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CURRENT TOPICS.
Ovi y one man in 20:i is over six feet
in heiglit.
BRIO. (JEN. GEORGE VV. WEST is dead
at Athol. Mass.
VOTING by machine is gaining in pop
ularity in the east.
MARK TWAIN says Vienna is the
wickedest city on earth.
ABOUT 4.000,000 bottles of pickles are
consumed weekly in the United States
THE last issue of the London (Hug.)
directory, it is said, weighs 11
pounds.
On an average 200 carrier pigeons
are officially kept in every German
fortress.
A LARGE cotton mill will be built at
High shoals water-power, near Har
den, N. C.
BRITISH consuls are now required to
send important trade reports and news
by telegraph.
A LARGE silk mill is to be built at
Boanoke Rapids, about four miles from
Weldon, N. C.
NEARLY 2,000 commercial travelers
lost their positions when the tobacco
trust was formed.
LABOR strikes of a most serious char
acter arc prevalent at present in sever
al European countries.
TIIE principal trade of Bradford,
Eng., just now is said to be in mercer
ized cotton dress goods.
THE Wisconsin legislature has for
bidden the use of living rooms for
manufacturing purposes.
SPRINGFIELD, li.L., has joined the
list of cities where the trades unions
will erect a labor temple.
QUEEN VICTORIA has seen every
throne in the world vacated at least
once, and some of them several times.
THE greatest number of suicides
take place in the month of June and
l\lC lu Llie mull In KJ £ O«j/Uml>or.
ONLY four independent states remain
in Africa. They are Abyssinia, Moroc
co, Liberia and the Orange Free State.
ALL the locomotives on the Santa Fe
railroad in California are run with pe
troleum for fuel. It costs about the
same as coal.
VERDI denies that he is writing a
new opera. He says that "Falstaff" is
his last work and that his labor in this
world is over.
THE German government has nomi
nated. and the president has accepted.
Baron August Von Brack as consul at
Havana for Germany.
BEGINNING .July 1, the employes of
the government printing office at
Washington will receive 50 cents an
hour, or 84 per day of eight hours.
THE Italian government,for 27 years,
has guaranteed to the pope an annual
income of about $175,000, which he lias
steadily refused to accept. The arrears
of this annuity amount now to over
£20,000,000.
THE Compania General of Manila,
the largest cigar making concern in
the world, employs over 10,000 hands,
and turns out every year 80,000,000
cigars, 40,000,000 cigarettes, and nearly
8,000 tons of cut tobacco.
ALONG the Adriatic sea swallows and
other migratory birds are caught every
year by the hundreds of thousands
and eaten by the Italians, who spread
nets, in which as many as :'»00 to 500 of
the tired birds are caught at once.
THE most expensive hat on record
cost 81,500 in gold, and was presented
to Gen. Grant while in Mexico in 1882.
It is now on exhibition in the National
museum in Washington—perhaps the
finest Mexican sombrero that was ever
made.
TMT-. bill for the Bradley Martin din
ner in New York for 86 persons footed
up 89,525, of which 85:> was olives, ca
viare, celery, radishes and bread, which
shows that the Bradley Martins do
not overlook the little luxuries to a
dinner.
THE death penalty is rarely enforced
in Germany, Austria, Denmark or
Sweden. In New York 11 out of 12
murderers escape without any punish
ment, and in the United States only
one murder in tifty suffers capital pun
ish mcnt.
MARRIED men, according to a German
investigator, live longer than bachel
ors. and are less likely to become in
sane. Another argument for matri
mony is found in the fact that there
are US criminals among every 1.000
bachelors, while among married men
the ratio is only 18 per 1,000.
Nor the least interesting among the
new occupations for women is that
which has been opened at Vienna.
There, in the "gayest city in the
world," is a woman grave digger. She
is the tirst professional woman grave
rtiggcr in civilized Europe.
Ine microscope has revealed many
winders, among others that the com
mon caterpillar has 4,000 muscles in
his body, that the drone bee's eyes
each contain 1.300 mirrors, and that
the large, prominent eyes of the bril
liant dragon flies are each furnished
with 28,000 polished lenses.
AN UNSTABLE PARTY.
rhe Democrat*} lln» Alwnyn I'atfa
to "t'v**lo|i ik I'<»lie}
I»- lis Onu.
The Boston Transcript intimates that
if the president or congress should de
cide to abandon the Philippines the per
sons who are now howling: to give up
the islands would then shriek even loud
er against such a course. There is a
good point here. The persons who are
shouting' against holding the Philip
pines are nearly all democrats. A few
republicans are among t he contraet ion
ists, but nine out of every ten of them
are democrats. Bryan, Altgeld, Stone,
Jones and all the rest of the men who
fan the Chicago convention and who
expect to control the next national
gathering of the democracy, are all
shouting against expansion. All of
them want the country to get out of
the Philippines and Cuba, and to even
give up Porto l!ico. There are two
reasons why the democracy takes this
ground. The democratic leaders are
timid and incapable, and the democrat
ic party ever since the republican or
ganization first went inU> power in
1861 has been a party of obstruction or
negation.
Everything which the republican
party lias favored in the past 1 I years
the democracy has opposed. But alter
op])osing republican policy until oppo
sition made the democracy ridiculous,
that party has always come over to re
publican ground. Tills was so regard
ing the doctrine of secession, on the
amendments to the constitution, on
nearly all the reconstruction policy, on
the greenbacks and the national bank
ing system, though a few democrats
WANTS A CHANGE OF DIET.
:; ': " : ' J
*%SS* I Eillli I n F3B
|
THE DONKEY—Oh, let up on that, Bill, and give me something else. Yon've
been feeding me on that tree silver fodder for the last four years and I'm about
starved.
make a sort of shuffling assault on the
national batiks occasionally, ami iliisj
element putin a plank in the demo
cv't'c platform in IVJ2 to repeal the
prohibitory ten per cent, tax 011 state
bank issues. Even the tariff, which the
democrats fought with virulence for
many years, they did not dare to at
tack in principle when, in the only
time since 1857-9 they had, in
complete control of all branches of the
government simultaneously. The W il
son-Gorman act,which provided neither
revenue nor protection in sufficient
amount, recognized and sustained,
though in a feeble way, the doctrine of
protection to domestic industries. That
was the tariff which, according to Pres
ident Cleveland, meant "party periidy
and party dishonor," and he refused to
sign it, allowing it to become a law by
the expiration of the ten days' limit.
It was a democratic measure through
out, however, and was one of the great
number of causes which conspired to
inflict the overwhelming defeats i;n the
democracy in the congressional canvass
of 1594 and the presidential campaign
of IS9G.
This has been the record of the de
mocracy ever since the republican
party first obtained control of the gov
ernment more than a generation ago.
During all this time the democracy lias
done nothing except oppose republican
policy. Even in the campaign of 189G,
when it seemed to have struck out a
path for itself in its free silver lunacy,
it merely struck at the republican
party. The republicans iu the St. Louis
convention came out squarely and de
cisively in favor of tlie gold standard.
The democracy, in its convention a few
weeks later, assailed the gold standard.
Then, as in all its career since the early
days of the war of secession, it has been
an incubus and an obstruction merely.
It has lacked the brains to develop a
policy of its own which has had the
faintest chance of securing the accept
ance of honest and public-spirited men.
After fighting republican measures un
til these had been so long and so firmly
established by the concurrence of the
people that 112 urtlier hostility would only
excite Ihe country's derision, it dropped
its opposition and came over onto re
publican ground. If the republicans
should now abandon expansion tlie
democrats would reverse their present
course and come out. in favor of expan
sion. The republicans, of course, will
adhere to the expansion policy, and it,
will be sanctioned by an overwhelming
majority of the people in 1900. Then
some democrat will call a halt to 11iv
party's anti-expansion bourbonism, as
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNK 22, 1899
Vallandigham did in 1»?1 to its insane
attacks 011 the permanent facts of the
war legislation, and it will step once
mere over onto republican ground.—
St. Louis <ilobe-l)emocrat.
ALTGELD IS THE LEADER-
A Cut initl Doit Tiliii* of It In ProKpcct
f«»r tlie rr«'i» Sllv«*rit«'« In
111 i iiolm.
Bryan and Alt geld have joined hands,
but llarrison was not at the wedding.
The Ohio Valley Bimetallic league has
organized for the campaign next year
and Altgeld will be the leader. It has
appointed a committee, composed of
Altgeld, of Illinois; the pestiferous
George Fred Williams, of Massachu
setts; Obermeyer, of Indiana; Tarvin,
of Kentucky, who is ambitious to Vie
Bryan's running mate; Samonin, of
Kentucky, and Clark, of Indiana, os
tensibly to cooperate with the demo
cratic national committee, really to dic
tate to it, in organizing the democratic
party for the campaign. It will make
its light squarely for the sixteen to
011 c Chicago platform, to which Bryan
lias committed himself over and over
again by defining that platform as a
party creed which will live.
The Bimetallic league is in the field
to make "t he financial plank of the Chi
cago platform of without any
change" the issue, to renominate I'ry
an and to advocate so-called bimetal
lism. It is not likely the league has
any expectation of winning, but no oth
er logical course could be taken, for if
the financial plank of the Chicago plat
form were dropped Bryan must dro|
with it. It is determined the party
shall make tlie silver fight over again
with II ryan ns its leader. The determi
nation of the league, however, will not
interest the country, for silver is ch ad
and buried beyond resurrection, and if
the democratic party should take it up
as an issue again it, too, would be buried
out of sight. The only interest which
attaches to its action is the defiance
(lung in tlie face of the regular demo
cratic party of Illinois by placing Alt
geld at the head of the committee. It
virtually pledges the aid of the league
in the tight between Altgeld an I Har
rison, and it will help a contest before
the national committee to secure repre
sentation in the national convention.
The outcome will be a cat and dog tight
between the Altgeldites and Ilarrison
ites in Illinois which will be amusing,
but of no concern to republicans, as Illi
nois cannot he carried by the democrats
whether led by Bryan or some other
leader. The breach between /V It geld
and Harrison is now complete.--Chica
go Tribune.
POLITICAL DRIFT
ED The general advance in wages Is
causing the grand sweet populistie wail
of despair.-—.Memphis Commercial-Ap
peal.
itT'Mr. I'ryan says the door is open for
the bolters, and the chances are that
they will continue to come out.—Wash
ington Post.
CAn esteemed contemporary says:
"The Ohio democrats have still to nom
inate their candidate." Yes, and that's
about all.—Chicago Times-lie raid.
E 'lJryan would undoubtedly find it
easier to break away from the sixteen
to one idea if lie could get 1 he other free
silverites to follow him afU'r some new
issue.— ( hicago Times-Herald.
C3"CoI. Bryan is still attacking the
trusts, but lie is doing it with every
sign of a man who would be obliged il
some one would furnish him with i
better issue for next year. — Ohio iState
Journal.
Bryan declares that the trust
issue will form one of the most impor
tant planks in the next democratic
platform. He will have some difficulty
in establishing a monopoly of anti
trust sentiment.'—Washington Star.
CJ"If Mr. Henderson is made 11.a re
publican candidate for speaker it, v\iK
be a victory of the people. The "bosses,"
so called, have had nothing to do with
the canvas. The two states, Pennsyl
vania and .New York, in which party
bossism is supposed to prevail the most
have done nothing to influence ihe
| contest so far, and it will probably be
i decided without the vote of either. —
j Philadelphia Press.
BOL T FOR THE EN KM Y
Filipinos Put Up the Hottest Battle
of the War.
F.nßflici- tlie l:lie,iij witli l-'erocttj
I'' lk Ii t i ii u t 'on I i mnw \ll 11 a> V.n
mlii |ii, 'l'n U e I'iirt—Amerleun
erj l» l'ii,nil) Succe»»f ul.
Manila, June 14. Gen. Lawton un
expectedly stirred up one of the liveli
est. engagements of the war south of
Las I'inas Tuesday morning, upon
which occasion A meriennfield guns w ere
engaged in the first artillery duel
against a Filipino battery concealed in
the jungle.
Companies F and I of the Twenty
first infantry, were nearly surrounded
by a large body' of insurgents, but the
Americans cut tlieir way out with
heavy loss.
\Vn I'sli lin Action.
The I'nitcd States turretship Monad
nock and the gunboyts Helena and /.u
--fiVo trained their batteries on I'.acoor
ami 1 lie rebel trenches near Las I'inas
all the morning. I'.acoor was once on
tire, but the natives stopped the spread i
of the flames.
During the nigh 1 an insurgent cannon !
was fired three times at the Americans j
on the outskirts of Las I'inas.
Gen. Lawton Tuesday morning took j
a battalion of the Fourteenth regiment
and two companies of the Twenty-first \
regiment to locate the rebel battery, j
and two guns of the Sixth artillevy and j
four mountain guns were planted
against it at GOO yards distance. TJie I
labels had a large gun from which they i
were firing home-made canister, loaded
with nails, and smaller guns.
Shootinu' Most At'ciirate,
Their shooting was most accurate.
The first lot of canister burst directly
in front of Scott's guns ami another
shattered the legs of a private in the j
Fourteenth infantry. Several shots j
struck the edge of the town.
The country traversed was as bad as
It is possible to imagine, being main
ly lagoons, mini and water fringed
with bamboos. As soon as the fighting
opened the Americans were attacked
by hidden riflemen on all sides, even j
the Amigos, or "friendly" natives, in
the houses of the town shooting into
their rear.
t'mmlit Inn Trail.
A company of the Twenty-first regi- ]
mctit, skirmishing along the beach with |
Amigo guides, found, apparently, a i
handful of rebels, who retreated. The
men of the Twenty-first followed and,
suddenly, the rebels opened a terrific
fire on the troops from the sides and
rear. The. soldiers withdrew to the
water's edge, finding what shelter they
could, and were picked off rapidly.
After their ammunition was nearly
exhausted, the companies of the Twen
ty-first retreated. Tint Gen. Lawton
dashed down and rallied the men.
A OeM|»«*rnte Stnml.
A little group made adesperatestand,
Gen. Lawton, Maj. Starr ami Lieuts.
Donovan and Sonnelly taking rifles
I from the wounded men and firing at
the enemy, bringing down some of the
rebel sharpshooters front a tree. Final
lv their cartridges were all gone atfd
' they were forced to break through the
I enemy's flank, carrying the wounded
to the main body of the troops.
Lieut. Donovan, whose leg was
broken, floundered for a mile tlirougji
' a bog after leading 11is men in the face
| of a greatly superior force.
\\ nit for it ee n force me nt*.
Gen. Lawton ceased fighting until re
| enforcements could be brought up.
| Two battalions of the Fourteenth regi-
I ment and one battalion of the Ninth
I regiment were invried to the front,
| a nd in the afternoon the buttle was re
sumed.
The Monaonoek anchored close to the
I shore and her heavy guns pounded the
I rebels continuously, while the smaller
I warships, steaming along the shore,
! poured bullets from their rapid-fire
I guns at the enemy.
The Filipino force engaged apepars
to have been the largest and best or
ganized hotly of men which has met our
troops.
KunlMints in Action.
Manila, June 14.—At daylight to-day
the rebels at Cavite Vie jo dropped two
shells from a big smooth-bore gun
mounted in front of the church in the
navy yard. The only damage (lone was
splintering the top of the huge shear*
on the mole. The gunboats Callao,
Manila and Moquito then proceeded to
dismount tlie gun.
After breakfast the rebels opened fire
! !>long the beach to Bucoor.
After silencing the big gun at Cavite
' Viejo the gunboats ran close along the
shore, bombarding the rebel position.
The rebels replied with rifle lire and
with the fire of some small pieces of
artillery. So vigorous was the enemy's
fire that at a. m.the gunboat He
lena joined the small gunboats already
named and th? I'rinceton, Monterey
and Monadnock, from their unchor-
I ages, dropped occasional big shells
among the rebels. This, apparently,
only served fj incite the rebels, as they
kept up an : ncessant fire of musketry
and artillei*? near the mouth of the
Zapote rive'*, two miles north of I'.a
coor.
Concentrate ttie Fire.
The fire of sill seven warships was
concentrated on this point shortly
after noon, when the upper bay pre
sented the appearance of being the
scene of a great naval battle. The in
surgents were eventually forced 1o
abandon their guns after holding out
for about four hours, only to lie con
fronted by Gen. Lawton's force on land
and in the rear, where there was heu*\
light ing.
Beyond the destruction of several
buildings along the water front, the
effect of tin; bombardment is not
known.
i' 1 n I*ionn I'iuhiinur.
When flic battle was resumed at one
o'clock with the reenf'orcements, our
our battery having silenced the cue-
iny'sgnns, the Americans, wading waist
deep in the mud of tlie salt fiats and
pouring steady volleys of musketry at
t In- rebels, slowly drove their opponents
iieyond the river. Then the two armies
lay facing each other across the deep
stream, the enem.v practically out of
sight, while the men in Idue and khaki
lay in the main bushes, many of them
without any shelter, for three hours,
without a moment's cessation in the
firing, pouring bullets at the enemy as
Cjist as they could load. The thousand
rifles blended into a continuous roar
was vastly different from the intermit
tent skirmishlike rattle of most of the
engagements.
One battalion after another, Gen.
(ien. Law toil summoned the reserves
from Las I'inas until only enough
troops were left in tlietown to prevent
the Filipinos from attacking the Amer
icans in the rear which was feared, as
they were creeping around our left
through the woods, delivering a flank
ing fire which put a great strain upon
the endurance of the Americans. who
were floundering in the mud across tlie
rjver.
The Fourteenth regiment lay to the
right of the bridge, and in front of
iliem was the Twelfth regiment, with
the Ninth on the right and the Twenty
first up the road, facing the bridge,
which was the key to the situation.
On the bridge were the bodies of two
Americans who had attempted to rush
across, and many wounded men were
carried from thr opun ground before
Ihe bridge.
I'vrrj Mnn fur Himself.
After tiring in volleys for a short
time the Americans were ordered to
fire when and where they could see the
enemy. It was every man for himself,
and the best our men could do was to
aim at the faint mists arising from 111e
rebels' smokeless powder.
(Jen. Law ton. though exhausted bv
the morning's fight, rallied by sheer
will [lower and was the commanding
figure in the battle, lie went along the
lines directing and encouraging the
troops.
Cen. W'hcnton and (ien. Ovenshine
were equally courageous. In fact, the
generals were among 111<■ few men on
the battlefield who refused to take
shelter utuh r the hottest lire.
\t four o'clock there was an hour's
lull in the fighting, and an artillery
sergeant galloped back to where two
guns of the mountain battery were
waif ing in reserve and slimited ; "tiring
up those gun-!" The sergeant then
tumbled cxhii cd from his horse.
\ 111 ei*ic :l u llrn\er> Wins.
Manila, .Mint 14—S:lj a. m. lie fore
dark last night, the Fourteenth infan
try swam tin; /.a pote river, charged and
carried the trenches, a heavy fusillade
of artillery preparing the way and cov
ering the crossing. The insurgents
broke for the woods before the Four
teenth reached them. Almost at the
same time the Ninth and the Twelfth
crossed a bar of the sea and came upon
their left flank at a point where a body
of marines with Maxim guns landed un
der protection of tjic ships' batteries
and fired upon the enemy's left rear
with a demoralizing effect. The Twen
ty-first crossed the river by a bridge
as soon as it could be mended. Sixty
five dead Filipinos were found in the
trenches, most of them shot through
the head. Several five-inch smooth
bore guns were captured with ammuni
tion marked "IT. S. navy yard."
\notlier Vttni'k Itcpellcil.
After crossing the river the tr..%-
were withdrawn, with tlie exception of
the Ninth and Twenty-first, these regi
ments being left with four guns to
guard the bridge. As they were being
formed into companies the insurgents
commenced to !ii«' volleys from the
bamboo jungle 300 yards away, The
regiments formed inlo line rapidly
and coolly, though under fire, and,
cheering, rushed to the woods, driving
the enemy a mile away, the Filipinos
disputing every foot. The Fourteenth
encamped across the river, the men
caring for many of the Filipinos'
wounded. Eight prisoners were cap
tured. The majority of the Filipinos
wore red uniforms.
Oregon Troop* Snil.
Manila, .June 1!, 11:1 a. m. — The
first volunteers started home to-dry
on the transport Newport, the trans
port Ohio carrying the Oregon First
volunteer signal company, sailing for
San Francisco via Nagasaki. They are
expected to arrive July iii. The out
going Oregon troops left 02 dead from
battle and disease, the result of the
year's campaign. The vessels were
cheered as they steamed out of the har
bor.
fail Tlmmii on tlie Hull.
Washington, .June 14. The follow
ing cablegram lias been received from
Gen. Otis:
"Manila. June 13. Adjutant General,
Washington: I.awtoi«s troops had severe
engagement to-day with enemy In strong
'entrenchments at erasing Zapote river
near liaeoor, Cavite province, has driven
enemy with heavy loss; our casualties
some thirty. Insurgents in this southern
section not molested until threatened at
tack in strong force on Manila: now scat
tered and in retreat; doubtful if they muka
further stand.
(Signed) "OTIS."
Humor of I.tnin'K Amkahhl nation.
Manila, June 14.—Information, be
lieved to be reliable, has reached here
of tin assassination of (Jen. I.una and
aide-de-camp, Lieut. I'asco Ramon,
.Iline s, by Aguinaldo's guard at tlie
headquarters of Aguinaldo.
Luna and llatnon, it appears, went to
the Filipino headquarters to confer
with Aguinaldo. got into an altercation
with the captain of the guard aiu'l one
of them drew a revolver. The guard
then killed I.una and Kanion with their
bayonets.
Swept t'lcriil l»y Ki re.
Durango. Col.. .1 line 11. The business
portion of ( liania. N. M„ has been
swept clean by fire which started in
the evening. The Denver iV KioGninile
depot and roundhouse and half a dozen
business blocks were burned. '1 he en
tire populace turned out to fight the
flames, but ow ing to tlie lack of water
their elforts were useless.
AN OUTING PARADISE.
Long Island is an undiscovered conn
try to a great number of people. Very
few realize that the little line shown
on the large map is one hundred »ud
thirty-four miles long and of varying
widths up to twenty-live miles. Few
realize that it was the first section of
the United States settled by colonists
from both England and Holland, and
that their towns are to-day full of pic
turesque houses, beautiful avenues of
trees, in fact with all the inland beau
ties and in addition the various attrac
tions of the seashore.
While the South Shore for a portion
of its length is almost level, the North
Shore is hilly and heavily wooded.
Every portion of the island is well
suited for man's abiding place. It has
in a most marked degree the three
great necessities of life and civilization,
(iood Air, Good Water and Good Roads.
The western section (Queens and Nas
sau Counties) is crossed in every direc
tion by the best of macadam roads;
six hundred miles having been built
within three years. The eastern end
of Suffolk County has excellent roads
consisting of macadam, gravel, shell
and country roads running through the
woods or along the shore. Fishing,
hunting, bathing, yachting, cycling and
golfing are all indulged in undermost
perfect conditions.
A NEW EXPERIENCE.
Fhelie Ann W'a* Orcatlr Worried
Over the Action» of tlie
Trees n.n<l Ilouaea.
She is only a little black pickaninny who
lives down in Georgia. She is under a dozen
years in age and until a short time ago had
passed all of her life on a rural plantation.
Trains and their attendant movements wers
utterly unknown. Indeed, what I'hebe Ann
knew of anything outside of that plantation
would not make the beginning of a primer.
She was being educated for a Louse servant
and hence was not permitted to roarn to any
creat extent. She was busy about the big
Eou.se all day and at night retired to th»
shack set apart for her family.
Along in the season, for some good rea
son, it became necessary for the family ta
move into a city. The little negro girl was
wanted, for she had much skill in soothing
the childish woes of fhe heir to the estates.
So it was decided that she must accompany
the expedition. From the time she entered
the carriage to ride to the railway station
Phebe Ann was in a state of suppressed ex
citement. She sat beside "Miss Amy," as
she called her mistress, and with staring
eyes took in all that passed without com
ment.
When she. was taken into the train her
wonderment was amusing. She sat gin
gerly on the cushions, looked out of the win
dow and generally seemed uncertain con
cerning the possibilities of the future. She
■was silent until the train commenced to
move. Then her fear took shape. She saw
the landscape passing rapidly before her and
her eyes filled, her lip quivered and she
teffled audibly.
"What's the matter, Phebe Ann?" asked
her mispress.
"Oh, Miss Amy," wailed the pickanning,
"whah all dem houses and trees a-goiu' at?"
A seat on the lioor was the only means
possible to quiet the fears of the child.—Chi
cago Chronicle.
MISSING THE JUBILEE.
Thfre WR* One Woman W ho
to lie Ijrnorant of the Fact
T&iat Peace find Come.
It was in the midst of the peace jubile«
and the editor was the busiest individual ID
town, but the visitor got in on him, and,
what was worse, sat down and showed othei
signs of remaining, none of which the editoi
encouraged.
"Excuse me," said the visitor of his OWE
volition, "but can't I ask you an important
question?"
"What is it?" responded the editor, with
out looking up from his work, which is al
ways a sign that auybody ought to under
stand.
"Ain't this a peace jubilee we're having in
this town?"
"It certainly is."
"And the peace jubilee is a celebration o)
peace, ain't it?"
"Exactly."
"And peace means that war is off, don't
it?"
"Of course it does."
"And that the olive branch is hang
ing low, and that everybody is falling
on everybody else's neck, and that every
body is glad the war clouds have rolled by,
and'that good fellowship is now prevailing
everywhere, and that every bosom throbs
responsive to the gentle coo of the dove, and
that everybody is wearing white wkigs, and
that there won't be any more scraps, and
that everybody is kissing and making up;
it means that, don't it?"
"Exactly," responded the editor, pleased
to discover so comprehensive a knowledge
from such an unsuspected quarter.
"I thought so," said the visitor, rising.
"I'll go back home and tell my wife about it.
When I left there an hour ago I donM. be
lieve she knew it had happened. Good
morning." And the visitor went out befor®
the editor had time to e*tend his sym
pathy.—Washington Star.
oii. ) inur Order*.
"Is the lady of the house at home to call
«rs?"
"No, sir; not to-dav."
"but tell her that it is the doctor who hai
sailed."
"Impossible, sir; she can't see you. She i*
•ick." —I.a Caricature.
God help me to keep from under th*
thumb of the man who rigidly observes th*
letter of the law, but who has no concep
tion of its spirit.—Virginia Etchings.
It should be remembered to the everlast
ing credit of the men that when a woman
becomes famous, no men claim that they
were once engaged to her. —Atchison Globe.
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown." Guess so. Any fool ought to know
better than to lie down with a crown on hia
head. —Virginia Etchings.
Some people demand that the world not
only be patient with their foolishness, but
that it applaud.—Atchison Globe.
Hall's Ciitarrli Care
Is a Constitutional Cure. I'rice, 75c.
Figures may not lie, but estimates ftn
often misleading.—Chicago Daily News.
"Evil Dispositions I
Are Earty> Shown."
' Just so evil in the blood comes cut in j
1 shape of scrofula, pimples, etc.. in |
; children And young people. Taken in j
i time it can be eradicated by using Hood's j
' Sarsaparilla. cAmerica 's Greatest Medi- i
| cine. It vitalizes and enriches the blood. J