Show I EVIL the pernicious influence of a certain class of trashy and flashy literature has long been universally conceded publications like the police gazette police news and similar sensational prurient sheets arc are generally acknowledged as pandering C to the kowt lowest t and provoking criminal dispositions no voice can bo be heard in their defense still they abound they flaunt their pink immorality on the counters of every news stand in the land side by side with religious works and finding ten purchasers to each one of the latter tho the evil exists I its abolition is not only the general desire of all well meaning peo people P I C but the trouble is how liow is the nuisance to be 10 abated how can th eso periodicals reeking with filth and overflowing with depravity be put out of the Q sight and roach reach of auvo niles especially one good way to accomplish this desirable object appears to be the old method of removing agencies of vice vicc making la 19 them too expensive for the masses to indulge in this plan lias has been adopted d by the legislature of texas in a meas incas u re which deserves praise and sh should guld bo be imitated by other lawgiving law giving ca bodies instituted for the preservation of virtue and the protection of public morals A bill has been pass passed ed taxing all persons selling the police gazelle gazette police and similar illustrated journ journals a Is per annum in caell county where such papers are sold this tax operates as a prohibition and practically prevents the sale or publication of papers that arc are doing much to undermine the morals of the young of both sexes A washington WAG lias has gone to the trouble and c expense ofpria of printing tit and mailing to each member of congress congre ss what he calls house bill no to provide for tho the creation ofa of a new executive department the e chief officer ef which shall be styled the tile figurehead of the government of the united states of america the figurehead inq is according to tho the provisions of the bill to bo be given an ill elegant residence in ill washington and is to have a salary of per year he is to be a member of the cabinet sessions or to express any opinion he is also to have a chief clerk two stenographers and three experts in ornamental penmanship and epistolary correspondence his duty is to be to travel about the country to deliver orations er he lie can geta get a hearing upon the subjects relating to agriculture g horticulture landscape gardening education hygiene forest forestry ry sorghum culture artesian wells animal industries cruelty to animals temperance Hawthorne thomas jefferson john brown the lost caus the pilgrim fathers and aft massachusetts The seand other parts of theal the alleged leed bill are evidently meant as a satire upon the present head lead depart ment mr loring GETTING LIQUOR for medical purposes is the latest refuge of lovers odthe of the ardent in places where a legal embargo is laid antho on tho alcoholic traffic the disguise is tr transparent ails and an open secret understood by the authorities as well as by the people the mayor of milwaukee seems to have a tolerably fair understanding g of the matter or in western s slang a ng he lie has lias tumbled to the racket ho has its lately issued a proe proclamation J Ift mation warning 11 druggists to desist from the practice of selling liquor by the drink LABOR TROUBLES continue in the east affecting especially tho the iron industries another voice in the chaotic pandemonium of modern timea times which threatens soviet society y with an upheaval such as never witnessed before the rumblings gs from the center of the volcano are as yet low and distant but they arc are unerring pre premonitory monitors of an eruption which will be stupendous |