If Guilty, Forgiveness Is AssnreC. The mortality among newspapers in the United States during the past 18 months has been something almost unprecedented. un-precedented. In New York state alone 278 newspapers suspended between June, 1893, and June, 1 894. For the first time since 1809 the total number catalogued cata-logued by the newspaper directory is less than for the preceding year. This is said to be due to hard times caused by the Democratic free trade panic, but this is one of the things for which that party -will most assuredly be forgiven. If he who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before i3 0 benefactor of his kind, what ehall be aid of him who makes but one newspaper news-paper to desolate the community whew there were threa before?-San Franois-eo Franois-eo Argonaut.