WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Itogulnr Correspondent.
Washington, Mar. 12, 1804
Democrats, even those who are per
sonally opposed to sonic of the chang
es made, are glad that the Senate Fi
nance committee has at last got the
tariff bill in a shape to make its pass
age by the Senate certain. It is really
surprising, in view of the radical
change made by taking sugar, iron ore,
coal and lead ore from the free list
and putting a duty upon them, that
the democrats of the House arc not
louder in their objections. Hut they
regard the matter from a common
sense point of view, knowing that the
Senate Finance committee yielded
nothing that it was not absolutely
necessary to yield in order to get the
votes necessary to pass the bill, and
also that they will have anotherchancc
at the changes when the bill goes to
conference after its passage by the
Senate.
The republicans of, the Finance
committee would like to waste a month
or so by keeping the tariff bill in com
mittee, but the democrats will not al
low any such time. If they will agree
to have the bill reported in a week the
democrats will allow them that much
time ; if not the bill will be reported
sooner without their consent.
Secretary Herbert's answer to the
House resolution asking by what auth
ority he ordered Admiral Skerrett to
obey Mr. Blount when he went to
Hawaii as Special Commissioner, was,
in short, that it came from the Com
mander in-Chief of the Army and
Navy the President of the United
States j and he cited seven precedents
for the action, dating from i8at to
18S1.
Senator Blanchard assumed his du
ties to day and Justice White, his pre
decessor, was sworn in as a member
of the Supreme Court. If Mr. B'anch
ard makes as good a reputation in the
Senate as he leaves behind him in the
Housj the people of Louisiana will
doubtless rati.y the selection of the
governor by keeping him there.
Representative Kilgore, of Texas,
was not altogether wrong, although
rather tcogeneial, wren he siid in tie
course of the debate on the District
of Columbia appropriation bill, con
cerning the newspapers of Washing
ton : "The newspapers of Washing
ton have never failed to advocate any
scheme, I don't care how infamous it
was, that looked to the expenditure ot
the public money in the interest of
speculators in and around the city.
never knew of an instance in which
they did not advocate such schemes."
In leply to a protest from Represen
talive Blair of M. II , Mr. Kilgore con
tinued : "Well, I make the distinct
charge that the newspapers are cor
rupt and that they advocate every cor
rupt scheme that has been introduced
into Congress to plunder the Treasury
in the interest of private interests."
Democrats in Congress are in thor
ough sympathy with the Departmen
tal Congressional Commission which
has been engaged for many months in
looking into the business methods of
the Government Departments, with 1
view to recommending changes look
ing to a reduction of unnecessary red
tape and of unnecessary officials.
Every recommendation of the Com
mission has been prompt'y acted upon
by Congress, the last one for abolish
ing the Bureau of Customs of the
Treasury Department having been
passed ty the House without an hour's
discussion. Slowly but surely the
leaven of reform is working. The re
sults of thirty years of extravagance
and favoritism cannot be overthrown
in a day, or a year, but they will be
overthrown in the end. This the
democrats are determined upon.
Senator McPherson has this to say
about the charge that the sugar clause
of the revised tariff bill gives the sugar
trust an undue advantage ; "As I
drew the sugar schedule, I ought to
know what it means, and I certainly
know what it was intended to mean.
The entiie discriminating duty, accor
ding to my calculations, that refined
sugar is accorded by the bill is six
teen hundredths of one cent. Now,
' when you take into account the boun
ty paid by Germany for its exported
sugar, and the fact that German sugar
is shipped in bags which are not dutia
ble, and which can be used over and
overagain.it will be seen that the
American refiner is given no advan
tage over his German competitors.
In truth, the German exporter has one
hundredth of a cent per pound advan
tage over the American icfiner after
he has paid our import duty. Now,
if any one disputes these figures of
mine, and can show me wnere me
American refiner receives any greater
protection than I have stated, I will
see that the bill is changed."
The Senate will vote upon the bill
for the coinage of the seigniorage next
Thursday. It will certainly pass. Pub
lic opinion is divided as to whether it
will be vetoed, the majority inclining
to the belief that it will be.
"March to search" is the old adage.
It searches out any weakness of the
system, resulting from impure blood.
Those who use Ayet's Sarsaparilla find
March no more searching or even disa
greeable than any other month. This
medicine is a wonderful invigorator.
Children Cryfor
Pitcher's Castorla.
The Old New York Debtors' Prison.
When , the war was ended the Pro
vost reverted to more legitimate uses
again, but under regulations which
sent al the common criminals to the
Bridewell, an I made tlu New Jail
merely a place of genteel detention for j
prisoners for debt ; those thriftless (or, I
possibly, over-thrifty) persons who
were for dancing through the world at
the charges of anybody whom they
could induce to pay their piper, anil
whose simple concept of economical
finance was never to pay a piper, or
anybody else, for themselves. That
this class were represented over liber
ally in the New York of a hundred
years ago might be inferred from the
fact that between January d and De
cember 3d of the year 1788 no less
than 1162 debtors were sent to j nson;
in otner words me population then
being about 25,000 one citizen in
every twenty, or thereabouts, went to
jail for debt. Fortunately for the rep
utation of the New Yorkers of this last
century, however, these figures
which I find in a petition addressed
by the Association for the Relief of
Distressed Debtors to the General
Assembly are misleading when taken
without their qualifying context. The
purport of the petition was to exhibit
the injury done to the community by
"the confinement of debtors for small
sums," and its major premise was the
lact that ot the 116a commitments
specified no less than 716 were "for
sums recoverable before a justice of
the peace, and many of these under
twenty shillings" Very reasonably,
therefore, the memorialists urge that
the confinement of debtors for such
slight cause inures greatly to the injury
of the community : "as thereby the
certain proht which would arise to
society from the labour of the debtor
is sacrificed, for an indefinite time, to
the precarious prospect of recovering
a cieDt which the creditor, in most in
stances, has improvidently suffered to
be contracted, and which very often
does not amount to one-fourth of the
value the public would derive from the
labour of the debtor during, trie time
of his confinement" all of which, save
the delightful and also astute saddling
of the responsibility for the debt upon
the "improvident" creditor, is very
much what Solon had to say upon the
same subject rather more than two
thousand years earlier in the history of
the world. Harper's Weekly.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo)
Lucas County, )'
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm of
F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business
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FRANK. J. CHENEY.
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seal Notary 1'ublio.
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they cive a much brighter light
than those ok cotton.
A lamp wick has been invented
which is made entirely of clay, and
claimed to give 25 per cent, more
light than the cotton wick, says the
House Furnishing Review. It is made
capillary by incorporating with the
clay, while in a plastic state, filaments
of unspun vegetable fiber which are
burned out in the process of baking.
The object is to provide an indestruct
ible wick, which shall possess all the
advantageous qualities of an ordinary
cotton or fiber wick and which shall,
in addition, last an indefinite time
without renewal or necessity of trim
ming or care. When the clay is baked
the vegetable fiber is burned out leav
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the oil from the lamp will be raised to
the flame by capillary attraction. Ow
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character, devoid of odor and smoke
less. It is found, through a practical
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of this wick and the vapor is consum
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A lot of new notes of the sharpest
kind have just been printed and are
for sale at this office. Also common
receipts, estate receipts, and collec
tors' receipts, neatly bound in books
of 25, 50 and 100. tf.
Children Cryfor
Pitcher's Castorla.
Tho Senate Tariff Bill.
The Democratic majority in the
Senate is such a narrow one. ai d it
contains so many weak kneed gintle
men, that horn the beginning ol the
tariff discussion the chief r. ticern of
the friends of revenue reform hris been
to discover how much the fair expecta
tion of the party would have to be
modified in order to secure a full vote.
In the effort to steer a safe course be
tween what ought to be done and
what can be done in the way of tariff
revision the Wilson bill a9 amended
and presented to the full Senate Fi
nance Committee was yesterday given
to the public and its salient features
are printed in the llecord this morning.
In one important particular the
amendments to the bill have improved
it. The tax laid upon sunar will brine
a sufficient addition to the revenue to
make the income of the Government
sufficient for all purposes of fixed or
probable expenditure. Th? imposi
tion of the sugar tax paves the way for
dropping the income tax feature which
is still a part of the bill.
The amendments which take iron
ore and coal from the free list and im
pose a duty of 40 cents a ton upon
both are of small consequence as pro
ducers of revenue and are a vicious
and mischievous departure from the
lines on which the battle of 1892 was
fought and won.
On the whole, however, the work of
the Senate Committee is better than
was expected. Less mischief was
hatched in a month of incubation than
long opportunity and importunity
usually bring forth. There is a well
founded belief that the bill practically
in its present shape will be passed af
ter due discussion and that in the final
arrangement of differences between
the two Houses a bill more acceptable
than either the original Wilson bill or
the Senate substitute may be adopted.
The delay of action in the Senate
Committee, when action was so impera
tively necessary to put an end to btisi
nesi derangement, has so irritated the
country that there is now less care for
details than for movement. The ap
plication to the Tariff bill of a little of
ihe celerity of movement that has been
effected in handling the Bland Seig
niorage bill would do wonders in re
storing confidence in Democratic ad
ministrative capacity and in improving
the hesitanc and discouraging features
of the industrial situation. Record.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla is just what you
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A New View of t!io Handy Man.
HE IS A HELP RATHER THAN A HIN
DERANCE TO" THE MECHANIC.
The ' handy man" is a, godsend to
the plumber, the carpenter the build
er, the paper-hanger and several others.
With a view to saving expenses he
buys a tool chest and proceeds to tink
er with everything that is out of shape.
When a door hangs badly he takes it
off the hinges and tries to plane or saw
a piece off the bottom. He is certain
to spoil the wood work and very
frequently breaks the hinges in putting
them back. It is not at all an easy
thing for one man to hang a door any
how, and it i: practically impossible
for an amateur to do it at all. When
the handy man finds some of his wall
paper knocked off he hunts up one of
the fragments that were left and pastes
it over, producing a result so hideous
that his wife generally sends for a paper
hanger and has the whole room done
over again. The same man commences
to build a shed or back fence, and find
ing that he has got everything out of
plumb and that the corners won't come
right he sends for a carpenter and has
to pay him for tearing everything down
besides doing the work. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Breath of a chronic catarrh
patient is often so offensive that he
becomes an object of disgust. After a
time ulceration sets in, the spongy
bones are attacked, and frequently
destroyed. A constant source of dis
comfort is the dripping o;' the purul
ent secretions into the throat, some
times producing inveterate bronchitis,
which is usually the exciting cause of
pulmonary disease The brilliant results
by its use for years past properly des
ignate Ely's Cream Balm as by far the
best and only cure. Call upon your
druggist for it.
The Gorman3 as Wood Engravers.
The Germans are the best wood en
gravers. Not that they have any
special skill or dexterity that cannot
be acquired by a man of any other
nationality, but they have an infinite
amount of patience, and in wood en
graving patience is demanded quite
as much as dexterity. It is no small
matter to sit down before a block of
wood knowing that weeks must pass
before you can finish a picture begun
on it, but the Germans have this pa
tience, and this is one reason of their
success. St. Louis Globe Demo
crat. Knox County, III., is probably the
divorce centre of the United States.
In the last five years the number of
divorces have averaged one to every
seven marriages.
Children Cryfor
Pitcher's Castorla.
economical Spring Gowns for Ladies.
A somewhat rapid glance over the
coming f.ishions shows that they are
practically the same as last year's.
This fact, however, will prove a bless
ing in disguise, a it will enabie many
to exercise a well timed economy and
take advantage of this lameness of
style for icmodelling old dresses.
Every part of a gown can thus be
made over, and especially the over-
skirt which will be so largely worn.
By using an old skirt as an overdress
above a sham skirt ol a different
material, the transformation will be
at once both complete and effective.
If the lower part of an old dress be
worn or soiled, it may easily be re
moved, as the drapery in some styles
is drawn up as far as the knee on the
side, and half way between the foot
and the knee in front. As a matter of
course the draperies are varied in
form and sometimes quite com
plicated. The McDowell Fashion
Journals contain all the novelties of
the season, and moreover, in order to
furnish further assistance to their read
ers, they offer a supplement of patterns
of the latest styles. These may be
secured by means of coupons at an
exceedingly moderate price. "La
Mode de Paris" and "Paris Album
of Fashion" cost only $3 50 a year or
35 cents each per copy. "The French
Dressmaker " is $3-ooper annum or
30 cents a copy. "La Mode," which
is the best family fashion magazine in
existence is offered at the exceedingly
low price of $1.50 a year or 15 cents
a copy. It you are unable to procure
any of these publications from your
newsdealer do not take any substitute
from him but apply by mail to Messrs.
A. McDowell & Co., 4 West 14th.
Street, New York.
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So certain is this, that an offer is made
to refund the money paid for it when
a failure can be found under the con
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New Use For The Telephone.
From llariier's Young reoiile.
Here's a story of the telephone as
it is used, or abused, in Russia. The
use of the instrument to intimidate
prisoner is the invention of a police
inspector at Odessa. A man was one
day brought into the police station,
charged with having committed a
serious robbery. The inspector had
some difficulty in proving the case, and
had recourse to an ingenious stratagem.
He went to the telephone in an adjoid
ing room, and asked the clerk at the.
central office to speak into the instru
ment the following words, in a solemn
tone, " Istno Smelianski, you must con
fess the robbery; if you don't you are
to be sentenced, and your punish
ment will be all the more severe."
He then sent for the prisoner and
questioned him again, threatening to
appeal to the "machine" to get at the
truth. The thief burst into a laugh, but
the inspector held the telephone to his
ear and gave the preconcerted signi-.l.
The result was as expected. The rogue,
terrified by the warning uttered by the
uncanny J'machine," at once made a
clean breast of it.
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A number of athletic young ladies
of Portland, Me., have formed a
walking club. Its members devote
two afternoons a week to pedestrian
ism. Ira Krum, of Snyder Hollow, in
the Catskill Mountains, died a few
days since, the result of fasting to
make himself light enough to walk on
water.
Now She is Wtll.
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she is well and has a good appetite.
My boy was troubled with headaches
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taken Hood's Vegetable Pills, which
we think are the best."
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The story is told on Dean Stanley
that he wrote such illegible copy that
the printers charged half a crown a
sheet extra for setting it up.
A copy of the original edition of
Izaak Walton's "Angler," printed in
1653, was recently sold for nearly
$1,500 by a Cleveland book firm.
A MOUNTAIN RIDE.
frcullar Trait of the Moonnlilnori of
U'or(tl and TmiiwuMi
"It was (i good many years ago,"
Wild tin; Judge. "I Wild lu Ten Hansen
then, practicing law. I had a ease In
which 1 wanted very badly n moun
taineer. I wrote to lii 111, but he would
not come. Finally lie sent word that
I might come up and see him. I to
specified particularly tbo day 1 was to
arrive and the exact time I was to
begin the nseiut of tho mountains. On
the afternoon named my horse was
tugging bravely up the rough road
along the. mountain side, when n hoy
not over seventeen year old slouched
down into the road. A ride was slung
over his shoulder in such a way that
It could be swung Into Instant use. lie
made no utteinpt to get out of my
way. mid I was obliged to pull up my
horse.
"'Are you Judge N.?' he drawled.
" Tin the man,' I said.
"'All right, 111 go along with you,'
he replied.
" "I'hnnk you,' I answered, 'but who
are you?'
" 'I'm Bill Johnson's boy.'
" "Did he send you down to meet me?
" 'Yes.'
" 'Why?'
" '80 you'd get there alive,' ho said
sentcntlously. 'You're a stranger.'
" 'Won't you get In'' I asked.
" 'No,' he said dryly, 'I'll walk. It'a
safer for you.'
"A mile or so further on another D an
about twenty-one dropped suddenly In
to the road. He, too, had a rifle slung
on his shoulder.
"Hello, Jim,' he said, 'Is this tho
Judge?"
" 'Yes,' said Jim.
" 'AH right,' said the other, and he
swung nloug on the other side of my
wagon.
" 'Who Is that?' I asked Jim when I
got 11 clianee.
"'My brother,' said Jim; 'you're a
stranger, you know; he's come to help
take cure of you.
"Soon nnother young man appeared
In the same mysterious way and joined
my bodyguard. He was another ot
Bill Johnson's boys.
"At 11 later turn In the road an old
man. stoop shouldered, gray haired,
wrinkled and bent, but keen eyed and
alert, stepped silently before us. He,
like the rest, was armed.
" 'Is this the Judge?' he asked his
boys.
"It was the Judge, and ho climbed
Into my wagon. Protected in this way,
I drove to his home. My business lln
lshed, I drove back In the same way,
my guard melting away, until I finally
snld good -by to tho youngest boy.
Strangers in the moonshine regions of
Tennessee go tli.'vt way, or they go lu
a roflin."
"Strangely enough," said tho railroad
man, "I, too, have 11 story to tell about
moonshiners and strangers. I was
building a railroad down In Georgia In
my younger days. I am a Georgian,
you know. (Mice following our sur
veys I saw a chance to ride across the
mountains, and thence to my home to
visit my father. It was early in the
afternoon when I started on my long
ride. The moon was shining high. In
the heavens when I began to climb. I
was Jogging peacefully up the Incline,
when from 11 shadow a horse and rider
came out from the side of the road and
fell In at my side.
"'Good-evening, stranger,' said tho
man politely.
" 'tiood-evenlng, sir, I said, glad of
even unknown company.
" 'Which way you going?' asked my
new companion,
" 'Over the mountains,' I answered.
" 'Heckon I'm going that way, too,'
he said, nud then I had an opportunity
to look at my friend's face. It was a
strange face. Smooth shaven, young
aud yet old. It was calm and placid,
as expressionless ns stone, and yet
there was u certain set about the Jaws
that kept ine uneasy. And no matter
how often I looked at him, how quick
ly I turned my glance on his face, his
deepest eyes were always watching me.
I felt, even when I did not look at him,
that he was watching me like a eat.
We rode for hours, talking as one does
with that class of people, until at near
ly daylight we had crossed tho moun
tains nud were making our way along
a comparatively level road. When we
came to a river, which we had to ford,
my friend reined up.
" 'This is as far a-I go,' ho said.
" "I'm sorry to lose you,' I replied
civilly.
" 'Stranger,' he said, when my horse's
forelegs were In tho river, 'where are
you from?'
"'Georgia,' I answered; 'this is my
State.'
" 'Who's boy are you?'
"'Judge S.'s.'
" "Is that so?' he said In a calm voice.
'Why, do you know what I took you
for? Heveuue! Yes, sir, and I eaino
near shooting you, sir. Half a dozen
times on that ride I made up my mind
you were revenue, sir, and each time
I was just ready to do It. But I hated
to do it, sir, you looked so square. I'm
glad I didn't.'
" 'So am I,' I answered, with a false,
Jerky laugh, for that emotionless man
gave 1110 the chills, aud I sent my horse
across the ford.
" 'Good-by, I cried from the other
Bide.
" 'Good-by, sir,' he replied. Then his
horse carried him off in the gray light,
and I felt a sudden sense of relief."
Exchange.
A Guy Lotlimlo.
Johnnie Masher I have only known
you for half an hour and yet I love
you more than words can tell. There
Is nothing I wouldn't do to gain your
love.
"Yes; but how do you know that I
am not a married woman?" asked tho
lady.
"Is that so? Then perhaps you have
an unmarried sister to whom you might
utroduce me." Texas Slftlngs.
One on the Gun Man.
The gas mau called on the dentist to
have a tooth extracted.
"Do you want to take gas?" asked
tho D. I. S.
"How much will It require?"
"Oh, don't worry abor that; I'm not
going to measure with the meter you
use on me." Detroit Free I'ress.
llld Slio Say Xo?
Wings She Is tho most uninteresting
girl 1 have ever met, eveu though sho
Is rich. She can't say anything but
"yes" and "no."
Stings Which did she say to you?
Truth.
FORCE OF CHARACTER.
Tlint Wm What the Man With the Ja
Nhoweil to the (inductor.
A tall, thin man, with n faded brown
overcoat, nn ornate Jag 0111I 11 tattooed
star on his left hand, got on n 1 o'clock
car 011 Sunday morning, says the Buf
falo Express. Ho wavered around In
the nlsle until somebody made room
for him, and thereafter ho spent most
of his time In stroking his pointed chin
mid smiling nlTably nt tho other passen
gers. The conductor came along and held
out his hand. The man with the Jag
fumbled around lu bis vest pocket and
produced a dime. The conductor gave
him 11 Canadian five-cent silver piece
for change. Tho man with the Jag
held It between a thumb mid linger and
eved It suspiciously. "Here," he said,
thickly, "I don't wan' thosh."
"Neither do I," said the conductor,
unit with this he passed along.
The man with the Jag stroked his
chin a couple of times and beamed
around tho ear.
"WaJt'U he go's back," he said; "I'll
flx'lni."
The conductor come back. The man
with the Jag stopped him and held out
tlM objectionable coin. "Here," he said
again, "I don't wan' thash."
"What's the matter with it?" Inquired
the conductor.
"I don't wan' thash," repeated the
man with the Jag, doggedly.
Tho conductor took the coin and
counted out five pennies to tho man.
"How will that tlx you out?" he In
quired. The man with a Jag stroked his chin
ngaiu nnd continued his smiling. He
fairly beamed on everybody. Then ha
said loudly: "Thafih way t' fix it.
Thash only way. Forsh charact'r. I
jush say suing an' stlcksh t' it, and' It
comsh my way. 'F Aheresh more mm
like me in thish country wouldn' be so
much monkey blshnesh. Forsh char
act'r, thash wha' vltorish."
And, with his five pennies clasped
tightly lu his hand, he went contentedly
to sleep.
Kut her Kmbarasing.
i
l.lH!tC:,iv..'.S.v.
Rosalind Well, Edgar, what did you
wish to say to me?
Edgar Oh. I wished to tell you that
Miss De Sniythe Is engaged to be mar
ried. Itosalind (coloring) What! that insipid-looking,
doll-faced creature en
gaged! For mercy's sake, who is going
to marry her?
Edgar Well er that Is I am.
The Killing l'axulon.
Ho loved the winsome lass with a
love none tho less ardent because she
was a clerk lu a dry-goods store, and
he had met her them behind the coun
ter when he had come in to make pur
chases. -
But she was no ordinary girl, and ho
knew Hint if he won her as his own It
would bo no easy conquest.
For weeks aud weeks he had been to
see her, nhd for weeks ho had hesitated
on the brink of a proposal, which in
volved all his happiness.
Yet. the girl did not seem to realize
how near she was to him, nor that any
moment might precipitate tho final
question.
However, these things cannot con
tinue Jorevcr, and one Sunday after
noon as they were walking his voice
became low and tremulous, and she
looked up shyly Into his face.
"Christine," ho whispered, "may 1
ask you a question?"
"Certainly, George," she assented
frankly. "What Is it?"
"Will you be my wife?"
She turned as if a shelf were behind
her.
"I'm very soiry," sho said softly. "Is
there anything else to-day ?" Detroit
Free I'ress.
Highland Fishing Inns.
Misfortune, aud Highland Inns, bring
ft man acquainted with strange bed
fellows and other melancholy matters,
Bays the London Saturday Hevlew.
The Highland inn is of all sorts and
many sizes, perhaps the bigger the
worse, or the smaller tho better. There
are huge caravansaries, wherein you
seem to be In a dingier anil less exhil
arating Switzerland. They are plant
ed beside railways, as near lochs ns
possible, and contain some hundreds
of guests, from Glasgow maluly, if we
may Judge by aeeeut. Tho bigger the
hotel the worse the sport, as a general
rule. The talk Is chiefly of trout: "Ser
les mocurs do la tnilte on n'est pas
flxe," says a French authority. If
there is 110 certainty on the matter It
Is not for want of discussion. Tho
great problem of the Highland hotel
Is, "Why don't they take?" for they
uever do take; "that you may lay to."
Either there has been uo rain, or "they
are cxpeetin' malr rain," or there Is no
breeze, or there Is a mighty rushing
wind. A spirit of discontent broods
over the angling Inmates of the High
land hotel; their lives are full of seri
ousness because they cannot catch Usli
enough, or, for that matter, lish at all.
Fnrca of Habit. j
At the hotel counter.
Clerk (stepping to the speaking tuba
as it whistles) Well, what Is It?
The agonizing tones of Uncle Joshua
(room E, front) -Send me up a bellows.
I've blown ou this 'ere 'leetrle light till
I'm winded, an' It's burnlu' yet. Chi
cago Kecord.
An Infant Phenomenon.
Fond Mother Big? Do you think
so? Why, we think he is rather small
for his age. Talk? Oh, yes, he talks;
but he hasu't said anything remark
able yet. v
Visitors (together) What a wonder
ful child, Judge.
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