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Show I of every man is the feeling which Sonator Ingalls expretted when he said: "The only reason why I am not a millionaire is, that i dou't know how to make the money." There it no doubt that runny of our wealthy men obtained much of their money by metn-odt metn-odt that would be repugnant to an houvtt and conscientious man; but in fait remains that every man is struggling struggl-ing all the time to make money, nuil that none of u would raise any serious objection to being the owner of a mil- : lion dollars. A lllirlil Word. Ni-w York Press. Away with such a hybrid, such a monstrosity, such a Frankenstein freak of a word as "electrocution" for inllict-inij inllict-inij tbs death penalty by electricity. It is an etymological absurdity, because the criminal is not ciited" by electricity elec-tricity or anvihimr cle. He is not even executed. It is the sentence of the law that is executed, as any other sort of authoritalivo o-der is executed. Some punishment fitting the crime should e devised for the man who invented the words "electrocute" and "electrocu-tion." "electrocu-tion." They should be boycotted by every tpeixlter and writor of good, honest hon-est Kuglliill. UeOlar vs. Mcoiay. C1jIii Herald. . 'J he battle of letters bctwoen Lditor McClure aud Biocraphor Nlcoby, which baa already resulted in a frightful fright-ful inkshed, is still licrcely rsging. As the supply of writing material is inexhaustible inex-haustible and both men are game it may go on for a long time, but every ono who has ever dropped to sleep over Mcolay'sdull and wonderfully erroneous errone-ous tiiotfinphy of Lincoln has already decided the cass in fuvor of the editor. Lahac latus Sat" riclds. Omftlia Hee. With a demand fur COO men to work in the be.-t snar Molds at Norfolk there is no excuse for idleness. An institution institu-tion which can (five emplo-ment to so lsr a force of men even for a portion of the year Is of great value to an enterprising enter-prising little city Norfolk; Indeed it would be worth a vast deal of money to a tuelorpolis like Omaha. Th- llankbona T.llfc a)irtiiK:leld Hmbik;in. J'he young man who has not betn to college tnuat have been wondering dur log the past week if this world wat mad expressly for the college graduate. gradu-ate. We wiuild sympathetically answer: an-swer: "Not by a long shot." It's the molecular nrrsngeniciit of one's back bone that finally tellt the ttory. Can Ilt l ha V.lo. Cleveland Plain PealiT. President HanUou's personal friend, j f'.eneral Miehener of Indiana, says tha' , if a free coinage uieature reachei President Harrison during tha next term of congress it will be vetoed. Kven if this he true silver will have friends enough in the next congress to pass a free coinage measure over the VbtO. To Much Nerve. CMrago Times. So Millionaire Rockefeller has nervous ner-vous prostration ! It was always thought that the' nrvo of that man w.mld some day prove too much for him. SPIRIT CF THE PRESS. Vv" Tae IrrlffAlion Cuaveatlen. Irrigation Kv,o. It is well to direct attention to this In ord.jr to point out why the coming con-I con-I vcnlion is one of great moment to all our states, and why delegations siiouid bo sent from every city and every horticultural, hor-ticultural, ngriciiltural and scientific society to attend it. If the convention islarireaud representative, the results will be far-reachiug. First an! foremost among these results re-sults will be the uniting of western public pub-lic sentiment on tho question of the public lands. If the convention had no other purpose tlia;.i to devise means by( w hich tho vt,t empire composed of the Toll, OUO. 1)00 remaining acres of public lauds could be made useful to mankind, man-kind, Bnd if it should meet that duty in a comprehensive spirit, it would no a woudorful success. This is but one of the ways in which it can be supremely useful to tho west. It will lay before the country, in its speeches, papers and resolutions, the whole story of irrigation irri-gation progress in the several states. It will cousidor important questions of engineering. It will study the extent of our water resouaces and the methods by which they can be conserved, and best administered. It will bring out the best idoas of the best thinkers on the subject iu the whole country. Finally, it will profounely impress the people and tho lawmakers of the United Slates with the vast importance of irrigation irri-gation to tho ilevelopmei.t of one-half of our domain, and thit half which must accommodate the greater portion of our future growth. Kvery state and territory west of the Misiouri should have at lea9t 100 men at this pieat convention. The choice of Sail Lake as the place of meeting is fortunate for other reasons rea-sons than those already stated. It is one of tho famous cities of the world, one of those places which no continental continen-tal traveler leaves unseen. Unlike other parts of the west, it has a history and historical landmarks which wi;l interest in-terest the world for generations to come. Its inland sea is one of the show places of America. September will rind that beartitul city at its best. No more desirabls trip could he-undertaken for pleasure than a trip to the Utah capital at that time. This fact alone should attract a very large crowd to the convention. A!l!anrt Imwffinatlo Springfield Iloputtiran. Tho mortgage picture commonly drawn by an alliance man is a guod illustration il-lustration of what this alliance imagination imagi-nation can do without half trying. In the last number of the North American liecU w, Mr. Polk, the president of tbs national alliance, makt's the astonishing astonish-ing statement that is, astouishing if coming ftoiu anybody but an alliance man that "the national records show the existence of 'j.tHHJ.eOO of mortesires on the farms ;ved boinvsteads of (i.i,0uO,-000 (i.i,0uO,-000 of people a inurtgage to every seven individuals, or a mortgaee for every four families out of live." Mr. Polk gave b's imagination this one fact that iu the decadu from lb-0 to 1-SilO there have been placed ou record in this country the w hu.e of it, ou all kinds of property about niue million mort- j g es, and away that faeuily gallops I with it, as ws have seu. Nona WohIiI ib rt ; Provo Enquirer. It is popular these dsys to black-' black-' guard the milliooHii-es bemuse of their J ru'iuey, uu J at, deep down in the htart |