The Patton courier., April 04, 1895, Image 3

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"FOR 117 JOLKS.”
BOYS ANTICIGAHETTE LEAGUE.
ts Members Pledge Themselves Against
Tobaceo Until Twenty-one Years Old.
Cigarette smoking seems to bo a grow-
i...
This has been recognized for
some years, but it is only recently that |
any organised efforts have been made
‘put a stop to it. It is true that the Con:
necticut state legislature enacted a law
in regard to it; bot, like many othe
laws, it seems to be dead letter.
On Thursday afternoon Mr. John S.
Camp addressed a special ineeting of
_ the High Street sclicol branch of the
Anticigarette league on “The Evils on.
the Cigarette Habit." The High Street
school is the only one in the city where
a branch of tho league, which is really
a national organization, has been estab
lished. The matter was first brought
to Professor Wilbur F. Gordy's atten-
tion by Mr. Henry T. Sperry. The
leagne had its origin in Troy, N. Y., |
but a number of branches have been es-
tablished in Albany, New York and |
Boston.
; Professcr Gordy said, “1 was intor-
ested in it at once, becanse it seemed to |
be such a practical thing for the boys.’
The high schopl tranch was formed last |
spring and hess been doing its work |
‘quietly ard has beet: gradually growing
in numbers until it now has about 150
members. It holds its meetings on the |
first Friday of each month during the
school year, and the session, which is |
wsually brief, is held at the noon hour.
Each boy signs the following pledge and
"by doing so becomes a member and is
entitled to wear the button:
ti i\We, the undersigned, pupils of the |
Second North schoel, do hereby pledge |
ourselves upon honor, fires, to abstain |
from this date from smoking cigarettes i:
or the use of tobacco in any form until |
BOO |
ond, to use all tao inflnence that we
wae shall reach the age of 21 years;
possess to induce all public school boys
and others of our apquaintance to give
up aud abstain from smoking cigarettes
until such boys shall be 31 yenrs oid;
third, by giving this pledge we become
members of the Anvjeigariiie jeagne. |
“The constitution sets forth the name
in the first section; the objects, already
embodied in the pledge, in the second
section; the wvsual officers in the third
section. The ¢onstitution provides for a
council of ten members from the differ-
ent grades of the school, and also lays | |
| not in half, like a shad, but in sections |
‘down the rule that ro meotings shall be
held in school hours, and that the prin-
cipal of the Hehool shall be present at
. each meeting.’
Professor Gordy states that in his
“opinion the league is doing a gord deal
of good. There is 10 urging his JF
. gr an the part of his teachers. Th
who become membaors dos of tieir Gwh
free will. The lowest grad nae mot
taken in beoanse the buys iu to wo TON
are not considered old encoun,
$0 understand fully tho voter Lod wid
gations of the pein fu Frid
Gordy 's opinion, the tact that ©
of the league only nuiies us pre
of abstinence frola suohing uutil the
member shall be $1 yours old 18 a great |
point in irs tiv Jignw. go
without smoiing wnt 1. vie, will |
never: simeke, walle thio do ac- ;
quire the habit ali that time will do
80 at little or no dang of Lo tLomseives
Hartford T ime 8
LAB Ted,
so fine
fig yd
Hise}
Lacy
Wii)
A Witty Reply
Tho crown prince of Germany
only about i?
things. Hesers thoiuuny side of a situ. |
ation at once.
One day, while visiting Potsdam, the |
little prince was amusing himself by
‘trying to make a donkey draw a cark
But the donkey was stubborn and would
“Your donkey hus a great deal of
power," called oot the emperor,
had been watching the strugzis
“his litsle gon aud the stouborn beast
“Oh, wo, papa,’ replied tho
prince quickly, ‘is isn’t his will power |
that troubles we It is bis won't power
T-—Ausing Journ: al
wi:
He ¥elt Sick.
A small up town boy, who accompa
ated his mother to church on a recent |
Sunday, grow pretty restleis before the
sermon was over. Ha finally crept ap
close to her and whispered, Manoa,
mamma, I feel sick.” “Do your”
his mother rather anxiously
where or how do you feel
“Well,” replied the youngster,
Jomesik. "New York Times
asked
Why,
sick?
“1 feel
——— gt roe
Jolly Vat Frogs.
Sing a song of mudlarks, just escaped from
school, :
Four and twenty fat frogs puddiing in a pool;
Hopping in tho black mud, underneath the
moon ;
*CHouking ina chorus like a big bassoon.
—London Sketch
The Cainel’s Foot.
The eamel’s foot is a soft cushion, pe-
culiarly well adapted to the stones and
gravel over which it is constantly walk:
3 During a single journey through
| Sahara horses have worn oat three
of shoes, while the camel’ feet are
not even sore.
al aly
, though |
yemra obl, has a very
ready wit and a (ueer way of saying |
i
will i
ys Batweet |
1 “I'm paying
little |
| thousand words a day sufficient. He
i a Hn A a rs AN a
PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT.”
a
THE
the Matertal Gathered? !
The pyramids of Egypt, for long and
| to this day incleded among the world’s
| wonders, ara to be regarded as marvel-
ous trinmphs of mechanical skill. Of
these there aro many scattered over the
Nile valley, some of brick, some of stone
and of varied height. The two largest
are in the neighborhood of Cairo. They
are and “have been for thousands of
yoars the most colossal monuments in
the world.
The largest, that of Cheops, in its
original state is said to have been 800
feet high and the length of its base on
each side the sna, It is built of huge
stones ranging from 3 to 4 feet in
height. It is now rugged and has the
character as well as the appearance of a |
four sided. great stairway. The bollows |
between the steps are believed to have |
‘been filled in with white marble, which !
would shine like snow ander the bright
Egyptian san. The pyramid is now
much reduced in height, not being more
than 500 feet. It is generally admitted
that the pyramids were built for tombs
and on certain astronomical principles
There is an inner chamber where the
| sarcophagns was placed. When a mon-
arch began to reign, he commenced to
| build his tomb, When he died, his body
| was placed in the sacred chamber pre-
| pared for it, and the opening which led |
to it was closed. The pyramid was
then completed. If the monarch’s reign
was long, the pyramid was larga If
short, the pyramid was small.
How those great structures were
peared—how the hnge masses were
| bronght together and putin their places
—is a question which has never been
satisfactorily answered. Of mechanical
forces some of the early peoples seem to
{ have bad much more knowledge than
there is any direct record of.—Chicago |
| Recard.
AN OLD PRUSSIAN DISH.
i #Peerfish” Is Alleged to Be Good When
It Is Served Steaming Hot.
Thera r to every Pras
heart, \v be, hawever,
coun All
it is not
11Y Bs
is a (Hsh des
IDAY
this
Germans mey not know it,
roaddo in sont fier Aly eXorp
lated vases. Faer is pot its Lief ings
dient, bus it piays an important part
the muakeop
The dish is known as boerfish,
the German carp; praised of eplcares
hersin treated in a manuer worthy of
‘the fish. It most be made with half
beer, or, in the absence of this,
weiss beer and porter. The fish is cat,
‘gian’s hich
absalotaly now in ry.
ns
ryt
the fish are all that is mecessary. Of
| course the fish must be cleaned.
A lzrge glazed pot is used. A layer of
| large onions is placed om the bottom of
| the pot. On this are sprinkled various
spices; then a layer of a substance oall-
od fish pfefferkuchen, which has more
or less fish substance in it and can be
| procured at any German grocery or deli-
| catesscn store; then a layer of sliced
on squares. Three or four cults across
i
How Were They y Reared and How Was A Nevada Yoespurado Whose Career of A Desutifal Tale of Three Women Who
“with
| lemon; then carp. This is repeatod antil
‘the pot is full.
A layer of onions is placed on top and
| beer is poured into the whole mass until
i all the interstices aro filled. It is cook-
ed for 20 ininutes over a slow fire, mean-
timo Aiding a a spoonful of vivegar and |
another of sugar. Beerfish ia delicious |
. when it is hn and served steaming |
hot. Bat its good qualities do not end
{ ments which make it hard to decide
| which way it tastes better, hot or cold
=~Plitiadelpbia 1 Times
In the Best,
Kentuckians are always proud of
their state in whatever department of |
| human labor they may hold. Not long |
ago a widow want to seo a marblo cut- |
ter to get a tombstone for her lato hus- |
band. She selected a plain one from his |
| stock and gave him an. inscription to
™puat on it.
“Can't do that, ma'am,’ he sald po- |
litely when be ‘had read it
“Why not?" she asked in surpriss. |
for it.” |
“Yes, but 1 can't put thas on. I
| streteh my conscience a good many times |
lin what I put on a tombstone, but I
| ain't going to tell a plain lie when I
| know it.’
The widow was greatly shocked and
insisted on bis explaining what he
meant.
“Well, ma’ am,” he said, ‘you've |
got here ‘gone to a better land,’ and |
that ain't so, ma'am. There ain't any
better land than Keatucky.''—=Detroit
Free Press.
Was Obliged to Go.
‘Hello, Harkaway, aro you still in’
town? I thought you bad moved out
west and gone into the mining busi-
{ "No. 1dldn'tgo That scheme fell |
| throagh.'’ i
“Then you are not going to leave ns?"
“Oh, yes I'm getting ready to
move,’
“Where are you going?" :
| “J haven't decided yet. But I've got |
| to go somewhere, Higging. The boys in
| the clubs I belong to have given me half
| a dozen farewell dinners, and as a gen- |
! tlernan and a man of my word 1 can’t
| stay here any longer after that.’ '— Bal-
timore Herald.
Stanley J. Weyman. I
Stanley J. Weyman, the novelist, prao- |
tied in London as a barrister for about |
ten years and with fair success. He
never really liked his profession, bow- |
ever, and was a poor speaker. Mr. Wey-
man writes slowly. He oonsiders a
hunts once a week daring the season, is
an unmarried man and lives with his
mother and sister.
“1 should have you know, sir, that [
iw a Londoner, 8a I was born in Lou-
on. "”
“But I, air, was born in Cork, and I
am a Corker ’’=Boston Globe.
| can city. To
| bere, for after it is cold it offers allure- | gp op ¢
| for a piece of Lirthda
till I got it. ~T aglich :
! nowadays are
{ mentioned by Ve ath
| men now are so
; ; iq
SAM ‘BROWN S first KILUNG.
Crime Was Started by a Bully.
“At my first meeting with Sam |
Brown, the famous desperado, he did
me an honor that few men would caro
to receive,’ said Wash Parker, an old
time Nevadan. ‘‘He invited himself to
be my traveling companion on a two |
days’ wagon journey. I was starting
out one morning with a. w agon and pair |
of horses from a little mining settle
ment known then as Golderop. As
{ came opposite the hotel a large man
standing on the veranda hailed me and |
asked if I was going to Virginia City.
. I answered yes, and he said:
‘1 reckon I'll go along with yon
“ ‘I'm Sam Brown,’ he added. ‘May- |
bo yon don’t have much confidence in
| me since hearing my name, but I reckon
we'll ‘ravel along together ail right.’
“Well, thers wasn't anything to be
said but ‘All right; jump aboard,’ and
, Bam Brown, with a carpetbag in his
| hand aid his pistols, bulging under his |
coat, came out to the wagon and took his |
goat beside me. He proved a civil |
enough companion, and we got through |
| to Virginia City all right, with nobody !
killad on the way. He had taken along |
a bottle of prepared cocktails, and I bad
a bex of cigars; so that the time passed |
rather sociably as we made our journey
together.
“Wa went into camp that night at |
Sandy Springs, about half way to Vir-
ginia City, and in the conrge of tho
‘evening he told mo something of his
life and adventures. One thing in par-
ticular that I remember was the way ho
eame to start out on his career of kill-
ing I don’t récall whether it was in
Texas or Missouri that this first affair
happened, but it was when he was a
hulking young fellow, green and ehick-
en hearted, to ase his own words in
tolling it. Thero was a oirtain gambler
{in a town where he was stayioag who |
| gsed to bully and abuse him when they
| same together, Everywhere and whenov-
saloon be
er tha gambler saw him ina
would kick him about and drive him
cat of He place, One day a nan un
friendly to this garabler said to Sap:
*4 Wi (3 Vs tatid all this abuse
from tha Yer? Take this pistol and
aE i
tho next time wm kill-him.!
JHa
hin crow
tire
next tiiae the gambler went for
him, of sneaking away and
looking sorry, he shot his tormentor
ile ad. After fro bad thus got his band in
kill easy to Sam, and be
ure his own time
I= ¥¢
nam took
Aid thie
insted
Cun
8A TO bef
made 8 long
Cama. ;
“Though, as [ raid, wa made oar jonr-
ney together all right, I knew it would
take too little to sot things to going all
wrong for me thoroughly to enjoy Sam |
I wasn't gory to set |
Brown's society.
him down at the Primaventors zalodn
in Virginia City, whera we took a drink
together, shook banda and went our
different ways.’ "New York Sun.
LIVING ABROAD.
3t Is. Not So Cheap as It Is Commonty
Reputed to Be.
“‘ A man soon gets cured of many long
| cherished traditions respecting the cost
of things in Europes by a little bit o
pessonal contact with i os id instit
tions,’ said Colonel W. Chapman of
San Francisco. ‘I had
| sojourned abrosd ono Ean imer that the
| oost of living was ronch lower in Lon-.
don, for example, than in apy Ameri-
my sorrow, I found out
in good style in Landon
a good deal than to exiss
srtably in New York.
*“*To ba speci wT went to the Savoy,
the best hotel in ths great matrapalis
and ordered a dinner not as all
| elaborate than I aw ued to
| home. There lent restan-
| rants in Washingt n not noted for their
| cheapness where that wonld
i have cost about #0. snly nos
mora than #6. The
called for £2, cr $10 in Aerie
rency. Of course thero Was
bottle of wine, but it was
H ve
was dearer
com f af
re
Ale BOW re
fiinner
tame 84
Lil fare
a small
HOCent « f
| doe, as neither love, money nor tears will |
| make those beautiful Britis
you any ice with yooar drinks
want to ever hear agnin of
cheap living. It's a myth.
| better in this country on less tod
and bave a ton of ice a day if I want
Lit gratis. You may Ye abla to live over
' there on a littl: money, but a man can
exist very cheaply in China if he will
limit himself to rice.’ -~2demphis Com:
cial.
Liers rive
Idon’t
European
I can live
ey
Those Irvepressibles!
It was at a large party, A gontleman
had the misfortune to break a glass
Little Lena, who was standing near her
mamma, raised hersel! on tiptos and
whispered, load enough for all th
pany to hear:
“And one of the borrowed ones too!”
Later in the evening the hostess gave
Avice and the pistol, -
an idea wntil I)
ai Cur.
$ OO
"HAS REAGHE 0 WASHINGTON.
Bared Their Heads st the Theater.
Three ladies walked down the center
aisle in the National theater Monday
‘ night. They wore hate—bats of a florid
‘style of architecture and covered wi ith
luxuriant vegetation. Strong men shud-
| dered and grey pale with anxiaty as to
where those hats wonld eventually lo-
cate themselves, and as the ladies slow-
ly moved to the front the feelings of the
audience verged upon the stormy and
tumultoons. At last they were seated
well down toward the orchestra, and at
least 100 persons—those directly in the
line of sight—turned wan and ghastly
| with despair. In a moment, however,
| nimble fingers were at work, and before
the watchers could gulp dows their first
wild anguish the hats disappeared, and
three sleek, shapely and inoffensive
| heads appeared in place of them.
So the fashion has reached Washing-
ton. We have among us, then, the.
pioneers of the propaganda of mercy,
| consideration and gentleness. A new
| standard of morality has been erected.
Women aro showing their thoughtless
sisters how to be kind cs well as bean-
tiful, gentle as well as fair, how to
| bless. as well a8 to adorn the worll
Here is a fashion which recognizes ha-
| manity, a manifestation of female love-
| liness that makes allowance for the
comfort of others. It is a new philos-
. ophy, a gospel of swontness and ligh
a dispensation of trua costasy.
Why cannot the superior set make
| common esuse in this? Why, if they
mast have their ats wherewith to par
alyze tho vestibule and fil
with pageantry
why can they not ¢ ow the di-
vino example we he apd
{ Uneover when tney fake their seotsi—
Ww ashing! an Pi :
bir nisl
1a QWs
as ape cand Zim
they. ox
du pipes ey 1g
WE CIC IN edd
THE LW wOoMay
NE
She Cyeled Froth the Stractaof Atlania |
sind ¥orrified (he Natives
came,
peBing
tha city w
from. away
chan 11 tei
I; nites «1 -
moonshine
talking en 4
tion to po in and get an O
dinner. The matter of
Lt ba as to who shi
The ¥ were
ing little
world when
on a bicyeie saws
i
close to th oir
of her wheel a sharp whirl of a ring.
that again?’ |
“Wheap! Don't do
{ sereamed cme of them, and they both |
| shot away up in thé aly and landed many
fect away.
| Terning arcand, they saw the
| dashing on down the street, uno#ncern-
: edly bol bing np sere nely over the Bel
| gian block.
(Fol darn my batt mst said one of
i the visitors to the other, “hit's one av
dem votin women dat’s come down here
am de north. Dey’ll bs dgin uv ev
thing fust thing you know. "= Atlan
Constitotion ’
HE Q UEEN'S 3 HEAL TH.
of the
PA woman
i then very
MBS fli #1 the
8:1
Jeeots Connected With Her Highness.
Queen Victoria in La
recently, ac
lar, br ut di
cial ¢ Hil
metr polis
as len
ardirig to The Co
it had not been for ths otfl-
clers the inhatdtanta of the
wonld probably not
been aware of thelr sovereigns pr
baving att’
Ie | core
have ventus
-
LY vd
= SFT
nag *
never looked so
at presont
Aut assistance,
Nev
her abdi-
of Wales
fur,
: ria is |
i
onnd woman, |
8 |
i eham be
ti the full
misly clear percep
intricate affairs
ir
eek, —-— Lond
tain
f state. MF owill start
c Frauco t
ter
on Let.
Faure's Popularily.
President F campaign of popu-
larity 5 bed nie carried ith unabated
hae Just paid
[a Bat.
ON
Ho
one of her little daughters a nice apple |
“Now, give
thers 's a dear,
your
* #aid the child's anele,
“I'm not alowed to when "she
painted her face. ;
Little Paul was sent with a bunch of
flowers to the manager's wife on her
birthday and waited in geile nce after he
had been dismissed
Lady— ell
are yon waitin
Paui—
1
a Kiss,
IWLAamIma
8
my young man,
g for now
Marna said
3
what :
Bot 10 ask
but wait
Rockers.
Rocking chairs of the styles prevailing
} in-
fie > They are
Be The wo-
Teste & ill they do
have chairs with wooden cireles on the
+
believed
vented in the present ©
hrs 3 Sh
u
legs and which sway back and forth in |
such sort that it maketh one sick to be- | "0
- pvisitab ‘barber sft wehiester Po ist Express.
hold them."
Teapots were the invention of either |
the Indians cr the Chinese and are of |
They came to Eg- |
i been
| great spceess qualified him to give ad-
uncertain antiquity.
rope with tea in 1610.
Marie Antoinette, tho queen of Louis |
: XVI, gave a name to Marietta, O.
3 LF,
ippiled there
the presi-
cheer him wild-
Letter.
ARTI ZG
Handicapped, bat Geane.
There is a bri
west Washington tf € ae
baal §
rjzet who
Jest
wn
} iq $i ORs
t Ao Yous 2 » *
that extremely arisi atio section, and
every body «aly knows him.
ne t
Who Is any
im e ag
that he could grow
ling as hers Helis do-
viy his bair reaches his
, amd netther ridicule nor per-
+ has prevailed to induce him to
A Father te His Son.
'" said a fond father, a man
and late education bad
hat neglected, - but whose
“My son,
early
SHON
WA0sY
vice, ‘take this fur your motto in life,
[ar
SNOW If} SIVANNAM.
A Kowsity Which Almost Made the Peo
_ ple Wild One Day Last Month.
W hen the mantle of snow was spread
over the city that Friday moraing in
February, the people did uot know just
how to take it at first. Then they turned
fn to have fun. Ail day the city was
practically in the bunds of merrymak-
ers. The peopla went wild over the
snow. It was worse than “hiree years
ago. Then, on the occasion of a very
slight fall of snow, some merchants got
outside their storms and SIAL SDOW-
balling each other, sian in-
terfered with the #0 Tooy tired
on him and mada it « hot for Lam Laat
he was glad to rotrecs, of fiver slowls
but afterward at sou! a. quack, and Le
finally broke into a run and was chased
to the barracks, a distanco of about 1g
miles, by & howling mob of a thousand
nen, wornen and children.
The school children were dismissed.
for the day after roll call in the mom-
ing, so they joined the throng on the
stroota. Staid and sober business men,
bankers, lawyers and clergymen went
along thé streets with tightly packed
balls of snow in their hands ready to
pelt acquaintances, or, in fact, anybody
that mado a goo! target. Bang! and
the silk hat worn Ly a banker or lawyer
would leave the head of wearer and
laid far out in the street. As the owner
attempted to captaro it a volley of snow-
‘balls would comb from another direo-
tien. The electrio cars wero a mark for
a large portion of the nerrymaxers,
and conductars and. mat ormen were
treated as targdls. put up expressly for
the snowball sharpshooters. The con.
ductars hid themselves inside tha cars
most of the tin Along in the after-
pocn, when the fun bad
farious and the sfow was
snowballs conld be packed lik
the mot after leaving
id
and a pod
Je3
so soft that
W s0iid don,
ren, ong street
ball
Indy § : : /
| open cars were run, and the conductors
i
left as tar- |
|
Differing Opinions on This and Other Sabe |
nidon
ort Ciren- 3 7
I i 4 ‘
HE LTR VR
tO WaIK even
r- |
of |
the south if |
i tors of
; [534 Tod h
ung man over in !
families fn .
fis almost certain to pass in Arkansas
| limiting the rate to half a cent a mile,
ra young worsan tempted |
‘KK —Kevp Kool" "New York Sun.
vould
until
and
was
tae car
the next CTOSSIN
dment
Crossing, a inside
thers
i reached, tin
directa
red
100
5
STAY
escaping tio bombar
PR Tie
¢ | wera np
t: nfold
spondingly. The
¢ street and down aga
GRAN { wanted
frail eouvoyant
passengers ail the time
was well #igh exhausted by dra
load and being pummeled
balls. The breaking of wind wh bi
a favorite pastime. On many steet cars
| nos a whole pane of glass would be |
found when they returned to the car-
house, #0 the order was given to b
off tho closed cars, and after that only |
ima]
& - 2 1
aid chil 1mEd TREN
A Was BW
and motormen alone were
gets. No passengers venturad to ride in |
i the open cars
damage of a similar nature was report-
ad. Hequests were sent to police Bu
quartirs that the snow balling be sto
ped, but no attention was paid to thon 3,
the police remembering the experi
lt
Dd
WAR jared,
oy Vm ay fu LYaNnan
havo |
REED |
REDUCED NOCILITY,
| The Connt § tunged, Lost, Was Rained, and
Flies Iiiughter Became a Thief,
of a rained nobis
Fours
family
:
Him, BYR
A
als
fortnna
nt
fthe Wi
iy
os
uilding si
b
years ago a
| weeks was seem
of mi
Ope rations wi
| ander, witl
| as ancient and
Rage A to
i her lover
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Proposed Legislation For Sleeping ©
Ia New York, for example, &
rate of *O fonts for a ;
rezarnd too distan is“ ¢all
P ennHy Vani
for the first
each additional
bith, {
d for: in
rate demanded ig 1
centa fur
mitles and 50
0 miles, The legisia
a rate of 31 for
19 Hoosiers are noar
arate of 73
ami 30 cents for
DLA,
fliinois want 24
hx r :
passing a bill fixing
for the 8 i Irs
additional ten
1h & pu these 15 to ix sles
urs or
Certs
Kansas
Talos
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A
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nip a4 low as 23 cents per day bil
and the legislators of Texas are winded
| to fix the rate at $1 a night, ete.—New
Orleans Time s- Democrat.
Lite " Lottery.
A remmarkab le. instance of the queer |
things turned out by life's wheel of for-
tune came to public notice yesterday at
Bismarck. A clerk in the United States
land office at the North Dakota eapital
threw up bis job to start a restaurant
and blind pig; and ex Governor Short-
bridge whs appointed to the clerkship,
a position which pays $1,000 per an-
num. —St Paal Globe. :
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SHORT LVED FORTUNES |
How the MiiHons of the Crosusiihe Ble.
© mans Kings Have Dwindled.
While the accumulation of wealth fi
the hands of a few is an evil that needs
to be vigorously combated, there are nod
lacking indications that it contains
within itself the seads of its own de
struction. Families like the Astors, thas
fasten themsalves like abelones on &
single spot and snck out the resources
of a community from generation to gem
eration, are happily rare, and the com
ditions that permit them. to subsist mag
be easily altered by legislation The
difficulty of maintaining great aggee-
gations of capital intact nuder ordinary
circumstances has been strikingly {lun
trated in San Francisco
A few yoars ago, among many ogy
accumulations of wealth in this tows,
eight stupendous fortunes stood consple-
pously pre-aminent—the foar railroad
fortunes of Stanford, Buntingion Cad Croek-
er and Hopkins and the four
fortunes of Flood, O'Brien, Mackay and
Fair. The wildest ideas prevailed com.
cerning the size of these hoards. = Stam
ford and Huntington wera commonly
supposed to be worth at least §100,000,~
30 apiece. At one time Mackay was
called the richest man in the world, snd
his wealth was figured as high as $600,-
‘000,000. This estimate was based om
the reasonable idea of taking the divi
beeama more |
haal |
At the Scravan Honse |
several large plate glass windows were |
broken, and in other parts of the oity |
af
i went
dends on his mining stocks as the in-
terest on a capital sufficient to produce
| such returns at ordinary rates and per
| haps allowing for a geometrical increase
| on the previously observed scale
1: Of thesn hinge fortunes only that of
| Huntington remains undiminished im
the original hands Mackay is living,
but his wealth, actual and reputed, has
shrunk until he scmetimes finds it hard
‘| to lay his hands at short notice on $3,-
000,000 or $4,000,000 in ready cash
| The Stanford estate has been generously
dedicate d to publio uses The Crookes
pstate has to support several families
and several expensive establishments
| The Hopkins estate is probably smaller
now than when Mark Hopkins died.
A and O'Brien saw their wealth
diminish ta srdinary proportions before
I their death, and their beirs are not con
gnicncus now agong multinillionatres
The si dest and hardest of the bo~
| panzi kings has just died, and his wealth
will divided into several pe arts in any
ease and may be all swall lvevud op by
tie fegal talent thas has displayed soch
i abtiity in the Jessop and
1 ARORA
lies
"
Pay
the American atmos
boro, favorable as it is to the accumu
tion of vast fartines, dois not appear
particu: arly to promote Suir pepo:
i ~San Francisco Examiner.
en 5 il.
DELUGE o WITH STAMPS.
A Flood of Sympathy Brought Out Bp
“Chain Letters” That Is Wasted.
Some time ago Miss Edna Brows, &
cripple of Kanesville, Ills,
that some hospital would treat her
| ghe gave it 1,000,000 canceled postage
stamps, wrote to three persons, requests
| ing that each send ten stamps and also
write to three persons, making a sim-
ilar request of each, their correspong-
ants to send the stamps and write le$”
ters, and so on natil the fiftieth link in
the chain should be forged. The plan
was carried out, and the result has a.
tonished AM: «8 Brown, When Ber letters
| first began to arrive, they were only a
few, but they increased gradoally in
number until it fairly rained iettera
The chain is not yet half complete
| But Miss Brown's mail now consists of
| from 8,000 to 19,000 letters a day. —
| passe dad 3:4 0. 000 mark long ago
and there seems no possible way oa
ping the avalanche. And the worst of
Cit 1s that, although thousands of dollase
have been expended postage ont of
gyupathy for ber, yot it all does no good
w hi vv, as no medical institute cam
bev found that wants a million stamps
The coly one who is’ making anything
gut of the great scheme 8 Uncle Sam,’
whose joeoms has been increased ig
to $100 a day. —Exchanga -
The Burned Wingate Rodse, SH
Another link to the earlier history ot
this. country lias g ne through the da
struction by tire of the historic Wingate
house at Stratham, N. H. It was orige
inaliy the home of Payne Wingate, who
was United States senator for New
Hampshire at the time of the Washing
ton inauguration. The laté Robert Q-
Winthrop used to tell of his visiting
Mr. Wingate in 18336, when the senator
was almost 100 years old and was a8
that time the oldest living grad@ate
of Harvard college. The college was
then celebrating its two hundredth an-~
niversary, and Mr. Winthrop went up
‘to Stratham to get some new facts re-
garding the early history of the instite-
don. Among other things Mr. Wingate
told him of his dining with Washington
in New York on April 80, 1779, the
day of the president's inanguratiom.
The house was owned last by the Hom
J. A Wingate, grandson of the old
senator, who has served with disting
tion, especially in the diplomatic serw-
ice in China, — Independent.
tm tho whole,
th 0
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The Death FPeaalty In Kansas.
The criminal code of Kansas provides
for the tnthotion of the death penalty,
but it guards it with such pecultar pro~
Fisions as to make if practically inop-
erative. The penalty cannot be inflicted
except by immediate order of she
governor of the state, given at his dis :
eretion. There are now in the state pels
itentiaries over 200 persons under sels
tence of death. They are liable to be
hanged any day under an order fom the
governor. - But since the law was passed.
| mo governor has ever ordered a hanging.
—Chicago Tribune.
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The New Woman's (Cigarette.
The latest thing in the cigarette of
the New York fashionable woman is to
have it made to order, with her name
and address thereon, so far has she
strayed from the secrecy with whithe
few years ago she began to —
New York Journal
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