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One Year 150 Weekly Dispatch, One Year 1 15 The Daily Dispatch is delivered; by carriers at I.' cents per week, or, including Sunday Edition, at SC cents perweeO riTTSBURG. MONDAY, MARCH 14. ONE CUT IN KXrENDITCKES. . The report; of the House Committee) on Naval Affairs presents a reduction of about $8,000,000 from the expenditures of last year, and of 53,000,000 from the esti mates of the department This reduction is largely in the appropriations for new vessels. The committee very cogently points out that there is a large unexpended balance in the appropriations for the in crease of the navy, and makes the valid point that it is well to complete the vessels authorized by the former appropriations before launching out widely into the con struction of new ones. The reasoning is good in the main, and the reduction carries with it an earnest of further cuts from the heavy expenditures of the last Congress. But it should be understood that naval appropriations are not where the pruning knife is to be ap plied most severely. The money spent for the navy is for the benefit of the nation. There are other appropriations to which Congressmen are much more prone where the record of reducing expenses should be made by the present Congress. If the Democratic House cuts down the jobs with twice the severity that the naval committee has applied to the naval appro priation, it will do good work for itself and the people. THE TRICE OF KIOTS. The instruction afforded by the claims for damages in the Valparaiso riot has been followed by attorneys for the fami lies of the Italians lynched by the New Orleans mob. The sums claimed are $30, 000 for each life a very moderate ap praisal in comparison with the average of 5130,000 asked for naval heroes pounded at Valparaiso. One of the Italian claims, however, adds new delights to the question of international compensation by itemizing the bill. There is a suspicion between the lines of this claim that the family find it hard to believe that a straight claim of 530.000 for their deceased relative will go down. They consequently put in an item of 55,000 for "the terror and anxiety of mind" of the dead man during the onslaught of the mob, and $5,000 more for his "mental and bodily pain, suffering and agony which preceded and accompanied his death." This suggests a remarkable theory of vi carious atonement; but it is more sugges tive of the thought that the claimants really feel that if they get the remaining 520,000 for the loss of the deceased they will have parted with him at boom rates. In one respect, however, we cannot too much applaud the discrimination of the attorneys for the claimants. They have sued the city of New Orleans for the money instead of the United States. The rest of the country under these cir cumstances will stand impartially aside and let New Orleans say why it should not pay for the destruction of life within its Jurisdiction. Perhaps the late liberality of the Louisiana Lottery can be sufficiently extended to furnish the money for New Orleans to pay the little bilL TWO STANDARD FICTIONS. Two assertions appear in the interviews with the Standard Oil Trust people, con cerning the decision against that combina tion, which inflict the minds of those acquainted with the subject with extreme fatigue. One is that the decision declares a different principle from that laid down in previous decisions against trust com binations; the other is the old and familiar assertion that the purpose of the Standard Trust has been "to cheapen the cost of petroleum." The first assertion is in particular that, while previous decisions have declared it illegal for corporations to join a Trust, there has been no decision against the power of individual shareholders of a cor poration to join a Trust having the same identical purpose. Waiving the question as to fact, it remains that an unbroken course of decisions for three hundred years has been that all combinations for the restraint of competition were illegal. Even supposing that the financial magnates and lawyers of the Standard were incapable of the effort of ratiocina tion to perceive that the action of a ma jority of the shareholders is in effect the action of the corporation, it is hardly pos sible to suppose them ignorant of the fact, in the light of these decisions, that their combination was lor an illegal purpose. That they sought to effect that iliegal purpose by any method does not argue the respect for law now so loudly professed. As to the professed cheapening of the cost of petroleum by the Standard that is an allegation which has been industriously made in certain quarters for years, and for the same length of time has been clearly refuted. At the same time the Standard has professed to the producers that its pur pose was to increase the price of petro leum. Both assertions have an equal foundation of untruth. The purpose of the Standard has been to monopolize the means of taking petroleum from the pro ducer, refining it and distributing it to the consumer with greater charges for that operation than would be possible under free competition. Its part in the adoption of improved processes is sufficiently illustrated in the history . of pipe line trans portation. The Standard's part in intro ducing pipe line transportation was to fight with all its might against the exten sion of pipe lines to Pittsburg, to Buffalo and to the seaboard, and to buy up and monopolize the lines which it was unable to choke off. It is true that refined petroleum has been very cheap for the past few years. This was due partly to the price of crude nerroleum. and nartlv to the fact that in dependent refining has been able to hold J its own after a fashion for that time. A significant statement, if it is true, is made In the Eastern papers to the effect that the Standard controls 65 per cent of the re fined petroleum output. As it controlled about 95 per cent a year ago, the sinking of its proportion to this percentage would indicite that the cheapness of the petro leum was due to the failure rather than the success of the Standard Trust If the percentage is accurate, of which we are doubtful, the growth of the inde pendent interest to 35 per cent of the out put might afford a very good explanation of the willingness to dissolve the Trust, as a recognition that the policy of buying off competition has reached its limits when there is no longer a safe method of choking it off. SHUTTING DOWN FURNACES. A special correspondent of The Dis patch, who has been investigating the condition of the pig iron industry in the Shenango valley, finds a large share of the furnaces already out of blast and more preparing to shut down. In his report, published in this issue, it is shown that practically all the production for the open market in that district will soon be sus pended, for the reason that the price of pig iron does not now repay . the cost of production. This is the exponent of a condition of depression in the iron industry which has been experienced at intervals for years, and which is now felt with more or less severity in other branches of the trade. The only way to meet such a condition of overproduction or under-consumption, as we choose to regard it is for each firm to suspend operations until there is either a revival of the demand or an economy in the factors of production that enables iron to be made at the lower prices. In the latter direction of effort, which is most immediately within the reach of those interested in the activity of the iron trade, there are elements of cost which might be lessened to meet such an exi gency as is here reported. The prices of ore and coke and the charges for trans portation can all be decreased somewhat rather than have the furnaces go out of business. While ore and coke companies and railway officials are notoriously ad verse to these views, when it becomes clear that they have got to take one alter native or the other thev will certainly ac cept that of decreased rates in preference to no earnings at all. Iron men of all branches should also recognize that the surest economy in this direction is to be obtained by earnest efforts for a ship canal from Lake Erie to Pittsburg. Our correspondent is inclined to think that the situation is aggravated by the ab senoe of any organization "for concerted action in the way of restricting produc tion. But his report shows, as The Dis patch has often pointed out, that concert of action is unnecessary. Consumption is being restricted without such concert, and the furnaces are shutting down by the in dividual decision of their owners for the best of all reasons, namely, that it does not pay to keep them in operation. It is pertinent to say that this depression, like its predecessors, will be temporary. The factors which point to a revival in the demaud for iron are well known and posi tive. Their action has been delayed longer than was generally expected, but the turn of the tide is certain to come, sooner or later. A DECIDED WA.NT OF CONFIDENCE. It is reported that the Salisbury Cabinet will claim that the vote of Friday in the House of Commons, by which the names of three members were stricken from the vote in favor of the Mombasa Railway grant, is not a vote of want of confidence. This is based on the view that the vote only involved the question whether mem bers having a pecuniary interest in the matter legislated upon shall be allowed to vote. It is hard to see how any matter could more clearly involve a want of confidence, or how a Cabinet could put itself more clearly in the wrong. The Government by some extraordinary stroke of blindness put itself in the position of maintaining the right of members to vote for a project by which they would obtain a pecuniary profit. The House voted against the Gov ernment in that matter, and by so doing not only showed its want of confidence but called the attention of the world to the fact that the lack of confidence was well deserved. It does not make much difference, how ever, whether Lord Salisbury accepts this defeat or hangs on to power until the last moment The days of the present Parlia ment are numbered, and the date of the general election which will introduce a new era in English politics is only a ques tion of months and weeks. NULLIFICATION OF LAW. An extensive inquiry as to the obedience yielded to the Inter-State Commerce law in the Northwest has recently been made by the Chicago Tribune. The result is the conclusion that violations of its provisions are general and systematic. The evidence to that effect might not be sufficient to convict any railroad official in the courts, but, as it comprises the belief of business men, shippers and railroad officials that drawbacks are paid and that favored shippers control the traffic, it must have considerable effect in forming public opinion. That opinion is summarized by the Tribune to the effect that rebates are paid by every Western road and that the Inter-State act in this respect is a com plete failure. ThatHneans its enforcement is a failure. The provisions of the act are specific enough against exactly these abuses, and the penalties if enforced would stop them. But, as The Dispatch has said for some time, thes.e salutary provisions are becom ing dead letters simply because they are not enforced. The power that overrode and nullified the common law provisions against preferential rates before the Inter State Commerce law was passed is by this showing demonstrating its ability to do the same with the statute. In view of the fact that any law will be a failure if not enforced, it is well to maintain the distinc tion between the failure that results from non-enforcement and the failure that is inherent in the provisions of the act A singular example of the workings of the human mind is afforded by the argu ment in corporate circles that, because of this showing, pooling must be permitted. The ability of corporate logic to jump to the conclusion it wishes to reach, regard less of premises, is afforded by the fact that one of the provisions of the act which has been notoriously violated is the section against pooling. These rebates in viola tion of the act have been cotemporary with the traffic pools organized in violation of the same statute. The fact that favorit ism in rates always has and always will accompany pools and combinations is a minor consideration to which the advocates of pooling always rise superior. The showing is a serious one both as in dicating the disposition of great corporate powers to ignore and nullify law, and as showing the perpetuation of the gravest evils in transportation. If this process of It is calculated to make the Pittsburg mouth water to real In a Philadelphia paper an article on architectural railway stations, containing the assertion concern in the Broad street depot of the Pennsyl vania Railroad, that "the beautiful building facing the City Hall Square has impressed, upon the neighborhood an architectural character that is likely to develop into In creasing importance." Pittsburg will hope that the architectural development may yet spread to the wostern end of the Pennsyl vania Railroad and give Pittsburg a build ing that will impress on the neighborhood an architectural character differing from tho brick barn through which tbepa3senger traffic of that line now passes. It seems that another auroral display was visible on Saturday, night in sections 'where the sky was clear. Up to date, however, no post facto prophet has appeared to claim credit lor the show, or to trighten the world with the hint of untold evils to follow in its wake. , Hill will undoubtedly use his Senatorial salary to help defray the expenses of bis Southern trip. But such is politics. The assertion of the London Standard that President Harrison is begging tho question in regard to the protection of the seals in Bering Sea, is a pleasant exhibition of Jingo logic Any more complete petitio principii than Lord Salisbury's declaration that there is no need of ohecking the poach ers would deserve to be given immortality in text-hooks on logic among the examples of false logic The testimony of the managers of the Anthracite1 Coal Combination is to the effect that they may be able to put up the prices of coal, .hut they would never think of doing such a thing that is beyond what they con-, sidor as reasonable. The winds of March did their best yester day to correct any misapprehensions about the back-bone of winter. Senator Kyle, of Dakota, proposes that in each of the postoflices of the Govern ment a room shall be set apart for a library of public documents. The proposition to be complete should include facilities for slumber. They need not be very sump tuous couches. Furnish anything that the students in these libraries can sit or re cline upon and the public documents will do the rest. There was a narrow escape last night from another cold wave which the signal service omitted to discover in its survey of the meteorological situation. This is a tough season for weather prophets of all kinds. Kev. Dr. Pakkhtjbst's vigorous attack on the Tammany Tiger will make the beast wince if not squeal. The charges oi cruel treatment at the Huntingdon Reformatory, published in the Philadelphia papers, are of a character to call for thorough investigation, which the State Board of Charities is promptly giving. If the charges are true, a severe example should be made. If they are false, the fact should bo made clear beyond dispute. The quiet of the ice crop liar in the vicinity with regard to a. shortage of ice next summer is an involuntary and silent tribute to the efficiency of the artificial ice plants. There are more mills in Pittsburg than there used to be, thanks to the extravagant Councils. The donation of 810,000 by Jay Gould to Presbyterian Church extension is thought by tho New York Press to be "not large enough to be worthy of any serious notice." But the fact , that Jay Gould gives it was thought by the recipients to be worthy of a large amount of acclamation. The prophets of a hard winter and the groundhog are equally left in the cold by the non-fulfilment of the forecasts on the subject of temperature. It was a cold day for the Law and Order triumvirate yesterday. It is intimated that Senator Hill classi fied the Hon. M. D. Harter, or Ohio, with the Hon. Honry Watterson, of Kentucky, as fel lows whose letter-writing proclivities are entirely too active. Messrs. Watterson and Harter need not expect anything from the Hill Cabinet. H0TES OP NOTABLE PEOPLE. JIrs. Russell Harrison left Washing, ton Saturday afternoon for Omaha, where her lather, Judge Saunders, is seriously ill. The Archduke Leopold, uncle of Em peror Francis Joseph, is suffering from con gestion of the lungs. Tho physicians pro nounce his condition serious. Mrs. Alice "W". Shaw, the whistler, is on the City of New York, from London to New York, and another distinguished pas senger who is on a tour oi pleasure is Count Andrew D'HespeL Judson C Clements, of Georgia, newly appointed Inter-State Commerce Commis sioner, is a Baptist minister, and clerk of the Georgia Baptist Association and its Sunday school convention. During his trip to the South Daniel Lamont has been emulating the custom of effete royalty in traveling incognito. While in Charleston he did not register at his hotel and tried to avoid recognition. N. C. Creede, who recently roamed the mountains of Colorado a poor and friendless prospector, is said to have been offered ,81,000.000 by D. H. Mofiatt for hts interest in the Amethyst mine. The offer was refused. The Hon. "William Walter Phelps, the United States Minister, who returned to Berlin yesterday from his trip to Egypt, looks to be enjoying splendid health. He says lie feels in good trim for work after his vacation. Colonel Dretel and Dr. A. W. Bid die are now InBerlhi. They are going to Russia to supervise the distribution of the flour and provisions sent from America on the steamer India, for the relief of the fam ine sufferers. Congressman Stone, of Kentucky, ones his life to his wlfe.who, when a young girl, found bim lying dangerously wounded after one of the battles of the rebellion, and taking bim to her father's house nursed him back to health. Me. Nelson Dingley is a typical Maine man, small, kindly, with a strong nasal accent, acute, honest, logical and very strongly prejudiced In favor of New England theories and protection. He regards a free thinker as on a par with a rum-drinker and as only a trifle better than a free-trader. HOT THE WABASH 8TTLX. Mrs. Harrison Insists In Shaking Bands In the Old Hoosler Fashion.- Washikotoit, March 131 "Come down, Tom," is the nickname by which- a 'certain well-known society man Is known and bailed by his friends. At the last White House re ception the young fellow presented himself before Mrs. Harrison, who bad known him from his boyhood. As an old friend, he extended his hand in groeting, bending his arm and allowing his hand to describe the downward motion now so affected-in fashionable lire. The story foes that Mrs. Harrison gave one quizzical ook at the band high above her in the air, and reaching up her own, said qutoklv: "Come down, Tom; we don't shake hands that way on the Wabash." All That Remains Is to Go at It. Detroit Free Press,) The young Kaiser has declared that be will pulverize Bussia. The Czar intimate' that Wilhelm cannot pat bis pulveriser In mo tion any too soon. There you artv All -that remains is to sign articles, fix time and plaoei and go at it. 1 -WEITTEH FOB THE DISrATCH. Mb. Jay Gould could hardly have raised more of a flurry with bis $10,000, if he bad spent that amount of money In the wild est kind of Wall, street speculation. He has set the parsons by the ears. He has stirred the temper of those great religious papers, the Now York Times and Post and Sun. And he has precipitated upon us a discussion in casuistry which promises an abundance of interesting and interested debate. Evidently the Church cannot well get along without money. There is neod of houses of worship, and of fuel and lights after they are Duilt, And neither the sex ton nor the minister can live and thrive on souls; especially, as the late Archbishop of York once said, when it is considered what very small souls some people have. The parson has to have a salary. It is not al together true to-day, as it was in Cotton Mather's time, that the two cheapest com. modities in this country are milk and minis ters. The Church needs money. It Is true that the Church started without a cent. It is true, also, that the Church bad her purest days and her, poorest days at the same time. The Churob can no longer echo St. Peter's confession, "Silver and gold have I none;" and It may be partly for that reason, as a Roman Cai dinal onoe remarked to the Holy Father, that the Church can no longer say, "Kise up and walk." True it is, that riches and ruin have again and again walked band in hand tiirough shameful pages of ec clesiastical history. True it is, that one of the complaints which the poor make to-day is that the Church is the rioh man's Snnday club;- that the religious organization Is subsidized by the men of capital. The Great Meed of the Time, And yet, it is hard to see how the Churob can well get along without somo money. One of the great needs that we have to-day is the need of a better distribution of wealth. The secret of gathering a great fortune has been wonderfully discovered. The philosopher's stone, which the medieval alchemists searched after, whioh wonld turn all that it touched to gold, has long ago been found, and the possessors of it havo their palaces in every city. Bnt tho world is out of balance. One man h as more money than he knows what to do with; an other man does not know where to find a dollar to feed his starving children. One man owns whole acres and miles of fields and forests; another man lives, with a hun dred others, in tho sixth story of an unclean and pestilential tenement. Things are most unevenly distributed. The great need of tho time, the "way out," which all the politi cal economists and all the socialists, all the workers and the dreamers, and all earnest and thoughtful citizens are looking for, is distribution. The wise man, tho philoso pher, of this day is not the man who knows how to make money, but the man who knows bow to spend it. Tho Great Duty or the Church. Now, the Church has other purposes in these days, and, indeed, has bad other pur poses from the very beginning, than to afford an opportunity tor prayer and to save men's souls. The Church is meant to be more than a spiritual colonization sooiety to enlist emi grants ror heaven. The Christian Church, from the beginning, has emphasized this duty of distribution. The very first move in the matter of ecclesiastical organization was made in the appointment of deacons: that is, of relief officers, dispensers of charity, distributors of the money of the rich to help the necessities of the poor. One of the great duties or the Church has al ways been this immensely responsible and important duty tho spending of other peo ple's money. The Church has not been very careful al ways to ask bow the money thus given her to spend was made. The great monasteries and cathedrals of the Middle Ages were not infrequently builded and endowed with treasures which men gave out of their ill spent gains, as an ingenious way of quietly deceiving God. It is astonishing how many people have distrusted the intelligence of God, and have persuaded themselves that they could Ho to'Him and He would never find it out. King John, that royal rascal, had himself buried in a monk's gown! that he might thus stand in the garments of holi ness before the judgment seat of God, and bo assigned a place among the saints. And many a man has had his name written among the benefactors of the Church that he might get a reputation for piety even up in heaven. I am afraid that the Church has not always addressed these purchasers of sanctity quite so sharply as Paul in the old time scolded Simon Magus. Gould's Money As Good As a Saint's. And yet, who knows the heart? Who knows how much goodness is mixed no with the badness even of the reprobate? Who knows how much real religion and genuine aspiration may have gone along even with such gifts as these. For my part, I believe that the Church did quite right to take that money and set it to some righteous service. There have been frequent endeavors mado to secure an absolutely pure and boly Church. Men have tried in many ways to build up such high walls about the Church, and to sprinkle such a profusion of broken glass along the top, that nobody could possibly get in, save through the veryihariow andclosely guarded door. The Church should be a small and select company of the blessed saints. But none of these endeavors havo succeeded. The sinners have always some how managed to get in. The Church, in deed, was never meant for perfect saints. The Master, who ought to have known what sort of church he-meant to found in the world, pictured it as a field where wheat and tares were growing side by side. And to the imagined question. Shall we root up the tares? he answered, No, let them both grow together till the Judgment. Shall we sort out the saints and sinners, and expel the sinner? No, let that be done by the only One who knows enough to do it, who sees deep enough and clear enough into theheait todoit rightly. Let Him do that. Shall we sort over the dimes and the dol lars in the Sunday offerings and throw some away and keep others? Here in Pittsburg, years ago, they used to take up the collec tions in some churches only after the sinners had gone out. When the communicants were by themselves and the common people had been dismissed, the alms basins were passed around to get the good money. Shall we do that? No. Let everybody give, and let God keep record in the credit books of heaven. That is beyond us. No man can tell what dollar counts and what dollar counts not, up above. Giving Abont as Good as Praying. It is sometimes forgotten that one of the benefactions of the Christian Chuich is to be found in the opportunity which is there afforded for men's giving. It does men good to give. It interests, teaches, attracts and helps. A man may be as much benefited in his soul by giving as he would be by praying. The gift may be the thresh old of the prayer. Only let the Church keep a clear con science. Let there be no bribe-taking under the cover of gift-giving. Let the voice pf the Church be strong against all iniquity, in the lives of the rich as well as in the lives of the poor, in Wall stieet as well as in Chatham street. Let it be made plain in the whole conduct of the Church that there has been no subsidizing, that the Church Is not for the classes and against the masses. Let the Church stand distinctly on the side of jus tioe, and against the spirit of avarice and covetousness; and be the avowed champion of those who have the hardest lot: ana fulfill the needed mission of evening up the in equalities of life; and be the great distrib utor and the wisest spender of the rich man's money. And then let Mr. Gould and the rest of them bring their tens of thou sands, and let the Church, the society of Jus tice and the friend of the wprkingman, put that money, as it ought to be able to, where It will do the most good. I bold that the Presbyterian ministers did right to take that famous contribution, and that Mr.'Jlalnsford and Pr, Parkhmst,in the goodness of their hearts and tho haste of their lips, have set forth a principle which cannot be applied, and ought not to be ap plied, in the Christian Church. They AH Want Pnap Conventions. Chicago Jntr-Ocn.J Tue'kodak is vary popular with the Demo crats this year. They all want snap ooaven- tions. No Season Why the Nation's Evil Should Bo Perpetuated. Aire of Steel. J , A considerable portion of the Ardorican public is at present engaged In the annual review of mud and idle horses. The ooun try highways are temporary bogs, In which wagon wheels and business share, a common funeral. The farmer stays at 'home and mends bis harness with crops wanting trans port and his coffee mill needing supplies, and the merchant at the other end of the pulpy turnpike prays for dry weather and a revival of trade. That this state or things is disastrous to all concerned is evident, and the fact that it could be avoided is equally certain. The condition of our highways, and the best methods 6t their improvement, are questions of serious and vital import. In this matter public interest until recently has been more concerned in rum boots than in practical remedies, and in the matter of improved roads we are confessedly at the tail end of progress. It is true we go through the annual county faroe of working the roads, with reluctant citizens who usually expend more profanity and tobacco than ef ficient work, in stopping washouts and fill ing up wheel ruts and ditches with turf and sticks. The results are in aoeord with the methods, and in a business sense are what mtjlit be expected in a mud blockade. The annual loss from this cause is simply enormous both in a local and national sense, and a little wise legislation on this ubiquit ous evil will ba of more direct and positive good to the Industrial development of the nation than many of the laws on whioh we are spending time, cash and eloquent non sense. Transport is a vital question, and is so recognized in our railroad and canal en terprises. We figure out the mileage of these agenoies with patriotic pride and bulging optics, and yet the aggregate of our highways, without which the rest would be useless, is by far the most stupendous. Soattered along these Innumerable miles of so-called highways are the great producing classes of the nation, who are the substan tial feeders of our home commerce, and who, in the present exigencies of prices and com. petition, are in urgent need of better roads! These would furnish facilities for business, transport and industrial development that are practically immeasurable, to say notn ing or the social conditions of comfort and Intercourse, more or less suspended in our once-a-year blockade. It is time these dis advantages should be removed, and public indifference be aroused to mend its morals and its roads. Information as to condition and management of other national high ways would likely be useful crosnel for onr turnpike sinners, and an incentivo to re pentance and reform. Methods of construc tion based on the experiences of centuries are obtainable, and there is no reason why the evil under which one-half of the nation periodically suffers should be perpetuated. TRANSMISSION OF FOWEB, The Rivalry Between Electricity and Com pressed Air Brought Up Again. New York Evening Sun.1 Chicago has ust passed an ordinance au thorizing a corporation to lay pipes for transmitting compressed air for power. One of its street car lines has signed a contract for introducing compressed air as a motor. This brings up the rivalry between com pressed air and electricity. Buffalo is inter ested because she is expecting soon to be in receipt of electric power from NiagaraFalls. Now, the total cost of fuel in electric railway work is only abput 20 per cent of the total operating expenses. In electric lighting it does not exceed from 15 to 20 per cent. Wages and maintenance of plant, including allowance for deterioration, make up the rest. Transmission of power, by oompressed air appears to be a practloal proposition to a dis tance of 20 miles at least. At ten miles the practical efficiencies of different modes are given bv Carl Herlngln the Bcientlflo Amer ican as 43 per cent for compressed air, 26 per cent for hydraullo and 21 per cent for wire rope. The usual way of tianBmitttnir power is by transporting the ooal. The efficiency of the last In engineering terms in Philadel phia, which is not far from the coal regions, Is given by the same writer at only 50 per cent. It is manifest, without pursuing the subject into any technical details, that the rivalry between the different modes of transmitting power, including tho old one of transmitting the coal itself, is ope of nice calculation for each individual ease. As yet even all of the data for making it will often be found wanting. , MILLI0HAIEE PISE'S WIDOW. She Now Lives In a Cottage an an Income of Only 350 Per Month. New Yoke, March 13. The Grand Opera House is shortly to be sold at auction. This valuable piece of property was once owned in part by Mrs. Fisk, the widow of Jim FIsk, the millionalie who was shot down on the Grand Central stairway In 1872, and who is now living on $50 in a little cottage in South Boston. The property was bought by Jay Gould and Jim Fisk in 1853 for $700,000, and in 1872 Jay Gould and the widow of the mil llonaie Fist deeded the property to Peter H. Watson, President of the Erie Railroad Company. In 1681 the property passed into the liands'of Jay Gould at a consideration of $715,000. ' The widow Fisk lives with her brother, John D. D. Moore, in Boston, where be is employed in a hotel at a moderate salary. Mrs. Fisk's only income is $50 per month, rental from a building which was given to her soon after her marriage. She says that she made over her share in the Grand Opera House property to secure Immunity from liability in certain suits. A TRAFFIC IN BOGUS SCALPS. Montana Conrts Calling a Halt on Wide spread Bounty Frauds. Gbeat Falls, Momt., March 13. At the term of court which closed Friday at Ben ton, lour well-known citizens were sentenced to tho penitentiary for obtaining bounties on coyote and wolf scalps illegally, and others are suspected of complicity. This is said to be the beginning of a series of sen sational exposures unrivaled before in the State. John F. Murphy, once County Clerk of Chateau county, who, as Justice ot the peace, issnod the illegal bounty certificates, nas 13 indictments against him and will bo tried at the next term of court. Southern Iron for Pennsylvania. Readi"0. March 13. Since the lowering of prices in the iron market the largo consign ments of Southern pig iion by rail lor points in the Lebanon and Schuylkill valleys have beenasubject of remaik. The iron comes via Hagerston n and Shlppensburg, and is being shipped to a number of points in this sec tion. DEATHS HERE AND ESLEWHEEE. Colonel T, T. Wortb, Journalist. Colonel T. T. Worth, for many years ed itor and put proprietor of the Lebanon Courier, died at bis residence in Lebanon, Pa., yesterday. Colonel Worth was a native of Chester county, and went to Lebanon early In life, where he hat vr since lived. He was wldelv known as a forci ble and graceful writer and the able editor of a weekly paper that in his hands soon attained a liauun. .lie was in. exerted a strong : He was a stanch and lire-long influence in local and Sstate politics, but steadfastly refused all political honors. His age was 68 years. Alexander McCoinas, Baltimore. Alexander McComas, thg Baltimore gun smith, died Saturday, aged 70 years. On April 19, 1881, when the mob was in possession of Baltimore, Mr. McComas cut a hole into an adjoining store and hid all bis weapons in the stove pipes. When the mob tried to pain admission, Mr. McComas placed himself beside nl oowder magazine near the door, and, with a lighted match la his hand, warned the crowd that lie would blow up himself and them together. His store was not raided. Salmon Hunt, HassUlon. Salmon Hunt, President of the First National Bank, of MassIUon. -one of the oldest residents of that town, died at 9 o'clock Saturday night. lie was 79 years of age. Had been Identi fied with the banking Interests or the place for more than half a century, and was the recognized leader of the ' 'free thought" people In his section of Ohio. He leaves a son, James H. Hunt, who Is cashier of the Union National Bank. Ex-Judge Peter Sotton. Er-Judge Peter Sutton died yesterday morning at Indiana, Pa., of blood poisoning. He was married to a member of the well-known Meck llng family, of Eitunning: was prominent Qreenbacker, and some years ftgo that party' candidate for State Treasurer. Obituary Notes. Tux Grand Duke of Hesse died at 1:15 o'clock yesterday morning. Ksv. Bobibt W-iSjrBmMT, for 50 years rector of Trinity Episcopal Church In Albany, is dead, aged 7$ yean. MBS, H. E. 8LOAX, wife of the ex-State Senator, died yesterday from heart disease at her hemejn Indiana, Pa. Jomr ttsxoT, a' well-known miner of Wilkes barre, dropped dead from heart disease yesterday. Be was 64 years old. Some Historical Slips. To the Editor or The Dispatch: I wish to call your attention to a little oversight of yours in the article in your paper of February 23, entitled "Good Story, but Poor History." You speak of the impos sibility of Stonewall Jackson fighting at Chickamauga "four months after he was killed at Chancellorsville." If you will write to Dr. Stanley MoGnire, of Richmond, Ya, who attended Jackson at his death, you may learn the fact that Stonewall was not killed in battle at all, but died of pneumonia some days I think one week after the bat tle at Chancellorsville. He lost an arm there, which gave rise to the erroneous story of his death. It has long been thought by ua in the North that the great Jackson was actually killed, as you mention; but the faotsare well known to be otherwise. This is not a disputed question of history at all, but simply a wrong account, become current through the early "newspaper news," pub lished at the time of that disastrous event. President Plymptonis not much or a his torian, or ha would have known that Butler was not in New Orleans in command at that period, as you suggest. But the very story itself, about the reconstructed Confederate, wis old before Chickamauga was fought. A cotemporary of yours some time ago had another story of the great Stonewall at Chickamauga. It was attributed, I think, to some aotress at Pittsburg. Jackson was said to have Deen unhorsed in the fight at Chickamauga, and, while lying under his wounded charger, was rescued by a Federal officer or some such nonsense. I have observed a great number of errors of this kind about the Civil War and other historical matters in the papers. Thus, it has been gravely stated, that In the fight be tween the Merrimac and Monitor the former bad much advantage in her smaller depth. The fact was the Merrimac drew far morn water than her opponent, and was actually aground several times, to the bene fit of more than one ot aur ships. A short time ago one of the Smoky City papers called ex-President Cleveland to time on a statement by hira in a public speech, that General Andrew Jaekson at tacked the British army as soon as it landed on Louisiana soil. The paper asserted that Cleveland was wrong "that Jackson made no move, awaiting the British atuckbehind his cotton bales," etc. Now, Cleveland was exactly correct. Jackson surprised the British in their camp, and gave them a fear ful greeting as soon as they were lairly out of the protection of their beaw fleet. An armed ship dropped down the river to the British camp and opened fire with great effect. It was these daring attacks wnicb. uiwoua&eeii me invaaers bo mat Jackson had time to fortify. After their rough handling at the very outset, they dared not advance, until Sir Edward Packenham ar rived with the whole army. Speaking of that same Jacksqn reminds me that yonr Washington correspondent should learn that it was not Andrew Jackson who said, or maintained, that "to the victors belong the spoils." It was Silas Wright, a Senator from New York, who was (barring too much whisky) one of the most, formidable debaters in those days of great men. The history learned by our people eomes largely from newspapers and fiction, and great earn should be used to have our facts correct and correotly given. Yet, alas, how can the hurried correspondents take time to become historically accurate? D. C. LUTDSAV, DmrxisTosr, O., March 11- In Favor of Capital Punishment. To the Editor of Tho Dispatch: What shall we do with murderers? They are very numerous and constantly increas ing. From all over the land oomo dally ac counts of homicide, committed either In hot blood or In cpld and with varying degrees of atrocity, until the mind sickens and grows weary of the endless recital. For this cause and for that, or for no reason in particular, men, yes, and women, too, take the lives of their fellow creatures. The papers publish the details for the edification of such that delight in them. There are ariests though as often not a trial followed by a second, a third and even a fourth or more, with a final result of the guilty being punished with a severity totally inadequate to the crime, or escaping scot free to repeat the offense whenever inclination prompts. Why? Be cause hanging is played out, or very nearly, not only in Allegheny county, but every where. Were It not. did everv wnnlrt-hn (.murderer positively know that so sure as me ueeo, was uone, just as surely would his own Jife pay the forfeit, the crime of murder would become so rare as to cause wonder ment instead of, as now, to be taken almost as a matter of course. However, they do not, but do know that their chances for escaping the gallows ate more than 20 to ana act accordingly. Why is hanging played out ? Partly from the tendency ot the law to lean too mnch toward the side of the acensed, partly from Jurors unfitted for their positions, but more from a misplaced sympathy for the prisoner, which, when that rare event, an execution, Is in prospect, shows Itself in aggravated form by means of tears shed for and flowers and goodies sent to the poor, dear thing whom cruel, unfeeling law really proposed to hang. To this mawkish sentiment which, utterly disregarding the victim, weeps for and would paidon tho slayer is due more than anything else the deeds of blood that darken and disgrace our civilization. How can its effects be counteracted ? By putting men In the Jury box whose heads are not as soft as their hearts, and by sensible, right thinking people seeing to it that sympathy goes where it belongs and asserting that the best to do with murderers Is to hang them. Shabojt, March 1J. Jacob HEKHnraToir. A Model to Follow. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Now that the system of "apartment" ho ses seems likely to be adopted in Pitts burg, in the near future, I beg to call the at. tentlon of all concerned health officers, fire commissioners, landlords who will in vest their money, contractors who build, architects who plan, and possible future tenants to the urgent necessity of having such houses so built as to be, not in name only, but in fact, fireproof. The disastrous fires, often attended with loss of life, from the security felt in so-called fireproof buildings, which prove to be lire traps, from the rapidity with which they fall a prey to the flames, make it necessary for file waitlens to look closely at the plans of construction and materials used in the building of such house?. The system when well carried out finds great favor in almost all communities,, and justly so when the danger by fire is avoided. Permit me to call attention to the "Gladstone," an apartment house inPbiladelpbia only recently finished, as one built almost entirely of incombusti ble materials, wood being ustfd only In doors and door casincs and window casings, the shutters and sashes also, I tnlnk,,being of iron. The girders are iron, and the floors of cement and tile. Every precaution which science and care can devise for human safety seems to have been taken. Thediningrooms, kitchen, etc., are on the highest floor, thus adding another element of safety. The roof with high battlements anda floor of cement Is made Into a plaoo of evening enjoyment for inmates of the house. I commend it to the consideration of all concerned. Sewicslet, March 12. Earnest. Crippled Bailroaderfc. To the Editor of The Dispatch : In the third annual report on "Statistics of Hallways In the United States" for the year ending Jnne 30, 1890, it is stated that of the 29,Q31 people killed and injured on rail ways during that year, 32,390 were employes, and, as stated, the men engaged directly in handling the trains are in the majority of those injured by 58 per cent, or 12,988 for that year, about 8,000 alone being injured while coupling or uncoupling cars, which, of course, would be nearly all brakemen. Now, just here the question arises, what comes of these crippled railroaders ? What do the railway companies or their officials do for these poor unfortunates In the way of situations by which they can ears an honest living? Tueie are any amount of well educated men employed on the railways as brakemen, etc., who are well qualified to fill clerical positions. When snch men meet with accidents, rendering them unable to fill their usual -places on the trains, are thev provided with the best situations pos sible in preference to outside parties apply, lng for same ? Or, it not having an educa tion equal trfthat required, are they given any encouragement that if they so educate themselves thev will be given the best posi tion they can fill ? Will some of the officials of the numerous railways centering in the two cities state what kind of situations they offer their cripples, that they may be en abled to provide even the common neces saries of life for themselves and. those who may be dependent upon them. ? x AxLxaxssT, March 12. Carwje. The Law as It Is Enioroed. To the Editor of The Dispatch! y Having' occasion to spend a Sunday In-, in yon? qujot, law-abiding city I carefully purchased mr Snnday' sppplyof oomfortj In the shape of cigars, on Saturday evening.; While taking a morning walk X chanced to meet a friend from the Quaker City, whose countenance seemed to foretell the recent loss of a dear friend or relative, bnt upon in quiry I learned that he, being unfamiliar with the strict enforcement of the law, was unable to pnrohase any smoking material, and was in consequence feeling much out of humor. While discoursing npon the subject our attention was attracted by the noise of hammer and saw, and upon investigation found It was occasioned by workmen en gaged in the construction of a large office building near by, and who were going on with the work, seemingly without fear of molestation or hindrance and with no re gard for the feelings of the church-going people passing by. Would not such a matter as this afford a good subject for missionary work for the Law and Order Sooiety instead ot the war they are carrying on against Sunday news papers and newscarriers? CoifsiSTzacT. Pittsbobq, March 13. A Country Road Suggestion. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Having read in your paper the Interesting editorials on the road question, allow me to give a few additional suggestions on the same. Like yourself I will not make a pretense that my figures are exaot, but will give them only as an Illustration. I believe there is hardly anybody in this county who does not admit that it would be an excellent thing if all country roads were macadamized. Bnt the great query Is, where Is the money to come from? I suggest that the several counties issue bonds bearing 3 per cent interest and running about 30 years for snch purposes, these bonds to be in dorsed by the respective States, and then deposited with the United States Govern ment as collateral for dational enrrency notes, which the Government should issue. In this way the country would not only get good roads, but the volume of circulating money would be increased also. Both thee things are anxiously looked for by our agri cultural communities. I think there are about 2,000 counties in the United States. At an average of 50 miles of road per county this would give 100,000 miles of macadamized roads, and, at a cost of $10,000 per mile, the total cost would be $1,000,000,000. The respective counties. IVM.ld u f nn aire iva ,,,,.... .. , .,,.. ness of $500,100, for which they should get at least $100,01)0 national currency. The latter sum, being spent In the same county where it was created, would give the people better roads, employment to a large number ot people, and In consequence a home market for their products. If this system should prove satisfactory the bonds could be in creased gradually until the 800,000 miles or roadway which yon suggest should be built. As you assert the valuesof property would be donbled by good l oads, there could be no fear.that such bonds would not be ample collateral security for such currency. It would only be necessary to adopt a system by which fraud and corruption would be prevented. This would not be flat money or inflation, as there would be good, solid backing to eyery dollar so issued. Cocntbv Jake. Versailles township, March 12. BlfOEHOUS LOSSES IS WAS. Over Thirteen Billions of Dollars Spent and Millions of Men Killed. Toronto Mall. It appears, ncoorfllna to tlio ostlmatos ot French and German itatlsllolnni, there hnvo parlshadln tlio wava of tho last SO years 2,0)0,000 men, whilo there has baan expended to carry thorn on no loss than tho incon ceivable sum of 13,000,000,000. Of this amount Franco has paid nearly 43,000,000,0 JO as the cost of the war with Prussia, while her loss In men is placed at 133,009. 'Of theso 8U000 were killed on the Held of battle, S8.000 died or sleknoss, accidents or saiotdo, and 20.C00 in German prisons, while there died Irom other causes enough to bring the number up to the given aggregate. The tick and wounded amounted to 177,121, the lives of many thousands of whom were doubtless shortened by their illness or injuries. Ac cording to Dr. Both, a German authority, the Germans lost during the war 60,000 men killed or rendered invalid, and $600,000,000 in money, this being the exces3 of expen diture or of material losses over the $1,250, 000,000 paid by France by way of indemnity. Dr. Engel, another German statistician, gives the following as the approximate cost of the principal war3 of the last 30 years: Crimean war, $2,000,010,000; Italian war or 1839, $300,000,000; Prusso Danish war of 1961; $35,000,000; War of the Rebellion North,$5,100, 000,000, Sontb, $2,300,000,000; Prusso-Austrian war of 1S66, $330,000,000; Busso-Turkish war, $125,000,000; South African wars, $3,770,000; African war, $12,250 000; Servo-Bulgarian, $173,000,000. All these wars were murderous in the extreme. The Crimean war. in which few battles were fought, cost 750,000 lives, only 60,000 less than were killed or died of their wonnds. North and South, during the War of the Rebellion. The figures, it must be remembered, are German and might not agree precisely with the American esti mates. The Mexican and Chinese expedi tions cost $200,000,000 and 65,000 lives. There were 250,000 killed and mortally wounded during the Bussia-Turkev war and 15,000 each in the Italian war of 1859 and the war between Prussia and Austria. In the other wars the loss of life was relatively less, which did not make either the men or money easier to part with in the more limited aieas where they occurred. And this is but a part of the accounting, since it does not include the millions expended dur ing the last 20 years in maintaining the vast armaments of the European powers, the losses cansed by stoppage of commerce and msmutactures and the continual derange ment of industries by the abstraction from useful employment of so manv millions of persons neld iav a period of military service extending from three to five years. SQUABBLING OVEB IE0N LAHD3, Two Big Snlts Over Meaabl Tracts Now in the Courts. Duluth-, March 13. Litigation has already set in with the excitement on the Mesabi iron range, two important cases being insti tuted yesterday. Lawyer W. N. Draper sues to have a deed for iron land valued at $100, 000 and owned by James T. Hale, Alfred Meriitt and others, set aside, because in the transfer his contract for a one-third interest in case of winning a pending suit was over looked. B. F. Moore, of Minneapolis, sues John McKinley to set aside the deed to valuable iron lands which be had sold to McKinley tor $2 SO an acre, alleging fraud. McKinley claims it is blackmail. Hale, Merritt and McKinley are three of the biggest Mesabi iron land dealers. Funeral Expenses For a Live Corpse. YotnrasTQWH, March 13. Special. Daring services last Snnday at the Welsh Baptist Church, it was announced that Bev. Mr. Hopkins, of Comersburg, had died, and a collection was taken up to defray funeral expenses. A committee drove to his home next day to attend tho funeral and found the pastor living and convalescent. The collection will be given to the foreign mis sion fund. MONOPOLISTIC DIVERSION. The Standard Oil Trust listened to vox popuil, but wanted the opinion of the court in order to determine wbetner it had beard correctly. LoulsvUU Courier Journal. Perhaps the oil kings have money enough and have an idea that this Is a good time to quit. Tho man who knows when he has enongh manifests wisdom. Brooklyn Standard-Union. Wbateveo the trust may vote to do, we may be sure that there will be no actual break in the combination until the court of la3t resort has rendered such action Inevit able. Philadelphia Bulletin. Tax Standard Oil's change of front lain name only. It will contlnne to regulate the bulk or the petroleum trade and to have a controlling influence in several other lines of industry. Chicago News. What's this? The Standard Oil Company to disband voluntarily? Playing possum is ratber too ancient a diversion- among cor porations of that character to be successful now in humbugging the people. Chicago Times. The anti-trust decision of the Buckeye Supreme Court .ems to have Been wide reaching and significant. Whether it will break up nioriopSlJr is "another question. Monopolies arc Joerasrstockf, whose "sly. ness" 1 proverbial. Washington Star. It is a formal Uowjto the wlfl ftf the people as expressed on 'the,' statute noqks of the State of Ohio. It ii-.a, confession- of. gnilt 'to the oft-made charge' that the combination was one of those highly objectionable thing called "a trust," and concedes thW-right of uue people to ueuiacw x uwasu-umaago Tribune. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. A ton of coal yield nearly 10,000 feet of gas. Ten men can be arranged to march in single file 3,623,000 ways. A lady doctor in Birmingham, Eng land, goes her medical rounds on a tricycle. Cork, if snnk 200 feet deep in the ocean, will not rise, on account of the pressure of the water. In Missouri common whisky is called in literary circles "the essence of the tas seled field." The mean annual temperature of the earth is 50 Fahrenheit; the average rainfall is 38 inches. New Orleans, with an are of 227 square miles, covers more ground than any other city in the United States. The family bicycle has three saddles qne for the driver and one each, fore and aft, for his little passengers. The oldest spoon in the world belongs to George A. Warren, of Indianapolis. It la 229 years old, and was brought from Eng land. A minister in this State was, it is said, successfully a barber, a bartender anda variety theater actor before he became con verted. The microscope shows 4,000 muscles in the body of the common caterpillar, and that the eye of the dragon fly contains 28,000 pol ished lenses. When a Clarksville, Tenn., woman broke an egg the other day she found that It contained another egg inside about the aiso ox a sou oiras egg. Cardinal Gibbons has a letter from Bishop Beffl, of Carthage, Columbia, in which the Bishop promises to send a bell 778 years old for exhibition at the World's Fair. Fifteen thousand jack rabbits were re cently killed In one drive near Fresno, Cai., and it is estimated that more than 100,000 were killed in this manner throughout the State this winter. There is a horse in Chicago which is so strongly charged with electricity that when warm with exercise it will give a powerful shock to whoever touches it, and even yield enough of a spark to light gas. The Negritos, in Tuzpn (one of the Philippines), scarcely ever stop smoking cigars, of which it is the lighted end that they place in their mouths. The Hottentots even barter their wives for tobacco. A student of chirography says that Gen erals always write a thin, small, clear and methodical band. In the matter of curving, however, their strokes are hard and deep. Financiers, according to the same authority, snow a tendency to write back-handed. Hunters near Caledonia, Pa., are ex cited over a snow white deer seen several times recently in the mountains. It 13 said to be a large buck, with spreading antlers and as fleet as the wind. A party of hunters who saw the animal last fired at it but failed to hit it. A rancher of Hillboro, Ore., on the eve of his marriage, fell from the roof of a barn and broke an ankle. The guests had been invited and the minister engaged for his wedding, so the doctor put the foot and ankle in a plaster cast, and Casper was mar ried on schedule time. No animal is met with over so wide an area of tho earth's surface as man. The creature which most nearly approaches him in this respect Is undoubted the dog, which, in one form or another, is to be found every where except in the West Indies, Madagas car and the Oceanlo Islands. , Bats and mice are found almost every where on the earth's surface except in the central portions of the African and Aus tralian continents and in the cold regions of the extreme North and South. Bats, too, are widely distributed, and are, indeed, found everywhere in the tropical and tem perate portions of the world. The "Rhinoceros Beetle," is about 3 Inches long,und Is plentifully fonnd in many parts of the South. It is chiefly celebrated for its offensive smell, which has at times rendered Baleigh. N. C, and other towns al most uninhabitable, necessitating action by tne uejitn autnonties. xne animal lives in decaving logs and stumps, feeding upon rotten wood, A peculiar freak of nature on the farm of E. A. Crowe, of King's Park, L. I., attracts much attention. It Is a lamb that was born without a lower jaw. The little white fleeced animal seems to be perfectly healthy and romps about the lawns with as mnch celerity as the other quadrupeds on the farm. The lamb manages to take nourish ment notwithstanding the absence of the lowerjaw. Unlike the Romans of a later age the Egyptians did not confine the privilege of shaving to free citizens, bnt obliged their slaves to shave both face and head. Tho data is nrit exactly as authentic as one would like to h.ive, Dnt it is believed that the custom of shaving the beard was intro duced at Home in'the year 300 B. C Accord ing to Pliny, Scipio Africanus was the first Soman who shaved daily. In Paraguay it is chiefly the women who chew, and travelers have often de scriDed their emotions when, on entering a honse, a lady dressed in satin and adorned with precious stones, comes toward them, and, b6fore holding out her mouth to ba kissed, as is the usual custom or welcome, pulls the beloved tobacco quid from her oheekponcb. Some of the South American tribes actually eat the tobacco cut into small pieces. In Southern Europe the cantharides in sects are gathered by shaking them at night upon sheets from trees on which they have gone to roost in flocks. Then they are ex posed in sieves to the vapor of boiling vin egar, after which they are dried in the sun, and are ready for sale in the drug shops. The flesh of all "blister beetles' contain a peculiar chemical compound, called "can tharidin," which burns the skin. Gallapageous tortoises are vegetable feeders, browsing chiefly upon a succulent cactus. It is said that they are entirely deaf, so that even the report of a gun does not startle or alarm them. At intervals they make pilgrimages to the hilltops, where wuter is to be found, traveling by night only. Thns, in the course of centuries, they have worn regular roads from the sbpre up the mountain sides, by followin-r which the Spaniards flrt discovered the watering places. IDTL3 OF THE HOCK. "That odioas Marie Harley has landed Jack Smlthers at last." "Yes. JacK told me or his engagement last nliht." "When are they to be married?" "Oh. never. It's only a Lenten engagement. Jack thought he ought to do penance in some way.' Harper's Bazar. I'm glad it is Lent, f,or I'm tired of the ronfc Or parties, teas, luncheons and balls: And hubby was getting In love, without doubt. And I'm not ready yet ror Sioux Falls. Sew Tort Herald. "Yes," said yonng Rndgkins, who sat In calm disregard of the clock. "I may say that last a fixture in our office, now." "I know, Mr. Kudgkins," she answered nentljv "but this Isn't your oSce, you know." Lantinj Sties. Snooper Why are yon looking so sad, Doctor? Have yoo had the misfortune to lose a patient? Dr. Paresis Test unfortunately I have eoa pletely cured Mr. Scadds. He paid soprompUv too. Smith, Gray & Co.' Weekly. For fame I straggle not, Care for It not a cent: Fame does not boll the pot Nor pay the monthly rest In praise of soap I tune my lays: 3Iy muse brings praise to me: Let others sing for future praise. My terms are C, O. D. Sew Tork Prest. "Nellie, did I see Tom Brown's arm around your Waist last livening?" "I don't know, mamma; I didn't see It, and I'm sure Tom didn't." Puck. Ethel Do you believe those who say that . love Is a balm that cures all ills? George Mebby: butl ean't say that I take mnch stock In the aavertlsements of the patent coreaQj.' Aeie Tork Herald. It doesn't seem to strike the mind As an absurd position When people many growlers find Opposed to prohibition. Washington Star. Sirs. Grewgom Yo doan k'nfide in yo pore ole mammy no mo', Ludwlg. Her Son (who has been very lucky at policy) Doan' whad? Mrs. Orewsom Doan' k'nflde In ma. Why did yo' tell me befo' dat yo's 'went n mar'led into J Astah famblyf fudge. J, I 'i-jaaJ ilWIMli l'iHnHiiiJ'1'W'fll l mMs&s&mm .Vtii!VitiJ' i v J '4 - ;
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