interest Of the schools, and
Yet venture the assertion mat in a very
large proportion of counties. towns. and
cities the superintendent Is a superntead-
ent only in name. In my own judgment.
the proper method IS 70 give 10 the super
inteadent (sither by statute or BY the
common consent OF the school board as the
legal authority and the community as the
interested party, preferably the former
fun power 20 app.oint, promote. and c-s-
charge teachers. and 20 hold him strictly
70 account for but one thing-good schools.
Select a CAPABLE man FOR superintendent
give him adequate power. and require re-
suits. TIC possession OF power VII make
him conservative: ard the concentration
OF power n his hands viii make s. easy
70 hold him accountable Tor result2 AZ
point the superintendent for al i11ehnlts
period. but be sure 70 reserve means %
getting I'd CT him fer Incompetence or
nalfe2Sznce in ofs1ce-
OF course Il IS plain that since tie SUP
erintendezt is TIE highest expert IN TIE
system. he must &c Immediately Ess5oa-
sEbIs 70 q profess I2l body. the school
beard OF the school committee Thls
1sust be frankly admitted as defect
But X nay as vel be admitted further
shzt. sfthout present democratic tsndsl-
cses. there must somewhere b account
ability 20 The people AID The work OF a
superintendent Is CT Sod that ca -
better explained s1d better maze 20 sp2eal
. he noz-2rotesSsozzl Eai-i than tie
work q he tsaceer. L Is Gear % ny
n-nG that b. ;hEs means the ecscs &C zoo-
Rco.ssE.oaal ts1gnsas = gse1ss9 e -
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carry either Of those states. and without
them he could not be elected"

carry either OF those states, ana WITHOUT
them he could not be elected
Weed admits bargain in favor OF Har-
rison with the friends both of Webster and
Of Scott, aud says the Final vote as inten-
tionally delayed by the friends of the
stronger candidate CHarrison) for TWEEN
| ty-four hours in order TO placate the
| angry friends OF Clay, whose disappoint-
ment and vexation found excited express
sion." Greeley makes frank admission,
! in his "Recolleetions Of a Busy Life as to
| the plot, by saying that the parties to IT.
chiefly Weed, judged that he CLAY could
not be chosen, IL nominated, while an
! other could be. ard acted accordingly"
| adding, II politics do not mediate the
achievement Of beneficial ends. through
the choice and use Of the safest and most
effective means. / wholly misapprehend
them" This somewhat Jesuitical view
did not strike Clay and his friends as an
adequate Justification Of the methods by
which an admitted majority OF the con-
vention had been prevented from express
ing Its will. John Tyler of Virginia. one
of Clay's most ardent friends IN the con-
vention, was so overcome with grief at
Harrison's nomination that he shed tears;
and after several unavailing efforts TO get
someone else 10 take the nomination for
vice president, Tyler was named for It.
his tears having convinced the conven-
ton that the placing of so devoted friend
OF Clay on the ticket would go far to heal
the wounds that the methods OF the con-
vention had caused.
Clay's rage at the outcome was un-
led 10 haI ,fpor in ha
senate lofty indifference to the presi-
dency, his famous saying IT would rather
be right than be president" having been
made public only a short time before the
convention met. There was nobody in the
senate at that time of sufficiently nimble
Wit to think Of the biting retort which
Speaker Reed many years laaer made to a
congress man who for the thousandth time
was strutting about in Clay's CASTOR gar
ments, Don't give yourself the slightest
uneasiness; you'll never be either" But
Clay had given himself great upeasiness,
for he was most DESTROYS of the nomina-
ton. He had been a candidate eight |
years earlier, when he had no chance OF |
election, and he believed firmly now that |
II nominated he could be elected. When |
the news from Harrisburg reached him in |
Washington. he lost all control of him
self. HE had been drinking heavily in |
the excitement OF expectation says |
Henry A. Wise, who was with him. ''He |
rose from his chair, and, walking back /
ward and forward rapidly, lifting his feet 4
like a horse stringhalted in both legs. |
stamped his steps upon the floor, exclaim-
ing, My friends are not worth the powder
and shot it would take to kill them. 1t
Is a diaboiical intrigue. I know now, !
which has betrayed me. I am the most
man in the history of parties
run by my friends when sure TO
be defeated, and now betrayed for nom
ination when ]. or anyone, would be sure
Of an election. B. Bishop in the
Century.
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The a0eha Daily Eagle "Wednesday 7ornne, 1ay III 1886

minimum: and while the system win for
while doubtless result n frequent dis
missals OF superintendent, it Will not In
all these cases result in the disorganiza-
ton OF the corps of teachers, certainly not
If the same power be Immediately con-
ferred upon the new head officer. In
deed. II the superintendent had the power
herein advocated, ne could soon develop
a system of schools which should go far
towards preventing his discharge for any
except the gravest reasons In any event.
il seems necessary 10 require the superin-
tendent TO be the instrument in secur1n g
for teachers a reasonable tenure OF Of
nee. even though he be occasionally Of
fered up on the altar as a vicarious SUI
ferer for the more fortunate members of
the force. The conditions here explained
are in practical operation in many places.
notably in the two cities OF Indianapolis
and Cleveland. in one of which the super
intendent, by sufTerance OF the school
board and by the glad consent OF the peo-
pie, exercises every function here describ-
ed. while in the other such power is con-
ferred upon him by statute.-L II. Jones.
superintendent OF schools in Cleveland, O.,
in the Atlantic
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LITTLE PErE's SCHEME.

| A notorious Chinese crook, known as
Little Pete" who beat the patrons OF
the race track at San Francisco out of
100000. by bribing number of col
ored jockeys, is solving the free coin
age Of silver problem without the aid
OF congress or the Intervention of the
L. S. minis. Pete has been shipping
| quantities OF silver bullion TO an ex-
| pert confederate in China. A China
man can do anything that has been
once done, and his imitation never fails
of equalling the original pattern. The
bullion Little Pete shipped 10 China is
mysteriOusly returning as bright new
silver half dollars, of full weight and
fneness and in perfection of execution
1t is said that $4,000 in half dollar
pieces of Little Pete's coinage is infiat-
ing the volume of the Pacific coasts
currency. Little Pete may be pa
triot but the government holds that he
is a criminal, and its officials are after
terprise work, he only has to buy up all
the silver bullion Of the country TO give
the people free and unlimited coinage.
This would burst the country, accord
ing TO the goldbug theory. However
that may be, it would add to the money
volume of the country in increasing
the currency by just so much. If Pete's
scheme should knock Wall street out
and precipitate the panic so confident
ally predicted by the Cleveland admin
iStration, the panic would find the peO-
pie with more money in their pockets,
more than enough to balance the loss
Of gold which we are told will flow
out Of the country as soon as the world
ascertainS that free coinage has been
adopted. But if the world should fail
to ind it out we would have both the
gold and silver money. In this cOnnec-
ton it should not be forgotten that it
is part of Little Pete's scheme to keep
the whole thing quiet until silver bull
lion from its scarcity and consequent
price renders his free coin
age Improbable. For the sake of the |
feelings Of the fellows who have got a |
corner on the gold of the world it is to |
lie hoped that Little Pete may be |
brought up standing, otherwise these |
gOldbug creditors and mortgagorS may /
hrd themselves being paid in the same /
yaiue they loaned, which would be a
reflection on the claimed astuteDess of
The American financier. This calam-
ty, of itself, would greatly impair OUR
credit in Europe, and Mr.. Cleveland
and his goldbug cOnferees, coadjutors
ind partners all declare that our credit
abroad is of vastly more Importance
han plenty of money and prosperity at
nome. And what Wall street says goes
n this country. goes at the White
House, goes in congress, goes in the
court, goes everywhere, which
little Pete will be learning to his sOr-
'ow if he doesn't cease his efforts at
outing his adopted country on a silver
)aSiS
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Amongst the announcements Of can.
didateS FOR otice in the Lawrence Jour
nal we see the name of our genial and
good natured friend George J. Barker.
In the past Douglas county has sent
a larger per cent Of second rate men
to represent her in the state legislature
of any county in the state. Douglas
county is the representative educa-
tLonal center OF the state. and where
the State university is located. Law
renee is the home Of culture, and there
is no excuse for Douglas county being
represented by second rate men. a
man may be the best fellow in the
world Yet he entirely untitled for a
legislator This remark VIII not amply
to Judge Barker lie is not only one
of the best men in the state. bur he is
also one OF the ablest. and Douglas
county viii DO herself proud in being
represented 10y a man OF AIr. Bankers
.hdliIE.
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OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

An Oklahoma editer remarks: These
are freckly times."
The pillow works at Oklahoma CITY are
now running on fun time
whatever persuaded Pat NaEls 10 get
mixed up with that Georgia crowdT
-Four Pswnee Indians have committed
suicide since they adopted civilization.
A judgment has been secured for y 90
against the bondsmen Of BIZ Carr. who
III out.
Isenberg. ~ be will ask for . standing
vote. Will see that he 10 slightly IN the
minority.
II would Be interesting 20 see how Hoka
Smith would treat Joe WHISKY u ks should
car On him nov.
Secretary Lowe has received ne wori1's
fair medal which was AWARDED Oklahoma
FOR the best cotton.
The Perkins Journal sp~aks CO ''tEs
Flynn button" He doesn't need any.
He can be elected without II.
+. F. Mitchell and 10 wsby VIII here
after stand back % back in Oklahoma
politics hEhtiEz the other fellows of.
The Perry Eut.rpriss has a special 90
patch from Norman dated June = This
. the very tateEs news from tat city.
Al = R~ao man says ar thlaEs az
requisite % q happy hone TIE hrst IL .
good cook ard the other ave - money.
Leo Vincent tired 70 - noHssnAtsd 81
aeclamAron FOR dcisgsts-at-isrEs 70 tie
s: Louis Pop e0aySacSa but sonssbo6y
kicked
The DTno~rzts 90 OkiahoraA VOID
rather have . DsD0crafie Standardization.
JUS ;hs nzrn. Wiz ezrpst-bsg rue thaa .
Republican sfuir1Efratsan.
Sometimes tAis SER % rhink oocars IN
he GutaTis CzSitzl. There va corsssr-
axe sHcitsu~u; @ fhs ssrsess yss.sr.l.y
afternoon among iooSl r-olftizianr. beta
White anf colots6. ever az attack spoa
several Troszlnsn; iz6lviszzsls fhai for
sn1srhancst v1fspsrauon. bnHEEsE&sA
.$znpcon. rnisssrxtloa. grAbollzstioa. no
grafton. oa&;rsba;ioa e the nless ieEosaed-
alogs ever p~rn@d ~ any MAJ Jgnies
.stfsrs were rot more usdsrhAn1sd. s-va's
.s-isrs o. ne E-a- a TESTIFY wsrs Dss
mere 1a~-aatie. T-ssstsl-s rot zors ~
fisious or brab6izr.xisa CT FoitAlrss
-zoT. vinglctiFs-
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money market as long as you can keep
it up. And TO this object our munich
palitieS and states in the east seem TO
be directing their efforts. New York
City has placed large loan in Lon
don, when it might have got the money
from the savings banks within its own
bounds. Massachusetts has placed an
other loan in London under just the
same circumstances. To borrow at
home would not have checked the out
flow of gold. so the foreign money
lender is preferred. He takes these
bonds in payment of part of this ad-
verse balance, and those who would
have sent the gold TO him, pay it 10
these American borrowers who will
keep it for a time. But at last all will
go TO London, and we will have what
Kingsley's Scotchman calls 'the de-
light o spending borrowed siller-"
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REvEILLE ON sHIPBoARD.

Lst US spend a day on board OF a man
! of-war and see how this Is done. Let US
| suppose that she is in port We take our
place on her deck very early IN the morn
ing. The heavens are bright with stars,
and about Us masts and rigging, smoke
stacks and ventilators. rise up in sbadowy
outlines, while the Big guns loom Hide
fined and ghostlike. IN the ganggay
sentinels are pacing; on the bridge a quar-
termaster keeps his lookout: and back and
forth on the quarterback PAGES an Of
icer, alone. BY the light OF lantern ne
presently oonsults a book for the morn
ing orders" which have been written by
the executive officer the night before: and
then he directs the ouartermaster 20 call
the boseswain's mate. the hammock
showers, the master-at-arms, and the bug
der. Then passes a period OK ten minutes.
during which a few shedowy figures ap-
pear on deck. and take their stand beside
the Iong-troughlike places In the ships
bulwarks known as the hsmmock-net-
tings. opening them Up and preparing
them for the reception Of the hsmuocks.
Then, az the tine assigned IN the morn
ing orders. the offer OF the deck gives his
first routine order: Sound the reyelle.
Can all hands"
At once there ring cut IN The hitherto
silent ship those merry buEie-notes known
70 almost AL Of Is To them have been
fitted tie words:
] can't get EN- ":
! cSn'f get EN- up.
1 cant get en- Up in the morning
I cant get EN- ~.
can't Eer EN- up:
II un~ en-
TIE captains worse than the sergeant.
Tho serEesnt's worse han the c-7rp'ras:
The corp ra4s worse nan TIE private.
But the MAJORS ths WORST q AL.
] cant Eet EN- up:
cant &C. EN- up:
I ca1'S get EN- Up IL ~ zsorztzK
can't get EN- up.
cat Est Ell 20.
I c&1't get EN- - AZ al
TIE last note : foilowe5 b. TIE sh-iA
whistle q = boztsEain's nate and re PRO-
lonSe8. hoSTss cry ~A-z-z-u ha-a-nasr'
Then o. The decks bsloz goa CA hear
the razs,er-s;-2r1s raszsng from han
mock 70 h4zzoek. giving The slaxxzrcs
4 sap aas q shake. ard repeatedly en-
Tag
-HeSve OF. hsLxe out AZ iash ~"
Run beloZ and uzsch tie Zee. Az lrxs
cA1sllag from tAs sv1nEnz hzzDo-ks.
So 10 sz-iors crop fro-n -Sera % ne Serk.
Ike las froz to lzbs of trees. thez /
neatly Tod tAsir bi2zkecs- rof tksrn u I
via tie mattress = TIE harn-socks. az 1
S1sz around Ike latter seve1 rlzss . rore- s
lsSh.EE. e1s-l each reseE1bis = hare eAss-
sSe- TGsa. czsla$lax tse-a froz rHs s
kroasIS oFe-hss1- tscg cary ten hastily i
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ITS HISTORY

The mortgage redemption act, about
which there has been so much talk
since the federal supreme court re-
VerSed Judge Martin, was the creation
of conference committee of the SEN
ate and house in 1893. The first bill
ON the subject was introduced by j. f.
Greenlee in the house, which was Re
publican. Soon after a similar bill
was introduced and passed in the SEN
ate, which was Populist The latter
bill was senate bill 2S5, and when it
reached the house John W. Davis, q
Republican, moved TO substitute the
Greenlee bill, house bill 143. This was
agreed to-yeas 20. nays S-the yeas
being forty Republicans and thirty
nine Populists. The senate refused TO
concur, and a conference was ordered,
which resulted in the bin which is now
on the statute book. The vote on the
conference report in the house was IS
yeas, nay. The yeas were forty-one
Republi cans, thirty-three Populists,
one Democrat. The nay was Demo-
crat.