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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
THE SPARROW NUISANCE.
Squirrels Suggested as Remedy by
Smithsonian Guard.

Squirrels Suggested as a Remedy by ~
Smithsonian Guard.
Any one taking a stroll through the Smith
sonian Park in the early morning will notice
the absence of the song birds which are acaus-
toned to return here with the advent OF
the Easter season, There are plenty
of robins and blackbirds, because
they are too powerful and pug
nacious for the everlasting sparrows, but the
blue-birds, the binnets, the chaffinches, the
the thrushes, and other warblers are absent.
A SUNDAY HERALD reporter while taking
Whit of the fresh morning air in the park en-
counted Que of the guards. Said he; "That
suggestion that you made in The HERALD
about this time last year ought to be adopted.
/ mean about the domestication of squirrels in
the park. We have tried tearing down their
nests and removing all the boxes from the
trees, but it seems to do no good in abating
the sparrow pest. After time the
Government will have to offer premium for
sparrow scaps, for they increase abnormally.
Squirrels are pretty, amusing pets, and would
add greatly by their presence to the attrac-
tions of this park. And then they would do
much toward the abatement of the sparrow
pest as they would perhaps tear down their
nests and possibly kill the young birds. L
am told that in Louisville, KY, the squirrels
shows of the town, and they are the pride Of
the young folks of the city in particular. But
what is more important in this connection is
that the sparrows have given wide berth to
that park since the squirrels multiplied. our
suggestion was good one, and the Smith
sonian authorities will doubtless heed it If it
is properly brought before them.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
PERSONALS.

Mr.. Oscar Haines, representing j. j.
Haines & Co., of Baltimore, Md, was in the
city last week, combining business with pleas
ure.
o. G. Simonson, of the late firm of Goenner
& Co., architects, will continue the business at
511 Eleventh street northwest.
Mr.. Jefferson Chandler, of st. Louis, and
Mr.. Charles H. Thompson, of this city, have
formed law partnership and will have Offices
in this city and in New York. Mr.. Chandler
will come East to take up his residence per-
manently in few weeks.
Architects Paul Schulze, formerly of Cluss &
Schulze, and Albert Goenner, late of Goenner
81 Co., have formed a copartnership. The new
firm will be known as Schulze & Goenner and
will have offices in the Corcoran Building.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor A. Worth Spates,
of Maryland, made hurried visit to the city
yesterday. Mr.. Spates is the attorney for the
merchants of Philadelphia against the rail
roads alleged to be discriminating against
that city. He recently had the best end of
1t in his argument against the telephone COM
panies of Pennsylvania before the Legislature
at Harrisburg.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
THE LAFAYETTE MONUMENT.
Some Pertinent Suggestions About Put
ting 1t in Place.


ting 1t in Place.
To the Editor of The Herald:
Two things suggest themselves to the passer
by the corner of Lafayette Square, where now
is being put in position the statue of La
fayette: First, the impropriety of allow
ing the figures to be freely exposed to public
view during the process of setting up. 1t
would seem, that this ought to suggest itself to
the person in official charge. 1t is the gen.
eral understanding that there is to be cere-
monious ''unveling,' at which the President
and other high officials will be present with
a lot of invited guests. An "unveiling' is
supposed to afford the first opportunity to
view a work of this kind. AS the matter is
going on half the town will have seen all
there is to see before the time comes. Why
not by the use of a few yards of muslin leave
something for the official function to uncover.
Second, are not the two 'cherubs," or what
ever the ideal figures on the north side are
called, somewhat too bulbous in the head
Or is it manifestation of permitted artistic
license? The sboys" seem to be much on the
Flemish style of architecture, and it may be
perfectly correct that the chapeaux of the
adult Frenchmen in their company would not
fit them in case they needed any head cover
ing. But if SO, will not some one authorized
to speak for the sculp.ors tell us what is the
artistic exigency of the case? M.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

The Editor of THE SUNDAY HERALD cdn-
not undertake to preserve or return rejected
commune Itions. Persons aDho desire to possess
their com muriications, il unused, should retain
a copy.
Local reports and absolute netps Of sufficient
importance to justify publication aUill be aDel-
coined irvm nny one, and if ualudblc ,cu be
paid for.
Contributors are respectfully requested to re-
frdin from sending to The SUNDAY HERALD
.letUs items aDhich haze already appeared in
other journals, as it Is not desired to reproduce
matter from the ddQteS.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

control under conditions that would drive
any other people to outbursts of passion. 1t
was inevitable that the strained relations of
the last few days between this country and
Italy should stir strong patriotic feelings in
the hearts cf ali Americans. Feelings of hos
tility toward the country which faced us in
defiance were a natural accompaniment Of the
feelings of patriotism. But with reckless
ness of these facts that only knowledge
of and reliance on our tolerance
and selfcontrol can explain, Ital liam residents
of this country, uaturaliZed and unnatural
lied, iudulged in vigorous and often insulting
criticism of our institutions, laws, and public
men. Italian papers printed in New York and
other cities stopped at nothing in the way of
abuse and threats. Yet, although American
feeling was wrought up to a high tension,
these wild and insulting utterances provoked
no demonstrations against their authors nor
against Italians generally. They were al
lowen TO pass almost unnoticed, and it was
best that it should be so. 1t will help con-
vince civilized men the world over that it re-
quires more than national or race prejudices
or mere talk to stir Americans to action. 1t
will serve to show that the men who took the
law into their own hands in New Orleans
against the Malta assassins did not do
SO without strong provocation. But the wild
utterances of these foreign journals and indi-
viduals will not fail to have an effect. They
will help to strengthen the slowly forming
belief that this country is attempting too
much in the way of assimilating into our
body polite large numbers of foreigners who
know nothing of our institutions, and are so
ignorant and degraded they do not care to
learn. 1t will crystalline into conviction the
suspicion that we are altogether too generous
in according the privileges of citizenship or
the advantages of residence to the off-scour
ings of European society, and that our gen.
erosity is not only unappreciated by the ben
e6ciaries of it, but is actually avaled of to
eudanger our own institutions.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
AN "AD." IN THE HERALD.
1t Brough Business From st. Louis, st.
Augustine and Other Cities.
W.suTNGTON ADr;l q 1891

Augustine and Other Cities.
WASHINGTON, April 2. 1891.
AcSSrS. Soule Dc HenSey:
GENTLEMEN: We wish to say a word as to
the exceptional value of The SUNDAY HERALD
as an advertising medium, not only in Wash
ington, but in other parts of the country.
Since we have inserted our card in your paper
we have been able to trace great deal of new
business to it, and have received orders for
flowers and plants from st. Louis, st. Angus
tine, Fla, and other cities, which were di-
rectly due to the advertisement in THE Sun
DAY HERALD. Therefore, we recognize the
fact that your paper is one of the best me-
diums by which to reach the class OF custom
ers We desire we have ever used. Yours, etc.,
a. GUIDE & BRO,
Florists, 1112 street northwest
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
QUERIES.
Suggested by Photo of "Victor," Dog
of High Degree.

by Photo of ''Victor," Dog
of High Degree.
Speak, Victor. speak, and tell us
OF the wisdom long concealed;
OF thine insight we are jealous,
And would know the unreveaIed.
Sure within thy brain are lying
Secrets of the buried past;
Signs that mark them, time defying,
On thy furrowed front are cast.
Something less of brute than human,
Thy weird, mournful gaze implies;
Tenderness like that of woman
Dwells within thy wondrous eyes.
In their light rests Will suspended;
Force is chained by threads of Thought;
Art thou by some shade attended?
Hath thy look its impress caughtp
Doth mighty spirit vanished
From the cons gone before.
Unto british thraldom banished,
Thro' thine eye scan cycles DER?
Traces of Times swift mutations
Linger on the desert plain;
Doth the Sphinx in meditations
Call the shadows back again2
Dost thou search receding ages
For companions of thy prime
They who set the mental gauges
Marking scrolls of ancient Time?
Thus we vainly, blindly wonder.
Gazing on thy soulful face
What doth bind and what doth sunder,
Earthly forms and spirit grace2
HARRIET N. RALsToN.
WAsHINGToE. ID, c., April 3, 1891.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

The difference between the civilized man
and the savage is, after all, one of degree
rather than of kind. In the spring our wards
of the nation are impelled by their warlike in
stncts TO don their ghost shirts and their
war-paint and begin their ghost and war
dances preparatory to going forth to scalp
the remote frontiersman and steal his horses
and cattle Among the civilized tribes of
Europe the same impulses, working in diff
ferent way, become active every spring. The
ghost-dances and war-dances of Briton and
Gaul, German and Russ, go on in the gorgeous
apartments of governmental palaces and in
diplomatic consultation-rooms. Those who
take part in them are arayed in the elegant
uniforms of the modern court and camp They
do not gyrate in savage frenzy and chant in
barbaric cadences, but their purposes are none
the less bloodthirsty and thieYish than those
of the untutored savage OF our Western plains.
Just now the usual spring rumors of great
European war fill the air and freight the
cables. France and Russia clasp hands hot
and hard with a common hatred of Germany
and England, while Austria, Italy, and
Belgium look on with anxiety, maneuVre
their armies, strengthen their defenses, and
test anew the reliability of their allies Maybe
these warlike movements and rumors of wars
will cease and die away as they have in former
years, and that the would-be belligerents will
restrain their hatred for another year. II
they do not, all friends of humanity and OF
civilization will hope that the aggressors may
receive such crushing defeat that for years tc
come they will be unable to lift hand against
the peace of Europe.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
Heavy Death-rate in New York.

NEW York, April 4.-Dunng the past week
ending at noon to-day there were LOO deaths
in the city, against S95 for the preceding
week There were So deaths from la grippe
against 10 from similar causes of the week be-
fore. The police department has 244 of its
force on the sick list.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

a new publication which will meet genu-
inc want among business men, lawyers, and
all who are interested in real estate is the
Real Estate and Court Gazette, published by
Messrs. Dutton 81 Maher, at No. 1919 +
street. This publication enters a field now
practically unoccupied, and will doubtless
meet cordial welcome among the large class
to which it appeals
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
sensationaI Snicide.

CLEVELAND, ONO, April 4.-Albert Bemis
who was arrested at Canton, Ohio, week
ago for shooting at Miss Carrie Schneider
with intent to Kill, was taken from jail TO a
hotel to pay bill he owed At the hotel
desk he swallowed draught of poison and
died soon afterward.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

Governor Hill grew quite hysterical in his
letter to the Manhattan Single Tax Club, de-
claring that the Democratic party is not a
free-trade party Now, in the language of the
late Sairy Camp, What Democrat deniges of
it, Dayid9
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
$50 REWARD.

>'THE SUNDAY HERALD" is con-
WINGED that there is an organized gang
of paper thieves In this city, who follow
its carriers around and take the papers
from the door-steps. We will pay re-
ward OF $40 for the arrest and convic-
ton of any one OF these thieves,
$50 REWARD.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
C. a r a R r. II !!
Its Effect @n Tho Throat.
A Letter From Or i.ighthil.
1411 X STREET NORTHWEST,
WASHINGTON, March 81.

14l1 X STREET NORTHWEST,
WASHINGTON, March el.
Mr.. EDITOR: In large number of cases
OF catarrh the throat is affected as well as the
nasal passages, and when such is the case
feeling Of irritation, funess, rawness, tender
ness, or pain is felt in the throat, increased
upon pressure or while swallowing, and oc-
casionaly distressing sensation is com
planned of, as If hair or brlstle or other for
eign substance had lodged in the throat. The
mucous membrane is coated with tough
viscid discharge, which provokes an almost
constant desire for scraping, hemming, or
hawking, while at times dsagreeable sensa-
tion of dryness in the throat is almost con-
stantly present. In some cases the ability to
swallow is sensibly impaired, so that patients
find 1t somewhat difficult to force down the
food, and are troubled occasionally with par
oxysms of choking.
The tonsils are more or less enlarged and
infamed and often contain cheese-like often
yuh hfnh all, l..
pressure. The uvula is elongated, Irritating
the epigottis, giving rise to prolonged fits of
distressing cough, and often producing by
this constant friction more serious ailments Of
the larynx. The fauces are thickened. the
follicles are enlarged and inflamed-the
eustachian tubes partly closed-producing
distressing noises in the ears and head and
more or less loss of hearing-from an uneasi-
ness and occasional opening and shutting
sensation in the ears to decided deafness,
which increases with every cold until useful
hearing is lost
The voice is always more or less affected,
becoming hoarse, weak, or cracked, and oc-
casionally it is SO impaired that it degenerates
into mere whisper Cough of var liable Sc
verify is often present, sometimes of mere
hacking character, but occasionally of very
severe and troublesome nature, accomp anied
| by wandering pains and other uncomfortable
sensations in the chest, together with great
debility and progressive emaciation. In fact,
SO alarming are these symptoms in some cases
that they are apt to be mistaken for those of
tubercular disease, and many case of catarrh
that came under my observation had been pro-
nounced consumption, even by experienced
physicians, and vainly treated as such, while
all the symptoms rapidly disappeared as soon
as the treatment was directed to the eradica-
tion of the catarrh.
For over thirty years have devoted nv ex-
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

No doubt it is necessary to shoot down
strikers who are bent on violence, as they
have been doing in Pennsylvania the past
week. But it would be better for the nation
and for American laborers in particular if the
coal barons had never found it necessary to
import these dangerous Huns and Italians
into the country. They were brought in, as
rule, because they would work for less
than the Americans, and their violent out
breaks necessitating the interference of the
militia are bound to breed Generalization.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

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One of the truths enforced anew by the
events of the past week is that the American
people are the most tolerant because the most
enlightened and broad-minded in the world,
and all classes Of them preserve their self
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

1t isn't likely they play the great American
game to any extent in Sicily, but they do seem
to grow first-rate quality of buffer. Even
Maine must acknowledge this.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

In the present juncture the appropriate oil
TO cast upon the troubled waters is olive oil.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

For over thirty years have devoted my ex-
elusive attention to the careful study and
scien tifc investigation of catarrh and dis
eases of the respiratory organs, and have sue
ceeded in formulating a system of treatment
which is absolutely painless, prompt in its
action, and positively curative in its effects.
From the first application great benefit is ex
perienced which continues from day to day
until final and permanent cure is the result
Respectfully yours,
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

Florists, 1112 F street northwest.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05
MAIDEN LOCALS.

George Wisdsman has returned from the
upper country.
A coed force OF men is still employed at
the Spotted Horse mine.
County Commissioner Saunders has been
quite i'll for several days but In now conval-
escent.
The professionals in the pla Ger claim con
test feel quite elated at the decision of the
will again be appealed.
Mr.. Meadow has been heard from and
authorizes Mr.. Mahler to put everything in
shape again as soon as possible. Should
the weather be cold or otherwise %unfavor-
able it will be sometime before anything
can be lone as the machinery will ave to
be brought in by freight teams and very
little can be lone until it arrives.
weather and his somewhat scsnty attire,
Cupid, it ia rumored, has been making a
stealthy visit to the camp. He is said to
have done some very good shooting. having
lodged two Of his keenest arrows in two re-
spective hearts. The wounds are fatal.
The wedding will take place on the eleventh.
The dancing club gave a party at the
skating rink on Friday last. The must
clans from Cottonwood failing to arrive.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter furnished the music
and dancing wa kept up to q hte hour.
There was a private entertainment at the
bo-. af NJ and Mra Moorhead ths an M
evening whish was enjoyed by all present.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05

as this the best?" Is a question often
asked, when medicine is wanted. The
following are a few of the medicines of
known reliability, sold by w. w. Dewitt,
druggist, OF this place. They have many
other excellent medicines, but these are
worthy OF especial mention:
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, famous
for cures Of severe colds, and as a preven-
tative for Group. Price so cents per
bottle.
Chamberlain Pain Balm, a general
family liniment and especially valuable
for rheumatism. Price so cents per bottle.
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy. the most reliable known
medicine for bowel complaints. 1t is
especially priced by persons subject to
collie. 1t has cured many cases OF chronic
diarshoea-Price 25 and so cents per
bottle.
st. Patrick's Pills, for disorders of the
liver and bowels. A vigorous but gentle
physic that cleanses and renovates the
whole system. Price 25 cents per box.
Chamberlain Eye and Skin Ointment
For letter, salt-rheum, scaldhead, eczema
and chronic sore eyes. Price 25 cents per
box.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05

Fergus County Loses One Of Its Most Prom
inent and Useful Citizens.

Our readers viii be panied to learn OF the
death of Frank r. Stoddard, which oc-
Cured at Martinsdale on Jan. 26. after an
illness OF two months. Mr.. Stoddard left
his ranch neal Fort Maginnis the latter
part OF October for a. visit of several weeks
with relatives and friends in M~eagher
county. After finishing his visit he started
on his way home, but was taken sick at
Martinsdals. His illness developed into
typhoid fever Of the most malignant type.
He constantly grew worse, and his brother,
A. w. Stoddard, hastened tn his bedside.
With the most tender nursing and watch
fulness the fever was finally broken up, but
Mr.. Stoddard failed to regain strength.
His food would not assimilate, and he
wasted away until death occurred, as
stated above.
A. W. Stoddard is now en- route to New
ington. Conn, with the remains. the former
home of the deceased. where the interment
will take place. He was 29 years Of age at
the time of his death. He leaves a mother
and sister. h reside at Bloomfield, Conn,
and a brother, who was engaged with him
in the sheep business near Fort Maginnis.
He was "A cousin OF Mrs. Len Lewis and
Mrs. c. w. Cook of Smith river valley.
Fergus county could i'll afford to lose SO
valuable a citizen. He was an Industrious.
honorable aud intelligent young man, aud
had often been mentisned as "a capable and
worthy selection for any public trust within
the gift al the people OF thi. county, aud
there were many honors awaiting him. He
was very successful in his private business,
and was about ready to enjoy the fruits Of
his toll and care when deaths cold hand
was laid upon him.. His bereaved relatives
have the sympathy OF this community.