THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SATURDAY, MAKOH 12, 189a GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND, Better Known as Gatb, Writes for He Has Interviewed Senator Hill and Attorney General Miller. ROMANCE OFlTfilGi MM. Brought Out by Carpenter In a Talk 'With Stephen B. Elkins. fe OTIIEK lEATCEES OF THE ISSUE TO-MORr.OW AltK DAKWIJPS THEOKT SUPPORTED. F' By Dr. Robinson, of London. I THE SACKED BELL OF JAPAN, jf l!y Lafcadlo He am. j LONDON'S BNDEKGKOCND ROAD, t. By M nrat Halatead. KEFOKSI DKESS PATTERNS. By Viscountess Haberton. MINIMUM COST OF LIVING, f By Edward Atkinson. THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT, By Mark Twain. LITE TOPICS OF THE TIME, By W. G. Kanfmann. There will be a handsomely illustrated story from the French of the famous George Sand. The copper cro&s of the Mound Builders found at Chillicotbe. Theology and faith by the Bev. George Hodges. The Woman's page includes handsomely illus trated articles on belts and honse decora tion and suggestions on cooking, hygiene and society. The Youth's page contains an 1 account of shark fishing in the Bahamas and an article on training horses as life-savers. Besides these features there will be many others, and it will have all tho news of all the -n orld. Ton "Will Regret It if You Fall to Secure and Bead THE LETTER FROM GATE Occident and Orient Covered by Leased Wires and Special Cables for n hC.S0"M?00-0 fB$$rafrjj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY, 8, 1S46 Vol. 47. No. 34. Entered at Pittsburg Postoffice NoTember, J8S7. as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTFRX ADVERTISE G OFFICE, ROOM 76. TRIBUNE BUTLDIXG. XKW YORK, where con r'ele files or THE DISPATCH ran always be found. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and lriends of HIE DISPATCH, while In New York, are also made welcome. THE DISPATCHisTeovlarl'j on taleatBrmtrmPt, ' Union Square Arw lorl. and 27 Ave de VOpera, Parte, France, xshere anyone who has been disap pointed at a hotel news stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. rOPTAGE TREE IX THE UXTTED STATES. run-T Dispatch. One Tear 1 8 00 Daily Dispatch, Per Quarter 1 00 Daily Dispatch, One Month TO Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 year.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, Sm'ths. 2 50 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 m'th. 90 Suxday Dispatch, One Year 2 50 Weekly Dispatch, One Year 125 The Daily Dispatch is delivered by carriers at Itcents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at ICcents per week. PITTSBURG. SATURDAY, MARCH 12. TWELVE PAGES THE GROWTH OF APPROPRIATIONS. The Increase of $535,000 over last year in the city expenditures was disclosed in the publication of the appropriation ordi nance the day it wassent through Coun cils on a sintrle hearing. For the purpose ot show hip the growth in city appropria tions a comparison with those of 1890 is in order. The appropriations of that year were $4,045,000, which shows an increase since then of 5951,000, or a trifle less than 25 per cent In other words, that is the percentage of the increase of taxation on the whole city for that period. A comparison of the items of the different appropriations shows that there is little or no change in the expenditures for inter est, salaries, Department of Charities, finance fund, advertising, tax liens, Board of Assessors and sinking fund. Minor items in which there has been a decided enlargement of expenditures are for the Board of Viewers, printing, elections and judgments. The item of 35,000 for the Southside Market House is a new one this year, but it is more than offset by an ap propriation of $100,000 in 1890 for a dis tributing main from Highland reservoir. The increase of expenditure as com pared -with 1890 therefore consists of $96, 000 in the Department of Public Safety; 5385,000 in the Department of Public Works; $25,000 In outstanding warrants; $52,000 in education; $107,000 for parks; $97,000 in street repairing and repairs; $45,000 for assessments against the city, and $199,000 for bridges, making a total of $1,006,000 for increased appropriations in les3 than half the list Of these the in creases for outstanding warrants and edu cation are within a reasonable ratio of growth, so that we find as a remainder a growth of $929,000 on appropriations which two years ago only footed $2,126,000, making the increase only a little less than 50 per cent Everyone will agree that some of the items of increased expenditure were justi fiable in the interests of the city; but the point which will be manifest to every man on an analysis of these items is that every such increase might be wisely and economically balanced by a decrease In other items. The items in which a reduc tion of expenditure was practicable with out prejudicing a single important interest of the city were sufficient to permit the total to be reduced to the expenditures of 1S90, which would have required only an eight-mill levy instead of the twelve-mill rate. If the people will take the trouble to bear these facta in mind from one year to another they will be likely next time to elect a Council pledged to have the appro priation ordinance brought In early in February in time to have all the items carefully scrutinized and cut down to the limits of a reasonable economy. A PEACEFUL OUTLOOK. Nothing could be more reassuring for a peaceful issue of the Bering Sea matter than the news conveyed by our cable message from London. There can be no doubt that such pressure will be brought to bear on Lord Salisbury as will force him to agree to the President's demands at an early date. The war-inciters on each side of the Atlantic may well pause before -firing vent to further irritating acrimony, and consider the feeling im plied by a petition to Parliament signed by 1,250,000 worlangmen on behalf of a treaty providiug for permanent arbitra tion between this country and England. It is worthy of note that the delay which lias already occurred in the matter of the modus Vivendi is almost univer sally ascribed in England to Canadian in fluence. It would therefore be highly proper that Canada should be made to bear the brunt of retaliatory measures, if such were found necessary. But retalia tion will not be necessary, for, even if he lacked the requisite statesmanship, Salis bury is politician enough to understand how disastrous a continued delay would be in the face of the avowed wishes of the workingmen on the eve of a general elec tion. A little more common sense and a trifle less acidity among the Jingo organs here and there would be a great improve ment and tend to make the world go round more smoothly. THE COAL DISCRIMINATION. The old question of coal rates from Pittsburg to the lake ports is to come up before a meeting of railway officials next week. Elsewhere in this issue an intima tion is given that a change may be made in the policy which has hampered our coal trade for some years past It is to be hoped that this may prove well founded, but it will involve so radical a change in railway policy that it will not be wise to place much faith in it until tangible evi dence is given to that effect For a series of years the coal interests of Western Pennsylvania have been forced to bear the discrimination of a rate on Hocking Valley coal 10 to 15 cents per ton lower than they could get on a distance nearly 75 to 100 miles shorter. In propor tion to mileage the discrimination against them was that of a freight rate of 35 to 40 per cent more than their com petitors had to pay. This discrimination has been maintained by the combination of railroads which professes to exist for the purpose of preventing such evils; hut this profession is shown in its true light by the fact that it has steadily maintained this inequality a course which can hardly be explained on any other theory than that the railroad corporations or officials com posing the Central Traffic Association have more direct interest in the prosperity of the Hocking Valley coal fields than in those of Western Pennsylvania. The inevitable restriction of the Pitts burg coal shipments by this discrimination has, it is reported, opened the eyes of the Pennsylvania Company to the necessity of a different policy. It is indisputable that the purpose of cherishing the interests which furnish it traffic will dictate the course of making rates which will stimu late coal shipments instead of discourag ing them. But to do that the Pennsylva nia Company will have to return to the old business policy of operating its lines solely in the interests of its own traffic, instead of combining with other lines to do what the majority of corporate inter ests may prefer. It is to be hoped that such a course may be resolved upon; but we had better wait till next week before making sure of it UNIFORMITY TO A DEGREE. Concerning that alleged disciplinary treatment which the Builders' Exchange propose to visit upon the architects, it is somewhat painfully explained that the ac tion is solely in the interest of uniform building contracts. The architects are to be disciplined only because they have, in drawing up contracts, varied from the prescribed uniformity. The idea that a man in Pittsburg must build his house by exactly the same con tract as a man in Portland, or that becauso a certain arrangement of terms is suitable to A. in building his office therefore iden tically the same conditions must apply to B. in building his dwelling is one of which our friends of the Builders' Exchange cannot too soon disabuse their minds. As an abstract proposition It is wholly unten able, even if there were no material cir cumstances which emphasized the neces sity of permitting the people who pay for the buildings some liberty as to the man ner in which they shall spend their money. But it is decidedly intimated that there are such circumstances in this case. The statement is made that offending archi tects marred the uniformity of the con tract by inserting at the direction of the owners a clause that union labor should be employed. Without meddling with the questions between the contractors and their employes nothing is plainer than that, if a man desires to have union labor for his money, he has a right to make that condition. A "uniform contract" which shuts off that right is more honored in the breach than in the observance. Archi tects who reserve the rights bf the prop erty owner to specify things as he wants them will have a decided claim on the patronage of the people, who pay the money for building, if not on the builders. LIBERALS IN LONDON. The Liberal victory in the election of the London County Councils, which com prises a constituency mainly represented in the present Parliament by Conserva tives and Unionists, has a good deal of importance in foreshadowing the result of the next general election; but its Imme diate result is more likely to affect ques tions of taxation which were at issue in the contests. One of the expected reforms which arouses the most bitter opposition from the Conservative class is outlined by the proposition to tax ground rents in propor tion to their enhancement by the growth of population. London has perhaps a larger share of its area than any other city of the world held by a few great owners, who lease their property on ground rents, after a fashion not wholly unknown in Pitts burg. This is so general that we hear in "Patience" a reference to "building leases" just as here we would speak of buying houses and lots. The leases gen erally provide that the lessees shall pay the direct taxes on the real estate; but the Liberal reformers propose to introduce a new element by levying a tax on the ground rents themselves. This is regarded by the land owners generally of aristocratic rank, as socialism of the most disturbing class. In this country we hear it spoken of as the first step toward the Henry George theory. If so, it is the step within the bounds where the theory of that reformer is well founded, as ground rents form a c lass of property that should be taxed, and, so far as can be done without danger of abuse, should be discriminated against In taxa tion. But it is not the full Henry George theory, for it does not take all the ground rents; and it is not a single tax, for other taxes are levied. Another reform, which is regarded as an innovation, is the proposition that the opening and paving of streets shall be paid for on the much discussed but generally accepted plan in this country of assessing it on the prop erty benefited. In addition, the liberal element in Lon don municipal affairs advocate a mild sort of socialism by favoring municipal own ership of water and gas works, tramways, tunnels and electric lighting. This is a natural reaction from a long period of Parliamentary, grants of these franchises, resulting in a more or less general system of monopolies, just as the call of the Third Party for the same step with regard to railways is the result of the abuses of that system. - THE METHOD OF DISTRIBUTION. The statement made by tho authority of the Standard Oil Trust that the Trust will be dissolved and the property distributed, in deference to the decision of the Ohio Supreme Court, bears on its face a com mendable respect for the law. But whether the action thu3 promised com plies with tho real intent of the decision will depend on the manner in which the distribution of the property of, the trust is made. Its property consists of stock in the various corporations engaged in the petroleum business controlled by that or ganization. The statement of Mr. S. C. T. Dodd discloses some doubt as to the manner in which this stock. will be dis tributed. The mere statement of that doubt indicates that a method is being sought after by which each certificate holder In the Trust shall receive a pro portionate amount of tho shares of every corporation held by it, thus perpetuating the joint control. The fact is, however, that under the decisions the ono method of distribution alone is indicated. The shares held by the Trust were acquired by an illegal agreement, and that agreement being de clared null and void, these shares in every instance must return to the original owners. The ownership of a refinery in Ohio must go back to the Ohio men who sold or transferred it to the Trust; that of a Pennsylvania corporation must return to the Pennsylvanians. The certificate holders of the Trust have a claim in equity for the consideration given in the acquisi tion of the property, subject to the cloud which is cast upon all claims in equity arising out of an agreement against public policy. If the Standard Trust takes the course of returning the properties under it to their original independent control, it can fairly claim to show a respect for the law in marked contrast to the other Trusts that have imitated it But if it makes a dis tribution which maintains the joint con trol, it will seek to evade the law just as the others have done. It is sad evidence of despotism that the Czar can entertain thoughts of military manoeuvers costing vast sums while hordes of his people are dying of starvation. Attorney Yost's statement in con nection with the Blue Law prosecutions "AH through these cases we have shown the attorneys for the accused newsdealers every courtesy, and have even gone out of our way, simply so that we could not he charged with unfairness" makes one won der more than ever just what "our way" maybe. It is not to be wondered at that the New Jersey legislature, which failed to suppress the illegal racing at Gutwnburg, should pass a hill indorsing the Reading deal. Senator Stewart's constitutional amendment, providing that after 1897 no President shall he eligible for re-election until four years have expired from the end of his term, is a step in the right direction. But much more sweeping measures will have to he adopted before real civil-service re form is achieved, It is said that a part of ex-Mayor Wy. man's time is spent in reading. Some tract distributor should present him with a copy of Allegheny City's charter. Chatjncey Depew spoke some true and forcible words to the Indian students of the Hampton Institute on the gospel of the shotgun, and so forth. He might have made a few remarks, too, on the grievances of tho whito people with regard to the gospel of level-crossings and tho like benefits of rail roads. In the Bering Sea matter, as in all other diplomatic questions, nothing Is lot by al lowing reasonable time for consideration before action. There is little cause for surprise at the burning, and even tho eating, of a woman accused of witchcraft by Indians in Mexico, when recent superstitious and barbarous actions among Americans supposed to be civilized are remembered. The Snnnv South does not fake much in terest in the Bering Sea squabble. Fur seal is not one of tho luxuries there. Though no measures for reducing the tariff are in the least expected to pass the Senate, Protectionist Representatives should spare no effort to set sorth their strongest arguments in the House as a matter of edu cation for the country. It is to be hoped that the Kaiser's sick ness has given him time for reflections which will amend his forceful ways. The last attempt to corner copper proved a disastrous failure, thoush consumers were put to great expense before it fell through. It is to be hoped that the latest effort to obtain control of tho market will die a-borning. Bering Sea from our point of view is a mare dausum, hut England regards it as an open question. Consul McCreert would do well to clear his own character from recent re proaches before expecting much weight to attach to any of his statements with regard to Carlssen's murder while drunk in Val paraiso. t The harmony at the Indiana Republican Convention was of a pronounced Wagnerian type. ' ' Members of Congress would better pre serve their own dignity and perform the duties for which they are paid if they would neglect personalities and confine themselves to the discussion of business. Better not risk a change of clothing just at present, unless it is by way of an increase. This tentative diffidence on the part of the Standard is a vast improvement on its quondam defiance, and should be a great encouragement to further similar proceed ings against monopolists. ' This is grand weather for clothiers dis posing of winter stock. Doubtless the administration of the law in Ireland Is scandalously unjust in many cases, but that only , adds to the guilt of grasping, greedy creditors who do not hesi tate to set it in motion. HOW delightful is the balmy spring at mosphere. Such incidents as the charging of street mall boxes with electricity are a serious menace to public safety, and proper care in the insulation of light wires should be stringently enforced. Mb. McClure will now be tried per Jury. Ix I well that Congressional and Sen atorial funeral expenses should be Inquired into. Such occasion have too long been treated as picnics at the -national-expense; NEW YORK'S UNCERTAINTY. The Republicans of the State in a Quan dary Spring Election Results Not Con sidered a Settler Harrison's Weakness and the Inability of the Opposition to Combat Even That. CntOU A STAFT COBKISFOXDXKT.I New Yore, March 11. There is a deal of uncertainty about Republican politics in this State Just now, and not any great degree of confidence among Republicans in the result of the fall elections, except in so far as tho present and probably future blundering of tho Democratic majority, both in Washington and Albany, may turn the people into the Republican line in the hope of relief. True, the spring elections in the State have gone overwhelmingly Repub lican, returning about 600 Republican Sup ervisors out of a total of 875 in the various counties and taking from Democratic con trol, by emphatie majorities, every county in which the Senate returns were Juggled last fall. This means much for hon est election returns in this State hereafter, no matter what they show, but it is doubt ful whether there is another wad in that gun, especially in vie w of tho fact (hat Presi dents! campaigns generally bring out all the partisanship in a man, leading him to overlook for tho sake of giving his party tho Presidency such a trivial matter as the deliberate and cunningly planned theft of the Legislature. Faith In the Farty, Not in Harrison. There is the utmost confidence in the popular strength in this Stato of the Repub lican policy both as to silver and the tariff, which are to be the main issues, hut there is little in tho candidate who, it seems now, is certain to head the ticket. Nine men out of ten whom one meets here agree that Harrison has made an able, discreet and patriotic President, andyet when youask them if they believe he can be elected the entire nine will shrug their shoulders and declare that it will have to bo dono without New York's SO electoral votes. What tho New York man says is echoed by the Republicans of Con necticut, which State is still kept in the "doubtful" column by political mathemati cians, though both Blaine and Harrison failed to carry it. With these two States, representing 45 electoral votes, standing out against him it is difficult to see how Harri son's friends in these Statesman figure out a victory, granting that every one of the trans Mississippi States that he carried in 1SSS. should do so again next fall. Harrison Has Antagonized Them All. It is hard to analyze the opposition here to Harrison's renominatlon. It is not fac tional, for it seems to include almost the whole party. Tho one thing which he ha sneceeded in doing well, so far as this State is concerned, during his administration, has been to antagonize both the Piatt and Miller forces. For the first timo since thero have been two such factions here, they are to gether now on common ground in opposition to the President. Miller neither asks nor will he accept anything from Harrison either for himself or his friend1!. He warns all of his followers to keep off tho White Houso grounds. Piatt, on the other hand, has kept up a tireless hunt for patronage for tho "boys," and is even now getting all that is given "out in this Stato despite his open declaration that if Harrison is renominated he will seat himself on the highest pedestal he can find, and hurl his banner to the breeze as a high moral re former with a big R, who would not soil his fingers with the dirty work of campaigning. That is Piatt's position, and Miller's, too, for that matter. Yet both men regard Harrison's renomina tlon as Inevitable, and both have told me so within the past week. Their one hope is to convince him that he cannot be elected, if nominated, and to get things in such shape here, in Connecticut and in the free coinage States of the West as to convince both the President and tho National Convention that a renominatlon would-mean to imperil Re publican supieiuacy at Washington. Now Sparring tor Position. The State Convention at which the 72 delegates to Minneapolis are to bo named, is to be held on April 23 at Albany. Both fac tions of tho partv will bajre to make known their position as to tho Presidency then. At present they are sparring for position ono watching the other closely for some in dication of whom the opposition is to settle on as its candidate instead of Harrison. Not until to-dav has any evidence come to light as to Piatt's purposes, but it is plain now that be intends to give General Alger as many votes as possible. Alger was one of Piatt's favorites four years ago, and hut lor tho Elkins 'pledge of the Treasury portfolio which pledgo Harrison lepudiated he never would have consented to throwing tho 72 votes of New York solidly into the Harri son camp at Chicago until after Alger had had a chance to impress the convention with them. Piatt Booming Alger. I have it to-day on the best authority that Flatt Is responsible for th9 publication of Alger's card this week announcing his can aldacy, and that Alger emissaries have been started out to the silver States of the West to gather up all. the delegates possible for the Michigan aspirant. Alger hadm good many friends in politics on the Pacific Slope in 1883, and he has not lost any of them since then. J. S. Clarkson, his close friend, is going to have the complimentary vote of Iowa just to keep it where it can be thrown to Alger if there is any reason for doing so. The Big Fonr Onco More. But to return to the situation here. The famous "Big Four" or 18SS Piatt, Depow, Hiscock and Miller will undoubtedly lead the delegation again as delegates-ut-large. Hiscock and Depew are professedly for Har risou, and may hold out from 12 to SO dele gates for him Irom this State. Piatt will do liver all he can to Alger, and Miller, if report is true, will try to bring Robert T. Lincoln into the field. While all of these leaders concede that enough delegates to nominate Harrison are pretty certain to be sent to Minneapolis from other States, yet they hope that they can make an effective demonstration against the Presi dent by massing the Eastern doubtful States with the free silver States of the West, thus giving substance to their claim, that renom inatlon means a hazardous fight at best and perhaps defeat. Why the Opposition to Harrison Is Weak. The main difficulty which confronts them now, and will continue to do so until the end, is that they have no especially strong name to rally around. Alger has some ele ments of strength here, but not as many as Harrison, with all his alleged weakness; Lincoln is denounced as a Mugwump, and the "machine" makes faoes when he is named: Cullom is a stranger to most people. Harrison towers so far above all of these men, both in point Qf strategic position and in mental breadth, that their battle with him looks now like a hopeless ono; yet it will go on to the end, I am assured, and the President will be made to see by the ballot ing that he has nofoeuind him for this cam paign the Influences, good, bad or indiffer ent though they may be, which contributed largely to his success in 1888. Stoddard. A BISHOP'S COMING MAEEIAGE. He Finds a Mate in a Woman Who Is a Good Church Giver. New York, March 11, lBpeciaV Right Rev. George Worthington, Protestant Epis copal Bishop of Nebraska, Is in the habit of making frequent visits to the east, and he has many friends in this city. When tho news was brought to them yes terday that the Bishop had an nounced his Intention of entering tbe bonds of matrimony they greeted it with expressions of surprise. The bishop, though only 44 years old, was supposed to be a confirmed bachelor. The announcement stated simply that he was engaged to Miss Milton. 'A brother bishop who arrived from the West last night, said: "I have heard recently that Bishop Worth ington had decided to take the step, and I have no doubt the news is true. Tbe young w Oman's name. I believe, is Amelia Milton. I know little about her, except that 'she was residing in Boston last year, and had been there for some years with her mother, who was an invalid. The mother died not long ago, and I don't know whether Miss Milton' is still in Boston or not-. She was always very liberal in her contributions to the church, and I. understand she has considerable means. Sbe is not especially young about the right age, 1 should sy to make tbe Bishop a good mate." OUR MALL POUCH. How Buchanan Defeated Douglas. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Your correspondent, Frank -G. Carpenter, tells a story in Sunday's Dispatch, which he calls, "now Buchanan Defeated Douglas." He says: "It was brought about by 190,000 in gold coin presented by New York and by the withdrawal of Stephen A. Douglas." I attended the Democratic National Con vention at Cincinnati in 1856. Douglas and Pierce were the candidates of the South and Buchanan was the candidate of tho North ern Democrats. Besides the State of Vir ginia, Buchanan had no votes in the South except four or five in Louisiana and three or four in Maryland. Douglas had in 1851, as Chairman of tho Committee on Territories, brought in and pushed through tho bill re pealing tho Missouri compromise, and Pierce as President had signed it. The South therefore demanded the nomination of one of them. Douglas had no show, but he hung on until the last and never thought of withdrawing. His champion was William A. Richardson, of Illinois, an indomitable fighter. On tbe first ballot James Buchanan had 135 votes, Franklin Pierce 122, Stephen A. Douglass 33 and Lewis Cass 5. On the fifteenth ballot Pierce's vote was transferred to Douglas, but in spite of this combination by the South Buchanan beat Douglas, and, on tho seventeenth ballot, was nominated by a large majority. Your correspondent's story about Captain Ryndess having "$00,000 in gold spread out on the floor of his parlor at the Burnett House to influence delegates for Buchanan," like that of Douglas' proposed withdrawal, is of the fish flshy. I saw Captain Ryndess, in and out of his rooms, every day during the convention, and never heard of any thing of the kind. In fact, I don't believe lie had $U00 in any kind of money, let alono $90,000 in gold. I doubt if all the delegates In that convention could together have "spread out $90,000 in cash. F. Allegheny, March 10. A Delamatcr Victim. To the Editor of The Dispatch: A sensational article appeared in your paper recently, under the above heading, which calls for corrections. It is represented that a woman in Toledo, O., calling herself Sallie Wallace and claiming to be a cousin of George Wallace Delamater, formerly of this place, was begging for money In the streets of that city, alleging "that her largo fortune had been squandered in her effort to save the bank here." There is not a 11 ord of truth in this state ment, unless, possibly, theie was a crazy woman in the case. Mr. D. has no cousin of that name, and no such woman lost a cent of money by his failure. It is a Action from be ginning to end. The only "victim" in the case is the reporter who furnished the sensa tional story for the press. Truth. Meadville, March 10. ' WOELD'S FAIB WAIFLETS. Sirs. Potter Palmer's Plea for the Benefit of Women's Work. Washington', March 11. Mrs. Potter Palmer to-day made an address before the special House Committee on the World's Columbian Exposition, urging favorable ac tion on a bill before the committee to ap propriate $133,000 to be disbursed directly by the Board or Lady Managers of the Exposi tion. Sbe urgec1 that the Board of Lady Managers should be independent of the Na tional Commission and should be permitted to expend moneys subject only to the ap proval of tnp Secretary of the Treasury. She pave an interesting statement of what the board propoed to do in the department of women's woik, and taid it was the intention to make a very complete exhibit of the handiwork or the women of various coun tries at different stages of civilization. She explained what had been done toward se curing tile co-operation of foreign countries in the women's department, and reported good progress. At the Postmasters' Convention to-day the following resolution was adopted: "Re solved, That this conference earnestly rec ommends that the Postmaster General be requested to urge upon the committee for the appropriation for tbe postoffice propri ety of making a special and liberal appro priation to be devoted to the establishment and equipment of a postoffice within tho World's Fair Columbian Exposition to bo held in tho city of Chicago and for furnish ing such other special or additional postal facilities in that city as will be necessary to meet the increased requirements! of tho service during the continuance of that Ex position." In the House to-day Representative Reillv. of Pennsylvania, introduced a Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to prepare for exhibition in the woman's building at the World's Fair any articles, models or drawings now in his cus tody or deposited in the Patent Office pre pared or invented by women. He also in troduced a lesolution authorizing the Secre tary of the Smithsonian Institution to pre pare for exhibition in the women's building any articles now in his custody or on exhi bition in the National Museum illustrative of the life and development of tho industries of women. Eepkesentative Dockery, of Mis souri, who yesterday, under instructions from the sub-committee of the Committee on Appropriations, wrote alletter asking for cer tain lntorniation about World's Falrexpend itures. received to-day a telegraphic reply from William T. Baker, President of the Lo cal Committee, that he would be ready to re ply to inquiries, as published in the press, on Wednesday. DEFENDING AH iNSTOANCE SUIT On the Ground That the Fire Was Caused by Incendiarism. Muskegon, Mich., March 1L Special. A" sensational trial is in progress in the Circuit Court here, wherein Hugh Leonard and Mary Leonard, co-partners, are plaintiffs, and the People's Fire Insurance Company, of Pitts burg, Pa., is defendant. Three other suits hang upon the result of the piesent one, the defense in all fonr being the same. The amount of insurance involved lsanout $4,000. The insurance companies claim that Hugh Leonard, aided and abetted by P. P. Leonard, husband and agent of Mary Leon ard, set fire to the insured property. P. P. Leonard testified that the insurance com panies had offered to settle tbe claims, first at 50 cents and next at 85 cents on the dollar. The suit is still on. FAVORITES OP FORTUNE. United States Minister H. E. Con ger ha3 returned from Brazil for a vaca tion. Miss Maude Gonne, the well-known Irish patriot, is possibly the most beautiful woman in that land of green hills and sham rock. "Dictionary Brown" is the name given to Arthur H. Brown, a proofreader in tbe United States Printing Office at Wash ington. Mr. Humphrey Ward has written a letter declaring that there is no truth in the published story that his wife received 20, 000 for her last novel. A sister of Cardinal Manning, Mrs. Austen, has survived him, and, though over 90 years of age, she is still active in charita ble and benevolent work. After being 44 years President of the Amoskeag Bank, ex-Governor Moody Cur rier, of Manchester, N. H., has resigned to make room for a younger man. Emperor William, who has been on the sick list for a day or two, 13 out of bed again, and his court physician is happy in consequence of his rapid recovery. Lord and Lady Brassey are again abroad in the Sunbeam and send home live ly chronicles of their' cruise. These, stray sheets will eventually form tho basis of a volume on Morocco. The artist Healy, now visiting in this country, says that he was present at the Hermitage when Andrew Jackson died. He was theie at the time engaged in painting a portrait of General Jackson's daughter-in-law. - King Humbert's approaching visit to England is said to be due to the gratitude he feels when he recalls that Queen Victoria was the first of European sovereigns to recognize the young kingdom of Italy 30 or more years ago. - A singular friendship has sprung up between Bourke Cockran and ex-Speaker Beed, who occupy seats in the House Just across the aisle from each other. There is a perennial Interchange of stories and anec dotes between the two, and when they bring their heads together the aisle is effectively blocked for traffic. AGAIN OLD CITY HALL Comes to the Front as n Forlorn Hope It Is Chosen for lady Henry Somerset to Speak In Next Thursday Evening .Other News. At the meeting yesterday of the Execu tive Committee of the County W. C T. U., some preliminary arrangements were made for Lady Henry Somerset's expected visit. Old City Hall has been selected for tbe lec ture, the intention being to make the place as presentable as possible for Her Ladyship, by a liberal distribution of equatorial plants and shrubs and Intermingled with artistically draped bunting. The Grand Opera House, which had first been thought of, is out of the question, since the lecture is not a Sunday, but an evening one. At the special request of Lady Henry and Miss Willard there will be no so cial demonstration, the ladles, with Miss Gordon remaining quietly at their hotel until tbe hour of the lecture. The county officers will doubtless be intro duced to her ladyship some time in the afternoon. At the lecture tho platform, be sides the speaker, will be occupied by Miss Willard, Miss Gordon and the county officers. If Mrs. Jasper Porter, tho Presi dent for Allegheny county, Is permitted by the state of her health she will introduce Lady Henry, and, if she cannot, someone selected by her, or Miss S. E- Gemmill, the county Vlco President, will preside in Mrs. Porter's place. A committee to take charge of the making of Old City Hall presentable was appointed yesterday.and is as follows: Mrs. iunna Gra ham, Mrs. B. A. Harris, Mrs. Frank Hazlett, Mrs. E. J. Snead and Miss Emma Moffatt. Miss Kate Courteney will havo charge of tho music, assisted by a bnmber of the Young Woman's Auxiliary. Some further meetings will be held for the perfecting of plans bo fore Thursday eve next, the time et apart for the lecture. The usual monthly intimation was re ceived yesterday of the French service to bo held to-morrow afternoon in tho chapel of the First Church at 4 o'clock. The music is promised to bo unusually fine, the Glee Club of the Western University specially drilling to act as choir on this occasion and here after. The entire club will be present. The friends of tho French Mission will bo glad to know that the Kev. Mr. Launitz, who has been serionsly ill, is entirely recovered and will be present at the service on Sunday. The Wilkinsburg Opera House was gaily decked last night at the bazaar for thebene flt of Trinity Reformed Church, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society. The parquet seats were taken out and the space occupied by them replaced by booths and tables for the dispensing of fancy articles, ico cream, cake, candy and other things that are usually sold at bazaars. On the stage was the orchestra, which played selections and accompanied the singers, who did their part toward the entertainment. To the fol lowing ladies is due all the accruing credit: Mrs. J. Wienman, Mrs. B. Wright, Mrs. James Freeman, Mrs. Carrie Bell, who pre sided at the fancy table: Mrs. M. Defibaugh. Mrs. F. Palmer, in charge of ice cream table; the Misses Tillie Kaiser, Lillie Wright, Nettie Wetzel, Z. Smith.-supper table; the Misses L. Smith, L. Elder. B. Sperling, B. George. J. Allhouse, Mrs. M. Smith, Mrs. J. Spear and Miss A. Fix, who superintended the sale of delicious confections, the work of their own fair hands. Notwithstanding the Inclement weather there was a very large attendance, and tho sale of the articles offered wns large enough to ensure large returns for tbe benefit of tbe church. Prof. Henri Kollin Parker's French classes in connection with the Woman's Christian Association surpasses the most that enthusiasm expected. There are above 50 young women, many of whom are proving themselves as possessing quite a facility lor acquiring the language. Prof. Parker is greatly encouraged thereby, and looks for some splendid results from his work. Mr, C. D. Beatty will leave on Satur day for an extensive overland tour of the South, including Florida, afterward return ing home by way of the coast voyage and New York. The friends of the venerable Prof. Bohr bachcr, master of German and history in the Western University, will hear with deep regret of his serious indisposition. BUBAL BAILK0AD3. How Electricity Is Solving One Phase- or the Transportation Problem. Philadelphia Press.! The United States has a.population of 38, 513,176 which live outside of towns of LOCO inhabitants and over. Even of those in towns 5,319,778 live in places of ,000 inhabitants and under. In all then 41,832,951 of the population live on solitary farms, in places under 1,000 population or at most in places under 4,000, and which are. therefore too small to support horse cars or any form of transportation except primitive means of wagon transport. JTet this class of the population has to take its entire product to railroads and a market over varying distances and on the worst roads known to civilization. It is not surprising that Western newspapers and farmers' clubs are beginning to discuss the possibility of cheap farmers narrow-gauge roads, laid for $2,500 a mile, and intended to carrv products and ctods to market. Such roads were recently urged in a farmers' club at Gilman, 111., but the Railway Age shows a nnrrow-guase road could not be built in the flimsiest way for the sum men tioned. With good roaas, wnicn wouia aiso cost about $3,000 a mile, it wouldperhaps not he needed. Electric railways -are, however, reaching out Into tbe rural districts and it ispos tible that these will solve the problem. This country has 385 electrical railways, 3,980 miles long, and with a capital or $153,087. 973. Many of these are in cities, but no small share or them are rural. Of the 89 mile3 in California and 124 miles in Color ado a considerable share are rural. These have been sufficiently successful to lead to contracts for a 50-mile electric railroad in California for rural traffic A road 18 miles long Is building in Maryland, in tended for fi eight as well as passengers. In Chester and Delaware counties in this smt.B electric lines are extending where a horse car line would have been deemed out of the question recently. Or the 40 electric lines, with $11,560,000 or capital, and 233 miles long in this Stare, a share are or this charac ter. It is possible that the electric railroad is to conquer the rural isolation which irso serious a matter of two-thirds of our popula tion. MEETMG 07 MEDICAL MEN. Followers of Hahnemann to Meet at Wash ington in Jnne. Wabhixqtox, March 1L The annual meet ing of tbe American Institute of Homeopa thy, which wiU be held in this city from June 13 to 17 riext, premises to be tho largest and most important of this, tbe oldest na tional medical society in the country. The work of the local and finance committees is well advanced, and indicates that prepar ations will be necessary for the reception and comfort of a much larger number of dele gates than was at first supposed would be in attendance. The opening meeting of the Institute will be held on Monday evening, June 13. at tbe National Theater, and will be a public one. Dr. T. Y. Kinne, President of the Institute, will deliver the annual address, after which the business pertaining to the opening of the session will be considered. The business meetings will be held in Cornwall's Hall, and the sectional meetings In the parlors of the adjacent hotels. The Executive Com mittee having in charge all arrangements for the convention is composed of the most romlnent members of the profession in the 'lstrict. Fere Marquette, to Be Marblelzed. Washisotos, March U. Representative Mitchell, of Wisconsin, to-day introduced in the House a joint resolution granting to the State of Wisconsin the privilege of placing in Statuary Hall, in the Capitol building at Washington, the statue of Pere Marquette, "the faithful missionary whose work among the Indians and explorations within tbe borders of said State, in early days, are recognized all-over the civilized word." May Make the Dust Fly. Brooklyn Times. Exclnding the coaland oil interests of Pennsylvania from the World's Fair, on the ground that the first is dusty and the latter dangerous, bids fair to kick up more dust than the commodities would if given entry. It Fat Millions Into the Farmers' Pockets. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The reciprocity treaty with Spain has given our millers a monopoly of tho Cuban flour market, ana that means several mlll ions.more per year in the pockets of "our farmers. THEY ABE ALL SHfirSBS. A Principle Which Must Be Applied to Bich Men Generally. New York Sun.J The question whether it Is proper to ac cept gifts from Mr. Jay Gould ought to be settled at once. A short time ago he gave $10,000 for Presbyterian Church extension, and now it is reported that be has given $25,000 to the University in Washington Square, an institution which is also under Presbyterian influences. It is said, too, that he is constantly importuned for con tributions to religious and cbaritable pur poses, for the building of churches and the alleviation or suffering from disease or pov erty. The Rev. D. Parkhurst, tho Rev. Dr. Ralnsford, the New York Timet, and the Evening Pott contend that It Is wicked to take his gifts. They will not allow him even to obey the injunction of Jesus to the young man, by giving all hi3 possessions to the poor; and they require that the poor shall refuse to accept them. Ho must not even give to the Lord, cry out these critics. He must keep his money for himself, since no body can take anv of it. If that is the prin ciple to be established, of course it will ap ply to rich men generally. It will be wicked to accept anything from them until they have shown exactly how they came by tho money, and havo satisfied these ministers and newspapers that they got it properly. Mr. Rockefeller, for instance, has made bis great wealth out of the Standard Oil Company or trust. Trusts aro wicked mon opolies in the opinion of many. Hence the churches, colleges, and missionary societies which have received gifts from Mr. Rocke feller ought to return tho money. Many people object to stock speculation and con tend that tbe money made by it comes from a. sourco as immoral as the Louisiana Lottery or the worst of the faro banks which Anthony Comstock would shut up. If the principle is adopted that before giving to religious and cbaritable purposes, the wonld-be givers must explain and j ustify the sources whence the money was derived. Mr. Vanderbilt's contributions to the Bible Society must be tested by the standard of those who regard stock speculation as wicked. The buying and sellm? or futures on the Produce Exchange is held by many people who do not engase In the business to be reprehensible morally. Gifts of money made in that way must therefore bo rejected by the Church and by all religious sociotles uutil the question or morality or the Pro duce Exchange methods is determined ac cording to the principles and standards of Christianity. HYGIENE AND THE CLEEQY. Various Improvements for the Saks Might Bo Adopted. Health's New York Evening Snn.l A society of clergymen, known as tho Cen tral North Chicago Ministerial Association has just adopted a. series of resolutions upon funeral customs. Among them is ono that a servico Is ordinarily complete that consists of the usual readings and prayer at the house without any addition at the grave; another is, that only such persons accom pany tho remains to the gravo a3 may be personally requested to do so. Tho second of these is aimed against the ostentation dis played at funerals which often falls as a needless and cruol tax upon the bereaved. The first has more to do than is generally understood with the public health. The late Duke of Clarence, it is well-known, took his first fatal illness by exposure bare headed at a funeral. The. occurrence drew attention very generally in England to grave customs, and one prelate, tho Bishop Nottingham,- took occasion to annonnce that anyone would be showing every respect on these solemn occasions if he wore a black skull cap. v Thousands of men who would not for any ordinary consideration walk bareheaded a dozen yards from their own door stand with heads exposed to the chill atmosphere ofa cemetery while their friends and rela tives are consigned to tho grave. But tho attention of the reverend clergy while di rected to this subject or health may well go further, and take some note of the bad ven tilation and heating arrangements of many churches. Were they sanitarians they could not but be aware that tho air of their buildings often becomes distinctly injnrions before even an hour of the service has elapsed. The gas aids materially in tho air ftollution. The means or outlet for foul air, n nearly all of the older churches and in not a few of the new ones, are at least inade quate. Gas ought to be placed high.nnd tho Jets may most conveniently bo disposed in rings in order that thev may bo beneath openings leading directly to tbcsxternnl air. An authority on church ventilation Is disposed to insist upon extraction shafts at each corner or tho edifice opening well above the gallery level Tor canrinr off the air vitiated by tho congregation, together with tho injurious products of gas combus tion. TARIFF IN THE HOUSE. Mb. McMnxiif's speech In itself furnishes a very strong argument aiainst the crazv quilt tariff policy of the Tiger House. Xew York Recorder. IxsTEADor adopting a manly and courage ous line of action the Democrats havo seen fit to attack the tariff on only a few of its 2,500 items. New York Press. The tariff controversy in the House has opened, and Republican success in Novem ber is now assured beyond the shadow of a doubt. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Mr. JIcMillin's speech in opening the tariff debate in the House is a fair illustra tion of the dishonesty of the Democratic party on the subject of tariff reform. Phila delphia Press. Democrats insist that strikes are dun to the tariff. How do they explain the fact that the biggest strike ever threatened is that of the English coal miners, and that it is in a free trade country? Toledo Blade. Coxorissxax McMillin has opened tbe tariff debate. But all Democrats can talk free trade. The question is when will they pass Mr. Springer'3 freo wool bill? Tho Democrats make no rash promises there. Chicago Inter Ocean. The reciprocity section of the tariff law doesn't suit Congressman McMillin. It suits the majority of the people, however, and will stand until the Republicans regain power In the House and have an opportunity to devise something better to take its place. Columbus Times. The strongest argument that Mr. McMillin could advance against the McEinley bill was that the laborer has been forced to pay more for various things, while his wages have not been advanced. And again we are made to listen to the parrot-like cry, "tho tariff is a tax." Philadelphia Inquirer. Manufacturing Republican Arguments, " Toledo Elide. 3 The Democratic majority in Congress is now engaged in manufacturing Republican campaign argument, to be used a few months later. 'Twas ever thus, however. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEEE. J. F. WInslow, Iron Manufacturer. John F. Winslow, one of the leading iron manufacturers In New York State, died In Poogh keepsle, Thursday. He built the Monitor at his worn In Troy, and, with Erastus Corning and John A. Grlswold, introduced Bessemer steel In the United States. At one time he was President of the Troy Polytechnic Institute and of the Pough keepsto Bridge Company. Of late he has been largely engaged in works of benevolence. H. Meyers. H. Meyers, who died Thursday, was a member of one of the old and respected families of LawrencevlUe. being the oldest son of the late C. F. Meyers. He served In the late war, being a member or the One Hundred and Fllty-nfth Regi ment, and aU through the war fought bravely for bis country's defense. John F. O'Brien, Pitcher. John F. O'Brien, the baseball pitcher, died yesterday morning at West Troy. N. Y.. aged 28 years, of pneumonia. In 1890 he was a member or the CIcTeland League team, and last Tear he waa a winning pitcher for the Boston Association team. O'Brien hut signed with tbe St. Louis League Club for the coming season. Obituary Notes. HrcreY G. Rapholo died at Denver Thursday of pneumonia. He was formerly from Buffalo, where he was one of the proprietors of the Truth. He was also interested and part owner In a Denver weekly. William Lisdeke. the millionaire banter and milter, of St. Paul, died Wednesday of cancer of tbe stomach. He was 57 years old, and came to the Northwest when a boy. He has frequently been mentioned as a candidate lor high political honors, bat has always declined owing to bis business. WiixiaxH. KnrBAIX, formerly state Libra rian of New Hampshire, died In Concord Thursday night after a lingering illness. Mr. Kimball was originally an artist, excelling yean ago in making pictures on wood ana ivory. He was deeply versed hi speculative philosophy, and wrote much on that subject. He was alio in Abolitionist in the days CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS Two thousand women became artists is 1S9L There are 82 national cemeteries ha America in which 528,115 soldiers are buried. Before the Beformation 50 per cent of the land in the United Kingdom belonged to. the Church. Bellows Falls, in Vermont, has a 17-year-old giant. He is six feet eight inches tall and weighs 184 pounds. Moet and Chandon were recently offered i4.000.000 for their vineyards in Epernay. This large offer was refused. Every 1,000 acres in 1890 maintained 193 cattlo and 633 sheep; In 1891 the numbers had risen to 203 and 873 respectively. Bar Harbor taxpayers complain that tha paupers at the town farm arebetterfed than. many of those who pay the bills, and also) obj ect to paying $5 for prayers at a pauper's funeral. The manufacture of bay rum is carried on at the northern end of Dominica, and. proves a very lucrative business to those en gaged in It, as the plants are plentiful in this district. On a recent evening, at the Theater Scribe, in Turin, a white ball was given, when the whole house was decorated witix winter scenery ice, snow, glaciers, and all the picturesque accompaniments of the sea son. A group of men who meet almost daily at lunch in the cafe of the Chicago Club in' eludes Marshall Field, Potter Palmer and I Z. Letter, who began life as clerks In dry. goods stores, and are now worth from $3,000,. 000 to $10,000,000 apiece. Barton Turner, a man found in Peekst kill by the New York census takers, gave the) names of seven wives whom he had married in his time. They had survived marriage with him periods ranging from two weeks tc 2) years. He is now 81 years old. Some painters in Geneva are painting a panorama of the Bernese Alps, which will have a height of 51 feet and width of S45feeC to go to Chicago. The whole will cost about 60,000. It was all sketched from the summit of the Mannlichen. 6.CC0 feet high. A coasting party in Guilford, Me., re cently consisted of Orman Cimpher, aged i years; his mother, his grandfather, and hk great grandmother, aged 94. Tne partj coasted down the long hills for an hour, ant then enjoyed a hearty backwoods break fast. At he recent term of the Suprem Judicial Court of Franklin county. Mo , n indictments were found, and the member of tho grand Jury, when dismissed,presentei to Judge Emery a pair of white kid glove as an emblem of the purity of the county' morals. Gertrude Souine. a pretty girl of 1 years who lives in a town in Aroostoo county. Ma, has never be3n known to laug or even to smile. While intelligent in othe matters, sbe apparently cannot understan a joke, and is unmoved by tho keenest wi ticisms. The Dart Continent is now completel encircled by submarine telegraph; more tha 17,000 miles of cabe having been employe in effecting it, and several companies, wit more or less aid from the British, Frenci Spanish and Portuguese Governments, ha participated in carrying out the work. Italian papers tell of a JJeapolito nobleman who fought 11 duels during h litetime in defense of his assertion thi Dante was a greater poet than Ariosto. J he lay on his death-bed a short time ago 1 took pleasure in acknowledging that he na never read the works of either writer. The largest gun manufactured at tl Krupp Gun Works, Essen, Germany, weigl 270,000 pounds and is of the finest quality steel. The caliber of this monster engine death is 19 inches, and the oarrel is 44 fo long. The greatest diameter or this gun 6K feet, and its range is about 12 miles. The Salvation Army is being boycott' in Finland. No mention of it of any ki: may appear in public print. So strictly this law being carried ont, that any menti ofthearmv, or any advertisement beari on the movement, is sufficient to cause entire issue of a newspaper to be cancelh As tbe elephant is a nocturnal anim it selects its trees by the senses of touch a smell. Its senso of smell is so delicate tb a wild elephant can wind an enemy a distance of 1,000 yardi. and the nerves of trunk are so sensitive that the smalli substance can be discovered and picked by Its tiny proboscis. There has been discovered in Pompei small domestic chapel of graceful archlt tnral proportions, and adorned with s vivid and unspoiled frescoes. At the end tho chamber there was a' well-preserv painting of Hercules with his cup and lio skin; on one of the sides was a boar, and the other was a sacrificial altar. It is proposed to cost glass, not nee sarily transparent, into largo blocks buildings. This material is practically destructible, perfectly non-absorbent a therefore, damp-proof in a manner wh few bricks are, and in this way coarse gl of this kind could be made nearly as chi us concrete, stone or baked clay. To build a kaiak marks an import point in the life of the coast native. r youth, as soon as he is able to construct c no longer observes any family ties, but g where his fancy takes him, frequently roi ing about in his boat for thousands of m before be takes a notion to marry, to cavatea miserable dwelling and tose down for a time. A singular action was recently bron by a lady against tho proprietor of Whitehall Court flats upon the Thame bankment. It was stated that the lady induced to take a flat by the promisoof proprietors that a restaurant would b tablished on the premises, and that, as had not been done, she bad been living p cipally on tinned meat and sardines. On suggestion of the Judge an arranges was come to, his Lordship expressing a h that there would bo no more living on dines and tinned meat. The Castle of Heidelberg is the lar in Germany. It stands 330 feet above Neckar river, and was occupied as a ca as early as 1294 A. O. In a cellar In one ner of the ruins Is the famous "tun,' monster cask, capable of holding 49,000 Ions. This, was for the storage of wine 1 bv the nobility who dwelt in this castle Is" believed that the Grand Dnke of Ba will abandon the idea which he recentlj tertained of attempting to "restore'' ruins and convert them into a mot palace. KOTNBXES AND BHIJTE1EIS. Teacher "What do you say before eai Bobby? Bobby Nothln', ma'am. Teacher Wen. what does your father sajf Bobby He generally says, "Is that aU y got for supper!" Smith. Gray 4Cb.' s JtmdMy Men sadly ask for "half a chance" When striving to some goal. They're welcome to It. As for me, I want my chances whole. Pi 'Is Mrs. Harlem finnicky when si traveling?" "AwfaSy. Even on a sleeping car she dm a berth on the shady side." Judge. Jessie I guess! George takes me for t ephone. Bessie What makes you think so? Jessie Every time I meet him he says. "1 hello I' ' Denver Sun. A quiet hour, secure from the bother And worry of life, the evening grants When the boys have been put to bed and mother Is patching the knees of their little pants. Then I sit by her side and read tbe paper. Which tells of the world and Its busy life. And I'm pretty sure that's the proper caper For a husband who truly loves his wife. .V. Y. Pi "Did you ring, sir?" asked a mess boy. "Yes. laid." 'I told you so," he said to a boyat Ml Much obliged, mister." he added as he tor. the door. -That puts me a quarter la. I ringed, and Jimmy here bet je didn't Ai Sews. Mudge You don't find me wastin time trying to get even with my enemies. Yansley No, Indeed. You are too busy try gtt ahead of jour Mends. Indianapolis-Jot "1 do not love the ground you waT dear-" She turned on me her tearful eyes of blue. "Why don't you?" trembled from her tend "Because, sweet one, mylovelsaUforyoi Sea Tot k Re "Miss Bondington," he said, "I s like to ask your Ideas on a question of gra Do two negatives make an afflrmaUver Yen."hTBTUed- "Why dOTOUlnattU Because, when I asked you to be mine las you said, jIo,no,,,'iraWwfeiia,t"
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