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TRIBUNE LOCAL OBSERVATIONS.

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THE GEYsER WE'LL IN IOWA.

IN. msmSsrship from 500 TO 900. and raise the
sssssss,an and life membsrship fees
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SUPPLYING THE PEOPLE WITH TENTS.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-An application was
the Mayor Wilmington. NJ c. for transportation OF a
relief committee from Wilmington to Charleston. The
revenue cutter Cofsx was Immediately placed at the
disposal of the committed General Drum. the acting
OF War; has directed that tents be sent TO
Charleston TO the homeless people and as railroad
commun icstions are interrupted the revenue cutters
Will transport the tents TO the distressed city.
BALTIMORE Sept 2-The American tonight opened .
subscription list for the relief Of sufferers by the Charles
ton disaster and headed 1t with $500. telegram was
sent to Mayor OF that city assuring him
s;antal sympathy would be forthcoming. Manager
Ford the Grand Opera House. has begun pre- para
lions for = mammoth benefit for the same cause.
RALEIGH, n. c., Sept 2.-Yesterday Governor Scales
sent Governor shepherd. OF South Carolina dispatch
rendering aid To-day he received a reply in which
Governor Shepherd expressed the thanks OF the people
OF South Carolina for the tender OF aid. The people OF
North Carolina ready aid South Carolina IN any
possible way upon a moments warning.
LANCASTER, Penn, Sept 3.-At this mornings session
OF the Irish Catholic Benevolent Union collection was
taken up for the OF Charleston earthquake SUI
ferers. 500 being raised.
CIsc1sSArI Obio Sept AT to-days session Of the
the Mayor OF Charleston, C, asking what Cincinnati
could 90 TO alleviate their distress The sum OF $3.50
was subscribed IN few min utes.
CHICAGO Sept 2.The jewellers OF Chicago circulated
a subscription list to-day for the sufferers By the
Charleston earthquake This evening the paper footed
up $780,
PETERSBURG, Sept. (speciaD.-Under resolution
adopted at meeting OF the City Council this afternoon
mass-meetng OF the residents OF Petersburg will be
held at an early date devise to extend aid to
the sufferers by the earthquake 81 Charleston
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5pecial Notices
800 s s s 81 %
Randel. Barcmore s. Billings.
IMPORTERS AND CUTTERS OF
Ola MON d s.

MANUFACTURERS OF DIAMOND JEWELRf,
SIS Nassau ST. and 20 Maiden Lane. New YORK
st Andrew sst- HolDOrn Circus, London.
The most Fashionable Perfume Powder i9r sa1d a
chiefs letter paper ia CASNELl. MASrEl ". .
VIOIET ORRI5. l,l2l Broadway And 6Is 1tlaye.
posf nface< ofce
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FLOW OF NATURAL GAS DISTURBED
PIrTsgURG, Sept. 2 Special. 1t is reported
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The course of study occupies three years,
and the hours of work are equally divided
between study and manual labor Tuition
the first year costs 500, the second year $50
and the third 800. To enter boy must not
be under IA years of age, and he must be
moderately well up in the ordinary English
branches Besides the manual instruction
the boy is taught in mathematics, drawing,
common branches, and French and Latin.
He has three of these lessons a day, studying
them at home Then he comes to the school
and practices mechanical drawing an hour
every day. After that he has two hours
shop work.
The advantages of this course of instruc-
tion are very many. The pupils learn first
of all to mix brains with their work When
they go into trades afterwards, the difference
between the ordinary, stupid, dirty me-
chanicls prentice and one of these intelligent,
handy, clean, gentlemanly lads is as that
between night and day.
The boys are not allowed to choose their
own trades, but each must take the course
The first year class learns woodwork, the Sec-
ond forging, the third and last takes in the
machine shop MoRTIMER WARREN.
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amateur theatricals in New York so
ciety. In this she was very sue
cessful Some of the amateur per.
formances of the circle to which she belongs
are nearly as good as professional ones of a
respectable class of talent. Much interest is
manifested in this sort of amusement, and
very pretty entertainments are given for
charitable and other purposes
1t seems as though all the fates have COM
bined to shower good fortune upon Mrs
Potter. She is as popular in society as she is
rich and pretty. Her life has foated on like
white-winged bird down lily-fringed lake
until she came to Washington Here she ran
against a snag. Society here has got its
back up bristling, and Kisses like an old cat.
Mrs. Potter is very good natured She
gives poems and recitations at evening re-
ceptions in society. They have added to the
pleasure Of the occasion, for the lady recites
extremely well, and they were always greatly
applauded until she came to Washington.
One Of the poems she recites is named
"'Ostler joe" 1t is by George R. Sims, ali
English writer. 1t narrates how a vain and
pretty girl married homeIy, honest hostler.
After two or three years of happy married
life the wife ran away with somebody else
and left her husband and baby. She led a
wicked life, sank to the lowest depths and
was dying in ''humble lodgings" Joe, the
hostler husband, went to her, forgave her
and she died in his arms. He buried her and
placed upon her grave headstone which
bears the honored name of wife,
Mrs. Potter read this at Mrs, Secretary
Whitney;s, as she had often read it before in
New York, where it was praised
Shu! Shu! says Washington society, and
gathers up=its skirts, tosses its head and
marches out of the ROOM Knowing WASH
ington society as do, to me this is the most
stupendous joke in five years What Wash
ington society can't stand in the way of
things and people that are off color is hardly
worth mentioning. Why it should have pre-
tended to be shocked at this poem I cannot
understand, unless it is because the wind was
in the wrong quarter last week The spec
tacle of Washington society being shocked at
anything is an edifying one.
SARAH KING.
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A pieasipp Histor,o Inc,.,ant

Pleasing Historic Incident.
AS to these bloody minded men, some Of
whom would wipe out everybody ON this side
of the house, these warriors who can never be
appeased, they remind me of noted charac-
ter who lived in my town years ago. He
was an old fellow; I think he had been q
wagon master in the revolution; that was the
tradition of the town. He used to tell story
of his warlike achievements in battle, and he
told it so often that he became to believe it,
and when strangers would come to the little
village in which we lived they would give
"Capt. Cuvzy" that was his name) drink or
two and get him to tell his story The story,
as he told it, was about like this: sAt the
battle of Monmouth, he would say, although
in the light horse, fought that day on foot
slashed with my sabre cuts one and two,
and q head went off here and limb went OFF
there, until the blood actually ran into my
shoes. A pile of dead bodies surrounded me;
l was excited, and was sleshing away when .
felt a touch on my shoulder l looked up,
and there was Washington 1 shall never
forget the solemnity of his appearance or the
gravity of his speech. He gazed ac me a
moment without speaking and then he said:
Young man, restrain your inpetuosity! In
the name of God do not make a slaughter
house of the field of battler From Repre-
sentative Curtin's speech in congress.
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But II the New York officers are appointed
and drilled strictly according TO the rules Of
the New York civil service law, it will not be
more than Year or two till they rival in
appearance and usefulness even London
Fleet street constable.
First, the applicant for place on the force
must be of a certain height and weight. He
must be at least feet 8 inches high. It is
said, too, that the examiners test his weight
by seeing that he weighs not less than two
pounds for every inch in height. At any
rate, that is very good test OF proportion
He must be of good moral character, and not
over 35 years old. To try their muscle they
must wag dumb bells, raise themselves by a
horizontal bar till their chins touch the bar,
and finally must run race of a quarter of a
mile. "A policeman" said New York
editor, fought at least to be able to run
away from thief.
The running test is the severest OF all. None
but trained athletes can run quarter of
mile without being blown. Their literary
qualifications are limited to reading and
writing English A policeman is not ex-
pected to know how far it is to the planet
Saturn, or the exact degree of the cyclonic
intensity with which mules heel hits barn
door. His muscle, morals, and his knowledge
OF streets, lines of horse cars, public buildings,
railway stations, ferries, etc, are the chief
points taken into account.
Once in, the new policeman must practice
and train to bring up his physical man. This
is an excellent requirement. The patrolmen
have gymnasium of their own, where, under
the eye of masters and inspectors, they go
about the requirement of muscle. Candi-
dates must try themselves here, too Boxing,
wrestling and running are among the pril-
cipal of the athletic exercises. The first
Illustration shows in a graphic manner two
of the would-be cops boxing In competition,
under the critical eye of an inspector, wto
stands off and sights them.
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BILL NYE ON CREMATION.

Its Advantages III Cheap-He Objects to
Having His Skeleton Hanging Around.
The subject of what we shall do with our.
selves after death is one that should be duly
considered at an early date. In all serious.
ness, the soul is not the only thing tc be looked
after, either during life or after DEATH We
are too prone to neglect our health during life
md then bequeath our accumulated microbes
and other results of long and perhaps crooked
career to some slightly cemetery, set on a hill
like city that cannot be hid
Longevity is good thing, though I have
known public men to overdo it. To die at
the proper moment and leave good impress
sion ON history is one of the lost arts To
flicker out of life with the applause of great
people still ringing in the ears, is good
thing; but man that is born of a woman, and
the majority of them are that way, are too
prone to linger on this side of eternity until
they have done some little thing that is never
properly explained on their tombstones.
But after death what shall we do with our
selves? In this brief treatise / dare not at
tempt to be thorough, Or even lucid Leav-
ing others who know all about it to state ex-
actly what disposition will be made of our
souls, let us look into the matter of what we
shall do with our bodies. l hope that what
may say will not be regarded as fippant, for
this is no place for fippancy, but allow me to
speak plainly of it, as l would on any other
subject concerning o,lr health. t-
Death has some very peculiar characters
tics. For instance, it will wake up the dor
mant old crank who has never missed a
funeral for sixty years. He goes for miles to
see deceased" 1t is his holiday It is the
one saving spot in his otherwise joyless life.
We all remember him. He is sometimes
woman
The thought that the time will come some
day when this man will put on his funereal
clothes. and come to my funeral makes my
tall hair rise up ON end. He cannot gloat
over nae now, but the day may come when
shall lie low, instead OF lying otherwise as
do now; and he may outlive me and come to
see me properly buried. Then he will enjoy
himself All, what blessed relief it would
be could / hover over the doorway when ha
comes, and hear my footman announce to the
old vulture that he "is little late, as Mr.,
Nye was put in the kiln half an hour ago.
could suffer good deal through life il I
knew that | could at last head off the funeral
fiend-the man who wouldn't loan nIe o dol
lar when was struggling for grub, but who
cheerfully visits my funeral and shows his
approval in every possible way.
l must say in all candor that there are
many attractive features about cremation
/ am sure that when cremation is placed
within the reach of all it will probably be-
come popular
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vocal Music in Public scl,oo,s

!, Since vocal music was introduced into the
public schools fifteen years ago its influence
has been great. We begin with children G or
yoars Of age, teach them three or four tunes,
and by the time they are d few months at il
they can go along with the entire school In
four or five years they are perfect masters Of
the art, and / don't suppose there is a boy in
the seventh or eighth grade who can not read
at sight any music you place before him or
her, no matter what its key. Instrumental
teachers tell me that It helps them greatly,
and they find boys of Il or Is who begin to
take vielin lessons able to read the notes as
well as themselves. Children who have gone
through the vocal course IN the psEii. schools
Get through an instrumental eonrs4 iii two
quarters less than Others require. Car. SC.
Louis Globe Democrat.
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VOL. II, NO. 80.
Oh, JESSIE, WHARF Yo' GONE,
Oh, Jessie, laughin' Jessie. whar, yo, gonsi

oh, Jessie, laughin' Jessie, whar' yo' Comet
ls you wandrin' in de medder,
Whar' we use' to roam togedder2
As yo wand'rin' trough de cotton or de conf
Oh, Jessie, doan' yo' hear me?
Is yo' laughin' sperrit near me-
OEhas you learn to fear me an to sco,ng
Dey done tole me, Jessie honey, yo' is dead
Dat you sperrit is a-libin
Wild de angels up in heaben'
An yo' nebber comm back to me, dey said:
But saw yo' eyes a-beamin
An L sho' WASH dreamin',
For de moonlight was a-gleamin' oberhead.
Den Itried to catch yo' eye an feel yo' ham,
But de minnit come near yo'
Fur to fondle and to cheer yo'
Yo' done glide away am leab me whar' Iston,.
1o' done leab me dar a-cryin,
An my heart widin me dyin'
While de night wind crep' a-sighin' trough
de lam.
Oh, my angel! Oh, my Jessie! Am it truei
Is yo' gone from me for ebber
Across de sperrit ribera
Den soon will come across dat riber too.
For my eyes wild tears am achin'
And my heart wild grief am breakin
An my cabin am forsaken widout YOU.
Boston Globe.
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Especial Correspondence.

Attached to Washington university is a
branch particularly worthy OF NOTE It is a
manual training school. 1t is not called a
manual labor school, you viii observe It's
plan is to give hardness by practice In the
use of tools, carpentry, wood turning, pattern
making, iron clipping and fling, forge work,
brazing and soldering and the nse of machine
shop tools. The training stops just short of
giving lad trade
The principal of the school Is c. M. Wood
ward, a graduate of Harvard university and
doctor of physics. He has staff of eleven
assistants. The institution will accommodate
PA pupils, and it is almost full at present.
There are shops for each of the different
trades, where their rudiments are taught in
the most skilled and scientific way There
are two wood working shops, which are very
popular. Each pupil has drawer of tools to
himself, which he is required to keep in order
himself The carpenter and wood working
shops otherwise contain forty-eight speed
lathes, forty-eight carpenters benches, vises
etc. There are IA individual sets Of wood
working tools
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THE NEW YORK STREET CAR STRIKE.
TI,e Police Taking a Car Through Grand


TIae Police Taking a Car Through Grand
Street.
NEW York, March 9,-The result of the
street car strike in New York was grand
triumph for the Knights of Labor and for
Labor itself, with big L. The giant which
has been bound so many ages is having things
all its own way now Every strike that is
happening is getting its demands answered.
Capitalists who are wise will stand from
under at once, and get on the right side of
this tremendous knights of Labor organiza-
ion in time
The Knights accomplished all their objects
by simply acting on a principle as old as the
world, only this: United we stand, divided
we fall. Sixteen thousand men stood to-
gether as one in the street car strike. They
gave up deliberately $4,000, their days
wages, that few fellow knights, street car
men, might get Justice
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Doing the Best He Could,

man 7Ras enc day making making trip .;i e4a
'mlxed' train on a Dakota road Passage
On these trains is never taken except for
journeys of considerable length; walking is as
easy and much faster for short distances On
this occasion the movement was even more
deliberate than usual, and the passenger
called the conductor to his seat and said:
May ask what is the troublee'
Certainly. We found fine 2-year-old
steer stuck in a trestle back here, before you
got on, and stopped and helped it out You
know the rules of the road are that in such
cases the animal belongs TO the company
But don't see why that should make you
rum SO laundering slow"
why, you blame fool, we're takin' that
steer along to headquarters; got it tied be-
hind, and it amt used to leadin' and don't
walk up very well I'm doing all / can: got
the brakeman prodding it up with an UNI
brel and an ear of corn tied to the end of the
bell rope II you think I'm goin, to start up
and go howlin' along and yank the horns Off
as good steer as there is in the territory,
why you're mistaken, that's all. Us train
men can't expect our pay unless we bring in
some stock onee'ner while. n-Esteline Bell
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The Rev. Mr.. --, minister of the parish
of Port of Monteith, taking walk one fine
summer evening, happened to foregather with
one of his parishioners, an old woman, who
was herding her cows by a burnside, and
eagerly intent ON the perusal of a volume
which, from its size and shape, he concluded
was the New Testament but it turned out to
be nothing more than the history of the re-
nowned Sir William Wallace. Under the in
fiuence of this delusion, however, be accosted
her in complimentary strain ON her sup
posed pious habits, expressed his Joy at findl
ing her engaged with such book, and told
her it was work that no person should ever
weary reading, "Aweel, sir" says she, 'I
never weary at it, for I've read it through
and through, dinna ken how aften, and I'm
just as fond OF as ever" Oh, JANET replied
the enraptured divine, sshow glad am 1 to
hear that How happy would be If all nv
parishioners were of the same mind. and of
what benefit it would be to themselves; for.
oh, to think, Janet, what He did and suffered
for us!n "Oh, ay,n says Janet, IAN aboon a.,
sir, to think how he soom'd through Carron
Water ae eauld frosty night wiz his braid
sword in his teeth, sir.n-G1asgow Herald.
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POLICE TAKING A CAR THROUGH.

AT given time the order was given down
all the lines: 'Tie-up." No sooner said than
done. went out in the morning as usual to
come down town. looked up and down the
street Not car in sight. smelt mice at
once. Two coal carts went laundering by,
with great burly drivers.
''Lookin' for street car, ladyn asked one.
''Yes," said.
There amt none to-day" Lady, there
amt street car runnin' in New York this
morning. /" said the next one
Their teeth flashed white through their
black faces, as they smiled at the thought of
it. Evidently they were Knights of Labor,
and though was three miles away from nv
desk, coul int help smiling back and saying,
stGoodr'
That was what nearly everybody else said
A distinguishing fact about the affair is the
unanilnity with which the populace of New
York sided with the strikers. Even their en-
ployers knew in their hearts they would have
to give in. But to fill legal requirement,
it was necessary to push one car over the
Grand street line, which was that at first in
dispute. It was done by the aid Of $50 police
men, themselves no doubt, Knights of Labor,
too. How they did it you will see by the il
lustration. It looks like clearing the way
for Cen Grants funeral There was no vio-
lence offered or any clubbing done by the
officers They conducted the car according
to orders, and the crowd let them
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This shows the running test. The fat fel
low in the advance looks tolerably well
blown
The officers are paid well, comparatively.
They get $1,000 the first year, 81, 100 the
second, the third and thereafter, 81 200. Thoss
who are disabled in performance of duty, or
who grow old on the force, after ton years
service, get o pension OF $500 a year. II one
dies or is killed in service the same sum is
allowed to his widow as long as she remains
unmarried. This is plainly discouraging
matrimony and putting premium on wild
owed blessedness. The dead mans minor
children also get a pension. This is as it
should be. A man who spends his best
years protecting other mems families for not
large pay should have his own taken care Of
after he is dead.
The New York policemen are made up to a
great extent Of large, rosy, gcod-looking
rishmen. Though the civil service regula-
tions are SO strict about getting on the force,
it is whispered nevertheless that the boy who
has pull" or ''fiooencen still stands fair
chance. For instance, II the boy with the
pail Is half an inch shorter than the regula-
tons require, he may be examined over
again, and by some mysterious influence the
pull lengthens him out.
a. j. boutwell,
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the Potomac, overlooking Washington. It is
the old Van Hook mansion, the home of
noted negro-hater, who, when he divided up
his lands for sale, put into every deed stip-
ulation that the purchaser should in no case
sell to negro. Fred Douglass owns it to-day,
and the whole of the estate, so divided,
IS dotted with the homes of colored men.
Douglass was, You know, slave, and he
fought as boy with the dogs for the crumbs
that fell from his masters table. He has
made his money chiefly by lecturing, and by
paper called The North Star, which he used
to edit. He got 500 night lecturing and he
invested his money in government bonds and
real estate. There is no pleasanter home In
Washington than his, and his white wife il a
eautiful and accomplished lady,
Mr. Douglass successor is also q colored
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LETTER FROM ST. LOUIS,
ILLUSTRATING HOW THE BOYS
LEARN IN THE MANUAL. SCHOOL.

Merry Young Carpenters. Busy Black
smiths and Machinists i'm the Manual
School of Washington University-St.
Louis Ahead in Education.
Especial Correspondence
ST. LOUIS, March 10-St Louis is a quiet
sort OF city compared with Chicago, or even
with Cincinnati. It does not have riots. and
not very often strikes. It does not make
much fuss about anything, but goes on pros
pering and minding its own business. But
still this city has some features which other
towns, both east and west, would like to imi-
tate. For one thing, her newspapers earn
more money than those of towns which make
twice as much noise. The Globe Democrat
divides cool $4,000 year profit, it is said,
among its stockholders. Mr.. Pulitzer's POST
Dispatch, from being as decrepit concern as
ever wobbled, has become handsome paving
property. st. Louis merchants advertise lib
orally, and there is where the newspapers get
rich.
The president of Washington university
here is known the world over as a thinker
and educator, and from this center many
ideas worth knowing have radiated through
the country. In educational matters es-
pecially St Louis takes the lead in many re-
gpects.