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Newspaper War Correspondents.

Newspaper correspondents, as the
war for the suppression of the rebellion
progressed, found their position grow
ing more and more unpleasant. Gen
erals who demonstrated their con-
seriousness of their own Incompetence,
and the parasites who blossomed on
their staffs in the glittering blazonry
gilded buttons and dazzling shoulder
straps were accustomed, however, to
disguise their incompetency and fail
ures by attributing them to news
papers and their army correspondents.
They had as often succeeded in delud-
ing the public upon this subject as
they had failed in discharging their
duties. Being reduced to the necessity
of palliating their own unsatisfactory
conduct and their acknowledgement,
abuse Of the press had seemed to them
the most plausible mode of escape
from the disagreeable position in which
they had found themselves. 1t was a
noticeable fact that the only generals
in this war who warred upon the news
papers were those who had acquired
unenviable or odious distinction in
campaigning or field operations. But
it was a still more conspicuous fact
that in most instances in which they
arraigned army correspondents their
accusations were of a personal charac-
ter. They did not charge that cores
pondents had exposed their plans to
the rebels, or that they had :.given aid
directly or indirectly to the enemy"
but they whined because their manage
ment and their personal conduct was
unfavorable Or d~isparagingly criticis-
ed. The allegation is true, and in rep
resenting facts in this connection,
correspondents discharged the duties
which they were expected by the pub
lie to perform. There is no process of
reasoning which will satisfy Intelligent
persons that exposures of incompetence
or neglect caniniure the public service,
while it is demonstrable that in the
long run it promotes the cause in
which the country is engaged, by
leading to the displacement of officers
from command which they are uufit
to exercise. Military commanders
are public officers. AS such their con
duct is open to criticism, and the
press must not be muzzled or sup
pressed for the statement of facts
which do not harm the cause of the
people, or for the expression Of con-
victions based upon such facts.-Ben.
Perley Poore, in The Boston Budget.
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Cancer a Disease Of the well.to,Do

We have then ~confessedly to face
the fact that cancer is increasing in
our midst at a rate which bids fair to
become more and more serious with
the advance of time. In an article en-
titled :An inquiry into the Causes OF
the Increase of Cancer" published in
The British Medical Journal a year ago,
l drew attention to the observations
which had been made upon the sub
ject by the late Chas. Moore, whose
Investigations into the pathology OF
cancer had brought under his notice
the incontrovertible evidence of the
increase. In the year 1865 he pub
lished a small book called the ANTE
| cedents of Cancer" the contents OF
which chiefly consist in ar attempt to
explain in what manner the augmenta-
ton of cancer is influenced in the cir.
cumstances of life prevailing IN this
country. For instance, he held tina,
the Introduction oflcorn.laws, the dis
coveries OF gold and sanitary improve
ments, whereby the well-being of the
nation was c~onspicuously established,
affected cancer Indirectly by bringing
into prominence the predisposing
CduSeS VI us OCCURRENCE, anu SOoo
living, it is thought, which follows as
a corollary of commercial prosperity
is intimately associated with the mani
festation of cancer. Again, inasmuct
as cancer is characteristic of the
healthy, it may be expected to abounc
amid the conditions of health. The
greater prevalence Of the disease
amongthe rich than among the poor
can probably be explained in this man
ncr. According to a French observer
the proportion ofcancer in the wealthy
classes is about LOG in 1000. in the
poor classes it is ~ in 1000; or at ,
rate in the former case of 10 per CEN
and in the latter of z per cent. Now
curious as it may seem, cancer is met
with in the lower animals; and it has
been said to prevail more frequently
among those which are tlesh-eaters
than those which are h~erb-eaters. Il
has been stated by the late DR.. Crisp
who had good opportunities of judg
ing, that cancer is by no means ar
uncommon disease among the domes
ticated animals, while in wild animal:
and uncivillzed man it is rare.-Dr. II
PERCY Dunn. IN Popular Science Monthly
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sam NM.

NeaihtAsf tDok the Bible down
And ID ~ elear, old-fashioned hand
SSUpeaatei Record pages brown
uroee the nals Asit should stand.
Datpeo1sGt carao from IN the rest
giving such Z little fairy,
Z Ih6dsaSssk swoetest, and the best,
That entiquAted name tocArry.
Andannts and secondcousins CRY
WAname 30 wOrn and ordinary
Could not be found II one should try,
Asthat name appellation May
And Der and DER again they laud
Her yellow cnrls, herbaby grace;
ssOh, call her tEthelind,, or Maud,
Or Christine for her angelsface.n
<'Rut time vim change this golden fleece
To match the eyes In dusKy splendor;
Far better name her Beatrice
Or sIm0gen, serene and tender.n
i tsaOh, name the child for Aunt Louisa,
For she, good soul, 10 ~weli-to-do,'
The compliment Is euretto please her,
And We can call the darling Lou.,h
Most prudent counsel, all too latel
,Twixt Malachi's and Matthew's pages
Appears, Interchangeable as fate,
The name beloved OF all the ages.
The ancient gem, its purity
unspoiled shall grace our latest beauty;
Sometime on dearcr lips to be
The synonym Of love and duty
And gracious womanhood adorn,
However fortunes gifts may vary,
Itll on . day like Easter Morn
She hears the Master call her 1Mary,
-sennis COtton, N The Current.
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Away With the Stoye!

Ills with regret that | see wood
fires L fast disappearing from our
homes to become soon entirely obso-
lete. and with more than equal disgust
that l welcome the innovation of the
coal stove. The former is one of the
oldest institutions the world has ever
known. Talk of ancient dynasties if
you will. why they are but the dust of
yesterday compared to a wood fire. 1t
toasted the toes of loyalty, baked the
bread of peasantry, and broiled the
venison of the savage long before its
dusky compeer was exhumed out of
its huge carboniferous graveyard. 1t
is the alter fire of the home circle
cleaning out all along the ages, far
beyond the old traditional days. Why,
sir, all the comforts and associations
of a lifetime are wiped away by coal
fires. A man cannot mediate or think
well by one of them. He might just
as well go out and commune with 9
hay stack on a winters night as try tc
draw consolation from pieces of molt.
ENRON fixed up in the shape of a stove,
1t is true it is a sort of a toaster fol-
the outside-it warns you all atonce-
it does not take possession of you by
piece-meal-its warm swift curren'
penetrates with electric rapidity, anc
sends the hot blood flowing through al
your veins. But that is only contribu
ting to the physical wants. 1t never
kindles the fancy into play or warm
the heart with sympathetic emotions
it never contracts the sliken cords o
affection, drawing stranger heart
closer together; it eve lights up thu
Imagination and brings out faded pic
lures in bold relief on the dusty wal
of memory. In short it is devoid o
all those little enjoyments that mad
wood fires so dear and ever memor
able James Z. Prickett IN ST. LOU
MAGAZINE.
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Mexico as a Winter Resort.

Arriving at Cuautla, we found an ex-
cellent hotel, the San Diego, directly
across the plaza from the railway
station. The landlord was a German,
and had been in the country about
thirty years. The hotel was q enc
story structure, built around a large
court, the rooms opening upon a tile
rooted veranda. In the court was a
tall date-palm, with sprays of rich,
orange-hued blossoms rising among its
graceful plumes of dark green.
I hardly expected to meet in an OBJ
scure Mexican town a party of Ameri-
can tourists passing the time in placid
ease, just as they might be encounter
ed at a nice Swiss inn in some Alpine
valley Yet we encountered at the
I San Diego a most delightful company
of our compatriots. One, an eminent
artist, who was something of an in
valid, was enthusiastic over the de-
licious air and glorious scenery of the
place. These winter days il Cuautla
were all like our ideal June weather
at home, he said. There was no in
tense heat, while cold and chilliness
were absolute strangers. Mexico he
regarded as superior to Florida as a
winter refuge. In these warm lands,
besides the endless scenic variety,
there was an unchanging climate all
through the winter; at least on the Pa
ciiic side of the mountains. On the
gulf slope, as at Orlsaba, there were
occasional fogs, rain, and raw north
ers.
"'And then there are no mosquitoes
here" said another friend. 81 have
never seer a land so free from them.
The few insects one meets here are
really contemplate; l feel inclined to
pity them for their feebleness."
1t is, indeed, a great mistake for
people to come to Mexico from the
north in the winter and contine them.
selves to the capital. They experience
the chilly weather which now and ther
visits the high regions of the centra
lakeland at that season, and with the
abrupt transitions of cold and hea'
from morning to noon and night the,
at times feel more discomfort than il
their wintry northern home, where
genial hearth-fires glow, until at las
they perhaps leave for home in dis
gust, matchmaking the whole coun
try. All this is q mistake, when OF
every hand are pleasant places Xix
Cuautla within easy reach of tile CAPT
tai by. rail, journeying to which nigh
fill many weeks with a round o
health-giying pleasure, novel scene
greeting the eye everywhere. Their
is much of the greatest interest t.
tourists to be seen in and around tn,
capital, but there are pleasante
winter abiding places near by. 1t is
however, a good central point from
which to make agreeable tours all owe
the country. Now that railway CON
munication with the United States i
completed, there will be many pleas
ure travellers to Mexico. When the,
come, they should remember tina
there are rich, warm valleys down be
low, close at hand, where simple ex
istence seems a luxury, amid the de
licious airs of genuine tropical sur
roundings.-March atlantic.
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The Bullion Yield.

Concerning the bullion yield, mines
and mining, Montana is rapidly ap-
preaching the first place in the union
of states, says a correspondent of The
st. Louis Globe-D Democrat. The great
mineral veins and seams all through
the rocky ridges in the western part of
the territory still keep upthe apparent
inexhaustible yield of precious bullion
that they did when discovered years
ago. Within the boundaries of Mon
tana are at least a hundred mines,
which, for richness. extent, and indi-
cations of permanence are unequaled
anywhere else in the world. The
small district of which Butte is the
center is perhaps one of the richest
spots on earth, and it certainly is of
the American Continent. Within a
radius of three miles of the center of
the town was produced in 1884 more
money than Arizona, California or Ne
vada; more than twice as much as
Utah; more than Idaho and New Mex
leo combined, and almost IS much as
Colorado. Butte has eight quartz
mills, with a crushing capacity Of 800
tons per day four smelters, with a
combined daily capacity of over 500
tons; and. four concentrators, with a
combined daily capacity of over 600
tons. But the most astonishing thing
about this wonderful camp is its lever
ending supply of valuable ore. The
quantity Of copper ore shipped and
treated in Butte in 1884 was fully
twice as large as that of the previous
year, and the production of silver from
this district, if it holds out as it prom.
ises at present, will do more to knock
the value of silver as a money stand
ard than ell the other mines in the
world combined. The earth in this
favored spot seems to be one mass of
mineral. Sink a shaft almost any
where in the Butte district, and min
eral of some kind is sure to be struck.
The monthly pay-rolls of the ten lead
ing companies of Butte average nearly
a million dollars; and nearly all of the
leading mines are dividend paying.
The mineral yield of the territory for
1884 is said by the best authorities to
be between eighteen and twenty mil
lions. of which the placer mines pro-
duced about one million dollars in gold
dust and nuggets. The bullion yield
Of Montana for 1883 was 90, 879, 900.
The barbcd-wire monopoly Is approaching.
It's end through the lapsing Of patents.
TLN E I-HHN 49, LE- ## HHHaH r h|a
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Train Robberies.

Within three years, three railroad
trains have been robbed in Arkansaw.
The gentlemen in the first exploit are
now in the pe%nitentiary. The gentle
men of the second fell from an inse.
cure platform, became implicated
with ropes and are now sleeping the
sleep that knows no snorc. The last
robbery occurred recently, on the Az
was nearing Little Rock, it was
switched from the main track. just
about that time several revolvers
opened up an animated discussion
The passengers thought this was i'm
polite. They were in a hurry to get
to town and they couldn't see why
they should be compelled to stop and
listen to a conversation in which none
of them were concerned; but a few
moments later they felt a financial in
terest in the affair. Several men
boarded the train and remarked:
"Those who have no particular use
for their hands at present will please
elevate them" Then the passengers
began to stretch themselves, although
no n appeared to be sleepy. After
the robbery, it was astonishing to
know how much money the passengers
had lost. The mar who had borrowed
three dollars and ten cents just before
the train left Pine Bluff, declared that
the robbers had relieved him of seven
teen hundred and eighty dollars in
currency, a draft on a st. Louis bank
for twenty-five hundred, a large gold
watch and chaln-which being afraid
to wear he had carried in his valice-a
gold pencil and a silver cigar holder.
Another mar who had at the supper
station failed to raise enough money to
pay for two swamp biscuits, a shoe
maker beefsteak and a cup of expired
coffee, lost the extensive capital with
which he was on his way to open a
large wholesale diamond house. None
of the passengers had less than four
hundred dollars in notes and some
half peck of silver. Several of them
carried eighteen watches apiece.
When the robbers were captured, how
ever, it was shown that only about
seven hundred dollars and a few
struggling watches had been taken
from the passengers. This shows how
excited people can become. Train
robbers, after awhile, will learn that
Arkansaw is not the state for their ex-
tensive operations -Arkansaw Trav-
cler.
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always encourage, your suit, yet I
was q little anxious. l read the book,
and I was very much surprised, !
must say, for I did not think you could
write sc many pretty things. Caroline
has gone over to Pe%terson's. She will
be back in moment.
Forester knew not what to say.
Mrs. Andrews continued:
II was telling her to-day that / did
not see why the marriage should be
postponed much longer. She is such a
good girl and loves you so deyotedly.'
THE old hag,'' thought Forester.
81 don't think l ever saw such de-
votion,H she went ON. ''Does nothing
but talk of you all the time"
MRS. Andrews"
"Never mind. / know what YOU are
going to say. You want to thank me,
but l did nothing but my duty. How
few do that, is no matter. J have done
mine, and that's ali there is about it.
You don't owe me a cent, Tom, and 1
want you to understand that my house
shall always be your home"
"Mrs. Andrews
Hush, now, and let me talk. As l
was saying ali, here's Caroline.
I'll go out to the kitchen a moment
and leave you together"
ooh, Tom," exclaimed Caroline. II
intended to see you this morning and
tell you, but l didn't, Mother has told
you, hasn't shep"
She hasn't told me anything. She
has only shown me what a hypocrite
she is"
Don't say that, for you'd have to
take it back. I'll tell you something
that will open your eyes. Some time
ago. mother gave me a check for ten
thousand dollars, payable to your or
der. Wait until I get through. She
said that she would try to make some-
thing of you, and that l must not tell
you of the check until the day of our
marriage. When she heard that you
were writing a book, she said: Now,
Caroline, that book is bound to be a
failure, and when 1t proves to be, 20
to him with that check and tell him
that l say he must get married at once.
But the book wasn't q failure, was 1t,
map"
The old lady had entered the room.
tGod bless you, madam"
"Never mind, Tom. Don't get me
stirred up. If you do, I'll let the pies
burn. No horse races, Tom. I know
what you are going to say, sir. You
don't need to warn me about cotton
futures. Walk out to supper. What
are you crying for, you big boobyf
There, now, come on, Tom. "-Opie p.
Read, in ArkanSaW Traveller.
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The Snanlsh TreatY.

The only thing of shy consequence
which the Spanish treaty proposes to
give us in return for the 800. 900, COO or
more that we are to surrender in the
way OF revenue from the sugar duties,
is a reduction of the tariff on certain
articles which we export to Cuba and.
Porto Rico. But our total sales OF
goods to those countries do not exceed.
Sl3,0O0,OOO a year, on whichth ag-
gregate profit can hardly be MORE. at
best, than $4,000, 900 TO SO, 600, 600.
The practical question is, can we af.
ford to pay 800, ZOO, 900 per annum for
q trade which, even if it should be
doubled, would not put over s6,OCO,-
00Oa year in the pockets of our peo-
"le?-St. Louis Glo6e-D Democrat.
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The Maine Fisheries.

Maine ranks second in her sea and
first in her river fisheries among the
states in the union. In her sea fisher
les 11,O71 persons are employed, and
the value Of the product last year was
S3,6l4,178. In river fishing 1890 per-
sons find employment, and they caught,
in 1884, fish to the value of S175, 046.-
Hartford Post.
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The barbcd-wire monopoly Is approaching
its end through the lapsing Of patents.
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80 ~
known Is the ..neighborhood failure"
BE had ro1licked through college and
s%pluttered through q law course; had
opened an Office in the county town
and had promptly closed 1t; had Sc
cured a position on a daily paper and
had been discharged-had done nearly
everything to exhibit a lack of stabil-
ity, but had accomplished nothing to
exhibit q purpose in life.
Caroline Andrews was as Forester
had said, an attractive girl. She was
bright and original, and report said
that she had been expelled from a
boarding school for playing an embar-
RAISING prank on a maiden teacher.
She and Forester fell in love with
each other, the people said, on account
of q similarity Of "trifingness.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-12-09

Nearly all our great men have been
born in log cabins, yet their sons, who
never come to greatness, tiud seven story
house too small to live in, and imagine
themselves to have a nine story intelects,
when the majority have only vacuum
where brains ought to be- Trenton En-
p0rium.
The Jersey City Journal asks on what
principle of hygienics is it that tho dress
for women and girls, for out of door use
for street wear is made so much lighter
and less warmth giving than that of men
and boys? We see very delicate, frail
looking women and little girls in the
streets, clad in what would be freeze-to-
death or sure-to- take cold rig for the up.
per portion of the body and in the case
of the little girl they are sent out with no
covering for their small legs except their
thin stockings. How ladies can 60 ont
in severe weather with little or nothing
about their necks and breasts, with so
slight protection for the chest and lungs
and not to be injured by tho exposure, is
what we don't understand. And it is the
more surprising when we take note OF the
fact that women and girls keep in doors
much more than men and boys do, and
would therefore seem to be in need of
more outer clothing when they do go out.
But they are not generally SO heavily
clothed.
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THE RICHEST MAN IN PHILADELPHIA.

A slender, medium sized old man walks
slowly down Chestnut street. His smooth
shayen face is furrowed, his cheeks are
scanned and his wrinkled hand trembles
on heavy walking stick. He looks nine
ty. He is, 10 reality, seyenty-three. His
hair Is rather long, for the cold weather
has come, and from late summer until
spring his hair remains uncut. His at
tire is comfortable but plain, such as a
sensible old clerk might wear. The man
is |. V. Williamson, the possessor, accor-
ding to common understanding, of some
$40, COO, 600 and per consequence, by re-
pute the richest man in Philadelphia.
He came here from Bucks county half a
century ago with next to nothing. His
fortune is the fruit of close application,
skill and foresight, and of economical
habits. Though SO rich, his personal ex-
penses do not exceed So, 900 year, bat be
has given away fortune in charity. He
is bachelor.
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THE FRETFuL ONES.

Cross with headache, "nervousn with irrceu-
lar appetite; nauseated with cons n ntunpleas-
ant taste IN mouth; habitualy splitting or
clearing the throat; spirits depressed: occa-
sional palpitation OF heart; frequent di-
arrh9a; belchiag OF gas from the stomach;
What does II all mean9 Why: ii means indi,
ges,ion. And II means that you must at once
begin to right the wrongs Of your system bv
the use of HKRRIcK's LIVER Pulls These
pills are sugar-coated, and are as pleasant as
they are safe and efiieien /, Dec. 9.4w,
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The Republicans of both branches of
Congress have declared in favor of pass
ing the Hoar Presidential Succession bill.
As it is not likely that the Democrats will
object to making Bayard Vice President
instead Of John Sherman, the passage of
the bill is assured
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ELY'S
Cream Balm

when applied into tn
nostrils. will be alb
sorbed e ii'ee tuali,
cleansing the head o
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T. ons. II allays in
flammation, protect
the membrane of tn,
nasal passages from
additional colds, com
pletely heals the sore
and restores sense o
taste and smell.
Not a Liuuid or SNUFF
Apply q particle o
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noStril' A few april
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