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POLITICIAN AND THEltLAIXEBOOM.
The number of minor booms and per
sonal testimonials which are daily being
affixed to the great big Blaine boom must
furnish a curious study to the observant
citizen. It is a fact that the present
Blaine boom is about the most spontane
ous and honest expression for a public
man from the people that has been wit
nessed in this country since "the call in
lSrtS upon Grant to go to the AVhlte House.
Blaine's views upon the tariff, upon for
eign trade, upon our relations with
other countries, have been so much
clearer and more comprehensive than
those of any other leader in
the Republican party, that recognition of
his superior ability has become general
and earnest both within and without his
party. But this was made manifest in the
press and among the people long before
the politicians took up his candidacy for
1892. In the present instance, while Cam
eron and Quay, Dudley and Clarkson are
credited in some quarters as the power be
hind the throue which is obtaining the
daily expressions for Blaine, the real truth
is that these politicians are but following
the already well denned tide of public
opinion. They risk nothing iu casting
their fortunes with a popular movement
which, even if they were to ally them
selves with the administration, they
would be powerless to withstand. It has
been a foregone conclusion ever since
Blaine wrote his famous reciprocity letter
that, if alive and well, nothing could pre
vent his being the Republican candidate
for President in 1802.
Under the circumstances the political
leaders really need the Blaine boom very
much more than it needs them. The real
danger is that too many of them may at
tach themselves to it all at once. The
special and shining indorsements, for in
stance of Chairman Quay, Chairman An
drews, of Pennsylvania, Colonel Dudley
and others tacked on by some conventions
to expressions for Blaine, are no sort of
help to the latter.
The politicians are to be credited with
shrewd perception of the possible sources
of future lenefits for themselves inlaunch
ingtheir boats promptlyonwhathasall the
appearance of becoming a tidal wave; but
the movement of the mass of water does
not come from them. They merely float
upon the surface. It is the widespread
and earnest feeling among the people
that Blaine is by great .odds the most ca
pable man in the party, or indeed in pub
lic life in this country to-day, which is
making the stir.
inE RAILWAY ACCIDENT EPIDEMIC.
The open switch was the cause of the
collision which occurred to the New York
and Chicago limited yesterday morning.
Two lives paid the penalty of that care
lessness, and the only wonder is, from
speed of the train and the force of the
shock, that the slaughter was not more
wholesale. At nearly the same hour the
vestibule train on the Wabash road ran
into a heavy freight, with an equally provi
dential escape from a general destruction
of life.
The Fort Wayne collision appears from
Hie accounts to have been of the kind to
le charged to the carelessness of an em
ploye. The responsibility for the western
accident is not so easily settled. But it is
plain that such accidents can not occur
without negligence somewhere; and the
higher up the responsibility is located the
more grave is the negligence. The epi
demic of railway accidents really sigui
lies an epidemic of carelessness.
a voice thom the trusts.
The Albany Evening Journal is making
a persistent though rather belated asser
tion of its unshaken loyalty to the trusts
by referring to the present low price of
sugar as an evidence that the trust is all
right and has never had a monopoly. It
asserts that the "demagogic outcries" have
led the people to believe that "it had mo
nopolized the sugar refining facilities of
the iand," but that Spreckels has always
competed with it. To which it adds "that
the trust was organized as a reaction
from the excessive competition which had
lendered sugar refining unprofitable."
A person of very moderate intelligence
would find no difficulty in asking how, if
tV trust did not suspend competition
which forms the essential feature of a mo
nopoly, it would do any good as a reaction
against the alleged excessive competition.
The inquiry, however, is rendered the less
important from two facts which fh trust
organ carefully suppresses in it-- advocacy
of the Sugar Trust The first is that
bpreckels did not compte with the Sugar
Trust east of the Rocl. Mountains during
the period in which iK control of the mar
ket was most absolute and extortionate.
His establishment of a competing refinery
in Philadelphia was a result of the high
prices which the trust established, and
illustrates the principle, which The Dis
rvrcn has always maintained, that unless
the tmst possess, as the Standard Oil
( ompany has heretofore, some lever for
choking off new competition, they will
bring at once their own remeuy and their
own punishment by calling new establish
ments into existence.
The other fact this champion of the
trusts suppresses is no less significant
The article is based on the statements of a
New Tork telegram with regard to the re
duction in the wholesale prices of refined
sugar. Tnat telegram states, and the
trust organ scrupulously omits to mention,
that two years ago sugar sold at 8Xc, while
now it is a fraction below 4c. The reduc
tion in duty on the raw sugars used by the
refineries averages about 2c This
leaves the margin of 2s as the extra
price which the trust levied on sugars
while it had a monopoly of the trade.
This represented a burden on the people
while it lasted of a little over 880,000,000 a
year. With that fact before usthe thread
bare claim that trusts do not enhance
prices to the consumer is" shown to be a
shallow fraud.
As to the claim that there was "exces
sive competition" in sugar refining prior
to the organization of the trust, two facts
furnish a complete rwily: first, there was
uot as much competition as there is since
its operations have had their full result;
second, the sugar industrj prior to .the
trust was well known to be a solvent and
prosperous interest Its members, when
the market became overstocked and un
profitable, had the same liberty as farmers
and iron manufacturers and the great mass
of the people of suspending operations or
seeking some less crowded field of indus
trj". A S.MALL GOLD FRKjnUM.
For some time the New Tork money
market has made a distinction between
loans payable in gold and those payable in
any class of legal tender. This has at
tracted attention. By charging $ per
cent higher interest on the latter than on
the former a premium is practically placed
on gold. The fact has elicited wide com
ment in the Eastern press, which gener
ally holds it up as an example of the re
sults of the agitation for free silver coin
age. The appearance of an actual though
slight premium on gold is a legitimate
argument to show how any disturbance of
the monetary confidence can create an ap
preciation of the metal which is in uni
versal demand for monetary use, or a cor
responding depreciation in the forms of
money which arc available for use only in
a single country. In that light the con
dition of the money market referred to is
a cogent argument with reference to what
we ma- expect if free silver coinage is
adopted. But it is certainly premature to
regard it as a result of the agitation in
favor of that measure for two reasons,
either one of which should be sufficient.
If the temporary slight premium is to bo
referred to silver measures at all, it is
plainly more referable to the silver legis
lation actually in effect than to that which
is not an existing condition, but is only a
proposition for the future. If the pre
mium on gold should become higher, it is
plain that those who wish gold can pre
sent legal tenders at the Treasury and de
mand specie in payment. But, if the
Treasury under the present law has so
large a share of its reserve in silver that it
is forced to meet these demands with pay
ments in whole or in part in silver coin,
the correctness of the prescience Involved
in the premium would be vindicated. That
free silver coinage will create a gold pre
mium of 15 or 20 per cent is beyond ra
tional dispute. But it is by no means cer
tain that the policy of loading up the
Treasury with 54,000,000 of silver annu
ally will not more gradually reach the
same goal; and so far as the premium re
ported from New Tork has any bearing
on the question, it is most strongly related
to the latter cause.
It is questionable, however, whether the
silver question has very much to do with
the small and probably transient prefer
ence for gold indicated in the New Tork
loan market Impartial investigation will
probably show it to be mainly-due to the
scarcity of gold caused by recent exporta
tion of that metal, and the efforts of the
banks to strengthen their reserves in ex
pectation of the fall drain of money to tho
interior.
LAW AND PRIVILEGE.
In a recent address ex-Senator Ingalls
referred to the unequal distribution of
wealth as one of the threatening evils of
the day. Having said this, he proceeded
to show how little he really knew of the
causes which produce the great inequali
ties of wealth by the following utter
ances: I have searched in vain to discover any
legislation that did not bear equally upon
Jay Gonld and mj self and thoother citizens
of "the United States. All have equal claims,
so far a I know, and the only reason I know
why I am not a millionaire is because I had
not brains enough to become one.
The famous picture "The Ai.gelus" brought
$100,000. No citizen was prevented from
painting it. It only required a few tubes of
color, a camelshair brush, a small square of
canvas, and brains. The paltry dauber who
paints pictures for $2 50 apiece thinks he is a
victim.
The New Tork Tribune, in quoting the
above from Senator Ingalls' speech, re
ferred to it as "a whole truth under the
half jest" Tet the Tribune, in a mo
ment of unwonted frankness, not very
long ago, exposed in a few lines one of the
abuses of railway management, by which
promoters of new lines load down the
companies with watered stock and try to
sell the inflated securities to investors
who, as the Tribune said, really pay for
the road. If that journal had stopped to
remember its interval of outspoken truth
it would have realized that there is one
case in which the effort to make immense
fortunes is by hoodwinking the public
into investing in securities representing
two or three times the actual cost of se
curities. It is true the law that Is, the theory of
well considered and honestly adminls-J
tercdlaw does not give one man advan
tage over another. But to stop there is to
tell a very small part of the truth. For
the nullification and defiance of the law
have afforded too many opportunities to
pile up immense fortunes at the cost of
the people to permitthat feature of the day
to be overlooked in considering the causes
of unequal distribution of wealth. It is
against the law for great corporations, or
individuals cither, to combine in order to
suppress competition and enhance the
cost of staple productions; but fortunes
are made that way. It always has been
contrary to the law for railway corpora
tions to discriminate in favor of one ship
per and against another; but a large share
of the great fortunes of the day have their
root In that abuse.
The Tribune remarks that "Law does
not enable one man to project or to build
a railroad rather than another." It Is
true, but there are other influences than
law at work. It is not so many years ago
since the combined edict of the corpora
tion magnates went forth that a railroad
in process of construction through the
State of Pennsylvania should not be built
And although they had to defy the Con
stitution of Pennsylvania, the corporation
edict proved stronger than the funda
mental law of this State. This was fol
lowed very shortly by a compact between
the railroad magnates and the great bank
ers of New Tork, which decreed in effect
that no one should be permitted to build
new railroads in the trunk line territory
except the trunk lines themselves. With
these facts on record the plea, that law
does not prevent one man from building
railroads rather thsn another, is a some
what pitiful evasion of the real record.
No sensible man objects to the wealth
gained by superior skill, intelligence, in
ventiveness or frugality in the legitimate
efforts of life. But it is the wealth gained
by devising means to hoodwink, deceive or
burden the public to which objection is
legitimate. In the vast majority of such
cases they are direct evasions or nullifica
tions of the theory, and generally of thelet
terpf thelaw. Itisalsothefactthatnearly
every great fortune created within the
present generation owes its start or its
augmentation to some such violations of
justice, honesty and law. If Senator
Ingalls and the Tribune really wished in
formation on these points, they would find
little difficulty in obtaining evidence of
the rule of special privileges and favorit
ism by which the fortunes of the day are
made.
PETROLEUM FOR NAVAE FUEL.
The usefulness of petroleum for fuel for
steamships, and especially for war vessels,
is discussed in detail In an article else
where in this issue. The conclusion may
be summarized to the effect that at points
where the petroleum fuel can be stored
and delivered without too great a differ
ence over the cost of coal, its superior con
venience in handling, the greater amount
that can be stored in the same bulk and
the absence of "smoke give it decided ad
vantages. The facts stated have great
cogency, and since the greater share of the
cost of coal at distant stations lies in the
cost of its transportation thither, it seems
probable that the relatively smaller cost of
transporting petroleum would make its
comparative cost less, the further away
the station was. Should this fuel come
into general use for naval purposes, of
course the cheap Ohio oils would be drawn
up; but the enlarged demand for that
product would have a stimulating effect
on the market for Pennsylvania's superior
product, by the relief from the competition
of Ohio oil.
TOE MISSISSIPPI PLAN.
The experiment tried in the new Mis
sissippi Constitution professedly for the
purpose of restricting the ignorant and
reckless suffrage is attracting attention.
The Boston Traveller refers to the feature
requiring voters to pay a poll-tax of 82 per
capita, four months in advance of the an
nual election, as "a plan for getting rid of
the colored vote," which has been suc
cessful, as three-fourths of the negroes of
the State have neglected the provision and
are consequently unregistered.
So far as this one feature is concerned it
is difficult to see any injustice if it is im
partially applied. A provision of that sort
docs not differ in principle from tho Penn
sylvania provision that voters must have
paid at least a poll tax assessed two
months and paid one month before elec
tion. If any class do not place enough
value on their electoral franchises to com
ply with a known provision of this sort,
as is alleged of the Mississipgl colored
people, the inference that they are not
very valuable voters is obvious.
A rather different view is to be taken of
the other Mississippi feature of an educa
tional qualification for suffrage. Here the
theory is unexceptionable. Any State has
the right to require a certain degree of
education in its voters, and "it is a praise
worthy step if the educational standard is
not juggled with. But when it is asserted
by an outspoken Democratic paper like
the New Tork Advertiser that the Missis
sippi qualification is applied so as to rule
out colored voters while admitting
ignorantwhitestosuffrage, thecase against
the fairness and honesty of Mississippi is
rather strong.
The South should learn, and a faith in
the progress of the human race includes the
belief that it will, that the solution of the
negro problem lies in giving whites and
blacks an exactly equal, treatment before
the law.
The New York World, which shares with
some of the K. of L. leaders the work of
booming the Constitutional Convention, says
the convention proposition was supported
by the Democrats and opposed by the Be
publican managers. At the same time the
K.ofL. leaders declare they are going to
support the Republicans because the latter
gave them the convention. There seems to
be a necessity for tho supporters of the con
vention to arrange a little more harmony in
their alleged statements of fact.
Ingalls says that he has not brains
enough to be a millionaire. This may be
true; but if anyone else should intimate that
Ingalls has less brains than Elliot F. Shep
ard, for example, there would be bitter back
talk. '
It is pleasant to learn from the London
financial market that "Hopefulness about
Argentines sustains tho general tone." It is
always gratifying to hear that hope is gild
ing an otherwise dark horizon. But the in
formation that Londoners can discover any
thing hopeful in the Argentine inflation in
dicates that Lombard street must have an
element of the sanzuine character of our
own Thomas V. Cooper.
In the era when fiat resignations are in
order, it would seem pertinent to suggest
that Governor-Senator Hill, of New York,
and Senator-Congressman Robinson, of
Pennsylvania, might let go of a few offices.
The pointed suggestion of the Washing
ton Post that some one should arrange a reci-.
procity treaty between Governor Campbell,
of Ohio, and the Democratic platform of
that State, enrries with it the pertinence of
tho same effort including the establishment
of cordial relations between tho Republican
legislators of Pennsylvania and the Repub
lican platform of this State.
NOTWITHSTANDING the frequent demon
strations of its impossibility the effort to
make two trains pass each other on the
same track has been frequently attempted1
.of late, with the usual disastrous results.
Bbown is elected Governor of Kentucky,
and Brown is going to be tho next Governor
of Maryland. Also Bill Brown and Jones
who pays the freight are rising lights in the
Democratic politics of New York. If this
tning goes much further tho Smith family
will have to take possession of the Repub
lican party and run opposition in sheer self
justification. THE final conclusion of the Finance Com
mittee that something had better bo done to
meet the payments for street improvement
is a commendable perception of tho situation
that was manifest some months ago.
It is said the Tilden heirs-have effected a
compromise by which the fund intended for
a library will be handed over somewhat
diminished though not so much so as it
would have been by litigation. The fact and
the statement afford a striking commentary
on the uncertainties of will-making and the
certainty with which litigation will eat up
the funds.
The World's Fair missionaries have
arrived at Berlin, and Major Moses P. Handy
will now proceed to instruct the German
Emperor what it really means to be an auto
crat of the dinner table.
It must be remarked that when General
Veazey, the late commander of the G. A. B.,
said In his address concerning pensions, that
"if the present enactment is not the wisest,
It is liberal," he came close to damning the
party from which ho has received a very
good office with the faintest of praise.
Ax the rate at which New Tork is going,
Kentucky will have to got ready to hand J
over the championship of being the great
hip-pocket State.
The esteemed city cotemporary which
bulletined yesterday, the "death of the great
Proctor Knott." perpetrated a severe though
perhaps unintentional satire on the states
man after whom the defunct racehorse was
named.
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
The wrong man is sometimes in the
write, place In newspaper offices.
The past is gone, of course, but the
memory lingers. Perhaps, like some others,
you prefer to leave It behind a blank p&ge
In the book of life, a missing link In the
chain of years. But why seek to wipe it off
the diary of the days? Surely something
some act, influence, error, pain orjoy bas
helped you solve tho riddle or life up to the
present. Glance back and look it over now
and see if you cannot pluck from the clouds
or the sunshine some tears or some smiles
that have followed you on. Are the voices
that como over the hills, across
the waters, through the forests, dis
cordant or melodious nowt Are the
words that echo down the days hurtful or
helpful? Are the errors lasting or is the
lesson they taught fraught with the fruit
that ripens on tliq bough of bitter experi
ence? Are the hopes that cheered the young
heart all blasted now dead leaves, scentless
blossoms, bitter buds? Hardly. Instead
out of tho youthful fears sprang manly
hopes. Out of tho errors of the past grew
the earnest endeavors of the present. Into
tho dead leaves which fell and enriched the
soil the seed was sown -which grew the flow
ers now twmeu in tne rope tnat Dinus tne
past to the present. Don't bury tho past
beyond resurrection. Place it out of sight
if you will, but not beyond reach. If the
past is a ghost laugh at it, because it cannot
harm. Make of it a memory, for in its recol
lections you will find more helps than hurts,
more sweets than sours.
When pleasure becomes hard
stop it.
work
- The little boy always enjoys the sonny
side of life.
A long pnrse too often means a short
life.
If all smoke nuisance cases end in a
non-soot the town will soon become sun
nier. Cupid Not a Chef.
He sent her a cookbook, and wrote on thei
leaf:
"Study this, dear, and happy we'll be."
Next day she returned it with this state-J
ment brief:
"Love is made without a recipe."
Bbead cast upon the waters indicates
that somebody has been seasick.
If there's luck in small numbers the
"straight-outs" will get there all right.
If we wrote our own epitaphs our con-i
science would probably trouble its at the last
moment.
Pianists shonld make clever baseball
players, as they easily make runs.
A girl can learn to handle-a beau with
out taking violin lessons.
Some folk are so unfortunate that-they
cannot even raise an umbrella.
The women cry for the ballot and the
men howl for the ballet.
'Tis far better to put a porch on your
modest little home than a mortgage.
The punctual husband gets the warm
meal.
The press is a great moral engine, and
it needs condensers, too.
From Affluence to Poverty.
m,
phi,
Bill,
nut
The correspondent not Infrecruentlv'
-turns out to he the co-respondent.
There's reason in all things except a
disappointed woman.
Home comforts are a necessity In winter'
time, especially if the gas is weak.
The riding habit is not a bad habit, if It
fits well.
It does appear strange to read about so
many divorces taking plaoe at the Court
House.
The nut-brown maid is a summer chest
nut. No doubt the sea still holds plenty of
good fish, but all of us cannot afford to own
tho regulation tackle.
If there was a woman in the moon
instead of a man it would not get full so
often.
A Philadelphia editor asks: Where
are the people? Some are at the seashore
and some are in jail.
Made a Note of It.
He met her in a shady nook;
"Who are you. Miss?" he said.
She then produced a tiny hook;
"See! I'm a diary maid."
The seaside souvenir spoon will either
bring up sweet memories or visions of
breach of promise.
If you call too often on your Anti Pyrin
you will regret it.
Burning kisses necessarily follow a
spark.
The elevation of the stage means the.
lowering of the ballet costume.
Watermelons
cramped quarters.
generally go Into
People who are'eontent with their lot
live in the fashionable real estate quarter.
Silver-tongued orators will be quoted
high in Ohio during the coming campaign.
The girl who would sooner learn to ride
a bicycle than cook a meal will some day
make one man's lot miserable.
Wealth That Brings Misery.
The coal that builds up homes so grand,
And gives their owners wealth to boot,
Likewise besmears your collar and
Shows that we are not hard to soot
The waiter is always ready to extend a
helping hand.
The Sound boats are probably consid
ered safe by tourists who cannot rightly
comprehend our peculiar language.
How would Budd Doble do for chief of
the weather bureau? He can handle the
reins, you know.
The old-timer who wrote about the
everlasting hills never saw a steam shovel.
With so many gents' furnishing stores
all over the land there should be ho excuse
for old maidenhood.
The Democratic cloud has a silver lin
ing without the shadow of a doubt.
The wages of sin are too often better
than those secured by the hired man.
The sweets of life are easier to get than
the sours. Not one cook in twenty knows
how to prepare a good salad.
"The short horse frequently wins tho
long race.
Perhaps ships are classed in the femi
nine list because they are not of much use
unless well manned.
The breath of life is too frequently
cented'wth cloves. Willis Wikkle.
CONSIDESED HIS HELBS.
He Disposed of His Stock Before the Road
Killed Him.
New York Becorder.
The road was uneven and there were nu
merous sharp curves, and as the train wa3
running at a high rate of speed it was any
thing but comfortable for tho passengers.
Sometimes it actually seemed as though all
the wheels on ono side of the Pullman wero
off the rail at once.
This didn't serve to put any of the passen
gers at case, but it seemed to have a particu
larly bad effect on a little old fellow near
the middle of tho car, says the Chicago
Tribune. He grew more and more nervous
with ovoryjeik of the car, and finally called
the porter to him.
"How soon will we reach a place where I
can send a dispatch? ' he asked.
'"Bout ten minutes, sah," was the reply.
"All right. Bring me a telegraph blank."
It was brought, and he hastily scribbled
the following message to a New York broken
"Sell all my stock in X and Z road at once
and at any price vou can get."
"You don't seem to have much confidence
in the road," said the man in the next seat,
who had read the dispatch over the little
man's shoulder.
"I haven't," was the terse reply.
"You don't think it has much of a future,
apparently?"
"Future be hanged?" returned tho little
man. "I was thinking of the present ana
my family."
"Your family!" exclaimed the stranger.
"What has your family got to do with it?"
"Everything, my f nend, everything," ex
plained the little man, "and if you were any
thing of a financier you'd see it. I' e got to
ride 200 miles on this road yet, and how
would it look for my familv to sue the road
for damages that, it secured, would practi
cally come out ot my estate? No sir; I'll
allow this dispatch 20 minutes to reach New
York, and I'll allow the broker 25 minutes
to dispose of the stock. If this blamed car
kcops the rails for 45 minutes moio some
one else will be stuck for dnmages if I climb
the golden stairs. And if she holds the rolls
for the whole 200 miles 1 can buy the stock
back If I want it and go back by another
road."
EVABTS' BEADY BET0BT.
How He Got Ahead of Senator Hoar, Who
Thought Him Slow.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Senator William Maxwell Evarts is known
in Washington as being the ,most dilatory
man in Congress, and many amusing
instances have occurred through his habit
of procrastination. Long after tho Christmas
recess last winter no meeting of the Senate
Committee on Library, of which he was
Chairman, had been called, which fact
caused considerable surpriso among the
other members of the committee.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, was one
of them, and while he was sitting on a sofa
in the cloakroom one day conversing with
Senator Frye, of Maine, along walked Mr.
Evarts in deep thought, with bowed head
and hands clasped behind his back. Said
Senator Hoar:
"Evarts, I wish that when you do call a
meeting of the Library Committee that you
would have the extreme kindness to notify
my executors of the fact."
Senator Evarts Just stopped in his walk
long enough on hearing this to say in his
dryest tones:
"Senator Hoar, allow me to assure you
that nothing would afford me greater
pleasure."
It is naedlcs.3 to state that Senator Hoar
did not again remind Mr. Evarts of his
neglect to order a meeting of the Senate
Committee on Library.
SH0BT SEBM0H IN FIGURES.
How tho McKlnley Bill Acted In Regard to
the Sugar Market.
New York Press.!
The contest between Mr. Claris Spreckels
and the sugar trust has emphasized the ben
efits that the people of the United State3
enjoy from the free sugar clause ofthoMc
Kinley bill. Granulated sugar Is selling to
day from the Spreckels refineries at 4 cents
per pound, with 2 per cent off for oash, mak
ing the price really 3 92 cents. The trust has
closely followed the Spreckels price. In Au
gust, 1889, granulated sugar was selling at 8L
cents. When the McKinloy bill went into
effect it was selling at 6 cents.
For the fiscal year ending .Tune 30, 1S90, we
imported nearly 3,000,000,000 pounds of sugar.
The difference of 2 cents in price repre-,
sents a yearly saving to the American peo
ple of $75,000,000.
Every housekeeper in America saves a
small part of this enormous sum. The tariff
on sugar was purely a revenue tariff. It
was levied not for protection, but for in
come. The Republican party promised to
reduce the surplus revenue, and its greatest
cut was made on this prime necessity of life.
The sugar trust, as well as every Demo
cratic organ in the country, opposed it. The
Mills bill, as passed by the Democratic
House of Representatives, retained the high
tariff on sugar. Ask your Democratic neigh
bor which party he now thinks was right.
OF KOBE 0B LESS PE0MINENCE.
The poor old Austrian Kaiser, who has
taken little interest in life since Crown
Prince Rudolph's death,has become a devotee
of planchette.
Mona Caied's '"Romance of the Moors"
is the first English novel to be copyrighted
in this countiy under the now law. Moua
cared enough about it to take the trouble 0
secure protection; and she got it.
The wife of Senator-elect Hansbrough, of
North Dakota, had almost recovered from
her recent serious and prolonged Illness a
fortnight ago when sho went out for a drive
and had a relapse. Her life Is now despaired
of.
Miss Molly James, who has just been
married at Memphis to a Mr. Villoue, is a.
niece of G. P. R. James, whose "solitary
horseman" is as famous on the land as the
"long, low, rakish-looking craft" is in sea
tales.
General John Eaton, at one time
United States Commissioner of Education,
and latterly President of Marietta College,
Ohio, bas resigned the latter post, in order
to devote his time to educational lectuilng
and writing.
Boulanger stalks about the streets of
Brussels, "remote, unfriendly, melancholy,
slow." There is not much about the former
"brav' General" to excite admiration nowa
days. His figure has proved to be too small
for the trappings of greatness.
The trustees of the Western Minnesota
Seminary have been petitioned to change
the name of that institution so as to perpetu
ate that of General Harrison's late Secretary
of the Treasury. "Windom Institute" is
what it is proposed to call tho school.
James Lane Allen, the Kentucky
writer, is a tall and slender man, with a
grave face. He can tell a story at a dinner
table as well as inn printed volume. He
looks somowhat Use the typical pedagogue,
and in lact began his career as a teacher.
Sig. Crispi is declared to have a passion
for the nightingale's song, which ho loses no
opportunity of hearing. Word was brought
him recently that a particularly melodious
nightingale was warbling in the ruins of the
Coliseum, ona tue story goes tnat crispl
came near Doing shot by a sentry that night
as he was making his way to a point of
vantage near by.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE.
M. HEinl Litolff, the weU-known musician
and composer, is dead.
Mas. Mart McCobmick, sister-in-law of Sena
tor Cameron, died at Harrisburg Thursday.
Mrs. Eliza Merritt, widow of Daniel Merritt,
died at her home in Mlildleliope, near Newburg.N.
Y Wednesday, aged 87 years. She was one of the
most widely fcuown ladies living in that section,
bhe leares lour children.
B. F. Camp, cx-Assemblyman of the Third dis
trict of Westchester county, died Thursday at
Furdy's station, N. Y. Mr. Camp was 75 ears of
aire and was one of the oldest stockholders in the
fanoe and Leather Bank, New York.
Ex-Governor Samuel B. Axtell died Thurs
day at the residence of hli son-in-law, Charles M.
Phillips, in Morrlstown, N. J., after a brief Ill
ness He was born In FrankUn county, O., Octo
ber 14, 1819, and was educated at Oberlln and West
ern Beserve colleges.
John J. Cochran, an Assistant Enrgeon In the
United States army, with the rank of Captain, died
Thursday atSt. Luke's Hospital, New York, after
a lingering Illness of typhoid feyer. Captain
Cochran was a native of Cambridge, Mass., where
he was born in 1853.
MISS Dollie Smith, one of Maine's most tal
ented artists. Is dead, aged 67. She had occupied a
stndio In New York and Boston. Among the more
notable of her works was the painting from Long
fellow's poem, "Hiawatha," which occnpled a
prominent position la the Memorial Hall exhibition
at Philadelphia.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
It Brought Up Interesting Reminiscence.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
I am indebted to a Pittsburg lady for The
Dispatch of recent date. My attention was
attracted by pencil marks to an interesting
article from the pen of Mr. L. E. Stoflel con
cerning the Brackenridge family, famous in
the early history of Western Pennsylvania.
The older, H. II." Brackenridge, was able and
distinguished as a lawyer and Judae.and not
less distinguished as a scholar and writer;
whilo the son, H. M. Brackenridge, althougn
not tho equal of his father as a wit and humor
ist, was his equal, if not superior, as a writer
and seholar. I was an early admirer of the
Brackenridges, lather and son. While a law
student in the vicinity of Chapel Hill, X. C,
in 1824 I read "Modern Chivnlry," written by
the elder Brackenridge, and while yet a boy
read "The History of the War of 1S12," writ
ten by the younger Brackenridge, and long
afterward I read his "Recollections of the
West" and his "History of the Whisky In
surrection," as published in the Southern Lit
erary Messenger. Judce then of the pleasure
and gratification I felt In reading your cor
respondent's sketch of tho two eminent men.
Unwittingly, however, he has fallen into
an erior touching an incident in the life of
Judge II. H. Brackenridge. In allusion to
the affair between General Lee and Brack
enridge atPhlla elplnalnl782 your corre
spondent says: "In 1871! Judge. Brackenridge
was editor of the United States Mas.ari.neaX
Philadelphia. He had written some severe
strictures of the character of Light Horse
Harry Lee for his course toward Gcorgo
Washington. General Lee, in a rage, called
at the office in company with some of his
aids with the intention of assaulting the
editor. He knocked nt the door, while
Brackenridgclooking out of the upper story
window, inquired what was wanting.
" 'Come down,' said Lee, 'and I'll give you
as good a horse whipping as any rascal over
received.'
" 'Excuse me. General,' said Brackenridge,
I would not go down for two such favors. "
It was not Light Horse Harry Lee but
General Charles Lee who fianred fn tho ad
venture with Brackenridge at Philadelphia.
Ever since Washington's severe rebuke of
Lee at the battle of Monmouth for his dis
orderly retreat before the enemy Lee bad
been publishing harsh and bitter strictures
on the character and military conduct of
Washington. A reply to these strictures
and counter criticisms on Lee's conduct at
Monmouth, published in Brackenridge's
magazine, was the cause of the strange
meeting between Lee and Brackenridge
which greatly amused and entertained the
Phlladelphlans.
And now for Light Horse Harry (General
Henry Lee). He was the personal and polit
ical friend of Washington, and I hazard
nothing in saying he was never known to in
dulge in disparaging criticisms of the char
acter or conduct of Washington either as a
soldier or statesman. On the death of Wash
ington General Henry Lee, then a member
of Congress from Virginia, was selected to
deliver the funeral oration before the two
Houses of Congress.
I was under the impression that in that
oration, which I have not seen for many
years, tho words occur for tho first timoin
their application to Washington: "First in
war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of
his countrymen." But in looking into tho
speech of John Marshall, afterward tho
great Chief Justice, announcing to the
House of Representatives the death of
Washington, I find those identical words
used and applied to Washington. Marshall's
announcement must have preceded Lee's
oration. I feel assured your correspondent
will pardon the intrusion of a stranger.
Jesse Tcrmeb.
Yak Bubek, Ark., August 1.
Talk About the Stars.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The astronomical article republished from
a metropolitan Journal in last Monday's Dis
patcu was so full of errors and mistate
ments that I cannot refrain from making e,
lew corrections.
In one place in the article, it was stated
that Neptune was the only morning star at
the beginning of August. The truth is that
both Venus and Mars were morning stars at
that date, although tne latter was too close
to the sun to be visible. In another place is
found the assertion that "Mars is no longer
an evening star, his appearance at that time
having ceased three days ago.
Mars is nota very bright planet Just now.bnt
may easily be seen shining in the southwest
ern sky at an altitude of 45 degrees above
the horizon." Three days after conjunction
with the sun to be seen at an altitude of 45
degrees, before sunrise, and in an opposite
quarter of the 9ky! No one familiar with the
clocklike regularity of the motions of the
planets would have suspected one of them
being capable of such a meteoric motion ns
that! It Is also asserted that Neptune is -at
present difficult to see with the naked eye,
whereas It is never visible without optical
aid. Another glaring mlstatement la
here quoted: "As soon as the sun is
down and after Jupiter bas made
its appearance, Venus becomes the
most brilliant planet in the Western sky."
The absurdity of that statement is very ap
parent to close observers of the sky. Jupiter
does not rise until more than an hour after
sunset, and Venus throughout the month
sets before tho sun, and by the time Jupiter
appears above the Eastern horizon, Venus
is more than 15 below the Western.
The statement that Saturn may be seen
e very night until September 13 is also wrong,
as he is then in conjunction with the-sun
and becomes invisible three weeks previous
to that date.
The riter makes still another error when
be says that "Arcturus passes slightly nearer
the North Pole towaid the close of the
month, and gains in brilliancy." Arcturus
is a fixed" star, and apparently, to the
naked eye, maintains the same distance
from the North Pole of the heavens, year
after year. The writerprobably meant that,
at a given time each evening, the star Arc
turus is seen nearer the north point of the
horizon, and consequently at a lower alti
tude. Arcturus is not gaining in brilliancy,
as the writer avors.
The article is closed with tho statement
that "Canopus, ono of the;biggost fixed stars,
shines bngntly m the ourly evening." The
star Canopus is never visible in the latitude
of Pittsburg. To get a view of that brilliant
star a Pittsburgor would have to travel
south almost as far as New Orleans, and
even there it cannot be seen at its best, as it
culminates at a very low altitude. Only
south of the equator, whereit describes a
long diurnal arc, and culminates at a high
altitude, is Canopus seen in its brightest
aspect. H. A. M. Cross.
COMSOQCEHESSIHO, PA., August 6.
The Indian Schools Question.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In your issuo July 28 your Washington
correspondent, Mr. Lightner, in an article
on Commissioner Morgan, asserted that tho
Catholic Indian Bureau was an experwe to
tho Interior Department, that tho money in
tended for the education of the Indians was
applied to other purposes. The Wheeling
Intelligencer published Mr. Lightner's corre
sponaenco and spoke in very high terms of
Mr. L., and thus at least seemed to indorse
his assertion. Mr. Morgan, as stated in the
New York World August 1, "is now satisfied
that the Catholic Mission Board is not a
mere expensive middle man between the
Government and the Indian schools. He
finds that every dollar goes direct to the
sohools, the expenses of the board being pro
vided for by tho denomination to which it
belongs, and is candid cnougli to officially so
state." Will you correct Mr. Lightner's
erroneous statement? This is important in
view of the wide circulation of your paper
and its influence J cstice.
Wheelisq, W. Va., August 6.
It Was UlnJ. William Croghan.
To the Editor of The DISDatch :
Was there a Colonel or Captain William
Croghan connected with the curly history
of Fittsburg? If so, was he tin officer in the
"War of the Rebellion?" In what regiment
did ho serve, etc.? veteran.
New Castle, August 4.
Tho gentleman evidently referred to was
Major William Crogham, a native of Ireland,
who came to this country when quite young,
lie settled in Virginia. In 1773 he was a
captain in Fourth hegiment of the Virginia
line and was later promoted to major. He
carao to Fort Pitt on July 6, 1782. In 1784 he
moved to Kentucky.
Wants to Go to Africa.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Having noticed in your paper the an
nouncement of an African exploring expe
dition I write you for further information.
Where does the expedition start from and
what length of time does it require? What
talary do they pay? W. B.
Bellevebnon, Pa., August 6.
The expedition is to start from Tunis. No
salaries are paid, but on the contrary a man
must pay $43 a week to be allowed to go
nlong. It is evidently a money-making
scheme.
Wants Pay Twice a Month.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
Please explain the semi-weeklv pay bill
When does it go into effect? Justice.
ROUSEVILLfi, .FA., August 6.
There is no such law. The Legislature
passed a semi-monthly pay law, and it has
gone into effect. It is not being enforced,
but many firms have observed its provisions
since its enactment.
FATE IS A TEACUP.
Spooning Couples Should Learn All Their
Lessons by Heart.
New York Advertiser.
Here are a few old superstitions regarding
the ever-friendly cup that cheers: ir while
tho tea is being made and the lid, which has
been removed to pour in the water, is for
gotten, it Is a sure sign that some one will
"drop in to tea."
If a single person happens to have two
spoons In his or her saucer, it is a prediction
that the fortunate (or unfortunate?) drinker
of that partieularcup will bo married within
a year from that date.
If you put cream in your cup before the
sugar it will "cross your love," so bo very
careful.
If a tea stalk floats in thecup.it is called
a "beau," and when this Is seen unmarried
women should stir their tea very quickly
round and round and round, and then hold
the spoon upright in the center of the cup.
If the "beau" is attracted to the spoon and
clings to it, he will be sure to call very
shortly, if not the same evening, but if the
stalk goes to the side of the cup he will not
come.
Examine the tea leaves in your cup if yon
are plebeian enouah to boil your tea instead
of drawing it in the refined and dainty
fashion, for a lot of leaves mean money and
fortune.
If you want to know how many years will
elapse before you may expect to be mar
ried, balance your spoon on the edge of your
cup, first noting that it is perfectly drv, fill
another spoon partly with tea, and holding
it above the balanced spoon, let the drops of
tea gather to the tip or the spoon and gen
tly fall into the bowl of the ono below.
Count the drops each one stands for a
year.
It is a sign of fair weather if the cluster or
small air bubbles formed by the sugar col
lect and remain in the center of the cup. If
they rnsh to the sides it will surely rain be
foie night.
When the toast is made, three or four thin
slices of bread must to cut the whole length
of the loaf and placed oneover the other.
This done, they must all be cut in half with
one sweep of the knife. If this is done by a
young woman, and the slices are not sev
ered clean through to the plate, she will not
be married within the year; if the bread
parts in two even heaps, sho might as well
order her trosean. On no account must she
take the last piece of toast or bread on the
plate, unless she wishes to be an old maid.
WHY HOBSES GO 1AME.
A Coachman Gives Away Some of the Se
crets of the Stable.
Chicago Tribune.
A coachman who f up to the tricks of
his trade says that there are more ways
than one for an honest coachman to make a
livinor.
"Of course," he explained, "no boss is
goin' to buy a horse without consulting his
coachman. If he docn, that horse will go
lame, sure."
"How's that?"
"It'll gO lame, sure, and the boss'll have to
sell It for what he can get, and lucky if he
can get half the price. Then he won't try to
cheat an honest coachman out of his com
mission. Nqt the second time, see?"
Thereupon the honest coachman explained
why a "boss" who buys a horse without con
sulting the autocrat of his stables is sure to
have a lame animal on his hands.
"It's this way," he remarked, "any honest
man as respects himself will pull a hair out
or that horse's tail and 'thread? it in a noedle.
Then he'll lift up that front leg of that horse
and 'hunch up' in his fingers the skin be
tween the outer and middle tendons, see?
Shovo the needle through, cut off the hair at
each end, and let down tho foot. There's
nothing to see, is there?"
"Suppose not."
"Well, that horso'll go lame in 20 min
utes." THE RUSSIANS AND THE FBEHCH.
Many Rumors Are Flying Around About.
Their Friendship.
Paris, Aug. 7. Rumors concerning the re
sults of the recent visit of the French fljet
to Cronstadt, and close friendship between
France and Russia, continue to be circulated
in all classes of society, and there is much
conjecture as to what the outcome of the
conferences between the representations of
the two nations will be.
Le Paix to-day publishes an article which, ,
if true, will put an end to all conjecture.
That paper says that Baron Mohrenheim,
the Russian Ambassador to France, has re
ceived a cipher dispatch from the Russian
Foreign Minister announcing that a treaty
of alliance between Russia and France has
beou signed.
No, Not a Great Deal.
Pawtocket Times. 3
Last Sunday the New York papers printed
I an advertisement of a Brooklyn firm offer
ing gray wool OlanRets, weighing four
pounds, at $1. The duty on those blankets
is $1 93. Does this look as though the tariff
is a tax?
PEOPLE WHO COME AHD GO.
Colonel Samuel B. Dick, the Meadvillc
banker, was attending to business in Pitts
burg yesterday. He is proud of the Pitts
burg, Lake Erie and Shenango road, which
he pushed through to completion. The line,
in connection with tho Nickel Plate, makes
a short route to Buffalo out of this city over
the Pittsburg and Western road. A through
passenger service will bo put on this fall.
Dr. Z. X. Snyder, principal of the Indi
ana State Normal SchoolandSuperintendent
of Public Instruction, accompanied by his
wife, left for Denver last evening. Dr. Sny
der has been offered $5 0C0 s year to take
charge of the Normal School at Greeley, Col.
He is going out to see what the field prom
ises. Among the Atlantic Citv pa&sengers last
evening vera Assistant Postmaster H. L.
Edwards and his two nieces, Mrs. T. E.
Jones and Miss Humphrey, Division Passen
ger Agent E. D. Smith, of the Baltimore and
Ohio road United States Ditrict Attorney
Walter Lyon and George T. Oliver.
John Tregaskes, of the New York Herald,
who covered the Johnstown flood for his
paper, desires to meet his Pittsburg news
paper friends, whom he met at Johnstown,
at the Hotel bchlosscr this evening.
H. W. Mathews, of the Burlington road;
Wharton McKnight, Alex. Thomas, sales
agent for Park Bros. & Co., and Attorney
Blair went East last evening.
W. B. Heani, editor of the Harrison
Republican, at Cadiz, was at the Seventh
Avenue Hotel yesterday. He has great faith ,
in the success of McKinley.
Charles A. Orleans, the New Orleans
architect and builder, 13 at the Anderson.
He has erected some of the finest business
blocks in Pittsburg.
J, M. James, a' London iron man, and
James JIarwien, of Glasgow, are at the Du-
quesne. Mr. James caiiea on d. tr. wunerow
yesterday.
Captain Murdock and Campbell T. Hcr
ron got back from New York esterday Irom
a meeting of wrought iron pipe manufact
urers. Mrs. A. J. Thomas, son and daughter,
started for Ontario yesterday, where they
will spend a month visiting relatives.
Colonel Frank A. Burr, the well-known
and genial journalist of the metropolis,
whose fame is national, is in the city.
Judge Campbell, of Uniontown, and J.
W. Mitchell, of Franklin, registered at the
Monongahela House last evening.
D. H. Wheeler, of Meadville, and the
Belmont Cricket Club of Philadelphia, are
at the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
Governor Pattison and his staff will be
in Pittsburg this morning, en route to the
camp at Arnold's Grove. ,
W. II. Straw, of Bellevue, and Dr. W.
Straw, of Allegheny, will leave for Balla
Falls on Monday.
Harry Moore, of the Fidelity Title and
Trust Company, is wcoing the mermaids at
Atlantic City.
3Iiss "Virginia Bulger, of Bellevue, left
last evening to spend her vacation in East
Liverpool.
TJpton H. White, a Salisbury politician,
took dinner at the Monongahela House yes
terday. Captain William Martin, of the Davis
Island dam, is with his family at Chautau
qua. K. J. Gatling, of Hartford, inventor of
the Gatllng gun, is stopping:! t the Anderson.
Miss Katie Bitter, of Federal street, Al
legheny, left yesterday for Atlantic City.
Edward Brainard and wife, of Dcnaiston
avenue, have returned from Capo 3Iay.
E. T. Neal, of the lake Erie road, went
to New York last evening.
H. P. Burgwin and wife went to New
Tork last evening.
Evan Jones, the contractor, left for Phila
delphia last night.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Africa has nearly 700 languageSj.and
this fact presents great difficulties to mis
sionary effort.
So far there hasn't been a month in this
year, excepting the present one, without a
frost in Connecticut.
During his last year in New Tork Dr.
William A. Hammond is credited with hav
ing made over $150,000, probably the largest
medical income ever earned in America.
During the years immediately succeed
ing the downfall of tho First Napoleqna
Russian Cossack was much more heartily
hated by the French than a Prussian Uhlan
or a Croat Grenadier.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Osborne, of
Knoxvillo. Term., are soon to celebrate the
seventy-second anniversary of their mar
riage. They are respectively 101 and W years
of age and have 220 descendants.
A farmer near Amite, La., owns ahorse
that will not drink from tho watering trough
if any of the mules drink first. He doe3 not
seem to object to drinking after other
horses, but draws the line at mules.
A Missouri weekly paper recently in
dulged in some critical remarks about
Shakespeare, and a farmer, named John
Shakespeare, thinking the familv insulted,
came to town and gave the editor a thrash
ing. The veracious story comes from East
Springfield, O., that lightning struck a cow
belonging to James Scott and split tho ani
mal in two, one side being thrown sixty feet
in one direction and the other side an equal
distance the other way.
The true test of genuine American
paper currency is to hold the bill up to the
light so that you can discer n two lines run
ning parallel across its entire length: these
are a red and blue silk thread inside tba
paper; no counterfeit has them.
At the great procession of Orangemen
at Kingston, Canada, last week Mr. Miller, a
native of Queen's county, Ireland, had a
piece of the banner which was carried De
fore King William while he was crossing the
Boyne. The remainder of the flag is in En
niskillen. Russia has been experimenting with a
movable pigeon loft, from whioh dispatches
aro sent by pigeons to various parts of an
army camp. Army officers are also training
falcons to catch pigeons, so that in case of
war tho former can capture the enemy'3
messenger birds.
A little boy in Winterport, Me., a few
days ago found a bird's nest with four young
birdsand brought it Home. Shortly after tho
mother bird came in at the window and fed
the little ones. Since that time she has come
regularly several times a day, bringing food.
If the window happens to bo closed sho
waits for some one to open it.
If anything catches fire, or somethinjr
burning makes a disagreeable smell c
smoke, throw salt npon it at once. If a,
bright, clear Are is quickly desired, it may
readily bo obtained by throwine salt upon
the coals: likewise, if too much blaze should
result from dripping of fat from broiling:
steak, ham, etc., salt will subdue it.
The Canadian Government has received
information that, owing to the great promise
of the crops in Manitoba and tho Northwest
the Canadian Pacific Railway Company has
ordered 50 new locomotives and 1,500 box
cars to transport the season's harvesr to tho
seaboard. It is estimated that it will require
ten trains daily for seven months to move)
the crop.
The deepest mine iu the world is at St.
Andre de Poirier, France, and yearly produ
ces 300,000 tons of coal. The mine is worked
with two shafts, one 2,952 feet deep and the
other 3,033. Tho latter shaft is now being
deepened and will soon touch the 4,000-foot
level. A remarkable feature is the compara
tively low temperature experienced, which
seldom rises above 75 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Sandwich Islands alphabet has 12
letters; the Burmese, 19; Italian, 20: Bengal
ese, 21; Hebrew, Syrian, Chaldee and Samari
tan, 22 each; French, 23; Greek. 24: Latin, 25;
German, Dutch and English, 20 each; Spanish
and Sclavonic, 27 each; Arabic. 28; Persian
and Coptic, 22: Georgian. 35; Armenian, 33;
Russian. 41; Muscovite, 43: Sanskrit and Jap
anese, 50; Ethiopia and Tartarian have 202
each.
It is said that the trouble with the
peaches this season arises from the fact that,
there being no peaches last year, the curcu
lio was not present this year to help thin tho
immense crop set on the trees, consequently
the "June drop" this year was very light,
leaving more frnit on the- trees than they
can possibly mature. The fruit being set
the hot, moist weather has caused rot and
premature peaches.
The Kanwar Harnam Singh, CLE.
(of Kapurthala, Punjab), and the Kanwarina
(his wife) have arrived in London. The
Kanwar and Kanwarina are Christians, and
both went In tho procession to Westminster
Abbey at tne JuDilee in 1S7, as representing
the Royal Hone of Kapurthala. The Kan
war (Prince) is younger son of a late Rajah of
Kapurthala and uncle to the present one.
They have come over to England to see their
sons, who are being educated there.
San Francisco detectives recently
caught a thieving bartender who had formed
a combination with his mouth to beat tha
coin register. Smilingly he received the
money deposited by the customer and
turned to the register,but before his flneer
touched the button the coin was transferred
to his mouth, where it remained until he
had servod the next customer. The de
tectives found that the young man's mouth
receipts amounted to 75 cents in four hours.
Unless their attention is especially di
rected to it, few people notice the tiny let-
tors stamped on the larger silver coins of
our currency at a point Just below the junc
tion of the arrows and olive branch held in
tho eagle's claws. Tho letters aro "S.," "O."
and "C. C," and stand respectively for San
Francisco, New Orleans, or Carson City,
where the pieces were cast in the United
States branch mints. Coins made in tha
mint at Philadelphia bear no special mark,
and are indicated by its absence.
A horse's thonghtfulness is told of by a
gentleman, in front of whoso house, besida
the grass plot, a team of handsome horses
drew up. The near horse munched the grass
contentedly, which the off horse tried in
vain to reach. "Suddenly, to my astonish
ment, the near horse raised his head with his
month full of grass and held it near his com
panion's moutn. The off horse accepted tho
apparent invitation to eat, and took the
grass from the other one's mouth. After
turning and eating a while on bis own ac
count he repeated the maneuver, and I then
called in the other members of my family to
watch them. There could be no mistake
about it; the horse which could reaob tho
grass fed bis companion at short intervals
as long as they stood before the door."
SOME OF PUCK'S PUCKERS.
First Deadly EnemyThe world is wida
enough for as both.
Second Deadly Enemy Yestbut it is not deep
enough for you.
Mrs. Worrys (awaking her lord)
Charles, get np, I think the baby has the cronp.
Mr. Worrys Hadn't I better wait tiU you are
sure?
"A tough fired at a policeman yesterday
with a heavy caliber revolver. ' '
And what did the policeman do? Did ho arrest
the tough?"
"No. He arrested the bullet."
"Papa, what is an agnostic?" asked Johncy
Cnmso.
'An agnostic, Johnny. Is a man who knots very
Uttle and is not sore of that."
Jack (strolling home from the evening
services) There used to be a law In New England
pronibitlng kissing on Sunday.
Maude (cojly) Well, it isn't lu force now. is it?
(And the moon went behind a cloud to laugh).
Miss Midas Do you.expect to go to col
lege next year, Mr. Crccsus?
Young Crcesus Not much. Father Is going to
have them bring It to me.
"Ah, Jonesy, old man," said Hicks, as he
and Jones walked home from the club; 'there's a
light In your window for. you. You married
men "
'By George, so there is!" returned Jones,
"Let's go back to the club."
Tommy Mama, should we love our
enemies? y-"'
Mama Yes, darling.
Tommy And Is Katie papa's enemy?
Mama No; but she's mine, and papa and I are
one I
"I believe in giving the devil his due,"
said Evergreen. '
"So do I; and I wish he had a great many of his
overdue, " replied Brightly, bitterly. t
Kitty Winslow Physical culture is quite
a fad of mine: see, for instance, ho w well 3Ir. Van
Nobs stands'. ,'
Tom De Witt Oh, yes; he stands better against a
dark-blue portiere than he does financially.
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