-.Epi "J ;;fBtT3gE. f?Sw .f; M-"4 frfro- TIE STRONGEST FEATURES OBTAINABLE -1ST- NEWSPAPER LITERATURE A discussion of tho results of reciprocity f up to dato by VIXIAU E. CURTIS. Papers from specialists whoso reputation is world wide on EVERY EIVE TOPIC. Some of the treats offered arc as follows: CHICAGO'S WEAK roIXTJ, By Charles T. Murray. rr.EC CULTURE OF PAKIf, By Ida II. Tsrbell. THE SIGHTS Or BEBILV, By Murat Halstead. SOME CJLENDiK PUZZLES. By Caraille Flammarion. MINING KINGS OF THE SENATE. . By Frank G. Carpenter. FOINTS ON BREAD BAKING, By Edward Atkinson. STORIES OF rAKRAGCT, By Historian J. T. Headley. ETIQDETTE OF THE CAPITAL, By Bessie Bramble. KEXIGIOCS ART Or JAPAN, By Lafcadio Hearn. An Illustrated article on the spring fash ions in silks v ill interest the ladies. "Some of Pittsburg's successful business men will tell the boys how to invest their first bun dled dollars. Special department for young 'people. The latest things in science. 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Accpnling to the statement of the ordinance it is put in a shape which would make the abolition of smoke a burden instead of a benefit If it were not possible to reduce the smoke from bituminous coal under boilers to inconsiderable minimum this proposi tion would have a pood deal of force. But that is not the case. Numerous plants in the city are constantly demonstrating in daily practice the ability to use bituminous coal without producing an injurious quantity of smoke. True, there are al leged appliances which do not do what lhey claim; but any man in a half day's time can by personal inspection satisfy himself as to what appliances are success ful and what are not. .This being the case, why subject the eighty establishments included in this sec tion to the hardship of prohibiting them the use of Western Pennsylvania's great fuel? Moreover, why should Pittsburg, which is founded on the usefulness of bi tuminous coal, discredit that staple by an enactment which virtually asserts that our coal cannot be used without blacken ing the skies when the contrary is daily demonstrated within our limits? An in telligent understanding of Pittsburg's po s.tion should stimulate the assertion in every measure of the fact shown in actual practice that bituminous coal can be used with a consumption of nine-tenths of the smoke. The measure as it is slated cannot be ac cepted as an intelligent movement against the smoke nuisance. If it contains a pro viso that establishments using appliances which do away with not less than eighty per cent of the smoke are not subject to the enactment it will be equitable. But on that basis why not include the down town sections, where the use of the same appliances is equally practicable, and where the need for them is twenty-fold greater? . FORGIST1TJLNESS OF TACTS. Another example of the persistence of error with regard to .the law bearing on corporate combinations and the efforts to suppress competition is furnished by re marks of the Philadelphia Bulletin in con nection with the action of the Attorney General on the Beading deal. It asserts that the clause of the Constitution forbid ding the purchase or control of competing lines "has not yet been subjected to judi cial interpretation," and reinforces that assertion with the further statement that "the famous South Penn and Beach Creek suit's were dropped before -the courts could pass judgment on them." This is excellent as an illustration of in.'iiS'w man important public issue. At cxaib.ts z.: instructor of public opinion Me Bigpaftg. as possessed of so bad a memory that it cannot recall the fact that the Dauphin county court in a full decision held that the, clause of the Constitution involved was self-enforcing; that it meant exactly what its plain and unmistakable language indicated; that the deals before the Court were in violation of the Constitution, and that therefore an injunction was issued against them. It also confesses ignorance of the further impo'rtant fact that this de cision was an appeal affirmed by tho Su preme Court of the State. Since our cotemporary is unable to re member these important facts, it is natural that it should likewise be unable to note that the suppression of the competing line involved in this litigation was carried out iu equal defiance of the provision-of the Constitution and the mandates of the courts. .GROWTH OF EXPENDITURE. As has been too often the case during the past few years, the beginning of March is close at hand and the appropriation or dinance is not yet reported to Councils. It is a natural thought that no measure would be framed with more opportunity for public discussion, and more careful examination of each class of expenditure, than the one which will determine the amount of taxation to be paid by the peo ple of the city. Tet there is much reason to anticipate the repetition of the pro cedure of previous years, in the introduo tien of the measure and its passago at a single meeting, before the people have learned what its provisions are. In contemplating the framing of the ap propriation ordinance there are some fig ures which the people of the city should learn. An examination of city appropria tions from 1880 to 1891 inclusive shows that the expenditures for sinking fund and interest, for the poor depart ment, and for school purposes have not increased Fn ratio to popula tion. Tho total in these departments was $1,517,000 in 1880; it was 81,551,000 last year, and has been as low as $1,434,000 in 1884. In the other branches of city ex penditure it is noticeable that for the seven years from 1880 to 188G, inclusive, the In crease in expenditure did not exceed the growth of the city in population. The appropriations in 1880 were S963,000; in 1884 they reached $1,277,000, and in the next two years they were $1,072,000 and $1,043,000 respectively. But after that time a marked change came over the policy of expenditure indi cated by the appropriations for the De partment of Public Safety and Depart ment of Public Works. In 1R87 the ap propriations rose to $1,624,000, an increase of 50 per cent The next year the gain was more moderate, the "appropriations being $1,774,000, while in 1889 a further addition of $235,000 was made. It might be supposed the doubling of these expen ditures in three years would suffice; bnt the reverse was the case. The increase went on, at the rate of $507,000 in 1890 and $398,000 in 189L So that last year, while expenditures for the poor depart ment, for schools, and for sinking funds in interest were practically on the same level as in 1880, the expenditures in the other departments have been multiplied by three; and if the estimates for the present year have been correctly reported, they ask that in 1892 the scale of expenditure of twelve years ago be multiplied by four ! Another point is worth noting as show ing that it is not the millage that interests the public, but the amount actually appro priated. In 1880 the' tax rate was 21 mills, which looks high; but levied on a valua tion of $89,000,000, it required the. people to pay one-third less taxes than the rate of 15 mills levied last year on a valuation of $180,000,000. If Councils get the amounts appropriated by the ordinance this year cut down to the level of 1890, or two and a half times the expenditures of ten years before, it will make little difference whether the millage is levied on a valua tion of $200,000,000 or $240,000,000. It may be nothing more than a coinci dence, but it is certainly worthy of note, that this extraordinary multiplication of expenditures in the two executive depart ments began about the time the fashion set in of reporting the appropriation ordi nance and railroading it through Councils in a single day. It is certainly pertinent enough to justify the public wish that the appropriation ordinance shall bo reported In time to allow of an examination of its provisions and the reduction of any appro priations that are unnecessary. After the extraordinary increase of expenditure just pointed out, it is time that the tendency shall be reversed. Most certainly, if the expenditures of the coming ordinance continue tho policy of increase it will create a public reaction that will make itself felt in the near future. 2KCLTSH AS SHE IS WHOTE. Well within the memory of living man the London Fortnightly Revisit) enter tained its readers by some startling and sweeping assertions about American liter ature. Among other gentle aspersions were the remarks that "very few Ameri can writers used good English," and that they are "uncultivated money getters." That there is much written by Americans which fails to tally with the rules of gram mar, construction and literary art in gen eral we are ready enough to admit. It is even possible that we have more of such work here than in England. But we com mend a study of its own publications to the Fortnightly Bcview to the end that they may be improved, before it devotes the time it cannot spare from itself to the carping criticism of its distant neighbors. The following concatenation of confusion forms the first paragraph of the leading article in the February number of the above-mentioned periodical: . ; I did not know that I was; or nin, or pro-' sumabl y, or probably or possibly -w as or am, as bad as certain writers of my profession have tried to make out that Its members, are. I say "I" because I have no reason to" suppose I was or am a bit bettor than the average. I doubt if 1 am, and whether I was not probably worse, being of a somewhat hot and fierce temper. We seldom see such masterpieces of prose on this side of .the water, and aro duly thankful for the model curiosity. The matter comes from LordJranrwell's pen, and he 'is to be congratnlatfetlbn tho exquisite finish of hisliterary'sty'e.'There must be very little labor necessary 'for the editors who accept and publish such pol ished workmanship. As for the pot call ing the kettle black that, no doubt, is a story too old to be of interest THE UNIVERSAL REMEDY. It is expressive of an American political "trait that the result of the complaints about the inefficiency of the street clean ing department of New York Cltyistriat a bill is to be introduced. That is gener ally the first resort upon the discovery of any failure of the social organism. It is not always a misplaced remedy; but the disposition to treat it as the specific and sovereign cure-all, and to stop, sometimes with the introduction of a bill, and nearly always with its enactment, is susceptible of decided improvement The New York bill establishes .a sena- rate department of street cleaning with an elevation of sound to the, titles, and presumably a corresponding increase of salaries paid. It plans out the division of labor and fixes the responsibility In the most beautiful way on paper. But tho exact value of all this reconstruction of the bureau is shown by the fact that New York has already a street cleaning depart ment with power to clean the streets effectively and economically if it were run for that purpose. But it is notorious that is not run for that purpose. It Is run for the distribution of political patronage. Men do not hold position under it by faithful work at clean ing the streets, but by faithful work at cleaning out the opposition at the polls. The consequence is that the taxpayers get a minimum of street cleaning in return for a maximum of expenditure. It might be pertinent to enact that employment should be given only on tho basis of effi cient service, if there were any hope that such a" law would be respected and if there were not such a law already. The men who resort to the grand panacea of introducing a bill should re member, in this case at least, that all the legislation of a session cannot change the nature of the practical politician. As long as a city government is operated on the spoils system its work will be negligently done. When men are put in office who nin it on a business basis there is little need of more legislation. If the people of New York wish theirstreets cleaned badly enough to elect men who will operate the city government solely for the end of doing the work in the best way they can get clean streets. Until they reach that point they have the right to go dirty. THE (SERLIN PORTENT. The riots at Berlin serve notice on the powers of Europe that the reaction from the rule of military 'empires has set In, and that the threat to the peace of the Conti nent is not so much from the quarrels of monarchs as from tho popular unrest and dissatisfaction. - It is a .surprise to. find the Socialist out break 'making itself felt in Berlin, where the youngest of the Emperors was sup posed to hold a firm grasp on the reins' of power. But the notice thus served upon the Cabinets of Europe that popular dis satisfaction can thus assert itself against the Holienzollern power shortly after it has passed Jts zenith, is a very forcible one. It demonstrates that no military government can sustain itself on any other basis than the welfare and prosperity of its people. It is hardly possible yet to predicate of the Berlin outbreak, in tho language of the Frenchman of a century ago, that it has passed the stage of rebellion and be come a revolution. But the sudden and unexpected display of popular strength and popular dissatisfaction, with the in cidental details of the riots, have a strong resemblance to the methods by which the French people successively overthrew four monarchies until the Republic was placed on a permanent basis. It remains to be seen whether the democratic senti ment in Berlin has become strong enough to grapple with the monarchy, and whether the Emperor's crazy instruction to his soldiers that they must shoot down their fathers and brothers at his orders has disaffected the troops or weakened their discipline sufficiently to paralyze that arm of the Government The pre sumption is rather in favor of the belief that the German discipline will prevail, aud that the rioters will be suppressed by the military power that has been made the chief feature of the German Empire. Even with that result the disclosure of popular impression and popular discon tent in this outbreak reveal the causes of what muf yet change the social organiza tion of Europe. Imperial statesmanship must alter its methods or prepare for storms. s Ohio seems to be in danger of taking a stop backward. Last year tho Legislature passed the Hyscll bill which put the Ohio State University at Columbus on a firm foot ing financially and in a position to speedily become the equal, and perhaps the superior, of Ann Arbor, Cornell and other institutions founded on similar terms. A bill is beforo the present Legislature to so change tho llysell law as to scatter the fund established for the Ohio State University among half a dozen minor non-sectarian institutions. State Senator Nichols, of Belmont county, who is fighting for the change, says ho will win. If so it will be a misfortune not only for Ohio but for the cause of higher educa tion. Senator Nichols would substitute a fusillade of popguns for the concentrated energy of heavy field pieces. Capital, punishment is becoming con spicuous in Allegheny county by tho rarity with which it follows conviction. The law should either be altered or its penalties en lorced in cases where there is not a single extenuation for tho crime. Iif the happy hereafter, when men will prefer duty to self-interest, Congress may make useful legislation its object. At pres ent many Representatives appear to be laboring under the impression that their salaries are paid to enable them to fortify themselves for re-election. Demagogues in dulge in buncombe vapbrings, lawyers ad vertise their knowledge of the statutes,each seeks to magnify his own importance, whilo national affairs aro treated as unimportant side issues, except in so far as they afford pegs whereon to hang the clothing of egotist ic selfishness. The Senator who felt so happy on his return, from Chicago that he embraced three ladies at one fell swoop should not be abused for drawing the line at that number. No doubt'ho was under tho impression that he had hold of six. If elevation to the peerage of England were really a mark of distinction. General Sir Fredorick S. Roberts should be congratu lated on his promotion. Hut so many peers have been created for political purposes or as a mere recognition of their wealth, that the compIimentt is rather a doubtful one. Baron Roberts of Candahar is England's ablest executive General, and tho recog nition now bestowed on his merits hardly compensates for tho delay which pre ceded it. Eveky dog has his day, and circum stances alter cases. Just two years ago Mr. Pendleton lost his scat under a Republican majority, but yesterday ho presided at tho evacuation of Mr. Stewart- We have been warned in solemn tones that the nextgeneration will beborntoothless and hairless, and we havo been reassured by the memoo' that such was our own con dition in entering this world. Bnt it re mains for a New York paper to Temark that the Duchess of Marlborough "was born Mrs. Hammersley. What anxiety would parents and children be saved If the daughters would but enter the world married. It must be almost worth while to be con victed of criminal folly and negligence, if it lead to the discovery of men friendly enough to advance two thousand odd dollars to help ono out of the sera no. As the St. James Gazette supports the movement to erect a monument to Lowell's memory, It is a pity that it published a pro test irom a correspondent faying "Why go out of our way to lick a Yankee's bootsT" If erecting- monuments bo synonymous with licking boots, the nationality of the wearer should mako no more difference than It does THE' PITTSBURG PTSPATOH, - SATURDAY, . FEBRUARY' when tho intention iaT to" do honor in a field that is international" ' The investigation of the Pension Office Began yesterday; since tho committee is to devote only two days a week to it we may wait in patience for the result, if the work be dono thoroughly. Something should be done for the relief or onr Cabinet Ministers. They are evi dently overworked. Secretary Foster has to take a voyage for his health. Secretary Blaine is too unwell to stand campaign ef forts, and the President has gone to recuper ate for the arduous labors of a second term candidacy. Garza would not be human if his diary were not filled with fulsomo notes of his greatness. Host diaries aro dedicated to more or less covert adulation of their authors. , ii The value of the rumor that one object of Secretary Foster's voyago Is to hold an in formal conferenco with Gosclven, the English Chancellor or the Exchequer, on the interna tional consideration of silver coinage.may bo gaus-cd by remembering that in all probabil ity Goschen will be out ofofflco within three months. "Vienna appears to be run on lines as despotic as Russia. To forbid tho distribu tion of bread to the hungry is as bad us tell ing Tolstoi to return to his estate. KajsekWiivliam's remark at Branden burg that all malcontents would havo to emigrate, was contradictory to the hill which ho has caused to be introduced for bidding the emigration of anyone whoso ago subjects him to military service. Many New Yorkers may be well said to be dog-gone, this week. KOTS.OF XOTABLE PEOPLE. Mr. Addison Cammack is reported to havo been tho heaviist loser in the recent riso of stocks in Wall street. f Gladstone has arrived in Paris and will stay a few days beforo resuminghis Journey to England. He is halo and hearty. "The handsomest peer in England" is said to be the Duke of Beaufort. Tho hand somest Senator in our Upper House is Gib son, of Maryland. General- O. O. Howard is preparing to wrlto a life of President Zachary Taylor, and has been at work for nearly a year gather ing material thcrcror. Senator Morrill is described as the patriarch of American whist players, jle has a scientific knowledge of tho game and once a week has a select conlpany of players at his home. Georoe Lewis, who seem to have the cream of the "law business," as wo call It, of London, paid Sir Morell Mackenzie one of tho very last fees that eminent throat spa cialist received. Mr. Brice has a way, when on the floor of tho Senate, of flitting about among his colleagues during the moments occupied by unimportant business and bending over their desks for brief chats. Genebal Adam Badeatj has just turned up in Washington, "white-haired, white-mustached, but as dapper and mer curial as ever," with a patent out of which he expects to make a million. In an interesting discussion on klepto mania in fashionable circles Mr. Henry La bouchere reveals tho fact that ho has been assured by ono ot them that it is the com monest thing In the world for well-bred women to rob one another. So poor was Dr. Mackenzie when he started his dipensary in London that after prescribing for the patients in one room he used to retire into another, where with his own hands he dispensed the medicines ho had ordered, taking care in handing out the bottles that his face should not bo seen. SBEKCTQ CLIMATIC IN70BHATI0R. -f ' Doctors Discuss Various localities for the Benefit of Their Patients. Chicago, Feb. 26. A conference of tho American Health Hesort Association was held at the Sherman Uoufta last night. Tho object of tho asso ciation is to ascertain reliable facts about climates nnd health resorts for tho benefit of tho public and tho guidance of the medical profession in America ana Europe. Dr. E. M. Halo read a paper on tho climates of Florida. He said the physician sending a patient to Florida without speci fying the part- of tho State shows an igno rance that may result in iuJurv.Floriila hav ing several climates. In Upper Florida rheumatism, catarrh, and bronchitis do well. In all sections tho patient should avoid tho low lands, tho bordors of rivers, and tho swampy coast. In Lower Florida, the speaker said, is tho favorite region for nerveless and nervous men and women, broken down in mind and body from the intense strain of business and social demands in the Northern States. Ho denied the popular idea that the whole of Florida is malarious. Ho denied also that dryness of the air is always desir able in disease, sunshine boing of moro Im portance than dryness in consumption and in all nervous diseases. v Dr. F. W. Soward, of Now York, gavo his experienco with the climato of New Mexico as relating especially to people, with weak lungs, consumption and rheumatism. Ho clearly depicted tho advantage or this region forthose suffering from neurasthenia and insomnia. Dr. Duncan considered New Mexico to be desirable in vlow of health and business. Tho following resolution was adopted: Whereas. There is such a large number of poor people who die In the East from chronic lung dis eases irlio might he saved to a long life of useful ness if they could be removed to the famous sani tarium sections in the South and West; therefore. Resolved, That it Is the sense of this association that some organized effort should be Instituted to rescue these lnvmlld people, and weicommend this work to the philanthropic throughout the country. TEE BEADING'S BEPLT TO HENSEL. President McLood Says His Company Will Be Represented by Counsel. HAintisBuno, Feb. 26. Attorney General Hcnsel has received the following letter from President McLeod, of the Beading Bail wav: "1 have tho honor to acknowledge tho receipt of your favor of tho 23d inst., notifying mo of the receipt of certain complaints from Messrs. Powderly and Cassatt. and informing me that you have fixed Thursdav, March 3, at 12 jr., as the tirao, and tho Supremo Court Chamber at Harrisburg, as tho place for tho hearing of their complaints. This company will be represented by its connsol nt tho timo and placo appointed for tho hearing, and I have referred to connsel your request for tho pro duction of i-opies of the agreement or leases referred to." STJIHG A CIGAEMAK-EHS' UNION. How a Lancaster rirni Is Now . With Its Strikers. Dealing Lakcastkii, Feb. 26. For 13 weeks tho union clgarmakers of Oblinger Bros. & Co., of this city, have been on strike, the strike being supportedby the International Clgarmakers' Union. To-day tho Arm filed a bill in'equitv against 20 of tho strikers an d theCigarmakers' Union, to restrain them from interference in their business and with their workmen. Judge Livingston granted a preliminary injunction. BUITERWOETH WILL EESIGN. World's Fair Duties Interfere Too Much With His Family and Bnslntss. Chicago, Feb: 26. General Solicitor Eut terworth, of the World's Fair, said to-day that he might resign the position at any time in the near future and return to Cin cinnati. The position, he said, necessitated separation from his family and neglect of his law business, both theie and in Wash ington. It is tho Impression in World' Fair circles that Mr. Bnttorwortli's resignation will bo banded In not later that April I. A Humor Starts a Bun on a Bank. PoTrsviLtE, Feb. 26. There was a slight run on tho Union NatlonalBank, of Mahanoy City, to-day, bnt tho depositors so6n found that there" was nothing in tho report that tho bank had failed. Deposits wero promptly handed over, and the officers de clared they wore prepared to meet all de mands. No one knows bow the malicious rnmor started. LIVEf WASHINGTON WAIFS. Opposition to the Bill Prohibiting the Deal lng In Options and Futures The Preju dice Against Trusts Discussed Senator Dolph Opposed to the Prohibition or Chinese Immigration. The Senate sub-Committee on Judiciary to-day resumed Its hearing on tho bill pro hibiting dealing in options and futures. John K. Dos Passos. of Now York, opposed the bill, terming it a useless and entirely un necessary Interference by Congress with the mercantile interests of tho country. Speak ing of tho prejudice acainst trusts felt by some people, Mr. Dos Tassos said that tho Institution of tho Standard Oil and Sngar Trust should not bo in tho least detrimental' to tho Interests, of tho country, and no harm had come from them. Sngar, as tho result, was cheaper now than it ever had been. Regarding tho so-called evil effects of Boards of Trade and Exchanges, lie asserted that although thousands of persons wero probably ruined every year by speculation, that was no substan tial reason why tlioso channels of business should bo interfered with by Congress. The farmers to-day would ho in a miserable con dition bnt for the existence of boards of trade and exchanges. C. W. Davis, of Wich ita, Kan., ftrgned in favor of the hill, and gavo tabulated results of Investigations made by him into the production and con sumption of farm products of the country, wlileli, he said, showed that the demand was greater than the supply. Ho expressed him self as opposed to both long and short sell ing, as detrimental to trade. Senator DOLpn, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to-day reported to the Sen ate adversely the bill introduced by Mr. Sherman to prohibit tho coming of Chinese to the United States. Tjie hearings in the Utah local govern ment and Statehood hills by tho IIouss Com mittee on Territories closed to-day. Bev. J. H. Smith, of Salt Lake City, a P.epubllcan In politics, and ono of the 12 apostles of the Mormon Church, made tho only argument. He was opposed to the local government bill becauso it Implied a distrust on the part of tho American peoplo of the residents of the Territory, and put them on a form of probation .which was distasteful. If any change at all was to be mado in tho existing, order of government it should bo In tho direction of absolute Statehood. In the Senate to-day Mr. Teller pre sented a memorial signed by B. C. Burney and Overton Love, from tho Chickasaw Na tion delegates, relative to tho President's message of the 17th instant, in regard to the payment to the Choctaw and Chickasaw In dians for certain of theirlandsnow occupied by tho Cncyennes and Arapahocs, and the allowance of improper attornoy fees. Tho memorialists say: "lr the Choctaws and Chickasaws are to be robbed of 25 per cent of their moneys Dy thoir attorneys, or of 100 by the United States, they would rather take their risics at the spigot than at the bung." In conclusion, thoy say that If the United States should attempt to transfer their land to citizens or the United States thn Chicka saws will regard tho action as a forfeiture of tho trust estate now held by the United States, and "will assert the right of the Choctaws and Chickasaws to presume full ownership and actual possession of said lands, and they will bo .compelled relnot nntlv to resort to fluoli measures as shall be proper to test the validity of any transfers of said lands to white men made or at tempted by the exeeutivo department of the Government." The Finance Committee of the Senate to day presented a resolution In that body pro viding for a' joint committee to confer with the authorities of West Virginia with regard to that State's proportion of tho Virginia debt, and in the event that no settlement is accomplished to bring "suit in. the United States Courts in the name of Virginia against West Virginia. The resolution caused a lively discussion, bnt was Anally laid aside until to-morrow. The House or dered to Its engrossment a bill appropriat ing $35,000 for a World's Fair exhibit. The wool bill will be the first of the tariff bills to be taken up in the House, the mem bers of tho Ways and Means Committee j-eaching this conclusion to-day after a short conference. The second dui to De consideredwill probably bo tho Bryan bill, making binding twino free, and the third, the cotton bagging bill. It is likejy that there will be more or less general (discus sion of tho wholo tariff question In the con sideration of tho wool bill, which is expect ed will occupy about three weeks. The Turner sub-committee of the House Committee on Ways and Means to-day gavo a secret hearing to Anderson Gratz, of St. Louis, who appeared iu behalf of some of tho manufacturers of bagging for covering cot ton bales, to protest against tho proposition to put bagging on the free list. He pro tested against the injustice of singling out this particular industry for destruction. Judge Boarman was asked to appear to-day beforo tho sub-committee of the House Committee on Judiciary to make answer to the charges lodged against him of misconduct on tho bench as United States Judge of the Louisiana district. Ho was not present to-dav and Chairman Oates of the sub-committee has, not heard from hnn. Unless Judge Boarman should put in a de fense it is probable that tho sub-committee will recommend that -the preliminary staps to his impeachment be taken. A bill appropriating ?8,000,000 with a proviso thdt a similar amount bo expended each year was introduced in tho Houso to day by Representative Byrns, of Missouri, to improve the Mississippi river from the Falls of St. Anthony to tho jetties,, the im provement to bo under the direction of the War Department. v The President has approved the act ex tending the privileges of the immediate transportation uot of Sandusky, O. THE INTEBCONTINENTAIBAILWAY. This Congress Must Decido Whether the United States Shall Support It. Washington; Feb. 23. Special. It will be incumbent on tho present Congress, to de cide whether or not this Government shall embark seriously on the proposed Inter continental Eailwny enterprise. Tho project was recommended by tho lato Pan-American Conference, and the understanding was that each of tho Amorican republics repre sented in the enterprise should pay toward the expenses of the survey in tho ratio of $100 for each million of inhabitants. This republic put up its share, and a low of the Central American republics have paid in their first quotas; but others, bwing to want of Congressional action and other reasons, have not as yet paid their money, although some of them offer to donate land. Owing to this fallnio tho Stato Depart ment has recommended that this Govern ment increase the number of field parties at its own expense, and accordingly It has asked for an increase of 135,009 In the regu lar appropriation on this account for the next year, and for the regular payment henceforth or the nominal salaries of tho commissioners, to include traveling and other expenses. Beforo pursuing the proj ect further, therefore, it is deemed highly important to determine whether or not fhis Government should not now, rather than at a future time, either commit itself in favor of the enterprise or drop the preliminary steps and withdraw tho implied patronage it has already conferred on it. v TJRDEB A SOITOB'S SPELL. A Babbit's Foot Hoodoo Interrupts a New BrunswicK Match. New BBC3SWICK, N. J., Feb. 26. The col ored people hero are wrought up over the actions of Mrs. Matilda Schneydor, a young widow, a ho recently promised to marry Ed ward Anderson. After tho promise Edward Schenct, a discarded suitor, gained such a mysterious influence over tho -widow that Bhe was swayed completely by his will. Whilo with Anderson yesterday she con fessed that Schenct had compelled her to re nounce her engagement to him, though she loved him. She had scarcely spoken when Schenck en tered tho room and, shaking a rabbit's foot before her eyes, told her to order Anderson out of the honse. Anderson says that Mrs. Schneyder, with distended eyes and gnash ing jaws, drovo him into the street. He was curiously affected and did not lecover for somo time. Mrs. Schneyder says she will seek the aid or the authorities to keep Schenck.away from her. "I want to marry Mr. Anderson," she said, "but Mr. Schenck has certainly hoodooed me." Firer's Dolefnl Toot. Chicago Herald. That was a doleful toot that Governor Fifer made at Jollet when he predicted the downfall of the Bepublic. 27: 1892 MAIL CABBIEBS' HARDSHpl They Take a Cold Journey Across Lake Michigan's Icy Waters. Pztosket, Feb. .26 Paul and Oliver La blanc, thoUeavcr Island mall carriers, left Cross Village for their island home on the 8th, arriving there ttho night of the 10th after three days of great hardships. Leav ing Cross Village on Monday morning they reached tho lighthouse pier at Wangos chance only after one of them, Oliver, dropped through into tho icy waters of Lake Michigan, and narrowly escaped drowning. On reaching tho pier they fount! themselves imprisoned there, and, gaining entrance to tho stntlon, they remained 'there until Wednesday morning, whon they resumed their journey homeward on ico of but 20 hours formation. Upon arriving there they found that a resent' and search party, fully equipped, was prepared to leavo the follow ing morning in search of them. Their ar rival was greeted with cheers and open arms, and with kegs of beer tho citizens welcomed the boys, and the first mall for 1S93. Thoy again left the island for Cross Villago on tho 17th, for the remaining mail, and as the weather had been cold they attempted to'reach the village with a horse, and on the 18th, when eight miles out from the village, their horse broke through tho ice, Paul goiug with it, bnt was rescued after a futile at tempt, for moro than two hours, to save their horse. Tbey relieved it Horn tho sleigh and, taking tho harness off. they stood by for a few moments and. saw tho helpless boast go down into the depths of the lake, when they resumed their Journey, carrying the mail ponch, thoroughly soaked. While, this is a heavy loss to them they hio likely to meet with losses far more serious than this, as each one has a hand frozen, black, raw and bleeding, and the loss of fingers fc almost certain. Thov hired a small Indian pony on Saturday the 20tli, to make the home J ourney. MYSTEBY OP A BOTTLE. A StoryWhich Dates Back to the Apache Troubles or 1CJ9. Yuma, Amz., Feb. 26. A discovery was made by some boys who were playing on the river bank above this city ft fow days ago which may bo of interest to somo people in the East. Tho discovery was thatofabot tlo in which was a paper. Tho bottle had undoubtedly been washed down tbo stream and become stranded in the sand wheroit was found, but how long It has lain there is not knowirr Tho paper In tho bottle read as follows: "Wo aro hemmed in by Indians on the headwaters of the Gila river and throw this in tho stream with the hope it may bo found by some one in time to have assistance come to us. There aro three of our partv, and wo are from Massachusetts. Wo are John Wol ford. Williaij Duncan and Georgo Weston. We have been prospecting on themonntains nnd have been run to a hole by a lot of Indians." This was dated June 29, 1S79. Tho bottle had evidently failed of its mission and the three men who were besieged were undoubt edly killed by tho savages. About the time tho paper was dated there was much trou ble with the Apacho Indians, who wero in the mountains And finally became so bad that thoy drovo the prospectors from tho range until the troops succeeded in driving them all out of the country. Inquiry hero elicits nothing that would throw any light on the subject, and it is not known that any snoh persons wero ever In this country. The officials of tbg city will send the papers to Boston with the possibility of getting some light as to their identity. HAEEIS0N OUT FOB EECEEATION. He and His Family Take a Trip to the Ocean Shore. Nobtolk, Va., Feb. 20. President Harri son, Mrs. Harrison, their two grandchildren, Mrs. Blmmick and two servants arrived here this afternoon on a special train for Virginia Beach, where the President and party will spend a week in rest and recrea tion. When the tram drew into the station hero tho President was saluted with a salvo of 21 guns from the battery of tho Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, thQ crack veteran company of Norfolk. A largo crowd was at the station to meet the distinguished visitors. The party was taken in charge by General V. D. Gronor, who escorted them to Virginia Beach, where thoy arrivod for a 9 o'clock supper. The President seemed to enjoy his run through Middle and Tidewater Virginia, and when ho retired to-night was not at all fatigued. Tho weather, which. has been bad for several days, Is clear, and pleasant this evening. , " A telegram from Bichmond, Va., says President Harrison and party arrived at the Union station In this city at 3 p. ir. en route to Virginia Beach. Therewa" a small crowd at the station, and during the brief halt of the train a number of persons shook hands with the Presldont. when the train arrived at Ashland, 16 miles north of this city, the stndents of Bandolph Macon College gave the college veil, ending with ""Three cheers for Baby McKee." FBEFABEB VEGETABLES OF LONG AGO Unearthed by a Scientific Antiquarian Not Far From Alton, III. ALtoit, III., Feb. 26. Prof. William Mc Adams has made a discovery which, he says, will be of much benefit to the scientific world. Whilo digging for relics in a small mound about 500 yards north of tho cele brated Monks' Mound, in St. Clair county, at the depth of 18 feet, he found a bundle of fossilized vegetation neatly tied together with a stout cord or small rope. All were in a fine state of preservation. Nearby wore various kinds of seeds, prob ably of some species of pumpkin. Part of a com cob was found, together with, somo of the grain, and earthenware was also found. The Prolossor says these relics have been there nearly 2,000 years. Men Not Mado Moral by Legislation. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Men are not made moral by legislation, and laws not backed up by the moral senti ment of the people are usually a dead letter on tho statutes. Carrying Leap Tear Privileges Too Far. ChlcagoHerald.i When the girls take to wanting to. marry each other they are carrying the leap year privilege too far. CITIZEN CIiETELASD'3 ADDRESS. The enterprising reporter who manages to pick the lock on Citizen Cleveland's montn will be ablo to command almost any salary ho wants. Detroit Tribune. It is not the speech of a politician, but the utterance of a statesman, and it contains nothing that can be offensive to members of any political party. Milwaukee Journal. "Mn. CLsvzLisD's address needs no praise. It is ono of his sfrong, grave, patriotic speeches. Inspired by his American spirit and his love of truth. Kansas City Times. "SBHTijrrctT'in Our National Life" was Mr. Cleveland's flno theme at Ann Arbor. Mr. Cleveland is becoming tho exponent of the best sentiment of his party. It is aplty that a spoils-loving maraudor has destroyed so much of his opportunity for usefulness. Des Moines Leader. Mb. Cleveland's speech to the, stndents of Michigan University was full of sturdy com mon sense and wisdom. Exhorting the young men to take an interest in politics, he at the same time pointed out tho only way in which the interest may be kept alive by breaking down monopoly and correcting the unjust distribution of wealth St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The political truths cxpounded'by the ex President wero without a tint or partisan ship. Their adoption calls for a restoration ot those political virtues and lofty pur poses which actuated tho fathers of the country, by. eliminating that trickery,, manipulation, demagogy and deceit which are a menace to the fiee cxcrclse'of the pop ular will. Detroit Free Vress. Mr. Cleveland's address on "Sentimontln Our National Life," delivered beforo tho University or Michigan yesterday, is an earnest plea for character in politics. A single sentence is tho key or the whole ad dress. It is this: "Under our institutions and scheme of government goodness, such as Washington's, is tho best guarantee'for the faithful discharge of public duty." a. Louis Republic. Haedlv anything is moro nccessarv at the present time than a revival of a genuine and poweifnl sentiment of patriotism among the people "o" the land, that kind of senti ment which is kindled with the wholo spirit of Washington's lifo and had anothornoblo illustration in tho life of Lincoln. To nso tbo occasion for inculcating the value of such sentiment and the need of cultivating it was an oxcellcnt service, and it was ex- 'cellcntly performed. New York Times. N HAZEL-WOOD PEOPLE Expect to Worship In tho New Church of the Good Shepherd by Easter Wllklns barg Busy as Usual Close of a Week of Small Things. The Episcopalians of Hazelwood expect their new church to be ready for the Easter services. The accommodations-will boquito an azreeablo change for tho parishoners of the "Church of the Good Shepherd" from the present insufficient quartersn the Httlo chapel. The parish Is also promising itself a new organ, and ir it materializes a musical society will bo established. The church "is a pretty building of n Moorish type of archi tecture, which, though not often seen in America, abounds laigely in England for ecclesiastical purposes. One thing which is quite Episcopalian, or, perhaps, more cor rectly speaking, quite English Church like, is the arrangement of tho building for preaching purposes alone. A matter of economy, probably, has been tho canse of so manv churches being built with a basement for Sunday school pnrposes, lectures and entirely secular affairs. The Church of tho Good Shepherd will havo no such accommo dations under one roof. It will stand as an example of what High Church peoplo lov ingly call consecrated ground. Among the arrivals next week to be in attendance at the House-Little nnptials, will bo the groom's cousin. Miss Nellio Jones, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Ashcroft. Dr. Ashcroft is a prominent young "liiladel phia physician, who rumor says will in a short time formally announced as Miss Jones' fiance. Miss Jones will remain for somo time in Pittsburg, where she is a great favorite, as the guest of her aunt, Mrs. William H. noqse, of Center avenue. A'quiet, elegant wedding on Thursday, united Mr3. E. Buugey Pltcairn and Dr. W. II. Keck; the nuptials were solemnized :tt the residence of tho bride, Federal street, Alle gheny. The luxurious interior of the re sidence was prettily decorated, the ceremony tasing place in tho parlors, per formed bv tho Rev. G. G. Conway. Tho bride 'looked charming in her costnmo of utuwn suit oi a ucucate snaue. me SKirs was en train; the bodice with fnlt sleeve3 was made V shaped, and the only jewel she wore was a diamond locket, glistening on her throat, a present from, the groom. The "Wilkinsbnrg Opera House was crowdod last night at tho concert given in aid of the building fund of the Second United Presbyterian Church, for which elaborate preparations had been made to Insure a sat isfactory entertainment. Prof. W. S. Weeden contributed two baritone solos in his own excellent stylo, "Tho Better Land" and "I Fear No Foe." Miss Mittie Weeden and Miss Carrie Angel each sang soprano solos, and the Misses McLean and Freeman rendered a duett, "Murmuring Sea," In a taking way, Mr. C. M. Carothers gavo "Tho Chdriot Kaco" In a really pleasing manner, displaying a considerable deal of dramatic lower. In response to an encoro he gave a tumorous recitation entitled "Pat's Court ship," which gave him an opportunity to display his versatility. Miss Roberta Angel gave two recitations. "Burglar Bill" and "Tbo Guaidian Angel." Instrumental solos by Mr. Carothers and others, and several part songs by Prof. Weeden and other vocal ists helped to round out a good entertain ment. A good sum was made to be added to tho church fund. The second evening of the Japanese tea and bazaar for the benefit of the Wilkins burg Presbyterian Cbuich was a3 successful as the first. The lecture room of tho church was decorated with Oriental ornaments, while Japaneso fans and umbrellas were everywhere. Tea was served in beautiful porcelain caps, and guests nere entitled to purchase tho cups and saucers ir thoy pleased, In fact, they were rather pressed Dy the dainty maidens In Japanese costumes to buy them, at any prico from 25 cents to $2. There were several booths, in which ice cream, cake, fancy work and tea were dis pensed. Each booth was in charge of a bevy of "Americo-Japanese" damsels, and the ef fect of the costume3and thogay decorations of the booths and halls was dazzling. The monetary part or tho affair was entirely sat isfactory, too. The fancy work both will clear about $250, and other booths similar sums. The entertainment was an entiro success, pecuniarily and artistically, and the ladies or the church naturally feel very eroud or their work. Mrs. and Miss Emma low made a number or -sketches of the booths In the hall on Tuesday evening, and last night they presented them to the ladie3 in charge of the booths as a token of their appreciation of the tasto displayed in their arrangement and decoration. A leap year party was given lait night at the Pittsburg Club Assembly Booms. The Friday Club, of Edgewood, wa3 en tertained yesterday by Mrs. John Langley at her residence on Franklin street. The principal feature of the occasion was a dis cussion on "Alaska." The Hebrew Children's Aid Society will give their first annual entertainment and dance at Cyclorama Auditorium, Wednes day, March 23. Tho societv is composed of children ranging from 1 to 16 years of age. The proceeds of their entertainment Is to bo devoted entirely to charity, the work not being confined to any denomination. The Smithfield Club gave a dance at the Monongahela House last evening. About 75 couples wero present. WASHED BY A DBEAM. A Woman's Death Foretold by That and the Howling of a Dog. SrniifGriELD, O., Feb. 26. A death having weird and peculiar features happened here yesterday. Mrs. Johnson, an -agod woman, living on Harrison street, was found alone and dying. She had been missing for three days. Her condition was discovered through a dream and the howling of a dog. The night beforo she was fonnd her sister dreamed that Mrs. Johnson's dog went to another sister, and although driven away howled dismally all night before the door. Tho next day the two sisters went to tho Johnson residence and finding the door locked brokn it open and found Mrs. John son on the floor unconscious. She died this morning. Might Try Prize Bloc; Hales. Washington Post. Tho next timo Messrs. Bland and Barter might try tho Marquis of Queensborry rules. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. The Archdeacon of Alton. Et. Kev. "William J. Frost, D. D., LL. D., Archdeacon of the Alton diocese, died at hishooie. at Carlisle, Ill.,Wedncsdayevening,atthe aareof82yrars. or paralysis. He was for many Tears in charge of the diocese at Wilmington. Del. During the Civil War lie was in charge of a promi nent church in Baltimore. John B. Itehm, Lancaster. John B. Behm, ex-President of the State League of Bcpabllcan clubs, died Thursdaynlght from typhoid fever, at Lancaster. He wis book keeper at the Conestoga Cotton Mills, and a public spirited citizen. Obituary Notes. A. n. Siiebeick, a well know.1 coke operator, died In Peunsvllle, Pa., Thursday. TuoxtS BnzxxAIf, a veteran resident of Brad dock, died Thursday night, aged 81 years. William MOEriiT, of Tatterson Heights, died Thursday night, of consumption. He was 63 years old. Heitby F. WILSON; formerly a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the Sixth ward, Philadelphia, and who for some time had been employed at the mint, died after a short Illness yesterday. Josem Hamilton-, of the Hamilton nrotbers, who died in England recently, was the originator oftherolllug panorama show, so long popular in .England. He had been in the traveling theatrical business all his life. Thomas Fave. one of the first manufacturers or wall japer in America, died at his home on AV ash Tngton Helghti, NAY., Wednesday. He was born lnGalway. May 18. 1S10. and came to this country when a boy 8 years old with his father. FREinEnn Giseeet vox Viscxe. Hit poet novelist, isdead, as announced from Freiburg, In the district of Brelsgan. on the cdnflnes or the Black Forott. He ins famous In Europe In con nection with his writings ou Shakespeare. JCLIET Desborocgii, once an English actress of note, is dead, aed U. In 1S21 she married Fred W. Irish, the well-known comedian, and since then she hart appeared on the staee only once In Henry Irvlug'a last reviral of "Macbeth," at the Londou Lyceum. Rev. n. M. Keck, a retired minister or the United Brethren denomination, died at Mrer towil. Pa., yesterday morning at the residence or his son-in-law. Dr. A. S. Hector. He was TO years or age and well known tlirouEbvutCentral Pennsyl vania. He will be burled near Allentown. Joseph Edmcxd COlliss. formerly managing" editor or the Toronto Otobe, died at St. Vincent' HospIULThursdayofkidney disease, no was SS years old and was horn at Placentla. Newfoundland. His nest known work was tho "Life and Times of sir John Slacdonald. Under the Marquis of i.orne.'" CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.- - The Slate of Maine produces, it is said, .,xx),000 pounds of paper daily. Twelve out of 23 Presidents have had military training and experience. A Douglas county, Ga., farmer claims to have a pig with seven legs, all service able. A mdnkty at the Paris circus has been trained to play agonizing music on the violin. It is estimated that Europe is 51,000, 000,000 poorer every year by her system of armed peace. Fish hooks of the first quality are made from the very best cast steel wire, which is turned out in coils at Sheffield and Birming ham. A German chemist has invented- method whereby petroleum .and similar liquid hydrocaroons can be rendered non explosive. In England when the Government re pigns an appeal Is mado M the people; In, Franco the Cabinet merely undergoes a re arrangement. An etiquette authority says: "A well bred girl nowadays doesn't 'lollop."- The almost-forgotten word means to move heav ily, or lounge around. Ithas been decided in Brooklyn that, notr more than two of tho four corners formed by the intersections of streets shall' be occupied as liquor saloons. Four Boston men, who were dining to gether, consulted their watches and found, that every one of them had stopped. They aro now trying to account for It. At Trenton. Mo., a man over 80 years old has achieved local fame by letting the dentist pull 21 ofliisi teeth at a idgle sitting, it ithout taking gas or chloroform. A mysterious ringing of electric bells In a Swiss hmiifo was .traced to a largo spider, which had one foot on tho bell wire and another on an electric light wire. "While tearing down an old house in Jersey City, a day or two ago, a small" iron box was found, which contained $C6 in'gold coins, somo or wntcn are said to bo very rare. A famous English beauty, Lady Lon donderry, has a peculiar and successful sys tem lor keeping her youthful freshness. Al though she is perfectly well she lies in bed one day in ten. A very old deed was placed on record at Norristown last week. The date is De cember 17, 1733. and it conveys for X230.l'enn-sylvania- currency, a farm of 100 acre3 to Conrad Boytler. Glassfriih a wire core is a new material made in Dresden, the gias3 being fused to the wire while in a plastic state. Tho ad hesion Is said to remain perfect under severe fluctuations of temperature. Cadillic, "Mich., has a curfew whistle. When tho whlstlo blows young peoplo havo to hurry homo in order to escape being; escorted by police ofiicors, who are ordered to do such duty after tho curfew hour. A young man named Gould, driving near the graveyard at Pendleton, Ind.. after nightfall. Imagined he saw a figure in white flitting through the air. and he put whip to his horse and fled in wild dismay, screaming for help. The old terms of "'port" and "star board" have been banished from the voca bulary of the officers andcrew3 0f the ves sels or the Hamburg-American line or tho North German Lloyd, andreplaced by '-left" and "right." In 1867, Falcon Island, which, by the way, still continues to grow, was then one and four-tenths of a mile long and 165 feet above the water in tho highest place In 1890 it was nearly two miles long and a mile wide, and had two active volcanoes. The tautawa, a nine-inch long lizard of New Zealand, is said to be the most slug gish animal in the world. Ho is' usually found clinging to rocks, aud has been known to remain in the same spot for months. How he lives is a mystery. Rhode Island is having an experience with bimetallic coinage, and doesn't like it. A large number of silver half dollars with tho word "hair stamped out and the word "ten" substituted have been gilded and passed there as ten dollar gold pieces. Miss Mary Jane Squires, agetr'eightyv an eccentric woman who lived alone for many years near Perry Center, N. Y., ,wo3 found dead in her chair the other day. Forty pet cat3 wero in the room, several of them Deing on her lap and ono on each shoulder. There is an acid dew in India which, covers tho acid flowering Sennaga. So dis tinctly sourish is this dew to the taste that; I tbo Hindoos call it tho vinegar of Sennaglu. it nas oeen suown iu cuuiaia raeucv acetic, and oxalic acids, and these are fonnd in tho plant which it covers. Ostriches are commonly plucked once every eight months, yielding ono pound weight of reathers each, but mnnyTarmers only pluck CO feathers at a time, so as not to cause too much irritation and inflammation, which is very injurious to tho health of tha' birds and lessens tbo next crop of feathers. A painstaking student of the Almanack de Gotha has ascertained that, omitting the Pope, the only European Sovereigns Older than her Majesty the Queen are Adolf of Schaumunrg-Llppe, who was born In 1817; and Christian IX of Denmark, Ernest II of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, and Carl Alexander of haxo-Weimer,all three born in 1313. When a new member wa3 initiated into tho Westphalian Vehmgorichte, and swore to keop tho secrets of the society from wifo and child, father and mother, sister and brother, from fire and sword, from tho things warmed by the sun or nourished by the fain, he did so with the thumb and two finders or his right hand upon the cross hilt or a sword. An oath so taken was held ir revocable, and not to bo annulled by even tho Pope himself. The bushmen in the Kalahari Desert often live scores of miles from places wh'ere water comes to the surface. During a cer tain period of tho year sharp storms pass over tho Kalahari, covering tho apparently arid region with the brightest ofverdnret and filling, for a few short days, tho water courses with roaring torrents. The bush men know how to find -nater by digging in the bottoms of these dried-up riverbeds. They dig a hole three or four leecdeep and then tie a sponge to tho end of a hollow reed. Tho spongo absorbs tho moisture at the bottom or tho hole, and tho natives draw it into their mouths through tho reed, and then empty it into calabashes for future use. LIGHT LirTLE LAUGHS. De Jinks (looUing at his shoes) I had these patent leatners varnished to-day. Hoffy What's the matter leather worn out? De Jinks No; the patent has expired. Judge. The postman's whistle, down the street, Mav bring us woe as well as weal; But when he passes on his beat. And doesn't call how glum we feel! Puck. . Elder Goodman I hope you go to Sunday school, Jimpsy. i Jimpsy What, now With no picnics for five moatns and nearly a year to Christmas! Boston Courier. He shouted and gesticulated, stamping all about. And acting like a balf-demented creature; Tet he wai not a maniac, or acrobatic freak. But Just a very ordinary preacher. -.V. r. HmVL. Mrs. Skinner This isn't the right change. Salesman Yes. It is. madam. The goods were L yon handed me a J? bill, and that Is a SI bill. . Mrs. Siluncr-True; but yon haven't added S per cent Interest for the time I've waited. I waa about 3 cents more. ll'irper's Bamr. .If your beard yon do not shave, People say the price you save. If you shave it every day, It's because It's getting gray. "? Sziitti Craa's 1TWy.v. - Tommy (to new boy) You wasn't born" I lVthls countrv. You can't never lie rresldeat.f . New Boy-No. lint 1 can be a policeman some day and you can't. CnicJgo Tribxm'. SZ. She winds a skein of yarn to-day, - WhllcathersWelllnrer; J-s- So la that soft and gentle war -.. She wlnda me round her finger. . .V. Y. Frew. Eveline Mabel, dear, the gentleman.we, Just passed was Mr. Trotter, whom we .met at Fcrnaudlua. ' " ' Mabel-Soitwas. Oh, Evy, let us drive from thlsplacebcforehcrccognizesme! . Evclftie-liut I thought you liked him. T $ Mabel And so I do. Batthlslstho sameTsuit I wore tbo last time wc met, and and what ,'wou1 " he think of me If he taw it again Wrtg35 -P.-M -Jt, V.. 4 i -f.fc-- . .1...J' il ." v, lm &utkSMakSK.semScsa ifMJJPWSJ
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