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The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04
.Swert Charity"

In the Artists Exhibition of 1891 at the
New York Academy Of Design, there was er-
hibiteJ nm oil painting by J. l.. g, Ferris, en-
titled "Swect Charity" It's richness OF Color
ing commanded instant attention, while tl,c
Lesson It taught WAS SO impressive that one
naturally returned to 1t for n second View.
Its subject Is young lady Of colonial times
who is on an errand to one OF the poorer fami-
lies Of the town. She has n sensible, charm
Ing face, which expresses with remarkable f.
deity the sentiment OF her errand. There is
not home that this charming picture will
not ornament. 1t must be scen to be apprc-
ciated.
Sweet Charity" was purchased by the Pub
lishers OF The Youths COMPANION and has been
reproduced In co'ors In large size. l4ifx21
1t will be sent to all new subscribers Of Ths
Companion who send $l.75 for n years sub
scripilon. and the paper Will also be sent Free
from the time the subscription Ia received, to
January, 1894, and for a full year from that
date, to January, 1895. This oGcr includes
the Double Souvenir Numbers published at
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Ad-
dress,
The YouTH's COMPANION, Boston, Mass
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4 !YIsn .ieforu

II n dispatch from Birmingham Ia correct,
one cause for Irritation among the Alabama
coal miners will be shortly removed. The
dispatch says llaS the state authorities. who
have heretofore KEEP, the convicts employed
by leasing them to ninc owners, thus bring
ing them Into competition with free labor,
have decided on another plan. Tho state has
purchased n trsct Of $500 acres OF land on
which the conviots will; be placed In tempo
rary quarters and where they will be eui-
ployed for some time In building permanent
pcnitentlary. When that Is completed. and
II Is expected that the work will occupy sew
ersl years, they will be used in raising their
own food supply and in similar occupations
which WILL not bring them into the general
labor market. The Lease system, as con-
Quoted In somc of the states, has been subject
to many abuses and Is very much behind
modern and improved methods of prison
management II ia to be hoped that the ex-
ample thus set by Alabama Will be follow cd
In Tennessee where the troubles caused by
convict labor must be fresh In our readers
minds.
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I.oia,iou oil Con.u,nptives.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30th.-unitcd states
Consul Courtney Hixson Mt Foochow, China
observing the decrease of consumption
through the Amick treatment is supplying
the American colony as we'll ms the Chinese
with tho free medicines Obtained from the
generous Cincinnati discoverer. No goyern-
mental action will be taken towards isolating
con.umptives until the regular session.
CHICAGO, Oct 30th,-Thc sanitary huthorl-
Ties, aroused by recent editorials on the
Amlck cure and TIC infectiousness OF the
disease. are debating how best to Isolate con-
sumptvcs. The lost Gays, Consumption Ia
placed by Michigan In the zane category MS
emal-pox and 1t will be similarly Guaranteed.
Let Illinois fall in line at once"
DENVER. Oct. S0ih.-The proposed state
Legislation lsoiatins both resident consump-
lives and ihoee coming here has led 10 the In
corporation OF institutions for their care. Tie
Denver SaEitarum Co. opened thcirs las,
week TO the patients of all physicians and
combines itoation with the Amck treatment
which each consumptiye Is given opportunity
of testing with medicines furnished these
physicians by the Cincinnati doctor without
cost The Boston Company for the coloniza-
,ion In Colorado Of Isolated consumpilves has
applied to the stnte land commissioner for
two sections Of land which will give out OF
doors occupation.
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Union Printer. in For. Worth.

When the Fraternity printers came to work
on the Gdzttte Saturday Mt o'clock they
found placard on the door signed by Z. q.
Seuter. business manager, reading.
THE union printers, under foremanship Of
w. j. McAlister, have charge of the Gazette
office. Fraternity printers not wanted on nc
count OF inconpctency."
The fraternity hns had charge OF the Ga-
zefte since August, 1892. They will proceed
in court against the Gdz,fts, claiming to have
large stock interests, ms 20 per cent. OF their
earnings have been withheld Tor months and
credited TO their stock
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THE FOREHEAD.
Human Character Reveslsd by It's SHAPE
Size and Construction.

Human Character Revealed by Its SHAPE,
Size and Construction.
Descending to tho analysis OF SIN
gle features it will be instructive to
look critically at the writing In tho
forehead, writes John Lambert Payne
in Ladies' Home Journal. 1t is not
always an easy thing to measure BY
the eye the actual width or height OF
this portion OF tho head. because OF
tho volume OF hair which often en-
croaches towards tho eyes, but 1t 10
fairly safe to conclude that the size
OF forehead has o direct relation to
brain capacity This is subject only
to qualifications as to intensity and
activity. which need not now be con-
sidercd.
For all purposes within the range
of this sketch 1t may be said that .
high and broad forehead denotes In
tellectuality. with an ucuto nervous
lack of balance. A slightly sloping
forehead indicates availability Of
talent. and when the slope is caused
by high porccptives lying over the
eyes it may also be taken as showing
powers OF keen observation. II tho
slope is found without this fullncss
over tho eyes it may be accepted IS
tho evidence OF weak reasoning
powers, for tho forehead Is undoubt-
edly tho seat OF the mental facultios.
Aiirthful women, with fine sense
OF the ridiculous, nre usually marked
by distinct prominence at what
may be called the upper corners Of
tho forehead. Fullness In the GEN.
ter. partly covered by the hair. sug-
gests good nature and friendliness.
while roundncss between the hair
line and the center Of tho head plainly
indicates abounding generosity and
sympathy. Most women have an
active appreciation Of tho artistic
and decorative. and hence II Is that
in most faces is seen plumpness
over the eyebrows A noticeable de-
volopment nbout half an incn above
the outer end OF the eyebrows is .
characteristic OF pronounceably
musical persons.
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yy.,I,,np1on Notes.

After tho repeal bill was passed by tho
House Wednesday afternoon II was hurriedly
enrolled Ly Chairman Person Of the commit
tee on enrolled bills, and at $3.50 IL was given
to Speaker Crisp for his name. feetfoot-
cd messenger carried 1t TO the Senate, where
1t was signed ten minutes later by Vice Prcs!-
dent Stevenson. Chairman PIcrson. with the
hill under his arm, entered carriage and
drove rapidly To the White House. The
President took up the bill and read It aloud.
Then. picking up quill pen, he affixed his
autograph at 4 :25. The analysis OF the vote
shows l25 Democrats and SO Republicans
voted for concurrence, and 10 Democrats, 10
Republicans and . Popullsts against
The bill to aid Western schools of mines
which was passed by the Senate on the 27th
will aid the states OF California, Oregon,
Washington, Montana, Minnesota, Idaho,
Ncvadn Wyoming, Colorado and South Dn-
kota to support school OF mines. The bill
provides that each OF these states shall an
nually receive p per cent, of all moneys paid
10 tho United States by each Of these states
for mineral lands within their territory tor
the maintenance of schools of mines; pro-
vided, that the sum 60 paid shall not exceed
sl2,Jc0 year to each state, nor shall 1t ex-
coed in any event the amount annually ex-
pended by each state for support OF Its school
Of mlucs.
Senator Sherman has received from Secre-
tary Carlisle, in reply to an inquiry concern
ing tn, segniorage now In the treasury, a
letter saying that OF the treasury notes issued
under the Sherman act, t52, 305, $40 have, upon
the demand of the holders. been redeemed in
gold and s9.224, ,102 In silver dollars The
secretary's letter shows the selgniorage car
rIed under the Sherman act is s6,y74, ,0gS.
Since July, 1891. s.798, $40 silver dollars have
been coined, and there has been no coinage
OF silver dollars since May, 1893, except 1900
In proof pieces.
The silver bullion on band October last
amounted TO 1877 ,6G6,25 fine ounces, costing
si24. .dGl .523. With the probable purchases Of
October. Mr.. Carlislc thinks there will be
l39, 500. .257 ounces Of silver bullion in the
treasury on November l, tho cost Of which
viii be s12. ,Sss, ,929 and the coinage value
$3.50 r220, ,008
The treasury closed the month Of October,
and the last month probably Of the present
administration of silver purchases, by buying
In the aggregate 1 .943, 900 ounces. The ofYcrs
for the month were 5,152, 600 ounces There
lots were bought on the Both at 20 cents per
ounce as the result Of the counter offer made:
100 900 ounces 1000, 200 900, 200, 900, SO, 900,
*, 100 10000, $4,000.
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VARIED AND VERIFIED.

Chicago has ut present 2,774 law
yers
Tho world has about 1000, 900 He
brews.
Lightning is believed to be visible o
distance of $50 miles.
The death rate from apoplexy is
highest at Turin, Italy-6iO in 1000.
Great Britain has but one medical
j. nrual, while this country has over
soD.
No port of tho world except Liver
pool sends us many cmigrants TO
America rs docs Bremen.
The railway which is to be built
rcross Siberia will be 1,50O miles long.
IT is 10 be completed In 1904.
A Chambersburg (Pa.) merchant
Who paid his clerk seventy-five cents
per week and who charged him for
all the fruit, etc, he ate, settled with
him the other Saturday night by Civ
ing him two cent stamp
1t has been figured that in the
United States the average life of farm.
ers is sixty-four years; for lawyers,
hfty'two; merchants, forty-cight; me-
chnnics. forty-sevcn; scamen, forty
six; laborers. forty-four.
Tie ocean water north Of Cape Cod
is much colder than the water south
of it, for the cape seems to turn a
branch of The warm gulf stream out
to sea, learing only the chilly arctic
current to wash the Maine shore
Twenty Cinnamon were arrested .
fcw nights ngo mt Atlanta, Ga, on .
chErge of gambling. At the hearing
the next duy they denied the charge
ana said that they were merely en-
gagged in the worship of their gods.
The policemen swore that they saw
money on the table in the room Rt the
time of the arrest. but that tho game
was not fantan Or any game that they
were familiar with, and as they
could not swear positively whether
the Cinnamon were gambling or pray
ft-.r Nr Ixs s,--
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thirty minutes q bowling mob Of
them wero tearing to pieces and
fighting over tho remains OF both
horse and boars.
When the guus again belched forth
the deadly messages the earth trems
bled, tho carnival ceased and quiet
once more reigned over the scene- :
In looking over the Geld OF destrnc.
tion after tho battlo was over We did
not find whole coyote and few
whole heads. but calculated the num-
ber slain by their tails. finding TWEEN.
ty-seven.
As the reveille sounded we wheeled
our guns into limo and started for the
fort, fully satisfied with our ntghts
sport. but tired out and as hungry ~
tho most ravenous coyote
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04

LONDON reports affirm that peace
cannot be restored in Brazil except
by restoration OF monarchy. Brazil
ians must make ready accordingly
for long suspension OF peace and
coffee-drinkers must prepare to pay
q little more for their favorite bever-
age For monarchy cannot be re-
storel on the American continent.
Once out. it is out forever. A Brit
ieh protectorato over pretended
kingdom with u dummy heir of Dom
Pedro for baublc-bearer is what res
toration OF the monarchy there
would mean.
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IT is a great thing to own steam

/ IT is a great thing to own steam
yacht. and when man gets rich
enough he generally buys one. But
thc yacht, like all pleasures, has its
dangers, More than one owner has
lost his life in them. Mr. Wander
bilt's yacht was sunk. Mr.. Gould's
yacht cut down several boats, and
entailcd the drowning OF several pcr
sons Now. Mr. Astors yacht Is in
trouble again. and so it goes. Per
haps. after all. it is bettcr and safer
to travel in the regular way.
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04
Hun1nHcr Panrr

The paper mill st sallra, Kansas, has CON-
pleted an important e1pci Uncut To determine
the practicabllty OF manufacturing paper
from wild sunfowers. The test was COM
pletc success. Several tons Of the weeds were
made into paper. which Is far superior to
straw paper, the fiber Of the sunaower pro-
ducing as tough and plIable paper as rag pa
per. The mill is now buying sun1owers and
proposes TO make sunnower paper speciality,
rs It can be made very cheap. This IL the
first experiment Of the kind ever made.
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04

= BARrHoLDI wants the American
people to turn the island where his
statue of Liberty now stands into a
eort of American pantheon. with
statues OF men who have made this
country great from Washington
down. NJ. Bartholdi doesn't say so,
but he is probably willing to do the
artistic work-at u fitting pecuniary
price OF course.
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04

The wonder is that any bills of
fare In this country are printed in
French. The French on them is
generally of the worst, and. what is
more, not one in hundred of those
into whose hands they are put un-
derstands it. We don't look for
French from n cook any more than
we look to hostler for Latin The
dishes that are put on the average
American hotel table are American
in character. with sound American
names. Let them be called by them.
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04

i AS THE year grows old she tries to
conceal her age by putting on gay
colors- She comes out in Haunting
and gorgeous attire. She has the
feminine instinct for making age
almost as beautiful as youth Every
one who can should go into the
country for q day at leaat and see
natures fall fashions. 2,
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We observe that the statement is
going the rounds that Mrs. Olive
Thorne Miller, tho writer on birds,
did not know ono bird from another
until she was past middle age" This
is erroneous Mrs. Miller learned to
know chicken from turkey at COM
paratively early age.
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04

PUBLIC libraries. like the tele-
Grsph, telephone. electric street cars,
etc, are OF modern origin. The peo-
pie os the present generation have
come to look upon them Us some
thing ancient, as If they had always
existed. The first free public libra
ry ever established was in Petersbo-
rO. N. IL. and that was not until
1888. Up to that date libraries OF the
country designed for public use we're
owned either by literary associations
or educational bodies. Petersboro
has the honor Of being the initial
library supported by the taxpayers.
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04

ENGLAND. having observed with
Jealous eye the affection between
Russia and France. has steamed
southward and shed sisterly tear
adown the neck of fair Italia Such
purely unselfish affection among
nations is beautiful to see and will
last till one gets chance to take ad-
vantage Of the other.
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04

IT is remarkable that some of the
recent important improvements in
bicycle cons truction haven't been ap-
Piled as yet foc the improvement of
ordinary carriages This is very
conservative old world after all, and
it takes lcng time to get it out of a
rut in which it has been travelling
for good many years.
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! WHILE Franco is trying to make u
partnership with Russia whether or
no the czar is prospecting around in
the Pamirs and seems in very fair
way to pull on u conflict with Eng
land. Flirtatious France had best
look "a bit out how she buys a Rus
sian pig in a poke; she may find out
after she has irretrievably involved
herself that she has been buying all
sorts of trouble unawares.
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04

, MARSHAL MAcM,uoN, who playea
so conspicuous part in the Franco
Prussian war. is dead at the age OF
eighty-five. II is only little more
than two decades since that great
struggle. and yet such have been the
fatalities among its leaders that
scarcely anyone of note now sur
wives. Should the great contest be
renewed tomorrow it would be by
new soldiers and new commanders.
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Mayor I.arr,.op.s Successor,

Oscar d. wethercli, city comptroller of
Chicago. who, by the death Of Mayor Harri-
son, becomes scting mayor, Is Republican.
He Is native Of New Hampshire, but re-
came q prominent lumberman. Something
like twelve years ago he was elected to the
city council Of Chicago, and served at least
two terms rs chairman Of the Finance com.
mittee. Three years ago be was elected pres
ident Of the Globe National Bank, and last
spring, on Harrison's election, Mr.. wethereil
was slseted comptroller. He Is about sixty
yea4s old.
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04

F; The volatile French people let the
corpses of Gounod and MacMahon-
men who have covered their nation
with honors-lie unburied, their
deaths unwepL, unsung. while they,
the people. indecently fawned upon
and caroused with the visiting sea-
men OF Russia, in whose eyes and the
eyes OF the world they are making
''holy spectacle" of themselves.
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F; KATE FIELDS Washington tells of
M Illinois man at the fair who seri-
ousiy called the midway plaisance
''the midway appliance. There's
one thing about the average Ameri-
can Even If he can't pronounce
thing he Is always ready to make
stAgger at it.
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04

THEr nsw have dictator In Gaute-
nalA Hc will dictate until some
ether dictator arises who can die
tate to hiN. It 10 an uneventful
year whsa no dictator arises in Cen
trsl ADericA
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04

MONKEYS who make wine and jars
In which to store il have been dis
covered In China Possibly the miss
ing link for which science pines and
religion tncredulously calls has como
70 light at last
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TEE Philadelphia Times says: ut
y . noticeable thing in Philadelphia
seciety that so many women have
1ew aad melodfous voices. that excel
jleat thing In woman" That must be-
tDeanse they are trained from child
keod not to disturb the holy hush.
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: u ~ nsan who humps his shoul-
i S1s epef Ne btnycle haadle- bars
sS66ssa eaaf ~ htnsslf once As others
- ~ poatd ~ ue straight
( Z ll|l ~ lliII 4 n ~ ~ = nm =
NJ s1llas
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Ths Western Normal College, Lincoln, Ne.
bfaskhs hes large sttendancs this year
Thsy pay 100 milcS railroad fare tern.
IN14da-Ae oc1ssss and f28 cIasass frem
- g s'sst casssosss issyA 9alsf n
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Ths D. 4 4. @. work trails that IN bsss -
~ Ruhy-AutArnciss bsensa, ~ bean aksa
on AsA - esAs 70 saltdA Wtees n viM -
sasaed = MxtsS p - -! eses.s. Sss!-
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HUNTING WITH CANNON.
WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF
GRIZZLY BEARS.

Tho Carcass of = Horse Formed the hat
with Which tho Animals Wcro At
tracted aud Two Howitxers Formed
tho Weapons OF Destruction.
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-11-04

There are 400 cases Of diphtheria In week
In London according 20 tho London Wssss, re-
suiting In eighty or ninety deaths per week,
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. John T. Jordon, prominent
citizen of Roanoke, died of paralysis
yesterday.
Mail contractor Jas. O. Lowry, be-
tween Warsaw and Heathsville, was
arrested yesterday for robbing the mails.
He has stolen 81 900.
Miss Clara B. Palmer, a Peabody stu
dent in Baltimore, has been selected by
the State of Virginia to perform at the
Worlds Fair musical convention.
East Hanover Presbytery, in session
in Petersburg, yesterday postponed the
consideration Of the p OPPOSITION to di-
vide the Presbytery until the fall meet
ing.
Mr.. Dollie Williams, widely known
citizen of Brunswick county, was kill
ed in a runaway accident in that coun-
ty on Wednesday by being thrown from
his wagon.
Mr.. J. Garrett Holiday, of Rich
mond, and Miss Juliet Biggers, daugh-
ter of Mr.. S. C. Biggers, of Cnlpeper,
were married on Wednesday at the res
ideuce of the brides father.
The Confederate Veterans organiza-
ton of the State will be invited to
Richmond on the 31st of May, the oc-
casion being the reinterment of the re-
mains of Mr.. Jefferson Davis.
w. II. Mayo, from the third district,
has been appointed cadet at the An
napolis Naval Academy and S. d. Nc
Kinney, alternate B. Morris, from the
fifth district, has also been appointed q
cadet.
A man giving his name as Ellis,
through false pretenses recently
swindled several persons in Manassas.
Being left alone in a house there he
broke open trunk, stole what money
was in it and made Off
Foxes in east Rockingham have of
late become bold and many of them
have been killed in the yards of country
homes. Recently four OF them three
gray and one red-were killed by the
shepherd dog on guard in the yard Of
the Rockingham Springs.
An incendiary fire in Fincastle, the
county-seat of Botetourt county, did
considerable damage early yesterday
morning. Half dozen houses, includ-
ing the Herald office and the postotliee
were burned. Loss on buildings $685.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-14

SAN FRANCISCO, April 1.-THE fol-
lowing items of interest have been
received from Honolulu dated
April Sth yesterday evening the
guards at the palace were doubled.
The provisional government fears that
an attempt will be made to reinstate
the Queen and that Commissioner
Blount will back up the act with the
United States marines. The govern
ment believes that if this attempt is
made the argument used will be that
the provisional government was form
ed under the protection of the United
States forces and it is the duty of the
United States to put these people where
they were before. The provisional
government will never give up I'M
less compelled to do so by force ofarms,
1t has been stated on the streets that
Commissioner Blount sent letter to
each representative Of foreign gov
eminent here warning them that al
though the flag was lowered they must
not interfere, but it is certain no such
document was sent out.
ga missionary ship, which crulsed
among the South Sea Islands, returned
last week and brought information that
the Japanese are negotiating with
Spain to buy the Ascension Islands.
1t proves that the Mikado is determIn-
ed to have naval station in the Pa
ciflc, if not in Hawaii, then elsewhere
The Australian steamer brought the
Hawaiian government demand that
japanese subjects in the Hawaiian isl
ands be placed upon the same political
footing as other foreign born residents.
1t is, in other words. demand for the
reimbursement of the japanese.