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TRUTH ' f H Lyric Theatre WEEK STARTING SUNDAY February 3 Anions The Prices, 10, 20, 30 Cts. ; Matinees, 10 Cts. I MATINEE Wed. and Saturday I : him good and plenty, but let the hope find expression that they arc not num f t erous although figuring in a numcr- ' " ous class. Among a host of those ! . owing obligations not in writing, and of those whose wants have received ' fitting attention at his haniU, without a soti marquis being paid back or cx ' ' pected, there may be a limited frac tion whose voice is for ctucifixion ! . ' and would be tickled half to death to ' know that a bolt had descended upon his devoted head; now, if the other t , - half could only be added, would it ' . be unchristianlike to call on the fates to go ahead with the performance? ' There is at present a very earnest and well defined desire on the part of Hon. C. M. Owen and some other f prominent citizens to have Hcbcr J. put through according to Hoyle be cause of his (Hcbcr's, not Hoylc's) alleged multifariousness and adhes iveness in the matter of conjugality, aggravated by his pauciey in the mat ter of inhabitivencss. Of course the laws must be obeyed; Justice must '0 not be made to weep until the band age on her eyes becomes as wet as one of our costly municipal highways. If we haven't got enough laws to cover the situation the factory where they are (supposed to be) turned out is in working order and expected 'to get a move on it almost any week now, so that the remedy may be said to be at hand. However, before hos tilities begin, let us consider what it is we want, how we arc to go to work, and what the harvest is likely to be. In this goodly age we are not 1 i0 supposed to punish people just for the sake of doing it, but for the sake I of imparting healthful restraint up on the more impetuous through the example afforded, and with the hope I that imprisonment or fine may be productive of contrition' and this lead i j to reformation. Now does any sane person suppose for a moment that if Apostle Grant were mulcted to the extent of thousands of dollars he would come any nearer being a good man like Col. Daughcrty or Mr. Owen? Or that if imprisoned for a term so long that it would satisfy even those gentlemen, he would not emerge from the incarceration if he ever did emerge just as much Grant as he is now? So, what's the good? As Nasby used to say. Suppose all do as some of the Union soldiers did with new prisoners when overstocked administer the oath of allegiance to him (if we can catch him) and let it go at that? S. A. KliNNER. BROWNSVILLE INCIDENT. The question of the rights or wrongs of the colored soldiers dis missed from the Twenty-fifth Infan try on account of the Brownsville af fray has been completely lost to sight in the tangle of politics that has grown up around it. Senator For akcr's resolution providing for a sim ple investigation into the facts had been before the Senate for a long time, affording endless opportunities for talk, as well as for embarrassing the President and obstructing leg islation against vested interests. Sen ator Lodge tried to flank Forakcr by offering an amendment that would have committed the Senate in ad vance to a recognition of the Presi dent's constitutional right to act as he did. He soon saw that this would not work, and then both Republican factions agreed upon a compromise resolution, which was called a "modi fication" of Forakcr's original reso lution, by which the investigation was to be explicitly limited to the facts in the case, entirely ignoring the con stitutional question. Everything seemed lovely on the Republican side when Senator Blackburn, the Demo cratic leader, threw a bomb in the form of an amendment providing that the investigation should be undertak en "without questioning or denying the legal right of the President to discharge without honor enlisted men from the Army of the United States." To vote for this would be to defeat the whole purpose of Senator For akcr and his anti-Administration al lies; to vote against it would put them in a little more open attitude of hostility, to the President than they wished to appear in at that stage of the proceedings. Mr. Aldrich tried to head off the Democrats by threatening an investi gation of the general treatment of colored troops in the South, which might be expected to open up the whole race question, including the possibility of reducing the represen tation of the Southern States in Con gress, but they declined to take alarm. The President was begged to avert a split in the party by telling his friends that he had no objection to their voting against the Blackburn amendment, but he was unmoved, and intimated that if there had to be a party split he wanted the bigger half on his side. A complete Republican smash-up was threatened, but at last the opposition capitulated, and Mr. Forakcr agreed to a further "modifi cation" of his amendment by which it was provided that the investigation into the facts of the Brownsville "af fray" should be "without questioning the legality or justice of any act of the President in relation thereto.'' All hands, even the Democrats, professed themselves satisfied with this. Col lier's Weekly. o JAMAICA'S FUTURE. We can assist Jamaica in her dis tress, without offending any of her rulers, by eating double our allowance of bananas, says Collier's. Her fer tility of soil is offset by our tariff. In bananas alone she finds a competitor in neither Florida nor California. Kingston's idle streets, welcoming with tropical languor jn later times the thin stream of tourist silver, knew in her bolder days the tread of hurry ing adventurers and the y.cst of quick profits argosicd home as tribute to the mother land. Her opulent plant ers were ruined by the abolition of forced labor and the rise of the beet sugar industry. Few people English born or of pure English blood re main. They have left the field to the blacks and the mulattocs. The British naval station has been withdrawn. The key to the Caribbean in bucca neer days has ceased to be even a strategic point in imncrial calcula tions. In vain have shipping accnts tried to make Kingston a winter re sort when the south of France is onlv a day's journey from London; in vain have royal commissions tried to es tablish cotton-raising and cxnloited exnert agricultural methods amid a population. African, easy going, and the relic of slavcrv. The treasure is land of a hundred years ago has be come to the British mind a waif of the distant sea, ever calling for he-lo. This latest disaster follows a long train of ill fortune, somewhat re lieved bv proximity to the United States. American capital has set ba nana plantations among the ruins of the cane mills. England perhaps no lonfer wants Tamaica. while the Unit ed States, with the Filininos beseech ing the "standpatters" for fair play, seeks no more foundlinirs for the na tional fold. Enclish the island must probably remain, but it is economical ly an apnanaec of the United States. Its, future prosperity rests mostly with the rowth of winter travel and of Ame--'i appetite for fruit. o NEGRESS RTTFR A HARVARD PROFESSOR. Not in recent years ha.-. Harvard been involved in a scandal so sensa tional as that which recently led to the resignation of Professor Phillio Marcou as nrofessor of modern lan truaecs, following the filing of a breech of promise suit apainst him bv Annie Mnnley. a negress of un mixed African "descent. Marcou w.'is highly popular with both faculty hild students and the explosion of a bomb H upon the Harvard campus cuuld hard- H ly have caused more consternation. H The charges against him read like a B Jcykill and Hyde romance, and many H people believe that the elderly pro- H lessor is the victim of a conspiracy. H Professor Marcou indignantly denies H that he has ever been intimate with 1 the ncgrcss or has promised to marry 1 her and will fight the case in the H The Mauley woman is about 35 m years of age and is as black as the Htt proverbial ace of spades. For years A she has resided in the South end, KH where she owns a handsome and lav- HH ishly furnished house at 28 Holyokc H street. Among her neighbors she is H reputed to be wealthy, and merchants H in the vicinity declare that until re- H cently she always seemed CO be well H supplied with money. It is declared H that for the last ten years she has had H a frequent visitor in the person of an H elderly white man, who called once H or twice every week and at times ap- H parcntly passes the night at the home H of the ucgrcss. Shortly before the H ncgrcss filed a breach of promise suit H against Professor Marcou it is said H that the white man ceased his visits H and Miss Mauley's source of income H was suddenly cut off. It is understood H that if Professor Marcou is successful H in defending the suit he will resume H his former position at Harvard. H TONSILLITIS. H The tonsils arc two collections of H gland-like structures at the back part H of the mouth, one on each side, be- H twecn the pillars of the palate. It is H not known what purpose they serve. H Some have supposed that they arrest H .the germs of disease which may be H inhaled or taken in with the food; H hut they evidently can catch very few M nf the germs which rapidly pass them H in the food or water, or in the air M which is inhaled; and it is well they M cannot, for they arc themselves' very H susceptible to disease, as some suf- H fercrs know to their sorrow. Others H have thought they serve an evil pur- M pose, acting as portals of entry for H many disease-germs into the body. H , The tonsils arc very liable to be- M come inflamed. This condition con- M stitutcs tonsillitis, or, when an abs- H cess forms, quinsy. Young persons, H over fifteen and under thirty, arc most M subject to inflammation of the tonsils. although children and even those well M along in life may suffer. It occurs H with special frequency in those whose H tonsils arc enlarged, and usually in H persons who arc "run down" in gen- H cral hcaclth, or in whom the power of H resistance has been lowered as a re- H suit of worry or overexertion. H There arc various kinds of tonsil- H litis, but the symptoms of all are H quite similar in the beginning. The H patient feels ill, has chilly sensations, H loss of appectite, more or less head- H ache, perhaps, constipation, feverish- H ncss, and a feeling of discomfort or H actual pain in the throat. Soon the H fever becomes high, the throat is dry. H swallowing is painful, there is often H more or less earache, and the patient H seems to be seriously ill. H Suppuration may or may not occur, H The pain and throbbing arc most sc- H vcrc when it docs. H The attack lasts usually from two H or three days to a week, and is apt to B terminate quite suddenly, although B if but one tonsil has been affected, re- HJ covery may be delayed by an exten HJ sionof the inflammation to the other BJ tonsil. In that case the whole tire- HJ some process must be gone through IJ with again. HJ The disease is almost serious en- HJ ough to require the physician's care. M for the treatment calls for internal M remedies as well as local applications. M Whatever else is done, the bowels H should be kept open from, the begin- H ning of the attacki Youth's Com- H panioni M