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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-02-27
Oneer Things In Queer Places.

G. II. Robertson, reader of the
Republic, once found n cavity in
large burr oak tree in which about
pint of pin oak acorns had been stored.
The cxcava ion in which the acorns
were found had been made By wood
pcckcrs and was in the most solid
part of the tree. Mr. Robertson says
that, according to Chambers, there
was 39S years growth of wood over
the end of the cavity, yet all of the
acorns were as fresh as if only put
away by the birds or squirrels the fall
before.
Robert buchanan of Monroe county,
Iowa, while digging coal shaft on
his farm. east of Abba, found new
species of mouse inbeddcd in tho
clay 80 feet below the surface. 1t
was found in little cavity just large
enough to fit the body, but without
any clay adhcring TO its fur. The
sides Of the cavity seemed worn and
polished as if ;he little creature had
turned around and around thousands
of ii mes in It's narrow sepulchre be-
fore il final died. When found it
wa, in perfect state of preservation II
and rs soft and piable as if had only
died the day before.
An artcsian well near Albert Lea,
Mimi, which spouts both oil and
water, often changes the programme
and sends out, stream of small min
uows Shich asc wholly unlike any
known species Of fish found in that
vicinity ST. Louis Republic.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-02-27

Life hath its quiet joys when age hath come
Though voices many have grown still and
dumb
Along the way;
shadows Oft fall upon the drying ~rass,
Dead leaves are rustling as we onward pass
AT close Of day.
Yet flowers bloom the latest Of the year
still beam upon Us with smile Of cheer
That warns Us much;
And hands extended meet Us on the way,
Consong Us as hands Of old friends may,
With living touch.
Though much has gone, much has been left
behind
In little pleasures We our comfort find
From day to day
Though many voices have grown still and
dumb,
Life hath Ifs quiet Joys when age has come
To cross our way.
- l.. L. 5. Barnard.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
HoNoRING A WORTHY MAN.

General John F. Hartranft, whose mon-
ument, erected by the National Guard of
Pennsylvania, was unveiled at Norristown
yesterday was one of the worthiest of re-
cent Governors of this State. His military
career was splendid in its display of per
sonal courage and in his capacity as CON-
mander. His political standing, while at
one time clouded through the malfeasances
of individuals who had financial dealings
with the State Treasury, while he was
Auditor in the early seventies, ultimately
became such that long before he retired
from the Office of Governor he possessed
the full trust and conf dence of the people
without regard to party. Personally, Gen.
eral Hartranft was one of the most modest
of men. he was backward to the degree
Of extreme diffidence, but none was more
respected for his worth by those who knew
him. In the whole course of his admins
tratiOn Of the Governorship, at a time
when politics was too often made subser-
Went to mean and selfish ends, no whisper
was heard in any instance derogatory to
the dignified and upright incumbent of the
Executive chair,
Governor Hartranft did much to make
the National Guard of Pennsylvania the
efficient and well disciplined military or
ganization which it nowis The Guard does
well to honor his memory: and the general
public viii share in the timely tribute at
Nouistown yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
WITH CROWNS AND WITHOUT.

The Hon. A. G. Porter, the United
Minister, left Rome yesterday on his usual
summer leave of absence. Mr.. Porter, it is
understood, is en- route to England.
MRS. LOGAN, now in London, starts on
her summer coaching trip through England
the last of this week. Her son, daughter-in-
law and Miss Pullman accompany her.
1t is announced that the Rev. Thomas H.
Gaylor Chancellor of the University of the
South, has declined the Episcopal Bishopric
of Georgia, to which he was recently chosen
by election.
PROF. HUGO G. SCHILLING, professor of
modern languages at Wittenburg, and
one of the best linguists in the country, has
accepted the chair of professor of German
at Harvard.
MRS. NELLIE GRANT SARToRIs and
daughter sailed for Liverpool on the servia
yesterday. Mark Twain, George William
Curtis and Russian Minister Streuve sailed
on the La Gascogne for Havre.
THOMAS A. EDISON is writing his first
novel A. telegraph, Atlantic cable, tele.
phone, phonograph, audiphone and kineto-
graph will figure among the accessories and
the denouement occurs in q thunder shower.
GENERAL GRosvENoR will not 60 to Eu-
rope until he has attended the Ohio Repub-
lican Convention. He should have a chair
upon tho platform this time. Last year he
sat down Upon the floor, and glowered be-
hind his beard, while Foraker forgave the
men he had injured and otherwise agitated
the heated convention air
JAMES WHITCoMB RILEY and Ella
Wheeler Wilcox we're more than friends
years ago, it is said. Both were poor, how
ever, and neither had attained a national
reputation at that time. Whether or not
Mrs. Wilcox ever intended to marry the
Hoosier poet, Reilly himself was nearly
heartbroken when their cordial relations
were sundered.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
ANOTHER HONEST RASCAL.

Another "honest" man has come to
grief through his own villainy. Jacob
Bennett, "Honest Jacob" they called him
in Baltimore, who committed suicide some
days ago, is now found to have been
swindler of the meanest kind. He won
the confidence of a host of poor men and
women, persuaded them to invest their
savings In building association, of which
he was secretary in name and entire mas
ter in fact, and now he is dead and the
money has disappeared. 1t is stated that
he was plausible talker and strict
church member, very common eioaks of
modern embezzler, and nobody seems to
have suspected him till he put an end
to his life. The washerwoman and work
men who gave him their savings have some
excuse for their confding trust, but the
business men who were associated with
him in the management of the RothSchild
Building Association, and whose duty it
was to know what was done with the
money, have a terrible responsibility to
face. No nickname or patent reputation
should be allowed to protect man from
the scrutiny of his fellow trustees. AS it
is the very title of ''honest" is becoming
good ground for suspicion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
CONFLICTING PROPHECIES.

Some of the speculative scientific men
are indulging in forecasts as to the future
of this poor old earth of ours, which are
not calculated to increase the comfortable
confidence of humanity in its endurance
NJ. Camille Flammarion pauses in his prof.
ects for establishing communications with
the inhabitants of Mars long enough to
agitate supposed decrease in the mean
temperature of the globe, and to suggest
that this may go on until life shall become
as extinct as it is supposed to be in the
moon. Another French scientific man,
NJ. Adhemar, has constructed theory
exactly opposite, for it foresees destruc-
ton of the earth by too great heat A
third theory looks to the disturbance of
the oceans which will sweep in one mighty
torrent from their beds and oyerwhelm
what is now the habitable globe. Prof.
Totten winds up the series by declining to
bother himself about the methods in which
the natural forces of destruction will go to
work, and simply relies on rather apocry-
phal revelation for his expectation of an
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
early termination to our small but very

early termination to our small but very
comfortable sphere.
In the presence of this multitude of
counsel, there is the conclusion of safety.
For it Is to be observed, while all the pre-
dictions look to the end of the world, they
all neutralize each other. When the scien-
tific experts disagree, the common people
may hope for the maintenance of the gen.
eral average. One predicts that the earth
will freeze to death and other that 1t will
burn up, which allows us to expect that
the mean temperature viii remain about
the same, and that the variations between
summer and winter will continue as usual
Two of the uncomfortable raticinators
look for the destruction of life by slow pro-
cesses lasting probably for centuries; and
two others expect it by sudden and univer-
sal cataclysms. All of which permit con-
fidence to remain unshaken that the old
concern will continue in its daily revolu-
tions, and that life will present its balances
of discomforts and enjoyments to an end of
time so far distant that even the longest
term life insurance companies cannot con-
template it.
All such speculations are sensational and
foolish. The question that concerns hui
manity is not how long this earth will last,
but what we can do to make it better while
IL lasts
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
WHAT CONSTITUTES GAMBLING

The discussion of the game Of progressive
ouchre in the Presbyterian General As
semby has awakened its usual echoes
throughout the press. For body which
less than generation ago regarded all
card-playing as an instrumentality of evil,
the deliverance on progressive euchre is a
very mild one. But it is surprising to find
such loose logic on the subject as the fol-
lowing editorial declaration of the New
York Sun: "Yet progressive euchre is as
much gambling game as draw poker or
baccarat 1t is played for stakes, and the
stakes give the zest to the game which
makes it popular They are called prizes,
but they are gambling stakes, all the
same"
It might be said that this is dispute
about definitions; but the very term used
by our brilliant cotemporary ought to
make the definition clear. The term is the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
TOO BUSY TO MARRY.
A Cincinnati Couple That Wanted to Save
Time and BE Married by Proxy.

A Cincinnati Couple That Wanted to Save
Time and Be Married by Proxy.
CINCINNATI, June 6-William Jordens and
Miss Louise Menke, both of this city, were
married in Newport yesterday by Squire
Bodkins after considerable difficulty. Either
the groom imagined that the Kentucky mar
riage laws allow everything, or else the
bride Is a very busy young woman. William
appeared early in the day before the Squire
and wanted to get married. His intended,
he said, was perfectly willing, but could not
spare the time from her domestic duties, so
he would like to be married by proxy.
He produced letter from Miss Menke,
giving her consent to the plan, and mod
estly asked the Squire to go with him to the
Clerks office and procure license, and he
would run out and hunt up a substitute for
the girl. The Squire said that maybe they
did things in Ohio that way. but it wouldn't
go in sedate Kentucky. Jordens then hunted
mp the Clerk himself and presented himself,
but the Clerk refused. William argued that
such marriages had taken place in this
country and had been declared legal, citing
as an example the case of Anna Van Zandt
and the Anarchist, August Spies, but still
the Clerk refused, saying he would be happy
to furnish him a license If he would bring
somebody along to get married to. He was
finally compelled to return and hunt up
Miss Menke, when they returned to New
port. where Squire Bodkins, with great
pomp and ceremony, tied the nuptial knot.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
ENFORCING THE LAW.

The recent arrest and sentence of an
offender who absconded after conviction
five years ago, and then came back here,
has aroused some ill-judged comment
The assertion was made that it was due to
spite-work. This idea the Judge in pass
ing sentence took occasion to correct, with
the statement that the arrest was made by
his orders as soon as he learned that the
offender was living in the city.
The matter seems to call for comment of
another sort than has been given it. If
violators of the law can escape punish
ment by jumping bail after conviction and
come back undisturbed after a years
interval the whole machinery of penal
law is gigantic and costly farce. 1t was
the business of every one connected
with the maintenance of the law to see
that this unpunished offender was arrested
as soon as he came within reach. Yet the
remarkable fact appears in this case that
he had been living in the city for four
years, in open defiance of the conviction
rendered against him.
The comment needed is not criticism
that he should be arrested after so long an
interval, but sharp inquiry as to why he
was not arrested years ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
LICKED. 4 LYNX.
A Little Maine Hero Who Would: Not Give
in to the Wild Beast

BANGOR, Me, june 6.-Charles Heath. IS
year-old boy living at East Thornton. near
the game region of Maine, met a strange ad-
venture yesterday in a grove on his fathers
farm He saw an animal of some kind
crouching upon the limb of a tree a little
distance away. Thinking it was a cat he
threw stone at it.
The next thing Ire knew an animal about
four times the size of common cat came
sailing through the air in his direction,
snarling viciously. 1t sprang upon him with
such force as to knock him over a log, and
boy and beast rolled over and over the
creature biting and chewing the youngster
savagely, tearing his clothes, that hung
from him in shreds, and infiicting long,
bleeding cuts upon his head and face. This
weakened him, but he luckily rolled against
the log and was enabled to rise Reaching
tree few feet away, into which he climbed
with the cat hanging to his legs, the first
limbs gave him resting place. With his
heavy boots he kicked the ferocious beast
to the ground. Again and again did the cat
try to spring upon him, but every time he
did so young Heath would kick him in the
head. Finally the animal with his head
bruised and bleeding, abandoned the fight
and with shrill cries skunk away.
After waiting two hours, the boy eau
tiously dropped to the ground and ran for
home, reaching there with his tattered gar
ments wet with blood. 1t is believed that
the animal was large Canada lynx, erro-
neously called q wildcat.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
This implies-what con-

word stakes" This implies-what con-
stitutes the essence of gambling-that
each party stakes or hazards something for
the purpose of winning the proportionate
amount staked by his opponents. The
prizes played for in progressive euchre are
not put up by the players. They are
offered by the hosts, who cannot compete
for them. 1t is true that the vice Of osten-
tation often makes these prizes so valua-
BILE as to make the game cost far more
than the pleasure comes to; but the most
extreme manifestations of that error do
not invest it with single feature of gamb-
ling
The distinction is worth drawing for far
more important matters than the game of
progressive euchre; and very apt illus
tration will show it plainly. A horse-show
association offers prize for the best horse,
There is no gambling among the owners of
horses in the competition for that prize.
But if the horse owners put up their own
money to form purse which shall be car
ried off by the fastest trotter or runner the
money competed for is properly desig-
mated the stakes" and the gambling ele-
ment enters. As to bets with booksellers
or boolsmakers in New York-they are
pure gambling beyond all question.
1t is well, in order to be able to see
where the line is properly drawn, to re-
member the element which really makes
gambling injurious. 1t is undertaking
hazardin the hope of making gain with
out giving fair consideration to the per-
son from whom the money is taken. On
this point lies the distinction from legiti-
mate business transactions in which both
parties are gamers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
PITTsBURG, SUNDAY, JUNE7, 1891.
HABITUAL CRIMINALS.

The grave question of the treatment of
the habitual occupants of workhouses and
penitentiaries is discussed elsewhere in
this issue by number of leading citi-
zens whose occupations bring them into
contact with the subject 1t is started by
the avowed belief OF Mr.. Henry Warner
that society could do better for itself and
for the men who are sent back to penal
institutions almost as soon as they get
out by organizing them into a penal col
, onv. This idea brings out all shades of
belief from approval of the suggestion to
fiat disapproval, with the incidental sup
port by Thomas NJ Marshall, Esq, of the
whipping post for wife-beaters.
The discussion leaves no doubt that the
present system is deficient The steady
return to our penal institutions of re-
peaters, of men who spend the majority
of their time within prison walls, is not
fulfilling the reformatory idea of prisons.
But how the weak point shall be amended
is a lnotty question. The objection to
penal colonies is their great liability to
abuse. A system should not be con-
demned merely because it can be abused,
lOI dll SNSOtllS udNb llldb lldDluGN. Dub, IL
its conditions are such as to make abuses
probable, it should be resorted to only
when no other recourse is possible.
1t is brought out in the discussion that
under a wise and philanthropic manage
ment, like that of Capt. Maconochie, on
Norfolk Island, the most wretched penal
institution can be raised to high grade of
order and usefulness. But it is also shown
that il is not necessary to transport GRIM
inals to remote and probably savage re-
gions in order to apply that system. The
same system has established three remark
ably successful institutions in Ireland
These facts indicate that what is needed
is not so much penal colony as system
by which the criminal has held before him
a sure reward for industry; chance to
obtain honest employment; supervision,
and even guardianship, until his reforma-
ton is fully established, and, finally, the
certainty of punishment for all offenders
against the law.
The last point does not receive much at
tentiOn by the participants in the discus
sion. Still, it is worth while to make the
INQUIRY whether the uncertainties of the
law and the indefinite belief that influence
, or wealth can violate it with impunity
does not have as much to do with the pro-
duction of habitual offenders as any other
single cause.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
AMONG THE WITS.

Young Hankinson (making a caIl)-You
have had that parrot long time, Miss Laura?
Miss Laurs-Yes we have had him several years.
''ouite intelligent. Is he not?''
.fVery. He can initiate almost anything"
.sThey have a remarkably clever parrot at
the Casterlins'. Miss Laura. 1t can initiate the
sound of kiss to perfection. Is that among the ac
complishments of our feathered friend here in the
corner2''
dndignantiy,-No, sir. He does not attempt an
imitation of a sound he is not accustomed 10 hear,
Mr. Hankinson-
The Parrot-waft, George. dear, till 1 take this
bird out of the room.-chicd0o Herald.
The West Pointer goes into the army for
general results, and the enlisted man for private
ends.-Smith. Gray C Co. IS Monthly.
Enterprising Sister-See how pretty she
looks against that olive curtain! Now's your
chance Frank; go in and speak 70 her sne rs aione
Timid brother-Y-e-s; but If go In tnere sne
won't be alone.-Satth, Gray d Co.'S Monthly.
The Order of the Bath-Hurry up them
towels.-Ssatth, Ggu4 Co.'S Monthly.
Whether the dear girls wear long or q
short bathin9 skirt is merely a matter Of form.-
Smith. Gray G Co.'S Aoszhty.
''They say heaven lies about us in our
infancy"
isWeu. we return the compliment in our maturer
years. .''-Smith. Gray Co. Monthly.
willie-Papa, what does a real fine corn
palace costr
whites Papa with new patent feathers onl-
Twelve dollars pair my son.-Chicdgo Herald
Let the fragrant June roses
Exhflarate your noses.-Troy Press.
Though she married her coachman
The cold fact remains
That in driving together
She handles the reins'.-N Z. HeTTld.
The virtuous follow the biblical injunc-
tou 70 'hoId fast that which is good:'' but there
are more who hold good that which is fast--Puck.
"Amerwica faw AmerwicansP'
Young Algy cried Of late.
s.Ah!' said his friend; land when do you
Intend to emigrate?''- Puck.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07

HISTORICAL accuracy should be feature
of historical comparisons, which makes it
regrettable that the bright paragrapher of
the Philadelphia Times should insist on a
parallel between Natalie, of Servia, and
Maria Theresa, of Austria, referring to the
latter as "the famous victim of Frederick, Z"
and speaking of "the historic cry of the
Polish nobles'' in her defense. As Maria
Theresa was not dethroned and came nearer
making victim of of Frederick than being
his victim, and as her sole connection with
the Polish mobiles was to join in the par
tition of their country, our esteemed cotem-
porary will have to reconstruct its historical
parallel between the rigid Empress and the
far from straitlaced Servian Queen.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
Obituary Notes.

LEOPOLD HAsNER, Baron Won Artha. the Aus
trian statesman. Is dead.
CHARLES A. HoTcHKIss, leading member of
the Farmers Alliance organization Of Cortland
county, N. Y, died at his home in Virgil Saturday,
aged 6S years.
MRS. ALDEN GOLDSMITH, widow of Alden Gold
smith the noted horseman, died yesterday morn
ing at an advanced age at her late home In WASH
ingtonville, n. Y.
REV. DIR. J. ROMEYN BERRY. of Rhlnebeck, n.
Y, who was in attepdance at the Synod Of the Re
formed Church of America, now in session at AS
bury Park, N. Y. died suddenly Friday night
JOHN E. LovKJoY. the last member of the noted
Abolitionist family of that name. died Friday,
aged So at Monticello, la. During the past Is
Years he has been station agent at Center Junction
ELIAS wAYMAN. aged los years, died at his
home three miles west of Youngstown, Thursday.
The deceased was born In Albany. n. Y. Five
wears ago he gained much notoriety by walking
from Youngstown to Pittspufg.
GEORGE E. IsHELL, one of the founders of Bing-
bamton, died here Tuesday. aged s. years. He
served for many years as Justice of the Peace.
and also held other local oices. He Is survived by
his aged wife and an adopted daughter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
A SPECIMEN of the loose statements con.

A SPECIMEN of the loose statements con-
cerning the proposed revision of the Constf-
tuition is the following by the Boston Trdp-
elter concerning Ohio and Pennsylvania:
"Both States have a number of antiquated
features embedded in their fundamental
law, and both Constitutions would be the
better for wise and judicious revision"
There may be some foundation for this as
sertion concerning the Constitution of Ohio,
which we believe was revised in 1857. 1t is
entirely without foundation concerning the
Constitution of Pennsylvania, which was
revised in 1873 by the ripest minds of the
State. The movement for the revision is en-
tirely politicians movement, and should
be defeated by the people.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
LIFE WOULD BE MERRIER

IL envy was unknown.
If love was not blind.
If we were all satisfied.
IL cooks were more numerous.
If creed did not foster faction.
If worth was put above wealth.
Ii livers never got out Of order.
If duty was worshipped like beauty.
Ii womankind was not quite SO tickle.
If there was more laughter and less sigh
ing. :, 49,
IL politics conferred honors instead of
spoils.
list of ills.
IL babies slept quietly until the walking
and talking period.
IE.thieves could be convinced that they
viii surely be found out.