Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 22, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 August 1891 — Page 1

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Vol. 22.—No. 8.

THE_MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

IT WILL COME OUT ALL RIGHT. Whatever Is a ernel wroog, #2 Whatever l« unja*t, The honest year* that

Will trample1"i. 5A^fh

In restless youth I railed at Fate, With all m/Pony

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Bat now I know ibnt waltIt all will oorac out right. Thouffh vicc nay don the Judge's crown,

And play the Censor's part,

And fact be eowed by falsehood's frown, And nature ruled by art Though labor toil* through blinding tears,

And idle wealth is might*

know the honest, earnwt yearn Will bring it out all right. Though poor and loveless creeds may paw,

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For pare religion's gold,

Tboagh Ignorance may rule the man, While truth meets glances coldj I know a law supreme, sublime,

Control* tui with It* might,

And in God's own appointed time— It will come out right. -Bain WtaoClerWltcox.

'Town Talk.

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Tbe worlt which has boon done on the street* in tbe last four months, while it gives thftm a cleanlier appearance has by no mean* improved them for driving purposes. If it had been the rule to re* movts all the loose dirt and leave holesit could not have been more strictly followed, because a tougher lot of streets than Terre Haut# possesses at the present time could «|pt be found throughout $he length and breadth of the land. Instead of i*flaf®Ving the dirt and filling the hole* wMtcoarsegravelthecommistdoner removes the dirt and allows the holes togrow. Be does not believe in taking a *tit4h in time to save trine or tew flabsoiioontif, but is allowing the streets lo be^me worse rapidly

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r&dmItpasonablo gait with safety to vehicle springs or awurance that tbey can koep •*heir seat Several oases are known -where complaints have been made to •the aatute gentloman who runs this branch or city aftairs, and i« no case has ..Ire ovon been known to give a civil answer to a question or a suggestion, even •though tb0 Question has'been asked or the suggestion made by a lady. There is a Roneral.oompJ«Unb the manner

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greea, and tl|| day is not far distant wtwm'fbe eonneil will bo called upon to pay -a 'round sum for graveling the vfb»re they might have been keitt'oonstautly in good repair at a very entail expense if the city bad a cotnmission er who knew Just a little more about his business than a hog dtoos about Sunday. On the south "Side «!.'Main from .Eighth not a strw*#* t^wblch any person can drive at

In which the stieet work lias beon done for some tUno, and if there is no other way of getting rid of this official tbe ctounett could lose nothing by abolishing Jbis office.

TIIRKK (T)IS) ORACKS

The dny the Niagara excursion left here three young dudes succeeded in at trading considerable attention to them selves at the Big Four depot. Each was dressed in the latest fashion and if they had been properly labeled would have made an excellent advertisement for some tailoring establishment. It was an advertisement which would certainly have been read, because it could not have failed to attract attention. As it was a sort of holiday occasion these young dudes were out to make the most of it. They were on the mash, and seamed to wish every person around them to know it. If a young lady had the misfortune to cast a glance in their diieetion through a car window, she at once became the subject of remark between them, and they forthwith proceeded to air themsolves On the plstform, keeping as close t® the window at which the young lady wasseatadaS ps*satble. Then they would skip around singly for a time, nirotat the end of .the platform, compare notes and go at It again. They thought they looked well on dre*s parade, and they certainly afforded considerable amusement to a small but deeply interested group of pervona who kept track of their movement*. Of course the objects of their attack were also the subjects of conversation among them, and if the young ladies had heard It they would not bar® felt in the least complimented. When the train pulled out the dudes adjourned to their usual loafing places up town, where thcyrolnted their experience to the remainder of the herd to which they belong. These three young fellows have sisters loo, but this is all the rs&peet they have for them* 'They also have fathers, but the latter

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up in Idleness and also la ignorance of the common rules of dencecy. It is not too late yet to teach them better, but the chances are they will be allowed to continue in their present ooawe until their eonduct ^uimlttstea in no good to tfcera* selves or others. too mevm mmxmm.

Although all the report* are not yet Jo it is certain that lb* number of dwrtb* In the city for July will net fall abort of ^100, against a total of in June. Tbe large r-^-tailiy Is «sftia*k*fcle this at the

tbe business they could attend to eight and day. Nearly all the deaths over the average rate have been cauied by flux, which was almost epidem'c during the entire month, and affected all alike, from the child in arms to the old veteran. Itseems, too, to run in localities. In the northeast portion of the city, where there is a good system of drainage, it seems to be almost unknown, while in the southeast and southwest portions it has been abundant. At the poor asylum there were eighteen cases of the disease at one time, but no deaths. Generally the doctors attribute the prevalence of the disease to bad water, which is doubtless assisted by the warm days and oool nights. T&« number of deaths has not been large In proportion to then umber of cashes, and take the disease all lt» fOFHks there hav« probably been nearly as many cases as the large number at one time stated. However, physicians say that the disease is wearing itself out and will soon disappear. A gentleman who was down in EvansViHe this week saya they had the report there that people were dying of cholera her® at a fearful rate.

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ing tho rumor to its source he said »he fonnd that all the talk came from an undertaker's boast of the immense business he was doing. Such talk may be very gratifying to the individual who Indulges in it, but it doca ^the oity irreparable injury. Mit, \A KEBPINO IT UP.

From all that can be learned the police are'keeping up the good work so well begun several weeks ago. Those who profess to be authority on such matters say there is not a gambling house in operation in town so far as is known to the police. When the new order was inaugurated they were all notified to close, and the injunction was observed, except in the case of the crowd that was pul ed last Saturday night, and they have been sorry for it ever since. Of course the skeptic^ who always knows more about everything than anybody else, says that this morality spurt has just been made for a blind, and tbatin less than a monfch thero will be a relapse to the old order. Somo who have had the screws put to ihem are kicking because the police are not more »«vert» i« the enforcement of law and order in the Gallatin district— the Gallatin gang is like the Mormons, because when people can pitch into noth ing^lse^tTiey wayaraiseh ftdea with that particular sect—but the Gallatin crowd seems to have been on its good belmvior for some time, and if the reform continues there is hope that mission work will soon commence among the savages. There has been no talk of late about the disobedience of law on the part of the saloons, so it is presumed that they are all behaving themselves moderately. The manner in which the police have brought the unlicensed to time has been very gratifying, and people are notlnclinod to croak muclsabont some other matters while the law has been so well enforced in this direction. But it must not be forgotten that the police force is being watched, and if there is any let up in their vigilance they will be promptly informed of it.

THK WORK HOUSE.

Whon the city council and county commissioners took the matter up it was believed that Vigo county would apon have a place where its vagrants, bums and kindred spirits could have physlcial exercise to tho extent of paying their board either in whole or in part. It is true that like Rome a work house can't be built in a day, but the fftofe that nothing at all is being done does wot lead to the belief that it will be built even at the expiration of many days. There is no reason why an institution of this kind should not be built. Every citiasen knows that it is needed and needed very much' immediately. It would not only fill the proverbial "long felt want," but it would be along felt want which would soon be filled and should bo kept &Ued as long as the material holds ont. If there should come a time when It should be no longer needed, which is not at all likely this side of the millenium, it would be no waste of money, but would stand as a monument to the good it had accomplished. It is something which is needed every day, and the longer the community is without it the more the want is felt. The committee* that were appointed to investigate the matter would do well to hurry the project along. If it is not deemed expedient to build the work house it would be a good thing to fall back to the rock pile and give the street commissioner some material with which to repair the streets. In the meantime the jail continues full of the same kind of subjects—fellows who are too la*y to work* to whom the jail la no dlsgyaee aod who love confinement within its precincts because of tho luxury and comforts which it afiords them.

city, wlilS hsa aiway* had a »ru*ilc*i death r*t« of a«y «lty of It* is thaeotmtty. It has beau a basy time any person ever undertook tbat of maktor the doeters, all of whom have bad all'inga* assessment tor taxation is a UttiftI union.

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The county board of review haa cometed its work, and the paper* in the esse will go before the state board on Monday next. The Vigo beard has worked hard and «very unprejudiced person believes that each membar endeavored to ooiHKSentiotiftly discharge biedutiw. Of UMjtbanklw* tanks which

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the worst. It seems to please no one, no matter how well the work is done, and If it is done honestly and fairly its author has made enemies who will never forgive him. The board here has done the best it could under ail existing circumstances, but he has made many enemies. However, if the

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equalizes values in Vigo to those of other counties in the state, the howl which has been made won't be heard in the storm which is sure to cone. It will be a sort of vindication of the county officials, but it will in no way decrease the ill feeling which has been oreated agataM* them.

People and Things.If

"Ex-Senator Sayard is summering at' Saratoga, and as he is there for health, and pleasure the reporters say they csjftnot get a word of politics out of him with a corkscrews^

Herr Jobann Most is.in jail, but as he can get his beer and newspapers regular iy he is not losing much flesh because he cannot get around to wave red flags at firebrand meetings.

Senators, Representatives aud govern-: tuent officials are so thick arouqd Narragansett Pier this summer that ordinary visitors have to take back seats and wait until they are spoken to.'V

What a lightning rod peddler Warner Miller would have made! He has al« ready 'woked over $3,000,000 in subscription to the Nicaragua Canal,- and he hasn't turned up his wristbands to the job.

Grover Cleveland is a good sailor and does not know what sea-sickness is. And a mighty good thing for the steward that it is so? Mr. Cleveland would be no trifle to carry below if he happen*. ed to collapse.

At one time Justice Field bad aohance to buy a San Francisco sand lot for $4,500, and now when he thinks that owe ha)f of the land has been recently tfolia-Jor cool million, he feels mad enou£h jo. give himself seven years in anasylu-ral.

Ex-Governor St. John is grieving b^sr kindly little mind with the fear"1, tbijt the Chicago World's Fair will deg^n^j ate into a beer garden affair, borrowing trouble. There will be qOgy* as much cold water as he can get aw with. v-2

late London meeting ol theosph^fs to arrange for the annual-convention. Mr. Sinnett declared that *tb® time had arrived for a partial publication of the esoteric learning ^f, ,t|tfcQ$opby. The world is ready for it.

Albert Binch, of Rockport, Ind., is not quite six years old, but he if) already (josing asa lecturer upon astronomy and an authority on the siderial heavens. The child may be all right, but the parents and friends who are encouraging such a nuisance ought to be pumped upon,

General'Booth, Ibe Salvationist, mi fa he only needed $600,000 with which to institute great reforms in the condition of darkest London. This sum has been raised, with an extra $100,000 for contingencies, but the light of improvement does not seem to have been turned on to any great extent.

In tbe effort to get a pardon for Harper, the Cincinnati bank wrecker, his little five-year-old daughter has taken a part* sending to the President her portrait on which she had laboriously written: "Dear Mr. President would you please send my papa home agahi and I will think you eo good." J§gj

President Harrison and Secretary Noble were not only fast fi lends and school mates, but they were both in love with tbe same young lady. But Benjamin came out ahead, as usual, and beat Noble out of sight in the race for Carrie Scott, who now dignifies the White House by being its mistress Jg

The most interesting visitor at dape May is Cardinal Gibbons, who celebrated last Thursday the 57th anniversary of his birth. Everybody at the beach knows the Cardinal, at least by sight, and hundreds of hats are raised to him when he takes his morning constitutional along the board walk. The children are especially attentive to him. The Cardinal is a swift pedestrian, and moves along at a swinging gait until he has covered tour or five miles. He never misses bis morning walk rain or shina, and he is accustomed to take another stroll before his noon dinner and a third late in the afternoon.

Ballot reform, like John Brown^s soul, is marching on. Thirty states have ballot reform laws, leaving only fourteen to join tbe procession. Tbe new laws in every state provide the essential feature* of the Australian ballot system—the separate voting compartments and the official ballot printed at tbe pubic expense. In some states, Pennsylvania among the number, the law is defective1 to detail and the secrecy of the ballot not absolutely in violates Considering the short time since the first state adopted the Australian system, the pmgrass made has been wonderful, and It will not be surprising if the next two- yean* should witness the enactment this ayafcem into law in «rr«ry state In tbfe

TEKRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1,1891. .Twenty-second Year

JJnapgroachaMe People.

Aiftaaaa of People Wbo Wrap IhtnuelTM tn Cloak of HautineM, WIxom AoquaintcUM is Often Stnfkt Alter, ud WImb fOace Made Ptotm a Disappointment and aXoss of Time on an Unworthy and Setflab 0!hfeeS,w'*".

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There is a prevalent Idea that people who are distant and unapproachable in demeanor are immensely valuable when their intimacy is once obtained. •'Hard to get acquainted witb'i is supposed by many to be synonymous with "deep," "cultivated" and "worthy," when applied to character.

So far as personal observation and experience goOs, I have pixoven this-idea to t« Utterly without foundation.

A haughty exterior more frequently hides an empty head and heart than »UJ profound quality, "She is very deep} fott will find her worth cultivating,", .-'was said to me once of an "unapproiicbable" woman whose "keep oflF-tba-grass" attitude had repelled me at first meeting.

I devoted myself to a search for her hidden worth but after many months I found her to bo like one of those sterile New England farmlets, where a fresh crop of stones appear as soon as the old, ones are uprooted.

Who does not recall a pounded thumb and wasted temper in his youth, trying to break the shell of a tough walnut, only to find a dried and shriveled meat within?

As we advance in life we save our thumbs and our temper by choosing the yielding almond and pecan and letting the doubtful walnut alone, v,1,.

Life is too short to waste In sunb a difficult.and often disappointing achievement. "Distant" people almost invariably gutter from intense selfishness.

I am determined to thaw out tnat ozen woman," said a young lady at a mmer hotel, speaking of a female lacier who chilled the air at her apfroafeh. S I, ^*1 am sure she has a good heart under ffllt frosty exterior, and all it needs is a little steady sunshimB to reveal itself."

You will waste your time, better em ployed/witb the ready-made, agreeable people ail about us,'J I replied. "But I am sorry for her," my friend oontinued. "Shomust miss herself. ,.I -Wit show bor be* own=beartw" "Isbe will not thank^Jti,^ I persisted, "for it is au unpleasant object, and that is why she keeps it hidden."

At the end of several weeks my friend informed me that daily intimacy with tbe glacier bad shown her that tbe wo man was utterly selfish, insufferably jeakyus-minded, and eaten up with petty pride and narrow^envy of her best friends.

When we left the hotel, I carried with me hosts of pleasant memories of agreeable people, while my friend was dejected with the recollection of her unprofitable labor. She had expected to find mines of solid gold beneath that frigid exterior and had found only sticks and pebbles.

Buried worth may lie for a time beneath a disagreeable and repeliant ex terior with the vory young but when people bave jolted over tbe rough road of life a goodly number of years, the ore of worth comes to tbe surface if it exists for true worth is always mixed with unselfishness, and does not permit us to thoughtlessly wound or repel one another. There is an extreme diffidence or shyness which frequently afflicts worthy people, but tjiis is easily distinguished from the "unapproachable" quality

Nothing delights the "distant woman" more than to hear herself spoken of as "very bard to get acquainted with."

She knows that her nature is meagre, and she is delighted to think that she Is hiding her own barrenness so successfully from observers behind a haughty exterior.

Oysters steamed in their shells area great delicacy but when one shell re mains presistently closed it is a foolish waste of time and appetite to struggle with it. Toss it aside with the empty shell, and satisfy hunger with those which readily yield to warm steam. Were there but one bivalve to be bad it would be different, and the stubborn shell may only hold a shriveled oyster at best.

The inaccessible man says he does not wish to waste his affability on people he may never meet a seoond time. He want* to find out that people are worth while before he meets them half way.

Is human kindness then a matter of bargain and sale? Are we never to be agreeable to people until we find that they can repay us in some way?

Just because we may not meet the fellew-voyager on life'# journey again we oaght not to miss the opportunity of leaving a pleasant instead of a painful impression. It is very trite to talk of making people happy by smell kind neasea, but tbe person who thinks of anything save himself knows thai life is made up of little hurts and small joys, and that the only way to confer happinesa is to be careful in tbe small things as we go along.

him by an excess of dignity or, a discouraging invulnerability of demeanor. One can be Agreeable'without being confidential.

I can imagine no position' so exalted in this small world that it would not render any human being redioulous who assumed airs beciuse of it.

I can imagine no taiants or gifts so rare that they would not be robbed of half their worth if they lacked the setting of a gracious manner.—-[Ella Wheel*er Wilcox in N. Y. Truth.]

Feminitems.

We need not confide oar most inmost thoughts or eeaxets to every casual ac» oompressed so as to make her appear qoaixttanoe, bat we can avoid wounding like an hourglass.

Queen Victoria is fond of oatmeal porridge, and is Scotch enough to bell eye in its virtue of being strengthening and baring no bones in it.

MisS liita Rlfce, who is well known* in the newspaper world of New York, has a novel in press. It is oalled "Her Baleful Influence," and is a study of character.

In the Mathematical Tripos, t»art II, at Cambridge, Miss Philippa Fawcett has won a Division with the senior wrangler she distanced last year and another student, Mr C, Crawford.

Miss Frances E. Willard says that her rlsijng hour is 7 or 7:80, and that 10 p. m. is her latest hour for retiring. To this habit she attributes her lifelong good health and steady cheerfulness.

Mrs. Frenoh SheldOti OOiiies back from "Darkest Afrioa" a'physical wreck and in future will leave following in Stanley's footsteps to somebody who wears a moustache and can swear at the natives.

Four women writers have a Bbare in the honors awarded by the Institute of France this year: Mile. Marcel, novelist Mme. Jules Samson, eduoational writer Mlle. Miran, poetess, and Mme. Carette, biographical and historical essayist.

Parisians, it is reported, are offended by ibe attendance of Princess Letitia, daughter of the late Prince Napolean, at a recent bull-flght attired in a dress of "roseate lilao." Etiquette would seem to demand somber black for a bereaved person at a bull-flghife.

Mrs. Julia Averill, an aged Kansas City lady, who writes p$try for amuse ment, sent a few congratulatory verses to Prince Bismarck on his eighty-second birthday. The ex-Chancellor responded In a brief note, expressing his sincere thanks for th$ cotfrteay "Mrs. Leugtry is not* disfigured nor does her face beaf a mark or scar resulting from the assault made upon her by that drunken boobey Baird." And thus another effort of the mendacious cable correspondent is knocked out by the club of truth, und a breezy batch of extra fine lying is turned down as n.

A Paris correspondent declares that Madame Albertlne Cbaussenot, who claims to be the daughter of the ex-Etn-press Eugenie, doss not bear the slight est resemblance to the countess of Muntijo. The woman is said to be animated in advertising her pretences, not by mercenary motives, but by a desire to learn the truth about her parentage.

Fashion's Fancies.

Yellow as a tone is in great demand, being alike becoming ttflightand darkhaired women.

White ribbon rosette garnitures are especial favorites with snowy toitots of drapery net and lace*

It is hardly possible to select a shade for your gown that a corresponding one cannot be found in straw.

Dark all-wool frocks are smartened by tbe use of a large whiteoollar of guijpnre embroidery or crochet work. 1

An especial shape is cut with along back and square fronts, these being of sufficient depth to knot over tbe bust.

A crown less bonnet shows bows, back and front, and ties of piece velvet, with four pink roses without foliage at tbe back.

A late fancy in colored embroideries is the "Iloumania." It is made of linen cloth which carries meteoric designs in gold and colored threads.

A curious mixture of color on a black hat is arranged to blend in perfect harmony. A wreath •. green pats, with large bows of piece velvet in yellowed blue.

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If in doubt of a hat to buy just now, taHe a sailor. Use diversity of their trimmings vies with tbe different styles in the shapes. Many are now turned up in the back, and tbe favorite trimming Is either at the back or to the left of tbe front.

Some of the very sheer Venetian wool gowns, India veilings, French cbailiee, etc., are accompanied toy petticoat* of tinted silk. This gives a very pretty tone and eflfectaad greatly improves the general appearance of the toilet, as the color or tbe silk shows through the semitransparent fabric.

In every case both hygiene and fashion ara consulted, and no attempt Is made to force ibe figure Into unnatural shapes. Tbe day of tbe wasp-like waist haa gone entirely out. And, while a woman may not care to have her waist as largo as that of the Venus de Mild, *be \n very careful to use that it fa not

Notes and Comments.

Venezuela doesn't want rsj&iprooity. Still, in that section of revolution, it's hardly likely to be long before it turns.

Ignatius Donnelly alternately pounds the old political parties and Bill Shakespeare and none of them seem to mind it much.

The cruiser Charleston is called the watch-dog of the Pacific coast. This is well. The Itata affair showed she wasn't the grey-bound. rt

If any evil result to Ireland from England's gift of local government it certainly cannot be charged as a fault on tbe imperial authorities that they were too anxious to grant it.

It is said that of 489 men who bore the title oi General,in the Confederate service only 184 are left. G, T. Beauregard is the sole.suryiver of those who held the bigbest rank, that of full General.

Who are the gre&testmen In the Uulted States? Why, Jerry Simpson, Peffer, Ingalls, Raum, Uucle Jerry Rusk, Corporal Tanner and Sam Small. A.t least they grate most upon the public attention.

To the earliest 6f the fabulists JEsop, a splendid statue was erected by the Greeks. When tbe fabulists of the present day are valued at the same rate tho circulation, campaign and tin plate liars Will receiv^ their due.

That obstreperous Kansas alliatice judge has been called before the Supreme court, severely and eflectually sat down upon and sent home. He may howboast that be is quite familiar with one Supreme court decision. 'j

It is estimated that the mines of England will be exhausted in from six to eight centuries. By 'introducing the American strike system, however, they may stretch out the inevitable a coupler of thousand years longer.

The recent aooideut on abase ball flGldC by which two players werd placed hors de cqmbat In a collision, resulting in concussion of the brain, should set at rest the sneering opinion that the baso hall man has nothing to conouss.

As Mr. Parnell is presumably on his honeymoon, and still pretends to be in-

terested in politics, the surmise is gaid^"j

ing strength that, the latter is merely another form of excuse to get out o' nights for a good time with the boys*

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.Senator Ingalls ic a reoent add res* began, "I cannot disguise tbe truth," etc. Evidently the senator has tried often enough and being often detected considers himself a failure in attempting to prevaricate in such manner as to have it accepted as truth,^^^^^

Pennington's air ship company with $10,000,000 capital on paper has been dissolved by mutual consent of everybody directly or remotely connected with it. It is believed it could be reorganized to construct and operate presidential booms wltb profit to the company.

Ohio, Indiana and Illinois want the candidate for vice-president on the Democratic ticket. It is claimed that while the three must be considered pivotal States tbe vice-pre*ideutial nomination is required by each before the pivot can be of any service to tbe Douiocrats,

Connecticut is trying to revive her blue laws. The principal object is to suppress Sunday cigar smoking. If it specially aimed at suppressing those Havana brands made from Connecticut tobacco the only mistake in the effort is that they don't aim at ofaking tbe laws operative every day in tho fteek, Ilk vast snake, fifty fee^long and adorned with Peflferian whiskers, has been observed prowling through Indiana, and, almost simultaneously, the citizens of

Burlington report a reptilian leviathan which chokes up the sewers and scares the inhabitants into fit*. It is supposed that tbe siege which is operated from Prof. Keeley's institution at Dwljght is driving these monsters from their usual haunts and making them reckless.

The Secretary of ibe Kansas State Board of Agriculture reports that the wheat orop of Kansas will exceed 55,000,000 bushels. If this is a correct statement Kansas will have little use /or sockless statesmen this year. It is probable that the necessity of taking care of this big wheat crop explains the meagre attendance at the late A!Uan«e Convention in that State. It pays better to raise wheat than to go into politics in Kansas as well as elsewhere, and tbe Kansas farmers appear to be finding it out this year.

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There is some discussion over the reports that Prof. Von Bergmann has been turning some paupers of Berlin to experimental account by inoculating them with cancerous matter and observing what came of it. This application of tho idea that persons in reduced circumstances may legitimately be used to gratify the natural curiosity of medical men as to whether or not their theories are correct does, it most be confessed, go rather further In tbat direction than anything we bave observed on this side tbe Atlantic. Of course, the medical profession enjoys greater authority in Berlin.

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