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Ail double nnd triple number copies ot The Dispntch require a --cent stamp to insure, prompt delivery. PITTSBURG. SUNDAY, DEC. 2S, 1830. TIIE LIBRARY QUESTION. It is pertinent to remark that some ex traneous matter was imparted into the dis cussion in the Councils' committee over the Carnegie Library site by the assertion that the Library Commission, through its 'Exec utive Committee, had asked that the park site be offered to it by Councils. This aroment is not entitled to weight as binding Councils or its committee to take any course that is not in accordance with their own judgment. On other matters in connection with the Library, Councils have an equal voice with Mr. Car negie's representatives in the Com mission itsel'. But where the prop osition is to denote city property for the sites, it is entirety within the prov ince or Councils to decide the question on its merits. The park entrance was pur chased by the city with a widespread idea on the part of many people that it would afford a site for the Carnegie buildings, but with a much wider agreement that whether the buildings were located there or not, the land would be worth the expenditure several times over, merely for a park entrance. When it comes to settling the question whether the main library shall be put there, Councils have the same right to decide the question simply on its merits that the Com mission will have. That fact mav prolong the dispute; but it carries with it the guar antee that, if a site is selected which earns the approval of both bodies, it will be satis factory to all interests. There is a lurther reason why it should not be urged unon Councils that they must oiler the site to the Commission because it is asked for, in the lact that the representa tion is incorrect. The Executive Commit tee of the Commission and the Library Committee of Councils occupy the the same position in this respect, that each is able to recommend certain action to the main body, but neither can commit the body which it represents to any line of action. Further, since the Cnairiuan of the Library Commission and its executive committee has been referred to as authority for this representation, it is necessary to say that it pnts that gentleman in a lake position, through no fault of his. While Mr. James B. Scott has used his personal right to express his individual -views, and to take whatever steps he may have deemed proper as an individual mem bur of the Commission, he has always been careful to disclaim any authority to commit the body over which he presides to any course of action; and we are in a position to say that Mr. Scott has protested against the inference that his individual views or acts amount to a decision of the question by the Commission. "With regard to the rival sites, there is an almost inexhaustible fund ol arguments on both sides. AVhile there is a practical agree ment that the pari: entrance will be a most ciicibic site for the art gallery and perhaps the museum, it is the lact teat its principal strength as a site for the main library build ing is because no attractive site for that building has yet been discovered in the down-town section. If further investigation Miould develop a practicable site near the concentration of railway lines, at a cost that would not impoverish the building fund, the popular opinion would probably be in its favor, as the most accessible place ior the bulk of the population. While the question on the surface is far from settlement, there is a driit in the direc tion of a compromise, such as was mooted early in the discussion. This would consist in putting the main library building as near the business center as possible, while the art buildings will be located at the park. This would not preclude the location of the main library at the park entrance if at some time in the future the growth ot the city should make it the center of communi cation. A NEW DISCRIMINATION. An interesting example of the way in which the accepted railway methods tend to preferences and favoritism is illustrated by a question that has come up in the effort of the new trans-Mississippi combination to put up rates. One of the roads had made a, contract with a, Kansas City firm to carry packing house products from Kansas City to Chicago at an 18-cent rate. As this means nnder the inter-State commerce law that all Kansas City shippers will have that rate, the contract was a valid one, and simply amounted to a guarantee of the permanence of the rate Bnt this combination, despite the assertion of its advocates to the contrary, desiring to put up rates, it was necessary to get rid of the contract, and it was finally agreed that the railroad should pay the firm 530,000 to be released from the contract. Bat this amounts to giving the firm $30,. OOOmore its traffic over the railroad than on its rivals will receive; and that is exactly the practice forbidden by the most vital section of the inter-State commerce law. There is no doubt that under a rigorous enforcement of the law every railroad official concerned in this arrangement together with the firm receiving the draw back, would be liable to fine and imprison ment; but a more efficient way of rectifying this error lies in the civil suits. Every person desiring to ship packing house products over this road can do so, and then recover damatres to the amount of this $30,000 discrimination. After that had been done by all the Kansas City shippers the railroads would probably appreciate that when they enter into a contract to guarantee a certain rate to shippers their onlv course is to carrv it out DESTITUTION XX OKLAHOMA. Oklahoma people are destitute and suffer ing. The cause is the failure of the first year's crops. What a rush there was to get into that territory. It was pictured as the finest arable land in all the wide West. Thousands waited on the borders for weeks, awaiting the proclamation which would open the territory to settlement. Claims were staked with a rush, and not without dispute and trouble, ior there was not enough land to go around the crowd. How the only thing that prevents an almost equal rush away from the famous territory is the fact that the people have no money to go away with. They have spent what they took there with them, and their harvest has brought hardly any return. Though they have been unwise, they still deserve sym pathy and assistance. In another year they can probably help themselves. OUTPUT Or PITTSBURG MILLS. Our review of the iron and steel trade this morning shows a marked degree ot prosper ity lor Pittsburg mills. Comfortable for tunes were made by some of them during the year, and a surplus is thus laid by that will tide them over any prospective depres sions of the trade. In the light of these figures it is not to be wondered at that the people generally are prosperous and con tented. The products of these milU run into fabulous figures. Tonnages of finished product are enough to astonish the arith metician, and the value of the total is astounding. The statistics of Pittsburg's industries have not been published fre quently, and TnE DisrATCU is glad to be able to present such interesting data from week to week. The exhibit cannot but be beneficial as showing our real industrial status. A GOOD EXAMPLE. The reduction of 23 cents in the price of coke, announced yesterday, shows that the coke interests are ready to do their share to ward reducing the cost of production in the pig iron industry. If corresponding action is taken by the railroads and ore companies there is no doubt that the nig iron interests will be placed on a solid foundation. The action of the coke companies is based on the sound business principle that it is for their advantage to keep the industry that is the leading consumer of their product on the basis of activity. If the pig iron has to be produced on a margin which carries a con stant threat of loss the volume of production will necessarily be limited and the consump tion of coke correspondingly reduced. After enjoying a year of good profits, the coke in terests recognize in their action that they can better afford to keep up a large con sumption by lowered prices and a reduced margin of profit, than to try to keep up prices on a materially reduced output The same consideration applies to a greater or less extent on ore prices and railway charges. The railroads and ore companies may be less prompt to recognize its import ance in practical action than the coke com panies have been; but the sooner they do so the earlier will be the establishment of the conditions lor steady and reliable traffic. RESERVES UNDER TIIE BANK ACT. Now that monetary complications which started in Wall street last month have come to an end, our esteemed cotemporaries are full bt wise reflections on the cause of the trouble and the way to prevent such dis turbances of business finance. These re flections arc not entirely in the line of lock ing the stable door after the steed is gone. The full comprehension of the causes should be the best safeguard against producing such disasters anew if the nation as a whole was capable of remembering such lessons longer than for the eight or ten years which it takes to go around the circle of specula tion, inflation, panic, depression, econ omy, improvement, expansion and thence to speculation and inflation once more. The suggestions as to coin age, bank circulation, clearing house certificates and other measures, are good, bad or indifferent each on its own basis; but there is an evident disposition that a more immediate cause of stringency than either of these remedies wonld meet is to be found in the practice of concentrating the idle funds of banks all over the nation in Wall street, there to be loaned out to stock speculators and used as the vehicle for bubbles. It would require but a superficial observer to see that the monetary stringency would never have amounted to anything if there had not been a speculative interest in Wall street to be squeezed, and if the banking re serves of the nation had been entangled in the squeeze. The Barring difficulty might have produced a slight contraction in the New York money market; but when that contraction was utilized to get up a mone tary flurry in the stock market, the epidemic of universal caution was started all over the country. The connection between the Wall street panic and the disposition of hanks all over the country to contract their loans, would have been still more remote if the concentration of bank funds in Wall street had not implicated the whole system in the putative losses, so to speak, which might be feared from such a cataclysm. It is not the province of the law to place any restrictions on the banks so far as keep ing in the central cities whatever deposits may be necessary for the adjustment ot ex changes. It is also to be recognized as a fact that the attempts of legislation to curb the vice Of speculation are likely to prove futile, so far as its effects on business move ments are concerned; But it is not the province of the law to offer a premium on speculation by stimulating and exaggerat ing the concentration of funds in Wall street to be loaned out to the speculators; and that is what is done by one feature of the national banking law, which in its charac ter as a whole is the most successful work of banking legislation the world has ever seen. Under the national banking law the banks are required to keep a nominal re serve of 25 per cent of their deposits in the reserve cities, and 15 pir cent in those out side those cities. But this reserve is actually decreased by the fnrther provision that all the banks outside of New York may keep half their reserves on deposit with the banks in reserve cities. Now, while such deposits with reserve banks are unquestionably a good asset, they do not serve the purpose of reserve, which is to have a supply of cash on hand necessary to meet a withdrawal of deposits in excess of what is likely to occur in the usual run of business. The reserve banks, in order to makeatiy profit on the de posits of the correspondents, must loan them ont again, and the consequence is that a large share of what is treated as the reserve of the banking system of the country is loaned out to the speculators of Wall street, where it is used in blowing bubbles, which in time of contraction afford less reliable security than the bank. The difference between the nominal reserve and actual cash reserve is seen when we remember that the half of its reserve sent to New York by a country bank is treated as deposits there, and onlr has 25 per cent of cash held against it. So that the actual cash held as reserve under the requirement of the law is 15 per cent in the,reservc cities outside of New York, and 9X per cent in the country banks. The experience of the national banking system for the past twenty-five years goes far toward showing that those percentages are ample; bnt the point which is urged here is that if they are accepted as ampW, it would contribute to the stability of the system, and prevent the fluctuations from plethora to panic in Wall street, if the law simply enacted that the reserve of city banks should be 15 per cent and country banks 10 per cent, and permitted them to loan the excess to their own customers. As it is, the law practically says to every Pittsburg na tional bank, for example: Of every S100,000 of your deposits there is 512,500 which you must not loan to Pittsburg business men whose reliability you know, and whose busi ness creates your deposits; but you may either keep it idle in your vaults or send it to New York, where you can realize perhaps two'' per cent as your share of the profit which your New York correspondent will make by loaning it to the Wall street bor rowers, of whose reliability yon know little or nothing. Of course the money is sent to New York, and equally, of course, it is loaned to speculators. In this rule we find the ability of the speculators to involve the funds of the banking system in their bub bles, and the power of the money kings to start a monetary squeeze which is felt all over the country. The provision referred to is one that can be amended. It calls that reserve which is not actually so, but which increases rather than alloys the complications arising from stringency. It forces the banks to concen trate in Wall street a portion of their funds which many of them couid employ more se curely at home; and it thus offers a premium on speculation by bringing to gether in Wall street the funds which at times can be loanedjfor no other purpose. It would contribute to the stability of the system to reduce the reserve requirements, make each bank keep its reserve where it will be wanted, and it loan the excess among its own customers. A VERY ENCOURAGING PROSPECT. Leaders in finance nnd commerce in New York take most hopeful views of the present situation. The flurry was due to unex pected troubles in England, and the strin gency in the money market may be easily traced to a partial loss of confidence on the part of certain classes. But with the en couraging facts at hand there is little reason to doubt confidence will soon be fully re stored and business moving at an even brisker rate than before. The only thing wanted to insure this result is good crops for the coming year, and the prospects for such are flattering. Snowy winters .are al most invariably followed by teeming vege tation. STATE CHARITY COMMISSION. Some good may be accomplished by the work of the legislative commission on State charities. There is certainly room for im provement in this direction, it the commis sion is governed in its deliberations by pure, charitable considerations without reference to the political advantages of certain appro priations. The State should be charitible and generous, but not indiscriminate in its giving. Some grave abuses have become legislative acts under the cloak of charity. Tins winter bids fair to be so much of an old-fashioned ono that It will appear more like a new fashion. The announcement that Pat Calhoun, of Georgia is to come to the front as an Alliance candidate presents the unique feature of a farmers' movement, started as a revolt against corporate supremacy, linking itself firmly to the boom of a director of the greatest and most monopolistic corporation In the South. It is painful to find the New York Tribune criticising persons at the NcwEngland dinner because some of them indulged in pri vate couvcr-ation while the after-dinner ora tory was pouring forth ; while others actually went to sleep under they eloqnenco of the speakers. That people might talk to each other regardless of the variations of the New England themo is not Inexplicable ; bnt when we are told that some of the guests gunk into slumber after dinner It suggests the alarnilug thought that the potables of the preceding feast could not have been of the strictly temperance character which was to have been looked for at a festival of the Puritans, It is reported that the bacillus of lock jaw has been discovered; but ho ooubt it. If it had really been found the Republican lead ers in Congress would, long before this, have rushed through an appropriation to purchase a supply in the undiluted form to inocculate tbo Democratic Senators withaL HYriNOTiSM, while it may not intrude Itself into tho jurisprudence of the country. Is making a good show in the columns of the newspapers. There are reports that the Senato is hypnotised by the Democratic Senators, and that the railroad interest is under the hypnotic influence of Jay Gould. To this a little while ago might have been added tbo suspicion that the President was hypnotised by Secretary Elaine; but the veto of the Bar Harbor post office bill shows the contrary. The adoption of the methods of Amer ican politics by tbo Irish parties cannot appear more plainly than in tho way both sides claimed everything with confidence before the Kil kenny election, and after the election the de feated leader says he did not expect to carry it anyway. Conceekino the statement that Bed Cloud is "talking a good deal about the way in which the Indian census has been cut down," the Philadelphia Jlccord remarks: "Red Cloud should remember the fate of Sitting Bull and keep quiet." It might also be apposite to remind linn of the late of Nbw York City on learning that the censns returns are like the law of the Medes and Persians after the Bureau has got through with them. ' Considering the veto of that Bar Har bor building grab, it is a matter of public re gret that the President was unable to discern Mr. Blaine's presence beside soma of the big surplus-smashing appropriations of the last session. Speaking of Mr. W. TJ. Hensel the Philadelphia Press asserts that "his speech at the New York dinner is chiefly interesting as showing that courage Is much easier displayed after election than before" The same lesson might be discovered in tho columns of the es teemed Press, which finds It much easier to pitch Into the Senatorial controllers ot the State Republican machine after than before the election. Holiday money is still circulating, 1 has some of tho brisk nimbleness of the bright holiday shopper. A coTEJirOBARY thinks that as Kala kaua's kingdom has thirteen States, he should set up another United States, as ho has "tho same material we bad a hundred years ago.' The character of the people who formed the original thirteen States may have had a good deal to do w 1th tho material. If Kalakaua can show tbo same material the people of Hawaii are wofully misrepresented by their King, Pittsbueg labor earned many millions or dollars this jcar, and tbo outlook is good for equal earnings next year. Becent combinations among railroads have led to the formation of the National Shippers' Protective Association. One combine brings on another. By and by everybody will be In some combination. .Letthe'good work go on. One extreme Is followed by another, and the gentlemanly combiners may ultimately find an overwhelming spirit against even ordinary corporate combination of capital for useful purposes. Veey few oil men's fortunes are larger than thpv spptti n In Pfttnr T. Tvonnedv's rnftn Mr. Kennedy was a very modest man and made 1 nearly as much money from lumber operations as from oil. PEBXINENT PEBS0NAIOTIES. Dr. Emile Welti, President-elect of tho Swiss Confederation, bas held that office three times, in 1S75, JSS0 and 1S84. The new villa of Senator Jones at Santa Monica, Cal.. overlooks the ocean, and adjoin ing it is his 30,000 acre ranch. It Is understood that when T. P. O'Connor returns to the other side he will establish a weekly newspaper in London, possibly a Sun day paper. Peinckss Beatrice has just translated a picturesque page of romance from Germau his tory. "Tho Adventures of Count George Albert of Erbach." Mrs. Robert Goblet, who is one of New York's married belles, is a tall and slender blonde, who has gray eyes and a profusion of golden hair. She Is reputed to have an income of S500 a day. The Sultan of Turkey looks much like Jay Gould, except that he is somewhat taller than the Wail street wizard and his nose a trifle more prominent. The poet Stedman is a short and rather slen der man. He dresses like any other Wall street broker, and looks bnt llttlo like a poet. His face is intellectual ana somewhat careworn. Mrs. DoLrn, wife of the Oregon Senator, is one of the pretty women of Washington, She is a brunette, of fine figure and handsome face. She Is a farmer's daughter and was a dairy maid in her youth. Mrs. Jclia Ward Howe has been buying properly near Seattle. She is still so young and vigorous that it would surprise nobody if she proposed to go out to Washington and grow up with the country. Mrs. Henrt Draper, now in Peru, Is her husband's constant assistant in all his astrono mical researchos. She spends much of her time among the telescopes and photographic apparatus of tho observatory. Vice President Proctor of the Singer Sewing Machine Company Is reported to be worth 525,000,000. Ho shared the inventor's poverty with him and afterward married his daughter. Singer's original capital was SoO, which grew to bo 530,000.000. SiGNort Emanuele Mtzio, the early pre ceptor of Mine. Adelma Patti and her sister Carlotta, has just died in Paris. He was born at Bnssetto, in Itally, In 1825 and studied under Verdi. He wrote the pianoforte part for the vocal scores ot several of that composer's operas. The wife of Dr. Schliemann, the groat Ger man archaeologist. Is 30 years younger than her distinguished husband. She is hardly more than a girl, In years, bnt she is a beautiful woman and bss been most carefully educated. She knows several languages besides German, and is said' to know nearly all of the Iliad by heart. Ladt Florence Dixie, during a recent tour In Bavaria, came upon an unwritten chap, ter In the life of "The Mad King" Ludwlg a romance which befell him during one of his lonely peregrinations after tho chamois in tho Bavarian Alps and sho has faithfully recorded It with the purpose of showing that, far from being insane, the King was a man of high im agination and chivalry. TO MAKE MONEY PLENTY. A Few Enlargements of the Stanford Scheme Would Make It Popular. Baltimore Sun. Senator Stanford's proposition that tho Gov ernment should loan money to farmers at 2 per cent is favored by Secretary Windom as a benevolent scheme, provided it be extended so as to include other classes of citizens among Its beneficiaries. Land, the Secretary holds, should not be the onb' security. All kinds of property should be equally favored. In the next placo the Sectetary would amend Mr. Stanford's bill by providing that brains as well as property should be considered good security. Thirdly, the loans at 2 per cent should be open to snch good citizens as have neither property nor brains. A certificate of citizenship ought to suffice as a basis for a loan, it it is in the powor of the Government to co into the loaning business without injury to taxpayers. The Secretary is of opinion that Mr. Stanford'', bill, thus amended, would be popular. Tho majority of voters would favor it. That, it must be ob served, is about the only argument advanced in support of tbo inflationist schemes now so much in favor at the Capitol. The views of experts in finance are noVin demand there. They are a small minority and can be disre garded, it is believed, at the polls. CANADA AND C0PYEIGHTS. The Dominion Parliament Has No Author ity Now, but May Iluve Soon. Ottawa. Dec. 27. Sir John Thomson says that since his conversation with Lord Kunts ford on the copyright question, the Canadian Government bas received no communication from the British Colonial Office on the subject except the transmission of the views of the Society ot Authors already published. Lord Kuntsford Is of the opinion that Par liament has not power to legislate upon foreign copyright. Sir John Thomson, however, has good reasons for believing that during the present or next session of the Imperial Par liament, legislation conferring the power will be placed. He is of the opinion that the pas sage of the Simonds copyright bill would not affect the Canadian question, as that measure ouly gives British authors domestic copyright in the United States on condition that the work is reset with American type and rebound in the United States. An order in council was passed by the Canadian Government some time ago, askinz the Colonial Office to withdraw Canada from the copyright convention. Henri Watterson's Barometer. Louisville Courier Journal, Dcm.l Whenever the Republican leaders are bard pushed they talk abont twisting the lion's tail. Whenever they are not, they make no men tion of wild beasts, Hosiery Which Might he Observed. Savannah News, i Upon close examination to-day it is but fair to presume that the stockings of the ballet dancers will bo found bulging. James R.'Gorfield in the Toils. Chicago, Dec 27. James R. Garfield, a son ot tbe late President Garfield, took out a license to-day in this city to marry Miss Helen Newell, a Chicago lady. DEATHS OP A DAY. Arthur Kirk. EBASON, PA., Dec 27. Arthur Kirk, one of the best-known citizens of Sharon, died at his home Thursday evening it 9 0'elock.aged 87 years. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure. Induced by a cold contracted only a few days before. Mr. Kirk was one of the best known and oldest citizens of Sharon. He leaves awlfo and large family or adult children, who are well, known In the different communities of which they are residents! David Kirk, the well-known oilman orBradford; Arthnr Kirk, of Pittsburg, and Ueorge Kirk, of bharon, are among the best known or tho family. MURRAY'S MUSINGS, A War Story of Remarkable Coincidences Russell B. Harrison as a, Man Incidents In Metropolitan Ranking Publication of Criminal News In the Tapers. TFROM A STAIT COIlBKSr-OXDXKT.1 pnE other evening while a group of poll, ticlans, newspaper men and travelers at tbe Fifth Avenuo Hotol were discussing things in general one of tho party remarked what a small world this Is. IIo gave an interesting ex ample of how he had met the same gentlemen in London; in an out-of-the-way placo in France, and subsequently at a dinner party in New York. Others of tbe group gave similar ex periences. During tbe conversation a gentle man with whom I had too slight an acquaint. an co to remember approached and called me ont. An explanation followed, and I found that he was the real estate agent in upper New York, of whom I rented my flat some three years ago. "I'm living In the South now," said he, "at Bridgeport, Ala." This brought some military reminiscences up In my mind and I observed at once that I once lived in Bridgeport and was engaged there for a sbort time also in the real estate business. It was while a soldier in tho army of the Cum berland in 1SC2 and the real estate transaction consisted of digging rifle pits along this side of the Tennessee river and building a fort of earth and timber at the foot of the mountains over looking the then dismantled railroad bridges leading to Chattanooga. "You did!" he exclaimed, laughing. And then be called to a counlc of native Southern ers, who were a few feet away, and introduced me. "Here is a man who helped build those earthworks around there," went on my real estate Iriend. "I wish you hadn't piled so much dirt up. I'm building my house on that very spot." "Yes, and we dug up two skeletons nearby," interrupted one of tbe others "Union soldiers, who had been buried by you fellow s." I hastened to assure him that neither of them as mine. And then 1 recalled bow just as we had abont finished the fort we were ordered back on the Bragg campaign, and how we attempted to cross the mountain by a direct route, and bow having boosted a lot ot artillery half way up the rocky slope we were obliged to come down again, thoroughly used up and everlastingly disgusted, to take the old Hunts ville road. We had a signal station on tbe heights above and from it could see Into four States of the 'Union and the glowing camp fires of the Confederate army on tbe other side of the stream. "My summer house now stands on that old site," said tbe Southerner, grasping my band again, "and it looks down on a new town of nearly a thousand souls. We havo blasted a good wagon road where you worked that night anu x use it every day. wnue you were there I was over across the river in our rifle pits, I tell you, sir, wbeu those two skeletons were turned up tbe other day and tbe boys gathered tho brass buttons and bullets out of the shal low grave it made my heart sick, for it brought to mjynind the memory of the near and dear ones who fell later at Chattanooza. But its all gone now. You wouldn't know that coun try. FuIIv one-half of the new town is com posed of Northern and Western men. and we are now developing the splendid mineral re sources of tbe region hand in hand that you and I dug up with spades and with shot and shell in the effort to kill each other. There is nothing but the skeleton of the war lefr, but it is rather unpleasant to have this skeleton rat tled in our faces either metaphorically or act ually." So I thought, as I thanked them for the cor-, uiai invitation to visit meir corner or AiaDama and returned to my friends. But supposing one of those skeletons had been mine what thenr Crime and the Newspapers. pEOFLE would save money by reading the papers," said a Broadway policeman, commenting on the bogus check game, tbe flimflam game, tbe overcoat and umbrella game, tbe bunko game tho green goods game, tbe get-nie-out-of-thc-station-bouso game, the send-the-goods-homo game, and other common methods of swindling prevalent In New York. He had dropped into "The Owl" cigar store to notify the proprietor that a tall young man with a blonde mustache was operating in that neighborhood, and to request that if tho aforesaid young man shonld order a few boxes of cigars as Christmas presents for bis friends delivered at his rcsidenco iu a swell part of town to do up tho goods slowly enough to consume time enough to notify tbe headquarters of the "Tenderloin" precinct. The name which would be given, bo said, would be tbat of tho real resident at the address named, bnttbe swindler Would meet tbe delivery boy on tbe front steps and get possession of the goods under some pretext or other. It was a game tbat bad been worked somewhat extensively of late, and had been duly exposed, but as long as people didn't read tbo newspapers tbey were liable to be caucht. They wanted to catch tba swindler. "You see," be continued In a philosophic mood, "no matter how tboroughly these tricks are exposed by the newspapers there are plenty of people to work 'em on. You'd tbink nobody ofanysenso could be bunkoed now, wouldn't you? And yet there are lots more being caught that way than you ever hear of. A good many smart men and lots more smart women never read the newspapers at least the police re ports, the crimes record. They think papers shouldn't print It, maybe, and yet tho printing of such tnings saves many from being swindled. These swindlers are more atraid of the news papers than they are of us, for if their games weren't made public, you know, they'd bo swarms of 'em where there's only one now. Yet It seems like nobody reads tho news papers when a chap like this can work cint, mnVof nnip ln' it? Anrt nil thnnthni games too. I tell you if everybody would read tbe newspapers It wonld save us a good doal of trouble and drive these swindling games out of tbe market ves it would." And with this bit of sound philosophy the big man in blue swung, out and tacking down upon ine inirty-tiiiru street corner into a gang of toughs caused a sudden movement in all directions. Not so Bad as Painted. tvtr. Russell Harrison is rather a popular young man In New York society. Ho is not only popular, but deservedly so, and those who know him best would like him just as well if he wero not tbo son of the President of tbe United States, though, of coursv. the relationship gives him additional importance in the eyes of a great many people I studied his mannors very closely one evening last week while in his company at the big doll show, and failed to soe any evidence of that dlseaso known as tho big bead, with which he is reported to be suffering. Young Harrison is a handsome fellow, of pleasant, gentlemanly manners, kind and obliging even to impudent strangers who forco themselves upon him. There is nothing ot tho habitual hauteur of his distinguished father about him, and he strikes me as a plain, honest gentleman who is satisfied with his own merits and is willing to pass for w hat they are worth. At the doll show, in which he took with Mr. Artcll. of the Judge, a great deal ot interest, he was evidently re garded by the ladles with the same considera tion they would feel toward any gentleman who had devoted tbe like time and energy to such a commendable charitable enterprise. Quite a Ladies' Man. pnoai the doll show with Mr. Russell Harrison as guide and companion to Otero and "Buck" Taylor is a wido step for tho imagina tion, but it is one of the violent contrasts of metropolitan life. On this occasion it was two minutes long. The stalwart figure of the rough frontiersman was clad iu a big overcoat with a fur collar a foot broad, over which fell a mass of light brown bair. Under the slouched som brero the merry twinkling eyes looked down npon you in a genial way that little children understand and love. "She dances that bat dance exactly as an In dian executes a war dance around the camp fire," he said. With ibis confidential burst of dramatic criticism several ladles andgentlemon in tbe vicinity laughed immoderatelv, for the comparison went right to tbe spot. The curi osity to get close to "Buck" Taylor and to speak to him consumes most New York ladies and he gets more notice than young Harrison from both sexes. "Yaas," drawled Taylor, "the ladles take a good many liberties with me. Tbo other day in a horse car a dark-skinned woman leaned over and asked me if I was an Apache Indian. Tbis made everybody else laugh: but when I mildly slid 'no,' and inqnlred whether she was a Sioux squaw tbe laugh wasn't on me. I don't mind what is said and usually accept comments and familiarity good naturealy, but such a qnestion as that was just a little too Im pudent, even for a highly civilized com munity." A Core for Free Check Making. THE other day a man presented a check forn SO at a down town bank and it was passed back to him with tbe remark that it was ."no good." "Hasn't the man got any funds borer" In quired tbo indignant check holder. "Y-es, a small balance. He bas been drawing other checks ot this kind of late," said the teller. "Well," thoughtfully remarked tbo man with the check, "I'll see if we can't stop it. What's bis exact balance V It was against the rules of the bank, but the teller gave It. It was $2 50. Then tbe check holder stepped over to tbe receiving teller's window and pulling out a roll of money said be desired to deposit N7 60 to tbe credit of Mr. Blank. "Now," said be to tbe paying teller, "pay this check." The latter did so and then closed Mr. Blank's account "Now, It any more checks of tbis kind come hero Mr. Blank can be jailed," saying which tbe check-holder walked out. Christmas Run on Savings Banks. Jp anybody had stepped Into a New York sav ings bank jast before tho holidays began an interesting sight would have been seen. Tbe servant girls and working people of all grades of the thriftier sort wero on hand to pull out a little money for Christmas. It was usually In amounts from 35 to $25. A good deal was in gold com. Tbe latter seemed to be pre ferred by foreigners. A long line of depositors ot this kind bothered tbe paying teller. Tbongh tbe amounts withdrawn were small great stacks of gold disappeared during Mon ay, Tuesday and Wednesday. The safeguards thrown around savings bank accounts make the business slow work, and the comments of the impatient wore both amusing and instruct ive. The act of getting money out of a bank is not always as easy as getting it in. I made a deposit In a savings bank once. It Is there yet. w Jay Gould's Ready Cash. "A Wjlli. street man" is authority for the statement that Jay Gould had S12.000.000 in cash at tbe beginning of tbe recent flurry. Tbis seems like a big pile of money for one man to have lying about loose. With the col ossal fortunes tbat permit snch marginal ac cumulations of cash by a few It Is no wonder tbat about a million souls in the Unitod States have practically nothing. If about half a dozen millionaires in New York bad to cut their own ' coupons anil count their own money they would be the hardest working peoole of Gotham. CiiAS. T. Murray. New York. Dec 27. WHO PAYS THE TAXI The Foreign Manufacturer Is Getting the Worst of it at Present. Philadelphia Inquirer, ltep.3 A leading manufacturer of this city has just bought 100.000 pounds of woolen yarn in Eng land at 60 cents per pound. In May last he paid 68 cents per pound for tho same yarn, and since then wool has advanced ten percent in price the world over. The McKinley bill advanced the tariff on this grade ot yarn 11 cents per pound. English yarn manufacturers have increased their mill capacity enormously in the last few years, depending upon the American market. Now tbat this market is greatly restricted by the McKinley bill, competition among them has forced a reduction in price And yet Mr. Cleveland tells us the consumer pays tbe tax. TBEED BY A WILDCAT. Serions Experience of a Man Who Went Gunning at Night. BiSHARCK, N. D., Dec 27. News comes from Mercer comity of an exciting wildcat ad venture in which H. U. Loy, Register of Deeds, figured. Mr. Loy heard a commotion among the chick ens in bis ben-coop at night and went with a gun to investigate. Just as be reached tbe door a big wildcat sprang out with a rooster in his mouth. Loy gave chase and fired several shots without effect. The cat took refuge in the brush, into which Loy poured several loads of shot. The cat, perhaps, thinking this was becom ing monotonous, now assumed tbe offensive and sprang at Loy with a blood-curdling yell. Loy shinned up a tree nearby, with the animal close behind. The cat made several frantic at tempts to get at him and remained on guard for over two hours waiting for Loy to come down. Finally it raised the siege and Loy re turned home pretty nearly frozen. CHBISTMAS FOR THE POOR Needy Children at the National Capital Well Provided For. Washington, Dec 27. Tho Christmas Club of Washington to-day entertained 600 poor chil dren at dinner, and afterward distributed a present to each one. Mrs. Dimmick represented the President's family, and was an Interested spectator of the pretty scene. Miss Jane Fuller, a daughter ot the Chief Justice, the President of the children's depart ment of the club, and Miss Jessie Miller, daugh ter of the Attorney General, Vice President, took a leading part In caring for tbe needs of tbe young guests. Tho East Washington Club provided a good dinner and presents for about 1,000 young people. An Interesting Experiment. Baltimore Herald. Tbe great railroads in the United States run East and West. It is only a few of those that .run to the points of tbe compass that have gained Influence ar.d power. A project on foot In Pittsbutg, therefore, to go down into Vir ginia with a railroad and divert trade trom the seacoast ports will be watched with interest. That it will succeed is by no means assured. They Wonld Stand Under. Heading World. 3 By putting up objectionable candidates upon objectionable platforms the Democrats can readily find out just where they stand in rela tion to tbe Independents. Not While Funds Lie Aronnd Loose. Wllllamsport Gazette and Bulletin. Ex-State Chairman Cooper says be will not be a candidate for State Treasurer, and It goes witbout argument tbat be is in earnest. On Ye Editor's Way Down Town. . Sunbury Dally. 1 There are some people In tbis city who love tbebeautifnl snow so much that they won't shovel it off their sidowalks. CURRENT COMMENT. Some Ideas About State Craft and the State of Society. St. Paul Pioneer-Press: They do say that Secretary Blaine's turkey would bavo tasted much better if the President had not vetoed that Bar Harbor public buiiaingbill. Butte City Daily Miner: The Republican party of tbe United States has done well this year. It carried Walkerville by 33 votes, and now has its eyes on Bitter Root City. . Philadelphia Times; True to tariff predic tions, both the snow and tbe mercury have already come down so as to be within easy reach of the poorest and'humblest citizen. Buffalo Express: Instead of enlisting the Indians in the regular army, as General Miles proposes, why not let them join tho police force in Eastern cities? Apparently they make admirable policemen. Philadelphia Inquirer: Both France and Spam are now talking seriously about increas ing their tariffs with a view to protection. The brilliant success of tho American system in spires their emulation. Cincinnati Commercial-Oazettet The con spiracy, jnst discovered, to flood the country with counterfeit silver dollars, was not going about tbo work of relieving tho monetary stringency In proper form. ilfinneajoZ 27-toune: Tho Oklahoma Legis lature has pasted a complete codo of laws. This will be a great convenience to such prom inent citizens ol the Territory as are worried for fear there are a few laws that they have not broken. Philadelphia Press: No Vassar girl has ever been divorced from her husband. The fact is easily explained. Any reasonably agree able and pretty girl can get a husband, but it takes an extremely clever woman to retain hiin. Tbat is where tbe ability of the Vassar girl tells in her favor. Philadelphia Record: Besides the Harvester Trust, a thrashing machine syndicate and a grain drill combine are being industriously pro moted by the Interested manufacturers. Un less the jolly farmer shall wake up and over turn tbe legislation under which such combina tions flourish these fellows will have his hide hanglngon tbe fence before long. ' Philadelphia Ledger: Maine reports a bad state of afiairs, due lo low railroad freigbts from the West and tho impoverishment of land in tbe older parts ot the country. No less than 3,318 farms in Maine have been aban doned. They might be supposed to be worth less, but the assessors value them at 81,263,769, or an average of to per acre. Maine shonld cet some home industries to give a market for the farm products of these places or to occupy them for other uses. Denver News: It is doubtful if the rulings of American courts have developed grosser In justice than in discriminating acainst employes of a railroad who may be crippled or killed in the service, because of the company's negli gence, and denying damages to them or their legal representatives. The senseless theory tbat has been constructed as a warrant for that outrage must be punctured by tbe eighth Gen eral Assembly. We must have a law tbat will harmonize with equity In lieu of court prece dents tbat are a disgrace to our civilization. THE TOPICAL TALKER. A Lesson in Law. A young lawyer who bas been practicing at the bar for maybe three or four years received one Christmas present which he did not ap preciate. It was a nice enough present, but well, the whole story had bettey be told. On Christmas morning a messenger boy brought to tbe young attorney's house a pack age done up in brown paper and tied with very inoffensive looking string. He carried tho package into the dining room, where his wife sat at breakfast, and she of course started up fnll ot excitement and curiosity. In fact it was she who took the bread knife and cut the string. Her hands removed the brown paper and uncovered the Inner skin of white paper scaled with red wax. A card, a plain visiting card, lay there. The young lawyer saw it, and heaven preserve us! blushed. Tbe card bore tbe name of a client of bis whose case he had conducted laboriously and expensively to defeat. "What does be mean by sending me a pres ent!" ho asked. "The last time he was In my office I felt Inclined to pitch him ont of the window." "Perhaps he wants to make up at Christmas time, dear," his gentler half suggested, as she proceeded to rip up tbe white paper with a silver hair-pin. In a few seconds a couple of volumes covered In law-sheep were revealed. The attorney took one of tbe books up and read the title: "Blackstone's Commentaries, vol. I," Tbe other book was vol. IL "What in thunder does he mean by sending me thisr he asked fiercely. "I am sure I don't know, dear," said she meekly. There was an nncomfortable silence for sev eral mln utes. Then the attorney said with con siderable more emphasis than can be repro duced in words: "Nowl know what that fool meant by saying wben be left me that he would teach me the rudiments of law, if he bad to spend good money to do it. I thought he was going to sue me." Nothing New to Him. A crowd gathered around one of the Fifth avenue cars which had stalled near Wood Stre2t when the cable broke last cvenlnr. A burly man whose storm coat made him look simply immense elbowed bis way through tho loose fringe of the crowd, asking: "Phwat's tbe mather with tbe car?" "It's stopped," someone answered. "Is that all?" asked tbe big man, returning to the pavement at once. "Why, thim cars stop at the earner o' my strata a hoondred tolmes a day!" A Score of Bachelor Sinners. Twenty sinners, bachelors every one, and mostly belonging to the redoubtable Sixth ward, of Pittsburg, are doubtless quaking in their shoes this morning. If they don't get "Hall Columbia" as a matin hymn from their sisters and their cousins and their aunts, with a rousing tiger from their best girls, they will be apt to bless their stars. A more heinous crime than theirs has probably never been chroni cled. The reader will do well to.'shuddor be fore going any further. Lust night, tbe night of Saturday, December 27, to be exact, these young men being in full prssession of their natural faculties, and witb out any provocation of any sort, did with malice prepense and out of tbe wickedness of their hearts, procure, hire or otherwise obtain for their sole use and gratification, to wit, one sleigh capable of carrying 20 persons and drawn by four horses. Iu this vehicle tbe de fendants aforesaid did seat, bestow or other wise dispose themselves, to their own ease and comfort at the honr of 8 in tbe evening or thereabouts. Whither they went or what they did, further than that the Perrysville road and other favorite paths were traversed by them and tbat tbey were still absent when The Dispatch went to press this morning, is not known. Just tbink of it, 20 stalwart young men and not a single lady fair! It is enough to make tbo beauteous maidens of tbe Sixth ward deny their birthplace and claim a heritage witb some other bailiwick. If tbis is not a crime, what is? Twenty yonng gallants who might have made a score of sweethearts merry; 40 hearts that might have beat as 20, pulsing apart in scores: 20 livery stable keepers or 19, at least de prived of their proper revenues! If the livery men are wise they will charge bachelors who make stag sleighing parties more exorbitantly if that is possible than all others. One of the 20 has already met his punishment. He revealed the nature of tbe excursion to bis inamorato, and as a forfeit promised to take her sleighing every nlgbt next week. The 19 re main to bo settled with, and the eyes of every girl in Pittsburg will be npon the sisters of the Sixth ward that they neither faint nor fail in the exaction of the penalty. A Magnificent Wreck. In a bird store yesterday among the pathetic sights and there are plenty where hnndreds of feathered flying things are caged I no ticed a big macaw sitting on a perch pensively regarding a white cock atoo that had dropped off to sleep. Tho Macaw's plumage was magnlficient, red and blue in deep rich tones over the wings and long graduated tail, witb a lining of palo golden yellow to the former. The 'gay hues of the tropics were never more gorgeously combined in living creature. Yet all tbat snperb and cigantlc parrot could do in tbe dark rocesses of a Pittsburg store was to sit on a perch and stare continuously at a white cockatoo looming up like a ghost in the remote shadows. Stay! from time to time the big bird said "cab!" which the old lady sitting by interpreted into "Carlo," its name, she said. Even the green parrots screeching in tbe show window seemed to have tho advantage of the imperial macaw. Some painter shonld make1 a picture of this splendid and pitiable bird, with the title "How are the mighty fallen!" for instance. A Chance for Gas Companies. A cart bearing tbo name of a natural gas company and tilted with coal stood in front of tbe Sobo school, on Fifth avenue, the other morning. The coal was intended for the school's boating apparatus, and a good many people wbo saw the natural gas company's sign on the cart were struck with the Idea tbat it would be a lovely thing if tbe gas corporation were to supplement its meager service of natural fuel with ono of coal. Hepdurx Jonss. OEGANIZED POE PEOTECTION. Combining Railroads Lead Naturally to a Combination of Shippers. Denver Republican, Kep. Tbe National Transportation Association is an organization of shippers, formed to protect tbem against injustice on the part of railroad companies. It bas already acquired sufficient strength to make its influence felt in the con sideration of transportation questions by those companies. The transportation problem can never be properly solved if, in considering it, the rail road companies entiroly ignore tbo rights and the wishes of shippers.. The Interests of tbe shippers and the transportation companies are mntual, and neither party can afford to Ignore tho other. One thing which the association will insist npon is tbat it be given a representation in all conferences of railroad officials lookine to tbo adoption of rules or the forming of agreement calculated to curtail tbe privileges of shippers. This Is a jnst and reasonable demand, and the railroad companies cannot afford to disre gard it. Let the Visitors Pay. Baltimore American. The President sat down on Bar Harbor right bard. But how could ha help it? Tbe Gov ernment can't earn any money out of postage on lore letters even at tbat charming resort. Why cannot rich visitors club togetber and put up a fine bnildimr just as tbey want it? Most People Prefer Liquor. Mt. Pleasant Journal.) It is said that Dr. Koeley.an Illinois phy sician, can destroy the appetite for drink, opium or tobacco by frequent, but perfectly harmless, injections of bi-cblorlda of gold. Who wants a gold-plated stomach? The Dispute Should be Settled. Mobile Keglster.l The people ot the country as a whole care very little about tbo Bebring Sea controversy. They would like to see It settled, however, and done with. Arbitration shonld be resorted to. Having Ills Rare Innings. Bt. Louis Itepubllcl Tbe much abused and oft discredited weather prophet is once more enjoying the confusion of those who bave been pointing the finger of scorn at biro. It is his time to laugh. CDRIODS CONDENSATIOSS. James Look, of Jonesport, while out in a hunting party, was fired at twlco by one of tbe party, who mistook him for a deer. D. A. Slaght of Buffalo, N. Y., has a cat which weighs 28 pound". The dogs of tht neighborhood give the animal a wide berth. An Indian graveyard has been discov ered on tbe farm of W.F. Black, on the North eastern Railroad, about five miles from Athens, Ga. The building of water tinks and ladders for orange growers is rpldly becoming a lead ing branch at the iron and wood working shops at Apopka, Fla. A church in Reading," Pa., boasts that it has just paid off its debt in SO.COO pennies. Between this disbursement and tbe arrival of gold from Europe, the monetary stringency should disappear. A new institution to be incorporated in Hew York is tho New York Bacteriological In stitute. It will furnish free treatment to con tjcious diseases, and will have a Pasteur and Koch department, There is money in turkeys. One firm at Richmond, Ky., has slaughtered 4000 turkeys this season. Fully 7,000 of the birds bave been marketed there, and tbe people who raised them have pocketed S7,O0O. A 14-year-old cat belonging to Mrs. Bradley, of Westport, Conn., recently died. It was given an expensive funeral. The remains were placed in a handsome casket and a granite slab is to be erected over his grave. . Five children are reported lost in the snow storm on Thirteen Mile creek, W. Va and they are probably dead by this time. More than 100 families, mostlv miners, are snowed In near Roncevert, and their sitnatlon Is dan gerous. Several marine fossils have jnst been found. It is reported, on the top of Farmington -Mountain. Conn. The mountain is about 300 feet high, and Is seldom visited necause It bas a dense growth of underbrush and Is tenanted by rattlesnakes. Mrs. Amanda Fleming, wife of Hon. Benjamin Fleming, was buried at Fairmont, W. Va., on Monday. She was 85 years old and was the daughter of Thomas Fleming, who came to that place in 178a and wbo was one of the earliest settlers in Marion county. The town of Starks, Me., is in a dreadful predicament It has no tax collector. A cor respondent ot the Fairheld Journal says tbe collector elected at tba annual town meeting resigned, and here It is almost 1891 and none ot this year's tax collected and nobody to collect it. A church and a clubhouse in Brooklyn took fire on Fifth avenue one night, The church burned- down, while the clubhouse was saved, so the only moral tbat can be drawn from the circumstance is tbat it is a good plan to look well after tbe furnaces in cold weather. Burglars in Maine seem to be eettinjj not only bold but fearless. Several officers of tbe law have been among their recent victims, and now one has walked into the Bangor police station and walked out with an overcoat be longing to tbe City 'Marshal, wbo has since found bis property in a pawnshop. John Williams, colored, lost his life at Vicksburg, Miss., last week, in a singular man ner. Having an aching tooth which pained him severely, he took some nicotine from an old pipe and applied it to the cavity. Ten minutes later he fell from his buck, dead. Opinions differ as to tbe causa of his death. George Young started to run across the track In front of a Cleveland and Pittsburg passenger train at Bridgeport, when his foot slipped and he fell directly In front of tbe en gine. Young jumped to his feet Justin time to be struck by tbe end of tbe pilot beam and was violently tbrown Into a snow pile Ho made a miraculous escape from injnry. The railroad commission bill just passed by the South Carolina Legislature is copied closely after the Georgia bill, and gives tha commission absolnto power to fix and deter mine rates of transportation for freight and passengers within the State. A new commis sion is to prepare and publish the rates when decided on. Tbo railroad men made no fight against it, Mrs. Julia McDonald, of Portland, at tempted suicide Monday evening by jumping into a pond at Providence. R. L She was res cued, and. accompanied by her sister, left for New York. Mrs. McDonald had been engaged in literary work, principally in writing sbort stories for newspaper press syndicates. She was married II months ago, and later was at tacked witb melancholia. She attempted to take her life once before Middleborough, Ky., has the champion eater. A young man, wbo is a peddler about town, named Philip Herman, asserted tbat he could eat 3d raw ezes iithout stoppings Mr. Rothcnild doubted this assertion, and Herman offered to bet SI that he Jconld accomplish the feat. Tbe dollar was put up. Max Flexner went out and got tbree dozen eggs, and tbe feast began. Herman ate 30 of tbe eggs with out a break, but there his appetite went back on him, and he concluded he couldn't go any more. Mrs. C. Zimmerman is the heroine of Fort Angeles. Dak., jnst now. She killed a deer the other day all by herself. She was out hunting witb her husband near Morse's creek. She was near the top of the bluff wben she beard the dogs coming down the stream after a deer. She says she got to the bottom of tbe hill in some way, she doesn't know how, bnt soon enough to see the deer coming at fnll speed. Sne raised her gun and blazed away and bronght it down in great style. Mr. Zim merman saw tbat the game was carried home. It is not often that a wife's jealousy brings a fortune to a husband, yet one of tha most prosperous artists in America is said to owe bis success and popularity to tbat cause. He began bis professional career as a painter of female Azures, mainly of ladles in fashiona ble attire. He married, and his wife exhibited a stronc dislike for bis practice of working from female models. In sbort, she was jnolous. Ho was obliged to promise that be would not employ any more women models, and ha shifted his line of work into a totally different field. The result was that he became famous for his new specially and rich from bis sales. At the eastern edge of Cfoverport, Ky., near tbe railroad track. Is a well 10 feet in di ameter and ?3 feet deep. From it bas been taken and tested a peculiar clay or slate. Its quantity is apparently limitless. The product of this hole makes a brick as bard as flint and glazed on its surface, which withstands the ac tion of fire beyond all others, and makes a pave ment Impervious to water and frost and wear. It also makes the best tiling, and is regarded as a most valuablo discovery. A large manufac turing concern in one of our cities bas been quietly prosecntlng tbe investigation and trsts of this remarkable product of nature, and, rumor says, is far advanced tow ard establishing extensive works to utilize it. WE ALL MAY SMILE. The question discussed in St. Louis the other day was, "Onr lawmakers: how can w reach them most effectively? " Better catch the at tbe tavern bar alter the legislature adjourns. Sew Orleans ricagune. "How thin and tired those Evanston ladles look." Yes. they belong to the new co-operative house, lecplnjr association." Chicago atobe. Augustus Yojir uncle, Mr. Prettypenny, is a numismatist, lihe not? Charles-What's that, me boy? Augustus A lover of coins. Charles I ftuess he Is. He never let's one gtt away from him. Chicago Timet. Piggerfast Good news for you all I I've Jnst been elected to tbe position of cashier In tbe bank! li-i His Dsuzhter-Ob, Isn't that nice! When do we go, j.apa? . C Go where?" Way, to Canada!" Jr. Paul Dispatch. "- Ophelia I gave young Mr. Lunimix tha mitten last nlgbt. Dora I thought you told ma you lntanded to handle hlmlthout gloves. Chicago Inter Ocean. "Fellows," said the editor of the funby column, pausing with his pen iu tbe air, "I.luve Justthnughtofa good one." " And all tbe fellows immediately went over to his desk ami congratulated him with Innch warmth. Chicago Tribune. "That's a handsome mantel. What is that sentiment carved there?" "Eat, drink, and be merry." "Ah! curious combination." How so't' "Oakmanttl; chestnut sentiment," loungt toum Telegram. , A dazzling glance she did display, Ber month a pretty pout, Bnt she was freckled lu a way Tbat made ber hands like trout. Washington Post. A simple little song to sing, A slmplellttle Joke to spring, A gay sonbrettr.wltb flippant feet, And then you bave a show complete. Washington Star. "I wonder how a composer eels when he encounters an organ grinder turning out one ot bis compositions?" "I don'tbelleve halites it ny better tbaa wt do wben we have to meet ourowanotei,','
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