IP 4 THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH. SATURDAY. APRIL 16. '1892. "Kr JV 24-Page Marvel Hut Will contain nn array of most brilliant literary leaturcs. TAL.KS WITH PRESIDENTS, By T. C Crawford, giving new facts about famous interviews. MOOXSHIXK MYSTERIES, Illustrated trom photos of scenes or the Hochstetler murder. A I.ETTER FROM KIFMXG, Who furnishes refreshing stories of winter time in Vermont. A Xfff DETECTIVE STOUT, Written by the popular Conan Doyle, will begin with the issue. f CAttlIXE MiAJIMARIOX Gires in a poetic way some hint as to the extent of the sky. FRANCES HODCSOX BURNETT Talks to Frank G. Carpenter on novel and play writing. Literature, Science, Art. Reminiscence, Adventure, Travel. Philosophy, Fiction, Humor. Other features will be an articlo on the piofessional jurymen at the Court House; Easter sermon by Rev. George Hodges; piety and dyspepsia by Bessie Bramble; Itio de Janeiro by Fannie B. Ward; the Galician peasant by Edgar I Wakeman; tlio Polar story by Herbert D. 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According to reports a contracting bricklayer had two men working for him, and the relations between employer and employed were perfectly satisfactory. The men were union men, however, and an of ficer of the Exchange ordered their dis charge. This was followed up by the re fusal to furnish material and the con tractor was forced to obey. It is to be hoped this report of the case is inaccurate, although its statements are circuntantial and apparently on author ity. For if it be true the act amounts to an invasion of private rights as bad as anything ever attempted by the much-berated walking delegate, with the addition that the new form of dictation is backed by capital and is supposed to be governed bv intellicence. If the members of the Builders' Exchange are willing to place themselves on a level which re quires no more intelligent and care ful respect for law and individual right from them than from the working men they can be allowed that refuge. But even then the fact remains that they are setting up their own edict in exactly the style that has always earned the widest and most complete disapproval when at tempted by labor unions. These remarks are, of course, only ap plicable in case the reported attitude of that organization is the correct one. If it is not it behooves the Exchange to place itself right, for its reported attitude puts it in the light of an attack on the rights of property and labor alike. TI1E SPRING ROADS. This is the season when the unscientific and inefficient methods of maintaining the common roads of this country enforces its-elf on the attention of every,person who has to drive or walk beyond the limit of paved streets. The occasion is improved very effectively by Mr. Isaac B. Potter, who brings out two points that ought to be convincing to everyone who is not al ready convinced of the economic value of roart improvement The first is the fact that the nation is now spending each year by the present shiftless system twice the amount that would be required to repair the same length f high-class roads on the European plan. The second is that tho loss by enforced disuse of the roads in the country dis tricts, during the spring and fall when they arc impassable, amounts by a con servative estimate to $100,000,000 annually. This would build 20,000 miles of Telford or Macadam highway each year, and thus gradually remove the incubus. Or, put in another way, the annual loss capitalized at C per cent represents 52,000,000,000, which if expended in first-class roads would build 200,000 miles of them. If the United States Government's first-class credit were em ployed, the capital could be put -at 53,- 000,000,000, 1,000,000 miles of road could be built, the nation could save one-half 'its present expenditure for roads and enjoy the immense increase of facilities thus offered. These facts brought home to the com prehension of the public must have their effect in the end. When the agricultural element is brought to the point of under standing that they will gain by having good roads made instead of bad ones their demand will very soon produce the former whatever system of work may be adopted. THE DESIRE FOR LAND. Such a scene as that witnessed at the opening of tho Sisseton Reservation yes terday is a peculiarly American institu tion. The wild rush for the possession of cheap fertile lauds is a phenomenon due to several and varied impulses. Here are people, many of them unaccustomed and some of them unfitted for agricultural pursuits, eager to begin a pastoral ex istence, undaunted by the hardships which, others have suffered under similar circum stances in the past, and uudismayed by the alarmist statements of the croaking pessimist. What is the leading motive among these pioneers? In a few cases, doubtless, it is simply a desire to make money quickly by the chance of obtaining a good price for a claim secured by an early presence in the field. With others it is a dissatisfaction with former pursuits combined with a spirit for vagrant adventure which longs for novelty at any price. That the tillage of the soil in itself plays but a small part in the attraction is shown by the unsatis fied demand for farm labor in many regions. The mainspring of the move ment is therefore to be looked for else where, nor is it far to seek. It is found in two desires which often amount to pas sionsthe ardent longings to work for no master and to possess a portion of the earth's surface. These are wholesome de sires, for they lie at the root of most in dustrial effort. That opportunities for their gratification are infinitely more plentiful here than in any other country is matter for gladness. But there is a dark side to this picture of glowing enthusiasm. The disappear ance of our aborigines is slow but sure and inevitable. Civilization is gradually driv ing cut the Indian, and his decay cannot but give rise to vague regrets when it is remembered that he ranks high among savages and that he once enjoyed an un disturbed possession of the continent. These thoughts should be more prominent in public opinion than they are, for they inspire a sense of duty to the remnant of the Red Race which justice cannot evade. Our civilization is responsible for the In dian's demise, and no effort should be spared to make his lot as healthy and easy a one as possible while any representa tives of his race remain with us. AN ORGAN'S INDIGNATION. Our esteemed cotemporary the . Post uses strong language in denouncing the reports of TnE Dispatch from the Democratic convention at Biarrisburg as untruthful. Its very heated challenge of the statements of our correspondent is accompanied'by a qualification worthy of a full quotation here: But two incidents of a disorderly character took place in the convention, aside from the usual enthusiasm or noisy debate insepar able from an assemblage of 500 delegates surrounded by 2,000 spectators. One of these 'teas a heated controversy between five or six delegates from this county abont credentials, which only lasted a. tew min utes, and took place when nearly all the delegates and all the spectators had left the hall, only a few 'reporters remaining. In this case wo believe two blows were ex changed and one person was hit The other incident arose between a doorkeeper and spectator about admission to the hall on a questionable ticket, and did not occupy a minute Out of these trivial happenings The DisrATCH seeks to cover the entire con vention with shame and disgrace. "Any man," exclaims the indignant and innocent card sharper, "who says that I held four aces up my sleeve is a black hearted and perjured liar. It was only one ace." Since the esteemed Post indulges in sar casms about The Dispatch's "independ ence," and since also it is the rule of this newspaper to give political news without partiality or prejudice, it may be perti nent to refer to the corroboration of the disputed reports by journals whose Democracy is undisputed. The Harris burg Patriot and the Star-Independent of the same city are recognized organs of the Democracy, and in their columns will be found specific corroboration of the reports of The Dispatch touching disorder at the convention. If our indignant cotemporary continues to dispute this evidence of the extreme nature of the "usual enthusiasm" we sug gest that it shall reduce the organs of its own party to atoms before proceeding to pulverize the independent press. YARDSTICKS AND DOLLARS. Some remarks by General Brawley, of South Carolina, on the subject of "yard sticks," in connection with the silver question, received the approving notice of the Eastern press. The substance of them was that any kind of a dollar or yardstick is honest if it applies only to future contracts or measurements, but that any change in the dollar or yardstick forced upon people and applied to past contracts is dishonest to one party or the other. Supposing that the rule of com mon honesty is followed, and that the new dollar or yardstick is made applicable only to future bargains, so that both par ties have an equal and fair chance, the only question to be considered is as to the expediency of the change. This was exceedingly pertinent, and It pnt the whole question very concisely, with the exception of one phase. It might, with regard to the introduction of new dollars, or yardsticks, resolve the whole question into one of convenience of the coinage. But let us suppose that the nation had been using in common a yard stick which grew an average of possibly one-fourth inch a year for a term of years. There cannot be. a full and fair under standing of the subject until it is recog nized that the gold dollar as a measure of value has appreciated in some ratio since 1673. There may be a dispute as to the exact percentage of increase, but'whether ten or twenty per cent it is unquestionably shown by the general fall of prices. As pointed out ih General Brawley's re marks on yardsticks, this is just as much of a wrong as between debtors and creditors as if the yardstick had been shortened. The reason i3 the double action of the increased need of gold by the gen eral demonetization of silver, and the de creased production of gold at tho same time. The remedy is plainly to seek the reinstatement of silver on terms that will involve no wrong. The Bland Idea' of per petrating another wrong to balance, the old one is inadmissible; butitshould be under stood that the yardstick comparison has an application to the course of tho money metals in the two past decades as well as in the present one. The idea growing out of General Brawley's remarks of making tho money payable only for debts, contracted after the change would prevent the Injustice, if this country is prepared to adopt the single silver basis. But as it is not, the only method to secure the circulation of the two metals side by side is through international co-operation or the coinage of - a new and heavier silver dollar. NOT REFORMED THAT WAT. It is worth while"1 to note that New York's new street-cleaning act has become a law, and the metropolis, which has been expecting much from this enactment, will have a chance to, observe an interest ing political experiment. It is as foll6ws: Given a condition of politics and legis lation which .furnishes legal appropri ations, and officials, for street cleaning who do not do the work thoroughly, will a change in the legal organization and the titles of the officials cause the streets to be cleaned? There is an impression in New York that the revision of the legal enactment will cause the leopard to change his spots to the extent that Tam many will hire men to do the work instead of to vote at primaries. It may be discreet to await the result of the experiment; but it will not bo hazardous to predict that the spots of the leopard, or rather the stripes of the tiger, will adorn the new street-cleaning department 'as much as the old street cleaning bureau. MB. GODKIN'S MISTAKE. It is to be regretted on behalf of Editor Godkin, of the New York Evening Post, that he has to admit offering the police man who arrested him on that famous Sunday morning warrant five dollars to go away and leave him undisturbed until the time came for the hearing, ilr. Godkin earnestly protests in an editorial in the Post that he did not attempt to bribe the policeman. There was an interval of two hours,before the hearing, and the police man proposed to wait in the house until the time came. "It was to get him to 'go away' during these two hours and take Mr. Godkln's word for his appearance at 10:30 that the five dollars were offered." We fall to see that this explanation sue- ceeds in clearing Mr. Godkin's skirts. The construction by the policeman of his duty called upon him to do one thing, and Mr. Godkin offered him a pecuniary con sideration to do something else. It 'is quite possible that the official's view of his duty may have been vexatious and insin cere; but that does not at all affect .the point that the appeal to the pecuniary argument rested on exactly the same moral basis as any other offer of money to affect official action. We have no doubt that nine-tenths of the bribes ever offered are inspired by the conviction that the action which the money is in tended to purchase is entirely proper. But it will not do to make any moral difference between buying an official or legislator in order to have him do what tho purchaser thinks is right and paying him to do what is wrong. In his attacks on official and political corruption Mr. Godkin is entitled to sympathy from honest people. But It is to be taken as a remarkable indication of the spread of corrupt ideas that even the reformer considers it justifiable to resort to the venal methods of getting an official to do what he wants. In this case, also, it must be said that the representative of the corrupt system shows to more ad vantage than the reformer, as he refused to take the five dollars. Senatoe Gorman is said to have re marked that he never denied or affirmed the truth of any story abont himself in refer ence to politics. This suDreme independence of the people's'. main source of Information is a. wonderful rarity In an age of pnff and Interview. Of'course. it Is an extremely convenient practice for a man whose polit ical methods are not entirely reputable. But It is for that reason apt to suggest suspicion, and popular suspicion is apt to be as disas trous to personal ambition as actual guilt. On the whole, silent tactics on the part of a prominent politician are in the long ran likely to do his' cause more harm than good. Hill's defunct boom might be aptly de scribed as n ringing indorsement, as it was wrung from tho ring politicians of his State. The amount of laxity in granting "leave to print" in the .Record makes it remarkable that Congressmen do not use its pages for direct trade advertisements for considera tions received. The reason for the omission is probably to be found in the members' complete absorption in the pursuit of self advertising. HILL has been trying to become a mount ain. Thero is sufficient pique abont him now to merit the title of the no-matter-horn. Now that there is a movement to punish artificial limb manufacturers at Detroit for exhibiting their wares without clothing it is high time that tho practice of draping the lower extremities of all furniture in a be comingly modest manner should become universal. Jacksonian epilepsy should not be mistaken for a synonym of the national po litical disease known as "the spoils system. "NErrHSR party will sweep the coun try," says a cotemporary in speaking of the Presldental outlook. What is wanted is a sweeping of the parties by the country, but it would be a Partingtonian effort to remove accumulated dirt. The arrival of open street cars before spring has made known Its presence Is a very summary proceeding. The politicians who held ,a consultation with Cornelius Bliss strove to'koep the mat ter dark, and were evidently under the im pression that a blissful lsrnornnce on the part of tho pnblic was best for all con cerned. Of course the new double-decked summer cars will contain Just twice as much stand ing room as the old ones. These is an ingenuous acknowledgment of existing evil in the opinion that "woman is too good to vote." This frank expression comes with pecnliar appropriateness from a member ot tho New York Legislature. The sackcloth and ashes of Lent will be superseded by new sacques and sashes to morrow. ' Egan'S diplomatic tact in Chile would make excellent material for a Presldental boom. Bat unfortunately he is not an American born, so his energies will have to be devoted to a second term aspirant. ,Xo precautions taken to prevent a spread of smallpox can bo too great. Theee is a distinctly paradoxical .sound In a dispatch which describes a drink im ported from Yucatan as harmless and at the same time as closely i esembling gin. A public strike against the Match Trust would be highly nppropiiatc. When one hears of a hailstorm with stones two inches in diameter, which killed numerous hogs, it is surprising-tliat anyone survived to tell the tale. TnE weather is a bad egg this Easter. Opponents of Harrison in his second term .aspirations. -will no .doubt consider that drastlo open letter from Boston as a Card-well played. THE COMING CONVENTION. Features of the Republican Gathering at Harrlsbnrg Next Week A I-arge Num ber of Candidates for theVarious Places Cariosity as to the Administration Plank. ' IFIIOM A STAFF COmtESFOXDENT.I .Habbisbubo, April 15. While the Re publican State Convention, -which meets in Ilarrlsburg next week, does not promise to De as lively in some respects as itsDeinocrat io predecessor, several interesting and im portant matters aro to bo passed upon. Sen ator Quay will occupy his old quarters at .the Lochicl, and when tho button in his room is pressed a prompt response may be expected in the convention hall. A leading Republican member of the Legislature, who witnessed the riotous scenes of last Wednes day, said: '"There will be qnito a difference next week. Air. Harrity's maohlno is per haps, even more powerful than that of ilr. Quay, bat is not so well-ordered and does not run as smoothly, not having had the ad vantage of.long practice." "The exact language of the plank or planks In the platform relating to tho administra tion and the course to be adopted by the Pennsylvania delegation to Minneapolis will be awaited with Interest, as it Is ex pected, that the expression therein contained will indicate the Junior Senator's attitude toward Mr. Harrison and his second term aspirations. A number of delegates to the State Convention, elected before Blaine's letter of declination, were, Instructed to favor the Secretary of State, and some of tbose chosen since havo orders from their respective counties to shout for Harrison, but tho majority of the delegates aro not hampered by any such ties. Curiosity as to the Programme. The fact that the President's name bids fair to be about the only onepresentod to the National Convention, robs he delibera tions of tho Ilarrlsburg body on this point of the intense interest they might have assumed, but leaves considerable cariosity as to the exact programme whioh will be selected. A eulogy of Blaine is a certainty, and it is possible that the reference to Harri son will be so mild in comparison that the dlfferenco will be noticeable. It has been suggested that Senator Quay's envy might be excited by the easo with which Harrity put the unit rule through tho Democratic gathering, and that he might follow suit; but this is regarded as impossible for the reason that there is nothing to be gained by such a policy this year. If there were a fight for the Presldental nomination the case would be very ditterent. Another intimation that has been heard is to tho effect that Mr. Quay would ask an indorsement bv the State Convention of his campaign for re-election to the Senate; but this, too, is regnrded as moro than unlikely, as it would arouse additional opposition. Some sort of a resolution or commendation may bo expected, however. As this is tho first Republican gathering since the extra Senate session of last fall, a denunciation of thatproceeding as a partisan r.cheme on tho part of Governor Paulson and his advisers has been scheduled. The other features, of the platform will be on the usual lines. Two Important Nominations. One of the most important contests to come before the convention will be the naming of two candidates for Congressman at Large. These nominations should really go one to Philadelphia and the other to Alle gheny, as it was in these two counties that the growth of population was made which entitled the State to two additional members in tho House of Representatives under the new apportionment. But there is at present very little chance of either of the candidates being taken from tho two centers of population, as the plums are needed to harmonize differences and smooth over rough places in other sections of the State. The nomination is, of course, equiva lent to an election. One of the two places is generally con ceded to be reserved for Major Alexander McDowell, of Sharon, in Quay's Congres sional district. The story of McDowell's do feat in 1890, through the complications aris ing from the Beaver bribery scandal, Is still familiar. to all. His Independent Republican opponent in that struggle, T. W. Phillips, lias a walkovor for tho regular nomination this year, and tho district will undoubtedly bo redeemed from the grasp of the Democ racy. To Insure perfect peace, though, it is necessary .that McDowell should have a nlace. and ho' has been conducting a most vigorous campaign for Congressman at Large, and odds'arc offered on his snecess. For the other nomination there aroanunl bor of aspirants:' Granger 'Austin; L. Tag cart, of Montgomery county, thinks that he has a pretty sure tning, but his determined opposition to the re-election of Don Cam eron to tho Senate mny be remembered to his detrimenr. General William Lilly, of Carbon county, is a pronounced candidate. Senator J. B. Showalter, of Barnhardt Mills, has also been doing some hustling. One or or two Philadelphia names have been seri ously considered. There is a feeling that a new man may come to the front as the run ning mato of McDowell. . Any Number Who Are Willing. For the vancancy on the Supreme Bench the candidates are legion, and a great deal of uncertainty still exists as to tho outcome. Two well-known Allegheny county names, those of Judge William G. Hawkins, of the Orphans' Court, and Hon. Thomas Ewing, the Presiding Judge of the Common Pleas tribunal, have been mentioned, but it is un derstood that neither has attempted an active canvass for the honor. The Alle gheny delegation to the convention may be somewhat embarrassed by having two home candidates. Judge John Dean, of Blair county, has probably made the most vigorous canvass for4 the nomination, and will enter the convention with -a. large number of dele gates from the central and western portion of the State. Harry White, Indiana county's well-known son, has alo received many as surances of support. Judge Henderson, of Meudville. has the backing of a goodly sec tion of the northwest, and ex-State Chair man Andrews, who expects to once more enter public life as a member of the Legisla ture at the fall election. All of the candidates named above are from the western hair of the State, where, it is claimed, the nomination belongs this year by geographical right. But the eastern section is not without aspirants. Tho names most-prominently mentioned in that quarter are those or Judge W. F. Sadler, of Cumberland, Judge Archoold, of Lacka wanna, and Judge Clayton, of Delaware. Archbold, it is stated, claims some scatter ing suDport in -the west in addition to his eastern strength. With such a galaxy of candidates from all over tho State the strug gle, if not- Interfered with, promises to bo an interesting one and drawn out to some' length. Electors and Delegates at Large. There remain four electors and eight delegates at large to be disposed of, and nearly every prominent Republican in the State has an ambition to be onoof the latter The complete slate has riot yot been an nounced. -.Quaj'.wlio was a delegate at large lour years ago, will go from his Congres sional district this year. Two of the eight places will be claimed and probably secured by Philadelphia, and Allegheny county will make a similar plea. Senator Flinn lias been scheduled for a year past, and when Oliver retired from the Northside contest his name was promptly entered in the larger field. No candidates have yet come to the front for the four places as electors at large, and some of these niches will be used to console those whose aspirations in other directions have proved fruitless. The large number of rivals for the other positions will, insure a crowd at tho convention, as their retainers will be present in force. Chairman Watrcs will ruako- his headquarters at the Lochiel, where most of the candidates will also hold forth, though some have secured quarters at tho Commonwealth. Xo suggestions as to the temporary - ana permanent presiding officers or the gathering havo yet been heard. L.D. li. The Greatest News Sensation. South PlttsburgerJ. The news sensation or the week was The Dispatch's exclnsivo story about tho poison ing or Gamble Weir. It created klniost as much or a sensation on this side as Inst weok's Smth Pitttburger's exclusive sensation on the Cako bigamy case. A Tremendous Conflict Approaches. Chicago Tribune.l Fashion authorities predict that long legged boots will soon be the proper style High boots and creassd trousers will not consist. One or the other must go. We fore sen a tremendous conflict. Were in Great Luck. Evening Leader.l The ('osl ays that tjiq Democratic State Convention was not disorderly. '. TheOnly is right. Ever" delegate ul tue lot escaped with his life. CUBES FOB COHSuHTIION. The Government Not Tet Far Enough Ad vanced to Play the Doctor's Part. Philadelphia Inquirer. I Within certain limits Senator Galllnger's Ideas of a Government sanitarium for the cure of consumption might be carried out with good results. The publio has about made np its mind that there is nothing in the so-callod cures for this dread disease, and they are probably right In that conclu sion. It may be doubted whether there has ever been a really permanent cure o( a well developed case or this disease. Changes of air, diet and tho like have resulted in tem porary reller, the effects or which have sometimes lasted over an extended period but in most of these cases a return to origin al conditions has been followed by a re lapse, thus, effectually disposing of the theory of a cure. A permanent change of olimnte appears to be the only hope, and this is not infallible. The figures whicli Senator Gallinger hlm Solf cites clearly demonstrate the Impracti cal nature or much that be proposes. The deaths from this terrible cause amount to 25 Ser cent of the mortality throughout the ew England States, and only S per cent less in the Middle States. It must bo obvlons that the Government could not begin to handle all the persons so afflicted unless it proposed to go into the hospital business on a wholesale plan, and also intended to run a strong opposition to the doctors and trained nurses. Desirable as this might appear It would scarcely result In the establishment of a wise precedent. It may bo a part of the functions of government to care for the in digent and insane, but we are hardly . far enough advanced In Mr. Bellamy's direction to expect the authorities to usurp tho privi leges of doctors and nurses. There are too many other calls upon them as It is. FOBAKEB A3 A LOBBYIST. He Is Said to Be' Using; His Influence for Two Doubtful measures. New York World Speclal.1 Coi,uaiBus, O., April 15. Ex-Governor For akersatlna oommlttee room adjoining the Chamber of the House or Representatives, to-day, wreathed In tobacco smoke and sur rounded by politicians and lobbyists, and interviewed member after member of the Houbb who'were called one after another. It is charged that he Is working to secure the passage Of the Spencer street car bill, which gives the company a 99 year franchise on the streets of Ohio cities, and a bill to permit pool selling on race tracks. The Spencer bill, it is charged, passed the Senate by briber' and it is said that $500 a vote is offered to secure its passage by the House. The other bill is a bookmaker's measure. Ex-Governor Foraker has appeared sev eral times in tho House nnder similar cir cumstances this winter and it is a frequent remark that he has become a common lob byist without pretenso of concealmont. A Republican Senator said to-day: "Governor Foraker's strength before the canens in his canvas for the Senatorshlp has at least made his services in demand as an lnflnencer of votes with his following, but I hope he is not selling himself too cheap." With the ex Governor to-day were the rival political "bosses" of Cincinnati, George B. Cox, Re publican, and Lewis G. Bernard, Democrat. They seemed to bo working with Foraker. PUBLIC BUILDINGS FA70BED At a Number of PJnce, More Than Were at First Expected. WAsniiroToir, April 15. The House Com mittee on Public Buildings completely nega tived the supposition that, in pursuance of an economical policy, the construction of now buildings was to be very much re stricted, for it presented favorable reports upon 23 bills authorizing the construction of new buildings, as well as upon two bills allowing increases of tho original appropria tions. Among the bills were the loiiowing: At Anniston, Ala.; Hastings, Neb.; Laredo, Tox.; Joliet, III.: Spokane Fall", Wash.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Boise City, Idaho: Helena, Mont.; Masstllon.O.; Gallipotls, O.; Chey enne, Wyo.; Clinton, la. Also, Increasing the limit of cost of the building at Kansas City, Mo. Also, for the sale of the old Cus tom House at Louisville, Ky. All or the bills were placed upon the calendar. THE WAS IV WYOMING. The "rustlers" must have controlled the Wyoming Democratic Convention. Its del egates favor Hill. Indianapolis Sentinel. The reports from the "rustler" war region seem to lndicato '-that .the mythical Mr. Garza,' of Mexico, has found a few'iinitators. Ghicaao Timet. , Tap rustlers and the cattlemen of North "Wyoming have no use for the pacific' meth ods of modern diplomacy. They simply mount, unllmber their Winchesters and Shoot to kill Detroit Free Prat. .The Flfty-second Congress is full of re-' rormers" or various types and shades. The Wyoming war and the needs of the farmers offer an opportunity for them to exercise their specialty. Kansas City Star. United States troops have gone into the war between the ranchmen and rustlers of Wyoming, and havo apparently stopped the fighting. The rustlers will now have, a chance to prove that they are In the right, as they claim. Cincinnati Chronicle. The war in-Wyoming is the result or the concentration of cattle Interests in a few hands and the annihilation or small ranch men. In the wild and woolly West the smalt men protest against this sometimes violently. In the East plutocracy and Pink ertonism is too strong for- them and they usually submit. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Colonel William H. Ward. Colonel William H. Ward died in Nor folk, Va., Thursday morning. Colonel Ward entered the United Stales Nary as midshipman. At the breaking out of the war he resigned and entered the Confederate States Navy as Lieutenant and was afterward promoted. He was on the cruiser Tallahassee, aftcrwardtbe Olnstee, in com mand of which last named he was when she made her second celebrated dash up to &andy Hook. At the close of the war he accepted the rank of Colonel In the Egyptian army, where he remained till Its reorganization a few years ago. Under the Demo cratic administration lie was appointed Inspector of Hulls, which position hn held for some time after the Republican administration came In. An attaek of pneumonia about two years axo broke his strong constltutlODsince which time his health had been bad. A weeirago he was attacked with heart disease, from which he died. Mrs. Mary J. Bowman. The death of Mrs. Mary J. Bowman, President of the Ladles Aid Society of the Se wlckley M. E. Church, has caused much sincere sorrow in the Sewlckley Valley, as well as in Pitts burg and Allegheny, whero she was well known, The Ladles Aid Socletv has nassed some toneh. lug resolutions of respect to the memory of their deceased president, declaring that "in her removal the church has lost an accomplished representative, a zealous worker and a generous friend." Kit Booth, Actress. Bita Booth, said to have been the daugh ter of Wilkes Booth, the slayer of President Lin coln, and who for some years has been the wife of Al Henderson, the well-known orchestra leader, died Tuesday at Blnghamton, N. Y., where she was playing in the company of Floy Crowell. Rita Booth wore always a medallion locket containing the likeness of the Ill-fated Wilkes Booth. ' Obituary Notes. OArTAix Hiram Baker, an old lakecantain. .died at Chicago Thursday, aged G5. He was well known to an marine men. A. H. Bbixks. a railroad contractor and leading" politician of the Cumberland Valley, died at Me chamesburg yesterday at the age of 71 years. ' L. C. PAIKE Fbxzc, an old settler of Chicago, and a well-known attorney, died there early yes terday morning after a long Illness. He was 73 years of age. Ciiahles CiiaPjiax. daputy postmaster at WUkcsbarrc, died suddenly Thnrsday morning. He was 40 years old and had held his position for fire Tears. SjaxOR Oahavoclia, the once famous Italian opera singer, died recently in Loudon. He had latterly been In retirement and earned a living by teaching vocal music. ABRAHAM Zuo, the oldest citizen of Richland sta tion. Pa.', and one of the most prominent men In the I.ehauon Valley.dled suddenly Thursday night, ,nftel 85 years. He was la his usual health until last Tuesday. Ueoijue WH.KZS. .well kuown as "The King of Forgers." dtert Thursday nlht at Bcllevue Hos pital. NewYorli. froui-a fractured skull. He was juiuid tincntttcioiiK on the streets. It Is not known how he received his Injuries. cf.oiioe Will Johnston', editor or the paper Issued in New York by the Society for the Preven tion of Crucltr to Animals, died suddenly Thurs day at his home In Connecticut Farms, Union county, J . J. He was 53 years old. JosEriHXE.ZAxrnKTTA, a member of the noted family of that name, whose ability In pantomime was conspicuous, died InXewYork recently aged 41. Olio was n native or ijunaio. ana went on tne stage as an opera singer. About 1867 she married Alexander Zanfretu and thereafter she was in high tavor a the dumb girl in 'The Freiieh Spy." She was an exceptionally clever swordswoinan. -, OF NATIONAL IMPORT. The Postofflcs Appropriation Bill Com pletedA Great Cut-Down From That of the Last Congress Republicans In the House Rushing Tons of Tariff Docu ments Over to the Printer. Washington, April 15. The postoffice appropriation bill was completed to-day by the House Committee on Postofflces, nnd will be reported to the House in a few days. Its aggregate or appropriations is in the neighborhood of 180,000,000. Tho appropria tion for the current fiscal year was 177,907, 222, and the estimates were (30,323,400. The feature or tho bill or chief interest is that section relating to foreign mails,, lnoluded in which is what Is known as the subsidy appropriation. Tho committee, however, didn't endeavor to strike at the present law by withholding appropriations for its execntlon, as some persons thought might be the case. Whatever action will be taken by the committee with reference to subsidies will be taken in a general bill. For forolgn malls the committee appropriated $291,839, and in addition the unexpended bal ance in tho Treasury. The appropriation made for this purpose by the last Congress was $1,250,000. This amount wa not bused on cstln.ates of the Postmaster General, bnt was the amount Congress agreed its neces sary to carry out tho subsidy law. Fewer contracts, however, have been made than were estimated for by Congress, so it is found that over $400,000 of the appropriation is still in the Treasnry. This unexpected balance, with the amount appropriated, the committee thinks will bo sufficient. The committee included one item in the bill which the Postmaster General did not estimate for. and that whs $196,014 for spe cial railroad facilities. This Is to defray the expenso of what is known as the fast mail from New York and Boston to Tampa, Fla.. to connect with West Indian ships. The item has been in appropriation bills for 14 years, but tills year the Postmaster General omitted it from his estimates. The commit tee decided to provide tor the service, never theless. The amount of compensation to be allowed all land-grant and subsidized rail roads was fixed nt 50 per cent or the usual contract price. The last appropriation bill appropriated $10,000 for purchase of Confed erate records relating to postal affairs. The Postmaster General, however, declined to make the purchase, and this year the com mittee provides that whenever any two of the following Cabinet officers agree thnt the books are needed they shall be purchased: xne Atcorney uenerai. secretary oi me Treasury and the Postmaster General. Although the proceedings of the House to-day were without interest, and would not occupy more than two or three pages of the fiecord, the probabilities are that the Record to-morrow will be a voluminous one- Mr. Millikcn, of Maine, will publish the brochure on "Plymouth Rock to McKinley," which will use up about ten pages. Mr. Dolllvar, or Iowa, has filed for publication a series of articles trom the New lork 3H6tme. Mr. Smith, of Illinois, will print (ir he has time to collate them) a number or editorials and letters in the American Economist, and sev eral other members on the Republican side will, by printing extraneous matter, empha size and bring Into public prominence the action of the House yesterday, which de clared. In substance, that under leave to print membersmay makoofthe Congrettionat Record a medlnm of advertisement. Nd im portant business was transacted. After a conference with, the various parties interested In the great international naval review to be held In Hampton Roa'ds and New York harbor. In April, 1S93, Senator Daniel, of Virginia, will, on Monday, intro duce in the Senate an amendment to the naval appropriation bill appropriating $300, 000 for the expenses of the review and the entertainment of tho official guests of the nation who will accompany tho forlgn fleets. The President will, as directed by tho exist ing law, extend to foreign nations a formal invitation to participate in the review, as soon as Congress provides the necessary ap propriation. It is believed by the friends of the movement that many of the Presidents of the American Republics and tbe reigning sovereigns of several European nations will come with their fleets. It is particularly desired thatthe King and Queen of Italy and tnc yncen uegenc oi apain snail participate in the ceremonies. The Department of State has received further advices from. Victoria, B.C., as to tbe success of attending tho fleet of vessels now engaged in hunting seals on the Pacific. The steamer Mystery, which was engaged to take off the skins secured by the vessels now at sea has returned, and tho total catch to date received at Victoria is reported to be 4.550. This is regarded as a light catch, and is attributed In part to the bad weather, but mainly-to tbe fact that the seals are reported 'to be much less numerous than In lormer years. Fbeb delivery mail service has been ordered to be established on June 1, 1892, at at the following1 named towns: Huntington, W. Va., with four carriers; Joplln, Mo., four carriers; Huntington, Ind., four carriers; Parsons, Kan, three carriers: Canton. III., three carriers: Cnldwater, Mich., four car riers; Maysville, Ky., three carriers: Mount Pleasant, la., three carriers; Eureka, Cal., three carriers: Painesville, O., three car riers; Greeley, Col., two carriers. The House Committee on Commerce to day decided to report favorably the bill in troduced 'oy Representative O'Neill, ,0! Mis souri, providing that nothing in the Inter State commerce act shall prevent the issn 'ance of Joint interchangeable 5,000-mile tickets, with special privileges, the amount or free baggage that may be carried under snch mileage tickets not to exceed 250 pounds. The Patents Committee of the House has had under consideration lor some months an omnibus patent measure which proposes several changes in the existing laws, par ticularly with reference to the Issuance of patents to foreign inventors. Arguments before tbe committeo tended to show that while toreigners have to pay abont $700 to secure a patent at home, they can get the same here for $33. The committee proposes to mako them pay the same in tills country as is chargod American inventors abroad for patents, nnd has so constructed the bill, which will be unanimously reported next weelf The Attorney General has decided that there are no liens or Incumbrances upon the ship channel through Galveston Bay, sold to the Government by the Buffalo Bayou Ship Channel Company, and that a valid title rests in the Government. NOTES OF NOTABLES. The condition ot Sirs. Harrison is much improved. Mr J. B. Martiit, Mrs. Martin (Vic toria Woodhull), and Lady Cook (Tennie C. Claflln), sailed on .the steamship Travo on Wednesday for New York. A LETTER has been received from Repre sentative Springer, at Virginia Beach, stat ing that his condition continues to improve and he has gained 12 pounds since ho left Washington. Mrs. Jonx "W. Noble, of Pittsfield, Mass., has fallen heir to a large estate left by a bachelor uncle'in Oswego, Ji.Y. She by chance learned or an advertisement asking as to her whereabouts. Secretary Foster left "Washington yesterday aftornoon for Ohio, to go first to his home at Fostoria and then to Toledo to Attend tho annual- meeting of tho board of insane asylum trustees. Miss Jeanne Lawrence, the well known American cantatricc, a pupil or"M. Criticos, achieved a grand success on the oc casion of her recent debnt at Mice in the part of Gilda In "Rigoletto." THE Itev. Father John Slattery has withdrawn from the Joscphites and will form a new order to carry on tbe Catholic work among the colored people, under the direction of Cardinal Gibbons. The death of the widow of the tenor Gnrdoni recalls tho fact that she was a daughter or tbe famous Tambnrlni. Of all the fine stage artists or Tambnrinl's time not one is left but Mmc. Alboni. AMERlCANS.in Paris say that Mrs. Arm strong Chnnlcr (Amelie Rives) has left a trail or light behind her, and that tho men tion or her nWrae in American circles is suffi cient to awaken afnnd of charming reminis cence, i. MingJvlngs That Will Be Overcome. Boston Herald. Mr. Cleveland has frequent misgivings as to the wisdom of his nomination, but the chances now aro that they will be overcotno In June. THE BEBEFITS 07 PB0TECTI0H. Facts and Figures for Calamity. Sbrlekers to Closely Consult. Toledo Commercial. J Calamity shriekers and other prophets of evil bemoan the bard lot of the American citizens and predict dire disaster to tbe United States if the protective system is not abolished, yet the country is progressing rapidly on the highway to wealth and pros perity because of this same economic sys tem. When men boldly assert as has been dono recently in the halls of Congress, thnt America and the American people are in a mnch worse condition than they were Jnst after the war closed, they aro either woe fully Ignorant or wilful falsifiers. Facts and figures belle their words. The national debt in 1865 was $2,631,000000, but in 1890 it whs only $998,000,000, or a reduc tion or $1,683,000,000 in 25 years. Before the nineteenth century closes the debt will bo almost entirely discharged, provided our protective tariff and monetary systems re main nnchanzed. The per capita debt is only $28, and is much les than that or any other nation. In free silver France the per capita debt is $218; Great Britain $100; Italy $79: Gormanr $6:5. and in Russia $35. Between 1870 and 1890 the rate of taxation in tho United States under protection docrenedl0 per cent, while free trade England ha n tax rato of about 25 per cent greater. In 1865 the per capita debt of the United States was $75. nnd the reduction of nearly two-thirds or to $28 now has been due solely to tho Repub lican system of protection. Over $30,000,000 of United States gold was last vear exported to Europe, bnt the stream has deflected back, nnd the prospects from present indica tions are that it will bring with It $20,000,000 of foreign gold if not checked by unfnvor nble legislation in tbe Fiftv-second Congress. Peace and plenty prevail throughout the United States, while In many foreign conn tries there is destitution and famine., while the constant menace of war In European countries reqnlres the mobilization of great standing armies. MAGNETIZED BY A B0WLDEH. The Surprise That Met n Party or nunters In the Missouri Iron Region'. Inoirrox, Ma, April 15. A discovery which brings to mind tho marvelous adventures 5f Slnbad the Sailor was made in the moun tains about five miles from this city by a party of hunters. They had beenroamin? over tbe mountains for several hours and sat down to rest and eat lunch. They laid their guns down on a flat rock near a bowlder and had no sooner done so than they were surprised to see tho weapons slide toward a hnzo bowlder which stood a few feet away. The guns were drawn to the bowlder nnd there stuck with snch force that it was difficult to take them away from it. On investigation It was discovered that the bowlder was an immense magnet nnd with such -power that it attracted pieces of iron and steel from a distance of many feet. It was found that a knife would slide over that flat rock a distance of nine feet to tbo big stone nnd remain sticking so tight that J it was necessary to exert great iorce to sepa rate it from the rock. Among the queer experiments tried wns one which shows the force of magnetic in fluence. A piece or solt iron was held an equal distance from the groundand the stone at about four feet away, nnd instead of fall ing to the ground it would fly to the rock, sbowing tbat the magnetism was greater than the attraction of gravitation at that distance. LIEUTENANT GOBHINQE'S BB0THEB Suddenly Taken 111 In Chicago and Burled in the Potter's Field. Chicago, April 15. The brother or one of tho greatest engineers of tbe century lies in a grave in tbe potter's Held at tho Cook County Poor Farm. Several weeks ago County Agent Williamson sent to the insti tution at Dunning a man suffering from a severe case of dyptheria. Arriving there, he was taken in charso by Dr. Dodge, in spite of whose efforts he died three davs later. During the davs he lingerod he was too ill to sav anything about himself, and it was not until after his burial that it wns dis covered that his name was Hubert P. Gor ringe, and ths,t he was a brother to Lieu tenant Commander Gorringe. under whose charge the obelisk was removed from Egvpt to New York City. In Gorrlnge's pocket was fonnda United States Express Company money order envelope, which was dated a few weeks back, and which, had contained $500. It was directed to Hubert P. Gorringe. The unfortunate man is said to have been in the employ of tho World's Fair as a civil engineer at a salary of $100'per month. A HEW CASTLE SLEETWALKEE Frightens st Whole Ward by Trying to Break Into Citizens' Bouses. Hit Castle, April 15. Special. For some nights people living in the Fourth ward have been annoyed by some person trying to get Into their houses. Two or three nights ago Mrs. John W. Ashton was terri bly frightened over the actions of this man, and, calling her husband, was able to drive tho intruder away. About 3 o'clock this morning a man named Gibson found tho same intruder nt bis doors. He shook tbo front door and made a desperate effert to get into the house. Mr. Gibson was un armed, but managed to drive the man away. Several other citizens have made com plaints of the actions of the prowler, but this morning the mystery was solved by the discovery that be is a well-known citizen of the ward and a somnambulist. Arrange ments have been made whereby his visits will be limited. THE IHMIGBAHT EEC0BD BBOKErT. A Steamship Lands 2,493 Men, Women and Children in Baltimore. Baltimore, April 15. There came to Balti more, to-day the largest nnmber of Immi grants ever landed from one ship in any port of America. When the North German Lloyd steamer Oldenburg. Captain Gathemann, trom Bre men, wns made fast at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad pier, 2,493 men, women nnd children came over the gang pUnk Into their adopted country. Pennsylvania Birds for the Fair. HAnniSBCEO, April 15. fipecto'. Tho col lection of birds and animals on exhibition in the north corridor of the Capitol will be remounted by Dr. H. B. Waren, of West Chestor, State Ornithologist, for exhibition in tho Pennsylvania State building nt tho World's Fair. The birds will be mounted on branches of the trees which they most fre quent, and In a way to show as near as pos sible their natural, instinct. Changes at the State Capital. nAnnisnuBO, April 15. Special. Captain Peter D. Becker, a Jersey Shore lawyer, has been tendered by General Gregg the office or chler clerk in the Auditor General's or flco, and lias 'accepted. One or General Gregg's sons, at present money order clerk in the Reading postofllco, will come to Har risburg with his father a one of his con fldcntlal clerks. Captain Becker and Gen eral Gregg served together during the war. A Choir or Thirty Voices. At the seventh organ recitarand concert, to bo given in the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church, t on Tuesday next, tho Ringwalt choir of 30 voices, togotber witn Misse3 Agnes C. and Sarah C. Vogel, sopranos, and Mr. II. B. Brockett, Jr., tenor. There will be nine pieces from Zltterbart's Orchestra, and Mr. n. G. Archer will presldo at the orsrnn. Mendelssohn's Ninety-fifth Psalm will be sung. Minister Porter Keturnln; to Italy. iHDiAKAPOils, April 15. Minister Albert G. Porter this morning received a telegram from Secretary or State Biaino instrncting him to return to Rome. Minister Porter will leave tor Washington Saturday or Snn day. Ho' expressed much satisfaction at the settlement or differences between this Government and Italy. AN OLD LOVE STORY. The Night wears gems in her lone dark hair. Her breath is the Dream ox me vpm "'; The waves are a-tremble, a-tremble to bear The silvery steps oi the dance she goes. For 6he dances as one whose heart Is glad, To a winsome music swift and bright. Till the ripples langh and the winds g- ma In tne firing hair or the wanton Night. "Night loved me once." the white Day cries "Night with the stars that strew her hair: JJnt now, at my coining, she turns and flies; . I break my heart, and she will not care!" Yet Jnst when the snnset Uxnts the main. And he passes In golden death away. Shyly the Nlsht creeps back again To kiss the eyes of the dying Day. Harry rain, in London Illustrated Stwt, CDRI0US CONDENSATIONS. There are 20 representatives in Con gress who are under 36 years of age. A man was fined in 'Washington a daj or two ago for driving his horses too slow. The ant is said to have the biggest brain, according to size of its body, of anj creature. There were at the beginning of last veal 8.097 artesian wells in the Western State! and Territories. The sole personal effects of a man whe died in Auburn, Me., recently wero a Bible and a pack of cards. Ked river farmers aro complaining that tho sparrows eat the oats faster tban the said farmers can sow them. The New York Central Company is about to lay tbe first 100-pound rail evei rolled or nsed in the United States, and it will be laid on steel ties. Italian titles are not very expensive. That of Prince costs only $13,000: tbat oi Duke, $10,000: marquis, $3,000: Count, $5,000; Visconnt or Baron, $4,000. TVhen America is as densely peopled as Europe, this half or the world will have nearly 1.400,000 000 practically the same as tbat of the whole world at the present time. A Frenchman is reported to have de vised a suspended camera, by means oi which photographs may be taken from on board ot a ship, even when she is very lively in tte sea. The most populous continent is Asia, which contains two countries China and India whose swarming millions ontnnmber the people or all the other countries of tbe continent. In the fourteenth century, and still more rcnerally in tho fifteenth, open scats, or benches of wood, with carved ends, were fixed across the nave, but leaving a broad central passage. North Dakota has a fall community of Indian Sisters established under an Indian Mother Snperior, the first community of the kind ever established, tbongh there have been before this Indian Sisters in other con vents. The various colors of flame in a wood Arc is cansed by tbe combustion of the ele ments of tho fuel. The light blue Is from the hydrogen, the white from carbon, the violet from mnnsnnee, the red from mag nesia and the yellow from soda. A man who has access to six head of horses, they standing idle in a stable, walked two miles out in tho country on a little matter of business a day or two ngo.whilo another man who had no horses ami very little money hired a team to go tho samo distance. The new Bombay water works, which - havo been In course of construction seven years, cost 13,000.000 rupees (about $5,250,000). The wntor is drawn from Tansa Lake, an artificial body formed by a dam in tho val ley, and having a superficial area of eight or nine square miles. According to the Theosophists, we have still some 427,000 years left, however, before we arrive at the end of our present age. Tho Kail Yuga is known as the Black Age, tho ace of spiritual darkness, and during its ex istence the human race pays up for its mis deeds in the previous ones. By beating out between two pieces of -membrane,goId may be flattened into leaves of such thinness that 282,000 or them may bo laid one npon the other in order to make tho pile one inch high. Goldbeaters have suc ceeded in spreacUn-r a single ounce or gold over a sunace of 100 square feet. The nickel and bronze 1-cent pieces are a legal tender in sums ot 25 cents, nnd so are the bronze 2-cent pieces and the nickel 3 cent and 5-ccnc pieces. The llver 5-cent pieces are a legal tender for $5. and the 10 cent, 25-cent and 50-cent for $10, while in tbe standard dollars the legal tender quality is unlimited. It making a sleigh bell the jinglet of iron is placed inside a little ball of rand. Just the shape of the inside of the bell. Then a mold is made ot the outside of the bell. This mnd ball is placed in the mold and tho metal poured in. The hot metal dries tho dirt no thnt It can be shaken out after cast ing, leaving the jinglet within. Gamblers and actors are of all people most given to superstitions respecting luck, and it is not surprising to find that they ara greatly nddicted to amulets or varions kinds, carrying them on their watcbenards, in scarfplns and set in rings Xot tbe Angers. Miniature boars' tusks and the shells so .much affected by gipsies are hoth of very ancient Friapic origin. A while ago a hotel was built in the desert near tho pyramids. Several hundred acres of the desert land Were bought In 1SS4 by n wealthy Englishman, who was a suf ferer from consumption. He believed thnt tbe desert air would be a specific For 'wo years he lived with his wlfo in a little honso erected on the sand waste he bad bought, and regained much of the strength he had lost. In Denmark one day a merman enticed a maiden to the bottom of tbe ocean. She became bis wife and bore him several chil dren, but she always felt a longing to go up when she heard the bells in the steeples of her native village. Finally her husband permitted her to go, on promise that sha would return, but she never did oome back, and his wails lrom the depths are often heard. In the cemetery of Jefferson City, Mo., isa horizontal slab of whito limestone, sup ported near the ends, that has sagged near ly 1 inches in 25 years. The slab is 6 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 inches thi ck, and Mr. Arthur vt'inslow calculates that under tho same stress for the same time a long two iucli slab of the limestone, or marble, would be bent into a circle less than SO feet In di ameter. A curious taste prevails in many parts of tho world for clay. According to Hum boldt it Is eaten In nil the countries in tbe torrid zone, but thepractlceisalso observed in the north, as hundreds of cartloads of earth containing infnoria aro said to bo an nuallv consumed by the country people in the most remote parts of Sweden, and In Finland a kind of earth is occasionally mixed with bread. Several traditions treasured by various tribes of American Indians trace the first man and the first woman myth back to where they were white and red corn! Ono tribe tells how the flrsc man, while in search of a "helpmeet" came to the land of the King of the Muskrats and asked tho daugh ter of tho King for his wire. After she had been formally presented this TedAdam took her to a certain lake and baptized her. As she came from the water- she was trans formed into an Indian woman of average size and intelligence. PICKINGS FKOM PUCK. Miss Charter Oakes "While Mr. Spindla was calling on me the other evening I excused my-. self for a moment; and when I came back, do yoa know. Hie fellow was actually asleep ! Fcatherstonc Dear me ! what did you do wake him up? Miss Charter Oakes Oh, no: indeed. I let him sleep until it was time for him to go. Now doth the busy little hen Work overtime each day. And strive to breac the record AVlth a famous Easter lay. "Wife I opened a bill ot yours from tbe clnb this morning for J2. I didn't know you spent so mnch money at the clnb. Husband That was the month that baby was teething. Jack Potter We had a meeting of the directors of our company last night. Mrs. Potter What was the limit ? There lived in the age called pliocene. When the air was warm and the earth was ctccu, A pessimist fellow, who wrote sad rhymes Abont "these degenerate modern imes." Dr. Fries I have one improvement to suggest with reference to the North Pole explora tion business. Snow Let's have It. Dr. Fries-It is to send the relief expedition on a month ahead, so as to hare everything ready for. the rescue by the time the explorers arrive. Mr. Strokes "What course are you taking at collegef . Charlie Rahrah-Oh. I'm a "special student." Mr. Strokes What studlesdo yon have? Charlie Rahrah-Baseball and Old Testament his tory, with three cuts a week on the history. The Kaiser may get even, If he has no objections. By writing of Poultney Blgelo Ills school-day recollections. Editor (to sick reporter) Are yoa going to die. Hook? Coppe Hook I'm afraid so, sir. 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