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Which Is Often Sadly 5ej-lected to
the Detriment of Politics,
OKE'S OBLIGATION AS A CITIZEN.
WCere the Responsibility for Bid Got-
eminent Should Lie.
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Opportunity and power Trait upon youth.
Sovereignty ii the birthright of the young
men of America. At the threshold of their
high estate, when they are inspired by bleb
est hopes, they should also be impelled by
highest aims. Assuming that In this con
fessedly Christian nation the highest alms
fiod their inspiration in the principles of
religion, "young citizens" may profitably
consider the part which religion plays, or
ought to play, as a factor in clvio affairs.
Patriotism is the passion which displays
itself in the service of country; and the citl
sen who makes a profession of patriotism,
assumes an obligation to the State which
calls for the best service of which he is ca
pable. Religion, as distinguished from theology,
is "real piety in practice," anrt consists in
the performance of all known duties to God
and man.
The ChrUtlan Matt Be a Patriot.
While it is evident that religion and citi
zenship may represent only altars at which
service is due, but which are fireless and
neglected, piety and patriotism mnst repre
sent col only altars but everburning fires of
devotion; and while patriotism may be sup
posed to exist without piety, in the manward
scope of its obligations piety is inconceivable
apart from patriotism.
The citizen iwho is not a Christian may
ignore or deny the fact of his obligations to
a Supreme Being, and in doing so will not
prove recreant to acknowledge duties which
be has solemnlv pledged himself to fulfil.
"With a standard fixed by no universally
recognized rules, he may with apparent
consistency adopt and defend any theory of
duty which inclination or self-interest may
suggest, provided only that it does uot bring
liim into conflict with the civil law. The
Christian, whatever his practice, has no
justification for a latitude like this. The
obligations of religion, in their broad ap
plication, are clearly defined, and within
the comprehension ot all us professors. The
Decalogue and the Golden Rule, interpreted
and supplemented by the whole body of
Christian truth, enforce a doctrine of duty
which is binding upon those who accept it;
which admits no interpretations suggested
by mere inclination orpolicy;which is man
datory to its application, and which covers
the whole range of human activities, in
cluding those of citizenship.
Religion and Citizenship.
Nothing can be clearer to candid minds
than the fact thathe principles of religion
put in practice are calculated to carry into
citizenship the loftiest ideas of duty, and
that they must do this, unless those who
claim to be actuated by them are false to
their profession, ifevertheless multitudes
of citizen-christians are as habitually neg
lectful of their duties to the State,as though
it had no claim upon them which a pro
fession of piety compels them to recognize.
Some of these seem to assume that they owe
no duties to the State beyond those of citi
zens not Christians; and carry this assump
tion to the extreme of governing their
action in political affairs by the sordid rules
of convenience and expediency. Others
justify their neglect of civic duties on the
ground that because the relations between
religion and the State may be vicious, they
should have no relations a proposition as
logical as the statement that since men in
the activities of life are prone to evil, they
may cultivate virtue by sloth.
There is ground for the suspicion that
these assumptions or claims ate in reality
only apologies for the neglect, cowardice, or
selfishness, which permits professedly relig
ious men, in their lives as citizens, to "go
with the multitude to do evil," or to stand
supine while evil is done.
Duties to the Political Caucus.
To fight political vices, for example, takes
time from business and pleasure, involves
disagreeable work, brings no results pecuni
arily, which are thought to be equivalent
for the time demanded, and no honors which
are desired, or none desired which are within
reach. There is no injustice in the world's
belief that religion thus exemplified is little
more than a sham.
Units in the caucus represent the State, as
units in the sanctuary represent tbe'ehurch;
aud in the caucus, if cot in the sanctuary,
these units can, and should, meet on the
common ground, where the best are called
to hcttle with the worst forces in-society. If
the units on the one side are truly repre
sentative of the virtues set forth in the doc
trines of the church, and the other units are
too largely made up of those who represent
the vices which endanger the welfare of the
State, there is grievous wrong in the condi
tions which separate the men of the sanc
tuary from the men of the caucus, thus de
priving the Commonwealth of uplifting and
purifying influences.
Under all the circumstances it is a matter
of doubtful wisdom for any in the church to
cry down those who scoff "at the sincerity of
religions professions; and it is worse than
lolly for any to pursue this course who
by their equivocal attitude invite the
scoffing.
The Responsibility for Bad Government.
There is surely need for sober thought as
to the remissness of Christians in their duties
toward the State; and if such thought shall
bring shame to multitudes of church mem
bers, it may also send them into the political
arena to reinforce the supporters of that
which is highest and best, and thus make
tliem a. means of more usefulness to the
State and more honor to the church. Let
the truth be emphasized that responsibility
for the curse of bad government more often
than otherwise rests upon recreant Chris
tians; for there are enough church people
in almost every community to secure the
maintenance of righteous government, tif
they will take their religion into politics,
nnd justify its definition by making it in
very truth "the real piety in action." The
actual strength of the elements which are
professedly representative of the highest
principles which can be applied to human
affairs, is clearly shown by comparative
statistics.
In 1890 there were in the United States
sot less than 13,480,000 members of the
Christian churches, exclusive of Roman
Catholics, who enumerate in their fellow
chip all baptized persons, including infants.
There was at the same time a total popula
tion or C2.G22,000, with about 45.876,000 over
the age of 10 years, with 15,975,000 of voting
ge, of whom about 11,392,000 in the year
18S8 exercised the right of suffrage.
The Numerical Power of Christians.
It is estimated that of the 13,480,000
church communicants, not more than 5 per
cent, or 1,760,000, were under the age of 21,
and that of the remaining 12,374,000, 65 per
cent, or 8,043,000, were women, leaving in
round numters 4,331,000 church members
who were of voting age.
These statistics afford the following sig
nificant deductions: dumber of church
members in total population, not including
Soman Catholics, more than 20 per cent;
church members over 21 years of age, in
total population of same age, more than 26
per cent; cumber of male church members,
as compared with persons of voting age who
exercised the right of suffrage in 1888, more
than 28 per cent
The number of Roman Catholics over the
age of 21 (estimated jt one-fourth of the
total Roman Catholic population of 8,277,
000) was 2,009,750. Supposing 65 per cent
ot this cumber to be women, the Roman
Catholic voters numbered 724,413. These,
added to other male church members of
TOtinc age, would make a total of more
than 5,000,000, or a number equal to more
than 44 per cent of the total number of
voters at the Presidental election in 1888.
Christians Wbo Are Not Communicants.
The number of regnlar attendants upon
church services, not communicants, but
whose lives are confessedly subject to relig
ious influence, will add cot less than 60 per
cent to all of these figures, making a total
of 32,239,500 (including Roman .Catholics)
under church Inflnenre, of whom 18,661,000
were over the age of 21, and of whom 6,446,
00 were males of voting age. la other
words, in the year 1890 the number of those
who may be supposed to have been in full
sympathy with the doctrines of duty in so
ciety as set forth in the teachings of the
church, was iu the whole population consid
erably more than CI per cent; in the male
population over the age of 21, nsarly 32 per
cent, and in the male population whioh ex
ercised the right of suffrage in 1888, cot
less than 75 per cent.
v' Jt is plainly evident that if Christian citl
zens were united and persistently devoted to
the work of exemplifying in citizenship the
principles of tbelr faith without the intru
sion of ecclcsiastiolsm in affairs of State, but
by individual devotion to duty they could
at once exercise a power for the purification
of politics which would be simply irresisti
ble. In the light or these facts, religious
men are not to be omitted in taking the
oensus of political sinners, and the "reforma
tion of the citizen at a Christian" becomes a
pertinent question.
Shame on the Beere&ntf Christian!
Present conditions, regard them at we
may, are calculated to put to shame the
teachers and professors of a faith which de
mands obedience In all things to the highest
precepts of truth and duty. There can be
no other iuference when more than 6,000,000
of adult citizens so regularly listen to the
teachings of religion, and so miserably fail
in that united and faithful application of
these teachings which is alone needed to
make them potent in the councils of the
cation.
The audacious declaratian or a conscience
less politician on the floor of the Senate
chamber that the Decalogue and Golden
Rule have no place in politics, borrows its
warrant from the attitude of Christians; and
has in it enough of truth to carry a sting to
the church people whose failures. in duty
afford opportunity for the supremacy of the
mercenary and mean.
There is need that altars of Christianity
shalT be altars of patriotism; and that
women, as well as men, prove their devotion
to the truths embodied in Christian doctrine,
by loyal efforts to secure their application,
above and apart from any narrowness of
creed or sect, in affairs of citizenship; need
that mothers point the way to truth in
action, and enjoin their children to forget
not their teachings, because they are
To Be Citizens and Sovereigns;
need that Christian men, including
"young citizens," prove their sincerity in
the service of heaven and furnish an ob
ject leson of priceless value by their
earnestness and honesty In the service of
their country; need that the pulpit empha
size the fact that religion "pure and unde
fined" consists in a life, and cot a profes
sion; need that the church be set before the
world as a representative, not of men's ideas
ot truth as written in the creed forms of the
sixteenth or the nineteenth century, but of
the truth that changes not the
truth that brightens the pages of
the Book divine, and that springs
eternal in the God-illumined souls of
men. The religion that shall live in the
hearts of the men, and rule the world of to
day, must be a thing of to-day, presented in
the light of to-day, and applied to the needs
of to-day. Under the influence of such a
religion, in the came of no sect or creed,
but with the spirit that moves all to serve
all, in the brotherhood of man under the
fatherhood of God, republican citizenship
and republican government will find their
highest realization.
Hejt by Randall "Waite.
BESSIE BRAMBLE write of the mistakes
our forefather, made In bringing np chil
dren. See TO-MOKKOWS DISPATCH. A
model newspaper.
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Vienna printers on a strike.
Russia continues to expel Hebrews.
Ohio has elected delegates to the third
party convention.
Alsace-Lorraine and the Rhine district Is
ravaged by the grip.
Milwaukee is enveloped In smoke from sur
rounding forest fires.
The discipline of the new Indian soldiers is
proceeding under difficulties.
Several small New York shops have yielded
to the honsesmiths' demands. a
The Niagara Power company has mort
gaged its property for 310,000,000.
A "settlement of the Milwaukee stone
cutter's strike has been effected.
William Price, colored, was hanged In
Marshall, Mo., yesterday, for assault.
Alliance Democrats of Georgia oppose
Cleveland on acconnt of bis silver views.
Newly invented torpedoes will be tested in
the Russian naval maneuvers in August.
A flood is thought to be inevitablo on the
Rio Grande. Monntain snow very deep.
In England both exports and imports are
increasing, but tbe latter much more largely.
Seventeen deaths from hydrophobia In
Boston last year tbe largest number ever re
corded. Tbe steamerNlcaragua, built for the Paclao
Mall Line, was launched at Chester, Pa.,
Thursday.
Barge office methods In New York will be
stndled by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Nettletoc
Strawberries and fruit escaped destruction
from frost in Kentucky, northern Tennessee
and Southern Indiana.
The Bay State Shoe Fastening Comoany at
Nashua. N. H.,hhs been wrecked by a shortage
of JU7.C00 in its treasury.
Ex-Congressman Tarsney. of Michigan, has
been taken to a private retreat Liquor has
reduced him to a complete physical wreck.
A pockctbook containing $11,600 in gold
and greenbacks was found by William Wright
man, a farmer near Newcastle. Ind., In his
wheat bin. It is a mystery.
Tbe Russian anthor Mikbalovsky bas been
expelled from St, Petersburg for acting as
matter of ceremonies at the funeral of Shel
gonnolf, the political economist,
The grip counts many of England's aristoc
racy among its sufferers. The Duchess-of
Marlborough, the German Ambassador and a
host ot Peers and Commoners are ill.
Paul' Holz, the Chicago boy who cut his
father's throat while the latter was asleep, was
lound guilty of murder yesterday and his pun
ishment was fixed at 14 years in the peniten
tiary. There is trouble between American and
Italian workmen employed by a contractor on
the Norfolk and Western Railroad in Ken
tucky, In which an unknown Italian was killed
by a driver named Woodward.
Arkansas county. Ark, has a rival of the
famous "Jones County Calf Case" in Iowa.
The killing of a hog has resulted In a litigation
that has already lasted two years, cost E6.500,
and ruined a live-stock corporation. The value
of the hog was 2.50.
Tbe miners and others who. to the number
of about 100,000, are now on strike In Belgium
for fewer boars of labor and for electoral re
form, have, through their central organiza
tions, demanded that tne dock laborers at
Antwerp shall boycott tbe coal laden steam
ships which are expected to arrive at that port
shortly with English and German coal.
Cokxs positively cured with Daisy Corn
Cure. A tried rnd always successful rem
edy. Sold everywhere. 15 cents.
At Some Period In Lire.
In view of the great value of glasses to
every individual Jt some period of life, and
of their absolute necessity to many others of
all ages, it is high time you stop excusing
yourself and have your eyes examined and
glasses adjusted to correct their defects, and
thus prolong the usefulness or the organ,
Pbof. J. T. Little,
511 Penn" avenue.
Christ II. B. Church.
Kotice is hereby given that church con
gregation will hold their usual Sunday
services hereafter in the Bijou Theater at
the usual hours until further notice.
Preaching by tbe pastor, Dr. Izer, next
Sunday at 1050 o'clock A. M., and 720
o'clock r. m. By order f the Board of
Truitaea,
THE
A ROUND OF LEISURE
Appears to Be the Only Aim In Life
of tbe AYerage Cuban.
SQUALIDKESS IN P00E HOMES.
Human Beings, Fig?,. Cows, Chickens and
Horses Under One Boof.
HAYANA A PAKADISE OF FOOL SMELLS
IWnllTEX TOB TH 9IIM.TCH.I
The plaza in Havana is probably the
most brilliantly lighted publlo parkin the
world, and nightly the beljes and beaux
walk to and fro, to the niusloof the Spanish
military bands. Along the outskirts of the
plaza are the beautiful equipages of tbe
notables, in which are seated handsome
women, who are too luxurious to walk with
the crowd in the plaza, but content them
selves with looking on and being looked, at
At a concert given in one of the large the
aters and one here is tbe largest in the
world next to tbe Bcala at Milan we saw on
last Sunday evening all the elite of Havana,
and heard some excellent vooal and instru
mental music. One concerted piece, rendered
with 12 pianos, was marvelously fine. Tick
ets are in Havana, ai In Mexico, sold only
for one act, at the end of which one must
either buy for the next act or leave the the
ater. The object of this plan I was unable
to learn, but no doubt the average Cuban or
Mexican Spaniard could explain its advan
tages from his own standpoint.
fJko to Be Stared At
The men stare at the ladies and the latter
expect and are apparently pleased with the
attention, at lesst the younger and prettier
ones seem to like" it, while the older ones,
who invariably are present and on guard,
frown discouragement upon the beaux.
In a box was pointed out to me the Cap
tain General of Cuba, whose wife is now
gone to Spain.
In the box with the Captain General of
Cuba was a most beautiful young lady, tall
and rather blonde with a fine suit of hair
and handsome Anglo-Saxon features, a
Miss O'Beilly, a daughter of Marquis
O'Eeilly, one of the grandees of Spain.
Bather odd to have such a Hibernian
name; with a Spanish accent O'Eeelie, but
Havana abounds in such. The O'Donnells,
tbe O'Beillys and other Irish names are dis
tinguished Spaniards and Cubans, and some
of Havana's most noted thoroughfares are
named after them.
In no instance is the true martial charac
ter of the Irish race better illustrated than
by the fact that in Cromwell's time these
distinguished families became fugitives and
went to Spain, and their sons entering the
armies of Spain, maintained the Irish
martial character and became distingnisbed
generals and grandees of Spain and rulers
in Cuba, and are now among her mast
notable families.
Fervent Haters of Spain.
If you scratch a Cuban you find a Span
iard, but the Cuban is none the less as
fervent a hater of tbe Spaniard as the Irish
are of England's rule, and it is not an un
common fact that a son born of Spanish par
ents in Cuba grows up to hate his own par
ents; in fact, Cubans don't seem to like any
living thing but themselves. There seems,
however, much reason for their hatred of
Spain, since this country has been from the
time of the original Spanish conquest kept
under the iron heel ot oppression and the
very life blood expressed from a naturally
fertile country to satisfy the greed and un
holy avarice of the Spanish ruling class.
There are now 50,000 Spanish troops in
the Island of Cuba, and this is the only
thing which keeps the island from declaring
her independence and probably asking for
annexation to the United States. Not that
the Cubans care a fig for the United Sta'tes
or any other country, but because they have
an idea that the moment they are annexed
they will change their now waning for.tun.es
for sudden and enormous riches. They are
satisfied now that Cuba is' tbe greatest
country in every sense on the face of the
globe and it is only Spanish oppression that
keeps the entire world from openly acknowl
edging that palpable fact.
With 50,000 Chinese population and over
one-half ot the remainder of negro or mixed
blood, it is more than probable the. United
States have cot. and will have, no desire for
this hotbed of bandits and insurrectionists,
more especially as it cow requires with
partial futilltv more than twice the standing
army of the United States to kSep even a
.semblance of order and safety to person and
property in the island.
Charming Stretches of Foliage.
The scenery crossing the island from
Cieufuegos to Havana in a northwesterly
direction, a distance of 225 miles, is singu
larly tropical and charming. The royal
palm grows to a height of 50 to 60 feet and
spreads its umbelliferous tops along broad
avenues to tbe plantation houses. Here
are cocoanut groves and there broad
plains of sugar cane, containing literally a
square mile or the stalks topped with the
green blades, and, as this is the gathering
.season, we see here and there long trains of
oxen attached to carts lademwlth this prod
uct wending their slow and patient way to
the sugar mill. The oxen are not attached
by means ot a rope, as with us, but as they
were in scriptural -days, in Palestine, at
tached by their horns, and draw their load
by means of a pad across their forehead. '
The country it here and there undulating,
though but few streams are crossed. The
houses or tbe poor are mere thatched one
story and one apartment structures on four
pos(s inserted deeply in the ground to pre
vent the occasional hurricane from toppling
them over. The roof is picturesquely
thatched with the sugar cane tops, and the
sides are covered rudely and loosely with
the bark of tbe royal palm, which at a dis
tance looks like strips of dark sole leather
irregularly warped and -curled, and stood
up vertically, edge to edge, with plenty of
space between for ventilation. There are
no windows and no chimneys or fire places.
The cooking is done in the doorway in a
rude circle of stones. There are none other
than dirt floors and the familv pig, goat, pet
sheep, turkeys and all the chickens have the
center of tbe house along with the numer
ous children, who never think of disputing
their hereditary rights.
The Pig at Home.
There, too, the family hen watches her
opportunity to lay an egg among the rags
that swaddle the unwashed and sleeping
babe of the family. Sometimes the razor
backed family pig, by reason of his vora
cious appetite for any eatables laying around
loose, may possibly be seen tied "-around the
neck with a rope and gazing and grunting
in hopeful admiration of the scanty, bnt
happy interior of his domicile. No family
is so poor, either in or out of (he town, but
what it has a few turkeys and chickens.
Tbe latter are all of a type (hat make them
fitted for the cock-pit, and, if the trnth be
told, most of the male birds find their death
in the arena, but invariablythereafter find
their way into the pot ,and from there are
comfortably stowed away behind the bosoms
of the family and are by this transfer of
force and'vital courage .work by physiolog
ical processes into courageous bandileros,
who stop not at cutting a throat or robbing
a stranger or a sugar plantation.
The Cuban is most ingenious in his de
vices of cruelty to horses and mules. The
bits that are used on these plncky little
horses would hold an untamed rhinoceros,
and the males are subjected to still more re
fined devicesof cruelty. They are not driven
by means bf a bit or the mouth, but by an
iron plate that fits just across and above
the openings of the nostrils, and when the
slow-going mule is desired to stop, a pull on
the reins shuts off the wind of this nose
breathing animal ana he stops in order to
get his breath, otherwise he is in danger of
dropping dead Ironi asphyxia. The biggest
cart seen in Pittsburg, drawn by the biggest
horse, is not one-half as big or heavy as the
carts seen in Havana, drawn by mules not'
larger than a medium-sized pony, or much
Merer this n wulmry dtakty; but though,
PITTSBURG- DISPATCH.
the streets are even worse than Pittsburg's
thoroughfares these sinewey little mules
pull their tremendously big-wheeled carte
along and are lashed all the while molt un
mercifully by their brutal drivers. Truly
barbarism in this respect is In full sway in
Cuba.
A Paradise of Smells.
For n diversified varietvof smells,Havana
is the world's paradise. The hotels are bad
and charges high without exception, and.no
where Is there a better opening for a good
American hotel, that will have plenty of
American patronage assured at high prices,
than in the Cuban capital. .Personally the
Spaniard is the most Latin of all people, and
the Spanish-American is even more so than
his forefathers. In fact, the Italian is not
nearly so mueh like an original Latin as he.
Theyhavealways expelled or repelled the for
eigner and their attempted innovations, and
from the present Indications they will al
ways do so.
They expelled the ruling Moore fom
Spain, while it is true they retained the
Moore's style of architecture and architec
tural coloring, as being really well-suited to
a tropical climate. When the Cuban builds
a new bouse he employs no arobitect or
contractor; he simclv gets a man who thinks
he understands bullrting, and he is told that
a house costing $5,000, $10,000 or 120,000
is wanted to look like Don Casa
'Kenya's house across the way, and he
pays for tbo work t by the day,
and often before the new house
is finished the money is exhausted, and if
not, it is sure to cost by means of peculation
twice as much as expected; and four times
as much as it ought to. But if the model
bouse has a crooked corner, or stands out on
the street farther than is legally justified,
he also tries to get bis new bouse ont as far,
being determined his neighbor across the
way shall enjoy no advantage his money
and ennning cannot also enjoy.
These houses are nearly always one or two
stories, with windows without glass, but
with iron bars reaching to a height of 12 to
15 feet, and everything enters the house by
these doors, as high and wide as the ordi
nary barn door, and in this hallway the vis
itor comes; tbe horses and carriage come;
tbe butcher, the baker come, and all the re
fuse and the dead are carried forth through
this high portal. In this hallway always
stands the carriage, if one is owned,
and the horses are kept along
side of the kitchen in tbe rear.
All carriages are heavily taxed while in
nse, and are only exempt when cot in use,
and this evidence is only taken by au in
spector, who comes along at intervals and
finds the handsome carriage, which is held
onto by n decayed iamily, covered up with
a white tauslin cloth down to the very'fioor
in the hallway beside the parlor concealing
to all others than the inspector that one
wheel has been removed, and this one axle
has been allowed to become rusty from con
use. The Inspeotors Easily Satisfied.
This alone satisfies the inspector, yet he,
in withholding an imposition ot assessment,
allows the owner to display to tbe world
that he still keeps his carriage in his front
hallway. There is, strictly speaking, no de
sirable neighborhood to the 8panlsh-"uban.
Here you see the palace, with its solid mar
ble staircase flanked habitually by the hovel
of the negro. Chinaman or Cnbau of the low
est class. The well-dressed family of the
millionaire may be seen sitting 'on his ver
anda in rocking-chairs in the cool ol the
evening, and on each tide and across tbe
street are in full view wretchedness
that has never known anything but poverty,
and the children of poverty, both male and
femaleup to 6 or 7 years of age in a naked
ness that has never been covered by even a
single garment since their birth; so that
Cuba is at once the most expensive and the
cheapest place in the world to live in, as the
poor do not clothe their children, and if they
should, in a fit of prodigality, buy a suit of
clothes for a child, they oartfully lay it
away and let the child go naked.
Here tbe family lives from hand to mouth.
There are stores where you can buy the leg
of a cooked chicken, or all of it if you wish.
The government .taxes a citizen for
killing a bullock $6, that is scarcely
worth more than the tax and 81 50
tor' a sheep that is dear at 75 cents,
and that there may be no doubt about
getting this tax, everywhere annually the
privilege of collecting this tax is sold at
auction, and with the sale goes a guarantee
that the purchaser will be upheld by the
Government iu his collections, and at once
the tax fiend takes an inventory of every
bullock and sheep in his district, and woe
betide the culprit who has clandestinely
endeavored to evade the tax-gatherer.
A Favorite Word In Cuba.
Of all the oddities in Havana the milk
man is to us the oddest. He drives his lean
cows and tbelr ostensiDle calves, all muzzled,
from door to door during the entire day and
on the horn of one cow may be hung a oan
of water t for the purpose of washing
his fingers, or the cow's teats, but some
times if the honest milkman is not
watohed he finds, like our own
milkman, that the water can is his
best cow. When he arrives at the door of a
customer he makes a noise either with the
door knocker or gives an unearthly yell,
wild enough to put au ordinary cow dry,
and out comes the maid and all the children
to see the cow milked.
The average Cuban is a leisurely fellow
in business much given to a needless lot of
preliminary and empty politeness, and
never does to-day what he thinks he may
possibly do to-morrow, and manana to
morrow is the one word in the Spanish
language which is ever on the Cuban's
tongue. Without it he Vould be without
comfort or hope in life. The pushing,
hustling business American might profit
bv some little of this practice and get more
needed rest But the average Cuban is like 1
poor Artemus Ward, who said he could
stand a great deal of rest with convenienee.
W. H. Dalt.
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CHESS.
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Chess Editor, P. O. Box 463.
The Pittsburg- Chess Club meets at the Pittsburg
Library, Penn avenue.
The Allegheny Cheas Clnb meets at Dr. Miller's
Hall, florth avenue, every Monday evening.
PROBLEM NO. 61.
rComposed for The lMspatch.
BY COLONEL A. 1 BOCrtVItX, TJ. S. A.
Black: 8 pieces.
Whites 5 pieces.
White mates In two moves.
PROBLEM NO. 62.
First prise In Tourney No. l"of the East Central
BT OODFUET HE4.THC0TX.
Blackt 7 pieces.
m WM &A
Ws;.-m. toZ!0. A. WA
rrs. vss. Wi'SWs. I
, Whlte:"9plece.
i 'White mates in three moves.
END GAME NO. 27.
A bishop and pawn against a knight.
Black-H. Butler, Pa.
White-Amateur, Butler, Fa.
White to play. Can he draw t
solutions Invited.
GAME ENDING NO. 14.
From a game played by our young composer.
Master P. U. Keeney. ot Newport, Ky., and
Mr. .
Black-Mr. .
1VhltftP- II. K.m,r.
Tbe irame proceeded: 1 Q Q 8 ch. HiQ: 2 KxK
eb, KKi: BB7cb, tJKtz; 41txQct),andmates
next move.
GAMlS ENDING NO. 16.
From a game played between two members of
the'Allegbeny Chess Clnb. Mr. McDowell is one
of the promising players of the club. If be Ira-
firoves as much in tbe coming year as he has done
n the past nine months, the older members wilt
find him a foeman worthy of tbelr steel.
Black Amateur.
'" VSffli
tltltlt,
ill H
m -vm
lifflwi SiA..?aMt tSi'A
mkmfim
kWbMfa wm
a mm
Wnite I. II MnUowell.
The continuation was: LPlCS.iT.tQ 4: sbxP
cb. KxB: . Kt Kt S cb, BxKt; 4. PxB ot, K
Xtl: 5, QK5.PBSJ G, Pitts, and ulack,re
sljned. BLACKBURNE-GOLMAYO MATCH.
Srxtb game, played February 24, 18M, at Ha
vana. Score from tbe Ntw lort Sun.
LVI. Znkertort'a Opening
White.
Blacsmore.
1. KtKUS
2, 1"Q4
8. iB4
4. KtBS
5. BB4
6. P K3
7.PXBP
8. Pxl"
9. KtxKt
10. QxQ
11 2 Q ! J
Ij, Cas.KM
Black.
Oolmayo.
PQ4
PK3
KtKBS
BK.2
Castles
PB4(a)
BxP
E.txF
?xK,(b,
KUJ
BK3
BKt3
?KB3
DM(C)
KxB
White. Blsck.
Blackmore. Golmayo.
40. Jl JV 2 Jl 1Y
17. PBS-
KK4
Kb.
BK2
KK4
BK.2
M. BOS
S9. BUt
40. BKtS
41. P U 4
42. PlKl 4 K K S (1)
4J. BQ3 KJC
44. PC7K5chKl!2 .
45. Kill KQ3
48. 1 K 4
47. BxP
43. BU3
H. HU3
1'XF
J'.K4
DJS
BQ2
Bfi
BKtJ
13.
14. ?1
is It Kt
Kt3
SO. B Q S
Jt. KB
18. K.BQ
17. oi.'i.
82. P B 4
kk:u)
-10 HtQ4
KU
M. ltKB.t(k)ttQB2
M. Kit it(lj
't? -K t K t S I dlK O l(f
2u.'XtQ4 PB'iO
38. BBS
K
91 KBS
QUI! 2
KxKt
1'XK
X. M)4
B B 1
2J. XtxKt
57. BQch
KB2
11 Kill
10. JtXK
6. BxB
00. K 11 5
81. i'.KS
62. l'xf
KXK
3. KQB
25. KB5(g)
28. BQ3
27. FQIU4
23. KUS(b)
29. KB.
3U.KJV2
31. KQ2
31. KB
33. K Q 4
34. KITS
83. PQB4
Kill
JCQ2
1K4
It It
KK2
DU
KQ3
BKt2
KH1
KKt3
it-tt
PBS
UQB
KhS
6.1. PB6(m)lxl
w. r no au:
6-'. KKtS KQJ
68. KxP PK4
67. Fxl' eh K 11 a
S3. KK7 KB 2
69.PB8 Beslgns
NOTES BY BLAGKBTJRNE.
ro BT this move Black allows his Q P to be
come Isolated. In similar positions. Kt K K 41
folfowcd bv XtxB, are the moves which ate
(b? PxKt would have been better tBan exebang-'
(cVAweak move; K B Q sq was the proper
P ?I White now gains adme advantage.
Cei This was Black's only move. Had he
nlaved B K 2 he would bavs lost a pawn, for
Wtitte would have replied Kt Q 6. followed by Ktx
(n'Here Black ought to have played his QB
cl Preventing the advance or the Q K P.
(h) Again necessary to prevent the opponent ad-
1?1 Black Is anable to do anything bnt move bis
Book about while White la valuing time by ad
vancing his. Pawns on King's aide, with tbe
idea or ultimately forcing a way through on that
(kf'ThreatenlngPKKtS, which wonld weaken
the opposing K Kt P. .
(1) Black could not here play P B 4 eh. because
White woaldretake, and tfien if Black played Kx
P White would have replied willj,' K K 8 ch with a
'"ThitgalMtiw 'eppoltioa' and, thereby
j?2 Sim Jarr
PH -HIP salll
HI JBUI
1 I
1 ' i '
111, 7wd,
wm mm mm mm
iH pj III JJ
"SP i IIP i a
BIlfHBpBii
WW WW
ZWM.
wm mWB,
139L
S0LTJTI0N8.
Problem No. 43-d. Hesthcote: B to "2. 'A
line key move. Tbe Idea is old. bnt the Introduc
tion of such a key in a waiting rorm makes it a
flue problem.." Otto W.: Solved by M. O. D. and
Master Keeney.
Loyd's cliesslet: L KtxK P dlseb. B Kt 4: 2,
FxBch. KKtS; 3, Q 11 8ch, KB 4: 4, KtxF
cb. KK8: S. KK4ch, Kt BS; 6. KxKt eh, K
Q4: 7. QB3 ch, KB5: 8, QKt3mate.
Washington (Pa.) Chess Club. The officers of
the club are: President, Dr. Johns; Secretary,
Kobert Leslie: Kxeentive Committee, J. L.
Motbersbead, W. H. H. Stuart and U. K. Johns.
Five new members Joined at tbe last meeting
J. I,. Lowes, Frank Le Moyne. Alvan llonuan,
Kev. 11. W. Temple and II. . Tliallmor.
BUTLER TOURNEY.
This tourney, which began on Wednesday.
April 22, with 12 contestants, closed on Tuesday,
Mays. Tbe first prize, a gold pin, was won by B.
A. dtanffer witb wins and 1 draw: the second, a
set or Mtauatou chess men. by H. with 7wlns,2lost'
and 1 draw: tbo third, Morphy's games, by J. J.
Schelrlng, with 7 wins ana 3 lost.
THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS.
CONDUCTED BT J. B. FEEOUSOX.
BEFZBEXCE BOARS.
s :
Black men occupy squares
1 to 12; white men squares
21 to 32. Black men al
ways move first.
Checker Headquarters-Home Hotel, Duqneie
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TO COKKESPONDENT3.
Positions, Problems, Games, and Checker News
will at all times be welcome. All communications
to be addressed
P. O. Box 35, east End. Pittsbtoo, Pa.
B. Qaraides, Leetonla, O. Yours received,'
Rlaa to bear from you. We hope you will get
over tbe bad effects of la grippe soon.
J. H. Jones Your solution to No. 2 where
you eo 1-fl after 23-18 wby not throw tbe klne
on 2, then 9-6, aud how can you draw T Nearly
all our solvers bave cot fooled on tbese prob
lems this time.
John R. Geortre Wetan give you No. 1 and
also April 18th to complete your file.
Mr. Clarlr, Dayton, O. Your favor, but sorry
you havo missed the play in both.
PROBLEM NO. 53.
t EX-CHAMPION EOBKKT HABTWS.
From Liverpool Mercury.
Black-rL 8, 28.
WMte-20, 22; king, 10.
White to move and win.
PROBLEM NO. 64-MAT BLOSSOMS.
From Derry News.
Black-8. 15, 18. 18. 24; kings. 3, IS, 30.
Whllelu, 12, 13, 28, 29; kings. 1, 11, 17,
Black to move and win.
s
GAME NO. 87-CENTER.
By Josepb Maize. Mollonald, Pa.
i sM sM i zo
ufiSiDti " i a
W 11301131 W32g
11-18 17-14 9-18 107 89 27-23
23-19 11-15 S 23-14 3-17 14-10 16
811 28-24 8 8 2114 11-15 7- 3
22-17 7-11 14-10 1S-17 21-14 6-9
15-18 23-23 913 25-21 9-18 drawn
19-15 12-lCa 17-14 19-23 107 Maize
1819 30-28 18-19 27-13 22-23
24 8 18-22b 24-20 1522 29-23
4-11 28-17 1 28 32-27 18-25
VABtATIOX 1.
25-18 8- A 10 7 11-13 2314 18-22
15-22 1410 3-17 32-27 6-15 7 3
20-17 9-13 21-14 18-20 14-10 St-9
9-18 17-14 13-17 14-10 15-18 Drawn
23-14 2t-t 27-23.2 15-13 107 Malse
VASIATIOK2.
24-19 14-10 72 12-15 24-28 32-23
16-3 914 17-21 21-25 69 25-21
2718 18 9 27 1519 28-32
17-22 S-14 11-18 25-30 '30-15 Drawn
32-27 10-7 7-11.3 19-24 27-24 Maize
6-9 14-17 18-20 1-8 20-27
VABtATIOJT 8.
27-24
18-20
24-19
21-28 19-18
7-10 8028
25-30 I 10-15.4
28-21 1 11 7
1611 24-23 I
20-24 72
117 28-82
a 7
Drawn
VABIATHKr 4.
18-11 I 11-7 72 69 1 1011 I Drawn
28-23 20-24 . 28-32 1 5 2326 I Joseph
10-14 I 14-10 2 6 9-13 15-10 I Maize.
23-28 24-23 32-28 .28-24 20-23
(a) 9-13 Is best at this point.
(b) This seema to draw and corrects variation
16, Janvier's Anderson, at fourth move; 2-7 Is
f;lven and white can win (as shown by J. Yates,
n Leeds Mercury), by 24-20 In place ol 14-10, the
book continuation to draw.
GAME SS-SWITCHEH.
The following analysis will be very Interesting
to some or our readers, as on this very play we
have had some lively discussions.
U-15 15-24 38 1 514 14-18 27-31
21-17 28-19 81-27 22-18 23-14 27
9-13 . 4- 8 8-11 1 8a 16-20 16-20
25-21 27-23 1915 18- 9 14- 9 23-16
8-11 8-11 1019 5-14 11-18 12-19
29-25 23-18 14-10 23-22 2723 7-11
15-18 1 116 7-14 11-15 20-24 15-13
23-14 20-SJ4 17-10 10-7 96 Drawn.
11-15 69 9-14 2-11 24-27 Klfc-
24-19 3028 188 32-28 62 mond.
VABIATION A BT W. TATLOB TO DRAW.
16-20 I 18-ff I 19-24 23-18 24-31 28-22
TABIATIOH1 BTJ. T. OBIT.
16 I 19-16 7-16 18-14 11-16 25-21
31-27 12-19 147 9-18 21-17 32-27
16-20 1 23-16 2-H 23-7 19-24 14-i 9
32-28 I 8-12 28-23 18-19 28-19 Drawn.
3-8 I 16-11 B 10 17-14 16-32
VARIATION 2-BT T. W. WAIXIB.
2024 . 1219 1115 5- 9 27-31 I 2723
2720 2316 18-11 83 2018 I 84
3- 8 8-11 9-27 9-M 31-27 23-19
19-16 26-23 118 16-13 128 -Drawn
TABIATIOH 3-BT W. TATLOB.
27-24 10-19 32-18 7-16 17-14
.20-27 23-16 6-10 14-7 3-7
19-15 1219 b 18-11 211 28-23
16-19
B. wins
VARIATION B-BT W. TATXOK.
18-12 1 10-13 18-11 I 9-18 22-15 B. wins
TABIATION 4.
31-27 7-30281 149 8-17-24 32-28
18-23 S 11 1 6-14 15 8-9 Black
2S-W 8-28-231 18-9 24-20 28-2 WlnS.
3-8 11-16 7-11 S-14 26
TABIATION 8.
23-18 27-18 14 9 I IS IS 15 S
16-23 15-19 23-26 11-18 1-17 Black
18-14 - 5 17-14 22-15 tl-U wins.
1018 1923 20-30 6-10 3021
VARIATIONS,
S-14
eio 7
B.wlns
TABIATION C.
2522 j 16-20 23-18 1219 Black wins.
VARIATION 7.
1-27-23 I 11-27
8-11 I 32-23
18-15 8-9
23-18 I 12-16 I 18-11
1- 6 I 10-12 1 918
U-28 10-15 I 22-15
13-51
11-8
Bwlns
VARIATION 8.
(9)27-24
8-11,
32-28
S9
14-8
11-15
18-11
7-24
24-19
2-7
28-S4
T-ll'
34-20
11-18
Black
wins.
27-23 11-16 1410 9-14 I 22-18
69 19-15 7-14 1S-I 1-.5
82-28 10-19 17-10 814 189
TABIATION i.
19-24
B wins
Can anyone show a draw for white after 3-8 is
played In variation 47 if 10, we shall bave pleas
ure In looking over It. People's Journal.
GAME NO. 89-ALMA.
By J. P. Reeve, Brooklyn. N. Y.
19-1S 19-28 14-9 3-11 23-18
1019 30-23 S-14 s 18-19
27-23. 6-10 18- 9 12-18 18-14
ll-IS 18-23 23-28 8-12 2024 12-16
23-19 17-13 31-22 28-24 27-20 19-12
8-11 15-19 9-14 19-28 8-11 10-15
22-17 24-15 30-28 28-23 1 5 6-10
3-8 10-19 16-20 48 26 15-18
25-22 29-2 13- 9 22-18 5- 1 10-15
11-18 12-18 6-12 18-17 6-10 17-22
26-23 13-13 15-10 189 2018 a 128
7-11 11-18 1-6 8-14 11-20 White
23-18 22-16 10 1 23-19 1 8 wins.
(a) Corrects game between A. and B. Wool
bouse, page 187, Uould's Match Games."
whero white plays 1 8, securing an up-hill draw
as follows:
1 I 9 is I 18-22 I 22-20 28-30 33-18
11-15 I 17-22 1 1013 I 29-25 28-22 12-19
6 9 I 21-17 I 17-13 ( 13 9 24-27 drawn.
15-24 2229 15-19
-Turf.
GAME NO. 90-BINULE OOBNZB.
ByD, L. McCaughle.Pollokshaws, Scotland.
U-15
2218
15-22
25-18
6-11
29-25
4-8
25-22
12-18
24-19
1829
19-15
110-19
23-18
i 9-14
1 18-9
I 8-14
16-12
11-15
27-23
6-10
31-37
8-11
22-17
16-18
18-27
32-23
15-18
Black
wins.
11-lSl
17-13-1
2024
27.-Z0
VARIATION L
28-24-2
711
23-19
11-18
28-23
2-8
17-13
15
21-17
14-30
237
3-10
126
18-23
27-11
20-27
3223
B. wins
TABIATION X
26-22 I 28-24
2-8 7-11
24-19
15-31
22 8 I 23-19 I B wins
31-28 14-18 I
(a) Corrects Kear's "Keprint or Drummond,"
vnnatlon 12, at the third move, where 11-18 w
played and white anvrt.-Olotgoio Herald.
GAME NO. 9I-DYUE.
Black Mr. freeman. White-Mr. Beattle.
11-15 149 It 21 96 22-25 32-27
2217 5-14 14-10 32-27 14-17 11-13
15-19 18-9 615 62 25-29 27-24
24-15 7lo 2824 2718 17-23 18-14
10-1S 25-22 19-28 106 38 24-27
23-18 1115 28-10 1-10 2016 23-25
1219 95 12-16 26 19-12 b 2724
28-22 27 25-22 18-23 10-19 14-17
8-12 31-28 16-19 51 8-11 24-27
22-18 15-19 22-18 23-19 19-24 25-21
43 2218 19-23 16 12-16 26-11
17-14 7-11 18-14 10-14 24-27 22-18
8-11 18-14 1115 5-9 16-19 W-32
2724 1017 149 14-18 27-32 18-14
19-23 a 21-14 2827 8-10 19-23 31-18
24-20 13-17 32-23 18-22 22-26 15-18
913 29 28 28-32 914 23-18 28-31
White draws by Stnrges' fourth position.
(a) Mr. Beattle put his studying cap on after
this original move.
(b) This forces the draw. Beattle bas carried
on this defense with mastery precision. 1
GAME NO. 92 CENTER.
Black Mr. Jordan. White Mr. Teschelelt.
U-15 11-15 1 6-0 ft-10 3-19 26-22
23-19 28-24 24-19-d 1915 22-15 18-18
8-11 12-16 15-24 10-19 3227 22-18
22-17 30-28 2S-19-e 23-16 15-11 14-10
15-18 1820 18-23 38-32 g Z1H 19 -24-h
19-15 17-14 2718 18 li 26-22 29 -2J
1019 9-13 20-24-r 9-18 23-28 24-27
24 8 32-23 26-23 17-14 22-17 25-21
4-11 69 24-23 7-11 13-22 Jordan
28-22-a 21-17-b 31-28 187 25-18 won.
(a) 17-14 is without doubt tbe strongest reply at
tblsjnncture.
(b) The standard authorities give 28-23 to draw.
(c) The position la worthy or a dlagram,for 18-23,
26-10 (1), 9-18. 22-15. 7-30. B wlna.
(1) Or, 27-11, XO-27. 31-24, 9-18, 22-15, 13-31. B
wina.
(d) 28-21 would never do. for black would reply.
15-19, 23-18. 18-23, 27-18, 20-27, 31-24, 7-10. 14-7, 2-27.
Bwlns.
(e) The capture by 22-15, Mr. Teschelelt thinks,
will draw.
(O This is tbe move that decided Mr. Teaehe
leit's chances for a prize. Strange to say. he had
expressed his satisfaction when the opening was
drawn from the box.
(g) Mr. Jordan declines the proffered draw, and
precedes with precision ror an absolute win.
(b) Correct, 19-23 would have allowed white to
draw.
We are Indebted to James Hill's valuable colnmn
in Suffack's Timet and Jlereury for the above,
and we fear that 'our American cotemnorarlea
are Indebted to the same aoaree for their special
cablegrams, two weeks old, and tbelr special cor
respondence in relation to tbe whole jmzllnh
tourney. The Dispatch was to tbe Iront with
full particulars, and took all from its exchanges.
Tbe nubile fully understand these old chestnuts.
WYLUE-S AUBTBALIAN RECORD.
from the Sydney Echo.
Mr. James Wyllle, who Is the champion draughts
player orthe world, but Is better known as the
"Herd Laddie, "was born in Edinburgh. Scotland,
In July. 1822. and began to play draughts at the age
ot 14 years, because be considered It "a nice Intel
lectual game." Ills first great match was witb
the lateAndrew Anderson. orBraldwood, Lanark
shire, Scotland. In 1810. Since tben be bas played
506 matches In Great Britain. About 200 of these
were for stakes. Of these Mr. Wyllle lost ten. drew
four, and won the remainder. In one or the
matches he allowed his opponent to count draws
as wins. He first went to America In October,
1973, and he stayed there till October, 1878, Dur
ing his visit he played six matches lor stakes, and
won them all. lie also played about 10,000 exhibi
tion games, ot which he woo 9,395, and lost 102. be
tween 590 and 800 being drawn. In October, 183:.
ho again visited America, and be left tbe United
Stales In January, 1S35. During his visit
lie won 9,280 games and lost 109. while about
SSOweredrawn. He landed in MelbournelnAprll.
1887, and during bis stay in Victoria be played
upward or 5, 000 games, of which be won 4,842 and
lost 6. tbe remainder being drawn. In Mew Zea
land heplayed upward ot 7,000 games, winning
8,540. losing 7. and drawing tbe remainder. In
South Australia he played 491 games, of which he
won 440, lost 1. and drew 50. In Mew South Wales
be played upward or 2,000 games, ot wblcb be
won 1,612, Ioat 7. and drew tbe remainder. In
Queensland be played upward or 1,500 games, of
which he won L 410, lost 10, and drew the balance.
Tbe total number or games played by blm In Aus
tralasia bas been about 18,000, and or tbese Mr.
Wyllle has lost only 30, and he has won 14,844, and
drawn about L328. This is a tremendous record.
Comparing the results, we find that Queensland
won 1 ont or every 150 games. New South Wales
was second with rather more than 1 out or 300
games, South Australia won 1, game out or COO,
and Victoria and .New Zealand tied with 1 game
out or every LOW played.
orthe valueorMr.Wyllle'svlsitthere can scarce
ly be two opinions. Before be came to Australia
there were (perhaps half-a-dozen who might be
called good draughts players in tbe colonies, and
about 0 players who might be considered very
fair: while there were a vast number wbo played
tbe game without science or skill. There can be
no doubt that the best players bave been greatly
improved by the lessons tiiey have taken from tbe
champion, and It la not too much to estimate that
the average play all round has been railed at least
50 per cent. 'Ihc full beneflt or bis visit will not,
however, be apparent until some or the young
players wbo have begun to study tbe game in a
more scientific manner than was possible In earlier
times grow up.
Jlr, Wyllle was married In December, 1851, and
has nine children, who iwlll, no doubt, gladly
welcome him home arter his long Journey, lie Is
greatly pleased with his visit to Australia, and.ln
taking leave or those who were In the room or the
Sydney School or Arts' Chess and Draughts Clnb.
he expressed his determination to come to the
colonics again aa soon as bis engagements would
permit The "Herd Laddie" la a stout-built,
sturdy-looking man, with au open and pleasing
countenance: and be Is the picture of health. lie
has never taken a glass of Intoxicating liquor or
smoked aplpe or tobacco In bis lire. Ha is very
quiet and observant, and rarely speaks until he is
spoken to first. Daring tho last few years be bas
become rather dear.. He is very particular In
telling those who play with him that his charge la
"a shnllen a game, ye ken:" and the quiet man
ner In which he reminds those who forget to pay
before the uame begins causes much amusement.
Although lie dues not smok! hlmself.be does not
appear to object to others doing to. "Do you
nilnd me smoking" asked a player in Sydney
recently. Na, na: it dls'nahurtme as lang as
ye dlnna spit on my elacs, was bis characteristic
reply.
CHECKER GOSSIP. -
Barker's challenge to Reed, as It appeared In the
last Sunday's issue ot Thb oisrATCn, is a busi
ness lUeehallenge, and one that Heed cannot Ig
nore; but their playing for the world's champion
ship, something that neither possesses, Is the
fuuny part of the whole affair.
One or Pittsburg's leading players secured this
week rrom England John Kobertson'a, (author or
Boberuon's Guide to Draughts,") autograph
copy or "Bowen's Bristol, "and be bas also pur
chased the same gentleman's-autograph copy of
"Bowen'a Croes," at a very fancy price.
The McDonald expert visited Headquarters
Saturday evening, with his war paint on, and W,
Harrison, who some time ago boasted of never be
ing defeated by Mr. Maize, bas now to acknowl
edge the lollowlng score: Maize. 9; Harrison. 1:
drawn, 3. Tbe next victim was the gcnlat Mul
hollan J. who seems to enjoy losing games.
A large company or the players of this side ot
the river were Invited by tbelr Soutbside brethren
to go over and see tbe workings or the great steel
plant or Jones & Laughllna' mills, a sight they all
enjoyed, aud altcrward were entertained In the
club room, checkers being the chief feature.
Among the visitors were Samuel Leeds, Mr.
walt, H. P. McAteer and James Klssock,
I can speak in the highest terms of Dr.
Jayne's Expectorant, from personal knowl
edge, having used in my family recently,
with the best results. In fact,' our family
physician advised us to get it, as he "knew
ol nothing better for affections of the throat
and lungs." We did so, and the severe
attack my wife had was speedily relieved.
Ebe was so bad that it was difficult for her
to swallow, or even breathe. "We shall use
it in future, and enthusiastically recom
mend it to all. Mr. C. H. Raven, Ceresco,
Michigan, December 29,1890.
Don't be Humbugged
07 the fictitious claims
made for Porous Plasters
that cure before they are
applied. Use Benson's, a
scientific preparation that
elves prompt relief and Is
Indorsed bv over 8.000
reputable Physicians and
iruElBls. uet taa
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IS IT TRUE?
Indisputable .Facts Given aa
Conclusive Evidence.
DO YOU DOUBT NOW?
it Is onr Intention to show conclusively to the
readers or this article tbe causes, action and re
suits of catarrb.
There are many causes of catarrh. Those
most frequent aro repeated colds, due to our
changeable climate, breathing of dust-Iadened
air and luhallnc tbe air of badly ventilated
rooms. However, anything that tends to lower
or weaken the vitality ot tbe system renders
tbese causes more active,
Tbe first action of catarrh is upon the mucous
membranes of the nose and throat, causing
highly inflamed condition of tbese parts. Tbe
Inflamed membranes may or may not discharge
mucus. The condition which canses a dis
charge of mucus Is called hypertrophic or
"wet" catarrh. This mucus discbarge fs often
times swallowed. Tbe catarrhal poison thus
taken into the system causes an entire func
tional derangement. That In which there is
little or no mucus secreted Is called atrophic or
"dry" catarrb. In this condition tbe mem
branes become cracked or Assured, crusts and
ulcers may form. Dry catarrb in nearly every
case leads to a very offensive odor.
The resnlts of boib kinds are a diseased con
dition of the nasal passages, throat, lungs, af
fections of tbe ears and eyes, stomach and the
entire nervous system.
In cold, wet or changeable weather tbe resnlts
or effects are more noticeable by the patient
than In fine weather, such as we are now ex
periencing. Nevertheless, do not take the ces
sation ot tbese disturbances as evidence that
tbe disease is leaving your system. It Is only
gaining strength to break; out in a more forci
ble manner at some future favorable time.
It Is natural to suppose, after reading tbe
preceding, that tbe only sure and rational treat
ment Is one in which both local and systemic
conditions are treated. Tola is wbere. Drs.
Copeland and Blair's treatment takes pre
cedence over all others. Only successful
results are nothing more than tbe nat
ural outcome of a scientific and methodical
treatment, such as Is given by no other special
ists. Mr. Adam Alter. Cramer way. ItUWatMngton.
Mr. Adam Alter, residing at Cramer way,
Mt Washington, said to the writer:
"I was a sufferer for over a year. There were
terrible pains in my forehead and back of
bead. My nose was always stopped up. The
mucus continually dropped back Into my
throat, and I was always hawking and spitting
to relievo my myself. My throat was raw and
sore, and in tbe morning my coughing was con.
tinnaL I bad both sharp and dull pains in tbe
chest, and terrible pains in the muscles of tbe
legs. -My muscles became to affected that I
wore bandages to relieve myself. I had no ap
petite, and was always tired in the morning. I
beard of Drs. Copeland and Blair's treatment,
and concluded to give tbem a trial. My re
covery was rapid. To-day, only one month
after beginning, my condition Is so changed that
It seems almost remarkable to me. I feel better
now than ever before, and can truly recommend
tbem to all who suffer from catarrhal troubles."
INDORSEMENTS
Of Or. Copeland's Home Treatment fop
Catarrb.
The following are the names of a few of tfla
many grateful patients who have been cured by
Dr. Copeland's Home Treatment, and have
kindly requested their names be used as refer
ence: -
Mr. Thomas C. "Hooper, Braddock, Pa.
Miss Lottie J.Forker, Ho. 289 Arch streeV
Meadville, Pa. .
Mr. W. C. Wilson, Canonsburg;, Pa.
Mr. Williams, Hickman, Pa.
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE BY MAIL.
Mr. G. C. Bellis, corner Main and Cunning,
ham streets. Butler, Pa,, says: "I had all ag
gravated svmptoms of catarrb; suffered con
stantly; nothing relieved me until I began Dr.
Copeland's Home Treatment. To-day lams
well man."
Mr. Henry Rose, of Eckbart's Miner, ML,
says: "I suffered constantly from chronic
catarrh; could get no relief. Dr. Copeland's
Home Treatment cured me entirely."
Dbs. C0PXT.A2O) it Blair bave established a
permanent office at 68 Sixth avenue, Pittsburg,
Pa., wbere all Curable cases will be successfully
treated. Office hours. 9 toll A. M 3 to S P. x. and
7 to 9 p.m. (Sundays 'Included). Specialties
Catarrh and all diseases of the eye. ear, throat
and lungs, chronic diseases. Consultation, 1L
Many cases treated successfully by mail.
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Address aU mail to DR. W. H. COPELAND,
C6Blxth avenue. Pittsburg. Pa. myS-xusau
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