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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-03
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-03
BROKERS' FUN WITH II. b. SEELEY.

Herbert B. Seelcy who gave the famous Seeley
dinner at sherry's. was on May q elected member
Of the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange.
He made his first appearance on the Exchange
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-03

IMPORTED MADRAS DRESS SHIRTS
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.o Dozcn Coored Shirts of Imported Madras win
plain or Plened with collars some wlthout;
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thew are i'm patterns ana are Oh unsurpassed
Cmniity. sizes ID to II inches.
HA"''' ' 0j Cents Each;
rprice
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-03

Henry A. Daniels. n. D..
90 West s9th g. ~
ma iIa ",;msntS Hours 70 l. 8 70
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-03
GREAT
Memorial Day
Number
....OF...
THE TRIBUNE,
SUNDAY, NAY 30TH.

Admitted to be beautiful and satiss
factory special number. with colored
cover, interesting contents and a pro.
fusion of pictures.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-03
Announcements

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Both new effects high banded collars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-22
DooLEY ON CHRISTMAS.
The Philosopher Declares that No One
Gets What He Wants.
Chicago Post.

chicago POSl.
The approach of Christmas is heralded in
Archey road by many of the signs that are
known to the less civilized and more pros
porous parts of the city. The people look
poorer colder and more hopeful than at
other times. The bake shops assume an old
country appearance of gayety. The saloons
are well attended. Also ii you have your
eyes about you you may catch a glimpse,
now and then, through a frosted window
pane of stunted Christmas tree laden
senderly with glass balls and ropes of red
popcorn. the work of painful hands after
the childher are abed. Mr.. Dooley knew
Christmas was coming by the calendar. the
expiration of his quarterly license and Mr..
Hennessy coming in with doll in his
pocket and 4 rocking chair under his arm.
"Prisints2' said the philosopher.
''Yis," said Mr.. Hennessy. Il had to do
it. l made up me mind this year that |
wudden't buy amy Christmas prisints or
take amy | can't afford il. Times has
been fearful hazard, an a look iv pain
comes over tn oil womans face whn /
hold out cints firm me salary on Saturdah
night | give IL out that didn't want amy
thing, but theyse so much scurryin'
ar-round an hidin' things whin | go in
that | know thy'Ve got something FIR me. !
cudden't stand 1t no longer so | whit down
town tonight, down be Shekel an
Whoopers place an bought these things.
This is fine doll FIR tn money"
1T is" said Mr.. Dooley. taking the effigy
and examining 1T with the eye of an art
critic. 1T closes its eyes; yis, an bedad,
IL cries If we punch 1t. They're maxim these
things more like human bein's iv'ry year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-22

great plumbers that could have been avoided
one OF the hardest things for such people
fifty lines, keeping the same spelling, punc-
tuation; capitalization, and emitting no
Words
OFFICE NOT FOR SALE.
Another class of office-seekers try to get
into the government service without going
through the civl-service bureau to secure
the appointment. These people usually fall
victims to the regular bunco men, who lie
in wait for just such victims The most
common swindle in Washington, and one Of
the hardest to be detected or to land in the
courts is the man who advertises that for
a certain nominal sum he will guarantee to
secure government position to whoever
may apply. The very cheapness of such
propositions should stamp them at once as
a fraud, for it is against reason to suppose
that for $50 cash one can secure a govern
ment place or any other kind of a position
paying $1G0 a month. Yet there are many
men who advertise, either publicly or by
means of circulars that for certain sum
they will obtain the positions promised.
Out-of-town people are apt to be caught
frequently by these tactics, as they have
not been in Washington long enough to
understand that government offices are not
hought and sold in such a public manner.
These advertisements are always marked
personal, and the writer assures the vic
tim that he has great and powerful private
influence with political personages who com
mand patronage, which he is willing to
market for $75 job. The office seeker who
is unwise enough to be roped into such
gold-brick game, and who allows his money
to pass out of his hands before he receives
his appointment papers, stand but little
show of winning out on the game. In fact,
even in case any alleged appointment papers
are received chat is sometimes a part OF
the game), the authenticity of the appoint
ment is always open to doubt. Government
positions paying high salaries are not re-
tailed around the streets in such fashion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-22
A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.
An Enterprise Not Likely to BE Re-
ceived with Enthusiasm.
Boston Transcript.

Boston Transcript.
The revival under fresh auspices of the
project, now over hundred years old, TO
establish a great national university on the
lines laid down by President Washington is
not likely to develop very lively enthusiasm
over the country, though it has rarely, if
ever, enjoyed a more respectable or ener-
getic sponsorship. The prominent and patri-
otto women who have undertaken to direct
prise will doubtless enlist the sympathy of
many in their cause, but unless they can
also successfully appeal to popular judgment
the financial response is not likely to be
what they hope for. Patriotic sentiment is
admirable, no matter in what form it is
manifested. and reverence for great names
and lofty character is something to be en-
couraged, but a university, to be successful
must be something more than a memorial;
1t must be the outgrowth of a broad demand
and proved necessity.
TO establish a great university in the CAPT
tai city which bore his name was indeed one
of the darling projects of Washington in the
later years of his life, but we do not be-
lieVe that this great man desired it because
of pride of association. but rather for the
superior opportunities he believed it would
afford for the pursuit of knowledge in it's
higher forms. Conditions have materially
would undoubtedly have changed with them.
The higher institutions of learning have
sprung up and developed as there has been
need of them, and had Washington been the
best city and presented the best conditions
to attain the highest educational results in
this country, it is not likely we should have
Without doubt the government equipment
in science and other branches of knowledge
would be of inestimable value as an adjunct
of a university, but of itself it does not
justify the establishment of one. 1t will be
remembered that one strong reason in the
mind of Washington for the establishment
and endowment of a national university at
the capital was the opportunity that its
students would have to study not only the
science, but the practice of government.
But we believe he would have shrunk from
holding up to the plastic mind of youth such
object lessons as are now presented. 1t is
better for young men and women to study
the science of government by the light of
their own ideals than by such interpreta-
ton as it has received in the halls of Con-
gress very recently. IL, In this case distance
lends enchantment When their minds are
time enough to judge practical politics by
the standards they have acquired. There is
much to be learned in the atmosphere of
Washington, but it takes a man of expert
ence and something of a philosopher, withal
to know what to accept and what to re-
ipct
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-22

,nrtis. in Chicago Record.

W. t. Curtis, in Chicago Record.
At Nuremberg. two centuries or more ago.
one of the proudest barons of Franconia
made his grave in the middle of the river
Pegnitz in order that no man should ever
be able to tread upon his dust. A crib was
sunk under his own direction. the water
pumped out and a space large enough to
contain burial casket was blasted out of
the rocky bottom of the stream. When
death summoned him his instructions to his
heirs and agents were strictly carried out
His body was placed in an iron coffin. de-
posted in the cavity and covered with an
immense fagstone, which was cemented as
securely as possible. Upon this powders
We're piled until they reached the surface of
the water and his name was engraved upon
one of them. AS time grew old the crevices
between the powders filled up with sedi-
ment from the stream. Floating plants
caught and chung. and seeds. borne through
the atmosphere fell upon the soil and germ
mated and grew until the tomb is now COW
cred with ivy and other water plants. and
two pretty trees find slender foothold for
their roots between the rocks 1t is an OBJ
struction to navigation, but adds much to
the beauty of the stream and bridge has
been built across the river at that place,
as the natives say. so that the angel Gabriel
will not be compelled TO take a boat to
arouse the slumbering patrician on resur-
rection morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-22
THOUGHT PHOTOGRAPHY NOW.
EdisOn's Son ThinlSs He Has the Sc
cret OF 1t.
New York Tribune.

ANcW lOTk
Thought photography is the latest. Every
body knows of course, the great strides
that electricity has made in the last ten
years. All of them are wonderful and mar
Vicious. but when il comes to an electrical
device which photograph human
moment TO consider the subject. Thomas
A Edison. jr.. believes that he has II AIDE
discovery which will result In a perfect
electrical apparatus for reproducing human
mind. With such a machine a man who
has travelled all over Europe will be able
to come back and, sitting in the rear of a
hall. throw on a canvas, with the aid of his
prisoner on trial for murder may have His
thoughts photographed. and ii any scenes
connected with the crime appear on the
film mis- guilt can thus be established. The
anxious wife will be able To photograph her
sleeping husbands thoughts, and find out
whether he has really been attending an i'm
portant business conference or has been
playing poker at the club. And so on
through q long list of uses which can be
made of the new invention.
Mr. Edison is trying to demonstrate That
when u person with II normal mind thinks
of large object there results Il
swelling Of the head. If the mind is di-
rected toward small object of course the
at all-perhaps only slight vibration. Mr.
Idisons one experiment i'm the line of
thought photography has led him to believe
that he can accomplish results which will
chanical hynnotism can always he secured
A description of the process gone through
with in this FIRST experiment Is herewith
given: In the nrst place. subject was Sc
cured who was known 10 be capable of
thinking. In this case il was a boy in his
teens, who was willing, in order 10 lid the
advancement of science to have his haif.
shaved close to his head. This operation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-22
l wanter die Oh de Lawds day,
When de gates of heaben's ajar.

"Ole mistis rid de Jordan wave,
All day on de Lawd's day,
En- de doctah tried her life to save,
All day on de Lawds day.
She rid on twell de sun went down,
All day on de Lawd's day.
Her soul broke loos' an won de crown,
All day on de LawRs day.
cole massa rastled. too, one day,
All day on de Lawd's day;
Tryin' on dis earf to stay.
All day on de Lawd's day;
He rastled twell de stars arose,
All day on de Lawd's day;
An Wen he got dar de gates was close,
Dat day on de Lawd's day.
Have you heard enough?" said the cap
tain at the conclusion of this song. l nod
ded. Then, let us get away without at
tracing notice, and We left the scene.
Listen" said /, as we were nearing our
quarters, and these words came to US plain
ly on the frosted air;
Nah soul is weepin sghin',
Fur de times OATS come en- gone,
When de niggahs wuz er VEIN
Wild themselves ermong de Gavin;
Pullin an er hauln,
Jes' er Singin an er bawlin,
Err rastin' an er fallin,
En- er wishin' fur de hawn."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-22
Better than a. Cat.
Washington Post.


A quick-witted attache of a well-known
hotel has solved the problem of the quick
disposition of rats A night or two ago a
member of the rodent tribe made his way
into trap which had been set for his spe-
cies. The trap was one of the wire cage va
riety. and when he man whose duty it is to
take care of it came around in the morning
he thought his quarry was squirrel or a
medium-sZed gray dog. No such rat, as
far as size went had ever been seen by
him. He carried the cage out into the day
light and whistled for dog. Several came
but none of them would tackle the rat. 1t
was too big. Then some eats were called.
bat they only took one look before scurry-
ing away. The matter was becoming Sc
rious when the house electrician came
along. I'm fix him. was the electricians
solitary ejaculation. Then he disappeared
to return minute or two later with a bat
terry from which projected piece of wire.
Just turn this crank a bit, he said 10
bystander. The latter did as directed and
the electrician showed the wire into the
trap. The big rat glanced at 1t and then
grabbed it viciously with his teeth Presto.
As quick as a flash, all was over. The ro-
dent had gone to that bourne. etc. Just a
matter of a thousand volts or So senten-
tiously remarked the electrician, picking up
his battery and walking away. The rat
was pitched into the garbage barrel. and
now cats and dogs are at a discount at
that hotel while electricity is away above
par.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-22
Among the Probabilities.


NHIVdBV
Spokesman-We have come. sir TO beg
that you will accept. as slight testimonial
Of the public appreciation OF your services
t. science this little present Of
Great Arctic Explorer (interrupting}-
You will have to see my agent. My time f.
worth 500 an hour Good day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-22
APertinent Question.

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
This talk about free alcohol for use in
the arts" began Gaswell.
''Weli?" asked Gasbill.
HAS that anything to do with painting
the town red?"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-29

idle waiting nor by lamenting over the
impossibility Of doing anything good
IL say again II there were anything in
such prophecies the end would be at hand,
and we should be justified i'm going one
step further than the prophets; we could
say with certainty that hundred years
hence the best of our living writers--per-
haps the best of our dead ones-would bo
spoken of by unborn historians as the fit
full and uncertain lights that illuminated
the brief, sad day Of American ciyiliza-
tion. Happily for us, the pessimists are
but a minority, while we, the workers,
the believers, the doors, are the many I:
most of all, here In this inmost center on
the country's soul--I may say so, without
fear of saying too much, because perhaps
too much cannot be said--where work Is
dignity and idleness Is mediocrity.
"Some such thoughts as these crossed
my mind az / stood here five years ago, be-
fore the opening OF the Worlds fair. They
are clearer now, better formed, for they
have i've years growth in them and five
times moro truth than then. We do not
need a coming revival of letters, for We
are alive today. We are not looking for
ward TO u renaissance, for we have neither
fecadence in our past nor decay in our
present. We are not tending TO farce
we are on the ascent TO things both grave
and high.
"We who arc here may not see tho end,
nor our children, nor our children's chill
dren, But the end Is above where we
stand now and not below us as surely as
creation leads one way and degeneration
another. Hereafter, in the far days, when
we are ourselves but uncertain memories
to those who come after US, may such rec
ollection as is left TO us be the brief his
tory of men who came in young times
strove as they could, labored with all their
hearts and won step forward from tho
darkness toward the light. New York
Herald
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-29
Crawford Oh American
Literature and Art.
FORMER IS NOT A FARCE.
Workers Striving For a New Lit
erature Will Succeed
In SPITE OF THE PESSIMISTS.

A banquet was rendered recently to f.
Marion Crawford in the Chicago Press
club and in reply to toast this novelist
delivered an optimistic address on the fu.
ture of American literature and art. In
IL he said:
"Our Anglo-Saxon race is more truly
the master of the world today than the
Romans ever were. Our Anglo-Saxon race
owns, To a very large extent, the world s
commerce, the worlds means Of transpor
tation, the worlds ready money.
Yet, when we ask ourselves what we
mean by the Anglo-Saxon race we are
faced by the obvious answer that IL is not
single race at all. Angles, Jutes, Danes,
Celts, Flemings, Normans, have all con.
tributed Characteristic virtues, as we'll as
faults, In the composition OF what we now
call the Anglo-Saxon. Remember how
England was made and how these many
elements were brought together i'm tho
glowing heat of nascent life, smelted in
the furnace OF many a bitter struggle for
libc.ty, welded together at last into the
weapon that has won the world.
After the sword came the speech, and
with the speech the pen and the inspira
tion and divinity Of English genius. In
its first state the language itself was rough
and half formed Not till the smelling
and the welding were done could tho Eng
lish speech take shape of strength and
form of grace TO express the lofty ideas OF
England's greatest man. And SO it has
always been, in all nations, in all ages
And SO IL is with us. We, TOO, are ma
tion still in the furnace. We, too, are made
up Of many elements, Of which the many
sided Anglo-Saxon is but the first. We
too, are being welded into one in thu
worlds great smithy.
"Who shall say that when the fierce
work is over, when the whole has cooled
20 tho hard temper that can carve world,
some great new thing shall not be wrought
for the wonder of mankindS Who shall
say that out OF the many tongues there
shall not be born that perfect expression
for which we seek and of which We dreami
"Wo have just begun TO feel what we
may do i'm letters, I'm art, i'm all that is the
aim OF higher man. At what is before us
we can only guess, but this wa can predic'
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-29
ALL,S WELL THAT ENDS WELL,

"Yes," said tho veteran business man with
a glad smile 'Dick and l are like brothers.
but thought once that we were destined to
be deadly enemies
ITS not conceivable"
"A fact, nevertheless We grew up to-
&c ther and were never perfectly happy when
apart. Ho WAS n class aneat of me in college
and engaged TO girl in the college town,
while was engaged to n girl back at home
He commissioned me TO look after his girl
that yer, and returned the confidence by
asking him TO call upon mine whenever he
could. Without going into details, talking
about tho betrayal of a sacred trust, or phil-
osophizing upon the folBes of youth | fell
desperately in love with his girl, she recipro.
Gated, and we became engaged. You can i'm
agins how difficult IL was for me to meet him.
and II became doubly hard when | saw him
with melancholy countenance and depressed
ayr. He took my hand reluctantly, looked
past me instead Of into my eyes, and only
gathered himself when I blurted out that
supposed our friendship was at an end.
" i suppose Il must bc so, Tom he said
IN n choked voice, Il feel like n traitor and a
sneak. but couldn't help i.. She's So
"'what in the deuce are you talking
about Dick am the guilty party. You left
her In my care and rewarded you by win
ning her. IL was contemptible but 10 was
fate"
Dicks face beamed oil over ne he wrune
both my hands and then let out n whoop that
brought q policeman 90 tho spot fie had
ssrv@d me Just as had served him, but you
SEQ what tragicll affair u would have beon
had either of Us proved faithful. "-Detroit
Free rrcss
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-29
THE GRAVE OF FRANKLIN.
No Monument Marks the Resting Place
of the Statesman and Philosopher.

1t does not speak very well for Ameri.
can patriotism that the grave of Benjamin
Franklin has for years been neglected, but
such is the fact. The last resting place OF
the great statesman and philosopher might,
for all the care that is taken of It, be the
grave of some obscure and friendless NOR
tai whose common clay was held as cheap
ly as his common mind had been.
Franklin's grave is in corner of the
old churchyard at Fifth and Arch streets
Philadelphia, in the heart of the business
district. 1t is marked by plain marble
slab, now timeworn and discolored, on
which appears the simple inscription,
Benjamin and Deborah Franklin, 1890. Z"
That is all. Not a monument, not even q
hcadstone. There Is an air of desolation
and desertion about this corner of the
churchyard. There Is not even the green
thatching of sod which nature generally
provides for the humblest grave, but the
earth all about the stone is bare and cheer.
less.
There are plenty of Franklin's descend
ants living, but they seem 10 take no in
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-29

FRANKLIN'S NEGLECTED GRAVE.
terest in the grave of their illustrious an.
cestor. Indeed the church sexton is au-
thorty for the statement that they not
only will do nothing TO keep the grave in
repair but refuse 10 allow any one else to
do so. Frequently no has received offers
of money from visitors who have been dis
tressed mt the forlorn appearance of the
grave But the Franklins of today have
told him to accept no subscriptions for
such purpose saying that Franklin
wished it SO, "being a plain man and
averse TO display"
Perhaps this is so, but the neglect is
hardly creditable to the nation. The sim
PIE slab and its brief inscription were both
designed by Franklin before he died, and
the work was done by a stonecutter of his
acquaintance TO whom he gave minute in
structons When he was n young man,
Franklin wrote this fanciful epitaph for
himself, which has become famous: 1.-The
body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, like
the cover of an old book, its contents torn
out and stripped Of its lettering and gild-
ing, lies here, food for worms But the
work shall not be lost, for IL will, as he
believed, appear once more in new and
elegant edition, revised and corrected by
the Author" "