The\ Democrat.
IFRIDAY, JUNE 20. 180.
ABOCT the time the next census taker
omes around he'll want your photograph.
t
REPRESENTATIVE CLUNIE, of California,
remarked tne Other day that the Repub
lican Representatives from his State were
declining renominations because they
know it's a bad year for the Republicans
and they don't want to run the risk of be
ing defeated."
CELDRIC HODGSON BURNETT, the original
of Mrs. Burnett's " Little Lord Fauntle
roy," who was taken sick in Europe, and
is now in Philadelphia for treatment by
specialists, is not expected to recover.
He is a victim of consumption.
Gov. ABHBTT has signed the bill which
forbids the employment in New Jersey of
detectives from other States, which means
that the Pinkertons must stay out when
strikes occur and the local authorities
deal with the strikers. It is about time
for that sort of thing generally.
LANCASTER County Democrats have in
structed their delegates to the State Con
vention to vote for \Y. U. Hensel for
Governor, but as the vote is only intended
as a compliment, Mr. Hensel not being
actively in the field, it will eventually
drift to Pattison.
FRACIS W. HU.L, Democratic candidate
fot Governor of Maine, died at his home
at Exeter Sunday morning, of acute bron
chitis. Eleven days ago Mr. Hill was
nominated at the State Convention at Au
gusta, and the next day he visited Bar
Harbor with a party of friends. He con
tracted a cold that led to his death.
AMONG the short story writers who will
be represented in the July number of Har
per'* Magazine are two promising new
American authors, Jonathan Sturges and
Matt Crim. Mr. Sturges is already fa
vorably known as the translator of " The
Odd Number." and Miss Crim contributed
a bright story to the June number of liar
per' Magazine.
ASSUMING the estimate that the popula
tion of the United States is now 65,000,-
000, the increase this century " is almost
as great as that of the entire population of
Spain, as great as that of Mexico and
Canada together, or as Belgium, tho
Netherlands and Portugal combined." No
wonder that problems of government
have confronted us rnpidly.
THE platform adopted by the Maine
Republican Convention declares in favor
of Prohibition and demands of Congress
the enactment of such legislation as shall
unable each State to exercise full control
within its border of the traffic in all
liquors, whether imported in original
packages or otherwise; commends the
administration of President Harrison and
Speaker Reed's acts, and favors a contin
ance of the protective policy.
THE River and Harbor bill is to be re
ported to the Senate next week with an
increase of about $3,000,000 over the
tatal amount provided for in the measure
as It left the House. The Mississippi
River Commission will have $3,000,000
to spend in the improvement of that
stream, while $250,000 is set aside for the
Missouri. The treasury surplus will have
no existence when the present Congress
gets done voting away publie money.
Messrs. George Washington Childs and
Anthony Drexel, Postmaster General
Wanamaker, and one or two other wealthy
Pliiladelphians have made a present of a
cottage at Cape May Point to Mrs. Har
rison. The cottage is described as a
large, old-fashioned building, containing
about twenty rooms. Mrs. Harrison was
overcome by surprise. She is, however,
greatly delighted with the gift, and is
especially proud because of the fact that
this is the first piece of real estate she has
ever owned in her own name.
EVERY prudent citizen who is not al
ready supplied with enough suspenders
and rubber shoes to last him at least a
year should go and invest in these luxu
ries at once if his pocketbook can stand
the strain, for it is apparent that no man
who is not supplied with a private mint
of his own will be able to indulge in these
articles long. The rubber dealers hold
meetings about twice a month and pretty
nearly double prices at every meeting.
Now thev are taking steps to organize a
rubber trust, so that they can put the
prices up as often as they like without
the formality of a meeting. If the past is
any criterion by which to judge the fu
ture.there will be a rise in rates every flay
after the trust is formed.
FROM Montana to New Mexico there are
reports of suffering for want of rain, for
while the East has been so thoroughly
soaked for a year or more there has been
a very light rainfall in parts of the West
lying along the eastern slope of the Rocky
Mountains. Northern Montanna is badly
dried UP and grass is in miserable condi
tion where it is usually most luxuriant at
this season. Stockmen of the southern
part of New Mexico are losing cattle daily
by hundreds. A dispatch says: " Few
cattle die out on the ranges. The grass
has beeu eaten down close to the ground
near water courses and herds go miles
into the foot hills for feed, where they re
main till driven in by thirst, when they
drink their fill and lie down never to get
up." The stockmen of the northern part
of the Territory had their share of misery
in the fatal November blizzards, and alto
gether the stockman's life this year is not
a happy one.
SAD NEWS TO A YOENG WIFE.
The Sudden md Cnexpected Death of I'rof.
Philip H. stollewerk Yesterday at Noon.
Shortly after noon dMonay the many
friends of Professor Philip 11. Stollewerk
were shocked by the announcement of his
death. Many had seen him on the street
in the morning, apparently in his usual
good health. Others bed Been him at ser
▼ice on Sunday, when he seemed te be in
the best of health.
It appears that Mr. Stollewerk had
some heart troubles about a year ago,
from the effects of which he never fully
recovered. While at services in the Lu
theran Church on Sunday, where he was
organist, he was taken with a weak spell
and remarked to the person next to him,
" Now, if I don't feel better you will have
to play the last piece." However, he was
able to remain at his place till the ser
vices were ended.
Yesterday morning he was as well as
usual and went about giving instructions
to his pupils in the Morrell House, as was
his custom. About 10 o'clock, while giv
ing instructions to Miss Anna Morley, he
was taken suddenly ill and he excused
himself. He retired to his bed-room,
whither Professor Bennett at once re
paired, having been notified by Miss
Morley.
Dr, Schill was summoned in haste, and
offered to administer a hypodermic in
jection, but the patient objecting, he left,
thinking recovery a question of only a
few minutes. The Professor rapidly grew
worse, and his condition was alarming
his friends. Some medicine obtained
from Dir. Schill by Professor Bennett and
a mustard plaster seemed to afford a tem
porary relief, for at 11:30 o'clock tho
patient was able to sit up. Professor
Bennett then went to dinner, but in a
few minutes he was summoned in haste
by the chambermaid, who had become
thoroughly alarmed at the patient's con
dition. Professor Bennett and Dr.
Matthews, who had just finished dinner,
hastened to the room, where they found
Professor Stollewerk suffering greatly and
sitting on the edge of the bed. Almost
as they entered he fell forward on his
knees, exclaiming: "I'm dying, I'm
dying, I must die and in a moment
more life was extinct.
Undertaker Henderson's services were
then engaged, and the body was given
into his charge. • \
Professor Stollewerk was a native of
Rhenish Prussia, and was descended of
a musical family. He possessed great
natural talent for music. His musical ed
ucation was of the highest order, having
passed successfully through various thor
ough courses of training in his native
country. He acquired quite a reputation
while on a concert tour through Germany
and other parts of Europe, at the age of
sixteen. Later he was employed as sec
ond instructor at the Institute of Coblentz.
His wife, who is a lady of many accom
plishments, he first met while at the Uni
versity at which he was studying. They
were married in Germany and have one
child. Their residence at present is in
New York City. A telegram was sent to
Mr. Sohmer, the piano maker, to bleak
the sorrowful news to the family of the
deceased. Late last evening a talegram
was received in reply, stating that Mrs.
Stollewerk was nearly prostrated as the
result of the news of her husband's sud
den death. The telegram also ordered
that arrangeme Us be made for the funeral,
and stated that, if possible, Mrs. Stolle
. werk would be here on Wednesday to at
teud the funeral.
Johnstown people gratefully remember
that on the cccasion of the great flood,
Professor Stollewerk, who had but re
cently arrived from Europe, gave a con
ert in Stineway Hall, New York, for the
benefit of the Johnstown sufferers. It
was a great success, and when last April
he arrived here an unusual interest was
manifested in him. In social and musical
circles he was a favorite, and for the
brief time he was here he had an un
usually large number of warm friends.
His services as teacher of music were in
great demand.
The cause of his death is said by the
doctors to have been cramps. It is
thought, however, that had he not been
subject to heart troubles he might have
withstood the attack. His age was thirty
eight years.
WHO HE IS,
W. H. Andrews, Senator Quay's Chair
main of the Republican State Committee,
was at one time a dry-goods merchant in
I Cincinnati. Later he published Andrew/is
Bazar, subsequently changed to the
I American Queen, a fashion journal, which
i lie started in New York to divide the field
I with Harper'x Bazar. This publication
did not have a long career, and after its
I suspension Andrews went to Titusville,
! Pa., where he became chief fugleman for
j the late Dr. W. B. Roberts, the glycerine
j monopolist, who, by virtue of a disputed
I patent, charged oil producers ten prices for
■nitroglycerine. Dr. Roberts and his
brother, Col. Roberts, became very
wealthy from their glycerine monopoly,
their wealth being estimated from $1,000.-
000 to $3,000,000. Dr. Roberts, a resi
dent of Tittusville. had an ambition to
go to Congress, and to Andrews was in
trusted the wire-pulling. Andrews devel
oped into a shrewd politician, but public
sentiment in the oil country was always
strongly against the Torpedo King, as
Roberts was called, and Andrews never
succeeded in getting his chief into Con
gress. It is thought that Roberts spent
not less than SIOO,OOO to gratify this
ambition. Andrews did not forget to
work for himself while working for Rob
erts, and two years ago was elected to the
Legislature from Mr. Delamater's district
He has been in close touch with Quay
and Delamater ever nncc.
Harrlaon and Quay.
Philadelphia America;; (Rep.)
We desire to say to the President that
every further step he takes in company
with Mr. Quay and his following will be
another step on the road to politic a dis
aster. The indications ought to be pretty
plain by this time that the warnings of the
American, begun more than a year ago,
were not without good foundation. We
assured Gen. Harrison that he could not
afford to embark with such a company as
Mr. Quay commanded, under such a flag
as they carried, and that evil was sure to
result if he did do so. It will hardly be j
denied, we think, that there are now
abundant evidences of the soundness of
this statement. The politics of Pennsyl
vania are confused and convulsed. There
is hardly one county from the Delaware
to the Ohio which is not angry and inhar
monious. There is not an intelligent and
conscientious Republican in the State
who does not realize the injury Quayism
has wrought, and does not feel that this
has been greatly increased by the favor
which the President has shown to so un
worthy and mischievous an element.
The seeds of distraction and disunity
which the Administration insisted
upon sowing have sprung up in
all directions, and give signs of
an abundant crop of disaster. Is it
possible, then, that the President means
to row still more of them, and that he is
ready to furnish the means wherewith Mr.
Quay shall bribe enough delegates to as
sure Mr. Delamater's nomination? Two
years ago we should have declared with
absolute confidence that such a thing was
not possible.
SCHOOL CONTROLLERS.
The City Superinteudeiit to l>e Elected on
Tuesday the 34tli lust.—The Salaries of
the Officers.
The Board of School Controllers of the
city met on Monday evening in Brinker's
building, on Franklin street. They were
all present but the member from the
Tenth ward, Mr. Murray.
The committee appointed to inquire
into the amount of salaries paid officers
of the school districts of cities of the
third class reported through Mr. Fred.
Krebs the result of their investigations.
The report was received, and the follow
ing salaries agreed upon: Treasurer,
$000; Controller, S3OO ; Secretary, S3OO.
The vote by which the Treasurer's bond
was fixed at the previous meeting at SIOO,-
000, was on motion reconsidered, and
$50,000 was agreed upon as the proper
amount.
The. committee appointed to rent a room
for the Controllers and office for the City
Superintendent reported that they had se
lected a room on the second floor of Han
nau's Block for S2OO per annum. The re
port was received and the President and
Secretary were directed to sign the article
of agreement. The school property >'n the
different parts of the city, consisting of
books and ( fflce furniture will be removed
to the new room at once.
It was agreed to, after some discussion;
to elect a City Superintendent and deter
mine the salary of that office, on Tuesday
evening, June 24th, at 7:30 o'clock, when
the Controllers will meet in convention.
The President and Secretary were direct
ed to advertise for applicants for that
place.
The meeting adjourned to meet at the
call of the President.
A PIT OF DEATH.
Terrible Kxploftioii in the Hill Farm Mine-
Only Ten of the Entire Force Escape*
DUNBAR, PA., June 16.—A terrible ex
plosion occurred at the Hill Farm Mine
at 10 o'clock this morning.
Out of fifty miners working in the pit
but ten have thus far escaped.
It is feared that all of the forty men
still in the mine were either killed out
right by the explosion or have been suff
ocated.
The excitement is very great, as it is
impossible to render any assistance up.to
the present time, the full particulars and
the actual loss of life cannot be given.
ANOTHER RETORT OF THE DISASTER.
CONN ELLS VILLE, PA., June 16.— An ex
plosion of damp gas occurred to-day in
the Hill Farm Mine at Dunbar. All the
men were in the pit. Fifteen have been
taken out badly injured. The other fifty
are thought to be dead, but a volunteer
party are digging for them. Nothing
more definite can be learned.
THE DILL FARM MINE.
The Hill Farm Mine is situated about
two miles from Dunbar and is owned by
the Dunbar Furnace Company.
The mines have no railroad communi
cations for shipping coal and the entire
output of the mines is used by the Dun
bar Furnace Company, which is com
prised entirely of Eastern parties, no
Pittsburghers being interested in it.
Samuel Dickson, of Philadelphia, is the
President.
GUFFEY FDR CONGRESS
By a Very Small Majority—Other Demo
cratic Winners in Weatmoreland.
GREENSBORO, PA., June 16.—1t is now
It is now certain that John Guffey will
receive the Democratic nomination in this
county for Congress, but his majority
will bo very small.
His friends are greatly disappointed at
the small vote he recoived, especially
when all the hustling was confined to his
lieutenants.
Cowan and Elwood lead in the Assem
bly vote and the other two are likely to be
Bierer and Lafferty. Fisher is nominated
for Treasurer, and Conway for Register
and Recorder; Maxwell and Martin for
Commissioner, and Morrow and Hays for
Auditor. Wakefield beats Clifford for
Coroner by a small majority.
WAS HE MURDERED *
Ghastly Remains of a Tioga County Man
Found.in the Woods.
ELMIRA, N. Y., June 16.—The ghastly
remains of a humau body were found in
a pile of ashes in the woods near Lock
woop, Tipga county, about 4 o'clock yes
terday afternoon.
George Lott was peeling bark upon his
farm when he stumbled upon tbis horri
ble spectacle. All that remained was a
portion of one leg from the knee down,
encased in a leather boot, and the crum
bled bones of the skull, all else having
been consumed by the flames.
Mr. Lott notified Coroner Hernden, of
Waverly. who, with a number of people
from that place, proceeded to the scene.
Among the number who accompuuied
him was Isaac Hucklc, and he identified
the remains as those of his father-in-law,
Isaac Deo, by a tap upon the boot. A
revolver with one empty chamber and $3
in money were found concealed in a wood
pile near by from which the fuel for the
fire had been taken.
The suicide theory first advanced was
dispelled by the fact that that portion of
the body which remained was found be
neath a huge log partly burned, the wood
evidently having been piled upon him.
Tbis fact gives credence to the theory of
murder now generally accepted.
Deo lived at Waverly with his son-in
law and left home about five weeks ago.
He went to Lockwood, where he boarded
at Gilbert's Hotel for one week. Since
he left there nothing had been seen or
heard of him until the discovery in the
woods yesterday, tie was well known
through out Tioga county, and the trag
edy, togethei with the mystery surround
ing it, has created a decided sensation
there.
A WIDESPREAD STORM.
Losses at Cluciuuati and Adjacent Towns—
Three Boys Drowned.
CINCINNATI, June 16.—The storm which
did so much damage in this city yester
day appears to have extended over a wide
area.
Destruction of property is reported from
Doveland. Hamilton, Milford and Batavia.
Near the latter place the Ohio & North
western Railroad tiack is washed out and
a bridge is gone. New Richmond and
Ripley lost SIO,OOO each.
At Falmouth, Kv., three boys fishing in
a boat are missing and were doubtless
drowned.
Covington, Bellevue, Dayton and New
port, Ky., had 18 houses unroofed and
two persons hurt, Thousands of acres
of wheat, just ready to reap, are laid flat
and the loss will be heavy. It is safe to
say that the loss in Cincinnati and a rad
ius of 50 miles amounts to $200,000.
SPRINOFIBLD, 111., June 16.—T0-day's
reports show that the storm which vis
ited this city Saturday evening extended
from the Mississippi river almost entirely
across the State. The hailstones in the
vincinity of Quincy anil Monmouth were
quite as large as those reported from the
neighborhood of Jacksonville,where some
ol them measured three inches in diame
ter. In the vicinity of Chapin the rain
fall was io the nature of a cloudburst,
and inundated the countiy for a consider
able distance. The Sangamon river ro-e
five feet, and two inches of rain tell in this
city. Crops were beaten to the ground in
some places, and the damage everywl ere
was heavy.
CHOLERA IN SPAIN.
New Cases Reporteil, and Doctors Over
worked—An Expert Says It is the Asiatic
Scourge.
MADRID, June 16.—Much alarm is oc
casioned by the continued spread of
cholera at Puebla de Rugat.
The authorities are making strong
efforts to stamp out the disease, but so
far they have not been successful, and
new cases are reported daily. Yesterday
there were four deaths from the disease,
and nine new cases were reported.
The doctors at Puebla de Rugat are
greatly overworked, and the doctors have
telegraphed to Valencia, asking that phy
sicians he sent from that city to aid them.
The supply of drugs is running short,
and the town officials have also tele
graphed for a fresh supply from Valencia.
The total number of cases thus far re
ported is ninety-one. One of the persons
who fled from the town for safety has
died from the disease at Albaida. Dr.
Candela, who is an expert, declares that
the disease at Puebla de Rugat is true
Asiatic cholera.
GLEANINGS FROM EVERYWHERE.
A young lady of this city, who is said
to be worth not less than $50,000 in pros
pective, was th? object of the attentions
of a young man with whom she was very
favorably impressed, but who, with every
encouragement, continued to pause just
short of a proposal. The young lady man
aged to put in circulation what appeared
to be a reliable report that her pecuniary
expectations were simply in the public
mind, aud in two days the young fellow
had proposed and been accepted. It is
not often that $50,000 constitutes an ob
stacle to a young lady's matrimonial sue
cess, but it did in this case, and the lady
in question doesn't feel in the least put
out about it.— BinghamUm, Leader.
Poots, looking out of the window of his
sitting room, saw a man ascend the steps
of his residence whom he didn't wish to
receive. To be candid, he was a bill col
lector. Calling the servant, he bade him
tell the man that he was not at home.
"Did you tell him I was out?" said
Poots, when the servant returned from
answering the bell. " I did, Sir." " Did
he appear to be in doubt about it ?" " Not
at all, Sir; he said it was a lie."— Texan
Sifting*.
The Üboral Drift of Religious Thought.
The drift of modern thought, as any
one can discover in our current litera
ture, in newspapers, magazines and re- |
views, is not anti-religious, but the re- I
verse. That the drift is anti-ecclesias- '
tical and anti-dogmatic is equally cer
tain. The pulpit has almost abandoned
polemic utterances. Scores and hun
dreds of churches would not endure
them. They were once the fashion, and
public debates on the rites and doctrines
of opposing sects were in "high favor.
We have outgrown all that. The change
is partly due to social and commercial
causes. The Calvinist has fallen in love
with the Methodist, and has not found
the heresy to be very pernicious. The
Trinitarian has entered into partnership
with the Unitarian, and discovered the
latter to be the soul of honor.
Impatience with dogma is not neces
sarily the repudiation of doctrine. The
truest reason may break with the logi
cal refinements of the schools. The anti
dogmatic drift of our time does not im
press me as antagonizing intelligence in
religion, as hostile to analysis, defini
tion and systematic arrangement, but
as intent upon calling a halt upon spec
ulative audacity, and insisting that the
ology, like science and philosophy, shall
deal only with what can be accurately
kfiOWn. It demands Hie rigid applica
tion of the Baconian method, in which
facts are the groundwork of theory. It
demands a simpler creed, but it wants a
creed, and it would repudiate any creed
which lacked the quality of comprehen
sion. The time has come when it should
be freely recognized that modern criti
cism is at heart reverent and Christian,
not flippant, atheistic and anti-Chris
tian.
How serious, then, is the breach be
tween modern. culture and current or
thodoxy! To me, at least, it seems to be
a thin nnd vanishing line; and the hope
of a coalescence in the near future ap
pears to me well founded. It cannot be
otherwise. For reason seeks the truth,
and all truth is sacred, binding upon
hnman conduct; while Christianity is
the religion of holiness, and the germi
nant energy in holiness is veracity, a
truth seeking, truth loving, truth com
pelling temper.—Rev. Dr. Behrends in
Forum.
Newspapers of the Present.
No doubt the present tendency toward
trivialities and personalities will con
tinue until private rights and public
morals ure better protected by the laws,
and until the acme of size and profit in
newspapers has been reached. In the
race for expansion and power the leader
who has adopted the readiest means has
often imposed his methods upon men who
would choose the best means. The fault
of a lower tone here and there is not
properly chargeable to tho great body of
workers, for in the profession will he
found today a high average of ability
and conscientious performance of duty;
and never before our time have news
papers been able to command the trained
intelligence and taste to enable them to
do all they are r.o\v doing for the develop
ment of art and literature. All that the
newspapers of today are doing for every
good cause, and notably at this moment
for that of good government. Capital
and financial success are of course essen
tial for the production of a great mod
ern newspaper; but the public has a
right to demand that those who bear the
highest responsibilities of the profession
should issue newspapers which they, as
private individuals, would he willing to
indorse in every part us men of charac
ter, refinement and self respect.—Cen
tury.
Making Money Out of Kleptomaniac*.
"What do you do with such people?"
the reporter asked of a merchant.
"We send them bills for what they
take, when we know them. If they are
strangers we act according to circum
stances. A few days ago a lady was in
this store with k:r daughter—a be.v.. i
ful little girl of Id years. The.cliild was
seen slipping a l 01l of costly ribbon into
her satchel. We spoke to tlje mother,
who became indignant. She opened the
satchel to convince us that we were mis
taken, when it was found to contain three
lace handkerchiefs, two pairs of gloves
and the ribbon. All these articles had
been appropriated."
"That was a plain case of stealing.
What (lid you do?"
"We took the things back and said
nothing. We can't afford to arrest
wealthy people and injure our trade by
making enemies among onr rich cus
tomers."
"You were speaking of sending out
bills for stolen goods: are they ever paid?"
"Always, where the person is a klepto
maniac. We never have any trouble in
that way. I have known of stores which
kept a regular list of kleptomaniacs.
Whenever they lost anything they sent
bills to all of them. As they all settled
for the stolen goods you can imagine
that the business was quite a profitable
one, can't you?"—Lewiston Journal.
Thumb Nail Picture*.
In collections centuries old, to be seen
in both China and Japan, are specimens
of tho most remarkable drawings in the
world—pictures of all kinds drawn with
the thumb nail. The nails of the thumb
on the left hand of these peculiar artists
are allowed to grow to an enormous
length, sometimes to a foot or eighteen
inches, and are then pared down to a
pen shaped point. Dipping this oddly
constructed pen in beautiful vermilion
or sky blue ink, the only kinds of ink
used in theso "sacred" thumb nail draw
ings, the artist gracefully outlines his
work. Occasionally the bold touches
from the studio of a master in this de
partment of "high art" are life size, and
are sketched by a few sweeps of the art
ist's arm. Like other pictures and
skotoljes of the Orient, these sacred
thumb nail pictures are mounted and
rolled up like scrolls.—St. Louis Repub
lic.
Cremation still prevails among many
of the nations of Eastern Asia. In India
until recently the llvjhg widow was
buried upon the pyre wifti the body of
hsf deceased husband. Within & tew'
feats new attempts have b&n made to
cdffi&end oretnatioti.
TYPEWRITING AND LITERAfUW
Advice for Those Who Wish to Make
Good Impression on Editors*
"No, I cannot use the typewriter," Re
marked a literary man the other day,
"nor can 1 dictate with auy satisfaction.
And there are a good many other people
in the same boat with me. I heard one
well known writer say not long ago that,
while he conld get along well enongh
with his correspondence on the type
writer, he could do nothing at all in
the way of literary work. As for dicta
tion, it was simply an impossibility for
him. He had tried it repeatedly, but
had never been able to succeed. It was
the more singular in his case because he
was formerly a public speaker and Was
in the habit of speaking without a man
uscript; and he is noted as a talker, be
ing fluent, ready and rapid. He even
said that he could not dictate a correc- *
tion in typewritten copy. The only sat
isfactory tiling for him to do was to tako *
the copy himself nnd write in the change.
"Then there is ; he must be mak
ing something like SiJOO a week from his
literary work in all directions. One
would think that he would be almost
compelled to employ a stenographer,
but I understand he does all his
work with his own hand. I have
heard of a very prolific editor who
was induced by his friends to lighten
his labors by employing a sten- ~
ographer and typewriter. In his case it
worked very curiously. He had no
trouble about dictating, but he found
that by this means he was enabled to do
a great deal more work than he had done
previously—that is, a great deal more
writing—and so, instead of diminishing
his labors, he really increased them.
"In my own case I can dictate a letter
fairly well, and I could do a piece of
journalistic work in that way or by type- j
writing it; but anything that is to lia\e J
the literary touch must be carefully "
worked out with the pen. And Ido not
believe that it is simply a matter of prac
tice; though to be sure it is possible
that it may be. That is, if one were
trained from a child to use the type
writer instead of the pen or pencil, the
art of composition might come naturally
to him when fingering the keys. But I ;
greatly doubt whether it can bo learned J
late in life. Take the case of .I |
feel confident that the notable decadence j
of his style in recent years, which is ug- |
uiistakably very marked, is the result of 3
his use of the typewriter. Formerly he |
was most fastidious in his style, but now J
he is slovenly and careless. The change |
is really wonderful to one who has read
him closely for years, as I have.
"So I am far from thinking the type- I
writer an unmixed blessing. At the *
same time I believe that every maim- '
script offered for publication ought to be
typewritten. I believe that would-be
authors would find it to their advant.yge
to go to the small expense which the
copying of their efforts by the
would entail. Editors, I find, are muph
more willing to examine such manu
scripts than those which are written in
scrawling, crabbed and uneven hands,,
even if there be some individuality about
these. It is not individuality that the
average editor is looking for, it is some
thing fresh and striking and original,
and he is loath to take the trouble to de
cipher bad chirography on the bare ,
chance of finding something worth his
while. So my advice to the young men
and young women who add so much to
the government's postal receipt veai
after year is to have their productions
typewritten. They will save postage, of'
course, as a typewritten manuscript is
less bulky than one done by hand. And
in case of several rejections and reat
tempts they may save in postage the cost
of the typewriting."—New York Trib
une.
Secret of Being Charming to Otly>ra.
The world today is filled with half J
morbid young people wisliing they onl.r 1 ' "<
knew how to make themselves more in- |
teresting and attractive to others. It is i ]
not a desire to be blamed, but ono to be ■
encouraged. The only trouble is that I
they get their attention concentrated on ■
themselves, and the more they think of M
themselves the less do people want to h
look at the object they propose shall be ■
attractive. No one ever fails to be de- f
lighted with a person who, having spent i
several summers in some enchanting |
spot in the mountains, takes in hand '
him, a strrtfiger there, and leads him to I
the most poetic cascades or the sublimeetj
points of outlook the whole region offers.
Here, then, lies the secret of prf*vjngi
charming to others. It is by serving fit m
guide and interpreter to something more A
inspiring than would be either of the twuß
left to himself, and so bringing on unfl
experience in which each loses his merefl
individual life to find it in a fuller uni-M
versal life,—Boston Herald.
A Pasteboard Camera. .
The enthusiastic student of phot(jjj|M
raphy may obtain a good deal of am';!
inent, ami not a little knowledge, b iH
periment with the "pasteboard.can
as it has been called. Take a lone
box and blacken the inside. Makt _ fl
hole in the centre of one of the ends, £
place a sheet of carbonic paper bent t
the lid and jam it down. If a4by 5
plate is placed at the end opposite
pin hole, with the sensitive side
the latter, the M jammed down and
box taken from the dark room to an (
window, where there is a view of st
building or other object, a very fair { ■
tire will be obtained on returning 9
box to tho dark room and developing
plate at the end of half an hour's e.r
ure. By interposing a meniscus k
aperture of the pin hole may bo gr
ehlarged, and the taking of the mcltfcM
much quickened.—New York Ewemfl
Except for the legal tenders and al
unimportant commercial work ste y
graving has almost fallen into d I
owing to its great cost and the slot J
expensive methods of printing thq t '
Portraits for the finer grades of >■
are-etill done on steel, but wood
fhg has largely'taken the place ol |
other as it is printed mbre eh*