Show A republican member of the ways and means committee speaking of the new tariff measure baya 11 II it does not bring prosperity within a year I 1 for one retire from public life certainly in my state the protective issue will not again avail silver the onslaught of the populists enless the bill elves us good time there ia a doubt expressed and also an acknowledgment made of the strength of the dilver forces fhe republicans at are worried department of alie government has been making an estimate of the damage to agriculture in the flooded districts of the mississippi valley the flood has cost the farmers of the elate of mississippi many million dollars the districts under water representing an invested capital cf over 1800 farm containing acres of land of an average balue of about 18 per acre are ander water in the country lying between the mississippi and yazoo rivers including some of the most productive lands of the state the agricultural interests affected in missouri represent a total capital of over tennessee is not far behind missouri in the extent of its imperiled interests the number and acreage of submerged farms being nearly the same arkansas stands next in the extent of its imperiled interests aa daims containing acres of land worth over being submerged these farms contain live to the value ot over and crops unsold and to tho value ol 01 nearly the entire agricultural interests of these lands representing a value not far short of OCO government of sacra aiello ie indulging in u sporadic et virtue says the bee and an effort is being made to suppress gambling in that city the symptoms ate the same as usually distinguish bastard reforms of thia character saya the bee lengthy protestations of an earnest desire on the part of the trustees to enforce all the laws orders to the police force to close up eam blint games and a few arrests and convictions then the games will be open again after the storm has blown over the police will be as blind as before the merry click of the checks will be heard once mere and the camb lere will undoubtedly again be paying for immunity every person believes this statement to be true every man at all conversant with local affairs in sacramento knows it to be true gambling never has and never will be stopped in this or any other community it may ba temporarily suspended that ie to sa till games prohibited by statute may be checked tor a time but whenever and wherever that ie so the people will find that gambling of a fa more seductive iva and pernicious character is openly carried on in sacramento for in at this aery moment gambling that carries more evils in its train than does faro is itself in the face of day board of trustees need not lay the flattering unction to their souls abat they have stopped or even checked gambling in this community for they have done nothing of the kind icv J V t f they have simply switched those who will gamble into other and more evil avenues 19 from the philadelphia record and gives a fair idea of an conception ot the western half 0 the united states it I 1 a carious thine that even englishmen who are considered above the average in point of intelligence entertain ridiculous ideas about this country said a well known sportsman recently A certain london paper recently published in london says sportsmen disgusted that hi game has been nearly all killed off in africa and india have in contemplation the crossing of the atlantic early in the autumn of this year to try their hand at shooting one of the fleetest and wariest of big game the wild horse at the present moment says the paper in question it Is estimated that there are more than wild horses in the blocky mountain manees and they have become a terrible nuisance so that the killing 0 them is a great a benefit to utah as the slaughter of rabbits is to australia of course there are some wild horses in the west but they are neither as wary no ns plentiful londoners seem to think |