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PITTSBURG, SUNDAY. JAN. 6. 1SS9.
IMPERIAL INSANITY.
The irony of the doctrine of hereditary
fitness to rule, which is the foundation of
the monarchical system, could hardly he
shown in a more striking form than by the
report 'which appears in our cable dis
patches, that the young Emperor of Ger
many is on the point of joining the list of
insane royalties of Europe.
The assertion that his disease has already
manifested itself, affords a charitable ex
planation for some of the young Hohenzol
lem's most remarkable performances. It is
more generous to suppose that his anxiety
to take his father's place, and his singularly
unfilial conduct toward his mother, were
caused by incipient insanity than to at
tribute them to the lack of natural feelings.
For the sake of the Emperor's own reputa
tion it is almost preferable to believe that he
is, as intimated, already insane, than to
regard him as sane, but selfish and unnat
ural..
' But what a commentary upon the mon
archical system it is to imagine the welfare
of the German Empire and the peace of Eu
rope dependent on the whims of incipient
madness!
A GRATIFYING ENHANCEMENT.
The general enhancement of values, and
the remarkable prosperity that attends upon
our city, as well as the good fortune for a
large number of deserving charities, appear
to a marked degree in the statements given
elsewh.re with regard to the increase in the
bequests made by the will of the late Miss
Holmes. It appears that the value of the
residuary bequcsts.'originally valued at
about 5300,000, have by the advance in
prices of real estate and stocks appreciated
to about 5600,000, and before the estate is
settled up are likely to reach a million.
This is typical of the general advance in the
wealth of the city during the past two or
three years. Prices are still upon a con
servative basis and Pittsburg, as a rule,
seems to be avoiding the dangers of a boom.
ItSs a gratifying feature of this enhance
ment of values that a long list of deserving
institutions will get twice what was ex
pected from the bequests of that charitable
lady, and have good hopes of seeing the
bequests tripled.
THE FBESILVENTS INFLICTION. .
It is reported from Indianapolis that
among the President-elect's New Year's
presents was a large lithograph representing
him as sitting at a beer table and ordering
"swei lager" for himself and President
Cleveland, amid an environment of pretty
waiter girls. This is a worse infliction than
the bear and beaver gifts, and is of a nature
to warrant the President in resolrine to call
out the militia and declare war on the gift
shippers as soon as he is inaugnrated and
the much-manufactured Cabinet is once
more completed.
The pictorial representation is undoubted
ly the artistic conception of some enterpris
ing brewery, ambitious of advertisement;
and it displays more than the usual superi
ority to limitations of good taste, politics,
art and moral standing, for which these pic
torial advertisements of bock are noted. It
is bad enough to pay the penalty of great
ness by having to find house room for the
stray specimens of the wild animals of
North America, which the notoriety-loving
may send in; but to be pictorially portraved
in a position that will alienate the support
of political and personal friends, and to be
forced to receive the artistic libel, is rubbing
it in with a vengeance.
For an elder of the Presbyterian Church,
desirous of gaining the support of the tem
perance people, and a pillar of strict mo
rality to be forced to contemplate himself
as the central figure in a beer hall and
waiter-girl creation of art, is hard indeed;
but this is not all. The ancestral tipple of
the President-elect is hard cider. The
hereditary campaign beverage is strictly
American, and cannot be presented to the
cause of beer.
The .Presbyterian and hard cider affilia
tions of General Harrison must unite in
frowning down the efforts of the beer artist
to glorify any particular brand of lager at
the Presidental expense.
SELLERS CAKE TOO SOON.
That remarkable fraud, the Electric Sugar
Kefining Company, of whose collapse the
newspapers are telling a thrilling story,
bears an uncommon likeness in its financial
history to the great Keeley Motor. "We are
led to infer from witnessing the facility
with which this and kindred swindles ex
tract large sums of money from the unwarv,
that if Aladdin came along with his wonder
ful lamp or a modern alchemist with a
recipe for the production of the philoso
pher's stone, not the slightest difficulty
would be found in capitalizing either. A.
plausible tale of the immense profits ahead;
mysterious reticence as to ths process;
judicious booming on the stock exchanges,
and the chances are that in a few weeks the
public would make a cheerful rush for the
shares. The higher the premium the greater
the eagerness.
So long as the fame of the South Sea bub
ble is recorded in history, it cannot be said
that this craze for parting with good money
for fine prospects is peculiar to our times.
But it may safely be affirmed that never has
' it been more .widespread than now. Such
vast fortunes have come to those interested
in lucky inventions that the popular imag
ination is easily fired. The telegraph, the
C telephone, the clectrio light, the air brake,
the sewing machine can all point to their
millionaires. In times of general prosperity
5 '.like the past ten years, individuals accumu
. , . I . . ,,. J
S " meirjBifHiiuaie caiungs; ana j
when the man or the company with a big
prospectus comes along it is very tempting.
The bulk of the business on "Wall street and
in the lesser speculative Exchanges through
the country, is done in this spirit. We are
within the limit of fact certainlv, in assum
ing that not one in five of those who "take
"flyers" in shares or speculative commodi
ties really know much more of the intrinsic
worth, or of the workings of the forces
which control this or that property or com
modity, than the stockholders of the Elec
tric Sugar Kenning Company knew of the
true inwardness of that meteoric enterprise.
It is not in the United States either that
this spirit is most rife. Here, fortunately,
there are so many opportunities for the rea
sonably safe employment of capital at good
remuneration that, large though the volume
of guess-work speculation be, it represents
but small part of an overflow of means and
of spirits. But in steady and wealthy old
England, where interest rates are low and
safe investments hard to find, the rage for
going into companies is universal. The
English newspapers are filled from day to
day with advertisements of this, that and
the other thing, and from Argentine rail
ways through South American forests to
the diamond mines of Africa; from the sold
mines of California to the ivory trade of the
Congo; from the brewers' companies to sup
ply the United Kingdom with beer to salt
syndicates to control the markets of the
world, everything seems to go. If Colonel
Mulberry Sellers had only delayed his eye
water a single de:ade there might veritably
have been "millions in it."
"When an out-and-out swindle, as the
Electric Sugar Refinery Company, comes
to the surface, it is not wholly a disaster.
It will instruct future investors in the vir
tue of caution. There will always be specu
lation; but it is for the interest of the meri
torious things, as well as for the good of
investors, to have an occasional strong object-lesson
on the folly of buying a pig
which is wholly in a poke. Considering
how easy it is to float the most extravagant
schemes, it is rather evidence of the general
honesty and conscience that the absolute
and complete swindles are relatively so few.
FEOGEESS ON THE TAELFF.
The Senate appears to be working with
some deliberation, it is true, but steadily to
ward getting the tariff bill in shape. The
intimations that an agreement has been
reached bv which there will be a material
reduction on the lumber duty and a com
pensatory bounty to sugar growers, to make
up a portion of the reduction in the sugar
duties, indicate a satisfactory solution of
two difficult points in the bilL
The danger to this measure is that the
leisurely action of the Senate may get the
bill back to the House so late that action
there can be put off on the plea of insuffi
cient time. There is an apparent disposi
tion on the part of the leading Democrats in
the House to use almost any pretext to pre
vent a settlement of the tariff question at
this session. If that course prevails it will
be an exhibition of bad faith and worse pol
itics. It will show bad faith because it will
show the slight value placed by the Demo
crats on their own declarations that the rev
enues should be reduced at once, and the
tariff question settled. It will be worse pol
itics because an agreement on the tariff at
this session will give the Democrats a voice
in the arrangement; while to put the matter
off another year will leave the subject wholly
in the hands of the Republicans.
There is an especial want ot consistency
in the report that Mr. Mills will insist on
public hearings in committee before the bill
is reported to the House. Public 'hearings
in committee are generally considered ap
propriate when a bill is originated; but Mr.
Mills refused them when they were proper.
To insist on them now, when the committee
to which they should be referred is a con
ference committee, would afford a remarka
ble commentary on the previous policy of
the Democratic leaders.
THE LION GEOWLS IN EARNEST.
Strained relations are in evidence in the
reminders of the London press to Count
Herbert Bismarck. From the free-lance
Pall Mall J3azcttt to the ultra dignified
Times, including in that widest of journal
istic ranges the Home Kule Star and the
Tory Globe, all the organs of British opinion
show their teeth decisively over the insult
to the British ambassador at St Petersburg.
The British lion, as they declare, does not
want to fight, but there is a point beyond
which it is not safe to worry him; and, if a
good loud growl goes for anything, warning
is now given that he does not intend to
stand any more baiting from the young Ger
man Emperor and the young German states
man, or courtier, whichever his friends wish
to consider him.
There is a deeper cause just now for English
feeling against Germany. The latter coun
try has of late been as active in trade ai it
was formerly successful in war. It is push
ing in every direction for foreign commerce.
In many quarters British manufacturers
and merchants feel simultaneously the
sharp pinch of German competition. There
is a daily cry about this state of affairs in
the newspapers. Personal differences among
members of the royal families and diplo
matic collisions which might be passed over
at other times, now touch extremely sensi
tive nerves. The storm center for England
for a long timehoveredoverBussiajbut John
Bull can keep the peace and beat Russia
out of sight in his great business of inter
national commerce. Germany's new and
successful activity and extensive ambitions
in trade are more difficult to deal with. To
day London looks with more apprehension
to Berlin than fo St Petersburg.
If the younger Bismarck succeed his
father as director of the affairs of
the German Empire, he will clearly have
more enemies than France to deal with in
maintaining his father's vigorous and com
manding attitude.
NOT MBS. HABEIS' HUSBAND.
Henry Labouchere stated in last week's
London Truth that Laurence Oliphant, the
English author who died recently, at one
time belonged to a religious sect, the high
priest of which was Mr. Harris "who lived,
and I presume still lives, somewhere in the
United States." Mr. Labouchere is beauti
fully vagne about this Mr. Harris.and some
of his readers will doubtless irffer that Mr.
Harris, who lives somewhere on this conti
nent is scmewhat like the famous Mrs. Har
ris who resided in Sairey Gamp's imagina
tion. But Mr. Harris is not a myth. "When Mr.
Oliphant was associated with him Thomas
Lake Harris was the presiding spirit of the
"Brotherhood of the Hew Life," a spirit
ualist society which had its headquarters in
a settlement in Portland, Chautauqua coun
ty, New York. He is still weil known in
spiritualist circles as a teacher of a peculiar
combination of the doctrines of Plato, in
philosophy, Swedenborg, in spiritual
science, and Fowler, in sociology.
Mr. Labouchere is in error also when he
asscrrf that Mr. Oliphant's religions views
were received from Mr. Harris. Mr. Oil
, ', , . ' . I
puant lormca nis views ana nays otitic en- 1
THE
tirely by and for himself." Mr. Labouchere
does not seem at all competent to inform the
public about Mr. OH phant's character, al
though the latter was a compatriot, and so
Mr. Labouchere would have us believe, a
companion of his.
Not very much was' known about Mr.
"Wolcott who carried the Senatorial caucus
at Denver and will be the next United
States Senator from Colorado; but it was
considered to the credit of Colorado that he
was not Tabor. Further information re
vealingvthe fact that Mr. "Wolcott is the at
torney of four large railroad corporations,
room is given for belieying that ttill more
credit attaches to the Colorado legislators
ill their bank accounts.
And now the manufacturing corporations
are pitching into the Governor's message.
After that document has caught it from a
few m6re quarters, the idea may dawn upon
the Governor's mind that it is impossible to
please everybody.
Fboji Paris to Dakota the winter is re
ported to be mild and balmy; and ice deal
ers, plumbers, coal men are all uniting in
fulminations against such beastly weather.
The only class that rises superior to such a
situation is composed of the natural gas
companies who drag in their stated charge
per month whether the winter be hyper
borean or tropical.
The New York Sun remarks that "it is
somewhat amusing to hear the Republican
leaders saying so much about a free and
honest ballot; but the best joke in that line
is furnished by D. B. Hill's deliverance on
the same subject
The Ohio man who has a double-barreled
shot gun ready for the "White Caps, and lets
them have the contents of both barrels
when they make their midnight attacks,
hits upon a very practical solution of the
"White Cap problem. If the law cannot de
fend citizens against midnight marauders,
the citizens must be prepared to defend
themselves.
One of the curiosities of the overhead
wire situation is to be perceived in the fact
that while Pittsburg is manufacturing
underground electric cable systems for other
cities it cannot get its own wires put
under ground.
The report that Mr. Blaine is now en
gaged in distributing the patronage of the
State Department, contains a suggestion
that the Plumed Knight is imitating the
example of the man who sold the lion's akin
while the royal beast was still ranging the
forests and found some difficulty their deliv
ering the goods.
The report that White Cap warnings
have boen received in Pittsburg, shows how
that remarkably small specimen of human
ity, the anonymous letter-writer, is improv
ing the occasion to scare his victims.
Mb. Labouchere says that there arc a
million girls in England, who are unable to
secure husbands. The influence of these
maidens on English public opinion will ba
likely to produce a strong demand for the
protection of home industry against the im
portation of American heiresses.
The earnestness with which the railroad
managers are all denying the indictment of
having cut rates on their roads, is likely to
create the impreision that -the rates cut
themselves.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
have made up their little disagreement, ac
cording to verified reports. This was the
inevitable result under the circumstances.
"Where the lady swings the bank account,
the lord of the household generally finds it
profitable to be pacific
That Geological survey appropriation
which was started merely as a temporary ar
rangement, bids fair to exemplify the long
sought solution of the problem of perpetual
motion.
Thebe is much pertinence to the sug
gestion that if Mr. Springer is in earnest
about wishing to do justice to Dakota he
might spend less time about hunting names
for the two States to be made out of it, and
more at bringing in bills for its admission?
"While the rop prevaricator may be
challenged on a good many prints, there
is no question but that a continuance of
this sort of weather will ruin the ice crop.
Mk. "Wanamaker's announcement tnat
he will sail for Paris on the 16th is sup
posed to have a string tied to it. And if
General Harrison wants to get hold of the
other end' of the string, Mr. "Wanamaker'S
friends will see to it that he has the chance.
Ik the first two months of 1889, all roads
in the United States lead to Indianapolis.
"Wab between Count Herbert Bismarck
and Sir E. D. Morier has broken out in the
European newspapers. That outlet will
probably obviate the necessity of satisfying
the international difference by. a bloodier
though hardly moe noisy warfare.
PB0MINENT PEOPLE.
iTis reported thatLadySaiisburywill present
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain to the Queen at the
first drawing room.
Mms. Patti Nicomni has at Craig-y-Nos a
huge automatic music-box which plays all the
great operatic anas of her repertory.
M. Daniel Wilson now looks almost as old
as his father-in-law, M. Grevy, and appears to
be hopelessly broken down in spirits.
Guy de Maupassant, the French novelist,
Is about to make an expedition to Central
Africa with his valet He is determined to
appear a hero to his valet, even at the risk of
his life.
Prince Bismarck is in wretched health.
Ho takes a great deal of satisfaction, however,
in the fact that he is a good deal younger than
Von Moltkc"Ho will not entertain the thought
that be may die before the old warrior..
Senator Reagan, of Texas, cannot think
on public questions unless he is chewing paper.
It would be a good thing for some of his col
leagues if they should adopt this habit They
might then talk less and think more.
MABIA Pia, Queen of Portugal, leads an
actlvo and useful life at home. She rises early
and has breakfast at 7 o'clock. The morning is
occupied in attending to the correspondence in
connection with the various societies to which
she belongs.
Queen Ranavalona IIL of Madagascar
and President Carnot have been exchanging
keepsakes In a most delightful manner. First
the Queen sent her photograph to M. Carnot
then the President sent his own and that of
Jlme. Carnot and added to them a diamond
pin. The "Souveraini pain d'epice,"" as she is
wickedly called in France, was so charmed with
the glittering stone that she told the French
Resident at Tananariro that she would hence
forth wear it on her bosom, where otherwise
the cross of the Legion of Honor has its place.
Fonr-ln-HantT.
From the X ew York World. 3
Whatever we may do 'about seizing.Canada.
Haytl, Cuba, Mexico and Samoa, we are now
iImi-Ihm.Ii. .Itnri.. ...., la. 1 t- tli. TT-I
' " ACMifcWilM CUU UUfcU IUB UU1VU
In an Omnibus. - ;.
PITTSBUBG DISPATCH,
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Injustice to John Hmlth, and n Few Mild
Observations on Unman Nature.
Queer characters, humorous personages
and funny people sometimes have names in
I keeping with their nature and suggestive of
their prgmlnent traits and that, too, in this
real world. Of course no orthodox novelist
would dare to call his low comedian
Brown or Robinson. Tho writer of popular
fiction gets his first whack at the enemy, his
friend the public, I mean, in the title of his
book. Then he furnishes a sort of key to tho
important characters by christening them ac
cording to their moral attributes. Tne more
deftly this alliance of name and nature is ef
fected, the less likely is tho reader to take of
fense at a practice which is a covert reflection
upon his intelligence.
I don't know how it may be with you but
my experience has been peculiar upon this
point The most humorous man out and out
I ever knew was called Smith his first name
was John. He died before ho was graduated
at college. Perhaps it was well for him he
didn't live to carry his rare wit and graceful
humor into the markets of a rude world.
Living by omj's wits is said to be generally
precarious, but the professional humorist is
heir to more than bis fair share of afflictions.
I cannot think of Bmith, the cheery schoolboy,
open of heart and countenance, as a melan
choly shadow of a man continually grinding
ont threadbare jokes at so much a line. No, it
is better for Johnny that ho died.
At first sight, however, who would think of
discovering a fountain of fun, wit or wisdom
in a John Smith. It's very hard on several
people who bear the name, cut the world re
fuses to accuse a John Smith of any higher dis
tinguishing trait than disorderly conduct, per
haps, on a police blotter.
.
A young attorney of my acquaintance has
been studying human nature out of court as
well as in. His discoveries have not been very
remarkable for novelty. The fact is man is
getting pretty well known to us alL Our
fathers, we are continually discovering, knew
man before us, and their fathers had more than
an inkling of him before them. Human nature
in tho main in Itself has been pretty thor
oughly analyzed. "While one party of ex
perts has been trying to find a new
ponsasinorum by which to conduct physical
man from the ugly and unpleasant ape, another
equally zealous band has been sending up bal
loons Into spirit lands to take the exact meas
urements of the human soul.
So, for once I did not expect my young legal
friend to spout novelties, as it were. And I
was satis fled considering his profession that
he confined himself, to truth. Truth is more
lovely in a lawyer's mouth than ever a pearl in
seatoam oyster.
V
"I HAVE f onnd slnceJ began to practice law
that my preconceived notion of the usefulness
of friends exploded under tho pressure of ex
perience," said the attorney, turning a Fur
don's Digest so that it should not mock him
with Inverted pages.
"Has Mr. declined to renew"that note?"
I interposed as sympathetically as I knew how.
"No." he replied. "What I 'mean is that
you musn't think that tnose who know you
best will assist you most in your career."
"Certainly not," I assented. "On the con
trary, many a man is bound to find that those
who know him best aro least likely to trust
him. The only thing for a man so well known
to do is to go to some place where be will be a
stranger. But excuse me you were saying?"
"That a young man who thinks that he is
blessed in possessing the friendship or ac
quaintance of say a thousand people is likely to
be sadly disappointed," my friend replied, "and
I have found by bitter experience that 1 must
expect to get my fees from strangers, rather
than friends. The tithe of my intimate friends
and even relatives who have occasion to bring
suit in the courts, never think of employing
me. You ask them what they think of mo
and glibly they'll say that I am a very talented
young man, who is making his way, sir, at the
bar, who will be heard from later on, who is
worthy of his name, and so on. But when my
eulogists have a little busibess to throw in
some lawyer's way they never think of giving
to me. They have been in contact with me so
long that they, almost every one of them, have
lapsed into a feeling that is not very far from
indifference."
V
"Quite so." was all I could summon to say
after my friend's forensic lament was done.
"When I told one of my most respected rela
tions, in fact it was my father," the young at
torney proceeded, "the other day :vhat I havo
just told you, ho most inhumanely re
plied: Tom, you remind me of what my
Uncle Dick said to me when I asked
for a loan to clear me of some college debts. I
was careful to impress upon my uncle that the
money I wanted was to be a loan. He said he
didn't think I would repay the money; it was a
gift I wanted. I replied, uncle you don't
know me. To which he answered with a diaboli
cal grin, My dear nephew, the trouble is that I
know you, and understand you too well!' "
Hepburn Johns.
A I0DKG LADY'S GRIP. '
A Thief Tried to Steal Miss Hook's Purse,
but Failed and Was Jailed.
Special Telegram to the Dispatch".
New Youk, January 5. A tramp snatched
young Annie Hook's purse from her hand in
Broadway early last evening. She caught the
tail of his coat and then his coat collar, all the
time screaming for help. The tramp tried to
knock her down, but she kept her grip and he
couldn't get at her. A policeman eventually
got her purse and carried the tramp to jail.
TOO GOOD A JOB FOE HIM.
The President Removes a Pennsylvania Man
From an Office Ho Didn't Like.
Washington, January 5. The President
has directed the removal of Mr. Alfred E.
Lewis, Deputy Fifth Auditor of the Treasury,
for neglect and inattention to his official duties.
He is a resident of Milford, Pa., and was ap
pointed to the deputy anditorship by President
Cleveland, about two vcars ago.
It is understood that ho has never been satis
fied with the office, feeling that bis ability and
services to the party entitled him to a more
remunerative position.
The Right to Enter.
From the Boston Herald.
Under tho ordinance relating, to placVs of
publio amusement in Boston it is provided that
the Board of Aldermen shall have the right to
enter these places at all times, either Individu
ally or collectively, and the same right is re
served for the Corporation Ceunsel, the City
Solicitor, the Board of Police, the Superin
tendent, Deputy Superintendent Chief In
spector ana Inspectors of Police, the Fire Com
missioners, the Chief Engineer of the Fire De
partment and Engineer being In charge of the
district in which the place of amusement Is
located. This makes a very formidable free
list but it Is apparently made up on tho prin
ciple that tho regulations concerning theaters
need careful attention, especially where there
is an attractive bill on the boards.
A Good Place for Now Year Callers.
From the Chicago News.J
Berlin's india-rubber pavements ought to be
a source of much pleasure to subjects of the
Kaiser who stay out late. A padded city must
surely be a joyous place to make Now Year's
calls in.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Snm Jones. j
Sam Jones, the popular clerk or the Seventh
Avenue Hotel, died atso'clock yesterday morn
ing of pneumonia. He was conscious to the last,
and bad no Idea he wax going to die so soon until
a short time before he expired. During the night
his attendants raised him np. Noticing for the
first time the swelling In his feet, he said: "I give
up, boys. That is a sure sign I am dying," and
poor Sam lived bnt a few boors afterward.
Ho was born in Harrisburg (1 years ago. His
father built the Jones House, and In his younger
days Sam waa a noted leader in Harrisburg soci
ety. He came to the Serenth Avenue Hotel sorcu
vearsago,whed Colonel Dneer, his father's friend,
loot charge of the house, .lie was nerer married,
and despite constant 111 health he gave bis life ud
for his friends.
The Rev. Boblnton will condnct religions serv
ices this afternoon at his room, 720 l'cnn avenue.
His body will be taken to Harrisburg at 8 o'clock
In the evening. The Anderson clerks contributed
a floral register; his Bcrenth Avenue colleagues a
broken column, and the other hotels have given
various floral decorations.
Jnmea Greg.
Gsexnsbdbo, Pa., January 5. James Gregg,
Esq., died this morning after an Ulness or more
than a rdonth. 'Squire Gregg was elected County
Treasurer In 1873, and subsequently school di-,
rector and Justice of the 1'eaoe. -He was about67
"r."w. 3fi ,. . -... .t
SUNDAY, JANXTABtf 8,
A JDDGE GE0WS INDIGNANT.
The Hon. Flnletter Gives Some Wholesome
Advice From the Philadelphia Bench.
From the Philadelphia Kecord.
"It seems to me hat people get married with
out any idea of the responsibility nf married
life, ana the moment there is a little dispute or
misunderstanding they separate," remarked
Judge Finletter in the Desertion Court yester
day, after hearing Mrs. Amanda Helm testify
to the reasons why she could not lire with her
husband William.
But the Judge's indignation was not alone
with young married people whose ill-temper
and poor judgment lead them to settle.famlly
troubles in court When he learned that
Helm bad been committed to prison by Mag
istrate Smith in default of bail one week ago
because the wife thought She was not prop
erly supported, thev Judge said to Solicitor
Cavin: "You ought to see that the act of As-
semniy giving the Magistrates tne ngni to
issue proceedings without your authority Is
revoked."
The wife claimed that she was obliged to
leave her husband's roof because she suffered
from rheumatism, and her husband and his
mother refused to take care of her. Mrs.
Helm admitted that she had received money
from her husband everyiweekat her mother's
house, but she said that he never gave her
enough money, and denied her the little things
that a wife likes to have.
"Are you willing to go back to him?" asked
connsel,
"If he does everything that is right; but he
told me that if I ever bore him any children he
would leave me, and I am now in a delicate
condition."
"Who advised these proceedings?" demanded
the Judge, after hearing the evidence.
"I did not," replied Solicitor Cavin.
"Well, that'sjust the trouble." resumed His
Honor. "The Legislature interferes and takes
the responsibility from yon and allows the
magistrates to institute proceedings, and the
consequence is that we have Just such'scenes
as these every Friday. It Is simply disgrace
ful. There is no reason in tho world why these
parties should not live together, and there is
no reason whatever for this man's, arrest and
confinement in prison. If the parties who took
her home bad given her some good advice it
wonld have been better for all concerned. I
dismiss the case."
THEY FEEL OFFENDED.
Qlembers of the Jr. O. V. A. SI. Annoyed at
Alleged Remarks of Capt, Dravo.
Special Telegram to the Dispatch.
Beaver, Pa., January 5. Representative
John F. Bravo is credited with having said to a
reporter at Harrisburg during the past week
that bo has a bill about ready for presentation
in the House providing for the purchase,
maintenance and daily elevation of the national
flag on each school building and educational
institution in the State, and with saying: "I
want this thing taken out of the domain of
secret societies where it only ferments bitter
ness and civil discord and relegated to Its
proper place."
A number of members of the Jr. O. TJ. A. M.,
the only secret society that has taken an active
part in the matter of floating the flag from
the school buildings, appear to take offense at
this utterance as being a dig at the order.
Said a prominent local member of tbo order
to-day: "We are all native-born Americans who
belong to that order, and I can assure Mr.
Dravo, and I know that every American Me
chanic will bear me out in it, that the subject
never raised any 'bitterness or civil discord' in
any meeting or council of the order where it
was discussed."
An attempt was made to see Captain Dravo,
but he was not at home. A close personal
friend, however, said that that gentleman had
no such meaning when he said what ho did as
is taken by these members of the Jr. O. U. A, M.
"Captain Dravo is personally favorable to the
Jr. O. U. A. M. and its principles, and would ba
the last man to say anything that would In any
wav reflect upon it "What be meant was that
it should be made a matter of law and not the
work of secret societies, between the different
orders of which it would eventually cause bad
blood. His words wore probably not as full as
this, but that, I am certain, is what he meant"
A number of others who know Captain
Dravo put a similar construction upon his
words. The bill whfch Captain Dravo has
framed was suggested by Presiding Elder Rev.
T. N. Eaton, of the Allegheny District of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and he first con
ceived the idea from seeing the flag waving
from a school building, which had been sup
plied by members of the Jr. O. U. A, M,
MOKE MONET ASKED FOB.
The Commissioner of Agrlcultnre Enthu
siastic on the Subject of Silk Culture.
Washington, January 5. The Commission
er of Agriculture to-day transmitted to Con
gress a report by Joseph Neuman on the wild
native silk worm of California. Mr. Neuman
asks that the appropriation of $2,500, made last
year to enable him to study tbisnatlvo silk
worm, be Increased to $25,000, as it is necessary,
he says, to establish temporary observatory
stations wherever the food plant on which the
worm feeds exists in quantities.
Ho predicts that by continuing the study "it
will not be many years before this discovery of
mine, of the native silk worm, will be' one of
the greatest blessings ever conferred upon the
people of the civilized world."
TELEPHONE BATES INCREASED.
The Necessity of Underground Cables As
signed ns en Excuse.
Special Telegram to the Dlipalch.
New York, January 6,-The New York and
New Jersey Telephone Company has raised its
yearly rates in Brooklyn from !90 to $120. This
will affect only new subscribers.
Mr. Charles F. Cutler, the President, says
there are 106 lines under ground and only 26 of
the number in use. When new subscriber is
taken in a section of the city where an ex
tension is necessary to reach him tho company
13 compelled to induct a special wire, and a 100
wire cable mast be laid for that single wire.
Where now subscribers sign a five-years' con
tract the old rates will stand.
HIT HIM WITH A DICTIONARY.
Mrs. Lanthicr Takes Umbrage nt Principal
Demurest for Thrashing Her Boy.
Special Telegram to the Dispatch.
New York, January 5. P. E. Demarest,
principal of a school in Long Island City,
thrashed little Georgo Lauthier yesterday for
sticking pins into other small boys. As soon
as Mrs. Lauthier found out about it she went
to Mr. Demarest to tell him her opinion of
him.
Mr. Demarest told her George was a bad boy.
She called Mr. Demarest another before a
room full of pupils, slapped him, hit him in the
stomach with a dictionary, and tore oil his
neckwear. The Long Island City School Board
had Mrs. Lauthier arrested to-day.
Died While Praying.
BATAVIA, N. Y., January 5. Mrs. Henry
Stevens, while kneeling in prayer at the Free
Methodist Church in East Bethany, six miles
from here, last night fell over with a groan and
expired immediately. She had gone to the
meeting with her husband in apparent good
health.
General Harrison's Silence.
From the Philadelphia Times. "
General Harrison's silence on the subject ot
the Cabinet appointments is now dense enough
to bo distinguished in the dark.
A DAUGHTEtt OF THE REPUBLIC.
In early life 'tis said that she worked to earn her
bread;
But His plain.
On those days of toil and lack she has turned
her silken back
Id disdain.
For she's quite resolved to be something" In
society,
ICsliecan,
And has built a' nondescript house (aU properly
equipped)
-, Called "Queen Anne."
She bsj bought a pedigree, coat-of-arms and fam
ily tree;
j Ana ner race.
Througn inc ages, i Dciieve, oacc to Auam ana to
Eve
She can trace.
All her tastes (of course) are line Browning,
Buddha, art, design.
Are her fads,
And to these with energy other epidemics she
Daily adds.
Sweet and fawnlike Is her way, when the great
the recherche
Treat her well;
But her elevated nose Is discouraging to those
' Not so swell!
With many a pat and bugls her small, capricious
pog-
Dog beguiled;
Whllo her large and liberal purse has procured a
foreign nurse
For her child. .
i
In short, this airy dame, playing her ambitious
game
Of pretense.
Scorning common., things, has quite left behind'
her. In her flighty , ,
. .Common sense! a.1"- -; , .i
&A'h4i&rrf.-fftf.,UreMflM.rtKf0. j
1889."
A SOCIAL TVHIEL
That Marks the Last Dnyi of Cleveland'
Reign Quay a Political Hero Part
Played by Pennsylvania In Society's!
Amusements A Sober Four Years Pre
dieted.
IFltOMA STAT? COBBXSFONOENT.
Washington, January 5. The social world is
now fully awake and at its gayest and giddiest
and until Lent comes to overshadow every
thing with its subdued hues fashionable society
will be in a- sort of luxurious and delightful
craze, a kind of mental drunk, so to speak.
Washington can show more fashionable dissi
pation to the square inch than any other place
in the universe. We are not much bigger than
a good-sized country town of the Old World,
but we have concentrated here all tbo fashion
and folly connected with the political world of
eo,00O,00U of people, and that is a vast deal.
Society has just taken its first turn in tho sea
son's whirl this week. There has been but the
one round, the first salvo, of .Executive, Cabi
net, Senatorial, Representative and Judicial
receptions, and Mrs. J. R. McLean has afforded
the juvenile pets of the fast fashionable set
their first lunacy in the way of a fancy' ball,
which outshone all its forerunners of other
years; but we are far enough along to know
that this will be the gayest and tne maddest
fashionable social season the capital has ever
seen.
No somberness will be allowed to intrude on
account of the defeat of tho present adminis
tration and the dread change that must occur
with the advent of a new party rule. Tho birds
of passage propose to go out in a blaze of
glory. If the badly mixed metaphor may be al
lowed. The fashionable equipages are more
elegant than ever before, the lfveries of coach
men and grooms more gorgeous, the expendi
ture more lavish for the follies of the dining
and ball rooms. It is evident that the pace Is
to be a bit faster. Those who havo led society
atsnch a lively gallop during the last four
years do not look forward to Dcing forgotten
as soon as they turn their backs on tbe field
where they have had such a series of brilliant
triumphs.
The social leaders of the next administration
may not be mors substantial than those of this
one, but somehow I cannot fancy a political
family such as President Harrison will choose
setting a tremendous pace like that which has
kept the chief figures of the present adminis
tration always in a whirL I don't suppose the
entire Cabinet will be made up of evangelists
like John Wanamaker, for they are not found
very numerously in political life, but neither
do I suppose that it will be a Cabinet which
will find a supreme delight in "paper hunts,"
or in following tbe hounds on a humbugging
trail oi ine impervious anise seed nag. not
that I find any fault with these sports, for they
are healthful, if somewhat dangerous, and if
not engaged in them worse things might be de
vised. But it is pretty certain that the social
leaden of the Harrison administration will be
of a slower.moving, more seriously disposed
nature, more elderly in years, and therefore
more inclined to the thoughtful than the
physical side of life.
There are indications that all, if not all, of
the members of the Harrison Cabinet will be
of a generation older than the majority of the
Cleveland cabinet Even Bayarcl and Endl
cott, the elderly representatives of Cleveland's
peculiar selections, are physically so construct
ed as to demand a deal of active outdoor life to
satisfy; and they are therefore of tener seen in
the saddle than in carriages or on foot and
have been more approachable in the highways
and byways of the District than In their offices.
This is supposed not only to be somewhat giddy
for elderly men, but to savor of devotion to the
British way of doing things, which is truly in
keeping with the general reputation earned by
the Secretaries of tho State and the War De
partments. Generally speaKlng the Pennsylvanians In
publio life have not played a conspicuous part
in this society. Senator Cameron has prac
tically bad upon himself the burden of keeping
the Keystone State upon the fashionable
boards, and even his tondencles are rather
toward the old style ot hospitality and enter
tainment, the democracy ot wealth and fashion,
than tbe newer vogub of rout and dissipation
which has reached its highest height during
this administration, which is supposed to bo
representative of the more democratic instincts
of the people. This latter fact is strange but
true. The Democratic party has been called
always tho'party of the common people." Yet
there never has been administration since the
founding of the Republic which brought the
power and ostentation of mere woalth. and tho
example of luxury and lavish expenditure, so
startlingly to the surface. This only proves
that the power of money has outstripped demo
cratic tradition. Whether we shall find it
possible to get back to the simpler life of other
days is one of the problems to be solved.
Senator Cameron occupies one of the old
mansions of the city on Lafayette square, and
however the style of his entertainments may
be modernized by tbe demands of tbe time
and circumstances, around his name and
around the old place there seems to hang an
atmosphere of a better democracy than that
of the present not a mere aristocracy of
money, but an aristocracy of heredity and
natural intellectual vigor, a respect of sub
stantial things, a liberality of view, which,
while it has its own individuality, carries ith
it a constant memory of the Cameron of
another day, a man of generous simplicity and
cordiality, even while ruling with an iron hand
in the interests of ambition and success.
Newer and, therefore, less conspicuous in tbe
social life of the caplt.il, Senator Quay has
nevertheless taken a forward position In so
ciety, and In the coming administration wdl
be called upon to play a social part that has
never before been demanded ot him-.
Whatover may be said of -other possible fac
tors of success, Quay is the political hero of
tbe time. I am not in tbo secrets of the cam
paign, and therefore I know not how much of
the late political revolution is due to the gen
eralship of Quay, and how much to the fortui
tous circumstances that are called luck, and
which, I strongly suspect, enter more largely
Into the success of our great men than we aro
inclined to give them credit for; but this I
know, that persons of judgment and knowledge
of affairs attribnteto his cunning so much of
tnccreait lor tne result thatwttnout mm there
would havo been failure, in their estimation,
instead ot success. Therefore, to all intents
and purposes, he was the head and front of all
things that contributed to success, and rightly
the heri pf the occasion. And since the elec
tion he has carried himself with all tbe modesty
of a hero. I do not know which Is the truer
evidence of greatness, the conduct of a success
ful campaign against tremendous odds or the
meekness with which he met all compliment
and effusion since his victor)'. In his position
ho is, of course, a mark for not only sincere
commendation, but for the toadyism, and
sycophancy and persecution of all who want
office. It is a trying position, and one which
must tax his resources more than when be was
devising ways and means for carrying the
election.
I do not thinkthat Senator Quay will greatly
relish the broader and less substantial and
simple social life into which he will almost un
avoidably be thrown by his relations with the
incoming administration. Quay is more of a
student than most men think, except his inti
mate acnuaintince. Ha li nvnn fnnW nf his
books than of political life, for which he seems
to h.lVP hppn Infnnrlflrl hvimtup. Ttala mnrn !
at come In his study than in tho drawing room.
Ho is not an extravagant buyer of pictures,
but 1 am told that he has the judgment of the'
best connoisseurs in matters ot fine art lean
remember a day not so very long ago when I
was anything but infatuated with what I was
assured were some of the political methods of
Mr. Quay and his friends, but even if all that
were true, that man can have a vast deal of
forgiveness, from most thoughtful people, who
has a genuine and Intelligent and lofty love for
the best there Is in art and literature.
Among the Representatives it is a curious
fact that almost tbe only ones who play any
part in tho social life of the capital are the two
who represent Allegheny county. Colonel
Bayne has now one of tbe most attractive resi
dences on Massachusetts avenue. He and Mrs.
Bayno entertain quietly, never ostentatiously.
Tho Colonel has gathered around him a charm
ing circle of masculine friends, a3 Mrs. Bayne
has that of the other sex, mostly selected from
Congressional circles, and with these he enjoys
a game of wbist or a quiet smoke and chat far
ncore than any of tbe fashionable assemblies,
for which, in truth, he has no love whatever.
The Colonel ought to hold a warm place in
the heart of the next President for he was an
unvarying prophet of the nomination of Gen
eral Harrison, always asserting that the situa
tion itself was a positive obstacle in the way of
any other result. I think he based bis argu
ment on the Bpencerian theory that where a
large number of persons were assembled to
gether for the accomplishment of any purpose
they would Inevitably arrive at the conclusion
wisest under the circumstances, and most
likely to contribute to the end in uiew, and
upon this he based his positive conviction that
Harrison would be tho nominee of tbe party.
This view be presonted to me weeks, perhaps
months, before tbe convention, though of
course in clearer and better form.
Representative Dalzell has a modest suite ot
rooms at the Arlington Hotel, and is also very
quiet in his social life, though he and his fami
ly aro much sought after. Few new members
of Congress have made a firmer place for them
selves during tbelr first term, and few. Indeed,
in any number of terms, than Mr. Dalzell. He
has attemnted onlv one set sneecb. that on ths
.Pacific Railroad bill, but this got him a solid
reputation, especially among tne lawyers ot
'the House, who could best appreciate it It is
a pleasure to hear of ths retention of such men
In the Congressional office.
Scott of Erie, entertained more ostentatious
ly than any other of the members from Penn
sylvania during his career as aJWarwicfc, and
as a power behind the throne, but he "has
dropped out as completely as though be bad
never existed. Truly he blazed the comet of a
season, and It is not probable that any turn of
the political crank will make him ever so con
spicuous a figure at the capital again. He Is
one of the best examples extant of the vagaries
of politics in a Republic like ours. But be
ought to be satisfied, for few men sprlngwith
in two or three years from a business offico to
the position of confidential adviser of a Presi
dent, and doubtless It was logical that tbe
failure of that President to retain the confi
dence of tho people should retire him agam to
his domain of a coal and railroad king.
W.L.
BEATJTI CONQUERED BI DEATH.
A Pretty Widow Dice In Central Park, New
York.
Special Telegram to tbe Dispatch.
New York, January 5. Mrs. Jennie Lin
coln, a widow, aged 20, died in Central Park on
December 31, but ths authorities concealed ths
fact from the public until to-day. When found
dead she wore a handsome lion-skin sacque.
In 1ST0 Jennie came from Barbara on an Afri
can bark with her late hn&and, Mr. Lincoln, a
namesake of the President They were then 2
years old, and took up their abode in tbe lion
house. In Central Park, where they lived hap
pily together in the same ca;e until Mr. Lin
coln died, three years ago.
Superintendent Conklin says that Jennie was
about the handsomest lioness he ever saw. For
years she has been tbe delight of all the
children who have visited the park. She was
so strikingly beautiful that her picture was
painted several times by the artist George
Butler, and two years ago her likeness ap
peared in the Century Magazine.
After her husband died she did not seem to
take much interest in earthly affairs. About
six months ago her noble form began to waste
away, and when she died she was a mere skele
ton. Large doses of quinine failed to retard
tbe descent of ber spirit Into tbe ground.
Mr. Conklin says that lions in captivity sel
dom live to be more than IS or IS years old, and
that Jennie died, of old age. Taxidermist
Richardson, of the Museum of Natural His
tory, will stuff her skin and it will be mounted
for the collection of tho museum.
A PABAGOit OP NEW3PAPEKS.
Hovr the People of Forest County Appreciate
a First-Class Journal.
from the Funxsatawney Spirit.
To speak In praise of that paragon of news
papers, The Pittsburg Dispatch, seems very
much like an effort to "gild refined gold or
paint the lily," for every man who reads news
papers nowadays, and all intelligent people do,
knows that it would be impossible, under ex
isting conditions, to make a better newspaper
than The Dispatch. Its good qualities can
not possibly be exaggerated. It gives all tbe
news In an attractfve form. Its editorials are
entertaining, timely, and sound. It gives
special attention to the markets. It contains
wit humor, pathos and poetry, and the most
Instructive and entertaining writers of the
age aro contributors to its Sunday edition.
which usually consists of 20 pages. It employs
the best talent obtainable. Its enterprise in
collecting the news Is marvelous. Every morn
ing's edition is a complete mirror of the events
of the day before. Yes, The Dispatch is a
model newspaper, and its phenomenal success
is simply a recognition of Its merits.
CUEIOUS FACTS ABOUT IMMIGRATION.
Italy's and Russia's Contribution to Oar
Population Increasing.
From the New York Sun.
One-fifth of tbe immigration to this port from
Europe last year was from two countries which
have only recently begun to contribute to our
population Italy and Russia. The report from
Castle Garden shows that out of SS3.030 immi
grants for the year 43,683 were Italians and 32,
937 were Russians. The Immigration from these
two countries was as high as that from Ger
many, and tho immigration from Italy alone
was just about equal to that from Ireland. Wo
are informed that very nearly the whole body
of immigrants classified as "Russians" be
longed to the Hebrew race, and that they find
life here so much more desirable than they
found it under tbe Czar of Russia that they are
encouraging their brethren whom they left
behind them to follow their example in coming
to America. There are several Interesting
features in the Castle Garden report for tho
past year.
0YSTEES GETTLXG DEAR.
Tho War on the Dredgers Increases
tho
Price.
Baltimore, January 5. There is a decided
falling off in the receipts of oysters at present
and a rise of from 6 to 8 cents in the price per
bushel. A good grade of oysters sells at from
63 to 70 cents per bushel. This decrease in re
ceipts seems to be due to the recent activity of
the Maryland oyster navy in protecting the for
bidden beds from the ravages of the dredgers.
The latter being forced to depend upon those
beds which their previous recklessness bad
stripped of their treasures, have found It al
most Impossible to get an adequate supply.
it is said tnat 11 tue ureagers were anowea to
do as they pleased It would only be a few years
until oysters would be as scarce in the Chesa
peake as buffaloes now aro on the prairies.
LEWIS THE EIGHT
Will Have a Chnrch of His Own and Take
His Texts from the Newspapers.
Special Telegram to the Dlsnatcb.
New York, January 5. "Lewis the Light"
has quit attending church since the sextons at
Old Trinity turned him ont for capering about
before the altar in baseball costume. Here
after he will have a church of his own. To-day
be announced his plan as this:
Lewis the Light will give "Hades to Hypo
crites" in the Athensum, Brooklyn, on Sunday,
at 2.P. si.
K. B. Quotations from the daily newspapers,
the American Bible, on living Issues.
Don't miss him.
United Stntes Minister Bell III.
Special Telegram to the Dispatch.
New York, January 5. Isaac Bell, recently
Minister of tbe United States to the Nether
lands, was brought here from Newport this
morning by bis wife and brothers. Ho Is very
ill. He was taken directly to a hospital. He
has been suffering from low fever for some
time at Newport
Will Join Blaine nt Washington.
Special Telegram to tbe Dispatch.
New Yokk, January 5. Mis Blaine and Miss
Hattio Blaine arrived at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel this morning, and took possession of the
apartments engaged for them by their father,
and Which tbey will occupy for a few days
pending their departure to join Mr. Blaine in
Washington.
SUPERSTITIOUS ABOUT INSECTS.
The Koran says all flies shall perish save
one tbe bee fly.
It is regarded as a death warning in Ger
many to hear a cricket's cry.
The Tapuya Indians In South America say
the devil assumes the form of a fly.
RAIN is, in some parts of the country, ex
pected to follow unusually loud chirping ot
crickets.
Flies are regarded as furnishing prognosti
cations ot the weather, and even of other
events.
Spaniards, In the sixteenth century, be
lieved that spiders indicated gold when they
were found in abundance.
In Germany it u said to Indicate good luck
to have a spider spin his web downward toward
you, but bad luck when he rises toward you.
Although a sacred insect among the Egyp
tians, the beetle receives but little notice in
folklore. It is unlucky in England to kill
one.
The grasshopper is a sufficiently unwelcome
visitant of himself In this country, but in Ger
many his presence is further said to announce
strange guests.
The ancients generally maintained that
there was a close connection between bees and
the soul. Porphyry speaks or "those souls
which the ancients called bees."
German1 tribes regard stag beetles as dia
bolic, and all beetles are detested In Ireland,
more especially a bronze variety known as
'gooldle," It Is also "believed tba .to.Tseo.a
beetle will bring on xalri the next day. -. ;.
.-.
CDEI0DS CONDENSATIONS '
The town of Springer, Oklahoma, Has
grown from 50 inhabitants to 5,000 In 16 days.
There are in India about 200 separate
species of snakes, but only 33 of these are)
poisonous.
A. "W. Pierce, of Cape Elizabeth, Me.,
owns one of the largest poultry farms In New
England. He has at pre'sent between 7,000 and
8,000 birds.
Denver has invested J565.000 in a cable
system for rapid transit, and has a road six
and three-tenths miles long, over which the
fare Is 5 cents. The speed in the residence
sections is limited to 12 miles an hour and in the
business portions 8f miles an hour.
The Rev. Dr. Mark Trafton stUl treas
ures the manuscript of the sermon that he
preached In ths Chestnut Street M. E. Chnrch
of Portland, Me., on the death of President
Harrison, on April U, 1S4L He says thtt when
be began his discourse half a dozen old Metho
dist Democrats got up and started out of tbe
house.
Arthur H. Kowe, of Gloucester, Mass.,
still a young man, has a notable reputation as &
Ufa saver. He has stopped GO runaway teams,
and has done good work in a lifeboat crew. He
was one of a crew that in a terrible sea went to
the rescue of a wrecked vessel on Coffin's Beach
a few weeks ago and saved all on board. Includ
ing a lady passenger.
Joseph L. "Woodbury," a young man em
ployed in tbe Minneapolis postofflce, banded in
his resignation the other day, and told the Sur
prised official that he intended to be an Indian
chief from that time out. He wasnH Joking,
for he really is an Indian chief, being the son
of ths late Hon. Hole-ln-the-Day. Chief of the
Chippewa nation, and he has gone to succeed
bis father at tbe Chippewa reservation.
James Robinson lived alone in a cabin
in Lincoln Gulch, Deer Lodge county, Mon
tana, and was a confirmed opium eater. The
other day visitors to bis cabin found his skele
ton on the floor. AU the flesh had been eaten
from the bones and the hands and bead severed
from the bodv. On the table was some opium.
It is likely that he took an overdose of the drug,
and was either killed thus. or. becoming stupid,
lay in his cabin until mountain lions entered,
killed him and devonred his flesh.
The Indians on the island of Oldtown,
Me., have a novel way in bridging the Penob
scot in the fall, after the Ice prevents the run
ning of the ferry boats, the water being So
swift in the channel on each side of tbe island
that it would not freeze early unless aided.'
They obtain a huge cake of Ice and Swing it
across the channel In a narrow part on the Mil
ford side. In a few nights that becomes frozen
sufficiently hard to bear the weight of persons
crossing, and it comes into use for a number of
weeks before the other ice Is ready.
At Dr. Skitchley's ostrich ranch, near
Red Bluff, CaL, Is a pen in which a hen ostrich
is setting on 13 eggs. She covers the eggs nice
ly, and as she sits tbere, with her long neck and
bead laid at full length on the ground, looks
like a moss-covered rock. Her husband keeps
guard over her in very picturesque fashion,
walking up and down the fence with stately
tread, his rich, glossyplumage glistening in the
sunlight, and his eyes flashing defiance. He
looks ready to tackle anything, man or beast,
that should disturb the privacy of his home.
. Since May 5, 1883, the killing of deer
on Cape Cod has been, forbidden by law, under
a heavy penalty, and the result is that the 50,
000 acres of woodland between Sandwich, Fal
mouth an'd Plymouth are tbrongod with deer,
now quite tame. When the law was not in
force about 200 deer were killed yearly. For
over 200 years that region has been a favorite
hunting ground. Among the relics in Pilgrim,
Hall. Plymouth, is an old rifle, once owned by a
famous hunter of Plymouth, and on tbe stock
are 2G0 notches, each notch representing a deer
slain by the Puritan Nimrod.
, A strange case of absent-mindednes3
occurred at the Webster street depot, Omaha,
the other day. A man named Spaugler was on
th way from Wayne, Neb., to Atchison, Kan.,
with the remains of his brother. The casket
was put in the baggage room. After spending
a few hours in the city, Spangler took the train
tor Atchison, forgetting to have the casket re
billed.' The body lay in the baggage room until
the next morning, and the baggagemen were
at a loss to know what to do with It, when a
telegram arrived from Spangler at Atchison,
ordering it to be forwarded there.
Ten months ago Annie Ozburn, now
bnt 2 years old, became, ill, and in spite oltho
best doctors of Atlanta, where she lived, grew
worse and worse, until they said that she would
surely die. But she didn't;, she lived, anda
month or two ago began to get better. A few
days ago she complained of a pain in her side,
and her motterlfonnd that on the left side, jut
below tbe ribs and under the skin, was a hard
substance. A doctor came, and, cutting down,
brought out a needle nearly two inches long.
It is snpposed that Annie swallowed the needle
and that it was the cause ot her illness.
Harry Mullen, near Ellenville, N. T.,
while ont bird ehooting saw a big bear, but not
being loaded for bear he gave it a wide berth
for the time being. Ths next day he set a trap,
and the day following visited it armed with a
Winchester rifle. The trap was undisturbed.
but as ne wis going, away he heard a noise in -the
bushes and saw the bear running off. Harry
fired and tho bear fell. It got up at once, bow.
ever, and started toward him. A second ball
fired at its broad breast did the work. The an
imal weighed 420 pounds. The two bullets
which bad been fired into opposite ends of the
animal were found within eight inches of each
other.
A Leesburg, Fla., paper vouches for
the truth of the following Story: "S. B. Thomp
sun, well known in Lady Lake, Fla., was for
four years a helpless cripple, and the doctors
had told him that the spinal disease that pros
trated him was incuranle. On the Wednesday
night before Thanksgiving he dreamed thatthe
Lord spoke to him, telling him to go to church
next day, to go to the altar and pray, and get
the congregation to pray for him and he would
be cured. Without telling his dream, he bad
himself carried to the church, and at the close
of the service was placed at tbe altar. Then
the congregation, led by the pastor, prayed for
him, and he also prayed for himself m a loud
voice. He says that while the prayers were be
ing offered he heard a voice within say, "Arise
and walk." At the third command he. arose to
bis feet. and. crying. "It is doner tried to walk
down the aisle. Several men started to aid
him, but hn waved them off and walked stead
ily out of tbe church and to bis own home,
shouting and praising God. Since then he
seems perfectly well. ,
FUNNY MEN'S FANCIES.
Monumental A. The crop of young
doctors In New York Is going to be veTy Urge this
vear. a
B.-Yes, but what will the harvest be?-To
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You'll write it as snre as fate,
But don't find fault or pine,
But scratch with care the 83
And make It 80.
Merchant Traveler
"Wanted tbe best Mrs. Champignon 1
wish to buy a thermometer.
Dealer Yes, madam. How would this answer
your purpose'
Mrs. Champignon-Is that quicksilver solid or
plated? America.
Too proficient A chambermaid on the
lookout for a situation, applied to a certain' lady,
or fashion, who asked:
"Do you know how to do up the hair?"
'Certainly; In half an hour I can do up the
most difficult frlsures ever Invented."
"In half an hour, you say? Then I am afraid
you won't suit me for what am I to- do all ths
rest of the morning!" Fliegtnde Blatter.
No belief in signs "Ara yon supersti
tious!" asked Brown of Tapely, the proprietor of
a big drygoods establishment. "In other words,
do you believe In signs?"
Tiui.-Va. lr. I don't. Mr. Catehem. havs a
notice put out that we are selling our winter dress
goods at less than cost. As I was aDoui w say, r,
I do not believe In signs. They are aU humbugs
and nonsense, tlr.-Boston Transcript.
His scale of prices Professor of music
How are yon coming on, old friend? Are you stIQ
giving French lessons?
Professor of languages- Yes, I give Trench les
sons when I've got nothing else to do.
How does it pay?"
"I have different priees for ths lessons. Tor
some I charge SO cents a lesson, for others 13 a les
son "
Five dollars a lesson! That's a steep price lor
French lessons."
"Yes, but nobody takes any of thoso S3 les
sons." Texas Sifting.
So much lost time Charles Mathews once
tnlda.torvofthe "Boots" at a countryhotelA
where he was staying asking to bo paid for golng
to the theater. Jiawews, bieugjl mm we iguuit a
clvllitv, gave him an order for the play.
"Coma and see the piece, Tom." iild
Mathews. - u
'At the theater?" ,..
"Yes," said Mathews; "here Is an orderifor
The nei day Mathews said: LL!B
Ttf-ti r.i- i vnt. life tK wl.fi'WrWS
"Oh. yes."saidtheBootsinadubI6uTlkraaTefl
way; "bntwho's to pay tte foray HtVfAa
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