Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 May 1897 — Page 2

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Parlor Concert by the Women's MUslonarjr Society of Centenary at the Home ot •».' Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Landrum.

The reception hall in the basement of* the First Congregational Church was turned into a perfect parlor scene for the two recitals •given there yesterday by the pupils of Miss

L. Eva Alden. The large platform at the end of the room was decorated in a most -artistic style, the addition of three banquet •lamps giving a finished appearance to the two pianos which surmounted the platform, while on the wall in the Tear of these had been arranged the portraits of all the old masters, for it was their music which was to be played by the performers.

The evening recital wan opened by a quartette, "The Chase" (for two pianos), by Gurlitt, and executed by Miisses Lillian Jones, •Grace Hedges, Grace Jeockes and Charlotte Ostrander. Solo numbers were then given by Miss Grace Hedges and Miss Liilliaa Jones, which were followed by a nocturne (for two pianos) by Miss Ottilie Schwedes and Miss Ola Clark. TMs last was a delightful production and displayed the fine technique of "the players. The two solo numbers by Miss 'Maude Paige, "Sunshine" and "I Love Thee," were given in exquisite style and brougfclt out the many beautiful tones which Miss Paige possesses.

Miss 'Helen Seliler -wa^ the wonder of the evening, her production of the difficult piece "Fantasie in Minor," by Mozart, was a piece of work tha't is rarely excelled by ar/Uses' of much more .mature years. She is credited with being the most talented child of her age (she being -scarcely 13) in this part of the country. In fact, a visitor who was present, and one who has traveled a good deal, said she had never heard a child play with more skill.

The programme was full of choice numbers, and. each one received a hearty encore from the appreciative audience. The latter part of the evening entertainment was brought to a delightful finish by the numbers played by Miss Bertha Hoberg and Miss Nellie TaMey. Miss Tallley played "Serenade" and "Chase of the Butterflies," both by W. G. Smith. The selections by Miss Hoberg were sketches of Norwegian life by Grieg. The different numbers were "On the Mountains," "Bridal Procession Passing By" and "On the Carnaval." In the execution of these selections Mliss Hoberg has placed herself in the front rank of the piano performers of this -city. Her numbers were undoubtedly the cream of the evening's performance and she deserves the many excellent compliments she received from the lovers of good music, who greeted her at the •conclusion of the programme. The audience was fairly swayed through her interpretation of "Caprice Espagnol," by Moszkowakl, which closed the programme for the evening.

THE AFTERNOON RECITAL.

The Junior Pupils of Miss Alden Display Wonderful Talent. The coming artists of this city occupied the programme in the recital given by the. Junior members of Miss L. Eva Alden at tha First Congregational Church yesterday afternoon at o'clock. The wonderful talent all displayed was the admiration of the large audience that filled the reception hall in the basement of the church.

One of the remarkable features of the recital was that the children were all young, being between 8 and 13. not a note being ireed in any of the solos they rendered. The afternoon's pleasure was started when Ruth Adarrfson, Mary Crawford, Fayelle FiSbeck and Marie Wood played an air from "Rinaldo," by Handel. The technique displayed was an earnest of the treat in store when they should play the solos down on the programme by them..

The anticipation of the audience was gratified, for each of the solos was a gem in itself. Ruth Adamson played a "Scherzo," by Gullitt. Mary Crawford rendered a sonatina bv Beethoven and Marie Wood "Bolero," by Klein. In the last little Miss "Wood was grace itself, for the delicate, tones were made more effective by the ease and delicacy of touch shown. Marguerite Landrum closed the first half of the programme by a delightful interpretation of "Album Leaf," by Scholtz. Her whole soul seemed wrapped tip in the piece and the artistic touch she possesses made it possible for her to delineate her own feeling through the tones of the piano.

The second part of the programme opened! with a quartette on two pianos by Helen Seller, Ixyttie Davis, Anna Davis and Helen Sandison. They gave Schumann's "Gypsy Life," a dramatic opening for the solo numbers that followed. Lottie Davis was announced for two numbers, the first a sonatina by Kuhlan and "Will O' the Wisp," by Jungmann. They were both performed with grace and showed Miss Davis to possess a talent that gives promise of rare development. Helen Sandison gave a prelude by Scharwenka and the "Beetle's Buzz," by Lange. She was very clever in rendering them and pleased thte audience very much. Anna Davis in "Sylphide," by Loeschhorn, was much appreciated, for the audience could see she possessed the talent which has made her family name famous in this city.

Miss Helen Seiler waa 'the last on the programme but not by any means the least. She *ls a perfect wonder and astonished the cudience by her brilliant playing. Her selection was a most difficult one, but she executed it with an ease that showed her to be

very talented child. After finishing, "Valse Chromatique," by Godard. the audience did not leave, for the little Miss had to respond to the vigorous encore, only bowing, hywever. in response. And so the delightful entertainment was brought to a close.

A PARLOR CONCERT.

the Home of Mr. and Mrs. Innflrnm the Scene of Much Good Music. •A parlor concert was given at the horns of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Landrum, of North Center Street, last everting, under the direction of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Centenary Church. This beaultiful Ihome is well arranged for such an event, and last night presented a pleasing appearance by the addition of many cut flowers over the two pttanos placed in the front parlor.

The programme (in eludes some of the beat musical numbers heard in (this city during the past season. The first was a piano solo by Miss Hirschler. Her rendition of "Tanz-fc-eisen." by Reinbold, was a deMghiful beginning. The voices of Terre Haute's f^roriies. Mrs. H»s:«r. Mrs. Davis and Mr. Davis, have perhaps never been heard under more favorable circumstances fer their tones, for their tones blended as a rarely heard in & trie. The star of the eveaing was Miw Pwenle. of Indianapolis, she being one of She leading sopranos of that city. During the pveiring she sang fwo solos. "A Madrigal." bv Victor Hariris, and "Summer." by Chamlnade. She has a rich and highly cultivated voice. and in the trio with Mr. Dan Davis »nd Mrs. Hager, she was heard to the beet advantage.

Miss JesaHe Perdue sang "Because I Love •Tou." In tthte number Miss Perdue gave to jthe audience her best efforts and the delighted assemblage declared she has npver

fceea heard to better adranta'ge. She afcw S&gg with Mr. Dan Darvis in the duett "Oal* 1 "sari ixaisummadon-

Thee." "Ave Marie Violin" -was -the title of a beautiful solo given by Mrs. Dan Davis. The evening's programme was to have been brought to a close a quartette by Misses Helen Seller, Lottie Davis, Anna Davis and Helen Sandison. Instead of this the young misses rendered solos.

Atter the concert, refreshments were served. The entertainment was charming, and the society deserves the many compliments it received from all present.

The Super-Excellent Degree Tonight. Terre Haute Council, No. 8, R. and S. M., will confer the super-excellent degree this evening upon a number of physicians, in attendance at the state convention. The event is arranged especially for the benefit of the visitors and will be followed by a banquet.

RAILROADS OF BRAZIL

ENTiEE" SYSTEM TO BE LEASED If TERMS CAN BE MADE, s*.

The Government Conclude* It Does Not .. Pay to .Operate Them as it Has Done. ..

Special to the Chicago Record. Washington, 'May 20.—The government cf Brazil has become tired of operating railways, and by an. act of the last congress ottered 'to lease the entire system of 14,000 miles of track belonging to tike government to any*respon»ible authority, who would pay a bonus of £14,000,000 or more. This bonus was to cover the rental ol the tracks, rolling stock and other property pertaining to the the railways for a term of fifty years, but must be accompanied: by guaranties to restore the .property in good order at the end of that period. No further obligation is Incurred, except the ordinary taxes. There were no bids. Two syndicates—one composed of German capitalists, in which Henry Krupp, the iron manufacturer, was prominent, and the other of English bankers, who already have large interests in Brazil and other South (American countries—presented informal proposals which did not comply with the conditions and were xiot considered by the authorities. They indicated, however, that it will be impossible for -the government t6 lease the entire system or *ny part of it at that minimum. Some of the Brazilian roads may be made very profitable. The Pe-« dro Segundo line, which is the main trunk system and h'as about 4,000 miles of track in the coffee states of southern Brazil, has paid dividends as high as 9 per cent upon the valuation of $120,000,000, and there are other lines which would be large dividend earners if they were properly managed. But the non-productive portion of tie system, which was constructed for the purpose of developing the country, is so extensive and thfe annual deficit is so great that no private corporation would care to assume the risk. At the same time the government will not lease the profitable roads unless the unprofitable ones are Included. To use a familiar expression, it insists tihat the tail shall go with the hide."

The object of unloading the railroad system is to relieve the taxpayers of a large annual deficit. Government operation of railways, which is advocated by many people in this country, has not proved' successful in Brazil, the chief reason being the difficulty of keeping politi'cs out of the management. The Qentral road, for example, which used to pay 9 per cent dividends, is now a burden ilpon the government to the extent of two or three millions a year, which is entirely due to politics, and the employment of incompetent men for political reasons. The same Js true of other railways, and, although they have .been very important in the development of the resources of the country, it is believed by the wisest men that they would serve this purpose equally well under private management. In addition to the government system of 14,000 miles, there are about 4,000 miles under private management, most of which is subsidized. Several of these reads are paying good dividends others, which have a 6 per cent guaranty, do not call upon the government for more than 2 or 3 per cent.

The Brazilian congress is now in session, having assembled on the 3d of May, and a syndicate of British bankers has submitted a proposition for its consideration which involves the consolidation of all the Brazilian railways, and the construction of new lines to unite them with the existing systems in Peru, Bolivia and Chile. The syndicate asks three monttos' time to arrange a plan which practically gives it an option until the flth of September. This does not, however, exclude bids from citizens of this country or from other sources on the original basis. To carry out the plan suggested will result in the construction cf at least three transcontinental railways in South America, and cause a revolution in the movements of trade. All exports and imports of the countries on the west coast of South America must (be carried around Cape Horn or through the Straits of Magellan at present. Railways across the continent would thus have from twenty to thirty days' time In transportation, and a corresponding expense. The Trans-Andine railway from Valparaiso, Chile, to Buenos Ayres is nearly completed, and one can now nass across the continent in a sleeping oar with the exception of fifty or sixty miles, where a tunnel is bsing pierced through the crest of the Andes. The difficulties of construction have been so great that several contractors have failed to accomplish the task, but a completion is promised within the present year, and it is expected that by the 1st of January next through oars,will be running between the oceans.

In Bolivia there is a railway from Antofagastas on the Pacific coast to fhe town of Oruro in the interior, which crosses the Andes, and will be made a section of the consolidation in case the great plan ls carried out. It is owned by the Huanchaca Mining Co., which has the most available silver desosits in South America and probably in the world, and was constructed for the purpose of gettitng its ore and bullion to market. The road crossess the main chain of the Andes into the great Central basin, a distance of 573 miles, and the cost of construction eastward would be very much less. There is already a concession to a company, of which General Thomas O. Osborne of Chicago is president, to extend this line to the Argentine frontier, where it wHl connect with the railway systems of that repufblic.

In Peru there are two railways,

running from the great basin across the Cordilleras to the Pacific ocean, and both of them belong to syndicates, ia wfcich W. R. Grace & Co. of New York, are interested. One" runs from Mollendo, on the Pacific ocean, to the town of Puno, on the shores of Lake Titicaca, a distance of 324 miles. The other is the famous Oroya railway, which was built by Henry Meigs of San Francisco, and is considered one of the wonders of the world. It connects the seaport of Oallao with the mines of Cerro del Pasco, which are supposed to have furnished much of the gold and silver that adorned the temples and palaces of the incas, and still contain unmeasured treasures. Both of these railwajs have already conquered the most difficult country through which they must pass, and it will be comparatively easy to extend them eastward througti the broad- valleys of Brazil. Excepting the Argentine Republic, Chile has the best railway system in South America, and the people are the most enterprising. Wfcile fhe present financial conditions are not entirely favorable for carrying out the comprehensive plan that ha? (been proposed to the Brazilian congress by the Brazilian syndicate it will, nevertheless, receive the encouragement of the severa? governments, and the consolidation of thf Brazilian railway system will be a step to

TERRE HATTTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 21,1897.

A KING FOR AMERICA

PLOT THAT BOSTON'S JACOBITES WOULD LIKE TO PUT THROUGH.

Adherent* of the House of Stnart—They Believe Their Ideas Will One D«r Prevail—Flan to Renovate ScKrfetjr and

tablish. a Xoaaroliy.

There are certain personages In Boston to whom the approach of the diamond jubilee of Queen "Victoria brings no joy. They have made no arrangements to celebrate it, and look with scorn upon the programme arranged by the British-Amer-ican society. They are the Jacobites, admirers and upholders of the royal house of Stuart and conservators of its fame. For them, In common yrf®h the Jacobite league and Order of the White Rose of England, the line of Stuart still exists as a fact in European politics, and Its visible head, as is well known, is the Princess Mary, wife of Louis, prince of Bavaria, son of Luitpold, prinoe regent of Bavaria. -She is today, in the language of the Boston Deople and their fellows in England, Mary IV and III, by the graoe of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, queen, defender of the faith, eta.

To the ordinary Bostonian the fact that there is in this city a cult of this nature comes somewhat in tie nature of a surprise. To be sure, services hate been held in several of the vft*y high churches of the city, notably that of St. John the Evangelist, on Jan. 30, to .commemorate the taking off of him whom the Jacobites have canonized under the name of St, Charles the Martyr. The name of this particular saint does not appear in the list of those recognized by the Established church, but he exists just the same to the Jacobites and their friends. &

There are not many of these historical waifs in Boston. Perhaps 13 all told would cover the number, but they are increasing, and the honorary secretary of the organization, Alfred John Rodway of Roxbury, says that every day letters from not alone all parts of New England, but also the entire United States, are pourine into his office inquiring about the Jacobites and the aims they hope to attain.

It must not be supposed that all the Boston families interested in the Jacobite cause are descended from families who. sacrificed their all for the Stuarts and fled, to escape the minions of the house of Hanover. Oh, dear, no! Some of them are descended, according to their own acconnt, from Gerxoans, Danes, Hollanders—and there are several of them who are som^ what doubtful about just whom they are descended from—though their elaborate and beautifully illustrated genealogical trees, usually on exhibition in the most prominent place in the halls of their houses, would seem to deny this.

Among the more prominent members of the Boston branch of the Legitimist society are Ralph Adams Cram, Robert Babson, William Forsyth and Alfred John Rodway, the secretary. Mr. Rodway is an Englishman by birth and a descendant of a good Old Gloucestershire family that took the side of the king during the civil war with the parliament. One of thesa gentlemen said recently: "I know that the American public in general take us to be all sorts of cranks and lose no opportunity of making slurring remarks about us, but that doesn't hurt us any and amu6es them. So let them go on. We don't mind it. But I'll tell you just what we mean when we call ourselves Jacobites. We all know, and everybody knows who is at all acquainted with English history, that the Stnart family and their descendants are excluded from the English throne by the act of settlement, passed in 1701 by the commons of England, but what everybody does not know is this, that this very act was passed by the bare majority of one, and thten only after long and bitter struggles between those, in secret sympathy with the fallen house of Stuart and the adherents of the Hanoverians. "The sympathy with the legitimate and hereditary sovereigns of England and Scotland evidenced by the closeness of this vote found vent in the disastrous risings of 1715 and 1745. But these are matters of history. The significant fact of it all is this—that, although more than 200 years have elapsed since the house of. Stnart occupied. the triple throne, the sentiment in their favor has never really died out, and exists today perhaps as strongly in England, and especially in Scotland and Ireland, as it ever did, and even in America, as you see, has it found support. "But it was not altogether in behalf of the Stuarts that We became interested in the Jacobite movement. To us this simply means a return to the principles represented by the Stuarts and on account of which

6Q tilt? Obuail'9 fUU (K.WUU u* I a HTLf they were overthrown—namely, the pre- home of M. oe raris. rogatives of the throne, or, as you would call it, the divine right of kings. We uphold the idea that there is such a thing a« granting too much liberty to the common people. The commons of England are today the real rulers of the country—the throne but a shadow. We also believe that the time is coming in the foturewhen there must of necessity be a fixed, visible head in these United States—a something or some one in whom the idea of country or the nation can be incarnated and idealized, which today we vainly strife to keep alive under the name of the flag or the stars and stripes. "In other words, we believe in a constitutional monarchy for this country, not so constitutional, however, as to deprive the monarch of all power of whatever nature. Society must be made ever and renovated. There must be fixed grades and classes, and the line must be drawn somewhere.''

The most curious thing regarding the man who comes out so boldly with ther3 amazing notiments is the fact that his family have been for more than five generations citizens of New England. In fact, with the exception of Mr. Rodway, the members of the society ih Boston cor~o from old New England ancestry.—New York Sun.

G00D~MARKET POE OHEESS.

An Amerlcath Product That Would Find Ready Sale In Germany. Consul Tingle writes from Brunswick to the state department that he thinks American dairief weuld do well to turn their attention to the possibility of exporting their cheese products to Germany especially and to Europe generally. The consumption of choese in Germany is very large indeed. While it is not possible to give exact statistics, it is not too much to say that comparatively it is much more universal than In the United States. In every family it is a staple food article. Despite this general demand, however, oheese of the best quality is not cheap. The genuine Stilton (English), E^am (Dutch) and Schweltzerkase (Swiss) brands are

used

more general

ly in well to do households, to mention the more expensive French grades, such as Roquefort and Camemberrt, which we need not consider, since they are looked upon as luxuries and do not enter so generally into consumption. A mongtbe working classes an imitation of Sohwettzerkaae and Landkase (a cheese made by the peasants) are more in nse.

T?he English, Dutch and Swiss cheeses cost in the retail stores per pound from marks (50 cents) for the best qualities tp 1 mark (85 cental for ordinary grades. In tiG respect is the best Stilton, as sold in Germany at 50 cents per pound, superior to the best grade of American dairy cheese, celling at home, according to late market reports, at 10 cents

per

-pound, wholesale. It

is evident, then, that, allowing a liberal margin for profit and for transportation, fhe American cheese could easily compete with the otber foreign pbe&H-g uoxv coE'

ear theyoould so compete withtheimltaSon cheeses, tnore largely used by the working classes and costing about 15 cents a pound, only the American producers can judge.

A DOCKS DEEP GRIEF.

Thc Oeath of a OonvaidSB Drove Him to Solette. Julius Groebe of Petersen, N. J., had business at Brower's boathouse, on the Passaic river, recently, and cook his mastiff Bruno along with him. While hit master was talking with Brower on the boathouse pier the dog looked up at him piteously, then, with a low bark, walked into the stream. Groebe thought nothing of the animal's actions at first, as the dog was at home in the'water, but when he saw that Bruno tried to let himself sink, the man jumped in a boat and pulled his pet to a place of safety.

The dog lay on the pier for a few minutes, then once mire threw himself into the river. Groebe rescued him, but a third time the animal plunged into the stream, and this time was drowned.

Groebe says Bruno meant to commit suicide. The saloon keeper got the ?iog several years ago and at the same time a neighbor purchased a Newfoundland puppy. The animals grew up close companions. The Newfoundland w#ks poisoned not long ago, and when Bruno saw his companion lying dead he went into the dark' est corner of the cellar and refused to eat. After that ie moped about the house and was absolutely spiritless. —Exchange. & 3

l^^EIOKED BY A (JAMEL.

An Vnruly Beast Attacks and Serfbnfty Injure* It« Keeper. In the cargo of the steamship Alesia, which arrivftl in New York recently, were 12 camels consigned to various "Streets of Cairo" companies.. Six were sent to Nashville and the rest to Coney Island to be trained Among those sent to Coney Island was a vicious black one, young and unbroken. He was the worst of the lot and was given to Maureey Hassen to break.

Has sen drove the camel about the inclosure for some time. Then the tamtam player was told to start his music. Hassen waa behind the camel when the noise began. The beating of the drums frightened the camel, and it became unmanageable. It kicked at Hassen, striking him in the head and in the stomach. Hassen was knocked against a post in the camel stable. It is thought that the base of his skull was fractured, and seven of his ribs were broken.

The camel then ran into two other camels, knocking them down, and kicked two 6talls to piecfes before the camel tamers could subdue the beastf. In the struggle several tamers were knocked down, but none of them was badly hurt.

fcL ~Kn.il 50 MORE,"!

The Famous French EiMtttioner Will Go Oat of the Slaughtering Trade. The man in France who has probably killed more human beings than any other

iecson in the world is M. Diebler, popularknown as"M. de Paris, and he is about to resign his office as the public executioner of France, with a record of 502 official deaths to bis credit.

He is very old, his band trembles, and his extensive services should give him the right to rest. His achievements are known to all. He has dealt more than 500 wounds, all of which have been fatal, but not for him. Lately it was noticed that he has become enfeebled he had no longer the skill, the smartness of his youth.'

At his five hundred and second execution, at Nancy, recently he very nearly bungled the ceremony, and the people of that province are very particular. Very soon the grewsome identity of "M. de Paris" will have fallen upon another than M. Diebler, who will

retire

from the world,

known simply asM. Moreau, a good, honest citizen living on a small yet sufficient income.

M. Diebler has been an executioner for 88 years. From 1868 to 1863 he assisted Rech, his predecessor, in 88 executions, and then became executioner des hautes oeuvres himself. He is now 73 years of age. If such a term be permissible, it may be said that he is the most popular bourreau that France has ever had, and he has very seldom been placed in $n embarrassing position at the scadEold.

In personal appearance M. Diebler has been an ideal M. de Paris,'' with his black beard, iron gray hair, dark, mournful eyes and pale visage. He always dresses in black, with long frock coat and tall silk hat. His domestic life bps been quiet, as might naturally be supposed, and his wife, who died a few months ago, was a delicate, refined and well bred woman, hardly the

spouse that one would expect to find in the

TESTING SUGAR BEETS.

Six Thousand Tons of Seed to Be Sown This Tear. Whatever else Secretary Wilson accomplishes in the department of agriculture, he seems determined to give the sugar beet industry a pretty good show. C. C. Bell, president of the Horticultural Society of Missouri, went to Canton test fall to deliver a series of resolutions adopted by the society to Mr. McKinley, requesting hina when president to use bis official authority to encourage the cultivation of sugar beets.

A few weeks ago Mr. Bell was in Washington and went to the White House to pay his respects to the president. As he passed in line the president remembered bim and his errand to Canton, detained him a few moments to talk about it and suggested that he should go over and confer with the secretary of agrioulture.

Mr. Bell acted on the president's suggestion, and when lije went back to Missouri he carried with him an or jer from the secretary of agriculture directing him as a special agent to secure the names ,&f five farmers in every county of Missouri who are willing to plant sngar beet seeds furnished by the department and at the end of tho season forward a portion of their crep to Washington for chemioalanalysis and tests of saccharine quality. The secretary has contracted for 6,03© tons of sugnr beet seed within the two months he has been the head of the department. Ho will make experiments similar to that proposed for Missouri in every county ef 14 states when the soil and climate are suitable, and the experiment stations in the several,states will be used as headquarters for making the chemical analyses.

Potato Anniversary.

The psesent year is the three hundredth anniversary of the planting of the potato in England. The seed brought from AjBerifa by Sir Walter Raleigh was firs* planted in 1597 in the garden of Gerard, the botanist. For 900 -years the use of the tuber was confined to the so called higher classes. It was not until the close of the in«rf. century that it became a common ar ticle of food among the masses. To the improvement of no other vegetable has been given such solicitous study. In this respect the United States has taken the lead, and the various sorts which have originated here are atcepted throughout the world as •representative of the highest attainment in quality, rapidity of growth and size. gpqfgffwg

The River Jordan.

!Evetor "fcpart from its Biblical associations, the river Jordan ia o£ great interest. During its course it falls over 1,200 fe**tAt no point is it navigable even by small craft to any considerable distance and presents the unique spectacle, of a river which has never been navigated flowing into a sea whigtuxmtaiii8.no^ona

PLETHORA OF BOOKS.

TIMELV HINTS AS TO THE DISPOSITION OF THE SURPLUS-

Vast Quantities of Pamphlets, Periodicals and Other Publications Clog City Houses. A Famine of Beading In Various Parte of the Country—The Deduction Is Obvious.

Here is a suggestion to city people that is particularly timely, for now the thoughts of such are fixed on the eouotry and it is the benefit cf the rural folk that it contemplates. It refers to a profitable disposition of the surplus literature accumulated in city houses the books without number or stint that come pouring in— gifts, loans, purchases, what not the pamphlets that choke up the hallways.

A hundredth of' th«n are only to dust and arrange and "rearrange and provide shelves for. The hospitals are overladen with them now. Could they not be sent into the country and distributed? One can fancy the delighted "crowd gathered in the rural railway station to greet a load of books and magaeines.

It seems worth while trying tho experiment. No one who lives in the thick of a big city on the regular route of the mail carrier, and no one who has lived at the same address long enough to be well established at the postoffice has any idea what a famine of reading means. Not that the usual influx of pamphlets, booklets, leaflets, tracts, circulars, advertisements in literary, form can be dignified by the name of good reading, but they are better than nothing at all £0 read, as prisoners and those doomed to long waiting in dull spots have found.

In the real country, the wilds, the poorer classes, who do not ,subscrite for, periodicals and have no library, suffer as much from dearth of reading matter as we, buried in worthless rubbish,do from surfeit. Those who get no time to look over half the mass of accumulating pabulum canhot appreciate the time hanging on the hands of those who, in long evenings or during long convalescences or seasons of storms, have absolutely nothing upon which to regale their impoverished minds.

Town libraries, where the districts are thickly settled enough to afford them, are many of them poor and unable to buy enough books for the clamoring inhabitants. There are many such institutions struggling on with a large patronage and adequate staff, but insufficient supply of books. A shipment now and then would be of great assistance, and would help civilize, educate and amuse many an idle, restless and reckless community.

Not long ago a package of books was dispatohed, by way of experiment, to a small far western town, whose name was selected at random from the map. The freight amounted to less than $1, and a postal card was sent the station agent, by which was communicated the fact that 200 books for distribution among the people of the village had been sent to his address. A note received in reply showed the fervor of gratitude rith which the paokage was received. "We have no public library," wrote the agent, "and it would do your heart good to see how the farmers all round here and their wives and daughters came for these books. I posted up a notice in the depot, and in an hoax after the bundle was opened every book was gone. The greatest demand was for the magazines. Everybody wnuted these. There is so much in them on different subjects. These books will be read -id loaned until they drop to pieces. It vas a real charity you did, and one nobody ever would have thought of.''

This is a suggestion, at any rate, of something to do with superfluous books. Burn up the sensational novels in paper covers with horrid pictures in them, but of those left there is hardly one that has not an eager reader somewhere.

It is simply astonishing bow much information—i' you count yourselfi a nonreading person—can be gleaned from even the most obscure of periodicals. No matter if half is reprint and half of the rest not strictly original. There is no plagijfPism for him who never saw the thing which has been plagiarised. Facts about writers, inventors, writings and inventions are real news to the pent, out of the world tiller c2 the ground, miner or poor sbote who can't make a living or get out of it. To "know what is going on in the world" is a boon to thousands of the benighted, even if the items are not couched in the most grammatical language and the arguments and essays are not flawless in which universal- truths are discussed.

It is a sad perversion of justice by which swarms of those who cannot read are glutted with printed paper, while many who would give their eyes to be able to use them have nothing to use them on.

Think of tha dwellers in out of the way haunts in the backwoods, in struggling settlements, where there are only a weekly paper, a weekly mail and a yearly book. "Send us boo^s!" these outcasts cry. And if we selfish ones, pampered until we have ceased to feel for others, would take a little trouble we might lighten the darkness of many bored existences, intelligent once, but cruelly debarjed from remaining so.— Chicago Times-Herald.'

STORY OF A DOG.,

"Yes, I stole the dog. Maybe it's the enly thing I ever stole, and maybe it isn't. That's nothing to you, is it? You asked me for the story and I will tell it to you. I don't suppose you're a headquarters detective. I know you are not. Why? Perhaps I know them all. Perhaps it comes handy in my graft to know them. That's nothing to you, is it? "Well, you saw the dog on the roof, you say. You know be was well bred, eh? You know a thing about dogs, then. He took first prize in his class up at Madison Square Garden. That's right. He sold for a thousand the next day, and I stole him. "My friend's name was Marty—Martin Borden. We went to school together on Broome street. Yes, they call^that port of the town Poverty Hollow, and thats right, too, I guess. He went longer than me. He was educated. He went up to fractions, but I left when my mother died •nd my father was sent away. I guess I was about 8, something like 8, but I'm not quite sure. They've got it at headquarters with my picture. You can look there if you like. "Marty's father earned good wages in a foundry down Corlears Hook way, and

take SKT f^vfeg binr the room rant maftpt, sflHI sJiciwed him the money to hire ft carriage to take Marty home in, and they 1st me hire him. "It was a little room, just under the| roof, with a stepSadder running up to a I glass skylight Which had a sliding window. "I was on Fifth avenue ese Gay, flvfrajr up by the park, kind ef looking around tV see if anything, would come my way, when? a young swell comes along with a bull' terrier. The dog waa a beauty. I sw the swell hadn't ewaed him long, fer the dog wasn't friendly wifr him. don't know just how it was, but all of a suddeo it? strikes me what good company the dog would be fer Marty, and I sneaks up and grabs it. I made the chase all right, for I don't think the sweHh missed the dog until I was out «f sight. "Of course, dogs are better than most men, but Marty was as good as a dog. and those two toek to each other from the time they looked straight into each other's eyes. Honest, it is a wonder the way they were ohums from the word go. I told Marty I'd found the dog, and would look out for an advertisement for it, and return it. Well, the advertisement came all right, and there were pieces in the paper about the prize winner the swell bad paid $1,000 for being lost. The reward kept jumping every day until it was '$330 and no questions. "The day that happened I only had enough food for Marty and the dog, and I made up my mind I'd return the dog and get a lot of nice things for Marty. I'll tell you why I didn't. When I went to our room, I thought firet Marty had gone dotty, for he was laughing like nothing was the matter with bis back, and there t, was no pains in his bead. j*p "Comfort—that was the namrf Marty give the dog, for Marty was educated and knew a lot of words—Comfort was on the bed doing all the tricks you ever heard of. Marty told me Comfort could climb the ladder, push back the window and go on the roof. Honest, while Marty was telling this, the dog was looking at him with his head on one side and his eyes cocked up knowing, and when Marty stopped the d-*g ran up the ladder and was doing all his stunts on the skylight. Every once in awhile Comfort wouid stop his tricks and stand with his forefeet on the edge of the skylight grinning and his ears cocked like he was saying, 'How do you like thaz,

Marty?' "Then he'd danc^.oll over the tin roof and make a noise like it was raining. When it was terrible hot up there, Marty would say, 'Let's have a rainstorm, Comfort,' and tho dog would go up to the roof and patter around with his claws on the tin till Marty would call him down. "So I didn't take the dog back for the reward.

THEY A.CJT AS ENGDTEEBS.

Rich Yotuif Railroad Men Who lake t»v Poll the L«ver. John Jacob Astor's exploit in aoting as the engineer of an Illinois Central train recently is but another illustration of the peculiar fascination that a locomotive has for rich young men who inherit or acquire intei*ests in railroads.

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That was the way it was till Marty-'-till the end. "When I could get the money, I'd have a paid doctor, but Marty said not to. He, knew it was coming, but he never showed he was getting punishment. Comfort seemed to know, too, and I guess he stopped sleeping at all, for if Marty would make a move at night that wouldn't fright- 3 en a fly Comfort would be at his side as 1-^ quick as me, kind ot kissing his hand and making little talks to him, you know, tha way dogs do.

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"Well, Marty quit one night, one band '-j in mine and one on Comfort's neck. The wagon came for bim—I hadn't any^ money that time for a hears©—."-nd when the men took him out of the room Com-T fort went up on the roof. I waa standing on the sidewalk while they were putting. Marty in the wagon, when some people I said, 'Look at the dog!' "Comfort was on the edge of the roof.,. looking down, and as the men shut thef_' door of the wagon on Marty the dog jumped. I broke my arm here trying to catch him, but he struck the sidewalk. He licked my hand when I picked him up and tried to tell me he did it on purpose to die, and then he died. .v "The officer who came up for the crowd, recognized the dog, and I'll get six mouths, today for stealing him. Well, I did steal, him, and I'll say so now, for Marty's gone, end he never knew.''—Exchange.

Mr. Astor has for several years been a

director of the Illinois Central railroad, and on the previous official Inspection trips' he has"run theengine." Hehas anatural taste for mechanics, and his love of railroading is much like that of Dr. W. Seward Webb. In the Adirondacks Dr. Webb and bis personal traits are known to every native, and bis passion for driving a locomotive at a high rate of speed is regardedwith complacent prideall along the line of. his road.

When a one or two car special dashes through the mountain region from Old Forge to Malone at a 50 mile gait, tho simple mountaineer will turn placidly to his summer boarder and remark, "Dr. Webb is running that train." Occasionally the trackmen on their morning rounds will find the wreck of a hand car lying ub the bottom of the railroad embankment or several yards from the track at tho edge of the woods. Their invariable comment will be, "The doctor must have been along here last night." It is seldom that anyrs, body is hurt on such occasions, for tho Adirondack railroad men are experts in jumping from hand care.

George J. Gould was nble to handle a locomotive loug before he became a rail--road president. Like Dr. Webb, he is a genuine sportsman, and enjoys the sensaj tion of going fast. While making his periodical inspections of the severul lines in the Southwestern system, President Gould frequently relieves the locomotive engineer for hours at a time. Frank Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania lines#, knows how to "run the engine" inmost as well as any veteran.—Railroad World.

TO H0ESEWHIP A MAJT.

Here Is What It Costs According to th* Latest Schedule. Here is a schedule of priccsof much value to women with a propensity for horsewhipping men which it wonld probably he well for

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1UIUJU IJ uvnu 7 Marty waa kept in school until he was 10, thentic: think. "Thirty lashes, with loss of breath, at "Well, when Marty's dad died, Mart* $1.66 each, |50. Fonr good, hard lashes, at got a job down in the foundry doing little $12.50 each, $50." jobs a kid could dp. "One day—he'd been there a few years while I was up the river—an. iron beam fell on him and did something qOeer to his back. No, I don't know what it was. The doctors at Bellovue had a lot of long names for tit, bnt they didn't do Marty's back any good. I was calling on him every day and fetching him things what I could get until they said Marty should go to the island. "That near broke his heart, 'cause he knew it meant he was never to be cured, and was to live over there in the hospital all his life. I saw him crying one day when I went to Bel lev ue, and it Bear set me craiv. "Well, I went to the boss and asked why had Marty to go to the island, and he says because he bad'no heme to go to. That set me to thin&ing. I g®t something that day—.never mind h&w—-and I Tented a room and went t© tfeP- boss^sd sold. J'd

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nets. Tho schedule was arranged by Judge McMahon recently in the court of special sessions, New York, and is therefore au-

The schedule was arranged when Mrs. Berenice King, 29 years old, of West Twen-ty-first street, was arraigned to pay tho penalty for whipping William J. Blair of West Eighty-third street, on Oct. 21 last, at Mrs. Anna Baumann's boarding house in East Fifty-fifth street. Mrs. King was convicted of assault. During the trial Blair said that MTS. King struok him with A rawhide 80 times while the woman's husband, Henry C. King, held him. Mrs. King said she only applied the whip four times.

As the Kings were leaving the court-' room after paying the fine, Mrs. King waved her hand to Blair, who was on hanu to see the finish of a most unpleasant experience. Blair was satisfied with the finale.—New Yerk Herald.

The'(Mental mosque ban on next -Monday evening. 24th inst., be at Bindley hat?, -thefcestldancing floor-^nn^crtA