Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-01
"IY the merry month of May.

els the merry month of May"
MAYS life-qulckening, perfumed breath
is on us to day the base ball championship
season is also here.
SOME frolcsome Mayiug party may
stumble over Wharton Barker and his
surplus distribution scheme among the
dead leaves.
Ir was in the Kalends of March, 1873,
that Mr.. Blaine got his silver cup from the
lobby king but what would the lios Of
November bring him if ever the people
got chance at the guano statesman
As the Massachusetts, Republican con
yention was an harmonious affair, against
Blaine, it seems to be a sUpertiuous re
mark of the Tribune that gray and
bald heads were 50 numerous that their
absence here aud there was conspicuous.
II is not at all improbable that the
rumor of some recent Harvard freshmen
having substitutes pass their entrance eX
aminatiOus for them, Is correct. II
large college where personal ideatity i,
not SO easily fixed, the deception would
seem easy to practice.
The superior court OF Cinc,uuIu has
administered blow to monopoly by de
claring all contracts as void which grew out
of the illegal agreement OF six big auction
tobacco leaf warehouses there to control
the trade, by pooling their business, fixing
prices, grabbing the earth and dividing 1t
among their several selves.
Mr.. ROBERT lNGERsoLL will have 70
have his teeth reset before he can success
fully gnaw the tlo given him by the sta
tis:ics Of Evangelical Christianity in this
country. Instead Of being on the wano as
he decla!es, tho facts are that since $500
the ratio of church COMMITMENTS 10 the
whole community has Increased three
fold.
IL Hdrper's Magazine for May Howard
Pyle reaches the very acme OF excellence
of illustrations for his May-dly Idyl Of
the Olden Time - Mr.. Blossoms euyray
ing OF Ttiau's Belle" scores another
high mark of artistic work Blacks auI
Roe's serials continue, and vast amount
OF superior literary matter make up q
number of rare merit.
THERE is serious trouble Threatened
up in MoKean county. It has b,en the
rule there for each township - support
its own poor by 4 system of outdoor ro
lief 1t was plan popular with the pau
pers and expensive 10 the lax payers. Now
that farm has been bought all poor
| house buildings are 10 be ercc.oi By the
county, the paupers have got mad about
1t and threaten to leave the county or 70
| to work, rather than enter an almshOuse.
| The revisers OF the Oh Testament will
not make nearly such radical alterations
| OF the text as the New Testameut suI.
feved but the number OF changes will be
sufficient 70 show the uscesSity fox tue
movement. Havoc will be male with i
good deal of loose speculation by the
change of " In my flesh shall see God ~
to Yet out of my leih sea God -
" For thou has made him littlo lower
than angels" will b., "ThDu hist mad,
him little oseE than God"
CREMATION, though from sanitary
point OF view the bsst po'sib,e mothol o
disposiRg Of the dead, is invested with an
indehnable replgnancs to the average
Christian that is doubtless due 10 il
pagan origin. On Wednesday the British
c House of Commons rejected by the decs
n sive vote of l40 to 70 a bill LICENSING
! crematories. Yet The fact that the bill
could muster nearly four sclro votes in i,
! favor seems to indicate that tho theory o
incneration is steadily gaining converts
MAY.
| Light OF foot and winning tair