America Has At Least Two Irrepressible

eonfiicts in sigbt. One is in procesa of settlement in Cuba, and the other relates to the fact that Canada is made up of 3,428,265 Englishmen and 1,404,974 Frenchmen. One-fonrth of the population of Michigan is foreign boni, but inany of thern have lived here long enough to underBtand that their interests are with the republican party, which is the friend of every good citizen. '■Are We Losing the West?" is the title of a new phamphletthat;iias appered in Boston. The answer is in the affirmative. What was called the West is now the center, and, in faet, rapid transit is playing the dickens with all of our points of the compass from Sitka to Key West. A jawbone Ofeet in length has just been düg up at West Troy, N. Y. It isafoot in diameter at one end and tapers to a point, while on the inside of the curve are thirty large cavities from which the teeth have áisappeared. As no mate to the bone lias teen discovered, itis probably not a relie of the silver discussion. Immigration has lately begun to increase, by reasonof the business revival and the growiug demand for labor. During June, the arrivals were 33,565, against 23,384 a ago. The aggregate arrivals for the fiscal year, however, were only 276,136, against 311,612 in the previous one. In 1SS2 the arrivals arose to 783,992, which is the highest point ever reached. Spain haa concluded to pay the Mora indemuity to the amount of the $1,500,000 agreed upon some years ago. The value of the property confiscated was about doublé this suin, and 40 per cent of the amount allowed goes to the syndicate of attorneys that prosecuted the ease, leaving for the original ownera about one-fourth of what rightly belongs to them after twenty years of litigation. Gladstone has not been much of a jharse-maker, but he named the "untpeakable Turk," and this troublesome individual is Hkely to require a great deal of attention from the Salisburj ministry. The English policy of backing up Turkey to keep back the growth o: Eussia in that direction is becoming more difficult every year, and the task more repellent to the English people The Turk is a bad lot, and it is in order to put him under restraint, even at the eost of some expansión of Russia. Patriotism ! There is magie in the ■word. It is bliss to speak it and bliss to hear it. The human race through ages burn at the shrines of patriotism the incensé of admiration and reverence. The most beautiful pages of history are those that count the deeds which it inspired. Fireside tales, the outpouringa of the memories of people, borrow from it their warmest glow. Orators are most potent when re-echoing its whisperings ; poets are sweetest when thrilling its chorda to music. - Arch Bishop Ireland. The reforuis do not always start in the east, but one has started there, and ü is hoped that it will prove contagious, md spread rapidly. The prejudice agaiust it in the west is a foolish one, and must in time die out. We speak of the good roads movement. A boom for good roads prevails throughout the length and breadth of Massachusetts, where more than half of the 358 towns have taken steps to avail themselves of the new State law, which extends aid to the municipalities that are willing to help themselves. The state appropriation is $300,000, and it is expended under the supervisión of a careíully selected commission. Various national debts were refunded last year to the extent of $2,500,000,000, and the saving offected in interest was $23,000,000. It is hardly necessary to add that the United States is uot in the list. The latest information trom the nioon is that L32.856 crátera have been counted on its surface, all dead. Our neighboring orl) must have been snuffed out by something resenibling a general silver discussion. The recent "break" oL Ernbassador Eustis BUggesta that it is not always best for our government to be represented abroad by a man who knows how to talk the language of the country to which he is sent. It is said that Morton thinks Allison would be a good man for the presidency. Others think that way, too. In fact the republican party bas several men of hat sort. This is oue of the ways in vhieh it differs from the democracy. The gold reserve is shrinking slowly, but as the syndicate's period of gaurdianship isnotyet ended, the treasury will irobably be protected uutil it is able to lo this when the inward flow of gold begins. This is likely to start before August ends. Inunigration is a pretty trustwortby business barometer. It shrinks when business is bad and expands when business is good. It is expanding now. About 30 per cent more immigrant arrived in the country in the past two nonths thau in the same time in 1894. The "John Sherman deinocrats," as the 50c dollar men cali the members of the Cleveland end of their party, are growing in numbers and infiuence every day. A good many of them, including, possibly, their leader, will develop into republicana next yearor perhaps before. The trolley cars in Philadelphia have reduced taxable property to the extent of.$ 1,000,000 worth of horses, butas the general net increase in the valuation ;or the year is $13,000,000 the city has no complaint to make. The figures are a fair illustration of the result of the iutroduction of improved machinery. A good idea has deen adopted in English coinage. The new bronze coins coming from the London mint will serve for weights as well as money of the real ni. A penny is one-third of an avoirdupois ouuce, the half-penny onefifth, and the farthing one-tenth. But allowance should be made for those which are much worn. Minnesota, which was onceconsidered outside the corn belt, reports this year 1 ,2-30,000 acres planted to corn, or 200,000 inore than last year. The erop is in a fiuer coudition than ever before. A grand plant is the maize, and the boom it promises means bundreds of millions. Even North Dakota asoires to raising this great American cereal. Americans spend at least $75,000,000 a year in visiting Europe for pleasure and hardly $1,000, 000 atourown natural wonders of Niágara, the Yosemite Valley and the Yellowstone Park. Most of the tourists at these home resorts are Europeans. Among the 3000 visitors to the Yellowstone Park during the last three years only sixty were Americans. I seems to be the opinión of tlie American that the proper study of mankind is man and not scenery. The London capitalista are not only anxious to buy our govenrment bonds, but they are also eager to purchase our firstclass railroad bouds at good prices. Not long siuce, the Penusylvania road sold a $5,000,000 issue of 4 per cents over there, and now the Lehigh Valley is about to sell $6,000,000 of öpercents in that market. Such transactions indícate very clearly that iu Europe as well as in America, it is not believed that the democratie party can possibly elect the the next president. In taking possession of the Island of Formosa Japan assuines the task of dealing with the savage natives of the interior, who remain unconquered, though they have been invaded by the armies of Spain, Holland and China. The barbarians will fight desperately for the independence they have always maintained, and it is probable that Japan, as the firat step will, will try and concíllate them. But this island is ouly one-fourth the size of Michigan, and with the aid of modern weapons and overwhelming" numbers the Japanese could make short work of any organized resistance. The candidates for governor on the republican ticket, so far as heard from are : Col. A. T. Bliss, of Saginaw ; ExCongressman James O'Donneü, of Jackson ; Congressman "Deed" Aitkin, of Flint, on a 16 to 1 platform ; State Senator J. E. McLaughlin, of Detroit; ExSecretary of State Harry A. Conant, of the Independent State of Monroe ; ExU. S. Senator John Patton, Jr., of GrandRapids ;]Ex-State Senator Dunstan, of the upper península; State Senator Clapp, of Kalamazoo ; with a nuinber of cities and towns yet to hearfrom. While all the state knows that Ex-Senator Thomas W. Palmer had rather be governor of Michigan than to hold any other office within the gift of his fellowcitizens. Many of the Kentucky Colonela are avoring the suspension of the eries for one year on the strength of the carefully ascertained fact tliat there are ■ now 85,000,000 gallons of whisky in Dond. There are more men now at work in the iron, steel and tin worka at Pittsburg ;han have been employed there since panic of 1893. Thus does the invigorating effect of the republican victory of last fall continue to promote the restoration of good times, in spite of the fact that we still haye a democratie aduiinistration. Probably there is mure ruffianism in every political campaign in England than there is in the United States in ten campaigns. England has liad political parties and political canvasses for nearly two centuries, yet the niasses of Englishmen know and care as little about the politica! amenities or decencies as digger Indiana. Sherman says he is not a candidaté' for president and would not accept the office "if all the people should join together and oifer it" to hiin. There was a time when he would have liked it, but he has lived long enough without getting it to feel that he doesn't care for it, in which respect he is something of a wonder as an American statesman. In an address the other da)' before a woman's convention Mrs. Julia Ward Howe spoke of the work by which "we clubbfied Massachusetts." Mrs. Howe bas used the Euglish language with so much ability that her opinión on new worde is entitled to respect, but tb is coinage is more likely to be quitely beclubbed than to find its way in the dictionary. A French scientist bas obtained from cleveite and sulphuric acid the extreme red of the spectrum, leaving only one permanent line, green in color, not yet i'ound in earthly substances, but supposed to be due to a gas lighter than hydrogen. So far as materials are concerned, the relationship of the earth and sim bas nearly reached the point of identity. It is probably true, as suggested by a Philadelphia paper, that if the recent 3 per cent, loan of that city had been offered to the citizens in small amounts it would all have been promptly taken. Such securities are always favored b)' such persons haring limitad sums of money to invest, but they never get a chance to buy thetn because they are offered in lots so large that only bankers and capitalista can parchase them. The Pingree potato patch is said to be a great success again in Detroit thjs year, but other western cities have tried it and failed. At Minneapolis and St. Paul, for instance, no families would acknowledge themselves so poor as to be compelled to work the land. These westerners are very independent, and rather starve or steal ihan eat food that smacks in any way of charity. That is the western spirit, and it is not one to be poohed at or called down either one. Gladstone, being asked what he regarded as the brightest hope for the future, replied : "I should say a maintenance of faith in the Invisible. Tliis is the great hope of the future, the mainstay of civilization. And bythatl mean living faith in a personal God. ] do not hold with a 'stream of tendency. After sixty years of public lite, I holt more strongly than ever this conviction, deepened and strengthened by long experience, of the reality and the nearness and personality of God." As is most always the case, it is now ascertained that the white settlers are eutirely to blame for the Indian uprising in the Jackson Hole country Wyoming. There bas not been an Indian outbreak in the last quarter of a century but what bas been caused in the same way. The white settlers are either hoggish or cruel, beyond endur anee, or things get dull with them and they want the U. S. Soldiers around to make things e'xciting and lively. And so they raise a row and get what they want. Michigan lumbermen seem very indifferent relative to claiming the space allotted them at the Atlanta expsition and there is strong likelihood there will be no display of Michigan woods there. It will cost $3,000 and no provisión has been made for the money. Though 3,000 circulars have been sent to lumbermen of the state, actually no response, not even one, has been returned. - Battle Creek Moon. Even that small amount amounts to considerable just now in the eyes of the former liberal lumber kings. By the latest dispatches another victory has been gained by Spanish troops in Cuba, and another insurgent leader killed. The rebels on that island must be very proliiic in leaders, for in every engagement one or more are killed and the insurrection surely crushed out. But some way the fight goes on and the insurgent forcea are constantly increasing in number. The sympathy of the American people is with this little band of independent men who are fighting against oppression. The Spanish rule in Cuba is not what it ought to be, and never has been, and it ought to be ended. Keed is the only presidential candiiate who rides a bicycle, whieh is cal3ulated it is eaid, to make him solid svith the wheel element in American olitics. _ The republican party has always l)een n favor of the hest müuey known to the ivilized world, and it is not likely to endorse any other kind, directly or indirectly. . Bland is the ablest and sincercst man in the free silver side. If the silvertes have any earnestness and sense of gratitude they will nomínate him for he presidency. This year's corn erop promises to he one of the largest in the history of the country, and it will pay off enough nortgages to put au end to the existence of the populist party. The delay in the payment of the sugar bounty is charged to the hostility of the administraron, but an easier explanation lies in the fact of a democratc scarcity of money for the purpose. A buffet car has appeared on one of the electrie lines of Philadelphia. The Frenchman Uves on the boulevards, and seeins to enjoy it, but if an American can't live at home he will do it on wheels. In the high schools of Japan the English language is placed on the same footiug as the Japanese and its etudy ia compulsory. The Japa are as good at ooking after the future as they are in teeping up to date in current ari'airs. When the troops halt before the next mob, and the olüeers in command orders the sharpshooters to piek off the ringleaders, the exhibition of back handsprings willexceed anythingof the kind ever seen in the biggest shows on earth. The politicians who are constantly flguring to have Gen. Harrison make a speech and put bis foot in it, are requested to look up the General's record. They will find.that he is one of the kind who does nothing of the sort. The Governor of Texas has issued a proclamation prohibiting prize fighting in any part of tbat state. This raises Texas and her governor iinmensely in the eyes of decent people everywhere. The barbarism of flghting must he stamped out everywhere. The railroad managers, who make it their business to stüdy such thiugs, say that, while the limit of profitable wheat iroduction has about been reached in this country, there is no danger of an overproduction of corn, as it is a erop for which the demand is constantly inoreasing, botb at home and abroad. This is encouraging for the farmers who are now gazing upon the prospect of the largest yield of that cereal in all the history of agricnlture. Here is a little paragraph that will do well to cut out and read, if you are a parent, and then learn it by heart and practice it: How many children know their fathers only as anxious, moneymaking machines, and their mothers as tired, nervous, middleaged drudges. It would be wise for them occasionally to take some time for the whole family to rest and amuse themselves together. The parents' influence would be stronger if they lived not altogether for but with their children. The state fair will be held at Grand Rapids this year, on the grounds of the West Michigan association. A citizens' guaractee fund of $5,000 has been raised to cover any possible loss and elabórate preparations are being made for the big" show. It will not only be the state fair but it will be in effect the best effort that three associations can put forth. The West Michigan and Kent County associations are both enlisted in the work and will do everything possible for the success of the event. The abstract of the condition of the national banks of Michigan, exclusive of those at Detroit, at the close of business on July 11 shows the average reserve to have been 25.19 per cent against 26.40 per cent. on May 7. Loans and discounts decreased from $29,141.948 to 29,055,557 ; stocks and securities from $1,601,554 to $1,573,256; gold coin from $1,578,570 to $1,565,657; total specie increased from $1,992,486 to $1,994,704; lawful money reserved from $2,693,714 to $2.736,534; individual deposita decreased from $25,451,735 to $25,205,557. "Much of the former labor of carpenters, brickmakers and furniture-makers is now performed by machinery, but the census shows a large increase of workers all these trades. Between the years 1880 and 1890 the number of carpenters in the United States increased from 53,547 to 140,021, and their average annual earnings from $459 to $675. The brickmakers 1880 were 59,032, and in 1890 106,151, with advancd in individual annual income of over 20 per cent. In fur niture, the workers increased from 55,464 to 92,054, and the annual average earnnings from $453 to $527. If these figures are correct, and their accuracy has not been questined, the introduction of labor. saving machinery is adecided advantage to all concerned. State eleetions will be held Nov. 5th n twelve states, as follovvs: Kansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, MissiaBÍppi, Nebraska, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and in the territory of Utah, vhich will, by that time, have about complied with all the conditions required of it to make it a state. Au eleetion vil 1 be held in Connecticut on October 7 for town officers and to pass upon a )roposed re-districting of the state senite. Of these the deinocrats will not carry a single northeru state and are only sure of two on the list- Mississippi and Virginia. Here is a uew plan in road making, and one the Massachusetts people, of whose progress au article in Saturday's Daily gave a good idea, might flnd profitable to adopt. Of course Michigan has not reached that stage yet. She must wallow along some years yet with íier fossilized methods. "People ín the vicinity of Pittsburg have started a movement in favor of composite roads, consisting of a macadamized track a dozen feet wide with a dirt je oad alongside of it. It is well known that dirt roads in suinmer afibrd pleasanter driving than any other kind, butin winter or continued wet weather they are at the other extreme. It is stated that this coinbination road can be built for $10,000 a mile, or about half as inuch as one macadamized full width. The idea seems to be one worthy of general attention and careful experiment." The miners of Ishpeming, who are out on a strike, are a set of cowardly rumana. They tyrannize over everybody tliere and appear to run things just as they please. Last Friday night they drove a Detroit newspaper man out of the city, and it was with great difficulty that he was protected from a mob'of two or three hundred of the human beasts, and bis life saved. His only oífense was tliat he had met some of the strikers, talked with them, and published what they said to him. They didn't like to see their own words in print. Yesterday's dailies say that these same strikers have threatened both the Marquette Mining Journal and the editor of the Iron Ore, at Ishpeming, because they have dared to point out some of the foolish and unbusinesslike methods of the strikers. When it gets so that a mob of that sort can terrorize the entire section where it exists, and kill everybody that does not bow the knee to their crazy whims, it is time the}' were tauglit civility by the strong arm of the law, and made to understand that the law i.:s au arm strong enough to deal with atl ofíenders.