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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-18
Forget-Me-Not: An Easter PoeI

Christ is risen, good Friday is past,
And joy has come after forty days fast;
The resurrection is for rich and poor,
For youn and old, for evermore.
To enjoy springtime's beaming hours
10 gather natures lovely flowers
The people 60 forth at early morn,
The church with garlands to adorn;
Each one brings gift on the altar to lay,
For this is the holy Easter Day.
But seel little child with fearful eyes,
Her little hear breaking with pitifu1 cries.
MY little one, why are your eyes full of tears?
Come, darling, and tell me all your fears"
Oh, father! I, too, sought my offering; but
found not single forget-me-not."
He knows thy heart and takes the will for the
Thy pure love, my little tot,
is the dear Lords forget me-not."
Thus speaks the father, but the child weeps
still more,
And pleading, draws him once more to the DOOR
They seek again up and down the lake,
But spring is only partly awake.
Now, as they return at the close of day,
They meet an old beggar hard by the way
Wringing his hand and bewailing his lot.
"Take pity, my child, and forget me not"
The child looks up with q smile and @ tear,
AS the flowers true meaning comes to her ear:
She clasps from her neck chain of gold
And gives it to him with joys untold.
The chain was of tiny, golden buds,
Each holding in its calyx the forget-me-no
"They taught me-" she says what J had forgot
That the poor man is the Lords forget-me-not."
The child became queen of great renown,
And fOrget-me-nOts still adorn her crown,
For to hundreds she gave their daily food,
Maria Theresa, the great and good.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-18

JUDICIAL astrology was cultivated by
the Chaldeans and transmitted to the
Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. It
was ml,ch in vogue in France in the
time OF Catherine di Medicis, who was
married to Francis |. of France in
1913.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-18

REALISTIC writer's of fiction should
visit the cotton mills for suggestions.
There is a great deal of realism
there.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-18

The first printing press in America
was set up at Cambridge by Stephen
nay. in 1859.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-18

TEAcHER-Name four animals. Pm.
pn-Two yoke of oxen.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-18
SOME EASTER CUSTOMS.
A DAY CELEBRATED ALL OVER TEE
CHRISTIAN WORLD.

Flower-Decorations, Nest-Hunfing, and
Other Easter Diversions-A Pretty Poem
and an Entertaining Story.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-18
The Living Easter Egg.

BY MRS. A. L. WALLACE,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
LEGISLATIVE RATES,

An illustration of the tendency to pre-
scribe fixed rates by legislation, for corpora
tions performing public transportation, is af-
forded by an announcement that the Judi
ciary Committee of the Illinois Legislature
has unanimously approved bill requiring
all street railways in cities, to furnish tick
cts for 25 trips at 81. Perhaps in the case
of the majority of city street railways this
regulation would be fair enough; but such
enactments are defective both in failing to
take into account the cases where higher
rate is actually required by the public in
terest, and in failing equally to provide for
the possibility that lower rate might afford
profit enough. A good enough illustration
could be found in this city. A road which
would carry passengers in half an hour
from the Court House to the Squirrel Hill
district would be an immense boon if it
charged ten cents a trip; and probably
would make little money at that figure.
With the section built up so that its daily
passengers were numbered by the tens
of thousands, it might make money at two
or three cents a trip, as the London roads
do. The policy of legislative rates utterly
fails to provide for either contingency.
But the fault for such enactment lies
largely with the corporations themselves.
They have committed themselves so COM
pletely to the policy of excluding competi-
tion from their business that the natural re-
action of the public is toward the policy OF
prescribing rates by enactment for cases
where competition does not work. When
this mutual contest has gone on long
enough to show how it interferes with nat
ural developments, both sides will be able TO
perceive that the only measure of what is a
just charge is the charges fixed by free COM
petition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15

the entire list of one party from the whole
State we would find very few men able to
do it. For the average or ignorant voter the
difficulty would be far greater. The purpose
of the Australian system might be attained
in making corruption impossible, by the
unique method of reducing the outcome of
an election to the uncertainties of lottery.
The same practical difficulty extends to the
vast majority of American elections. There
is hardly one in which the voter would not
have to select from eight to twenty names
out of list of perhaps twenty-five or sixty.
Very few people could do that accurately;
and the inevitable result OF the system would
be an uncertainty which would make intel
ligent voting impossible,
1t is, no doubt, highly important to throw
safeguards around the safety and secrecy Of
the ballot. The purpose of our system at pres
ent is to secure that end; and perhaps the best
way is to aim at carrying out the inUent of
the present laws by Furnishing the mal-ad-
ministration which is able to defeat the pur-
pose of any system.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, MONDAY, APR. Is, 1859.
THE NECESSITY oF SECURITY.

Those cracks in the new Westinghouse
building will not down; but the more press
ing and vital question is afforded by the
discussion of the possibility that the build
ing may do so. The interview with Inspector
Frank in our local columns gives an expert
opinion TO the effect that there was an error
of some gravity in its plans. 1t also shows
that the authorities are watching the matter
closely and will take whatever steps may be
necessary.
1t would be subject of universal regret
if such fine and massive addition to our
architecture should prove so faulty as to re-
quire general alteration. Everyone Will
join in the hope that the steps now taken
will prove adequate to make the building
perfectly secure; but everyone will also see
the necessity of making that security un-
questionable. We have had in this city too
recent demonstration of the awful dangers
Of lofty and unsafe buildings to allow either
public or private persons to take any
chances. The precautions must be absolute
and the matter placed beyond doubt.
With the practical certainty that this will
be done in this case, the matter presents the
further lesson that in these days of lofty
structures very heavy responsibility rests
on architects and builders, that their work
shall be perfectly safe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
CURIOUS COURTSHlPS.

The Skeleton Dude sui Advertising for n
WIfe-A Couple Married in Louisville as
Result of an AdvertIsement-sad Case
of a Stage-Sruck Girl.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAMs TO THE DIsPArcH.i
NEW YORK, April Al. A. Coffee, who has
been advertising extensively for wife, walked
into Castle Garden yesterday to get his letters
from Superintendent Simpson. His legs are
about as big as mans wrist, and tho were
encased in trousers that fitted as the kid gloves
of his hands. A fashionable suit of clothes,
light overcoat, patent leather shoes, silk nat
and a moustache and goatee completed his
makeup. In the lapel Of his oyercoat he
wore a bouquet as big as saucer. His ap-
pearance amused the hundreds of immigrants
Just landed from the French steamer La Cham
pagne. Here is specimen Of the letters, OF
which he collected a satchel full:
Is it wife you want, or a servant girlY If the
former, the writer is jolly little widow, uneu-
numbered, and capable/of making delightful
and happy home. am of an anectionate dispose
tion, and look good enough to suit any dude
l am the daughter of West Canadian farmer,
and fond of horses, and can drive them. My
weight is 125 pounds. and am feet inehes tall.
1 like all nice things, and think 1 could like a
nice-looking man, If his temper eorresponded
with his looks. MRS. CHUTE, Corning, N. 7.
Mr.. Coffey liked the tone of this letter so
well that he made up his mind to answer it.
II have been married BEFORE" he said, and
1 want a mother for my little girl, who is now
living with my brother-in-law, named Carter,
at Fort Scott, Kan. 1 shall answer some of
these letters. and after due investigation, if 1
find woman that suits me, will marry her at
once"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
PEOPLE STILL TAKE IT.

1t is interesting to notice that the old
story to the effect that bank notes and legal
tenders are liable to be infected with the
deadliest bacteria and thus communicate
contagious diseases has staIted on its rounds
once more. 1t seems as if the origInators of
that assertion were determined to impress
on the public mind the undesirabIlity and
danger of having too much wealth, and
also as if, however industriously they keep
at it, it has little or no effect. Contagious
diseases have occasionally been communi-
Gated by paper currency, no doubt; but that
they are not very likely to produce epi-
denies seems to be established by the gen.
eral health of this country during twenty
eight years in which paper money had been
handled freely; and by the further fact that
bank tellers and cashiers of business estab-
lishments, through whose hands the majority
of this currency passes, are not especially
subject to the contagious diseases supposed
to be transmitted. At all events, everyone
continues to take the money and all the
risks that go with it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
THE PRACTICAL DIFFICULTY.

The general disposition OF ballot reformers
to urge the adoption of the Australian sys-
TEN of voting raises the question as to the
adaptability of that system to the Ameri-
can method of choosing public officers. The
Australian plan has proved successful in
elections, where one, or at the most two or
three members of the Colonial Parliament
are to be chosen. 1t is advantageous in pre-
serving the secrecy of the ballot and thus
defeating corruption by making it uncertain
that the votes which are paid for shall be
delivered according to agreement.
But its utility. in application to Ameri-
can elections, is rendered yer doubtful by
the large number of candidates which are
frequently to be elected here. Hardly any
better illustration of this difficulty could be
cited than the last election held in this
country. In Pennsylvania for instance,
thirty Presidential electors were to be chosen
by popular suffrage. Three parties, and
sometimes four, present tickets, making q
total of 80 to 12O names on the electoral
tickets alone. Under the Australian system
these names are to be printed on single
list, and the voter in room by himself is
to designate by pencil mark the names for
which he desires his vote to be recorded.
The most intelligent voter would find ii
no easy task to select from list of ninety
names the thirty electors for whom he de-
sires to vote. 1t is as much as he knows
who are the electors from his immediate
vicinity. When it comes to making out
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
THE NEW GLASS WORKERS,

The discovery that the twenty-five glass
blowers, whose arrival at Boston was an
nounced a few days ago, have passed
through Pittsburg on the way to Jeanette,
is set forth in our local columns. There are
circumstances attending their arrival indi-
eating that they came here under contract.
but the absence of any direct evidence shows
one of the weaknesses of the imported labor
act. Another point suggests itself in con-
nection with this case. The newly arrived
laborers are skilled workmen. They do not
displace native labor. They bear proof of
membership in the Belgian K. of L: The
law must be enforced, of course; but if it
should exclude workmen of this stamp,
while it is letting in, without question,
thousands of the poorest and least desirable
class of labor, would it not add another
illustration to the test already furnished
OF its unique and utterly abnormal opera
fions?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
RELIEF ASSOCIATION TROUBLES.

The employees of the Baltimore and Ohio
road are said to be in a condition of open
revolt against the new organization for a
relief association which the management of
the companyis alleged to be urging upon
them. 1t is to be hoped that the prediction
of a general strike will not prove true; but
if the representations of the relief scheme
are correct, the men can hardly be blamed
for entertaining extremely strong objections
to it.
By itself, the idea of organizing among
men engaged in hazardous occupations re-
lief associations, in the nature of mutual in
suranee is philanthropic and praise
worthy one. But in order that it shall pre-
serve that character and not be made an in
justice and burden, certain basic ideas
should govern its organization. The organ
ization should be voluntary; for to enforce a
compulsory saving on the men reduces them
to the rank of children and idiots. a rail-
road company has no more right to make
the men lay up money against accident than
the men have to order the company to lay
up money for the payment of its bonds when
they mature. The plan should provide that
if man leaves the service of the company
he can receive an equivalent, in some form,
for the contributions that he has made to
the relief fund. To force 3 man to pay from
4 to 6 per cent of his wages to fund,
which he will lose in case he ex-
ercises his legal privilege to take
better place, is practically reduction of
wages. The contributions of the company
being in lieu of legal liability for injury to
its employees, the management of the fund
by the company should be justified by
making it yield larger return than could
be obtained by accident assurance in out
side companies. No doubt the statements
given elsewhere are largely ez pdrte; but if
they are true, the relief fund scheme urged
in this case fails to observe these principles
of justice and honesty.
1t does not follow, however, that the men
must take upon themselves the responsible
ity and odium of striking. The relief as
sociation is presented to them as volun-
tary matter. If it does not do them justice
let them refuse to accept it. If the railroad
discharges them for the refusal, it will do
the striking.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
JABS AT JAY GOULD.

NEW YORK Press: Well, who owns the town
Jay Gould or the people?
CHICAGO Herald: Jay Gould says that he
has no intention of leaving New York. Jay
never leaves anything that he can get away
with.
MINNEAPOLIS Journal: The rumor that Jay
Gould was about to remove to London was
promptly denied by his jayness. Another in
ternarional complication is thus averted.
BALTIMORE Herald: The rumor that Jay
Gould is to 60 over to London to live proves to
be untrue. Jay has soft snap in this country,
and he is not the sort of man to get away
from soft snap.
NEW YORK World: To the rumor that Jay
Gould may take up his residence in London the
Sun adds: "After that what shall we do for a
general bugbear?" But Jay isn't always bug
bear. Sometimes he is bug-bull in the mar
ket.
BALTIMoTE american: Jay Gould is not
the champion grabber. after all There is an
other famous grabber who has been longer in
the business than Jay. an older and better
soldier. and when he gets the railroad kings in
his clutches he will give the latter some points
on rapid transit.
NEW YORK World: The money which Jay
Gould is wasting in fighting against the State
is not his own.- It belongs to his company.
Some Of the stockholders of the Western
Union ought to step in and protest against this
squandering of their money before Gould un-
loads and leaves them in the lurch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
WORK OF A GREAT ARTIST.
Portraits of Ex.Secretary COlmnn nnd Hon.
A.. HI. Garland Just Finished.

Special Telegram to The DIsDatch.
WASHINGTON, April 14-It has been the
custom for many years in most of the depart
ments to expend sufficient sum out of some
of the funds to secure for that department
portrait of the outgoing Secretary or Cabinet
officer. In accordance with this practice, two
excellent pictures, one of Attorney General
Garland and the other of Secretary Colman,
late of the Department. of Agriculture, have
just been finished by Ulke, and will in few
days take their places on the walls of the rooms
occupied by these gentlemen during the ad-
ministration of President Cleveland. Ulke has
painted more portraits Of public men than any
other artist and is very successful in produc-
ing strong and faithful work.
This artist is one of the most remarkable
characters of the Capital City, Like many
other of the elderly German Americans, he is
an exile of the troublous times Of 1S4S. Be-
sides being an artist of note, he is an educated
musician, so marked and original that he is in
vited to lecture soon before the students OF
Columbia University on music and the emo
tionS, which he will illustrate with many COM
positions by himself and others, on the piano.
But he is more eminent as a naturalist than in
either of the arts mentioned. He has the
largest private collection of beetles in the
world, and probably it is not exceeded in num-
bers and interest by any of the collections Of
museums. He has made the most amazing
study of them, and illustrates in their develop
menJ not only the entire geologic growth OF
the earth, but in the most consummate and eX-
haustive manner the theory of evolution.
Added to these also, he is profound sociolo-
gist, radical in principle and fearless in ex-
pressing his opinions.
Besides the pleasure of securing good por-
trait, public men like to have themselves trans
ferred to canvass by so remarkable charac-
ter and SO the brush of Mr.. Ulke is constantly
in demand. One of his most noted works IS a
portrait of Grant, painted from life, which
now hangs in the White House.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

SENATOR CoLoUITT is stumping Massa-
chusetts for prohibition.
Mr.. L. @. c. LAMAR. JR., is going into busi-
ness at Rochester, N. Y.
SENATOR VANCE is steadily regaining health.
His remaining eye now does capital service.
A SON of Admiral Farragut is modestly work.
ing as a clerk in New York counting-room,
rather to have some occupation than for the
money it brings him.
MISS ELLA DAY HALE, daughter Of the Rev.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale, has painted a
portrait of her brother, Mr.. Philip Hale. which
is exhibited to the public, and is much ad-
mlred.
Miss FLORENCE WARDEN. author of 1.-THE
House. on the Marsh" and other well.known
but eerie novels, has had a sngularly check
cred career. Left at an early age dependent
upon her own exertions, she started as a gov
erness. But she soon tired of uncongenial
drudgery and took to the stage. After quite a
succe ssful career she tired of acting, and has
now settled down to literary work.
THERE will be no hand-shaking at the CEN
tennial ceremonies. Mr.. William q. Hamilton
discovered by the diligent reading OF history
that hand-shaking was abolished on the occa-
sion of Washington's inaugural, and the cele-
bration must follow precedent. 1t will be a
great relief to President Harrison, who, Mr..
Hamilton calculates, would otherwise have to
shake hands 10000 times at least during the
three days celebration.
JAMES MCCORMICK, of Harrisburg, gradu-
ate of Yale and a millionaire, is also mighty
Sunday school man. The emulation of even the
Postmaster General may well be excited by
Mr. McCormick's Bible class of 1000 men at
Pine street church, from which he has never
been absent Sunday during a period of %
years. He never goes SO far from Harrisburg
that he cannot get back within the week to ad-
dress his giant Bible class.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
USES OF THE GAS BILL.
Belgian Officials Show Grent Courtesy to a
Man Who Can Pay a Big One.

Man Who Can Pay Big One.
PHILADELPHIA, April A-Gas bills can be
used by tourists as well as by gas house rob-
bers August Breininger, of this city, has just
returned. from visit to Fatherland. In the
course of his travels he came to the Belgian
frontier. Passports" said the polite Belgian
official as he went through the train, and Mr..
Breininger plunged his hand into his pocket
for the necessary document He pulled out
paper, and, without looking at it very carefully,
handed it over to the official. The Belgiarfs
eyes almost protruded from his head in aston
ishment as he examined the paper. The like
of it had never been seen in all Belgium and
France before, but it must be passport
The strange paper was printed in two colors
bore the apparent impress of three great seals
of novel design and down in one corner was a
striking signature, William Roney," Mr..
Roney's name is not familiar in Belgium but
from the dashing handwriting the official
judged that he must be great man and at least
Secretary of State somewhere. The seals
were also very impressive. These were the
familiar legends: "How to read your meter"
Mr.. Breininger felt very nervous as he recog-
niZed his old gas bill masquerading as a pass
port, but the official promptly honored it and
passed on. This SO pleased the traveller that he
tried the same several times subsequently and
always with the most dazzling success The
officials seemed no less impressed with the
seals ana the signature than with the figures of
the bill, showing what the gas bureau had made
Mr.. Breininger pay. Nothing uke such figures
had ever been seen in Europe.
Mr.. Breininger recommends to travellers who
may wish to make use of this discovery that
the figures on the bill be as imposing as DOS
sible. For this reason it will be best to take a
bill for the winter quarter or one presented
Just before an election. A bill combining these
two features may be relied upon to carry a
man clear through Siberia. In case the bill
has not been paid it would be well for the
traveller to write some name, say President
Harrison's in one corner after the dashing
style of Mr.. Roney.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15
SIMON CAMERON'S FRIENDSHIP.
An Ex-senator Tells How it Was Won By
General M. C. Butler.


General M. C. Butler.
New York Star: Il amlliving quietly at!Mif-
flintown, Pa, my native home. 1 am entirely
out of politics and take no interest whatever
in political movements"
Thus spoke John ]. Patterson who served
six years in the United States Senate from
South Carolina. Probably his most notable act
during those six years was voting against his
party to seat General M. q. Butler, who was
then knocking for admission from the same
State. His vote and Don Cameron's settled
the question in Mr.. Buffers favor. Patterson
is said to have received immunity in South
Carolina for some political shortcomings in
consideration of his voting for General But
ler's admission. Senator Cameron voted in
opposition to his party upon this question to
pay debt of gratitude his father owed the
Buffers for years. 1t was General Buffers
ernor Bigler undertook to question Cam meron's
right to his seat in 1856 Butler took a hand in
Cameron's favor in very lerse speech, in which
he said:
''The Senate of the United States is no place
for PENNSYLVANIA to wash its dirty linen in.
move to lay the whole subject on the table"
This was agreed to.
A few minutes afterward Butler walked over
to Cameron's seat and said:
"Simon, l think you owe me bottle Of
whisky"
''That do" replied the old General. 'and
will make it a barrel;' which he did.
From this incident sprang up lasting friend
shin.