A Cure For Tramps

1 Can ii" one suggest an effective way ,f abating the tramp uuiaance? Cerainlv he who does will be proclaimed i public benefactor.- Dexter Newa. 1 11 the palmy days of Rome that c í people wbo proved themselves unworthy citizcns, u would not gain an lionest livelihood by honest toil, but chose rather to prey upon the labor of others for their meana of sustaining lite, were senlenced to fue golleya and mad i-, gerve the state by becoming the propelling power of the great war-ships; nul tlms Rome became maater of the sea as well aa of the land. The lawa of om republic are snch that the tramp clasa have found thia a paradise. '1 lie lazy. the yidous, the deprav-ed, who will. no( earn their bread by the sweat of their brow.orin any other way. have bfccome, so numorous that ( very comtnunity of our great naHod 8 nfested with them, even as vermin sometimea in f est a great ship. While America háa no galleys to condena thia clasa lo, it has a work íully as important. Ita roads are a djsgrace to ts civilization. They have retarded the growth of many eections, and every year canse the OS8 of tlmusanils Upon thoaeands of dollars to its inhabitants. Pal these oatlaws to work upon the roads. Let as have ehain ganga if essary, and coropel them to learn whai it is to earn a livelihood. Here is i Eorce, a greal torce, to le utilized, and all its needs is the will to do it. Tlio time is not far distanl whe'n every cominunity will be compelled to take some prompl and severe action againsi tlus dass to secure the safety of their persons and their property. They sometiiucs resori to the disgraee of lynch law. Héré is a way. All it ut1s is to uend Bome man to the legislature whó has braina enoagh to formúlate 1 law that will cstrry the plan into effect, and courage and ability sofficiint to Beoife its passage through tliat body of law-inakers. Heretofore our legislators have been afraid t" deal with trampa, ia there a man in the state with aufficient courage to take hold of the question in a practical way? Snuif of the thinking class of demócrata have Bet thoir its working 011 this question : "Huw ín liados do the leaders 11 the political organization, known as Tuinnuuiy Hall, accumulate wealthso fast'.'" When thoy have solved the probletn to their saüsfaction they can have the heipol the entire republican party to put the thieves behind the bare where they bélong. The Chicago ínter Ocean gaya : "Every American president lias liad from 3 to 32 towns nauied for hini. There are 30 c-ities and towns nanied after Alexander Hamilton, 'M ('Hntons, 24 Websters, 20 Bentons, 13 Calhouns, 7 Clays, 19 Quincye, 21 Douglasea, 20 Blainea." As vet, Hill aud 1'ellVr are unknown to Kucli tamo, .lust wait anti] tlie anarchiste get there ! The spare crank shat't which has just been completed ly the Bethlehem Iron Company and shipped to the American Line for the gteamship City of Paris, is is of nickel steel, and lias a tensile strength of 90,000 pounds, or by 25,000 pounds greater tlian that possessed ly any shaft ever made by Ëngligh or German niaimfacturers. One of the crank pin weighs 3,000 pounds. - Engiueer' Review. The G. A. B. boys tlnnk tluit it is Georgia's time t march now, witli Hoke Smitli of Georgia, at the head of the pension bureau in the oabinet, and Representative Moses i Georgia, ehairman oi the House committee on pensions, ïhe Ilouwe Moses is not of the same material as the one the good book tells Rbout, either. This Georgia Moses will no doubt lead them out, luit it will be out of the green pastures of plenty into the desert of deatitution. Dr. Eugene Bell, of the Imperial Health Department of the I'russiau government has reported t bis governniciit that American [ndian corn "is not a wholesome article of diet," and "is uiiMiitcil tor for general consümptfon." Dr. Seil is a sell. Let hiiu come to America and we will show liim souie of the finest specimens of physical man1 d to be founil is the woild, reared and fed all their lives'on hog and hominy. 1 1 is report is simply in the interdi somebody or some Corporation thatwonldbe injared by the ïntroductiou ni cora is on article of food in that country. Or else it is througli ignorance. Qere ie an explanation of the terms 16 to 1 and 20 to 1, etc, that will doubtlrss make their meaning plain to Bomi of our readers: "Many people are jast huw wondering what the ratio "sixteen to one meaoa ;is applied to the silvei question. Sixteen to one means that in the coinage, one grain or one ounce o gold is equal to sixteen grains or six teen ounces of silver. ïhis relates only tn the aniount of pure metal in cithe dollar. The alloy put in to harden th metal and prevent abrasión cuts 110 iï j_r ure. The mixture of silver and alloy i known as "standard silver." Tlms lh tbe silver dollar contains 412Lgrains o standard silver, hut only oVl1 grains o jmre silver. The weight of the silve dollar was ehanged in 1834 from 41 grains to 412 grains, but the amoun of pure silver has alwavs remained th sanie, .'"l'-., grains, as üxed by Alexai der Hamilton, the lirst Becretary of th treasury."