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The times., 1898-10-30
KNELL OF PIE.
The Boston School officials Declare
War Against It,
(From the New York Press.)

(From the New York Press)
Pie, that good. old-fashioned New Eng
land staple. is doomed. If modern edu-
Gators have their way.
In the public schools of Boston instruct
ors keep watch and ward, not only over
the mental pabulum of their pupils, but
they prescribe for their MONDAY lunch
cons the things that it is hygienically
and scientifically proper for boys and
girls TO eat.
some OF the wise Bostonians viewed
with anxiety the youth of the city nom
chalantly munehing pie, cake and other
indigestibies at their noon recess, utter
ly Indifferent to any result more remote
than the immediate qualification Of their
appetites. Science applied TO food was
summoned to the rescue. and the men,
Ders Oh the committee on hygiene of the
Boston school board had an order passed
providing that only such food as was
approved by them should be sold in any
city schoolhouse. This was aimed at the
1anltors and others. who had been cater
ing to the demand for pie and cake by
carrying on brisk MONDAY trade in
such viands. The New England kitchen.
a semi-philanthropic experiment In sci
entiic cooking and food production. was
asked to supply the luncheons that boys
ana girls ought to have.
The first plan was to have two grades
OF iuncheons-a 10-cent lunch, consisting
OF a cup Of soup. milk or cocoa, with
crackers, TWO slices of bread and butter.
ana fruit or simple cake, and a scent
lunch, consisting of a sandwich, bread
ana butter. with fruit. cocoa and crack
ers or milk and crackers.
Ten-cent lunches, however, did not
prove popular, SO all sorts of combfna-
tons possible for cents have been made.
IL pupil wants more than that he buys
Two or three lunches, according to the
degree Of his appetite and the state of his
finances
But science has not prevailed without a
struggle, even in Boston. a taste for pies
and pickles was not TO be overcome In a
day or a week or a month even.
Purees and similar nourishing articles
We're innovations looked upon with suspi-
cion, but taste is being educated up to
pea, bean and tomato soups. the latter
being especially popular with the girls.
compensating, perhaps, In some degree
for the loss of pickles. Mothers have 10
be educated as well as their children. for
they are constantly asking: why is it
that you are not willing to sell pie?'
Around the corner from one of fhe
largest high schools is a bakeshop, where
sign has been hung up. reading: Here
you can get what you want, and not what
the city says you must nave.
In city that is following Boston's ex-
ample the boys stood the new regime
bravely for time, then went on a pie
strike" declaring that they would buy
no more hygienic food until pie was sup
piled. The committee. however. refused
TO yield and the boys capitulated.
MONDAY lunches are now supervised in
the public schools of Brookline and Fitch
burg. Mass; Providence, R. l.; New Ha-
ven and Bridgeport, Conn. and several
western cities are investigating the sub
ject with view to introducing it
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story. going by the name of st. Ethel
bursa's. We seem to have heard of 1t in
some connection with Mr.. Kensit or.
Father Black or some other church,
brawler; but whoever set eyes on 1t in
Bishopsgate Street?
Time has been crawling on-you must
try walking aimlessly all night before
you can realize how slowly. Now II is
$50 Pacing half asleep along Bishops
gate Street. you meet a workingman.
striding srnartly. his dinner in red
Handkerchief. Behind comes another and
another. then two, then a group. You
notice that they all step onward as with
a purpose. so differently from the loafers
of the night. These must be morning
people. beginning their day. not ending it.
Then You turn the corner OF Liverpool
Street and thick column of men is
streaming out of the Great Eastern sta
tion, heading across the road, plunSing
forward into the streets all around.
And suddenly, all at once. it is morning.
Dawn steals up shyly under electric
lamps, but now you see that the sky has
lightened from dark gray to nearly white.
Things begin to clothe themselves in tseir
day colors. You feel the breath of the
morning on your face and its indeiinab.e
stirring in your blood-yes even in Fms
every corner, from every opening as at a
cue; they might be the chorus filling up
the stage of an opera. From Broad
Street now as we'll as Liverpool Street.
on foot. on bicycles, leaping down from
the tailboards of railway wagons. they
come and come. A public house. closed
moment ago. is suddenly open.
For two hours they pour In steadily;
faster and faster the stations vomit them
out. till succeeding trainloads merge into
one continuous torrent OF people Nearly
all men, which is characteristic of the
land where the workingmen brings cup
of tea TO his wife's bedside-abroad
large proportion would be women. The
wonder is where they all go to. For
though London is clearly awake and has
already absorbed its thousands. 1t hard
ly seems less empty than before. A few
men at work on a building, an electrical
engineer on a doorstep just getting 10
work at his dynamos, a man removing
dust t-bin-that is all. SO far. London Is
so vast that they soak in no deeper than
this.
But all the fringe is waking now, and
every station pours in its fresh hordes
Presently the shops are opening. the
first tall hat rises splendidly on the scene.
and London is awake indeed.
The times., 1898-10-30
BY TELEGRAPH.
The First Arrest Ever Made on an
Application by Wire.
F'rom the London Telesraph.)

tf TOM tue ir1ntlOD
The chairman of the Chatham Com
pany has. indeed, a wonderfully retentive
memory. His visitor received an illustra-
ton of its powers in an unexpected way.
Recollecting that at the outset of his
career Mr.. Forbes was III the service OF
the Great Western Railway Company, as
stationmaster at Maidenhead, the ques-
ton was put:
Am | right in the belief that you were
directly interested in the first application
of the electric telegraph to the purposes
of criminal detection"
In reply Mr.. Forbes said he had not
been personally concerned in the arrest
of Tawell. the Quaker, but he remem-
bered the whole circumstances, and knew
the railway officials well. Whereupon,
though it is fifty-six years since the
events occurred. he narrated the story of
the first application of the electric tele-
graph to practical purposes.
II have the impression he said, land
/ am pretty sure l am right, that in one
of the early numbers of Punch there was
an illustration in which man was seen
in the cleaning. escaping from the scene
of his crime, but the recording angel
was depicted as throwing the lightning
at him. 1t happened in this way: You
must recellect old Gibbs, at Slough-he
has not been dead very Tonga great,
big man, in green uniform, who used to
cry, Windsor, Windsor, change here for
Windsor,' 1t was he who suggested the
use of the telegraph when the police came
to him to learn whether the man in
Quaker garb, reported to have been seen
leaving the cottage of the woman who
had been found poisoned, had left by
train. There was no means of pursuit by
special engine, and posting way out of
: ha Toy raF1 hi fr
London when the hue and cry was raised,
and Gibbs thought of the telegraph.
Cooke and Wheatstone had persuaded
Brunei as to the merits of their inven-
ton, and he had induced the Great West
ern people to permit an instrument to be
placed at Paddington terminus, with an
experimental line to Slough The tele-
graph Office was in one of the arches,
and it was open for long time. The
public on the payment of a shilling, was
permitted to send message which usu-
ally took the forms of questions about the
weather, and facetious folk used, by and
by, to ask the operator at the other end
how his mother was. The wire was not
employed for railway work at all, and it
was looked upon as toy. When Tawell
got away from Slough, Gibbs sent a mes
sage to Joe Collard, police superintendent
at Paddington, describing the fugitive,
and to his surprise the Quaker was re-
quested to step into the police Office when
he aiighted from the train. At the trial
he was defended by Kelly, who ever af-
terward bore the nickname of Apple
pip Kelly, because he set up the defense
that the prussic acid, which it was sug-
gested by the prosecution was the pois-
on used, came from the pips of some very
fine apples from a tree in the garden of
the cottage where the deceased woman
was living at the time of her death. and
freely"
The times., 1898-10-30
A MIsER STORY.
How He Managed to Save Money Mt
the Very Last.
(From Tit-Bits.)

FROM llt-DlSD
The following story is commonly re-
lated as true in France. Old Harpagon
was fast approaching his end. His suf-
ferings were very great but he comfort
ed himself with the thought that as he
could not eat there was so much saved.
at any rate.
Well. DOCTOR" he said in a feeble
voice. chow long have 1 yet to live?'
.'only half an hour. Would you like
me to send for somebody clergyman
for instance?"
Harpagon was silent for few mo-
ments; he passed his hand over his chin.
bristling with a grizzly beard of several
days growth. when a sudden thought
struck him. and. turning to the doctor, he
gasped eXcitedly:
"Quick-send for-for barber,''
The barber soon afterward arrived,
with his shaving tackle
Harpagon, whose voice was getting
weaker. asked him: -'You-charge-two-
pence-for-shaving?'
That's the price" was the answer
"And-how much-is it-for shaving
corpse?'
The barber paused a moment, and
then said: Five shillings."
"Then-shave-me- stammer-
ed old Harpagon, casting a feverish
glance at the watch which the doctor
still held in his hand.
He was too feeble to utter another
word but the doctor understood the mute
appeal and said:
Fifteen minutes more"
A smile of satisfaction stole over the
features of the patient. The barber set
TO work. and in a very short time finished
his task. Notwithstanding the nervous
twitchings that distorted the face of the
dying man. When the operation was owe.
old Harpagon uttered a sigh of relief.
and was heard to whisper:
That's a good thing-four shillings-
and tenpence-savedf" and he breathed
his last.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-15

were over the ticket taker was seen to
enter the hall armed with large
broom. The audience and the singers
were all dumbfounded to see him
march up to the speakers stand, under
the platform of which he inserted the
broom. Everybody awaited with great
interest the result of his effort until a
few cps, ps," from the man with the
broom solved the mystery. The APP
plause which followed was enthusi-
astic.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-15

ACTIVE SOLICITORS WANTED EVERY
Il where for ''rhe Story of the Philippines"
by Murat HalStead, commissioned by the
Government as Official Historian to the War
Department The book was written in army
camps at San Francisco, on the Pacific with
General Merritt, in the hospitals at Honolulu,
in Hong Kong, in the American trenches at
on the deck of the Olympia with Dewey, and in
the roar of battle at the fall of Manila. BOnan-
"a for agents. Brimful of original pictures
spot. Large book. Low prices. Big Profits.
Freight paid. Credit given. Drop all trashy
unofficial war books. Outfit Free Address, F.
T. Barber, Sec'y., Star Insurance Bldg, Chicago.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-12-15
He Who Thinks Well Of Himself
Will Dress Well.
4 Complete line Of

Suits for Summer wear
may be seen at our
store. In fashionable
neckwear, silk suspenders
and other lines of up-to
date gents furnishing
The times., 1898-05-29
Boycotting Spanish Names.

(From the New Orleans Times DemocratO
A Pullman conductor stood propping
himself against the marble counter of the
st. Charles Hotel. He had Just come in
from his transcOntinental run. THE pub
lie is dead sore on Spanish Names" said
he. as he turned away from looking over
the register. You may not believe 1t,
but 1 have found a strong prejudice
against the Spanish names on the Pull
man cars. and the company is arranging
to change many of them. The fire of pa
triotism is too hot just at present to put
up with anything that even suggests a
Don. The company may kick on it. but
one of the superintendent told me yes-
terday that several of the cars had al
ready been sent to the shops to have the
names changed. Some of the most poet
ical names in use must go, because they
suggest the Queen Regent, little Alfonso,
or some city in Spain. For example. such
cars as the Cadiz, BlancO, CASTLE. Sc
VILE Mercedes. Moreno, Lustiania, and
AndaluSia are being squarely bOycOtted.
And this is no joke. In Pittsburg the
other day passenger took a day coach
rather than pay for a seat in the car
named CASTLE. Up on the Erie road last
week the handsome car BlancO was peIt-
ed with stones and mud while it was
standing outside one of the best stations
on the system. The people simply won't
have these Spanish names. I just heard
today how the Mercedes had been turn
ed down on the Panhandle line a week
ago, and how the porter had ridden two
hundred miles without a soul in his car.
OF course he kicked Who wouldn't =?
The porters are discOnsolate, and they
say there is no use talking. the fine Span
ish names won't go these days. and when
a porter gets leary of his car you had as
well take il off"
The times., 1898-05-29
THE GORMAN AMENDMENT
Chances Favorable to Its AdOp-
tiOn by the Senate.
SIMPLIFIES THE WAR BILL
Democratis and Republicans Both
Consider 1t as an Easy and Stotes-
manIike Way Out of Serious
Difficulty - Large Corporations
Must Pay Their Share of Revenues

There is reasonable ground for the be-
lief that the amendment of Mr.. German
to the Democratic plan for the taxation.
in the war revenue bill, of the gross re-
ceipts of certain corporations, will be
agreed 10 by the Senate and that this
modified proposition will become a part
of the bill when it has been perfected.
Several Republicans look upon it as the
only tangible way out of the snarI into
which the Senate has got and they will
vote for it because it suggests a means
whereby several other provisions that
have been subjected to severe criticism
may be eliminated.
The original proposition of the majority
of the committee provided for tax on
the gross receipts of all corporations. re-
gardless of the amount OF capital involved
or the aggregate of the business trans
acted. Mr.. Gorman's amendment deals
with the subject in a more intelligent
manner, and exempts all corporations
where the gross receipts are $3.50. 900 or
less per annum, and provides. further
that where the receipts exceed that sum,
only the excess shall be taxed. This is
done in order to meet the objections set
forth by the Supreme Court in the deci-
sion on the income tax case, growing
out of the Wilson tariff law.
The debate on this proposition has ap-
parently converted several Republicans
who believe that through such a tax only
can they escape the criticism that the
whole of the taxation has been imposed
upon the smaller class of manufacturers
| and the consumers, and that the great
corpora tions-those that form the big
trusts and monopolies of the country
have been permitted to escape without
| paying their just share of the expenses
| of the war.
| Mr.. Allison, Chairman of the Commit
| tee on Appropriations and acting chair
man of the Committee on Finance. is
/ quoted as saying that this amendment OF
| Mr. Germans is just and equitable, and
| affords a very satisfactory solution OF
the problem that has confronted the
! committee. He fails to see how the Re
| publicans can avoid voting for it and the
chances are, therefore. supposed to be
| favorable to the adoption of the Gormar
amendment.
This amendment Is In many respects
| free from the criticism aimed against tho
/ amendment reported by the Democratic
! members of the committee, as 1t meet:
directly the demand that certain classe:
| of corporations should be made to pay
| directly in such a way that the tax coui'
not by any possibility be thrown upor
the consumer of the goods manufacturer
by the corporation. This. PERHAPS, Nigh
be extended to cover sone other classes
of corporations. as. Tor an instance, al
corporations which are producing article
protected by patent rights. or trad'
marks, as such corporations enjoy an alb
soIute monopoly in their respective pat
ented articles.
1t is said that the effort will be mad
to extend the provisions of the Gormai
amendment to such corporations for tn
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reason that, enjoying such advantages
over all their competitors. they should
during this war period. pay the Govern
ment for the protection il gives them in
the use OF its patent rights OF the ex-
elusive use OF trade name or distinctive
trade device.
BY the addition Of this amendment to
the German amendment OF by the in
clusion Of this class Of gross receipts. all
necessity for the ambiguous and uncer-
tain provisions is the proprietary. me-
dicinal and Other preparations taxed IN
der schedule could be eliminated. BY rea-
son Of the smallness Of the gross re-
ceipts tax and the broad character of the
provision. a very much larger amount OF
revenue would be received from these pro-
prietary articles.
The German amendment would then. Il
is claimed, cover nearly everything in
the shape OF corporate monOpoIies or
trusts. The provisions Of the Democratic
amendments in addition to covering all
enumerated in Germans amendment
covered also insurance companies. banks
and every other corporation OF whatever
character. The stamp tax portion Of tha
bill very largely covers insurance com
panies and banks. so that the German
amendment with the provisions Of the bill
agreed to by all the members Of the
committee and with schedule B stricken
out. would be not only a great improve
ment on the bill as reported from the
committee but would seem to remove all
objections to the measure and almost.
if not entirely. remove the criticism that
II was a measure leveled at a few in
stead of being made TO cover all classes
of persons and corporations who ought
to be taxed.
The sentiment in favor Of the German
amendment is developing and It would
not be surprising TO see it incorporated
in the bill.
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symptom of all, she is satisfied with her
own condition. Though she is the most
backward country in Europe, she believes
herself to be the foremost. She is proud
of everything of which she ought to be
ashamed. She is proud of the antiquity
of her opinions, proud of the strength of
her faith, proud of her unreasonable and
childish credulity. proud of her unwilling
ness to amend either her creed or her
customs, proud of her hatred of heretics
and proud of the undying vigilance with
which she has baffled their efforts to OBJ
tain a full and legal establishment on her
soil"
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ing boots and running messages. He said
that he knew the man who was talking
was Rye by the way ne was dressed. He
then went on to say that Rye had on
Prince Albert coat and silk hat.
On being asked to describe a Prince AL
bert coat. Lawrence pointed to a sack
coat worn by Bailff Joyce and said its
like that
The witness on being shown his state
meut as published in the Star on the
evening of the shooting denied that If was
correct.
w. d. Claussman, a broker. was re-
called to state the substance of cOnver-
sation he had with Rye at Chamberlain s
Hotel in January, 1898. Substantially it
was that Rye had said that Canty owed
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and said he had given it to Van Senden.
Continuing, he said: II told Van Sender
that Rye always said he would pay the
note. | gave the note the face value of
which is $3.50, for 800.
Andrew Lawrence, co1ored, was recalled
% testify as to what he heard Rye say
i've or ten minutes before he was killed.
re said that at 11:40 o'clock in front of
20. 1881 F Street he heard Rye say, Can
~ owes me $500 and if he doesn't give it
10 me there is no telling what I'll do
Lawrence said at thar time Rye had
knife in his hand and was shaking it in
the faces of gentlemen he was talking to-
On cross-examination by Mr.. Davis the
witness said he came to Washington in
1896, and then worked three weeks in
handling ice. Not being able to support
his family in this way he took to black
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him money and that if he didn't get it
he (Rye) would kill him. Claussman also
had another conversation with Rve
short while before the shooting in which
nearly the same threats were made.
Claussman said he had not communi-
Gated the threats to Canty.
Miss Jennie Hanson, chambermaid
at the Wellington Hotel testified that she
knew Mr. Rye.
John S. Holden, the paying teller at
the American Security Company. testified
that Canty had small balance in the
bank and drew 1t out on the morning of
the shooting.
The hearing will be resumed tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock, when the cross
examination of the defendant will be
continued.
The Government. if is understood. has
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4 Description of spain.

This is what Buckle writes of the land
where chivalry and seduction and honor
and ruthless butchery of the defenseless
are synonymous terms:
There she lies at the farther extremity
of the contingent, a huge and torpid mass.
the only representative now remaining of
the feelings and the knowledge of the
Middle Ages. And, what is the worst
The times., 1898-05-29
Closed half day Monday.

We close tie doors Of establishment for half day
Monday-to give force Of clerks wedeserved rest.
No other merchant has done so much to crowd days
business half the usual time have we-nobody else
muster TIP such solid front of splendid values
put on sale Monday morning.
The prices unprecedentedly ow-for we have cut
into profits with vigor that is characteristic Of Hecht
doing
Everyone is granted the accommodation of
charge SYSTEM and pay for what they buy the
easiest possible terms.
The times., 1898-05-29

Decoration Day Excursion to Pen
Mar and Gettysburg Under Au-
spices of Nelson and Columbia Di-
visions, Uniform Rank, knights of
Pytbias.
Special train via Pennsylvania Railroad
will leave Sixth Street Station $50 a. n.
Monday, May 30. returning same day.
Round trip to Pen Mar. S.75; 10 Get.
tysburg. s2.25.
my25. a. .2s, I. m. and my26. S.29.am
The times., 1898-05-29
Boys wash suits, SOC.

Tomorrow for half a day you moth
ers will be offered the choice of boys
wash suits of Galatea cloth, finished
with colored collars-whieh are fin
ished with the most particular care.
made TO withstand the healthy vio-
lence of the boys-for only 80 cents.
The last time they were offered at a
great deal higher figure-and there
was a rush for them.