,4 THE PITTSBUKG DISPATCH; SUNDAY.- SEPTEMBEK' 18.-, 1893,: : $je Bipfelj. KSTAIIUSIIED FEBRUARY Vol. 7. Xo 27 Enterea at Pittsburg rostofflce tinier, J&7, as second-clvss matter. lU'SlNESS OtTICK. Cor. Smitlificld ami Diamond Street. Nevis Booms and FnbUshing House, 78 and 80 Diamond Street, New Dispatch Iluilding. rASTi:nv advertising office, room re. TK1RU.M: BUILDING. NEW YORK, -where complete flics or THE DISPATCH can always be found. THE DISPATCn !son sale at LEADING nOTELS throughout 'he United States, andat Brentano's. 5 Union Square, New York, aud 17 ATenuc de 1" Opera, Parts, France. tkisms onuu uBi-ATcn. ' rOSTAGE TR-ET. tS THK CXITSP STATES. lUnw Dispatch. OaeTe-ir. jm Daily Disi-atcd. Three Months 1 00 DmltDkpatc.i. One Jiontl- 70 Daily i ispatcu, Including Sundar, lyear.. 10 00 Daily D s patch. Including Sunday-. m'ths. i 50 Duly Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 month 90 Fi:may Disr-A en. 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From the report handed in by one of the two inspectors appointed to investi gate the sanitary condition of the Puts burg schools, it is evident that the cholera scare came noue too soon as an incentive to a muchneeded inquiry. It is outrageous that the children of the city should have ben subjected to the dangers which this report reveals. A reformation can not be set on foot too promptly, and it must be thorough In its scope and include nil the institutions weighed and found wanting by the inspector. That epidemics and a high rate of mortality among the pupils have not called attention to the matter at an earlier date is subject no less for surprise than thankfulness. Words cannot be found strong enough to condemn a system wlvch has permitted the children's life and health to be endan gered by the noxious absence of proper sanitation which is now disclosed. To per mit such a state of affairs to continue would be nothing short of criminal negli gence. A clean sweep of all the nuisances must be made at once, and a strict watch fulness must perpetually guard against their recurrence in the future. There is risk enough of spreading disease in the unavoidable necessity for gathering to gether girls and boys from homes of all kinds without adding one iota thereto from the dangers of imirare water, filthy cellars or defective plumbing. OX-IHEOIHER SIDE. In the prosecution of its free trade cam paign the New York World is led to fer vently inquire: "Shall the Presidency be Ee-Purchasej?" to proceed with remarks in mat vein implying that it Harrison is elected it will be by the power of money. The sole basis for that allegation given hy the wild Democratic organ is the recap itulation of Democratic assertions con cerning the Presidency in 1888. It is not a mere violent stretch of the Democratic reasoning powers, than is usual in this campaign, to argue from that improved assertion concerning the last election that a similar purchase is to be made this year. Yet thi'ciicumstances make it pertinent to suggest a correction. No one knows of anv movement on the Republican side to purchase votes. It is in the Democratic camp, in the office of the World itself, that a project has been urged with great fliursh of trumpets to raise a fund with which it was fondly hoped to "carry" the Northwestern States. And the tooth which is biting the World is that its grand effort did not raise money enough to buy a singl" Congressional district. LAROCCHKKE ON SOUK GRA1TES. 3Ir. Henry Labouchere has recently de voted his wit and sarcasm to tho produc tion of a piquant account of the mum meries which have to be gone through by those who accept office from the Queen. The ceremony of a grave statesman getting down on both knees before the Queen and kissing the royal hand for the favor of an office winch is really given by the repre sentatives of the people sounds suffi ciently ridiculous as Mr. Labouchere tells it. That gentleman avers that he has no objections to kissing a lady's hand, but lie prefers to select the ob ject of that delicate attention, and possibly to perform it more privately. Yet another thought intrudes itself. It has been widely understood that Mr. Labouchere, if not anxious to go through cxact'y the ceremony which he describes, was willing to submit to'it for the sake of the official position which would follow. Is it possible that the performances which arc now so medieval and ridiculous in that eminent journalist's opinion seemed pleasant and appropriate to him when he deemed it possible, onlya few short weeks ago, that lie would be one of the actors? Either this understanding, which was not entirely unsupported by Mr. Li houchere's own language m the premises, was a gigantic misunderstanding, or Mr. Labouchere is the latest exemplification of the old fab'e about sour grapes. A POLITICAL CAUSE. The Xew York Post, whose editor, Mr. E. L. Godkin, was one of the detained passengers on the Normannin, has been attacking the "demonstrated incompe tence" of the quarantine officials of New York. As it is natural to attack that which has pinched the assailant, tLe force of the atlacK is directed against the in completeness of the accommodations made for quarantined people. A tolerably good case is madi of tluc, xart of the matter, although the public may think that a much stronger case could be made of the admission of cholera into the country by one ot the foreign steamers which? the quarantine declared to be harmless simply because the disea.se had . not broken out during the few days of transit. Apart from that and accepting the dem onstration of incompetency, it is difficult to avoid asking the Post what is the cause of it. Is it not beyond dispute that it is ' J4 the.product of a political system which that journal simply for the time being finds it convenient to ignore? The Post is not ignorant of the features of Tammany politics which place incompetent men m positions where the welfare of millions de pends on their efficiency, for it has exposed tho Tammany system with the most fervent language time and time again. Te't at the present time, when the support of the Tammany politicians Is de sired for the Post's Presidental candidate, that journal's icnoringof the sins of Tam many is reported to have gone to the length of suppressing the sale of its well known pamphlet giving the record of Tammany politicians. When the Democratic candidate, co temporaneously with this demonstration of official incompetence as a result of Tammany, sits down to establish festal harmony witli the leaders of that school of politicians is it not rime for the Post to spealc some burning words? If "we lovo him for the enemies he has made," should not that love be turned when he takes those enemies to his bosom for the sake of getting their votes? DOLLARS BALANCED AGAINST LIVES. During the week, when apprehension about the cholera was greatly excited by the reports of its appearance at New York, the exasperating spectacle was pre sented of the State Board of Ilsalth of Pennsylvania paralyzed into inaction for want of funds, while the Governor of the State was away fishing. Thanks to the energy of the State Gov ernment of New York and to the vigilance of New York's city authorities, the cholera was kept well in check. It did not spread; and it has not yet, that wo know of, been caned across the Pennsylvania border. But while the possibiltiesof danger were most imminent, the condition of things in this State was rankly discreditable. Let municipal corporations do what they might and Pittsburg officials were certainly alive and doing their best it was only the State Board of Health which had the power to establish a quarantine upon the State frontier, or to inspect the railroads efficiently in the interior. The President. Dr. McClelland, of this city, and the Secretary, Dr. Lee, both capable and zealous men, knew what should be done; but they were absolutely without a penny of public money at their disposal to do anything. A Legislature having no intelligent in terest or concern about the public health as darkly disregardful, and possibly even as ignorant on that point as if it be longed to the Fiji Islands failed to make more than a nominal appropriation for the Board; and Governor Pattison who was expected to act on his own responsibility in such a crisis, as Governor Beaver did at Johnstown, evidenced a sense of his own capacity for usefulness on the occas ion by going on a fishing trip. To the better arrangements in New .York State and city it is owing that Penn sylvania has not been invaded by the choleraic scourge. But the spectacle of a State Board of Health keenly alive to its duties, yet with no means to go ahead, should never again be presented in such a crisis. The board asserts that from vari ous infectious diseases which now exist and could be stamped out by proper sani tary measures as many as 20,000 lives are lost in Pennsylvania every year. To say nothing of the menace of cholera visita tions, here is a field for the constant sani tary effort, for which the State should make a liberal biennial appropriation. It is cheaper to keep disease out than to fight it after it gets lodzment. The humiliating situation should never again be presented of leaving the health of the Common wealth without a strong hand to protect it in times of emergency. It will no longer do to trust to luck and to the chance of having a Governor who will take upon his shoulders tb responsibility. Ample provision must be made in advance, trust ing strictly to those who are especially charged with the duty in hand, and pro viding a sufficient fund for these officials to draw upon when such occasions arise. TAXATION OF 'WHEELS. A very judicious measure for the ad vancement of road improvement is sug gested as follows by the Philadelphia Press: Great Britain keeps roads in order by the proceeds of a -wheel tax; but this is not levied solely on omnibuses or on those of a certain weight and size. Every wheel that turns pays its tax, except hacks and cabs for hiicand farmeis' wagons. A compre hensive wheel tax or this character from all wheeled vehicles would levy the cost of re pairing pavements on those who use them; and if it were made heaviest on private pleasure vehicles and lightest on the wagons hy which individual owners earned their livelihood, the Justice of such a tax would appeal to all. With the addition of one important de tail this suggestion can be heartily in dorsed. The theory that pleasure car riages and those of a class whose owners can best afford taxation should bear the heavier burden is good as a general the ory; but in this case a variation from it will act with such good results on the con dition of the roads, that it should be adopted, as we believe it is England. That is to put the heaviest taxation of all so heavy as to be prohibitory upon wagons carrying heavy loads on wheels of such inadequate tread as to destroy the surface. The greatest destruction of country roads and the largest wear and tear of city pavements come from heavily loaded wagons with narrow tires. A wagon whose wheels carry the weight of three tons on tires- of two or three inches acts as a plow on soft country roads and as a hammer on pavements. With tires eight to twelve inches broad, each wheel would act as a 750-pound roller. A prohibitory tax on wheels below a certain width graduated to the load they bear would, of course, yield little revenue; but it would effect a saving in the cost of maintaining first-class roads eaual to the revenue that could be obtained from the taxes on other wheels. Attention to this factor in the rosd problem has, unless we are mistaken, had an important share in making the roa,ds of European countries what they art THE OPPOSITE SCIENCE. The report of Dr. Grier, an eminent New York specialist, on the condition of John L. Sullivan puts the propaganda of physical culture in an unfavorable light It is worth while to recall that iu Wilkie Collins' "Man and Wife" a considerable space is devoted to the assertion that training as carried out by the professors of alleged physical science is very likely to break down the strongest physical con stitution. The incidents of that "story largely turn upon such a break down by the villain of the plot, an amateur ath lete. On this point as well as the foolish ness of tho mania for athletics which places a prize fighter or professional base ball player above statesmen, thinkers or public benefactors, the story named made strong protest against the public craze. The fads in Sullivan's cisc as reported by Dr. Grier fully bear out the novelist's fiction. The. physician reports that had scientific principles been used in his train- ftl v' 3, .isJ- ing', the pugilist would have been fresher and stronger each day. As it was every day's training exhausted him more and more. He is now in a lethargic condition, with stentorlous breathing and congested appearance exactly as described in Wilkie Collins' imaginary case. Tho physician asserts that this is scientifically accounted for by the over-exhaustion of the muscles resulting in '-deterioration of the muscle contractility." There is more Importance in this than the mere misfortune to a single pugilist of the baser sort. The solo justification of the athletic craze is the idea that the alleged science of physical culture sets tho example of bringing human strength to tho highest point of development. This is supposed to be a compensation for the shortcomings in moral and intellectual qualities, often observable in eminent cxDonents of that sort But here we have the practical demonstration that the so called scientific training amounts to the infliction of a physical injury. The train ers recogniza this by the term of "over trained," but their science is of the stupid sort that cannot even avoid the danger which it recognizes. When we have this example that tho science of physical culture as practiced by professionals is not science at all, but ignorant fooling with the physical condi tion, perhaps we will see the reason of mixing a litttle reason and intelligence with our adoration of the pseudo art. CONVENTIONAL NONSENSE. Sir Edwin Arnold is quoted as saying, apropos of the recent prize fight, that it is an improvement for the American citizen to enlarge the use of fists and to abandon the use of revolvers. In so saying the English poet is simply giving way to an old English convention. It means that it is better for an inoffensive and perhaps unmuscular man to submit to being pum meled by a pugilistic brute than to have weapons of self-defense that place him on an equality with him. It practically say s that in ail cases where conflict may arise the John L. Sullivans should be the acknowl edged superiors of men of intellect who have not given their lives to shoulder hitting. Perhaps if Sir Edwin Arnold should encounter a pugilistic bully crazed with drink as the ex-champion of America has manifested himself at times, he would perceive the social value of a revolver. The opinion has been approved in this country on the ground that in the case of reckless criminals the fist is less deadly than the revolver. But it is to bo remem bered that the class who set about to fight either from a love of bullying or in support of crime will arm themselves with the best weapons, regardless of public tasto. Sir Edwin's opinion can only apply to the law-abiding class. To tell men of that class that when it is necessary to defend themselves they must as a matter of social reform keep themselves in a condition of Inferiority to the pugilists, is simple nonsense. Indiscriminate use of any method of fighting is to be deplored and sternly suppressed. But for the citizen who may need to defend himself the levolver has this great virtue that the weakest man is put on an equality with the muscular brute. PROTECTION DEMOCRATS. The State Convention of the Connecti cut Democrats repudiated the national platform of that party on the sub ject of the tariff. That body declared in its resolutions that in adjusting the tariff "there should be careful regard for the interests of our domestic indus tries and for the just wages of American workingmen. Laboris best rewarded where it is freest and most enlightened; it should therefore be fostered and cherished." But that is just what the National Dem ocratic Convention declares to be unc on stitutional and something to be wiped out altogether. The Connecticut Democrats have indorsed the Republican doctrine, and in order to make their principles ef fective must vote for the Republican na tional ticket and Republican Congressmen. They may consistently vote their Demo cratic State ticket, but if platforms are not gigantic frauds they cannot vote for the candidates who stand on a platform di rectly antagonizing this principle. A further extract from the Connecticut platform is of interest: While legislation should not be for com bines and trusts, our commercial and agri cultural interests, as welliiB thg,e oiour de serving industries, should be favorably con sldered when necessary legislation is adopted. Connecticut tarmers are com pelled to compete with tho rich prairie farms of the West, and their products are restricted. They are entitled to all the fav orable legislation which has been or may be adopted, whether it refers to the tobacco leaf or to their other products. Here we have, in addition to a recogni tion of the principle of protection which the Democratic National Convention spurned altogether, a statement of the fact that the Connecticut farmers are in terested in protection. Even Democrats have been wont to perceive that the inter ests of Democratic voters must b3 pro tected, until the Chicago Convention made its famous outburst declariug unconstitu tional the principles that had been avowed by Madison, Jefferson and Jackson. When Democratic State conventions find it necessary to repudiate the national Democratic platform, the party is in a bad way. Now that the old postoffice building and its site are to be placed on tho market, Pittsburg has another most palpable and material evidence of its growth and pros perity in the difference between the price paid therefor 40 yeais ago and that asked for the same in the present. A trust in water works machinery would be even more calamitous than apy of tne illegal monopolistic conspiracies hitherto framed against the public Governor Flower seems to have been encouraged by the fame which his exclama tion about rats brought him to Indulge in an expletive which is stronger, but even less polite. His language can hardly be de scribed as flowery, though It is not without metaphorical odor. LtEE the matter itself, the repeated first names which appear at the end of the Third party's doubie-barroled lettor are sug gestive of Jim-jams. Hill is to speak at Brooklyn to-morrow night. The Democratic National Committee strained every nerve to get him to speak, and yet they know so little of what lie will say, that they are in a palsy of terror lest they shall be sorry he spoke when it is all over. There are more corners to the political fights this year than usual; throe, four and poll-corncrod contests are all the fashion. When the Republican Clubs meet at Louisville in May next, they will in all prob ability find that tho orator of that city Henry Wntterson of free-trade fame is still mourning over the defeat inflicted on his forlorn hope at the polls iu November. TnERE is likely to be a call for another Father Damlen to fight the insidious lottery in the Sandwich Islands ere long. , Customs officials and importers can dis tinguish betweeu the sheep und the goats In iS'&sgWililiii tlili'liMfefr -" i:- 3&--fr t- ' '- i- - ivSifcaA 4 - ti- - "' ' mmmimmMmmmmKS.3rz.2mHmmmmmmm wimMMmaiMsammmmnmmwammtmmtmmmm!KtaimfS7iiBitajtwvri,ri-,mm(i ur- n i--"-i-rriiirransM mimr mi fgTam-aarrt iti - -iiir & aBSeS3K95Ei$tt2EiS8& 'WlTIW''3BgWiBsBIBJ.3llB3WlMTMllilllllBfcTigWMIi Imports with ease and certainty, now that the United States Supreme Court has banded down its emphatic decision on tho dis puted goats' hair case. The political campaign is hardly more than sporadic at present, Dut It must surely become epidemic beroro long. Fifteen- puzzles and pigs in clover had their day, but now It's over, since all the Children of Father Penn or all at least who are voting men must wrack their wits and. work their brain, to solve the ballot law, in vain. Some of the detectives around here lately have been busily engaged trying to And out whose Hugh. Even his own leaders are now said to have expressed a dislike for Grovor's, in digestible epistles. No wonder the' poor man fights shy of publishing that- long-t delayed letter of acceptance. Guns are to play a part in the Utah cam paign. One Cannon has been nominatod for Congress. Perhaps the Federal authorities could be persuaded to use up some of Pittsburg's superfluity of lamp posts among the Iron monuments in processor erection to delin eate the Mexican frontier. Ladies in these parts are making a ten nisonian record for themselves this leap year. Some of the New York Democrats are convinced that Peck's report is damaging enough to the party to warrant his arrest. Politics and law get strangely mixed in tho Empire State at times. Somerset was turned upside down in its enthusiasm over lIcKinley yesterday. It is more blessed to give than to receive. And missionary societies should really de vote some attention to tho defective tele phone receivers which are so prolific a prov ocation of profanity. Even the Third party nominees have got in their letter ahead of Cleveland's. Common justice demands that theCooleys should be arrested and jailed, for so long as they are allowed at large they will be made unlairly to bear the burden of the crimes of others. "Old" veterans makes a good companion phrase to "mounted" cavalry. The rush of railroad travel to the G. A K. Encampment at Washington may bo taken as an indication of what is to be ex pected when the World's Fair is in full blast. PEOFLE OF PROMINENCE. Miss Ada A. Brewster, the Cali fornia artist, belongs to tho line of Brow sters who proudly claim kinship with Elder Brewster, of Mayflower fame. Amateur photography has an ardent disciple in Senator Eeund, of West Virginia, lie believes that in developing natuie and his fellow-men through its assistance a man develops himself. Ex-Senator "William McConnell, whom tho Idaho Republicans have nomi nated for Governor, was one of the great caravan of gold seekers who crossed the plains in the early days. The first woman to obtain a first class in the Homer School of Li term Humantores at Oxford since the examination was opened to women, four years ago, is Miss E. Pent ose, a student of Somerville Hall. David A.McKinlet, from 1881 to 1885, United States Consul to Honolulu and lor the past seven years Hawaiian Consul Gen eral at San Francisco, was prostrated by paralysis yesterday. He is a brother of Gov ernor McKlnley, of Ohio. Prof. Bergmans, who his been sum moned from Switzerland to Berlin to con sult with the physicians attending the American General Anderson, says that the General is suffering with cancer of the stomach, and that he .cannot possibly re cover. Mrs. Henry White, wife of the Secre tary of the United States Lezation, who has been stopping at Braemar, England, for tlie benefit of her health, had the honor or dining with the Queen on Tuesday last. Mrs. White has much improved in health lately. The Rev. Thomas Swing Sherman, the Catholic priest, who has lately been preach ing in Kansas Citv, was there thought to re semble his late father. General W. T. Sher man, very strongly in nppearance, and to reveal the intellectuality that is so character istic of the family. John I. Blair, of Blairsville, N. J., is reported to be worth all the way from $50,000,000 to $100,000,600. lie has never sold a share of stock in any enterprise with which lie has been associated, and has money In vested in scores of railroads, some of which he absolutely controls. Miss Zelia Nuttall, of San Francisco, is making a mai kas an anthropologist. Just now she is in Dresden, Germany, where she has a fine collection of books on Mexico. Her apartments are furnished and decorated in Mexican style, and she is wonderfully well informed in Aztec history aud arts. Hon. John Dalzell passed through Washington yesterday on his way home fiom the spiing9 in Virginia, where he has been for several weeks, and will now be in his district until the end of the campaign, except when ho is speaking thronghout tho State. He thinks that the Republicans are leading in all places. A TRIP 'BOUND THE W0BLD For the Young Duko of Orleans, AVIio Will Visit the Fair. TBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1 LoxDoir, Sept. 17. The young Duke of Or leans, accompanied by a party of friends, will start in a few weeks for an interesting trip around the world. The Prince will first have about three months' elephant and rhinoceros bunting in East Africa, when he will travel lelsurolv through Asia and China to Japan. Ho hopes to arrive in Chicago in the autumn of next year, and will sojourn tlieie about a couple of weeks belore honoring Pittsburg with his royak presence. The Duke of Orleans is a strapping young fellow, who enjoys lllo and can make him self happy in uny place and with any peo ple, so that Americans need not worry themselves unduly at the prospect of hav ing to entertain him. Wliat the People Want. Baltimore American. 1 The people of this country want sound money and sound banks nnd will have none other. A GIFT DIVINE. This gift Is given This gift from heaven Unto a few. Through veins with human fralltj filled A glow divine Is found distilled. There's music rare Flared In the air To such a one. And measured by its mystic flow Ills breathing and his movements go. As through the sky " The meteors fly. So darts his glance. Or It would seem as (hough soft bands Had waved before his face like fans. By man and beast. From great to least, He will be loved; A child wiU sit upon his knee. And seek bis face confidingly, ne cannot rest Without the best' The worn) can give. Our truest thought to him wo bring; Our sweetest song to him we ilng. And If we find. Like all mankind. He too can sin. We feel, although we sigh or weep. His part divine Is but asleep. Eleanor 11. ValdtctU, in Harper iXagastne, S.'jit3; THE GOSSIP OF POLITICS. irliOM A STAFF COBazsrOKOENT.l The past week has in many respects been a lively one at the various headquarters. The political market is looking up. Both bulls and boors begin to frisk about, tearing up the sod and envorting up and down, as if snorting and growling and kicking up clouds of dust leally served a definite purpose. There will be more noise and more dust this week. To sensitive ears and weak eyes this is business. People aro inclined to accept a political campaign as they do the Fourth of July, on the strength or the noise and the smell of burning powder. The fact is. however, the real work is con cealed beneath this rush and rattle, Just as the vital, work or an attacking force is done under cover of furious commanding. In military parlance it is a diversion. In poli tics It is diverting. No man who is not sit ting up nights splitting his head over the possible results can lounge ardund head quarters and witness the coming and going, hear the slappity banging, note the curious anxiety and rustle about rumors and rain bows without being diverted. If such a man can see no amusement in it be Is devoid of the sense of humor. Nobody Beads the Documents. Four-fifths of politics is humbug and probably tho biggest humbug in politics is the "document." The political document is the humbug of humbugs. This because it humbugs tho reader, the writer and the sender. The reader isn't humbugged to any considerable extent because no doesn't read mo document, in this wise course he hum bugs those who write, those who pay lor and those who send the document. Yet the reader loves to receive the dooument be cause it is a recognition of his political entity. That is nil "thnre is in it. He knows it is humbug, but clamors for it and is offended if he doesn't get it. We know tho smiles and wiles of the summer girl are humbug, bnt we drop the mort onticin? game ot short cards to get them. We can't use them in our business, but we want them just the same. It is to gratify this extraordinary n flection for tho document that the Government spends millions ot dollars annually. It is to try to satisfy this craving lor campaign literatnie that millions ot document- aro distiibuted during every national contest. I have seen thousands of people who have reccivod documents. I never yet saw a man who read one. I never, heard of a single well authenticated case of a document getting lu its work on the leasoning powers of a voter. Not a doc. How People Appreciate Them. When I was a boy my father had long been secretary of a county agricultural society in a thriving section of a Western State. He was also a politician of local note. Ho had a great deal to do with documents und incidentally 1 became a disseminator of such literature at a very early age. In fact, I carried on a perpetual campaign of educa tion. Nor will I ever forgot the difficulties I experienced in getting people, farmers, mechanics, laborers, etc., to take these docu ments off our hands. My father at first made it a rule to send evory man who called at our house away with a document. This worked moderately well until tho neighbors ceased to call or remained on tho other side of tho fence. They began to regard the document in tho Hunt ot a punishment. "lies y'r leyther got any more o' them books at y'r house?" nn old man once asked me across the front gate one Saturday. "Oh, yes;'1 said I encouragingly, "we've got a whole smokehouse lull!" "Ye hovl Wall nie'n Liz wasacomin'over to-morrer ef we did't hev to tako no books. Johnny and tho dog lied some lun with ther others aud throwed tholeaves with pictersof peaches an' applesnnd things over'n the cow yawl to fool tne cows, and dot rot it eT our likeliest heiler didn't nearly choke hcrsell to death on 'em." When the books besan to accumulate I used to lug a load to Sunday school at the fcchoolhouseand surreptitiously drop tlietn $n the farm wagons while the ownniu of the wagons were innocently singinguudpiaying within. Some of those hooks weie profusely illustrated, undl recognized the excellent results ot mv camnairti of education na mnn as I taw the prints tacked up against the kitchen walls every where about the conn tiy. 1 finally told mv lather Ot the Rnmirentin- luctauce of the people to be educated by documents. Ho finally succumbed and re signed his secretaiyship. Where Lots of Money Is Spent. In the distribution of political documents the National Committees and Congressional Committees and State Committees now ex pend more energy and money than in any other branch of campaigning. They attempt to cover every demand from whatever source. Tho Republican National Commit tee has a five-story building full of docu ments aud operators. The Democratic Com mittee sends its documents mainly from Washington. Both the Slate Committees on Twenty-lourth stieet run document rooms .the Democratic League or clubs runs an ex tensive concern in the basement of No. 11 and the anti-snnppeis, Republican Tariff League, Democratic Kelorm League, etc run separate documentary establishments Not less than 1,000 persons are at piesent in New York, packing, directing, handling nnd shipping documents to the voters ot the country . This is mostly a wholesale busi ness, too, the documents being shipped in uum iu ouibc miu tyuumy lonimitiecS, C1UDS etc., to be addles, ed individually. The document cleik at No. 11 Twenty-fouith street told me thev had a call from the orth Woods for 8,000 copies ot the foice bill. Millions of documents on the tariir ai e going out. Tneieis, as a matter of fact, inst a slnele. small class ot voters lor the document to operate upon with benefit to the party, and that Is the class mado up or "floateis." The dyed-in-the-wood pai tisan never i eads cam paign Uteratute, and it wouldn't do hiui or his party auy good if he did read it. Tho uoator" is apt to be a ciank or an idiot. If, u urauiv no nuuiun t react it an idiot he couldn't. So the so-called campaign of education, so far as doouments go, is the biggest kind of a humbug. Tho newspaper is the irreat educator of this age. There are more people who read a tingle great news paper every day In the year than will read nil the documents distributed during this campaign. And the newspaper places the points at issue in terse and easily understood language; it conies at it aain and again; it meets adversaries on a level ground: it is never sluggish, rhetorical, piosy or long winded. A little country newspaper has moro influence than nil tho official literature that could be dumped upon a county. The Grandfather's Hat Onco More. His grandfather's hat seems to be destined to again bear nn Important part in the Presl dental campaign, if nnytiiing is to be In ferred from the saiupjes submitted by enteiprisin,- manufacturers of campaign outfits. Peihapsit would be a violent con clusion that Harrison is "talking through his hat," but it looks that way. Colonel'j. S. Clarkson has on exhibition at 518 an extra ordinary affair in the shano of a bell ci owned h'gh roller straw some eight inches high with a blue, white and led band around it that would scare a circus horse. I do not know whether Colonel Clarkson wears it as a regular thing. It has his card on the in side. It may be of tho political vintage or 1883, and that it is now exhibited to show that Clarkson is still in, the liDg notwith standing his disfigurement. There ate other varieties of the same hat in felt more or less reduced to modern idols of male fashions. The young men's club stj les are not dis similar in shupe to tho upper Broadway sjnd Bowery silk heaagcar ot several years ago. Thev aro extieinely wooly and of a dirty white complexion. They are evidently in tended to be brushed the wrong way with u curry-comb. Tom Carter a Thousand Ahead. Colonel Tom Carter is not a sport, so called, but a streak of sporting blood must run through his veins somewhere. He is In this respect as well as In other respects in touch with the world. Jnst before tho Snl- livan-Coibett prize fight, Colonel Carter as an object of publio interest had dwindled to very small proportions. Ho had been re peatedly told that he was not in it but ho was. Apparently accepting his retired situation ho attended a dinner with several friends at tne Hoffman Ilonso. The conver sation was led into politics occasionally, but invariably got back to the great fistic match to come off the next day at New O. leans. Colonel Carter admitted that his eaily training had not ueen such ns to in terest him in such matteis, and that his subsequent liuo of studv had not made him a Judge or bruisers aud bruising. Neverthe less he differed with the other irentlemen presentgwho to a .man were Sullivan sym pathizers. "Intelllgoncoand education," said Colonel Tom, "are ns Useful in the physical sciences as in anything else. I'ura inclined to think that Mr. Cprbett wijl win the match. He Is intelligent, educated and understands the relation of tho laws of health to the physi cal science or boxing. Then he is neither a bully nor a braggart Jiy sympathies are holly with Mr. Corbett in this impending contest that overshadows our common country." This opinion aroused the united derision of the rest of the party, every member of - a:tAgyiS.ji - Vj .? SdSiW-i''s'3iS'ifaSKi!- -W- i jLJi'!Lfc-."-' v i. til " " " ' n,-w-..-T -, i..... rT.r..T-.-TJ-.-. -jtc-jg-... Li i MBaBy-!JTP-.i mimtaKamaarsmmmammmHmcmmmammmmm which began to fire bets and queries at the devoted head of the Republican Chairman and Corbett admirer. "Brains will tell in a fight," perslstod Col onel Tom. ''What is your sympathy worth, Tom?" inqniredone. "I'll bet you a hundred to twenty you are wrong," said another. "Better stick to politics," "Back your judgment. Here's 100 to 10 on Sullivan." "And here's 250 to 50 Corbett Is knocked ' silly." "Gentlemen" "Come, Tom put up or shut up." 'Where's your sporting bloodt" "Gentlemen, 1 nm not a betting man" Derisive laughter. "But if you will come atme one at n time," drawled the gentleman from Montana, "I shall feel compelled to accommodate you." Amid considerable chaffing Colonel Tom drew his wallet and began to book the bets now showered upon him. The 'odds were gi eat enough to risk the thing und he play fully gathered thorn in. The result was that on the morning succeeding that memorable night in New Orlmns Colonel Tom Carter was just about $1,100 richer. The Candidates and the Artists. It gives me pain I had almost said "a" pain-to remaik the campaign lithographs that aro being sent out in neat pasteboard cylinders from the respective National head quarters. I thouaht, at first sight, these were giant Chinese firecrackers, or elong ated sections of Greek fire, or Itoman can dles, or some other ancient form of slumber ing festivity, but investigation proved them to be a good deal woise. They are lire-size pictures of the opposing candidates. I mean as portraits they are tvorse. That of ex President Cleveland is the picture of a man of ferocIon aspect and a sloping Dutch roof for a forehead. The ordinary kindly eye of Mr. Cleveland is given the severe expression of n man who has had his toes trodden on in a crowd of people receiving unsatisfactory election return. The neckandjaw and cheek are those of a man who can take his shirt off without unbuttoning his collar. My type writer says ir ho should meet such a man on nppor llroadway suddenly alter 10 o'clock she would unhesitatingly break and run. This is nn unlmppv turn to give a man of amiable temper and pleasant manners, and whose face, in everyday lile is nn invitation to little children and causes every stray doz to wag his tail. It is the ex-President as seen by tho man who failed to get that postoffice position. Happily" lor General Stevenson, Demo ciatjc cindldate for Vice Piesident, the National Committee forgot all about him. His portrait dons not, therefore, complicate the situation. Perhaps it was thought best to try this sitetch ot the head or the ticket on the public first, and if it didn't kill any body to supplement It with the tall. I fancy, however, that a good many people would like to have the portrait of a real livo Demo crat to hang up where they could look at it occasionally. Tho National Republican Committee has been careful to err in the other direction. Its pictures of the candidates are calculated t'o excite admiration and respect. I would have never believed that Hauisnn could be made so beautiful, while the portrait of Mr. Whitelaw Held is that of a man who could borrow n quarter iif me any day any day I happen to iiave one abont me on his simnle word of honor that he would hand it back next pay-day. That peculiar nose of Harrison's is as exquisite as the nose on the celebrated statue or the Greek slave. Those whiskers aie exquisitely rendered, each particular hair being given n beauty and in tellectual fmce of Its own, while tlie rather fiat and omewh.it dished face of the cari caturists has been made to disappear alto gether. But tho Republican artist errs in the right diiection. Putting Out a Lot of Shin Plasters. The managers at 518 Fifth avenue are about to spring a new thing upon their un suspecting opponents down tho street. It will come in the shape of a regular financial fusilade on the 10 per cent bank tax repeal. A fuc simile of many of the old shin plasters of State hanking days is being prepared and these will illustrate, in a practical way, the dnngors or the Democratic return to wildcat banking. I saw n lot or these shin plasters at headquarters and they were depressing enough to a man who once experienced the inconvenience and losses that arise from the free banking system. Charles Theodore Muriiat. New Yobk, Sept. 17. CHANDLER BEGINS HIS MAECH. London Geographical Circles Confident of Splendid Scientific Kesults. London, Sept. 17. A dispatch says that William Astor Chandler's expedition to ex plore a region or Eastern Africa has started from Zanzibar for Somaliland, a country ex tending along the coast of Africa from Abyssinia to Cape Guardafui. The expedi tion will ascend the Tana river to Mount Kenin, a constantly snow-clnd mountain 18,000 feet above the level of the sea, a river descending rrom which is supposed to flow to the Victoiia Nyanza. Thence the ex plorers will proceed for Lake Rudolph, taking observations and securing much scientific knowledge ot the country which they will traverse, Mr. Chandler, who is a young man, left this citv in the early part of-J une on his way to Africa. The English Government gave him all the facilities necessary tor his ex ploring expedition in the matter of transhipment of stores and arms. Much in terest is manifested in scientific and geo graphical circles in Mr. Chandler's expedi tion, as there is little doubt, in view of tho cxpeiience pained in his previous African travels and his splendid equipment, that he will add important achievements in the way of knowledge gained in a hitherto unex plored country. THE FASTEST BOAT AFLOAT To Be Boilt by the White Star Line, and to Make Thirty Miles an Honr. IBT CABLE TO THE PISFATCn.l Lokdox, Sept. 17. No sooner has the Inter est excited by tho launch of the great Cun arder Campani subsided than there comes the announcement that the White Star line hasotdered the construction of the largest and fastest vessel in the woiid. Messrs. Ilarland & Wolff, of Belfast, have received the order. The new boat will be 80 feet longer than the new Cunarders, but about the same beam, and her tonnage- will be about 2,530 gicater than that of the Cam pani. It is confidently prophesied that the giant ship will make 30 miles an hour with her twin screwR. She is expected to he the first boat to cross tho Atlantic in less than five days. The enormous boilers of the new Campani liavo already been taken aboard, and the hull of her sister ship is being lap idly made leady lor launching. THE KAISEE NOT COKING TO CHICAGO. Mr. Steinway Evidently Misunderstood the Emperor William's Kcmark. Berlin; Sept. 17. The Reichsanzeiger, the official organ, this evening says that Willia.n Stcinway's statement, regarding his sug gested visit of Emperor William to the Chicago Exhibition, was incorrect. In his audience with the Empeior, Mr. Steinwny said that if His Majesty would visit America he would bo greeted with boundless en thusiasm by the German Americans there, and it was stated that the Empeior re sponded, "My going to Chicago is not at all impossible." The Reictisanztigcr doclares that what the Emperor 1 eailj- said was that it was .not very possible that he would go there. Lowell's ISook Almost Iteady. IDT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1 Loudon, Sept. 17. The promised book con taining tho correspondence of the late James Ru?ell Lowell is almost icadv for publication. It will include many delight ful letters to old friend, nnd also some im portant and interesting political dispatches and diplomatic documents, reproduced by permission or the United States Govern ment. DEATHS HEKK AND ELSKWHERE. Mrs. Bosamond P. C. Bailey. Mrs. Rosamond Patv Coigshall Bailey, wlfeofClty Attorney Bailey, of Indianapolis, died Friday nlglitat the occidental lioiei in mm cujr from an overdose of chloral takeu for a ncrvoui af fection. Mm. I'.nlU-y was a inuelclan and critic of note, anil lud Tor mar.vj ears cominctrrl the mus ical department or IlicVstf. She rJ3vrsoll. ami descended rrom the families uf Benjamin Franklin and Lucretla Mutt. Obituary Notes. JonN M ise. aged 80, a highly respected cltlicn ofUnlontown, nearCauton, t was found dead In his bed yesterday mornlug of heart failure. REV. HENRY P. Torsey. D. D., M.D.. for about W J cars President of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, died Monday at Kent's Hill, Me., aged M. Ex-Judge Nathaniel C Moak died at his home lu Albany yesterday, aged 60 years. He was District Attorney at one time, an eminent lawyer" and a well-known Democratic politician. General Jaues A. Allen, who was for many years Assistant Treasurer of the Cumberland Val ley Railroad Company, died at Carlisle yMtcrdsy, aged 10 years. He was a leading Republican aud Quite active lu politics. JABNDYCE VERSUS JARNDYCE. A New Move In the Most Famous Inheri tance Law Suit In History. New York, Sept. 17. Among the passen gers on the Alaska, which arrived Wednes day, were Nicholas Moody, a London solici tor, and Henfy Pouchette, of London. Their errand here is to consult with American claimants to the estates of Earl Howe. Liti gation over the estates has been in progress for nearly a century. It Is probably the most famous lawsuit in history. Dickens made it the basts of Jarndyce versus Jam dycein "The Bleak Honse." The amount involved is now estimated variously from $100,000,000 to $150,00 1.00O. The case is known in England as the Jen nens case, from William Jennens, who died in 1733. He was the richest commoner in England, nis real estate was seized by Lady Sophia Charlotte Cuion, afterward Baroness Howe, in behalf of her son, George Augustus William Curson, who died during nis infancy in 1830. The' claimants to the Jennens property claim that Lady Curson concealed the death of her son and substi tuted for him the child of a village girl, Ann Oakes. This child Lady Curson named Rlchaid William Ponn Curson, and had him educated nccordlng to the manners of the time as would become the son of tltied peo ple. When he reached bis majority Lady Curson bought for him at an immense ex pense the title of Earl Howe, which title had lapsed several years before. Thfc present Earl Howe is the grandson of this hoy. Throughout the country the de scendants of the Jennens lamily have been searching for proofs to establish their claim. They assert that in many instances the de fendants have mutilated records, and even defaced gravestones in order to prevent them from getting the evidence they needed. Many people, of course, have lost their for tunes in this litigation. Among them was a Philailelnliii woman, whose share in the suit cost her $50 000. In America 130 claimants to a share in the estate havo been discovered. Not all of them bave been discouraged, and It is to meet them that Messrs. Moody and Pouch ette are here. They have brought the whole case with them, and it consists of an incred ible mass of documents. The present head claimant is Benjamin Willi, a lineal de scendant of Jennens. Ho claims to have discovered new evidence recently that will tend to prove that the first two Earls Howe were aware of the fraud practised by Lady Curson. This enables them to reopen litiga tion, and papers were served upon the Earl early last month. AN EPIDEMIC OF DISINFECTION Even Worse Than Cholera Itself Is Afflict ing Germany Just Now. LojtDoy, Sept. 17. The Ttma to-day pub lishes another letter of its series on cholera, written Dy well-known physicians who are studying the disease in Russia and Gor mnny. To-day's letter describes the in spection and disinfection craze in Germany. Tho writer says that inspection and disin fection have become epidemic, and, while being ineffective to prevent tho disease, are not less harmful in their effects than cholera Itself. Every frontier town, village and hamlet bristles with impossible regulations which the local officials Interpret according to their own views. Matters are carried on to such a pitch that iu many cases the Im peri il Health Officer has been obliged to in terfere and issue fairly reasouanlo regu lations to check the misdirected zeal of the local authorities. The whole movement, tho writer adds, is the work of the German press, which rushed into a frenzy of excitement over the epi demic in Hamburg. Lurid telegrams were printed, embodying all street gossip and equally valuable information. Not a single localjournalist has entered a cholera hos pital in Hamburg or has seen what he pre tended to describe. Abuse or the town au thorities was indulged in, and hysterical de mands for all sorts of measures were made. Sensationalism, malevolence and ignorance have been the materials employed to iruide public opinion. No wonder, he says, that every local authority was quaking and felt compelled to brace itself up to u tre mendous stato of violence. The Times this morning publishes the first of a series of at tides by Hull Caine, describ ing a tour in Western Rinsia and Galicia. The writer says that when he left Berlin two hionths ago Karl Franzos, knowing that he would return via Hamburg, warned him that Hamburg was the worst cholera bed in Europe, and that he should quit the city in stantly if a single catenas reported. Mr. Caine adds that when ho returned to Ham burg the epidemic had already appeared, but no precautions had been taken except at the excellent barracks for Hebrew emi grants on the American quay. THE J50T3 AT BUFFALO. The value or Republican clubsas campaign agencies steadily increases, and in the pres ent struggle they promise to accomplish more than overbCore. Piladelplua Press. The annual Convention of League of Re publican Clubs, held ut Buffalo, was a grand success. Governor McKinley's speech was a feature of the great event. Onto Stale Jour nal. Seldom is a political convention held in which there are so few bickerings and such a general feeling of harmony as was shown in the convention of Republican leagues Buffalo Express. The headquarters of the Buffalo League of Republican Clubs was called tho White House. Prosit omen. It will be the head quarters of national Republicanism for four years to come. Xew York Advertiser. The influence of the gathering at Buffalo will be felt in every State, county, township and ward, and it will prove a powerful stimulant to the clnb idea, already so potent a factor in campaign work. Mm'capolit Trib une. There shonld go forth from Bnffalo no un certain sound. Moro than that, an inspira tion should come out of the national assem blage which will stir the hearts and mind of the young men of the country. Philadelphia Telegraplu The mo-t Interesting feature of the con vention, perhaps, was the reception ot re ports of League work in the various States. These show the solid and widespread nature ofthe Republican club movement, which is a political fdrce of largo slguldcanca and value. yew York Tribune. The task of perfecting a thoroughly eflec tive fightiug organization is being prose cuted with an unflagging industry and an unremitting attention to details which af ford a splendid promise of telling achieve ments for protection and good government before November 8. Xclo York Press. The meeting of tho National League of Republican Clubs at Buffalo, N. Y., gave proof of the enthusiasm that provails among these organizations in all parts of the country. This enthusiasm is not over confidence, but a determination to win, and a Aim belief that the Republican campaign is sure to end in a great victory. Baltimore American. UBS. GEANT TO HES. LOGAN. The General's Widow Eemembers the Vet erans on Their Reunion. Washiqton, Sept. 17. Mrs. General Lo gan has recived the following telegram. Cranston's Hotel. ) West I'olnt, '. 1 . Sept. IS. J Mrs. John A. Loc;an. Calumet Place, Washington: My Dear Old Friend: On my return to C'raus- ton. last e'enln. arter an absence of more than a fortnight. I round your kind letter and Invitations to be with you on this, to me, moit Intensely inter esting occasion, the reunion of our brave and be loved old veterans. Please present to them all my (oval and aflecllonite regards, and my gratitude for their unflinching loyalty and brave support to General Grant on the Mississippi, through the At llderucss and on the James, liclleve. with me. that j cut-nil li ran twill be with you lu spirit on this happv reunion, as will I. both In my spirit and heart, sincerely yours, Julia Dent Gkant. Slake a Note of This. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1 It will be remembered that Hill is the man who said a ietr weeks ago that the McKiniey law has turned every workshop in the coun try into a Republican headquarters. A Language of Their Own. Philadelphia Times. There are some 3.003 intelligible languages spoken on the earth, and yet brakemen in sist on using the tongue they do when call ing out the names of stations. Bigger Man Than Grover. Cleveland Le.iuer.J Corbett is a bigger figure in the popnlar eye in New York these days than Mr. Grover Cleveland ever has been or can be. Policemen Are Cholera Proof. Washington Tost. A Pittsburg physlolan declares that cholera is a crime. Perhaps that is the reason so few policemen catch it. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Pittsburg has a $35,000 law. Uncle Sam employs 37,000 women tele graphers. There are oat trees in existence 1,000 years old. Every fifth boy in India is at ichool, but only every fifteenth girL Faraday first practically used gutta percha as an. insulator for wires In 1817. Plautus is said to have written th first of his comedies when he was 23 year old. The offices andt workrooms of the Lon don Times were lighted by electricity In 1S78. Toldeo and Damascus blades were pop ular in the Middle Ages, and sold for their weight In gold. The co3t of a one-man sea diving; ap paratus for a depth of ZOO feet is estimated only to be abont $575. The first elevated road in Great Britain will be In Liverpool. The road Is already In the course of construction. In 1890 there were 2G0 electric railway! with 3 000 cars going 1,733 miles, and carry lug 1,200,000 passengers daily. The longest canal in the world is the one extending from the frontier of China to St. Petersburg, It measures In all ,I71 miles. A. hunting horn in Limoges enamel, made in 1530, and believed to have formerly belonged to Horace Walpole, was sold re cently for $31,500. The Australian wumnera is a straight stick with a tube In the end in which tho handle of a dart Is placed, the throw-stick remaining in the hand. If the atmosphericpressure is 14 pounds to the square inch, as usually reckoned, the man of average size Is constantly subjected to a pressure of 28,000 pounds. It has only been 81 years since the first tomatoes were Introduced into America. The original plant was cultivated as a vege table curiosity at Salem, Mass. According to the new British postal regulations, a foreignlettermay.be of any weight, but must not exceed 2 feet in length or one loot in breadth or depth. In speaking of the solidification of a body by cooling, Prof. Dewar says that water can be made to become solid by the evaporation of a quarter of its weight. Dr. Hammond, of Ytashington, has col lected 70 cases which have occurred in that city during the last ten years of men dying suddenly irom running after street cars. The proposed underground electric rail ways for London, if sanctioned, will be 13 feet under the Thames, 68 feet beneath Re gent's Park and 85 leet below Oxtorl street. The impact water wheel, so much used for furnishing power for mines, metallurgi cal works and electric plants, has lately been Improved by a new arrangement of multiple uozzles. There is in China a secret society called the "Triad." It i3 a capital crime to belong to it, yet it has more than 30,000,000 of mem bers. Its object is tho overthrow of the present dynasty. The editor of El-Ahram, an Egyptian journal, is n favorite with the Kbedive,who has, as his latest means of showing his ap proval, conferred tho order of the Chefakat upon the editor's wife. The perils of the sea do not seem to be so very terrible when it Is shown that out of 5CO.00O.C00 passengers carried last year on American waters, and irom American ports, only 65 lives were lost. The latest form of steamship propeller Is an English invention. It is designed so that when in motion there is no weight of water on the "blucies on the rise and tail of the propeller, due to the pitching of the ves sel. Forty thousand pounds was the cost oi the armchair presented by the city of Augs burg to the Emperor Rudolphus IL of Ger many, abont the year 1575. The chair, which is of steel, took tne artist about 30 years to make. An eminent physician believes that savage races have better color perception than civilized. Of 103 Indian boys he round none color blind; another group of 250 had but two. while none of the girls was found to be color blind. The tramways in London consists of 117 miles of lina; but these are shared bp sev eral, colli panics, the North Metropolitan owning 41 miles, the London nearly 22, the Loudon street about 13, and live other com panies 41, miles betn een them. The-Kioneo and Potenza section ofthe South Italian Railway has to pierce through the Apennii.es. and one of the tunnels, which Is now in progress, is ILOGS feet in length. At the close of March this tunnel had been pierced for a length ot 2,233 feet. Some progress has also been made with the approaches iu the tunnel. Aluminium, or an alloy of that metal, has been used for the constrnction of a life boat at Stralsnnd. As is well known, the metal is remarkably light for its strength; but it remains to be seen how the boat will stand sea water, as the air of the sea seems to exercise a corroding effect upon alum inium and aluminium alloys. A curious incident occurred at Heceta Head, Ore., the other day. One ofthe work men on the lighthouse accidentally let go of his wheelbarrow, which rolled down the cliff, over rocks, a distance of 250 leet, into the ocean, and was a few days later picked up on the beach, ten miles this side of Heceta, in perfect good order. A complete suit of knightly armor con tained the helmet, tho cniras3 for breast, epaulieres for shoulder?, brassart?, upper arms; condieres, elbows: avnnt-bras. lower arms; gauntlets, gloves; faudes tor flanks; hanbergeou, it quilted surcoat; cuissarcs, thigh pieces: genouillieres, knee guards: grevieres, leg pieces; sole lets, shoes and spurs. A very widely-known clergyman in a town near to New York had tho misfortune lately to lose his wife while the invalid was ab-ent to the seashore on n vain quest for ueaiiu. ins griei uiu nut ciouu ins inieuec.. He went to the local railroad orfice and en deavored to persuade the agent to send tils wife's body back to the city on her return excursion ticket. A French perfumer has been making tests of California roses, and discovered that thev possess 20 per cent more of the volatile oil than the French roses. This means the development of a new industry for Califor nia. The French perfume factories of the town of Grasse alone give employment to 5,000 persona. It is said that S3 cents per pound Is paid for some flowers. SFICT SEPTEMBER SPRINKLE. Satan I wonder how it is these joke writers know so much about me? Imo 3Iost of them are probably ex-prlnters devils. BruoUun Easle. "I'll follow them." screamed the wrath ful women, "I'll follow them to the very ends or theearthl" "You had better stay at home and apply for a divorce. ' suggested her cooler-headed friend. "A man woo will run away with a housemaid is hardly worth so much emotion." 'Oli. bother the housemaid and him, tol" walled the weepine victim. 'They took my pug with them." Indianapolis Journal. They were not much to speak about The lovers who before me sat; Between the acts he hurried out. She wore a seven storied hat. Sao Tork Pre, SHE WAS ALT. IttOUT. She could not darn his socks or sew A button on bis coat; She could not make a decent shirt To fit his manly throat. But what cared he if she had not A talent to unfold? For when be married her she had A hundred thousand cold. '-Spare Jfoments. "Is marriage a failure? Indeed I don't ne, How people can Justly deeb re it to be;" Tbe minister merrily murmured as he Put away 120 Jost sent as a fee. Washington Star. Miss Gasket (at 11:30 p. M.) Do you know. Mr. Sapy, lam sure you would make an excellent editor of a rural newspaper. Sappy (pleated) AVeally. now. Miss Gasket. Miss Gatket Indeed, I do. Your motto seems to be. "I have come to stay." Detroit FrtePrut. "The clove," said the exchange editor, "is probably the strongest thing of Its size " "Isn't the nutmeg grater:" broke In the financial editor. "You think to," retorted the other, glaring at him, "because It bears the mace!" "Such talk as that," tnundered the railway edi tor, grabbing his cane, 'IHeptcel"-(7AtaWoJH. turn. . i r & i
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