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ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1892.
—
HON. C. B. WOOTEN
TO THE VOTKI1M OF THE UK HO NO
DISTRICT*
To the Voter, of the Second Congretndonn! Dis
trict!
There is an effort to use to my preju
dice garbled extracts front a speech
made by me on the 4th of July last to
the Farmers' Alliance of Calhoun
county; also a letter written by my
self to Hon, G. G. Ford, of Worth
county, on the 18th of February last.
The point sought to be made available
to my Injury, as I understand it, is
that, in the speech, I expressed myself
favorably towards the Alliance, and
that, in the letter, I invited the sup
port of Alliancemen and of delegates
to the Cuthbert convention; whereas
lam now, ifrit Is alleged, opposing
the nominee of the Cuthbert conven
tion, and denouncing that convention
as a Third Party movement. To my
surprise, I learn further, that It is re
ported that I denied hnvlng written
the Ford letter. I made no such de
nial. A friend of Mr. Btevens said, at
Worth court, that he did not have the
letter before him, and, in undertaking
to state its contents, represented me
as having said in that letter that if I
could not get the endorsement of the
Cuthbert convention I “did not want
any outsider to have it.” I disclaimed
having written these words, and I
called for the production of the letter.
It was not produced. I went on to
say that I had written a letter to Mr.
Ford as my friend who bad promised
me his support, and that I bad re
quested him to see the delegates from
Worth in my behalf, but I denied hav
ing used the language ascribed to me
by this friend of Mr. Stevens, and the
letter, as published, sustains me in
that denial, for it contains no such
language.
Both the spceoh and the letter are
published, and I will not prolong tills
address by incorporating them herein
Now, wliat I desire to say is, that in that
speech and in that letter, when I refer
to the Alliance I mean the Alliance as
an industrial organization, for suoli I
understand to have been the purpose
of its formation. As such an organi
zation, ns an institution designed to
advance the interest of agriculture, to
make better farmers and better citi
zens, nnd, if you please, to infuse a
spirit of fnorensed vigor and energy
into the Democratic party in the great
effort to reform the abuses of the Re
publican party; as an Institution de
signed for these ends, it was grand in
conception, noble In purpose, and
worthy the confidence of good men.
In this view of the matter I have al
ways thought, and have repeatedly
said that if I had been eligible I would
have been a member of the Alliance.
And why not? A farmer myself, with
nearly the whole of the little all I pos
sess invested in farming; the soil of a
farmer, and affected by the traditions
and associations incident to that con
dition, I could not be otherwise than
in full sympathy with the farmer in
whatever concerns the interests of Ills
vocation, and I am ready to co-operate
with him in any manner calculated to
promote his welfare as a farmer. Ilis
interest is my interest; his people are
my people, and his destiny is my des
tiny. In this sense, and in this sense
alone, I have always been identified
with the true Bpirlt of the Alliance
movement, though not actually a
member of the order.
It is ill this sense that I am accus
tomed to refer to the Alliance. There
is a broad distinction between the Al
liance in the sense just stated and the
Alliance converted into a Third Party
political machine. It turns out to be
unfortunately true that a very large
proportion of Alliancemen are seeking
to carry the Alliance into the Third
Party. It is against this effort that I
make war, and not against tile Alli
ance ns such. The blame is to be
■charged, not to the Alliance proper,
not to the Alliance when true to its
original purpose, but to the Third
Party men who are endeavoring to
make use of their connection with the
Alliance to convert that institution
into a mere political machine.
Now as to the Cuthbert convention.
No man can truthfully say that 1
ever requested or authorized him to
place me in nomination before that
convention. A few days after that
convention Hon. O. B. Stevens stated
to me that he made special inquiry of
the gentlemen who proposed my name
and that they admitted that they had
no authority to do so.' During my
speeoli'in Berrien ,1 referred to this
statement in presence of Mr. Stevens,
and he did not deny having made it,
nor will he deny It now.
I had friends who attended flint con
vention, but they will bear me testi
mony that I advised against any nom
ination at all, on the ground that I
thought such action undemocratic,
and calculated to draw lines nnd to cre
ate division in the party—a predic
tion whioli the result lias justified.
But again, the question Is tauntingly
asked if I would not have accepted the
endorsement of that convention. Of
course I would. I was already a can
didate, avowedly ns a straight Demo
crat and strictly on the Democratic
platform. I would not have ceased to
be a candidate because that conven
tion, or any body of men, should choose
to accord me their support. I would
have taken it as an earnest of the true
Democracy of such men.
But It is said further, that 1 ex
pressed my sympathy with the Alli
ance and invited their support, nnd
even the support and influence of men
who were delegates to tile convention
That is true. I have Invited, and I
still invite, the support of Alll-
ancemen, but I have not ami
will not compromise tile prill
clples of true Democracy in
order to get such support. From the
first of my candidaoy my opposition to
the sub-treasury and to the govern
ment ownership of railroads has been
discussed in the press, and has been
well known to the people. When
sought the support of the Alliance,
and of men who were and expected to
be delegates to tile Cuthbert conven
tion, there wns but one view In which
I expected, or desired, such support to
come to me, and that wns as a straight
Democrat occupying tile Democratic
platform. In this sense, and in this
sense alone, I hnve sought and still
seek such support, and I am gratified
to know that I have the assurance of
the support of a very large number of
Democrats who belong to the Alli
ance ; but they hold their first political
allegiance due to the Democratic
party. That it was, and is, perfectly
legitimate for me to invite tlio sup
port of sucli men, whether they were
connected with the Cuthbert conven
tion or not, will, I presume, not be
questioned.
Tile men who composed that con
vention claimed to be Democrats,
ready to yield Ocalaism and every po
litical preference to the Democratic
platform. As a Democratic candidate,
I could properly invite the support of
such men. Subsequent developments,
however, show that a large majority
of them and their followers have
espoused Third Party doctrines.
Against these I make war, and I fail
to see how it involves me In any in
consistency or contradiction to do so.
In seeking to have the support of
all men heretofore Democrats to come
to me as a Democrat standing strictly
on the Democratic platform, I was
prompted by the desire for the unity
and success of the true Democracy.
The same desire Inspires my opposi
tion to all, whether connected with the
Cuthbert convention or not, who are
seeking to destroy the Democratic
party by the establishment of an
avowed Third Party, or what is cquiv
alent thereto, by adopting the Third
Party platform, whilst they claim to
be Democrats, as lias been done by a
large number of those who support
the nominee of the Cuthbert conven
tion.
For the benefit of those who are so
ready to charge ine with inconsis-
ency, I repeat that my fight is not
against the Alliance, but it is against
the effort to convert the Alliance into
a Third Party political machine.
Whilst there is nothing in my
speech to the Calhoun Alliance nor in
my letter to Mr. Ford which I wish in
anywise to retract or modify, there is
likewise nothing in them that will
cause me toabate one jot or tittle of op
position to all tendencies nnd move
ments in -the direction of a Third
Party, whether the same are or are not
connected with or springing out of
the Cuthbert convention.
Begpect’y Your Fellow-Citizen,
C. B. Wooten.
The. Albanx IUiuld admin- that C»pt,
llobtu bolted the nomination for Koprenontti-
tlve fn Dougliol-ty In 1880, and glvos as bla rea
son personal dislike for Col. J. W. Walters, who
was a candidate for the jndxcAhlp, nnd only
withheld his support from tho independent can
didate upon tho condition that Mr. Walters
suppress his ambition for tho Judgeship nnd re
tire from tho rnoo for that oflico. Tho News
would like to know if, when Copt, lloblis voted
he wns required to swear that ho had always
been and would always be a Democrat. A
question that naturally presents itself Is, if
(.'apt, llobbs bolted six years ago bconusu lie
disliked a candidate, might lie not now holt for
the same reason if Mr. Htcrous is nptnlnatodf
The Nows would also ask the IlKitAi.n if it is
not true that years ago Capt. Ilohhs lmlteil the
Democratic party nnd supported Capt. Putney
when Mr. House, of Worth county, was nomi
nated for the Ktate Senate? Tho llKUAl.n will
please answer this question, nnd explain if true.
—Dawson Nows.
Please tell us when the Hkkald
made any such admission. In response
tc repented calls made by tile Btevens
organs of the district, the Hkhald did,
a few days ago, publish the facts—the
true facts and the whole faets about
the alleged bolt made by Capt. Hobbs
in 1888. We took particular pains,
too, to nsk these papers to publish our
answer to their taunting questions, so
that it might speak for itself. And
ignoring tills fair request, the News
now credits us with an admission that
we did not make, and then proceeds to
nsk some more questions about all
ot her bolt wlilob it intimates Capt.
Hobbs made “years ago.”
It is discouraging to a paper that
tries to be fair and honest, to make
straight and unequivocal nnswers to
questions propounded by a contem
porary, only to have its answers gar
bled and distorted.
But as the mission of tile IIkkald
seems to be to shed light- to those wlm
grope In darkness in the present cam
paign in the Second Congressional
distriot, we olieerfully make answer to
the latest queries anxiously put forth
by our Dawson neighbor.
It is not true “that years ago Capt.
Hobbs bolted tile Democratic party
and supported Capt. Putney when Mr.
Rouse, of Worth county, wns nomi
nated for the State Senate."
Mr. Putney wns not a candidate for
the State Senate when Capt, Rouse
was tho Democratic nominee of this
district, nor at any other time within
the “years ago” of our recollection.
Next.
SENSIBLE ADVICE FROM THE LIPS OF
A PERFEOTLY MADE MAN.
Now Mrs. Post has got to be nil is
sue in Georgia politics. Gentlemen
let tile woman alone.
A liKCKNT Japanese pnper printed a
cut and a short biography of Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer, President of the Woman’s
Department of the Cliioago Exposi
tion. "
A bpkcial from El Paso, Tex., a few
dnys ago, gave an account of an occur
rence near that place which Is calcu
lated to mnke anyone feel siok, The
special stated that a man named Bailey
nnd Ills family got loat on the plains
southeast of El Paso, and came near
perishing for want of water. A Mex
ican boy, who was one of the party,
found tils way to Paiomas in a Bad
state. He was almost naked and had a
bullet wound on his leg which he had
inflicted himself in order to quench
ills thirst with ills own blood, A res
cuing party has been sent to Bailey’
assistance.
The best, most sensible thing that
Ward MoAHister has ever Bald of so
ciety in general, or American society
in particular is the following: “It is
a mistaken idea that all fashionables
must hnve fortunes, for both in Lon
don and in Paris some of the most
fashionable have but limited means,
yet every fashionable door is open to
them, and they are important mem
be-L of society in both these cities.
New York Is rapidly approaching the
condition in which the most agreeable
nnd sought-after people are no longer
those who possess the greatest wealth
In London one must needs crawl to
reach the social summit supported by
one or other member of -the nobility,
but here there is no nobility to wor
ship, nnd day by day there is less pros
tration before the golden calf. We
worship only ourselves.”
Oub friends, no doubt, will all be glad
That we nt last have changed our ad.;
The old one had been run so long,
It had become a “chestnut” song.
W. S. Bell.
Although a good portion of the
United States army recently spent
several weeks in pursuit of Garza, the
Mexican bandit, and the Mexican gov
eminent has put a price 1 upon his
head, nobody seems to want him bnd
enough to try to arrest him even when
it is known that he Is masquerading
around the country alone. It will be
remembered that it was reported not
long ago that Gnrzn was in Key West,
nnd that orders had been sent from
Washington to have him arrested,
Now comes this special from Key
West: “It is rumored here, nnd tile
rumor seems to come from good au
thority, that Garza, the Mexican ban
dit, who lias undoubtedly been in this
city for several weeks past, left for
Havana, Friday niglit, en route to Sail
Domingo. All sorts of rumors have
been circulated about him for the past
week or ten days, but nobody seemed
to know positively from wliat source
they came. “No attempt was made to
arrest him and it Is not known posi
tively whether there was anybody here
for that purpose. That he was here
aiql could have been arrested If want
ed is an undoubted fact, but he is now
outside the jurisdiction of this coun
try, and if wanted by the Mexican
government it will have to seek him in
San Domingo.
AN ATHLETE TALKS.
H«w a PirfHll? Mad* Hun Is Consti
tuted—Why It la That Olrla Aro Often
More tlenlthy In Appearance Then
Their Brothers—Hew to Be Henlthy*
She had been to chnrch. As she
walked home she looked up and saw
Muldoon.
From the vory beginning women hove
liked big men—men who are physically
big—and when they by some accidout
do care for little men it’s ten to one the
brains are big. To evory woman, and
woman is at heart an uncivilized crea
ture, there is a certain pleasure ill the
knowledge that a man can, if he wants
to, kill you with a blow. The woman
who haa not had this sensation is the
one who has cultivated the original
woman out of herself and is busy search
ing for fresh emotions. Consequently
Heronles is to a woman more beautiful
than Adonis, nnd if she admires a mail
who mentally is strong, a. thousand
timos more does she care for the man
who can if he will govern by physical
strength aud bocomo what Swinburne
calls “King of Pain.” You can’t deny
this, nor explain it, but it’s true.
The churchgoing young wotnnn who
met Mr. Muldoon was inquisitive, nnd
she made up tier mind that ehe was go
ing to get some points on bigneBS and
beauty from him; so with tho audacity
of the fox terrior, the dog of the day,
she asked:
“Mr. Muldoon, what constitutes a per.
fectly made man?”
"One whose neck, blcepe and calves
ail measure the same,"
It was a bit impertinent, but that is
the prerogative of a woman and so she
|sked, “Do yours?”
Anil he quietly answored, “Yes.”
Then sho Inquired, “What is the
reason that ns ono walks in New York
one notices that tho women arc larger,
look more henlthy, wnlk hotter, and
from a physical standpoint are better
ipeeimens than the men?”
“Well," said he, “the trouble begins
with the cere of the boy when he is a
little chap: everything here iB sacrificed
to the cultivation of the intellect, and
the small boy’s physical condition isn’t
paid much attention to. You see the
sons of rich men who aro weak, miser
able specimens, killing themselves with
cigarettes, smaller and less strong than
their sisters nnd having no strength
physically. A good many of them aro
cowards. Train a boy morally nnd
physically first, nnd Ilia brain will re
spond when you call on it. Train tho
brain at tho expense of the body and
you liavo just Buch specimens of man
hood as you laugh at."
“Mr. Muldoon, whon you get a man
down und are looking him straight in
tho eyes and know that yon have him
almost in your power, what are you
thinking of?”
“I am thinking only of one thing, nnd
that is where 1 can best get a hold of
him and how I can best keep him where
1 want him to he."
Then he was asked, “How long have
you been an athlete?"
“Since 1 was fifteen years old, and
am now forty-one. 1 weigh 315 pounds
in my clothos, 305 in fighting trim, or, as
the say in the south, in the butt. After
I was thirty-five years old I allowed my
self to gain ten pounds, because after
that age 1 think a man needs a little
more flesh. 1 have never used tobacco
and I don’t drink.
“What do 1 think of women? To be
quite honest, I am a little afraid of them;
they are not so trustworthy as horses or
dogs? What kind of a woman do I like?
I like a womanly woman, a woman, who
ia gentle and affectionate andwholsn’l
loud. 1 like a woman whose face
clean, not daubed all over with ronge
and powder. 1 like woman who has
little bit of consideration for a man, and
who, while he is willing to give her de
votion and love, is ready to return it
with affection and kindly thoughts.
"But do you want mo to tell you what
is killing half the population of this
country?"
Tho inquisitive one said she did—she
was a seeker for knowledge.
“It is the vile air that is in the cars,
boats, half the bouses and hotels, and in
all the places of amusement. You got
in a parlor car, and there is one person in
that car an invalid, or a woman, who
insists on having all tho ventilators
closed, and yon huve got to sit, possibly
sleep, in that foul air, breathing in the
diseases that everybody else has. If they
would spond less money on making
car handsome and more on making it
healthful, there would not be half as
much wickednesB as there is, for whon
men und women uro thoroughly well
there is not much chance of their going
wrong.”
“But about women?"
“I think there are 100 good women
to ono good man, nnd where a woman
makes a mistake it usually is the fault
of a man. It is perfect nonsense, how
ever, shooting such creatures, as we
have heard of lately. They ought to be
caught by tho nape of thoir necks and
tossed out of a window and left to get
along as best they can.”
“Who is your favorite actor?”
“Mr. Booth.”
“What are your favorite flowers?”
“Violets."
“What is your favorite color?”
“Pale blue.”
And then, with a characteristic jump
from flowers and colors,'the inquisitive
one asked, “At a prize fight do they
spill much blood?"
"No,” said Muldoon; “the amount of
blood spilled is usually very much ex
aggerated. When Sullivan fought Kil-
ram, on July 8,1883, the fight lasted two
hours and eighteen minutes, and there
wasn't enough blood shed to entirely
stain a pocket handkerchief.—A Woman
in New York Sun.
ChalUaaUa a Critical Journalist.
A very slight and polite criticism in
dulged in at the expense of a cavalry of
ficer who was riding about a week age
at tbo home show has assumed the pro
portions of a serious event. The officer
n question sent a letter to the writer
saying that he could understand the
criticising the horsemanship of jookeya
and grooms, hut that he had no business
to pass any remarks on that of “gentle
men or officers.” Ho forbade the jour
nalist to moiitiou his name, and wound
np by adding that his sole right was
that of the stronger and that he would
prove it if tlie offense were repeated,
Tiie journalist in a second paragraph re
marked that he did not think ho had
acted fmproperiy in criticising the per
formances of horsemen who rode in a
public place to which admission was ob
tained by payment, and, referring to tho
letter, Baid he could not believe that it
had boon penned by a French officer,
and was convinced that it was a forgery.
Thereupon the cavalry officer sent two
of his friends to the journalist with a
hostile message, and in ‘the duel that
followed he wounded him in the nnn.
Ho thus proved that he was “Le plus
fort.” But tlie affair is oreating a groat
sensation, the prevailing opinion being
that the argument omployed by the offi
cer was, to say the least, utterly illogi
cal—in fact, this unlucky episode haa
brought once more on tho tapis tho
vexed question of the expediency of
military men displaying their prowess
at races owl horse shows.—Paris Cor.
London Tolegrapli.
The Kccentrle Clock,
Onco upon u time thoro was a i
who ownud what ho culled nn eccen
tric clock. Tim eccentricity of tho I
nnciont timepiece consisted in tho 1
fashion it lmd of striking five times I
moro thnn the right hour demanded. “
such, for instance, as eight when it
was but 8 o'clock, etc. When tho
clock would strike twelve the owner,
lying in bed, would Hay, "It is now 7
a. m. and time to arise.” Whon it
would strike eight the owner would
say, "Five from eight loaves three;
it is now 3 o'clock.”
But it had a very different effect
on strnngera. A guest would hear it
strike eleven when it was really 0 in
the morning, and he would roll over
for a night’s rest when it was tirno to j
arise. He would thus miss his train
and be upset for the day. It played
very queer tricks on other people
until the owner was obliged to cast
it out.
The moral of this fable teaches us I
that the peculiarities of many people
find a parallel in the eccentricities of I
various objects that are totally in
animate, and that we muBt expect to I
como to grief whon wo depend upon
pooplo who. liko the eccentric clock,
strike twelve when they are only|
seven —Dotroit Free Press.
Will Urc In a Ulaaa Hhh.
At the city of Dlnard, in the depart
ment of Ille-et-Vilaine, France, there
Uvea a man distinguished liotli for his
originality of ideas and for tbo fullness
of his money bags. Ho has been speak
ing anil teaching for a long time upon
the necessity of men hoginning to lead
lives of greater purity, so that they need
not be afraid of having all their deeds
under tho incossant supervision of so
ciety, He is himsolf willing to submit
to the triul and wants to find others to
do tho same. Ho hae determined to
have a three Btory house built all of
glass. A dwelling of such transparency
would not not oniy aiiow its inhabitants
at all times a splendid prospoct in every
direction upon the beautiful country
surrounding the place, hut also expose
the minutest details of the daily life of
tho people in tlie house to the inspection
of the entire city.
The originutor of tho idoa has found
an architect willing to build the house on
condition that he receives payment in
advance. But there is no renting agent
that will toko tho agency for it. 1 If It is
to ho a lodging house fer bachelors, they
say, they may be able to do something
with it, but thoy cannot find a female,
they think, that would consent to live
in a glass house. Nevertheless tho old
gentleman is determined to realizo his
idea,—Chicago Herald.
Tree Trunks Filled with Squirrels.
Woodchoppors on Dr. Price's Lenape
farm report that squirrels are very
numerous among the trees. .When tljo
choppers begun lost fall there were
several acres of trees standing and the
squirrels were not numerous, but as the
trees were cut, a few at a time, tlie
little animals were driven from one
place of refuge to another until all were
gathered into a small space, and th6 few
remaining trees are filled with them. A
man who bad been working among
them says some of the hollow trees ore
packed so full of squirrels that the tim
bers creak every time the animals draw
a deep breath.
In the morning when the men go out
to work thoy aro met at the railway
tracks by tho knowipg little animals, 1
which feel secure because the game
laws protect them at this season. A
gentleman who haa seen them says that
they do not offer to oarry the kettles of
the men, although they do not object to
sharing the contents.—West Chester
(Pa.) Republican.
A 8*d Btory.
A contemporary relates that there was
a tragedy in the composing room of a
Philadelphia paper the other day. The
compositors were busy at thoir cases
when one of their number, a young
woman, fainted away, and she was con
veyed to her home. Another compositor
finished hor "toko,’ which proved to be
an account of a suicide in another city.
There were forty compositors in the
room, bat this particular copy fell to
this particular young woman, and tho
suicide was her affianced sweetheart.
Kleotrlo Light In the Parle Tunnel.
An installation of electric light is
being laid down in the Batignolles tun
nel, near Paris, in which the incandes
cent lamps are placed at a height of
about fifteen feet above tbo rails. Tho
light 1b recoived by plates of burnished
tin covered witli glass, which reflect a
soft and agreeable light into the car
riages.—Now York Times.
The largest and longest stone bridge
in the world is over an arm of the China
sea—five miles long, 800 arches, each
seventy feet high.
A Queer Cune.
O. E. Cruse, of Kingston, Ont„ died
on Good Fridny, nnd when his father,
Thomas Cruse, formerly auditor general
of Canada, learned of it he said: “I am
going to die myself tomorrow. Yon can
bury us together on Easter Sunday.”
The old man died the samo night.
A String of AdvortUln*.
If the advertisements in a paper pub
lished in Boston last Sunday had been
pasted together column upon column
they would bo 388 feet long, or slxty-two
feet higher than the Bunker Hill monu
ment.—New York Commercial Adver
tiser.
Black enow lately fell in the canton
of Genova, Switzerland, a phenomenon
which wus onco thought to presage the
black plague and other calamities, but
is now known to lie due to a fungus in
the snow.
A large contract for steel rails has
been placed in Belgium in. connection
with tho new Turkish railway to So-
lonica. This is thought to he an out
come of the recent coal troubles in Eng-
A Sacred Italic or Shiloh.
Mr. William Quinn, now connected I
with tho postofllce department in I
thiH city, hns just received a prayer I
book which he prizes more than any I
thing elBO in his possession. The!
book belonged to his father, Colonel |
F. Quinn, Twelfth Michigan
ment. On the fly leaf is this ins
tion: “Colonel F. Quinn, from Mary, I
March 17, 1802.” It was present
to Colonol Quinn by his wife wlion|
he entered tho war between
states. It was picked np on tho
tlofied of Shiloh, April 0, 1802,1
A. PyleB, a Confederate soldier,
by his brother, Willis C. Pyles,
panted to John Ingram Bivouac"
sociation of ox-Confederate Ve
A notice of the book and itsl
wns published in some of tho pup
and this notice was sent to Mr. 1
Uam Quinn by a friend. Mr. (
wroto to a membor of the -
gram Bivouac stating that I
book belonged to his futho
ing tlint it ho forwarded
ington. Colonol Quiuti die
years ngo. His wife survives!
Washington Post.
Wlieu Itoptlton Inlitihltfid tlie
At different epochs during tho t
known ns the secondary period
Burfnco of tho earth seems to
boon so predominantly peopled
reptile life that it has been c
“The Age of Reptiles." Tlio
iguunodons stalked or leaped
in the wealds of Sussex and
shire. Of these igunnodons
ously complete skeletons are l<
soon (mounted in attitudes of lil'
tho Royal Museum of
Bight in itself sufficient to indu
visit to that capital. Other t
reptiles browsed on tho foli
tho tlion existing plains, nnd
pursued and preyed upon by fell i
tilian monsters of various kinds. ’
sea also swarmed with
thyosauri) as aquatic or
and dolphins of our own day.
not only were the earth and i
peopled, but there were
tiles of different kinds
known as pterodactyles.-
Roviow.
Italian 'Illiteracy.
The population in 18(51, i
Rome and Venetin, was ah
000,000. In 1880 it was 80,!)
in tho last fifteen years tl
has thrown off 1,008,480
When it is remembered b
fully high the Italian rates
tality are, it will be admit I
this is a very fair increase of
tion. Italy, which used to 1
the most ignorant countries
world, hns mode progress in
spent, nnd now stands far ah
sia nnd Poland, and close 1
Hungary. In 1860, nmong f
conscripts born in 1840, sixt
of every hundred were
rend or write. In 1889 tlio
age had fallen to forty-two.
latter year the percentage
ates in Hungary was
Nineteenth Century.
T—r-
The Main olijcot of Scho
Tho main object of tho scho
bo said to be to create charaet
for this end it should seize j
every opportunity of
the will and of making it cont:
and consecrated. There is no l
and no regulation which may i
consciously used for this; i
everything is used fox’
everything will fall into
place and the school Will
should be.—Anna C.
Harper’s. 1
Poor F*in for “Central*” '
A telephone up the vole
wnii is tho latest novelty ford
on tho island. In the old
rode on horseback ahead (
flow lo let the settlers 1
had been an eruption, but !
it will he necessary only I
crank and call up "Conti
cinnati Commercial Gazette.
Parlor Matches Bemove 1
To remove ink stains
fingers moisten the spot :
gontly with tho head of
match, keeping the sldn '
stain will rapidly disap