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A Carbled Governor.

Whenever ex governor Silas Hol-
comb writes letter to the papers it
becomes anew a matter Of amaZement
how a man with so feeble and obscure
notion Of what the words Of his own
language mean and of their relation
to, and dependence upon each other.
could ever have fooled enough people
about his ability, to secure an elec.
tion as governor And such clever
people as Nebraskans are too. In
spite of what he said, what he wrote,
and what he did. there are still a
large number of people among the
populist party who prefer to refuse
credit to their ears and their eyes and
their judgment rather than believe
the eX governor capable of swearing to
a voucher Of sixty dollars a month for
house rent when he only paid thirty
dollars a month. They prefer to be.
lieve him when he calls the testimony
garbled which impeaches his charac-
ter as a refcrmer. Although they
know from the way he uses it, that
the ex-governor has not "A distinct idea
of what 'garbled means. He uses it
as hObgoblin word and it answers
his purpose in arresting the judgment
of the conscientious even If it does not
satisfy them finally.
Ingersoll and the Bible.
The most superficial readers of the
bible and of later bible criticism are
repelled, first Of all by the fippant
tone. and then by the absence of
every indication Of scholarly research
and of historical investigation in Mr..
lngersOlls work. At best, his style
is brilliant rather than convincing
and the lneffectiveness of his life long
attack upon a religion whose history.
meaning original books and ethical
influence he was ignorant, indicates
that the criticisms on his lectures and
books that are taking up a consider
able space in the newspapers and re.
views, since his death, are not un-
founded. Whatever his influence was
it was transitory and it affected at all
only those people most easily affected
by the sort of Oratory and the kind Of
literature Mr.. Ingersoll was capable
of. And all these still claim that Mr.
lngersoll was logical, noble minded
disinterested man, preaching against
error and yearning all his life to res.
cue the children of men from the pit.
falls digged by Moses. To the more
discriminating he was of the same
type as the evangelist Moody, a man
given to anecdotes and to accepting
traditions without investigation and
knowledge at second hand and en-.
dowed with a magnetism of speech
that coerced an audience to think his
way. he had the features. the head.
the tones, the gifts. and the faults of
an orator. He yielded TO an orators
temptations and claimed an orators
privileges. He was very clever. but
he was not subtitle, he was not scholar
ly and his wit vas rather clownish
than delicate and pointed. His books
are full OF misstatements regarding
the bible that beginner in the study
OF bible literature and history may
discern. The conclusion that he was
superficial and that his criticisms of a
book he declined to pursue compare
tive study of, were impertinent, is Just
itiable
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of Women. is a trihe self.conscious.
but considering that women are only
beginning to regard themselves as in.
dividuals the name a hundred years
hence will mark a stage which per-
haps it is we'll enough to signalize
by just such name. Fancy an in.
ternatiOnal congress of men calling
itself by such name. Men meet to-
gether for some purpose and their
meetings are known a> crusades or
diets, peace congresses or monetary
conferences or some such appropriate
designation with which sex has moth.
ing to do. If men could begin as long
ago as the time of the crusades and
further to forget themselves in devo-
tiOn to an idea. is it not about time
for women to meet together and dis.
cuss on their merits whatever subjects
interest them. without stopping to
congratulate each other on the fact
that they are assembled by thousands
from the ends of the earth and are of
all creeds and nationalities. 1t is
doubtless subject for congratulation
but 1t is just as certain that it en-
courages the peculiar kind of self con-
sciousness and self graduation Il
mean as a SEX that detracts from the
dignity Of wOmens congresses. This
one in London was no exception to
the rule. From the first speaker who
summarized the accomplishments and
progressive steps taken by women, as
woman since Eve, to the last who
took leave of her distinguished audi
ence as another monument to the
progress Of women, the congress was
still an eXemplificatiOn of wOman's
unsteady and undeveloped faith in
herself. If it were fullgrown she
would cease to congratulate herself in
public and take herself as a matter of
course.
The speeches made at this council
are to be printed in French. German,
and English. and among them there
will be many which are interesting and
valuable not because they were de.
livered by woman but because of
their originality, literary style, or in
formation.
The addresses by Mrs. Susan b, An
thony, Mrs. Fannie Humphreys Gatf-
ney, Miss Genevieve Ward, Mrs. May
Wright Sewall, Mrs. Charlotte Perkins
Stetson, and Miss Mary Shaw were de.
livered to immense audiences and
were received with cheers, especially
Miss AnthOny's. Fifteen Mormon
women were present and sturdily de.
Tended the doctrines of their church
when such defense was opportune.
Mrs. Susa Young Gates, a daughter of
the prophet addressed the meeting on
women in the Home" and made a
very good impression.
In her opening address Lady Aber.
deem, president of the council said:
For eleven years our council has
been evolving itself until today we
can greet the delegates of ten organ
lied and federated national councils,
formed successfully in the United
States of America, Canada, Germany,
Sweden, Great Britain, and Ireland.
New South Wales. Denmark, Holland,
New Zealand, Tasmania, and the rep.
resentativeS of eight other countries
or colonies where the women are pre-
pairing to join us and where commit
tees have been formed to work in co.
operation with us-Italy, Austria,
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upward square cut muStache fills
them with the battle spirit and
makes them long for war and blood
shed.
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Of a family goes of course the care and
responsibility moves with them to
the summer resort. The only man
without responsibility is a tramp.
To be free he cannot have a home,
money nor acknowledged ties OF any
kind. Goodness and comfort the man
who has money enough can find.
But those who have to stay at home
could be much more comfortable IL
they would. TO eat and to drink
cool or cooling foods, to think cool,
restful thoughts, to stay away from
public gatherings, to mediate, read.
TO think of as nearly nothing as pos.
sible after the work of the day is
done, is better and more restful than
a crowded hotel and stuify rooms in
the coolest and highest mountain
tops. The crowd of worried women
and men who permit themselves to
be stuffed into cars full of other
human furnaces, will have TO pass
through snch purgatory of cinders,
irritating noises, OdOrs and lack of
room that the few weeks vacation.
eXiled from their own bath tubs and
all their individual devices for COM
fort and cOolness scarcely pays for
this transit through purgatory in
the company Of strange friends.
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A Christian Newspaper.

n Snr1Suan Newspaper.
The discussion caused by the Rev.
Charles Sheldon's pamphlet, an His
Steps" concerning the necessity of
establishing a Christian newspaper,
has reached the inevitable ultimate
that 1t Is impossible to establish Just
what a Christian newspaper should
be. There are the various church
papers and The War Cry. but they
cOntine themselves to the news of,
and the topics interesting to the
particular denomination which sup.
ports them. They are not newspapers
any more than is the Lumberman's
Journal, the Butter and Egg Herald
or the Cashiers Record. Out of the
miscellaneous heap of news which is
piled up in the twenty-fOur hours
that 1t takes the sun to scurch his
way through nothing, these papers
select only those which pertain to
lumber or to eggs and butter. or to
banks. A daily newspaper is taken
by all sorts and conditions of men
who have not by any means selected
the publisher as their dietarian.
From the cradle to the grave man is
given his choice between good and
evil and he gets his growth and
strength by voluntarily selecting the
good and not by being crammed with
it by being who made both and was
great and wise enough TO make man
free and leave him so. The publisher
who refuses to print what happens on
the plea that the people should only
read selected articles would get
snubbing for his impudence that
would stop his presses. The healthy.
normal mind will read the news.
papers as It's possessor walks the high.
way, refusing to be depressed by vice
and uglinesS and being constantly
cheered by the humOur and grace and
joy of life and youth. The news.
paper that prints the news is but a
micrOcosm. TO leave out everything,
unwhOlesome would make it, not a
newspaper, and as many might take
it as go to church, but the people
would still be reading the papers
that print the news. not good news,
not bad news. but the news.
General Otis.
The illustrated Weeklies are print.
ing pictures of General Otis, and his
cOuntenance expresses resignation.
and love of repOse rather than the
determination and energy usually
found in the face and pose of sue.
cessful general. His whiskers droop
from the side of his face. with a
branch line connecting The two sides
in a hOpelessly pasSe style. Neither
great soldier nor successful busi.
ness man whose portraits are pre.
sented to picture loving public
wears on his face anything like Gen.
eral Otis whiskers. OF course he
may consider it a matter of no i'm.
pOrtanCe whatever but the impres.
sion that he is not quite master of
the Filipino situation had become
general when the publication of his
most recently taken portrait con.
armed it. His whiskers may conceal
stronger features which might give
his soldiers confidence in him, if once
revealed. Anyway the general ought
to take the hint from Germany's war.
lord and cut his whiskers square and
give the mustache a fierce, upward
turn. Why, when William OF Ger.
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UHTouRn SUCH puIRdtOTy vi ClnueTS,
irritating noises, OdOrs and lack of
room that the few weeks vacation.
eXiled from their own bath tubs and
all their individual devices for COM
fort and coolness scarcely pays for
this transit through purgatory in
the company Of strange friends.
A New American Heroine.
Mr.. HowellS, who knows the Ameri-
can girl as she is in novels very well,
says in Literature that Mr.. Warner
has in That Fortune" discovered a
new one that no one has portrayed
before. She is very rich, young
heiress and the peculiar effect that
money has upon the American parent
is said to be indicated in this story
with unusual plainness. Mr.. How.
ellis says that Stepniak told him after
his tour Of the United States that
nowhere in Europe, not in Russia,
and not in England, had he seen such
absolute division between rich and
poor. such utter absence of all kind.
ness between the upper and the lower
classes. Mr. HOwells himself says of
this feature of life in this country
that mo observer OF our plutocracy
can have failed to note that, with us
wealth keeps itself in cotton much
more carefully than birth abroad. 1t
has indeed greater reason than birth
for its eXcluSiveneSs: for birth is safe
in its incOmmunicablenesS, and
wealth is aware that there is no diff
ference between it and the things
beneath it, which cannot be etfaced
in a moment. 1t therefore guards
itself with infinite scruple and con.
stant vigilance from all approach by
unwealth, and keeps unwealth at a
greater distance here. than birth
keeps unbirth elsewhere" "And the
jealousy of Evelyn Mavick's educa.
tiOn. which was not more jealous,
apparently, than that of many very
rich American girls, produced in her
an ignorance of life not less than that
Of princess CT the blood. In fact
it is probOble that those in charge of
princess Of the blood would have
her taught more of the world than
such an American girl knows of the
life Of her own country. In Evelyn
Mavick there is reversiOn to the
EXTREMIST type Of the ingenue; she is
jeune file beyond the fondest dreams
of the FrencheSt Of French mothers" ."
In common with great many lovers
Of American literature, | have noted
Mr.. Howells' discovering habit. No
batfled but determined and invinci.
BILE navigator ever was more sure of
new world than is Mr.. HOwells
convinced before pile of new books,
which he must review, that there or
in tomorrOws pile, or if not there.
then some day soon there will be the
book of new genius who has seen
and written Of what has not before
been described adequately. But pop.
ularity does not always follow a
favorable review by Mr.. HOwells,
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The International Council of Women.

The first reports of the council
which appears in the English papers
were quizzical and humorous.
Towards the end of the sessions the
meetings were reported more as a
matter OF course and with no more
stale seasoning Of humor than Is usual
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Nearly everybody you meet will, re-
Fa-d i, as a kind OF insult to be asked
Il they have weak lungs. All seem TO
havs solid faith in the soundness OF
then own breathing machine. In cases
OF tsouble they will admit there is a
"hca,a \, cold" 20 touch Of bronchitis"
or cvcA, "a spell OF asthma" but 40 to
weak on unEound lungs, never, NEVER.
Even the poor consump.ive, who scarce
ly speak, without coughing, whose
checks ara wasted, hollow and bear the
hectic flush OF doom. will assure you
with glistairg eyes that his cold is on
the mend md he will be all right when
the weather changes.
It is simpia terrible to think how far
we may be g,hlty by our indifference to
the lung troubA's OF those near and dear
to us. It is alsa 4 sad thought that we
may hug dclusXrn as to our own health
that VIC only get, rid OF when lie itself
must pay the forfeit
Nobody can affor I'd to think lightly
Of lung troubles. Nobody can afford to
be mistaken about rheir possible dam
gers. Nobody can afford to neglect
them, or "let them war out" or get
better in the spring." q any other tom.
foolery that leads only to wreck and
ruin. Lung troubles don't move back
ward. Weak lungs DOM grow strong
by themsclves-you mus: heal them
and strengthen them. and rid them OF
the very earliest germs Of disease, or
you are simply committing a form Of
suicide. Either you must Scure you-
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pie with the question. and leave It in
their hands. Their instincts and their
genius will settle It. We cannot undo
the past. The responsibilities remain
with the achievements and the glories.
The American people have never
shrunk from the obligations which have
come to them in the unparalleled adj
vance of the republic. There have,
been doubters and opponents at every
stage. but the nation has moved stead
lily onward. In dealing with the new
and mighty questions which events
have brought to US. our countrymen
will not be unmindful that as history
unfolds itself civilization Ia resistlessly
supplanting barbarisn, and that we Of
America, who are
'The heirs OF all the ages In the fore
most files Of time,
have u part to play in this splendid
march OF human progress. In tho
worlds advance civilization has follow
ed the sun In It's westward course. and.
glrdling the globe. 1t now reaches where
1t began, and the Occldent and the Orb
ent meet under the free flag of the
great republic.
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CHICAGO, April "a riot, in which
three men were seriously injured and
dozen others bruised by flying stones
and pieces of iron occurred to-day be-
tween thirty structural iron workers.
Rerolvcrs. knives and clubs were used
freely. The seriously injured arc: An
drew Reichert. f. j. Ross and Gottlicb
Fedcrer.
The fight occurred at Nos. IS and 20
Evanston avenue, where big ware
'hotse Is In the course OF construction.
All the men engaged ore union work
men. 1t was claimed by members of
the union that an agreement whereby
outside ironworkers were 10 do no inside
work was being violated. md for sew
cral days the work inside the building
has been done under police protection,
but no officers were there to-day.
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SAN JUAN DE PORTO RICO, April
9.-secretary OF War Alger. with his
party, left this morning at O'Clock. by
the transport Ingalls,, for New York,
where he should arrive on Friday. Dur
ing his stay here he received many petit
lions from municipalities, asking fnan-
c!al help and relief from excessive tax
alton. The administration OF General
Guy V. Henry, the governor of the is
land, is understood to be entirely salts
factory to the secretary Of war. who
entirely approves his policy. The secre-
tary and the governor had long con-
ference. and an understanding was
reached between them as to the future.
Although General Alger refrained from
expressing any opinion on the matter,
1t Is believed that In his Judgment the
civil government must come slowly and
that the Porto Rlcans must exercise pa
.Inprn
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FIERCE BATTLE
Between Candidates for West Point
f and Highland Falls Boys.

Between Candidates for West Point
and Highland Falls Boys.
WEST POINT. n. Y, April ga
fierce battle occurred at Highland
Falls at late hour last night between
candidates for admission to West Point
as cadets on the one hand and boys OF
the village on the other. The candidates
are attending the preparatory school at
Highland Falls, prior to being examin-
ed at West Point next June FOR admls-
sion to the academy.
There were about thirty of them in the
fight, but they were outnumbered three
20 one by the boys Of the town. Tie
trouble began with a hand to hand en-
counter and the crowd soon increased to
such an extent that stone throwing
took the place OF fists. Several OF the
candidates were more or less injured.
The services OF all the doctors in town
were required to dress the wounds OF
the injured. Hostilities continued for
nearly on hour,
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lung troubles or THEY WILL KILL
YOU. That's the whole situation in
nutshell. y
Never was there cure for lung trou.
blcs equal TO the ncwly-discovered DR.
Slocum treatment. This forms sys.
ten OF Four Remedies that are used ST.
simultaneously and supplement each
others curative action.t 1t cures weak
lungs, bronchitis. asthma, coughs, con.
sumption and every other aiIment Of
the pulmonary region, It destroys
every germ that can affect the respira.
tory system, and even in advanced
stages OF lung trouble positively arrests
the tubcrc,lar growth, while it also
builds up the patient so that his system
is enabled to throw off serofula, rheum-
atism, catarrh, and other wasting dis.
cases. 81 ,.tl
Thousands OF cured cases already
prove these claims. Thousands Of CRATE
iul people. bless the discovery.
The Doctor wants everybody to know
the surprising merits OF his system. He
has arranged TO give free treatment
(Four Preparations)to all sufferers. Full
Instructions for use accompany each
treatment. -
WRITE TO THE DOCTOR.
Write a. once to Dr.. T. A. Slocum
Laboratories, % and 90 Pine street, New
York City, giving iull express and
possofhce address, and mention this pa
per. -.
Delay only makes your trouble worse
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TERSE TELiEGRaSIS,

In an Interview published In the Par
Is Matin Estcrhaay says Roget's accus-
atlons against him In the Drcyfus case
are ridiculous Inventions.
By mining disaster in the state Of
Coahula. Mexico, fifty miles south Of
Preside, Texas. twelve men lost their
lives.
The name OF General John C. Black,
of Illinois. will be presented to the ex-
ccutive committee Of the National En-
campment OF the Grand Army OF the
Republic when 1t assemblies In Phl!a-
dclphln Wednesday to elect u COM
mander-in-chlef. to complete the ilncx-
PRED term OF the late Colonel james
y. Sexton.
Thomas Hardie. leader In educational
md Masonic circles In the northwest,
died yesterday. aged eighty. He was
secretary of Dubuque. Iowa, board OF
education for forty years. 81,
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West Virginia Pensions.
Special Dispatch to tho 1ntollIGencor.

cUeClul OlSpatCl " tlo encouragement. ID
WASHINGTON, D. c.. April 1o.-Pen-
sions to West Virginia applicants have
been issued as follows:
Unconstitutional v. Moore, Wallace,
Sc to IS; William H. White. Ravens
Eye, SC to IS; Anthony Christian, Wheel
ing, IS to $40: John Clark, Morgantown,
$40 to Sl2: William H. Ealler, Wheel
Ing, $40 to 81: John Wilfong, Ivy, Sc to
IS: John S. Racer, Scott. $12 to s24;
William B. Brown. Reedsvllle, IS to $40:
Bowen Z. Leonard. Grafton, SO to SIT;
John H. Chattin, Flat Rock, SIT to $24;
Robert w. Winesburg. Wheeling, 50 to
sl2.
Widows-Della S. Burditt. Precious,
IS; Sarah +. Newall, Huntington, IS.
Other pensions granted are: Henry
McMurrav, Burgettstown, Washington
county, Pa, renewal. IS: John Masters,
Bellalre. Ohio. increase, s12 to s24; John
S. Cochran. Martins Ferry, Ohio, orig
inal. s12: John w. Harmon, Bellaire,
Ohio. Increase, 80 to sl4.
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PARIS, April 9.-The testimony Of
General Elliot, foreign minister for war,
before the court Of cessation In the
Dreyfus case. as published in The Flsa-
70, was mainly OF negative character,
and did not contain any new facts ex-
cept the assertion that the brothers OF
Dreyfus told General Sandhcrr on De-
cembcr 10, 1894, that they were ready to
offer their whole fortune for the dis
covery Of the real cuIprIt This was
the beginning OF the Dreyfus campaign
taken UP By Colonel PIc0uart.
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LONDON. April 10.-The, Daily Mail
publishes the following dispatch from
Shanghai:
AN American Protestant missionary
at Han Kau. n Chinese treaty port on
the Yang Use klang. makes sensational
allegations against the Roman Catho-
lies OF burning Protestant chapels and
torturinE Protestants. He gives the
name OF priest concerned. and pic
lures reign of terror In certain dis
trictSn r...
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Death ofThomas D. Carter.

Special Dispatch to the Intelligencer.
CHARLES TOWN. W. Va. April 10.
Thomas L. Carter. former resident
here, but now Of Sheffield. Ala, died
this morning, after an illness of sew
eral weeks, at the residence of his SIS
ter, Mrs. Annie H. Campbell, aged six
ty-nine years. The deceased was
son Of Isaac N. Carter. at one time
proprietor Of the Carter House. a wife
and several children survive him,
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half take care of themselves. Early
decay and wrecked lives abound mainly
through neglect. Every woman should
have the book called 'IIealth and
Beauty which the Pc-ru.na Medicine
Co. I, Columbus, O., will mail on request.
1t tells women some easy things to do
to protect health, and nll about the
virtues ofPe-ru-na for womcn's peculiar
Ills. Miss Lizzie Peters, Mascoutah,
Ill, writes:
liam perfectly cured Of female weak
ness by taking Pe-ru.na and Mnn.a-lin.
I have gained thiry.seven pounds
since I began taking Pc-ru-nn. My
friends nro wondering what makes
mo look SO bright and healthy.
would like 10 let the world know what
o wonderful medicine Pe-ru-nais Is"
Woman's diseases arc mainly catarrh
of the pelvic organs. Pc.ru-na drives
out every phase Of catarrh.
Mrs. Eliza Wike, No. 12O Iron Street,
Akron, o., writes:
II would DO in my grave now II
It had not been for your God-sent
remedy, Pe.ru-nn. I was o broken
down woman, now I am we'll"
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DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup Is recon.
mcnded by many physicians. II cures
the worst cough or cold. and It Ia always
reliable. -