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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
A DEYOUT CHURCHWOMAN.
Rose Coghlnn Tells How Sunday Travel ]
terferes With Relations Duties.

Rose COghlnn Tells How Sunday Travel In.
terferes With RELIGIOUS Duties.
Stage life is of such character that it is
often impossible for the actor to get an op-
portunity to attend church service. Three
quarters of US spend many more than half
the Sundays in the year on the cars. Sum-
day is the one day set apart for theatrical
companies.to move from one town or city to
another. We will play in city from Mon
day until Saturday, and the next Monday
night we are billed to play in city 200
miles away. How shall we reach there if
we do not travel on the Sabbath? Hence,
we are almost invariably on the cars on SUM-
days. 1 believe in the Church. think it
is the greatest institution for good of which
the world is possessed, and would be glad if
had more opportunities to attend its
services. ROSE CoGHLAN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
A PRETTY SWEDISH CUSTOM.

Asking Forgiveness for FauItA Committed
Before Going to Church.
Detroit Free Press.J
The family of a clergyman in this city
employs simple Swede girl as a domestic
who has not yet mastered all the intricacies
of the English language. One evening re-
Gently she appeared before the mistress and
asked for money to pay for dressmaking.
"Did you have your dresses made before
you came to this country, Christine?" asked
her mistress.
81 make some parts there, but not all.
never make a fool dress like you wear in
America"
The same girl has continued the pretty
custom of her people regarding church
going on communion days. Before leaving
her employers house to attend the place Of
worship she shakes hands with each member
of the family and asks forgiveness if she has
left any duty undone, and gives her blessing
to them all. Then she goes off with light
heart to make her peace with heaven.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
FAILING SIGHT QUICKLY CURED.
waEEIsh Scotchman's Ruse to GET His
Bread Battered.

A WaEEish Scotchman's Ruse to GET His
Bread Battered.
Scottish American:
A farmers wife near Kirriemuir was
noted for her scrimp dietary to her farm
hands, A waggish plowboY resolved to
make one desperate effort to improve matters.
Accordingly one day at breakfast he sud-
denly uttered howl, and holding his hands
over his eyes cried out: "I'm turnin' blin'.
oh guidsake, I Gamma see. Oh, mercy mel
this is awful"
His master, alarmed, asked the lad how it
had happened.
81 dinna ken; 1t was just a. at ance, +" was
the reply, "fOr when I looked at my breid I
couldna see ony butter ont"
The master saw how the land lay, and asked
his wife to give the lad slice Of cheese,
Upon this being done he asked if his eyes
were any better now. "Ay. they're a. RIGHT
noo." he returned. "and think better than
ever, for I can zee the breid through the
cheese noO."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24

sisters and brothers, devoted mothers and
fathers, loyal husbands and wives, and fond
and faithful sons and daughters, q God
fearing and law-abiding people, who would
blush to stoop to many practices INDUCED
in by some Pharisaical preachers and stage
condemning maw-worms, who periodically
attack the honorable and ancient calling of
the actor. To do good, to battle for the
glorious light of truth and reason, to show
vice in its shaded and debasing sense, to
warn mankind of the peril incurred in out
raging law and nature, to love God and be
merry, is the players religion and mine.
WILLIAM j, FLORENCE,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
MAJOR JONES' PROUD BOAST.
A Story of a War Experience Told to In.
credulous Hearers.
IeNEfsfnn Lnnrnal

A Story of a War Experience Told 20 In.
credulous Hearers.
Lewiston Journal.l
Major Jones, who served with credit in
the late war, is no liar, yet when he tells a
story he generally manages to astonish his
hearers Just the same. He is fond of boast
ing that he participated in numerous battles
without receiving a wound of any descrip-
ton. Remembering this fact, his COM
rades were astonished when he remarked the
other evening at Grand Army meeting:
Gentlemen, the battle of Antietam was
the hottest engagement 1 ever saw. My
regiment, as some of you are aware. was ex-
posed to q CALLING fire for more than two
hours without even the poor satisfaction of
firing shot in return. During this trying
season, while I was receiving an order from
the colonel, a cannon ball came straight for
me, moving swath through the tall grass.
I have good reason to remember that shot,
gentlemen, for it took of both,legs."
WHAT cried an astonlshed listener, as
he glanced at the speakers shapely limbs.
'fOf my horse" added the imperturbable
Major, while sigh of relief went up from
the assembled veterans.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
ARE YOUR FEET MATESp
II You Think They Are, Most Likely You're
Mistaken.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat.1
Are your feet mates? is street query, but
every shoemaker will tell you it is most
reasonable one. Many people buy their
shoes already made, and find it exceedingly
disagreeable to "break them in" A new
shoe, unless too tight or too loose, should
never be painful to wear. Unless you have
last of your own, or your feet are the same
size, you will always have trouble until the
ready-made shoe is worn to the foot. This
follows because one of your feet is smaller
than the other, and while one of pair of
shoes fits, the other does not.
While few may know it, only about 8 per
cent have feet of the same size. Generally
the left foot is larger than the right, though
of course it is not uncommon to see the lat
ter the larger. Why this is, would be hard
to say, but if you have a last look at it the
next time you 60 to your shoemaker.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
Not in Their Line.
Detroit Free Press.1

Detroit Free Press,l
A Baltimore Anarchist says he has in
vented a sort Of percussion cap. no larger
than Scent piece, which, when filed with
the new explosive, extralite, and scattered
on the sidewalk, will blow up every man
who treads on one. It has never occurred
to any Anarchist to invent new kind of
working tool or to manufacture new brand
of soap.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE.
The Venerable John GilberI's Opinion of the
Dramatic Profession.

The Venerable John Gilberi's Opinion of the
Dramatic Profession.
The deep-rooted impression of the public
and intelligent classes that our actors have
no respect for sacred things relating to re-
ligion and the Church, was always a source
of wonder to me. believe aud know that
the professors of my art have, as our great
Master says, "a tear for pity and hand
open as day for melting charity" as we'll as
our brothers and sisters of other professions.
But why such extraordinary interest should
be felt by portion of the public for the re-
ligious views of the dramatic profession,
any more than those of other callings and
arts, likewise passes my comprehension.
JOHN GILBERT.
THE above was written by Mr.. Gilbert but a
fortnight previous to his death.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
A FaIe Of Two WInanIII..

Detroit JournaL.1
Mosherville was somewhat excited 3 day
or two ago. A stranger came there selling
territory for patent kitchen appliance. He
talked 50 fast that stenOgraphsr could not
get one word in 4 dozen. He came into
town talking and went out talking. and for
all they know is still talking. He talked
both arms of a stranger in riding i've miles
with him, and set farmers windmill go
ing 50 fast that the wheel blew of.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
Mrs, Bower, n, an EpI,copalIau.

I am a member of the Episcopal Church,
though realize most unworthy one. I
believe in the Holy Greed of that church.
need say no more as to myself For my pro-
fession, as a whole, do not believe that
actors are, as a class, irreligious, any more
so than the men and women of anv other
calling. MRS. D. P. BOWERS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24

I Ireceived my earliest education at the
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhattan
vile, N. Y, and have never ceased to be-
lieve in the Church and its teachings. Nor
do ever lose a single opportunity to attend
whenever possible. MINNIE PALMER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
WHAT THE ACTORS RELIGION is.
Billy Florence Says IL is to Love God and be
Marry.

BlIly FIorence says it ls 60 Love God and be
Merry.
Actors and actresses are neither better nor
worse than other people. They are liable to
the same emotions, have the same sensibil-
ity and are moved by the same touch of
nature that makes the world akin" Their
great knowledge of human nature, their rare
intelligence-And they are as intelligent as
any elass-ft them for noble purposes.
Among the members Of the dramatic pro-
fession I have never met any who did not
believe in the existence of q Supreme
Power. I have found among them loving
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
FANNY DAYENPORTS CONVICTIONS.
She Believes That Sin is Punished Upon
TkiH Earth.

She Believes That Sin is Punished Upon
Tkis Earth.
= There are but few who know how much
religious feeling there is in the actress
heart. And gladly would she show it more
and demonstrate it to larger extent, if it
were not that she feared to be stared at, and
her actions construed into IAN advertise
ment"
For myself: As children, we were al
WAYS allowed to follow our individual feel
ings, and accompany our old nurse and
friend on Sunday morning to church, or re-
main at home, when mother would read
prayers. Our prayer books were given us
as rewards of merit for good behavior, and
to-day possess mine, with the inscription:
'To our dear daughter
FANNY,
on her eighth birthday"
with the quotation underneath,
Honor thy father and thy mother"
Ny constant companion on ali nv Jour
neyings is: 1.-THE Imitation of Christ. % and
from its verses giean my most satisfying
comfort.
My mother is a true, consistent Christian
woman of the Episcopslian faith. Nv father
was a Swedenborgian, and died in that
faith.
As for my personal convictions: do not
believe in the existence of bell, or in future
punishment My conviction is strong that
our suferIngs for the sins of our lives are on
this earth, and that every seed sown bears
its fruit.
I believe that charity is a religion in
itself, and that God is the best Judge of our
inmost mind and heart. believe that God
does not always punish the wicked nor re-
81, I l.-Es Al
within our own hearts and minds
FANNv nAurNpopr
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24

SAPOLo d handsome Of houseceang
securing laundry To
What will sAPOLo do2 Why will clean paint make oHcos bright and
doors, tables and shelves appearance will grease off
off the forks with
things shine brightly The washbas
the greasy ktchen-snk will you use sAPoLo
housekeeper
limitations There is but aone sARoLIo
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-12
KANSAS FIGURING MILLS.

From the Ottawa Republican.
The following items about the flour
ing mills of Kansas will be read with
interest by all interested in our great
state:
There are IA mills reported, showing
an investment in buildings and machin-
cry of 81 OPS and the capital en-
ployed Sc, S70.300.
Twenty-seven mills with complete re-
ports, report a capital of 81 .03S. 500.
They employ 219 hands and grind $685.
299 bushels Of grain, the value of which
is So, 5S5,0S7.
Fifty-seven mills, representing CON-
bined capital of 1884. 800. make no re-
turn of business during the year. Most
of them say in this connection that they
have been shut down making repairs or
changing to the roller system.
Sixty mills, with a total capital of
$1,459, 900, failed to show their method
of manufacture, whether by rollers or
buhrs, or by both.
Franklin county reports two mills, one
at Ottawa and one at Pomona The cost
of the one at Ottawa is put at $50, 900
and the capital at $50, 900.
There are fifty mills which have
ground more than 10000 bushels of
grain each per annum. The employees
of these fifty number 355, and the value
of the product last year was 1919, 500.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-12
AS TO NEW ENGLAND FARMS.

From the K. c. Journal.
The Boston Journal raises to the de-
Tense of the New England farmers, or,
more accurately, the New England
farms. 1t quotes from the New England
Farmer the reports of number of down
east agriculturists who express their
great qualification over the bountiful
yield of their fields and over the excel
lent prices which their products COM
mand. This is the Thanksgiving season
and every New England farmer is of
course giving thanks if his crops offer
him the slightest excuse, but when three
of the New England states have ap-
duce colonies of hardy Swedes and other
people accustomed to farming unpro-
ductive lands, to settle upon the farms
which native born New Englanders have
abandoned, it is a hopeless task to at
tempt TO convince the general public
that New England farms are as rule
remarkably fertile.
We believe that the Boston Journal
appreciates this, for in explanation Of
the fact that so many farms have been
abandoned it declares that those
farms never should have been
titled, that they ought to have
been left in woodland and that
they should now be permitted to return
to forests. Yet they have been titled and
one or two generations have derived a
scanty subsistence from them. The
Journal seems to be worried by "the free
trade papers which interest themselves
in writing down the New England agri-
cultural interests and representing the
New England farmers as in desperate
because of the tariff" and
therefore it would like to disprove the
concerning the abandonment
of much of the land once under cultiva
ton. But our Boston contemporary goes
to unnecessary pains. The explanation
is simple enough. With the opening up
of the vast area of fertile lands in the
west it has of course become unprofit-
able to farm fifty or one hundred acres of
inferior land in the bleak climate of
New England, and the New England
farmers have had the sense to come
west That is all there is to it. There
is absolutely no chance to base free
trade argument on these facts. 1t is
absurd and utterly beside the question.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-12
ITS THE FARMERS.

Political surprises seem ever the most
unaccountable. Everybody knows what
everybody else is thinking and talking,
politically. Yet a greater surprise
seems to await Kansas politicians than
the election of Geo. Click, the mossback,
to the governship oyer st. John the
crank. The prediction seems prevalent
among the politicians Of Kansas that the
resubmission movement is confined for
the most part to the beer guzzling ele-
ments of half dozen towns. We don't
know whether the awakening will come
before the fall election of 80 or not, but
it will come, with the unexpected fact
disclosed that its the farmers more than
the residents of towns and cities who
have been and are for resubmisslon.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-12
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| Hennesse has thirty-hve school children
| but no school.
Norman is counting largely on becoming
a cotton market.
There are more fruit trees in Oklahoma
than cOrn-stalks.
Both Guthrie and Oklahoma have Y. NJ.
c. A. organizations.
The first baby was born in Hennesse
Tuesday. December 3.
The Edmond convention. it is said, was
not transcendentally successful.
Norman claims to be one of the few
towns in Oklahoma, that is quarreling.
The Ohioans of Guthrie will organ re
and call on their congressman for infiu-
ence.
1t turns out that lot jumping at Okla
homa City is not so bad as its rivals would
make out.
Twenty thousand and two hundred of
Oklahoma people are distributed among
twenty-eight towns.
If Oklahoma should be divided into forr
counties number of unpleasant county
seat fights will result.
Hennesse is going to have a first class
Sunday school before the Jew year, or IN
time for Christmas.
The work on the Oklahoma canal has
begun 1t will be the salvation of many a
laboring man this winter.
The church notices are getting to be an
important item in the newspapers. So
much for Christianity in Oklahoma.
The marshal and constables get 50 for
every arrest and conviction of any misde-
meanor against the city of West Guthrie.
CONGRESSMAN Springer has a bill ready
20 An IN
mediate government for the Oklahoma
settlers.
FL Reno is having little disturbance
over contest.fled on the townsite, but it
goes on growing as merrily as ever, contest
or no contest.
Hop-tea is a better drink in the winter
than in the summer. From the frequent
mention of it in the newspapers it seems
as though it was destined to be the nation
al beverage of Oklahoma.
Frisco Herald: How the mouths of about
seven or eight hundred Kansas editors
must water when they read about their
editorial brethren in Oklahoma indulging
in venison, wild turkey, coon and possum!
The Reno City Eagle says: Uncle Sam
will distribute considerable money in this
vicinity in the way of pensions the coming
year At present there are twenty-eight
pensioners here who draw an average of
si2 per month each.
The Norman Transcript says one class
OF people who never kick about too much
rain are those who come TO this country
from Karsas. They know good thing
when they see it and it never rains too
hard or too long TO suit them.
Grading on the Rock Island Is about
completed as far south as Caddo Springs
and the track is laid to within six miles of
this city But few days will be required
TO finish the work at the Springs and then
all aboard for points north, east and
west-Reno City Eagle.
Senator Ingalls, has introduced a bill
providing in the absence Of territorial gov
eminent, for the election of a mayor, who
shall be authorized and empowered TO en-
ter in trust for the several use and benefit
thereof. This will be acceptable to the
people provided the avenues to fraud are
guarded
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-12
SENATOR MORGAN AND THE NEGRO.

History offers no parallel for the posi-
ton of the American negro, for the very
reason that in history the United States
has no counterpart. 1t is the great basin
of races, into which all the rivers of ma
tionalities how-a gigantic chemical test
tube that tries the merging of humanity.
True, there have been cities cosmopoli-
tan, but there have been specified quar-
tiers for the respective races, and are not
similar to a country with races widely
dispersed. Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
looks forward to return of the negro
to southern Africa, which he regards as
their proper abode, and institutes meas
ures which he considers instrumental for
such an accomplishment. The removal
of race to different continent bv pa
citic means is without precedent. The
Moors, who held Spain for centuries.
were there as con4uerers and their re-
turn was brought about by belligerent
foes; the hordes of mounted Huns
that overpowered western Europe for
years and years were gradually forced
bdCh duu Oub "itii OIie llbtIc COZ
served and still intact, Hungary. But,
in modern times, the want of precedent
does not argue the impracticability of
scheme and the negro may vet, with
proper legislation, be returned to his ma
tive land, which is now, in some parts,
becoming vigorous and strong states,
offering many inducements for success to
those of the negro race VINO are enter
prising and jealous.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-12
The Stars on Our Flag.

From the " Y. Star.
The navy department has made haste
to adopt new arrangement of the stars
on the national flag, made necessary 10y
the admission of four new states. They
are placed In six rows of seven stars
each.
The arrangement of the stars in this
grand constellation is not now prescribed
by law. 1t ought to be, and the present
congress should enact such a regulation.
The present arrangement by the navy de-
partment is authorized by custom, but is
not justified by precedent. 1t is an ex-
ceedingly commonplace design. An ir-
regular distribution would be much bet
ter.
But why should not the customary ar
rangement employed by the war depart
ment be adopted by all departments, and
be made the flag of the country by law !?
The separate stars are so placed on the
blue field of the war department flag as
to form one large five-pointed star. The
forty-two states, representing the states
OF the union to-day. thus arranged.
would form a symmetrical star, with
two stars left to be placed in the center,
until additional states admitted would
enable the formation OF a more perfect.
but not more symmetrical design. Thus
arranged, the blue field OF the Stars and
Stripes would resemble the design be-
low:
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-12
HOG CHOLERA PREVALENT.

From the Topeka Democrat.
DR.. Salmon chief of the bureau of an
imal industry, writes Secretary Mohler
that he will be In Topeka during the ses-
sion of the state board of agriculture,
which is to be held the first week in Jan
uarv. He will give his views regarding
the cure of hog cholera. subject which
he has given great deal of attention,
and one in which the farmers are deeply
interested. The swine interests of Kan
sas have suffered disastrously from hog
cholera during the past year. Secretary
Mohler has received a letter from farm
er in Greenwood county IN which he
SAYS that thousands of hogs are dying of
cholera. The most learned men have
investigated this fearful malady and nu-
mereus nostrums and discoveries of one
kind and another have been brought out,
but SO far the disease does not seem to
have been checked. Prof. Billings, form
erly of the state agricultural college OF
Nebraska. claims to have discovered
process of incubation which will pre-
vent the disease and he has written that
he will be here to present the claims of
his discovery to the farmers convention.
c. II. Malin, of Fort Scott, has cure for
hog cholera which he says he will guar
antee to cure. He will also be here.
During the same week the cattle men
of Kansas will have a convention to dis
cuSs the present depressed condition of
the cattle markets and see if something
can not be done by way of legislation or
in some other way TO help things.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-12
KANSAS REPRESENTATIVES,.

The Globe-Democrat contains three
columns of Interviews with the Kansas
senators and representatives in Washing
ton on resubmission. These gentlemen,
as in most other matters. represent their
own feelings and fortunes rather than
those of Kansas. AS the EAGLE said
some time since, the politicians had
agreed on the game of bluff. Every
thing coming from them or the state Off
GERS is simply in their line of bluff. If
there is nothing to resubmission, as these
senators, representatives and state Off
GERS continually declare, why do they
keep talking about it on every opportuni-
ty, favorable or unfavorable? If there is
nothing to resubmission why do they put
themselves out of the way almost daily
to be interviewed by some paper to the
effect that they know that the Republi-
can party is in no danger; that prohibit
ton is the well settled policy of the state,
and that the demand for resubmlssion is
no demand at all?