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Show i ;,, v-. .,.. ..., p ... ,, 'i.'.a'cs .1. lie . : I , I : try." A "lc: ' .aid.i'l- is L.i.oi cr. .lit for wr.i.ng '- ..i v.or is a t nine: bin weal ul, out 11, f-llow who illc'ali l them? Th t ' me l.. e-.cbl !i s ul fartn-iil fartn-iil l.ii:.'. Si'i ".'o r las le'cu r. ban. loiied. I.resuniilbl.v b." i.i: Hie seal could Imt live In thai lake am! s-co'iillj for fonr that Hi" women ,,f luilu ti. Minn., wiiul.l would a!. i:l Hie ei ills, pi-etna-I'trciy. The discovery In 'lev.. is of vast hods i of kaolin, together with oil d'sisivor les, lead to renewal of the old Joke that Hie best part of Tous Is llltdei ground, lint seriously, the stthlcrraii can resources of Texas, as well ns the nt II i r . 1 1 loll nf her vast territory, Is rapidly making her the Kmpire Htato of the American tiilou, Norway bus eslnl.li.lie.l a Plnte Mr'..lugmen's lark, which la to loan :ni.niy at tow Interest for the purchnse of work!iit;m..i's hoinesteails of one and a quarter to five acres, and the crcc'.loii of houses thereon at a cost not to exceed t.s.il. Tho Interest li.argc la three and n half ur four per ; r-.-iit. and tiie reruiiiliug 1b to occupy for.) -two years. Covernor Murphy speaks bravely nnd Iriily In hla message to tho New Jersey Jer-sey I.cgi'.iature on Hie subject of child labor, lie has no syiupahly with cm pin; era wiio save money by pnyliig pi iful wu:es to tu) and girls.'"! io not think," says he, "the time bus come In New Jersey when we can sacrillce the well being of the young lo the selfish Interests of nny linlua-try." linlua-try." Such a time inn never couio lu any Ktulo. Mr. Ilonells would like to have the niilbura of the couulry form a protective protec-tive union, comments the Huston Transcript. Tran-script. Filch an assiH-liitlon might or might not bnvo a beuellclul effect upon rales of compensation, prompt payment pay-ment anil the oilier disputed matters which affect tho lllcrury crnftsiurii, but If It could be lunile to limit the output while improving Its quality It would aervo a most useful purpose. Meantime we bnvo henril little from the union of (lormnn verslllin-a wbu recently lunile a compact not to write for less Hum ten cents a line. Rereral of the niagaslnea published for railway men and engluccra are asking for the Invention of a now kind of railway track. Tho present track, they say, baa been the anme for thirty years and cannot bear fast travel aa It should. The old wooden cross-tie la In use everywhere, though It wna long ugo out of dnle. There la no evenness nor elasticity In the broken stone and gravel upon which Hie tie rests, "ho foundation la unequal. un-equal. It requires the most constant attention. A flood will destroy It In a few boura. I wo are to travel faster than sixty miles an hour, our Inventors Inven-tors must glvo us a new kind of railway rail-way truck, less flimsy Uiuu tbo kind wo have at present. Po far from being nn evidence of a iiiillonnl levity and hick of seriousness serious-ness slang Is the luugiiuge of Bluccr-Ity, Bluccr-Ity, declares 1'rof. Herman Hpenrer In a recent number of llnoklovcrs' Maga-xl Maga-xl nt-. It la tlio result of an Instinctive effort to get as far away as possible from everything llko pretentiousness. It Is the antipodes of pathos. It Is Ilia lu i.v.iB,fi' of Hie w hole people, be-euu be-euu e It Is expressive of the liiltlonitl . "use of biiinnr that Is never au I. ecu as whou It contemplates with a Joy likewise unutterable the spotiacle presented by the fake exposed. It Is blunt. It Is crude, It Is brutal some-times, some-times, but It Is uluujs sincere. It directs nguluat the cltiiilels of evil the mighty enginery of laughter. It does for our nsseont abuses what the mordant mor-dant satire of Martini and Juvenal failed lo do for decadent Ituinu. Tho record of what inuy bo termed uiuiuturul deaths In the Lulled HI. ilea In the year llstl la a ghastly one, cow iiienls the Mirror and Farmer. There wus no war, civil or foreign, lu which thu lives of Auierii'uiis were sacrificed, but the list of casualties by tire and IIimhI, upon railroad and steamboats. In highways, among people employed in factories and stoics, and lu pleasure seeking crowds, would be an appalling one If It could bo put Into a statistical exhibit. During the year KM persona wore lynched or murdered by mobs, l:i were killed by authority of law for various crimes. 8.1117 com mil led suicide, auu' there wus a large number of murders, mur-ders, In, im ling ilil'l by burglars, robbers and tlilevea. The statistics. lilch uncollected un-collected from newspaper Hies, are, of course. Incomplete, but ns uenrly as enn he nsccrtnln.-d about loins) people went to their deallis by tbelr own bauds or those of others. k - ... l ,m - ..' ""' |