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of animal tissues had been injected showed
temporary signs of rejuvenation. We have
had no positive or direct assurance that this
change has been permanent. On the con-
trary, parallel experiments here show the
so-called rejuvenation to be no mole than
exhilaration, such as the injection of good
Monongahela whisky would cause. Some
doctors insist that not even the real tonic
effects of whisky follow the administration
posed to indicate increased strength in the
patient are due entirely to the Imagination.
10 prove the truth of this extreme theory
one experimenter injected water instead of
the Brown-Sequard concoction into the sub
ject's system, and the symptoms of exhilara-
tion appeared In due time.
But there is serious danger in the use
of the elixir. DR.. Shaw, of st. Louis, dis
covered that the elixir, three hours after it
had been made from the glands of a sheep,
swarmed with bacteria, among which the
bacillus that is supposed to cause tubercu-
losis was very numerous. A number of
men who submitted to the Brown-Sequard
treatment at the Medico- Chirurgical Hos
pital at Philadelphia decline to a man to
absorb any more elixir. Several of them
have acquired assesses as result of their
incubation, and all of them describe their
feelings as being anything but lively and
juvenile.
In the first place The DISPATCH, at the
very outset, doubted the moral utility of
DR.. Brown-Sequard's elixir. 1t would be
very doubtful blessing for most men to
live always on this earth; and the eternal
survival of those to whom it might be a
blessing to escape from the next world
would be distinct curse to their fellow
men. Now, in the second place, THE DIS
PATCH concludes from the experiments so
far made that the elixir is very uncertain in
its physical effects, if not certainly in
furious. The world will proba bly, decide to
let DR.. Brown-Sequard have the entire
monopoly of his elixir.
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A WARHORSE WITH A RECORD.
An Animal That Took Part In 80 Battles
and IL Still Alive.


MIDDLETowN. N. Y, August l6-When
Colonel Samuel Fowler, the founder of Port
Jervis, and at one time Chairman of the Demo
cratic State Committee of New York, went to
the war in 1852 at the head of the Fifteenth
New Jersey Volunteers, a regiment recruited
in his native county of Sussex. some OF his
friends IN both States united in presenting him
with a charger. They selected the 6.year-old
tonian and Harry Clay mare, raised BY George
c. Shaw, Of Newton, and already famous Tor
style and speed. Colonel Fowler rode his young
charger at the head of the gallant Fifteenth
regiment through two hard-fought campaigns,
and until he himself was constrained to retire
from the service by the malady which after
ward caused his death.
On Colonel Fowler's retirement Restless
passed into the hands of the Rev. A. A. Haines,
chaplain of the regiment, and the son of a
former famous governor of New Jersey There
after the horse was loaned to and ridden by
General Torbet during the seven days fearful
struggle of the Wilderness, but otherwise,
until the close of the war, he was mainly en-
ployed by his master in the merciful duties of
carrying succor and consolation to the wounded
on the battlefield, and helping the sick and
weary on the long march.
Restless took part in more than 80 battles
and skirmishes. Including the bloody engage
chester, the Wilderness and Gettysburg, and
carries the scar of a wound received in the last
named battle. When the war ended, Chaplain
Haines brought the horse home to his farm
at Hamburg, and has since held the war-worn
charger among his more cherished possessions.
retired from all work, and having the free run
of pasture and stables. At 3S years old he is
still comparatively healthy and active, and bids
fair to live for some years to come.
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THE DECAY OF TRUSTS.

Trust stocks have recently been severely
hammered in the financial markets, and
probably the growth of new organizations
or combinations of this sort has been ap-
preciably retarded by the generally unfavor-
able outlook. Whatever the opinion of
certain statesmen upon the subject
of trusts may be, and it seems to be
the fashion among leading politicians
to pooh pooh the dangerous features of these
funrighteous landings together of capital,
THE DISPATCH regards the decay of the
trust idea with great satisfaction.
We cannot refrain from quoting the fol-
lowing from cotemporary's summing up
of the case against the Sugar Trust:
The admission that protection fosters and
forces competition is truthful. The first and
natural effect of the tariff was to create
great home market, for the possession of which
competition became SO fierce as to result in
loss to some or all of the competitors 1t is not
necessary to argue as to whether a temporary
combination to refrain from selling at loss
would have been wise or foolish, legal illegal.
The trust is not such combination.
it is a deathless and eternal fedora
tion of several vast capitals against
all competition, whether between its own
members or between them and capitals not
embraced in the federation. 1t is an offensive
and defensive alliance against the right of men
to do the best they can for themselves. We
hold such a federation to be immoral and i'm
polite. The law of the survival of the fttest
must work unchecked. II more BARRIERS, more
bootblacks, more sugar refiners, more news
papers, more railways, or more of any trade
that depends upon public patronage should
come into neighborhood than the neighbor-
hood can support, the weakest enterprise must
retire. The public must not be taxed 10 sup
port that which cannot support itself against
purely domestic competition.
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gress or obstructionists in the English Par
lament have never achieved feat like this.
PEOPLE OF PRuMIKENCE.

LORD TENNYsoN is we'll enough to walk
three miles every day.
JOAQUIN MILLER has become rich man.
Some years ago he bought 200 acres near Oak
land, Cal. They are to be taken now for town
lots.
SAM RANDALL has been entertaining A. ].
Drexei and g. W. Childs at his home at Wal
lingford- Pa. Mr.. Randall has recovered his
health.
A VOLUME of the poems Of Frederic Tenny.
son, eldest brother of the poet laureate, is
among the reprints in contemplation in Lon
don. They have become difficult to procure.
M. SoLABEL, French architect who has
been employed of late in the palace of the
King of Corea, was recently stoned by the SER
wants of the palace and had to fee for his life.
The feeling in Corea against the French is in
tense.
DR.. CHARLES THEODORE. Duke of Bavaria,
the philanthropic physician, recently celebrated
at Tegersee, in Bavaria, his removal of the
thousandth cataract from the eyes of his poor
patients. 1t was made the occasion Of a great
ovation.
THE marriage contract between the Crown
Prince of Greece and Princess Sophia Of
Prussia was signed at Potsdam a few days ago.
The Princess is to receive 000. 900 marks from
the Hohenzollern funds and 100000 marks from
her mother. She also retains her rights as one
of her mothers heirs.
THE venerable General Francis E. Spinner,
ex-Treasurer of the United States, is said to be
hopelessly ill at his home at Pablo Beach, Fla,
SO that his death is likely to occur within few
weeks. The trouble is a cancer on his face,
caused by wearing an ill-fitting pair of eye
glasses. General Spinner is nearly IS years
old, having been born at Herkimer. N. Y, on
January 81 lSO2
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PESTS IN A posToFFlCE.
A New Variety Of Roaches Threatens TO Eas
Governments Building.

New Variety Of Roaches Threatens TO Eas
Governments Building.
PHILADELPHIA, August l5-A new variety
of cockroach has recently been imported in the
mail bags which arrived at the Philadelphia
postofice from South American port. These
Insects di fer from the Philadelphia variety,
and increase in numbers more rapidly, and are
generally much greater pest. Soon after the
arrival of the vanguard the pesky things began
to overrun the postofice, and but for vigorous
measures would have now been in full possession
of the building. The importation amounted to
only bakers dozen or 30, but in few days
hundreds OF them swarmed through the dis
tributing room, and in a week they took posses
sion OF every dark or shadowy place on the nrst
floor. Their appetite was something marvellous,
and their digestion is surpassed only by that OF
the billy goat. The myriads which soon ap-
peared began by eating up all the night mems
exhausted they started on the mucilage on the
hacks of the postage stamps, and even attacked
the leather mail bags
The officials started an exterminating cru
paste, which is known to be instantly fatal to
the pennsylvania variety. But to the surprise
of Naturalist James Bellem, who was given
leave from bis stamp-window to superintend
the:slaughter, the South American pests swal-
lowed it with avidity and without harm to
themselves: 1t appeared rather to be a sort of
cockroach Brown-Sequard life elixir, stimulat-
ing them to renewed vigor. Mr.. Bellem finally
decided that the new -comers were OF that sim
gularly reproductive and hardy variety known
as Blatta Orientalis, and that if they were not
soon driven OUT they would eat up all the mail
bags and probably attack the building itself
After a long search through his books Mr.. Bel
lem discovered means of determination, and
has been SO successful with it that only few
bugs are left, and he hopes to have them all
cleaned out in few days.
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A NAVAL DISPUTE ENDED.
Secretary Tracy VIII Have the Texas
Built on the Original Plans.


WASHINGTON, August 15-An advertise
ment issued by the Navy Department inviting
proposals for furnishing about 66l tons of steel
plates, 40 pounds per square foot, for the armor
of the battleship Texas marks the end of
controversy that has been going on within the
department for some time,
The plans for the Texas were purchased by
Secretary Whitney in England, and were given
to Naval Constructor Bolles, at Portsmouth
yard, to execute. 1t was the belief of the
Bureau of Construction land Repair that the
Texas, If built according to the plans, would
not carry her full weight estimated at $500
tons at load water line, but would sink SO deep
that her rate of speed would be seriously in
terfered with even if her gun
deck did not get below water. This
opinion was shared by other officials in the
department also. But Constructor Bolles was
confident that the calculations OF the English
designer were correct and that she would float
on the level he had marked out for the water
line. The question whether or not the Texas
should be built according to the plans fur
nlshed has been under consideration for some
time by Secretary Tracy. Itwas suggested thar
the vessel be heightened 10 or 20 feet, thus
increasing her buoyancy as a compromise, and
it was the opinion of some of the officials that
this would be done. But the publication of the
advertisement is taken to mean about the de-
partment that Secretary Tracy has determined
to have the plans which were purchased by his
predecessor carried out. The bids are to be
opened October l.
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THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Two Views of Mrs. Boucicault-In the Trnck
Of the Great Storm.

Two views oil Mrs. bouclc0uit-lu the TRICK
OF the Great Storm.
TWICE in the course of a week caught
sight of Louise Thorndyke that was, Mrs. Dion
Boucicault that IS, in New York City. The
first time she was half concealed in a closed
carriage. She sat as far from Mr. Boucicault.
who was in the carriage with her, as she could.
Her face was not wreathed in smiles, and, in
deed would not have been recognized easily
If the small but expressive features of the
man who sat in the other corner of the car
rage had not revealed one of the greatest
actors and dramatists the country has seen.
The second time saw this rather impressive
blonde was at Palmer's Theater. the old aristo-
cratic Wallacks. There the burlesque Of
Clover" most ill-planned jumble of Incl
dents and accidents, but amusing because of
De Wolf Hopper's Glowing and refreshing
musicaly by reason of a half a dozen measures
or less, has held its own and more all summer.
Thither came Mrs Boucicault, whom Pitts
burgers may remember best as the delineator
OF a very charming character in ''The Jilt''
last season at the Bijou in the most outre Of
low-cut dresses. It was, what there was of it,
of pale blue, think, and, at all events, itsetof
her remarkable figure splendidly Her large
eyes-the greatest charm she has-needed and
had nothing to set them of. With another
actress she oc cupied the stage box, and was the
mark for good many opera glasses.
THE official report of the awful weather
Pennsylvani la endured at the end of last May
again draws attention to the fearful floods
which worked such havoc in the Juniata and
Susquehanna Vallevs, and more or less directly
caused the demolition of Johnstown and the
blotting out of many thousand lives.
Even to-day in a journey over the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad one is confronted with number
ox,1 MI
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A SNOW WHITE SPARROW,
Bachelor Albino Bird That IL a King
Among Its Fellows.

Bachelor A1bin0 Bird Jhat IL Hing
Among Its Fellows.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.I
At Twelfth and Oxford streets yesterday
four groups of interested sightseers stood upon
the four separate corners intently watching
the antics Of a snow white English sparrow,
which seemed to be a sort of king among its
soberer coated fellows. demanding and receiv-
ing from them an amount of homage and re-
spectful attention that would have done the
heart of His Highness the Shah of Persia
good. resident OF the neighborhood said he
had noticed the albino for two or three years.
He has a nest in yonder church steeple," he
explained, ''and have spent considerable time
in watching him and studying his peculiarities.
He is a male bird and a bachelor. That may
sound strange but there are lots of bachelor
and spinster birds among the English sparrows
Season after season they refuse to mate. set up
establishments Of their own and live in them,
despised and quarreled with constantly by the
married birds This white sparrow seems to
have some authority over the others. They
bring him food and even build his nest for him.
Life with him is an existence of idleness and
luxury When any bird refuses or neglects to
pay him tribute he attacks the derelict, gives
him a sound drubbing and eventually brings
him to terms"
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THREE NEWSPAPER DOGS.
PhiIa delphin CANNES Which Have Almost
Human Intellia iaence.


Philadelphia Inquirer!
A well-known newspaper man living in the
upper part of the city is the owner of a pointer
dog that answers to the name of Dash"
Dash has never been broken for the field, and
is a family pet He opens the doors
and gates without difficulty. and. under
the tutelage of the newspaper mans
little daughter, makes known by means
of q set of wooden blocks his simple
wants. When asked what he would like Dash
selects the letters Bone from the pile of
feet Of the questioner. The question "What
do you hateT' spurs the dog to spell Bath.
Where would you like to gof' asks the dogs
when she adds, Where do you go sometimes
that makes master very angry and gets you a
whippingf" he drops his ears and picks out the
two blocks that spell In.
Another newspaper man, living on Walnut
street, near Eleventh, is the owner of q very
intelligent water spaniel named prentice"
Recently Prentice was whipped by his master
the room. He took shelter with another news
paper man living on an upper floor. and when
the latter petted him and expressed regret that
he had been punished, prentice" Immediately
whenever his old master, with whom he was
always on the best of terms approaches him.
he snarls and snaps and shows every token of
dislikes -
A third newspaper dog is "Punch," curly
tailed pug. whose master lives on North Twelfth
street. Punch dislikes solitude, and when left
alone for any length of time uses his teeth and
claws on carpets, clothing, furniture or any
thing else that may fall in his way. Lately he
has began to take a general supervision over
the chambermald's work. He follows her
about from room to room, upstairs and down,
and gives his twisted tail a satisfied wag
when bed is made to suit him. or a chair
is busted properly. Punch often gets into
trouble. for he is as full of mischief as an egg
is of meat. When reproved for any misde-
meanor, however. he never repeats the offense.
He dislikes street music, particularly that
ground out by the little German bands and the
barrel organs. but when requested to do so will
rear himself on his launches and sing-dog
fashion-in perfect time to a piano, white
Wings" "a Little Fisher Maiden" or Don
Peyton,s Ride.n
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THE SUMNER SNAKE CROP.

B. F. GUNTER, of Lgonier, last week dealt
death blow to a six-foot blacksnake which
popped out from under a swath ot oats which
he was about to bind.
MISSES MoLLIE and Minnie Madison, of
Hillside, Pa, few days ago, exterminated
rattler four feet in length. A curious coin
cidence is that they killed the same kind of
snake at the same place and of the same length
last year.
A FEW days ago one Of the Ford negroes in
Worth county, Ga, killed huge rattlesnake,
which, upon being examined. sported 1e rattles,
measured N feet in length, 81 inches between
the eyes, and when the skin was prepared to be
stuffed, it held over peck and a half of saw
dust.
A FEW days ago Miss Sue Gourley, living q
few miles south of Bartley, Neb., found large
rattlesnake on the prairie. Finding no stick or
stone, she took off her shoe and threw it at the
reptile several times. As she picked up her
shoe the snake struck her on the hand, biting
her glove. but infiicting no injury. The girl
then jumped on the snakes head and stamped
1t to death.
HERMAN SCHMITT. .formerlyof Philadelphia,
went to pick huckleberries near Bear Lake sew
eral days ago. and some hours later was found
lying on the grass unconscious, with a huge
rattlesnake fastened to his trousers. The snake
water. He had not been bitten, yet strange to
say, he was affected just as If he had been, un-
til his finders talked him out Of 1t.
JOHN SCREAM, of Derry township, West
moreland county. while moving grass in his
meadow the other day noticed a blacksnake
protruding his head far above the grass. Mr..
s. kept his eye on the serpent nearly all the
forenoon, but, missing him after awhile, he be-
gan to wonder where the reptile had gone.
when lol his moving machine came to a stand
still, and on his making examination as to the
cause, he discovered the huge blacksnake
twined around the cutter bar, stopping the mo-
tioa.
ON Tuesday afternoon, says the Altoona
Times, when one of the inoffensive postal clerks
went to put a package in the postofice box of
Mr.. Andrew Todd. he ives horriied to see the
head Of q snake sticking out of the box and
slyly trying to hirt with him with its tongue.
He Of course made q hasty retreat and sum-
moned the rest of the force to the scene. After
considerable maneuvering with ropes and grap-
nels, the reptile was at last COTTON to the floor,
where one of the clerks succeeded in crushing
It with his foot The snake was Is inches in
length. and It 10 said that the executioner COW
cred it, entire length with his foot These are
factss :
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DEATHS OF A DAY.
General Wesf.

WASHINGTON, August Is. General Theodore 8.
West one of the proprietors of the Langham Ho-
tel, in this city. died Suddenly this morning at
Asbury Park, N. J. On July last. General West
and Sterling Rufln, q we'll known clerk in the
Treasury Department who comes from North
Carolina, had quarrel over board bill and
Ruffin struck W est in the face with an umbrella
breaking his nose. Rufin then hit General West
and after knocking him down, jumped on him.
The quarrel was renewed during the day and West
was SO badly punished that he has not since been
able to get around.
No arrests were made at the time but when the
police this afternoon, learned of General Vests 8
death, Rufin was taken from the Treasury De-
ing the war, was Colonel of the Twenty-fourth
Wisconsin Regiment and was breveted Brigadier
General for gallantry. A few months ago he mar
ried Miss Charlotte Crocker, a daughter Of Gem
eral II. Al. Crocker, OF Iowa.
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People Without q Country.

The Indian is faithful to his native ground
Experience shows that no effort is more unsuc-
cessful than the attempt to move him from the
place of his birth and the graves of his fathers.
But the Indian has learned that the pale face
will have his way, and as the Chippewas sell
their lands to commissioners to-day, SO will the
defiant Sioux soon give up the struggle and
yield to the Government negotiations. The
time will soon be over for studying the abor-
igines of America. We have in 25Oyears wasted
their number from $500 900 down to 100000. In
the same length of time a cargo of dusky slaves
from African shores has become people Of
millions, slaves no longer, but protected citi-
zens. One century has gone, and with It
record of broken treaties, violated pledges, in
justices and cruelties. OF the tribes we have
dispossessed, numbers have gone out OF exist
ence. We found on these shores free people
-savages, il is true, but heroes, many OF them,
and in broken accents their greetings were
Welcome" To-day the tattered rags of q
contract blanket are their inheritance.
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THE ENCHANTED WOOD.

As from the outer world you pass
Just where the forest skirts the plain
An open book lies on the grass.
And there for years, untouched. has lain.
The leaves are yellow now with age,
But one may read in letters free,
As the wind turns the ragged page,
The blotted dname-Philosophy.
'Tis said stu dent one day stood
Outside the bounds, when on him fell
The mystic power OF that wood,
And Love cast over him spell.
Then long he strove to enter there;
But guardian spirits in array
Prevented him. until desp,,
Had made him throw the BE-
And then, when he at length had cast
The stern Philosophy aside,
Love bade him enter-held him fast
As conqueror of Self and Pride.
And low in dim, enchanted hooks
Ruled by Love that never fails,
He seeks not sympathy of books
Love whispers to him fairy tales.
Outside, swept by the win and rain.
Philosophy, uncared for, lies:
1t cannot enter Loves domain;
Il was not meant for Paradise.
--Hovei Scott Mines in Harper's Weekly
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So much new evidence as to Mr.. May
bricks habits of arsenic eating has come to
light since the verdict that reprieve Ger
tainly ought to be granted to the unfortun-
ate woman who is now lying in prison sem
fenced to be hanged on August 26. Popular
sentiment is in favor of Mrs. Maybrick, but
the advisers of the Queen, who alone can
grant reprieve or pardon, seem to be de-
cidedly hostile to her.
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CARDINAL LAvIGERIE is about to start
upon crusade against Moslem tyranny
both in E urope and Asia Minor. 1t is said
that the Cardinal has the sanction of the
Vatican in this undertaking, and this will
lend unusual weight to his eloquence. But
the crusade will not be allowed to proceed
far before the great European powers who
are interested in retaining the status quo in
Eastern Europe will induce the Pope to
silence the great preacher who essays to
play again the role of Peter the Hermit.