The advocate., 1897-11-03
Editorial Gossip.

| LAUuoEL H l4luCUlu, sun VI ADIdudL
Lincoln, Is one Of the executors of MI
Pullman's will.
Fire in the Wabash railroad station
buildings at St. Louis the other day
destroyed vast amount of importan
records extending back over twenty-fv
years.
Mark Hanna may not be much of al
orator, but ne is learning. He got ia
enough along in the Ohio campaign to b.
able to call man liar without STAN
mering.
An exchange, quoting army statistics
suggests that there are more than twr
chances to one that the soldier who die
for his country will be carried off b!
disease instead Of a bullet.
The late George M. Pullman had tive
sons whose habits were not as CAREFUL!
guarded as their father desired, and IL
his will he wisely provided that unit
they improved they should have no more
than u specific annual allowance out o
his estate.
Recent corrections in the statistics o.
the Union army in the Civil war swell
the aggregate Of recorded deaths tt
360,207, says the GlObe-DemOcrat. The
number killed outright in action was
67,O5S, and 42,5S1 died of wounds, bu
this total Of 109 639 was less than hal
that of the deaths from disease, which
aggregated 250,568. An army of Unior
soldiers, numbering 29,49S, died il
prison.
The following officers Of the Army anC
Navy Union of the United States are
announced: Henry Shindler, Leaven
worth, Kas., National Commander; s. o
TrOpp, Peoria, ILL.,, Vice National Com
mander; j. r. Tanning, Columbus, o..
Adjutant General; Patrick Moore, Kan.
sas City, Mo-, Paymaster General; John
Shoemaker, Brooklyn, N Y, Inspector
General; A. P. Pincus, Vancouver B
c., Judge Advocate General.
Referring to persons generally known
as labor leaders, w. H. MallOck, in the
Nineteenth Century, says some of them
doubtless have been and are skillful
manual labOrers, but not one of them
has belonged to that class of master
minds who, by invention, enterprise, OF
industrial generalship, render labor
while stationary as measured by its
amount and quality, more and more
efficient as measured by the result pro-
duced
Exports of wheat from India to Eu-
rope began shortly after the opening
Of the Suez canal in 1869. They grad
ually increased, with ups and downs, to
A,56O,OO0 bushels in 1887. Since then
they have decreased to 23,OOO,OOO bush
els in 1892, 100000 bushels in 1894, to
zero at the present time, and a promise
Of 100000 bushels next year. The
wheat production of India has declined
irregularly from nealy S00,00000O BUSH
els in 1885 to 2O0,000,0 900 bushels in 1896.
An act passed by the New Hampshire
Legislature in 1895 provides that "any
person who has been twice convicted Of
crime, sentenced, and committed to
prison for terms not less than three
years each, SHALL upon conviction of a
felony committed in this State, and upon
proof of such former convictions, SEN
tences, and cOmmittals, be deemed to be
an habitual criminal, and shall be pun
ished by Imprisonment in the State
prison for term not exceeding fifteen
years"
Our Republican ibrethren have an
other item to scold about now. The Su-
preme court unanimously holds that
inmates Of Soldiers Homes are disQuali-
fed from voting. The decision in full
was short and is as follows: Section 3,
article 5, of the constitution, disables
persons kept at any asylum at public