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POSTAGE All persons who mail the Eunday issue of The Dispatch to friends t-houid bear in mind the fart that the post cgc thereon i Two (2) Cents. All double nnU triple number copies of The Dispatch rrqTdre'a 2-cent stamp to insure prompt SI'NDAY. JANUARY II. A PI nOAf ' THE CKII-. Our Government's instructions to 3Iinis ter TJsan to insist rth an immediate apology and reparation from Chile show that af fairs are anproacliins; a crisis. But the be lief is Rainin?; ground that not only v. ill there Te no Trar, but the Government con template Jiothiii! more serious than a sev erance ot diplomatic relations in the event of the refusal of Chile to comply with our demands. The polite announcement by the Chilean Government that Minister E?au is not persona grata but persona ingrata and the tusgestiou that he be removed as a condi tion precedent to the compliance with our demands is surpnsins. If there is to be an apology and reparation, it should not bo conditional upon Mr. Euan's recall. The Chilean Government has a right to ask for Mr. Eian's recall if he is persona ingrata, and the United States has the right lo recall him as a matter of self respect, if it sees fit. However, independent of Mr. Egan's personal acceptability to Chile's leaders, the United States has a right to expect compliance with her demands. It is popularly expected that on Mon day President Harrison will sena his message to Congress, and' at that time the exact nature of the demand upon Chile will be known. The instructions which Minister Monttissupposedtohave received from Minister Matta and repeated to the State Department are sufficient ground for the delay of Mr. Harrison in sending in his communication. If it be true that the in structions were insulting and contained no conciliatory sentences, we may expect that Mr. Harrison lias changed what might have been a mild message to one advising harsh measures. There have been ru mors to the effect that Minister Matta 's wordb have been withdrawn. Certainly they ought to have been either withdrawn or modified, for it was impossible to con duct negotiations upon them. inn JUMP IN VALUATIONS. It is evident that if last year's millage for city purposes be permitted for this year also, the result upon largely increased valuations will mean a heavy and op pressive draft on taxpayers. As until the Assessors complete their revision, there Is no telling what percentage of increase the aggregate will show, it is impossible yet to figure how many mills will produce a given sum. But individual taxpayers who are jumped from 25 to several hundred ner cent know that it will take a propor tionate sum from them if these valuations and the old millage are both to stand. The Assessors are, of course, being sharply rated by the property owners, whose assessments have gone up; and there is in the air the intimation of a de sire to provide large revenues to be spent from City Hall as the prevailing motive. However, it is well to be just even to Assessors. It is well to recognize that the cash value system has never been much more than a respectable pretense, and that many property owners have en couraged and been complaisant with the fiction so long they believed it profited them. That is to say, both in city and county the county worse only in degree than the city the habit has been as long as people can remember to asses below known values. In some cases, scarcely 50, 00, or 75 per cent has been assessed. This ha been the rule in other cities, too. The business of as sessing is easier done in this way than by sticking up for the limit of market, quota tions. Xow the question arises, when the Assessors conceive they are called upon by their oaths to assess at actual cash values the cash values of the records and real estate offices are they thereby ad vancing a plot for extravagance or are they not entitled to the plea that no mat ter what was done before it is their duty to make true assessments now as nearly as they can? But be the Assessors right or wrong in their estimates and they are certainly al titudinous beyond expectation in most cases there is no reason why the tax payers as a body should allow assessments in the aggregate to draw a penny more from them in taxes than they really want to pay for city government They know, or should know, what the city can wisely afford to spend for city purposes. In a couple of weeks from now they 'will have a chance at the polls to elect representa tives to Councils to adopt any millage they themselves figure out as proper. If the gross assessments be large they can, if they will, elect members pledged to reduce the millage proportionately Thus the people who pay the taxes have the matter virtually iu their own hands if they choose to act If the increase of val uation is merely a rush of wealth to the head in place of to-the pocket the result' of imagination rather than of the market they can square things by ensuring pledges from their Councilmen to -vote for a millage reduced in exact proportion as the aggregate valuations maybe increased, with such allowances as they think fit for new and additional work, or for that mat ter vith no extras at all, if they think that best. FINANCIAL GUESSWORK. The methods of estimating receipts' on expenditures, in the conduct of the Gov ernment finances, were strikingly illus trated by the testimony of Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury Spaulding before the House 'Ways and Means Committee. Mr. Spaulding first made an elaborate and ap parently accurate statement of the re ceipts of the Treasury for the first six months of the current fiscal year. Then he guessed at 520,000,000 more of. receipts for the "first twenty days of the present month. After that he doubled the re ceipts of the six months, added 514,000,000 to them, and presented the result as the total of Government revenues for the current fiscal year, amounting to $362, 000,000. Against this he set an estimate of expenditures for the year 'of J338,000,T00, or 524,000,000 less than the receipts. A little light as to Treasury estimates is shed by Mr. Spaulding's subsequent state ment that hisngures did not include sink ing fund appropriations, or river and harbor appropriations, and finally by his confession that the estimates were based on "a little experience and a great deal of guesswork." This last statement is cal culated to disarm criticism, bnt on the other hand it does not permit us to take Mr. Spaulding's statements seriously. It suggests, however, that it might be well to adopt measures for the statement of Government expenditures on some more tangible basis than that of "guesswork." llrBEAKr ABERRATION. The reported assertion of Dr. Charcot, the great Parisian authority on mental diseases, that the insanity of De Mau passant, the French novelist, is typical of his class and that "all literary men must, sooner or later, succumb to insanity," is a little startling at first. But as we consider it more maturely in all its bearings, as pects are presented which commend themselves to our judgment and our moral sense. It is evident that on the lines of Dr. Charcot's theory, the manifestations of mental aberration, generally known as lit erary productions, are as varied as the more material classes of insanity, whieh range from delusions, .of imperial power down to the imaginary impersonation of a teakettle. InDeMaupassant'sca'se, af Ter working out for some time in the shape of rather delirious novels, it took the more active shape of personal destruction. In some others it exhausts itself in the very mild lunacy of poems and the delusion that the public wants to read them. So on through the entire field of literary effort, we see the varied forms from idiocy to raving, as we are assured on the authority of the greatest living alienist Dr. Charcot thus raises to the level of scientific discov ery the assertion of the Cheshire Cat to Alice, published in the "Adventures in Wonderland" years before Dr. Charcot endorsed St, that "We are all mad. You're mad, I'm mad." Now the comfort of all this is that it relieves from the task of trying to ac count f pr, on reasonable ground, the vaga ries, idiocies and lunacies that we are constantly encountering in so-called liter ature. It equally delivers us from the task of refuting them by argument Literature being merely a premonitory symptom of mentil alienation, we need not wonder that a school of writers per sist in wallowing in social sewers and jus tify it as devotion to art. "With this theory before them we need not wonder that pop ular. American novelists, while confining their realism to decorous dullness,insist on setting up a theoretical shrine of foreign nastiness and worshiping at it The bulk of printed idiocies perpetrated in the name of political economy and social science are disposed of in a breath. The writing of 'ponderous tomes to dogmati cally settle the unknowable is fully ex plained; and we need puzzle our brains over such manifestations of the universal delusion no longer. Dr. Charcot's dictum suggests another development not without its attractive aspects. An insane asylum for authors is a logical sequence. The curable and in curable cases should be strictly separated. ' The former must of .course be restrained from giving away 'to their errant tenden cies, with the beneficial result whether they are cured or not of relieving the over production in the making of books. The incurable cases might as well be indulged in their delusions. The cottage system would be the proper thing to prevent them from inflicting mutual injuries in their literary delirium, and that much mooted authors co-operative publishing house will be an appropriate annex to the literary madhouse. Imagination can sup ply all the necessary details, chief among which would bo a strict supervision to see that none of the ravings of the Flaubert and Saltus stamp ever got beyond the' walls of the asylum. This is a merely superficial sketch, a mere raking of the surface, of the new and all sufficient theory of literary production. Its first and most salutary result should be to warn literary aspirants that they must confine their vagaries within the limits of innocuousness, in order to escape a commission de lunatico inquirendo. : a successful demonstration. There seems to have been a demonstra tion of the ability of women to work political springs in the result of that hearing before the Senate Committee on woman suffrage the other day. Those who can convince a Senate Committee are certainly possessed of political skill; for while the Senators may be gallant old chaps in their individual jand unofficial capacities, they do not as a rule make committee reports for the sole purpose of pleasing the ladies. Yet the committee of the "Oman's Suffrage Association im pressed its ideas so forcibly on the Senate Committee that it incontinently voted to report to an unsuspecting Senate, a six teenth constitutional amendment to secure the right of suffrage to women. After this let no one assert that women have not the ability to move in politics. Other interests have made numerous ar guments before Senate and House com mittees, and gone away empty. It is even probable"1 that the 5100,000,000 Nicaragua Canal job had to be explained several times to the Senatorial mind before the latter grasped all its possibilities. But the ladies of the Woman Suffrage Association came, argued and conquered at a single hearing. After this it must be admitted that these women at least are capable of becoming adepts in the mysteries; of politics. But they will probably have abundant opportunity to exercise their skill on this issue before obtaining the enfranchise ment they desire. The victory of woman's suffrage in a benate committee by a vote ...&., ... .. v.... .uiuuui,m;G jr a. iuh, of 3 to 2 does not insure that it will sue-I cessiully pass the ordeal of the Senate, the House, the'Executive, and 23 out of the 44 State Legislatures. The necessity of this process may indefinitely postpone the complete achievement But the initial step warrants the renewed expression of The Dispatch's long-standing platform, that when the.majority of the, women wish the right to 'vote they will-get it; and that it will not be time for them to have it until the majority of them do wish it. l'EBEIC BDIEDING JOBS. The- Senate seems to be determined to make better progress than the House in one respect; but that respect is one in which the eminence is not desirable. It is that of rushing through log-rolling build ing bills at the rate of about 51,000,000 for each day's work. ( At a time when the impossibility ot find ing revenue for all of the appropriations of the last Congress, the item of public buildings presents an extremely eligible field for retrenchment Wherever the Government has commenced buildings of course the truest economy is to complete them, and wherever the business of the Government is hampered for lack of needed facilities, it can afford to provide them. But that riHe can be met, and yet a great reduction of expenditure can be effected by stopping the present log-rolling system of scattering public buildings broadcast wherever the political affiliations of Senators and Representatives may re quire. Even if the Treasury were in a condition to allow of large expenditures in public buildings, the system by w,hich the dis tribution is made is a peculiarly senseless one. No pretense is, made of regulating the expenditure by the commercial or postal importance of the places where the buildings are to be erected. The distribu tion is entirely a matter of favoritism. In the appropriations which the Senate passed last week, the commercial centersof Norfolk and Hastings, Nebraska, got 5250,000 each. The Dalles, Oregon, job got?100,000, on the assertion of Mr. Mitchell that it must have 4,400 population, although Mr. Porter's cen sus onlyallows it 1,000. Fergus Falls.Minn., and Mammoth Hot Springs are other nota ble centers of population to be decorated with Government architecture at the ex pense of the United States if the Senate has Its way. Such bills as these are very good ones to commence the process of pruning with. They are jobs in their inception and reck lessly extravagant in their details. They should not be passed if the Treasury was flush and should not bs entertained at all, now that the surplus has completely dis appeared. "WANT THE INDIANS' EAND. The original way of disposing of the In dian, put in practice by the early settlers of the country, was either to kill the In dian or to cajole him into trading his land for a few beads and jackknives. The plan adopted by modern, advanced civilization is moving the Indian from land that the white people want to land that no one wants. This i3 the process which the people of Southern Colorado are urgently advocat ing, in order to satisfy their desire to get hold of the Southern Ute reservation. That reservation is very desirable farming land, and the fact, that the title of the Indians is guaranteed by the most binding obliga tions possible, does not at all lessen the hunger of the Indians' neighbors for the Indians' lands. Consequently the people of that section are urging the passage of a bill through Congress for the removal of the Southern Utes from their valuable possessions to useless and mountainous land in Utah which is so worthless that no one will take it as a gift It is a slightly more covert,but no less dis honest, mode of procedure than the methods of violence and fraud that blacken the early history of this country. Indeed, there are several-features about this proposition which make it peculiarly revolting to anyone with a sense of national honor. The nation is .under de cided obligations to these -Indians whom it is proposed to despoil When the northern half of the same tribe broke out into insurrection a few years ago and de feated the United' States forces .in one fight, the Southern Utes remained true to the Government, and by their influence prevented the insurrection from spread ing. Besides ignoring the sense of decent and ordinary gratitude which should pro mote fairness in dealing with the Utes, the proposed removal is a violation of the Dawes severalty act under which the In dians should be encouraged to take up and cultivate farms for themselves. This proposed removal is a perennial and shameless steak It should havfe the life crushed out of it, so completely that it vvuiuub uaiu lu suuw liaciL ill vuiigiess again till the Indians are given firm pos session of their land in severalty. AN EXPECTATION OF GREATNESS. Our neighbors of Buffalo are cherishing laudable ambitions. The proposed utili zation of a portion of the surplus power of Niagara Falls causes that hitherto slight ly reposeful city to blow its horn. Hith erto Buffalo has rested on the laurels of a big business in wheat, flour, lumber and cattle. But the construction of the Niag ara tunnel, by which 120,000-horse power will be deliverable at Buffalo, causes that city to indulge in prhecies of a million population at the end of the decade, and to speak slightingly of the- prospects of Qhicago, and to assert that the course of the empire may be compelled to reverse its "proverbial direction. This is a laudable spirit on Buffalo's" part, and' one more likely to approximate the predicted results than if she simply rested on her natural advantages, without any sounding abroad of her possibilities. With cities as with men, there is a pertinent application of Sir Philip Sydney's apothegm that "he who aims his arrow at the midday sun, though he knows that he shall never hit the mark, yet is he certain that his shaft will fly higher than if he aimed it at the wayside bush." Buffalo will be none the wprse for entertaining great expecta tions, even though they are somewhat con tracted in the realization. Nor is the manufacturing power which that city expects toadd to its facilities by any means a trivial factor. It is equal to the power required to run four or five of Pittsburg's great establishments, and will thus enable that city to make an addition to its industries equal in magnitude to something like a tenth of Pittsburg's iron and steel manufactures. This will make the City of the Lake grow and flourish. The one additional factor which Buffalo needs is cheap fuel." If she will join Pittsburg in securing the construction of the Ohio Elver and Lake Erie Canal, she will gain that factor and become, not a rival, but a coadjutor of Pittsburg's in dustrial greatness. THE Philadelphia Ledger indorses the proposed canal between Philadelphia and Sew York, because it Is wanted for com mercial reasons, and will be almost inesti mable in case .of war. How much more must it indorse the Ohio River and Lake Erie Canal then, which will uccoirauodato a tnucu greater traffic which has no water route, and will give a connection frort the J much greater traffic which has no water rivers to the lakes In ease or war.. By the argument a fortiori the Eastern press which is supporting the Hew York and Philadel phia project should he enthuslaatio for the Western Pennsylvania enterprise. t The political conclusion fromrthe events of the past week oni the Democratic side df the House is very positively to the effect that while David Bennett Hill may still .carry the New 'York .Democracy in. his pooket, there is one section that he has not got bold of, and that 'is the Democracy of Pennsylvania. , The insurance swindler has 'been work ing: LawrenoevHle aealn. The method is slightly varied, hut the same old result is demonstrated of the fondness of the publio for being humbugged. The assertion that the Kosendale election to All Hartlngton't scat Is conceded by both Liberal and Conservative leadevs to be a de cisive indication of the way the next gen eral election will go, isprobablynpocryphal. The English politicians are not so inex perienced as to commit themselves to asser tions such as may return to plagne'thein in the immediate future. (The county official after Balarytriumphs once more over the Controller's -strenuous objections. This is a tactical defeat for the retrenching Controller, Dut he will not stand any worse in the pnblio estimation for having insisted on a clear interpretation of the law before letting go of the county's money. It seems to be a subject for even betting whether the restoration of the Chilean ne gotiations to Egan's hands is intended to make, war certain, or is a devlcorto let Egan down easily. The announcement that two -new paint ings given by Mr. Henry Phipps to the' pub lio libraries of the two cities have arrived, "one being of the Earl of Chatham and the other of William Pitt," is entertaining. Students of archaeology might find it inter-, esting to examine the two portraits and see if any family resemblance can be deteotedr in them. The statement that if there is no war the Navy Department will only send in a little. deficiency bill of $3,000,000 to J4,000,000 "on ac count ot preparations" may give tho publio a faint idea of what to expect if the dogs of war are let loose upon the Chileans and the United States Treasury. The county built numerous bridges last year, hut can sUow no roads worthy the name. That is the summary of the County Engineer's report just made public. ' Assistant Secbetarv Spaulding's appearance before the House Ways and Means Committee raises to the dignity of a serious issue the question whether the gold reserve is a gold reserve or not. Mr. Spauld ing is rather of the opinion that it is not; but ho will ask Secretary Foster before making his decree final. FAT0RITES OP FAME, Count Abco Vai-ley's successor as the Kaiser'B representative at Washington, Dr. von Halleben, is short, stout and ugly. Senator Davis, of Minnesota, has a noteworthy collection of Napoleona, em bracing 300 books and quantities of pictures. Ex-Senatok Ingalls is erecting a building at Atchison in which ho intends to practice law, associating himself with his son Ellsworth. John McCloud, a Scotchman, 76 years of age, claims to bo the oldest white settler in the State of Washington. He dates his residence from 1813. An interesting guest at a Baltimore hotel the other day was Prince Agustin Iturbide, the adopted son and heir apparent ot the un fortunate Mexican Emperor Maximilian. General Booth, head of the Salvation Army, who has been visiting Australia and India In the interests of that organization, sailed hence to-day on his return to Eng-J land. Mr Simon Marx, the new Mayor of' Norfofk, Va., is a German Hebrew, born near Frankfort-on-the-Main. He is one of the most progressive andpubllc-spirited citizens' of the town. The most populous Congressional district is represented by Captain James N. Castle, of Minnesota. It is the district embracing St. Panland Minneapolis, and its population numbers 111,633. Mk. Hudson, the projector and con structor of tho St. Clair tunnel, believes that in the twentieth century Boston will be 10 miles long and 20 bi oad, and that its popula tion will number 2,000,000. .De. G. B. C. Todd, of Barnwell, S. C., is a brother-in-law of Abraham Etncoln. Dr. Todd was a distinguished surgeon of the Confederate army ana was for a long time with the Texas Rangers on the Bio Grande. LIGHT ON THE WOSLD-S FAIS. An Investigation Into the Manner of Ex pending Its Money to Be Made. Washisotos, Jan. 23. The sub-Committee on Deficiencies, consisting of Messrs. Savers, Chairman, Holman, O'Neil (Massachusetts), Dlngloy and Henderson (Iowa), of the House Committee on Appropriations, will report to the full committee at its' regular meeting, Tuesday, In favor of the adoption of the Henderson resolution, providing for aij in vestigation of the World's Fair at Chicago. The resolution as reported will contain some amendments, designed to make the invest!, gatiou more comprehensive and to enable the Government to secure all possible in formation relative to the Exposition. In view of the fact that Congress will be asked to appropriate $5,000,000 in aid of the Exposition, it is desired to ascertain "just what has been done by the Exposition man agers, how the money heretofore spent has ocen expeuueu, anu so lar as can De stated, what it is proposed to do in the future. Thn resolution.it is said, is not conceived in a spirit or hostility to the Exposition, but with the view of acquiring full light on the subject before Congressional action on the proposed appropriation. It Bags at the Knees. Chicago Tribune. The Gray Presldental boom bags visibly at the knees. Senatorial elections. . "Elect Senators by direct vote of the peo ple," is the battle cry which will sweep the country. Toledo Blade. Its certainly high time that something was done to prevent tho Senate from event ually becoming a body of plutocrats. Wheeling Intelligencer. There seems to be no real danger to re publican institutions involved in passing an amendment to the Constitutlonproviding for the election of Senators by the people. Des Moines Leader. It is by no means certain that the election of Senator by popular vote would result either in elevating tlje intellectual standard of tne body or in doing away with fraut. Indianapolis journal. We hasten to declare that this would be a great boon to the citizens or the States and to the people at large perhaps the greatest that has ever been rendered by any consti tutional amendment save that prohibiting iiciy. new j urn evening jrosu If such a measure could bo made retro active and wonld Incontinently ''fire out " as we say, a few excessively opulent and un worthy gentlemen who are already in the Senat?, it would he a fino thing. Still, it would be a fine thing, anyhow. Kew York Advertiser. SinjATon Paljxb'3 head is level on the election, of United States Senators by the people. We will have some hope forHhe re public if there can bo found in the Senate and House patriotism enough and in the President independence enough to give the people a chance to remedy the evil. Spring field Monitor. The will of the people In the election of-a Senator would be more' llkelv to flml -. presion under the proposed than it does under the present system. Many men have been elected to tho United States Senate who would not have, been chnnen lr their names had been: submitted to tho people at an election. Denver Republican. LIGHT REFRESHMENTS. 'Old Simon Cameron had, some very odd predilections," said Colonel Prank Burr tho otbef evening. "Ho could never bo in- duood to give currency, although In the course of a year he dispensed thousands in J enaruy.. ua would Indorse a note for a friend at any time, bnt ask him for a $5 bill and he would promptly refuso to lend it. I remember he onoo wanted to give my boy a birthday present, and got so far as to take out his pocketbook and extract a small roll or greenbacks, from which ho selected a 95 bill. Butaftorhehad unfolded the bill and smoothed out the oreaseg, he patted the boy's head, put away tho money again in his pocketboox, and half an hour afterward sent the lucky youngster a check for $50. Cameron's disinclination to part with cur rency netted my boy $15 that time. Hts in dorsements of borrowers' notes' from the same cause must have amounted to many thousands every year. -There was one spe cies of charity which he particularly af fected. A young man who applied to htm for money to complete his education, to take him to college, or to give him a start in the world in some such llgitlmate way, was never turned away. A few months before Cameron's death, the cashier of the bank where the statesman did most of his business showed me a great bundle of paper wnicu consisted of protested and unpaid notes. They were the obligations which beneficiaries of Cam eron had failed to meet most of them young Pennsylvanians. This accnmulation of protested paper never surprised nor'dis 'tressed the Sago of Donesral; he didn't ex pect to bo paid back, and it was his way of giving money away." Donhle-DIstllled Drama, An "Uncle Tom's Cabin" "company, of the double variety, favored Sewickley with a visit the other day. Handbills containing more promises than a political platform, and about as much truth, heralded its ap proach. Whon the company reached town some of the more sanguine Sewlckleyans, especially those whose coldr entitled them tO sympathize with Uncle Tom, were disappointed at its size. They were not aware of that singnlar mathematical prooess by which an "Uncle Toil's Cabin" company becomes less when doubled. Still there were enough Tories, Markses and brazen musicians, in addition to a fair supply of Eva and Uncle Tom, to say nothing of an elongated pup that blushed every time it saw a hill depleting the bloodhounds crossing the Ice, and Choral Hall, which is usually called theOpera'House.when drania tlo companies hire it, was filled to suffoca tion at night. The. performance must go unsung, for alas! I was not there. A little girl, who was fortu nate enougn to see It all, tells me it was on the whole a good performance. 'And as she Is less than 10 years old, and has never seen "Uncle Tom's Cabin" before, her criticism is cer tainly unprejudiced. She added, however: 'When little Eva died it made me cry. and 1 was very sorry for iier. But afterward she came out into the audience and sold her photographs and I don't think it was right, do yon?" The reader will agree with me that from a strictly artistic standpoint little Eva's breach of CESthetic propriety was unpardon able. My! Superlatives she never used: Iier commonest reply. When she was startled or amnsod Was but a little "my 1" If mice untiw ly crossed her pata. Although she roosted high. She voiced her terror and her wrath With but a little my!" When at the theater t'other night She saw poor Juliet die. Although her little lips -were white, Sbe simply murmured ,imyl,t The very day she laid her head Quite close beside my tie. And I had asked her if she'd wed, I think she atswered "my I" I've had to drill her little lips To wear a wedding dress. For frarthe little darling slips la "my!" instead of ''yesl'1 If to Niagara we go, When one are she ann I, She'll greet the cataract I know, Withjust that little "my!" But if superlatives she scorns, I'm sure I don't repine: That monosyllable adorns Her mouth, for now it's "mine!" Eight if Not All Sweetness. "Don't you think Mr. Blank " is verj gassy?" said a fair but captious critic, speak ing of a rather famous local orator. t'Porhaps he is, my dear," repliedher char itable lord, "but his is illuminating gas, you must remember." t Art In the Backwoods, The Interest in the "World's Fair is spreading into tho hack districts, and there are slgnsalrcady that Pennsylvania's exhibit can readily bo made representative of every nook and corner of the State. The native artists of the Stato are. waking up to the im portance oT having a proper showing of their handiwork at the World's Fair. The enthusiasm seelns to be greater at the cir cumference than at tho center, as yet. Iror Instance, the other day a painter Hying in remote but picturesque Troutville.Clearfleld county, wrote to the committee having charge of the art exhlDit from this State offering a remarkable.plcture as his contri bution. As he described it tho picture is a landscape, showing a choice collection of hills about Troutville, and "the creek from which, I presume, that place took its his torical name, A bear and a wolf and a deer and some other representatives of- the region's fauna are arranged in pleasant proximity, while tho dark side of local his tory is typified by some Indians engaged in the cheerful task of cooking a prisoner over a hot fire, and the other redskins moie de cently employed shooting arrows at the aforesaid animals. Tho quaint interest of such a work is undeniable, and perhaps th6 advisory committee of experts will gee their way clear to selecting It. An.Old Prayerbook. A common book of prayer it was, A Book of Common Prayer And all us children loved it 'cause Wc met our mother there. The pages were not very clean. The covers torn and black and mean. But truly I have never seen- A volume half so fair, i -a The table where it lay was high. Far up above my head; And when no matter how I'd cry 1 had to go to bed. My mother, with a loving look. Love was her staff and shepherd's crook. To us about her from the book The evening prayers read. And when the table lower grew. My mother went away She went, but where I never knew. Except that folks d say That she was In some better land ; It broke my heart to .understand She was not there to ute my hand. And teach me how to pray. The book's beneath my hand to-day, That book of common prayer; To look at which we boys at play Were wont to climb a chair. It hardly seems worth while to grow. If nought that knowledge can bestow , Can equal childish lalth, or show The like of mother's care. Hepburx Johxs. A BEMABKABLE HAH GONE HAD. Ecander Holmes, Whose Proxy In 1860 Was Horace Greeler, a Mental Wreck. PoRTLASD.pRE., Jan. 23. Leander Holmes, the well-known pioneer of the Northwest, has been adjudged insane. Holmes was elected delegate from theTerritory o' Wash ington to the National Bepnbllcnn Conven tion whieh nominated Abraham Lincoln for President in 1800. Mr. Holmes uiis unable to attend in per son, so he sent n his proxy Hm-nce Oreeley, and that is how Greelevcaniotobe a member of tho Convention. In 182 Holmes was ap pointed United States Di-trict Attorney for Washington and held the office four years. He is how u hopeless mental' wreck. 6TOTBBSAHZAH STBEAX. Its Bumbllngs and Splaihlngs Alarm a Michigan Community. Battle Ckeex, Mien., Jan. !3. People living on AlcCamly, Barney and Carlyle streets and Hamblln avenue have been dis turbed during the pasauen days by peculiar 6ounds whloh have oA several occasions been plainly noticenble by all members of ' sev eral families. The sonnds come from below tbesurfaoe, and seemed to be caused by the fall of a heavy body of some kind, which shakes the houses on their foundations. 1L K. Stondt, of Hamblln avenue, reports that Friday night about 10 o'clock there was a very heavy fall'and Jar, and a sound as of water splashing, plainly heanl by several members of the family. Saturday night the entire family of Mr. Stevens, residing on Barney street, a quarter of a mile from Mr. Stoudt's, rushed from tho house, terrified at tho subterranean noise andfihoak. The mysterious rumblings and spljishings are accounted for by the theory that an un derground stream is undermining its banks and masses of earth fall into the current. Fears are expressed that when the ground thaws the crust above this stream will cave in and cause much damage to pioperty and probably loss of life. This fact gives cre dence to tho newspaper story which was published several years ago, giving the al leged experience ot a young man who, while swimming in Goguac lake, two miles' from the location of the disturbances above re ferred to, wai drawn into an underground current which carried him directly under this territory and discharged him Into tne Kalumazoo river, near Barney street. KEST0EED TO EKAS0N. Operations Performed on the Skull of an Imbecile Child. Philadelphia, Jan. 23. The curing of an idiot child by a series of operations in linear craniotomy is being carried to a successful finish at the Hahnemann Hospital, the last operation taking place to-day. The subject iaa child, 3 years old, named Eeroy Moll, and was admitted three months ago, a com plete idiot. He was incapable of speech, thero was no flexibility in his joints, and he was Incapable of feeling pain. The bones of the skull had become prematurely hard ened; preventing growth of the brain. Two months ago it was decided to per form an operation by which a section of bone three-quarters of an inch wide was cut from the skull. In length reaching from the forehead to the back of the head. The sec- Hon passed over the top of the head, a little to the left of the middle. Another section was also cut out which started from the middle section a littlo above the forehead and running down the right side of the skull. The section to bo cut out to-day willbe upon the left Bide. The result of the first opera tion has been marvelous. The child is no longer an idiot He has given up the shrill cries that he used to utter, and laughs and crows, and recognizes his friends when they approach his cot. He has recovered the use of his limbs, and has grown fat and hearty. The great value of tho success of the opera tion to be completed to-day will be readily understood when it is known that idiocy caused by the premature hardening of the skull will be a thing of tho pasit. TO FIX HIS NECK VEBTEBB.E. Radical Operation to Care Paralysis Cansetl by a Football Collision. Philadelphia, Jan. 23. As the results of a collision with a fellow player on a football field, John Kogers, a young man of 13 years whose home is in South Bethlehem, Pa., lies at the Pennsylvania Hospital suffering from complete paralysis of the body. From the neck downward Rogers' body is incapable "of motion, and it has lost sensibility. .Rogers was brought to the hospital on Wednesday from his home in South Bethlehem. On Noveniber 1 Bogers and a party of friends were playing football in a field In South Bethlehem. Bogers caught the ball and hngglng it 'tightly started for tho goal. Bending his head downward that he might the better ward, off the tacklers of his op ponents, he did not notice that directly be fore him stood a player. Before he could check his speed, Bogers plunged with lull force against the other player, a perfect. though accidental, block. The force of the shock was so severe that Bogers' neck was badly twisted, the spinal cord, either through tho pressure of a fractured vertebras orfrom its sudden lateral motion, was af-' fected. Bogers fell totbe ground Insensible, and has remained on his bed since then without power to move and without ability to-feol. As soon as possible an operation will be mado on Bogers. An incision will be made into the vertebra; of the neck'ahd any splinters or pressure of bono be removed. , ERECTING FLAX F1BEE MILLS. Increase In a rfew Industry Throughout Southern Minnesota. Waseca, Stair., Jan. 23. Throughout tho entire southern part of Minnesota flax fiber mills are being erected and the quality of flax fiber raised warrants it. In Austin, Bochester and other cities mills of this char acter were in operation last year and report a profitable business. Ono will be put in here by Benjamin Bros., who have charge of the business of the Waseca Electric Eight Company, and minor has it that the same power that runs the dynamos will be used. The scattering of these mills throughout the State insures tho building up of this new industry. Such interest was taken in the matter that in tho State Legislature at tho last session Charles W. Bell, of St. Paul, Minn., ottered a resolution upon which a committee waB appointed to investigate the feasibility of encouraging the people to em bark in this industry, and a thorough inves tigation thereof was made and n very favor ablo report submitted. It is therefore safe to say that flax fiber culture will bo here after classed among the industries of the North Star State. SEN AT0BS SEEP THEIB SEATS. Messrs. Dubois and Chilton Don't Have to Give Up Their Places. Washihgtox, D. C, Jan. 23. The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections held a meeting this afternoon and decided, by an almost unanimous vote, to report in favor of Senator Dubois, of Idaho, in tbe contest of W. H. Cfagett for tho seat now occupied by the former in the United States Senate. A report will probably be prpented to the Senate sometime next week,. The committee also decided, by a unanimous vote, to report in the case of Senator Chilton, of Texas, that his appointment has been Tegular and in accordance with law and precedent. A sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. Mitchell, Chandler and Turpie, was ap pointed to prepare a report unon tho reso lutions providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. KISSED THE BL4ENEY SX0KE. Bonanza Mackay Admits the Soft Impeach ment on the Witness Stand. Stir York, Jan. 23. During the trial or a suit brought by E. S. Stokes against mllllon alie J. W. Mnckay yesterday, Connselor Choato suddenly assumed a voice full of sortness nnd tenderness as lie quietly asked: "Mr. Mackav. have you ever kissed the Blarney stone?" Mr. Mackay, nonplussed for a moment over this suacied deviation from the lawyer's line of questioning, did not reply at once. Several seconds elapsed beforo ho answered with a smile, "I have." "Thank you," said tho lawyer, who again assumed his business-like tones. DEATHS HERE -AND ELSEWHERE. Ex-Congressman W. E. Itoblnson. . Ex-Congressman "William E. Robinson, better known as "Richelieu Koblnson, died yester day, at New York, of old age and heart failure. He was born in Ireland In 18H, graduated at Yale, w.nte for the New York Tnbuni as Klchelieu." and serrcd several ternu lu Congress as a 'Demo crat. Obitnary Xotes. YAirtA KHAX Persian Minister of Justice and Commerce, is dead from InSueuza. William Chase Barxey. a grandson of Justice Chase, one of thc6lgnersof tbe Declaration or In dependence, died iu Baltimore Friday, 77 5 cars of age. Joseph T. Pesios', Auditor of the Mississippi Valley Railroad, died in Memphis yesterday of pneumonia. Ihe remains wlUbe taken to .Louis ville for Interment. JAMES r.OWBIE. who set up the a rst Brussels. carpet ! n used In thl3 country, died at hU home; In Dunellen. N. J., Thnrsaay nignt. lie was 88 ? rears old. He was a native of bannuckburn, bcot and. Lord Alexander Gordox Lf.xsoxIs dead. .He was Dora .Inly M, 182 and was brother of the Duke or Klcbmond. and descended rrom Charles II. illegitimately. He sat as M. P. for Shoreliam frura 1319 to l&vi, and was for some time a C'-iptaiu In the Koj at Horse Guards. Billy Tarloii. the pcdestrlaa who won the walking match of ICb lulled lu 100 hours at the Cen tennial celebration at Philadelphia In 1878, died I'rWay night at the residence of Jam Divine, At lantic uny, r. J. layiorwasmeuniy man who finished the match, but it broke down his health. DREAM OF A DAWNING DAY. Unutilized Forces of Sature to Be Har nasaed Currents of Hirers to Furnish Power What the "Winds May Do A Balf Century Prophecy. iwarrmr ron the dispatch, t Quite as bad as was payinij 11 25 per bushel for coal to rnn steam engines, in the presence of a world of natural gas, is it to produce as we do much of our light and power, in the vicinity of the lest force of our rivers. How crude'and barbaric we shall ftp- pear to those who shall represent the splendor of tho scientific Intellect of 1550! The force that Is represented, in tne now Ing water of our streams and" rivers might nearly nil be utilized at little cost. The day has gone by when oxpensive dams need he made and when industries mnst be located on the margin of the water. At all points where there is considerable current, the water, when low. may be carried through sluices and considerable velocity be thus In sured. On these sluices, air-tight, drum-like water wheels may bo anchored, resting on and in the current and which will turn on the undershot principle. These wheels may bo strung tandom, as far as there is current to operate tbera and will rise and fait with tho rise and fall of the stream automatically. Shafts with adjustable knuckles can com municate this motion to the shore, where it may be applied to dynamos and the electric current carried inland to whatever point electricity in its interchangeable forms may be used. Such water wheels, of whatever size, could be kept constantly rnnning.'with next to no cost, when once cabled into posi tion, and the sum total of available force would aggregate to an enormous quantity. We Will Wonder at Ourselves. A little later on it will seem surprising to us, that these aquatic steeds have run so long unharnessed, when they were ever ready to yield their service to man, if prop erly approached. What thousands of mill ions of billions of tons of force have gone to waste at Niagara. There is sufficient lost energy there to run any one of our best man ufacturing States. In many simple ways that Titanic power could be converted to the uses of man. There is almost power enough to represent all the light needed in nil the cities of the United States. That -v force, correlated to heat, wonld represent enough to warm the largest 20 cltiesin the Union. Some day industrial concerns will cluster there, within practi cable electric distance and their competi tion will be felt to the uttermost bounds of tho earth. Even the surging waves of our lakes and those of the oceans along our coasts, can be made to yield their quota of service to that more enlightened intelligence, of which the dawn has already commenced to appear. The winds that blow and in such various and frequent ways remind us of their power will also be taxed for a much wider contri bution of service. Probably when this force has been used for a half century on farms in pumping water, the fact will be recognized that thol wind that "bloweth whTere it linteth," can, in many other ways be made nsofnl, as the same pumpintr mechanism. mple modification, could also operate electric machinery and turn into storage by day, all tho light needed at night. Not this alone. Not only light for domestic uses, bnt lights at night in the fields, orchards, and vineyards in the required seasons to at tract and destroy tho hordes of insects be fore they Inflict tnelraPDalllntr detriment to grain, fruit nnd vine. Why not? A. Problem for Insect Sharps. Here is a consideration for practical entomology to ponder, a subject, which, when once properly conceived, rises to tho plane of a question of national economy. The destruction, in their winged stages, of these myriad pests of tbe grain and fruit grower, could be thus accomplished, and frequently the losses iu a single season amount to as much as would cover tho cost of apparatus for lighting. In a few years, the decimation of insects would be such that the survivors would be harmless. Think of the wind as being harnessed to the task of destroying the enemies of agriculture, horti culture ana vmticauure: xuinK oi tne breeze, as the guardian of tbe night, hand maid to Ceres and Pomona! In that better, brighter, coming scientific day, wealth will be so cheapened that all may have abundance. This will be largely accomplished in drawing on nature's forces which are ready made, instead of consuming her condensed reserve In gen erating force artificially. Then therearo forces pent up in the earth which, inside of its shell, is as full of power as nn egg Is full of meat power so vast i to' rock and"vl brate continents; this also, in the coming time, may be drawn on, and from a reser voir that is inexhaustible. In some single volcanic outpourings, enough gaeons force escapes to represent all the light, heat and rower needed ia the world for centuries, n a feeble way we have already tapped some of this force, but our penetration into this shell has not even "boon through Its epi dermis; but with electric drilling we shall go down lO.OCO'or 20,000 feet, and touch some of the more sensitive nerves of power, of which we now know nothing. Will Bring Better Morality. There are revelations and revolutions In embryo, whose birth if only awaiting in- ! telligent deliverance. And there will bet found ways ana means oi cncccmating tne voracious and abnormal appetites of the few who come to the common bounteous board and greedily want it all. A higher jllano of enlightenment will aid in doing this, for, after all, it is ignorance, and ignorance of a mo9t reprehensible kind, that indicates the desire to have ono hundred fold more of anything than the needed quantity. In that brighter day the mists and fogs of wild speculation and im agination will vanish and the uproar of the mere Jaw-smith will not be heard so numer-' ouslv In the land. Only those will bo en couraged who, if they would communicate, have something to tell nnd whose thoughts have a logical right to live. What glorious, healthful, thoughtrul days there will be whon manufacturers of mere wind nnd sound cannot let the current Idly run like the unutilized rivers, but must harness to something or shut up shop. Of all the papers that aro printed, of all the sermons that are delivered, of all the books that are published, all the speeches that aro mado. all the talk that Is indulged In of all these,-what mole hills of grain, what mount ains of chaff! And yet, life is only n span! Yes, there are newer luminaries mounting into the modern heavens that will usher in a brighter, grander and happier day. N. GAMBLED HIS CASE AWAY. Craps in a Court Honsg Cost Boy 835,000 Damage Suit, CovraoTOs-, Ky., Jan. 23 Sheriff O'Meara had an nnusual experience in the Circuit I Court to-day. several railroad cases were ready for trial, and a number of witnesses and employes of the Kentucky Central and Chesapeake and Ohio Railways were pres ent. Thewltnesses were excluded from the courtroom during the McCourt case against tho Chesapeake and Ohio, nnd, getting tired of waiting the lawyers' pleasnre, they opened up a little gamo of "craps'' in the jury room. The doors' were locked, and. the djee soon began to rattle on thp table of the room. Someone told Sheriff O'Meara what was go ing on in the jury room, and he started for the room with blood in his eye. The doors remained closed, however, and no attention was p.uu to bis aemanus until lie unnonnceo. his intention of firing through the doors. Then the witnesses surrendered. The Sheriff found several packs of cards and three sets of dice, and othergambltng articles. All tho articles were confiscated by the Sheriff. Young Eobert McCotirt, whose foot had been taken off by the Che-apcake and Ohio cari, was a participant in the game, and while the $25,000 damage suit against tho company, entered by the boy's guaidlan, was going on, he succeeded in winning 40 cents. His case was afterward thrown out of court by JuUgo Arthur's instruction. IIABPJXG ON CH.LE. Chile will do well to npUogizc, and be quick abont it, too. Patience on the part of the United States is ceasing to be a virtue. Boston Traveler. Up to date the Chilean war record shows the corkscrew to be mightier than the sword. Washington Post. The Chilean war cloud appears like a camel, or lite a weasel, or very like a whale. Eh, Poloninsf Boston Herald. OUR national honor ia not so frail a texture that it must be guarded by the bullying of weaker States. IVcu York World. Chile is not saying much Just now, hut she is taking notice that Uncle Sam Is going on sawing wood for his winter fires, and do ing up odd chores. Chicago Inter Ocean. Ix nil probability should a collision oceur, it will be short. shHrp and decisive, but what the United States will really gain in n victory over the demeuted little State is a question easier disked than answered. I Minneapolis Times, curious condensations:! In Greece 155,000' tons' 'of currants ara "grown, on an average, every year. A. microscope which magnifies to 16,009 diameters has been made at Berlin. Sinee the Zulu war of 1880 British standards have not been taken into tho field. In Switzerland theiirst sugar factory is being erected at Bomanshorn, upon a Ger man model. Waste glass is 'now mixed with silica and talc and fired. It then becomes an ef fective building material. It is stated that in some of the English agricultural districtsthe population has de creased 40 per cent since the last census. The town of Warren, Knox county, Me., with a population of only 2,000, has 13 secret societies, and another is being formed. - t There were 143 divorce cases in Scot land last year, as against HO the yeariprevi oni. Sixty-three of the actions werebftught by husbands and SO by wives. Civil engineers report that Lake Nica ragua Is fun of man-eating sharks. It is s mystery where they came from, as the lake is midway between the two oceans. In the days when wigs and powder were fashionable, ladles are said to have) paid as much as $1,000 for having .their hair dressed for special or state occasions. Files are now sharpened by electricity. They are Immersed In a liquid and the cur rent turned on for 20 minutes, at the end of which time they come out as good as new. A ton of roses yields only two ounces of the attar, ottar or otto. If kept at a temper ature below 60, attar crystallizes; if kept open to the air and light it is easily vola tilized. A Lewiston, Jle., Frenchman, while landing the rabbit as an article of food, de livered hlmseiras follows: "You take one rabbeet and skin him, and I J ust as liefhava a chicken." A daily newspaper published in South Africa in the English language has just en tered tho forty-seventh vear of its exist ence. The paper is the Natal Witness, pub lished in Pletermaritzburg. There was quite a heavy fell of snow in Mobile, Ala., last Thursday, an event of great rarity and of equally great interest to tbe inhabitants. It was the first snow In five years and the fifth in 70 years. Some of the Maine coast dwellers- are no better off in re&peot to school and church privileges than the people of the remota Aroostook wilderness;, who never see any thing ranch except trees and bears. Some painters in Geneva are painting a panorama of the Bernese Alps, which will havea height of 51 feet and width of 313 feet, to go to Chicago. The whole will cost about $300,000. It was all sketched from the sum mit of the Mannlicben, 6.600 feet high. The constellation of Pegasus, or tho "Flying Horse," is said to be the horse which miraculouslv sprang from the blood of Me dusa after Per'eni had cut off her head. Ac cording to Hesiod, he. received his name from being born near the source of the ocean. A hive ot 5,000 bees will produce about 50 pounds of honey annually, and will multi ply abont tenfold in fl7e years. According to the latent statistics the total number of hives of "bee in the United States and Europe is 7,424.000, and the annual product of honey 183,000,000 pounds. Italian papers tell of a Keapolltan nobleman who fought fourteen duels during his lifetime in defense of his assertion that Dante wa"i a greater poet than Ariosto. A3 he lay on his death-bed a short time ago he took pleasure in acknowledging that he had never reaa tno wotks oi euner writer. Wax is a substance secreted by the bee, and is analogous to the fat of the higher ani mals. The wax of a species of bee common in Patagonia, Terra del Fuego and other parts of Southern South America and the adjacent Islands, is a dark blue in color and is said to be more poisonous than arsenic Perhaps everyone does not know how easily fresh apple-blossoms can bo had In winter. Get the ends of branches with plump flower buds, and place them in water in a warm, snnny window, and they will soon bloom. No doubt many other kinds of trec and shrnbs will give as good satisfac tion. -T - n The great lantern flies of Southern Europe and Asia," which are sometimes called "living glow-worms," were allied to the boat flics and water scorpions- On tho other hand, the fireflies of the tropics are beetles. The latter are of sombre hue in the day time, and it Is only at night that they show their lights. In some countries dates form not only the principal food, but drink, clothing, tim ber and shelter. To the Hindoo, especially, is the tree valuable, for it means to him nearly all the necessaries of life. A liquor, resembling wine, is made from the "fruit. There i3 a soft pith in the stem, which, with the young leaves, is eaten as a vegetable, and is called palm cabbage. Luigi Emanuele Farina, the Italian Deputy who died a short time ago, was a politician of unique electioneering devices. On ono rainy election day he sent to each of abont 400.voters and umbrella with his com pliment'". At another time he had pigs driven through the streets with this notice hanging from the snout of each: "Whoever votes for Farina may eat of me." An Alameda, Cal., citizen heard a great racket in his malt house the other night, and going to investigate found an immenso owl in tho dove cote. He killed tho intruder with a clnb, and found it to be the moat enormous creature he had ever seen of that sort. It took all his strength to drag the heavy carcass from the building, and tho Alamcdan says that by actual measurement it measured 13 feet from tip to tip. The largest oat now standing in Eng land is tho "Cowthorpie." which measures 78 feet in circumference at the ground. At one time this tree and its branches covered more than an acre of space. The gigantio old "Parliamentary Oak" in Clipstone Park, London, is believed to be 1.500 years old. The tallest oak on the British Isles is called the Dnko's Wnlking-stick. It is higher than tbe spire of Westminster Abbey. The oak of Gelcmoi, which was felled in 1810, realized $133) for its owner: the bark was sold for -$l,'o00 and tho trunk and branches for $3,350 more. - ItHYSKLES AND ItUTMELETJ, Triwet Do yon think Queen Victori willabdlcate In favorof the Prince of Wales? . Dicer No, Indeed. She'll rule till she dies. ' Tnwct Then It will be another Instance of the ruling passion strong la death. Judge. In "the tastes of Chicago and Boston . A mighty wide gulf Intervenes: Though one or them furnishes pork. And the other one furnishes beans. Fue. Jake Jimp3on Hay I speak to your father, darling? CoraBeuows (alter a pausci it wouia be use less. Jake (with hx-k of agony) Don't say that, dar Ung! Why would it be useless ? Cora He's deaf. &. T. llerald. Bjones They say that genius is allied to madness. BJenxs-Yes. but you needn't worry. You srs perfectly sane. Somercille Journal. In ancient times when a curse was given By a man wlthh!s latest breath. The spell so cast was supposed to last For a lour time after death. Bnt now that cremation is the thing. When you feel you're about to die. Call up at the last the man you would blast; Be a cinder In his eye. -X. T. BeraU. 3Irs. Gwilson How do you like theso people that have Just moved into the next house? Mrs. Jebrown They don't amount to much I give you my word, Mrs. Gwilson, the coffee they use isn't lit for pigs. And they want to know when, you can o&y it back, you know. Chicago Tribune. Operatic Manager I can't afford to pay you over f 17 a week and expenses, and yon must permit me to announce you as receiving $1,000 a night. ' Madame Hlghnote-Make It twenty, and you may announce me at "2,0001 night. Puei. ,. She stopped to fix her hat on straight, . And place those hairpins right. And that is why, her husband says. They saw no play that night. Cloak Review. Howson I want to change this diary that I bought on New Year's day. The first ten pages of it are good, but the rest cannot be written on. . ,.:T . Stat oner The diary Is made that way purposely. In tenda)syou won't want to write ln'lt'sow glv yon rour moner'r worth In ihavin tuner.:" lur. " '
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