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Show If iii 1 ' . f " j , Will the Utnb Democracy continue ) n ,''' to ill-treat Judge Powers by nominnt- j ',( j j Ins him for .Congress? ( . j i- ' Has the- Democracy of the State for- it : ; f gotten that It ly unchangeably devoted j ' '' j l CUUtW s'lver? !' ! Doubtless Brother "Roberts feels ' ' i' i ! much obliged to bis old friend, the Hon. . .if i wisher Harris, for' stirring him up. k ! I I . I! j i' ,U Having some empty honors to dls- ' ' i tribute, the Democratic convention gal- ( , y y ( lantly recognised the belter half of f ii I j ' the party. 1 i "Willi the Hon. Joe Rawlins and the ;J " II I . Hen. Joe ilonson on the delegation, it . . i will nut be so harmonious as to be un- r , 1 l I . democratic. I id, !j ' "Why will people go to a Democratic ij convention and shout, when there is t ! ilj offered them the Justifiable recreation v 1 j o yelling at a ball game? ? .1 1 . lj Thougli Brother Rojjerts had done U 'I ; much to give Davis county fame, it y was fio ungrateful as to go against hia i '"'i wishes in the convention, 15 to 4. ; i Ilj ' j j . Rain, is making the movement of t' . ) troops difficult in Manchuria, which h 'fiti'i ought to be very satisfactory to the X 1 Vr. liussians at a safe distance from the 1 1 ! ! enemy. J. Among the products of civilization 1 secn m tlie c,tr Thursday were a J 'Mji v Democratic convention, a prize-fight V ' i, '!j and a gang of hoodlums disturbing a 1 '! j Is it possible that Mr. Rawlins favors .l ( Judge Parker, when the New Yorker j ' ' i" has shown his unfitness by not resent- ', ' ' Ing the endorsement given him by : j ;! Grover Cleeland? ' H v'-' ' Li'l'l 'l'l Now and then during the procced- u j ings, Mr. Roylance doubtless took time t , jfl! to wonder If the delegates realized that i, ij in the- person of their permanent chair- , ' i 1; man they could see the beat man for . j , !:' Govern.or. I ;' ji .Vkil 11 there is a "cotton famine" again 'j- t ( t1!' this year, with prices for the raw' ma- Il ! ij , terlal that ehut down the mills, it will t n j' not be the fault of the cotton planters ), ( ' of the South, who have Increased their .i t( ' j , cotton llelds by nearly three million t i' acres. And now if the boll weevil will ',' , " ; stop it pernicious industry for a season, ij I j i or if the red Gautemalan ant can be 1m- , j ported in sufflclenL numbers to destroy I , ' ( that cotton-destroyer, cotton may be ( 'ji expected to be as much below the ave- il i V j ' , rage price ths year a.s last year It was V 1' ' 1, I above it. II . Wt- - , . 'A, It seams incredible that ono intelli- ' J ! ' gent enough to appreciate the value of A , j A the material so stolen, should do such I .j ' , j a thing as clip an article, an illustra- ;f 1 ''I j Hon, or even a paragraph, sentence, or If w j H from a book in the public library, If j J or any other library. A brief time i, . !'. ! taken In copying what Is wanted would h , 'X sullce: but to ruin a valuable work, , i ' perhaps a volumo of a series, merely to i' ' f . secure a bit of information or record A i'' so easily had othorwise.Ms a shameful Vt ' i" !' abuse of privilege, besldcts being a posi- "M j iji il tlve crime. There ia complaint that It 1 ' ' I tnls sor o reckless vandallflm has : 1 been practiced in the public library of l ,' j this city, and if It Is so and the of- rf' I III" fender cannot be caught and punished , j'-' ! It will bp a great pity. i' ' Hl 'Ij jl j At a dinner which has just been given HKit! ' ,1 to a narty of departing Presbyterian B J 'j I, rnisrdonarles, the sentiment was uttered H i 1 j that those workers for the Lord In for- H( '! eign lands are real heroes. There la no Hf I ' reason why any one should challenge H. 'j the statement, for no doubt there Is a HK 4 J it I largo element of the heroic in this line " 1 of work. But Is it not a little late In the B t ' I In I: day to yprln this sentiment? Tho lands B ' '' i ji ' 10 wllclt these present heroes go are H l t , missionary worn, if the expression may I be allowed; they have been the fields of V j missionary labor for decades, some of j' them for centuries. The hardships have H 'ji ! been toned down, the labors are largely H 1 i routine, and while it Is true that peril H j( f j' j may come and he deadly, hero Is no H ' i (j kucIi imminence of It as formerly, and H Y ', L j tn mlKRionarlcs have now a protection H ' ' j ' ii I j from their own Governments such as V rj , missionaries never had before, In active 1 intervention for their protection, and in the certainty of retribution in case .'anything .'any-thing goes seriously amiss. But in the former times thesro protective features wero all lacking, and tho work had to be planned and begun from practically no baBlD of approach. While, therefore, there is no cause to deny the heroism ot tho present-day missionaries, if that phrase Is to be applied to them, what Is left for the description and definition cf the clusu of men and women who com-' com-' posed the older missionary bands, who Introduced the work and made plain the paths? |