Show THE officeholders office holders of this country constitute a mighty host that no man can number the government blue book two large volumes closely printed gives the list of federal officers but no at tempt was ever made to catalogue all the state county city town and village officials in the united states there can not be less than a half million of them at least a rough guess at thosa figures would not be unreasonable an actual count would be likely to go over rather than under that estimate of abo grand total when the number of these officeholders office holders is considered it is a mattar of surprise and con that cases are so few and that the general average of fidelity and efficiency is so high the secret of this good record lies largely in the fact that nearly every officeholder hasa political party lini which ig directly interested in ilia good behavior with exceptions most rare ho owes his position to partisan favor he stands before his constituents as tho representative of tho party to which ho is indebted for his office and whether that office be aih or humble his discharge of its duties will weaken or strengthen strength nn the organization according to the satisfaction ho gives by the next apportionment for members of congress massachusetts is likely to lose one member new york four pennsylvania three ohio one illinois aud indiana may escape without the loss oi a man a a the decision in abo case will doubtless affect several of the mormon prisoners now confined in alio penitentiary tent iary A teat case has been made by judge in of barton who was sentenced in february last lo 10 fifteen months for adultery he was indicted both for unlawful cohabitation and adultery he pi beaded guilty to the former charge and sentence was suspended ho also pleaded guilty to the latter charee lor which ho got fifteen months tho pen tence be judge powers w of the opinion that this case comes clearly under the keilien decision and now that a writ of habeas corpus bo issued WHATEVER president harrison s i ine regret over the death of mr n thorndike aice bis minister to russia he can not but feel an dionest pleasure in seeing his selection for that important post se generally lauded as is the case in the tributes of the press to the abilities and character of the editor of j the american mr rices newspaper cheerfully pronounce him a man of great promise one to whom fortune threw great opportunities and who embraced them with manly energy and enlightened ardor THE new york world recently had a lone article on cleveland the general tenor of which may be inferred from the subjoined sub joined if mr cleveland can and will make himself the exponent and champion of the real ideas and true principles of reform reform in politics reform in administration reform in legislation reform in justice his nomination v ouli he bite possible and he would have a vigorous supporter in the world FOR the present said postmaster general referring to the proposed reduction of postage to one cent 1 I prefer to conduct the business of the department on the principle of the sleeping car companies not to reduce the rate but to improve the ser vice all right let the improvement proceed there is certainly pressing need of it AMONG the millstones which hang upon the neck of progress and retard the growth of a city are those who own vacant corner iota and will neither improve them themselves nor sell the land at a reasonable price to men who would im prove them they are assassins of enterprise ter prise keep your children home at nights there is many a sod that lies over the child whose downfall began by roaming the streets at night and there is many a child whose heartbreaking parent would give the world if the sod did lie over them WHO is going to be TL S marshal in dyers place this is the question that is now bothering the heads of many president harrison is certainly taking time over the matter EVERY citizen should feel interested enough in the coming august election to aee that his name ii duly registered if brur name ia not on the list you cannot vote WHAT breaks we mortals do make A young minister in maine introduced mrs livermoore to an audience as the grand old woman |