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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1897)
"wfto Ji. ' m 4V A' MtMMatMWSUI Ibarrfson 3ournaI. BO. O. CARUW. UUWHdrNf. arrison, IT KB. In life It Is difficult to gay who do the most tnlscbiefenenilea with the worst Intention, or friends with the best. A Kansas City paper proudly boastR that It costs only 10 centa to be bui led In that lown. Residents of St. Louis ire burled for nothing. New York World: Civilization In Itus ila is making rapid strides. They nave already advanced to the plane of suc cessful lynching parties. A California college girl has married a Chinese classmate, believing that wedding a Celestial Is the next thing to a marriage made In heaven. Laureate Austin's poetry isn't well paid tor, comparatively speak'ng. think how much Mr. Astor has recent ly paid for an "owed by Albert Ed ward. The Boston Traveler remarks that "a Providence man yesterday met death with a broken neck." Death probably had been trying to learn to ride a bi cycle. The Boston bank clerk who stole 130,000 because he wanted to buy a bicycle seems to have wanted to be sure to have enough money to keep the thing in repair. The New York Herald's fund for Mark Twain already has overtaken and passed Tom Palmer's Duke of Veragua fund. The latter still stands at $1.67, or rather stands still at that figure. A woman in Cleveland has applied for a divorce on the ground that she "wants to marry somebody else." This Is not an unusual cause for divorce, but the frankness with which it Is express ed certainly Is unique. A New York paper says that May Irwin is at her summer home In the Thousand Islands, "giving that soul swallowing kiss of hers a chance to re cuperate." Where is the other half of that kiss recuperating? The teacher who can inspire his pupil or his class with a personal enthusiasm for the subject in hand Is doing more to engrave it upon their memory than he could In double the time spent in mere instruction or memorizing. Tennessee has some very good pai ers or some mighty mean men, or both. The Tazewell Times says: "Owing to our regular edition leing stolen Tues day nigftt we are a little late In making our appearance this week." John L. Sullivan may bluster as much as he wants to about the return of his vitality, but If he ever gets up In front of Robert J. Fltzslmmons in a twenty-four-foot ring there will le one less big, ignorant, drunken plug-ugly in the world, and the corpse will not be red headed, either. The Grand Forks (N. D.) Plain Deal er says: "The editor of the Wimble don News reports the loss of two hors es. How did he come into possession of two horses? Possibly some one else lost them at an earlier date." Such little Journalistic amenities as this add considerably to the gayety of life In the Northwest. They also keep the coroner busy. According to the Albany lYess, a house which is not only the oldest in America, but is the place where the Immortal "Yankee Doodle" was writ ten, is still standing at Cireenbush, N. Y. It was built in 1630 by Killian Van Rensselaer, the first patroon, who brought the hand-made bricks and ti.e timbers from Hollanu for the purpose. In 1755, when the British troops were encamped there during the French and Indian -war, Dr. Shaekburg, an army surgeon, lived in the old mansion, and be waa so struck by the tatterdemalion appearance of the colonists who came to the aid of the regulars that he com posed the doggerel which has since be come so popular. If the rress story is true some historical society should lose no time in buying the property and tak ing measures to preserve It. Those who like to point morals and Adorn tales will find an old-fashioned story in the life of the man who has Just been appointed Governor of Alas ka. He is called John Green Brady, and be la the adopted son of an Indiana judge named Green. Thirty-seven year ago he was taken from New York with a lot of other homeless or phans who were to be distributed among Western farmers. When the train arrived at the home of Judge Green the latter asked the man In charge of the boys to give him the ragged little urchin. He got him, and the hitherto friendless boy found him self In a home of culture and refine ment. He was sent to school, then to college and finally to Harvard. Having been graduated from the theological department he w sent to Alaska as a missionary by the Presbyterian church. Since then he has lieen closely allied to the Interests, both material and spir itual, of the territory. He ha devel oped considerable executive ability and seems to hare the confidence of all rlaes In that part of the country. The ajd-tlme flnnday school book was not always exaggerated. Tk autopsy upon the body of a kdy who died suddenly In an etty revealed a myriad of nny tZntmrn 9t wood In Um throat, caopha- gun and stomach, whlc". tin physicians traced to her habit of chewing tooth pick after luncheon. This calls atteu tlon to the very vulgar habit which so many people have of chewing tooth picks upon the street. The toothpick Is a useful thing in lus plac-e, but there is nothing which so transgresses good taste as to apiiear, as so many per sons do, upon the street with that arti cle in the mouth. At lunch time hun dreds of men and women may be seen carrying let wee!r the teeth this evi dence of their having dined. It would seem almost unueces-sary to point out the bad taste of such a practice, but the custom has become bo common as tio attract attention everywhere. Fifteen or twenty years ago "carp culture" waa ail the rage, and one of the chief objects of the Fish Commis sion. If we would only cultivate the carp our food supply would never give out and we would have fish to give away! In every annual report glowing accounts were given by the commis sion of the success that was being achieved In disseminating this noble fish. Carp ponds were established iu Washington and at Wytheville, Va.. and distribution was made everywhere. In the last report of the commission for thi year ending June 30, 18'.$, we learn that the "distribution of this fish has been discontinued," and that it is to be cultivated hereafter as a food for other fishes, but not for man. On top of this we learn that the carp ponds everywhere are being cleared of tneir inhabitants, and their places supplied by cleaner and gamier fish. The noble fish is no longer noble. Whatever they may be in China or in Germany, where they are largely cultivated for food, they do not suit us, and there Is noth ing American about them. They will not fight nor strike back nor attempt to defend their liberty. If caught on a book they maie no resistance, but come up like a "blind salmon," and are as limp as a rag. They are unclean feeders and wallow in a mud bottom like hogs. Their flesh Is coarse and without flavor, and they are an un pleasant, disagreeable and dirty fish. This we have at last found out. The word has gone abroad that the carp must go, and the sooner the better. The attorneys defending a man in Cleveland who waa charged with forg ing a check for a large sum set up the plea of insanity and brought forward some physicians who testified that the prisoner waa insane because of an un natural depression of ibe skull upon the brain. An operation was pet Conn ed and it was said that the mm. had regained his reason. An ncQultti' was asked for, but the Judge very properly refused to let mm go lor wa; t or eti- i .-Froz,.n Kegion of Hell,' 'a most appro dence that the depression had aff i cted priate selection, this last, for the place nis sanity, ana nas sentence n;iu to the penitentiary. No ,!unt judge will refuse to give a prisoner the benefit of the doubt, and then." Is much crime which can be traced to Insanity and nervous disorders, but the plea of In sanity has been sadly overworked. It Is certainly strained when men try to bring it in as a defense for such a crlmo as this man was charged with. A sim ilar case is that of a man In St. Louis, who committed bigamy while In Eu rope. He sets up the plea that he is affected with abaulia, or paralyse of the mind. During one of his abaulie periods he went to Europe, married and proceeded to raise a family of children. Before going abroad he had deeded to his St Louis wife all his property and she was to make him an allowance. When he returned he neg lected to bring his abaulie family with him. His normal spouse discovered the existence of the abaulie pmgeny and promptly cut off his allowance. He now sues her to recover his property, claiming that when he deeded her the stuff he was suffering from the malady with tie patent medicine name. If 'a said to be the first time that this dis ease has been brought forward as a defense, but there is , nothing new about the malady. Nearly all of our criminate are affected with It m some form er other. A Warning to Cat Kissers. It must be a terrifying revelation to tho" foreign Indies who kiss their carta Mint has been made by Professor Flocci, the Italian eluemlst. He has found by experiment that when a cat licks it's liqis it spreads over tliem a saliva in which there are swanna of mUmvtf liflcilM not free from danger to human bellies. When he inoculated rabbits and guinea-pigs with this nox ious nil-stance, they died within twenty-four hours; and he baa come to tiie coccluKlon that It te dangerous for ladle to indulge m the habit of kissing fihelr caAs. We cannot con ceive of anv lady indulging hi tt. By the nrofessor's experiments we learn, ..-u. ,v. totw t It.!, who kiss then- lap-dogs, a hn,bit even more dangerous than tiie other. Hist aalyia of the saM-va of these bean-la brouyht oait facte that are too tvpul slve to speak of. Nice Girls. Of Mntthew Arnold as a school ex aminer the author of "Pages from a Private Diary" has this to say: Arnold's reports are very good read ing, but his methods of examination were sometime highly poetical. I re- i . . . ,alj titjl ,v a f i.l Iti. . V , ' , 7"". spector of a class of girl pupil teachers tnat ne b'i iirikjn n viiuiiuie hint. Arnold gave them all the "ex cellent" mark. "But." said the other lnatector, "surely they are not all as good as they can be; some miwt lie better than others." "Perluips that Is so," replied Arnold, "but then, you see, they are all such vy n.!ce girls." A car load of potatoes shipped from the Mansfield, Pa., station a few days ago netted the farmers 12 cents busbe!. LITTLE INIQUITIES OR. TALMAOKOMS NS THAT NIB EJ1AATTWC HEART. Gambling Is a Vice that Begins with Little Mns and Crowa to Fearful Knorm itiea Severe ArraiKinent of Gilt Enterpriaeaand Stock Gambling Our Weekly ftrmoi, Dr. Talmugc iu this sermon depicts the insidious i.ntit'8 by which evil habit gains upi'cmucy ami shows how splendid men are cheated into ruin. Text, Isaiah v., IS, 'V.h' unto them that siu as it were v ith a cart tope." There nri some iuiquites that only nib ble at the heart. After a lifetime of their work, the man mill stands upright, re spected and honored. These vermin have not strength enough to gnaw through a man's character. Hut there are other (transgressions that lift themselves up to gigantic proportions and seize hold of a man ami hind him with thong forever. There are some iniquite that have such great emphasis of evil that he who com mits them may he said to sin with a cart rope. I suppose you know how they make a great rope. The stuff out of which it is fashioned is nothing but tow which you pull apart without any exertion of your fingers. This is spun into threads, any of which you could easily snap, but a great niaDy of these threads are interwound. Then you have a rope strong enough to bind an ox or hold a ship in a tempest. I speak to you of the sin of gambling. A curt rope in strength is that sin, ami yet I wish more especially to draw your attention to the small threads of influ ence out of which that mighty iniquity Is twisted. This crime is on the advance, so that it is well not only that fathers and brothers and sons be interested in such a discussion, but that wives and mothers and sisters and daughters look out lest their present home he sacrificed or their intended home he blasted. No man, no woman, can stand aloof from such a sub ject hh this and say, "It has no practical bearing upon my life," for there may be in a short time in your history an experi ence in which you will find that the dis cussion involved three worlds earth, heaven, hell. There are gambling estab lishments by the thousands. There are 5,500 professional gamblers. Out of all the gambling establishments how many of them do you suppose profess to lie honest V Ten these ten professing to be honest because they are merely the antechamber to those that are acknowledged fraudu lent. A Gilded Pen. There are first-class establishments. You step a little way out of Broadway, New York. You go up the marble stairs. You ring the bell. The liveried servant introduces you. The walls arc lavender tinted. The mantels are of Vermont mar- V.U. TTiu ril1t!r,. re ".Ifnih t hji 'h THilirh- ej. and ..,(untev ttml Virgil's here is the roulette table, the finest, costli est, most exquisite piece of furniture in the United States. There is the banquet ing room v.rtre, free of charge to the guest, you may find the plate and viands and wine and cigars sumptuous beyond parallel. Then you come to the second class gambling establishment. To it you are introduced by a card through some "roper in." Having entered, yon must either gamble or fight. Sanded cards, dice loadpd with quicksilver, poor drinks mix ed with more poor drinks, will soon help you to get rid of all your money to a tune in short meter with staccato passages. Y'ou wanted to see. You saw. The low villains of that place watch you as yon come in. Does not the panther squat in the grass know a calf when he sees it? Wrangle not for your rights in that place or your body will be thrown bloody into the street or dead into the river. You go along a little farther and find the policy establishment. In that place you bet on numbers. Betting on two numbers is called a "saddle," betting on three numbers is cnlied a "gig," betting on fonr numbers is called a "horse." And there are thousands of our young men leaping into that "saddle" and mounting that "gig" and behind that "horse" riding to perdition. There is always one kind of sign on the door, "Exchange," a most appropriate title for the door, for there. In that room, a man exchanges health, peace and heaven for loss of health, loss of home, loss of family, loss of immortal soul. Exchange sure enough and infinite enough. The Inclination to Onnible, Now yon acknowledge that is a cart rope of evil, hut you want to know what are the small, threads out of which it is made. There is in many a disposition to hazard. They feel a delight in walking near a precipice because of the sense of danger. There are people who go upon Jungfruti, not for the largeness of the prospect, but for the feeling that they j"1 hlnK.i.nK- hat would happen if I should fall off?" There are persons who have their blood fiilliped and accel erated by skating very near an air hole. There are men who find a positive delight in drivng within two inches of the edge of a bridge. It is this disposition to hazard that finds development in gaming prac tices. Here are Jf.VMl. I may stake thern. ? tr"'m- 1 niay '" them, but I may win ?.,000. hichever way it turn.. I have the excitement. Shuffle the cards. I Lost! Heart thumps. Head dizzy. At It again just to gratify this desire for ! nHzar(1i Then there are others who go into this r- through sheer desire for gain. It is especially so with professional gamblers. They always keep cool. They never drink enough to unbalance their Judgment. They do not see the dice so much as they see the dollar beyond the dice, and for that they watch as the spider in the web, looking as if dead until the fly passes. Thousands of young men in the hope of gain go into these practices. They say: "Well, my salary Is not enough to , (()n,t fff allow from my store, office, or shop. I ought to have finer apartments. I might to have better wines. I ought to lmve more richly flavored ci gars. I ought to be able to entertain my friends n ore expensively. I won't stand this any longer. I can with one brilliant stroke make a fortune. Now, here goes, principle or no principle, heaven or hell. Who cares?" When p young man makes op his mind to live 1-eyond his Income, satan has bought him out and out, and It is only a question of time when the goods are to be delivered. The thing is done. Yon may plant la the way all the batteries of troth and righteousntss that nan Is bound to go (id. W hen a limn limkes 1 1.""" year and spein's II.'.'imi, when n young inun makes ;,M and spends l"ti. U the harpies of darkness cry out, "IU, hit, e have him:" And they have. How to get the extra ?.rKI or the extra f2S i the question. He says: "Here is my friend ho started out the other day with but little in Hiev, and in one night, so great was his luck, he rolled up hundreds and thousands of dollars. He got it-why not 1? It is such dull work, this adding up of long lines of figures in the counting house; this palling down of a hundred yurds of goods and selling a icr.iiuint: this always waiting upon si.mebo.iy else, v.jen I could put $K1 on the race and pick up J1.IKK1." J An Inaidlnaa 81 n. This sin wolks very insidiously. Other sins sound the drum and Haunt the flag and gather their recruits with wild huzza, but this man lies its procession of pale vic tims in dead of night, in silence, and when they drop into the grkve there is not so much sound as the click of the dice. Oh, how m.iny have gone down under it! IxhjU at those men who were once highly ppispered. Now their forehead is licked bv a tonmi- of flame that will never go out. Iu theii souls are plunged the beaks which will never be lifted. Swing open the door of that man's heart and you see u coil of adders wriggling their indescriba ble horror until you turu away and hide your face and ask God to help you to for get it. The most of this evil is unadver tised. The community does not hear of it. Men defrauded in gaming establishments are not fools enough to tell of it. Once in awhile, however, there is an exixisure, as when in Boston the police swooped uiou a gaming establishment and found in it the representatives of all classes of citi zens from the first merchants on State street to the low Ann street gambler; as when Bullock, the cashier of the Central Railroad of Georgia, was found to have stolen $10:.H) for the purpose of carry ing on gaming practices; us when a young man in one of the savings banks of Brook lyn many years ago was found to have stoleu H'.) to carry on gaming prac tices; as when a man connected with a Wall street insurance company was found to have stolen $1HO,000 to carry on his gaming practices, but that is exceptional. Stock Uatubllnu. Generally the money leaks silently from the merchant's till Into the gamester's wallet. 1 believe that one of the main piiws leading to this sewer of iniquity is the excitement of business life. Is it not a significant fact that the majority of the day gambling houses in New York are in proximity to Wall street? Men go into the excitement of stock gambling, and from that they plunge into the gambling houses, as, when men ure intoxicated, they go into a liquor saloon to get more drink. The agitation that is witnessed In the stock market when the chair announ ces the word "Northwestern" or "Fort Wuyne" or "Uock Island" or "New York Central," and the rat, tat, tat of the auc tioneer's hummer, and the excitement of making "corners," and getting up "pools," and "carrying stock," and a "break'' from W to TO, and the excitement of rushing around in curbstone brokerage, and the sudden cries of "Buyer three!" "Buyer ten!" "Take 'em!" "How many?" and the making or losing of $10,000 by one op eration, unfits a man to go home, and so he goes up the flight of stairs, amid busi ness offices, to the darkly curtained, wood en shuttered room, gayly furnished inside and takes his place at the roulette or the faro table. But I cannot tell all the pro cess by which men get into this evil. A man went to New York. He w as a West ern merchant. He went into a gaming house on Park place. Before morning he had lost all his money save $1, and he moved around about with that dollar in his hand, and after awhile, caught Mt ill more powerfully under the infernal infat- i nation, he came up and put down the dol lar and cried out until they heard him through the saloon, "One thousand miles from home, and my last dollar on the gaming table!" Via t to a Oamblln-r Hen. Many years ago for sennonic purposes and iu company with the chief of police of New York I visited one of the most bril liant gambling houses in that city. It was night, and as we came up in front ull seemed dark. The blinds were down, the door was guarded, but after a whispering of the officer with the guard at the door we were admitted into the hall, and thence into the parlors, around one table finding eight or ten men in midlife, well dressed, all the v ork going n in silence save the noise of the rattling "chips" on the gam ing table in one parlor and the revolving ball of the roulette table in the other par lor. Some of these men, we were told, bad served terms in prison; some were shipwrecl'f-d bankers and brokers and money dea'ers, and some were going their first rocniis of vice, but all Intent upon the table as large or small fortunes moved up and down before them. Oh, there was something awfully solemn In the silence, the Intense gaze, the suppressed emotions of the J 'nyers. No one looked up. They all had money in the rapids, and I have no doubt pome saw as they sat there horses and carriages and houses and lands and home and family rushing down into the vortex. A man's life would not have been worth a tfirthing in that presence, had he not been accompanied by the police, if he had been supposed to be on a Christian errand of observation. Some of these men went by private key, some went in by careful introduction, some were taken in by the patrons of the establishment. The officer of the law told me, "None gets in here except by police mandate or by some letter of a patron." While we were there a young man came In, put his money down on the roulette table and loKt; put more money down on the roulette table and lost; put more money down on the roulette table and lost. Then feeling in his pockets for more money, finding none, in severe silence he turned his back upon the scene and passed out. While we stood there men lost their property find lost their souls. Oh, merciless place! Not once in ull the history of that gaming house has there been one wold of sympathy uttered for the losers at the grr,;e. Sir Horace Wul polc said that a nnui dropped dead in one of the club houses of Iotidon. His body was carried into the club house and the members of the club begun Immediately to bet us to whether he were dead or alive, and when it wns proposed to test the mat ter by bleeding him it was only hindered by the rnggestion that It would lie unfair to some of the players. In these gaming houses of our cities men have their prop erty wrung away from them, and tbeu they go out, some of them to drown their grief in strong drink, some to ply the counterfeiter's pen, and so restore their fortunes; some resort to the suicide's re volver, but all going down. And that work proceeds day by day and night by night. "That cart rope," nys one young inun, "his never bean wound around my nil." But Imtr not some threads of that crt rope been twlkted? (lift I' nterpriaea. I arraigu before God the gift enterprises of our c!tie which have a tendency to make this a nation of guinblers. What ever you get, young inun, in such a place us that, without giving a proper equiva lent, is ii robbery of your ow n soul und a robbery of the community. Yet how we are appalled to see men who have failed In other enterprises go into gift concerns, where the chief attraction is not music, but the prizes distributed among the audi ence, or to sell books where the chief at traction is not the book, but the package that goes with the book. Tobacco dealers advertise that on a certain day they will put money into their papers, so that the purchaser of this tobacco In Cincinnati or New York may unexpectedly come upon a magnificent gratuity. Boys hawking through the cars packages containing no body knows whot until you open them and find they contain nothing. Christian men with pictures on their wall gotten in a lottery, and the brain of community taxed to find out some new way of getting things without paying for them. Oh, young men, these are the threads that muke the cart rope, and when a young man consents to these practices he is be ing bound hand and foot by a habit which has alreudy destroyed "a gret multitude that no mun can number." Sometimes these gift enterprises are carried on in the name of charity, and some of you re member at the close of our civil war how many gift enterprises were on foot, the proceeds to go to the orphans and widows of the soldiers and sailors. What did the men who had charge of those gift enter prises care for the orphuns and widows? Why, they would have allowed them to freeze to death upon their steps. I have no faith in a charity which, for the sake of relieving present suffering, opens a gap ing jaw that has swallowed down so much of the virtue and good principle of the community. Young man, have noth ing to do with these things. They only sharpen your appetite for games of chance. Do one of two things be hon est or die. I have accomplished my object if I put you on the lookout. It is a great deal easier to fall than it is to get up again. The trouble is that when men begin to go astray from the path of duty they are apt to say. "There's no use of my trying to get hack. I've sacrificed my respectabil ity. I can't leturn." And they go on un til they are utterly destroyed. I tell you, my friends, that God this moment, by his Holy Spirit, can change your entire na ture, so that you will be a different man in a minute. The Path of -afrtr. Your great want what is It? More sal ary? Higher social position? No, no. I w ill tell you the great want of every man, if he has not already obtained it it is the grace of God. Are there any who have fallen victims to the sin that I have been reprehending? You ure in a prison. You rush agHinst the wall of this prison ami try to get out, and you fail, and you turn around and dash against the other wall until there is blood on the grates and blood on jour soul. You will never get out in this n ay. There Is only one way of getting out. There is a key that can un lock thnt prison house. It Is the key of the house of David. It is the key that Christ wears at his girdle. If you will al low him to put thut key to the lock, the bolt will shoot back and the door will swing open and you will be a free man in Christ Jesus. Oh, prodigal, what a busi ness this is for you, feeding swine, when your father stands in the front door, straining his eyesight to catch the first glimpse of your return, and the calf is as fat as it will be, and the harp of heaven are all strung and the feet free! There are converted gamblers in heaven. The light of eternity flashed upon the green baize of their billiard saloon. In the laver of God's forgiveness they washed off all their sin. They quit trying for earthly stakes. They tried for heaven and won it. There stretches a hand from heaven toward the head of the worst offender. It is a hnnd, not clinched as if to smite, but outspread as if to drop a benediction. Other Kens have a shore and many be fathomed, but the sea of OfKl's love eter nity has no plummet to strike the bottom and immensity no iron bound shore to confine it. Its tides are lifted by the heart of infinite compassion. Its wavei ure the hossnnas of the redeemed. The argosies that sail on it drop anchor at last amid the thundering salvo of eternal vic tory, but alas for that man who siti down to the final game of life and puts his immortal soul on the ace while the angels of God keep the tally lward, and after kings and queens and knaves and spades ore "shuffled" and "cut" and th game is ended, hovering ami impending worlds discover that he has lost it, the faro bank of eternal darkness clutching down into its wallet all the blood stained wagers. Short Hermona. Truth. The reign of truth would make a heaven anywhere, and what Is i the use of dying to get to heaven if we can get It by living it? There Is no ' other time but now. Truth Is life, and 1 we cannot get the truth by living or by , dying. The grave Is not the gate to Ira ' mortality. Hev. Dr. Harcourt, Metlio t dist, Philadelphia, Pa. Orthodoxy. The last quarter of the nineteenth century has Ix-en pre-eml-j liently the age of the decomposition of orthodoxy. One and all orthodox creeds are tumbling Into ruins every where. The thought of to-day will shortly reach a plane where there will be no place nor use for orthodoxy. Prof. John Flske, at Minneapolis, Minn. Creed. Every liody but nn Idiot bus a creed. If we hue definite notions nliotit anything that Is a creed. The way a man conducts his business Is his com mercial creed. If a man belongs to a political party he bus a political creed We cull It a platform, but flint Is only another name for the same thing. Rev. V. M. Goodcblld, Baptist, New York City. Faith. Faith does not supplant rea sou, but assists It. It is to us what the pillar of fire was to the Hebrews. Not only does Christian faith give us a sub lime Idea of God, but It also gives us s proper understanding of ourselves, which, according to the poet, Is tht proper study of mankind. It tells t'l what we are, whence we have come snd whither we are going. Cardinal Gibbons, Catholic, Baltimore, Md. 7 . A. C. Armstrong V Son. of New York, announce "The Novels of Charles Dick ens; A Bibliography and Sketch." by F. G. Kit ton. Jerome K. Jerome's forthcoming vol ume, "Sketches In Lavender, Blue, and Green," consists of stories that have appeared us serials. Max Pemberton Is atxwt to follow up his "Christine of the Hills" with "A Woman of Kronstadt." which, like Its predecessor, will In set ntnid scenes quite unfamiliar to the reading public. W. C. Morrow, the author of "The Ape, the Idiot, and Other People," is a San Francisco newspaper man. The prompt demand for a second edition of his stories promises well for the repu tation of this new author. Bishop Potter. Just before he left for Europe, rend the final proofs of a vol ume entitled "The Scholar and the State," shortly to ! published. The book Is made up of essays discussing sociological and chic questions. Mr. Gladstone has finished reading the proofs of the first volume of his "I-ater Gleanings." He has carefuby revised the twelve collected papers that form the bulk of it. Ills post script on the Pope and Anglican or ders Is, of course, wholly fresh mate rial. F. Marlon Crawford's novelette, "A Rose of Yesterday," Is soon to le pub lished In liook form. A question of di vorce Is the motive of the laic, and those who rend It In serial form need not le told that It Is one of the most satisfactory things Mr. Crawford has written. The Athenaeum says that Pnul Lau rence Dunbar, the American negro poet, is shortly to give a recital of some of his poems in London under the patronage of Ambassador liny. His "Lyrics of the Ixiwly," with an Intro duction of HowcIIh, Ik being brought out by a Ixmdon publisher. We are shortly to have another snap shot volume of America by a foreigner who has "done" tis. It Is under the title. "The Land of the Dollar," and Its author Is G. W. Stcevens, who was sent to this country by the Imdou Morning Post to write up the last Presidential campaign. Mr. Steevens is said to Ik; a writer of good English, and his "novel picture of Chicago Is one of the most graphic descriptions of the place t tint we have had." The Kelmscott Press Is slowing down. Three presses were In use dur ing the lifetime of the founder, but since his death only two have been kept running, in order to complete the work he left unfinished, and as soon, as that work Is out of the way the Press is to Ik- abandoned. Ilegret Is, of course, being expressed on nil sides, but It seems wise to discontinue' the enterprise. Morris himself gave It three-fourths of Its reason for being. Halt and lis Properties. Used In washing the hair It will pre vent the hnlr from falling out. A ten p Km fill of salt in a lump will make kerosene odl give a brighter light. Added to a bucket of water it forma a remarkably effective fire extin guisher. A handful of rcx-k salt added to the bath la the next best thing to an ocean dip. Damp salt will remove the discolora tion and the like In dishes that have been carelessly washed. New caJlccM-s soaked in a strong so lution of anlt for an hour lx-fore waah lug will retain colors Urtter. As a dentriflce salt -nd water will not only cleanse, but wlUten the teeth, and will harden the gume. When broiling teak a pinch or two of salt thrown on the fire will quench the flame arising from the dripping flat A weak aolurhrti Is good for aore throat, to be used as a gargle, and this la still better If a few grains of red pepixsr are added. Ink stains may b- removed by ffo uae of moistened wilt. When it , come discolored remove it and use frtwh supply until no color remains. Dissolved In water and snuffed np the nostrils it ia of use In curing catarrh, but when c-hrontc Its use must be persisted In night and morning for several montlia. A little salt In raw or liolled starch will prevent the Irons from slicking, and make the starch whiter. If the Irons are rough lay some ?:ilt on a piece of brown paper, lay n piece of muslin over it, and rub the irona on It until they are bright and Hiuooth. A lig of salt, heated, and . pplled over a ialnftil spot Is often ver efficacious in allaying pnln, "specially those- of n colicky nature In the stom ach and bowels, stiys n writer in the Boston Traveler. A weak solution of salt In water Is a goiwl remedy for slight Indigestion, especially that char acterized by a sense of weight and op pression. Many Bald headed Ioc'tora. An Kngllsh statistician has recently iK-i-n engaged In an original tusk that of studying the Influence of music on I he hair. The Investluior estab lishes. In the first place1, that the pro portion of bald persons Is 11 per cent, for the lllK-rnl professions in general, with the exception of physicians, who ......... .i... .i i... apjn-Hr iu iiriu (in? rcvuru lor inuuij", which is 110 jmt cent. Musical ertn-- poser do not form any exception t y the rule, and Imldneas is as freqnsj among them tut In the other profes- If thre Is any one habit particularly ihlftless. It Is that of reading continued Itories. v.. 'I? 0