THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY , APRIL G , 1800. TWENTY-tfOtTl PAGES. .13
Here is a cut of our handsome warcrooms. Entirely new , and we are just nicely settled in them-
piH'im ' M i i 111 i n n. . LiJ. . . , . , ' - : "nCFt - " We are not .given to brag , but we can truthfully say that we have the
NEWEST , CLEANEST AND
in the city. We have been receiving during the past week all the latest styles of furniture , especially
folding beds and chamber suite goods in the newest finishes. Our competitors might think we used the
truth with a very sparing frugality if we said we unloaded
of goods this week , and they might be right , so we will call it five , but they were BIG cars. Our stock is entirely new. We permit nothing second
hand to ever be unloaded at our doors , and would not harbor it for ten times its value , for the reason that the species of troublesome insects of oflcn-
-sive odor cimex lectularius , more familiarly known as
Would soon contend with us for possession of our store. We are often asked if we will exchange new goods for old , in fact so often that we have made arrangements
with a reliable Second Hand dealer to call on any who may drop us a postal card , and in exchange for your old goods he will give you an order on us for anything you
may desire in our clean and bright stock. We will honor his orders. You get rid of your old goods and we do not have to handle them. So if you want to make ex
> changes drop us a postal card. We are often asked if we give time , and we invariably answer yes. We .have our cash price and if you desire time we add 5 per cent , for
the accommodation. This is eminently fair , to both cash an'd credit customers alike. Frequently we hear fairy tales about selling a time customer as cheaply as the man
who puts up the hard cash. How many of us believe it , and how is that using a cash customer with fairness ? If parties who indulged in such fiction would only realize
that the majority of people say to themselves"What a liar that fellow is. " They should remember Burn's lines on seeing a louse on a lady's bonnet :
"Would that God the gift t'a gie us to see ourselves as others see us ,
It would frae many a blunder free Us and many a foolish notion. "
We sell on time as stated , but always with the distinct understanding that payments are to be made at our store , as we have no collectors , and we take it for granted
that no self-respecting person wants a collector chasing them up. If you want good , * clean , new goods , fair dealing , polite attention , if you buy for cash or credit , call and
see us. Visitors and customers alike welcome , for visitors will eventually become customers.
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THE OLYMPIC CLUB HOUSE ,
It Lays Claim to Being the Very Finest iu
the Country.
SUNOL AND AXTELL TO BE MATCHED.
Tho"SpUIor'H" > NcwXaine
Melt ItlufT Other Gossipy Sport-
iiili Notes Front the 1'tt-
olllo Slope.
Svx PIUXCISCO , Cal. , April 3. [ Special
Correspondence of Tan Iuu.J ) Sporting mat
ters In San Francisco nro booming. The in
terest taken in spot ts of all kinds is phenom
enal. This Is duo in a measure to the climate
which permits "outing" during nearly every
month of the year.
1 insitcctcd the grounds of the Olympic
cluf ) a day or so ago and they are superb.
"You can safely say , " said Sui > eiintendont
" \V. P. Uouton , "that the Olympic club of San
Francisco has now the best and most com
plete uthK'llu grounds in America. The
grounds cover a lot ! i lOx I.V ) feet and the club
has oxi > emled nearly & ! 0,000 for improve
ments. For n long time wo have been in cor-
rcsiHHidenco with the leading eastern athletic
clubs , among thorn the Harvard nnd New-
York clubs , and hnvo from them received
suggestions , which wo have utilised so that
now wo have every appliance which modern
ingenuity can suggest.
Some of the principal features of the new
grounds are : The clubhouse , which is a per
fect goin in Its appointments ; the hurdles ,
which nro separate for each runner , and arranged -
ranged for IliO and SM yard rams ; a thirty-
live yard cinder track for the runway to the
running high nnd broad jumivs , and tlio ele
gant and comfortable press stand opposite the
grand stand. Harry M. Johnson , one of the
representative sprinters of this country , who
is now in this citv , has pronounced the sjecd
track the fastest In the United States , while
the handball court is built after suggestions
ivceh ed from the Brooklyn champion , Casoy.
It is the intention of the club to add the
licst lawn tennis courts to be bad in , and an
effort will bo inudo to induce- the California
Tonni * nsssociation to hold its championship
meoUnjr > there next July.
The Olympic club's now grounds arc near
the terminus of the Haight street railroad and
A\ero completed a few dnjs ago when the club
took Informal possession of them. They will
lw oH > n for the benefit of the members of
from now on , but the formal public opening
will not take place until May ! iO , when the
flmmpionshm g.unes of tUo Pacific Coast
Amateur Athletic association will tx > held
there , under the auspices of the Olympic
club.
Tennis will bo ono of the many attractions
of the now Olympic club grounds. Two
i-ourts will bo built as n stnrto-r , but if this
brunch of athletics is taken in charge by
nome good man a dozen courts will bo re
quired in a few years. This club possesses
the material for making line tennis players ,
and It only needs encouniKoment at the be
ginning to get fifty or a hundred immsuf-
llciently Interested to pruetico. dlllgentlj. In
a very few years players would bo developed
who could hold thuir own against anvltody.
i No less than three reputable associations In
the east huvo offered purses ranging from
$111,000 to Sl.'i.OOO for a meeting bet weenSunol ,
'J 10S , the coming queenand AxtoU'Jl' ; ' , the
( .tuition king. Such a mutch would draw
horsemen from all over the countrv , for it
would Involve two great questions of national
interest. Both horses nro four-year-olds.
Sunol Is the greatest renresentativo of the
Klectloneer family ; Axtoll the greatest of the
( ! eorgo VI uM family , The latter is the
greatest slro the country over saw ; Klee-
tloneor is the grandest living. Axtell was
brodlnlnwu , Sunol hud birth in California.
It would lx > u contest approaching in charac
ter thu famous Ten Ilroeek-Molllo McCurty
i-ace , Iho c.ust nguinst the west , and it would
also IK' u contobt in which living Electioneer
would bo pitted against dead George Wilkos.
ljums , ono of the owners of Axtell , has boon
interviewed concerning the inaU'h. Axtell U
in the stud , but will bo prepared to lower his
ivcord by Uudd Uoblo. IJ.wu , says that if
the horse is right he sees no reason why the
two might not moot in a friendly match , nnd
he , for one , is willing.
Robert Homier owns Sunol , but Senator
Stanford has control of her until she is de-
li\ered to Bonner next fall , and it remains for
Senator Stanford to say whether or not the
match will take place. As Sunol goes cast in
the summer , thcro is just a possibility that
tlio two may meet on some course in the
grand circuit.
Iko O'Noil Weir's principal occupation now
is singing in the Boston "Speak Busies" his
favorite air , "Down Went the Spider. " An
alias conferred upon him since his retuni to
the cast is "Tlio l rying Pan , " supposed to boa
for " " skillet. attended
a synonym "spider" or Ikoy
tended thoMoulton associates' celebration in
Clmrlestown on St. Patrick's Day. The "cham
pion homely dog of America , " the caninouscd
in Hoyt's "Brass Monkey" running at the
Boston theater , was present at the festivities.
While the "Frying Pan" plnved and sang ,
some jester stele his colors from him and
knotted them to the homely dog's tail. The
dog Hew aroun.l the hall with Isaac in hot
pursuit Ho regained his colors , but it is said
that te.ns filled his eyes ns ho sat opart by
himself and reflected on the efTervescenco of
fistic fame nnd on how few nro left to do the
beaten fighter rcvcience.
When the articles of agreement were being
drawn up for the late light between Jack
McAullflo anil .llmmy Carroll the representa
tives of the latter insisted that the Police Ga
zette championship belt , then in McAuliffc's
possession , should no ono of the trophies to bo
contested for. At that time , so Billy Jordan
siij-.s1 , MeAuliffe protested that he did not have
the 1'ollee Giuetto bolt in his possession ; that
the only belt ho had was presenti-d to him by
a few friends after nftorhis light with Daley.
He said that the other belt was "in hock , " as
ho expressed it. The other night , however ,
the belt was on exhibition in the show win
dow of a Kearney street store , and Carroll's
friends now claim that the fact that MeAu-
lilTo declared , when signing the niticlesof
agreement , that ho .did not-havo thu belt in
his possessionund that the shoit time required
to produce it since the light , is evidence that
MeAulilTe was n trlllo shaky as to Iho out
come of the battle , and did not want to take
a chance of losing u valuable trophy of the
ring.
"Let gr > . cully ! let go 1 Deal straight now ;
no Itottom faking ! "
These words greeted my ears yesterday
afternoon as 1 ambled through the dusky mud
on the water front near the ferries. At first
it was difficult to locate the piping voices ,
but they were finally traced to a covered
truck. I stele quietly up and lifted a flap of
the canvas My eyes were regaled with a
novel spictnclo. Four youths , not ono of
them over fouitccn yiai-s of ago , sat tailor
fashion on the bottom of the truck , and over
their heads wreaths of cigarette smoke
floated la/lly. Thuv were all deeply inter
ested in a game of draw poker. The .dealer
sat close to the stakes , which , all told , were
SO cents. Totally unconscious of the exterior
worhfor of the rain which fell on the canvas
covering of the truck , they dealt , discarded
and iiuulotheir bets with the steady nerve of
old gamblers.
"Well , boys , who's winning ! " I said. In
stantly there was a general scrambling. Curds
Were shoved into sleeves and torn pockets , and
the inmates of that truck tried to nssiimo the
praj erfnl faces of a squad of Sunday-school
scholars. When they ascertiined that their
visitor was not a iwllccmnn their fears were
disarmed and they resumed their game.
"Weso sold our papers , you know , " said ono
ofthojuity , "and weso pluyin' a friendly
game to try and double stakes seo. Sonio-
timcs dor cop gets on to us , nnd wo got tor IH >
mighty foxy. Dor fellow imt shot his mouth
out so loud when you heard him must ha'
been talkin' tree hees bat"
In Inlposlngn line of $ .VXon ) Ah Poy , the
Chinese lottery ticket seller , Judge Henshaw
bus struck terror to the Chlne.su colony of
this city. There was great excitement in Chl-
nntownyesterday inconsequence , as it was
entirely unexpected , and the Chinese nro
much worked up over the result. There are
utmost n score of additional eases pending
trial , ns the police iu the recent raid made a
clean sweep of the Chlueso lottery gamed ,
The lotteries in ttU cit > huvo been heavily
played bv Ban Pranclsco Chlneso and white
people , who linvo feared the San Francisco
police ] udjns. The lotteries will faro badly
now that the polleo Judge * of both cities uro
arrayed against them.
in imposing thu sentence jesterduy morn
ing Judge Henshaw said that the expense of
the city In tlio recent raid and the cost of the
trials inudo it evident that u nominal lluo
would bo but a license for the couthiuuuco of
the abuse. He intcnped to see tlio traffic
\ \ iped out , and therefore imposed the line of
YOUTH AND AGE.
U'flltam JI. Ihtyne In iVciu Tail ; Independent.
i.
"O youth is always best ! " he said.
With glowing ejcs and lifted head.
"There is so much for us to win
From years that keep the sunshine in.
For every life-force wo have lost
'Tis age , the debtor , pays the cost
O youth is bestl" he said.
n.
"O ago is surely best ! " he said ,
With soulful eves and silvered head.
"We rest within the sunset light ,
And feel the soft approach of night.
Behind us lie the pain and strife ,
And just beyond the larger life
O ace is best ! " ho said.
COIiI.KOI3 , BOYS KKKP HOUSK.
How Some Hoston StiidentH
Their Homo Idle.
Thcro are at least twenty students a-
BosUm uni\cr ity who are securing t
college education in a largo city and an
the sumo time enjoying all the advantt
age-5 of a dormitory life.
These are to bo found at 37 and 39 IIol-
yoke street , says tlio Boston Kecord.
They are known collectively as Lambda
charge of Theta Delta ( Jhi , and enjoy
the distinction of being the only college
fraternity having a club house
in Boston , The house is headquarters
for brethren from other colleges who
happen in the city.
There is no green-eyed monster of fo-
nmlo shape thcro to ruko in the shekels
on mysterious delicacies. The hoys live
on the best of the market and it is not
an expensive rate either. In their unique
plan a commissary is appointed who
makes the purchases and attends to all
the necessities of tlio dining-room , in
return for which ho is exempt from
board lull.
The actual expense of the week is
uddl'd up at the end of each wcok and
apportioned equally among the feeders.
Thus I hey are free from all the disa
greeable ingredients that go to make up
n boarding house meal. The chef is not
exactly French , but "near it.1'
In short , tliov have "all the comforts
of home , " "nuHhoy gits it 'tilt price. "
Accommodation * equal to those at the
club would cost the average 'student at
least $8 per wcok. It is estimated that
So per wcok would cover all expenses of
room and board , the board averaging
something like $2.ol ) each week.
The accommodations of the house nro
much too small now , after a three years'
trial of the club , and next fall the t > tu-
dontswlll bo located in moro commodi
ous quarters nearer the collego.
There is also some talk of uniting with
the toil "Tech" students , who are boon to
bo Instituted as a chapter of the frater
nity , so that plans may bo made for a
larger club house that bhall accommo
date at least ttfty.
Slio Obeyed Iiltcrnlly.
A good story comes from a Birming
ham photographer. A lady sat for pic
tures. The next day she returned for
the proof , which was given her in an
envelope on which was printed , "Return
after five days to , photographer ,
Birmingham , Conn. " The lady kept
the proof , much longer than persons
generally do , particularly as she said
who was In n big hurry for the pictures.
On the fourth day she came to the
studio , bringing the proof , and apolo
gized to the artist for coming back " 0110
( lay ahead of time , " but &ho said she
had business In town nnd could not como
again. It took the artist n day to under
stand what she meant.
FROM WRITER TO READER ,
The True Aim of a Good Postal Service
Pully Explained.
HOW THEY DO IN ENGLAND.
TlioViilc Extent ami Admirable
Method of the Free Delivery
System There An Example
for Tills Country.
The ideal of the American postal service
secnis to bo to carry the mail from postolUco
topostofflco ; that of Europe to toke it from
writer to reader , writes Hon , John M. Greg
ory of Washington , D. C. Here , except in
the largo cities , letters nro taken from ono
town to another niul eacli man Is left to seek
at the nearest ofllce , often miles distant , the
letters which may Ho there days awaiting his
coming , ho being in the meantime ignorant of
their arrival. The European service , on the
contrary , aims to do for the whole country
what our free delivery .system does only for
the chief cities. Toke England , for example ,
where the modern postal system was bom ,
throughout its rural districts and villages , as
well as its great towns , the postman goes
daily , at least , from door to door , carrying
and iccelving the m.iil matter and hurrying Ute
to its destination. The completeness of such
u service and the incompleteness of our own
arc readily understood by those who have re
sided in the rural districts of England or
Germany , and who have also had occasion to
depend on our own villatro postofllces , and
have seen at these ofllces the little crowds of
expectant correspondents which gather there
around the postmaster's desk or window , two
or three times n day , when a mail is duo the
business man or his clerk , looking for letters
from business correspondents : the farmer or
his boy , who has come in a mile or two from
the farm to get possible letters or papers ;
the anxious mother , wearied with her long
walk to get news fiom an absent son or
daughter ; and people of all classes , from
miles around , who have left their lalxirs to
see if the mail has brought aught for them ,
and anxiously wondering if their letters sent
to country fnuuds had it-ached their destina
tion.
tion.Contrast
Contrast this picture with that of n similar
English village or nival community , whoso
members , never think'of ' going to the jiost-
oftli'o , but remain quietly at their homes and
business , sure of the ixwtman's coming , and
ci'itatn that If any mail matter is on its way
to them it will not pause until it lias reached
their door. So , also , thft sender of mail mat
ter knows for a certainty < hat what ho sends
will bo delivered without delay , and ho can
count the hour when lite correspondent will
receive it. From writer to reader , with duo
sliced and satety smelythls is the true ideal
of a good jxjstal scrvicoi nnd nothing less than
this will meet modern \vanta and business.
True , the denser populations of Europe
render this ideal eusuir'of accomplishment
there than it would boil * many of the newer
communities of our nvni country ; but the
chief dlflieultii's Incur-wiy Ho not in our
more scattered populations ; thev nro found ,
rather , in the inferior theory of the service
which forbids the attempt , and in the rates
of wages for carriers , which renders the ser
vice too costly to bo e.ully extended over the
whole country.
Our postal system was established at n
time when the pioneer settlements were remote -
mete from 010)1 ) other , and the natural con
ception of the work was to get the mall trans
ported from ono settlement to another , leav
ing each person to look out for and fetch his
own letters to and from the otllco. In the
larger cities we have accepted the European
Ideal , and carry letters from door to door ; but
no po.stma.ster general has jet been found
bold enough to think of extending the frco
carder service to the \\holo country. The
present head of the iwstofllett department is a
man of energy and business capacity ; and in
place of the luiiulry directed uy
u recent resolution of congress
to ascertain the cost of extending
the free , delivery bvrvica to cities of 3,000 In
habitants , ho may institute the far nobler
inquiry as to the means ot giving free delivery
of mails to all the people of Uie land , writing
on the banner of the service the worthy motto ,
From Writer to Header.
Evidently the lirst condition of establishing
n universal frco delivery is to establish n rate
of compensation within the means of the de
partment. Our carrier service , thought of
only as a luxury for the great cities , was
established with city rates of pay ; and even
these were exaggerated to meet the views of
politicians who were to dictate the appoint
ments , and naturally wished the "spoils" to
bo as attractive HS possible. The free delivery
was thus made needlessly expensive even for
the cities , the carriers receiving much moro
than is paid for other work requiring equal
strength and ability. Six hundred , eight hun
dred and a thousand dollars a year the com
mon pay of our city letter carriers are , as
wages go , disproportionate fora service which
requires only a good pair of legs and iutelli-
genco sufllcicnt to read the addresses and i-e-
meinber the location of n few houses and
streets. The extension of the sen-ice to coun
try villages and districts on such pay is obvl-
ouslv impossible. , But nro there not thou
sands of competent men and stout boys who
would bo glad to do the work in the rural dis
tricts for one-third of these rates ? No pay is
really small when numbers greatly in excess
of the demand are ready to leave other em
ployments and undertake the work for the
compensation offered.
The pay of the English carriers or postmen ,
though larger than that on the continent , and
confessedly less than it ought to bo in Great
Britain,10 shilling n week ( nearlySJOS n year )
for beginners , and only 28 shillings a week
( nearly $3H ( a year ) for the most experienced
still never fails to attract ns many compe
tent men as arc wanted for the work. Fifty
per cent , added to these rates , or say ! 00 a
year for beginners , and K > 00 a year for the
oldest and most experienced would bo ample
pay for the service in the small towns anil
country villages of the United States ,
and would bo eagerly sought at these
rates by an abundance of applicants of good
character. In England , in the country places ,
hnlf-timo men nro employed for some part of
the service. The postmaster at Hcuhill in
Surrey told mo last summer that ho had two
outlying country districts which ho served
through n shoemaker and a tailor , who , af tor
their dav's work on the bench , were glad to
take an hour or two of walk in. the country
for n small compensation of seven shillings a
week each. In this way the whole rural dis
trict is reached at little cost.
f f the enormous expense of this extension
of five delivery system seems appalling , n
brief calculation will show how much it now
costs the people to get their mall , and how
much would therefore bo saved them by the
proposed reform , ( liven n village postofllco
serving n hundred families within a radius of
three miles an ollleo faiily representing
thousands througout the country allow to
these families an average of oifo .hour a day
spout in seeking' or sending mall , the total
cost at 10 cents an hour would bo $10 a day ,
or SViTiO a year. Supposing the service to bo
done partly by children , and the average cost
to be but ri cents an hour , or M a day
for the whole district ; this would still amount
to $ l.8 i a year , or , omitting Sundays , to
Jl.fiiVi the year. Ono carrier ut full tlmo and
ono on half time would easily deliver the mall
twice a day to all within ono mile , and ut
leant once n duv to nil outsldo of that distance ,
walking onlv the sixteen miles a day expected
of the English postman In the country The
cost of this deliver-ago less than two dollars a
day
If iu place of our many small postofllces ,
where the service is almost necessarily in
ferior and often ignorant , largo postal dis
tricts were formed , each under ono chief and
each covering the tei-ritory served by six or
eight of those small ofllces , all the jxjst-
masters , except the ono being replaced by
curriers or postnum , mounted or on toot as the
distances might require , the free delivery
could bo introduced ! with scarcely any Increase -
crease of cost , and. In some eases , ut n posl-
tivo saving. Lqt the people think ; them is
no reason for giving free delivery of mails to
the dwellers In the cities and refusing it to
those in the country places. It is in the
country and its villages that the carrier's
service Is most ncedou. The greater dis
tances and the absence of good sidewalks and
lighted streets , double the dlftlcultles of send
ing to the postofllco without ut all diminish
ing the necessity. It is admitted that no
other brunch of the public work comes sr >
homo to the busluess and bosom of all the
i > eoplo ns this of the postal service , and none
therefaro demands such wise and liberal care
on the part of our statesmen to give it the ut
most stretch of convenience and efficiency.
If it bo urged that the change here advo
cated Implies a largo increase of the number
of public servants , it is frankly admitted and
boldly defended. It is not an evil but a good
to have n largo number of people sen-ing the
public , providing for all , rich and poor alike ,
public conveniences , and rendering them ser
vices which only the government can provide
and render. Shall wo lessen the service done
the public because politicians abuse the ap
pointing power ! As well insist upon going
afoot , because railroad ofllcials abuse the
trust confided in them. The argument is
good for a sound and sufficient civil rervieo
reform , but not at all sound against any and
everyincre.ise of the civil service which the
convenience and happiness of the people de
mand.
It may not provo possible to organire at
once a free mail delivery for the whole coun
try. In England , it cost in some districts
moro than twenty years to perfect the ar
rangements. Its needs and feasibility arc
beyond question , and its certainty in the
future is beyond doubt. It should be at once
accepted as the true ideal of the service , and
all efforts , from the postmaster general's
down , should be bent to its accomplishment.
Given the will , the way will bo found.
I have aimed hero merely to show the in
feriority of our postal service in the single
matter of delivery. I have no spaeo now to
portray the other largo and important ser
vices rendered the people by some of the
European postal systems , which nro ns yet/
refused by ours. The postal telegraph and
irastofllco'savings bank must nnd will como
in good time. And so \ \ itli other services.
STUPID PllOFUSSIONAh ETHICS.
'Miloil Nonsense Practiced Under n
FalHC Idea < > ! ' Ktliinctte.
Knto Field in Washington : A prosit
deal of nonscnso is preached and prac
ticed under the luuno of professional oti-
quotto. It is within the recollection oj
bcores of readers of those pages that in
the tiinallor communities of so enlight
ened a state us New York or Massachu
setts , fov instance , tlip appearance of n
clergymen in his pulpit wearing a mous
tache created a sensation little short of
horror. It was not because there was
any necessary or logical connection be
tween a hairy upper Up nnd a fur-coated
conscience ' , but because there lingered
in the 'popular mind , oven at that
late day , an association between mous
taches and the French revolution with
all its ribaldry ami license. The English
barrister today wears a gown witli a little -
tlo pocket in it , into which the solicitor
who wishes to engage his horvices slips
the crisp bnnlc note which it would bo
deemed unprofessional to pass openly
from hand to hand. "Wo have thank
ITeavenl none of that folly on tills hide
of the water , where a lawyer of any
grade can demand and sue for his pay.
Over there , too , you drop your guinea
into the palm of your physician
when you are blinking- hands with
him at farwoll , beeutiHo it would
not do for him to play the dun. Thebo
practices are survivulbof the liution that
a member of n learned profession IH a
gentleman who works , not for an income ,
but for glory nnd the good of the nice.
It is the patrician and plebeian flummery
of ancient Homo in a somewhat different
iiliuso. I am inclined to think that the
lawyer who pleads your cause or the doc
tor who writes you a proscription could
collect his bills in the courts of the
mother country now , but that right has
been only recently allowed him , and
there would still bo , in the public opin
ion , something not quilo correct of form
about such a proceeding.
Although wo have advanced far be
yond our truns-ntluntic cousins In'these
particulars , by our frank acceptance of
tlio fact that n professional man must
earn his living like other mortals , wo
are nevertheless a good way behind
where wo ought to IMJ. Tuko the matter -
tor of advertising , for instance. What
would bo thought of David Dudley
Field or William M. K\art if ho should
intK-rt his curd in ono of the mvlropoh-
an newspapers , announcing that clients
would bo welcome at his olllce ? Ami yet
neither of these eminent jurists would
refuse your retainer if you came to him
with an ejectment biiit. No reputable
lawyer , probably , would in this
enlightened age bo thrown over
the bar for advertising ; but
the New York Medical society expelled
two of its members tlio other Jlnj for thin
heinous crime. The absurdity of such
conduct is obvious when wo rc-llcet that
nine physicians out of every ton do ad
vertise in a roudabout way. If they per
form an operation of especial ditliculty
they are nothing loth to have thoiV
achievements 'described in the daily
prints ; and the medical journals of the
country tcom with "re-ports of cases , "
which tell oven moro direct a story than
a simple card in the regular advertising
columns announcing the names of the
same practionors , with their addresses
and their olllce hours.
Thcro is a distinction hero without a
difference. If these gentlemen were
really beyond the need of profit ing by
public patronage , tlioy would still bo
quite justified , from a common bonso
point of view , in making their announce
ments to tlio people of the community
in which they live. Must the pure phi
lanthropist subject himself to suspicion
because ho bcoks lor chances to do good ,
instead of sitting down and twiddling his
tliumbslind waiting for the chances to
seek lum'f Is lie not entitled to all the
moro credit fot1 Ills humanity when ho
goes out of his way U ) Ilml bunelieiuriesy
li > es propriety require him to build a
picket fence about his money bags
while ho professes to bo engaged -
gaged in an olfort to help the
poor ? And would such a claim bo any
more ridiculous than the rule of otliico
which puts a medical man under the him
because ho lots the halt and the maimed
and the blind know whore and when they
can avail themselves of his aid ? I don't
think bo. What is > more , I don't believe
the lending members of tlio healing guild
think so either. They stick to tlio old
rule because it would make any .of thorn
unpleasantly conspicuous to break IOOKO
from it. Dut borne day the whole ethical
fabric will give way at once , llko the
deacon's ono-hoss shay , and wo shall lind
that physicians nro just like other men
as earnest in quest of a livelihood , and
as full of an honorable ambition to find.
favor with the multitude.
Some KiiKllNliiiiiioH. .
Chicago Tribune : Many who have
struggled hoiwlessly with the pronuncia
tion of English proper mimes will bo
glad of this ilst , which deals phonetically
with a few of the most diflieult cubes :
Talhol Is pronounced Tolbut.
Thames is pronounced Terns. * "
Hulwer is pronounced Duller.
Cowper is pronounced Cooiier.
Ilolburn la pronounced Honun. *
Wemyss Is pronounced WCCIIIH.
Knnlloys Is pionounced Knowlos.
Cockbuni is pronounced Ooburn.
lirougluim Is pronounced Ilrooni.
Norwich is pronounced Norildge.
St. Lcger K pronounced Sllllnger.
Hawnrden is pronounced Harden
Colquhoun Is pronounced Cohoon
UlroncesU'r ia pronoumrd BiHrfistor.
( JrosTonor Is pronounced CSrovenor.
Salisbury is pronounced Snwlsbury
licuuchamp f pronounced Hcechum
Mnrylobono Is pronounced Mnrrahun
Abcrguvenny Is pronounced Abergcnny.
Mujorlbnnks la pronounced MarchbankM
nollngbroko is proilounccd Hullingbrooc. !
( Jholmouduly is pronounced Chumly.
A AVutcili for the Illlnil.
The Swiss \uttchmakurs have invented
n watch for the blind. Buys the Ht Louis
Kopublic. A small peg is set in the mid
dloof each llgure. When the hour hand
Is nun ing toward a given hour the peg
for that hour drops. The owner , wmw
ho wants to know the time , llnds which
peg is duwn uud then counts buck to
twuho.
