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"Ever since I have been in Santiago,"
says Maj. Gen. Wood, "I have prescribed
liberal doses of the United State's con
stitution, and the treatment has been
remarkably efficacious." It is good
medicine and warranted to keep in all
climates.
Boston has been celebrating Hunker
Hill day and recalling the facts that the
British loss at the battle was 1,030 and
the American loss 450. The muzzle
loaders of other days had a short range
and fired slow, but it was dangerous to
get in front of them.
A chemical and pharmaceutical la
boratory has been established at Ilaj
kotc, western India. Its object is to im
prove the practice of native medicine
and to make known to western science
the valuable Indian remedies, as well as
the possibilities of yet unfamiliar na
tive herbs.
The editor of an lowa paper must
have received an unusually poor collec
tion of bad manuscripts and poems, for
he exclaims: "While Mark 1 wain is
writing a book that will not be pub
lished for 100 years, other writers are
wasting their energy on matter that
will not be published any sooner."
Queen Natalie, late of Servia, will, it
is said, "devote her saddened life to lit
erature," and is now said to be compos
ing an autobiographical romance—sad,
of course. Headers of romance would
be glad if all persons, royal and other
wise, who are moved to embalm their
woes in print would experience a change
of heart and goto raiding vegetables.
The Yellowstone National park is
jealous of the active volcanoes, earth
quakes and cyclones produced by other
sections of the world, and a dispatch
from there tells of the breaking out of
a new geyser. Just north of the noted
Fountain Geyser there is a crater which
lias always been considered nothing
but a pool, but it awoke from its sleep
and for an hour spouted a column of
water 250 feet high.
A Cincinnati paper comments on a re
markable coincident in the famous
Baker-i ioward feud in Kentucky. On
June 2, 1859, 40 years ago, Gov. Owsley
ordered out the state troops to quell the
feud between the linker and Howard
factions. On June 2, of this year. Gov.
Bradley ordered out the state troops
for the same purpose. Forty years is
long enough for any family row, and it
is hoped that the end is in sight.
Strangely enough the price of horses
is steadily rising, notwithstanding the
bicycle, the automobile and ot her rivals.
When this advance began a year ago it
was accounted for by the outbreak of
Hie war. but certainly the war has
nothing to do with the continuance of
the rise. There must be some other ex
planation, and the best one available is
that the horse is too good a friend to
man to be lightly thrust aside in favor
of the new-fangled machines. It. is the
horse's turn to laugh.
The famous Sclienck chain letter has
at last been broken. Since May, IS9S,
Miss Nathalie Sclienck, of Babylon, L.
1., has received from one to twelve thou
sand letters per day, each inclosing a
dime, and all in all she has turned over
$23,000 to the IJed Cross society. Miss
Sclienck began by writing a letter to
each of four friends, asking them to
send her ten cents for the purchase of
ice and luxuries for Ihe sick soldiers.
She asked each friend to write similar
letters to four friends, making similar
requests of them. That was the begin
ning.
The growth of the United States in
the important element of iron produc
tion in the past 15 or 20 years is one of
the marvels of the age. In lsso this
country's output of iron was ;i,535,-
191 tons. It was 11.77:!,9114 tons in IS9S,
an increase of 207 percent. Great llrit
ain produced 7,721.53.'! tons ol it in ISBO
mid *,631.151 in I SOS, i he gain in her case
being 11.7 percent. Germany produced
2,729, (i5:; in the first-named year and
7,215,927 in the last, her increase being
104.4 percent. These countries are the
three leading iron producers of Ihe
world.
Amidst the hue and cry the world
over against that large but more or less
unfortunate portion of humanity which
does not wear shirt waists it is encour
aging to find some woman endowed
with intelligence, courage and charity
who asserts, with a positiveness born of
conviction, that then; is some good in
man. Such a woman is Alme. Antoi
nette Stirling. who dec red in the wom
an's congress in London that she
thought the speeches were too severe
upon the opposite sex, and that a wom
an, to realize the true value of a man,
had only to lose him.
A HOPELESS STRUGGLE.
The Silver Cauxe lln» l.»»t SiTcnuth
Slrudil) Miner- I In* First Free
Colliui&e Hill.
On November 5. IST", in the first of
President Hayes' two extra sessions of
congress, Representative Kiclinrd P.
Itlami moved to suspend the rules and
pnss a bill directing the. coinage of".-li
ver dollars ol' the w< ight of 412' grains
vf standard silver, as provided in t In- aet
of January IS, lsliV," the coins I<> be a
"legal lender, at their nominal value, for
all debts and duec public and private,
except where otherwise provided by
contract." With this motion -Mr. island
became a national character, and the
silver question became an absorbing
issue in Amariean polities.
This was the original island bill. It
provided for the unrestricted coinage of
silver dollars, then wort h seven or eight
cents less in ititrinsie value, as indicated
by the market price of silver bullion,
than gold dollars. The house in which
that bill was introduced had a demo
cratic majority of 20. Samuel ,i. Kan
da II was speaker. Bland's motion was
agreed to by a vote of Kit (97democrats
and l>7 republicans) to :u (24 republic
ans and ten democrats). As reported
in the senate by William H. Allison,
from the committee on finance, the bill
was changed from tin- free coinage
form to a limited coinage measure. It
provided that not less than $2,000,000
nor more than $4,00o.C()0 of silver bul
lion should be bought each month and
coined into dollari. of the weight pre
scribed in the house bill, the profit from
the coinage, however, togo into tin
treasury, and not, as in the house bill,
into the pockets of the owners of the
silver bullion. The bill passed the sen
ate in this shape by a vote of 48 (24 re
publicans,. 23 democrats and one inde
pendent) to 21 (14 republicans and
seven democrats), was accepted by tlu:
house, was vetoed by President Hayes
on February 28, 1878, in one of the
strongest state papers ever penned by
an occupant of the white house, but was
passed over the veto on the same day.
Silverism on the day when the modi
fied Bland act was passed over the veto
of President Hayes touched its high
water mark. At that time the silver
bullion in the dollar was worth 92 cents.
There was only eight cents of fiat in
the silver dollar. Many republicans
voted for the Bland bill at that time be
cause they supposed that the creation
of an enlarged market for the bullion
by making the government a purchaser
would send its price up to a point at
which the silver dollar would be worth
100 cents in gold. They quickly found
themselves mistaken, and then they
abandoned the silver side. The repub
licans did, indeed, pass tin' bullion de
posit act of July 14. 1800, called the
Sherman law, but this was a far safer
measure than the Bland act which it
displaced, and it was enacted to head
off the passage of a free silver measure.
Three years and a third afterward, find
ing the accumulations of silver cur
rency of the various sorv-- a menace to
the financial stability of the country,
the republicans helped to repeal the act,
and thus stopped silver absorption in
every shape by the government. Ihe
Bland faction continued their tight for
free silver, however, and at the Chicago
convention of 1896 they secured control
of the democracy, and, for the first time
in a presidential canvass, the* contest
was specifically between the gold and
the silver standards, the gold standard
gaining a sweeping victory. It is now
21 years since liichard P. Bland intro
duced his lirst free coinage bill. The
silver cause is to-day distinctively
weaker than it was then, or than it has
been tit any time since then. How long
is the deocratie party going to keep up
its fight against fate?—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
CURRENT COMMENT.
tr~Mi\ Bryan says he stands just
where he stood three years ago; but
this is a progressive country. —Cleve-
land Leader.
IWlf you don't know that wages are
advanced somewhere in this country
nearly every day, you don't read the
newspapers.- Kochestcr Demoeiat.
(C?The business outlook throughout
the country is continually growing
brighter, and the reports of each suc
ceeding week continue to be most grat
ifving.—lowa State Register.
crJ"A good many gold democrats are
perfectly satisfied with Bryan because
they look upon him as an easy victim
for McKinley; just as easy, in fact, as
a gold democrat would be. — Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
P"Mr. Bryan insists on making the
mastication of Mose Wet more s tobacco
an issue of the coming campaign, but
not a word does he say about Coin Har
vey's cigar. Is there to be another split
in the party? —Louisville Courier-Jour
nal (Dem.).
ITT - The party that yokes its faith with
anti-expansion in 1900 will never know
what happened to it. Mark Ihe predic
tion, the a..ii-imperialists will clear the
track when the bell rings for the presi
dential struggle next year. —Chicago
Times-Herald.
tTTOur exports of manufactured ar
ticles have increased in the sum of $ 15,-
000,000, thus showing that we are not
only holding our foreign trade, but are
actually extending it. The situation
could not be more encouraging or the
prospects brighter, and tow hat, if not
the republican administration, is the
credit due? —Philadelphia Inquirer.
ICThe Bryan organ in Omaha, Neb.,
having declared that one of the results
of prosperity is a large reduction in
the number of traveling salesmen, the
l!ec, to ascertain if there were any basis
for such complaint, canvassed 2.'! firms
in that city. In June, IS9'!, these firms
employed 174 traveling men; in June,
1898, they employed 245, an increase of
71. During the same period the gen
eral employes of these firms were in
creased from 500 in 1890 to sSO in IS9S.
—I adianapolis Journal.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1899.
STATE ELECTIONS NEXT FALL
The < a m|»i lk lis of |s:i!> Will Not He
Liirkinu in Interest— .Some
Si tun t ion n.
The political situation in the It
states which arc to hold elections on
November 7 is naturally attracting
more than local attention. Though an
"off year" politically, the campaigns
of 1899 will not be lacking in interest
and importance, and their effect upon
the national campaign of 1900 is likely
to be decidedly advantageous to the
republican party, which is well in
trenched in eight the eleven states.
New York lead.-: off with the party
strengthened by wise legislation for
the assembly elections. The Poosevelt-
Ford franchise tax act, the last of a
series of republican taxation meas
ures, has increased the confidence of
the people of the state in llie ability
of the party to deal fairly with the
problem of adjusting the burdens of
government, and it is reasonably safe
to say that the voters will see that
there is no change in the political com
plexion of the legislatlire of next year,
which is to act upon a revision of the
taxation laws of the state. Neverthe
less, though there are neither state iior
national issues upon which the dis
cordant elements of the democratic
party can make a fair fight, vigilance
w ill he the price of republican victory.
Ohio, lowa, Massachusetts and Mary
land will elect republican governors. In
Kentucky a scramble for the governor
ship has just begun, but republican en
thusiasm has not yet been wrought up
to a winning pitch. Mississippi will, of
course, choose a democrat ic governor.
New Jersey will testify to the perma
nence of its reclamation from demo
cratic control by choosing a republican
legislature, the party going into the
contest on the merits of its record in
the last four years.
In Nebraska the followers of Pryan
are endeavoring to make such an ef
fective demonstration in favor of the
Chicago platform and free coinage as
to force that diseartled old lumber upon
the democratic party in 1900, but the
rank and file of the fusionist forces pre
fer the idle cry against "imperialism,"
while the republicans will stand as
firmly by the administration at the
ballot-boxes as the state's volunteers
stood by the Hag in the Philippines.
The opposition to Senator Quay will
not affect the fall campaign in Penn
sylvania. where the regular organiza
tion will name and elect its candi
dates.
The interesting feature of the cam
paigns in the democratic states of Vir
ginia and Mississippi is the purpose
of the voters to express their prefer
ences for I'nited States senators at the
primaries. This is the first step in an
organized movement looking to the
election of I'nited States senators by
the direct votes of the people.
It is noticeable that harmony and
enthusiasm prevail among lhe repub
lican forces in New York, Ohio, lowa,
Massachusetts, Maryland. New Jersey,
Nebraska and Pennsylvania. In Ken
tucky the ill effects of Gov. Bradley's
opposition to the administration have
begun to wear off since the governor
decided to keep out of the contest.
With victories in eight, if not nine, of
the eleven fall elections, the party will
be in excellent shape for the great bat
tie of 1900.—N. V. Tribune.
Hack-f'n i> Itrjuu.
"One of the most curious things about
Mr. Bryan's candidacy," said Mr. S. F.
Williams, of St. Louis, "is that a good
many prominent democrats who osten
sibly are his supporters do not intend
to help him in the least. I know sev
eral men who wish to be thought Pry:*-
ites, and yet who will vote for MeKin
lcy on the quiet. In talking with one of
this sort not long ago lie said as an ex
planation of his conduct that lie wished
to remain in the democratic party, for
he thought that eventually the party
would abandon free silver and other
populistic notions. He did not believe
the change would come by 1900, and,
therefore, as lie wanted Ihe present
prosperous condition to continue, he
would repeat the ballot he east for
Maj. McKinlev in 189(i. lie had kept
that fact a secret, however, and all his
associates supposed he had voted for
Pryan. The case of this man is by no
means exceptional. Thousands of busi
nessmen who like to see prosperity be
fore party success, and yet who li*te
the idea of going over to the opposition
publicly, will talk as 1 hough they meant
to vote the democratic ticket, and
when the time comes will vote the other
way."— Wasliington Post.
lioud-Siieakini; Facts.
Significant signs of good times are
found in K. (i. Dun & C'o.'s weekly re
view of trade. The fact is made public
I that failures in April were the small
est ever reported in any month. Those
reported in May are smaller than those
previously reported in any month by
! nearly $2,000,000. Their total sum is
' onlv G~.B per ci lit.of the smallest total
! previously reported >n any month anc"
| only 114.3 per cent. the total for last
j May. The ratio of defaults to solvent
j business lias never been so small in
| any other month as in the May just
! p:u>scd. These are facts which speak so
! loudly for the condition of American
! trade and industry that no comment
I could add to their force. Tliev «re sulli
! cicnt to take away the calamity howl-
I cr's breath and cause him to stand gap
' ing and gasping in si I at amazement. —
Albany Journal.
tr?Tf the republicans run the pros
; pcrity issue next year the democrat a
i will have a hard time getting round it.
!As the New York Kvening Post re
marks: "The idea has got abroad gen
erally in all parts of the country and
j among all classes of people that a re
] publican administration at Washington
means 'good times' and a democratic
' administration 'hard times.' " And tlif
| idea is founded on fact. Baltimore
' American.
HAS GONE TO HIS REWARD.
Itishup John I'. Newman, a Lradlnjf
.Tlctliodist, llira,
Saratoga, N. V., .Inly 6.—Bishop
John I'. Newman, of the Methodist
Kpiscopal church, of San Francisco,
died yesterday afternoon. He had been
in failing 1 health for a year past, but
it was only a week afro that his condi
tion really alarmed his friends. Since
.'lnly t he had been sinking rapidly.
'I lie immediate cause of his death was
pneumonia, and myelitis. At '2 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon his pulse was
liardly perceptible. The physicians
BISHOP XEWM \N.
in attendance recognized that the end
was near and relatives and immediate.*
friends wen summoned to the bedside.
The bishop bcame conscious shortly
liefore his death ami recognized hiM
wife. Mrs. U. S. Grant, Mrs. P. IX
(■rant and others arrived ill the scene
a moment or so later. Mrs. Newman
is almost crushed by her berea' ement.
Tnasmnch as she is in comparatively
feeble health it is feared that she will
not long survive her husband.
Telegrams and cablegrams are lie
ill}? received from all quarters express
ing'sympathy. The funeral will take
place at the First .Methodist Kpiscopal
church, this city. Saturday afternoon.
A WOMAN'S SORROW.
<;sipf||£ Crowds at Prison (iatc* Seem
l<> Itejolce ill tlio Oislrossol .llailauir
■ Ire) Inh.
liennes .Inly 6.- Madame Dreyfus,
accompanied by her parents, drove to
the prison in a carriage yesterday. Her
parents were not admitted, lint she re
mained with her husband an hour. On
leaving she showed, for the first time,
signs of distress. Her eyes were
swollen and red, as though she had
been weeping'. She is still in deep
mourning and is determined to remain
so until her husband regains his lib
erty.
A larger crowd than usual watched
lier arrival and departure and dis
played utter lack of manners and con
sideration for her terrible position,
leathering' around her, rudely staring
her in the face, and pressing one an
other aside in their eagerness not to
lose a single detail of her inward
nirony which might be reflected in hei
countenance. Iler visible distress wa>
a feast for these ghouls, who. however
were speedily dispersed by a squad of
gendarmes. The latter finally barred
the two streets leading to the portal
of the prison.
Paris. July <>. —The municipal council
of Paris has adopted an order urging
the prefect of police to dismiss M. ller
ti I lon from the directorship of the an
thropometric department on account
of the mistakes in his evidence as a
handwriting- expert in the Dreyfus
case, before the court-martial and dur
ing the revision proceedings'before tin
court of cassation, when he gave the
reasons which led him to regard Drey
fus as the author of the bordereau.
TEN NEW REGIMENTS.
The President Approver an Order fo»
Their formation Commander lor
One in 4 hoscn.
Washington, July 6. —The order di
rccting the enlistment of ten new reg
iments of volunteer infantry \\»is com
pleted Wednesday afternoon and will
be issued to-day. The order was draft
ed after a conference between the
president and Adjutant (jeneral Cor
liin and directs the recruiting officers
to enlist men under the law passed
March ~. 1899. These regiments arc
to be numbered from -•> to thus re
tabling the continuity of the present
infantry organization. ,
Mai. Kdmiind Kice, Third Infantry,
was appointed colonel of the Twt nty
sixth, the first selection made by the
president.. Col. Pice was appointed lo
the army from Massachusetts as a
captain of the Nineteenth Massachu
setts volunteers of 18(11, and served
throughout the rebellion. He was brev
eted captain, major and lieutenant
colonel for gallant services during the
rebellion and at Pit close became a first
lieutenant in the regular army. Col.
Kice became well known to all the vis
itors at the world's fair in Chicago,
where he organized and commanded
the Columbian guard.
ll«b» Attack Churches and Priests. '
Pareidolia. Spain. July <i.—There was
a renewal of disorders here Tuesday
night. Hands of rioters attacked the
church of Santa Matrona and the
Jesuit school. 'The police charged
and the mob pelted them with sloncs.
l.ater the police were reinforced and
scattered the mob. Many people were
wounded. The disorders were renewed
last evening when the workmen were
leaving the factories. Several persons
were wounded in chartres between tile
mounted gendarmes and the mobs.
Not a (.nod Time to Strike.
Pittsburg-. July (>. The proposed
strike ai the Homestead plant of the
Carnegie Steel Co. has been aban
doned. At a meeting of the local lodge
at Homestead Tuesday night it was de
cided that the present is an inoppor
tune time to strike.
A («lovc Trust Proposed.
New Vorl», July Pi.-—The World says:
"Orrington Pes--, of Chicago, has been
in this city for several days negotiat
ing with prominent glove firms for the
options on their business, the inten
tion being" to form a glove combination
with a capital of $1.*.0(10,000."
UNI)Ell CANVAS.
CJbristian Endeavor Convention
Assembles in Detroit.
Ten Thousand People Attend the Wel
coming IC all v in Tent Kndeavor
A .'lessajfe from President
McKinlcy Old O dicers
Are It ■••elected.
Detroit, July C>. —The afternoon of
the preliminary day of the lsth annual
international convention of ( hristian
J'.ndcavor was sliowen, but toward
evening the sun broke through the
clouds and travel from all parts of the
sity to the Christian Kndeavor grounds
began. At sundown long lines of
young people wended across the green
fields about the white tented city, all
converging toward Tent Kndeavor. be
neath whose broad canvas the welcom
ing rally was held. The crowds poured
in through the four entrances on eith
er side and down the six broad saw
dust-covered aisles, until the great
tent's capacity of 10,000 was filled;
after that, a crowd of outsiders ob
tained sight and hearing through drop
ping' of the lent walls at cither side.
The Christian Endeavor red and
white was suspended in hundreds of
broad streamers fromjlie lofty roof to
the caves. Flags of all nations,
draped with the stars and stripes,
hung overhead at intervals. The coats
of arms of the states were attached to
the tent poles. The Christian Kn
deavor monogram shown from large
red and while electric globes above,
the speakers' platform. Higher up,
the union jack and stars and stripes
intermingled. A thousand white
capped young men and maids com
posed the choir on the liig stage, the
front of which was occupied by the
officers and clergy.
At ~::i0 the comparative silence was
broken by strains of"The Son of (Sod
(iocs Forth to War." followed by
"There Shall be Showers of Piessing,"'
"Onward. Christian Soldiers," etc., in
all of which the great crowd enthus
iastically 'joined. Devotional exer
cises were led by Hei. J. ('. Putler, of
Washington.
'lhe welcome of the local committee
was extended by William 11. Strong',
its chairman. Pcv. Charles P. New
man eloquently welcomed the conven
tion in behalf ol Detroit pastors.
Mayor Maybury also welcomed the
Kndeavorers.
There was enthusiastic applause
when Secretary Paer read the follow
ing telegram from President MeKin-
M-:
"Pcv. Dr. Francis F. Clark, Detroit,
Mich.: On the occasion of the 1 -ith
international convention of your soci
ety I desire to express my cordial in
terest in its work, my best wishes to
those assembled with you in conven
tion and my earnest hope for the con
tinuance and increase of the great re
sults which the efforts of the Chris
tian Kndeavor society have achieved."
Next on the programme came re
sponses from foreign lands. As Rev.
William Pat terson, of Toronto, cam •
forward to speak for Canada, some
one struck up "Cod Save the Queen.'*
'•"he Canadians on the platform too''
up the strain and in a moment the
hHire tent was reverberating 1 with the
chorus of the Pritish anthem. The
friendly relations between Canada and
the I'nited States, particularly with
reference to religious matters, formed
the burden of Dr. Patterson's address.
For Australia response was made by
Jiev. .T. 11. Walker, of Queensland: for
China by Pcv. Klwood (1. Tewksbury,
a missionary in the vicinity of Peliin;
for Turkey by Pcv. Lyndon S. Craw
ford. for many years a missionary in
that country; for Japan by Hev. Otis
Carev; for Mexico by Pcv. Scott Will
iams, and for the I'nited States by Pcv.
Arthur J. Smith, of Georgia.
At the close of the meeting the
crowd thronged to the plat form to be
presented to the mayor and the officers
of the society. This closed the first
day of what promises to be one of the
most notable gatherings in the history
of the organization.
Pcv. Dr. Francis K. Clark w*iis re
elected president of the I'nited Society
of Christian Kndeavor at the meeting
of the trustees. John Willis Paer
was re-elected secretary and William
Shaw treasurer. IJcpresentatives on
the board of trustees of the I'nited
Society were elected from each state,
territory and the provinces of Canada.
The trustees of the I'nited Society
of Christian Kndeavor held their an
nual meeting at the Hotel Cadillac. In
vitations for the 1901 convention were
received from Denver and Cincinnati,
but in accordance with a resolution
adopted last vear. it was determined to
defer act ion on this matter until after
the London convention of 1900.
Tin si Isc Malic in Wheeling.
I'oston.. July 0. In the circuit court
\csterda\ Judge Colt decided that
stogies bearing the name of "Wheel
ing." or "Wheeling stogies," could not
lie manufactured in Poston. or else
where than at Wheeling. W. Ya.. and
sold as "Wheeling stogies." The de
cision is the result of a suit brought
liv a West Virginia stogie manufactur
er against Joseph Kngcl. of this city.
An injunction v.-is issued restraining
the defendant from manufacturing or
selling "Wheeling- stogies" not made
in Wheeling. This decision will lie
far-rcaehiin .o.Vect in the tobacco
trade, inasn uch as it can be applied
to Key West cigars not actually made
in Key West.
Hallway < ommission knocked Out.
Lansing, Mich., July fi. The Mich
igan supreme court yesterday decided
the ease brought to test the validity of
the McT.eod law which authorized tin*
appointment of the Detroit street lail
way commission, whose object was the
purchase and municipal ownership
anil operation of street railways of De
troit. The decision is that the law is
unconstitutional; that there is no such
office as the "Detroit streef railwav
coin mission.." t hat (iov.Pingrce and t lie
other commissioners have no title
therein ;.nd that judgment of ouster
must be entered against them.
y'He Thai Stays
j Does the Business/
j All the 'world admires " staying pcrco
♦ er." jnthis quality success depends.
S The blood is the best friend the heart has.
I Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best friend the
j blood ever had; cleanses it of everything,
| gives perfect health and strength,
THE HORSE'S GRIEF.
A Faithful Animal that I>clibcrately
Committed Suicide When Neglected.
"Speaking of the grief that some
horses will exhibit when left in a
strange phice and neglected for a short,
time by their masters," said an old
miner to a Star reporter, "1 recall see
ing a horse deliberately commit sui
cide in three feet of water because he
had been deserted for three days.
"The horse was owned by a man
named Jim Kelly, a well-known pros
pector, who, in Juty, 18'J7, came into
(irand Forks, 1!. C., after an absence
in the mountains of several weeks.]
The animal was nothing but a eomm<«n I
cayuse, on which Kelly sometimes I
rode and sometimes packed his outfit
when the trails were steep and diffi
cult. Naturally, the man and horse
became attached to each other by their
close companionship and the little
marks of kindness shown in their lone
ly camps when lvellv would pet the
tired cayuse and perhaps give him a
handful of sugar before he fed him
for the night. It was remarked by
those who met them that the cayusel
showed an uncommon attachment for
Kelly.
Well, on arriving in town Jim staked
out his horse and betook himself to'
the Cosmos hotel and proceeded to
sample all kinds of liquor, prolonging
his spree until Sunday afternoon. All
day Friday, during pjriday night and
until late Saturday afternoon the cay
use waited, whinnying when anyone
approached, but viciously resenting - ,
any attempt to feed liim. About sun
set Saturday, his master not return
ing, the horse strained at his picket
rope till he finally succeeded in pulling
the picket pin. and, trailing the rope
behind him, he trotted up to the Cos?
mos, keeping up a prolonged whinny,
lie walked up the steps to the porch
nnd peered anxiously through the win
dows in search of his master. Tor 15
or 20 minutes he walked up and down
tHe porch, whinnying as though ia
great, pain. Then, after a long look in
to the windows, he left the porch and.
with head hanging near the ground,
hewalked into a stream of water,about
three feet deep, lay down on his sida
and buried his head under the water,
"The act was witnessed by me and
bv a number of others who Mere at
tracted by the horse's strange conduct.
We followed him clown to the creek.
There is no doubt lie deliberately com
mitted suicide. When Kelly came oft
his spree on Sunday a fid learned of the
cay use's death he secured assistance
and buried the faithful animal."—
Washington Star.
HIS BUSINESS ABILITY.
Aa Hauler On Youiitf Mr. Illaztli
Was a Gritty and Glorioui
Success.
This fair rnaid will have a handsome dot
some time, and it is the ambition of her
father to have her marry one whose fortune
will at least equal her own.
"1 want you to stop that young Blank call
ing here," he remarked, recently, in the au
tocratic way that some fathers have."He
has no prospects worth speaking of, there is
nothing to show that he has any business
ability, and I don't want him hanging around
here any more."
"What is business ability, papa?"
"Why, you know. Everybody knows, of
course. Let me see. Why, it's the ability to
see the main ehanc-e, to grab it, and hang on
till you get the money. That's what it is,
and there's plenty of young men in Detroit
that have it. Blank lacks it woefully."
"Oh, he does? I'm afraid, papa, that
you're speaking without proper information,
lie knows that I'll have SIOO,OOO seme time.
That is a main chance worth looking alter.
Mr. Blank saw it. He reached out and
grabbed for it. He's hanging on, and he s
going to get it. Do you happen to know ot
any other young man of his age and limited
opportunities whose business ability has as
sured him so handsome a fortune?"
The old gentleman's answrr sounded sus
piciously like smothered profanity, and it
was fully live minutes before the bewitching
creature could bring the sunshine of a smile
to his face. Now he tells a few confidential
friends that young Blank has the making of
one of the best business men in the city.—
Detroit Free l'ress.
SELFISH MAN PUNISHED.
A Little Train Incident That Gav«
Jiiatice-l.MviiiK l'annenKcra
Much Joy.
Passengers on an Atlantic City train a
few evenings ago were treated to a spectacle
of retributive justice that tickled them fa
mously. The car was crowded, and, as the
dust was flying pretty thickly, all the pas
sengers save one had their windows down.
This unpleasant exception was a disgruntled
looking party, with a plentiful growth of
weedy-looking whiskers, and these he al
lowed to sway in and out of the window with
the gustv zephyrs. Of course, he got none
of the (lust and cinders, for these always
blow in the seat directly behind. Iwo nicely
dressed women occupied these unfortunate
quarters, and, after suffering martyrdom for
about 'JO minutes, one of them asked the
"open-window liend" if he would ni.r.d put
ting the window down. "No! ' he replied,
gruffly. "It's too warm. If you don't like il
change your scat."
In front of the man sat a traveling man,
who took in the situation aba glance. Quick
as a flash he raised his window, and instant
er the flowing facial appendages of the man
behind began to perform a most fearful se
ries of gvrations. I lie dust speckled them,
and the wind twisted them. Their owner,
after a few moments ot such violence, got
red in the face and then put his window
down. A few moments later he leaned over
and asked the other passengers to shut off
the draught in a similar manner, but, to the
intense amusement and gratification of the
balance of the people In the car, who had
watched the little comedy all the way
through, the drummer, without so much as a
twinkle of the eye, replied: "No! It's toe
warm. If you don't like it change youi
seat!"— Philadelphia Record.
The pleasure in talking too much i« aj
short lived as that of eating heavily on t
weak stomach. —Atchison Globe.