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The evening world., 1888-02-18

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Lizzie. the sickly child, did not eat much.
Dinah was lively and talkative during the
meal. Both of these things vexed their
brother. He seemed to think Dinah was too
free and Independent. He said to father"
said Dinah to me- What do you let that girl
run round nights for? Haven't you got sense
enough to know that won't do her any
good?' Father didn't like this, and seq he
She can take care of herself. She amt a
Fifth avenue girl, to go riding round in
q carriage. What's the harm of her going
out now and then and having a walk
or talk with the other girlsp She amt no
better than them. Liz is n little weak. that's
all. She'll be all right soon enough, and
faint no use making a row over them.
They're all right Then my brother said
something sassy to father. That woman is
keeping you up to treating those children
bad. She hates 'em,' he said. oh, I can't
stand it,
"Whon my brother said this he pushed back
his chair and put his hand round behind
him. Father said You'll have to stand
it, and not come down here making rows
about things that don't concern you. Dinah's
old enough to be of some use, and you mine
your own business. I'll look out for her.
Then my brother brought a pistol round
from his pocket and said: I've stood it Just
as long as I will stand it. and that woman has
used you just as she likes long enough
Then he fred the pistol and father said:
oh, God! What are You doing2" and got
up bleeding and tried to 60 to the
door. My brother shot the pistol at
him again and he tumbled down on
the floor. As soon as he saw him
fall dow he fired two more shots and fell
over himself on the floor. He lay there and
breathed, but wouldn't say anything to us.
He couldn't, He was hurt too bad. Then
the police came and then you came"
Dinah began crying again when she fin
ished her story. 1t seemed a strange thing
all round. The father was not a drinker
and did not have the reputation of treating
his children badly. The son bore an excel
lent reputation, He had no bad habits. but
worked faithfully and industriously at his
trade. He was fond of his sisters, evidently,
and | could only understand his rash deed on
the theory that he was of a very sensitively
organized nervous temperament and was
wrought up to a mad frenzy by the thought
that his sisters were not treated rightly and
that the stepmother was very much in fault
for this.
On inquiry I learned that he had never
been in the habit of carrying a pistol, but
had bought this revolver a week or so before
he committed the double crime with it of
parricide and suicide.
Dinah was so bright and interesting q child
and her weakly younger sister SO great an
| nhiert nf symnafhy that ~ uaa i~nAosa;lla nok
to wish TO help them. Dinah was just reach
ing nm age which is one Of the most dangerous
for a young girl in surroundings such as
hers. An aunt Of hers saw me and talked
about the girl somewhat, telling me that it
would be a good thing ITO give her q talk
ing to-"
Iput the two children in a respectable
boarding place on Ludlow street, and gave
The evening world., 1888-02-18
BLANCHE sHERMAN'S ROMANCE.
Piqued by the Marriage of the Man She
Loved, Sue WEEDS Nicholas Lnvaroni.
ESPECIAL TO THE WORLD

ESPECIAL TO THE WORLD
CHICAGO, Feb. 1S.-Miss Blanche Sherman,
whose strange marriage to Nicholas Lavaroni,
the Italian opera singer formerly with Patti,
came out in the police court yesterday, is an
authoress of considerable 'repute.
One of her novels is called For Him." It
was widely read in the West. In it she tells
the story of her own life and love. The hero
wealth and honor. who loves q woman named
Blanche, but has been for many years bound
by a sacred obligation to marry another.
Blanche loves and worships him, but she will
not ask him to violate his promise. For his
sake she consecrates herself to maidenhood
aad silent, separate love.
He marries the woman he does not love
and happiness is forever banished from two
lives.
The story is from life. The heroine is
Blanche Sherman. The hero is q rich mem
Der of the Board of Trade, whose first name
dreth.
In New York last summer Morris married
the woman to whom he was pledged. On the
following day Blanche Sherman came from
Boston and saw him at his hotel. He said to
in the house" She did not carry out the
story of the novel. Piqued and almost
broken hearted, she few to Lavaroni, and
the marriage in Jersey City followed in a few
hours.
times repented. She has feared almost daily
the stab of a ~stiletto. She knows many peo-
pie in Chicago. With men and women of
literary talent she has a very large acquaint-
ance.
If she is accosted on the street by q friend,
Lavaroni becomes wild with jealousy. She
has Furthermore leaned that she does not
love him.
The evening world., 1888-02-18
NOT 80 HILARIOUS

The shouters for "a war tariff forever and
'divvy' the surplus" are not so hilarious as
they were.
Mr.. BLAINE's withdrawal, after he had OBJ
served the effect of his Paris tariff message
ut the West, was the first e~ye-opener. They
saw that their candidate was afraid of the
ISSUE.
And now comes the election in the mining
district in Michigan, which gave Blaine 5000
plurality in 1884 and the Republican Con-
gresham 1900 in 1886. but which has now
almost if not quite elected q Democratic Rep
resentative.
No wonder the monopoly defenders ore
blue.
The evening world., 1888-02-18

VhuDAh thbb thCy WtIV w w 0SPS
ject to any directions which I might give
later. In the mean time l received a telegram.
from n married brother of the young man
who had shot his father. He lived in CHI
cago. and was a baker. l told him he had
better come on. He did so, and l convinced
him hat the best thing that could be done
for the girls was for him to take them back
with him to Chicago and look after them
himself. l knew that the stepmother had no
interest in them. and, with Dinah's DISPOSE
tion-lively, gay, and inclined to be head
strong-it' was the worst thing in the world
TO leave her exposed to an influence which
would only ~irritate her and drive her, pos
slbly, to reckless courses.
The father had been q member of o benev-
client association, and carried a policy on his
life that secured a thousand dollars to his
widow. l had myself appointed guardian to
the girls by Surrogate Rollins, and succeeded
In getting 5000 from the insurance money
for them, promising to relieve the step
mother of any further charge Of them.
The children left New York and accom-
panied their married brother to Chicago. I
had obtained tickets for them and q small
sum of money for them to start with there.
I put the 5000 out at interest for them, and
by the time they get settled at something
stable or marry it will give a comfortable lit
tie start for them.
They both write to me regularly, and seem
to be giving the utmost satisfaction to all
those who have anything to do with them.
Lizzie, the weakly one, has r~egained pretty
good health, and Dinah goes to school and
10 N oraof foyar;ta with har taorhar md bar
brother.
Poor young thingsl The desperate tragedy
which deprived them of afather aud O loving
brother. through that brothers own mad act,
may have been the most fortunate thing for
them. 1t is hard to tell. l have thought
that the brothers. great fear and what reused
him to the height Of passion and indignation
which prompted the fatal shot was the con-
viction that his eldest sister was exposed to
great danger, and that the father was not
only conscious of it and Indifferent but that
he was rather willing than otherwise that the
girl should make her living and bring in
something for the support of the family by
whatever means she could best do it.
1t is hard otherwise to account for his des.
perate deed. There would seem to have
Dceu ~ IouSOh uhlOioho Ouooiuo "
this. But, however it was, the pleasant
meeting of friends, where all were kindly
disposed to each other, and who had met to
do honor to two of their number by gay re.
joicing, offered a vivid contrast to the scene
1 witnessed SO soon after-the spectacle of a
father murdered by a son in a nome that had
scarcely anything to brighten it and which
thisd double deed of guilt had made inexpres
silly drear and gloomy. Such things go side
by side in New York. and a Coroner is fire..
quently made the witness of both these
phases of existence in the great metropolis.
The evening world., 1888-02-18
A FLYING MACHINE,

A Maine man named CHAsl, a resident of
(which he and another gentleman will enter
and fly to Washington"
Another Augusta man. of the name of
BLAINE, has been for some years at work
upon q machine that he expected would carry
him to Washington lifting" He has lately
acknowledged that it is q failure.
Better luck to CHAsEl
The evening world., 1888-02-18
Tho Case of Little Bessie.

To The Editor Of The Epsrin9 World:
The article headed " When the Wind Blew
Out of Her Ear Little Bessie was Like
Drunk" suggests to me hat some novice at
nural surgery must have been Swinging cold
water into her car, for that operation will
make q person dizzy. I heard DIR. Brown
Sequard, who spoke better French than he
did English, relate in his lecture that q quack
doctor in Germany once syringed the En-
peror's ear with cold water, whereupon he
(the EMPEROR Immediately went around in
q circus, -" meaning that he spun around, l
suppose. A. NINToN, NJ. u.
Brooklyn, Feb. 16.
The evening world., 1888-02-18
CRUSHED ONT.

The Standard Oil devil-fsh has crushed
out the last opposition to its monopoly in
Western New York.
Two of its tools are now awaiting sentence
for conspiracy to blow up the Vacuum Oil
Works at Rochester. What dynamite
and price-cutting and rate discrim-
nations could not accomplish in
stopping the Buffalo Lubricating Oil
Works, money and the law have accom-
plished. They tired everybody out except
me-" said President MATTHEWS. Now they
have crushed me out"
Where is that harpoon?
The evening world., 1888-02-18
ROT,

All talk about the necessity of selecting q
war-tarif defender as the Democratic candi-
date for President. is pure rot.
If the people want the high tariff perpetu-
ated they will elect q Republican to look
after IL. Why should they not2 1t is a Re
publican tariff, defended almost entirely by
Republicans.
The Democrats will never win by trying to
be q little less Republican than the Republi-
cans on the main issue before the country.
The evening world., 1888-02-18
WORlDlINCS.

Senator Hearst Is largely interested in lands in
Mexico, and It 10 said that he has q ranch OF q, 900
acres in Southern California.
A young man living in winston, N. G., has
brought suit for damages against q young lady for
breach OF promise of marriage.
Samuel Gay, who died recently near Pans, KY,
was the largest land owner in Bourbon County,
and probably in the State. He owned nearly
Il, 900 acres Of nne blue grass land.
senator.t> nford's wife has the largest collection
Of diamonds possessed by any lady now in WASH
ington. Among them are four sets that belonged
to the late Queen Isabella Of Spain.
Richard Watson Glider, editor Of the Century
Magazine, is iorty-four years old. He has been en-
gagged In literary pursuits since he was q boy Of
twelve, when he published a diminutIve newspaper
called the ST Thomas Register, at Bordentown,
N. j.
Mrs. Hearst is described ns ono of the most ac-
complished Of Washington society ladies. She is q
little above the medium height, with q dainty,
well-rounded figure, and her wavy hair Is iron
gray. Her blue eyes have q most pleasant light In
them.
Senator Blair, Of New Hampshire, II Of Scotch
irish descent, and 10 q straight, tail. brown-haired
man, with a strawberry-blon complexion, u
sandy beard and blue eyes. He Is noted AZ u tenn
perance advocate, a great friend OF the Indians,
and Is In favor of woman's rights.
s II. johnson, OF Omaha. was given a chance a
few years ago to buy the Coronodo Islands, In San
Diego Bay, for STb, 900, but refused 1t, and they
were sold to q syndicate soon after for $40, 900.
The syndicate has since sold 81, 500, 900 worth Of
lots from the tract and the balance In held at
SO, 900, 600.
A Hungarian miner who was recently treated by
q physician at P~hGnixville. Pa, had been living
for three months at an expense for food OF only
two cents a day. lie was earning a dollar o day.
but ate only black bread. As a consequence ms
teeth were falling ont when the physician began to
treat him and he was slowly starving.
The mos, heavily insured man in the country Is
DR.. David W. Hostetter. who made his fortune in
patent medicines. The policies on his life aggre-
gate 500, 900. other well-xnown men who carry q
large Insurance on their lives are Hamilton Diss-
ton, of Philadelphia, with $500, 900; George X. An.
derson, Of Chicago, who has $3.50, 900, and Pierre
L~orillard, whose policies amount to $40, 600
The evening world., 1888-02-18
Tho DeyOtee.


tFrom the Boston Globs.I
For forty days AM nights to go
In tackcloth and all that, you know,
Win not "A rag THAT'S freshl
To stop the dance right In full swing
Because folks say II Is 1.-THE thing"
To morlify the leshi
For forty days TO peak and pinel
NO place to 20 to lance or dinel
Why was | ever born7
The theatre II 10 tabooed,
And all the gay and giddy brood
or fashion Is forlorn.
Bereft OF ballroom ana OF beaux,
What snail do, heaven only knows
That's LETT me IN the lurchi
Some dissipation | most md,
Or ] shall really lOse my mind
One cannot ilrt in church.
Night after night, day after day,
Full forty, just 10 fast and pray
And play the p%enitent,
With nauRht to do but ponder on
The Easter bonnet l shall don
II e'er ! live through LentI
The evening world., 1888-02-18
THE READING o

Az usual in settlements Of labor strikes
where gaunt hunger stands close behind the
strikers, capital gets the meat and gives labor
the shell in the compromise of the Reading
coal troubles.
The miners get q promise to have the ques-
ton Of wages considered" after work is re-
sumed. Gar CoRB1N gets q resumption of
mining at the old wages, after he has worked
of the supply On hand at al advance in prices
that will more than cover all losses occasioned
by the strike.
With the present inequality in strength, tho
miners would do better to confer and decide
without striking.
The evening world., 1888-02-18
THE PEOPLES LETTER-BOX.


Thanks from Journeymen Shop Butchers.
To the EDITOR of This Eperinq World:
In THE EVENING WORLD OF Feb. II I read with
pleasure the article in which an agitation Is urged
to increase the welfare of the journeymen shop
butchers of the city of New York.
In return for your act Of Kindness, we desire to
say that we indorse both morning and evening
editions of THE WORLD, with the full consent Of all
the members belonging to our organization.
p. j. RYAN.
President Of the Journeymen Shop Butcners' As
sooiationiNo. J., OF New York.
The evening world., 1888-02-18

To the Editor 81 The Epenfng World:
1t looks very much as if your unesteemed
contemporary. in his persistent and constant
threats to train The EVENING WORLD in the
orbit in which it should r~evolve. had failed
to mind his own business.
In tho issue OF Feb. IA. after sundry efforts
to show how little The EVENING WORLD
knew of what was going on in theatrical life,
he gives u nice description of Hermann's
wonderful illusion. lie Cocoon" which so
pleased the audience at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre. l have no doubt that it will please
them when it is presented to them next week.
Seriously, is 1t not rather OVERRIDING the
thing to tell how an illusion was displayed,
one week in advance, just in order to get
ahead of other newspapers,
In the same column l see another easy bit
of description telling how one can look out
of the window in the former residence of
Edwin Booth in Boston and see 1.-THE Charles
River ripping towards WATERFOWL"
We know that there are ripples of the sea
and Of the brook as we'll, but it is reserved
for his c~aptious critic to tell of a broad
river ripping away from it's mouth up into n
country towards its source-away from the
ocean to which it was flowing. A READER.
The evening world., 1888-02-18
Items About Town,

DR.. ]. @. Moore. house surgeon Of 81. vincent's
Hospital, has been called away from his duties in
consequences OF the sudden death OF his mother.
charge.
Miss Mary Ryan, Of Waterbury, Conn. who has
boon the guest the past month OF MiAa Anna Dom
Unexpectedly called home In consequences Of the
The evening world., 1888-02-18
Good Indications.

IRON the Philadelphia Call
Mrs. Penn-Has Miss Leepyer proposed yeAi
Pisastratus7
Pleastratus-No, mamma, but / think her inten-
lions are honorable. - =
Mrs. Penn-Why?
Pisas,ratus-she asked me last night how / was
on making fires.
The evening world., 1888-02-18

The idea of making PHIL SHERIDAN Vice
President is the comic valentine of Republi-
can politics. He would be as much out Of
place in the chair of the Senate as a war
horse sitting on goose eggs.
The evening world., 1888-02-18

The people or NetD FORK at tho last election
shotDed her appreciation or a tried servant ana
reelected Dr. NJ. j. D. M'Ssemer Coroner ov q
large 1nGJoI tn over the other candidates. He has
uTttten a story or an Interesting Incident IN MS
oDctdl career, the hrst chapter or Uhtoh vtI a.
pear IN The EVENING WORLD IN kondav. s
The evening world., 1888-02-18
FROM SfAGEFWKHcTB RRGtE
MANAGER BARRON's STIRRING REMINIs-
CENCEs OF THE REBELLION.

Escaping from Richmond After Sumter Was
Fired Upon and Eniisting In the Northern
Navy-EnEineer on the Victoria when
Her skipper Wanted to Ram tho Merri-
mac-A Witness of tho Naval Duels In
Hampton Roads.
The evening world., 1888-02-18

was located in Eight
street, the building
having originally been
occupied by the Pres
byterians, and after.
ARD successfully by
~Episcopalians q II d
P~resbyterians again.
The property being in
the market at that
time, it was purchased
The evening world., 1888-02-18

NJ. BARRON, now in
the city representing
Maggie Mitchell, is,
besides being an actor
of the old SC hool, q
veteran of the war.
He is an old New
Yorker and was
as an en-
at the old Nor
works in this CITY.
The evening world., 1888-02-18
A Sacks Contents.

The nszt Of he Interesting sertsS Of stories By
As 0oroners Of DE county Of Nev York vtl
begin IN TIE EVENING, WORLD on Monday ners.
n. j. B. Nesssmsr is 0s author.
The evening world., 1888-02-18

The Republican politicians are fighting shy
Of SHERIDAN. They are afraid they couldn't
"run him-and that's where they are right.
The evening world., 1888-02-18

"Talkin' bout dc moon, did yo' sec dat last
eclipse We had, Unc' soc7 Last bout three
hours 2"
Uncle soc-No, hoy, / doan' tux no notice OF
trinin 'clipses like dat. 'Clipses whar we use ter
hev In old tunes wuz wuth talkin' bout; lars from
moonrise clar twell she bot.
The evening world., 1888-02-18
A Tendsr-Hsnrrad Man.

IRON the Nebraska State JournaLl
"Are you President Of the Society for the Pre-
vention Of Cruelty to Animala?" -
mYe'. but ] haven't lime 10 talk to YOU"
why not Z"
81 see nv boy over there wearing out bis
trousers by sliding on . board, and III have TO 70
and give MIN o iioking." - r.
The evening world., 1888-02-18

The WAGNER operas are about over. and
soon it can be said that Silence, like a poul-
tice, comes to heal the blows of sound"
The evening world., 1888-02-18
Just Missed II.

IRON the Detroit Free PrssS.l
I" shall be dead at Just Q O'Clock in the afternoon
Of the nth day OF February, 1883, /" WIS the predto--:
tion made by George Scott, Of Cincinnati, nve
years ago. AT the hour and the date he was dead
drunk. Some people can come pretty close toll
The evening world., 1888-02-18
Perfectly selEPossesssd.

Iron the Troy Press.l
StranRer-oh, yes.
Passenger-Kpow exactly what TO do; never loso
your headi
Slranger-Is should say not. Why I can change
cars at Buffalo without getting on the wrong train.
The evening world., 1888-02-18
A &c washing MacLips Free.

OF our self-operating machines No labor or rub
bling required. II you want one send name 70 DIXON
LAURDRV 20, Cleveland, o. -
The evening world., 1888-02-18
Do and Don't

This sentence, merchants all. in your minds do
cram;
y Pat IN TIE WOMB an I'd. and DO not DO q clam. n
(RtA dGs apology 20 Frank stddalla
The evening world., 1888-02-18

ROBABLY very few
people are aware" said
q prominent young
dentist the other day.
" what a mighty adj
n has been made
during III past gener-
alton IN the science Of
dental surgery. The
methods of practice
have been almost rev.
o~lutionizod, and while
there are still plenty
of the old-timers who
manipulate the for
cps they are being
slowly but surely
The evening world., 1888-02-18
FUN FOR AFTER DINNER.
A Washins-DRy strnteEem

A WashinE-DRy strateGems
IRON I'D Bits.l
Mrs. Skeemer-Stsnd right where you are, Bro
get, and give Ethel a chance. The new widow0
n town Is just going by.
The evening world., 1888-02-18
IN DENTISTRY.
THE OLD-sCBO0L OPERATORS BEING
CROWDED TO TIE WALL -...

Modern Dentists Treat n Tooth Accordins
to Its Nceds-Why Cement IL Better than
Gold for Filling Large Cayities-Treat-
ment Of n Tooth with n Dead Ncrve-A
Good Dentist Must Also he q Surgeon.
The evening world., 1888-02-18

ES; l heard him say:
You don't do the
square thing by those
girls. What is Dinah
shooting around the
streets nt night for2
AIM you got sense
enough to know that
she's up to mischief
when she goes off that
way and runs round p
The evening world., 1888-02-18
m -0UpaUO ST. oKNws4cHvRCH.gs.
Whore Vicar General PrestoB's wealthy
ConGreaation worship..

st. AIMS Parish was founded in 1852. The
first church occupied by tho congregation
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-21
BY TELEGRAPH.


Nrw YoRK, May i9-Moncy on call easy
NJ per cent. Prime mercantile paper, ~
@0isc. Sterling exchange dull but steady NJ
is6'. for sixty day bills and lssJs for de-
mand.
Government bonds were dull aud steady
90 firm. State bonds were dull aud steady
The stock market today was quiet, except
In Reading and ST. Paul. and though the
news Of today was favorable the movements
were confined 10 the smallest limits and left
prices within small fraction Of last evening
closing prices. The best figures were reached
toward II o'clo,k, after which prices aggcd
Oh and the market closed dun aud steady
with but little change from first prices. The
final changes are irregular but are confined
TO fractions only, the most important being
gains OF Nc In Canada Southern and &c In
Missouri aud loss Of &c In ~. Paul.
The railroad bond market was unusually
active, the sales for the two hours aggre-
eating sl,0j0.0O0, while the tone Of the
market was strong throughout aud final
prices generally show advances The total
sales OF stocks today were iit,G72 shares.
Closing quotations:
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-21
GENERAL TRADE.

The tone Of the market for hog products
coffee, oonmcal aud flour was changed 10
strong today by the Merchants exchange
quotation committees, the market heretofore
being strong aud advancing. No changes
were made In the lists except rs 10 eggs,
which rule a shade higher aud are quoted
firm.
The amount Of grain In store at the clc.
vators Is rs follows Corn, 1897 bushels.
Oats, 1925 bushels.
Al New Orleans there Is a fair demand for
sugar. Prices are steady with no quotablc
change TO note, although open kettles are
somewhat stronger than other grades, Mo.
lasscs steady with fair demand. Nothing
new 10 note In the market, dullncss prevails,
with steady prices and quotations un'
changed.