Show one of the cical soldiers this country has produced is lying at alic point of death the worst mens may cretins reaches our readers be received hiis death will leave another noted vacancy in the racks of prominent americans tykp gained their laurels in alic late ir is to be hoped that the parties who arc guilty of damaging a part of alic new fence in front of squires residence will be found and made to pay the penally af the law there lias been loo much of such cri ily city peoples fences have been damaged time ami time again idle boys arc no doubt guilty ones could a few of them be found nicil good would ho the result A amount of talk is good in proper lime and place but is what is wanted alic world is full of fellows who can tall in n way but the ones who work by brain or hand carry off the laurels such ia alic testimony of history the man who wills and works is the man who succeeds the same ti nth is truo of i few or of a number of incisi by organization and union of efforts a number of men obtain and when such strength wills and works it is strong indeed ir is almost an assured fact eliat james G blaina will not be the kc publican standard bearer for the nest presidential it would take n very united and determined effort on the part of the republican party to get him ty yield from the position be has taken the republican convention will therefore be an exceedingly interesting one there will be strong fights from different sections of alic country for favorite candidates A of prominent men for sometime past have been aiming to secure the hobor II 11 is in di to tell who mill be abc one chosen As ha s often been the case it may be sonic comparatively obscure individual the last letter from makes alc tlc action of abc republican very uncertain public opinion is taking regarding democratic nominees indicates tint be democratic convention hill have concern only about the adoption of a platform it is generally acknowledged that grover cleveland will be nominated for a second term and now a strong sentiment is centering upon alien G n staunch old democrat for the second place upon the ticket while mr abilities in every way fit liim for alic first place on the ticket the second place under alic would be an honor to him jc ia to be hoped that it will be given to him and that lie will graciously accept it such standard bearers as grover cleveland and alien G Thuri niu it is isaac to predict the victory of democracy in the coming election IT is certainly not for men and boys to idle away time complaining about the lack of work when in so much uncultivated land iu these valleys something that there is n demand for every year if you have no teams and no machinery and arc not prepared to form on a large scale do what you can is always something in the way of plinking plin ling aliat a man can do with alio labor of his hands and tools of small cost plant beans plant potatoes and a score of other things that are in constant demand it is far better to earn fifty cents a day alian to earn nothing our i rich inthe possibilities of the soil we arc importing every year thousands of dollars worth of things that should be raised here it is a bad police a ruinous one and it hurls none mure than the mai who is indolently waiting for some tiling to turn up |