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PBISON EEJ-0KM. TV TEX IOOK TAEL2. WHAT THE WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT. fsli I LEADIHB ARTICLES IS TBS MAGAZIHE3 COHDEKSED JOB THE COSVEHIEHCE Do These Suit You? THEY P3U3T. They as fa Are Vorld-Deaters.

Baby Carriages, Only $5.10. Handsome Parlor Snits, own make, In Brocafelle, Tapestry, Hugs or Plush, very fine, OKLY S50. OF 6TJHDAT POST Among the most Interesting articles In the April number of the Korth Amer PENSIONS AND PENSIONEES. ican Review Is one entitled, How the Pension List Should Be Revised." In this the views ot R. P.

C. Wilson or Missouri, Chairman of thelluse Committee on Pensions. Gen. S. S.

Burdett, Past Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, and Col. W. C. Church, editor of tn Army and Kara Journal, are expressed. Mr.

Wilson says: "I contend that the administration of the pension laws should. If possible, be completely divorced from politics, and while I nave not yet been able to fully satisfy my mind as to the practicability of the chance, it may be found, upon careful consideration and Investigation, that the transfer of the bureau to the War Department. proposed In a recently proposed (but not offered) amendment to the pension appropriation bill, and to the care of a courageous, able and fair-minded army officer, would be a step In the right direction. The country would deprecate any vicious attack on the pension roll, and any party that advocates such a course will meet with the Just condemnation of the people. lo the men whose sufferings arid sacrifices led to the preservation of the Unlonjthe country owes a debt of gratitude which can never be fully repaid, and 1 earnestly ure tht no backward step be taken by the Government In the material recognition of that jtreat obligation.

From the war of the Revolution down to the i resent time It been the fiollcy of onr lawmakers to treat our soldiers ll erally, end there should be no departure from that policy now." In treatlntr of the proposition to confine pensions to the needy Gen. burdett writes: "Ihe omission of limitations confining the benefits of the act to the needy only was. In part, the result of a persistent flsrlit which the veterans kept up against any enactment requiring a declaration of poverty as a condition precedent to the grant of a pension, and of the purpose on the part of many to make the law as nearly as mignt be an approach towards a service pension act. 1 here 13 little reason to expect that the situation growing cut of this act will ne chanted. The people will be slow to InsL-t on the official classltica- tlon of any of their defenders as paupers.

Legislators will tate note of tills along with the fact that a million old- I' soldier voters are personally or sentimentally Interested In the question, and there Is toe further fact always to ba appealed to that service pensions have been nlven lo the survivors of all our wars. The act of Jan. 29, 1S87. puts upon the rolls at S3 a month every surviving officer and enlisted man who served In the war with exlco, and who reaches the age of 63 years. The Congress which has just adjourned increased the allowance to per month.

such discrimination against the men who fought for the preservation of the Union as would result from the repeal or serious modification of the act of ltW Is possible, while the Mexican and other service pension laws remain In force. CoL Church, while favoring liberal pensions, believes that the recipients of the national bounty have not been selected with sufficient care. In his article the following statement appears- "in considering the difficult subject of revising our pension list. It is well to have It understood nt the outset that murli that we Buffer from the unwise bestowal of pensions results from that disregard of military methods which Is chronic In this country. It Is a fundamental maxim with the army that a distinction should oe made between those who loyally accept the restraints of dis il ES -Erg Tables, 6 feet long, only 82.95.

for Kankakee Oak Refrisrera- world cold as the North from 3 up. Solid Oak. This Week, Strcn? Support of the Suggestions Made bv the Sunday Post-Dispatch. State Senator Cochran, In the St. Joseph Gazette of which he is editor, makes the fol-owlng editorial comment on the article on prison reform in the last Scsdat Post-Dispatch: 'Prison Reform Is the bead line under which a writer In the St.

Louis Post-Dispatch discourses of the lives and peculiari ties of the Inmates of the penitentlarj No subject has received a larger share of the at tentlon of thoughtful statesmen, and yet no desirable social movement has made less progress than the reformation of the penal institutions of the civilized world. The difficulty of maintaining the strict discipline essential to prison govern' ment without Imposing restrictions, In them selves almost unendurable. Interposes an al most Insurmountable obstacle to the humane treatment oi the inmates or great penal in stitutions. "The followlne from the Scxdat Post Dispatch presents a faithful pen picture of the inmates of the Missouri Penitentiary, ana the same Is true or all penal institutions." lr. Cochran then quotes the statement made of the condition of the convicts, and continuing, says: "As a rule criminals are or tne unnttest or their kind.

Of course there are exceptions to this rule, but so few as to only emphasize its general applicability to tne inmates or prisons. Defective in Intelligence and in morals and not unfrequently In physical con stltutlon, they are Incapable of sus talnlng themselves in successful com petition wltn tneir leuow men. ihe grind of the world Is too onerous, its ex actions too severe. Incapacitated by nature ana education, stunned ana bewildered by adverse environment, poor devils who feel themselves outclassed find in constant temp tatlon an open door to vice. Many enter this open door almost involuntarily as children commie petty deprecations and sooner or later the State's prison becomes their home.

Entering Its forbidding walls dwarfed in intelligence, depraved In morals and abhorred by mankind, at the expiration of the term of their Imprisonment they leave tne institution connrmea criminals, sucn are the commentaries of the ablest writers and the opinions of the most experienced managers or penal institutions An interesting feature or tne contribu tlon to the Post-Dispatch on the subject Is an interview with ex-warden Darwin W. The interview with Mr. Marmaduke Is then given In full, suggesting the grading of con vlcts by giving them different uniforms, and the establishment of a beard to determine how long a man shall serve Instead of leav lng that question to the Judge, who cannot determine what the effect of imprisonment win ne. Commenting on this. Senator Cochran says: "The manifest good sense and practica bility of the suggestions made by Marmaduke should commend them to favorable attention.

As a matter of fact the terms of Imprisonment imposed upon law-breakers depend entirely upon the ldlosyncracy of the Judge who presides at the trial. In the nature of things the Governor who Is vested with the pardoning power comes to look upon the Judgmen of the court as an accurate measurement of the penalty befitting the crime. Proceeding upon this hypothesis, the question to be determined by the Executive when considering petitions for clemency Is whether he will modify the Judgment pronounced upon the criminal. It makes no difference that in an adjoining cell may be another convict serving, for the same offense, half or less than half the term of Imprisonment which the Governor asked to reiluce. such demus cannot In the nature of things be inquired into by the chief executive.

The Inequality of sentences Is the worse abuse known to Amerl-ban criminal jurisprudence, and no Kate should be without a board of tribunal vested with Jurisdiction to lnqulae into the facts In euery case of felony ana prevent, as far as possible, tne inequality in tne pumsnment or Inmates of penal institutions." The Globs Btill Everything Slaughtered. Buy one of those sweet little Jersey, Kilt, Testee or Junior Suits; hundreds of styles; latest designs; 3. Spalding balls and bats free. Globe, 701-713 Franklin av. Late Sccisty News.

Mr. Darwin Aldrldge of New York and wife, formerly Miss Daisy Billon of St. Louis, will pass through St. Louis next week on their way to China and Japan. They will pend Sunday the 16th and Monday the 17th with her mother, Mrs.

Samuel A. Gay lord of No. 3963 Washington avenue. The ballet pupils of Mr. Jacob Mahler will give their last private exhibition next ednesaay morning at tne Assembly Rooms on Olive street.

Mrs. Ann Logan, widow of Gen. John Logan, a cousin of the famous Gen. John A. Logan, is reported seriously ill at her home.

3231 Chestnut street. Miss Inula Doak of Cuba, Mo. is visiting Miss Wlthallon South Conipton avenue. Mrs. K.

L.Gulonol 3is ceaar avenue and her little niece. Mabel, have returned after sev- ral weeks' visit to Baltimore, New York. Brooklyn, Washington, D. and other points. Mrs.

Sarah larson, Mrs. Gulon's sister, accompanied her on part of the trip. cnas. n. Barstow ana aauguter, jes samine, are sojourning at Eureka Springs, for a few weeks.

The Henrietta Club, comprising Messrs. 1. M. Joyce, II. J.

Joel, and J. W. Tatum.gave enjoyable dancing party at the Pickwick Tuesday evening. Soma Internt'n? Historical Works Be cently Published. Mrs.

L. T. Meade. th9 English writer of stories for girls, produces four or five books a season, according to the Young Woman. She likes writing against time, she declares, and never waits for an inspiration.

Two thousand words, at least, every day. except Sunday are her averaa. Krnvlr hesitating" for an idea or a word, she dictates straight ahead to uer secretary, and corrects only in me typewritten transcript, which accounts for a good deal of her expedition. In commenting on a recent novel of New England Ufa by Miss Mary E. Wllklns, the London Academy says: "The dialect has evi dently been taken direct from the life; It Is singular now nearly it resembles that com monly heard in the Weald of Kent and Sus sex." Jose Zorrllla, the Spanish poet, who died a iew weeits ago, was me autnor ot tne piay "Don Juan Tenarlo," from which, during rorty years, ne naa received in royalties sum estimated at $500,000.

He was only 26 wnen ne wrote tne piay. George Alfred Town sen has written novel to which he has given the title of Columbus in Love." It Is to annear In one or tne magazines. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff's "Some Notes or the Past, 1970-1891." contain many refer ences to tne rtonapartes. one that relates to iTince louis l.ucleu describes him as once entering a London house where the lion of the evening was Orsinl, who had Just escaped irom prison in oiani.ua. ir.

Henry t. inck's lire or Warner, a critical and biographical work In two vol umes, 13 now in press. It presents new let ters and many anecdotes of the composer. The century company Is about to publish "A Handbook of Invalid Cooking." by arv A. Roland, instructor In cooking In the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training scnooiror curses The book Is Intended not only for nurses In training schools and private practice, but ror all who care ror tne sick.

Resides recipes. menus, suggestions ror the proper reeling of children, etc. a part of the book Is devoted to txnianatory Lessons. wnerein tne various food principles are described, with chapters on nutrition, digestion, chemical changes in food. etc.

It has taken less than five years to complete tne new eiiition or cnamoers tncyciopse-ua, the last volumeJof which has lust been Issued. This makes it more nearly up to date than the Britannlca, which was ten years In prep aration. prof. Joslah Royce.who has been suspected of the authorship of "Calmire," has written a letter to the Boston Budget denying the rumor. The late Duke of Marlborough.

Truth says. was, by a strange fatality. Just concluding an article entitled: "The Art ot Living," for the Fortnightly R-view when he died. Publica tion or the article was postponed on account or his deatn. it is to appear snortiy.

alnt Saens. the eminent French composer. who wrote of Liszt in the February Century, Is to visit Chicago for the Fair next summer. In the March Century M. E.

Krehblel writes of balnt-Saens. Mr. H. B. Wheatley's volume on "Literary isiunaers one or tne series or "ine hook Lovers' Library," is soon to be brought out in mis country.

The Bibiiotheque Nationale or raris has trust, for publication in lino, manuscripts of by Alfred de Musset, ana or "Lee Mceurs de Mon Temps," by Maxlme du Camp, and In 1920, "Lettres a la Presidente," by Theopmie Gautier. The magazine of American History for April contains some very interesting matter concerning John Brown and a sketch of the condition of New York after the Revolution. It also gives a description of two manuscript volumes in the Library at Washington. OLDEST WOMAN IS THE C0UNTEY. Aunt Eunice Conrad of West Virginia Was Bora in 1778.

Paekkrsbckg, W. April 8. The oldest woman in this country is, probably. Aunt Eunice Conrad, who lives on Dusk Camp, in Gilmer County. "Aunt Eunice," as the old lady Is familiarly known, was born Aug.

4, 1776, In Virginia, In what Is now Pendleton County, West Virginia. Her parents, wnose name was Mace, were born In Germany and emigrated to this country before the Revolution. When Mrs. Conrad was 6 years old her parents moved from Pendleton to Bulltown (now the county seat of Braxton County), on the Little Kanawha River, and were the first white settlers on that river. The day before they located at Bulltown a company of scouts and Indian hunters attacked the Indian town.then;located where Bulltown now stands, and drove the In Hans out, capturing great quantities of bear meat, venison and other provisions, on which the Maces and the scouts subsisted a long time.

At the age of 28 Eunice Mace married Jacob Conrad, a settler scout, and they settle I down near the place where, aj century almost later, the wife of the scout still lives. Mrs. Conrad had fourteen children, all of whom except one son have died. Her husband became a soldier in the war of 1812, and his widow draws a pension of $12 per month. Mrs.

Conrad although 116 years and 8 months old Is quite lively and energetic. Her hearing Is not good, but her other faculties are preserved. Her mental faculties are wonderfully keen and fresh for so old a person, and she enjoys greatly telling reminiscences and incidents of her early days In a wilderness whose Inhabitants were wild animals and wilder and more ferocious Indians. An afternoon spent by the correspondent In conversation with this old lady was lle a view Into another world. Mrs.

Conrad looks as though she would live to see another decade. Crarget With Picking Pockkts. O'CoDnei! ana Jo were arrested at 8:30 o'clock last nUht by Delect. vei Viehle and Ziegler on a churea of attempting to pick Dockets at the Freuch Markec BURIAL Easy Weekly or Monthly Payments. DI8PA1CH EUADESS.

with a description of the wonderful expedl tlon of Francisco Vasquet de Coronado, in search of the seven cities of Cibola, he shows how the cities ot the Pueblo Indians screw and nourished until at length they fell before the all-conquering Apaches. An Interesting account of the present condition or the ruins is given, illustrated oy many sketcnes. In the April number of THE WORLD'S LippincotCg much interesting FAIR. information concerning cer tain features of the great Fair is found. Few realise the importance Of the work done by the publicity department.

concerning this wmiam izienart writes: "The chief of the bureau assumes the duties of managing editor. He originates policies, maps out the field, and his assis tants attend to the details of executive ad ministration. A corps of writers furnish let ters to the American and foreign press. A city editor ana reporters cover local news nnturally developing In the World's Fair offices. It may be Inferred that the bureau has a world-wide field when it is known that foreign weekly letters go out In four lan guaues.

Enellsh. French. German. Spanish. while, as the chief has said.

In characteristic phrase, 'the deDartment has fourteen lan guages on tap when thera is a call for In writing of the White City Julian Hawthorne says: "it would hold Its own very well alongside of ancient Athens, or Rome, or Alexandria, though perhapsthe latter might come within measurable distance or it rrom a purely aesthetic standpoint. Of dimensions I do not speak, because, as you know, there can be no comparisons in that respect, with any human works in architecture, past or present. The World's Fair buildings have broken all records in that direction at all events. It is only In point of sheer beauty that there can be any consideration of competitors; and even there I doubt whether the creators of these walls and domes need fear criticism. SI.

Croiton. in an interesting article on J. A. Froude, criticises his history of England as follows: Ternaps no historical wore has ever been the subject of keener controversy, for, despite his learning, which is great, and his brilliancy, which is greater, air. Froude lacks altogether the one Indispensable quality of the true historian accuracy.

Yet, withal, he Is widely read where Freeman would seem Intolerably learned and pedantic and Lecky too philosophic to be lively. His pen has piayed upon the English language as none other of this generation has done save those of Newman and of Ruskin." The Easter number of the THE PLAGUES Borne-Maker is a positively OF EGYPT. good one. George Donaldson gives an excellent account of "Homes in Egypt." Life in the land of the Pharaohs is not without its drawbacks. The author writes: "The Scriptures record a long list of scourges sent upon the Egyptians for their sins in ancient times, and they seem to be afflicted with some of these at the present time.

The three most universal and annoying are the flies, fleas and imosqultoes; the persistency of the files, the agility of the fleas, and the number of mosquitoes are sources of the greatest annoyance to human existence, and about the only retreat from these persecutors Is on a high Iron bedstead, canopied with mosquito netting, where you cannot be reached by any one of the three. In good, new bouses, however, by proper care, the flies and fleas may be reduced to a minimum, so that one is little troubled, except in the evening by the mosquitoes, and a good supply of mosquito netting may provide comparative security from them. "I have a circle of good strong Persian Insect powder around each chair leg and Doth feet, and then one grand ring about the whole; I have put a small handful of it on the top of each sock to keep the fleas from going up my legs or down Into my shoes; but It has required all my will power to persevere in this work, and the only Joy of existence is in the anticipations of the approaching time of escape from this sedentary occupation." Jenny June writes an interesting, and in some respects an original article on "Goethe In Weimar." she Is an enthusiastic admirer of that author, as the following extract will show: "o3the was a far more splendid, all-round personality than Shakspeare socially, in his attainments and also in his sympathies. He was In personal touch wltn all men. Born in comfortable mlddie-ciass rank, he clasped hands humanly, as Shaks-speare did intellectually, with the lowest and the highest and reached the high round of the social ladder by his exuberance of natural gifts, manv-slded attainments, and thepoA-eror shaping circumstances to his desires and alms rather than his will.

The life of the ClevelamU at Lakewood, and the home of ex-President Hayes are also well described. Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls writes of Kansas, past and present KANSAS, PAST AND PRESENT. la the April number of Harper' Monthly. He draws a remarkable picture of some of the experiments that have been tried In that State.

He writes: "For a generation Kansas has been the testing-ground for every experiment in morals, politics and social life. Doubt of all existing institutions has been respectable. Nothing has been venerable or revered merely because It exists or has endured. Prohibition, female suffrage, flat money, free sllver.every Incoherent and fantastic dream of social Improvement and reform, every economic delusion that has bewildered the foggy brains of fanatics, every political fallacy nurtured by misfortune, poverty and failure, rejected elsewhere. lias here found tolerance and advocacy.

The enthusiasm of youth, the conservatism of age have alike yielded to the contagion, making the history of the State a melodramatic serins of cataclysms In which tragedy and comedy have contended for the mastery, and the convulsions of nature have been emulated by the catastrophes, or society. Thera has been neither peace, tranquillity nor repose. The farmer can never foretell his harvest, nor the merchant his gains, nor the politician his supremacy. Something start-ling has always happened or been constantly anticipated. The idol of to-day is execrated to-morrow.

Seasons of phenomenal drouth, when the sky was brass and the earth Iron, have been followed by periods of indescribable fecundity, in which the husbandman has been embarrassed by abundance, whose value has been diminished bv its excess. Cyclones, blizzards and grasshoppers have wen oj iucuuubu wiui ins state la public estimation as to be described by its name, while soma of the bouleversements of Us politics have aroused the Inextinguishable laughter, and others have excited the commiseration and condemnation of mankind. Air. Hamlin Russell has an Interesting article on the disappearance of the buffalo. He shows ry the accounts of early settlers that the buffalo range at one time extended irom ms roiomac to beyond the Rocky Mountains and from the Arctic circle to the Guif of Mexico.

In treating of the irreat herds of the plains he shows how they were gradually driven from the ranges by the advancing tide of civilization, being spilt into io ecuuu, caueu tne Aorihern and the Southern herd, by the building of the union I'acinc Railroad. Hut It was not until is.o that the great slaughter begau. ltylS73ths buffalo was almost extinct. In a single year the slaughter was estimated at over 5.000.OJ0. Mr.

Russell gives an Interesting account of the last great herd which went North across the Iirltlsh line and never returned. There have been tales that this herd still existed, sheltered in a valley In the mountains, but the author is of the opinion that It fell a victim to the hunters. A small herd in Texas, another la Kansas and tne buffalo in the Yellowstone Park are all tl at remain. a left Jab in the nose. Ryan knocked Dawson down again in the third round, but the punishment did not seem to affect the Australian.

In the fourth round ha forced Ryan around the stage and put In a couple more hard drives on the stomach. In the last two rounus It wis about an evn thing though Dawson appeared much the strongest at tne end; as there was no referee, there was no declsloii. After the fight the crescent City club through Domlnick o'Malley offered a purse of $7, (XX for a finished fight between the pair. Ryau accepted, but ll is feared he will have a sore toe or somethlag else, when the time comes to enter the ring. Throw From Hm IIorsk.

Charles Heuer of 3735 Sulllraa anua wa thrown from his buggy at TwaatT-tlilrd (treat sod tM avanu yasterdar by hi bora bailuaf, and oU face wu slightly cipline, and those who for any cause seek to shirk them. The two cardinal sins In the military calendar are malingering and desertion. The man who Indulges in them, and thus puts a double burden of responsibility and danger upon his fellows, deprives himself of all claim to consideration. "Our law-makers In their lart'e bounty have Ignored the distinction between the duty soldier and the 'coffee-cooler' the man who lingers In the rear to take his comfort or to escape hardship and risk. It has given undue weight to what Is known as a 'hospital record, Ignoring the very grave question as to whether It Is really bound to provl ie to the end or time fr those who burdened the muster rolls with their incapacity.

Dr. w. A. Hammond Is the author of a striking article on brain surgery. In opening he gives an amusing account of the opposition made by certain theologians to any operations upon the brala.

tuey considering It the seat of the soul, and reprobating surgical attempts to luterler-j with it as a defiance of tue Almighty. Dr. Hammond holds that the great advancements In this department of surgery had their origin la experiments whlcli were made for surgeons by accidents. He cited a case where a man had a crowbar driven completely through his head and yet survived many years In full possession or his faculties, and another in which a gas pipe was driven transversely through the skull, without fatal results. In referring to operations upon the idiotic, he writes: "tfuite recently operations have "been performed upon the skull In cases of Idiocy, Innate or acquired, with the view of removing a supposed disproportion between the lze of the brain and the skull, and thus alio vlng the organ space In which to grow.

A Krench surgeon proposed the re EellgiouB News. Eev. Dr. C. P.

Slasden of Union M. Church will begin to-day a series of sermons to young persons on Sunday erenings. The programme of Pranava TheosopUlcal Society for to-day at 3 p. m. at looo Olive street will include readings from "Key to Theosophy" and "Reincarnation: A Study of rostnumous btates.

At the Second Baptist Church. Rev. Dr, Ford will this morning preach on the topic: Ihe Mystery of Self-Denylng Ixjve." At this service Miss Buzzell, missionary In China, will also speak. In the evening Dr. Ford will preach on "The Mystery of Trans figuration." On Tuesday at 3 p.

m. Miss Evans, for twenty. one years missionary In liurmah, will speak at the meetlnic of the Woman's Aiisslonary Society of the church. Key. Dr.

S. J. Nlccolls of the Second Pres byterian Church will dedicate a new Presby terlan church at Jonesboro, to-day. Rev. Dr.

Meade C. Williams, editor of the Mid-Continent, will occupy Dr. Mccol Is' pul pit. al. J.

H. Cole begins a series of revival services to-day at Marvin M. E. Church South, at the corner of Twelfth and Sidney streets. The Young Men's Sodality Union Is actively engaged In making extensive preparations for Its second annual dramatic entertain ment to be given Tuesday evening, April 25, at Entertainment Hall, exposition Building An excellent cast has been selected to pro duce the Irish drama "inshavogue.

The regular monthly meeting of union win De neia next i uesuay evening at si Lawrence O'Toole's Hall. Silk-Lined Sole Agents 16.40. IPirSpecial AHSWESS TO C0EKESF0NDEMT3. Subscriber. Aug.

15, 1876, fell on Tuesday Sport. Darling was not a memoer of the St. Louis Browns last season. E. C.

H. Wilson Barrett has no return date In this city during the present season. Mr, Barrett Is not engaged to a St. Louis lady. at.

nuns sweatnam never played a banjo or guitar on the stage In this city with in tne past nve years. Incognito. The late Miss Kate Castleton was a member of the combination that pro cluced "Faust Up to Date" at the Grand Opera-house a lew years ago. Customer. The Kelly-Daly contest oc curred April 26.

18S7. Daily Rradkr. Miss Julia Marlowe has no sister of the name you mention. Constant Reader. Henry Alt was Speak er of the House of Delegates previous to the election of the present incumbent, Thomas J.

Ward. li. ju The Scottish Clans nave held a picnic at Lake Kamona within the past tnree years. W. II.

11. None of the standard sporting authorities of this country mention anything aoout tne recora ror tnrowing a nrty-six pound weight, for hei-rht. over a bar. The record for putting a 56-pound shot, seven-feet run, with follow, is 23 feet and BVia inches, made by V. Real at Limerick, Ireland, June 18, ltS4.

J. B. Charlie Daly was defsated by Billy Myer. Daly was at the time In the llght- weignt ciass. Many Voters.

Boston won the first championship season pennant last year. L. A. In a game of crap dice if you roll craps on the lirst throw you can buy the dice oack again, unisisomy permissioie. however, on the first throw.

O. G. James Finney holds the record for swimming under water, having accomplished lis rarus ana loot at Blackpool. Kmrland. Oct.

20, 1882. The same party also holds the record for staying under water, having done so ror 4m. and at London, England. April 7. 1S-6.

constant Reader. None of the dramatic papers mention anything concerning a play called "A Breezy Time. You, in all probability, refer to the play called "A Freezy Time. You can address a member of this company In care of either the Dramatic Kcils or the Mirror, New York City. Old Timer.

James Flood and party trav- eled the distance between San FrancUco and New York City, some 3,346 miles, bv rail, In d. 12Ii. and in October, 1891. The New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroad both operate an extremely fast passenger service. Blossom.

write to Mr. Smith personally. care of the Crulskeen Lawn company, care of "Theater," Chicago, 111. Constant Readkr. The postage stamp flirtation was printed In the Post-Dispatch of Feb.

21. 1892. H. W. AND ET.

G. April 11. 1865. fell on Wednesday, as did also Feb. 13.

1S56. Dec. 25, 1864, fell on Friday. No premium on your Spanish half-dollar. 11.

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W. R. AND SKVKRAL SUBSCRIBERS. No Ere- mlum on any of your coins at present. Spokt.

iou can shoot plover whenever you frieaee In this State. The rail plover Is found this Kate during the season when the ordinary bird flourishes. Admirer or Louisa. Write to Miss Elsslng personally. a.

u. u. western iiascome or bj ring Street Is the British Vice-Consul at this city. Subscriber. ulllvan bested Mitchell in a contest at Madison Square Garden, New York City.

subscriber. it a net tnat ouerrero wouia win he certainly loses his bet. Subscriber. Corbett's costume when he defeated Sullivan consisted of elastic silk trunks, a belt, suoesand stockings. Anxious.

Ace is nign in poker dice, ac cording to Hoyie. hell. me cnicago nre occurreo oct. 1871. J.

R. F. You can address a member of the Crulskeen Lawn combination In care ot Theater, I'hlcago. subscribkr. r.

j. w. and constant Readkr. Your coins are not at premium. II.

L. our coin is valued at i. Subscriber. Three-cent pieces from 1851 to 1872. inclusive, are worth from 4 to 10 cents, according to condition.

r. d. wall. present your complaint to the boiler Inspector whose action in the case of the hotel will be reported. A subscriber.

J'ollilc ans generally do not estimate the vote mentioned in reviewing the results. i. if there is no unusual delay in the malls your letter will arrive In good time. A. f.

A. 1. The luethodlsts nave the largest number ot churches in the United states, the number being 61, 603. he Baptists are next with 41,629. a.

According to the City Directory there are fifty-two Catholic Cnurches In St. Louis. The Presbyterians are next with twenty-eight. Poker 11.ATKB.U004 Friday fell on April is last year. Solid Oak Extension tors, best in the Pole 100 styles, moval or strips or the cranium in cases of idiocy In which the skull was unduly small, and in which, as he supposed, there was no room for the brain to expand.

Several of his cases, and those performed according to his method by other surgeons, have been In a OF THE BELL TELEPHONE BILL. Inducements to Early Buyers. WHITE FACED H0S3E DEAD. Fearing It at He Would Be Banged He Took Hi Own Llf i. Sioux Citt, April 8.

White Faced' Horse, a Sioux chief, who with Chief Two Strike led the' raid on Humphreys' ranch in which several cowboys were killed a few weeks ago, has committed suicide at No-Waters camp. He was wounded In escaping after the Humphreys' raid and on account of despondency and the conviction that If captured he would be hanged, he shot himself through the head. Found Eoaes Mr. N. B.

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so tnat mere is decided encouragement to persevere with the operation In Instances In which it appears to be suitable. Several years before the publication of his results the writer nad performed similar operations for the cure of epilepsy, and in a few cases with complete success." In Scribnert for THE CRISIS OF THE BUS- April Is found SO-TUEKIS1I WAR. a most vivid description by Archibald Forbes, the preux chevalier of war correspondents, of "The Crisis of the Schtpka Pass." He gives an account of the gallant but seemingly hopeless struggle of a small body of Russians against an overwhelming mass of Turks. "The cliffs and valley echoed with triumphant shouts of 'Allah 11 The glasses of the chiefs anxiously scanned the visible glimpses of the steep, brown road, StolletofI cries aloud in sudden excess of excitement, grasps Darozhlnskl by the elbow and points down the pass. The head of a long, black column is plainly visible against the readlsh-brown bed of the rock.

'Sow ba utters Darozhlnskl solemnly; he was a dead man thirty-six hours later. "As the dark serpent-like column neared the rearward position it seemed a strange kind of reinforcement, as seen from tne St. Nicholas peak. A big man on a big horse rode in front; behind hlui lodowed. to all appearance, a column of cavalry a forca all but useless on the rugged summit of the Schlpka.

The big leaUer was stanch oid Radetskl. the corps commander; hu following, a rltle battalion wbii-h he had mounted on Cossack ponies and hurried forward. The rifle brigade to which the battalion belonged was close up in the rear; it bad marched fifty -five kilometres straight on end without sleeping. But Radetski did not wait for the arrival of the brigade. lie would strike promptly with the oattallou which was already to his hand.

He dismounted the nimble riflemen the Cossack ponies and formed tliem up; then he sent them with a rush down into the valley. Bo fore this dashing charge the Voslern3 ga.e vround. The Russian riflemen chased thera through the valley, strewn thick with the dead of the previous fighting, hunted them fiercely up the wooded ascent, carried their advanced trenches and drove tlieiu Into their fortlilud position on the liald Mountain Ridge." Charles f. Lummls gives a graphic account of the ruined pueblos of the t.rau Qulvera, the cities by the accursed lakes, starting KTAN AND DAWSON. The Welterweights rpar filx Rounds Without Kesu't Lest Night, Chicago.

Aprils. Tom Ryan and George Dawson, the welterweights, fought six rounds before a big crowd In the 2d Regiment Armory to-night. 5 he fight was for the gate receipts. The authorities refused to allow a referee to officiate, and the pair battled without a decision. Ryan weighed 142 and Dawson ,140 pounds.

In the first round Dawson got la two bard blows on Ryan's stomach. The second was all in favor of the Chicago man, lie knocked the Australian down with a left band swing and Urew blood with The Wire-Walking Countilmea Attended tho Interment..