The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-08-31

Philadelphia Inquirer: At recent
prayer meeting In Cleveland John d.
Rockefeller prayed for strength,
charity and patience. Somebody
should have reminded him of the old
saying that "the Lord helps those
who help themselves"
PERTURBED.
New York Globe The only persons
visibly perturbed by the conference
are the Shaw presidential boomers.
To them the leadership of Cummins
is annoying because IL serves notice
on the country that whatever tariff
reform sentiment there is seems to be
centered in Iowa. AS the king of
standpatters, Secretary Shaw must
be able to rally his party in his own
state In solid phalanx behind his can
didacy for the presidency, and how
can he hope to do this when the gov
ernor of the state Is the head and
front of the dual tariff movement?
THE BICYCLE.
Spring field Republican: Whatever
may be said of the bicycle In this
country, 1t is not going out of use In
England. Some one lately took a
count of the vehicles on main road
out of London in single day, with
this result: Cycles, 4,577; motor
vehicles. 567 electric cars, 407 horse
vehicles, 2O9 total, $500. This indi-
Gates that for every vehicle drawn by
a horse there we're twenty.seven pro.
PEELED by mechanical means. The
decline of bicycling in this country
was as sudden as its previous boom,
but Americans are more apt than the
English to 60 to extremes, and there
may yet be a revival. For common
nerds of common people there is no
vehicle to equal the bicycle the trolly
car is IN insidiously extravagant sub.
5 itutc
THE czAR IN A NEW LIGHT.
Harper's Weekly: "Under con-
stitutional government" says Sir
Donald Mackenzie Wallace, "Nicho-
las II would make splendid sovereign.
He has endless good qualities" Sir
Donald, who came to New York on
the same steamer as M. White, has
a long.standing acquaintance with
the car and is qualified to speak both
of him and of Russia, for he Is the
most respected authority in Europe
on Russian affairs. His praise of the
car, such as it is, is welcome, for the
car has not been overpraised of late.
Very black portraits of him have been
drawn, as will be remembered in some
of the English reviews. Sir Donald
gives no support to such pictures. All
that ails the czar, as he sees him, Is
that he Is not the one man In million
who has the decision of character
which would qualify him to be the
autocrat of Russia in times like the
present. A very incompetent auto.
crat Sir Donald comedies him to be,
but says that the Russian people are
10 attached 10 him, personally and for
what he represents, that If the con-
,tutiOnal amendments we're adopted
lad the systems demanded we're really
applied, there would be an overwhelm-
ing ma jority in Russia for autocracv.
All that is interesting, coming from
whom it does. albeit 1t only Confirms
that we're already preva-
ent here.
GROVER CLEvELANpS MEANS
Chattanooga Times The announce
nent is made that ex-President GrsSer
Notwithstanding the per-
istent claims of his political enemies
% the contrary 10 comparatively \
poor man, enjoying an income of not
more than sSOse per year, a part q
which comes from his literary psr
uits. Mr.. Cleveland has been tlks
'bjest of the most shameless an6|
landerous misrepresentation for,
many years, soDe scandaamongsrs'
Eoing 90 tar a. to charge cut Of puse
Imagination that he had accumulated
millions through the use q ~ ofiies.
This announcement, therefore, of tba
actual facts will come A. . eomplsSe
and Il the same time asS
warming against the wansen and ee~-
lrdly slander indalgsa - freqpesa1
oy political hacks and Newspaper
,cribblers In their efforts 70 destroy
the character and inAue1ee Of public
men who NAV stand In the way Of the