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Including Sunday, 1 m'th.. 80 Scnday Dispatch. One Year r.V WrtKLT Dispatch, One Year 13 The Daily Dispatqi Is delivered by carriers at :5 cents per wee):, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 10 cents per -week. riTTSBURG. MOXD VY. .IAXCARY 18. GRATITUDE IK TOLITICS. In a long account of Richard Croker, Tammany's leader, in the Jfew York World, it is given as the opinion of this ruler of the country's greatest political machine that "there is only one thing in all politics, only one quality, that a man has got to have to be successful, and that is gratitude. Never forget a man who has done you a favor, and always stick to the fellow who has stuck to you." ilr. Croker , -weut on to say "I have some men who ' have stuck to me ever since I was twenty one years old I don't think you will find one of them in want." In the above remarkable statement w e have in a nutshell the root of nearly all the evil in American politics. It is here prac tically admitted that the professional politician, the business-like politician, and the practical politician, all enter the field for no higher purpose than self-aggrandizement While this is the ac-l;no-i lodged rule, purity of purpose with .high aims for the Nation's welfare will be as widely separated from the Legislature of the country as is the sun from the earth. Gratitude is one of the finest and rarest of virtues in private life, but If the secret of political success is log rolling then there is small hope for the Commonwealth. 'When the supplementary definition of gratitude that it is a sense of favon to come is remembered, the hold which this rule must have is recog nized as appallingly wide-reaching. Thf greatest failing of this greatest country is its lack of ahility.to run purity and government in the same team. While politicians are taught that they must push those who helped them, irrespective of their fitness to become the Nation's ser vants, there is no hope that this shame shall be abolished. The man who becomes a politician for his own ends rather than for the good of his country, and the men who help such schemers are not worthy the resnect or trust of the people of the greatest Republic in the world. t.disovs i:w WARFARE. Mr. Thomas A. Edison is in the field with a new invention which he thinks will revolutionize warfare. It is intended, as a truly American invention should be, lor defensive warfare, and is described by Mr. Edison as a fort filled up with alter nating electrical machinery, the current of which is to be directed on the attacking enemy by a stream of water played through a powerful hose. Mr. Edison thinks the virtue of this means of defense to be that the enemy can by this means be shocked out of the world altogether, or the current can be modified so a to merely knock the ad vancing foe -senseless, after which the electrical operators could go out resusci tate and gather them in as prisoners of war. Twenty-five men would be adequate, Mr. Edison asserts, to defend a fort pro Aided with this electrical appliance against a whole army, if it should come within range of its electricity-charged streams. But there's the rub. Let us suppose fire engines of sufficient power to throw streams of .water two or even three hun dred feet are provided. What if the on emy should decline to come so close ? What if the invading general should be mean enough to set down two, three or five miles away and fire eight or ten-inch sholls at the fort" Might there not be danger of the electric apparatus becom ing disarranged under such circumstances, and conveving its deadly alternating cur rent into the bodies of the twenty-five de fenders? Mr. Edison's system of warfare is a good deal like the clown's method of kill ing fleas bv first catching them and then prying their mouths open to administer the poison. The arsenal of modern war fare is chock full of methods for killing the enemy when he gets within a range of two or three hundred feet TIIK QUERIES SHOULD BE ANSWERED. Multitudinous and various are the trains of thought ineidnt to the intelligent ob servance of a conflaeration. If the spec tator have an artistic temperament he will be chiefly occupied with the gorgeous combinations of fire-light, steam, clouds and moonlight If an economist he will be mentally figuring up the dead loss and distributing it proportionately among those upon whom it will fall. If a practical mechanic he will be measuring the pres sure of the'water and calculating the effi ciency of the engines. If his nature is sympathetic he will be mourning for those who suffer, and if his sensibilities in that direction are dull he will abandon himself to an enjoyment of the sight and its at tendant bustle and occasionally humorohs incidents. And so the man who makes a study of his fellows finds ample material for the exercise of his hobby in the crowd outside the ropes. The majority of onlookers at the last fire here were very forcibly struck, .first by the rapid mastery obtained over the building by the flames, then by the apparent lack of sufficient pressure in the jets, and last by the inclination of the hose to burst at unexpected places and without . pio vocation. Five or six times the pipes uurst, the escaping water sousing all within reach, knocking over those near -enough to get its full force, and' very seriously hindering the firemen in their struggle with the devouring element Where and how was the hose obtained? 'Who was responsible for its testing? Did you er see such rotten stuff? These questions and ihe like were heard on all sides in more forcible and less polite language. And they are inquiries Which are practical and important enough to "demand a thorough Investigation. If there is jobbery in the matter it must be punished, if- nothing but Incompetence It must be remedied, and if there Is a plausi ble explanation It should be offered at once. DOES FREE COINAGE .EXIST? A correspondent in another column pre sents the view which has been brought up at Washington that the right of free coin age of silver still exists on our statute book. In introducing the topic, he makes one assertion which requires correction. It is that the struggle with regard to cur rency for the past twenty-five years has been "between the interests that are op posed to any increase in our currency and the great mass of people whose interests are the very opposite." The contest thus alluded to has not been on the quantity of currency, but with regard to the quality. The quantity of certain kinds of currency, such as the issue of legal tender notes in the early stages of the question, has been a subsidiary issue, as it was deemed to affect the quality; but that the real Issue was with regard to the quality is suffi ciently shown by the fact that as a result of the resumption of specie payments there was an immense increase in the amount of money in the country. As to the point raised by our corre spondent it is a question of fact whether either the act of 1873 or that of 1878 di rectly or bv necessary implication re pealed the previous acts authorizing the free coinage of silver 'dollars. It has been the general understanding that they did so; and that was the understanding shown by the debate on the passage of those bills. If there is no such repeal the view of our correspondent is correct and free coinage legally exists to-day. But as that can easily be settled by a construc tion of the act in the courts, and as that is the only way of settling it, the necessity for extended debate over the question is slight It Is, however, worthy of comment that if the act of 1873 did not demonetlzs sil ver the denunciations of that act by the free-silver men as "a conspiracy against silver" will have to be materially amended. THE VALUE OF CAN AM. Discussing the canal question in gen eral, as suggested by the proposition for the Delaware and Raritan ship canal, the New York Times takes a doubtful view of their necessity. Its argument is as fol lows: Tlio lar-slghted and energetic men of aeventy years ago who secured tile building of the canal cannot be overpraised by the present generation of New Yorkers, but to say that is a very different thing from say ing that the chief need of American traffic to-day is more and better canals. That is a proposition which challenges inquiry. American traffic can, In general, be trusted to supply its own needs, and if tho first of these wero more canals, more canals would hare been bnilt. As a matter of fact, while the mileage of our railroads has increased nearly tenfold within the past quarter of a century, the mileage of our canals, as Prof. Haupt himself points out, has not increased,, for half a centnry. The railroads have bought up many canals for the purpose of suppressing tliem, and the Erie is the only canal left which is a really great lactor in the commerce of the country, while the Erie is not operated on a commercial basis, but retained on political grounds as a check upon the possible extortion of the railroads. This is equivalent to the assertion that whatever is the present state of things Is the correct one, which as a basis of prin ciple is the most erroneous possible. It is true that the canal system of the country, antiquated at best, has died out.before the spread of the railway sj'stem. The means by which their extinction has been se cured is hinted at but not fully told in the statement of the Timet that "the railroads have bought up many canals for the pur pose of suppressing them." They have not only done that but they have made the process more certain wherever there was a water route, whose competition threat ened to become a factor by making their business unprofitable until they were sup pressed, when the loss of the operation was recuperated by enhanced rates. Add to that the power of the railway interest in both finance and politics and the ex tinction of the canal system, outside, of the Erie canal, is not an impeachment of the commercial value of canals. Against that extinction is one Important fact The mode of transportation by which the great staples of commerce can be most cheaply moved is the best one for commerce. The Erie Canal, notwith standing that it presents no better facili ties than when the railway system was in its infancy, is a living and constant de monstration that 6uch freights can be moved by water at half the cost of railroad charges. Add to that the fact that the cost of carrying anthracite coal to Phila delphia by water was cheaper thirty-five years ago than it is now by rail and the economic fact is very clear. The Times says that the Erie Canal is retained only on political grounds, which may serve to explain the failure to make its facilities advance with the times. If during the past iorty years the Erie Canal had been deepened to accommodate lake going vessels, the expenditure would not have been greater, in proportion to the traffic, than the amounts spent in the same period by its competitors, the trunk lines, on additional tracks, steel rails and other betterments. On freights in which the element of time is important, the canals could not compete with the railways; although at present rivtr steamers are able to meet them even in that field. But for the movement of the great quantities of grain, metals and ore which tnis country handles every year, the experience alike of America and Europe attest that improved water ways have a valublc, and if our capabilities are to be fully improved, an indispensable, commercial service. RESPECT THE L .W ! The statement of the issue between the striking employes of the Pittsburg, Alle gheny and Manchester line and the com pany shows causes of complaint that are likely to attract public sympathy. But the strikers must be careful not tt alieniate that sympathy by acts which place themselves in antagonism to the laws. A strike conducted with due respect for law and order is a reasonable proceeding which commands public respect But when the strike goes to the length of taking forcible possession of property, of mobbing obnoxious individuals and of forcibly denying the right of passage on the public highway, it goes beyond all reason. Men who resort to such metnodA change the conflict between themselves and the company into a conflict between themselves and the social organization. They supplant their reasonable insistence upon a fair contract of employment with an avowal of determination to assault in dividual rights and override public order. It is to be hoped for the sake of the strikers 'that no more such reports of dis order as those published yesterday will be heard. A temporary victory may be won br such means; but it is the Bort of victory which wllrinjurt-those -who-wln if, in cbmni6n with the rest of society, more than it benefits them. "For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain you, must Jook to Chile In. these times. The scheme by which our sailors were lured into signing a document under false pretenses, carries its 'fcwn. all-sufficient evidence of the utter corruptness and un. scrupulousness of the police regime at Valparaiso," remark the Boston Globe, lot us tee, the documents show that an arrange ment was suggested by the Chilean Jndge, whereby an officer of the Baltimore accom panied the sailors to act as an 'interpreter. If any other party had been represented at the naval court of Inquiry than the one which it thirsting for war it might have been deemed pertinent to ask that officer what he was doing while the sailors wero lured Into signing a document under false pretenses." The behavior of those present at the an nual reception at the Chinese Legation has again been highly discreditable to this country at large. People take advantage of the ignorance of our language and customs by the Chinese attaohes and servants to thrust themselves into a place to which they had no invitation, and having gotten there .they prove their unfitness by behaving like a herd of swine. "What a wonderful effect the weather exercises on the tempers of people in gen eral! It is delightful to note the geniality which is prevalent on all sides when bright skies and a keen, bracing, healthy air is. met with in the streets. The figures of the Bureau of Statistics for the calendar year just ended show the beginning of tho large export movement which will appear in Its most striking form in the croo vear closing next September. the exports of breadstaffs for 1891 reached a total of $221,319,500, an excess oi si.ij,u over the exports for 1890. This is slightly offset by the fact that the exports of pro visions wore but $120,941,929, or a decrease of $10,433,115 from the previous year. The gain is enough to make a very favorable balance of trade, but it Is far below what will be shown in the statistical comparison of the different crop years. i Me. HolmaH's resolutions are described by the New York Zriiuna at "merely a cheap bid for notoriety." Perhaps that Is all they are; but the esteemed IVioune might do well to consider whether as between cheap bids and the very expensive bids fornotoiiety as those made by the last Congress, the latter may not be more acceptable to the people who have to pay for them. The generous action of the various rail roads in agreeing to transport free of cost the corn given for the Russian snfferers is another vivid -contrast to the ridiculous cheese-paring policy shown in Congress on this subject. Fiuday's Congressional "carryings-on" again make it deplorably evident that some "Representatives" are under the impression that they are at the Capitol for no other purpose than the display of their own per sonalities. Men may be found all over the world who will do auythlng to make them selves conspicuous, but electors should see to it that their Representatives are taught that the accoom'plishment of business is of infinitely more importance than efforts to display their knowledge of humorous litera ture and be funny on their own account. The importance of the invention by two Harrisburg men which provides a simple underground system for electric cars is very great. Anything tending to diminish the number of "overhead wires will be greeted as a great boon. The most remarkable feature ofthe invention is that it has been accom plished by a newspaper man and an ex-Chief of Police. The New York legislative situation is rapidly converting Republican organs to the doctrine of the rights of the minority. The Bepublicans are in the minority there. The recently reported ipterview with Sir Edwin Arnold, in which that usually gentle minded poet is represented as saying that Bussia will be driven out of Asia, and that "Every Bussian throat beyond the Caspian will be cut." tfuts the author of the "Light of the World" in a light not wholly consist ent with that reflected in his works. Who would have thought that poetic regenerator of ancient religions was as bloodthirsty toward the Bussians as tho editor or a jingo organ it for the gore of the Chileans? Among other progressive resolutions to be discussed at the annual meeting of the National Board or Trade is a highly com mendable one which speaks of the univers ally deplorable condition of the public high ways as a positive obstruction to progress. The tunnel for turbine wheels at Niagara, which is nearing completion, will mark an immense step In the cheap production and transmission of power. At the discussion In the German Reich stag on the appropriation for the World's Fair, there wero some very senstble Te rnaries, notably those on the McKinley bill maintaining that every State must do what it considers best for its own interests. Among Boston vegetarians peanuts are in future to enter into a keen competition with baked beans as a source of nourish ment. The movement now to the fore to pro vide for the electlbn of United states Sena tors by a popular Toto is one that should re ceive the support of nil who believe that Senators should bo real 'representatives of tho people It-is far moro difficult to cor rupt enough individuals to lalslfy a popular election than to achieve tho same result with an equally powerful number of the State Legislatui e, or for that matter, of any electoral college. Representative Scott, of Illinois, has a good case agaiust the Government in his bill for prohibiting the Postofflco Depart ment from selling Btamped envelopes bear ing the printed request for the return to a piren nddres if not delivered within a cer tain time. Be lightly maintains that by selling such envelopes at the same, rate as .those without the printed request the Gov ernment is competing unfairly1 with the printers. .NAMES FREQUENTLY. HEARD- Mr. Faxton, of Denver, CoL, is be trothed to Miss Mason, a relative of the American Minister to Russia. Miss Amelia B. Edwards, traveler, author and Egyptologist, is about to be awarded a civil list pension in England, The late Sir 'William White was master of 28 languages. This number, however, in-" eluded several more dialects closely allied. General Lew Wallace is suffering from an embarrassment of riches in the way of offers from the publishers lor his new novel. Mark Twain has delivered a lecture in London for the benefit of the American church. Lucy Campbell assisted on the violin cello. Judge Abraham J. LAy, the new Gov ernor of Oklahoma, was born ih Pennsyl vania, but was transplanted to Missouri when only S years old. The late C. A- "White, the song writer, had no theoretical knowledge of music, and studiously avoided going to the opera and like performances, lest his originality should be impaired. 'IP I were a young man," said John G. Whlttier recently, "I 'should ally myself with some high, and, at present, unpopular cause, aud devote my every effort to accom plishing it success." As item is current to the effect that Sickens was a shorthand,, writer. He was, as n matter of fact, and he saidfcnce that the accomplishment was as hard to acquire as half a dozen modern' languages and much lbs valuably. THE CHURCH AND LABOR. r warmif r or tile disfatcit. i "One thing that has done the churches a great deal of harm," so -writes in a letter a man eminent in tho ranks of organized la bor in this city, "is too much theology and too little common' sense. People don't care anything about the difference between a theological tweedlednm and a theological tweedledee. Preachers and churohes" that have the courage and honesty to expose and denounce tyranny, oppression and robbery, whether it be perpetrated by rich or poor, great or humble, can always influence us, and command our respect." I And again my correspondent says this; "It would please ns poor people much bet ter If the churches would not deal so much in promissory notes. That is, they tell us sometimes, to console us in our troubles, that we ought to bear it all patiently, and when wo get to heaven what a good time we will have, and how many good things we will have, m6re than we can possibly use or want! Now, we think if that is the case then-it would be better and more sensible not to bother so much about the next world, and try end have us better provided for In this world." This is qnite a common complaint against the churches, on the part of people who never go to church. To judge from the criticisms of sermons thafare made by men who never hear any sermons, one would im agine that all the pulpits bristle with the ology, and that the favorite topic of most preachers is tho everlasting torments ofthe damned. The Past and the Present. There was, I believe, a time when the churches woio somewhat removed from the daily life of men. It may be that men still living can remember it. Thero was a day when most persons were more interested in theology than in sociology, and spent more time 'in tho study of exegesis than 'in, the study of economics. There was, also an age in which most astronomers were of tho opinion that the earth was flat, and most chemists were firmly persuaded that the best results would follow those experiments which were pre ceded by the pronouncing of certain mysti cal Incantations. It is even within the memory of people not yet much paBt middle life that physicians prescribed a dose which was Itself as bad as a disease. The clergy cannot claim to have been always very far in advance of their age, any more than their brethren in other walks ot life. The truth is that the spirit of tho age sur rounds us like an atmosphere. Wo breathe it in continually. It makes up a considera ble part of our life. It shapes a great pro portion of all our sayings and doings. Wo may not be conscious of It. We may bo like the good man who said that the moon is, in deed, useful because it shines in tho night while it is dark, but the sun is no great bene fit to ns because it shines in the daytime when it is light anyhow. We may not realizo that the spirit of the age is the great luminary which lights our steps. Nevertheless it is. And all men live in the shine of it. Only the rare men of genius, the great heroes, are in advance of their time, and even they have only one foot ahead. The other foot keeps step with all tho rest of us. My friend asks a great deal when he expects tho parsons to live already in the twentieth century. Only a Pew Old Fogies Left. Bur the parsons are most of them living very enthusiastically in the last decade of the nineteenth centnry. They are fully as abreast of the times as most men. Of course, there are exceptions. There may bo densely conservative parsons, preaching sermons from manuscripts yellow with age, and justly open to my correspondent's criti cisms. There are also absurdly fanatical agnostics, who, after they have got a little more wisdom and sense, will not be quite so omniscient. And there are extravagantly radical socialists, men whose tongues are bigger than their heads, and whose speeches are the despair of all friends of labor. It is confessod by all the best men in the Trades Unions that tho greatest trouble that they meet with is the suppression or fools. All the imbecile sermons aro not preachod in tho pulpits of churches. The Secular Society, and the Labor Uuiou have even more than their share of them. Let us admit that some men are fools. We need not put It quite so strongly as Carlyle did. Some men are fools. And there seem to be no tests and no examinations as yet devised that will keep fools out. They get In everywhere, even into the ministry. But all the parsons are not fools. The labor unions mako a great mistake if they think that. The truth is that the men who aie to-' day more interested than any other men, not directly concerned, in the Just settle ment ofthe problems of industry, are the mlnistcis of tho Christian church. The Church Deeply Interested. The last ten years have seen a general awakening on all sides lu regard to the problem of poverty and the rights of labor. AH men are now interested in topics which before that seemed to interest only a few. And the Christian clergy are su premely Interested. In every modern Christian parish the pailsh house stands beside the parish church, the headquarters of a score of busy associations which aro concerned with the bettering of the poor, and the uplifting of those who are down. Work is set on a level with worship. The Christian minister of to-day is more in terested in the questions which vex the daily life of living men than he is in any thing else. ' Doctrine is accounted of no value except as it bears on common life. Bltnal is of importance only as it ministers to righteousness. Everybody who has read Robert Woods' book, "English Social Move ments," knows what tho Christian religion is doing on the other side of the water for the helping of the needy, and for the solu tion of the economic problems of our day. "Andover House" in Boston, and the "East Side House" in Hew York nro only illustra tions of a universal Christian intciest in the welfare of labor. Christian Capital Helping the Needy. EVEN the Pope writes an encyclical on the labor question. Somebody sent me a labor paper the other day, aud in a note written in the margin (in disregard of the postal laws of the United States of America!), commended me to a consideration of Trinity Church, New York, and how that parish got its wealth. The paper was a single-tax otgan, and, of course, the sender reprobated all gain from the possession of laud. It is worth'while, however, to remember that while Trinity Chuich is not, perhaps, in the twentieth century as yet in its views on the land question as, indeed, a respectable' number of reputable citizens orthis country are not still Trinity Church is spending its money, every dollar or it, for tho uplifting ofthe poor. The Interest ofthe Christian Church to-day and the money of the Chris tian Church, and with it the Interest and the money ofthe Christian capitalist, areou the side of the submerged classes. Cardinal Manning is an excellent case in point' to-day, that great man who lies dead in London is mourned notonly by the priests and the people of his communion but by all the friends of labor. He was' not only a great ecclesiastic, but he was profoundly in earnest in his study of industrial conditions and In his endeavor to make tho world bet ter, down here and now. He cared more lor men and women than tor all the theological tweedledum and tweedledee under the sun. And therein he was a representative of the real attitude and spirit of the Christian church. LONG LITE THE EIGHT. IWR1TTXS FOR TUB DISPATCH. 1 The yeirs may come and they may go. Yet still remains the L. and (t., -Or part of it, with tales of woe That they alone the right way know, A hundred ) cars ago well-nigh Strict Puritans would heave a i lgh At labor tauted by lighting dry SticKs ou the Sabbath to sit by. Food fit for child Is not for man. And common sei,te has put lti ban Oi. those who tL:nk they always can Stand where they were wheu things began. May Law and Order rnle the day When following the rightful way; But when the name's usurped we pray ' Th false inay perish Id the fray. . . F.J.M. THE 'BLUE LAW CRUSADE. li Lacks General Publlo Approval. Mckeesport Times. The crusade ofthe so-called Law an&Order Society against the Sunday newspapers has not developed the strength the projectors evidently hoped for and it lacks general pub lic approval. The trouble with the Law and Order Society is that it cannot get away from the taint of "boodletsm." The general public largely regards the organization as one for revenue only and that revenue Is prin cipally derlvecjfromhnrrasslng small deators in candies and tobacco who are inveigled into Sunday selling by "detectives" under pay by the association who go about making purchases on Snnday so that they may ap pear as witnesses against tho accused. Do not these "detectives" break tho law Just as much as tho Sunday seller? Aro they not en gaged in worldly employment, and Is their employment a necessity under the law? The general public does not seem to think so. And regarding the suppression of, the Sun day newspaper the society is cortainly start ing at the wrong end. Instead of prosecut ing newsboys and news agents they ought to get after the proprietors. There is where the responsibility rests and there tlioy must finally reach unless they abandon the cru sade. Prosecute the owners and publishers of the Sunday papers and then the cases will be proporly taken to the highest court for final adjustment. Thequestion of Sun day papers cannot'be settled in an Alder man's office. A Wrong anil Impracticable Policy. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The attempt in Pittsburg to enforce a Sunday law that is more than a hundred years-old is bound to encounter difficulties. The Law and Order Association's intentions are doubtless good, but its reforms should be in accordance with more advanced ideas and under more modern authority. The city has grown, some since this ancient law was adopted, and other conditions have greatly changed. The arrest of dealers for selling Sunday papers is a sample of a policy that is wholly wrong and impracticable. Goody-Goody Reformers. Beading Times. The Law and Order Society of Pittsburg has inaugurated a crusade against Sunday newspapers. On Wednesday eveninganews dealer and a newsboy were arrested for sell ing papers on Sunday, and wholesale arrests are expected to follow. This procedure is strongly suggestive of "straining at a gnat an swallowing a camel." If that of Pitts bui ) is such a moral and virtuous commu nity tha6 these goody-goody reformers can find nothing of more heinous terpitude than the purveying of Sunday newspapers against which to direct their efforts, the Smoky City would seem to havo no need for snch an organization as a Law and Order Society. But, seriously sneaking, does it not strike the non-fanatical judgment that it Is about time for a rational revision ot the antiquated "blue laws" under which suoh Qulxotio undertakings as the suppression of Sunday newspapers are attempted? The Contract Is a Big One. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Law and Order League of Pittsburg has the largest contract it ever assumed In attempting to stop the sale of Sunday news papers. The Sunday newspaper has come to stay in spite of tiro efforts of a few cranks. They Have No Mortgage on This Country. Sharpsburg Herald. The Law. and Order fanatics and cranks say that tho Sunday paper must no, but then neither of these cranks have a deed of mort gage on this country. Ancient Laws Have Been Besnrrected. Scranton Republican. Pittsburg appears to be experiencing a spasm of morality. People are being ar rested for selling newspapers on Sunday. The ancient Blue Laws have been resur rected in the ex-Smoky City by a Law and Order Society. , SALVATIONISTS HOT BELI0I0US. Affidavits From Preachers Saying Hard ThlngfAbout the Army. , I New YonK, Jan. 17. Special. Last sprin-r a scoie or more of members ofthe aalvationa Army established barracks on Hawthorn avenue, Yonkers, in a building erected especially for their accommodation by Georze D. Mackay, a stock broker. Thomas H. SUkman, who lives near the barracks, subsequently obtained a temporary injunc tion restraining the army from playing on noisy musical Instruments, from parading in the streets in the vicinity of the building and from sincing in a way to disturb tho neighbors. This injunction was continued yesterday by Judge Cullen, in Brooklyn. Affidavit were presented, showing that voung children were kept awake until a late hoar "by the loud noises. Bev. F. W. Foch linger, the pastor of the German Lutheran Church in Yonkers, deposed that, while he favored freedom of worship for every lalth, he was forced to tho conclusion, from per sonal observation of their peculiar methods, that the Salvation Army was not a religious organization. He added: "The hymns sung and tunes played are blasphemous rather than religious, and the words coulrt not be construed by any religious peron as praise to Almiehty God." "Marching Through Georgia." "Red. White and Blue," "Iiish Mary" and "No Flies on Him" were cited as samples of the hymns sung. TALK OP THE TIMES. A Pittsburg man has completed an ar Tangement whereby hose can be raised over a street car track In the vicinity of a fire, thus permitting the cars to ran as usual. Chicago Tribune. This idea wns evolved while tho car. lines wero stopped by a recent fire. It-is as yet only an idea, though. Parsimony may be as hurtful to the coun try as extravasrance. St. Louis Globe-Demo-cr"L This maxim litis been forwarded to Washington for rpference. It is hopedthat it will be memorizpd and actedjnpon. Senator Hill has become a mountain Omaha World-Herald. Some people are only too l eady to nuke mountains out of mole hills. . Some surprise Is expressed that the World's Fair Directors should have ohosen to com plete the woman's building first of all. Chi cago Timet. The Directors probably bad in view the fact that the last iyiil in the build ing is to lie driven by a woman. The type of useless luxuries in New York of late years has been the skate. New York Tt'orW. In Pittsburg there has been Just enough iOo to make tho skate a useful lux ury. If Chicago Is cold thoe days it Is not for want of plenty of thick and fluffy q'ullts and blankets of smoke over it. Chicago Xews. Thero is a bond of sympathy between Pitts burg and Chicago which even extends to the clouds of smoke. We have a medley of laws governing mar riage and divorce which permits and legal izes wlmost anything including bigamy. Philadelphia Call. There is no time like the present to lemedy an evil. THE GALA SEASON AT TALK Opening of Promenade Week, With a Series i of Germans. New Haves, Cos., Jan. 17. Special. Promenade week, the gala season of tho col lege, is here, and with it tile annual host or fnir visitors. The gallerjes of Battell Chapel were this morning crowded with strange faces', eager to see how Yale men behave itt church. The festivities of the week will bo formally began to-morrow afternoon, when President and Mrs. Dwlght will give a re ception. In the evening tho Junior gei man Will be held nt Alumni Hall. About GO cou ples will take part in thegerman, which will be led by A. Chisholm. '93. On Tuesday occurs the annual concert of tho Yalo Gleo and Banjo Clubs, at the Hyper ion, followed by the Sonlor and Soplio'tuoto germans. The Senior gorinan will he held at Alumni Hall, and will be led by W. C. IvT son, '0i, and T. Lv McCinng, '9i The patron esses will bo Mrs. W. D. Rockefeller, Mra. D. B. Iviaon anil Mrs Daniel Lord, of iiavr York City, Mrs. William Wielghtman, Of Philadelphia, and Mrs. William Farnham, of New Haven. On Monday andTuesday occur the society receptions, and on Wednesday evening will come the grand Annie, the promenade at the Second uegiment armory. THS 8AXS OLD SI0SY That Smoke Consumers Will Cause the fac tories to Shut Down. New Yort Erenlnc Sun. Pittsburg can be luade a smokeless city, everv one knows that, Mr. Carnegie- says so and Mr. William Metcalfe admits it. But Mr. Metcalfe Writes to the papeis to say thut when he and other iron masters aro com pelled to burn their smoke "we (they) shall be compelled to close our (their) mill and go to raising potatoes to avoid starvation." Ah, how familiar do tho dear old words Tine in memory's ear ai the early and exploded literature on the subject is recalled? It is a grand story, that of the reform of the fac tories, full of tender and touohing episodes. A long possession ofmill owners, their hands on their hearts, kissing the book and swear ing that irthoy might not work children II honrs a day they must so into bankruptcy; protesting with tears in their fine eyes that if the workmen wore allowed to com bln6 they must lock their doors, while their own blacklists were indispensable to disoipline: that if conlpolled to burn their smoke they must draw their fires and be seech their creditors to take the works off their hands. Yet successive Legislatures laughed gently ana enacted law after law, and the wretched factory man got richer and richer as he was progressively pi ohibitcd from making the earth unfit to live on. Who would imagine fiomtho tone of Mr. Metcalfe's letter to his fellow citizens that its burden was that of an old song sung out and put to silence a quarter of a century ago? But the strain pleasantly awakens memory's chords with assurance that the world is still the same dear and good old world with nothing new in it, and nothing old even the warbling of dickey-birds and Metcalies, as fresh and in nocent to-doy as when first their notes were strained respectively to hymn the praise of sunlight and of smoke. A THOUSAND D0LLAE NUGGET. Strange Story Attached to'a Find in a Cali fornia County. San Francisco, Cai, Jan. 17. A George town, El Dorado connty, special says: It has Just leaked out that on Wednesday E. Get chel, a Georgetown miner, found a nugget valued at $1,000 in Devino Gulch, onemile east of Georgetown. Devine Gulch, which empties into Oregon Canyon, was so named from one Devine, an English sailor, who, in 1851, found in this gulch the largest nugget which, up to that time, had been found in California, its valuo being $800. The result of this find is Illustrative of the state of so ciety at that time. Devine gave the nugget to his wife, and told her that, should lie re turn home drunk, not to give him the gold, as he would spend it. He did return home drnnk and as she refused to give him tho gold, he shot and killed her with a shotgun. Devino was immediately hanged by the minors. It Is said that a most remarkable circum stance connected with the lynching was that the tree upon which he was hanged vc ry soon died. In 1632 another nugget valued at $500 was found. Besides these, several smaller nuggets have been found at various time". When Getchel found the nfigeet he was sluicing off the ground which had been condemned as worked out, for the purpose or flllinc a reservoir at the mouth ofthe gulch. Ho noticed a few colors, and fol lowed up the lead to where he found what he supposed to be a piece of quartz, bnt was astonjahod upon finding it to be gold. It weighed 56 ounces. THE QUEEN'S PIPE ABOLISHED. Smuggled Tobacco Is Tllstritmted to the Government's Wards. Newcastle, Eho., Jan. 17. Formerly all tobacco seized by the Custom House officers, as well as tobacco detained or deposited in the Queen's warehouse at the several Custom Houses for security of duty for which no application was made by the own ers within six months of dote of deposit, were destroyed in furnaces, under strict supervision without having been offered for sale, and a certificate of destruction had to be given by the principal officer of each port that the goods were s,o destroyed. This method of disposing of smuggled tobacco, known as the "Queen's Pipe," .has been abol ished. A few days ago the Commissioner of Customs in London, acting on instructions from tho Treasury, directed the principal) officer throughout the United Kingdom to forward all smuggled tobacco which was fit for smoking to the Queen's warehouse keener in London, and the portion unfit for smoking was to be burned locally, as had been the case in the past with all smuggled tobacco. Cigars and spirits smuggled were originally an exception to the above regu lation, and these goods still continue to be sold by auction at the several Custom Houses from time to time, and are not being returned to London. The purnose of send ing the smuggled tobacco to London Is to distribute it among the inmates of public establishments supported, or partially sup ported, at the expense ofthe Crown. GUABDED HIS HASTES' S E0DT. A Hound Watches Beside a Hnnter Acci dentally Killed. MrrsciE, Inn., Jan. 17. Yesterday morning Amos Rich, of Yorktown, aged 29, took a hound and left home to hunt rabbits. About 1 o'clock John Myers and William McDon ald, two hunters, had their attention at tracted by the howliug of a do. On investi gation they found tho noise was made by a large hound sitting beside a dead man. The dog didn't notice tho two men until they attempted to approach; then he plainly displayed his objections, and they retreated to call help. Soon a half-hundred men were at the scene. They finally induced the dog to permit them to approach. Tho man proved to be Rich. Evidently in climbing a fence nearby tho young man's gun was discharged. Hehaddrageed himself through the snow to a.stumn 30 feet distant, and taking oft" his overcoat, placed it under his head, and laid down to die. After tho body wa taken home tho faithful dog kept up his pitiful ho ling until driven n-.yny. A BIG TIN PLATE FACTOBY. Only the American Mined Metal Will Be Used by the Company. Elwoop, Ind., Jan. 17. Superintendent Isaac L. Morris, of the American Tin Plate Works of this city, left for Youngstown, O., yesterday to procure tho necessary ma chinery for the manufacture of tin plate. For the past six months a large force of men have been engaged in erecting buildings for the tin plate company here and have now four structures ready to receive tho ma chinery. , This will bo the largest tin plate plant in the United States. Since beginning the works the stockholders decided to double the capacity nnd also to add a rolling mill in connection with it. Mr. Morris is authority lorsajing that American tin exclusively will bo used and that !)5 percent, or the labor employed will be Americans. DEATHS HERE AND KLSEWIIEEE. Mrf. Rose McLane. Mrs. Koie McLane, widow of the gallant Colonel John IV. McLane. Is dead at her home in ivcitaeld, X. Y. 'Ihe deceased was a remark able woman. Sne was a near connection or the family of James G. Blaine. Colonel MrLane tel while' leading the Eight; -ThlrJ Pennsylvania ol-untj-crs at Gaines' JlUllfilSK. add his remains lie In Eric Cemetery, where those or his widow will lie laid Turartar. Mrs. MeLanr's great soriw was the murder lt her son. Josenh McLine, a cattle grower, by ihe Utes 15 yt ars agoi ObitnnryJVntes. AncHBlsiiop Jons Marasco, of Athens, Is dead. Micii.FisNERTY. tneoVlestman In Indiana, died In Bluffton atprday, aged 10.1. MAnAME OCTREV, whose linsband was formerly the French Minister to Washington, Is dead In Paris. She was a daughter ofWiLlam Russell, of New YorK. ItEV. JOIIS Kokl. for 40 years an Evangellcat clergyman otadatlng in Penbsylvaiila andMaiy land died In Ea.ton riatnrday from grip. He was 71 rears old, and his last charge was lu Philadel phia. Mrs. Hfi.es JCichOLSOS, wife of Maxime Out--.. f,ii m,nv vnii- WiN.ni-li Minister at W'ashlncr- . I .1 t ...l... 1.,n ll.lllt-.n ir v,.j..n of hew York, died suddenly or paralysis '.it Canms , Saturaa;. THOMAS W. Humes. D. D.. Tor many Tears the national capl.ai. e nope we win arm Prohknt of the University orTennestec. and an , " fonsi-tent with our dut ess tare wesenta Episcopalian minister of nnown. dle.l at hlsrcsi- tives of 'i''""1 sf'""l Pa PoTCnT deuce in Knozvlile Saturday morning at the aire or Ato with the (ill cctory of the W rla V"''"0 77. He was from hUjouth.au ardent aliolltiouist. . 1)Ian Exposition!!! securing all needed Iegis- . -. - .. ,.. 1 li.Mdn ns there are tome matters which ne architect, founder of the American Instate of Architect, and Secretary of the American Acad- f.mv or Fino Art, now the Academr or Deslan. died Thursday at his residence,' near Llewellyn Park, West Orange, after a short tliatss. OUR MAIL POUCH. Have Wo Proa Coinage Now? To the Editor of The Dispatch! The great struggle between the classes whoso Interests are opposed to any increase in our Currency, and the great mass of peo ple whose interests are tho very opposite, hnsbeen jpon us ainco IS6J. The people have Mad the argument, but tho other party has had the influence or the vote-. This question has been placod in national and State platforms of' both parties some favor able, some th" reverse. Newspapers of both parties have argued it pro and con, and politicians have been all torn up on it. Now the question assumes another phase, and it is asked, "Have wo not already the law for Ireo coinage ?" It teems from an in spection of the law that we have, and here it is: ActoflS37: "Thatgoldand silver bullion brought to the Mint for coinage shall be re ceived and coined by the pi oper officers for the benefit of the depositor." That is as plain as language can state it. Notice the terms: "Shall he received and coined." The language is compulsory on "the. proper officer s." Tho only question further to oe considered is this: Has the law or 1837 been repealed? I think it has not. The law or 1873, which is generally considered to have been passed as "a trick," and which establishes the trade dollar, reads as .follows: "Thatany owner of silver bullion may deposit tho same at the Mint to he formed into bars, or into dollars ofthe weiiht of 420 grains, troy." This has been repealed. Then the net of 1878 providing for a "pur chase from time to time of silver bullion at the market price thereof, not less than $2,000,000 worth per month, nor more than $4,000,COO worth per month, and cause the same to be coined monthly, as fast as so purchased, into suoh dollars." This act has been modified by act of 1S90 as follows: "That so much of the act of Feb ruary S3, 1878, as requires the monthly purchase and coinage ot the same into silver dollars of not less than $3,000,000 nor more than $4,000,000 worth of silver" bullion, is hereby repealed." This brings tne silver question to the front. Is the law of 1837 repealed? Without arguing tho question at length it is sufficient to say that so eminent a lawyer as Senator Morgan is of opinion that the act of 1337 is now in force. Steps are to be taken to get a definite opinion from the Senate Judiciary Committee on the question. And in the meantime the people should watch their Congressmen well for fear of amendatory legislation td keep silver down. J. H. Stevenson. Allegheny, Pa., January 15. Subjects for Scientists. To the Editor of The Dispatch: I have a subject on hand npon which I de sire scientific information. For some time I gave thought to the possible consequences that may result in course of time, or may already havo, though (imperceptibly, re sulted from the tapping of the earth's crust for petroleum and natural gas. For in stance, wo know that gas, if used for inflat ing a balloon, will cause it to rise. The gas as it escapes through the hole, is wasted matter, whether it serves man or not. Now the billions of feet thus emptied from the interior of the earth may in some manner act, or have acted, on the same principle as gas does in the balloon. Inotherwords.it might have been the means ot keeping tho earth in equilibrium. In reality the earth represents a balloon floating in space. We may also ascribe another ue to that subtle and elastic substance. May it not have served as an elastic cushion to counteract the pressure of the atmosphere and keep the crust from sinking? , I am perfectly aware of the apparent in significance of the comparative small amount of matter taken and destroyed by mankind from the earth, but tho destruc tion of these substances has commenced only recently. What ir the population keeps increasing as it does, and keep; in venting as it does, and thus plays npon the resources of earth at the same ratio as it commenced? Climatic distuibances may result or have resnlted from the wholesale destruction of more elements thail the gas alone. Petroleum is nndonotedly forced to the surface of the earth by interiorpressnre, though it may have collected' from high levels and lemained in air tight pools or pockets until tapped. But these are specu lations. Petroleum, nnlike gas, may not have the same influence, but it may have a purpose, not known or understood, for be ing in the earth. At all events let ns im agine the millions of tons and barrels taken out or the earth and what may vet be takenl tJAgain I ask how many billions of tons of coal have been taken from the earth sirtco It wa first nsed Tor fuel? (1234) Now this im measurable weight is certainly worth coJ sidering when deducted from the original weight of the earth. Immense an this is, it is but small to what It will be in 660 years more. The whole weight has been reduced to ashes. I do not believe in the theory that natural gas and oil are constantly manufac tured down bplow, no more than coal 1. Again, think of the enormous bulk in weight of forests destroyed, not mentioning their usefulness in relation to climate, etc. The elements mentioned herein are but- a few which are calculated to disturb or lessen the weight or otherwise interfere with the order of things in nature. We cannot con ceive tho more important factors which con stantly influence the supposed immutable order of things. What of the evaporation of the mighty waters? Here we reduce mountains or metal and distribute it or spin it in threads over the surface of the globe. We havo just begun to add artificial elec tricity to that of nature's. It may be better for us and the coming generations if we never find out nature's way of producing It. These are the principal points of tho sub ject I deire science to explain or discuss. UrFKB St. Claib, January 13. C. Gbaf. It Makes His Blood BolL To the Editor oIThe DiSDatcln In your comments on the Chilean trouble you have repeatedly compared it to the New Orleans exhibitkm or lynch law. Wherein does tho similarity exist? In the latftr in stance the people took vengeance on a num ber or murderers, who, through a miscar riage orjustice, had escaped justice, had es caped punishment. The men were kilted, not as Italians, but because of their crimes. The Chilean mob attacked the sailors of one of our cruisers, killed several and shame fully abused the rest, simply because they represented in their persons and ship the Seople or the United States and the United tates Government. The writer ha, in a former letter to you, ndvocated some delay in enforcing our just demands for reparation from the Southern Republic because of our course tonardAhe Greater Powers. That delay is now sufficient. Chile must either do what is required or fight, iruot, then let President Harrison withdraw his demands, and himseir.-with. the nation of which he is the head, stand a spectacle of contempt beforo all the world. Arbitration is cood in its place, but with Chile thero is nothing to arbitrate. The question is simply whether our national dig nity ami nonor ue upueju, aiiu mu urea uiiu property of our citizens in foreign lands protected. If not, then dispose of our navy to the highest bidder, disband our skeleton army and proclaim to all that the America of to-day is not the America ofthe past, and that our patriotism, our pride as a people are forever gone: that when It is dollars and a whole skin against resentinir an outrageous insult, to ay nothing of a directly hostile attack, Uucle Samuel is. as they say, not In it. Had it been a vessel orany or the great maritime powei, the crew of which had thus bcn hounded to dctth in the streets or an American city well, we know what would have happened and that speedily. Jacob Hebhinoton. Shabon, January 13. DUTIES DISTINCT AND SEPABATE. One ofthe World's Fair Commissions Set- tlngltseir Arljht.. Washisotos, D. a, Jan. 17. The Commit tee on Federal Legislation of the World's Columbian Commission, in order to correct the misapprehension that generally pre vails in the public mind as tn the distinct nrtd separate duties or the World's Colum bian Commission and the World's Colum bian Imposition, has issued a lengthy ad dress in explanation or tho true relations or the two bodies, and particularly to define the po-dtioli or each in reference to the pro poxed said .),fWO,000 loan or appropriation lor tho bene fit or the World's Fair. The chief points or thnaddri'asaio as fol lows: "The Committee on Federsl Legisla tion of tlio World's Columbian Commission is charged with the l:it oduction and prose cntion befoio Congress or mich measures us tho enactment of which will enable the Na tional Commission to earn" out the respon sibilities of the Government imposed by the act of Congress providing for 11 eIebration ofthe out hundredth anniversary of the ii..r.t-BrvnrAmericnby Christopher Colnin- llllS Tneie has been no lemiaiionin 1,011- gre.s since this, committee was appointed, and therefore this 1-. our first appearance at w"l P"?5"'0""?1!," "ir5",5ln,F'C-"D.f,.9n.Y commission, and there are others which may-possibly be presented by our commis sion uniting with :i similar one from the directory of said corporation." CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS,, v-, . "V Grass seldom grows in Africa or Asia, but flowers and shrubs flourish luxuriantly. A young man recently captured 165 eelf in the Hackensack river in about eight hours, so he claimed. Prussic acid can be concentrated from peach pits to such a point thatasingle smell of it will kill a person more quickly than a rifle bullet through the heart. The grand total of charitable bequests in England during the past year, excluding Baron Hlrsnh'a tin con nno for Hebrew emisra- I tion, was $15,000,000, as against $11,300,000 in low. There is a giant chestnut tree growing' at Center Bridge, Bucks county, near tha Delaware riyer. The trunk measures 19 feet in circumference and the tree stiU yields an annual crop of chestnuts. During the last decade 2.489 affairs of honor were settled by recourse to the sabre, 93 by appeal to the broadsword and 179 by the use of pistols. Newspaper attacks, the statistician declares,-were responsible for the majority of duels. The annual report of theComedie Fran caise shows a profit or $70,000. This will givo $3,-200 to each socletaire. In the course of the year 1591 eleven new pieces, Including Sardou's "Thermldor," were produced, and twelve plays or its old repertoire revived. Insanity has increased so in France that the asylums can no longer hold the lunatics. The Assistance Pnblique has, therefore, de cided to place some of the crazy panpers who are harmless with peasant families. Just as It puts out pauper infants and chil dren. Dr. Leo Pribyl states that the German and Swedes are utilizing their peat bogs in the manufacture of naptba, tar, solar oil, parraffln, acetic acid and" gas, and the peas yield3 an elastic fiber, 'which, freed from dust, is employed for weaving into car pets. The ant is said to have the largest brain according to its size of any creature in tho world, and it stands to reason that so much brain must give rise to numerous complaint of the head, and some things lately seen, through the microscope recently strengthen this opinion. Frank Smiley, the Indiana man who recently attracted much attention by tho loss or his hair, beard, eye-lashcs and eye brows, as the result of a severe attack of tha grin, is undergoing the second stage of his affliction by his hair growing out again in a fine, white fuzz. Sake drinking, according to a writer, in the "American Antiquarian." Is one of the great curses of Japan. In 1S79 theamountof rice converted into sake amounted to 15.030, 000 bushels. Pledges to abstain from the habit are frequent among the picture ofler inga in Japanese temples. At one time Japan considered the ques tion of establishing a national creed, and a Minister wns sent to Europe to Investigate; but. says the Bishop of Exeter, who has been following the subject, the azent re turned to report that Christianity exerted no more beneficial influence upon vice than isuuuuism. , A "razzle dazzle" was one of the nui sinces specified In the complaint against a, place of amusement in the old Cross Bones Burial Yard, near London. Tho "razzle dazzle" was a contrivance intended to mako peonle experience the motion of the waves of the sea, and the screams of tho razzlo dazzlers were heard for blocks. The turquoise, althonsh not credited with either remedial or protective proper ties, so far as disease was concerned, was nevertheless resarded as a kind of sympa thetic indicator, the intensity or its color being supposed to fluctuate with tho health, or th wearer. The hitter, moreover, by vir tue or the stone he carried, could, it was said, fall from a height with impunity. If a tea stalk floats in the capitis called a "beau," and when this is seen unmarried women should stir their tea very quickly round and round and then hold tho spoon uprizht in the center of the cup. It the "bean" is attraoted to the spoon and clings to it, he will be sure to call very shortly, if not that verv evening; but if the stalk goes to the side ofthe cup he will not come. A striking illustration of the spread of civilization occurs among the Maoris of Pov erty Bav. A quarrel arose between two chiefs, Pinl and Tuta, which being re strained with difficulty from taking the old form or bloodshed, has been tafeen.to court, by regular summons. A printing press has also been set up in the King country to re port the sitting of the first Maori Parlia ment. On the North Atlantic coast we Jiava certain species of whelks which might bo made to serve admirably for eating, afford ing a cheap and nutritious diet. Even in the waters of the far Arctic theso sastero pods are found in great numbers, where they sometimes supply a means of subsist ence to castaway whalers and other voy agers who would otherwise perish of starva tlon. The largest library in the world is that at Paris, which contains upwards of 2,000,000 printed books and 160,000 manuscripts. Be tween the Imperial Library at St. Peters burg and the British Museum there is not much difference. In tho British Museum there are about 1,500 OCO volumes. The j'.oyal Library, of Munich, has now some thing over 900,000, but thi3 includes many pamphlets! There is only one refinery in the world that makes absolutely pure sugar. Tho manuractory is in Germany, and it supplies chemists and druggists with sugar for solu tions which must bo unclouded. The chemically pure article would not And ranch, sale for table use. as it is a dirty, crayish white In aonearnnce. When dissolved it gives a clear solution, there being no artifi cial coloring matter in suspension. The new German artillery, which will shortly be introduced, is said to be the moss terrible war Instrument every produced. Experiments made at the Interbogfc ranges deeply Impressed the experts, the Kaiser being present The first shot, fired at a target placed 50 paces from a wood, missed thctar'ef. nut ploughed its way thronghthe wood for 1,500 feet. The splinters of a shell bnrst uy the new powder overa circle of 900 feet. A shell fired at nn enormous target, constructed by the Emperor's orders, cov ered it with tens of thousands or holes. A battery or the new artillery would, it Is as sured, annihilate an entire division,-onco the range was found. MINOR KEY NOTES. "They really fear she will go insane. You ee. she round a diary he kept before he met and married her " "Oh. I see. And the awful revelations " "Revelation nothing! It was In cipher and she couldn't read a word or it." Indianapolis Journal. IS "music hath charms to soothe the savaga breast" Is found to be a rule that seldom varies. Why can ire not do good, and get a rest. By Binding organ-grlnderaoff as missionaries -Pvck. "Well, did the governor fire you when ho heard of that escapade?" 'So. he dlda't lire he only hauled me over the coals." if. Joseph Daili i'eios. Bohby Vi, what does it mean when it sara a man's estate was divided according tolaw?-' Pa It means. Bobby, that the heirs of the de-id lnaa get what Is left afctr the lawyers get through. Judge. Xo frost, no snow, No blizzards bUw. Mild temperature the mercury denotes. The clothing men Are balked again And marking down the price of overcoats. Sew lbrk Press. "If you'd had to study -when you were a boy as hard as I've got to study, " grumbled young Qnitlback over his arithmetic, "you mlgbthave made your mark la" the world long ago." -I don't think I'm too old to make a few marks yet, my son." remarked the elder Quillback. reach ing behind the bookcase for the family rawhide. Chicago Trxtnme. "Mabel," said he mother, "unless you have pressing business this evening" "I haven't mama. interrupted Mabel. "This Is George's evening: Harry doesn't come UU to morrow night.' V-.V. r. Utrald. "With sol, fleecy linings her slippers were made; Wheu she rcsjed no cold could she feel. Theywere daluty and new, yet she freipienUy said v They were very much down at the heel. Washiuaton Star. Mrs. Gadd That new family next door to you must be ptrty well off; they've got a planer. Mrs. Gabb-lluh! They don't own it. rlt;s rented. k "How d'ye know?"- " By the way they bang on it. Why rveseea two of (hem layln&on it at ontc.Texat Siftlhgti . .1.. .utiqm -5 BaKT, Til! iitMlaTI3WtifealM
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