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Importanta.factorju armamenta. The
Issue will not be decided by the first shock
of arms, but by the slow, wearing finan
cial strain to follow. It will be a question
of staying power, and that wiU be i a
money even‘more than a military ques
tion. In her costly ware of recent times
Russia has not distinguished herself much
financially. She was completely worn out
by two ymro’ fighting in a small comer of
the Crimea. Her short campaign against
the Turks in 1877-8 so disorganized her
finances that ‘it took them 15 years to re
r S°°The Russians themselves are well aware I
11 of this vital defect in their military pow
er, and they have of late years made stren
uous efforts to remedy it. To that end
both their foreign policy and their finan
cial policy are being studiously directed.
Assistance in strengthening Russian credit
abroad and replenishing the treasury at
% home has for the past tenlycars teen the
price of Russian friendship.
■ Prince Bismarck, much as he coveted
the prize, seems to have thought the terms
demanded |oo high. He would riot throw
open German savings to be exploited by
the-loan mongers and mortgage brokers of
St. Petersburg. So little did he like these
gentry that he had Rqsslah securities ta
booed in Berlin, and the Imperial Bank
of Germany ceased to make advances on
them.—National Review.
nyi itiUilQ?* tin* hi i
?JI ( M y tsmmr Stringer a Botanist. '
At the commencement exercises of the
Perkins Institution and School For the
Blind Tommy Stringer—now promoted to
Thomas on the printed programme— gave a
fine little address on botany—a study for
which he has developed a wonderful apti
tude. Through the medium of his teacher
and the deaf and dumb alphabet he told
much that was Interesting and astonisbett
the audience by his accurate knowledge of
the science, speaking of oak and pine,
chestnut and maple, like familiar friends.
' Behind him on a table lay the books which
he has made during the past year, giving
brief, comprehensive accounts of his re
searches and containing numerofis speci
mens of leaves, blossoms and bits of wood
which he has collected and neatly mounted.
His exercise created so much enthusi
asm that Dr. Eliot camo forward and, tak
ing up the books, showed and explained
them to the audience. Nothing that this
school has ever done has been more won
s 11 derful—not even the development of Helen
Keller —than the bringing of Tommy
Stringer from "a helpless mass of inert
matter —physically and mentally—out in
to the light asp healthy, handsome, happy
and studious boy of uncommon promise.—
Boston Transcript.
Fleas.
We have been asked to give some advice
as to the best methods of ridding dwell
ings of fleas. As to the removal of the
pest no better advice can bo given than
the following: Every house where a pet
dog or oat is kept may become seriously
Infested with fleas if the proper conditions
of moisture and freedom from disturbance
exist. Infestation, however, Is not likely
to occur if the (bare) floors can be fre
quently and thoroughly swept. When an
outbreak of fleas comes, however, the easi
est remedy to apply is a free sprinkUpg of
pyrethrum powder In the Infested rooms.
This failing, benzine may be tried, a thor
ough spraying of carpets and floors being
undertaken with the exorcise of due pre
cautionin seeing that no light or fires are
in the house at the time of the application
or for some hours afterward. Finally, if
the plague i| not thus abated, all floor
coverings must be removed and the floors
washed with hot soapsuds. This is a use
ful precaution to take in any house which
it is proposed to close for the summer,
since even a thorough sweeping may leave
behind some few flea eggs, from which an
all pervading swarm may develop before
the house is reopened.—New York Ledger.
The Making of Soldiers.
It was a very earnest and enthusiastic
company drilling in Cass park. There
were not to exceed a dozen In the ranks,
and the average age was about 0. Broom
handles crossed their shoulders at various
angles and elevations, a few had toy pis
tols and a little chap with an eight Inch
snare drum furnished music.
“Get oft that grass!” shouted a big po
, Hoeman just as a particularly difficult evo
lution was being executed.
“Halt!” screamed the little curly haired
captain, just in time to avert a disgrace
ful stampede. “Makeready! Take aim!
Fire!” and the report'of three paper caps
‘‘rang out on the startled air.”
■ | Every little body was fairly rigid in Its
determination to fall back In good order
while loading, When the policeman joined
. in the laughter of a score of other wit
nesses.
An old gentleman bent with years
walked over to the breve captain, patted
him on the head and turned with beam
ing face to those about him, “And yet
othet nations wonder where our soldiers
spring from when the country needs them
to fight-ftp battles. ” —Detroit Free Press.
I Sfufets On Passing Muster.
Many us those engaged In recruiting,
regiments believe that the strict physical
examination required by the government
for the first call for volunteers will be
made more flexible for the 78,000 men In
cluded In the second call. .
However, if the medical examination is
rigidly enforced It will be well for officers
to remember the experience of a sergeant
of the Eighth regiment, mustered in at
Mount Gretna. With the line officers he
took groat pride in the company and ex
pected ft' would be mustered In entire.
Every man volunteered, but two were
thrown out in the medical examination.
One was two pounds underweight and
the other was one Inch too short. “If I
had knpWn beforehand, ” said the sergeant,
“I-would have filled;cue man up with two
pounds of beef and had the other man
measurdd tn the morning, because every
map U taller In thte morning than at
night. Philadelphia Record.
A Startling Horseback Feat.
- Berlin is wild over, the marvelous feat
of Fedora Vona, a woman circus rider,
who has performed repeatedly perhaps the
most startling equestrian act ever seen.
Her feat M to compel her spirited horse
to leap over. a carriage containing four
persons besides the driver. As none of
these people had warning of her reckless
intention it is needless to say that they
were badly shocked—not to say somewhat
frightened— by the lady’s sudden ap
proach, the swift swish of her whip, the
gleaming eyes of her wildly excited steed
and finally the rustle of her long riding
habit over their heads.
After the performance was over, how
ever, and they found themselves none the
worse for their experience they were rather
inclined to brag about it, and so the story
got Out.
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A TALKING NEWSPAPER.
The Cnkjee Journalbtic Enterprtre Car
ried on In Budapest.
A Budapest letter to the London Pall
Mall Gazette says: A small diamond
shaped board screwed on to the wall of my
room and provided with a couple of hooka,
from which hang two tiny, round tele
phone earpieces connected by two wires—
that is all—but my proprietor has been
singing its praises for the last SO minutes,
and as he confidentially assured me thit
It will not play any part In my hotel bill
at the end of my stay, there is no earthly
reason why I should enter any protest
against his profuse encomiums.
“This,” said be, “is the telephonic
messenger, or talking newspaper—the
only thing of its. hind in the world. It
has now been established in Budapest
■about three years. It differs from the or
dinary telephone in the fact that the latter
is directly connected with the central of
fice, whereas we are able to connect from
800 or 800 subscribers in one circuit. The
city is divided into 80 circuits. All day
long news is spoken into a specially con
structed apparatus at the central office,
varied with entertainments, the opera and
linguistic lessons. Itds not a telephone
in the strict sense of the word and there
fore does not infringe the telephone rights
of the government. It combines the func
tions of your tape machines and electro
phones, while it is ten times cheaper.
That you bear just now was to pre
vent subscribers talking to each other on
their own account.” •
“It seems strange that such an excel
lent idea as this appears to bo should not
be introduced in other towns than Buda
pest, ’’ 1 ventured, s fl&iL*uiD
“ The answer is very simple. Os course
the newspaper feature would be impossible
In London, where Mme is everything, and
a man could not sit day with
the apparatus to bls ear, waiting for some
particular news or exchange prices, Then,
again, other towns are not' to advantage
ously situated in tbhj respect as Budapest,
where the law empowers the company tp"
Introduce the apparatus into any house in
the city in spite of the objections of the
landlord. We have here 6,000 subscribers,
and each pays only 18 florins a year. With
us it is as in England with a certain soap
—our families don’t feel happy until they
get it. It is so cheap that many of the
rooms in my hotel are fitted" up with it.
If the visitor finds it inconvenient to go
to the open, all he has to do is to put this
apparatus to his ear and he can be enter
tained the whole evening. The general
public, too, can have news in advance of
the newspapers. Why, a few weeks ago,
when the German kaiser gave that cele
brated toestof bis to the Hungarian na
tion, thousands of families were listening
to its recital half an hour later. Without
this apparatus they would have had to
wait until next day.”
“Have you a regular dally programme?”
* “Yes. It is announced In the morning
and changes every half an. The
greater part of the morning i» taken up
with prices on ’change, a summary of the
news in the dallies. At noon w'e begin to
get a report of the doings in parliament.
Telegrams of Importance are communi
cated at once, the telephonic messenger
being in direct connection with a leading
Budapest newspaper. At about 2 o’clock
the morning news is in part repeated, then
come exchange prices, telegrams, law re
ports, a short, entertaining story, theat
rical items and sometimes a concert, and
for an hour in the evening we get a lesson
in English, Italian and French. You
have no idea what a benefit this is to the
young generation and how popular these
lessons are among them. A complete set
of graduated exercises has been published
In these languages. Each telephone sub
scriber who cares to listen holds a copy of
the book in question before him, and the
teacher speaks into ths double nUcrOphone
transmitter at the centraloffice/’ ;
A Steady Timekeeper.
Ole Hanson, the Swede who lives out
north of Denver, has found out by acci
dent how it is that a tin clock or watch
painted and employed as a watchmaker’s
sign always gives the time of day 8:18
o’clock, or the hour and minute of Lin
coln *e assassination. For the last year he
has been regulating his Elgin fly one of
these silent sentinels bn Sixteenth street,
and when' he arrived the other morning he
looked At the sign and then at his watch.
There v, as a discrepancy somewhere, so he
called John Vaughab, the assistant <jity
clerk, who happened to be passing oil the
way to bls office.
“Say, master yentieman,” ho accosted
the clerk, “Aye want to ask yo’ ’bout
somet’ing.”
“AU right,” was the reply. “What is
it?” i
“Vai, Aye tank Aye skal bane cracker
jack bay Yerusalem. Aye leaf mae home
tan miles out en t’e country bay twanty
minutes after 8, an Aye get en town al
teen minutes after 8. Ho yo’/maken out
“Ob, it’s pretty near 10 o’clock now.”
“Bot das vatoh oop ofer yewelry store
saysekbane alteen minutes ester 8.”
'•'Yen, but that’s a tin sign—there are
no wacks in .lt.”
“Es das trute?”
“Os course. Can’t you see?”
Aye skal set mae vatoh bae die
efery tern Aye oom to town for poorty nar
hull
“I don’t know anything about that, but
ft is a sign, and yon. Will see all the watch
signs point to 8:18, for that’s the hour and
m infite President Lincoln Was assassinated
at Ford’s theater in Washington.”
The Swede was satisfied and wondered
bow many times he bad eaten breakfast
just about sunset just because bis watch
didn’t happen to be right.—Denver Times.
The Making of Blate Glass.
To cast a largo sheet of plate glass is in
modern hands a very simple affair. A ta
ble is prepared, with sides made of strips
of iron, forming a shallow, level tank.
Into this the molten glass, which is made
from the whitest sand, glass fragments,
lime, manganese soda, cobalt and other
chemicals, is poured. Immediately the
operator begins smoothing' and leveling
the mass with a great iron roller, which
brings it down exactly to the level of the
Iron rim. It is then put through anneal
ing and tempering processes, which occupy
several days. After this it is ground to a
perfectly uniform thickness, then polished
until ft acquires the utmost brilliancy.
The cost of glass is greatly increased in
proportion to its size. This is due to the
fact that a large sheet may turn out im
perfect flaws and ripples, which utterly
destroy its value as a strictly first class
commodity. Small pieces are cut from the
perfect places in the large plate, and in
this way the most serious loss is avoided. 1
—New York Ledger. A
Located.
“Are you in pain, my little man?” asked
the kind old gentleman.
“No,”, answered the boy. “The pain’s
tn me.”—Fannon’s Weekly.
THE GAME WENT ON.
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BIXBY TELLS AN INTERESTING BTORY
WHILE PLAYING POKER.
It Was AbcM a M IneMoat With a
Wmcoro*. SMo aS the Battle off Antie
tam How a Game off Draw Generally
Takes AH a Bellow** Attention.
Johnson wai dealing when Bixby be
gan to tell his yarn.
“I heard a first rate story today,” he
said. “It may be old to you boys, Vat
it waa new to me. Colonel Jim Wil
liams of Kentucky was telling it, and
be got all the points in, of course, much
better than I can. No colonel in Ken
tucky can teU a better story than Wil
liams. I don’t claim to be much of a
story teller myself, but”—
“Yon in, Bixby?” asked Butler.
Bixby picked up his hands and played
a pair of aces through to his loss. When
another player began shuffling the cards,
Bixby resumed. ( i
“The story toas something like this,”
he said. “Ike Doolittle waa a private
in the war. It was at the battle es An
tietam. He had a grudge against Lieu
tenant Forrest A shell came along,
and”— r,. . -a-l(«*•••
“Are we going to play for anything
this time?” asked Johnson.
“Your ante,” said Butler to Bixby.
Bixby anted, “iphis shell came
along,” he said, “and took off Forrest's
foot. He saw Doolittle near him, and
calledtohimtotake”—
~,‘Tm in,” said Walters. ,
, “Raise it a couple of reds,” said But-
Bixby picked up three eights and
stood the raise. He drew a fourth and
Wen the pot Then it was his deal. He
shuffled leisurely as he said: “The shell,
it seems, took off Forrest’s foot, and he
called to Doolittle to carry him back to
the ambulance. Doolittle lifted him to
his shoulder and”—
“I had three kings to go,” said Wil
liams, referring to his previous hand.
“I had a straight four flush,” said
Johnson sadly.
“Doolittle lifted him up," continued
Bixby, "and”— , 2
“Going to shuffle the spots off the
cards?” asked Butler.
Bixby started to dsal. ‘ ‘ Doolittle was
carrying him back,” fa said, “with his
head hanging over his shoujder, when
along oome another shell, and”—
“Give me another stack,” said Wil
liams. He got It While the hand was
being played Bixby turned to Butler,
who had staid out like! himself.
“Just then,” said Bixby, “another
shell came along and took off Forrest’s
bead. Doolittle didn’t see it ” -
“Where iVas this?” asked Butler po
litely.
‘.‘At Antietam,” answered Bixby.
“During the war, you know. Doolittle
was carrying Forrest back to the ambu
lance. He said be had his foot shot off.
fie was being taken back to the ambu
lance. He”—
Butler picked up three aces. “I’m in
for a said. .Johnson raised
him ten. He saw. it ah 4 xaised hack.
Johnson add they drew. Butler
bet ten and Johnson raised him SO.
Butler hesitated and ran over his cards.
Then he looked long and searchingly at
Johnson. There was a curious tensity
in the silence. .Bixby turned to Wil
liams
"Doolittle,” he said, “didn’t know
that Forrest’s head had been shot off.”
•‘Why didn’t he know ft?” Williams
absently asked, watdhing the players.
“He didn’t see it, ” explained Bixby.
“He kept on carrying him back toward
the ambulance. Private Canfield came
along and said to Doolittle:
“ ‘What you carrying that for?*
“ ‘lt’s Lieutenant Forrest,’ said Doo
little. ‘l’m taking him back to the am
bulance.’
“ ‘What can they do with him in the
ambulance with his head shot off?' asked
Private Canfield.”
“I call,” said Butler, shoving in his
chips. Johnson won, and Bixby picked
up the cards to deal again.
“Private Canfield, ” he said, “wanted
to know what they could do with him
there with hia head shot off. ‘His head I’
shouted Doolittle, ‘the blamed fool
told me ’twas his foot. ”*
Bixby pounded the table and laughed
heartily. Hia companions looked at
him wonderingly.
“Who was Doolittle?” asked John
son.
“Why, he was the fellow that was
carrying Forrest”—
“Bixby’s been telling a story,” said
Williams.
“What’s the point?” asked Butler.
“The point is,” said Bixby, “that
Doolittle thought his foot was shot off
when it was his head. He-was carrying
him back at the time, and”—
“I’ve got six cards,” said Williams.
“It’s a misdeal,” said Johnson.
“Go on with your story,” said Wil
liams to Bixby,
"Yea," said two or three others,
“fiive Us the story.”
“But I’ve got through with it,” ex
plained Bixby.
“Oh, have you?” said Williams.
“That's good.”—New York Sun.
Spurious Mummies.
Spurious mummies have from time
to time been palmed off upon the pub
lic, and a doubt arose in a Vienna mu
seum as to the validity of one daughter
of the pharaohs in their collection. It
occurred to them, in view of the general
hollowness of life, that the young lady
might have been manufactured in Bir
mingham. So they turned the Boentgen
rays upon her and saw at once through
the many folded wraps the amulets
which the Egyptians placed upon the
bosoms of their dead, thus proving the
genuineness of their specimen.
Switzerland is the land of universi
ties. It has seven, or one to every 428,-
870 inhabitants, while Germany has 22,
or oua to every 2,886,360. Russia has a
university for every 10,000,600 only.
LAW OF SELF DEFENSE. !
Thu Bogltok Tfcuory of V. ’ «ru ProteuStou
Buda and Revungw IkfiM.
The right of self defense is by some
old writers declared to be inherent in
all men by the law of nature. Now,
these “natural rights” are all very
well, but they are not recognized by
the law of Great Britain. It is the law
that a man may defend himself, his
wife, child or servant from physical ag
gression. He may also repel by force a
forcible attack upon his property. When
you, or your wife, child, or servant is
attacked, or threatened with violence
in such a manner as reasonably to lead
you to believe that violence is about to
be used, you may resist the aggressor.
And as the best mode of resistance is
, very often to attack, you may lawfully
follow the advice givtu by an old prize
fighter to a ptipil—l. e., “get in the
flwt whack.”
Bat self defense must be moderate.
It must not be totally disproportioned
to the attack. For instance, if a hulk
ing ruffian runs at mo with a knife, I
may shoot him- But if he runs at me
merely with his fists clinched, and I
shoot him dead with a revolver, I shall
probably be hanged by the neck. Not
that the law expects a man to be calm
and cool and collected in all circum
stances. By no means. For instance, if
the said burly ruffian rushes at me with
clinched fists, evidently meaning mis
chief, and I hit him with a heavy stick
on the back of the ear, I may kill him.
But I shall not be hanged for that. I
had a right to use the stick, and in the
circumstances lAm not to be supposed
to be cool enough to aim for a spot not
likely to be fatal. Again, self defense
must not develop into revenge. Thus,
if I am threatened with a knife, and by
the timely display of a pistol I frighten
my assailant so that he runs away, I
must not shoot after him. If I do, I am
just as liable as though he had never
threatened me, because I shoot at him
not in self defense, but byway of pun
ishment or revenge.—Family Lawyer.
LAW OF THE UMBRELLA.
An Important Opinion That Has Been
Ascribed to Lord Coleridge*
The law as to umbrellas was settled
once for all by Lord Coleridge in a lead
ing English case. His lordship held:
“Umbrellas, properly considered, are
a part of the atmospheric or meteorolog
ical condition, and as such there can be
no individual property right in them.
In Sampson versus Thompson defendant
was charged with standing on plaintiff’s
front steps during a storm and thereby
soaking up a large quantity of rain to
which plaintiff was entitled. But the
court held that the rain was any man’s*
rain, no matter where it felt It fol
lows, therefore, that the umbrella is
any man’s umbrella. In all ages rain
and umbrellas have gone together, and
there is no reason why they should be
separated la law. An umbrella may,
under certain circumstances—the chief
of which is possession—take on the at
tributes of personal property, just as if
a man set a tub and catch a quantity
of rainwater, that rainwater will be
considered as his personal belonging
while it is in his tub. But if the sun
evaporate the water and it is rained
down again or if the tub is upset and
the water spilled then tfle attribute of
personal ownership instantly disap
pears. So if a man hold his umbrella in
hia hand it maybe considered gb per
sonal belonging, butjthe moment it
leaves his hand it returns to the great,
general, indivieable, common stock of
whither the law will not at
tempt to pursue it.”
So far as we know there has never
been a successful appeal from this de
cision.—Chicago News.
A Disturbing Sermon.
Many yean ago an English clergyman
in a small town preached as his own a
sermon, one that be had bought, and
whfoh had been originally preached in
London when the plague was raging in
that city. After reproving the vice of
the people, the sermon went on:
this vice it Is that God has vis
ited. you and your families with that
cruel scourge, the plague, which is now
spreading everywhere in this town.”
At hia uttering these words the peo
ple were all so thunderstruck that the
chief magistrate was obliged to go to
the pulpit and to ask him:
“For God’s sake, sir, pardon the in
terruption, and inform me where the
plague 1b that I may instantly endeavor
to prevent its further
“The plague, sir?” replied the preach
er. “I know nothing about the plague.
Whether it is in the town or not, it is
in my homily.”
A Reluctant Complaint.
The Denver Times tells of a school
boy in that city who has written a let
ter to the school board which shows
that the average American youth can
see a point before he site down on it,
He says: “Mr. Director—My sister,
who is the schoolteacher, whips me
every day. Pa and ma tojd her to whip
me oftener than she did the others so
they wouldn’t think she was partial,
write to let you know this is too thin.
She is an old jnaid and gets mad be
cause she can’t get married, and when
ever she gets to feeling that way she
larrups me. I hate to say such things
about my sister, but it’s so.”
SuoZhln* Sucreatton.
Johnny had been playing around the
piano and had had a fall
‘‘What are you bawling about?” ask
ed Willie contemptuonelyi “It was the
soft pedal your head hit.”—Chicago
Tribune.
The domesticated Malay cat has a tai
that is only about one-half the usual
length, and very often It Is tied by na
ture in a kind of knot which cannot be
straightened out.
When Leyden was besieged by the
Spanish army in 1574, the city govern
ment issued credit notes on leather.
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EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” as our trade mark.
x DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Byannis, Massachusetts,
908 the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now eoer 0
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This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ which has been
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