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There is said to be an abiding prejudice in Ireland against the snake editor.

Senator Palmer says he did not say what the papers say he said Cleveland said.

fcs The hungry and discontented classes appear to have precipitated a young Cuban -revolution in Madrid.

The proud cruiser Brooklyn is greatly humbled. She found it necessary to call aipon two coal barges to save her.

If the immigration bill will separate husband and wife, as its enemies claim, the bill is going to have some enthusiastic friends.

A woman in New York by the name of Peach has eloped with the owner of a fruit stand. They evidently intend to pool issues.

It is not surprising that the statement that Marat, the Communist, was caught in a bath tub is received with general suspicion.

The agitators will probably object to the machine method of voting on the ground that it will result in a further "grinding down" of labor.

Appearances are rather with Raines of New York when he declares that, in his attack upon Payn, Elihu Root "ran things in the ground."

The Oswego Silver Metal Manufacturing Co. has made a general assignment. The ratio of its liabilities to its assets was unorthodox. It was 13 to 1.

The misfortunes ot' Kansas accumulate. The Populist office holders out there are putting the majority of their poor relation to work at public expense.

That uncle denies that he is going to Europe to "check the career" of the Princess de Chimay. He does not pretend to be anything of a meteorolgist.

It is reported that since Mrs. Roche, the ex-mermaid, gat heavy damages from the Hanlons for breach of contract she has been as much in the swim as ever.

If ex-Queen Liliuokalani really has the popular American malady, she will doubtless be perplexed to see he,- illness referred to as a "nuld touch" of the grip.

"Whoever succeeds in squelching Senator Chandler and his buncombe resolution on what he calls bimetallism will be entitled to the gratitude of the country.

There is no reason why any of our war-' ships should be denied the' privilege of venturing a little way down the bay on nice iJa3"9 when the barometer is right.

It 'would be very difficult to run a newspaper without the adjective "pretty" for indiscriminate application to young women who say or do something that is news.

And now Sam Jones says hell is not far from Boston. The evangelist seems to shift the infernal regions about in accordance with the requirements of his argument.

The country may breathe a long sigh of, relief. The Eastern Presbyterian clergy have decided not to precipitate the question of Dr. Charles Cuthbcrt Halls orthodoxy.

There is a pronounced indication recently that Spain, if she could manage it gracefully, would like to have constitutional methods supersede military methods in Cuba.

Lyman J. Gage is said not to believe in advancing money for speculative purposes, no matetr how sure the profit. This is the kind of a man the government wants to manage its finances.

That was a fortunate poet who got sued in Montreal for $50,000 damages for alleged libel. Some of the big papers will be sending him off somewhere soon to write special stuff over his own signature.

The Tu'nkish outrages seem to go merrily on. It i» a pity that the shade of Charles Martel does not fall athwart the path' of the bloodthirsty Moslems today as his armies fell athwart their path at Tours in 732 A. D.

The textile industry did very well in 1S!*6 In spite of adverse circumstances. Thers were 207 new mills constructed during the year, against 1!»8 the year before. The MeKinley times Just ahead will pull this industry entirely out of the hole.

Senator Chandler Is rapidly fortifying his title to chief nuisance of the eminent body to which ho belongs, lie seems wholly unnble to control the output of that unfortunate aperture which has become the most obtrusive feature of his countenance. The country Is trying to rfcover from the ef-

ffrets of extreme and reckless monetary agitation, but Chandler and men of like stamp are doing all they ca.n to retard its convalescence. The patience of the. gods and the dereliction of the fool killer are alike astonishing.

Governor Sadler of Nevada says that modern prize fighting is not so had as foot ball. Why should the governor compare modern prize fighting with football? Why does he not compare it With something more congruous—professional elocution, for instance?®:]

SPANISH COURTS fN CUBA. It seems that Uncle Sam does not have a very high regard for the variety of jus"tice that the Spanish courts in Cuba are wont to dispense. A case in point is that of Julio Sanguily, our fellow citizen, who was recently condemned by one of these tribunals. This government does not only ask the Spaniards to mitigate Sanguily's sentence it asjcs them to do away with it entirely.^

The administration would appear to be perfectly right in this matter. From the best information obtainable in regard to Sanguily's case, there seeihs no doubt that he was convicted on practically no evidence sustaining the charge against him. According to the statements of Consul-General Lee, Sanguily was not found guilty of any overt act connected with the present re volt. It was of course brought out that he was a Cuban officer in the former war, but he was not on trial for that offense against the flag of Spain. He was on trial for act ive identification with the Cuban cause dur lttg the struggle now waging. it

There was no doubt and is none of San guily's sympathy with the patriots. Neither is it probable that he would ignore an opportunity to land a thrust under the fifth rib of royalty in Cuba. But he was not under indictment for what he might do. He was under indictment for what he had done, and it was not established that he had done anything. The man has already spent two years in Spanish prisons, and it is high time the outrage should terminate. The American people are treasuring up these highhanded instances of Spanish tyranny, and, as the New York Sun remarks, "there may be a reckoning some day."

THE NORMAL AND THE LAW. At the instigation of the college presidents of the state, a bill has been introduced in the Indiana legislature that aims a blow at the diploma of the State NormaL During the existence of this institution, its certificate of graduation has been equivalent to a life license to teach school anywhere in Hoosierdom. The curriculum of the Normal is such that hitherto no one has thought of questioning the right it has conferred upon those mastering it to extraordinary consideration in the realm of pedagogy.

It seems, however, that this right is now not only questioned but openly and vigorously assailed. The presidents of the colleges and of other private schools in Indiana take the ground that this special regard for the diploma of the Normal is an unjust discrimination against them. They assume that if the Normal is to have a life license in return for its sheepskin, they are entitled to the same thing. They contend that the state should have no favorites among the institutions consecrated to the development of mind and character within its borders.

The Express is persuaded that the college presidents are taking advanced grounds, to say the least. It looks very much like a bit of impudence for them to assume that their diplomas should be received on an equalitjtwith the diploma of the Normal as certificates of capacity to teach school. The institutions over which they preside are not specially vtended to develop school teachers. Their course of studies does not look forward to pedagogy practiced as a definite and exclusive profession. On the contrary, it has in view no particular calling at all. Its boast is of a well-rounded and symmetrical culture, a liberal education.

Now special study and experience have clearly shown that the school teacher must have distinctive training, just as truly as the physician, the linguist or thetechnicist. The Normal course of instruction provides such training. Jt exists for the sole purpose of teaching men and women how to teach school. It has nothing to do with many branches taught in the colleges and much to-do with many not taught there. It lays gieat stiess upon educational psychology*, theory of the school, principles of method and the history and philosophy of education. "With these, subjects, supremely important to auyone who would be an efficient teacher, the college student is wholly unfamiliar.

The formal diploma represents a peculiar education and should be entitled to peculiar consideration under the law.

A NEW GHOST STORY,

Mystery Has Been Cleared Up By the Spook. Dublin society has lately been startled by a very astonishing story of the supernatural, but the mystery has been cleared up. Recently Dr. Wynne, the protestant episcopal bishop of Killaloe, and his wife died suddenly on the same day, says the New York Journal.

On the afternoon of this day a lady walkingliu one of the suburbs of Dublin met a clergyman, whom she supposed to be the bishop, and inquired for Mrs. Wynne. "She." was the reply, is dead, and," after a pause, "the bishop, too, is dead.!' he lady was quite overcome and on recovering herself found that the clergyman, whom she still believed to be the bishop, had vanished. She immediately went and explained the mysterious accurrence to a well known Irish protestant dignitary, who is a firm believer in supernatural appearances. He said there was no doubt that she had been accorded an interview with the spirit of the departed bishop,"

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The sfory was extensively circulated in Dublin society and was told to a clergyman when visiting the family of a well known judge. "Why," said the astonished cleric. "I am the bishop's ghost. A lady whom I did not know came up to lfls and asked me how Mr?. Wynne was. 1 said she was dead and that the bishop was also dead. The lady naturally seemed greatly distressed and I passed on.".. There is a very striking likeness betweftr the dead bishop and the clergyman Mr. whom lie was mistaken.

... Triple* of lh» SttSip FltiiiiK New York, Feb. 4.—The United States authorities, after a long investigation, have discovered the manner in which sets of un-

canceled "newspaper and periodicals stamps," which are only used between one department and another of the postal service come into the possession of philatelists. It has been ascertained that the sets, which sell at $207 each, have been stblen from the bureau of engraving and printing at Washington. Following up this information, Hamilton F. Coleman, an employe in the chief clerk's office for the general land office at Washington, was arrested here today. In the possession of the prisoner wis found uncanceled newspaper and periodical stamps to the value of $5,508. Coleman denied that he had stolen the stamps, but refused to make any statement .regarding them.

A POOR GUIDE BOOK.

The Old Woman Wanted to See an A*\i Hopper. They were an old couple from the country, and it is 10 to 1 that the old man wis known at home as a Jackson Democrat, says the New York World. There Was a danger out! look in his eyes as he entered the book store and slapped down on the counter a copy of a guide to New York City. "I 'low you are the feller that sold me

that 'ere book." "Yes, sir,' said the polite proprietor. "Charged me 30 cents for it, didn't you?" "Yes, sir that is the regular price." "Said it told about everything'tnl this 'ere cussed town that's worth seeing', didn't

you?"

"Yes, sir, it is ^,, "Lied about it, too, didn't you?" "Sir?" "I said you lied about it. Ef that ain't plain enough I'll make it plainer. Took me for a blamed' sucker and thought you could work off most anything one me, didn't you?" "My dear sir, this is considered one among the best. There is not a jilace of interest in the city that it does not mention." "There ain't, ain't there? Then mebbe you'll p'int out to me where it tells about ash-hoppers." "Ash-hoppers?" "That's what I said. Ash-hoppers and soap-bilin' establishments."

My dear sir, this guide tells only about points of interest—art galleries, theatersgreat "Durn your art galleries and theaters? Th3 old woman here has come 500 miles to see some of your mammoth ash-hoppers and soap-bilin' establishments and, by gqeh! she goin' to se 'em or I'll know the reason why."', j-

Fashions latest Fad.

One bt the manias of the moment, that finds special favor with women, is the collection of these penny articles which are mostly to be found in the city, There are ingenious brushes for cleaning lamps,- keyv labels and key rings of quite uncommon makes oleographs of yachts are being fre6* ly offered now at a penny apiece within th& city boundaries and quite a pretty little bracelet of what appears to be. fine elastic gold wire, with a pendant heart and other ornaments. Elaborately colored toy birds are almost as great a marvel ofcheapness, and the puzzle finger rings which look like gold. Large cardboard calendars with a sheet for every month in the year are also being hawked about, and many clever toys the history of the making of which would be an interesting story. Small colored glass lanterns set in a metal frame, a tiny glass case enclosing a ball which, by means of a spring,, can be set in motion, nutmeg graters, long steel button hooks, yard measures, collar studs and many varieties of puzzles, all are to be had for one penny.—St. James Gazette. ir*

Mrs. Jack Gardner In a Snowdrift. Mrs. Jack Gardner, the leader of Boston's swellest social set, and a lady visitor attempted to defy the blizzard Saturday and were upset in a snowdrift. Her brougham was ordered to the door of her Beacon street residence in the afternoon, and, all smiles she entered, after instructing her footman to drive her to the home of a society friend. One pull by the spirited horses and the animals, shafts and driver went up the street, leaving Mrs. Jack and the brougham stalled in a snow drift. Soon another vehicle was secured and Mrs. Gardner and her friend were transferred to' 'It, but with the starting Of the horse thfj, carriage upset in a huge snow drift. ^ISight bareheaded men rushed forth from,^ swell front houses to the rescue, and Mrs. Jack and her friend, with their clothing much disarranged, were drawn through the carriage windoA'i Mrs. Gardner was uphurt, but decided to postpone her visit'.. until circumstances were more favorable. «ft was a spectacle rarely seen on Boston's most fashionable thoroughfare.—Chicago Chronicle. .,,

Steam Heat and Publicity.

A great living philosopher has pointed out how a small circumstance may give,a new character to social conditions. The least acute observer will see how the simple detail that the American people warm their dwellings by steam radiators stamped with a distinctive identity the whole tone of hotel life. Every room of the Manhattan, the Majestic, the Fifth Avenue, the Plaza, the Savoy and the rest of the first-o|ass houses, from the spacious hall to the top floor, is equally heated therefore there are no perceptible draughts consequently doors are never shut, portieres never let down, partition curtains never drawn. Ergo, everything is open to public gaze, life is transparent, and in these monarchical chambers, with royalty staring at us from the Avails, and effete Eastern tyrannies holding us captive with their luxurious divans, we live in all the freedom and abandon of democracy.—New York Letter to the London Telegram.

A Valuable Cello Broken. The recent unequable climatic conditions proved disastrous to a valuable Stradivarius 'cello in the possession of Leo Stern, who was the soloist Saturday at the Thomas concert. The damp atmosphere caused the back to split, and the usefulness of the $6,000 instrument was imperiled. The skillful fingers of a repairer restored it to its integrity, however, and Mr. Stern will use the 'cello again.

The Report of the City Schools. The report of the Terre Haute public schools for the past term was made yesterday.. The following items are taken from it:

The average daily attendance for the first four mont? was as follows: September, 5,219.0 October, November, 5,-76.3 December. 5,236.4.

The total enrollment at the end of the session was t:,143. The per centage of total enrollment in attendance was as follows: September, 97.1 October, 93.8: November, 98.1 December, M.S.

Both attendance and enrollment usually experience a great increase duriDg the spring tenn.

No Election tn 8outb Uxkota. Pierre, S. D., Feb. S.--The Populist caucus to-night took several ballots without choice. The highest number received by Kyi*. wa* twenty-seven and his vote ma dpwn as-' low as twenty-one. The highest vote received by Goodykoontz was twenty-five. Plowman's vote ran from seven to.ten. The situation, instead of becoming simplified, grows more difficult. There seems less ot a chance ©I the tactions coming together to-day than at any time during the contest.

Sugar Trust Ctirawi la U«rm»uy. London, Feb. 4,—The Dally News' special from Berlin anuouuees that a sugar trust has been formed there. The trust Is outspoken and makes no concealment that Us ot'jwrt is to ratee the prlcc of sugar.

STUAirr CAN EVADE IT

THAT DOLLAR SCBKME HAS NO TERRORS FOR HIM.

Can Chart* What He Please* F«r Miw lug Match With Big #ight "Thrown In.

The proposition of a Nevada lawmaker to force Dan Stuart to fix the price of admission to fights at $1 can be evaded easily by the promoters of the Corbet t-Fits affair and other such big pugilistic events to be pulled off in the state hereafter. Mr. Stuart's San ^Francisco partner, W. K. Wheeloek, announced the other day that a trap-shooting match would probably be scheduled to take place in connection with the fighting carnival, comments the St. Louis Republic. The big fight can be pulled off the came day and within the same inclosure, the scheme being to bill i.t as a side issue to the trapshooters.

Any price of admission that suits Mr. Stuart and his associates can be fixed for the trap-shooting, and the fight will be thrown in. A Conservative estimate of the number of people anxiou3 to witness the Corbett-Fitz fight is placed at 10,000. With the general admission placed at $5, the receipts would aggregate $50,000, to say nothing of what will be obtained from the sale of reserved seats and privileges. The figh'c ers will share in the proceeds realized from the privileges. Stuart has guaranteed Cor bett and Fitz a $10,000 purse. The expenses of pulling off the fight will run the total cost close onto $25,000. At these figures, the Texas promoter is certain to make a fat bundle out of the venture. He deserves it, and nobody will begrudge his good luck. Of course, he didn't lose, anything in the Fitz-Maher fight, but his Dallas specula tion with Corbett and Fitz cost him a big boodle, and it's no more than -fair that he should get it back with interest. The Horton law in New York was a good thing for the boxers, but it was not good enough to benefit the big 'uns. ^arren Lewis found out that it would be impossible to pull off the Corbett-Fitx fight in New York, and if Stuart and his friends had not gone to the front and made it possible for the big fellows to do business in-Nevada it's dollars to peanuts the pair would never come together.

The biggest bet recorded on the CorSettFitz fight was made in the New York the other day, Joe Vendlg laying $1,000 even on him with a prominent wholesale dry goods merchant. A1 Smith has bet $1,000 on Corbett against $700 with a well known New York physician. There is an abundance of Corbett coin in. New York City, the prevailing odds being 10 to 7 on the big Californian. Bookmaker and Horse Owner Jack McDonald, who has sailed for England, is said to have left a $5,000 commission with "Smiling Johnny" Kelly to bet on Corbeft. Mattie Corbett is betting on his namesake, and Ike Thompson, another famous New York bookmaker, has expressed his willingness to accommodate the backers of either pugilist at the prevailing odds. He will make a legitimate book on the fight, favoring neither fighter. Thompson is one of the biggest turf speculators in this country. Most of the leading well known American turf speculators are now in San Francisco. Joe Ullman, George Wheeloek, Eddie Gaines, Pittsburg Phil, Riley Grannan, Ed Purser and Dave Gideon have been playing the ponies on the coast all winter. These men generally make the odds, and it will be impossible to figure prices until they are heard from. Abe Levy and Bob Rose are the only noted plungers at New Orleans. Frisco has always been a warm betting town for fighters. Dolph Spreckels, son of the California sugar king, is said to be anxious to bet any part of $50,000 on Fitz. If a big hunk of money like this is thrown on the market to be wagered on Fitz It will round the betting pretty closely.

In a letter to the Sidney Referee, an Australian sporting paper, Mike Dooley says: "I have a favor to ask cf you, if you could possibly grant it. About 1886 I undertook to stop Fitzsimmons in four rounds at Foley's White Horse Hotel and beat him in two rounds, knocking him clean out. Now, if you will look up the back files about that time and send me the account in print you would be doing me a good turn, as it would give me a lift as far as a house is concerned, and perhaps to a chance to fight Fitz."

This will be news to the compilers of records and to those who labor under the impression that Lanky Bob has but one defeat in his record—and that the purchased one at the hands of Jim Hall. In a talk at New Orleans the fight before he fought Peter Maher the first time, Bob made the remark: "The man who never got a licking in hi* life never learned how to fight.' It is Just possible that Fitzsimmons had the Dooley battle in mind when he said this.

Jake Kilrain, who once fought Corbett a six round bout, but never did anything more than box a friendly set-to with Bob Fitzsimmons. is tipping the Australian to whip the American in short order. According to Kilrain, the lanky blacksmith has a way of "hunching up" his shoulders so that they form sort of a bony barricade for his chin and jaw. Jake believes it will be impossible for Corbett to get his right on the Antipodean's pimple-like head, and does not be, lieve his left is good enough to do much damage. In his opinion Fitz is too strong

for the American, and that if it ever comes to fighting at short range Fitz will get In that short arm jolt that put Maher out of the business at Langtry, Tex. ,,

BEOS SCENTED AND DYED.

How Insomnia Is Banished In the Swell Homes of England. Hospitality of the up to date sort includes some curious ideas in England,where at present the house party in a country home is the chief form of dissipation One society woman who is as wealthy as she is ambitious carries out the harmonious perfections of her guests' accommodations to the minmest details. If she gives the couutess of Killmequick the bluerooms, that lady will find that not only is the upholstery of her temporary apartments of the most exquisite and cerulean tint, but so also are the delicate lineu sheets and pillow cases that furnish elegant bedstead on which she is to repose her aristocratic frame. Each bed, in fact, is supplied with sets of linen dyed in accord with the coloring of the suits in which it is situated. A room furnished in rose pink will have its brazeu couch covered with linen of the rosiest hue, and the. air will be filled with an indefinable odor of rose leaves that harmonize with its exquisite tint.

Another English fad of the winter is the scenting of each bed with some specie! perfume Just before the hour of retiring. This Is accomplished after a good old-fashioned manner that is quite as delightful as It is rococo, and for its special advantage has the brazen warming pan of the early Victorian period been revived. The warming pan, polished" to a dazzling degree. Is filled with glowing coals. Inside the coyer is inserted a sort of liny secondary brazier filled with a rose scented incense that emits a perfumed smoke that cling* to the sheets. Thus it is when you slip into your downy uesi at a fashionable country houy® aowa-

dajrg, your whole body seems laved in a de* lioioua warm perfufnt that ii almost a certain foe to the Insomnia of which so many peopls complain In thai* times. It 11 Mid that the countess of Warwick, herself a had deeper, was the first English woman to indilute a fashion that has since become a Ja £&20» v.'--

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

Argcments AdwIMd Against Compulsory Education la Public schools. To the Editor of Hie Express!

Sir—Should education be compulsory Equal freedom Is the primary condition at happiness. Intelligence is the primary condition of equality in fredom. It Is Well known that liberty without intelligence rushes toward* its own extinction continually. How best to secure universal intelligence, thus rendering equal liberty possible, ip a. qi|esuon to puzzle the best of minds,

The wisdom of a course is measured by its consequences, and We must therefore analyze and compare theories and systems before we can satisfactorily answer tbis question.

The schools of Prutsia are generally spoken of as models, but considering results thsre, as shown in the hab'ts, customs and characteristics of the people themselves, can we unqualifiedly endorse -them? Militarism is more rife in Germany than any other European state. Is that an. ind to be desired? Germans are said to be plodders and philosophers, but of what use .is philosphy if at the s»me time the military spirit is inculcated to the extent of submitting to "state supervision of the press? Is the abject spirit that allows rulers to make such absurd and unjust statements as recently emanated from the German emperor to be longed for? Is there to-day so servile a race on earth to their rulers as these same Germans? Is the Magna Charta so soon to be forgotten by English descendants?

As one of the results of copying foreign ideas we have even now a call for state regulated military companies in the public schools, which will require largely increased taxation, as the expense will, of course, have to be borne by the state. Even Sunday schools have fallen before the popular craze and1 we have our "boys' brigades" in true military form right here in our oWn city.

It is argued that every child should be guaranteed a free complete education, and that it naturally follows, that if all do not choose, or cannot from som& cause, for which they may not be responsible, accept this gratuity it is to be forced Upon them by compulsion. In order to justify this it .is first necessary to answer: What Is a complete education? Who has got one that he can guarantee Is it not plainly seen that to force all' to one set of rules—one standards—Will, nay must retard improvement, and thus defeat the very end desired' to be accomplished

It is also argued that a government of "we the people" implies education, bence the state is duty bound to See that no child grows up in ignorance, but does the second naturally follow from the first? I take it that the state's duty, per se, oeases. when all are given equal and just opportunities for the acquirement of such improvement.

Is one faction of the population to dictate to the other,faction what they are to believe what they are to learn what they are to do? It don't make any dlflference whether the dictating faction is large or small, the principle remains the same—tyrany: despotism.

The parent is an independent responsible individual and the child is a dependent Irresponsible individual. Nevertheless the child will one day pass from this condition of dependence to independence and responsibility, so other members of society have an interest and the question at once arises whether the parent who impairs the conditions of the child's development thereby violates the equal freedom of those mutual individuals whom this development unquestionably affects.

Liberty is the greatest doctor. It is the mother of order. In all cases of doubt give the benefit of liberty, or non-interference, unless it Is plain that non-interference Will result in certain and immediate disaster, if not irretrievable, at any rate, too grievious to be borne. Apply this prinefpie here. The moral mal-tTeatment of children, since its effects are more or less remote, does not call for the exertion of physical force.

In England, the freest country on earth, even public schools have never been established, and while some evils are apparent in their system, yet progress towards freedom has been constant and gradual until freedom has reached a point so that it is now impossible to point out a single liberty we enjoy not already secured to our English cousins.

Still it may be pointed out that that the compulsory education idea is gaining favor even there, but there is a very large European population in most English cities, and this growth is due'entirely to socialistic and communistic doctrines imported from Europe by these foreigners.

If the idea of compulsory education is proper why would it not be still better to adopt the Spartan plan of taking the children away from their parents entirely? If these tendencies are not repressed how long will it be before the whole country develops into a vast military camp? Will it not then naturally follow, as it did in Sparta, that it is better for men to continue in organization, taking even their meals away from their families? Power always grows and gathers to itself.

The state would be compelled to raise more money, and this .money would be used to perpetuate its powers, by a system of education in the interest of this special form, as is done in the German empire to-day.

Reason must be the basis of all enduring social growih.dWhen reason shall have learne to rebel against inequalities in liberties, and when this rebellion shall have become general. then will people have passed beyond the danger of relapse into savagery. F. D. B,

ABOUT PEOPLE.

Vice President-elect Hobart gave $5,000 to Rutgers college to commemorate his election. He was graduated from Rutgers in 1863.

Major General Teranchi, of the Japanese army, acompanied by a native engineer, Mr. Ozura, has arrived in Vienna to study the Austrian military organization. T'

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St. Peter Claver, the Spanish Jesuit missionary who died in 1654, has been declared by Pope Leo XIII. to be the special patron of all missions to the negroes in both hemispheres.

Donald G. Mitchell, who is known to the reading public as "Ik Marvel," author of the "Reveries of a Bachelor" and "Dream Life," spends his declining years quietly at Edgewood. near New Haven, Conn. He has no fads or fancies, but has a horror of being "written up" in the newspapers

Prof. FYancis C. Curran, known as "Brother Noah," died at Manhattan college, New York, a few days ago. Prof. Curran represented the Christian brothers at the Centennial exposition, and three years later became president of La Salle college, in Philadelphia. He was the author of several works on education, among th^m being a "Treatise on American Literature."

In a recently published book Reginald Brett of England says that Queen Victoria once impatiently l'tsmarked: "I am no longer queen. Mr. Gladstone is king." The grand old man always had an air of .aloofness about hitn. even when he was in the presence of royalty. Beaconsfield, on the other hand,, was always welcomed at Windsor. The queen didn't like him at first, it is true, but he gradually won her over. How? Mr. Brett puts it pithily and wittilv: "In triflqfs Disraeli never forgot the sex of the sovereign. In great affairs he never appeared.to remember it."

Nineteen years after the?feettt office was established in Washington the first patent was issued to a woman—Mary Kiles, who secured it for a method of weaving silk or thread with straw. This was in 1809.

Ex-speaker of the house and Representative Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, is 73 years old, but he writes without glasses as readily as a boy of 18. The other day he was writing in the secretary's office of the houfce soma autograph passes to the reserved gallery, and some one complimented him on his good sight. "It is because I began to wear glasses as soon as I needed them," said the veteran yankee. for he is a native of Connecticut. "I have at home the ones I wore when I was much younger, and they still fit me. I use them sometimes for reading the newspapers/'

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Governor Pingree, of Michigan, wag asked the other day for a brief "sentiment" on Washington's birthday, and replied that "We're living at the end of the nineteenth century, and too busy to write sentiments about men who have been dead a hundred years."

The queen of Portugal kills tedium popularity by persevering in her medical cation. She goes regularly to the dispensary for children that she founded. On arriving Kbe dons a nurse's uniform and proceeds lo iterlous work. The managers are the Daughters of 3t. Catherine of Siena. The queen at first Miowtd herself a coward when surgical! operations were expected, but ha» steeled her, self to suffering, and now holds ou her knees tittle patients while in tli* surgeon'shands. -.

German la Theatre, Melville Co. Matinee C.I. Bood Co., h. Snow hiii. Londm.. K. c. •Saturday afternoon.' "Fanehort." ChH- r*II

drew, It* cents, New- pictures am soags. KlOOu S PlllS Weatni beiwiii»i. W.

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Dey's a s#eet*0eft*ter roaatin' An' de eo'n-1 pane's a-toastla', An' a hot aa' holler poasom

Am a-getUn* mlfehty brown An' de yaller galls am drecsia' In a mannah mx' distrecsln'.

For doy'a boun' to be in blossom Foh de ole shake^down! So get yer good-an' ready An' hoi' yer mighty steady,

Foh dcy's gwine ter be a txtflQuit it* Se low*)

Listen to de coals a-snappiiV }. An' hot' sliilin' grease a-tirappin', While de fiddle am a-cbooain'

Wlv a Chuckle fob d« f«a An' de fiah-light am daocin' In a mannah mos' entrancing,

While de winder lets de moon la An' hit come In on de run Foh hit knows de fun am comin' Ah' de shake-down am a-hummlc

An' hits waitin' foh de dance to be be$uni

So put on yer^paper collar An' git in shape ter holler Wlv yer rawser on yer pussoit 1W-

Art" de debil In yer soi?s An* don' yer come without'n Ycuatl come ter do some shoutin

An' a mighty good discussion' Of de' possom on the coals! IKK /MS So dance yer double shufllo An' put on anoder ruffle

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An' we'll wear de winter .ebnin" full of holesf —Chicaso Record. By popular subscription Italians will build a meteorological station on the top of Monta Rcsa, at an elevation of U.OOO feet.

Don, a dog, has carried maii between th* office of G. E. Simpson and -the postoffice at East Sullivan, Me., for more than a year.

The new organ/ of the Church of St. Igna« tius, San Francisco, weighs more than lW,-« 000 pounds, and has more than 5,000 pipes.

At a meeting the other day a Belgian conn

pany declared its inability to pay a dlvldencl because of the hard time and the "severe competition in gambling in Belgium."

The annual report of the Sheffield cbarabe of commerce states that 90 per cent? of tb razors used in the Australian colonies an euppUed by Germany and the United States.

While the population of France remains! nearly stationery the consumption of tobaccd increases by leaps and bounds. During 189$ the French consumed over 20,000 tons of to-» bacco.

A startling fact brought out by the reeenf cold spell in Ohio and this state, is that the supply of natural gas Is materially diminished during a period of extreme low temperature.

A citizen of Moscow, Mr. Ploliten, has petitioned the municipal council to limit the charges of undertakers. He says that a decent funeral costs $80, while the actual cost is only $16.

In German schools French is taught to a greater extent than English. In the higher class schools English is an optional subject in the commercial schools more time is devoted to French Chan English.

In Europe the number of inhabitants to t'.ia square mfle i6 ninety-five in Asia it Is for'.veight in Africa it is fifteen in America a eght in. Oceanica and the polar regions Ji, is three in Australia it is only one.

In its usual annual review of medical pi ogress the London Lancet says that by far the most important improvement made duir.g 1896 in the whole domain of medicine surgery was the discovery of the rays.

Large numbers of wild geese and du.'k I have been killed along the west fork^of Blue and' Little Anderson rivers, near Sr. Croix, Ind.. during the last few weeks. Tha fowls are invariably found covered vita parasites, which are said to be similar trichinae. The parasites are so numerous us to prevent use of the flesh.

Sardou was an adept in spiritualism in liid younger days and much interested in all tha mysteries of the occult. In later years ha put away such pursuits for more material things, but now he is said to be about to utilize some of his old studies in a drama.

Congressmen get curious letters and pi~ub« ably the most curious of recent date is that just received by Mr. McCall of Mas3acluw setts fpom one of his constituents, asking hli.nl to "send at once cue good, healthy male baby." But congressmen are not the enly persons subject to freak inquiries. The secretary of the Chicago board of trade received a letter awhile ago from a Kansas man who wrote: "Please s*nd me at once all news and all facts about Chicago." Another Westerner wrote to say that he had forwarded a car load of jack rabbits and added: "Sell them at once and forward the money, as I need it right away."

EXCHANGE ECHOES?-

Kinsas City Jjurnal: The latest mar\el ia politics is the declaration of David Benoctc Hill, in the February Forum, that a great body of independents in this country control elections, and to them the Democratic patty must look for future successes. Senator HU1 has had ample opportunity to feel the power of the independents, but this is the first tima he has acknowledged that they are the deminating force in elections.

Chicago Chronicle: That sturdy Christian and sensible human. Cardinal Gibbons, when importuned for an opinion upon the everlast-, ing subject of the Sunday newspaper^ said: "I desire to give you, my brethren, two admonitions regarding Sunday papers. Firsf, select none but the best, such as are eloan,'possessing a high moral tone, and which will you food without poison. Second, resolve to read Sunday papers till you Tiave. flret assisted at divine service and hear the word ot God. As on communion day you do not break your fast till you have partaken of the holy eunharist, so let. the voice of your heaver, ?," Father be stamped in prayer on your heart and memory before you give your attention to things terrestrial."• That is certainly tli» last word on this question and any decant newspaper In the country can say "amen" to it.

Fort Wayne Gazette: He takes the people., into his confidence. Whenever President-elect McKlnley reaches a conclusion, Instead of putting on a grand air of mystery and padlock ing his lips, lie simply tells what he ha-, if done and there is the end of it. That is the, popular and the sensible thing to do.

Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch: Beginuing in a small way municipal corruption grows and" permeates a city government until it. fina'.ly honeycombs and poisons every branch of it./i Then at length the people, who have in onu, way or another been lulled asieep. wake up„. to find themselves at the mercy official free-*, booters. There is an explosion and the city rights itself again. But it is Ukely to be well looted before it does so. The only way for n':i,\ city to save .itself from a calamity of this soi« is not to permit corruption to get under such.' headway. Watch the beginnings.

Chicago Inter Ocean: So? Madrid acknowledges that "the insurgents have a capita!." And General Weyler is instructed "to capture Cubita.s." The fact that "the insurgents hat* no country and no capital, or fixed abode." has caused grief to Cleveland and Olney for5'? some time past. To have the fact acknowl-' ~. edged from Madrid will doubtless relieve them. If the president and bis secretary dared to do so. they would doubtless assist Spain in pull-' ing down every "rebel flag" upon the island.

New York Mail and Express: When tha /. country needs a tariff not only for protection:" but for revenue also, as it does to-day, th« situation leaves the free traders without a^s thing to say. They simply sit back in the cor-l, ner and agree that it is a condition and not aki theory that Confronts them.

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How It Works the Other W*y. "What can be the trouble between thekHartleys? I see he's applied for a divorce."

"He told me all about it. Since she's got to wearing her hair short and suits made like his she invariably, succeeds In getting ready before he does whenever they go out anywhere."

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But I don't see why that should distress him." "It doesn't. It's the abuse she heaps, upon him while she's waiting that he can't stand."—Cleveland Leader.

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Herr Ahlwart, the apostle Of hatred toward the Jewish race, has annoum-ed his intentions of going back to Germany. He is said to con- ... sider the passage of the anti-immigration bill Causes swellings, running st»res, boils, suit by congress ai a personal tiiumph for him- i,eum tetter, pimples and other eruptions, self.

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