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THK czars of Russia have been the
favorite game of the assassin. The
nobles attacked Czar Haul in isoi.
.Alexander JI. was attacked four times
before lie was finally killeil in lssi by
a bomb thrown by a man, who was
himself killed, in St. Petersburg.
TIIK department of agriculture re
ports that the increased value of the
corn and oat crops on American farm*
1 his year will aggregate $8»,000.000.
This will make up for the decreased
value of the wheat crop and will start
the farmer off in better condition in
the race of life in 1899 than he did in
1698.
TIIK Austrian minister of agriculture
has sanctioned an appropriation for
establishing, at a cost of 3.000 florins
each. 33 stations at which tlic army is
to supply guns and ammunition for
driving away hail clouds. It is con
sidered proved that the concussion and
the clouds of smoke rising into the air
affect the atmospheric state of humid
ity.
IN the treasure room of the Mahara
ja 1 of ISarnda is said to repose a carpet
which cost close upon $1,000,000. It is
oti'y 10 feet bv six feet in size, but is
woven from strings of pure pearls, with
center and corner circles of diamonds.
It required three years to manufacture
this jewel of a carpet, which was in
tended as a gift to a beautiful Moham
medan belle.
IT is perhaps not generally known
that the German emperor has a paper
published and Printed exclusively for
himself and for the empress. It is the
Imperial Gazette, of Merlin, contain
ing a clear and concise daily summary
of Ihe world's news. The edition of
this paper consists of two copies,
doubtless the smallest edition of any
paper published.
THK salt mines of Wielieska, near
Cracow, Poland, were mentioned in
lt>44, and have been worked since 1:240.
The first map of the mines was made
in 1088 by Martin German, a Swedish
mine surveyor. The eight shafts now
in existence are from :I(IT to 985 feet
deep, and the length of the levels now
open is 345,000 feet, with 115,500 feet
of underground train lines.
A ( T mors visitation recently was
noted in the township of Hove, near
Urighton. Eng.. in the shape of a
plague of caterpillars. Having con
sumed a field of broo coli they have
made tracks across the road toward
the houses, exteriors of which have
simply swarmed with them. Fourteen
caterpillars were counted on a single
window pane by an observer.
TIIK ofdest house in America is in
{■'it. Augustine, I'la. In 15(14 it was
built by the monks of the Order of St.
l rancis, and the whole of the solid
structure is composed of coquina, a
combination of sea shells and mortar,
which is almost indestructible. When
Francis Drake sacked and burned the
qown this was the only house left in
the trail of destruction. It has been
purchased by the well-known anti
quarian. .1. W. Henderson, who will
make it his winter rc-idenee.
TIIKUK lias always been much contro
versy as to who was the youngest
actual participant in the civil war.
This honor in the Spanish war appears
to be due to "Bo its," the 13-year-old
mascot of the 10th Pennsylvania, who
accompanied the regiment to the Phil
ippines. In the trenches before Mi
late "Hoots" did good service carrying
water and ammunition. When he
wanted passage from Manila to Hong
Kong he boarded Adin. Dewey's flag
ship and explained his wish aud Ike
admiral accommodated him.
CONSUL FLEMING, of Edinburgh. Scot
land. reports an interview with a busi
ness man of Edinburgh, who says that
the American harnessmakers, house
furnishing and fitting manufacturers
and office desk manufacturers are neg
lecting a field in Scotland that could
be rendered fertile by proper cultiva
tion. The standard of utility, conven
ience and adaptability of the American
made poods is so much higher than all
competing goods that sales would be
large and profitable, if properly
sought.
WHEN an earthquake occurs the en
tire crust or surface of the earth expe
riences some effects of the disturbance.
An earthquake in Calcutta which was
accurately recorded gave a basis for de
termining the speed of transmission of
the wave of disturbance due to the
shock. The disturbance was registered
at the Edinburgh observatory, thou
sands of miles distant, and gave a speed
of transmission of six and two-tenths
miles per second for the heavier shocks
and less than two miles per second for
the lighter ones.
THE TRADE OUTLOOK.
9ouu<! Money and (iooil Crops llsif
ftJrouuhl un Kra of liri'at
l'rusprrll),
The enormous orders which railroads
hate placed for steal luiis are the
most significant illustrations of the
great revival in business in this coun
try since the election. The Irot; Age,
ihe standard authority in the trade,
says in its current issue that no less
than 7(H),000 tons have been taken thus
week, which means prosperity for the
mills next. year. This represents only a
part of the immense business that will
be done, for many roads have not yet
placed their orders, but are preparing
to do so. From excellent information
ut hand the Age concludes that the
production will reach 2,000.000 tons in
]£99. Three western railroads alone
have ordered 180.000 tons, one taking
75.000. Their orders for new cars are
on a similar scale, and altogether it
seems that the heavy purchasing which
the mills have been expecting from the
roads since the 1890 ehction has at last
begun.
The railroads are making ihe start in
the outlays which have been required
for a general revival of business. Soon
the other lines of trade and manufac
tures will follow. Confidence that was
first restored in our currency and
financial institutions is now returning
in every direction, liailroads did not
buy rails heavily, though they needed
them, until they could be assured that
the return of good times would not be
checked by the danger of further sil
ver legislation, and they could tell that
the rcsultsof t.woigood crops .had given
the country a basis upon which it could
depend for freights outside of grain.
The same thing has been true in prac
tically nearly every other great line
of trade. Money was plenty ar.d credit
good, but the wheels of progress were
clogged until the road was cleared far
ahead. East year there were fine crops,
high prices and a general winding up
of old debts, but people had not that
confidence in the future necessary to
buying operations which make not a
few lines of tra<k* but a whole country
busy and prosperous.
At last the swelling of the tide is
general, and it is so recognized in Eu
rope as well as in America. Every line
of business is becoming buoyant, with
few exception's. The demand for labor
is such that few men are unemployed
if they want work. Advertisements for
all sorts of help appear in the newspa
pers, to whose columns such announce
ments have long been strangers. Even
cotton manufacturing, so long de
pressed, is now rallying, and soon will
l>e prosperous. It will follow the up
heaval in iron and steel, of which the
strongest indication is g : \en in the im
mense railroad orders.
The country never was so rich, and
its currency system has not for 20
years been so free from danger of at
tack. The first result of abundant funds
and the assurance that no revolution
was to be attempted in the monetary
standard has been a wild rush to place
investments in bonds and fixed se
curities. What is coming now is the
withdrawal of money from bonds and
its employment in active trade. In
short, we are upon the eve of another
great era of development which will
discount that of 1880-1800. —Louisville
Courier-Journal (Dem.).
GREAT TIME COMING.
Siioli a Season of Prosperity «»
(lie World Sever Una
K novt n.
Never in the history of the American
people were their business affairs in
such promising condition as they are at
the present time. Wherever we look
the evidence of prosperity is found.
Our exports are phenomenally large
and there is every indication that they
will grow to even greater dimensions.
There was a time when we sold only
raw materials, but now our manufac
tured products are finding such favor in
the eyes of the world that our Eu
ropean rivals in trade have reason for
•darm. In a letter to the New York
World George Ilutledge Gibson, refer
ring to this aspect of the question, says:
"As a result, we have at our command
an enormous international trade bal
ance which we can convert into gold at
any time, but we have what is mure im
portant than that, a relief from the
gold drain to Europe, viiieh for several
years threatened gold payments in this
country. While free silver men were
agitating their policy gold was fleeing
, away and the very underpinning of our
j gold standard was being withdrawn,
j This process went on for some time in
j conjunction with a treasury situation
| which was weakened by monthly defi
cits. The whole economic drift has now
changed. We have so far this year im
ported $130,000,000 more gold than we
have exported, we have produced and
put into monetary circulation more
gold than any year within 30 years, and
we have at our beck and call millions of
European gold in the form of bills of
exchange carried by our bankers."
We continue to lie the granary of the
world; populism, it is believed, is dis
appearing) the silver question no longer
excites serious alarm, though it will
continue to be agitated; this country
w ill not engage in war again for many
; years. So everything is promising for
such a season of prosperity as the world
never iias known.—'Albany Journal.
tCTlic evidence increases that the
republican victories in November have
been followed by an unprecedented im
provement in business. If would not
have been thus if the silverifes had car
ried the northwestern states. —lndiai -
a polls Journal.
ttTTlut for the war t.he repub'ieait
revenue would have paid the expense:!
of the government this year and jriveu
a surplus of $15,000,000 up to November
1. This statement excludes the Pacific
i railroad payments.—St. Louis Globe
| Democrat.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER *2, 1898.
STANDS BY HIS PLEDGES.
President McKinley Will KffpKifrj
I'riinilnr Made nt ill*
Klretion,
President McKinley's message to the
people of the west, delivered by 11. 11.
Banna at the meeting of the New York
chamber of commerce a few days ago
is an emphatic reiteration of his mes
sage to congress last year. "What
word," said Mr. Ilanna on parting with
the president, "can 1 take back to the
people of the west, regarding the cur
rency?" The president replied:
"Tell them I stand firmly for monetary
legislation, and that I am determined that
every pledge the republican part;' made
along this line shall be kept."
\\ by is this message sent especially to
the west? Simply because, to the honor
of the west, it is here that the demand
for the fulfillment of the republican
pltdges of 1896 arc most insistent. The
president has been reading the returns
from the west. He interprets correctly
the magnificent majority in Ohio to
mean an indorsement alike of the per
formances and promises of his adminis
tration. So. too. of the rour.d plurality
of 00.000 in Illinois, 25.000 in Indiana.
1 S.OOO in Michigan, C 3.000 in lowa. 30.000
in Wisconsin, and sound money gains
everywhere west to the Golden Gate
that opens outward to our island em
pire.
The president makes iio new prom
ises. Nor does he give any intimation
of favoring any of the currency reform
lmnsures before the present congress.
He knows that no relief is possible in
that quarter. Hut from his message of
December 0, 1807, we know that Presi
dent McKinley is committed to mone
tary measures that shall —
"1. Place the currency and obligations of
the I'nited States on the gold basis by
statute.
"2. Impound redeemed greenbacks so that
they shall not be reissued except for gold,
thereby breaking the 'endless chain.'
"8. Grant to national banks the right to
Issue notes to the face value of the bonds
which they deposit for circulation and re
duce the tax on such circulation to one-half
of one per cent."
There need be no caucusing of repub
lican leaders during the coming session
to unite upon these propositions. There
are not differences of opinion to be
reconciled about them. There is no
novelty or intricacy of system involved
in them. They stand forth as the ob
vious and self-evident means to secure
the gold standard, break the "endless
chain" of repeated redemption and give
greater elasticity to our currency.
No preliminary conference of partj
leaders was necessary to the calling o
ihe extra session of 1807 for tariff re
form, and none is needed to adjust dif
ferences as to monetary reform before
the extra session. The divergence of
views as to national banking and cur
rency that cannot be brought together
in the discussion of the extra session
can be relegated to the regular session.
The people of the west send greeting
to Presidnt McKinley and beg to ex
press their confidence in his determina
tion tocall an extra session of the Fifty
sixth congress in March that the re
publican party at the first opportunity
may keep its pledges of 1896 and 1808
in regard to monetary legislation.—
Chicago Times-Herald.
DINGLEY BILL RECEIPTS.
Trcanury Show It In Vn
mtMtnkahly R Revenue
Haider.
So nicely is tfie Dingley tariff work
ing that the author, or the man whose
name it bears, has. no reason to hang
his head for shame, nor to feel hurt by
the jibes of mugwump and demo
cratic detractors. To make it clear,
note a few figures lately given out by
the treasury authorities'.
In tine tire»t four months of the cur
rent fiscal year, which began July 1,
■the customs receipts have been by
months as follow s:
July, 1898 $16,108,680
August 16,:M!),'«3
September 16,7E>!J,57)
October 15,055,23J
Total $63,734,137
Average per month 15,!)33,£i35
In these receipts are included tea,
which may be called a war tax, but it
is so easily ralined rul produces rev
enue, the burden of which is? justly and
lightly distributed, that it will in. ali
likelihood lie long continued.
It will be seen that the average for
these four months is but a trifle less
thaw $10,000,000 a month, an average
which, if it holds out, w ill produce front
custom's a Mini but a trifle short of
$200,000,000 per annum.
Now for a fair comparison. Under
the last straight fiscal year of the Wil
son tariff, ended June 30. 189fi, the re
ceipts' amounted to $1(10,021.751, and last
year, owing to anticipatory importa
tions to escape the new taxes, the re
ceipts were but $150,078,758.
All in all. republicans have no occa
sion to be ashamed of the work of their
hands. There may be crudities here
and there irnthe bill and slight changes
may be necessary, but taken as a whole
the bill will prove to be a revenue
raiser, with burdens justly and proper
ly dis>tributcd. —Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
PRESS OPINIONS.
ICCoin Harvey has coupled a lecture
to his colli cting tour and thus rendered
l.is coming more painful than ever.—
Washington Post.
C?'Santi < laus is in no dfinger of get-
I ting lost, this year. The advance agent
| of | ro.-perjty lias blazed the way very
i nininly.— Cleveland Leader.
fcTTlint bustm SE has taken a fresh
start since the election is a fact which
becomes more and more noticeable
deily.—X. V. Post (Gold Dem.).
t'-'Sonie silver papers are frank
enough to acknowledge that one more
good crop will bury forever the hopes
of those favoring t,he free coinage of
silver. lint they should not be ca«t
down. The country can stand it if
tfcev can. Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
A FRIGHTFUL CRASH.
X VVugr Tank ('olliipir* Wbllr Bclnj
IVMed «ml a IViimbrr of Pfrmni urc
Killed and \Y»tiiid*-d.
New York, Dec. 14. —The great steel
pas tank of the Consolidated Gas Co.
at Avenue A and Twentieth street,
the largest of its kind in the world,
collapsed at 5:30 Tuesday afternoon.
It went down with a roar like a great,
explosion, (iranite blocks and bricks
fell like a child's toy house of blocks,
and loosed from bondage 8,000,000
gallons of water, deluged the streets
and in a ten-feet tidal wave carried
death and destruction through
neighborhood. The dead so far re
covered are: Andrew YVendt, work
man: Pius Haum, engineer in adja
cent factory. The injured number 25,
of whom one or two may die.
The steel tank was 178 feet in diam
eter and 160 feet high. TJising out of
the ground to a height of SO feet was
a great circular wall of granite and
brick many feet in thickness. This
was filled with 8,000.000 gallons of
water. A gang of men was at work
filling tin- pit with water to make the
first "water test." The great tank
Reemed to withstand the test well.
The laborers were even beginning to
gather up their tools to knock off.
There were many people on the
streets and crowded street cars com
ing and going. Suddenly came an
awful crash. The men below had
scarcely time to fly from beneath the
falling walls ere they were picked up
by the mass of rolling water and
hurled hundreds of feet awa.v.
Tnto the basements, the first and
second floors of factories and tene
ments rushed the flood. Workmen
were shot out of the factory windows
and carried a block or more as if mere
straws. Women were washed out of
the flats from the first floors and al
most drowned. Mary O'Connell and
her little sister Catherine were seated
at the front window on the second
floor of No. Avenue \. P.efore
they could flee a rush of water struck
them both, smashing them through
the door and carrying them half a
block distant. P.oth were terribly
injured, the little one perhaps fatally.
Henry Fuldner was taken up bodily
aiwl carried almost to 21st street. His
son was also carried out of his office
by the water, but was caught in the
debris and but for the timely arrival
of some workmen with axes he would
have been drowned.
Andrew Wendt, one of the killed,
was near the base of the tank when it
collapsed. TTc was caught by the
rushing water and borne almost an
incredible distance. His mangled
body was found more than a block
away. W. J. Logan, of Green Point,
the contractor who was building the
tank, arrived on the scene a few min
utes after the collapse and was placed
under arrest.
W. H. Bradley, chief engineer of the
Consolidated fias Co.. and said to be
jointly responsible for the work with
Contractor Logan, was also arrested.
Hoth were charged with homicide and
bail was placed at SIO,OOO each.
FOUGHT IN THE STREET.
\ Bloody Affray Between S|>nnlard«
and < II l)nnn In Havana ■•"■ literal
I'ruri'imluli Attacked.
Havana, Dec. 14. —Tuesday morning,
when a funeral procession which was
escorting the hearse containing the
remains of .Jesus Sotolongo, who was
killed Sunday night, reached the cor
ner of Infanta and San Jose streets,
a violent affray took place between
members of the funeral party and
some employes of the military hospi
tal. The following were wounded:
Dr. Hetancourt, Cuban deputy for
Santiago; Rafael Portnondo, Cuban
deputy; the Cuban Vidal; Armamen
do Unas, Francisco Lucas Blanco, a
Spaniard; Ramon Garcia, a Spaniard,
three women and two children. Gar
cia, who was stabbed, may die and
Portuondo was badly hurt.
One version is that the hospital em
ployes and a number of Spanish pri
vates who were standing in the hos
pital portico refused to remove their
hats when requested to do so by per
sons in the procession. Thereupon
the Cubans, it is alleged, tried to
knock off the hats and a fight ensued.
The privates fired upon the proces
sion, the windows of the hearse being
broken and bullets striking the cof
fin. Knives and pistols were freely
used. The procession, which con
sisted of ISO carriages, continued to
the Cuban camp near Marianao. where
military honors were rendered.
ICCIIOCM of an Ocean Horror,
Chicago, Dec. 14.—Five suits in ad
miralty were begun Tuesday in the
I'nited States district court against
La Compagnie (ienerale Trans-Atlan
tiqtie, owner of the ill-fated Atlantic
liner La Bourgogne, which sank off
Sable Island July 4 last as the result
of a collision with the Cromartyshire
in which several hundred people lost
their lives. Damages to the amount of
$50,000 are asked in each case. The
suits are brought by the administra
tors of the estates of five persons who
lost their lives in this
Surci'KM AfrMiired.
Washington, Dec. 14. —The Lafay
ette monument commission, having in
charge the matter of the erection of a
monument of Lafayette in Paris in
1900, held a meeting here Tuesday.
The report of the treasurer showed
that $50,000 already had been raised
toward defraying the cost of the mon
ument, principally from dime dona
tions by children of the public
schools, which assures the success of
the enterprise.
fiarrla'M I'mii'inl.
Washington, Dec. 14.—The solemn
high mass of the Catholic church was
performed over the remains of Gen.
t'alixto Garcia at St. Patrick's church
Tuesday before the body of Ihe dis
tinguished Cuban leader was commit
ted to the vault in the -\a.ional ceme
tery at Arlington. The service was
notable for tlie distinguished gather
ing present. All the honors of \vai
that could lie meted out to a national
hero were bestowed by this govern
ment upon the old Cuoan. At the
ooudusion of the mass the body was
uunsfi rrcd to Arlington.
PEACE JUBILEE.
The Atlantic Celebration fiogins
on Time.
I'rrildcnt tliHlnlr) Hellion* a Soul
Stirring and Patriotic Addri-wn
in tin- l*r< »i ii< r ol tlie i,i'g-
Ihlaturr and (imrrie
or of (icorgia.
Atlanta. Ga., Dec. 15. President Me-
Kinley and his party arrived in Atlan
ta Wednesday morning over the South
ern railway.
(ien. Joe Wheeler was the first to
alight. A chorus of cheers greeted
the distinguished Alabarniau as he
made his way to a carriage. When the
president appeared a hearty cheer was
given him, breaking forth with re
newed vigor an instant later, when
Mrs. McKinley came out of the car.
The ladies of the peace jubilee com
mittee extended a greeting to the la
dies of the presidential party, after
which the president and those accom
panying him were escorted to the
Kimball house.
A few minutes before 1 o'clock the
president's party were assigned to car
riages arid, escorted by 50 mounted
police anil the members of Gov. Can
dler's staff, started for the Capitol.
Guns boomed the presidential salute
as the president ascended the steps of
the Capitol. At the entrance the pres
ident was met by a committee repre
senting Gov. Candler, the state senate
and the house and was conducted to
the governor's parlor. Here he was
received by Gov. Candler and the state
house officials, after which the gen
eral assembly in joint session received
the president and party and the gov
ernor.
The president as he entered the
house of representatives was given an
ovation. The joint session rose to its
feet and cheered the nation's chief
lustily. The well-filled galleries joined
in the welcome.
The speaker introduced the presi
dent to the audience. As the president
rose the audience applauded. During
his speech Mr. McKinley referred often
to his notes and constantly paused for
the cheers to stop. A scene of intense
enthusiasm followed when these words
fell from the lips of the president:
"Every soldier's grave made <luring
the unfortunate civil war is a tribute
to American valor. And while, when
those graves were made we differed
widely about the future of the govern
ment. those differences were long ago
settled by the arbitrament of arms —
and the time has now come, under the
providence of God, when in the spirit
of fraternity we should share with you
in the care of the graves of the Confed
erate soldiers."
A wild cheer went up from every
throat in the audience, a cheer that
echoed through the chamber until it
was taken up by the crowds outside.
Old men who fought for the south rose
from their seats and waved their hats.
Of all the many conciliatory speeches
which have been made since Grant
said : "Let there be peace," nothing
has more deeply stirred a southern au
dience than these words of President
McKinley.
No sooner had the president con
cluded than there were loud cries for
Wheeler and when that little man got
up. his head scarcely higher than the
speaker's desk, the audience once more
gave vent to wild enthusiasm. Gen.
Wheeler referred eulogistically to the
efforts of the president towards pre
serving peace as long as the country's
honor would permit such efforts, and
of his masterful policy after war was
inevitable.
Calls for Brig. Gen. Young brought
that officer to his feet with a short
speech regarding the condition of the
army camps in the south. He said that
no troops in the world were better fed
and better treated than the troops in
South Carolina anil Georgia.
Gen. Lawton was loudly cheered, but
refused to make a speech. He simply
thanked, on behalf of his men at San
tiago, the' legislature and people of
Georgia for their tribute to himself.
Secretary Alger refused to speak and
the legislature dissolved. The presi
dent held a private reception in the
senate and afterward a public recep
tion on the steps of the rotunda.
The prettiest feature of the day's
festivities occurred during the after
noon. It was a floral parade in which
prominent people of the city took part.
The parade proceeded through the
business portion of the South Side to
Peachtrce street. Passing out this
beautiful street, which was lined on
both sides with thousands of cheering
school children, all waving tiny tiags,
it was indeed an unique feature. The
president and his escort preceded the
parade to the. reviewing stand. As
each carriage passed the stand the
occupants saluted the president and
waved flags, to which the executive re
sponded.
Oinpid from tlie Ice floe.
Detroit, Mich., Dee. 15. —Nine incom
ing steamers succeeded in crawling
out of the Lake Erie ice floe yesterday.
All had been in the ice from three to
five days, but none were seriously
damaged. The outbound vessels have
not been so fortunate. It was reported
at noon from below Point Pelee, on the
Canadian shore, that the Detroit ferry
steamers Promise and Fortune were
oreaking the ice below the point ahead
of five steamers bound down. Some 15
other vessels are struggling with the
ice pack.
Demand *>0.000.000 KiiiiKoui.
Madrid. Dec. 15. —There is great irri
tation here at the continued refusal of
the Filipinos to release the Spanish
prisoners, who are said to exceed 10,-
000 in number. The insurgents are
now demanding that Spain pay as a
ransom for these prisoners the SWU.OOO.-
000 which she is to receive from the
United States.
Koliml Koiir .'lore t'orpwe*.
New York, Dec. 15. Four more
L/odics were found Wednesday in the
wreckage of tin: collapsed gas holdei
■it Twentieth street and Avenue A.
This brings the list of dead up to six.
CONVERSATION SIMPLIFIED.
It la Not Difficult to DHfrmln« Ik*
Subject When a Man Talk*
Like Tbia.
"It's a fraud!" exclaimed one of the men
who had stopped to read their papers in
the warm though unpretentious little place
which serves both as railway waiting-room
wd post office. "The whole business is *
downright swindle."
"Of course it is," answered his neighbor,
who was busily engaged in pronouncing un
der his breath all the words in an article
on successful fertilizing.
"It's an outrage on a confiding public, and
t backset to civilization."
"That's what it is," w?s the somewhat
jrudging response.
The indignant old gentleman became so
(xcited that he had togo out and walk up
ind down the platform. As his friend
glanced up from his paper to watch him
depart he caught the eye of a traveling man
who, pending train time, had nothing to do
but observe people.
"Excuse me tor asking questions about
things that are none of my affair," said the
traveling man, "but are you a mind read
er?"
"Not that I know of."
"You knew what your friend was talking
ibout without his telling you."
"Well, not precisely.'
"But you answered him as if you knew.'
"Yes. I wa'n't takin' any risk in that. I
tnowed he was makin' allusions to either a
'lection or a prize fight. An' whichever it
was, i||iem was my sentiments." —Washing-
ton Star.
A CHEEKY BLUFF.
Fhe Monumental Gall of a Nervy Man
Gains for Him Hla Diffi
cult End,
A local banker of a small lowa town was
suddenly to a larger town at consid
erable of a distance to intercept his eloping
daughter, who had been visiting there. In
order to get there that day he would have
to change cars at Des Moines and the train
that connected with the Des Moines train
left earlier in the day. Consulting his time
table, he learned that the train he would be
obliged to board reached Des Moines just
15 minutes after the .tram for B , hi*
destination, pulled out. Remembering an
old adage of his cashier: "He who works the
greatest bluff wins," he sent the following
message to the Des Moines train officials:
"Hold the 2:30 train until I arrive.
"G. G. BLANK."
Not knowing but that G. G. Blank was
in some way highly connected with the
road and fearing to incur his displeasure,
the "bluff" worked. When he stepped off
the train at Des Moines a man hurried to
ward him, and, lifting his hat respectfully,
inquired: "Are you Mr. Blank?"
"Yes."
"We received your message. The train
waiting."
And that is how G. G. Blank, who is not
known outside his little county, passed for
an official of a great and mighty corpora
tion and was able to reach his destination
just in time to give the paternal blessing to
his daughter and her newly made husband.
—Chicago Chronicle.
The Modern Idea.
A teacher in a local primary school in
an endeavor to inculcate a moral lesson in
the receptive minds of her little charges
asked them what they would do if they had
i great deal of money. With remarkable
unanimity the pupils replied that they
would donate it to pleasing others. They
didn't say so in chorus, but the answers ran
down the line in about this fashion:
"I'd buy a present for papa."
"I'd get something nice for mamma."
"I'd spend it for my baby brother."
"I'd buy a nice cloak for grandma."
And so it ran on until it reached little
Jirnmie l'eters, the last boy in the line.
"Well, Jimmie," queried the teacher,
"what would you do if you had lots of
money?"
"Burn it," said Jimmie. —Cleveland Plain
Dealer. __
Rnilroad Train* to Run Slower.
Railroad officials claifn that it is very ex
pensive to run their lightning express trains,
and are talking about reducing the speed. It
is likewise expensive to the health to rush
and struggle and compete in ou«iness affairs
as men do nowadays. The brain, the nerves,
the muscles, the whole system gives out. For
restoring strength after business worries,
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the proper
remedy. It is an ideal tonic for the tired, the
run down and the weak.
Too Ill|[ a Hlnk.
"Yes, I've made up my mind to have my
life insured."
"Any particular reason for it?"
"Going to be married next week."
"Let's see, you're one of these popular
fellows, aren't you?"
"Why, I fancy I'm pretty well known."
"Well, we can't insure you until after the
wedding is over."
"Why not?"
"Be«iuse there's no telling what your fool
friends will do to you before you get out of
town." —Cleveland Plain Dealer.
I< rom llally In the II lull Chair
to grandma in the rocker Grain-O is good for
the whole family. It is the long-desired sub
stitute for coffee. Never upsets the nerves
or injures the digestion. Made from pure
grains it is a food in itself. Has the taste
and appearance of the best coffee at .} the
price. It is a genuine and scientific article
and is come to stay. It makes for health
and strength. Ask your grocer for Grain-O.
Gracious OlTerlnjr.
Elderly Passenger—Here, miss, take Niis
seat.
Stout Young Woman Oh, I could not
think of depriving an old —I mean I could
not think of depriving you.
"You go ahead and take it. an' don't ar
gue. I know you fat girls always has lame
feet."-—lndianapolis Journal.
Are you bruised? Use St. Jacobs Oil andi
You won't be long. Shortest way.
Derailment.
"Am I disturbing a train of thought?"
asked the canvasser, with a cheerful as
sumption of comradeship and good humor
"Disturbing it?" responded the professor,
looking up from his table of logarithms, "you
are holding it up, sir!"
And the abashed canvasser withdrew.—
Chicago Tribune.
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