Show down east summer has already achieved greatness so far as beat la 13 concerned the moral of 0 the delia debs case Is when you strike be sure not to hit your uncle samuel every one will rejoice to hear that trade Is getting better it has been tick sick nigh unto death they are having a grand brand amoun amount ot at hot bot weather down east it if they could only bottle it up for future use their 1116 1 rigorous winters could be mado very pleasant if I 1 the city prisoners ore are not put to work nork they will pet get dyspepsia and life will be made a burden to them put them to work the other day a man in brooklyn a affery poor man picked up two flow 1000 bills and handed them to a police sergeant row how different it would have been beca had bad the police sergeant picked them up the st louis star sayings has this salve alve item the most of recent proofs amt at england Is not friendly to us as a Is atlon 0 la Is the foot that novan rosso honsa has been allowed to return safely to these shores shares the collma Colima 7 capsized and went down donn don n because she ahe was top heavy let this be I a warning to those seekers after office who think that they alone are flitted flirted and destined for senators or governors charges of heresy are to be lodged against professor henry drummond it they are broad enough an and 4 pressed with true presbyterian zeal they should aid very materially in the sale of his books the cattlemen of northwestern C colorado say bay they will light fight it tho the sheep men attempt to drive their herds through their country to the rao grande whether or not they will right fight certain it Is that they will talk whoever Gre groshams shams successor may ae it Is sate safe to say lie he will be no roan man ot at national prominence who may have presidential aspirations the acceptance cep tance of 0 the post at this stage of the administration by a presidential aspirant would be suicide eul cide the authorities at west point have issued on an order forbidding enlisted men to GO upon flirtation walk valk between june and september alst 1st never was there a more graceful recognition of spooning as FL a fine art an and 1 I the stolen waters will retain their sweetness the state ot at massachusetts borrowed last week at the rate of 2 per cent a year one of the inflation states stales should try to duplicate the transaction and report the result says the st louis globe democrat and so eo should the sound money administration pasteur refused a decoration that emperor williamm william wished to bestow upon him in recognition of his services to science and mankind ile he refused it because william Is a german and he a frenchman lie he la Is apparently suffering buffering from and should be tent sent to a pasteur institute tor for treatment ment debs has bas issued I 1 circular and it Is all permeated with the spirit of tho the martyr in it he be says brothers ot of the A II 11 U oven even in defeat our rewards are grand beyond expectation ic Is to be felicitated felicita ted upon having hla his expectations realized for once a thing the country has not known how to do heretofore treasury officials say bay that the deficit tor for the fiscal year will vill not exceed and they are very proud of the tact facts if fact it shall prove to be Butto but to what depths of must an administration have sunk to feet feel I a pride in the smallness of the deficit though tho large of itself as compared with its anticipations anticipation al A change Is to be made in the size and proportions of the united states army regimental regimen ling hag it la is now six feet six inches long by six feet wide on the stair this makes it nearly square and not of pleasing pleading proportions it is 1 to bo be reduced in size clue and henceforth will bo be live five feet six inches long by tour four feet lour four inches wide this change was brought about by assistant secretary of war doe under whose supervision the task of revising the regula tlona ot at the army has just been brought to a close lias ilan never gone to further lengths than it did at the meeting of the southern wholesale grocers association at atlanta ga last friday when captains captain J 1111 U martin artin of memphis the largest wholesale dealer in groceries in the south in the course of a speech said grover cleveland president of the united states rec receives elven a salary alary of a year lie ile should be given and elected for life aaa cheer attar after rh r want D till the to TE the cli chicago leago record has an article wondering why the late secretary gresham could never draw men to him as did some of the other great amal americans in the course of it we find this paragraph it la Is possible that his military esperi onee enc ethe jhc thc habit of commanding and being implicitly obeyed save gave him a brusque in inner that detracted from the iho other oilier qualities ho be had that appeal eal to tile the lovo love of 0 men in other words alph ho a was the loo exact a c t op obice 0 of men uke like ho iceo conklin and james G maine Il alne nho held men b liy the heart heartstrings strings lit in ability and in bierline till integrity general Gres thain was wa probably tro probably bably the peer of 0 either of 0 the others but lit ho he locked their power over tho the lim plo life affections ot of largo large bodies of men lie did by force of 0 his bla confidence in tho the correctness ness of things what they aarom with tar far less friction by diplomacy we suspect the secret was expressed by one of tho the soldiers who served under general gresham in the war who wrote to the tribune some months ago and in substance it was that while gresham was as brave as anybody bad while among friends he was a genial companionable man he had a perfect contempt in his heart for the soldiers under him and when they were faltering with fatigue tat leue or were overcome with heat he was brutal in the epithets lie used toward them in his philadelphia speech ex sena tor tar edmunds was weak enough to use the following expression silver really de itself when the act of 1873 was waa passed there were no silver dollaris in circulation and in a a practical sense they did not exist that shows to what makeshifts tile the friends of the single standard are obliged to resort it Is true that most moat of the sliver silver mined in this country was snipped shipped away because bidders from abroad would give a little more tor for tile sliver silver than could be realized when coined into dollars at the mint it was due to the fact that the ratio in a this co country was I 1 i to 16 when on the continent of 0 europe it 11 was 1 I to dut but all that bullion was rated as aa a part of the money ot of the world As such it helped with gold eold to establish the values at 0 the world and that important fact of course ex senator edmunds and every other man who ever talks on oil that side ot of the quest question lort Is pleased to ignore which Is 13 a lawyers argument and not an enlightened statesmanlike explanation ot of the great subject the scotch are a practical people this la Is the way they deal with the question ot of charity the city of 0 glasgow scotland apropo proposes q es to billt a homo home for widows widow and aldow widowers ers with children in this new items home a man or a woman with children may mar fuld comfortable for fort table ablo lodgings nt at a cost at about 16 centa cent a day find and children will be fed ed at a cost of 0 about sa cents it a week tho the peo p cleot e 0 f Glass raw haw have reduced their charl ties to a businesslike basis baj rii where they cease to lo be charities and become sup porting institutions that do not pauper rau perlo lw the ile people to the goldbug gold eold bug bue ot of new york city free coinage Is a debasing ot of the currency but some ot of these same gold bugs bues have been debasing silver and huye haye got themselves indicted the law of that state governing the salt sale ot at silver allver articles provides that a person i who ho makes or sells bella ony any article marked sterling or sterling silver unless ot or tile the component parts of the metal are puro pure silver shall be guilty of a 0 misdemeanor anil and that a person who makos make or mollii lip any a marked walls walla of the bull ling fairly shook and the echols ot of the cheers were heard afar coln coin or coln coin silver unless DOO 1000 ot of the component parts of the metal fire are puro pura silver shall be guilty of 0 a misdemeanor anil and this has haa been violated lorne of 0 tile the articles article tested vary in auto amount u nt ot of silver front from to the lowest assay showing such well known firms as tl it H macy corn com pany pan stern brothers hilton hughes company and brothers have been indicted tor for violation of tile the law tomorrow to morrow it is expected the st louis will start on her first voyage across the atlantic after the trial trip her commander was wa careful to put out a statement that she nho was not tried for speed but merely to get the machinery in rood good working order tor for her initial voyage at the same timea we ve suspect that great things are ex expected e 0 if her possibly on her first voyage we think so BO from tills this little paragraph taken from the new york commercial advertiser I 1 I 1 i with a speed ot of nearly twenty three n naul aut leal or shout twenty ilvo c cal fit miles an hour belur on oil her trial trip the new ew Arne american rican liner SL louis may indeed expect to do 10 some game record br breaking e k ly oven even on oil her unit first voyage across th the A al bantle it Is end ead to reflect that thal as a wednesday boat beat site ie will not meet anything on tho the road worth haling a brush with nith II 11 however lo wever the passengers will manage to find 1 excitement enough in frue s sing her dp illey y record it il should bo be concealed till iho last day the chicago record says ears at dr tie pews table lil LIAL night there was no man mail who abo has haa ever cica ted it a panic betrayed a republic destroyed it a fruiting friend cloyed clotted a factory brought broucht I 1 distress li stress to a farm or hauled down tile iho american flag none of them Is in consecrated to bugling or fishing but tiley they mostly know when honor li 14 sullied or patriotism sn c cred don doin ae p popular percept perception lon t that ha I 1 power 1 Is 13 3 drifting toward some bome one c of f them has bos had LL good effect on public confidence and on tile tho wages ot of labor that merely shows a disposition to pro pra lie ise men because they are rich there was not one at that table who lias has done its ills best for or his country not one who with the abilities and facilities given elven him could not have done better it if he had bad tried and it if he had kept his ear car close to the ground to hear what the wants of the people were arid and kept his heart warm to respond to those wants governor altgeld denounces the supreme court in good round terms for its decision in the debs case altgeld Is far more friendly to tile the doctrines and actions of 0 anarchy than to tile the theory of law and government in tile the united states lie he Is much better belter at denunciation than anything else it if the city council lias has the best interests ot of the citizens at heart the c ity city prisoners will be put to work |