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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-04-17
AMERICAN CLUB NO. |.
TENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF
rESNsyLvANIA UNDER WAY.
Platform Of the American rarty In Detau aud
Procssa,nGs Of the REV club That Has
Been Formed for the Advocacy
OF Certain P,iccipies

The American club reassembled In q. u.
A. M. hall on Saturday and the meeting
was largely attended. A large number
aligned the roll Of membership, and II the
present rate Of interest continues the club
will DO IN important factor In future nomi.
nstions and elections In Lancaster city and
county. The club will hereafter bo known
~ the "American Club No. l, Tenth Con.
ereesionai District Of Pennsyivauia" Fol.
lowing ere the declarations OF the National
American party, which were read aud
unanimously adopted BY the club:
LEI. That our present system OF immlgra-
tion and naturalization OF foreigners is
detrimental to the welfare OF the United
ststee. and We pledge ourselves to its re.
etriction and regulation. TO that end we
OF Immigration by Congress, the head Of
which pball be appointed t,y the president
Of the United States and who shall be n
member OF his cabinet.
2f. We demand q continued residence Of
fourteen years ss an Indispensable reaui-
cite iof citizenenir, and the exclusion OF all
Communicates, Socialists, Nihiiists, AnSrcb-
ists, paupers and criminals from naturali.
cation ~ American citizens, but no inter.
ference with tho vested rights OF foreigners.
Sj. To protect and promote the Amerl.
can FREQ common school system, and we
recommend that the several states and ter
xitOries establish by law q systern OF free
common schools for the universal and en-
forced ed ucation Of our children.
4th. That the safety OF the republic rests
largely with her citizens who have email
holdings OF land, and any attempt at the
destruction OF ownership thereof Is rovolu
tlonary and In violation of the guarantees
OF the constitution. We hold that A mer lean
lands should DO reserved for American
cttiZsns; that no alien nom resident
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24
WIVES of Old Marhlehond

They say that down at brave old Marble
head every third woman is widow, Here
among fisher folk the same is true And so
the gong and coming, and going and never
coming, have woven a warp and wool of
smiles and tears here, which have mellowed
and softened thousands of human hearts in a
way you can quickly see and feel Your fish
eTrian who comes, and the wife. sweetheart
or child, that is here to greet him, are DER
tender for it all. The old CITY is used TO if
and does not mind it. 1t is the way its toll
e-s Of the sea have. And SO if you ever walk
her streets and see hulk of a fellow hold
ing happy woman as be would clutch a
fife rail or capstan head in heavy storm.
you will know he is simply ''nalsing fastn
with the strong hawser of an honest love to
the very anchorage of his life, utterly I'M
conscious OF your, or anybody's sense of the
proprieties. And this tenderness, too. is all
comprising. There are many trusts and
funds for the widow and fatherless. and
these men give generously to them The
light and darkness of it all come piteously to
cognizanee even N the iishermans gayest
hours ashore.
On every week day night the whole yeer
through, when the seaport is stirred by the
arrival of fleets with their fares or ear
goes of fish, there is "isharman's ball. and
often many These are never for individual
profit, but invariably for the benefit Of
women whose hearts are breaking. For
those who are merry making had comrades
whose lives went out in a shriekinr storm
where Worcester swept some craft from its
fastenings upon the Banks, or q dorv was
beaten into the soothing sea. This year
alone II fishing craft were lost and l27 fisher.
men were swept into eternity The havoc
goes on from year to year until one can hardly
hear aught in the whistling winds and hoarss
voices upon the breakers alongshore but the
piercing cries of drowning fishermen and
heart sickening dirges for the dead-Edgar
L. Wakelian in Now York Mail and Elk
preSs
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24
The Cleansing of Carpets.

One of the most prolific sources Of the
propagation of infectious or contagious dis
eases is, as you have more than once pointed
out, the house carpet, which can retain the
germs of these diseases. But as the carpets
must be cleaned, and as the practice of beat
ing them in the open air is considered pub
lie nuisance, NJ. Bunel, the principal archi-
tect of the prefecture of police, was charged
to devise some means by which this nuisance
might be reduced to minimum, or, if pos.
sible, entirely prevented. a. Bunel SUBJ
United an apparatus in the form of a cylin-
der to the council of public hygiene, in
which the carpets are placed and by a
rotary motion the dust is dislodged
The advantages of this invention over the
ordinary method had been approved of;
but NJ. Bunel soon discovered that the DUST
and other particles escaping from the car
pets, instead of being burned, as he thought
they would be, were utilized in industry for
filling cushions, and the finer particles were
employed for coating paper hangings, which
give them their velvety appearance. This
highly objectionable practice was soon
brought to the notice of the police authori-
ties, and on advice of the counsel of hygiene
1t is ordained that the dust and particles
beaten out from carpets should be col
lected in closed apparatus and burned; but
those who may wish to utilize them should
have them previously disinfected and then
submitted to current of steam under pres
sure at temperature above 100 dogs. c. or
of sulphurous acid.-Paris Cor. London
Lancet
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24
Co,cer. Audiences Arc or;...

Those whose inclination or business takes
them to many or the musical entertainments
in this city note the great difference il the
characters of the audiences at operas and
concerts, 1t is very rarely the ease that the
concert goer is disturbed by inattention on
the part of his neighbours as he is at opera.
This is doubtless due in great degree to tho
stern discipline of Theodore Thomas, who in
the past exercised his power over his audi
ences as well as over his musicians L has
come to be quite the fashion nowadays for
younger musicians to pause between the
movements of the piece they are playing in
order to permit some interesting conversation
to be concluded before they begin their per-
formance again When such pause is made
everybody in the house knows what it means,
unless it be the offending takers. Asa whole
concert audiences are quiet and attentive, if
not appreciatiye.- York Sum
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24
A Peculiarly Russian Incident.

A daily paper at st. Petersburg, Russia,
recently printed the following amusing para
graph: ''The peasants of village in the
province of Saratof resolved to close the
school and use the building as a saloon The
aldermen undertook the management them
selves. They determined to sell their spirits
on credit, taking their customers notes for
it. The old men of the village were appoint
ed bartenders, waters and bookkeepers. All
the preliminaries settled, the hurlyburly
commenced, everybody present drinking as
much and as fast as they could draw the
liquor The school children, perceiving how
jolly their sires were, and well acquainted
with the locality, effected an entrance into
the cellar and started picnic OF their own.
Soon the men up stairs found their waters
of life running short, and, going down into
the Easement, they found their youthful i'm
itators all stretched on the ground dead
drunk, and all the barrels empty. What had
not run into the little stomachS had flowed
into the ground. The little fellows were SO
drunk that they refused being awakened by
the terrible castigatioI their seniors inflicted
on them. Chicago News.
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24
DOcTORING A BIG BIRD.
How Gen. Dan Sickles Saved the Life OF
a South American Condor.

How Gen. Dan Sickles Saved the Life of
a South American Condor.
"Just after the war of the rebellion" said
Gen Daniel E. Sickles the other morning as
he sat before his looking glass with razor
in his hand and a lather upon his face, Il
was sent to Bogota by the United States
government on diplomatic mission "hle
there, in one of my numerous excursions
about the city, saw condor and was IN
strumental in saving its life. The man VINO
owned this bird had captured 1t when very
young. 1t was fastened by chain around
one leg to a stake driven into the ground.
The sight of the bird made great impress
sion on me- 1t was about seven feet in
length. and the distance between the tips Of
its wings when outspread was about sixteen
feet 1t stood nearly three feet high. Its
talons Were as long as my fingers. Its eyes
were as large es pigeons eggs and blazed
with light which no captivity could subdue
Il saved that condor's ife One of lis legs
had been attacked by a little insect peculiar to
South America, which has habit of worm
ing its way into human and animal flesh,
and multiplying with such frightful rapidly
that the victim dies in few days in excrE-
ciating agony. / have seen natives lying be-
side South American roads, their bodies
swollen as large as barrel from the infam-
nation produced by the ravages of this in
sect. One of the condor's legs had been
badly lacerated by the inroads Of this in
sect. | told the owner Of the bird that l
could effect a cure, but he laughed at me.
Said be: "You dare not go near him. He
has killed three dogs. | have seen him take
dog by the scruf2 OF the neck with his beal
and then tear pound of meat from his ribs
/ told his owner that / would take the risk.
Il went to the forest and cut a strong,
witty sapling From this sapling made
yoke, such as is used to put over the necks of
geese to keep them from getting through
fences. This yoke / succeeded in putting
over the condors neck. The condor was
thus unable TO use his formidable beak, al
though he tried hard to do SO. Two mon
held his sound leg while I doctored the dis
eased one. The treatment | adopted was to
bandage the condor's leg in cotton soaked in
oil Three days later paid another visit TO
the condor This time l cauterized the
wounds and the result was that tie leg be-
came completely cured The owner of the
bird had doubted my surgical skill, and had
said that if | cured the bird | could have
him. / began to make preparations TO have
the condor transported to Central park. l
found, however, that the expense would be
enormous, involving relays of some thirty
natives to carry the condor to the coast, be-
sides his care on shipboard; and SO Central
park lost probably one of the finest speci-
mems of the great South American condor
which has ever been taken alive New
York Evening Sun
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24

Salt plentifully sprinkled IN the icy door
step will have better and cleaner effect than
ashes.
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24
DOCK LIFE IN LONDON.
The Searay Side of Existence in the Eng
1ish MetropoIis-sociaI TsoIatiou

The Searay Side of Existence in the Eng
Iish MetropoBs-sociaI Isolation.
The universal dislocation of the social life
OF East London manifests itself in the docks
not only by the absence of all ties between
employer, foremen and men, but in the COM
pleOe severance of the different grades of Ia
DOR, and, among the more respectable Of the
working class, in the isolation of the indi-
vldual family. The permanently man of
the docks ranks in the social scale below the
skilled mechanic artisan. With wage
usually from twenty TO twenty-five shillings
week and an average family, he yiIts
above the line of poverty, though in times
OF domestic trouble he frequently sinks be-
low it. He is perforce respectable, and his
lie must needs be monotono,.s. His work
requires little skill Or intelligence: the one
absolute condition is regular and constant at
tendance all the year through He has even
vested interest in regularity, the dock COM
pany acting as benefit society in sickness
and death, an interest which he forfeits if he
Is discharged for neglect of work.
BY the irregular hands the permanent man
IS looked upon as an inferior foreman. and
disliked as such, or despised as drudge
lie, in his turn, resents the popular chai,ac-
terlzation of dock laborers as the sssc,Irn of
the earth" As rule the permanent men do
not live IN the immediate neighborhood of the
Cocks They are scattered far and wide in
Forest Gate, Hackney, Upton and other out
lying districts, the regularity OF their wage
enabling them to live in a small house rented
at the same figure as one room in Central
London. And If the temptation of cheap
food and employment for the wife and
children induces man to inhabit st. GEORGES
in the east or Limehouse, he will be found in
peabody" or some strictly regulated
model dwelling. He viii tell you: 81 make a
point of not mixing with any one," and per
haps he will sorrowfully complain sswhen
the women gets thick together there's always
a row." 1t is the direful result of the whole
sale desertion of these districts by the better
classes that respectability means social isola-
ton with its enfeebling and disheartening
effect
In common with all other workingmen
with moderate but regular income. the
permanent dock laborer is made by bis wife
II she be a tidy woman and q good manager.
decently versed in the rare arts of cooking
and sewing. the lamily life is independent.
even comfortable and the children NAV fol-
low In the fathers footsteps or rise to better
things. Ii she be a gossip and bungler-
worse still, a drunkard-the family sinks to
the low level of the east London street and
the children are probably added to the num-
Der OF those who gain their livelihood by
irregular work and by irregular means.-The
Nineteenth Century.
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24

A most wonderful invention is reported
from Vienna. An Austrian engineer has,
It is said. designed a truck to run before
every railway train, being maintained al
ways at q fixed lbut ADJUSTABLE distance
. il front by the force Of an electric current
transmitted along the metals from dy-
memo on the engine. The current is con-
dCctei through mercury contained IN
glass tubes on The pilot truck. Ii. there
fore, the truck comes into collision the
tubes arc broken ana the contact conse-
oueItly destroyed. The interruption OF
the current instantly and automatically
applies t.te breaks en- the following train
II is claimed b. the inventor that two ex-
presses, fitted with This system. might
with isaPUaity- be set 70 run fun tit a.
eac.! other. The collisioa-of their pilot
trucks would arrest the progress of botl.
trains before they could ,aeet. The ele-
rent If human faliibility is ACCORDINGLY
entirely eliminated, and drivers mar dash
through n whole series Of danger signals
without risk. being automatically arrest
ell the moment they reach tie spot that IS
really dancerols.-St. james Gazette
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24
Tho Poor Boy Ut Harvard.

Fax different arc the circumstances
under which the poverty stricken fresh
man with an allowance OF $500 enters
upon his academic career. He rooms
in College house-a tumble down, uncor-
Portable barracks across the street from
the yard. His apartment is unheated
and i'll furnished. The atmosphere,
though cold. is one of hard study. The
young men in whose company he is
thrown have come to the university, ike
himself, 20 work. They are not frivolous.
They have,-.Ea money to friyol upon.
Many Of jiieL,Lbeipg driven by necessity
TO take u SERIOUS view OF eXistence-seek
conSbatipn 81 religion. IN this subject
/ may 3is'.well remsrk. p2renthetically-
Mr., Corgius Midas. .Jr., and his friends
exhibit Little or no interest. 1t is III Col
lege house that the headquarters OF the
ETanGelical persuasion at Harvard are In
variably round.
Once identified with this laborious eie-
ment the youth becomes known con-
temptuously as dig and a 'griHd''-in
other words. a person whose excessive in
duStTy renders him socially Ineligible. he
feeds no other word will justly express
it--at Memorial hail, with 600 others. at
81. 30 per week. AT sCch Il lrice-sup-
posed to be net cost, with no rent to pay
the food, supplied thus by wholesale, ought
to be of superialive quality, As q matter
of fact, it is wretchei. Se-half starved
and quite frozen-hc goes through four
dreary years OF scholastic training. a, the
end of which he receives q degree of y. b.,
after delivering, in shabby coat, before
large and cultivated audience an grafton
upon the Advantages Of a Liberal nduea-
ton lie would nave less % say Gid he
know Of what small value college di-
ploma really is TO the young msn who has
tostruggie fer his bread and butterin an
unsympathetic world.-Bcston Cor. Chi.
cago Tribune.
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24
LEARNING TO COOK.

The girl will now be II LIZ years ole. and
ready for instruction in cooking, which is
given in the third and second grades An
entirely novel system will be pursued in this
course. The philosophy of each step will be
first taught before there is any practice in
the actual cooking.
First, there will be an explanation of the
physiological action Of the human body which
necessitates the use OF food, the waste and
repair Of tissues. Then the necessity of cook
ing solid materials is shown, the elements in
the food which supply the waste of the body,
and the nutritivc value OF different kinds Of
food After the qualities of the different
kinds of fuel have eeen discussed, the philos-
orhy Of boiling viii be expounded, and its
effect on food. The physical effects of heat
are made plain. Then come the general pTin-
ciples of baking, roasting, boiling, frying,
etc the chemical effects of overheating, the
principle of raising bread and biscuits and
the chemical effects of yeast
The selection, Use and preservation of uten-
sis will next engage the attention, and in
struction in regard to avoidable causes of
dyspepsia will be given. There is the dis
elimination between wholesome and unwhole-
some to be used IN purchasing food. The
slHl gSTItIS III
viii lie taught Il will be shown why milk
and certain cooked foods sour and fer1nent.
and why cold and ice, salt and other things
produce. certain effects. The need Of cleanIi-
moss IN use OF all utensils and apparatus of
cooking is impressed.
The effects of iron on tea and coffee. and
the dangerous effect of acids and fats on cop
per, producing verdigris viii be explained
The child viii also he Taught how to purchase
the choicest parts of a poor animal, and many
otkor things which are essential 10 an inteIli-
gent and wholesome cooking of food.
Two hours a week viii be devoted to form
and drawing, TWO hours to shopwork, one
hour 10 sewing and one to cooking.
Tie courses IN arithmetic and geography
are compressed 10 make room for the ins;r1c-
ton in manual training. In this experiment
tal curriculum history viii no longer be
memorizetl, but viii be taught as a reading
lesson, and sy-mRsthy for animals will be
cultivated by iAstillins IN sbhorrenee of
cruelty 10 brute creatures into the mind OF
the cailj--New York Press.
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24
The universal" Language.

VoiaPlk, the so called universal language.
is said to have seventy societies, ten periodi-
Gals. literature of ninety-six books and l0o,-
0Q0 disciples. If its supporters are willin. 70
contine Its sphere TO eoinrlerciai intercourse,
very wei; but one cannot imagine IaacGine
made language conveying delicate shades OF
meaning o4 having the grace ana strength Of
our ell sufficient Eng i!2h. -t'upilc Opinion
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24
Daily II eagle
THE GRAVES OF THE FLOWERS.

The woods are fun of tiny graves,
The sweet graves of the flowers.
That sprang in every sheltered nook,
Amid the springtime hours
The buttercup lies on the slope
Where first the sunlight fell:
The violet sleeps beside the rill,
The daisy in the dell.
Upon no stone is carved the name
OF April's children fair;
They persisted when the sky was bright
And gentle was the air.
To the soft kisses of the breeze
They held half trembling, up,
Full many small transparent urn
And honey laden cup.
And when the roses buaded out.
In summers balmy hours,
No little mound was made to tell
Where slept the gentle flowers.
Those early flowers-they seem to me
Like little children sweet,
Who smile moment on our path.
Then perish at our feet
Louise Chitwood
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24
MANUAL INSTRUCTION.
PROPOSED EXPERIMENTAL TRAINING
IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Something of the Greatest Interest to
Parents Children and Teachers-Iiodel-
ing, Drawing, Carving, Carpentering.
Sewing, Cooking, ETC., to be Taughts
The form in which the experiment Of
manual training viii be tried in the schools
of New York has at last been decided by the
board of education. The number of schools
in which the experiment can be tried is lin
tied to six male and six female grammar
schools The sum of 900 has been appro-
priated for the necessary supplies and salaries
of the special teachers who viii be engaged in
this experimental work
The course is designed to educate what Her.
bert Spencer calls the physical activities, and
not to make carpenters, seamstresses or COOKS.
TIE training will be gained by means of les
sons in shopworll for the boys and sewing and
cooking for the girls The work IN this
course bcyins in the third grade OF the EriIn-
airy school when the boy is 3 years old, and is
classed under the head Of form and drawing,
The little boys and girls viii be taught all
the elementary forms OF drawing in this way.
A wooden sphere viii be placed in their
Hahuo ana tbeI eacn oIie Wiz De Set W "olh
with piece Of plastic clay, which they viii
be instructed to mold into the form Of a
sphere. The next step, which illustrates the
whole theory of instruction in drawing by
this system, viii be the molding of the clay
into the shape of cube. After the child has
been taught the name Of the object nodded,
each side will be traced on piece Of paper
with pencil, and the squares cut out Of the
paper, and the child viii be shown how the
cube can be formed from the paper thus cut.
no drawing books will be used, and this
method will be pursued until the child is ac-
customed to drawing the most complicated
forms
Wichita eagle., 1888-01-24

- gentleman who returned from 1IiS
diamond districts OF Brazil ree2Qtly says
that tie stories OF exhaustion of these
once profitable mines are plire fsbrio2-
tons, designed 10 Influence tire market.
lie declares that he could buy 81 ,ta0 Co
worth of uncut stones in fsie ,JaReiro t.
morrOw-if he had million dollars
New York Mail and Express -.