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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01

The Queen will give a first-class cabin pas.
sage to England and return with 5000 in cash
for expenses, to the person sending the first
correct answer to the following problem:
'.If Henry's grandfather was Johns uncle,
what relation would Henry be to John?"
A frst-class safety bicycle for the second
correct answer; French music box for the
third; gold watch to each Of the next three;
pair of genuine diamond earrings, in solid
gold setting, to each of the next FIVE; silk
dress pattern to each of the next ten. To
the person sending the last correct answer
will be given Steinway or Mason & Risch
fine toned upright piano; to the next to the
last Kodak camera; to each of the next
two, complete lawn tennis outfits; to each
of the next three a pair Of genuine diamond
earrings, in solid gold setting; to each
of the next five a handsome silk dress pat
tern, and several other additional prizes
(shouid there be so many sending in correct
answers). A special prize will be given for
the first correct answer from reader of the
Pittsburg Dispatch. ALI answers must be
sent by mail and bear postmark not later
than June 1st. Each competitor must in
close seven U. S. two-cent stamps for sample
copy of the Queen with full particulars and
list of '1ucky" Americans who have pre-
viously won some of the Queens valuable
prizes. This popular publication has already
given three free trips to Europe. Send to-
day and address the Canadian Queen, "a, %
Toronto Canada
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
WARN ROOMS KILL INDIANS.

Tho Best wayto Wage a War OF Extermina-
tion Is With Steam Heating.
"The glare and heat of civilization have
killed more Indians than have the bullets
of the pioneers" says George Fl. William
son, of Indian Territory, in the st. Louis
Globe Democrat 'The Indians blood from
a long line of ancestry is tainted with
scrofula, and the ease and comforts Of the
white mans life vitalize this scrofulous
tendency. To make plain what mean L
will tell you what observed at the Govern
ment school at Lawrence, Kan, few years
ago.
"Thc Governme It heated the quarters Of
the pupils by steam, and in little while
the Indians began to die off like sheep from
consumption until the steam pipes were re-
moved. The Indian needs a hardy, rough
life on the plains Under rch conditions
he thrives and is healthr, bu just as soon
as you con6ne him to the limits of warm
room pulmonary tuberculosis seizes him
and carries him of. Heat and ease set the
scrofula in his blood to work with disas-
trous effects. That's the reason the Ameri-
can Indian will soon be reminiscence-his
constitution can't stand the civilization OF
the pale face"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01

Senator Conkling, there is only one thing
that YOU do not seem to have fully settled
in your mind, and that is you do not know
whether you made the Lord Almighty or
the Lord Almighty made you?'"
'And what did Conkling say to that, l
asked.
"He didn't say anything" said Governor
Foster with laugh "He merely sneered
and turned upon his heel and after that our
relations were not very friendly"
"How about President Harrison. will he
be nominated?"
'I think there is no doubt of IL, was his
reply. "Blaine is entirely out of the field
and he will not, think, ever be Presi-
dental candidate again. Harrison will be
nominated by acclamation. He has grown
a great deal since he became President and
he is stronger now with the people than he
was in 1888"
"How about McKinley?"
Mckinley All Right for '96.
mckinley is too near the Mckinley bill
to be Presidential candidate this year, re-
piled Governor Foster. "He may be very
good candidate for 1896, when the working
of the bill has been made manifest to all,
but it would not be wise to nominate him
now."
''How about the Democratic candidates."
Il think Cleveland will be the nominee,
and don't see anyone else who has any
real chance before the convention.
How about Governor Hip"
81 think Mr.. Hill has, as the boys say.
'over-crapped himself He has bitten off
more than he can chew, and, keeping up the
same style of expression, 'he is not in it. -
"How about the issues?"
s'Both the tariff and the silver question
will enter into the campaign. We will ac-
cept the position of the President on silver,
and the Democrats will make some kind of
plank that will read both ways and be for
or against silver according as the locality is
in favor or against it. The tariff question
will be the same as it has been in the past,
and I think the chances are very fair for the
Republican party CARRYING the election"
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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carried off more of the prizes A few days
ago Mr.. Barnby was appointed principal of
the Guildhall School Of Music, one of the
most important institutions in England.
He is not so we'll known in America as
some English composers of less ability, but
as choral conductor it is generally agreed
Mr.. Barnby has no equal
The school to preside over for which he left
the comfortable berth of precentor of Eton
College, is one of the few instances where
that numbering old relic of antiquity, the
Corporation of the City ofDondon, has spent
large sums to good advantage. The Guild
hall school abuts upon the Victoria en-
bankment near the historic Temple
Gardens. A number of scholarships are
attached to the school, and probably at no
other place in the world can such COM
plete and highly artistic training be OBJ
tanned for so small a cost. In connection
with the school is the Guildhall Orchestral
Society. Mr.. Barnby has a high reputa-
tion as an organist and conductor, as we'll
as a composer and teacher, and the organiza-
ton which first brought him into promi-
nence, "Barnby's Choir" is still remem-
bered for the brilliant oratorio con certs
which it gave under his leadership. His
latest and greatest triumph was the
first London performance Of Dvoraks
Requiem" few days ago
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
More Troubls Over in Africa.

The French are not to enjoy a monopoly
of warfare on the western coast of Africa,
tor Englahd has one of her nice little wars
brewing ID connection with Lazos,a port on
the slave coast that never turns into sand
bank over night as most harbors upon the
lagoon-locked seaboard are apt to do. The
trouble which now imperils the English
settlement at Lagos had its origin In a
trading treaty by which the King of Jebu, a
native State lying between Gariba and the
coast including Lagos. agreed to take s. 500
year in lieu of all tolls and taxes upon
goods in transit between the English settle
ments and the interior. This treaty the
monarch of Jebu recently tore up, and his
subjects, uniting with their neighbors, the
Egbas, threaten to drive all the foreigners
into the sea. The whole region back of the
Gold coast and the Slave coast is uneasy,
and as we know the French expect to be
forced to give the dusky King Of Dahomey
trouncing before they get through with
him. - So.
Yellow fever and an intolerable climate
have made this sandy margin Of the South
Atlantic q synonym tor certain death to
Europeans, and we are hardly prepared to
believe that much exists there that is
worth fighting for. But the interior couh-
especially tine less moral traffic In rum and
firearms. Cities of a size that would en-
title them to s., 600, 900 Federal building
in this blessed land-of freedom. are to be
found in the States of Egba, Jebu, Ilorin
and others which NAV be involved in war
with England or France, or both The
census Is not down among the imports on
this coast, but it is known that Abeokuta,
the capital of Egba, for instance, contains a
population of nearly 100000 souls, and
there are dozen cities in that and the
neighboring States of over $4,000 inhab-
itants. Most of these cities are really
rather aggregations of separate vii
lagos formed by affiliated tribes
so as to oppose a common resistance to the
more ferocious people of Dahomey on the
one side and in earlies times to the villain
Gus white slave-traders on the other. The
people of Jebu and the other countries con-
tiguous to Lagos have hitherto borne an un-
usually good reputation. They are peace
able, industrious and the most intelligent of
all the negro race in Africa Probably the
greed of English traders irresponsible for
the restiveness of the natives now. Almost
all England's African wars have started this
way.
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time and excuse to be proud of the great
lyric poet. The memory of the days when
its baths gave Wiesbaden goodly cloak for
the green cloth is still fresh. 1t was in
1878 that licensed gambling was stopped in
Wiesbaden. and the convulsion cost the city
dearly. Many of the hotels went bankrupt;
storekeepers. especially the pawnbrokers,
hurried to more congenial climss, and ev-
erybody but the proprietors of the gambling
saloons felt the pinch of virtue upon their
pocketbooks.
The city has since been content to wear
the orderly air of representative German
spa, and it is still tayorite with travellers,
especially Americans, some of whom have
met there Won Bodenstedt, the gentle lyric
poet. Won Bodenstedt's poetry, which is
mostly of the perfervid, amatory sort, is i'm.
mensely popular in Germany, where his
books have had very wide circulation,
though he is not much known beyond his
native land
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01

the unknown dead is another thing that
troubles the Coroner. He has q great guam
tIty of personal property packed away, and
the heap is growing larger every week. The
law makes no provision for its disposal and
it is fast becoming nuisance. The.efects
include weapons of all kinds, especially
pistols and knives, jewelry and clothes,
good and bad. The owners of it are dead
and buried long ago and no one has come to
claim their effects. In most cases they
never will Some months ago the Coroner
sold quantity of the stuff, with the assent
of the County Commissioners, just to get ii
out of the way, but he would rather have
the authority of the law for such q pro-
ceeding.
1t is evident that the Legislature might
give its attention to the business of the
Coroner's Office with very good results.
q g. T
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Tho Coming or,sIs in Hawaii

Any day the question Of Hawaii's inde-
pendence may become Of grave interest to
the United States. When Queen Liliuo-
kalaui dies, and her death Is expected at
any moment, there is a strong probability
of general scramble for the throne and
anything else in the royal way that is lying
around loose There is quite strong party
that favors the erection Of a republic upon
what are already the ruins merely Of mon
archy. The heir to the throne is Princess
Kalulani, whose father is Mr.. Cleghorn, an
Englishman. 1t is naturally supposed that
Princess Kalulani would favor the COM
patriots of her father, and the American
COLONY in Hawaii, about 1,500 persons, is
not enthusiastically loyal toward the heir
apparent.
The late King Kalakaua believed that
Hawaii should belong to the United States,
and it IS known that he would have sold his
domain to this country had we met him
half way. The establishment of even an
American protectorate at such long range,
for Hawaii is 2,1OO miles or more from the
Californian coast, has never yet been seri-
ously considered by our Government
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01

Every now and again tho world eeems
destined to produce some fend in human
shape whose murderous deeds make whole
nations shudder. Deeming, whose penchant
for numbering his wives has brought his
neck within reach of the halter, is not the
first man who has made a specially and a
diversion OF numbering women. "Jack the
Ripper" who has never been identified, al
though some are inclined to believe that
Deeming is the man who kept London in a
fever of apprehension for months, is not
the only murderer Of women at wholesale
that the world has known. Dumollard, who
lived near Lyons, stirred all France by his
systematic butchery of servant girls, which
was discovered in 1861. After killing at
least dozen and possibly more young
women, Dumollard, who was dull-witted
outcast, happened to encounter a girl who
was fleet of foot, and when he tried to assas-
sinate her she made her escape and gave the
alarm.
Dumollard had a refined method of bury
ing his victims in regular graveyard, and
his only motive was to possess himself of
the victims clothes, which he sold for a
ridiculously small sum. The difference be-
tween Dumollard and Deeming is that
while the former was utterly uneducated
and brutalized. the latter appears to be q
man of considerable intelligence, good edu-
cation and apparent refinement
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
A Poetess " ho FL I'd to Africa.

There is a little bit of romance and liter.
airy history connected with one of the stories
in the courtyard Of Cape Coast Castle,
which fort is likely to be the base OF oper-
ations should war break out on the coast.
That glaring red-hot town is hardly the place
YOU would think poet would ever fly to
from the cruelest civilization, but thither in
the early days of the settlement came Le-
ti.ia Elizabeth Landon. the English poetess
whose fame was wide and great for while
and some of whose poems signed with the
initials 81. E. L. still retain a vogue in
England at least. She had a treublous
time with critics and scandal-mongers, the
former attacking her verses savagely and
the latter picking holes in her character.
She was singularly beautiful woman, and
it is recorded that James Hogg, the Ettrick
Shepherd, who had lampooned her in the
coarse style affected by the elephantine re-
viewers of those days, when he mst her was
completely vanquished by her beauty and
in turn made his peace with her by bluntly
saying, 'I didna think ye had been sac
bonny." ~ ....--... .-.
It il supposed that she married Governor
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
CARING FOR SICK SOLDIERS,
Tho Duties of the Military Surgeons Arc
Quite Comprehensive.

Tho Duties of the Military Surgeons Arc
Quite Comprehensive.
'T believe the present session here of the
Military Surgeons Association will be of
vast benefit in more ways than one," says
Major Won R. Hof, Surgeon United States
Army, in the ST. Louis Globe Democrat 'sThe
surgeons OF the National Guard have learned
that their duties involve more serious work
than street parades and encampments The
army surgeons duties are more delicate and
important than those of the city practl-
toner. When man in the army gets sick
or is wounded he is Immediately transferred
to the entire control Of the medical depart
ment. We do not only have to make a
diagnosis of his disease or swab and dress
his wound, but we have also the sanitary
conditions of his surroundings as well as
his diet to look after. Therefore it is that
we have such complete sanitary organiza-
tion in the army, and the principles OF this
organization are what the National Guard
surgeons have inquired into during their
meeting here, hope with benefit to their
professional knowledge"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01

MCLEAN. of the Gold Coast, partly to get
away from her native land, which had not
appreciated her properly. She was one of
the first women of culture to make Africa
her home, but she did little more than find
her grave there. Hardly year elapsed be-
fore the English reading public were
had died very suddenly under suspicious
circumstances. She was found dead in her
bedroom one morning, with a phial of
prussio acid in her hand. There were all
sorts of dark and horrible hints at foul
play. 1t was said that a negro woman,
mysteriously associated with q secluded
chamber in the castle, had poisoned Mrs.
McClean, and the report that the unhappy
poetess had perished at her own hand was
believed by many. The evidence e1tant
pretty clearly shows that an overdose Of
poison accidentally taken was the true cause
OF her death. tf
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lady's character was her profound affection
for her big brother, Emperor William, when
he was alive. The accompanying portrait
is from a photograph taken of her and EN-
peror William together. She was six years
younger than the Emperor, and her devo-
tion to him dates back to their childhood.
A pretty story is told of how the Emperor
and Princess Alexandrina came to make the
blue corn flower their favorite blossom. One
day their mother, Queen Louise, was ap-
preached by poorly clad begyar girl with
q bouquet of fresh corn flowers. The Queen
found out from the girl that she had PEN
niless sick mother at home. 1t was char
acteristic of Queen Louise to- give the beggar
girl rich present and take her bouquet
without revealing her identity. Then the
Queen called her children about her and
showed how beautiful bouquet of simple
flowers the beggar girls hands had made
drawing the moral that simplicity is very
generally synonymous with beauty. The
flowers, in the form: of wreath, finally
reached the curly head of Princess Louisa
Charlotte, Alexandrina's younger sister,
who afterward became the wife of Nicholas,
Gar of Russia The blue corn flower from
that day to this has been tavorite flower of
the Hohenzollerns. JoHNs-KAUFMANN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
HER NOSE HURT HER EYES
Curious Cause of Impaired Vision Dis
covered by an Oculist

Curious Cause Of Impaired Vision Dis
covered by an oculist
New York Times.l
A woman, an art student, went to an
oculist in this city, complaining that for
several months she had been steadily losing
her power to see we'll. The oculist, after a
careful examination, discovered in the young
woman's nose a pointed bit of cartilage,
which, pressing out against the side of the
nose, was producing irritation. He applied
cocaine to the irritated spot and Immediately
the patient could read diamond finest
with perfect ease. The effect of the cocaine
being very quickly spent, there was return
of the inability to see we'll
Then the ocuiist took little saw and
sawed off the bit of cartilage, and as soon as
the operation was completed, vision was
normal again. The doctor learned by in
quiry thar years before the young woman
had broken her nose, and his diagnosis was
that in the healing the bit of cartilage had
fIrmed, which, gradually hardening Lad
Produced the effect already described.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
TOTAL ABSTINENCE NEWS

SECRETARY JOYCE is home from Syracuse.
REV. PRESIDENT LAMB1Na was in tho city
Monday.
ST. JoHN's, Thirty-second, will have rally
very soon.
The second edition Of tho school pledge
will soon be ready.
WORKERS rather than takers should be
sent to Scottdale.
THE Union congratulates the License Court
for lessening saloons.
The Father Mathew entertainment next
Wednesday evening at Duquesne Hall prom
ises to be enjoyable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01

and most artistic London has seen in years.
Her covness has tended to make her more
captivating. She is so devoted to her art,
and she has already played prima donna
parts in SO operas, that she has no time
to waste upon the stage door brigade, with
out which no we'll regulated and fashion
able London theater can exist. In fact the
dainty and mild Blue Eyed Susan of the
opera is said to know how to box the ears Of
an impertinent admirer with neatness and
dispatch, and perhaps it was one OF her vic
Tins who wrote the following lines after
some such unpleasant interview with her:
Ifyou fall in love with Susan,
Do not breathe a word to Nell;
Or you'll get-I fear to use an
Ugly word like (|).
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treat Deal of Schooling.

.,ose Governor, you were born on
Jntier. 1 would like to ask if you are
one Of those babies who were rocked in a
sugar trough?"
q don't know about the sugar trough"
replied Mr. Foster. 'Fbut l was born within
a year after my father and mother were mar
-ied, and I was brought up in what was
then ore of tne widest parts of the West"
''Where did YOU 60 to school?'' l asked.
81 never had much schooling" was the
reply. l went first to little log school
house near FOstOria 1t was torn down not
a long time ago, and / have been verv sorry
that l did not preserve it. Our schools did
not amount to much then The chief thing
was spelling. and l can remember going
about TO spelling matches where all tried to
spell each other down at the age of T. 1
learned here TO read and to spell and got
smattering of arithmetic and then had The
idea that wanted to be lawyer and my
father sent me to the Academy of Norwalk,
which was neighboring town. l was 60
ing here to school at about the age of IA
when the whole family got sick and came
home. / found the store closed because
there was 10 one TO attend it and dropped
chool and opened the store. This was 46
ears ago and 1 had the management of
lat store until 1887, or for more than 40
ears"
"You were in Congress with Garfield.
we're you not? When did you first meet
him?"
1T was during that Congressional cam
paign. 1t was at the time of the Franco
Prussian war and Garfield came over and
made some speeches in my district. had
a great number of Germans and he talked to
them in German and got me a lot of votes
81 was impressed with him as jolly
good fellow and when he left me he en-
hraced me and asked me to hunt him up
when l came to Washington. He overhowed
N tact with good fellowship, and when a
few months later | went on to Washington
[ rushed up to him and was surprised to
find him cold and distant. He apparently
hardly knew me, and as he acted the same
way several times after that, decided to
let him alone. After / got to know him
better l began to understand his character
He was a man OF moods and he was apt to be
preoccupied and to forget faces and names
1t is wonderful the difference in mems
minds / was not six weeks in the House
before l knew every member OF Congress
by face and coald call him BY name. Gar
field, who had been years in Congress, had
not personal acquaintance with so men
and he could not remember faces He could,
however, read a book or a poem and repeat
almost word for word everything that he
read. He could dictate a speech and then
get up and deliver it Just as he had die
tated 1t. cannot commit anything. 1 can
remember the ideas Of the books read but
not the words.
wherein consisted Garfeld's strength in
Congress, Governor"
'It was in his wonderful debating power
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
THERE Is A MEDICINE

Composed of the essential virtues OF natures ,
remedies, roots, barks, herbs and berries, and
possessing marvellous curative powers over
all diseases OF the stomach, liver, kidneys,
bowels and blood. This medicine known as
Burdock Blood Bitters has proved so sue
cessful in curing Dyspepsia, Biltousneas.
Constipation, Headache, Bad Blood, Scrofu-
Ia etc, that the proprietors now guarantee
1t, and will refund the price to any person
not satisfied after using the whole or part of
the first bottle. 1t costs You out a cent a
dose, then why suffer when you run no risk
of loss in trying a remedy which has cured
so MANY othersP It also proves wonderfully
successful in curing scrofulous swellings
and cancerous diseases, convincing eYi-
dence of which we will send by mail on ap-
plication to ,r mr.,
ap4-Trssu Buffalo, N. I.
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contest for the Men,
delsohn sc h o lar
ship, then offered for
the first time. One
of the boys was Ar
thur Sullivan, and
the other, Joseph
Barnby. Both have
since become cele-'
brated in the Eng
lish Musical World,
though till: now Sir
Arthur Sullivan has