St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 30, 1893
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| but they are * JBLISHING OO. AN tail 4 “ * ; K \ | ‘TERMS OF THE DAILY. 1. paid, every afternoon and —— —— Heebee + cobs 000 ces $10 e. 5 be. reer k (delivered by carrier) th (delivered by carrier.... 65 i , by mall, per year...... + * 200 becribers who fail to reevlve their paper regu- Mill confer a favor upon. as by reporting the this office by postal card. All business or news leiters or telegrams should be POST-DISPATCH, 613 Olive st. POSTAGE, m the Post-ofice, 8. Louis, Me., as Sec- matter. ) DOMESTIC. Per Copy. to sixteen paces...... „e eee Cont m to thirty-two pages „„ „ Cents FOKEIGX, * —— Cent Cents Cents Cents - 1 * * Dally Pages... : or f 0 to 6 ee + eer eee eee eee eee ee 10 he te BROS . now „„ „„ é 5 Sundsy to geo „„ „„ „4„„„„% Bets”. TELEPHONE NUMBERS, Le | Mendon Office, 32 Cocks pur Street, Charing Cross. Noe York Bureau, koom 86, Pulitzer Building, Max 3 H. Fischer. Mansger. * * 1 « SUNDAY, JULY 80, 1898. — eee AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. Wenie’s Cave—'*Merry War.“ SCHUNAIDER’S GAKDEN—‘*Patience."’ — * Tun municipality may go to blazes, but Gallagher and his relatives stick. _ — * * a Tun present lack of confidence is pecu- liar in having so little to justify it. There are fortunes in it, however, for shrewd i | Ix the twenty-one States and Territories where there have been no failures of Na- tional banks the depositors ought certainly to keep cool. ———, — ss —_— ‘Jounny CRAPAUD and his gun have brought down the Siamese coon, The coon had tc come. * — 2 1 * ear, _ A REPUTABLE citizen is quite as compe- tent as a policeman to determine the char- acter of a saloon. Evidence as to saloons should be complete. nn * 1 urn — Ir is formally announced that France Will accept Siam's concession. Why not? Has the swashing Republic any more in- sults to be avenged in land and boodle? — — ee 0 — — — DENVER is making great efforts to pro- vide for her needy unemployed, and has accomplished a good deal. She will well deserve the prosperity which will soon re- turn to her. „ ——ů— n THe rain-making craze has reached Burope, but the American farmer will not on this account stop making hay for -arought-stricken Europeans. He has had @xperience with the rain-makers. — — — — — LYNCHING appears to have become a daily occurrence. Why not repeal the law against rape and delegate the power of pun- ishing ravishers to mobs? This would not be civilization but it would be honesty. | - -— 8 SS “WHEN Senator Hill remarked that ‘‘no ‘a sersonal right of the citizen should be ORS _ @bolished or abridged simply because it is 3 if ‘Hable to abuse,’’ he spoke asa Democrat. * His Democracy is sound in that quarter. | — > -¢ — — If is to be regretted that Great Britain is o busy with the Siam matter. Our Am- bassador will not feel iike demanding sat- isfaction in Wheelman Zimmerman’s case while the British statesmen are on Siam. 1 Onty three out of the seventy-six national banks in Missouri have suspend- ed and no money has been lost on their suspension. Yet someone made a fool re- mark not long ago about wild-cat banking in Missouri. 8 * cen Commissioner BELL says that he . does not think the new excise law has re- duced the number of saloons, but it will reduce the number of unlicensed saloons. That is what the law was put in the statute books for. It is justified by the end, — — .. — Tuns is nothing new in the supervising iA ais architect’s statement that the high tariff eauses American manufacturers to produce . Anterior articles. The manufacturer would not be human if he did not take all the ad- vantages the high tariff gives him. When- ‘ever competition’ is stifled the public is ‘pure to suffer. 1 — — 1 — * —— en „ — - Tun Council of Administration has ordered the opening of the World’s Fair Sunday. Last week the Board of Directors > ordered it closed. If Chicago can fix it so 1.0 Will be open and shut on Sunday and 5 thus comply with all decisions and catch both the Government appropriation and 55 the Sunday receipts Chicago will be happy. eK ® would be a triumph of unscrupulous in- E ’ fis to be hoped that the announcement Gov. Boies has determined to retire politics this fall is untrue, orif true st he will reconsider his determination. is onecrowning bit of service the nor can render his State. He can @ nomination by convention for the i States Senate and run for the office the people. To redeem a Senatorial in this way would be a great stroke of for Democracy. a 7 * Fy yn 1 1 7 9 . N jam * vee ‘ „ ¢ oe ae” a, 5 1 9 n ö I x should be remembered that this is not 2 Presidential campaign year. Partisan whoare charging the hard times to t at » 85 : * i + . 1 — — * 2 » l * whe F A NR aE ae ote : N a 7 at ety a * 2 42 rn * * J, 1 . e 9 N ö ¥ ‘+ Se 4 4 * 0 N * cy of 5 * 8 4 * 1 * * 7 2 2 7 ’ «“ , J * 3 1 N 5 N g . N MT Sk SRA CE ae * , 8 22 3 re * 7 ; ots 2 e Wenne “a9 1 * : N 2 i i * _ den the ry of Mr, H. days, from 1878 to 1877, when there were | cannon in the streets of American cities to overawe the unemployed workmen. Mr. Cleveland was certainly not President in 1878, and the infant industries were all well protected, Partisans, as well asa certain other lass, should have good mem - ories. ang a a Tun Fall Festivities Association is spe- cially eharged with the promotion of the interests of St. Louis as an attractive re- sort. It has given earnest attention and energetic labor to this end. A lake in opportunity for racing would make St. Louis a center of aquatic sports. Racing experts say that with a lake in such a de- sirable and accessible location in Forest Park would make St. Louis unrivalled as a boating resort. They agree that a suit- able lake can be made in the park at moderate cost. It would be a magnificent addition to the attractions of St. Louis. The lake project commends itself to the enterprise of the Festivities Association. That body of hustling citizens can put it through to success. wr 3 — _— ~~ THE PASSING STORM. It is apparent that the depression has reached bed-rock and that a reaction from the July panic of 1893 must soon set in. The ascertained solvency of nearly all the banks that have been temporarily closed by runs, and of the business firms forced to suspend by inability to borrow on un- questioned security, is of itself enough to convince all sensible people that a ground- less scare is the principal cause of thestrin- gency that has done all the mischief. In one week from to-morrow Congress will be in session and all doubts of its willingness to repeal or suspend the silver purchase law in response to the singularly unanimous demand of the business men of the country will soon be dispelled, to- gether with the fear of further contraction through the exportation of our gold. An export movement of our products greatly exceeding that of one year ago is already bringing back the gold that has left us, and the prevailing panic prices must soon bring itall back. When they see it coming back our own hoarders will be tempted by low prices to reinvest and restored confidence will again make all the money in the country availa- ble for legitimate business purposes. St. Louis has been engaged in no boom- ing or kiting operations. Even her grain speculators were not caught by the slump with immense stocks on hand like the Chicago buyers, and outside capi- talhas poured in freely to relieve our banks of the necessity of carrying the stocks and caring for the daily receipts. There has been no serious wreckage here— not a bank failure or a bank run—and the official statements show that our banks are to-day the strongest in the Union. The country surrounding and imme- diately tributary to St. Louis is in the same solid, safe and prosperous condition as the city itself—able to wait for the com- ing reaction and in fine condition to make the most of it when it comes. _ — - * 8 — “CHRISTIAN SO0CIOLOGY.”’ There has lately been inaugurated at Chautauqua an ‘‘Institute of Christian Sociology.’’ Its president is Richard T. Ely, a socialistic scholar of very consider- able prominence, and among his associates in the work are Washington Gladden, Ly- man Abbott, Josiah Strong, President Low of Columbia College and President Tucker of Dartmonth, Rev. Henry Hop- kins of Kansas City, Rev. S. M. Crothers of St. Paul, Rev. James A. Brande of Oberlin and Chancellor Canfield of the University of Nebraska. All good men, some of them exceptionally good for the business in hand; it now remains to be seen what they will do and how they will do it. Oertainly there is nothing better worth doing, and doing well, than the task they have undertaken. By ‘‘Christian Sociology,’’ we under- stand, is meant the principles and prac- tices of Jesus Christ, as applied to human society. What these principles and prac- tices are is set forth with sufficient plain- ness in the four gospels, and for all practi- cal purposes are embodied in the sermon on the mount. Whoever will read and in- wardly digest the fifth, sixth and seventh chapters of Matthew will know the soci- ology which Christ endeavored to estab- lish,and which He believed would, when established, be the veritable kingdom of God on earth. More than 1,800 years have passed since that sermon was delivered, and to all human appearance Christian Sociology is no nearer an accomplished fact now than then. We read about it, talk aboutit, preach about it—do every- thing but practice it. Ofall the so-called „Christian nations, not one has ever at- tempted to do so, and there is not one in which such attempt, if seriously made by the Government, would not produce an in- stantaneous and violent revolution. Whatever Christianity may be, it certainly is not the religion of Christ, that is, if we may judge by its fruits in Christian so- ciety. The tremendous difference between the Ideal, which He held up for the world’s imitation, and the Real we see around us to-day proves that Jesus was but little farther in advance of the social ethics of his generation than He is of ours. It is an encouraging sign, therefore— although we are not especially hopeful in regard to the outcome—when a body of Christain men organize for the express purpose of studying Christian Sociology as taught and exemplified by Jesus Christ. 4 * eR ane 3 the much worse Forest Park extensive enough to afford Free 8 * 9 7 ory 8 * . Ls e es ble panacea for the innumerable ills which afflict society. Even if no very substan- tial and permanent good results from the discussions of the Institute, the time and trouble expended will be a far better investment for all concerned than such heresy hunts as have lately oceupied the attention of certain branches of the church. Whatever emphasizes the infi- nite inferiority of Creed to Deed is a rare blessing; and a rarer, grander blessing it will be when we recognize the immortal truth that Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be— They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lora, art more than they. RIGHTS OF WAR. Discussing the right of France to block- ade the port of Bangkok,a New York paper which prides itself upon keeping in touch with international affairs says that France has that right, but it is a war, not a peace right. It belongs only to a belligerent in time of hostilities. The blockade is distinctively a war measure. Its establishment must follow, not pre- cede, a declaration of war. In conclusion it asserts that war has not been declared against Siam, and ‘‘until it is declared France will not become a belligerent, and hence not clothed with the belligerent right of establishing a blockade against neutrals.’’ The formal declaration of war has long since fallen into disuse. Modern usage and international law do not recognize it as necessary Inter- communication be- tween nations of modern times is so gen- éral and rapid through ordinary means of information and 2evernmental representa- tives that the custpm of declaring war has become obsolete. A nation may take any steps to resent an insult or redress an injury that it sees fit without interference from others. This step may be an act of belligerency and may constitute an essen- tial declaration of war. Common courtesy, however, requires that it notify the nation toward which it contemplates hostility of its changed teeling in some way. This may be done by merely withdrawing its representative and refusing further inter- course. When the contemplated act of war may effect the cqmmercial or other interests oi non-belligerent nations, courtesy requires that they be given sufficient notice in or- der to prepare for changed conditions and avoid offense and damage. France had given this notification in the case of the proposed blockade and, hence, was at liberty to ex- ercise the war right without interference from neutrals. She virtually declared war against Siam when she withdrew her Min- ister and announced the blockade. As Sir Edward Gray saidin the House of com- mons, The blockade would be an act of belligerency.’’ But it is urged that the constitutional right to declare war is vestedin the French Chamber of Deputies, which had adjourned without doing so. The French Chamber had delegated full power to the Ministry, but even if this should be invalid and war unconstitutional without the Chamber’s consent, the attitude of France in the eyes of other powers could not be affected in the slightest degree. They would not bother about her internal arrangements, An outward act of war would make her belligerent and invest her with all the rights of war. . 2 — N — A NOBLE FAILURE, In Minneapolis a few dayssince died Benjamin F. Clark, aged 71 years. He was anative of New England and resided in that section until he .reached manhood. There, and at a later day in Washington, D. C., he took an active part in the political movements out of which grew the Repub- lican party, and was identified with that party until his death. The only claim, however, which Mr. Clark has upon public notice lies in the single fact that he was a member of The Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education’’—a notable experiment in ‘‘plain living and high thinking’’ which richly deserved success, though it failed. The head and front, brainandright arm, of this splendid failure was George Ripley (1802-1880), than whom America has pro- duced few better or wiser men. He was graduated at the head of hisclass at Har- vard in 1828; then spent three years in the divinity school of that college, and in 1826 was ordained pastor of a new Unitarian society in Boston. Mr. Ripley did not confine his intellectual and moral forces to the pulpit. He was a deep student of philosophy, an active sympathiser with political and social reformers, and a champion of advanced opin- ion in all departments. A _ disciple of what is known as the intui- tional school,“ the first meeting of the afterward famous ‘‘Transcendental’’ Club was held in his house in September, 1836. This brought him fnto close associa- tion with Emerson, Parker, Margaret Ful- ler and others of that brilliant circle from which directly and indirectly, so much of the great and good has come—and is stillcoming. In 1840, in conjunction with Emerson and Miss Fuller, he estab- lished the Dial, a philosophical journal on transcendental lines, which did not long survive, but while it lived made a mark not yet entirely obliterated. The desire of Ripley ahd his friends to bring their principles to} the test of prac- tical experience was responsible for Brook Farm. Long before Br. Channing had dreamed of an assgClation in which the members, inst of preying upon one another and ing to put one another „ * * ee ‘ ae ts > 3 - 7 q 4 * 7 E * * * ; a N 0 5 : 2 wy 12 — 8 5 2 8 f a on — FN. muß 21 ME Aap. mt 3 Kags 5 N * * N f 2 ? 7 vy 1 2 T N 4 7 it i ~ “ 4 1 0 * difference between but like all great and true principles itis ‘capable of | | ' | | 8 ‘ 8 * ‘ Sy Pee ee 5 * * . ** 2 e eren N 3 = Ss en ‘ 25 gor 2 * 3 ee ee pak: should li seeking one ual growth.“ Ty Brook Farm Institute, | located at West Roxbury Boston, aimed to estabish an ‘agricultural, literary and sientific school, in order, as its dunders said, to live a religious and goral lite worthy the name.’’ In otherwords, it was an experi- ment in what is nw called ‘‘Christian So- ciology.’® After six years’ trial—from 1841 to ’47—it faild, for the simple and sufficient reason uat the world was not yet ready for sucha new departure. | ' 1 Nor is the world ready now, and will not be, | probably, before he millennium arrives, | Meanwhile it is inpossible not to admire the bright and ung@lfish ideals of the men and women who content to be laughed at and pitied as miable lunatics, if only they could leave th world a little wiser, better and happierfhan they found it. They may have attem the impossible, but it was at least a ble impossibility, the contemplation of mich gives one a higher and nobler opiniorpf human nature. George Ripley ried his very limited fortune at Brook Igrm, and after a long life of literary toil@ied poor. But he did more for the mora and intellectual devel- opment of this comtry than all the Astors and Vanderbilts t ever grew upon its soil, “THEY SHAL) The Republic says: Our Olive street zontemporary informs its readers that, in a@ordance with a recently adopted amendm st to the Constitution of the State of Califffnia, the successors of White and Perkin in the United States Senate will be elec directly by the people. No such amendmeig has deen adopted, ana even if it had beenft would be in violation of the highest law of he land and consequently without legal effe The Federal Constitu- tion provides tha United states Senators shall be chosen brthe Legislatures of the diferent States. But the Repuilic said last November just after the presidential election, equally as solemnly: The action of Ca'fornia at the late election in adopting by an werwhelming vote a con- stitutional amendment making Senators elective by the Sta , and the joint session of the two houses ona constitutional mode of expressing the Stete’s will was most signifi- cant, It is to be regretted that so ancienta journal as the Repeblic should allow itself to tangle itself inthis manner. It is not only confusing tofts readers, but it is un- just to its more careful and accurate con- temporaries. When younger journals ob- serve how loosely aged journals do im- portant writing and convey intelligence of great moment, they too are apt to become careless and mislead the public. It should always be the aim of an aged journal to set a good example to the young and growing press. a > GNAW A FIL.“ yesterday — solemnly — — THE J. N.“ PHILOSOPHY. Some say that the Immortal J. N.,“ surnamed The Philosopher, is dead; oth- ers, that heis alive, but it matters lit- tle. Alive or dead his great work will go on. His philosophy shares the immor- tality of universal truth. Noone whoever met the tall, gaunt, long-haired and unwashed creature who wandered from newspaper office to news- paper office, seeking tolift the veil from the face of truth and remove the pressure of wrong and error which crushes the world doubted that he was a crank. But are not all true hilosophers regarded as cranks? He had all the marks of an evangelof Truth. He had a mission to which he devoted his life. He cared nothing for opinion, He took no thought for the morrow—what he should eat, what he should drink, what he should wear or wherewithal he should get from place to place. He trusted in Truth to supply him with food, lodging, clothing and transpor- tation. His implicit fafth was amply re- warded. The recognition of Truthin him brought all of these things. He had a life pass, with free board, to the ends of the earth and return, J. N. 's philosophy is simple and sub- lime. It is sublime in its simplicity. It embraces two cardinal points, viz., that truth must prevail, the world cannot re- sist it, andthat to get at the truth we must view a subject from every stand- point. The only thing necessary, accord- ing to J. N., to finda peaceable basis of ad- justing all differences was to recognize that the other fellow was right from his stand- point; in short, to put yourself in his place. This was the lever of truth with which J. N. believed he could crush wrong and move the earth. The peculiar mission of J. N.—the mission which made him a wandering crank—was to apply this principle to the North and South, universal application. All human differences may be put in the way of harmonious adjustment by it. It is the essential principle of charity. So, although the wheels rumbled and rattled and made discordant noises in poor old J. N.’s head, ‘they rattled on the right road. The jangled bells of his mind gave one clear, true note, The North and South have nearly come to the J. N. philosophy. The whole world must come to it if it walks in the path of progress. As the embodiment of his philosophy J. N. can- not die- he is the immortal J. N. THOsE evil-minded persons who doubted the sanctity of the late Mr. Jay Gould will be confounded by the splendor of the Jay Gould Memorial Church, which is to have * » filled by life-sized Agures enting Faith, Hope, | Constancy, Fortitude, Justice ity. Some of the best men that ever lived | a church as this. n „ and Humil- have not left money enough to build such In many of his great operations in Wall street Mr. Gould no doubt had this beautiful edifice in view, because he always looked a long way into the future. a. a JAJATIIT Swan, Rajat Rajajara of Kapur thala, with his fourth wife and his revenue Master, Asiz Brix; his secretary, Dervan Dowlat Ram, and Capt. Sundan Single and Meg. Nahal Singh, are to visit Boston as well as other American cities. This splendid Eastern potentate may not be much inter- ested in Faneuil! Hall and other revolutionary landmarks, but he will endeavor to add to his knowledge of the Boston bean, the fame of which has even reached his far-away do- minions, and it is likely that Asiz Brix will will be required to pack a large amount of s2ed for experiments in Kapurthala. The Bostonians propose to heartily welcome Jajatjit, but how the Bostonian ladies can look calmly through their spectacles upon a man with so many wives is not clear, and it is possible that he will feel more at home when he reaches Chicago. 8 STOVE polish has not figured as an ex- plosive heretofore, but with the march of in- vention and improvement anything may be made dangerous. It appears that in Pitts- burga house has been burned by explosive stove polish and thata young woman was burned to death, while the peddler who was selling the polish was seriously injured. Now that stove polish has been found peri- ous it might be well to look to our blacking. The bootbiack who offers a shine ought to be scrutinized, and he should be required to promptly answer all questions as to whether his materials contain explosive compounds, None of us, itis true, would live alway,’’ but explosive death is highly undesirable. THE proposed strengthening of the Louis ville Base Ball Clubis not really advisable. The season is getting on and Louisville can hardly hope forthe pennant now. Why not sticky to tall place? The club that gets the pennpnt will be remembered, and so will the club tat resolutely maintains its place at the tail. The clubs that are below the top or above the tall will be forgotton. Why should Louisville deliberately plunge into oblivion when her fame may be established? — ‘*‘NOBODY ever gave me a penny, says Uncle Russell Sage. And Uncle Russell re- calls this fact whenever he is tempted to makea large contribution to some benevo- lent object. The experience of Uncle Russell should teach us to be more generous. A gift ofa nickel to some ragged boy may make him such a millionaire as Uncle Russell 1s not. - — A NASHVILLE reporter found hidden under a medlum's“ chair a bag containing a number of fleecy white articles, laces, strands of blonde hair, etc., with which ghosts“ were fitted eut. The business of calling up specters, however, will not be depressed by the efforts of meddlesome reporters. The most substantial spooks will continue to draw for a small admission fee. —_— THE comet has evidently struck near Gol- conda, III. Ats o’clock Friday morning a report like thatof acannon was heard and there was a hissing sound similar to that of escaping steam. As there were no clouds the cannon could not have been thunder and the hissingis wholly unaccounted for. The scientists of Golconda should look for frag- ments of the comet and report early. -— —— GREEN treesand grassy slopes, And breezes playing; Red fronts and gray walks, And stinshine gaying. Soft skies are overhead, Soft skies and blue: Nature and art are wed In new St. Lou. a —_— Ix any hospital where whisky is used for medicinal) purposes there is always danger of an overdose, or of too frequent doses, now and then. It is one of the most difficult drugs that our physicians are called upon to regulate, - A MARYLAND farmer has sold his straw for more than his wheat brought him. This 1s an evidence, perhaps, of prosperity in the line of American refreshments requiring straws. There is hope at last for the wheat farmer, A FARMER’S wife in Alabama was found on her bed, knocked senseless by lightning. Unhappily the telegraph has not stated whether the bed was a feather- bed, and sei- ence is again left in the dark. IT is said that autograph bureaus are paying 10 to 20 cents for autographs of well-known writers and other prominent persons. Not these persons but the sweet-girl collectors get the 10 and 20 cents. St. Lovis Is only 280 miles from Chicago, but to judge by the extra railroad rates charged st. Louts people one might suppose thatthe Windy City had been moved up the lake to Sturgeon Bay. Ix a new Chicago book on Ohicago the Cronin murder case is reviewed. In all the Windy’s literary work a little police news hasto be distributed in order to cater to home tastes. - — — WE canali live without seeing the Fair, but this isno reason why unfair railroad rates should be kept up. Tur speckled catfish is said to thrive on muddy water. Why not put him in the city reservotrs. SS THe Illinois lady 103 years of age who is still paying taxes should be allowed to vote. Sherman as a Calamity Howler. From the Philadelphia Times. Considering his large share of personal re- sponsibility for the present financial condi- tion, Senator Sherman’s disposition to igure as a Calamity howler lacks at least good taste. If he cannot talk hopefully he had better not talk at all. | | Mr. Sherman has a unique distinction among our public men as one whose opinions have been generally sound and his action and his vote quite as frequently the reverse, When his party had a sound financial policy, he had one; when the party, or a consider- able portion of it, went wrong, Sherman was on hand with ene of the cradest and worst bits of nancial legislation that have ever. plagued us. And now he Is talking about the insecurity of the Democratic policy. Surely it is (me for men of John Sherman’s pretensions to statesmanship to get out of their party bondage at least long enough to rescue the country from disaster, and espec- lally from the disaster which they have helped to bring upon it. pet eh ‘ > ae a $25,000 organ, several $10,000 windows, Luke and John. Other panels will =e pes 2 5 ’ 13 „„ Oe oe in, K F 3 q * 5 aoe hat ayy * N 5 3 ter 6 > . 8 0 3 * 2 — 2 88 a Ce “4 8 * ces ae. a, $a ? 292 ae 7 sa N et > > ae N NMerey 2 a at ys’ Ge 4 4 7 >. Min a 2 | ee ee ene . 8 ’ purpose of disturbing the tarirx. Having failed to keep in power by working the old free-trade bugaboo, they now seek to nullify the will of the people by attributing the financial trouble due to thelr own silver law to this thoroughly riddled and Giscredit- ed scarecrow. — Do they take the voters ot the United States to be children or fools? Will they never drop the insulting hypothesis that the people do not Know what is best for them? —— MEN OF MARK. MR. CaRL Schon is writing a history of thiscountry covering the decade between 1850 and 1860, THE King of Siam bas, itis said, 200 wives and 87 children, and his hat of state is so loaded with precious stones that it weighs some is but holds its regular Sunday sery~ to the old tunes, and 1 have not heard a singie specimen of the Moody and Sankey doggerel, or of the sanctified opera. All the hymns and tunes have been familiar to me since child- hood, and when I catch the first line of the hy mn and the first notes of the music, all the rest comes back to me with that wonderfully vivid memory which belongs to the period when the mind eis wax to receive and mar- ble to retain.’* The other day it was **Coro- nation,“ and long before the choir the lead of the orwan I was singing to 27 pounds. His royal robe is worth $1,000,000, WILLIAM McKenzie of Farloch Mountain, New Brunswick, is the oldest person in the Maritime Provinces. He is now 108 years old and was married and had children when the dattle of Waterloo was fought. AN example ofthe mutation of fortune oc- curred several days ago when the Super- visors of Sonoma, Cal., made a special order Placing Jonquin Carmo on the poor list at dio a month. He was once one of the richest men in California. **COUSIN BEn’’ Forsom’s farewell to Shef- fleld was made the occasion of a great din- ner in his honor, which was presided over by the Mayor of the city. The young man was also given a lot of cutlery worth over $500 as a testimonial of Sheffield’s esteem. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND’S brother, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Chaumont. Jef- ferson County, N. ., does not resemble President Grover Cleveland. He isof much lighter build and almost spare infigure. An easy, cheery expression and licht voice tur- ther add to the dissimilarity. WOMEN OF THE WORLD. Miss FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, Who has just passed her 734 birthday, still works for the welfare of her fellow-creatures. THE .Princess May is superstitious about opals, which formed the jewels in the en- gagement ring which the Duke of Clarence gave her. ‘ THE Spanish, English and German gover- nesses to the infantas of Spain receive a yearly salary of $5,000 each and a home in the Royal household. GEN. BootH has named his daughter, not either of his sons, as his successor in the command of the Salvation Army. He says women are the best rulers.’’ Every mar- ried man knows that. Mrs. HARRIET STRONG of Whittier, Cal., last year imported pampas grass from South America to her ranch and raised 8,000,000 plumes, These make handsome decorations. One million of these were sent to the World's Fair. She has exported over 650,000 to Europe. Mrs. STANNARD, the writer, who is best known by the name of John Strange Winter, says she knows of one happy marriage that was the result of a proposal made on the fourth day after the couple had met. It 18 her own. THE PZOPLE’S FOROM. [No matter writterm an both sides of sheet can ap pear ia this columa.] Carpenters’ Wages. To the Editor of the Post- Dispatch: Prices of provisions and rents have not been reduced, but there is an upward ten- dency on many articles and why should our wages be cut? Dis not not what we get per hur, but what we are able to earn during the year that tells. For example, eight months isa fair average that a carpenter Is employed during the year, amounting to $667.75. Average rent,$13 per three rooms (no bath) twelve months, $156; eatables and fuel alone $20 per month, twelve months, $240; total, 396, which leaves a balance of $271.75 to pay the various expenses connected with mere existence ina famliy with three chil- dren, such as clothing, moving, medicine and all other incidentals. With families limited to the above amount and no means to pay for household help even in sickness, thousands have this same ex- perience, and the writer is one of them for the past twelve years. VINCENT S. LAMB. The Slop Nuisance. To the Editor of the Post- Dispatch: ; Is there no way of stopping this slop nuisance? ILlive on O' Fallon street, between Sixth and Seventh streets. Ihave put slop out onthe sidewalk to be taken away and it has remained there four days. If the cit should be visited by any contagious disease think Mr. Butler or some of the city officials should be held responsibie. ITIEEN. St. Louis, July 29, 1893. ANSWEES TO COARRE SPON DENTS, SUBSCRIBER.—NO premium on a half-dollar 1821. DAILY READER.—No premium on your coin at present. 73 CLARA D.—A half -dollar o s worth 60 cents, and one of 1814 is worth 65 cents, Miss H. G.—You can obtain the address of an Old coin dealer by calling at this office, L. S. V.—A man went over Niagara Falls successtully several years ago incased ina N 4 The office of state Exct SCRIBER.—The office of e Excise Oommiasioner has been in existence since June 21, 1893. . es RIBER.—The * 0 . 8 An as jor mane years, had practical control of the line mentioned. 1 1 ne THERYN.—A dollar o a et head is worth $1.20. No premium on a quarter of 1851 and a gold half dollar of 1871, antTs.—If you pick a horse to win and be te scratched you will not receive your money back if it has been placed iu a pay or A. J. —J. 8. n 1:86 8-53 onasafety wheel covered a mile 1 1 y 4 over a kite-gha pendence, 7, Boe No announcement has bee 1 0 2 r rding a six day g0-as-you- rian contest, to take place in Buleagd g the World's Fair. E. T.— The exact date of the opening of the lands in the Cherokee Stri tained. For information in regarg to takin co lands, write to the Com r of the Land Office. SUBSCRIBER. elevator is not like! tell th 3 of a man with an greater weight of the elevator. O. P. E.—The fare from st. Louis to Chica- is 612. By an a t en- There’s an Essy Way to De Everything. From St. Botolph. 1 to propose > * 5 Johnson, with a flying start, | - ad like were ‘ 8 x * * * * 2S — ‘ 33 ri - All hail the power of Jesus’ name, Let angels prostrate fal Bring forth the royai diadem, And crown Him Lord of all! And then Lowell’s lines came to me: I hear it yet, } ee by bass vioi and elattust. While the gray minister witn face Radiant, lets loose his noble bass. f heaven It reached not, yot the roll itirred all the pues of the seul, Lod on it many a life found wi gs o soar away from sordid things. Cnhureh gone, and singers too, the song Sings to me VYoiceless ai! night long. Stu beckoning my soul afar, Glowing and trembiing like a star. Can awy scieatifie touch From my wern strings achieve as much? What is this mysterious thing which, for want ofa better name, we call ‘‘assocta- tion?’’ Burns, writing toa friend, says: Me know nothing, or next to nothing, of the structure of our souls; sO we cannot ac- count forthose seeming capricesin them, that we should be particularly pleased with thisthing or struck with that, which, on minds of a different cast, make no extraordinary impression. I have some favorite flowers in ee among which are the mountain daisy, the hare- bell, the fox-glove, the wild brier rose, the bud- ding birch and the hoary hawthorn—that I view and hang over with exquisite delight. 1 never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer non, or the wild mixing cadence of a troopof xray plover in an au- tumnal morning without feeling an elevation of soul like tha enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are wea piece of machin- ery which,like the Wollan harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident? Or do these workings argue something within us above thet den clod?’’ And Byron, with exquisite felicity, ex- presses a similar thought: Slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weigh which it would fling Aside forever; it may be a sound— A tone of music—summMer's eve—or spring A ä wind—the ocean, which shall und— Striking the electric darkly bound. + * * * 5 * When least we deem of such, cai! up to view The spectres whom no exoreism ean bind x 2 ag 9 8 the dead loved, ¢ — —— ae o lost—too many! yest Swift is coming to the literary front again —as he does every few years—and with him comes the gentle ghost of Stella, to vex the critics about the nature of the relations be- tween the great Dean and the woman who loved him so, and whether or not the tradi- tion is true which says that they were pri- vately married in the deanery garden of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. I havereadtwo or three articles on the subject lately, but my mind was fully made up when I frst saw, long since, the opening words of Stella’s will: In the name of God, Amen. I, Esther Johnson, spinster.’” The date of the alleged marriage is 1716. The will is signed Dec. 30, 1727, and was proved by the executors May 4, 1728. Would Stella—whose perfect truthful- ness is conceded by all—for any conceivable reason describe herself in her last will aad testament as an unmarried woman wiien she was then married? I think ot, very Ge cidedly; and the wonder isto me that an; intelligent person can think otherwise. Swift and Stella sleep side by side in the south aisle of St. Patrick's; side by side, but a few feet apart—in death as in life, the are so near and yet sofar.’’ AsIwalke@ backward and forward over the dull, dam pavement which hides the dust of this man and this woman whom a desperate Fate and a more desperate Love drew and held to- gether until the one died of that hope de- ferred which maketh the heart sick, leay- ing the other to drag out a wretched old age and then die mad—the mystery of their blended lives grew darker and more impenoe- trable than ever. A cloud, deep, dismal, without a single ray of blessed light, seemed to drop down upon these lonely graves and cover them as with a pall. You have, doubtless, often read Thackery’s immortal epitaph, but you must read it once again: ; Who hasn't in his mind an image of Stella? Who does not love her? Fair and tender creature! Pure and affectionate heart! Boots cold ours, whilst it beat, such faithful 2 of ove and grief—boots it to you nowthat the whole world loves and deplores you? scarce ever thought of id not a ob naked so un pions, m * From ake up the We bi Sow pour legend by h e know 6a of the saints of alien story. arand who had just left home to begin her new lite. It seomed to me that some of the old lady’s advice and suggestions were quite as son- sible and timely as when given 100 years and therefore I reproduce a | | ce—req sistance of a good wife to make what it ought to be; and if the home is not what it ought to te, the good husband ts 7 . N ; * * on ‘ ’ 3 4 — * * 2 — mn n ; 8 3 = 77 9 e chain with which we are F
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