St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 26, 1908

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ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Published by The Pulitzer Publishing Co. 210-212 N. Broadway. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, BY MAIL IN ADVANCE. Daily and Sunday, one year Daily without Synday, one year.....-- Sunday only, ond year... Remit either by postal order, express money order Or St. Louis exchange For the Entire Year 1907 OVER 1906— 6540 Daily 9961 Sunday Grand Total Average Year 1907, Daily . .. . « + $61,477 Year 1906-——Daily—154,937. ‘Year 1907, Sunday .. = 1906—Sunday—242,498. THE ONLY St. Louis newspaper showing GAINS in circulation over 1906; ALL oth- ers. publishins circulation statements, show LOSSES! “FIRST IN EVERYTHING.” NEWS OF THE WEEK. Fire destroyed a large part of the business district ef Madison, 1!!. Pdward Alexander MacDowell, the American com- poser, died in New York. It was announced that the stork is hoverjng for the second time over the royal household of Spain.

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Gov. Folk formally announced his candidacy for the United States Senate to succeed Senator Stone. A special grand jury in New York took extraordi- nary steps to secure,.evidence upon which to indict high financiers. Reports of an anarchist plot to blow up the United Sta fleet were circulated from Rio Janeiro. The flee@ left Rio for Chile. Gov. Hughes of New York, by letter, accepted the New York Republican Club's resolution indorsing him. for the presidency. The United States cruiser Des Moines was ordered to Mayti to protect American interests there under revolutionary conditions. The Atlantic Coast, from Maine to South Carolina, Was swept by a heavy storm, and gales did consider- able damage to shipping. Republicans in the United States boldly of tariff revision in 199 and party thereto in its platform. Representative Champ Clark cf Missouri declared on the floor of the House that it was the Demo- cratic intention to nominate Sryan. s William J. Bryan appeared before the Kentucky Legislature in an effort to break the senatorial dead- lock which prevented the election of Beckham. Charles Emory Smith, editor of the Philadelphia Press, and formerly Postmaster-General under Pres- {dent McKinley, died at his home in Philadelphia. Customs officials searched the New York home of Theodore P. Shonts, late of Panama, and found many dutiable articles.which he had not declared. Seuate talked pledging their Gov. Magoon of Cuba _ received a summons to Washington from Secretary Taft, which gave rise to the rumor that he might be called to succeed Taft in the Cabinet. Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Shaw resigned the presidency of the Carnegie Trust Co. of New York, and remarked that-he thought of shying his castor into the political ring. The accident bulletin issued by the Interstate Com- merce Commission shows that railroad casualties for the months of July, August and September, 1907, num- bered 23,063, including 1339 killed and 21,724 injured. Secretary Cortelyou announced that he would make gradual withdrawals of Government deposits from depository banks to replenish the working cash bal- ance of the Treasury; New York to be called for $10,- 000,000 first. Judge McPherson of the United States District Court at Kansas City declared unconstitutional the Missouri statute of 1907 forbidding foreigu corpora- tions from removing cases from the State to the Federal courts.

When an heiress weds her chauffeur it may be taken as a sign that she will give up motoring. sh &. & a a Possibly the Hon. Henry Gassoway Davis is gcing to qualify for another vice-presidential nomination. , ; If Congressman Bartholdt had the power of Congress he would pass all the laws that the country needs in about thirty minutes.

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ae ae The number of fine old Missouri Democrats who are not candidates for Governor, but who might be “drafted’’ is promisingly large. 16 ss wry If the Illinois Supreme Court should happen ’ some day to sustain a primary law in that State nobody would feel worse about it than the Legis- lature. ev

- ++ -—-——— 7 With all records broken in the matter of dog licenses in St. Louis, what is the use of worrying ‘about any old bill at Washington to relieve finan- cial stringency. a oe According to the Roosevelt doctrine of everlast- ing fitness, Bob Evans, in bed with gout, was a fine man to send to sea in -ommand of $100,000,000 worth of battleships, was he not? ——_— _ ——_~- _--__ §.-9@-— — Instead of electing Mr. Roosevelt Mayor of New York, which is problematical, why not bring him out to a sure thing in St. Léuis and let him relieve Mr. Stewart as President of the Police Board? . Li ir — SS After Congress passes the bill appropriating $50,000 for a monument to commemorate Brad- dock’s defeat it should do something handsome for the fame of the man who struck Billy Patterson. ih &.. _ =— = Perhaps there is no such distemper as la grippe or influenza. Our really scientific physi- cians have only one malady to contend with now- adays, and that is what they owlishly call heart failure.

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i i i — a a That everybody's attention is not fixed upon the task of saving the Republic is shown by the fact that a local high school professor is able tc prove in two hours that there is human in- telligence in the planet Mars. Various St. Louis officers visited East St. Louis recently to enlist support in behalf of the free bridge. The understanding has been and still is that the east siders are uproariously in favor of all the free bridges that the west siders care to build and pay for.

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Passing through Lincoln, Neb., the other daygs Roger Sullivan of Illinois shouted to the resident statesman: “We are all for you this year.” Four years ago Mr. Sullivan was referred to in one of Mr, Bryan's St. Louis speeches as a train robber. has changed—Bryan or Sullivan? ° ky a fi a ee SrA ~ ze oy

SILVER’S INVESTMENT IN MR. BRYAN. Democratic platforms of late have called lus- tily for the prohibition of campaign contribu- tions by corporations and for the fullest publicity as to all others. This demand originated in the campaign of 1896 when, under the leadership of Marky Hanna, the National Republican Committee raised a eglossal campaign fund by assessing business and finaycial interests enjoving undue favor legislation. th silver movement was used as a club to acfelerate j Republican Incidentally, these contributions. Taking the Democrats at their word, the Post- Dispatch teday turns the light of publicity upon some of the contributions made to Mr. Bryan’s own campaign fund in that memorable year. When a great party assumes high ground in favor of offer course, to the most searching examinatica of its a moral issue it can no objections, of own record. Considering that the one ‘“‘paramount”’ idea for which Mr. Bryan stood in 1896—the idea. in fact, which made him the nominee—was that Govern- ment should permit the owners of silver mfnes to coin 47 cents worth of that metal into legal tender dollars without cost to themselves, we get a fairly clear idea’ of,the disinterestedness of the Western plutocrats Who subscribed nearly $500,- G00 to Promote the success of that swindling proj- ect. > If there was any difference morally between this predacious movement in the mountains and that engaged in by the protected and otherwise privileged classes in the Kast, the distinction will not be recognized by many.’. Both were supreme- ly selfish in There aggression on the one hand and there was a inspiration. was greedy savage defense of plunder already acquired on the other. : Silver in this campaign held exactly the same position as Iron, Steel, Copper, Coal, Glass, Wool, Salt, Tinplate, Lumber, Sugar, Tobacco and all It had a selfish interest to It promote the lesser leeches. advance at the expense of the public. was willing to contribute liberally to its own ends. What the trusts and combines did for themselves in the East the Big Bonanzas were not slow in doing for themselves in the West. Thus in the war Mr. Bryan and the Democratic party held the same between the interests attitude toward one great voracious Western trust that Mr. McKinley and the Republican party held toward the several gluttonous Eastern trusts. So far as these antagonistic interests were con- cerned, there was not the slightest conception of public service or public duty on the part of any of them. In the West as in the East, some of the money handed over to the politicians was donated by officers of banks and other corporations acting on their own responsibility. The money “invested” in Mr. Bryan by the silver magnates cannot be said to be lost so long as he can continue as the Democratic candidate for the presidency. That half-million and the other large sums that must have followed it will be an asset of the Silver Trust until the man on whose behalf the fund was contributed retires permanently from political leadership. —— = rw MR. HEARST, INCORPORATED. Democrats cannot fail to be interested in the advice, instructions, plans and principles is- sued by William R. Hearst to his salaried repre- sentatives in charge of the monopolistic corpora- tion known as the Independence League. Mr. Hearst’s principles are subject to change, but if he makes himself understood in his most recent pronunciamento his main purpose is the same now as it has been for some time past, and that is to send the Democratic party to the politi- cal boneyard and to set up his own privately con- trolled Independence Leagug in its place. “It seems to me,” he writes to an emplove of of his League in Indianapolis, ‘that the new party movement should not be a third party movement long. If it is properly directed it will soon supplant one of the old parties and even become the dominant party of the nation.” Of course, it was not necessary to say that the party which Mr. Hearst hopes to supplant is the one that calls itself Democratic. He has seen that organizetion in the hands of runaway Populists and he is not without hope that it can be abducted once more. Few well-informed people would attempt to persuade Mr. Hearst himself that there is any- thing incongruous in his offering a close corpora- tion to the country as a safe and sure means of salvation, but it may be that there are Demo- crats here and there who may be induced to look upon the enterprise with disfavor. In the present temper of Americans, it is pos- sible that there will be_a disposition to draw the line at a private corporation equipped with an ir- revocable charter acting as one of the two his- toric parties. Mr. Hearst's greatness and good- ness and his almost incredible devotion the public welfare may readily be conceded, but. knowing corporations as they do. men are al- most certain to question the wisdom of placing one of these intangible entities in control of the Republic. Thus, in all ages have the wise and the self-sacrificing been misunderstood and con- demned. As Mr. Hearst owns all the stock and holds all the offices in the Indpendence League i it, MANKIND AND THE COOK. Judge Greenbaum of New /York’s Supreme bench, by way of begging young women to be- come good cooks, raises a pretty question of cause and effect when he undertakes to explain why ‘“‘the cooking is vile” in many homes. “Children are nourished improperly,” says he. “The wage-earner, the bread-winner, does not re- ceive proper food to sustain him. I have no doubt that many men go to saloons at night just because they are improperly nourished at home.” This plausible argument, like most others that proceed in circles, is.doubly interesting because reversible. Going around the other way, we per- cieve that the immediate reason why some fami- lies sit down to such poor meals is that the heads thereof take too much nourishment standing up before bars. If these breadwinners were less ad- dicted to liquid refreshment there would be more substance and seasoning in the pantry at home. Wherefore we must sometimes blame the bar- tender instead of the cook. The essentials of good cooking are the “ ’gredi ments,’ as the black mammies used to call them. There must be plenty of meat in the smokehouse, ‘flour in the barrel and condiments in the kitchen before the head of the house can equitably damn the cook. She must be able to “shut her eyes when she puts in the sugar,” and stir in the but- ter with a free hand—especially the butter. But when the good provider does have cause to complain he may fairly bespeak the sympathy and support of all right-thinking men and just judges, not forgetting Judge Greenbaum, whose wise obiter we trust will not go unheeded by the young candidates for kitchen honors. For the fate the provident and generous householder who is both abstemious and starved, of the sober breadwinner whose biscuits are sod- den and whose cake is dough, is among the saddest of mortal agonies. It is as isolation in a crowded city, as poverty in riches, as thirst in mid-ocean. Ic ig as indigestion at the table of Dives, and we doubt not that if Mrs. Dives had been a poor cook she would have played havoc with a larder as luvish as his and even caused Lazarus to decline the crumbs with thanks. Men, aye-nations, are made or marred by cooks, and the good ones are indubitably responsible for most of what is creditable in human history, while upon the shoulders of her who burns the chop or scorches the cereal may be cast the sins of mapn- kind from the beginning. It is she who breeds cur spleens, iconoclasms, revolutions, and our dir- est tyrannies. Caligula and Thaddeus Stevens never could have known good cooks. Wherefore, let the bad cooks make haste to mend their ways, seeing that all men, along with Judge Greenbaum, do sit in judgment upon them. Solomon himself, wisest of all judges, might well have said that a bad cook is an abomination unto the flesh and a sore trial unto the spirit. ete ——$— 9-996 BELLEVILLE’S UNBELIEVER. A man summoned as a prospective juror in a Belleville court did not “believe” in anything to speak of. He did not believe in iaws. ‘He did not believe in punishing men for crime. He did not believe that he would vote to convict any- body. : Asked by the Judge if he would feel the same way if someone were to kill his children, the unbeliever remarked that he would defend his children and avenge their deaths. There used to be among the long-haired fraternity in Massachusetts a sect which enter-

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row, the radical Chicago Socialist, has published | a book entitled “Resist Not Evil,” but’ the Belfe- ville man does not belomg "to either of these schools. Assuming that he was honest in his statements, he is evidently,a believer in the higher law or the unwritten law. He is constitutionally opposed to punishing anybody unless he is himself the victim, and in that case he would get a gun or a cannon and execute judgment in his own right. With men actuated by similar ideas in almost every community, it is a pity that judges in so many instances are doing what they can to make this unwritten law savagery respected and re- spectable. It will bear hideous fruit some day., > > Lie» wT Vv we WHAT BACHELORS OWE BENEDICTS. Taking exception to the Post-Dispatch’s re- cent indictment of bachelors, a correspondent who signs himself “Friendly” avers: ‘There are many bachelors I know who are carrying some of the burdens of these so-called married then and are good examples for the many in the way of rec- ognizing responsibility in this life.” True enough; but for every bachelor carrying a married man’s burden there are a thousand mar- ried men carrying the bachelor’s. If it were not for the married men and the conditions and at- mosphere, domestic, social, civic and otherwise, with which they surround and support and solace the bachelor, his lot would not be possible or endurable for a day. Bachelors are the most dependent creatures in the world—far more so than women—and they are insupportable burdens to'themselves. They are more helpless than the little children of their married friends, with whom they so frequently strike up pathetic friendships. Like drones in the hive, bachelors are mere spongers on the civilization which married men make. Instead of writing letters such as “Friendly” writes, every bachelor ought to get down on his knees at least once a year and make humble and sensible acknowledgment of his debt to the heads of the charitable families who tolerate him. What would happen to him if he got his full deserts and were universally ostracised as the pariah which our President has so tellingly de- scribed him to bé? . a, er PENNSYLVANIA’S TWO CENT DECISION. The theory entertained in Wall street that the Pennsylvania decision invalidating the 2-cent fare law in'that State will have a powerful in- fluence in the same direction in other states will cause a smile in some places west of Hoboken and Sewickley. For one thing, the Constitution vania was drawn, apparently, with an eye single to the protection of corporations*from the ob- trusive interference of the people, and, secondly, the courts of that State, from highest to lowest, have long enjoyed, whether they have.merited it or not, a reputation for subserviency to corpora- tions which has not attached to any other judi- ciary in the country. Nothing that comes out of Pennsylvania on this subject will carry much weight anywhere. Probably the most influential expression ema- nating from the East in opposition to hasty rate legislation was Gov. Hughes’ veto of the New York measure, in which he held that. action of that kind should not be taken by a legislature in ignorance of the conditions with which it, was dealing. This view has modified public impa- tience very materially, without changirig the be- lief that in most cases the railways can afford to carry passengers at the 2-cent rate. A closer and more confidential intimacy with the public which it serves is being sought by the New York grand jury that has issued an open appeal for information from any source and ap- pointed a special committee to receive it. This innovation may be worth trying in. St. Louis, where more information is manifestly needed than is coming through the regular channels.

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JUST A MINUTE. HERCULES. Roosevelt has slain the grizzly Rearing in his path, * He has beaten the Castilian In his mighty wrath, He has hit the kings of Wall street Like a thunderclap, And he’s chased the evil-doer Up and down the map.’ * Roosevelt has knocked the motto From the piece of gold, He has thrown the nature faker Out into the cold, He has beaten Hitchlyama In a wrestling matgh, _And he’s made the malefactors Very hard to catch, Roosevelt has put the wild buck In the boiling pot, He hag crushed the mountain lion Like a juggernaut, He has strangled the coyote With a panther pounce, And he’s caught the leaping big born Deftly on the bounce. Roosevelt took Mutsohito Off of Nicholas, He has put the mollycoddle In the,fainting class, He has made the mountains rumble And the plains tip up, And he’s been the greatest fighter Since Tige was a pup. Roosevelt has felled the bull elk With his mighty fist, He has busted many bronchos Where the west winds list, He has made the earth to tremble With hig Jove-like craft— But we wonder, can he make them Nominate Bill Taft? IN THE POLITICAL CIRCUS.

THE NOMADIC CITY. Two tramps stood at the head of a city street, looking down a long row of flats. “Ain't that the same row we worked last week?’ one of them asked. ‘‘Yes,”’ the other answered, “but the people livin’ in it this week ain’t never seen us." HIS FIRST. Mr. Hughes had just been elected President in the Electoral College by one vote more than he needed. “Zounds!"’ he exclaimed, ‘‘a close shave'”’ “Yes,"’ said a friend, who Mkes the man, but can't take to the whiskers, “the first one you ever had.” PLENTY OF OPENINGS. What do you suppose Harriman is doing The country is full of farmers Marsh: for him to be Idle. this winter” Mallow: Can’t Imagine: but there is no occasion looking for a hand to water the stock. AT WASHINGTON. “Congressman, do you find the liquor question embarrasing in your district?” “IT should say I do. The Anti-Saloon League in my town compels me to send a bottle of my breath home every Week." ONLY TEMPORARY. Molly: Do you believe that marriage is for eter- nity? Coddie: No, it only seems an eternity, People who know what they would do ff they had time are ordinarily more important than people who know what they would do if they had money. Joshua Roosevelt has commanded the favorite sons to stand still, but they are running harder than}. ~ * 7 . ab ih

A ae a RS ose ee MS Se erage en ) baat ; ES. ere: Toe ee Si Ae 5 ait : an @Board of greater increases than Chicago. 9240; 1905, 9982; 1906, 10,125; to Questions From Readers of the Post-Dispaich, . Answers Write but one question. Sign but one initial. Legal questions must be simple. No bets decided. Business addresses cot given. Address “Answers,” Post-Dispatch. E. Z. E.—See Answers Dec. 2—halr. EUNICE.—John D. Rockefeller, 18 West Fifty- fourth street, New York. ¥i W. J. 8.—Seating capacity of St. Louis theaters: Olympic, 2508: Century, 1600: Garrick, 191; Grand Op- era House, 2100; Havlin’s, 2260: Columbia, 1887; Im- perial, 2100; Standard, 2660; 'Gayety. 2022. G. A. G.—There is no definite time when examina- | tions for positions in the Public Library are hel There is an examination whenever assistance is need- ed. Applicant should have high school education or equivalent. F. D.—Don't take a gallon of whisky or a gal- lon of anything else for your lungs. Sleep with your window open sufficiently to admit fresh air. vet as much pure air as possible during the day, ‘ven if you have to walk to and from your busi- less or stand on a rear platform: MAUD.—Birthdays July 22 to A gn of Leo. Leo persons are said to be kin magnetic. They defend 8.—-To color meerschaum: Cover with chamois: use false bowl; smoke four months; remove chamois and false bowl and pipe will be beautifgHy colored and polished. It can then be smoked in ordina way. If smoked without false bow! it will colc : only to bottom of bowl; if false bow! is used pink © will color to top of bowl. If false bow! not usem pipe will burn and become black. —e L.,M.«P.—Creole, a native of SpanisHWAmerica, o the "Wet Indies, of European (originally Spanish parentage, distinguished from a negro, aborigir™ o person of mixed blood. In Louisiana: (1) nativ descended from French of Spanish ances b either parent, or white native who apes ne (2) A native-born negro as distinguished from of broughg from Africa.—Standard Dictionary. —Fighting strength of the Pacific bat ) fleet: onnecticut, 24 guns, 881 officers and me Kansas, 24, 80; Louisiana, 24, 881 Virginia, 24, $12; Georgia, 24, 812; Rhode Island, 4, 813, Alabama, 18, 713; Illinois, 690; Kearsarge, ’ Kentucky, 22, : ‘ 800; Maine, 20, 813; & , a, 81 : Missouri, 2, Total guns, 36: tole ers and men, 12,793. B.—Get ap blank from secretary Police Com} ers. New policeman m have resided in city fé4 : been qualified voter th than 56 feet Mb nas: physical progr x read and write English uftierftandingly, a have signature of 10 citizens to his application. JiM.—We do not know that the he of Matthew, Mark, Luke: and John were addressed to a sect. Matthew was written in Hebrew and translated into Greek by the other apostles. He preached to the Jews and to other nations. Mark was written Rome for Christians of pagan origin. Luke preach in Achaia and Boeotia, and is supposed to have writ- ten there. He was hanged from an olive tree |i Greece at the age of 80. John lived in Asia an wrote at Ephesus, where he was buried. J. T. B.—Prof. James E. Breasted, ney writes that the oldest fixed date in history B. C. In that year, he says, the calendar was estal- the year beginning on what would now be Ju 19. Consequently the calendar now in Use was 6149 yearg. old. The professor arrived at these con- clusions 4 his long exploration trip to the Nile . Valley, when he oeunperes therastronomical dates in the. old and middle kingdoms of Egypt. I. O. U.—In the 2 years from 1886 to 1906 there have been 1,000,000 divorces granted in the United States, or 60,000 annually, according to the preliminary esti- mate of the Bureau of Census. Philadelphia shows a greater increase than Chicago. Boston is showin Indianapolis is se! to have shown the largest increase. Siticides: 1899, 5340; 1900, 6735; 1901, 72345; 1902, S291: 1908, 8597: . 1907, 10,782. The proportion of suicides as between men and women continues to in- crease in favor of men. A. K.—The origin of the gord hobo, used to desig- nate an idle, shiftless, wafdering workman, rank- ing scarcely above the tramp, is not known. It may be that the word is derived from the Japanese | ‘‘hobo,”” meaning “‘here and there,” but it is possibte that it came into English through the French, haut- bois; English, hautboy, with a variant form hobo. The hobo, modern oboe, is a wooden wind instrument which was formerly much psed by itinerant musti- clans (who were spoken o so as hobos) who in traveling from place to plat played their way for food and lodging.—Literary Digest. A.—Hot tamales: Boil two pounds lean beef until perfectly tender and when cool grind very fine. Re- move the secds from a pint of Chile p@ppers; put them on in cold water to cover and bring slowly to a boil; but do not boil. Skim out the peppers, cool’ and chop fine; mix the meat, ppers, a teaspoonful of camino seed well washed, a teaspoonful of minced garlic and! salt to taste. Scald a pint of cornmeal with the water in which the peppers were cooked,

and four long; spread a little mea spoonful of the prepared mixture o folding the ends securely. S8t two eping the water bojling. W.—According to a” report of the land office in Sprin there were then 29,390 acres * Missouri subject to either ca h All the land that is left fs In small tracts, scat over the various counties, as follows: acres; Benton, 560; Bollinger, 30; $20; Christian, 400: Crawfor by the officials¢ Mo., last O@tobe : Oregon, 1000; Ogark, 600: P 490: Ripley, 1030; Ste, Genevieve : St ; Stone, 1500: Taney,*500; Texas, 74 1100; Wright, 1000. Total, 293.90. JANUARY.—In 165, the Russian- giant said to be the tallest man in the world, - London. He is 25 years old, and was bo kov, in Asiatic Russia. He was meas lor’s suit in the Strand, and it is stated that to mount a pair teen yards o the suit, the quantity u suit being three and one ments are given as I inches: total lentigth shoulders, 31 Ine . oulder to elbow, 36- Inches % total length of sle inghe across the che 30 inches; round ectes: round the waist, 55 inches; fe of — inch@s side-seam, inside the leg, 50 inches; an inches round. The giant's boots are 2 feet he wears 26-Inch coll . TOM.—One who has given many y@@rs tothe stud of the characteristics ofthe races of Asia strongly afivocates the theory that — the Asiatic people are descendants now known as American indians. He has sometimes illustrated his claim by dressing Japanese In Indian costumes and — Indians in Japanese costumes and then challenging people to distinguish between the two. Fi to Rossi, a St. Louis antiquarian, has made a careful study of the origin of the American wey | and has gathered results of important researches Into a book with an array of facts which seem to sub- stantiate his theory that the aborigines sprang from. Etruscans and Phoenicians.” At one time they were supposed to he descendants of the lost tribes of Is- 4 rael. The Mormons hold to this theory. and thetr — belief is based upon the Rook of Mormon. Bat eect. — ence long ago put this assumption tn the rear. look- — ing upon it as a legend; pure and simple. Othera# have thought the Indians descended from a colonyg from Wales, alleged to have come to this continent® in 1179. . E. D.—Guessing contests: Arrayed tion a hle and duly numbered are several articles of fa- mililar use. and to the players are given carda with numbered lines and pencils attached whereon to write their guesses respecting certain details of their ob- jects. The leader has, of course, previonsliy aacer- tained the correct answers, which are writt her card. By way of suegestion, the fol , tions may he asked: What is the height of a man's silk hat? How many seeds in_ an apple or orange? What ts the weight of an esa? How many peanuts in a pint? How many spots in a pack of cards? (Answer without time for computation.) Draw ee face of a clock. (The difficulty arises when i “v"' ta reached.) How say A in a paper? Haw many safety matches in a x? What te the exact diameter of a half-dollar? How many spokes in a wheel? Tf it i« desired to give prizes to the Netk to inches; across ft ing pre-eminent In that accomplishment), flag. A nutmeg might answer for a “booby giorious fame. i cnokeay oa re. being care:

Cut corn shucks into pleces about two tmches wide ~ : sd red Indian and the -f) oh guesser it should be something national (Yaukees Be- — & as cormmemorative of a Connecticut Yankee of the ie

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