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GENERAL NEWS
C*r*tm\lj Newt of Current
B««nts.
France is pushing fjrward with a
Treat deal of vigor forts on the Al-
pine frontier.
The famous hazing eases of the
Ohio Wesleyan university at Dela-
ware U., have been dismissed.
In a fight at Wilmet, S. P., Thomas
Morse shot and killed Henry Camp-
bell, au Indiau interpreter.
Jehanghier Cowasje Jehanghier, of
Bombay, h« s presented two lakhs of
rupees to the Imperial institute.
3 E. I). Bennett's cold storage house
at Riverside was destroyed by tire last
week, and 000 plovers were burned.
A number of capitalists having in-
fluence with the government have
proposed a plan to establish a mint at
Montevideo.
Lexington, Ky., will hold a fall
meeting, no matter what Louisville
does. The meeting begins Oct. 10 and
continues nine days.
A fire Sunday afternoon in one of
the Standard Oil couipauy's sheds at
Louisville. Ky., destroyed -'00 barrels
of lubricating oil. Loss 82,000.
Captain Paul Boy ton, the famous
navigator, is in no way connected
wish the Hoyton who has been
arrested at Uio Janeiro.
Two Italian papers in Buenos Avres
have been suppressed for publishing
news of the revolution and for com-
menting adversely upon the govern-
ment's policy.
It is now believed that the anar-
chists recently arrested in Vieuna
were only the tools of a foreigner and
that the full extent of the plots has
uot yet developed.
Cases of cholera have been discover-
ed on board the Italian warships
Affondatadoro and Italia at Naples.
Eight new cases are reported from
Koine and one from Leghorn.
The excitement in the Auburn shoe
troubles at Auborne, Me., culminated
Saturday night in a serious riot. One
man was shot through the shoulder
and another stabbed in the neck.
A bill has been* drafted and intro-
duced in the (Jerman rcichstag regu-
lating the amount of recompense
which shall be paid to men who have
served terms of imprisonment for of-
fenses of which they are afterward
proven innocent,
The miners of Aspen will not accept
the sliding scale adopted at Friday's
meeting, and from the present out-
look there will be no work there to
speak of until such a time as the price
or silver will justify the employment
of men at the old wages.
Five new cases of yellow fever de-
veloped at Brunswick Thursday, Mrs.
Loreustein and child, Winn Johnston,
her mother-in-law and Sallie Mitchell.
The last tnree are colored women.
Three cases have been discharged—
Mrs. Lorenstcin's child, Archie II.
Smith, and Mrs. H. C. Smith.
E. J. Krauss of New York, who held
notes to the amount of 822,000 negoti-
ated by Samuel Adler which were de-
clared forgeries, made a statement
that he believed Adler's 19- year-old
son was the guilty party. Adler com-
mitted suicide while the officers were
around the house to arrest him.
Should President Penna, of the Ar*
cent;ne Kepublic be displaced, 1'ri-
burn, now vice president, will be
president, and Dr. Alein vice presi-
dent. Strong don Its are expressed in
Santiago de Chili as to the truth of the
report of the Argentine government
beating the revolvers.
Proprietor Gregor and Editor Ja-
nltsch, of the Narodnf Listi. one of the
largest Czech dailies in Prague, have
been arrested and will be tried by a
special court for inciting the Czechs
breach of the peace. This journal has
been for years the most virulent auti-
German sheet in Bohemia.
The coroner's inquest at Roanoke,
Va., continued its investigation
Thursday and examined a number of
witnesses without eliciting any new
information. The citizens' committee
of thirteen h*s issued a request to
Mayor Trout to return to Roanoke
and assure him that he will uot be
molested.
5 The nteamer Albatross from Behr-
ing straits brings information of the
probably fatal illness of Hon. J. K.
Luttrell, of California, special gov-
ernment agent in charge of the Alas-
kan fisheries. Mr. Luttrell is afflicted
with Bright's disease, and his physi-
cian has glveu up all hope of his re-
covery.
Seerctary Hoke Smith has sent to
the aecretary of the treasury his esti-
mates for appropriations for the in-
terior department for the fiscal year
ending.I line 30, 1895. The. appropria-
tions asked for,aggregate 5$l 7ti.779,134,-
28, as against $180,087,03,44 for the
current fiscal year which is a decrease
of 83,308,490.10.
Charlie Jcnes, the prisoner shot by
Deputy Jailer Baxter at Fort Smith,
Ark., Sunday, on account of mutinous
conduct is still alive, and the jail
physician thinks his chances of recov-
ery are fair. The ring leaders of the
cro* vd, Henry Starr, "Kid" Wilso; and
John Pointer have been placed in sol-
itary confinement.
At Calamity, Pa., Sunday night,
while returning from church, Mr.
and Mrs. August Iteeee were assaulted
and the woman killed by Moses Laisen
and August Briee membrs of the fac-
ction of miners favoring anarchism,
which the Recces opposed. T.aisen
was captured and a posse ifc after
Briee.
Henry Coleman, Jr,, colored, who
Attempted to assassinate Captain
Thomas Lyles, Ins been taken from
the Benton, La., jail by eighty men
and lynched. He confessed his crime
and said he was ready for the fate
awaiting him. Hopes are entertained
for the recovery of Captain Lyles.
James M. Connelly, secretary to
Archbishop Corrigan, and Michael J.
Levell, rector of St. Patrick's cathe-
dral, deny that there is the slightest
foundation for the published report
that Monsignor Satolli has been in-
structed by the pope to advocate
among the Catholic members of con-
gress the establishment of aa Ameri-
can diplomatic post in the vaU<?.v{*
ON TO ST. LOUIS.
Thousand* of Visitors Witness th«
Magulttcent S-rect Illumination.
! St. Louis. Sep 30.—This is T. P. A.
| day of the St. Louis carnival, and the
j enormous attendance of commercial
: travelers is in keeping with the city's
standing as the mercantile metropolis
of the west and sou* iwest. The peo-
ple are flocking to St. Louis in thou-
! sands, and the crowds which viewed
the street illuminations this evening
were *• < ent.ioual.eve l for a c\7 which
! has bc v. me accustomed to Lxc.uk care
of strangers by the tens of Mi jusands.
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To say that the street illuminations
are the grandest ever seen on the
streets of any city in the world is to
state the case mildly. The number of
lights used exceeds 75,0(10, and more
than half of these are electric. The
down-town section is a blaze of light,
arches competing for popularity with
electric effects of the most dazzling
character. These latter are for the
most part panoramas with constant
changes, and vehicle tratlic is well
nigh suspended owing to the crowds
which throng the streets as well as
cover the sidewalks.
The western hemisphere panorama,
illustrated herewith, facing Washing-
ton university, has upwards of 1,200
electric lights and tells the story of the
discovery of America in letters of fire.
Another magnificent spectacle is the
electric floral arch in natural colors
and another is a combination wf the
flags of the United States and Spain
with an eagle far above the center.
There are ten other electric displays
all equally attractive.
The illuminations will be repeated
Oct. 3, 5, 13 and 19, and every orte who
appreciates a combination of beauty
and magnificence ought to see them.
The railroad rates are exceptionally
low and the attractions as exception-
ally gorgeous and irresistible.
Fire, at Sabetha, Tuesday, destroyed
property valued at 850.()<)(), including
the Herald ofliee. The property
burned was insured for half its value.
A south bound freight train on the
Cleveland, Cineinati, Cr.icago A St.
Louis railway ran into three heavily
loaded tlat cars which had bemi care-
lessly left by a local freight crew yes-
terday m -rning near Edgemong, O..
causing an ugly wreck and killing
two tramps and fatally injuring two
others.
Assistant State Insurance commiss
ioner Mott, of Washington, has been
investigating the affairs of the Far-
mers' Insurance company of Spokane.
As a result of the examination M. I).
Smith has been appointed receiver.
Mott says the books of the company
have been so kept as to deceive the
stockholders.
Postmaster General Bissell is de
termined that the patronage policy
shall not be exercised in the railway
mail service. Changes in the service
are to be governed by the merit sys-
tem, as he expects the record of effici-
ency of the clerks to attain in thi
near future a much higher standard
than ever before.
M. C. Sullivan, of Thiel's detective
agency at Seattle, Wash., passed
through St. Louis yesterday, and was
met by the charge that Mayor Do-
nald, of Seattle, sent him to St. Paul
to put Defaulting Cashier Krug on his
guard against pursuit In reply he-
said that there was hot a scintilla of
truth in the statement.
A dispatch from Fort Victoria says
the Matabales have fired on Captain
White's scouts. A Matabcles force
supposed to be 70,0< tt strong passed to
the northeast of Ft. Victoria. The
chartered company has received per-
mission from the high commissioner to
dispatch a strong force of police to as-
certain the precise movements and
strength of the Matabelese.
President Anderson and a commit-
tee of the New York Veteran Fire-
men's association were in waiting in
Jersey City when the special train
with the pilgrims of the Veteran Fire-
men's assoeiation of San Francisco
rolled into the depot Sunday. There
was a joyous greeting given them on
the ferryboat. President Anderson
made a speech of welcome adverting
in feeling terms to the grand recep-
tion given his organization when they
visited the Pacific slope in 1889.
Mrs. Irene Burrell, a resident of
Boston, lias just received word that a
cousin, Henry Kingsford, is dead, and
that she is sole heir to property which
he left in Los Angelos, Cal., to the ex-
tent of 8250,000.
Allen 11. Denniston, local agent of
the Union Star Freight line at Fort
Wayne, Ind., died in his room in the
Wayne hotel at 8:45 o'clock Friday
evening. On Thursday morning he
was found lying unconscious upon the
floor in his office. He was removed to
his room in his hotel where he died.
The cause of his death is attributed
to the excessive use of cigarettes and
stimulants used to counteract their
effect.
THE TWO TERRITORIES
Condensed N'awi of Oklahoma au I the
Udlin Territory.
John McShea has been appointed
postmaster at Hennessey.
Fall seeding is now going on at a
lively rate siuce the refreshing raius.
Pond Creek expects the early issue
of a patent for one-eighth of the
townsite.
The enrolled attendance of the pub-
He schools at Guthrie far exceeds that
of last year.
The large nuuil>erof strippers in the
new country ought to boom the pri-je
of good milk cows.
Perry will have an election soon,
ami it will afford a good opportunity
to get a cinch on sooners.
The Odd Fellows in Perry have ef-
fected a temporary organization for
protection. Nothing very odd about
that, is there?
Territory papers all agree that an
enormous acreage of wheat will be
sown this year in Oklahoma, despite
the low price. The late rains came in
time to expedite the seeding.
The spiritual welfare of the people
of Enid is carefully looked after. Al-
ready a half dozen denominations, in-
cluding the Salvation Army, are rep-
resented and hold regular services in
that city.
The special envoy of France to Siam
presented another treaty Friday.
Paris papers say it is useless for King
Behanzin to send envoys there as no
one but himself will be given any at-
tention.
At Marlow, last Wednesday, an old
man attemnted to cross the railroad
ahead of an approaching train; the
engine struck the wagon, knocking it
into nothing. Fortunately the man
and horses escaped injury.
On the day of the opening George
Huffman, of Texas, ami James Hoi-
linsworth, of Kansas, got on the same
lot in Perry, and after two weeks of
contest they decided to make the run
over again from the line on the same
horses. The first man to arrive to
have the lot. The run was made Sat-
urday, the Kansas man riding ten
miles in thirty-five minutes and get
ting the lot.
The recent floods are playing havoc
with the big railroad bridges in the
territory. In aduition to the big
bridge on the Panhandle at Canadian
City, which will take twelve days to
repair, the Santa Fe bridge over the
Canadian at Puree 1 was washed out,
as was also the Koek Island bridge
over the same river at Union City. It
will take several days to repair these
last two bridges.
A state exchange suggests that the
strip is the worst place in the world
for corporations, for the reason that
there are no facilities for watering
stock. That is a mistake, both as to
fact and conclusion. The '"dry spell"
increased the demand for water, to be
sure, but the corporations (town com-
panies) were equal to the emergency,
as many a lot holder will testify.
The seeming contest between the
Santa Fe railway and the people of
Perry over the location of the site for
permanent town is practically ended,
if it ever existed. Those who are in a
position to know claim the Santa Fe
lias no interest whatever in the Whar-
ton scheme to injure Perry, and that
as soon as the proper facilities are
provided, trains will stop at the prop-
er point in Perry.
Delegate F'ynn has introduced a
joint resolution providing the qualifi-
cations for voters in the Cherokee
strip at the coming city and county
elections. The resolution makes all
persons who have resided in any city
or town twenty days legal voters at
the city elections soon to be held.
The necessity of this being acted upon
promptly is the fact that under the
Oklahoma law as it now exists, none
but those who have resided in Oklaho-
ma six months are qualified voters.
Joseph K. Bracken and Miss Lettie
McGlaskin were married at Guthrie,
Thursday. The youag lady had secured
a fine claim near Perry, and when told
by the judge that if she got married
she would lose her claim, replied:
"that she would rather have a man
than a claim any day." After the cere-
mony they returned to Perry, and the
happy groom at once tiled a contest on
the claim taken by his bride, so if the
department does decide that she can
not hold the claim, he will get it and
it will still be in tlie family anyway.
Chairman McRca of the house com-
mittee on public lands, says Flynn's
bill as it passed the senate concerns
20,000 settlers in Oklahoma, It re-
lates to those located on the Ashantee,
Shawnee, Potawatouiie and Cheyenne
and Arapahoe i eservations. Those
located on the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe reservations will not be compell-
ed to meet their first payment on their
claims until one year from the 19th of
next April, and all but the Cheyenne
and Arapahoe will not be compelled
to make the first payment until the
22nd of next September. The money
retained by the settlers amounts to
SI20 per capita, and this amount they
will be able to hold during the exten-
sion. As will be seen this retains
among the settlers over 82,000,000,
which is a very substantial benefit.
The bill also provides that anyone re-
siding on land twelve months shall be
allowed to take out a patent at once.
This is a provision that is desired by
those who are in better circumstances
and who want full control of their
property now. It also provides that
the settlers in Beaver county shall
have the right to commute their
homesteads at the expiration of
twelve months.
The extortionate prices that pre-
vailed for a day or two after the open-
ing have given way before the enter-
prise of wide-awake tradesmen, and
now anything in the line of legiti-
mate merchandise may be had al t il
the new towns at the same prices
charged throughout the country.
The situation and outlook in the
Pot. country is encouraging. The cot-
ton crop will be an excellent one, and
corn, grain and vegetables all that
could be wished for.
Twenty to thirty Indians trading in
a town every day is something Rush
Springs thinks too good to make
light of.
STATEHOOD CONVENTION.
Delegate** Divtdml Into two For-
Mom*. One Favoring Double, the
other Mnule statehood.
The convention met at Purcell Sat-
urday and was called to order at 10 a.
ui. After selecting committees, etc.
the committee on permanent organi
zation reported as follows: President,
J. E. Humphrey, vice president, S. A.
Led bet tor; secretary. Mort Bixler; as-
sistant secretary L. N. Hornbeck. Af-
ter listening to an address of welcome
by Mr. Humphrey the convention ad-
journed until 2 p. m.. when the com-
mittee on resolutions made the fol-
lowing report which was unanimous-
ly adopted
"Resolve.1. That we favor the pass-
age by congress of an enabling act
etupoweiiug a constitutional conven-
tion to be called to create a state
from the present territory of oklaho-
ma ami tbe Indiau Territory, as pro-
vided in the Harvey bill.
"Resolved, That as a state created
by the enabiiug act herein prayed for
would have withiu its boundaries
over 000,(MM inhabitants, that it is en-
titled to three representatives in cbn-
gress from the separate congressional
districts to be established by the con-
stitutional convention of said territo-
ry, in accordance with the provisions
of the statutes of the United States.
"Whereas, As the portions of
Oklahoma known as the Wichita, Kio-
wa, Commanchc and other reserva-
tions have been treated for and have
been waiting settlement by the citi-
zens of the United States for two
years or more; and
"Whereas. A bill is now before con-
gress offered by Hon. D, 1'. Flynn rat-
ifying the treaties for the purpose of
giving these lands to civilization;
therefore, bo it—
"Resolved that we ask congress to
at once pass the bill ratifying said
treaties and opening said lands to cit-
zens of the United States as soon as
possible.
"Whereas, The present system of
land holding in the Indian Territory
is unwise, uueaual and unjust to the
citizens of the Indian Territory, there-
fore be it—
"ResolvedThat the convention favors
a change in the landitenure in the In-
dian Territory, and favors a just and
an equal division of the domain of the
entire Indian Territory among the cit-
izens of each nation respectively.
"Resolved that each of the civilized
tribes se eet one delegate to meet
the executive committee at Oklahoma
City on Oct. 10, for the consideration
of matters pertaining to statehood.
"Resolved That the secretary be or-
dered to have the memorial printed
and two copies sent to the president
of the United States, five to the sec-
retary of the interior, and one to each
member of congress,
"Resolved, That the convention
earnestly petition President Cleve-
land and his cabinet to use their influ-
ence in behalf of the eause for the
promotion of which we have here as-
sembled, i. e., statehood at the earli-
est possible date for Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory as one state."
The faction favoring single state-
hood believed that only by the com-
ing in of both territories as a state
could a grand self-supporting com-
j monwealth be built up. This party
I triumphed in the convention.
! Norman has no more protection
than Stillwater, and the thought of
Stillwater's 930,000 experience with
lire last week makes Norman shudder.
Edgar Jones has been appointed li-
brarian of the territory, vice John Go-
lobie, resigned. Mr. Jones is also
clerk of the supreme court of the ter-
ritory.
The government rifle factory at
Chatclerault, France, is to be given
up to the manufacture of small arms
for the Russian army, and the rifles of
the French army in the future will bs
made at Tulle and at Etienne.
The schooner Pioneer sailed from
Gloucester, Mass., nearly seven weeks
ago on a codfish trip and was last seen
just before the great gales of August.
Since then she has not been heard
from, and it is feared some disaster
has happened to her. She carried a
crew of eleven men.
It looks odd to Kansas readers of
the local papers in the new strip
towns the string of notices from par-
ties who have made applications for
saloon licenses: but that's tike law
down there—and a good one for the
prints.
Last Wednesday marked the begin-
ning of the third term of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college of
Oklahoma. The faculty this year con-
sists of Professor R. .Barker, C. E.,
president and professor of mental and
moral sciences; Professor E. F. Clark,
mathematics: Professor W. W. Hutto,
B. S., English literature and cadet
commandant: Professor A. C. Magru-
der, B. S. agriculture; Professor
George L. Holter. B. S., chemistry;
Professor F. A Waugli, B. S , horticul-
ture: Dr. J. ('. Neal, Ph. ('. M. I)., sta-
tion director and professor of natural
philosophy: Professors llalbrooks and
Thompson, instructors.
Pawne •, the county seat of O coun
ty, being off the lines of railroad and
telegraph, has not figured as eonspio-
ously as the ailroad points, but prom-
ises to be one of the best towns in the
new country. nevertheless. This
town lias 700 people and has but little
dust. It is in a horseshoe of the
B aek Bear river, a clear rock bottom
stream, with abundant timber, and
the town has thus been protected
from the dust storms experienced by
the other strip towns. The allotments
will not be much of an injury to the
county, as the Indians are all wall to
do and will spend lots of money in
Pawnee. The farming land of that
county is magnificent, and the county
will prove a rich one.
A large number oi? farmers are al-
ready moving their families onto
claims in the new country. Most of
them go prepared to thoroughly stock
and improve their farms, an 1 by next
spring the strip will have the appear-
ance of an old settled country.
Water was found at Alva in inex-
haustible quantities, soft as rain wa-
J ter, and pure as snow, at a depth of
l thirty feet. It is almost artesian in
! supply and runs nearly to the surface.
The report that the Chickushaw leg-
islature had voted to move the capita
of the nation to Davis is denied, and t
is the belief of many that th ecapitat
will remain in Tishomingo.
THEY MADE HIM TIRED.
An Artist's Aocount of the Generosi'j of
the Iowa Farmers.
All Sorts of Stones and Ihiaji Given tJ the
Poor, Unoffending Viutor to Be Carted to
Chicago as Mewentoe* and l apjr Weights-
It is necessary to take the elevator
when visiting my opinion of the farmer
of western Iowa—my opinion of him
is so exalted, says ('has. Lederer, the
Chicago Herald artist A large-hearted
mortal is this farmer of western Iowa.
1 circulated in his part of the country
recently and met him in large quan-
tities and various conditions. If va-
riety is really the spiee of life the
Iowa furmer is a pretty spicy sort of
person. Of late he may l e most fre-
quently met while studying aud strug-
gling with the intricacies of the orig-
inal package law—or rather the origi-
nal jugjrage law, the title under which
it is best known in sections where it is
in O(>eration. Hut 1 am digressing. It
is of the natural generosity of the
western Iowa farmer that 1 wish to
write.
Generosity strikes in on men in a
multiplicity of ways. It attacks Mr.
Farmer of Iowa iu a peculiar hut not
fatal manner. Mr. Farmer invariably
has a pile of arch.'eological specimens
in his front yard. Ho thinks the world
of them, but he is willing that you
should have a few. Aftor ho has told
you all about the crops that will fail to
materialize next fall and the weather
that wo have had or aro likely to have,
he springs his fossil collection on you.
Naturally, as in politeness bound, you
admire the collection and then you aro
lost. He then selects seventy or eighty
pounds of aerolite and other rocky
looking objects whose names *'1111 with
lite., but aren't a bit so. Tlioso he
hands you, telling you to take them
back to Chicago to remember him by
when you aro using them as paper and
sash weights.
The first archaic load which was
donated to me 1 caicfully carried three
miles to ray headquarters, but after I
had accumulated thrco or four tons of
petrifactions, ossifications and other
things, even heavier and harder than
their namos wore to pronounce, I con-
cluded to dissomblo a bit. The next
time that a farmer presented me with
a fifty-pound gnoissoid, which the
agriculturist said was a quartz agato
that had been found in Decatur coun-
ty, I thanked him with assumed cor-
diality and trudged along with my
flinty load. But 1 didn't go far with
h. At the next farm house that I
came to I stealthily placed the "quartz
agate," with the fossiliferons and
rocky collection, in the front yard. 1
was just sneaking away when the
farmer who owned the plac spied me.
Having been introduced to him before
1 was recognized; there was no escape,
bo we talked about torn, hailstones,
cherries, the world's fair and the onion
crop, and then ho branched off to
strango rock formations. Ho pointed
out in his pile of curiosities sand-
stones in the shape of human hands,
cauliflowers, pocket flasks and collar
buttons. Ho told me of a glyptic
geode that iie had found in a load of
stone that he had bought in Audubon
county, and then he offered me a few
trifles from his front yard archaic col-
lection. Among them was the gneis-
sic gem that I had just deposited
there. This farmer didn't call it a
"quartz agate," but ho appeared to
prize it very highly. I think
he said It was a vitrlous crystal
and claimed that it had fallon from
the sky on his br^thor's farm in Min-
nesota. At any rate, I took it along
with mo again, together with a young
cartload of other building material. I
groaned and staggered under the
weight of tho stony souvenirs until I
reached another farm house, when,
looking around and seeing no ono, I
dumped burden on to a little
mountain of similar objects that I
found occupying tho usual place of
honor in tho front yard. I was about
to escape whon I heard a voico from
behind a clump of bushes. Tho voice
belonged to tho farmer who owned tho
place, and ho wanted to know what I
was doing. There was a threatening
jar to his voice that was not reassur-
ing and I quickly explained that be-
ing something of a geologist, I was
full of admiration for his wonderful
collection of odd stones, minerals,
mytiloids and archaodcidari. This
pleased him immensely and he was
BMtisfied. In fact, ho opened his heart,
and when I left his presence a flour
spek full of his procious garden orna-
ments was balanced on my shoulder.
I made no further attempt to lose the
gifts, but took them to my head-
quarters, where I buried them deep
under the soil. Yet I fear they will
sometime bo discoverod and shipped
here to me by express.
Monoy No Object.
Old gentleman: "I want to stop my
paper." Country editor: "What's the
matter?" Old gentleman: ••Well, I
don't like the way you treat the tariff
question." Country editor: "And do
you suppose that I will permit you to
stop your paper on that account? No,
sir. I'll stop my tariff articles first. I
don't care for the $1.50 a year, but I'm
ueterminod to pleaso my patrons if I
cm."
"Papa," exelaimeU Johnny, strupgllnk'
with a very copiout brand of influenza, "if
th) tioM 19 «:a organ why don't it have
stops I"
WEDDING PRESENTS.
How i Oorr lU-auilful (mIm Hu Bete*
rlirtUi
What a pity that what was once a
beautiful custom has degenerated into
—into—what shall I call it? Many
people who make wedding parties are
not mercenary, do not do it just for
tho sake of the presents, but so many
others are and do, that the innocent
must sufTer with the guilty.
A present is, or hould be, a token
of genuine love or esteem, and should
give pleasure to both the giver and
the recipient, no matter what the occa-
I sion. The cuKtom of giving wedding
presents is almost as old as marriage
j itself. Jacob gave to his bride,
Hachel, a pair of ear-rings. The sig-
nificance of tho gift being that she
would hear no evil of her husband.
Originally every gift had its own
peculiar language; but now, in these
days of hired presents, ono can hope
for little delicate sentiment. Said a
wealthy gentloman: "I have long
since ceased accepting wedding invi-
tations; I know too woll what they
mean, simply bids for au expensive
present."
Of a bride, some ono said recently:
•'She did not intend making a large
wedding at first, but she wanted the
presents so she changed the arrange-
ments." In making out her list a
bride elect remarks: "There is So
and So, 1 don't like her, but she will
bring something nice, so I will invito
her." One bride I know was well
matched for her insincerity and mer-
conariusss by flnding herself tho
possessor of seven glass water-pitch-
ers, when the wedding presents were
examined.
To my mind, an ideal wedding is ono
where only relatives and choice friends
are invited, aud where tho card boars
the words: MNo Presents." This does
not necessarily prohibit tho bride's
true friends from presenting lior with
some mark of their esteem; but it doos
away with the feeling, *'I am only in-
vited for what 1 may take." Among
tho really wealthy there is probably
little troublo as regards what their gift
shall be; money making alL things easy
—almost nil things. But among tho
masses it is a question for souie thought.
Simple, useful presents aro always
in good taste. M issive silver plate is
not the thing to.give—even if ono can
afford it—to a young couple in moder-
ate circumstances; it is like tho pro-
verbial "aiHUirons* In their modest
home. It is a pity, too, whon a host
of well-meaning friends each expend
their hard-eaHied cash on spoons and
knives, until the distracted young wife
wonder* if she will never need any-
thing else In the line of housekeeping.
Of courso she may be able to exchange
some of them for something else, but
1113' friend, if it chanced to bo your
present that sho "trades off' you will
not like it A surplus of any ono or
two things is irritating and disappoint-
ing, and could bo avoided by a littlo
previous understanding among tho
guests. Tho woman who is apt with
needle or brush noed never be at a loss
for a suitable present on any occasion.
An embroidered or painted screen,
banner, card or handkerchief case,
scent satchet, or glove holder makes
an elegant yet cheap aud simple gift.
Linen is always in good taste, us also
are quaint devices in china or glass-
ware; then there is the endless array
of bric-a-brac, tidos, throws, chair
sachets and the like, (lifts from near
friends of too practical a nature should
never bo published. Who has not
smiled at reading: "bride's mother,
fifty yards rag-carpet." Father of the
groom, forty acres woodland;" along
side of: ••One pair of Sevres' vases —
friends from abroad?"
Consistency thou art a jewel," and
so is thy twin-sister Simplicity. In
wedding, as in all other gifts, the
noeds and circumstances of tho re-
cipient should bo particularly studied.
A Needed Improvement
•'An invention that I would like to
see very much," said a busy citizen
yesterday, "is an instrument to trans-
late sound into writing, direct as tho
vibrations fell from tho lips."
"Impossible," said a friend.
"No, not impossible. Think what
such an Instrument would accomplish!
No more slow, laborious writing. No
more tedious bonding over desks. No
more miserable, illegible scrawls to
try one's temper aud ruin one's eyes.
The phonograph, receiving and re-
turning sound, is in reality one-half of
the invention to which I refer. Now,
then, tho time will como when some
additional mechanism, some cunning
machine, will seize the air vibrations
as they fall from the lips, and turn
them into tho characters of printed or
written speech. This may seem
chimerical, but in the face of the
inventions of the past, what man has
tho intrepidity to assert that anything
is impossible to tho all-conquering
genius of American invention? I be-
lieve I will yet see tho day when
writing by hand, the same as spinning
by hand, will bo a relic of ancieul
history."
Eibical Information.
Judge: Sunday school teacher:
••Who wrote the epistle to the He-
brews?" Little Mabol: "PauL ma'am.'"
Sunday school teacher: "That is
right Now wasn't ho called Saul at
one time.0" Littles Mabel: "Yes'm
That was hi; auL'io before he was mar-
ried.4
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