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1HE P0srrIox or RICHARD CROKER


From the GroIs Ne,c iorlsr> zsaung.
A friend OF ours requests Us TO Investigate the
assertions made by the lda and Erpress against
Richard Croker, the former leader OF Tammany
Hall. TO the effect that this gentleman is ricn
man and that this Is the very reason why the
majority OF the members OF Tammany Hall
are opposed to him.
In Its Republican enthusiasm the Mad and
EIDres says that the wealth Of Mr.. Croker had
created n strong feeling against him in Tam
many Hall. not among the leaders but among
the general memberr. That the majority of the
latter did not wish to have man at the head Of
the organization who had bought q country
seat in Berkshire county. England; who owned
q residence In London: who did not consider
American schools sufficiently good for his chill
dreu: who owned q house in New York and a
hne property In Florida
Our friend requested US To thoroughly sift the
matter. He was very anxious to know the
truth. We have attempted to comply with this
request. and so far As can discover Richard
Croker Is not the rich man he has been accused
OF being. 1t is true that he owns q house
In New York. but there Is Q mortgage on
It for $4,000. He owns . stable. but this Ia his
legitimate business. by means of which he sup
ports his family. II Is not true that he does not
deem the American schools good enough for his
children. Six Of them received their schooling
In this country. He does not own q house in
England. but when abroad rents q house and
pays for same the reasona bic sum of $500 These
are the facts as they have been given to US by
people who are we'll acquainted with Mr..
Croker and with his affairs. and which facts.
We feel convinced, are very near the truth.
None OF our readers will suspect that wa are In
the same political boat as Croker because We
have complied with the request OF ono of our
readers and have ascert aimed these fncts- But
IL has always been our desire TO be Just even To
our political opponents. and We ca annot and will
not deviate from our prin nciple In this case Mr.
Croker was for many years a leader Of an or
ganization which We were frequently compelled
to oppose. bnt nevertheless he will be treate,I
by Us fairly and squarely.
The sun., 1897-01-12
Profitable Dusk Farming.

From the burlington CKy.) Recordsr
In the spring OF lsO6 Thomas Rouse kept
two ducks out OF n flock and drak Q from which
to raise, and here Is the result: They laid 1875
eggs In the spring. from which $50 worth OF
ducks were sold. after eating and selling some
OF tho eggs, OF which no account was kent Sly
Young ducks were kept out or the lot In the
lall the Two old ducks laid ninety eight more
eggs. On tho young ducks feathers enough to
make three pillows were taken
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.Two or three mornings after tho arrival Of n
new butler tho mistress OF the house took the
opportunity NJ asking tho cook how abe lik I'd
her new fellow servant The report was an eI-
cellent Que IN fact. maam," said tho cook.
the servants hall Il quite different place
further particulars "weli. he talks 80 clever
ly." said the cook. Last night, for Instance
he explained things TO us for an hour and .
half" d" Explained things what things y" said
the mistress, now really interested. well"
Mas the reply. "he was telling us how wa are MI
descended from Mr.. Darwin!'
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=, H. With present conditions. the country was At
the middle instead Of ~ the end OF Mr.. CLEvKrAsDs
term OF once IL would beyond question enter at once
upon period OF remarkable prosperty.-Nee York
Ttnes.
What, no clover! and ell on account OF the
premature disappcarance Of GRovEnr Inscrut
able are the ways of Providence.
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But whsre are the old.fssh.onsd Americans

They are all right, and arc hero in such strong
force that they have cleaned out tho new-fash.
toned Mugwump Americans. On tho 4th of
next March they will resume tho adminstra-
tion OF tho Government without obstruction
from the humbug. hypocrisy. and incom pe,ence
Of imported Mugwumpery.
The sun., 1897-01-12

nom tho Chicdp, Eribuns
Your bill Is too high, sir and won't nav it,-
snapped the young woman; and she turned sharuIy
on her heel and strobe out OF tie oiics
The lawyer who had procured a divorce for her
~ Turned again to his desk and merely remarked under
20 woman, In our hours OF fees
Uncertain. coy. aud hard 20 piesseI"
The sun., 1897-01-12

There have been fighting and blopdshed,
ptllage and havoc 10 western Cuba ever since
WxrLER pacined that part Of the country.
The sun., 1897-01-12
Donestic Cruelty.

IRON the Chicago Record.
tsaw hra Higby standing at tho window wssu.
II don.t blame her; Mr. Highly was cleaning IN.
pys h Sn nat hand painted snow shovel sSs
The sun., 1897-01-12

From the Chtoaso Record,
do you like cabbassf'
well. never sat q, bus smoke it sems,iassJs
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is to make sure of future blessedness.
OF the millions who are starving, as
many as possible crowd here to perish
in the shrinking and polluted stream.
Benares is famous for its burning CHAT
by the river where where the Hindoos
cremate their dead, but this has long
been choked up.
Among the photographs of Indian
scenes reproduced here may be noted
the Hindoo doctor treating q patient.
His entire medical outfit is small box
which he carries in his hand, and Eu.
ropeans soy that he is worse than use
less.
1t is announced that remedy for
The plague has been discovered by q
French physician. An antitoxic serum
prepared on similar principles to that
used in diphtheria has been employed
with success.
The Health Departments of New
York and Brooklyn are now in posses
sion of millions OF germs of the
plague. These arc capable of spread
ing the disease throughout the land,
but it is hardly necessary to say that
they are properly secured. The bac.
teriologists of these cities have the
bacilll aud the knowledge necessary to
enable them to prepare the anti-toxlc
serum,
The pioneer in the treatment of the
bubonic plague appears to be DR..
Yersin, physician in the French CO.
lonial service. He is not thirty years
OF age, and has perhaps performed q
service which will rank him among the
greatest scientific benefactors of hui
manity. The Bombay authorities have
requested him to visit that city, and it
is propable that he will do so.
A correspondent who has just re-
turned from Cochin China describes
DR.. Yersin and his work. lie is Il man
Of interesting appearance, thin
and OF middle height. He has
lon; face, wEipkle4 by the East
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Wonders of Insect Fecundity.

Away back il 1850 tho people of
East Prussia had o little experience
with an imported insect which re-
minds us of the growth of the English
sparrow pest. There was young
entomologist living near Cheron who
had exchanged some insect cocoons
with a brother bugfancier. Those
obtained in exchange by the Cheron
student were cocoons of the insect
known to the entomologists as Laparis
monacha. In due course of time a
male and female Laparis broke their
silky coverings and came out to
breathe the Prussian air. The young
student. figured that in the future he
would 60 out and pick his own Laparis
cocoons, and accordingly he gave the
insects their liberty. The patch Of
woods into which they were turned to
pasture comprised 10000 acres and
was one of the finest preserves in that
country. 1t was April when Mr.. and
Mrs. Laparis tried their wings for the
first time, but by September their
progeny had so increased that the air
was full of insects. By October of the
following year there was not a live
sprig in that forest of $4,000 acres,
the entire wood having been converted
into desert covered with lifeless tree
trunks. During the eighteen months
which elapsed between the time when
the insects were turned loose and the
last date mentioned, when the forest
was pronounced complete ruin, the
people of the vicinity had collected
and burned 600 pounds or 900, OO0,O
single eggs, and had destroyed more
than 5000, 900 fully matured moths |!
How is that for insect iecunditY?
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UttS .iA.-~~ 80 ----- ~ - i"i 80 oCOH
house and purchased quantity OF the
seeds known as Jobs tears. These
grow in India and resemble small
pearly gray shells. These seeds she
threaded upon gray linen spool
thread, cut in lengths to reach from
the floor to the small brass rod which
extended across the upper part of the
doorway. The seeds were put on with
spaces about one and half inches left
between. The needle must not be too
coarse, because if too large an open
ing is made through the seed for the
thread to fill, the seed will afterward
slip. The thread should draw through
the seed rather hard. OF course q
knot was made to hold the first seed,
after which they were simply strung
in place, and as string was finished
it was tied to the rod, beginning at
one side of the doorway. This pre-.
vented the threads from becoming
tangled by tying.
After sufficient number of threads
had been finished to fill two-thirds OF
the doorway, several shorter threads
were strung and tied along the middle
space. A pair OF horns was then
placed above the middle OF the door
way and these shorter threads were
caught up in careless shower, over
the horns. The effect was better than
thai usually attained by filling the
entire doorway with full-length
pendants.
The strings did not tangle readily,
as might be supposed they would; the
labor of preparing is light and pleas
ant, and the result attained is in every
way desirable. England Home
stead.
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INDIA'S WOES.
PLAGUE AND FAMINE ARE DE-
VASTATING THE COUNTRY.
Millions of Victims-DIsposition Of
the Dead-A French Doctors
Remedy-Precautions In
This Country.

ZAMINE is carrying off it's mill.
H ions of victims in India, and
the plague is not only ravag-
ing that land, but is begin
ming to cast its shadow over the world,
SAYS the New York Journal.
In well-fed America we can hear OF
the hungry millions with pity not
unmixed with satisfaction that we are
otherwise. But no nation or class is
above the fear of the plague germ. 1t
can travel round the earth in thou
sand different receptacles, is insensi BILE
to climate, and, attacking inyisibly,
brings Wholesale dea!h.
Plague and famine are cooperating
in way that must make the best ef-
forts of officials and scientists seem
hopeless. The irrigation tanks, very
numerous in Northern India, have
been reduced by drought to stagnant
puddles, and these have been con-
verted by diseased men and animals
into inexhaustible sources OF conta-
gion. The prevalence of famine has
forced the people to eat the most pu-
trid of TODD, which liz in many cases
Infected by diseased rats and insects.
The native quarter of Bombay is
practically deserted. 1t is strewn
With deserted bodies, and its condi-
tion menaces an epidemic in the Euro
pean quarter. The death rate among
the natives has grown SO high that it
is impossible to keep q reliable record.
The country for hundreds OF miles
around Bombay is ravaged by plague
and famine. The large port of Kara
chi is very badly infected.
The most horrible spectacle in Bonn
bay is presented by The Towers of Si-
lence, the Parsee burial places on the
Malabar Hill. The Parsees are fire
worshippers, and the most industrious
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RECIPES.

Stewed Chestnuts, Cream Sauce
Remove the shells from quart OF large
chestnuts blanch as almonds and cook
in salted water until soft. Drain and
pour over q white sauce made as fol
the boiled cod, but minus the oysters.
German Cakes-Creauahalf pound OF
sugar and the same OF butter together;
add the yolks of six eggs we'll beaten;
three.quarters of pound of -four, and
a tablespoonful of rose favoring; roll
out, cut in fancy shapes and bake IN
quick oven. Frost if desired.
Duck Terrapin-Chop enough cold
duck to fill two cups; add one cold
boiled sweetbread if convenient. Blend
a quarter of cup of butter with two
teaspoonfuls of cornstarch, and pour
over it one cup of hot cream; add
saltspoonful of salt and dust of pep.
per; add the duck and sweetbread, and
heat five minutes. Just before serv-
ing add the beaten yolks of two eggs.
Orange Wafers-Two eggs, beaten,
with one cup sugar; add one.half cup
butter, stirred to cream, one-half
cup milk, the grated rind of half an or
ange and one and one.half cups flour,
through which one tablespoonful bak'
ing powder has been sifted. Drop
small spoonfuls on buttered paper and
bake in quick oven. When cold dip
in the following glaze and lay on but
tered paper.
Indian Pound Cake-Sift half q pint
of fine yellow meal and one'fourth pint
of -four with teaspoonful of baking
powder. Mix with it one-quarter OF
o grated nutmeg and teaspoonfui OF
cinnamon. Stir to cream one.fourth
pound butter with one-fourth pound
sugar, add one-fourth teacuplul milk.
Beat four eggs very light, stir them
into the rutter and sugar, little at
| time in turn with the meal. Bake one
| hour and half. Excellent If eaten
fresh.
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protectorate treaties were being
signed, making the deltas of the Niger
British protectorate, Ibanitsuku,
the King, and his chiefs refused to
countenance the terms set forth there
in, and for several years gave Sir
Claude Macdonald vast amount Of
trouble from time to time, as the
tribe held some OF the principal oil
markets in the district. When the
Bonny men or New Calabar men went
to trade with the Okirikas their prop
erty was frequently seized, and mur-
der invariably followed, the heads of
the victims being carried off to adorn
the "Ju Ju" house. Early last June
MIR. Moor, the British Consul-General,
sent them an ultimatum, says the
Illustrated London News, demanding
the King should be handed over to
him, and also that the "Ju Ju" house
be destroyed, or he would lombard
their town. Up till the last day OF
the time allowed in the ultinatum
they refused to come to terms, so Mr..
Moor proceeded in the Government
yacht Ivy. with $50 troops and three
launches, to Okirika. After about
twenty minutes bomba l,nenb ;L2
chiefs came out in their NF.scs 8 i-g
white flags. Some troops wcra -:sn
landed, who, without op1osis."g. :.
stgQysd the .Ja Jun horse, {. s.sae-
was then handed over, 81 ! 80 } y =
turned to Bonny With E'.ei'Sy..''!t
hours of the time OF de1@;5Grs. Iosn,
itsuku was made stats is2ss' -
conveyed to Degamn lDne iiosvS.
ate's convict settlement), but later
succeeded in making his escape. The
okirikas at present ere assuming
more peaceful attitude and trade be-
tween them fourishes accordingly.
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ern climate and hard work in the
laboratory. His hair and beard are
cut short, and he is full of life, intel
ligence and enterprise. Here is DIR.
Yersin's description OF the plague from
personal observation:
"The disease presents the chemical
characteristics of the bubonic plague
of the Middle Ages. The outbreak is
sudden, after an incubation of four
and one-half to six days. 1t is accom-
panied by complete prostration. The
sufferer is attacked by o high fever,
often accompanied by delirium. The
first day bubo-gene1ally one only
appears. In seventy five cases out
of one hundred it is in the groin, IN
ten cases out of one hundred in the
armpit.
'dn the case of the plague reum u
steFilized broth containing the dead
bodies of the bacill1 is used. This
is Injected daily into a horse, which
in the space of two weeks be-
coues immunized against the plague.
The serum of the horses blood is then
drawn off and serves as preventative
OF or remedy for the plague in man. "
The plague appeared in China in
1895, and DR.. Yersin Immediately went
there. He started at Canton, but the
Chinese population did not wish to be
treated by European physician.
But an accident won him the day.
Three seminaries of the Catholic mis-
sioo at Canton fell sick of the plague.
Dr.{ Yersin treated them and saved all
of them. He then went to Andy,
where he treated twsnty-three persons
and saved twenty one. He had then
no more serum, but he converted a
large part of the population. When
he left Annoy they gave him an ovation.
Thel Hou Pao, Chinese newspaper,
devoted an article to the praise OF DIR.
Yersin and concluded by saying:
srIs not this divine art? Who will
dare to say that Hoa-to has not re-
turned to earth again" Hoa-to, it
shonld be explained, is celebrated
Chinese doctor who lived 1000 years
ago, and has been turned into god.
The first man in this country to re-
ceiye supply Of the bacilli was Pro,
fessor J. 7. Wilson, bacteriologist ot
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TOWER OF SILENCE, RESTING PLACE CT THE DEAD.

the Brooklyn Health Department.
They were obtained from DR.. Yersin
by surgeon in the navy, who brought
them to this country.
In the BrooklynHealth Department
Journal reporter had the satisfaction
of examining few dead bacilli of the
plague under q microscope and OF
gazing at patch of living ones re-
posing on gelatine in a test tube.
What will be done to protect New
York in case of the arrival of al in.
fected ship is an important question.
DR.. Al7ah II. Doty, the Health Officer
of the Port, says that he is fully pre-
pared for such an emergency. He has
representatives at Suez, Naples and
other ports, who will warn him by
cable of infected ships.
It will be hard for the bubonic
plague to come into New York on the
body or clothing of any human being.
This port has now the most perfect
and modern disinfecting apparatus in
existence. 1t would be impossible for
the germs of any disease to pass
through it and remain alive.
This apparatus has been constructed
under the supervision of DR.. Doty.
1t is installed on the steamboat james
w. Wadsworth, which is stationed at
Quarantine ready at any moment to
get up steam and proceed to the dis
injection of suspected persons OF
ships. DR.. Doty's principal assistants
are DIR. rHommedieu and Mr.. Skinner.
Diainfection is enforced on persons
from abroad at the discretion of the
Eealth officer. 1t will certainly be
enforced on all coming from India or
other ports from which the germs OF
the dreaded plague are liable to be
carried.
The Wadsworth is q marvel of sci
enti6c ingenuity in its fittings. The
upper deck is given up to the disin-
fecting plant. A series of compart,
ments begins forward and ends aft.
They are entirely lined with galvan.
lied iron, coated with white enamelled
paint, and incapable of allowing any
liquid cr other substance to escape. The
man suspected of harboring germs en-
ters these chambers with all his porta-
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and prosperous native community in

and prosperous native community IN
Bombay.
When Parsee dies his friends con.
vey his body to one of the Towers OF
Silence, which are clustered together
in garden. After the mourners
comes man leading white dog, the
emblem OF faithfnlness, followed by the
priests. The procession ascends the
tower, in which a sacred fire is always
kept burning. At the top is plat
form, on which the body is left. No
sooner have the people Withdrawn
than flock of vultures, which have
been lowering about descends. In ten
minutes they pick off every particle of
flesh, ard at the end Of three weeks
the friends return and deposit the
bleached skeleton in central we'll.
The scenes on the banks of the
Ganges, the sacred river of India, are
awful. In the neighborhood OF Ben
ares, the metropolis of Brahmanism,
they reach their elimination. To die
here in the waters of the sacred river
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The Danger of Tuberculosis From Milk.

The apprehension which exists in
the public mind regarding the danger
of receiving the contagion of tuber-
culosis from infected milk seems to
require that we refer to the subject.
That the danger exists is no longer
denied, but that it is sometimes over
estimated is also true. The danger IS
evidently greatest when the udder is
affected and it is then very grave
danger. fortunately. the cases in
which the udder becomes affected are
not numerous in only seven per cent.
of the animals condemned and killed
by us was there any disease detected
in the udder. Report of Connectl-
cut Commission.
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First Biography.

The first geography printed in this
country was compiled by Jedediah
Moss, and publishe in l7ol. For the
use of schools. The attempts at maps
in this publication was extremely
crude, and gave very imperfect idea
of the outlines of the countries they
were supposed to represent. 1t is said
that only twenty-five or thirty copies
Of this work ere now in existence
'D..I..,> Glopo
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The Oldest Postmaster.

Joseph Strobe of Miflin County,
Penn, is the Oldest postmaster in the
United States. That is to soy. the
Oldest in continuous service, for Mr..
strodo has held his position of master
of mails at Strode's Mills since 1S45,
despite the changes of adminietra-
tions, political upheayals, war and the
silver agitation.
Joseph Strobe is in his eighty
second year and is the pride and the
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English Lawyers' Fees.

In England there are many fees to
be paid by the unhappy client of a
lawyer that are unknown here in
America. There is retaining fee,
which is one guinea and o half-crown
to the clerk besides the brief fee,
which is more important. Then there
is the "refresher" of the leader and
the "refreshers" of the subordinate
lawyers. In England the leaders re-
freshor, which is due after five hours,
the brief fee being supposed to cover
only the getting up OF the case, is ten
guineas or little over $50, while $50
must be paid the lesser lawyers.