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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-21

The soldier, the speaker continued, gives
the general unre8sOalng obedience; 50
Goes the patient the physician. aud the
client the lawyer. = the pupil the
teacher. There must be unTcasOnllg
obedience wherever "a inferior ls 10 be-
guided by q superior. How much more
whon q man Is TO be led by God. The
Bible does not require an upreasOmng
faith. The soldier Iaith IL hl- general
rests upon a reasonable bass. he knows
the generals achievement and his chGrac-
ter and knows that he eau well EOrd TO
trust him.
The preacher said that there was no
form Tor originality N religion because
the works OF God are all perfect. hut tnat
human character l. 40 defective TINT there
j. abundant exercise for mans skill IA tin
kering. Instead OF striving to advance
new doctrines OF 20 twist old ones into
rev shapes we should tinker u our own
characters.
Or. Eaton emphasized the tact that there
were no new truths Out SIMPLY ueN dis-
coycrics of old truths. "a two aua TWO
dbl no: make tour III Adams time neither
do thsy now. The preacher attacked
Lcsing's dictum. IN wnich he preferred
search tor truth 10 Truth Itceii. lie IN
sisted thqt this was nonsense. Irutn -
not q butterfly 20 be pursued, and when
csucht 10 bo wiped OF The and as filth;
but ID Is food for the soul u be essimi-
lated and transformed into life aud charac-
ter. IL was surprising that a man o.
Lesinc's ability should utter such noD-
sense.
Dr. Eaton spoke oil other current non-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-21

The question Ot inCronslng tbc water-
mains and the pumping facility or tho
adontion os tho meter system to prevent
waste was presented IN Is several phases
bv superintendent Boiling. lie favored
the adoption Of the meter system and put
ting a sIop 10 the waste Of water. Mr. j.
W.. White. chairman IF the Committee on
Water, supplemented Mir. Boiilng's re-
marks upon tins matter and urged
the necessity for some action on the
part Of the Council. lie thought that Tho
money tina city would save on coal by the
vat. system would pay TOR tho meters IN
course Of time. The estimated cost OF the
Introduction OF this system /, 100000.
The record-union., 1893-03-07
THE FIEND WHO WHISTLES
He Is Found Everywhere and Is Undis-
mayed by Angry Looks,

Whether we ride in street cars or in the
elevated railway, whether we make use
of the elevators or stairs. the aXcruciat-
ing whistle pursues US. The comic papers
of generation ago used to make much
capital out of the ''boarder who plaved
the Hute." AS a practical everyday
nuisance, the public whistler far sur
passes the melancholy flute player. We
have also had the amateur cornet PLAYER
held up to scorn, but. asks the New York
LCe1tiHG Sun, how many more shrilI
whistlers does the world contain than
amateur cornet players? 1t is strange
that a person once seized with a mania
for whistling becomes impervious to the
angry glances of his neigh bors. Let a
man begin to whistle in a street car and
every strong man glares at him with un-
mistalaOle ferocity. Yet the windy fool
never ceases to utter his note, plaintiye or
shriIl, melancholy or facetious. He NAV
be whIstling some popular air with the
scantiest regard for the tune but that
never seems to trouble him. Only when
some person, bolder than the rest. acci-
dentally tramps on his toes does the fiend
cease for a momont, soon to go on again
as a solace TO his wounded feelings and
feet. Ii there IS newspaper reader who
has unconsciously fallen a victim to the
whistling habit, let him consider his
ways and reform. The only time 10
whistle is at daylight and then only in
some open space far removed from the
haunts OF meu. At all other seasons and
places whistling is bad manners, an ag-
gravation TO the wicked and a tempta-
tion to the righteous to fall from grace.
But if whistIers will not consider the
comfort OF their neighbors, let them at
least become alive to the fact that non
whistling humanity promptly places
them in the category which includes
asses and fools.
The record-union., 1893-03-07

wood ashes, orabout S24 per ton. In some
places the value of the ashes nearly de-
fray the cost of the fuel. 1t is believed
that crude petroleum instead of coal may
be used with economical results.
SANITARY PROTECTION.
But, as Colonel Morse says, the ques-
ton is one that ought not to be consid-
cred from any other standpoint than the
sanitary protection of the public. He
declares that it would be for the best in
terest OF the city OF New \ Hork, in view of
the coming cholera menace, to expeud
the necessary amount of money for the
cremation system, if only for one season,
regarding it as temporary eXpedient If
1t so pleased. But whatever is done
should be done quickly.
The estimated time for the construction
OF crematory, ready for operation, is
about six weeks, so that to be ready for
warm weather construction should not be
delayed much longer. \ beginning, at
least, should be made before the middle
OF March is past.
LOwELL'S EXAMPLE.
In beginning the new order of things
at the first of the present year the Board
OF Health OF the city of Lowell issued an
order, which, in view of the fact that
garbage collection and disposal in New
ork Ior the past month and more has
been anything but regular, might well be
copied after by the health authorities of
this city, regardless of the question of
cremation. The following is the order Of
the Lowell Health Board:
ION and after January l, 1898, all the
swill and garbage made by the house
holders in the city limits viii be burned
under the direction of the Board OF
Health.
AT present collections can only be
made twice each week, and it is impor-
tant that it should be kept so as to reduce
It's possible annoyance during the period
of its retention on the premises.
I'm order 10 keep this refuse cleanly
the board would suggest the making of a
box or barrel large enough to keep three
days refuse and provide it with a cover
tnat rain water may be kept out and the
odor confined.
Put in your receptacle for swill all
kitchen refuse, apple and potato parings,
corn husks, cabbage leaves, shoes, rub
! bers, tin cans. old bedding, soiled linen
or cotton, and put nothing but ashes or
earth into your ash barrels
The record-union., 1893-03-07
DON'T WANT IT
Some FOrcfble Objections to an Ameri
can Westminster

Catn NSSIHlluSISF.
Henry B. Fuller, writing in the March
Century of Canon Farrar's proposal for
an American Westminster. concludes his
opposition 10 the idea in these words:
But there are other objections, neverthe
less, and they are numerous and cogent.
One alone is apparently insurmountable
the necessity of political basis and the
lnevltabllity of political basis. The
voter swarms; the practical politician IS
abroad. II the guiding and restraining
sense of high church dignitarieS, sup
posedly sensitive 10 the continuity of
history and to the force OF hallowed con-
dltlon, has not always proved sufficient
/ Tor the prevention of jarring faux pas,
what might be expected from a rawly eX-
temporlZed board or committee working
on the yea-and-nay plan-a body certain
TO have the qualities of its active creatures
ana perpetrators and to be provided at
start with very large space to fill? our
English well-wisher, in his suggestions
Ior a National American pantheon, pro-
Vldes for our early explorers and colo
nlzers, our poets and theologians and his
| torlals; but he does not lay equal stress
upon our statesmen as we are fond of
calling them. Now, when we consider
that the one character to evoke the vivid,
spontaneous, unbounded enthusiasm and
sympathy OF the American people Is the
poutlcaI orator, that this same people is
in the habit of prompt and definite action
In matter which really moves and con-
Germs it, and that in no other land is ante
mortem abuse more subject to the cor
rective of post-mortem praise, we may
imagine the makeup and aspect of our
pantheon after q hot political campaign
| that happened 10 be followed by a season
! of severe mortality. 1t might at first,
give us considerable complacency;
| shortly it would displease us, presently it
would disgust US; and III the future we
should be well enough satisfied TO bury
our illustrious dead near their own fami-
lies and amidst the scenes with which
they were associated during life.n
The record-union., 1893-03-07
RURAL POPULATION.
Some of the Causes Leading to Its De-
crease.


one cause of decrease in the aggregate
population of rural populations is the
ever-increasing competition of factory
made goods with the products of the
handlcrattS. There must be fewer and
fewer country tailors, shoemakers black
smiths, carpenters and other artisans
who can earn their living in competition
with the machine-made goods which the
steadily decreasing cost of railroad trans
portation enables the great factories in
the manufacturing cities and towns to
send into every neighDOrhOOd and sell
more cheaply than the isolated mechanic
working with his own hands or with sim
pie and inexpensive machinery posi- bly,
can. Those who are forced TO give up the
attempt to earn their bread by working
! at their trade in their old homes among
their neighbors must seek employment
IN the cities. The whole tendency of the
factory system, combined with the cheap
ing OF transportation rates, is to draw
away from the country districts almost
all the population not directly engaged in
tilling the soil. The social and intellect
ual attractions OF city life, especially
for the brighter and more active
minded OF the country youth, are un-
questiOnably powerful factors in building
up the cities at the expense of the country
districts. The two last-named causes
namely, the diminution of the number Of
luIdI AdHulCrdItSuleu III al localities
easily accessible by railroad from large
cities, and the attractiveness of city life TO
portions of the country population, when
city life Is brought within the range of
their observatiOn-are doubtless chiefly
responsible for the fact that the decrease
of the rural population has been most
general in precisely those portions of the
country in which cities and towns are
most numerous and in which the railroad
facilities are the best ohm G. Rose, in
the Popular Science Monthly.
The record-union., 1893-03-07
IN THE SOUTH

In the Southern cities garbage crenla-
tories have become quite numerous and
are still increasing, owing TO the greater
Danger of epidemic diseases in warm
climates. The work of a crematory i'm
Savannah, Ga, during eleven mouths OF
1882 gives an interesting idea as TO what
the garbage of a city of %, 600 inhabitants
consists OF and OF its quantity During
the time mentioned there were burned
5,4I3 loads of garbage, or l,27l cubic
yards; Oil loads Of night soil, equaling
3,675 cubic yards; 49 cows, 10 horses, -
goats, 625 dogs, LOO cats, 70 barrels OF
fish, ii barrels of onions, 50 barrels OF
apples. 1867 pounds OF meat, 6,742 head
Of poultry, 5 loads OF oranges, Is loads of
bananas, Is loads of cocoanuts, / lo(d of
apples, load of peaches, Is loads of pea
nuts, Is loads ofpotatoes, load OF tongues.
LS7o dozen eggs, snakes, l monkey, |
rabbit, l sheep, and ~ pieces OF injected
goods. This made a mass OF 0,O00 cubic
yards destroyed, at an average expense
of 10 cents per cubic yard.
WHAT Is THE NEED AND EXPENSE.
Colonel Morse said that to obtain the
best results there ought to be one crefna-
tory TO every lou. 900 inhabitants, located
as near as possible To such population
but he said that ten or twelve crematories
of the larger size would do the work for
New York without trouble. They would
cost from $4,000 to ST., ZOO each, making
the total equipment of the city amount to
something like Sl25,000, a bagateile by
comparison with the results. According
to the best reports and estimates the cost
OF operation of the cremating system
would be about one-third less than the
present system of scow towing and dump
ing, not to mention the public health and
comfort.
There is, it is declared, an offset more or
less important, in the ashes Of the burn
ing system. The process of destruction
yields about 5 per cent. of ashes, and be-
tween and per cent. of the ashes is
potash. When screened and separated
from broken glass, tin cans, etc., the resi-
due is worth about the same as Canada
The record-union., 1893-03-07
The Worlds Fair-The Chicago "Inter
ocean,

This great weekly, and the WEEKLY
UNION can be had for s. a year, or the
DAILY RECoRD-UNIoN and the Inter
Ocean for S6 80 per year. All about the
great Worlds Fair will be elaboratelv
treated in the Inter Ocean. Can be had
for this price only by subscribers to the
RECORD and WEEKLY UNION.
The record-union., 1893-03-07
SECOND DAY OF APRIL. 1893,

Then such fund will remain in the State
Treasury to pay and discharge such bonds
whenever presented, and they Will draw no
interest after the second day of April, 1898.
J. r. MCDONALD, State Treasurer.
mr2-3Ut
The record-union., 1893-03-07

THE advertising of Hoods Sarsaparilla
is always substantiated by Endorsements
which in the financial world would be ac-
cepted without moments hesitation.
For a general family cathartic we con-
fdently recommend Hoods Pills.
The record-union., 1893-03-07
BURN IT.
That is What Health Authorities
Say About Refuse.

What Cities in the East are Doing
How to Dispose of Garbaee-why
Cremation is the Best Method
Some Facts California Towns
Should. study.
The record-union., 1893-03-07

r1HE RECORD-UNION AND WEEKLY
UNION are the best tor the family circle.
FIJHE WEEKLY UNION Is THE STAR
weekly OF the Pacific Coast
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-14
Unfortunate Duke Of Veragua.

The country was startled few da, S
ago by the statement that our late no.
Bile visitor from Spain, the Duke of
Veragua, had lost his entire fortune
during his absence from Spain by the
pelhdy of a pretended friend. A SYM
pathetic appeal came to the people of
the United States to aid the lineal de-
scendent of Columbus by generous
contributions to restore the fortune
lost by the betrayal of his confidence.
The full facts relating to the Dukes
financial grief are now given to the
public, and it is siuply the old, Old
story OF gambling for speedy fortune
and losing all Before he started for
this country he gathered up $3.50 900
and sent it to Paris broker with in
structions 20 invest il to secure the
largest returns, and the broker struck
the wrong side of the market and lost,
resulting in Duke and his large fam
lily without fortune to maintain their
dignity as Spanish mobiles. Even the
sacred bull farm Of the Duke, where
he gained large profits by growing
bulls for the Spanish bull-hghts, is
levied on and likely to pass into the
hands of Spaniards of common clay.
The noble duke is eminently human
as is shown by his game of hazard to
double fortune and then whimperir g
like whipped boy when he lost. He
blames the Paris brokers just as all
who rush into Wall street, New York.
or Fourth street. Philadelphia, and
lose, complain of the robbery of brok-
ers who simply obeyed orders. With
an ample fortune even for a Duke OF
Spain, he deliberately gambled and
lost, as millions have done before him,
and he should blame none but him.
self.
The people Of this country cherish
great reverence for the memory of
Columbus, as is shown by their grand
celebration of his achievement; but
they are not likely to sympathize very
deeply in their pockets to refund a
fortune lost by several century de.
scendant who gambled away fortune
IN the vain hope Of doubling it. If the
noble Duke would profit by his mis-
fortune, let him get down to some
thing like the hard work Of his illus.
trious ancestor, and he will add fresh
lustre to his nobility by illustrating
that industry is the noblest of all hu.
man pursuits.-Iymes.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-14

The records of the postoffice depart
ment shows that during the first four
months of the present administration
ended July 4th, 1893 the total number
OF presidential Postmasters appointed
was 434, as againt s78 appointed dur
ing the first four months Of Mr.. Harri-
sons administration, and 323 during
the first four months Of Mr.. Cleve.
lands former administration.
As to the appointment of fourth.
class postmasters, the records show
during the first four months of the
present administration there we're
$3.50 made on designations
and death, and 3,2a6 on remov-
ais, making total of $3.50. The
number appointed on designations and
death during the corresponding period
in Mr.. Harrison's administration was
3,649, and on removals 7,46o, making
a total of II,Ioo. There were, there
fore, 4,a64 more fourth. class postmas-
tiers appointed on removals during the
first four months Of the late admins.
tration than during the corresponding
in this.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-14
Only One Size Postal Gard.

Postmaster General Bissell has de-
Gded to abandon the three sizes of
postal cards now IN use and to substi.
tute one size for both single and re-
ply cards. With that purpose in view,
the specifications which have been
sent to prospective bidders for the
contract of furnishing the postal SER
vice with cards during the next four
years call for single card of the uni
form size of three and one half by FIVE
and ne-half inches This is what is
known as the international size, it be-
ing used generally by the countries
comprising the international postal
union. The double or reply card now
in use will be continued with the size
when folded reduced to that of the
International card. These two cards
will take the place of the small or
LADIES' card, the medium and the large
card and the large return card
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-14
The Viking Ship.

From Harper's Weekly.
The Newly orker who failed to see
the Viking during the few days that
the gallant little vessel was lying or
cruising in the waters of the harbor,
missed sight that it would be almost
worth while to go to Chicago to see.
To those with fair idea of what good
bodybuilding requires, the lines Of the
Viking are said to have been very
satisfactory, and the soundness of their
judgment is established by the achieve
ment of the vessel in crossing the At
lantic against unfavorable winds, sound
and safe as an ocean-going steamer.
But even to one with no claims to ex.
pert knowledge the vessel is very beau
tlful. 1t is easy TO see in her the JUS
tihcation of her chief officers proud
remark, when asked if she did not
ship water over her open sides, "No /;
her model is SO perfect, her lines are
SO fne"--here he made sweeping
gesture with both hands, illustrating
the lines--'that she wishes all the
while to be on top But what i'm
presses the ordinary observer is the
courage of their conviction shown by
the crew of dozen modern Morse
men, who, persuaded that the original
on which the Fixing was modelled
vas sed-worshy, and that what their
ancestors had done they could do,
took this little vessel, without deck,
with bsoad.oar for a rudder, with a
single mast and sail, with no room
aboard to swing a hammock, and bare
ly sufficient to store the needed sup
plies, and sailed her over the course
that they believed the ancient Morse.
men had sailed with like craft CEN
turies before the discovery which all
the world is celebrating at Chicago.
This is a striking and splendid way of
arguing disputed question in history.
No one after this can say that the
Norsemen could not have reached the
shores Of America on the vessels then
known.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-14

A special dispatch to the World
from Washington on Monday gives
the strength Of the Senate on the re-
peal of the Sherman silver bill. A
careful poll shows shows 4S in favor of
repeal and 80 against with one SEN
atorwho will succeed Senator Stanford
of California, not considered.
Among this list Senators Cameron and
Quay of Pennsylvania, are reported as
being in favor Of TIE repeal. The two
parties are about evenly divided on
the question. The republicans will
vote for the repeal, but will be slow to
vote for any substitute, for they do
not wish to give the democrats any
credit for the good that will thereby
follow if proper substitute can be
agreed upon. Delay may still further
complicate the financial situation, and
the republicans will make such an eff.
fort
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-14
Pensioners Must Prove
THEY ARE COMPLETELY DISABLED.

The pension bureau has notified a
great many pensioners throughout the
entire country who are drawing pen
sions under the act of June a7th, 1890,
which is known as the Dependent
pension act, that payment of their
pensions will be suspended for sixty
days, during which time they are re
quired to show cause why they should
continue to draw pensions. The tes-
timony necessary to prevent their be-
ing dropped from the rolls is the GER
tihcate of reputable physician, at
tested by two witnesses to the effect
that the pensioner is precluded from
active labor owing to injuries or disa-
bility no: the result of his own vicious
habits.
In case no attention is paid to the
department notification within sixty
days the pensioner will be dropped
from the roll. On the other hand,
should the necessary certificate, prop
erly drawn up and signed, be forward
ed to the pension bureau, the pension
er will be requested to appear before
the board of medical examiners for
examination as to his condition.
This action is pursuant to the recent
rulings Of Secretary Smith to the eff.
feet that a pensioner under act Of
June 81, 1890, drawing pension for
total disability must be shown to be
physically incapable OF manual labor.
The board of review appointed to car
ry into effect that decision is now 60
ing over all OF the cases of June 27th,
1890, probably 100000 in number,
and selecting those cases which show
in the record that the pensioner may
not be incapacitated from manual la
Dor.
In the cases thus selected the pen
sioners are notified as before stated,
to prove their total disability to the
department or cease to draw pensions.
Under Secretary Smiths rulings the
department holds that man who can
work should no: draw a pension for
total disability. 1t is estimated at
the pension Office, although the work
has but recently been begun, that
something over 1000 suspensions have
already been made.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-14
Suffer in Silence.
AS MODEST SENSITIVE WOMEN GENER.
ALLY DO.

TO all such women who from some
functional arrangement or weakness
need advice, we would say that DR..
David Kennedy, one OF the best
known physicians in New York State
who has had large experience in
curing diseases peculiar to women, Of.
fers his well-known Favorite Remedy
to them. 1t will cure you Of nervous
sick headache, spineache, bloating, in
ternal heat, or scalding urines. If you
have uterine catarrh, suppressed or
painful periods, irregular menstruation
or leucorrhoea. II you have a tired
ache at the top OF the head, back of
the neck, and base Of the brain, or
any of the many attending evils that
are present in female complaints, you
should take DR.. David Kennedys Fa-
vorite Remedy, made at Rondout, N.
Y, for it will dispel those tired looks,
restore and strengthen the nervous
system, and cure the most complica-
ted of feminine sicknesses. If you
value good health, you use DR.. Ken
nedy's Favorite Remedy.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-14
Speaking Of the financial situation

Speaking of the financial situation,
the Philadelphia Times says:
"There is now nothing to warran,
apprehensions Of protracted financial
depression or of renewed panic in val
ues. Congress will meet in less than
a month; the Presidents message will
be landmark in our financial history
on the side OF honest money the silver
purchase feature Of the Sherman act
will be repealed, and every advance in
financial legislation will be in the line
of a sound financial system. Surely
no injurious legislation can be possible,
for the Presidential veto would stand
as bulwark of safety against it; and
the pressing needs Of all business IN
terests throughout the country cannot
fail to impress Congress in favor Of a
positive departure toward the highest
standard of public credit"