The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04

900 have deserted Crete. The remain
 ing 50,000 are beginning to feel recon
 ciled to the new order of things.
 Charles J. Capen has taught in the
 Boston Latin School forty-eight years
 and brides himself upon the fact that
 though now seventy-sx years of age,
 no one can yet call him decrepit old
 man, nor scarcely white-haired one.
 Some months ago people living near
 Cygnet, Ohio, claimed to have revela-
 tion concerning a hidden roll which
 contained valuable information to
 mankind The news was that when the
 world Is destroyed by fire, 144,000 per-
 sons will be saved, provided they are
 located in the right spot A seer, from
 Port Huron, Michigan. found the roll,
 and the epot was identified as a local
 ity four miles from Livingston, Texas
 Fourteen people have gone there, and
 have built homes and church. Their
 days are spent in worship.
 A writer in the New York Tribune
 disposes of the statement that the late
 MT. Merganthaler did not reap the re-
 wards which he was fairly entitled to
 as the inventor of the linotype ma
 chine. Dying at the early age of forty
 five, he had already received in cash,
 after his invention had become produc- tive, more than $1,OOO0OO. Shortly be- fore his death he sold his remaining stock for between $500, ,OoO and $40O,oGO, and his heirs continue to receive his royalties at the same rate at which they were paid in his lifetime Whatever MT. Merganthaler got for himself or his heirs he didn't get too much.
 The Supreme court of New Jersey has ruled against the so-called ''pony express" This relates to practice on the part of individuals of executing small orders in New York for people or merchants in the outlying towns and transporting the bundles by the regular passenger trains on single individual ticket. One man loaded down with bundles was prevented some time ago from boarding a passenger train on the Jersey Central railroad, and he brought suit for damages. recovering in the lower court. The railroad company ap- pealed and the Supreme court sustans it on the ground that no common law right to the use of so large a privilege in passenger transportation exists Long and accepted custom would estab- | fish such right says the court, but | this use of the passenger ticket is ex- ceptional and not the rule.
 The Washington Post, a strong pro- | tectionist paper, is moved to warn those | who agree with 1t against the dangers of abusing the opportunity that protec- tion affords It cites a case in Chicago, where the Consolidated Steel and Wire |. company of that city is earning per cent. dividends on its preferred stock and paying from 10 to 12 per cent. divi- that the tariff affords it. Of the stock of this company it says that there has been so much watering that millions of its ostensible capital repre- sent no investment in money at all. Yet these enormous dividends go on. In view of this the Post asks: twill the party in power let down the wall?" And this paper continues: eff 1t will not, there will come time when an- other party will perform that task. It were better for the friends than for the foes of protection to reform tariff abuses" The Rev. pr. D. F. Anderson of Sing f Sing, New York, who read a paper on z biblical criticism at the Methodist Jhurch Congress in St, Louis the other d lay, defended the critics, saying that 5 he coming generations will be as c grateful to them as this generation is | LOW grateful to the pioneers of Christi lnity. He asserted that if the Church | s to have theology which will satisfy d he demands of the age it must be a 4 heology founded on fact Any lair minded, thinking man." said he, must dmit that many inaccuracies occur in he Bible" Reverting to the attitude O f some churchmen toward these higher Il ritics, Dr. Anderson declared it was T ery easy for man who had not read D book since 1850 to stand off and throw Il tones at the diligent students of the E resent day. we cannot he declared, u save the old framework; neither is it W ecessary that we should but the old E pirit of early Methodism still prevails b personal service and uni W ersality." itl