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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, SATURDAY, JULY 2. 1893.
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FRANK G. CARPENTER
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Compares the Present Famine In Russia
With the Great Ones of History.
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Letters With all Speed,
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Issue:
Other Features of To-morrow's
The Midnight San;
An Interesting Astronomical Article
by Camllle Flammarion.
The Horn of Africa;
Outlined by Young Chanter's Expedi
tion to Unknown Lands.
Buying Human Beings;
How New York Doctors Pay fcr Suffer
ers from Ear e Diseases.
Talk on Live Topics;
Editor Charles A. Dana Interviewed
at Length by T. C. Crawford.
Workers of Antwerp;
A Letter Showing the Bearing of the
Protective Tariff.
Fame and Fortune;
An Estimate of the Wealth of Some
Well-Know n Public Hen.
LITERATURE AND ART.
SCIEXCL AND POLITICS.
RELIGION AND PROGRESS.
THE WORLD OF TO-DAY.
With its Diversity of Human Interests
Faithfully Reflected.
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TWELVE PAGES
THE NEWEST SCHEME.
The newest development of the Third
party idea is a report published in current
dispatches that the free silver men pro
pose to capture the Omaha Convention
and carry enough Western and Southern
States to throw the election into the
House. The Dispatch has often shown
that this, if successful, would make the
ejection of the Democratic candidate a
certainty. But the political sensation
manufacturers propose to get over
that by having the silver Democrats in
the House bolt the Democratic "party and
vote for the silver candidate, thus electing
him.
To suppose that to be true shows a
striking ignorance alike of political con
ditions and political character. To sup
pose that Congressmen owing their places
to party organization would bolt the party
nominee in large numbers is simply
absurd. But this is not only required for
the success of the reported scheme. It is
necessary that a majority of these party
men should bolt party lines in a majority
of the States of the Union. This is to be
done by a body which recently has pre
vented action on the free silver bill and
by the members of a party whose national
convention with their counsel and coun
tenance still more recently made an ex
tremely conservative deliverance on the
subject of silver. If the Democratic Con
gressmen In all the so-called silver States,
and those of Kansas, Nebraska and Min
nesota in addition, should desert their
candidate in a body it would only give the
Third party candidate thirteen States. To
secure success the remaining ten States
would have to be named, from the solid
South. But to suppose the Congressmen
of ten out of fifteen Southern States would
desert their Democratic allegiance is
simply absurd.
It may be a good scheme for some of the
Democrats in the House to encourage for
the sake of inducing the Western States to
go into the movement But it may be set
down as a certainty that if the election is
thrown into the House Cleveland will be
elected. Third party men who are op
posed to Cleveland should bear that in
mind, and not be hoodwinked by any such
shallow devjee.
THE DEMOCRATIC OUTBREAK.
The Democracy of 1864, under the
leadership of Clement L. Vollandigham,
declared the war a failure and called for
the abandonment of the efforts to preserve
the Union. Vollandigham was an able
man and a sincere one; but he was so
blinded by bis impetuous attachment to
pro-slavery and State's Bights heresies
that he would take nothing less. His
platform struck an answering chord in the
Democratic heart, with the result that the
Democratic party buried itself under a
load of obloquy from which it did not re
cover for nearly two decades.
The Democracy have made other blun
ders since then, but none of them have
rivaled that famous declaration in magni
tude until twenty years later, when an
other Chicago convention of Democratic
representatives declares itself in favor of
business disaster and industrial prostra.
tlon. Under the leadership of "Watter
son as sincere, as impetuous and
as deficient in judgment on tne
tariff question as Vollandigham was
on the warissues the convention rejected
a profession of tariff reform with a cure
against injuring business and industry.
A proposition to regard the interests of
labor and capital was overwhelmingly
repudiated, on the ground that it "might
as well have been written by Blaine and
McKinley." Nothing less than bankrupt
industries and idle workmen can appease
the Democratic hunger for tariff reform.
No less significance can be given to that
impetuous rejection of the majority tariff
plank in the convention and the enthus
iastic declaration that the protective
tariff, like the -war for the Union, Is
"unconstitutional "
This manifestation of the Democratic
spirit Is the most significant of its class
since the famous deliverance of 1864. It
will onen people's eyes to what the Dem
ocratic sentiment really is, and will rele
gate the party to the same position it
occupied from 1864 to 1884.
THE STLYEB SITUATION.
The stable common sense section of the
American nation has hardly ceased con
gratulating itself on the elimination of the
silver question from the campaign ere it is
shocked by "an undeniable victory for the
fiee silver men by the passage of Senator
Stewart's bill in the Senate yesterday. Of
course the success now, as compared with
the mine-owning party's failures in the
Senate before the meeting of the conven
tions at Minneapolis and Chicago, is due to
some extent to the absence of incentives
to hedging on the question. But
there are other causes at work as welL
The near approach of the People's Party
Convention, and the amount of talK sug
gesting Stewart as its nominee, have en
couraged the silver men to make a special
effort to attract its attention to their
power. Again, Hill naturally came out
from his seclusion and threw his influence
such as it is into the silver scale
in order to embarrass Cleveland.
And furtfier, although the platforms
of both conventions put the silver ques
tion aside from the contest between the
two parties there was a most notable pre
ponderance of Democratic Senators among
the supporters of Stewart's bill, and a
still more marked minority of them among
its opponents.
This indicates that the bill may have a
chance to pass the House not on its
merits but as a matter of political chi
canery and that it may be submitted to
the President Harrison is so irretriev
ably committed that he cannot do other
wise than veto it if it should reach him.
Herein is a gleam of hope for the Demo
cratic forces, in that such a veto fresh in
the minds of the voters would incense the
silver element and so antagonize it as to
detract from Harrison as a protest, even
though by such action to any great degree
there would be a risk of throwing the
election into the House and so insuring
the election of a man pledged as much
against free coinage as is Harrison him
self. The silver question is such as to be all
absorbing to the men who advocate free
coinage to an extent that they lose sight
ot all other questions. The Democrats
are in such straits that many of them will
even violate their own principles where
they really have any if by so doing they
see a possibility of increasing their
strength in November.
As to the merits of the question itself,
the opinions of The Dispatch have been
so frequently set forth as hardly to need
reiteration. The only sound and just so
lution of the currency question lies in the
establishment of a fixed ratio between
gold and silver, and it is not to be found
in a measure which would coin an unlim
ited number of silver dollars having a
bullion value thirty per cent below that of
the corresponding gold coin, and scaling
down all debts and liabilities in that pro
portion. THE COUNTY SALARIES.
The County Controller yesterday indi
cated his acceptance of the situation under
the recent decision of the Supreme Court
with regard to county salaries by taking
out a warrant for the sharply reduced
salary allowed by the acts of 1861 and
1861. At the same time it is reported that
some of the other county officials propose
to try the question further by making a
demand for the amount of salaries allowed
by the recent acts.
Of course they have the right to try the
case over again, but it looks like wasted
time. Although the Supreme " Court de
cision did not directly rule upon the
salaries of their offices, the declaration of
the non-repeal of the old special acts is
conclusive. The Supreme Court cannot
without stultifying itself come to any
oiuer decision man mat already an
nounced. The only relief for the county officials,
if their salaries fixed by the old special
acts are inadequate, is by general legisla
tion. The salaries are undoubtedly slender
compensation for transacting the business
of a county of this size. The duct way
to remedy the matter is to seek legislation
which shall allow fair compensation, but
not of the extremely profuse character
which was sought to be collected with the
present recoiling result
NOT MUGWUMP FALSEHOODS.
A remark attributed to Judge Gresham
in a recent interview, with regard to the
use of money in elections, moves a party
organ to remark that "if the evil had at
tained anything like the.dimensions which
he thinks it has, the conclusion which he
draws would be proper enough." But
the commentator goes on to assert that'
this idea is entirely due to "Mugwump
falsehoods."
It is to be hoped that the representa
tion of our organic cotemporary as to the
limited extent of the evil is correct But
one thing is certain, the general impres
sion to the contrary has not been pro
duced by assertions of the independent
element commonly called Mugwumps.
Statements as to the necessity and im
portance of immense campaign funds
have come from the most active partisans
without even a taint of independence.
Assertions that heavy contributions from
the factor needed to carry close States,
and that the States were carried that way,
come from official managers of. party
organization. The men who pro
duced that famous remark about carrying
Indiana by the use of "soap," or "frying
the fat" out of the protected manufactur
ers, were not tainted with Mugwumpfery.
Nor, when Col. Elliott F. Sliepard, in
exemplification of the fact that "children
and fools speak the truth," asserted that
an immense sum was.paid out before the
election of. 1884 to purchase votes in New
York, hut that the goods were not deliv
ered, no party organ rose to accuse the
ultra-pious Colonel of circulating "Mug
wump falsehoods."
We think the importance of money in
elections has been very much exaggerated.
But the people whose representations have
produced the exaggerated impression
are the professional politicians; and their
purpose in doing it is to secure their own
pecuniary enrichment out of the swollen
campaign funds.
SOFT MONEY LOGIC.
One of the signal examples of the
strange bedfellowships caused by political
exigencies is presented by the New York
Pott defending the plank of the Demo
cratic platform calling for the repeal of
the prohibitory tax on State bank notes.
The Post finds even this demonstration of
Democratic soft money tendencies palat
able on logic which may be summarized as
follows: First, it quotes the authority of
Senator Sherman that the national bank
circulation has got to go anyhow; second,
it asserts:
Any form of circulating medium tbat the
States are likely to permit, and the general
Government to authorize, will toe more to
the advantage of the country than either
greenbacks or silver certificates. "Wildcat
banking" is a tiling of the past, and will
never return. It must be borne In mind
that State Dank notes riever can be legal
tender, even In the States which authorize
them. Therefore, nobody will be obliged to
take them. They must go upon their own
goodness if they go at alL Moreover, the
general Government can prescribe condi
tions upon the issne of notes having an
inter-State circulation,and will undoubtedly
do so.
This is about as remarkable a specimen
of monetary logic as was ever emitted
from a journal which professes to base its
views on solid principles. The assertion
that State bank notes resting on a variety
of securities from the nature of the case
will be better than greenbacks or silver
certificates resting on that pledge of the
Government's faith, which has been the
solid basis of the country's currency for
nearly two decades, is simply fatuous
dogmatism only rivaled by the assertion
that "wildcat banking is a thing of the
past and will never return." When the
two principal cities of the country have
recently displayed prominent and stu
pendous examples of the desire to gouge
the public by reckless banking, the guar
antee of that assertion against the use of
the far greater facilities afforded by the
liberty of putting worthless notes in circu
lation is very slight
This remarkable argument is, however,
cast in the shade by the esteemed Post's
proposition that the general Government
can prescribe conditions upon "the issue
of notes having an inter-State circula
tion." Our cotemporary should furnish
plans and specifications of this brilliant
idea. Will the inter-State notes under
this plan bear on their face a notification
by the Government that they can be cir
culated in more than one State, and the
statutes contain a warning that they must
not be paid out to anyone except in the
State where they are issued? What will
be the penalty for tendering to a grocer in
Jersey City a note intended for circulation
in New York, a mile distant? And after
the grand idea of State and inter-State
banks one possibly wildcat and the other
presumably stable by the regulation of
the national Government how will the
reeulation of the latter differ from the
national bank regulation which, according
to the Post, has got to be abolished at the
start?
This is perhaps the best argument that
can be made by a paper which has deter
mined to swallow the soft money plank of
the Democratic platform for the sake of
its free-trade heresies. But it is a very
weak one after all.
A MUCH POSTPONED MEASURE.
The usuai course of legislation is strik
ingly and favorably illustrated by the
statement that the Terry national bank
ruptcyblll has been reported to the House
by the Judiciary Committee and has been
put on the calendar. At this late day in
the session the chances are decidedly
against its passage, and the probability is
that it will meet its usual fate of going
over to another session.
This bill has now been pending in sev
eral Congresses It is almost unanimously
indorsed by business interests and its pas
sage is greatly needed. But it is not a
party measure, and therefore no majority
has ever been interested in urging it to
passage. On the other hand It offers no
gain to any special private interest and
furnishes no money for pushing It by
means of a lobby. The consequence is
that while there has never been any
serious opposition to it, and while it has
been again and again favorably passed
upon by committees, it has dragged along
from session to session, meeting the in
variable fate of being postponed for party
measures and private bills.
It would be an agreeable and commend
able variation if the House should break
this record by fixing a day for the con
sideration of the bill and passing it , But
that would involve too radical a departure
from the precedents of latter-day politics
to permit any tangible expectations that it
will be done.
While colored 'folk in Arkansas indulge
in the lynching or one of themselves for a
crime frequently punished in the same ille
gal fashion by white men, they weaken their
case against those who dWegard the law.
Lynching is barbarous and unseemly under
every circumstance, no matter what the
crime or what the color of its perpotrators
or of the lynchers.
The proposal to plant trees in Schenley
Park on Discovery Day is excellent. Patriot
ism and tree planting go well together, and
we cannot have too much of either.
A fbee-coinage bill having passed the
Senate, notwithstanding its absence from the
platforms of Bepnblicana and Democrats
alike, its fate in the House and after if it
live through that ordeal is a matter for
speculation, though its sudden death should
be undoubted.
The Fourth of July is the birthday of
American independence, and the Mayor
should not be hampered by any lack of
birthday presents for his ward.
Tammany evidently believes that dis
cretion Is the better part of valor. For the
indictment found against Bev. Thomas
Dixon for criminal libel upon Excise Com
missioner Koch was dismissed upon the
recommendation of District Attorney
NicolL.
After yesterday's defeats ini the boat
races Harvard is in a fit frame of mind to
appreciate the leellngs of the losing party
in November.
Springer's Information as to the politi
cal situation In -Pennsylvania is marvelous.
The novelty of .his opinions warrants the
belief that he knows either a great deal more
or a great deal less about the matter than
the average Pennsylvanlan probably less.
A taste of rope's end would seem a
suitable punishment, if it could be legally
inflicted, lor a man found guilty, of rope
stealing.
The troublous evils of Federal patronage
have seldom been more conspicuous than In
the unseemly squabble over the Collector
bhlp of Internal Bevenue to which Miller
was appointed long ago, and in which he
has still not been confirmed by the Senate.
Cloak rooms at the Capitol are the
places where congressmen display their
opinions unveiled.
If the garment workers of Baltimore
must strike against the sweating system,
the summer season is an eminently fit time
to do It. Moreover, the public is less incon
venienced by a, scarcity of garments now
than it wonld be later on.
One realizes at this season that fireworks,
like eligible maidens, are apt to go on" unex
pectedly. Hill is no longer afraid to commit him
self on the silver question. In fact his only
importance now lies in bis antagonism to
Cleveland, and his malice finds a natural
vent in opposing the policy of the Demo
cratic nominee.
Now that it carries a cornet player the
double-decker should he known as the tout
ensemble.
Fkee Teade versus Protection is the
issue Oefore the voters in the campaign,
and any attempt to force a fight on the
desirability or otherwise of a Force bill is
simply an effort to sink: essentials in inci
dentals. It is a mistake to say that Clarkson was
turned down. He was merely turned over.
Science progresses as the world grows
older, but there are still fools enough left to
pay the penalty of their folly by hunting a
gas leak with a light and blowing themselves
and others up in their Ignorant carelessness.
Best well to-morrow to prepare
for
patriotic exertions on the day after.
I
That the People's party is about to
make a splurge at Omaha appears evident,
but just what form it will take no one can
foretell with any degree of certainty, not
even the amorphous party itself.
That man with a barrel Bidwell for the
Prohibition nomination.
Women must have learned a good deal
about dress since the days of the Queen of
Sheba, or so wise a man as King Solomon
could not have remarked that "There is
nothing new under the sun."
Storms rising in Nebraska are to be ex
pected next week.
Haubxty has obliterated himself in
booming Harrtty for the Chairmanship of
the Democratic National Committee, and a
reciprocal compliment from the latter gen
tleman is now in order.
MASCOTS EX MASS!!.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, General
Butler and Bisbop Brooks are the most pop
ular men in Boston, according to a recent
vote.
Mr. Coolidge, the American Minister,
has taken a fine, large furnished mansion In
Paris on tho corner of l'avonue Marceau
and rue Bassano.
WALTER Damrosch is engaged in writ
ing an opera whose subject is to be Haw
thorne's "Scarlet Letter." Mr. G. P. Lathrop
is writing thellbretto for bim.
Congressman W. I. Wilson, the
Chairman of the Chicago Convention, was
offered the President's chair of the Missouri
State University two years ago.but declined
it.
Mrs. French-Sheldon, the intrepid
African traveler, has applied for space for
exhibiting at the World's Fair the fine col
lection of curios and trophies she has gath
ered. Sir H. Trueman Wood, British Com
missioner to the World's Fair, has arrived
in Chicago. Sir Trueman wants an Increase
In the allotment of space of Great Britain in
the Exposition.
Bocrke Cockran is an Irishman. He
is short and stout, and has a massive head.
He is one of the leading lawyers of Now
York, but having married a rich wife is now
devoting himself to politics. He is serving
his second term in Congress.
Whitelaw Keid will be the ninth Vice
President elected from the State of New
Yoik, the other eight being, in order, Aaron
Burr, Geonre Clinton, Daniel D. Tompkins,
Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore,' Will
iam A Wheeler, Chester A. Arthur and Tie vi
P. Morton.
The age at which a "child wonder"
ceases to bo such has not yet been deter
mined. But Josef Hofmann, the boy
pianist, seems to have reached It. Late re
ports say that his fingers are losing their
suppleness, his ear its delicacy and his soul
its love of music.
Charles Henry Hart, of Philadel
phia, who has for many years been recog
nized as an authority on what might
be called the historical and archaeological
side of earlier American art, has been
selected to take charge of the Department
of Historic and Betrospectlve Art at the
World's Fair.
THE COWBOY DOWNED.
Wyoming and Its Cattle Indtutry Under the
Thumb of the Bustlers.
St. Louis, July L "The condition of af
fairs in Northern Wyoming Is now as bad as
it ever has been." said Thomas Bowdan, a
cattle dealer, yesterday. "I have just le
turned from Cheyenne, where I talked with
many of the leading cattle raisers, and they
are all very blue over the outlook. Since
tho defeat of the lynch law raids, for it was
nothing else, the so-called 'rustlers' have
bad things pretty much their own way. In
the northern counties, which are most valu
able from a cattle standpoint, the legitimate
farmers and small stock breeders, whose
aid was secured in repelling the raid, have
in turn been obliged to knuckle under, and
the wholo country is practically in the
hands of the rustlers.
The loss to the nock breeders during the
recent Illegal round-up is reckoned by thou
sands of head. The rustlers go around in
gangs of from 5 to 20 and carry off pretty
niuoh what they please. The cattle are
driven to Montana or D.ikota nnd tbore sold
for about $5 a bead. There Is no way of
putttlng a stop to tins, as tne juries nave
been found to 'avor the rustlers, and there
is always difficulty in making proor. It Is
generally admitted that tho present dis
turbance means the end of free grass in
Wjomlng and the breaking up of the great
herds."
W0BKING THE FAIR FOB POLITICS.
The Novel Proposition Submitted by the
Single Tax Clnb of Chicago.
Chicago, July L The Single Tax Club, of
this city, has decided to ask the World's
Fair officials for the adoption of a system by
which it is believed the American people
can best be given a practical Illustration of
the workings of the tariff. To this end the
following letter will be sent to Director
General K. Davis:
The Chicago Single Tax Club respectfully
petitions and requests that on foreign ex
hibits or dutiable goods at the World's Fair
the selling price in the country from which
the goods aro exported, the transporta
tion charges from point of origin to Chicago
and the selling price in Chicago be stated
separately, so that visitors may be enlight
ened In reference to the Incidents of our
present By stem of tariff taxation and find
out who pays the duty. We conceive that
neither political party can consistently be
opposed to this, ns the framer of the exist,
ing tariff confidentially asserts as the faith
or his party that the foreign exporter pays
tho lax, and the opposing party asseits
with equal confidence that the American
consumer pnys the tax. It is respectfullv
submitted that the Exposition can confer
no more important service to the American
people than to aid in the solution of this
vexed and most Important question.
A WEDDING BANKRUPTS KENTUCKY.
One Legislator Draws tbe Last Cent In Uie
Treasury to Get Married.
Louisville, July L State Treasurer Hale
announced that no tnore payments could be
made on demand for some time. Legislator
Crow, of Hartford, drew out $300 of his pay
in order to get married and uo money was
left.
About $1,000,000 of school funds and other
S referred demands will bo due in No vom
er, and tho money will bo allowed to ac
cumulate to meet these. It will be three
months, probably, before payments are re-'
nmed.
A LOOK AROUND.
Booth & Flinn, or, rather, Senator
Fllnn, for his partner does not always join
with bim in business ventures, understands
not only the art of putting two and two to
gether and making four thereof, but also
that of adding one and one, making throe
of it. This applies to some of the real es
tate operations' of the Senator. He sees a
nice steep hill, unincumbered with aught
save goats, perhaps a mortgage, and he pro
ceeds to buy it at a bargain. Then he looks
around and finds a big hole somewhere,
whioh he soon has a deed of. He next cuts
the top off of the hill and sticks it into the
hole, and lo I verily he has two eligible loca
tions for building sites, which are duly
planned and put onto the market. It is a
case where the mountain comes to Ma
homet. I notice that Senator Joe Hawley, of
Connecticut, soldier, editor and man of
affairs generally, baa hltohed a Sunday dos
ing resolution on the coat tails of the ap
propriation "for the World's Fair. In con
nection with this it is stated that Senator
Hawley's influence had much to do with the
closing of tho exposition of 1876. It hap
pened that the Centennial Exposition was
held in Philadelphia, where they have a
Sunday, while the World's Fair is to De in
Chicago, where thero is no Sunday. To
remedy this defect it is proposed to make a
Sunday by act of Congress, just as in Eng
land they once tried to make gentlemen by
act or Parliament. It is but a short time
since Bishop Whitehead, in speaking of the
advantages of keeping the Fair open on
Sundays, alluded to the fact that in 1878 the
exposition groundswere opened onSunday to
those favored by the men In charge or who
were eonnectedwith the exhibitors although
to the public It was a die rum. The Bishop
spoke from hearsay, he said. He was well
informed, nevertheless.
For more than seven months, from two
weeks before and after its opening and its
close, I was engaged in newspaper work at
the big snow of 1876, and I have a very clear
recollection of this Sunday sight-seeing and
some of the circumstances connected with
it. It was a very easy matter to obtain a
permit to enter the grounds on Sunday, and
a number of the exhibitions, notably the
art gallery, were kept in condition to be in
spected by the thousands of Sunday visitors,
who took the place of the tens of thousands
of week-day spectators. I have seen as
many as 10,000 people most of whom were
there tiom curiosity and a desire not to be
jostled by the crowd within the Falrmount
Pnrk Inclosure at one time. They not only
had no real business there, but they paid no
admissions yet the big show was not a
paying one financially. In order to en
ter the grounds It was necessary
to have Bpecial tickets issued either
by the local or national officials.
The President of the Centennial Commission
was in authority over the Director General,
who was the first mate did the swearing at
the ci ew and carried out the orders. All of
the official were more or less amenable to
the Piesldent of the commission. If be had
desired It there would have been no favored
Sunday visitors, no little excursions of
notables from Washington or New York or
other cities who could look and lunch in
peace without dropping a silver half dollar
into the slot to see the gate open. It was
impossible for tho head of the commission
not to know that large numbers of persons
visited the grounds on Sunday, because I
have known him to Issue admission tickets
or cause them to be Issued himself. This
President of the commission to whom I re
fer was General Joseph G. Hawley, of Con
necticut, memDer of the United States Sen
ate. This is a watery summer, despite the
threats of Prophet Hicks, who foretold a
notable and destructive drought. The skies
are watery, so are the vegetables, the ber
ries, the early fruit and the mouth of the
man who hears that somebody else is going
to spend three months abroad and cannot
go himself.
Yesterday morning a woman got off a
Fifth avenue car in a hurry and dropped in
so doing a small piece of paper. The other
passengers saw but heeded not. The car
started again and the Ionian entered into a
chase, waving a gingham umbrella and both
hands. The conductor pulled the bell, the
woman re-entered and looked on the floor.
"Good thing I found it," she said, triumph
antly, seizing the morsel of paper. "Didn't
know where I was going. Going to see my
son. Don't know where he lives. Address
on the paper. Might have had to go home
'thout seeing him. Good morning"
These are dull days for the iron broker,
ne waiteth not in tho office for the tele
phone to jingle, but ho hustleth about the
streets, and If a report getteth abroad that a
man deslreth a stove lid, straightaway seven
brokers fall upon him at once.
Somebody ought to invent a powder or
an adhesive paper to catch tempusuaU
That distinguished citizen of Pittsburg,
Major Montooth, is having a remarkable
run of bad luck in his trip to Europe. First
his baggage goes west to Chicago City In
stead of east to New York and the steamer
City of Chicago. Then he purchases sup
plies In New York and forgets to carry them
abroad with him. And now, to crown all,
the vessel has run ashore on the coast of
Ireland.
I wonder what they will build houses of
next. Some of the latest seem made of
blocks of maple sugar, and others of bread
containing raisins and a superfluity of sal
eratus. I suppose the time will come when
a residence, with its furniture and a pug
dog sitting on the front steps, will be mod
eled and cast in a mold on the spot where it
Is to stand, by some enterprising steel or
Iron manufacturer. Walter.
Might Like a Game of Poker.
Chicago Mall.I
Governor Boles dreams every night of the
United States Senate, and he doesn't eat
mince pies either.
DEATHS HERB AND ELSEWHERE.
Dr. L. D. Kadzlnksky, McKeesport.
Br. L. D. Badzinsky died at his home
this morning Irons pneumonia. Dr. Eadrinsky a
short time ago was tried in the Pittsburg courts
with William Berwick for attempting to perform a
criminal operation on May Wampte, bnt the Jury
disagreed. Tbe strain and worry of tbe trial are
thought to have been partly responsible for his
sickness. Deceased was a veteran or the late war
and belonged to several secret'societlcs In the city.
He was also pension agent for McKeesport.
Austin TV. Gulp.
Austin W. Culp, one of the best known
letter carriers In Allegheny, died Thursday at his
home, on Marquis street. He came here from Car
lisle. Pa., ten years ago. Ex-Postmaster Swan
appointed him as a carrier and he was so efficient
that Postmaster Gllleland retained him. He leaves
a wife and three children.
Burgwla Brokaw.
Burgwin Brokaw, who died of paralysis
at 20 West Carson street Thursday afternoon, was
a brother-in-law or Nathan Brokaw, formerly po
lice magistrate. Burgwin Brokaw was St years old
and had for many years been an Invalid.
Obituary Notes.
MAX Rapicke. a pianist or some note in the
South, died recently In Norfolk. Va,, aged 44. He
was a native of Berlin, and came to this country In
1877.
Peteb Martin, an old Inventor of Eastern Con
necticut and Rhode Island, died Thursday at the
home of his son. Lawyer Richard Martin, In Paw
tucket, R. I., aged 98 years.
IioBEKT Watts, a well-known detective or
Buffalo, formerly connected with the Buffalo police
force and for several years at the head or a private
agency, died Thursday morning, aged 60 years.
F. H. Allen, who died Wednesday in Akron,
was an old and populaa member of the New York
Produce Exchange. Be was about SO years old.
He came to New York from Akrou many years ago
and became identified with the trade In Ohio flour.
James F. Joyce, whose death is made known
from Washington, was a native of Baltimore. He
became Interested in theatricals about 1887, and
acted asadvaoceagentfor Joseph Murphy. Charles
Erin Yerncr and other stars. In bis youth be was
an amateur actor.
JOHN Oallaoheb, an old-time member of the
stock company at the Arch Street Theater, Phila
delphia, is dead, aged SO. He was an originator
and at one time the President of the WheaUey
Dramatic Association, in Philadelphia Republi
can politics he was always conspicuous, and had
held several offices.
ODE HAIL POUCH.
Precocity Not a Blessing.
To the Editor of The Dispatch: t
In a late issue of your paper an
artlole headed "A Class of Bright Tots" at
tracted my attention. I read it over care
fully, I confess with some surprise, not at
the precooity of the children, but at the lack
of judgement of our high-pressure educators.
For the best interest of these unfortunate
children, precocity should be greatly re
strained and not fostered. Their physical
development counts for more In the makeup
of good men and women than their mental
acquirements.
"It is the greatest class in the world. The
little ones are not yet 7 years pld. They
have advanced in training beyond an or
dinary class of 12-year-old children. We
think our class will surprise the country."
We think so too, especially 15 or 20 years
hence, but not any more than does the mis
guided judgment of both the parents and
the teachers who would rush these SO or
more innocents Into this "experiment" so
fatal to their best physical interests. Had
we a child in this wonderful class we would
promptly withdrawn. Though John Stewart
Mill read latin at 6 and General , Grant grad
uated in that hair of his class, technically
known as next the foot, Infantile precocity
is not an unmixed blessing.
Mens sarv in corpore sano is more to be de
sired at the Bge ot maturity and later in
life than a parrot smattering of what they
cannot understand at the age of 7 years.no
matter how precocious the child. Does
Mr. Luckey think that all these bright chil
dren will escape the dangers to which the
brain and the nervous organization gener
ally is subject under this hothouse system
of training, this goose-liver enlarging bar
barity? Physique, Mr. Luckey, is of vastly
more Importance In acquiring the means
neocwary to a livelihood in the after years
of thesa children. You should read and
heed Herbert Spencer, whose insomnia
makes life anything but pleasant for the
greatest philosopher of the century.
Not one of these SO or more precocious
children but would be better physically and
brighter mentally a dozen years hence, in
deed, all their lives if they never saw Inside
ot a schoolroom till they were fully 10 years
old. a
We respectfully call the attention or the
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Ani
mals to this case. A. D. BiiTKXitD.
West Mohtxebt, Jnne 30.
A Complaint From Hazelwood.
To the Editor of The Dlpatcb:
I am and have been a resident and tax
payer ini the Twenty-third ward for a
number of years, and have been muoh an
noyed at times by horses, cattle and other
animals that are allowed to run at large.
They have Injured my trees, as well as
those of many of my neighbors. When
owners of said stock have been complained
to they invariably find some plausible ex
cuse, suoh as we are aboat to sell, etc.
Now, I know the owners of such stook can
be sued for damages. But what is the
amount recoverable oompared to the value
of a tree that has been planted to adorn a
borne and the publio streets generally .when
you take into consideration a few years'
growth? The question I wish to ask is.
Have wo no public officers paid out of the
hard earnings of the taxpayers who are in
duty Dound to impound said stock? ' In my
opinion the police officers can arrest such
stock. But they pay no attention to it in
this part of the olty. I may also add that
they do not patrol very mnoh of this ward.
It Is no uncommon thing to see two or three
of them congratulating one another between
the fire engine house and the depot. But it
is a very uneommon thing to see any one of
them in any other part of Hazelwood.
I have refrained from calling attention to
this matter from a dislike to enter com
plaints. But an Incident occurred recently
whioh called forth my sympathy, and I de
termined to postpone this letter no longer.
A child of one or my neighbors playing on
the street was run over by one or the horses
referred to and had her leg broken. What
ever the result may be the above states the
cause. D. L.
Hazelwood, July L
A Good Suggestion
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
I think it would be a good thing, and to
the interest of a large class of people, both
rich and poor, fox the city to employ a corps
of trained nurses to be sent wherever their
services may be needed in cases of malig
nant diseases, which deter neighbors from
rendering assistance through fear of con
tracting the malady.
A case illustrating this necessity occurred
on Mt. Washington last week. One of a
family of four children died of black diph
theria and the rest wero down with the
same disease. Neighbors were afraid to go
to the house, and the family bad to face the
terriblo affliction the best it could. Help
was necessary, but there was none. In this
instance a trained nurse would have been
Invaluable The expense to the city would
be light compared with the benefits to many
unfortunate families directly and to the en
tire community indirectly. Many lives
might be saved in this way.
Geokoe Okxoxd.
Southside, City, July L
HE. BLAINE'S SUCCESSOR.
The appointment of Goneral John W.
Foster as Secretary of State is commenda
ble. He is well fitted for the place. New
York World.
Me. Fobteb will not prove as strategic and
brilliant as his illustrious predecessor, but
he is a safe and conservative man. Grand
Rapids Herald.
It would be difficult to name a publio man
so perfectly equipped for the management
of tho State Department as General Foster.
Baltimore American.
The advancement of Hon. John W.Foster,
of Indiana, to tbe Important position of Sec
retary of State will meet with general ap
proval. It was the natural thing to do.
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Mb. Foster can take up the work without
any real break in its continuity, and will
condnct its pending affairs intelligently.
Judiciously and energetically. He is a
thoroughly equipped diplomatist. Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
President Hahrisox has named as Secre
tary of State one of ,the few Americans in
active public life enjoying intimate techni
cal acquaintance with diplomatic experi
ence and possessing long diplomatic experi
ence. Philadelphia Prtss.
In the appointment of Hon. John W. Fos
ter, of Indiana, to the post of Secretary of
State left vacant by Mr. Blaine's abrupt
resignation, the President has honored an
official who has had a lopg career in diplo
macy and the public service. Boston Globe.
Tbebe aro now two Secretaries by the
name of Foster in the Cabinet, both holding
leading positions. The nomination and
speedy confirmation of Mr. J. W. Foster as
Secretary of State is a deserved recognition
of the ability shown by him throughout his
diplomatic career. Washington Star.
No man is better qualified to succeed
James G. Blaine than John W. Foster, whose
success in tbe field of foreign affairs has
been most phenomenal. President Harrison
has mado this appointment with a view to
tbe interest of publio business only, and it Is
In accord with his faithful administration.
Ohio State Journal.
The promotion of Mr. J. W. Foster to the
head of the State Department is fully do
served, and Is in the line of a reformed civil
service. He has been in diplomatic work
for over 20 years, and is thoroughly lamlliar
with treaties, with reciprocity and all tho
affairs of the foreign department. Detroit
Journal.
A True Criterion.
Hew York Recorder.)
The new bead of the National Republican
Committee has one of the finest heads ever
reproduced in newspaper Illustration. And
when a man is handsome In a newspaper cut
he may well be proud of himself.
A Burnt Child Dreads the Tire.
Indlana-jolls Journal.
The Republican party shows its faith in
Republican principles by a purpose to fight
the campaign upon the tariff as the leading
issue, but their opponents of various sorts
seem not to have that confidence.
Too Big to Swallow.
Philadelphia Press.
Uncle Dana is still busy swallowing the
whale or Democratic ticket; but up to date
he has got no further than the tall. Adlai is
all right. But Grover, well
The Grease for the Machine.
New York Advertiser.
Mr. Whitney is propared to furnish ooal
oil for the lamps of the Tammany panders
this year.
CHARITY WAS SHOCKED.
Sad Tale of a Lady and a Lover, to Say Noth
ing of Million Sunday School Class
Organ Beeltal at WllklDsburg Gossip
of Society.
A lady, a friend 'of mankind's in general
and little children in particular, had an ex
perience on Thursday that has slightly
chilled her universallst doctrine of affec
tion. Possessing a lovely lawn, she though t
she ought to share Its pleasures with some
small Sunday sohool people of , her
acquaintance. Little angels she probably
thought tney were; other people behind her
back were more likely to call them
"ragamuffins. The B. S. V. P.'s were made in
person, and no refusals being received the
hosts of youngsters on the lawn was only
outnumbered by the blades of its grass.
Then it rained, and the rising generation
was obliged to be taken Into the house. The
sight of the tracks left by their feet was not
a palatable one. Tbe worst came after. A
freezer of Ice cream hud been set
on the side porch awaiting a de
mand on Its contents, and was stolen
by several degenerate boys, either related
by blood to the picnickers, or who being
powerful of nose, had scented the picnic
afar off. They went over to the park and took
pot luck with the cream, adding Insult to
injury by not returning the freezer, which
was of no nso to anyone but its owner. Next
morning the freezer as well as the cream
was paid for bv the hostess and also half the
price or an umbrella lost by one or the chil
dren. This last was doubtless done under
nrotest, due largely to a viiit from the
mother of the owner of the umbrella. No
question was raised as to the Justice ot the
claim of half damage.9, because the visitor
looked like a fighting Englishwoman and
dropped her h's."
The handsome new edifice of the Wil
klnsburg Methodist Episcopal Church, on
South street, was crowded last night with a,
sympathetic and enthusiastic audience
sympathetic, because tbe occasion was the
first musical event in the new church, and
enthusiastic because tho entertainment was
unusually good. The now organ, ofa char
acter worthy or tho building, was formally
dedicated in a recital by Mr. Theodore
Salmon, who satisfactorily tested the in
strument in a wide range of music. The en
tertainment commenced with an organ
number consisting of Bach's "Prelude" in E
minor, Handel's "Larghetto," D minor, and
the "Grand Offertoire de St. Ceclle," by
Batiste. Mr. Salmon played in a masterly
stvle, and brought out all tbe
beauties of the compositions, as
well as the merits of the organ.
Miss Carrie Beall sang "Best in the Lord."
from the oratorio of "Elijah," and did full
Justice to Mendelssohn's magnificent work.
Then Mr. Salmon took the organ ugaln with
a "Reverie," by Saint Saens, and' "Vesper
Hymns and Variations," by Whitney. The
style or these works was altogether different
frcm those played first, but the organ was
equally respouslve. and the audience was
delighted. W. A. McCutcheon's rich voice
was neat d to advantage in two solos, "In
Sheltered Vale" and Lecoq's "By Thee I
Swear." The second pan opened with tho
two jrgan selections, "Pilgrim's Song of
Hope," by Batiste, and "Fanfare," by Lem
mens, in which Mr. Salmon and the organ
both did splendid work. Miss Beall rendered
Goetzo's charming ballad, "O. Happy Day,"
with great taste and expression, follow
ing it with "A Winter Lullaby,"
by DeKoven, of "Kobln Hood"
fame. The next number was the
organ again, consisting or an "Offertoire in
D Flat" by Salome, a "Grand Chorus in B
Flat" by Dubois, and a "Serenade In F Ma
jor" by Gonnod. Mr. Cutcbeon gave the
aria, "Lord God of Abraham," from "Ell
Jab," and Mr. Salmon brought the enter
tainment to a close Dy pinying itossinrs ma
jestic overture to "Tancred," which brought
out the full compass of the organ. Con
gratulations were exchanged among the
members or the congregation, and Mr. Sal
mon was warmly complimented for the
manner in whioh be had proved to his list
eners that the instrument was one of the
best in Western Pennsylvania.
Miss McOamdless as a stockbroker is
proving a success. She is holding for the
Women's Dormitory Association of the
the Columbian Exposition 500 shares which
represent one-half of tbe 1,000 allotted to
Pennsylvania, and of which Miss Lucas, of
Philadelphia carries the remainder. Tho
rendering possible a visit to Chicago in 1S93
for the great mass of women me-igerly sui
plled with money for vacation needs,
will attract nuuureus iu a ijihm
nfacturing city like Pittsburg, the only fear
being that many will delay making arrange
ments for the purchase or stock until It is
all bought np, when it will be impossible to
have redress for their own negligence, as
there Is no reserve stock.
Something more definite concerning the
size of the buildings, the pi tn and their lo
cation and the style of their architecture is
very much desired, and Miss McCandle3s
has telegraphed for information. It is also
expected that In a few days tho bcheuie for a
restaurant either will be fully developed or
aDandonod, according to wise dictation.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday or next
week, and from 11 to 3 each day, will be de
Voted to negotiations for stock.
The third annual lawn fete for the benefit
of St. James' B. a Church, Wllklnsburg,
which began on Wednesday evening, will
come to a close to-night. The church grounds
are decorated, and the smoothness with
which the whole entertainment has been
managed reflects credit upon Commandery
B. C. U., Kniahts of St. John, nnder whoso
general direction It is held. Thursday night
the rain drovo the merrymakers Into tne
lecture room or the chhi ch, but with this ex
ception the exercises were all conducted
outside, ana in very ltui.ii uuuaukuicuamnu
fete. The tables are In charge of tbe follow
ing ladies:
i efreshmento Mrs. John WoKe. Mrs. Adam
Kesslcr. Mrs. DIemer and Miss Catherine Hines.
ice cream table tn light blue Mrs. C. 8. Madden:
aides. Misses Jessie Whalen, Mary Wbalen and
Mary E. Madden.
Ice cream table In red and green Mrs. L. W.
ilagley; aids. Misses Genevieve Doran, Kellie
Corboy and Annie Kessler.
Ice cream tahle In pink and blue Mrs Fry: aids.
Misses Lizzie Flonse. Mary Fry, Brlgey Bntlerand
Aggie Flouse.
Cgle i louse.
ce cream table in pnrpje Mrs. Steffens; aids,
Mpa Wolfe. DIemer. Stumor and Madden.
Misses Wolfe. DIemer. Stumpf and Madden.
I.... A-aqm thlA In nlnbrrr Jlmn Vr
Ice cream table In pink Mrs. Agnes Kravney;
aids. Misses Maggie McC'allUter, Mary Campbell.
Mary Murphy and Ella Dunnlgan.
Fruit, candvand flower booth Mrs. John Lamb
ing and Mrs. T. J. Moore; aids. Misses Katie Brel
man. Agnes Lambing, Louise Seine Imer and Katie
McGnlgan.
Lemon booth Miss Jennie Walsh: aids. Misses
Tere-ssa Bonner. Jennie Kuan, Mary Kuan and
Jennie Lambing.
The officers of the Knights of St. John,
who were active in promoting the comfort
of the guests during the three nights or tho
fete, were Chairman, L. W. Xagley; Secre
tary, G. Snider; Treasurer, F. Madden. The
patronage has been large enough to make
sure of a good round sum being added to tbe
treasury of the church. The feto Is being
continued to-night in response to a general
request.
Admtbees of the Bohemian Club predict
its becoming tbe club of the city and even
compare its future to the celebrated Clover
Club, of Philadelphia. Like this great pro
totype, the Bohemians intend to master the
art of after-dinner talking, n not impossible
feat, with men like Sinjor Montooth on Its
list of membership. H. S. Stephenson, tho
artist, is said to have been the sponsor of
the club, and now he Is one or Its most ar
dent supporters. There was some thought
at tho time or its formation of admitting
women in what might be described as a
semi-deml-seml fashion, which would give
them certain privileges and debar them
from others; but probably it fell through
from sheer lack of nurture.
Social Chatter.
The Iron Qneen left its docks last night
with the largest party or passengers It has
vet carried. The growth or tho fad to go to
Cincinnati bv boat is phenomenal, and a
view of the mass of eager people trying at
the last moment to obtain state rooms
proves chat water parties on the Ohio river
are neither "a delusion nor a snare." Several
clubs talk of golnj on masse, and the next
one most probably to make the trip will be
the Tennis Club of Bon Venue.
Societt In England Is talking a good deal
about the World's Fair, and the possibilities
for visiting it. One young Englishwoman
writes to a Plttsbnrg friend about our Re
publican notions of "the world for we, the
people of the United State-, and heaven
thrown in." "We think," she writes, "of
coming over to see your great Chicago Fair
if they don't make it too cheap and too
nasty."
Vft. and Mbs. John G. McElveen have re
turned from tho honeymoon. The "at
homes,'' arranged for Thursdays during
July, will be given at Neglev street, corner
Banm, the house of Mrs. McElveen's pa
rents, where the young people will live until
their establishment is fitted out. '
Mbs. William H. Daly, of Howe street,
East End, has a cousin, Miss Virginia
Deaver, visiting her from Baltimore. She is
en route to Dakota, where she will spend
tbe coming year.
Mb. and Mbs. Albert J. Barb chaperoned
a party of small children on tbe "Double
decker" into town last night.
A NUMBEB of parties are on tbe tapis for
the musloale at the Kenmawr Hotel this
evening.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The Chinese like to sleep well, but not
high.
"Women shoplifters in Paris are on the
Increase.
In Tennessee there is a 15-year-old girl
preacher.
The decimalists say that the 24-hour
day is doomed.
Valparaiso, Ind., has a horse thief who
shut 7 years old-j
In Paris water proof umbrellas made of
paper are en rlgeur.
Austria has only two works making cast
or rolled plate glass.
Eighty-five hundred churches were built
In America last year.
Ancient Greek women had larger feet
than men nowadays. ,
A postage stamp worth f5,000 has been
discovered in New York.
A lady 21 years of age has opened
printing office In Boston.
There are 10,000 parishes in England
with only church schools. .
It requires $1,000,000 every 24 hours to
run Uncle Sam's Government.
Seven-eighths of the bread used in Lon
don is made of American wheat.
The Chinese gardeners are the most
expert fruit growers in the world.
In 1325 there was but one represent!
tive or homeopathy in this country.
In Ijogan county, Kentucky, no coot
has been held for twenty-five years.
Ten thousand lead toy soldiers are
turned out at Nuremberg every day.
Tbe Manhattan elevated road, KW
York, carries 500,000 passengers daily.
In the Indian Territory the yonjg
women recently gave a leap year party.
A man was arrested at Lawrence, Kai.,
the other day for stealing a street car ride.
On account of its monosyllabistic quality,
Chinese is the easiest language for .tee
phoning. The railway dining cars in this country
earn more than the sleeping and baggags
cars together.
It bos been demonstrated tbat there ii
gold in the worlds of space as well as nponi
our own globe.
In Denmark it is proposed to stamp
out tuberculosis In cattle by vaccinaticja
with Koch's lymph.
New York City" has fewer alleys than
any other dry in tbe world, notwithstanding
it is one of tbe largest.
The lands in Germany devoted to tbe
growing of Grain for beer production would
support 50,000,000 people.
In the French army there are four liy
ing generals on the retired list who wers
born in the lost century.
The total value of unclaimed mail mat
ter in the London postoffice amounts to
something over $30,000 a year.
A lady in Buckport has sold $30 worth
of braids made from her own hair, and yet
she has plenty of hirsute growth left.
In tbe Kalahau desert, in South Af
rica, the Bushmen are able -to discorer
water by digging in the bottom of dried-np
river beds. w
In New South "Wales twelve banks and
financial syndicates own about 45,000,000
acres of land, one institution alone ownln j
8,500.000 acres.
3?ive States are represented in Congress
by persons not born within their limits:
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, New Hampshire
and Minnesota.
The percentage of net dividends returned
to the stockholders of street raflways in th
United States is three times as great as tha
of steam railways.
Free baths are advocated in SL L""
as a means of preventing the loss o'
Mboyswbo annually drown In thii.
sippi at tbat point.
According to information from C
stantinople tho Turkish Government bos de
cided to make vaccination compulsory
throughout tbe Ottoman Empire.
London society is somewhat' startled
over the news that the portrtts o'r Pa
derewskl in the Eoyal Academy is the
work of tbe Marchioness of Lome.
In Australia some jewellers advertise
that they will gladly exchange duplicates of
wedding presents of young married people;
and are willing to give articles of equal'
value.
An Arizona paper announces the find
ing ofa U-pound nugget In tbe Planchez
placers, Sonora, Mexico. This Is said to be
the larsest nugget of gold on record. The
percentage of pure gold was 87 fine.
Aneut the chance of death in war, a
carefully deduced calculation at the battle
of Solferino, a bloody engagement, shows
that 700 bulletswere expended forevery man
wounded and 4,200 for each man killed.
Belgium now has 133,000 voters; a
household -uffrage would raise the number
to 900,000; giving the suffrage to all who
can read and write would raise It to 1,100,000,
and universal suffrage would mean 1,500,(X
voters.
Ye as well as the Europeans, sit with
hats off in houes of worship, while the
Turks consider the uncovering of the head
an indecent familiarity, and doubtless the
Hebrew custom or wearing hats in the
synagogue is an Oriental law.
The Marqnis of Dnfierin, Britain's new
Ambassador at Paris, ha3 a collection of
water-colors painted by himself on view
there, and the Marchioness lately charmed
everybody by her bright and spirited aoting
in "A Happy Pair" at the Austrian embassy
in Borne.
There is now on exhibition in Philadel
phia a gigantic tarpon and a splendid speci
men of the silver king about six feet in
length and weighing 125 pounds. The fish
Jumped clean out of the water six different
times and took 1 hour and 25 minutes to
bring him to gaff.
Alinco pie is emphatically a New Eng
land Institution, but it is a Saxon Invention.
Before their conversion to Christianity
they used to make a stow or porridge con
sisting of everything held sacred to their
gods, as the flesh of birds, animals, grains
and dried herbs which had been gathered at
the full of tbe moon.
The invention of making paper from
linen rags has been brought home to Suabla,
and it was first put Into practice by the Bol
beln family of Bavensburg. Tbe oldest
document or this kind or paper is dated
A. D. 130L Now, as the Holbein arms bore a
bull's head, we find this symbol Imprinted
as water-mark In all the paper from, the old
Bavensburg mill.
The healthiest children are thoso
whose mother has not reached 35 years.
Those born of mothers between 35 and 40
years of age are S per cent weaker, and those,
or mothers or over 40 are 10 per cent weaker.
The children of aged fathers and younse
mothers have, as a general thing, a strong
constitution; but If the parents are of the
same age tho children are less robust.
PEBT POINTEBS FBOM PUCK.
"Confound that woman and her hati"
"Never mind, old man. Her halo lq heaven will
not be big enough to get In any one's way."
"There is a new attraction at the museum
this week. Itlsanosslfledflsn."
A shad. I presume."
"Don't be angry, old fellow it's only my
way."
Well. I wish you'd emulate the babes In tin
wood."
"How?"
"Lose your way. It's no good."
Aided by the moral
I npport of a new suit of
clothes, ereu a weak
man may rise to great
ness: but It takes a
strong man to maintain
a respectable arerage
when his trousers begin
to bag at the knees.
"So yon wrote her a poem?"
"Tes." replied the young man, sadly.
"AYhat did she say?"
"She said she admired my letter; bat she didn't)
qntte understand my method of using capital
letters."
"I hear that South Dakota will exhibit a
cyclone In operation at the World's Fair."
Pshawl It will neverbe noticed In Chicago."
First Lawyer. Married now, eh? So you,
have won a case In Cupid's court.
Second Lawyer. Yes : but I have to par the com.
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