| Show editorials D I 1 T 0 IA LS THE SCHOOL QUESTION T r beed AMENDMENT TO a it THI THE constitution tir THE B school question as indicated by president grant grants des deg moines speech is expected by many to become tome come one of the great questions of the coming presidential campaign mr ei ex speaker blaine in a published letter expresses serious apprehensions that thai the public school agitation as idalion will set the whole country in ln a ft ferment for years to come and induce much mush to be regretted consequences in stirring up strife among religious sectaries sect aries as well as non sectarians the only possible final outcome mr blaine blaino believes will ho bo a nonsectarian non sectarian victory which he proposes to bring about more speedily by constitutional amendment he suggests the addition of the following to article 1 section 10 of the constitution no state shall make any law respecting au an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise so thereof and no money raised by taxation in any state for the support of public schools or derived from any public fund shall ev ever er be under the control of any religious sect nor shall any money so raised ever be divided between religious sects or denominations 11 THAT RAILROAD DECISION IN the case between the united stites slates and the union pacific railroad recently decided by the supreme boua of the united states in hi favor of the railroad company the government claimed the right to re retain tho the amount due to the I 1 railroad comp company aily ally for the transportation of mails malls military and indian supplies 1 etc and to apply it to the p payment ament of the I 1 interest on the bonds issued ay iy the tho government to the company the company claimed that the government could only retain one half of the sn madue madus duo due for such transportation the decision was in favor of the railroad comp company anys claim which causes causes the he new now york journal journal of commerce to say that ift leit will will now ibe juo ibo clearly seen that the government is destined to bo be outwitted 1 in every very case where it grants such favors and that it will wor work 1 against the granting of future subsidies to the texas pacific or any other railroad that paper sayi says bays iso ino no ohe one can tell what interpretation the vie courts will put on od any sni shi statute tute however plain its purport may be to the common min mind the only safe way to avoid such difficulties as the supreme court has fettled gett settled led at the thi expense of the people is to grant no more subsidies what lover tover if congress will put its foot f down flatly just there we will bear bilth with all possible equanimity the costly burdens of the past EDITORIAL NOTES critics T critics cut up a man while lie is alive so do the doctors sometimes but bu t while ahll e tho latter iatter are supposed pose a to hocut cut to cure and to sabo savo save life the form former er find their chief pleasure in cutting to kill hill miss augusta evans in her new novel clin infelice defies the critics in advance with famous sentiment tomorrow to morrow the critics will commence you know who the critics are the men who have failed iu lu literature and art in cutting postmortem post mortem tho the doctors are sometimes very eager forthe fray as if they experience a positive and keen delight in sec a human corpse in the tho case of the late vice president wilson the cutting commenced before he was cold which haste is reported to have excited consider able disgust among the non pro fessl fess ional ohal public in washington and elsewhere there are sulphur springs at salt bait lake soda springs at soda springs idaho and nd now there are said to be lemonade springs near luling texas the tho water of which is aly pleasantly acidulated not unlike le lemonade 1 and is said according to the galve galveston ston News to possess wonderful curativo cura tivi properties which are constant the water of this well is reported to be anti bilious cathartic diuretic diaphoretic alterative tera tive and tonic curing scrofula rheumatism erysipelas liver and spleen derangement and other complaints too numerous to mention even restoring white hair to its natural color this is as wonderful a well in its way as is the drop ing well of knaresborough Knaresboro ugh SORROW STRICKEN PARENTS i A flew elew r ew days ago there appeared appear ed in the NEWS a notice of the seif self rma ama mar ariage of miss mattle mattie strickland and leo miller a long haiie hafie halie haired d spiritualist 11 of buffalo miss strickland 13 the daughter of ex congressman randolph Ban dolph strickland of st johns michigan she is ls a woman of culture ability and piquancy and force and was always respected in the tho vicinity of he be rhome her practical repudiation of inthe tho the la laws WS aud and 3 nd customs which men assume to make in regard to the affections caused considerable excitement cl cit la in the community where she and her parents resided alid arid the latter were impelled to publish the following card we ask the sympathy of our friends in our sorrow for the course pursued by our lour poor deluded misguided and insane daughter and we extend our thanks to the kind friends that have labored with us during c the last year so earnestly to save her we bow our heads in gr grief lef lec signed RANDOLPH STRICK nann LANn MARY E ND |
