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ing to unite in doing honor to the great captain who
commanded the armies against whom their futhert
fought. We have not enough occasions of this char
acter in America. We need more of these opportuni
ties for instilling into the youth of the land martial
ardor and patriotic fervor, for upon them the nation
must rely for the protection of its honor and the main
tenance of its rights. A nation prosper in jace, but I
what it gains hy the arts of peace must often be de- j
fended hy the arts of war, and we should always be ,
ready for such an emergency, not only with guns and I
ships, hut with the equally essential factors of war, '
martial ardor and patriotic enthusiasm. 1
I'liKTUXII. OnXIoN, SaTI'NIIAY, OcTOIIkB 1'.', IKS',1.
DH. Mt-COSlI hut Hildcd new laurels to his honors
as mi original discoverer. Not content with dis
covering a covert insult to Princeton college, of
which institution he was then the president, em
bodied in lr. Holmes's kmiii read at the Harvard ban
quet, he now comes forward at the meeting of the
Presbytery and announces a more startling " discovery"
nothing less than that the Itihle dis s not teach the
good old I'reslivteriun doctrine of forcordination. Now
From reports of the recent election in Montana it
seems that the Australian ballot system worked most
satisfactorily. There were, to be sure, some in nearly
every precinct who lost their votes by reason of care
lessness or heedless ignorance of the plain and simple
provisions of the law; but that has always been the
case under any system. Tho chief advantages claimed
for the system, such as freedom of the voter from re
straining influences at the polls and the impossibility
of imposing upon him sham and "doctored" ballots,
seem to have leen reaped in a full measure. Under it
there is, of course, no way of preventing the bribery of
the voter before he approaches the polls, but there the
power of the corruptionist ceases, and he has no means
if the good ti.'r will again adjust his theological
telewoK, or grasp bis dogmatic deviniug rod. and tell j of being certain that the voter actually casts the ballot
us where are located the souls of those who in times ! he promised to. Montana is to be congratulated upon
past have Uen condemned to eternal punishment In- I adopting this radical reform, and to the republican
cause of a refusal to U-lieve in this obsolete dogma, he I party there belongs the credit of carrying this and the
will achieve a reputation as a discoverer that will send j registration law for the purification of elections against
his name "thundering down the ages." Millions of j the opposition of the democratic speakers and press.
ope would like to know this, and whether a formal i
dropping of this article from the church creed will
have an it fVfu euVt and release all previously
unjustly condemned, and whether an action for false
imprisonment would not lie ngninst those who arbi
trarily consigned them to the Isittomless pit without
due authority of scripture.
So far as law is concerned the seizures made by the
Himh in Hchring sea this season will le sustained. A
decision by Judge Sabin, of San Francisco, confirms
the legality of the seizures made in 1SH7 and the salt
of confiscated skins. It settles the ioint that a seizure
once made and a prize crew placed alniard, is complete
. i , . HI"1 "V'1'' ev,'n f the vessel be forcibly taken to an-
It was a great day at ,,, Point. w!, ,h, olhl.r ,M)rt (he ) ,t wM wM Ud.
Ut.nl of (Vtols-r, the ,H,rrais of tirant. Sherman d der this division any American vessel can I
Mendan w, , r, unv, W ,n the prese,,,. of ,1, vising tttk(.M in t to whk, 1tlt tu. Inens
.tales,,,,, fro,,, all the nations of North and South ,.f taking foreign Vt,,8 tliat have LaH to fore
America. Th, pre.entat.on s,.,vh of (ieneral Horace port, is yet to U, determined.
I orter was rulogtstic, manly and patriotic, and elicited
a storm of applause from the listening cadds, who are
t.u,s t.f the (lower of our youth from rvcrv state
in th union. The rtbvt of this scno (lon the visitors
must have Nrn to impress then, w itti the fact that tl
material from which our army is U-ing nmd
No better method could be devised of impressing
the representatives to the pan-American congress with
the gn at wealth, population, power and coinmanJin
ims.rtaiHv of the I'nitwl States than that of taking
thusi.sti.allr loval to our reunited cmntrv n, ,U, ' " , "M l0Ur ' oUr , j
is en-