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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25
A TOWN OuARANTINED.


Outbreak of Smallpox at Carteret, n. D.
Cases at Port Reading.
New YoRK, May 25.-Small-pox has
broken out at Carteret and Port Reading,
factory towns, three miles from Railway,
n j., where 5000 men are employed.
Two men who board at Mrs. Tennie
Aliens, at CaTteret, where a number of
the Canda company's employees live are
stricken with the disease, and it is feared
that it may become epidemic, as both men
have been allowed to wander at large
through the streets for the past week.
Early last week Thomas Deegman, feel
ing ill., called on physician, who dag
nosed his case as malaria The man sub
sequently visited Bayonne, N. j., and
Brooklyn, n. Y. At the latter place he
called on another physician, who told him
he had smallpox in the worst form.
The man was advised to quarantine
himself, but, instead Of doing so, went to
the Allen boarding house. Another
boarder was stricken on Monday, and now
the house is guarded and the town quar-
untined
II is feared that a large number of the
| boarders will be stricken as there are no
I means of getting them away, and few Of
them have been vaccinated -Four new
cases are reported at Port Reading.
The fear Of an epidemic is increased, be-
cause Carteret has no proper drainage.
Many of the employees Of the Cunda com
pany, who have associated with the stricken
men, have left for their homes.
| The yellow flag is displayed throughout
! Carteret Four new cases are reported
from the town. The people living near the
town are focking TO Railway to be vaccin-
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25

READING, May 25.-The delegates to the
Reformed Synod of North America, which
convened in st. Paul's Reformed church
last evening, arrived yesterday afternoon,
A chair, finished in ebony and gold, which
has a history closely linked to that of the
Reformed church. win be used by the pres
ident during the sessions of Synod. 1t bears
the date of l14O and is in excellent con
ditiOn.
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Mnine,s Eui1ding Dedlcated.

WORLDS FAIR, CHICAGO, May 25.-The
Maine State building was dedicated in the
presence OF large assemblage. The Hon.
Fl. G. Burlegh, president Of the Worlds
Fair Board Of Managers, called the gath
ering TO order, and after the invocation of
the Deity, he delivered a speech delivering
the building over to Gov. Cleaves, repre-
senting the State of Maine.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25
WHO KILLRD THEM ?

The New York Evening World says
there are certain points in the mys-
tarious case of the escaped convicts,
Rohle and Pallster, which certainly
claim the attention of the police aud
are sufficiently clear to demand an in
vestigation and to warrant the offer of
a reward by the state.
Both men were shot before being
thrown into the river. The wounds
of both were made by bullets of thirty
eight calibre, such as are in general
use in the prison.
Pallister's revolver, thirty-eight cali
bre, was fully loaded. Not a chamber
has been discharged.
Rohle's pistol, taken from Guard
Hulse, is now said to have been of
forty-four caibre. If so, it could not
have inflicted the wounds found on
the men.
Rohle's injuries were such that they
could not have been sel(-infiicted.
Some other person or persons than the
escaped convicts must have done the
killing.
The story of three men being in the
boat is so improbable as to seem ridicU-
lous. 1t would scarcely have been
possible for one man to have killed
two armed and desperate men in a
small boat on the river during storm.
Were Rohle aud Pallister ever in the
boat at all? Were they killed while
preparing to get into the boat by some.
body in ambush, their bodies thrown
into the river and the boat sent adrift
to cover up the tracks?
Who had an interest in putting the
men out of the way? Who knows
what money they had with them?
Who, except themselves and the
bribed men, knows whether bribery
secured their escape2 If they bad
been reeaptured they might have told
the truth. But some one else, some
person outside the prison, must have
been in their confidence. Cannot such
person be found?
The killing of the men, although
they were escaped convicts, was mur,
der. Should not some effort be made
to ferret out such a crime?
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25

The saddest fact connected with in.
tense political or religious excitement
is that it unbalances weak minds and
makes crazed murderers of individuals
who would otherwise pass through
life merely as eXcitable and eccentric
human beings The quarrel between
Conkling and Garfield developed
Guiteau, the assassin of Garfield. The
terrible strain of the civil war brought
into activity the latent insanity in
Wilkes Booth, and he murdered Presi-
dent Lincoln. OF the same character
was the attempt on the life Of Glad
stone by the crank Townsend. Bitter
passions, engendered by the attitude
of the Ulster party in Ireland, threw
him of his balance. Doubtless he be-
lieved that he would he the saviour of
his country if he killed Gladstone,
and thus deprived the home rule cause
of its leader. Persons who deliber-
ately appeal to passions and preiudices
in times of intense feeling and do all
in their power to fan the flames of ex-
citement take a grave responsibility in
their hands. All the same, if Glad
stone had been slain, home rule would
have received its most powerful inn
petus to a successful conclusion. AL
ways the blood of the martyrs is the
seed Of sure success for any cause.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25

PmLApELPmA, May 25.-While brooding
over the death of his daughter, Jacob
Schwartz, aged no. attempted suicide yes
terday by cutting his throat with a razor
at his home i'm the rear of No. 6lT South
Seventh street. He was taken Jothe Penn
sylvauia hospital and is not expected to re-
cover. ,
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25

NORWALE, Conn, May 2j.-While at
tempting 70 drive bull into his barn yard
George Rider, a farmer of Ridgeleld, was
knocked down and gored by the animal
His body and face were terribly lacerated
He will probably die.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25
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DEMOCRATIC Office seekers are still
permitted to stand in the street and
look up at the windows of the white
house, but the great man they have
elected president can't take time to
poke his nose out and see who is
waiting.
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ramnoua Knitting Mins burned.

TAMAQUA, May 25.-Fire originating in
the boiler rooms Of the Tamaqua knitting
mills yesterday partially destroyed that
structure Loss, So, 500; no insurance.
Seventy five hands are thrown idle.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25

THE New York Herald says that
there has been a shrinkage of not less
than S5CO,OOO,OO in the value of stocks
in this country since the 1st of Janu-
airy. The Philadelphia Record con-
soles itself over this report by saying
"what tends to remove all cause for
alarm over this loss is the considera-
tion that there was vast deal of
"water" in the stocks that have un-
dergoue so tremendous a depletion
since the beginning of the year. This
is especially true Of the so-called Sin.
dustri2ls," ," which have been for some
time iu an extremely dropsi cal con-
dition" After so many promises for
reforms that were sure to follow if a
change in Administration should take
place, these excuses are very fiimsy
indeed.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25
Lehigh valley Division.

Passenger trains leave Shenandoah for
Penn Haven Junction, Mauch Chunk, Le-
highton, Slatington, White Hall, Catasauqua,
Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Philadelphia
Hazleton Weatherly, Quakake Junction, Del
ano anG MahauOy City at 6.0i, 726, 9.0S a m,
For New York, 6O4, 726 a M, I2.48, 257,
For Hazleton, wilkes-Barre, White Haven,
Pittston, Laceyvtlle, Towanda Sayre, Waverly,
and Elmlra, ~, 9.0S "a. m, 2. "a, sos p. m.
For Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls and
the West, G.04, 9CS Il. m. 10 49 and sos p. m.
For Belvidere, Delaware Water Gap and
StrOudsburg, 6.O4 a. m, 4.22 p. m.
For Lambertvtlle and Trenton, 9.Os q. m.
For Tunkhannock, 604 9.0Sa. m, 2.57, O9 p. N.
For Ithaca and Geneva GOi 9ts q. m. sos
p, m.
For Auburn 9OS a. m. sos p. m
FOrJsanesville, Lewiston and Beaver Meadow,
7.26 a. m, 52T, SOB p. N.
For Audenried, Ha2leton, Stockton and Lum-
beT Yard; 6W, 7,26, 9.Os, a. ~, 1919, 2.57,
For scranton 6O4 0Os a. m, u 48, 2.57
SCs pm.
For Hazlebrook, Jeddo Driiton and Freeland,
604 7.26, 9.08, a. m, 43, 2.57, 5.27 p. m.
For Ashland, Girardville and Lost Creek ASP,
ISL S52, 1920 a. M, 100, lao 4l0, 635, S22, 915
p. m
For Raven Run, Centralia. Mount Carmel and
Shamokn, S.42, 1850 a. m, 1.4J 40, s.22 p m
For Yatesville, Park Place Mahanoy City and
Delano 6.04, 726 9.Os, l1.O5 M, l2,43 2 81 422
Trains will leave Shamokin at 7,55, l1.45 a. m,
| l.55, 80 2. m and arrive at Shenandoah at
905 a. m l243, 2.57, 422 p. m.
Leave Shenandoah for Pottsville, $50, 1926
| 90S, 1l.05 q. M, .i3, PSI, 5.27, S.08 p. m.
Leave Pottsville for Shenandoah, 600 7.15,
800, lOlb, ll.4S a. M, l2,S2, 800, $40, 200, 7l5
| p. m,
Leave Shenandoah for Hazleton, 6O4, 7.26, 9.Os
a. NJ, l2.43, 2.57, 4,22, 5.27, sos p. m.
! leave HaZleton for Shenandoah, 720, 1928
/ ll.O6 d. m,, 2.l5, 2.b5, 5.3O 7,25, 756 p. m.
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Trains leave for Ashland, Girardville and Lost
Creek, 7.29, 9.4) "a. m, 1890, 245 p. IN.
For Yatesville, Park Place, Mahanoy City,
Delano, HaZleton, Black Greek Junction, Penn
Haven Junction, Mauch Chunk, Allentown,
Bethlehem, Easton and New York, $40 a. M,
II 30, 2.55 p. m.
For Philadelphia 1890, 2.55 p m.
For Yatesville, Park Place, Maharoy City and
Delano, $40 II. .35 a. m, $780, 2 3d. 40 Coz o. m
Leave Hazleton for Shenandoah, 9.3O, ll.30
a. m, LOS, $50 o. m.
Leave Shenandoah for Pottsvlle, $50, $40,
$50 a. m, LAS p. m.
Leave Pottsville for Shenandoah, $50, lO4O
am, ,l,35, 5.l5 p. M.
Q. G. HANCOCK, Gen, Pass. Agt
Philadelphia Pa,
A. W, NONyNEMACHER,A Asst g. p. A, Lehigh
Valley Division, South Bethlehem Pa.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25

Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut street wharf
and south street wharf, for Atlantic City.
Weekdays-Express Q 90 a m, 2 90, 3 co. 4 co.
; % p. m. Accommodation, 8 90 m, 40 M.
Sundays-EXpress, 9 90, 1000 a m. Accom-
mediation 8 90 a m and 80 p m.
Returning leave Atlantic City depot, Atlantic
and Arkansas avenues. Weekdays-Express
co. 45, 8 90 m and 3 30 and 8 30 p m
Accommodation. Is a m and 80 p m
Sundays-EXpress, I 10, 8 90 p m.
Accommodation, 10 a m and 4 30 p m.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25
READING RAILROAD SYSTEM,
Anthracite coal used exc sively, insuring
cleanliness and comfort
TIME TABLE IN EFFECT MAY. IL, 1898

TIME TABLE IN EFFECT MAY II, l6p5
Trains leave Shenandoah as follows;
For New York via Philadelphia, week days,
2.09,5.23. 7ls,10 am, 1924 24s55S pm; sunday
2.O8, 7.46 a. m. For New York via Mauch ChunA,
week days, 7,ls a. m, 1924, 24S p. m.
For Reading and Philadelphia, week days,
208, 523, 7lS 1908 q. m. 1924, 24S, bb3 p M sun
day, 2.09, 7.46 a. m, 4.28 p. m
For Harrisburg, week days, 2Os, 7ls D. m,
2.4S, 5.53 p. m.
For Allentown, week days, 7ls a. M, 1924,
For louisville. week days 2Os, 7.Isa. m, 1924,
24s 55S p m. Sunday 2Os, 74S 90 O. M. 428 P. ~
For Tamaqua and Mahanoy City, week days,
2OS 5.23, T1S,l008 a. m.,12,24, 24S, 553 p m sun
day, 2OS, 7.46 a. m. 4.28 p. m. Additional for
Mahanoy City, week days, 6.55 p. m.
For Lancaster and Columbia week days, 1.le
For Wiliiamsport, sunbury and Lewisburg,
week days, 1923, 7tS 11.2S o, M, 1873, 6.58 pm.
Sunday, 323 a. m, 1903 p. m.
Tor Mahanoy Plane week days, 2Os 3.23, 5.23
71s 1908, l1.28 a. M 1924 .33, 24s, 55S sos, 98S
p. NJ. Sunday, 2O8 328, 7.46 a. m, 8;O3, 42S p m
For Grardville, (Rappahannock Station),
week days, 2.08, S.23, 5.23, 7lS lOO5, ll,28 a. N
12.241.33, 2.4s, 5.53, 65s 933 p. m. Sunday, 2Os,
For Ashland and Shamokiu. week days, 1928,
5.23, 7.1s, 1i.2s a. m, 1873 65s 933 p. m Sun
| day, 1923, 746 d. m, BOB p m.
TRAINS FOR SHENANDOAH:
Leave New York via Philadelphia, week days.
| 8 90 q. m, 30 400, 7.30 p. m, l2l5 night sun
| day, 800 p. m, IL. Is night
Leave New York via Mauch Chunk, week days,
4,UO, D. 40 a. M l.UO, 46U p. m, Suuuhy' 10 a. H.
Leave Philadelphia, Market Street station,
| week days, 4l2 S.35, 1000 a. m. and 400,
600, l1.3O p. m Sunday 400, 9O5 a. m, ll.3O
| p. m. ...- go
Leave Reading, week days, 1.S5, 7.10, 1905, 11.5O
| a. m, 5.55, 757 p m Sunday, l35 lO48 q. m.
Leave Pottsville, week days, 2.4O, 7.4O a. m.
12 30, Gil p. 10 Sunday, 2,4O, 7OO a. NJ 2O5 p m.
Leave Tamaqua, week days, 800 S4S ll.23 a.
M, 1,21, 7l5, 929 p. 10. Sunday, 3.SO, TAB a. M,
| $50 p. m.
Leave Mahanoy City, week days, 3.45, SIS,
ll.47 a. m, Isl, 742 9.54 p. m. Sunday, S.46, Sl2
| q. M, $50 p. m.
Leave Mahanoy Plane, week ds gs, 240, 400,
$50 3o 10 40 IL 59a NJ, ,l2 IS, ,1OlO
p. m. Sunday, 24O 400, s27 a, m, 3.S7, 5.0l p m.
Leave Girardville, Rappahannock Station,
weeks days, 2.47, 407, .36, 9.41 l0.46a m 1905,
212 l.0l, 5.26, 632 S.03, 1915 p N. Sunday 2.47,
| 407 S33 a. M, 3.4l, 5.T p. M
| Leave Williamsport, week days, 800, $50, l2.OO
| a. m, 2 35, Ills p. m. Sunday Ills p. m.
| For Baltimore washington and the West via
B. & o. r. r., through trains leave Girard
Avenue station, Philadelphia, (P. & r. r. RI at
so, s.0l, ll.27 a. M, 3.56, 542 1l6 p m Sunday
3 30, 8,02, l1.27 a. m, 3.56, 542, 7l6 p m.
ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION.
Leave Philadelphia Chestnut street wharf
| and OF yUb urF forA t1autip Titv
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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25
The Herald.

PUBLISHED DAILY, SUNDAY EXCEPTED
WEEKLY, EVERY SATURDAY.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-29
California.

California possesses a delightful winter
climate. Almost every day is bHlmy and
full of sunshine. To live in such air Il few
months may save you big doctor bill. 1t
doesn't cost much to try. The Frisco line
and Santa Fe route will carry you 10 Los
Angeles. san Diego or San Francisco any
day, on fast vestibuled express train, in
Pullman or tourist sleeper. The journey
Is through New Mexico aud Arizona.
where heavy snowfalls seldom come 1t is
short, quick and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
across. not roundabout. Once week
personally conducted excursions are run
10 the Pacific coast in tourist sleepers
Competent porters and agents in charge
Second class tickets bonored. and good
care taken of ladies and children without
escort. Very cheap rates for one way or
round "trip, now in effect. Write To ID.
Wlshart. G.. =. A. Frisco line, ST. Louis,
Mo-. for copy OF California excursion Leaf
let and handsomely illustrated book
entitled ITO California and Back" Near
est local agent of Frisco line or Santa Fe
route viii be glad 10 Name ticket rates and
furnish desired information about tie trip.
Don be afraid to ask questions
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-29
TREES ANo THEIR AGES.
They Are tho Only Forms OF Nature Which
Accurately Record the Years

They Are the Only Forms OF Nature Which
Accurately Record the Years.
Elm, 500 years; ivy, Ss5 years: maple,
SO years; larch. $40 years; orange, ESQ
years; cypress. 500 years: olive, 500
years; walnut, 600 years; Oriental
plane, LOCO years: lime. 1.1oo years:
spruce, 1000 years; oak, 1,5oo years:
cedar. 1000 years; yew. $500 years.
The way in which the ages of these
trees have been aseertained leaves no
donbt OF its correctness In some few
cases the data have been furnished bv
historical records and by traditions,
but the botanical Psychologists have a
resource independent of either, and,
when carefully used, infallible.
OF all the forms of nature. trees
alone disclose their ages candidly and
freely. In the stems of trees which
have branches and leaves with Melted
veins-in all exogens, as the bo;arist
~ould say-the increase takes place by
means of an annual deposit of wood.
spread il an even layer upon the sur
face of the preceding one.
In the earlier periods of life trees in
crease much faster than when adult
the oak, for instance, grows more rap
idly between the twentieth and thir-
tieth years-and when old the annual
deposits considerably diminish. SO that
the strata are thinner and the rings
proportionably closer. Some trees
slacken in rate of growth at a very
early period of life, and layers of oak
become thinner after 40, those of the
elm after so, those of the vew after GO.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-29
''THE WICHITA PEERLESS EMPRESS"
New Ira n Service.

Commencing Sunday. Nov. 10. the Mis-
SCUM Pacific railway will place in service
a new traln-"The Wichita Peerless Fx-
press. be- ween Wichita and Kansas City
md st. Louis and all eastern points
This train Will staff from Wichita, daily.
MT sos p. IN. Starting from here it will
necessarily always leave on timel 1t Will
run through 10 Kansas City, solid. con-
slstinS OF Pullman sleeper. chair car and
Coach. The Missouri Pacific Railway
company Is the only line that gives the
Wichita people a strictly Wichita train.
that Is 10 say, the only line that starts its
trains from Wichita. Remember this.
anc when you contemplate a trip Leaving
Wichita rs the evening. don't fail to take
the Missouri Pacific. and thus start on
time is advertised
III You should wish to start on vour
Journey In The day time you can't possibly
10 better than TO take the Missouri Pacific
!ast mall aud express which leave Wich.
TIA AT o clock =. III. and lands you in S.
Louis the next morning at 1.l5 By taking
,nls TRAIN east you save nearly four hours
between Wichita and 81. Louis. making
New York IN less than fifty hours from
IIie time You leave the Peerless Princess
ne new time card which goes into effect
nov l9ih will show number Of import
ant Changes, which will be fully shown in
Tine tables published In she daily p,pars
Passengers can learn tuIl particulars rela-
i've 10 This superb train service by calling
at Missouri Pacific city ticket Office ia
North Main ST. dI5, IF
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-29
FLOWERS OF THE NIGHT.
Peculiarly Adapted to Attract Winged
Insects,

insects
As we all know, there are day-bloom-
ing and ight-blooming flowers. says
the Cornhill Magazine. The former
lay themselves out for the fertilizing
visits of bees and butterflies: they
are generally decked in red. blue, yell
low or purple, and have often lines. spots
or markings on their petals which
point to the hectares and so act as
honey guides. The night-blooming
flowers. on the other hand. lay them
selves out for the visits of moths or other
crepnscular insects, and therefore have
recourse to something like the tactics
of the firefies and the glow-worms.
They are usually pure white and the
petals are often of such peculiar tex
ture that they seem to glow with in
ternal light in the dim shades of even
ing At times one might almost fancy
they were stained by nature with
some curious forerunner of luminous
paint, 50 strongly do they reflect every
invisible ray of the faint twilight.
They thus succeed in catching the
eyes of moths, which. of course, are es-
pecially modified for receiving and per-
ceiving the slender stimulus of dusk
and the cleaning.
But the nocturnal flowers have no
lines or spots. because these last could
never be perceived in the gray gloom
OF evening. They make mp for it. how
ever, b. being heavily scented: indeed.
almost all the strong white flowers,
like Jessamine, tuberose, gardenia.
stephanotis, cereus and syringa, which
are such favorites with florists, belong
to night-blooning plants. specially
adapted TO attract the eyes and noses
of niCht-flviuC insects
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-29
Proud Father.

Parental affection does not always
see things as they are, but rather as
they ought to be. The following is a
bit of conversation between two men
who had formerly been close neighbour
"All your boys turned out well. did
they?"
Yes, reckon they did"
whats John doing?"
Hes curin' of fever in Texas"
'And Dick?"
'He's enlsrgin' of a country newspa-
per an a-collectin' of subscriptions
And William-what's he doing?"
Hes a-preachin' of the Gospel an
splittin' rails fer Twin"
and what are you doipg?"
well, I'm a-supportin' of John an
Dick an William. Atlanta Constitu-
ton
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-29
COST OF A BILLIARD BALL.

About Ten Dollars In Cash and Usually .
Large Amount of Human Blood.
The globe of ivory which is knocked
about table in game of billiards
costs, if of good quality, at least ten
dollars, says the Million. This repre-
sents its cost in money. There is,
however, far more important and
forInida bic element in the price which
has been paid for it. The billiard ball
of pure ivory represents, as it lies
white and glistening upon the cloth,
an expenditure of human life blood as
well as of money. Elephants tusks
are brought down 10 the African coast
by caravans, generally in charge of
Arabs, which have been trading in the
interior. Very often they have picked
up slaves as well as ivory. But this
phase of the matter may be left out
of the account. 1t is estimated that
every large caravan bringing ivory to
the coast has cost more than one hum
dred and sixty human lives through
fights and murders in the course of the
expeditions. Thirty more men are
likely to have succumbed to fevers OF
other diseases and the fatigues of the
march. The hunting Of the elephants
and the capture of the ivory are very
likely to have caused the death Of ten
men altogether. Such casualties are
the rule in elephant hunting rather
than the exception. An average tusk
does not furnish more than enough ma
terial for two good billiard balls. OF
course the remainder of the ivory in
each tusk is made use Of in other ways;
a perfect cut billiard ball requires spe-
cial quality, or so-called nerve"
which is found only in ono part of the
tusl<. The chances are that billiard
ball Of the first quality has cost at
least one human life; and there is not
one such ball which may not be truly
said to be stained with mems blood.
They can hardly be considered, there
fore, cheerful accompaniment to q
sensitive persons diversion.