Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1892 — Page 6

SljcScmocrnticSciitincl RENSSELAER, INDIANA*. 3. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher

WHO ARE WHITE CAPS?

THEY ARE NOT PECULIAR TO THE WILD WEST. Old-Style Rcgula nm —Fence Tta'ls and M.lll Fond* as Moral Persuaders-Jn England They Used the Stocks aud tlie Ducking Stool. VlgTaoc * Societies. A rrcent church trial' in New Jersey was the outgrowth of a white cap outrage. A young pas*or is on tr al charged with all'sorts of improprieties, simply because he would not meekly submit to having his horse paint d and stable,l in the pulpit, his buggy housed on top of the church, andolber inconveniences to himself which more or less amused some of the people' in the neighborhood. The young - pastor was college bred, had studied base-ball curves as well ns theology, and had practiced in the gymnasium as well os in Ihe prayer-meet rig. He refused 1o submit 10 petty outrages, hunled down the “white caps," wi o warned him 1o be long-suffer.ng if lie would live, and sect some of them to the penitentialy. This scon s to have ! been the principal means of expos,ng him to a church trial whe o he i all kinds of charges. And these white ,| caps are in New Jersey, within an hour’s ride of New York City, nearer to that resort of fash'on, Long : Branch, and almost w.tiiin hearing of the camp-meeting hymns at Couau

OLD-TI [?]E PERIUASION

Grove. Still there are people in the East who seem to think that “white caps” only thrive in the will’, and woolly West. They shiver at the outrages perpetrated by the n--w organisation of outlawry and wonder i: the West will ever fce:ome civilized. It is title that the white caps made their first appearance in the West under 'hat name. The AVest is rich in nomenclature, and never allows anything to go nameless. So the white caps had a imm- t.nd that i.ame has traveled far to w rry many people thru* the West, and get itse.f in the encyclopedias. Even ’earned Englishmen ■visiting America ass who and w a* are the white cap-: its what eondith n ©f society they thrive; what causes Each outbreaks in civilized countries: artd what is the remedy. ' Bless the souls of these learned phi; sophers, tiespirit behind the white • aps is as oIJ as the world. The spirit of democracy Las always had its place in man’s nature, and it will not down. It will not wait for red tap ■ and alow justice. It prompts a man to knock down the fellow that insults him or wrongs his family. It fires communities where some one in the society d< - fi«3 the moral code that has become the unwritten law. It inspires vigilance committees and regulators to take charge of many things which the courts might better handle, and when courts are slow and uncertain it leads to mobs and riots. The world has never been free from these as it has never been free from this spirit in man to regulate things himself, without waiting lor somebody else to do it, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. There have been riots in France aDd in En-

A FREE RIDE.

gland as well a 6 in America, but in America there have been more regulators and vigilance committtes lhan in the.old world, because we have had no parish priest to whom we carry all the petty grievances that are beneath the dignity of the courts. The regulator has his place in almost every country community. H» usually belongs to the best and mo6t law-abiding part of the cpjnmunity. He obeys the law hlms if and proposes that others shall do likewise. The most common subject of the regulator is immorality, which he prefers to deal with rather than give it gn airing in the courts. If one man in the community Is unfaithful to his wife, if he is cruel and un„ust to her, If he beats h s children, or treats them like cattle* his neighbors in the country do not call in the cOns'able or go to the Justice of the I’eace and swear out a warrant for his at rest. 1 hey give him warning to correct his habits. If he heeds the warniug the regulators will go no further, but if he does not they will treat him to a ride on a rail, or dip him 4n the millpond, or hold him under Ihe pujppepqvt, pi; 101 l him in a snow drift, or test his Qualities as a sprinter and atrip him of all clothing that his action may be freer. If it is arl aggravated case, or if he has repealed the Offense after these attentions, he may be painted with tar and given a ccat of feathera to keep him warm, or he may have to run the gantlet -while every regulator spurs him on with a whip. These are barbarous customs, but man will never «* rid of all his barbarous nature. He will continue to argue that the end justifies the means, and try to make the punishment fit the erira?. As the,/)Id wprkl has had tiie pillory and the stocks tm men, and the ducking stool and the Mdlefor shrewish women, ail of which were barbarous, so has America had barbarities less severe to lit the petty atfaaoea that eould not be carried into

the courts. And dhc parish priest often give the order to use the ducking stool in England, so the circuit rider has ! often figured in the band of regulators in small American communities. ■ As the seriousness of the offenses or supposed offenses against a community

A COAT OF TAR.

increased ihe severity of the regulators has been more maik *d. The white caps were, an advanced order of the village regulators. They stepped short of the Ku a lux Elan ail'd vigilance committee of the ranc>iin ,> n and the miners where ■Judge Lynch presides. Th • lirst appearance of the white caps under that name was in the southern part of In liana. It was an organization of vigilantes and its iirst idea was (o band against the negroes coming into that region from Kentucky.

In this it resembled the old Ku Klux organization, but did not go to the extremes of the Ku Klux, in that it stopped short ( f murder. It gave warning to ngtocs that they could not live in that community. These warnings were followe i by whippings and other outrages, until the negroes gave the section a wide berth. Then the white, caps assumed to themselves the enforcement of the unwritten law which exists in every community. They were a band of regulators who assumed to be a t ourt, jury and prosecutors, and every man who was not a whitp cap was subject to thei/ courts of inquiry regarding his conduct as a citizen. They wore masks of white muslin when exercising their authority to whip or dock or ride on a rail any man who had offended against their laws. From that they were named white caps. The counties of Crawford, Orange, Perpy. Harrison, Spencer, Dubois suffered so much from these outrages and they attracted so much attention in the newspapers that the Governor of Indiana requested Attorney General Michen.r to make an investigation. Gen. Michener made a tour < f that part of the State and made a very full report. He found that the first organization was in Crawford County, and from this, the others followed Datura ly. All the little vigilant committees in that pait of the

A MODERN MAZEPPA.

Slate became known as white caps, and there became a compact organization, all acting together along the same line. So notorious became their outrages upon those who excited their suspicion that there was general distrust in ail that part of the State, every man being suspicious of his neighbor who was not a member of his own organization. Their punishments were brutal and they had an entire disri gard of the laws of the State. Another rival organization known as the “black caps” was the result and it reached the point of civil warfare. Acting on the Attorney General’s report the Stale authorities took steps to destroy the organization. Evidence was finally procured against the principal participants. They were tried and punished, and that ended tho white caps as an extensive organization in Soulhem Indiana.

The reports of the outrages by tho Indiana white caps were no doubt much exaggerated by sensational newspaper writers. The private secretary of the late Governor Hovey has been investigating these stories for a year past, and he says that in most instances he found that the white caps were reputable citi-zens*-persons of property—and not lawless in any sense, except in protecting what was their own by methods outside of tho courts. On the other hand, he found no case where reputable citizens had been molested. One report of mistreatment of a woman was given wide circulation in the most sensational manner, to make it appear that the white caps were most ruffianly. The truth was that a vile woman who had been put off an Ohio River boat took up her quarters in a school-house and sought to corrupt the youth of the neighborhood. Ordered to leave, she refused to go. A company of fnen and women took her from the school-house, and the women gave her a switching. She was not injured. It

VILDAGE COURT OF LAST RESORT.

was in no sense as brutal as the act of a number of church deacons in New Jersey, who tarred and feathered two women like her who established themselves in the neighborhood for a like purpose. But sensational newspaper correspondents made it an outrage that would make all Indiana shamefaced. It may be said in justification of the white caps of Indiana that tho Ohio River towns ore generally infested with the most dis-

reputable “wharf, rats” to be found IB the country. There are chicken thieves, drunken loafers, vile women without any respect for decency or law, and all kinds of 1 l ickguards, who arc a general nuisance. These people might hnvo been punished if caught in some act defying the law, but the white caps c ncluded to lock the stable door before any more horses were stolen, and drive out the dangerous and disreputable Without waiting for them to offend against the strict letter of the law. In doing this they did a good service to the community, but of course they did not follow the properly defined methods named in the laws of their State.

One other organization of white caps became so notorious as to call for investigation by the State authorities. This was in Southern Ohio. Nothing had been heard of such an organization in that State until Nov. 17, 18x8. Suddenly on the night of that date a band of about thirty horsemen appeared in Sardinia, Brown County, and proceeded to administer punishment to a resident accused of immoral conduct. The local authorities taking no cognizance of tho affair, an appeal was made to the Governor. An investigation was immodii ateiy instituted, by which it was disclosed that there was an oath-bound organization of citizens, some of them quite prominent in the county, and it was their purpose to regulate all such affairs as did n t appeal directly to the courts. Their crimes were petty, but unlawful, and prompt steps by the authorities broke up the organization. The more influential members agreed to procure the disbanding of the organization, and no prosecutions were made. These were the tw'o organizations of “white caps” that attracted investigation by State authorities. There were many oth'r smaller vigilant committees in other States, but there was no evi-

WHITE CAP VENGEANCE.

dence of a confederated relation between them to warrant the belief that it was one organization. The White Caps have been more heard of in the East in the last year, not so much because there is a fresh impulse toward the old idea of regulators and vigilance committees as because they have taken up the Western name and adopted it. Ii has been heard of in New Jersey, New York, end all over New England. Itisa convenient name to use when two or three neighbors wish to warn another that his conduct is unbearable. They have always done this, but they have not used this name. But White Caps have no terror to the country. It is seldom that a lawless organization is found in a country with law, except in the petty affairs that cannot be dignified in the courts. In New Jersey the White Caps seem to be composed in equal parts of bigoted churchmen and rough hoodlums, for, while the lattes regarded it fun 1o annoy a dude pastor, fresh from Yale College, the former are equally prejudiced against the young pastor because he showed the spirit of manhood and taught the hoodlums that a minister of the gospel was not necessarily less a man because of his calling.

The Feet.

The feet are the support of the whole body, and arc admirably adapted to this function by their strong ligaments, their many small bones and joints, their central arch, and their variously formed toes. Ilow skillfully they are made will be evident if we contrast any possible movement on two stumps with the ease, springing, graceful walk of a woman with normal, well-cared-for feet. Unhappily, the proportion of feet that are well cared for, in a physiological sense,is much smaller than itought to be. Here, as in so many other places, the tyranny of fashion plays havoc with reason and common-sense. A small foot is held to be a mark of beauty, and therefore nature must be improved upon, no matter at what expense of comfort and health. Meantime sensible people, and especially sensible parents, will do well to remember that no corn or bunion is likely to appear upon any foot that is properly shod. A narrow-toed shoe presses all the toes against and over each other, more or less distorting them; but its most serious effects are commonly seen in the enlargement of the big toe joint. This enlargement and the consequent suffering are sometimes so great as to make it expedient to lay bare the bone, and saw off a large portion of it.

Tight shoes not only produce deformity and suffering, but by impeding the circulation they induce cold feet, and may lead to grave general disorders. It should be remembered, also, that a diminished flow of blolid affects the nerves, lessening their sensibility, so that a woman may finally be quite unawaicthat her feet are cold, and so utterly neglect them. Another common source of trouble is found in the ridiculous hut fashionionoble high heel, carried forward into the arch of the foot. This is nothing; less than a physiological outrage, and has properly been denounced in the strongest terms by the entire medical press. The weight of the tody is removed from its natural point of support, and much of it is thrown upon the pinched, distorted toes, while the muscles of the lower limbs are at the same time wrenched, with no small risk-of serious consequences. Mothers should do their best to give their daughters reasonable ideas upon a subject so important, and at time so little understood.— Youth’s Companion. * Me I)eHed Detection* / “That is not papa,” said the youngest, as the new photograph was being handed around at home. ■“Why not?* asked his mother. “Because that man in the pictu-e has a nice smile on his face.”—Exchange.

FREE SILVER DEBATE.

CHAIRMAN BLAND OPENS THE DISCUSSION. Mr. Williams, of Massnchnsetts, Opens for the Minority— Col. Abner Taylor Compares the Speaker’s Killing with That of Mr. Heed. Discussing Silver. Chairman Bland opened the debate on the silver question in the House. The galleries were filled and the number of members on the floor of the House was unusually large. Mr. Bland at the outset told the Farmers’ Alliance members that they could not bo treated as a separate party in sharing the time for debate because there was no party in tho silver question. Mr. Bland was at his best and he brought out the points of tho silver men with unusual force. George Fred Williams led the speech for the opposition inside tho Democratic party. In its economic discussion it was an able presentation of the subject. Messrs. Harter, Rayner, and other Democratic opponents of silver also got their inning. Col. Abnor Taylor (Rep.), who is a member of the Coinage committee, made a Vigorous speech, contrasting the way the rights of the minority had been overridden in the present House in the interest of free silver with the consideration which had been shown its supporters in the last Congress, when they were in the minority, by Speaker Reed. Col. Taylor said the measure was the most vicious one ever presented in the House. It has made tho nomination of the idol of Democracy Impossible and had forced every other Democratic candidate astride the fence, yet it must be passed to assist Democratic members in their election to the next Congress. After this preliminary scorching, Colonel Taylor entered upon a searching analysis of the effect of free coinage. He yielded a portion of his time to A. J. Hopkins of the Aurora district. Mr. Hopkins made a concise speech showing the weakness of free coinage and condemning the reckless folly which would jeopardize the financial interests of the country aud deceive the farmer and the laboring man in order to try a dangerous experiment. Mr. Bland said, in opening the discussion:

It was just 103 years ago that the founders of this Government adopted what wo call “the double standard.” Tills provided for tho coinage of gold and sliver without limit at the mints of the United S ater; that silver should be eolnod the same as gold, should have the advantages and the same recognition. The sliver dollars should consist of 371 4-100 grains of silver—precisely the dollar of sliver that Is cal ed for In this bill. This bill provides that gold aue silver shall be coined at the ratio fixed by the act of 1837; that gold and silver shall he equal at the mints. In order that this equality should be preserved It Is necessary that silver should bo put on the same plane in regard to the issue of certificates at the mint as the gold. While this bill places gold and silver on an equality In the matter of the issuo of coin notes in their deposits at the mints, it ulso maintains that equality by providing that when the coin notes shall be presented for redemption the Government shall bo free lo redeem them either in gold or silver as It may prefer. Thus coin notes issued on deposit of cold bullion may be redeemed in silver, or coin notes issued on deposit of silver may be redeemed m gold, just as the Treasury may prefer. In arguing for a greater volume of money, Mr. Bland said he would admit that the refined system of credits which has grown up iu tho country does to a certain extent economize the use of money, but in tho eml tho day of paynn nt of these obligations always came, and then we must have money. In 1881, when we had passed a bill for refunding the national debt, tho national banks of the United States surrendered $18,000,000 into the National Treasury as a threat made for flic purpose of inducing a veto from the President—a threat which effected its purpose—and the result of this withdrawal of $18,000,000 from circulation put interest up in New York at the rate of one cent a day. Notes and bends are not money—they are conveniences. The whole fight e ver this issuo is between the capit .lists who demand interest and the people who demand money instead of interest. The gdntleman dc nounced the periodic attempts made for international conferences and Intel national agreements every time the free coinage of silver is proposed, and said: Are we to be shackled here by the apathy of the governments of other nations? Ia our linuncial system to be regulated, not by our own Ideas of justice and our own conveniences, but by the conveniences of other nations? The moment that this great government declare, for the free coinage of’ silver the other commercial nations, too, will solve that question. Self-interest will compel them to do -o. Tbe restoration of silver here means tbe restoration of It everywhere—the world ever. 'lhe moment you restore silver, if gold Is taken from circulation, prices will go down in proportion and that necessitates money from abroad to purchase commodities here that go down because of the contraction of money. Everything will be cheap. The man who holds his gold Is simply holding it for silver, for silver will take the channels of circulation. Let silver be coined once and see what the result will be. You may have to pay a little more, if you have the two metals at par, but let us remember that as a rule when money Is plentiful prices are gcod. Labor, after all. Is the onl/ money.

Mr. Bland then explained the last section of tho bill providing that whenever France opened its mints to free coinage of silver at a ratio of 15J to 1, the United States should adopt that ratio. He called attention to the fact that for seventy years France had by its open mints fixed the price of both metals and kept them on an unvarying parity of 15J to 1. To allay any apprehension that might arise because of tho French ratio being 15* to 1, while ours was 16 to 1, it was proposed that the United States should adopt the ratio of 151 to 1 whenever France did so. Continuing, Mr. Bland declared that the action of the Government of the United States on the silver question had been an invitation to Europe to go upon the gold standard. We began silver’s demonetization in 1872, and in all our efforts to restore silver we had been defeated by limitation. When a free coinage bill was passed in the House in 1878 by a two-thirds majority and sent to the Senate, the same idea of an international agreement was injected into the question, and meanwhile we provided for the purchase of from s2,ooo,<if>» to $4,000,000 a month. The last Congress passed an act to purchase $4,500,000 of silver monthly, and its friends proclaimed that it was done in the interest of silver. He opposed that bill, and said the gentlemen were deceiving themselves and the country, and that silver could not be brought to par in any such manner. The law of 1873 compelled the coinage and use of tho silver dollar. The law of the las t Congress used tin; bullion as mere dead capital in the Treasury, which might as well be at the bottom of the Potomac. In conclusion, Mr. Bland said: I appeal to the gentlemen on this floor to lay aside every idea of party exigency, every Idea but that which U right and Just, and to cast their votes according to the dictates of their own consciences and to the ple'gos they made to the greater productix’e masses of the country. If they do that this bill Is snre; this cause Is won. How far the criminal law was violated, and how far it was avenged, in regard to murder, during 1891 is shown by the following ligures which relate to the United States: The number of murders in this country last year amounted to i,906, or 1,616 more 1 than in 1890, and

I 3,339 more than in 1889. The executions in 1891 numbered only 123, of which 27 took place in the North and 96 in the South. That is, one murderer in 48 received capital punishment. During the same period the lynchings which outraged instead of avenged the law numbered 195, or 68 more than in any previous year. The lynching 3 all occurred in the States west of Ohio and south of Maryland.

MILLS ELECTED SENATOR.

Exciting Scenes Mark the Political Elevation of Protection’s Great Enemy. R. Q. Mills was elected by the Texas Legislature to the United States Senate in the place of Horace "Chilton, who was appointed by Governor Hogg to till the vacancy caused by the resignation of John H. Reagan. Mills received 120

TOGER Q MILLS.

votes on the first ballot, his election being practically unanimous. Chilton withdrew from the contest on the night preceding the election in a note addressed to tlio chairman of a caucus of his friends. He said that, while lie preferred to fight the Rattle out to its logical conclusion, he realized rhat his election was impossible under the circumstances, and rather than involve his friends, who, while, preferring him, had been instructed by their constituents to vote for Mills, ho would withdraw. The outcome of this contest, which has been conceded td be in Mills’ favor

for weeks past, fias been, watched with unusual interest cn account of the peculiar condition of State politics in the Democratic party. Mills’ election is regarded as Sa triumph of the tariff reform element ovst the free coinage people, and is taken as a rebuke (o Railway Commissioner li ea -

HORACE CHILTON.

gan, who recently journeyed to El Paso and made a strong free silver speech before the silver convention. Austin was wild with enthusiasm, and thousands of people gathered to celebrate the triumph of Mills.

SALISBURY MUST ANSWER

Another Vigorous Ndte Sent by the President to the Premier. Washington special: There has been a long and earnest session of the Cabinet. The subject was the Behring Sea matter. No material statement is published as to the-discussion or conclusions. Nor has any information as yet been given as to the nature of Lord Salisbury’s reply. The only otlicial information that has thus far been obtained regarding the Salisbury note is that it is deemed by the administration as unsatisfactory and evasive'. By this it is understood that Lord Salisbury neither absolutely rejects nor agrees to the proposed modus vivendi. An absolute rejection would have been more acceptable to this Government than the vague und unsatisfactory answer that has come. It is ascertained that one result of the Cabinet meeting was that another dispatch was sent to Li rd Salisbury by this Government. One who should know says this dispatch is peremptory in tone and that it demands a speedy categorical answer to the inquiry as to whether or not a modus vivendi wiil be agreed upon. Your correspondent’s informant says that the dispatch sent Lord Salisbury is in many respects as vigorous as the famous recent dispatch by President Harrison to Chili, which is characterized as the ultimatum. There seems to bo among the Senators more of a disposition to reject tho arbitration treaty than there was a few days ago. It is not probable that the President will send to the Senate the last communication from Lord Salisbury until a reply shall have been received to the last note sent to Great Britain by the direction of the President.

THAYER STILL FULL OF FIGHT.

He Files a Motion for the Reopening of the Gubernatorial Contest. Ex-Governor Thayer, by his attorneys, Messrs. J. H. Blair, C. A. Goss anil oxChief Justice M. B. lioese, appeared in tho Supreme Court at Lincoln, Neb., and filed a motion for leave to reopen the Thayer-Boyd gubernatorial contest case, asking that the judgment rendered Mar. 16, 1892, on the mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States, that the defendant go hence without del'ay and recover his costs, and execution be awarded thereupon, be called, vacated, and set aside; tffat the relator be given leave to file a reply to the answer of the defendant, and that the case be then set for trial. A notice was also served on Governor Boyd, informing him that at the opening of the or as soon thereafter as the case can be heard, this motion for a reopening of the case will be presented to the court. Governor Boyd is unconcerned and is attending to the duties of his office as though there was no claimant to his title. He says that if the court allows the case to be reopened ho will be readily able to prove his citizenship and will continue to aftt. as Governor of Nebraska until such time as his successor shall be elected and qualified.

Queer Use for an Ear.

In the old days in Western Pennsylvania, when people had little money to pay for .teachers, and could spare their boys but little time from the work of the fields, school “kept” almost incessantly during the few weeks when it was in session, with no Saturday holidays and very brief recesses. At o'nc little schoolhouse among the mountains an old-fashion-ed Irish schoolmaster was once employed, who kept his boys grinding steadily at their tasks, but gave them permission to nibble from their lunch baskets sometimes as they worked. One day, while the master was instructing a class in the rule of three, he noticed that one of his pupils was paying more attention to a piece of apple pie than to the lesson. “Arrah, there!” said the master; “Jack Bales, be listening to the lisson, will ye !” “I’mlistening, sir,” said the boy. “Listenin’, Zs it!” exclaimed the master; “then it’s listenin’ wid one ear ye are, an’ atin’ poi with the other!”—San Francisco Argonaut. Thebe are 3,064 languages in the world and more than 1,000 religions.

PARALYSIS FROM ARSENIC.

Poison In Wall Paper and Its Effects Upon Health. “Arsenic in wall paper?" That was the subject of the hearing before the Public Health Committee in the green-room at the State House yesterday. Senator Gilman, of Newton, presided, and at the appointed time called the meeting to order. .. Arsenic in wall paper and its effects upon life has been the subject of considerable comment of late, but what truth or falsity there may belli the question was the subject-matter of to-day’s hearing. Henry Saltonstall, Treasurer and Manager of the Pacific Mills, was next heard. He said: “I am in favor, of a commission which would decide what amount of arsenic should be used. When we cannot determine the amount to be used without endangering life I think that the Legislature should determine.” Dr. Francis 11. Brown, of the Children’s Hospital, next spoke as follows: “Several years ago I had a large number of cases which resulted in finding the presence of arsenic. Then some persons grew well on beiug removed from certain rooms, and grew worse on being taken back. The very insidiousness is a part of the danger, and is only discovered by examination and study. “We do not ask that the use of arsenic be prohibited, but that it be so to a dangerous amount. We are not fighting against the trace of arsenic, but the amount of color.

“We find paper-hangers frequently affected with sores on their hands, face, and affections of the nose, which no doubt is due to arsenic. “A sample of paper referred to in 1872 contains 8 07-100-grains of arsenic to the square inch. Here is one (showing a sample) with over five grains of arsenic to the yard, nut kindergarten, but wall; here is a card which belongs to the dispensary, and here is a cloth, plum color, worn by one of our prominent physicians who was very susceptible to arsenic. “I canno.t tell you the amount which should be used to the square yard, but should imagine that l-50th of a grain would be safe. “Wall paper on ten years will not give off yearly one-tenth of its arsenical contents, because there are so many things to consider. . The first year morearsenicwillbegivenoff than in the second, because the coating of the first protects the second in a measure. The danger is growing less each succeeding year as far as quantity is concerned, but not as concerns effect, but the charge is by no means the less.

“This room surrounded by paper will give off arsenic until you take off all the paper. As long as the paper remains upon the wall it is just as dangerous as ever; that is, you shovel sand # from a certain place, there is sand there until the sand is all removed. As long as tbe pigment remains the danger is not diminished.” Dr. James J. Putnam said: "The testimony thus far presented only covers a small portion of the State. I don't care to say anything in particular as to the arsenic in papers, but these papers which I have here (showing a number of slips) I would like to pass around to you. I examined a number of samples recently and found no arsenic. I have samples which contain twelve drachms, and are accordingly very dangerous. “We find the digestive system affected, the eyes and the nervous system, without necessarily exhibiting other or ordinary symptoms. “Within the last two months two such cases have been treated in the Massachusetts Hospital. They were paralyzed to such an extent that they could not work. One was from taga used by an expressman and the other from wall paper." Dr. E. W. Abbott, of the State Board of Health, was tho next called. He said: “There was one case reported in 1883, in which the person was seriously ill, due to arsenical poisoning. There are other methods of getting arsenic into the system besides inhaling. Tho case I speak of is a servant girl in Wakefield, who was employed in picking up scraps of paper. She showed all the symptoms of arsenical poisoning, and, on examination, the wall paper showed indications of the poison. The poisoning was caused by the girl handling old paper which had been taken from the wall and burning it up in the stove. She inhaled the fumes or smoke and thereby suffered the same as though she had taken the poison into her system in the ordinary way. “I know a case where paris green was manufactured and the leaves of the trees about the factory dropped off just the same as they would in the fall. The time, however, was the spring. Within the distance of 300 feet every tree was stripped of its leaves. It was due to the methods of manufacture which allowed the paris green to escape, and being wafted by the wind was carried to some distance. At our suggestion a change was made, the result of which was to do away with the evil. A large portion of paris green is arsenic, probably half.” Dr. Charles P. Putnam said of the subject under discussion: “I went to an infants’ hospital not long ago and found not only the children but the nurses affected with sore fingers, and later two of tho children with trouble of the respiratory organs. They died. There was no wall paper about, yet it occurred me that the effects were due “The nurses, I found, wore blue dresses, from which the arsenic in question was given off. The dresses were discarded and the children and nurses recovered, but later were again affected by the nurses resuming the dresses after being washed. They thought that by washing the garments the arsenic would be removed." “I don’t think I could say anything positively of the danger line, but would say that one-fiftieth of a grain to a yard would not be dangerous. ” Boston Globe.

A dentist does not always have fair sailing. Sometimes he runs igainst a snag.

OUR BUDGET OF FUN.

HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DOINGS HERE.AND THERE. Joke* and Joks'eta that Are Supposed te Have Keen Recently Horn- Sayings aad Doings that Are Odd. Curious aad Laughable. Some Objects Ahead. “I saw Col. Bill Mcßride t’day," said one Dakota settler to another. “I guess hie is goin’ tu be a can’date for the leg’slater next fall ag’ln.” “Did he shake hands with you?” “Oh, he always does that—competition is so brisk now’days that they hav’to know a fellar the year round.” “How’d you tell, then?” “He lemme beat ’bout $lO tradin’ bossci. Bill ain’t a man ’ud hurt his reputation that way ’less he’d some object ahead.”—Texas Siftings. * No Sunshine In His. Mr. Murray Hill—“ Mr. Jones’ affairs don’t seem to improve any. He is continually under a cloud.” Mr. Manhattan Beach—“ Yes, the last time I saw him it was raining pitchforks.’’—Texas Siftings. A SeriouH Fault. “What a little delicious vase. It is very old. isn’t it?” “No, madam, it was made recently. ” “Ah, what a pity; it is so beautiful.”—Texas Siftings. IVashlny-Dajr.

“Ephum!” “Yethum!” “Come a-humpin’ yore an’ git yo* barf. Yo’ mammy ain’t got no time ter fool. ” Slio Wan Not the Right One. “Never fear, my dear,” remarked a wife to her impecunious husband; “never fear, I still love you. ” “I know that.” he replied, “butthat doesn’t help matters much.” “I’ll trust you always,” she exclaimed. “Yes, my dear,” he replied, and a sigh came from liis heart, “that is all very fine, but unfortunately you are not the grocer.”—Bloomington Eye. A Considerate Man. Ilostetter McGinnis—You are the manager of the road? Manager—Yes, sir; what can I do for you? “I see you are cutting rates to California,” “Y T es, sir.” “Well, I called to see if I could get a pass. I didn’t like to ask for one when the rates were up—don’t like to be hard on you, you know —but new that they’re way down, of course ’taint asking too much.”—-Texas Siftings. Time to Ron. Pretty Girl Teacher—“ What! Do you intend to withdraw from the Sunday-school?” Wah Lee—“Y’essee. Me flaidee stay here. ” Pretty Girl Teacher “Afraid? What are you afraid of?” Wah Lee “Thiseo leap-year.”— Charles W. Foster, In New York Weekly. In Front of tho Morton House. First Star—“ When I played in San Francisco the people took the horses out of my carriage, and ” Second Star —“Humph! That’s nothing; when 1 appeared on the stage in Chicago tho people kissed all the leather off the carriage.”—Texas Siftings. Getting to the .Point. “Young man,” said the father to the spendthrift, “I am afraid you are getting to the point where you will stop at nothing.” “Yes, father,” was the shameless reply, “when a man gets to nothing he usually has to stop.”—Washington Star. A Clansioal Anecdote. “Fine words butter no parsnips," was the terse remark of the late Sophocles when tne Athens Daily Heleneblat gave the first performance of “Pbiloctetus” a two-column sendoff. “What I want to collar,” said the great poet, “is not gush, but gatemoney. ” —Puck. Skeptical*

Ebenezer Coonrick—“YVell, I’ll b« gosh-durued es I b’lleve that bildin’s a huuderd feet high.”

An Enthusiastic Collector.

The following advertisement recently appeared in a matrimonial paper: “A stamp collector, the possessor of a collection of twelve thousand, live hundred and forty-four stamps, wishes to marry a lady who is an ardent collector _nd the possessor of the blue penny-stamp of Mauritius, issued in 1847.” It appears in the Moniteur, of the Island of Mauritius, and the stamp which the young lady must possess is valued at about one thousand dollars on account of its rarity. Wht is a defeated candidate like the earth? Because he is flattened it the polls.