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POSTAGE TREE IX THE ITflTED STATES. DAILY Dispatch. One Year. S S 00 Daha Dispatch. Per Quarter SCO JUili Dispatch, One Month 70 Daily Dispatch, lncludinc Sunday, lrear.. 10 CO DaIli rhspiTCii. ii.clndlngSundar,3m'ths. 150 Daily Dispatch, including Sunday, 1 rn'th. flO ftXI)A Dispatch, One Year 150 Weekly Dispatch. One Year 1 23 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 35 cents per week, or, including Sunday Edition, at 10 rents rer week. MONDAY, APKIL 11, 1S32 Parties Tvho have changed their residence will please leave nevr addrecs at the busi ness oflire, in order to Insure the unlntcr rnpted delivery of The Dispatch to their homes. NEEDLESS CONTKOYEHST. The old Stanton-Sherman fight is re opened by tlie answer, published else where, of George C. Gorham in reply to Senator Sherman's general terms of de fense for his brother's act in concluding the famous convention with General John ston. It does not seem that the contro versy will mal;e any material addition to the public knowledge of that historical event, and it is to bs regretted that the biographer of Secretary Stanton should have seen fit to perceive a challenge in Senator Sherman's remarks. The public memory, so far as it retains definite recollections on that subject, is al ready a just estimate. Everyone knows that General Sherman made an error in treating of the settlement of political ques tions in a purely military negotiation. Even' one knows that Stanton might have corrected that error with more considera tion for the man who had just marched through the Confederacy than was to be expected from his impetuous and imperative character. The errors of both which produced the personal differ ences were due to the characteristics which made their services what they were, and they should not be allowed to detract from the high place in the public memory to which both are entitled. We cannot see that the words of the Senator invited to speak in eulogy of his brother need be regarded as a challenge to reopen the old controversy. It was unfortunate that this affair should have alienated the two men who stood nest to Lincoln and Grant in their public services during tlie war. That misfortune should not be extended after their death. The nation can honor both Sherman and Stanton without perpetu ating the quarrel by making their memo ries antagonistic. P".TTION ASD CLT.Vr.HKD. The establishment of an entente cordiale between Governor Pattison and ex-Senator Wallace, accompanied as it has been by Mr. Wallace's declaration of Pattison's eligibility for the I'rcsidental nomination, creates a decided flutter among the politi cal opponents of the Governor. Aside Irom the bearing on the all-absorbing question whether Mr.IIarrityor Mr.Guffey shall represent Pennsylvania on the Dem ocratic National Committee, it has evoked intimations that this argues a betrayal of the Cleveland cause on the part of Gover nor Pattison. We are unable to find in the circum stances of the case any foundation for the idea that Governor Pattison is not acting fairly by Mr. Cleveland, supposing him to be in any way bound to the latter. It is a patent fact of the situation that Governor Pattison's status as a candidate is as the second choice of a large share of the Cleveland supporters, with the possi bility of attracting some support that Cleveland cannot get But while Gover nor Pattison cannot divert, and will not try to divert, the majority of the Pennsyl vania delegation from their initial support of Cleveland, there is nothing disloyal to the Cleveland cause in maintaining good terms with an opponent of Cleveland who declaies his preference for Pattison. The very purpose of a second choice in such a contest is that it will obtain support that the first choice would not secure; and if there were a prohibition on expressions as to Pattison's strength or that of any other possible successor to Cleveland's vote, there might as well be no second choice at all. At all events the course which will be taken is unmistakable. The bulk of the Pennsylvania delegation will suppoit Cleveland until it is clear that his nomina tion is impracticable. When that becomes manifest, the vote will go to Pattison. Further, if the point is reached of nomi nating our Governor, we agree with Senator Wallace that he will be a stronger candidate under the circumstances than Cleveland can be. TOE WEATHER BEKEAC'S BAD WEEK. It is a disagreeable duty to call attention to the mishaps of Secretary Kusk's bureau of weather predictions; but the conflict that has gone on for the past week more conflicting than the conflict between sci ence and revelation should not pass without mention. The sight of a good man struggling with adversity has hardly been more pitiful than the sight of the Agricultural Department's reorganized weather bureau struggling with the ad verse elements. Commencing last Sunday, after a' week in which predictions of "severe storms" had failed to materialize at this point, and "slightly warmer" weather had faintly foreshadowed the hottest opening of April on record, the Bureau returned to its storm prediction, locating the thunder storms in Western New York and ma terializing them here. Tuesday was to have given us cooler weather, but the thermometer crept up into the seventies, the "cooler" prediction finally coming to t4me on Wednesday. Thursday was pre dicted as "generally fair" and "slightly warmer by Thursday night" a prophecy wholly dishonored in the breach of it, Friday a "cooler" prediction hit the mark. Ths succoss was thrown away on Satur day morning by the prediction of "gen erallv fair preceded by showers" in West- em Pennsylvania;" and if Saturday was J a fair and showery day we can find whole communities who will vote for clouds and snows. This unfortunate record.was maintained by another predic tion of "generally fair" yesterday morn ing; and an injured public will have a sufficiently lively recollection of yester day's weather to recognize the inaccuracy of the adjective." . We must warn our Uncle Jerry that this will not do. A Republican Weather Bureau organized with a view to capture the agriculturist may not bo responsible for an" opening of April which varies in four days from untimely summer heat to equally misplaced winter cold; but when the destructive characteristics of a week's record comprise thunder storms and snow storms, summer perspiration and wintry blasts, a weather service which lays the foundation of future Prestdental booms must give better notice of such changes than the loose and liberal inaccuracy of predictions summarized above. Better have left the Weather Bureau to the aris tocratic cxclusivencss of the military signal service than to capture it for the Agricultural Department with such recoil ing results. A PROGRESSIVE CHURCHMAN. The eulogistic remarks of Archbishop Ireland on the acts and character of Popo Leo, given m a special letter published elsewhere, put the attitude of the head of the Church toward the prog ress of the world in a striking light The Archbishop can appropriately speak of the breadth and liberality of the Pontiff's policy, as he is especially tlie representative and advocate of the same liberality and progressiveness of the Eoinan Catholic Church in this country. It is hardly possible to dissent from the Archbishop's high estimate of the place which the present Pope takes in the history of the time. His power of perceiv ing the needs of the present and to cut loose of medieval tradition has been re markably displayed in his official deliver ances. The encyclicals to which Arch bishop Ireland refers will be enough to rank him in history as a Pontiff whose breadth of view, originality of thought, sincerity of conviction and boldness of ex pression place him head and shoulders above any of his successors in modern times. It may be added that one of the most cogent evidences of Leo's friendship to republican government and breadth of policy will be the elevation of so liberal and progressive a prelate as Arch bishop Ireland to the rank of American Cardinal One point upon which the Archbishop's panegyric touches is worthy of a little additional notice. It is the reference to the fact that Leo has shaped his course re gardless of the fact that he is shorn of temporal power. It is worth a little specu lative inquiry whether the loss of temporal power has not been an aid to him in taking the wise and elevated view that he has done. It is to be doubted whether even so able a statesman as Leo could, if he had been busied with diplomatic intrigues and the statecraft necessary to maintain the government of the little State of Church, risen so entirely above politics and statecraft as he has done when freed from that burden, and enabled to look at society from the Impartial view of a churchman without temporafpower. It is to.be remembered that Pio Nono at the opening of his rule was as liberal and democratic as Leo has proved tj be; but the fear of crowned heads at the inroads of republicanism was too much for him who shared the position of ruling mon archs. At all events, it is clear that the present Pontiff has cast off the fetters of the mon archical traditions. Archbishop Ireland's eulogy, founded on that act, is fully justified by the fact THE EFFECT OF THE TKUST. A year ago centrifugal raw sugar cost delivered to the refiners 3 cents, while the wholesale price of refined sugar was iy cents. This gave the refiners a profit of a little over 2 per barrel, which was the margin fixed by the competition of three large refineries in Philadelphia outside of the Sugar Trust Last week after the Trust had absorbed the Philadelphia refineries the price of tlie same grade of raw sugar was 1 cents and the price of the same grade of refined i. cents. The difference between the two has been increased c and the profit to the "Trust is 3 20 per barrel. The removal of competition from the buy ing of refined has taken 80 cents from the seller of raw sugar, and the removal of competition from the sale of refined sugars has taken 40 cents from the con sumer. At the same time the Sugar Trust people will assure the next Legislative committee which investigates the subject that their combination does not try to in crease the cost of sugar or take undue advantage of the producers. HONOR IN" HIS OWN COUNTRY. It was to be expected that the Congres sional committee investigating the ex penditures of the -World's Fair manage ment should find subjects of criticism; but it gives us a pain at the heart to hear that they have selected Major M. P. Handy's bureau of publication and publicity as the object of their animadversions. In this disposition we fear the Congressmen will convict themselves of inability to properly appreciate a great capacity. Whether the objection is to Major Handy's expensive style of publicity or the large amount of it which has been secured by his endeavors, it exhibits an equal failure to recognize that in his European tour the Major rose to the occasion and success fully conquered an iteration of public dinners that would have made Chauncey M. Depew a physical wreck and reduced the Hon. Thomas P. Ochiltree to the last stages of dyspepsia. A product of our Republic who can in the public in terest outdinc and outdrink the statesmen of six capitals, one Government after another, is not to be lightly turned down by a Congressional committee. The exer cise of this gift is necessarily expensive; but if the visiting statesmen do not, upon full consideration, accord full credit to Major Handy's matchless digestion they will give a new foundation for the old al legation about the ingratitude of re publics. We do not think that the committee will deliberately fall into that error. There is but one Handy, and the World's Fair is the proper subject of his prophecy. DEFECTS IN THE BALLOT ACT. A communication from the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Ballot Reform Associa tion, published elsewhere, points out that the two imperfections in the Baker act illustrated by its operation at McKee's Rocks were among those engrafted on the bill by the State Senate just before the passage of the bill, and contrary to the wishes of the supporters of ballot reform. The fact that the'billwas mutilated in the Senate apparently for the double pur pose of embarrassing independent action and of making ballot reform, unpopular was fully noticed in these columns at the time it was done. It is 'significant that two of these defects -should be so plainly brought out at the first election held under the law. The act should be amended, as Mr. Binney suggests, so as to cure these and other defects in it Ballot reform should be given a fair trial and not killed by loading it down with injurious features. J Was the 2few York grand jury's refusal to indict air. Godkln for referring to Mr. O'Halloran's tavern as a "dive" intended to protect Mr. Dana for alluding to Mr. God kin's private residence in the same way? Those street car companies that made haste to remove their stores should be looked after by the Humane Society. Senator Hawley's assertion, with re gard to that appropriation for the celebra tion of the Grand Army at Washington, that "there are not many of the old soldiers left,'. seems to east a slur upon the accuracy of the pension lists. Does tho-Senator wish to he understood ns alleging that a large share of the hundreds of thousands in the latter category are not really old soldierst The experience meeting of the members of the Houfe on the subject of strong drink might ho very useful lr due care is taken that it does not include languago that is supposed to ho confined to barrooms. The Rhode Island Democrats probably realizo by this time that man proposes but Providence disposes. The war minister of the administration, the lion. S. B. Elkins, was in New Tort last week, and political gossip intimates that he won a short, sharp and decisive campaign by capturing the Piatt machine for Har rison. There is nothing like generalship at the head of the military establishment. A NAVAL coaling station in Uruguay will increase the utility of the United States navy in the South Atlantic if a stronger naval power docs not snap it up in case of actual hostilities. Teaks will doubtless soon be shed over the remains of the man who has shed his flan nels. When Commissioner Raum turns the in vestigation into the peculiar ways of Con gressmen on pension matters he carries the war into Africa.but he may likowise De stor ing up wrath against himself. Tlio Con giessrncn are apt to have the lastwoidin that controversy. At present rates critics may be found to object that the project of changing inaugu ration day to the 30th of April would be enough gain to warrant the trouble. The umbrella trnst should be immediately handled by the courts: The report that Mr. J. Coleman Drayton is engaged in "domestic and bucolic super intendence" in New Jersey indicates that Mr. Drayton has arrived at a prompter realization of his proper sphere than those would-be blood drinkers, Messrs. Borrowe and MUbauk. President Harrison hunts the snipe In calm confidence that the other fellows who are gunning for delegates will find that the season is past. Ttie Wallace act is not indorsed by Mr. Harrity now. "Spring," remarked the esteemed Phila delphia Times on Saturday, '-has been com ing slowly up this -nay, but yesterday she came with a bound." Which was Just in time to emphasize the bound with which winter landed in the lap of spring once more. Is all that fuss about Whitelaw Reid's return spontaneous, or is it the industrious cultivation of a possible Vice Prestdental Doom? The present Congress is a capital joke. The way in which the journalistic sup porters of the majority in the House are urging that Congress should adjourn as soon as possible conveys an intimation that the Democracy might have been better on if Congress had adjourned before it convened. A vote in the House of 192 to 60 for free wool is the latest example of the old proverb about "great cry and little free wool." The April snows will blight the rose. John R. Thayer, having obtained opin ions from all the courts within his reach that he is no longer Governor of Nebraska, can now retire to piivato life with the un disturbed conviction that that is where he belongs. IN THE HTGI1ER WALKS. Mrs. Potter Palmer, 'of Chicago, sailed on the steamship Umbria yesterday. Ex-President Hayes was one of the speakers at the dedication of the additions lately made to Wooster (Ohio) University. Ex-Senator Edsicnds has been the guest ofSonator Blackburn in Kentucky, and showed himself to bo a thorough horseman. Commodore Henry Bruce, of the United States navy, is 95 years of ago and supposed to be the oldest living naval officer in the world. Hans Christian Andersen has been honored in Chicago by having a schoolhonse named for him; and a bust of the story-teller was unveiled therein last week. Mr. Hiram Maxim, the American in ventor, is still busy at Crayford, England, in constructing his flying machine, or rather, his apparatus "for ascertaining how much power is actually required to perform flight with a screw-driven aeroplane." The committee having in charge the decoration at Spurgeon's grave have re fused all offers of funds toward erecting a monument in Norwood Cemetery. Mr. Spurgeon's wishes will be carried out, and the plain marble slab which marks the grave will hear the inscription, "C. H. Spurgeon Waiting." The late Mrs. Philip Haxall was, as Miss Mary Triplett, one of a galaxy of lovely girls who made Richmond noted for the beauty of its women. When she was a young schoolgirl, hardly in her teens, General Robert E. Leo was very fond of her, and she kept as a priceless treasure a le'tter he sent her at the time she was crowned queen of the May at a schoolgirls' festival. In this letter General Lee wrote: "You know you have long been enthroned in my heart." Ex-President Cleveland has not been initiated into the Sig Machi, but soon will he. The event has been widely dis cussed by college men. Ho will be a mem ber of t,he chapter at the University of Michigan. President James A. Garfield was a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity from Williams College, President Chester A. Arthur was a member of Thl Upsilon from Union College, and President Benlamin Harrison is an active member of the Phi Delta Theta. A FATED CLERICAL OFFICE. Dr. Webster's Successor at Baltimore Stricken Unconscious in Bed. Baltimore, April 10. Rev. James P.Wright was on Friday made presiding elder of the Baltimore district, Methodist Episcopal Church, i" place of Dr. J. J. G. Webster, who was killed by a fall from a ho lei window at Charleston, W. Va. Early this morninc he was found uncon scious in bed by his wife. He attended Dr. Webster's funeral yesterday, and was much affected during the evening when convers ing with his wile upon the sad end of his predecessor in the eldership. His condition is serious, but his recovery is expected. Harrison's Good Offices on the La l'lata. Buenos Athes, April 10. General Gar mendia, Chief of the Limit Commission, now in session to adjust the lino between the Missiones province and Brazil, had a confer ence to-day with the Brazilian representa tive, Baron Capenema It was airreed to sub mit the question to anarbitrator to be ap pointed by the President of the United States. THE MUNICIPAL RING. 1 WRITTEN TOB THE DISPATCH, In the ideal city government all power wi,ll bo given ro the Mayor. He will have an absolute and final veto upon all the pro posals of'his subordinates. He will be as autoaratic as tho German Emperor. It will bo necessary, however, in order that this, ideal may be properly carried out, to have for Mayor in oreiy etty no less a person than the Archangel GabrieL And as there are a great many cities, even in this country, and only one Archangel Gabriel whose name, unfortunately, is not Legioh and as the adequate government even of bne American city might well absorb the entire time and attention even of an Archangel, it is not likely that this ideal will ever be attained. Failing that, the next best form of city government is that in which all municipal affairs are in the hands of a ring. For what is n ring but a seleot company of energetio gentlemen who have mastered the 'intricate procedure of mnnloipal administration, and are deeply interested in ofljees and streets and sewers and assessments, and are willing to give themselves to the conduct or these matters without stint. Kings a Municipal Necessity. All good work in government is done by rings. That Is, you have got to have people who really take an interest. Ordi nary paid oflleials, who lock up there ofllces at 6 o'clock, .having washed their hands of the day's grime and of the dny.'s duties at the same time, and thereafter have no con cern t ith the affairs of the city till the next morning, will not do. And .legislation by democracies, that is. by count of uplifted hands, clean or unclean, or by miscellaneous crowdsjof shontersandhcad-punchcrs, 13 out of tho question. Tho only thing is a ring. It need not be called a ring. In Congress it is called a committee. The President calls his own particular ring a Cabinet. The name is of the smallest consequence. Transaction of public business demands tho putting of authority and responsibility into the hands of a limited number of interested people. And that is a ring. In the city government of the future, how ever, tho ring will not be suffered to be so modest and retiring as it is at piescnt. That is the heart of all reasonable objection to the ring that it is a secret society. It sits with closed doois, and never publishes any abstract of its minutes. Nor do we even know what names are on tho roll. This has got the ring a bad reputation. Secret societies are always objects of suspicio'n to those who are on the outsido. In most ca;e3 the suspicion is altogether undeserved. Nevertheless, snch is the Jealousy or human nature, that we will persist in asserting that those doors are locked for some malign pur pose A good while ago, it was believed that the Jews enticed small Christian children into their secret assemblies and there cruci fied them. The Jesuits, in their tnrn, were accused of all manner of diabolical inten tions. The Masons have had their share of unnecessary vituperation. But the King Must Be Reformed. Most of this unpleasant reputation has been the consequence of a retiring dis position. Nobody knew anything certainly, and, accordingly, everybody felt at liberty to Miy everything. Things in the dark have a bad look. The most Innocent fence post may be mistaken for a ghost. Thus, people have been found to affirm that the members of the ordinary municipal ring spend half their time in distributing the money of tho publio treasury among their several bottom less purses, and the other half in devising schemes for stealing more money from the patient population and in bribing council men to carry them out. But the ring has been maligned. I will not say that it has always in every city managed municipal affairs altogether with out reproach. For even the ring is human, anu hns its weaknesses like the rest of us. Neither will I say that every member of ovejy ring carries all tho Ten Command ments in his hat, nor oven in his heart. For some members of somo rings, like some mlnlstors of the gospel, have got into jail. Nevertheless, hero Is the ring. It is one of our "institutions." It is to be found in all our cities. It Is our municipal survival of the fittest. It might be a great deal worse than it is. In most cases it is not nearly so bad as the majority of us imagine. All that it needs is a little j udicious reformation. Elected Rings the Most Useful. The- ring ought not to be a secret society. Its members ought not to be so modest. It would he well if in the city direc tory, after the names of the ordinary officers, might follow in good bold letters the names of tho city ring. It would be better still, if we were permitted ourselves to elect the ring. It would leally be more in harmony with our lepubllcan institutions. That is what they do in the best governed cities of Great Britain. It is a mistake to think that these admirable municipalities are so much superior to ours because they have no ring. It is becausn thev have an elected and recognized ring. Glasgow and Birmingham and Manchester, cities which excel all others inhabited by English speak ing people, aio all governed by rings. In Glasgow, for example, there Is a ring of 50. These 60 gentlemen are elected by tho people. They come chiefly, we are told, from the rants of men of business, and are se lected without regard to any other con sideration ihan their ability to serve the city. Xobody cares whether these men aro of one way of thinking or of the other in re gard to either politics or icligion. Thoir opinions of Gladstone or of Salisbury, like their opinions of Shakespeare or of Bacon, are not asked. They are tested solely by their ability to do their duties. That is, the business of these cities is conducted strictly on business principles. For 10 years in Glasgow the work'of public construction of all kinds, of street pavlnz and sewer regulation, has been in charge of an architect and engineer of great eminence in his profession. An equally distinguished physician has the management of the health department. The City Attorney, who has held his office for many years, is a recog nized authority upon questions or municipal law. Kenults of Bins Buls Abroad. -They have a ring in Berlin of 126 members, as eminent in the city as the mem bers of the best kind of a Chamber of Com merce, merchants, scholars and statesmen. The result of this managing of affairs by this sort of elected ring Is that the very poorest inhabitant has his interests as well looked arter as tho poorest member of a club. All the men in a club get the same privileges of carernl service, so long as they pay their dues, without regard to their income. Everything is done that can be done to min ister to their comfort and convenience. So it is with the fortunate inhabitants of these ring-managed cities of the Old World. Their club dues nre their taxes. That notable election in London tho other day was simply the election of a ring; the name or it in this instance heing the "Lon don County Council." This ring consists of 137 members. It is a sign of the good senso of the people, and shows what voters will do when they aro choosing men solely for the purpose of getting good public servants that it can be said of this London ring that "amona- the whole 137 there is not one man who has oven been suspected of corruption or of breach of trust. A moro incorruptible body of men never assembled for the gov ernment or a great city." That is what is effected by removing tho misleading mask of secrecy and letting everybody know ex actly who is responsible for tho municipal administration. Too Much Municipal Apathy. And one of the most excellent results or this direct election or the ring by the peo ple Is the Interest that is stlrred'Up in the well-being or the city. American citizens are inclined to beapathctlo in regard to municipal elections. A great many good men stay away from tho polls altogether. They say that it mikes little difference who is elected, the unelected and secret ring will manage everything. Tliis is a great loss. It is a most unfortunate thing when the best citizens of a town take no part in local politics. It means a lack of pnblio spirit, which is hound to be a hindrance to the city's welfare. For there isomethlng that we want more than any number of material improvements, and that Is a wider and stronger and more enthusiastic municipal spirit. And one help toward that would bo a publio and official elcotivo recognition, in every city, of the ring, either as taking the place or the- ordi nary administrative bodies or as standing beside to direct their action. Then we would find out that the ring is not such an iniquit ous affair after all. We would be able to Judue it more justly. It might possibly do us better service than It does at present. And for all its service we would then bo able to give, as it deserves, Ub appropriate re ward of gratitude, and admiration. THE BALLOT LAW'S DEFECTS. Secretary Binney Agrees With Some Criti cisms Made in These Columns. To the Editor or The Dispatch! Tho following occurs in the article on the recent election nt McKee's Bocks, in your issue of the 6th Inst.: ' "Another feature of the system of across marked In the Fquaie to the right of the party name. Indicating n vote for all the candidates or that party, is that voters will And names In other columns that they wish to vote tor. and this will make tho ballot in valid. For that reason many ballots caf t will have to be thrown out. This system also gives rlso to many opportunities for disfranchising voters that conld not be found under the old law. The single mark system, coupled with tho party grouping, is one of the features unfor tunately engrafted upon the Baker law Just before its passage, and fully merits tlie above criticism (except that donblo mark ing would invalidate votes for the candi dates affected, not the whole ballot), as well as others. It is unfair to the local minority, as wll as to independent candidates, dis courages intelligent voting, and confuses the average citizen who wishes to vote in telligently. Tho wholesale distribution and uo of "specimen ballots" is ano thor objectionable feature of the law. Then ballots aro in tended to be posted up in and about tho voting room, but not to "save the occupa tion of the ward heelers." I trust that next year The Dispatch will use all its influence to have these and like defeets in tho law corrected, that Pennsyl vania may have a ballot law equal to tho best, and not one whioh is inferior to those of many other States. CnAntES C. Binsey. PHiLADEi,rniA1April 8. JONAH AKD 1HS WHALE. A Snllor, Spfnds Thirty-Six Hours in the. Biblical Predicament and Lives. Tlie Occident, February 24. "That whale story is what sticks me," re marked a man who desired to unite with the church and was being examinad as to his faith in the truth of the Scriptures. "I take everything else whole," he said, "but I can't quite believe that Jonah ever got out of that whale alive." Only tho other day we noticed in tho Chilean Time of Valparaiso tho heading: "Another Jonah." The article was from the Industrial, published in Anta fogasta, Chile. Perhaps the story has found its way ere this into somo of our American Journals, but probably it has notcome under tho eyes of all our readeis, and as It is a short narrative, with names and dates that may be verified, we venture to record it. JuBtayearago this' month tho ship Star of tho East was off the Falkland Isles when a whale was sighted and a boat dispatched to capture it. The monster, after being wounded, managed to overturn tho boat. All the seamen were rescued except one, James Bartley, who was supposed to have been drowned. The whale was finally secured, its body was opened, and tho form of Bartley came to light. His flesh had not been lacerated, he was unconscious, but un mistakably alive after a sojourn of thirty six hours in that strange place. Throe weeks elapsed before he recovered tho full use of his reason, and then he stated that he remembered having been swallowed by tho whale, and oppressed, at first, by intense heat, and then by tho "awful silence." The captain or the ship, when interviewed, said that he had known of sevoral cases where the bodies of seamen had been taken from the inside of whales, but this was the ouly Instance that had come within his knowledge of a man having boen taken out alive. Now if the story of Jonah i3 "what sticks" any one, let him write to the captain of the Star or the East, in care or G. Hell man, editor of the Chilean Times, and get his story direct. EDUCATION AND BUSINESS LIFE. A Difference of Opinion as to Its Necessity In the Affairs or Trade. St. Louis Republic Mr. Andrew Carnegie argues that a man who studied until he was 20 In the attempt to educate himself "has not tho slightest chance entering business at 23 against the boy who swept the office or who began as shipping clerk at it;" and Henry Clews, tho banker, backs hlm up by saying: "Tho col logo man is not tho snecessful man in busi ness affairs. I do not employ them in my banking office. None need apply, for I think they have been spoiled for business life." This Is a vory strong argument for educa tion. If a man has all his mental faculties highly educated he can "walk all around" an uneducated man in getting other people's money away from them If ho likes. But the more highly educated he is the less he will like. He will be unwilling to bid as high for money, because ho will see other things worth more than money. And but for the education that enables men to see this Mr. Carnegie would be strung to a lamp post, and the money he has so rapidly accu mulated would he much more rapidly dis tributed. One of the chief benefits of good education is that it unfits men for getting other people's property without giving in return as much as or. more than they re ceive. EDUCATION AFIEB COLLEGE. A New Institution to Instruct Teachers of American Post-Graduates. Philadelphia, April 10. The American Society for the Extension of University Teaching has decided to. establish a univer sity extension seminary for the training or university extension lecturers and organ izers. Pror. Edmund J. James, P. P. D., of the Wharton School of Finance and Econ omy, University of Pennsylvania, has been elected director. Thi3 seminary will offer, for the first time in the history of American education, tho opportunity for college graduates to prepare themselves thoroughly for higher educa tional along administrative lines. It will become the center for post-graduate work In education, and put the university extension movement on a permanent basis. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Arthur W. Tufts, Boxbury. Arthur "Webster Tufts died suddenly yes terday morning at his home in Roxbury of conges tion of the lungs, followed br heart failure. He had served In the Governor's Council and In other political oElces, and was President of the Roxbury institution for Savings. He was a member of the House of Representatives In 1S79-S0-'S1 and of the Senate In lSS2-'83. In 1833 he became a member of Governor Ames' Council, and remained In the Councils of Governor lirackett (1890 aiid Governor Russell (IS31). Mr. Tufts was a director In various corporations, and was one of the corporate mem bers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was also a member of the Executive Committee or the Massachusetts Homo Missionary Society and President or the City Mis sionary Society of Boston. At one tlmo he was President or the Congregational Uiub of Boston. In 1884 he was a Presldcntal elector, and In 1388 a oelegate to the National RepubUcaa Convention in Chicago. General Charles TV. Field. . General Charles "Vy". Field died at his residence In Washington. Saturday night, of Brlght's disease. His death came very unex pectedly. He was bright all through the day, and smoked a cigar and conversed with his son after a 6 o'clock dinner. At 8 o'clock a change for the worse came, and several hours later he expired. General Field served In the Southern army, and after the war entered the arravof theKhedlte or Egjnt. He returned to Washington, and wa3 doorkeeper of the Forty-Fifth and Forty-Sixth Congresses.- During the administration of Presi dent Cleveland he was In charge of the Hot Springs (Ark.) Reservation, but resigned when the present administration came Into power. He then accepted the task of compiling the official records of the lata Rebellion, In which he was engaged at the time of his death. Dr. James Mitchelltree. Dr. James Mitchelltree dropped dead at his home t Edenburg, Lawrence county, yester day morning. Tlie deceased was the oldest prac ticing physician In that county. He was born in Mercer county 70 years ago. and began the prac tice of medicine when a) years or age, being a graduate of the Western Reserve Medical College. He leaves a wile and two sons. Heart disease was the cause of death. Obituary Notes. Ev-Judge Ambrose Ryder, of Carmel. a noted Jurist iu New York State, died suddenly Saturday. He was County Judge for 12 years, and was a banker at the time or his dejth. TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL I SPECIAL TELEOBA3I TO TnE DI3PATCII. New York, April 10. "Transatlan tic Travel" is tho subjoct or Matthew Marshall's article for to-morrow's Sun, whioh is as follows: Tho increasing value of transatlantic passenger business between this country nnd-Enrope Is shown by the announcement recently made that the Cunard Steamship Company has now in course of construction two new steamships which, iu slzo and speed, will surpass tho largest nnd swiftest of Its present fleet, and that the White Star Company, not to bo outdone by its great competitor, has also contracted for the building of two steamers whioh will be a little larger and, if possible, somewhat faster than the now Cnnardcrs. Each of those companies has already two vessels which .usually make their crossings in a week or less, and carry between 300 and 500 cabin pa3scn20rs each time. Tho Inman lino has two of the same character, the Hamburg-American lino fvo, and tho French Transatlantic Company two. In addition, there aro cngagod in the business the smaller craft belonging to tho lines Just mentioned. thoe of the North Gorman Llovd. and a considerable number owned by Belgian, Dutch and Swedif li companies. Alto-rother these vessels carry to Europe about 100,000 cabin passengers every year, of whom at least nine-tenths are Americans. At an average of $1 each this makes $0,000, 000 paid by our citizens nnnnally for trans portation outward, the return passages cost ing as much more. Money Not at All Wasted. I am not one of those who lament that this $18 000,000 a year, more or lea, thus col lected from Americans for transatlantic travel, besides tho sums paid for steerage passages and for freight out and home, goes into tho pockets of foreigners Instead of those of our own citizens. Largo as the ag gregate amount ii, it represents, when tho necessary expenses nnd losses aro deducted, a very small return upon tho capital In vested. The Cunaid Company, foroxamplo, has paid but a 3 per cent dividend from last year's o'iriiinis, aud the Whlro Star and In mau lines none at all. I am not positive about the other line?, but I am told that the shares of all of them aro not much above par, If, indeed, they aro not below it. Inas much ns Americans could not get what little profits the vessels earn without owning them, and inasmuch as they could not own them without diverting the money thev cost from moro profitable employments, I am quite willing to lot foreigners do the busi ness. Nor can I join with certain austero econ omists in deploring as entirely waited the expcndltutesmade by Americans in trans atlantic and European travel. To repeat wuat i iiaveaueaay oicen incidentally re marked on other occasions, ealth is desira ble solely as a means for procuring enjoy ment, nnd while I conpedo that to somo tho only enje ment it Is capable of affording is tho accumulation ot more wealth, the major ity havo a wider and much moio compre hensive view or its use. A man who toils for no other end than con tinually to add to his hoard is like a squirrel in a cage or a dog in a tread-mill. Ho keeps the machine going louud and round, and to that extent he Is useful, but he' himself never advances a stop. On the other band, the man who, when he has earned enough to justify his taking a vacation, goes abroad to bee new sights, enlarges his knowledge, ex pands his mind and increases his store of happiness. Mow a Boston Boy Traveled. I do not know when my admiration and esteem have been so much excited as they were by a Boston boy whose acquaint ance I once made traveling abroad. We were in Italy, and both, following about the Fame route, so that I was continually en countering him in cities, churches, picture galleries and places of that kind, but I did not see him in the same hotels nor in tho same lailway carriages. His conversation was so entertaining, and he showed so much knowledge of literature and art, that I finally proposed that we should travel together, but he excused himself by saying that he had only a limited amount of money nnd this required him to take a cheaper conveyance anu puc up atcneapennns man even my modest ideas demanded. Nor could I persuade him to let me pay the small ad ditional expense which companionship with me would entail. However, we saw a great deal of-one another, nnd on my return to America I made inquiries about him, the l-esnlt or which confirmed my estimate of his worth. I learned that ho was the eldest of a num ber of brothers and sisters, who, together with their mother, hart been, a rew years be fore, by the death of their father a mer chant with a small capital left dependent upon him for support. He was then about to enter Harvard College, and was well pre pared for it, Dut he gave up that purpose and devoted himself to continuing his father's business. He managed it so well that he ed ucated hU brothers and sisters, got them welt started in life, and, after all this was flnno and hlq mother nrovided for. hft net about saving up the little modicum needed for a trip to Europe, which had been his ambition Irom boyhood. One of the Very Best Investments. This was the money on which he was traveling when I met him. It was tho first ho had spent on himself since his father's death, and I could not but acknowledge that it was tho best investment which, at his age, he could make of it. He purobased with it a source or information, experience, and pleasant memories which brishteued his life and sweetened the toll to which his ne cessities compelled him in the future to do vote himself. Instead of postponing the enjoyment or his savings to his old age, ho took It in his youth, and got, nnnnally, in terest and compound interest out or it. My young rriend, I nui happy to believe, is only a specimen of a great and increasing number of onr fellow citizens. It would bo n mistake to infer that because the news papers chronicle the departures and arrivals by the transatlantic steamers or only tho richest and distinguished, that these consti tute the laiger portion of the Americans who go abroad. If they did, no such fleet of mammoth sicamers as that which I have mentioned would ever have been built. The profits of the transatlantic passenger businss, like those of all great industries, are derived not from a select few, but from a great multitude of modest and unknown customers. In exchange for the millions which they spend abroad, this unpretend ing multitude bring back, as my young Boston friend, not, indeed, goods which can he sold ilor money, but information, expe lienceaiidn stoieof pleasant recollection, which to them personally is or priceless value. What they spend upon their travels is certainly no more squandered than If it had boen devoted to the purchase of booss nnd photographs, and it yields them a far more vivid pleasure. Profitable in a Money-Making Way. Besides, I am not so sure but the increas ing familiarity of our people with the ways of the Old World, brought about by this in creasing tide of transatlantic travel, ia profitable from a mere money-making point of view. By introducing new enjoyments it creates new wants, and in supplying these wants new sources of wealth are opened, and thus the aggregate riches of the country are increased. Nobody disputes that acquaintance with the host productions of art obtained by travel in .Europe, iiiiih as it may De in some cases, tends to elevate tho average taste,and thus to compel an improvement in the ob jects of which beauty Is an essential cle ment or value. Tho effect or tho competi tion of the best foreign painters, sculptors and architects is not only to make those of onr own country to strive to produce better results, hut the competition extends to fur niture, decorations, jewelry, silverware and all sorts of ornaments. I can bear personal testimony to an im mense ImDrovement since my youth in tho matter of household fnrnlture. Tho days when black horsehair covered chairs and sofas, staring brusiels carpets and gaudy w all papers were fashionable has gone for ever. In their place we havo an immense variety or pretty articles, which enables people of verv moderate pecuniary means to furnish their homes in a style which was formerly unattainable by the most wealthy. One has only to compare the old silverware piously preserved in families as heirlooms with that offered by our modern silver smiths to recognize the advance in taste. An Increased Demand to Be Met. "With this Increase of beautiful merchant able objectshas come nn Increase of demand for them and a willingness to pay higher prices for tnem. This, in turn, has increased the quantity of them produced, and thus, as I havo said, the aggregate wealth of the nation has been augmented. Of course, it Is too much to claim that this improvement in the beauty of our homo surroundings is due exclusively to tho foreign travel of our citi zens, but that it is so in gri-at measure is, to my mind, yery clear. I only regret that the work lias not gone further than it has gone, and does not go ou faster. That Americans returning from their first trip to Europe usually find much here whioh provokes their dissatisfaction, I do not regard as unpatri otic, but rather as the symptom or a healthy discontent which leads to amelioration That much benefit Is yet to bo derived by use from the study of European civilization, not only in respect or the elegancies or lire, hut also of its essential comforts. I think I can demonstrate by faets, but what I have to say on this point I reserve for another time. ' u THE E0AD OF THE EUIUHB. A Schemn Thit Is So: Chimeric', but One ' That Will Materialize Later. Ohio Valley Manufacturer. J Tho scheme proposed by a contributor to The Pittsbcho Dispatch, whose article is elsewhere published, for the bsttorment of country roads is by no means a chimerical one. That there nre numerous difficulties to surmount before such a plan is realized is very true, but that they are Insurmountable we by no mcau3 believe. As ho siys tho greatest cause of wearing out a road is the cutting done by tho narrow waron tires used in this country, bat ho erra when no says that with iron tires but little attention wopld bo needed to be paid to tho hoofwnys. Tho observation of those who havo been on horso car lines whore no sultablo path had been made for the horses shows that encli feature demands attention. In cities where wagons, trucks, carriages ana nearly all wheelod vehicles drivo on tho street car rails tho greater case with which a heavy load can bo rolled along is well known. In n macadamized pike a much wider road bed is made than the needs would demand were wheeled vehicles kept In the same tracks, with freqnont nnd suitable passing places, and the raving In macadam effected by iron tracks would pay a very considerable portion of tho Increased expense of the Improvement. Whether this form proposed will bo tho road of tno future is of course a matter of conjecture, hut at t ha present timeltisy far the best plan in sfeht. Itsflrst trial must ho mado in the thickly settled portions of the country whore tho expense can best bo borne, and should it there prove all that is expected of it, its introduction would bo slow. Tho comparison with the telephone is not apt for the reason that that innovation drew its support from business men, to whom time Is money and who are willing to take hold of any reasonable invention whose time saving ana utility 1 susceptible of Fractlcal demonstration. The fanners are ir more conservative and hesitate long be lore letting the dollar go from their pockets even when thpre can bo no doubt that it3 expenditure will enhance the value of their property hy a good deal moro than the amount or thn outlay. For these reasons makers of steel suitablo for such work can-, not look for any demands from this quarter for a considerable period of time yet. AH A2TIFICUL WHALE, A Craft Launched In Detroit Which Float! Beneath the Water. Detboit, April 10. Tho nameless subma rine boat that has been building here the past winter, was yesterday given a thor ough trial under water, and was proven to be a success in every particular. With a crow of three the boat startod from Its dock on thn Klver Eouge, Just below tno city, and nt first skimmed along tho surface toward the Detroit river. It was then submerged, going down gradually and under per.ect control of the pilot. Under water the boat was able to attain a speed of over 10 miles an hour, turn around, rise or sink with the greatest ease. The boat was submerged several times under difficult circumstances, and proved that the peculiarly constructed propellers were well adapted to theirpur pose. It was also proved that in sinking or rising the boat maintained a horizontal position, a matter of great importance in a submarine boat. Tho boat is equipped to run by steam power while on the surface, but underneath the water the motive forci comes from a Eowerfnl electric storage battery, tho cells eing charged by tho same engine that runs the boat on the surface. The trial to-day showed that a submarine boat Is not oulv possible but practicable. Tho advantage of such a craft for torpedo service in harbor defense will be readily suggested to naval engineers. The present boat was built only as an experiment. It is of the shape or a thick cigar, with pointed ends, being 40 feet long, H feet deep and 9 feet beam. Its in ventor is George C. Baker, of Chicago, who was formerly at tho head of the well-known Baker Wiro Company. DR. PARKHURSrS PASTORAL CALL. If Dr. Parkhurst saw what he i3 reported to have seen no wonaer slumming is popu lar. Chicago Mail. The latest returns show that Rev. Dr. Parkhurst went out slumming and came back slummed. Cleveland J'lain Dealer. Axthosv Comstock declares that Dr. Park hurst's methods were Improper. Isn't this enough to suggest the last sthtw? New York Evening World. WnEX Dr. Parkhurst faces his congrega tion to-morrow, If his cheeks do not crimson with shame, it will be because ho has the gall of an Oliver Curtis Perry. Syracuse Courier. Dr. Pakkhcest has created quite a com motion in New York, but his method for stirring up the fuss is not new. It is on tho princiDle of keeping your name before the public, whether poople say -good or bad about you. Toledo Commercial. The Eev. Dr. Parkhnrst seems to have ac complished the feat of giving the people or New Tork a more accurate understanding or the ways and manners or the half world than thes' could possibly have acquired out side of Zola's novels. Chicago Times. A qehtle thrill of Joy permeated Chicago when HioNew Tork grand jnry found Dr. Parkhurst's charges to be true, and the roosters have crowed rather lustily in the AVindy City newspapers. But an outsider could yery appropriately ask what the kettle's retort to the pot was. Louisiille Courier-Journal. Dr. Dajta and Dr. Parkhurst will probably not speak as they pass by. But If ever the vitriolic pen or that able editor was enlisted in a meritorious cause, it is in exposing the utter cruelty and terrible offenslvenes3 ot that scene described with little more than the bare testimony by some New York papers, omitted from a sense of shame by others. Rochester (N. Y.) Union Advertiser. DOH'X BLOW THEIE H0ENS ENOUGH. Postmaster McKean Think Local Manu facturers Too Modest. "Pittsburg people are too modest," re marked Postmaster McKean yesterday, referring to the proposition to boom the city. "They don't blow their horns enough," ho continued. "Listen to these Western fellows, a Chicago man, for example. He never lose3 sight of his city, and it is in his thoughts flrst, last and all the time. The Western people are great blowers and boomers. It pays, too, as the development of the country shows. Wny, if some of these Western cities had Pitts hurg's advantages and industries, they would make a howl that could be heard from Dan to Beersbeba. They would he puffed up with so much pride that it would be painful to live with them. I think our people should push their claims more than they do. Wo allow less deserving cities to ride over us." IMPALED ON A COW'S H0EHS. Peculiar Accident to the Wife of a New Jersey Farmer. Kevpout, N. J., April 10. Special. Mrs. Lizzie Loshen. aged il, wife of a woll-to-do farmer at Ceutrevillc, N. J., was impaled by a cow Friday night. She went out to givo the cow somo feed and the animal over turned the feed tub. Mrs. Loshen attempted to right the tub, when the cow, who was anxious to get at the feed, suddenly raised its head, and Mrs. Loshen was impaled on the cow'3 horns and screamed for help. When rescued it was found sho was dangerously woundod, hav ing received a 3-Inch wound in the stomach. A Victim or Ghost Playing. Wilkesbarre. April 10. Special Miss Mame Mumford, of Conncllton, has been in a trance fora week past, and physicians nre unable to afford relief. Sho is the victim of chost playing. Last Sunday night MIs Mumfoid was returning to her home, when three young mon, disguised as ghosts, con fronted her. She fainted from fright and had to be carried to her home. Hill's Uphill Work. Syracuse Courier. Five States have thus far elected delegates to Chicago. Those are New York (for Hill). North Dakota, Minnesota, Khodo Island and Massachusetts (ror Cloveland). Two more, Pennsylvania and Nebraska, follow next week, the 13th. Both aro likely to declare for Cleveland. An Immortal Financial Fame. New York Commercial-Advertiser. The nows that Walt Whitman left an cs t.fa nf 3 Km will naiise the crorj of uoets to .sprout and multiply even as -the blades of grass luter wie roireauiug buvudm v oy&u. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. In Haverhill, Mass., barbers will not sbavo non-union men. Chicago has a burglar who destroys, but does not carry any plunder away. A petrified ham of a large hog was re cently found in a ilcld on the poor farm, Salem county, Ind. It is said that a very satisfactory fila ment for nn incandescent lamp can bo mado from the root of the rice plant. From an ancient account book found at Eastport, 3Ie., It appears that In 1797 tobac co was sold by tho yard in that settlement. Blanche King, aged 15, was married in St. Lonls last week for tho second time, hav ing been married ami divorced in 1390, when she wasbnt 13ycars old. A New York colored man cleared him self of a charge of larceny by proving th at at the time of the alleged nffenso he Had his bat In one band and a cane In the other. The largest shipment of apples ever mado from tho United States left Portland, Me.. Inst week In tho steamship Labrador, which carried more than 13,009 barrels ot fine fruit to Lngland. A bright New York boy has set him self up iu the business of exorcising flno breo. dozs for rich men, whoo time Is too mncli taken np with money making to prop erly look after their canine property. .John Haines, of Danville, HI., was tronbled ror some time with a soro throat. He gradually grew worse until ho Anally loit his voice." Last Friday ho coughed up a brass pin, and soon afterward recovered his voice. Flatbolme, an island in the British Channel, Is only a mile aud a half In circum ference, but, consisting mostly of rich pasture land, supports a farmhouse, besides tue lighthouse, with a revolving light 1J6 lect above the sea. The Boston Herald is responsible for the statement that a new law phrase has como out of recent events at Albany, and that when a New York lawyer cannot find a docu ment which should be at hand, he savs it has been "Maynarded." The phrase is likely to stick. There are about 100,000 islands, largo nnd small, scattered over the oceans. ThU country alone has 5.SC0 around its coasts, there are 363 in the bay of Rio de Janeiro, 1G0G0 between " Madagascar and India, and somp 1,290 off the Eastern coast of Australia, between Its mainland and New Guinea. John Hopkins, of South Bend, oldest inhabitant of the northern part of Indiani, celebrated his 101th birthday recently. He vet does manual labor about his houe, and is as well preserved as tho average man of 70. Ho has three children living over 80 years of ago and 15 great-grandchildren. From an ancient account book found as Eastport, Mo., it appears that in 1797 tobacco was so'd by tho yard in that settlement. Tho limited purchasing power of a day's wages at that period is shown by the price of nails is 2d a pound. A day's ordinary wages would pay for about four pounds of nails. Gertha M. Prior, of Bristol, Me., 2 years old. knows the alphabet entire, what Stato, county and town she lives in, what the largest city In Maine Is, who is President of the United States, can tell her name and how old she is and can count to K, and spell nine words, four of which contain four let ters each. The smallest inhabited island in the world is that on which the Eddystone Light house stands. At low water it is 39 feet in diameter: at high water tho lighthouse, whose diameter at the base is 23J feet com pletely covers It. It is Inhabited by three persons. It lies nine miles off the Cornish coast and It miles southwest of Plymouth breakwater. Suspension bridges which were built in the time or the Han 'dynasty (202 B. C. to 220 A. D.) are still standing, striking examples of early Oriental engineering skill. These crossings, appropriately styled "flying bridges" by early Chinese writers, are high and dangerous-looking in the extreme. At the present day a bridge may still be seen in Shense which is 00 feetlong and is stretched over a chasm moie than 1,000 feet deep. Meg Dodge's injunction, "To roast a hare flrst catch your hare," which ha3 passed into a proverb, was not the fruit of her caustic wit, as seems generally supposed, but is a very necessary clause of her recipe for bare soup. Blood forms an essential part of Scotch hare soup. If tho animal i3 shot, the blood 13 wasted, but If caught In a snare, then it is saved for use. As hares cat only during the night, it is very easy to catch those most prolific destroyers of crops In this way. Prof. Heim, of Zurich University, has for some years past been investigating the subject of death by falling, says a London special, and has arrived at the surprising conclusion that it is probably tho most pleasant way of quitting life" Whenever this curiously inqnlsitivo professor Im3 heard of sombody having tumbled off a roof or fallen down a precipice and survived he promptly set off to interview the sufferer, or engaged some other learned man ou the spot to do so. Among the curiosities preserved by the Minnesota Historical Society is a litho graphed copy of an engrossment of the emancipation proclamation. The engrosser, one W. H. Pratt, of Davenport, Io., was so very skillful in his manipulations or the pen that he succeeded, by careful and exact shading of tho letters, In producing a very excellent portrait or Abraham Lincoln, the author or the lamous document. In the cen tre or the copy. In other words the letter ing itself is made to form a portrait of Mr. Lincoln. Long heads are usually associated with the possession of great Intellectual strength and mental capacity. Herr D. Amnion, however, who made examination of tho cranial capacity of3,C00 soldiers at Baden, the results of which ne communicated to tho German men of science at Heidelberg, Is of the opinion tbot tho size or the skull de pends almost invariably on the proportions of the body. Tall .men he found to always have long skulls, or skulls or medium length, whereas the short, fat men, as a rule, had round, flat heads. A petrified Indian cigar from Oregon was laid before the members present at the meeting of the Academy of Sciences at San Francisco last week. It had been lit and partly smoked and thrown away. The ashes remained intact. It was a perfect and vory remarkable specimen, and was considered hy the assembled scientists a gro-it flud. There were also two immense earrings weighing about three pounds apiece, and a petrified portion or the human body was also placed on exhibition. The specimens had Geen collected by a number of men who had traveled through the Indian, sections of Oregon. JSXCUSES TOR SMILES. Poets have very little ch3nco In these degenerate days. A good old-fashioned cook book Is the only thing that pays. Evening Sun. Larfcin (in the midst of a narration) And 12 long years rolled by before I saw hint again. lfenbrow (sarcastically) Then some years are lonzer than others, are they? Larkln They are. Leapyears are a day longer. Jwicre. "Who told you that Dowell had got re ligion?" "I didn't bear that he had, but I imagine so." "Why?" 'Because he Is going out of politics." ASw Vuri Press. I'm a farmer, don't yon know, I can plant and reap and mow, 1 can wield a lively boe In the corn and tater row; And I'll do It right away. Ready for the summer day When I'll sing my roundefa Ta-ra-ra boom-the-hay. ciiobus: Ta-ra-ra boom-thc-hay. telght times. Detroit Free Press. Palette How did Daube like having hit picture sKyea? Brush Didn't mind; said he jrlshed the original could be sVycd, too. Palette What was his picture? Brush Portrait of his mother-in-law. Sew Tort Herald. "There is one thing to be said in favor of fashionable mothers here," said an American society womau. "They are not cruel to their children." "No."" answered the crusty old gentleman; most or them don't see their children often enough to be." Washington Star. Chicago Man I understand that yoa have said that I was not honest la my business affairs f Boston Man A mistake, sir. I simply said yoa were not sufficiently scrupulous to Jeopardize suc cess. Chicago Man Then I have been misinformed. I beg your pardon, elr.2exas Siftings. . h .,,. rrmih -i&kM fctti'ntrtriSkWMrf &&fy$W&i&& eto2iSs $&&&&! AJesGLb
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