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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-08

d. B. Parks-l0 cases paid in cash
SIT; cases 81 worked on streets; l case
discharged, IL cases. 81 .v3eaL sqt
G. T. Swan-l2 cases paid in cash &38 ;
/ case fined SIS, appealed to council; l
case 81 worked on streets cases dis
charged. 10 cases. IA .....
Total cases 80. Total cash $55. 100. p"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-27

The following described horses have
been lost and liberal reward will he
paid for their recovery: One dark
sorrel saddle horse branded WP ON
the left shoulder; one bald-faced mare
with young colt, mare branded g N on
left shoulder and Hatchet over it; one
bald-faced saddle horse branded ] L;
one black three-year-old branded 8 on
left stifie; one yearling, cold branded
two-quarter circle bar. Address,
HHRoEDER Bros,
o Keuterville, Idaho.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-27
Declaration Of Intention to Become q
Citizen Of the United States
Of America.
State of Idaho,
County Of Noz Pnrcp

0VRVC Va xu0AlOs
County ofNez Perce. 49,
I, Lem Sing Yoeuy, do solemnly de-
clare on oath that It is bona fide my
intention to become A Citizen Of the
United States Of America, and to re-
nOunce forever all allegiance and fidel-
ity to all and every foreign Prince
POtentate, State or Sovereignty what
ever and particularly to the kmper0r
of China, whereof I am now q citizen
or subject. And do swear that will
support the Constitution and Govern
ment of the United States.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 3rd day of October, A. D., 1890.
LEM SING YOUEY,
F. HI. GRIERSON, Clerk of
the District Court, 1st judicial District.
BY w. M. Rice, Deputy Clerk.
County of Nes Perce. S.
I, F. H. Grierson, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is true and correct
copy of the Original Declaration of
Lem Sing Youey, an alien, to become a
Citizen Of the United States, as the
same appears on record in my office, In
book of Intention, page l4O.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, have
hereuntO set my hand and affixed
my official seal, at Lewiston
County of Nez Perce, State aforesaid
on this 3rd day of October, 1880.
f. III. GRIERSON,
Clerk of District Court
BY w. NJ. Rice, Deputy.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-27
Notice to Tax-Payers.

Notice is hereby given to the tAx-
payers of Nex Perce county, Idaho,
that taxes will become delinquent on
the second Monday in December next,
after the date hereof, and that unleas
paid prior thereto ten per cent Will ~
added thereon.
Dated this 2srd day Of September,
A. D., 1890.
JOSIAH RN0ll
Assessor and Tax Collector a NJ
Perce County, Idaho.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-27
Dissolution n office.

The co-partnership heretofore exist
ing between w. p. Bell and s. Truax,
as City Engineers, is hereby dissolved
by mutual consent. w. r. Bell will
continue as City Engineer Of the City
of Lewiston. w. p. BELL.
Z SEWALL TRUAx.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06
THAT CLEVELAND INTERVIEW,

The question of the accuracy of that
World interview with Mr.. Cleveland con-
cerning an annoying report published in the
New York Sun is further discussed by a
letter from the interviewer, who has since
then left the World. The newspaper man, of
course, dissents from the statement that his
report was not correct, and gives vent to his
injured feelings by the declaration that MIR.
Cleveland said a good many things that
could not be published on account of their
strenuous nature.
This resolves the question to one of
veracity between Mr.. Cleveland and the re-
porter. Nevertheless there are points in
Mr.. Crawford's statement which have some
bearing on the question. He states that as
soon as Mr.. Cleveland understood the in
tention to publish an interview he wrote out
a statement in which the language was dig
nifed, and the denial of the false report was
couched in temperate form. This is GER
tainly prinaa .Jdcie indication that Mr..
Cleveland had no intention of pub
licly engaging in a match of bll-
lngsgate with the Sun. Next,
though Mr.. Crawford insists that Mr..
Cleveland did use expressions like "senile
old liar and thief" and did not confne the
interview strictly to his written statement,
it is practically admitted that in the pub
lished report, the sequence of Mr.. Cleve-
lands alleged remarks was not observed,
and according to Mr.. Crawford's own
amended statement, that portion referring
to Mrs. Cleveland was materially mutilated.
The revised version of Mr.. Cleveland's re-
ported words on that point, now furnished
by the reporter, has some strength. The
first report was so entirely weak as to give
the Sun the greatest advantage in its retort.
On the whole the statement proves that
what Mr.. Cleveland said for publication
he couched in temperate form. Whether in
private conversation he did or did not re-
lieve his harassed soul with some emphatic
and unrefned expressions, is the issue be-
tween Mr.. Cleveland and his interviewer.
But there is distinction between the two,
which by Mr.. Crawford's own statement
acquits Mr.. Cleveland of the charge of
having been goaded into public vitupera-
tion of the undignifed character coming
from him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06
AFAMILIAR TROUBLE.

Trouble bobs up again this year, with
that long-standing bone Of contention be-
tween the assessors and the business men,
the business tax. A number of the firms
liable to this tax are emitting to make
sworn statements of their business, for q
variety of reasons. Some of them say that
their statements in previous years are suf-
ficient, some that their business is exempt
and others undoubtedly do so because they
think that they will get off easier il they let
the assessors estimate their business than if
they give the exact figures. The result is
that the assessors are compelled to take
measures to secure the statements necessary
to properly assess the tax.
The willingness of the most respectable
citizens to slide out of taxpaying. sometimes
by very small holes, is proverblal. It ought
not to be so; but it is human nature. If
men of property and business could be
brought to see that they are as much injured
if they are not called upon to pay their full
share of the expenses of government as they
would if they were left off the list of vice
presidents on public occasion, or given a
low rating in commercial agency reports,
the millenial era might be looked for. But
all arguments to that end are wasted on the
business mind. Consequently the assessors
are justified in using all means in their
power to ensure that everyone shall be fully
assessed.
So long as the business tax is collected, 1t
should be assessed fully and fairly on all.
But it is to be hoped that some day that re-
markable tax on enterprise WILDE dispensed
with,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06
LIBRARY DISPUTES.

The Allegheny library dispute has pro-
ceeded TO the point where the members of the
Board of School Control are declaring that
they will keep their library separate from
the Carnegie institution, and the Library
Committee snap their fingers at the asser-
tion. Such an attitude is by no means credit
able to either party, and must be humiliat-
ing to the people of Allegheny. The DIS
PATCH has urged that the School Board
ought to have a representation in the man
agement of the library; but since the decision
has been made the other way, it is unwise to
keep up the fight by trying to sustain an In
dependent and not very extensive rival.
While the dispute goes on, Allegheny mas
had the library building in its possession
several months; but there is not even the
beginning of library in that beautiful
structure. The example certainly justifes
the feeling that it will be wise to have the
question of control of the library institu-
tion on this side of the river fixed beyond
all doubt.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06

less likely is the story, which 1t embodies,
to please when set upon the stage. When
Dickens novels we're at the height of their
popularity great many attempts were made
to turn them into plays which should take
rank with the books Almost every one OF
Dickens novels was so adapted for the stage,
but with but one or two exceptions the re-
sultant plays were dismal failures, and even
those that escaped condemnation in the
bright sunlight of the authors popularity
have obtained it since. More recently ex-
amples have occurred of most popular novels
failing as plays. Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde" attracted more attention than any
book of the year in which 1t was published.
Mr.. Mansfield made a notable attempt to
extend the weird charm Of the story to
play; but though he brought no little skill
and histrionic art to the task, as a drama
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" was not sue
cess.
In contrast with these precedents Pitts
burg now has the pleasure of seeing at
two of her principal theaters two books
effectually dramatized. Mrs. Burnett's
story of Little Lord Fauntleroy" has not
as play all the subtle merits of the book,
but it has enough of the originals virtue to
deserve its victory in the theater. Mr.
Gunter's "Barnes of New York" readily
lent itself to theatrical Interpretation. The
power of the story lies entirely in its
arrangement. The drama has not
created the furore the novel did, but it is un-
a successful play. 1t is a
curious coincidence that two exceptions of a
fairly established rule-two popular books
to stage use with good results
should occur here at this time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06
THE REAL CAUSF.

1t is stated that because there were reports
that the wheat region of the Northwest was
suffering from drought the Chicago market
for wheat was doomed to a dollar. The
rains of the past week were, We suppose,
likewise utilized to keep up the price on ac-
count of the danger of drowning out the
plants. The fact is that almost any excuse
will serve for speculative manipulations of
the Chicago wheat market at this season of
the year; but no one need fear famine in
the land on the testimony of the Chicago
barometer. The real reason of the advance
has little to do with drought or rains. The
fundamental basis of the present transitory
period of dollar wheat is that too many of the
Chicago spectators have been selling wind,
and "Old Hutch" is the man who is re-
ported to have caught them short and made
them buy back the wind at elevated prices.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06
GAS PROSPECTS CONTINUE GOOD.

The meetings of the Westinghouse COM
panies were Of general interest in so far as
they indicated an assured continuance of two
tributaries to home prosperity. Since stock
speculation has become slow in these parts,
the figures Of the earnings and expenses of
the Philadelphia Gas Company will be
scanned more closely and are liable to be
bstter understood by the actual shareholders
an by the general reader. But while the
speculative question what the stock is worth,
or what the future of its quotations will be,
interests only investors, the general fact
that the company has more consumers than
ever before and gas enough to supply
them all is public information of highly
gratifying character. This is particularly
SO because 1t reinforces the reports of an
abundant supply of gas at the command of
several other companies-particularly those
drawing from the lately opened fields.
Thus the prospects for the winter are
good. The important truth stands out that
natural gas really no more presents to-day
the aspect of a transient blessing than it did
the first day it was brought to Pittsburg.
While 1t is clear that old fields will event.
ually be exhausted, it is made not less plain
that, by the discovery of new fields and the
economical handling of the gas, the supply
has been prolonged with no actual or serious
'hortage yet to fear. a
To be sure, to keep up ~ upply
e Tor expensive drilling ripe
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06
TANNING THE MISSISSIPPI.

The recent floods in the Mississippi have
attracted attention anew to the question of
the best method for securing the dwellers
along its banks against the repetition of such
disasters. 1t is one of the singular features
of the question that the people of the Miss
issippi Valley themselves and their repre-
sentatives in the Senate are strongly deciar-
ing that the levee system which has been
tried for a generation or two with the con-
stantly recurring result of just such floods
as this, is the only thing to tie to. They
assert that if the levees are only built high
enough and strong enough they and their
plantations can be made secure.
This is much the same class of hvdrosta-
tic logic, as if, after the Johnstown disaster
of last year, the people of the ruined valley
had met and resolved that ii the Govern
ment would only build the South
Fork dam higher and stronger, it would
protect Johnstown against the repetition of
the calamity. Perhaps Johnstown might
have perpetrated such an absurdity, if its peo-
pie like the Mississippi Valley planters had
a financial interest in the perpetuation of
definite height. 1t has been demonstrated
again and again that the ordina' channel
of the Mississippi is insufficient for the
times of food, when that stream must carry
off the simultaneous freshets of the entire
country between the crest of the ALLIE
ghenies and that of the Rocky Mountains.
Before the levees were built the high water
either side. In order to secure these lands
to cultivation the Ievees were built which
actually diminished the channels for food
outlets. The people who own these lands
are naturally those who think tn levees
ought to be raised indefinitely in order that
their plantations taken from what is the
natural bed of the flooded river, may be
preserved.
The demonstration having been frequent
that river like the Mississippi cannot be
indefinitely damned up, or kept within
narrow channel when flooded by the over
flow of half the continent, it is plain that
the plan of providing additional outlets for
the floods is the only adequate one. But as
this will sacrifice some OF the bottom lands,
the people most interested are decidedly op-
posed to it. Rather than let any of their
cultivated land be taken they would prefer
to continue the labor, or rather have the
Government continue it for them, of making
the Mississippi confne itself within chan
mel that is too narrow for it.
The effort to reclaim overfowed lands that
can be reclaimed is legitimate and praise
worthy one. But the plan of doing it by
calling upon Government to perform the
impossible cannot be Endorsed. The levee
system may be relied upon in the future to
protect the planters against ordinary floods;
but additional outlets should be provided to
carry off the water through the side streams
before the danger line is reached.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

ETHEL SPRAGUE, daughter of Mrs. Kate
Sprague, has decided not to enter the theatrical
profession.
MISS JOSEPHINE SIMON, the young singer
adopted by Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone as pro-
tegee, is an oakland, CAL. girl.
JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER, the Standard Oil
king, was newspaper reporter quarter of a
century ago. He picks up millions now as
easily as he picked up items formerly.
GEORGE BANCROFT, who was Secretary of
the Navy for year and half in the admins
tration of President Polk, is the oldest ex-
Cabinet officer. both in age and date Of SER
vice, now living.
Mr. HowRLLs, the novelist, is reported to
baye become a constant attendant and an earn
est listener at the meetings of ''the Church of
the Carpenter" organized in Boston by the
Rev. w. D. P. Bliss. 4
EDWIN ARNOLD, author of "The Light of
Asia" is occupying his leisure in Japan with
the composition of a new epic poem. Its title
will be ''The Light of the World" and the sub
ject the Founder of Christianity and His doc
trines.
EMMA ABBOTT owes her start in life to
Mms. Patti. The diva said she was so en-
tranced with lullaby the little stranger sang,
that she threw her arms about her, told her to
get ready to go to Italy, and paid for her first
years instruction.
SIR PROVO WILLIAM PARRY WALLIS, G.
@. B., to whom the captain of the American
Chesapeake surrendered off Boston harbor
June 1913 is still living. and senior admiral of
the feet. Admiral Wallis was born in halifax,
N S., April IL 179l, and is therefore in his
Tooth year.
NJ. D'HARAUcoURT, author Of the passion
Play" so a marquis of undoubted nobility. In
point of aristocrstic height in Lorraine, it was
impossible, before it was annexed to France to
get higher than the four MOBILES who were styled
Les Qustre Chevaux, of which he was one.
From poverty he dropped his rank.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06
A GENUINE ROMANCE.
How q Slave Boy Managed to Become
Skilled Physician.

Skilled Physician.
PHILADELPHIA, April 5.-Among the gradu-
ates of the medical department of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania at the commencement
exercises, was one student whose career reads
more like chapter from romantic novel than
history of actual experience. DR.. e. A.
White, the negro alumnus of the class Of 1890,
was born in Clinton, Miss. During the lawless
rule Of the ku-Klux in 1875 his fathers house
was entered one night and young White bound
hand and foot. His father was dragged
out before his eyes and shot, and
with his mother and six children he
fled to the woods, where for weeks he
hid in the swamps, only coming out at night
for food, which was supplied by the colored
women of the neighborhood. When the
troubles had blown over White attended the
public school at Jackson and by working out
side OF school hours and at night saved up
enough money to reach the Lincoln University.
Accompanied by friend he journeyed North
and, by walking most of the way, finally sue
ceeded in reaching the place of their desIina-
ton. mississippi White, who walked to Lin
coln," was name well known among the stu
dents of the college for many terms.
After graduation at Lincoln young White
journeyed to Media, Pa, where he wassgladly
received by the Society of Friends and be-
friended, especially by the late Mrs. Short
hdge, wife of the principal of the Media Acad-
emy. who took an earnest and kindly interest
in his progress.
From Media White entered the medical
school Of the University of Pennsylvania from
which institution he was graduated last
but an honored member of the profession of
medicine. He has returned home to practice
among his fellow negroes in Mississippi, and
has brilliant future already assured him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06
MARIE BLAINE Is WORSE.
Scarce Any Hope for the Young Woman
Whose Prospects Were Once So Bright.

Scarce Any Hope for the Young Woman
Whose Prospects Were Once So Bright.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.i
NEW YORK. May 5.-Mrs. James G. Blaine,
Jr., has about abandoned hope. Instead Of
getting better, she is If anything, trifie worse
Medical science does not seem to be able to
alleviate, let alone cure, her infiammatory
rheumatism. 1t is not likely that she will ever
go on the stage. She has not been out of her
sick room in months. Most of the time she is
in bed with her unfortunate leg in a plaster
cast. She is a patient sufferer and never com
plains, although the cup of sorrow was pressed
to her lips very early in life.
Her baby boy is progressing finely, and is
bright. healthy looking little sprite-the only
sunbeam tnat brightens its mothers room.
Some of her friends are still loyal. but they are
few. No word has come from her recreant
husband or his family, although there have
been times when poverty crossed the thresh-
old of the sick room. and the poor creature
would have suffered for the necessaries of life
but for the interpostion of friends.
Of the ones who have proved faithful none is
more deserving of credit than the English
maid-of-all-work, who has served Mrs Blaine
without pay, and at times has drawn upon her
savings of years TO keep the wolf from the
door.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06
TIE KEYNOTE OF LONDON.

The orderly demonstration made by the
workingmen of London on Sunday has made
a profound impression everywhere. There
has been little or no effort on the part of the
Tory papers in England to belittle this phase
o. the eight-hour movement. They admit
that when quarter OF million of sturdy
Englishmen in body set out to obtain a
reform the departure is significant and not
to be ignored lightly. 1t is an example of
constitutional agitation well begun. The
result of the mass meeting in Hyde Park
may not be felt Immediately in the adoption
of the eight-hour working day. In England
it seems probable that the regulation of
working hours will be obtained through
Parliament, and such an impressive exhibi-
tion of the popular desire as the laboring
men of London have given is best adapted to
impress the Legislators at Westminster
Doubtless other cities in the United King
dom will indorse with great force the initia-
tive OF London, and we shall not be surprised
if last Sunday proves to be as the Pail Mall
Gazette suggests, one Of the most decisive
days in the industrial history of England.
The conditions are so different here that
it is not within the power OF the laboring
men Of America to adopt their English
brethren's plans even if they would. Labor
has not the same confidence in Congress
ability and willingness to accede to its latest
demands as the Londoners appear to have
in Parliament. But the moderation, cover
ing unanimity in gigantic proportions, of
the British agitators is certainly worthy of
imitation here. The cause of labor will
make all the more rapid and efficient prog
ress if strikes and more violent measures
are not resorted to until a campaign of edu-
cation has been tried.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06
SELLING THE CHURCHES.
Houses of Worship in Their Relations to the
Real Estate Market.


Real Estate Market.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.1
When that grim parsonage. the future histo-
rian, is engaged on the annals OF this town dur
ing the present period, he cannot fail to note
the frequency with which church edifices are
bought and sold. Hardly any property is less
sensitive to the changes Of the real estate mar
ket. Only few days since church edifice on
Park avenue passed into private ownership for
the alleged reason that the locality was not IA
vorable to Baptists-being fashionable quar-
ter largely addicted to Presbyterlanism and
Episcopaoy-and it is within the memory of
Young children when Methodist congregation
on Madison avenue was so rent with internal
discord that after protracted period OF bitter
dissension. the sheepfold was sold, and the
flock scattered. -,
A tour through our leading thoroughfares
will disclose more than one church edifice
frankly offered for sale, and one avenue boasts
Of a church converted. with slight external
change, into an express office, as some years
ago Broadway held one transmogrlhed into
playhouse. Perhaps no one OF these trans
formations appeals more directly to the eye
than that which replaced corrugated cast
iron sanctuary at Forty fifth street by huge
and lofty temple of sport, built OF stone and
prick and terra Gotta, eIaborately carved and
decorated