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All double and triple number copies of The Dispatch reqnire a 2-cent stamp to insure prompt delivery. bUXDAY. MAY 8. ISC THE ETT SCHENT.IT POLICY. The promise made some time ago of a policy on the part of the Schenley estafe which will lead to the improvement of that large property takes a tangible shape in the announcement that tracts in the Four teenth and Eighteenth wards are to be divided this season and put upon the mar ket in ground leases for long terms. This involves ground which has stood unimproved while adjacent sections were rapidlj improved. In the Fourteenth ward the tract ljing between Centre and Forbes avenues was one of the most eligible resi dence locations in the citj; in the Eighteenth the property is adjacent to the manufacturing section. But people who wisiied to build were shut out, and had to go bejonil these tracts to find sites. The policy of opening them will add materially to the improvement of the city. The maintenance of the policy of ground rents can hardly be indorsed from a pub lic point of view, for the simple reason that a ground rent for any term less than a century is a premium on cheap con struction. Still in the recognition of the improved policy of the Schenley manage ment it must be noted that not only are these tracts to be opened for improve ment, but the terms of the building leases ?to Uc greatly 'extended, the new term "to be for 49 j ears instead of 21, as hereto fore. With the new policy inaugurated by the gift of Schenley Park, and extended by facilitating improvements on the property vvhich has heretofore been either idle oran evesore, the attitude of the estate toward the public is changed from that of a draw back to that of a factor and co-operator in the general progress. niGH TIME TO MOVE. Notwithstanding all that has been done to urge prompt action there is still preva lent among many of our leading manufac turers a spirit of procrastination and negligence with regard to the World's Fair, the continuation of which will prove disastrous to private enterprise and through that to the city itself. It is in the highest degree discreditable that Philadel phia, universally scorned as the embod iment of slow -moving sleepiness, should hate shown an activity in the matter com pared with which Pittsburg's small efforts amount to very little. There is already considerable danger that our industries will be crowded out, and the blame for tins rests right here in Pittsburg. It is astounding that a city containing so many active business qualifications should be short-sighted enough to neglect so unrivaled an opportunity for advertise ment as that offered by the Fair. The delaj among the tin plate manufacturers is specially noticeable and regrettable. At ailable space is rapidly being taken up and if Pittsburg neglect much longer, municipally and inditidually, to avail it self of its opportunity the result will be a setback which can never be made up. Time lost can never be regained, and op portunities neglected never recur. DUE TO PKACTIC KL, POLITICS. The indications that the present House v.ill utterly fail to carry out the promises ot retrenchment from the extravagant ex penditures of the Fifty-first Congress, dis play the leading vice of current pontics. Io stronger illustration of the ticious hunger of the politicians for the dividends of the public funds can be given than the fact that a party will throw away its sole claim on the public favor rather than forego the usufruct of the job appropria tions. Even intelligent man recognized that thegieat weakness of the Billion Con gress was its unexampled record of scat tering the surplus. Besides the temporary storm of misrepresentation as to the oper ation of the McKinley law, this more thau any other cause ensured the overwhelm ing defeat of the Republican party in 1890. The prominence of this influence was so great that the Democrats could not fail to recognize it They commenced their session on the pro gramme of cutting down appropriations 5100.000,000 But when it came to carry ing out that pledge by depriving the mem bers of building, river and harbor and sundry civil appropriations for their va rious districts, the pledge has apparentiy gone to the winds. Unless a change comes over the spirit of the House, the result will be that the Democratic House will present exactly the same example of public pro fuscness as the Republican House did. This is a proof that public extravagance Is not a ticf of any one party but of prac tical politics. Evidence to the same effect has been given before. Under the Cleve land administration the total of public ex penditure was increased from an average of about 200,000,000 annually, outside of Interest and premium paid on bonds, to an average of 5240,000,000. The Kepub- lican Congress distanced this record; but the fact remains that the cause of the vast increase of expenditures lies in the idea of practical politicians on both sides that the purpose of politics is to get a slice of the pork and the way to conciliate political support is to buy it with fat appropria tions. AH of which points to the conclusion that when the people of the United States want their government operated on a rea sonably economical basis, they will have to accomplish that purpose by starting a new breed of politicians. THE WRATH OF SALISBURY. Lord Salisbury's remarkable speech at the meeting of the Primrose League dis plajs the Tory minister in the light of a man who is so desperate at the prospect of impending defeat that ho has lost all command of his reason, and can do noth ing but sing the changes from dogmatic predictions of disaster to threats of forci ble revolt against Home Rule. It is doubt ful if, since the time that public affairs in England became the theme of open dis cussion, any prime minister has ever dis burdened himself by such an outbreak of scolding and such a violent contradiction of his own reasoning as the one reported in yesterday's cable dispatches. His Lordship's expressions on the sub ject, loyalty and hostility to England, is a new reading of the old expression, "lam the State." Home Rule "will place a hos tile island on our flank" because the Home Rulers are hostile to Salisbury. The Irish "loyalists" are given that rank be cause they are loyal to Salisbury. It is a striking test of the sincerity of these ex pressions, as well as Lord Salisbury's de nunciation of "placing the spirit of law lessness above the spirit of the law," to find the Ulster Unionists declaring that if Home Rule becomes the law they will make armed resistance, and to learn that the Tory leader approves of the" paradox of attesting loyalty and submission to the law by armed rebellion. So far as can be perceived, the Saunderson party propose to mark their opposition to Home Rule by setting up their own independence of England and Ireland alike. This is His Lordship's idea of lotalty. All of which is significant mainly of the fact that Lord Salisbury is so enraged by the certainty of defeat that he can only find relief bj unpacking his heart with w ords. If he had any faint hope of con tinuing in power he could not be so fool ish as to exhibit himself in such intemper ate and illogical fashion. YOUrH AND P ITKIOTISM. Superintendent Luckey has made a sug gestion in connection with the quadro-cen-tenuial celebration of America's discovery that is well worth support. His proposal is that on October 12 the public school children of Pittsburg shall plant trees in Schenley Park, under a permit to be ob tained from Chief Bigelow.to be known as Columbus Grove. The idea is that if the necessary permission can be obtained, and there should be no doubt about that, the children shall be asked each to contri bute ten cents toward a fund for the pur pose. There is a delightful combination of sentiment aud utility in the idea, and it should be carried out without faiL Tears hence the children of to-day would be ablo to point to the shade trees which owe their origin to their action, and the sight should awaken many pleasant recollec tions. Moreover the movement would be an excellent way of promoting youthful patriotism and public spirit, which in itself should bear good fruit in years to come. AN INhOCENT ABROAD. Mrs. Sire, of New York, has been ex hibiting in Loudon a specimen of the independence and self-protective faculty which are such marked features of Ameri can womanhood. Her ignorance of the ways in which London etiquette draws the line with regard to the fitnpss of various place of amusement for men and women led her into circumstances that might have been embarrassing for her. The prompt use of a revolver, however, turned the tables and put the embarrass ment all on her "polite" and persecuting pursuers. The result was freedom for the time being, hnt the necessity for her appear ance in court on the morrow. Once again she was vindicated, by the aid this time of a magistrate's common sense, and the only sufferer by her ignorance is the son of a thousand sires, more or less. Let us hope that this little exhibition of spirited defense may do something to upset the theory that a woman's want of knowl edge is an excuse for ill-mannered be havior from the other sex in the city which boasts one code of morals for its ladies and another for its "gentlemen." HEROIC AND POPULAR. The profession of caterer has branched out in a new role, that of healing the ills of statesmen. It has been erroneously supposed that the successful restaurateur by liis seductive appeals to the palates of his customers was likely to furnish occu pation to the phvsicians in the conse quence of gout and dyspepsia. But Mr. Tom Murray, the New York genius who succeeded to the House restaurant with the Democratic majority, corrects this im pression. The true function of the caterer is to cure the ills that flesh is heir to by giving the patient whatever he wants, and Mr. Murray puts himself in evidence with a desire to apply his treatment to Secretary Blaine. The purveyor of pates and pastry has been studj ing Mr. Blaine's case from a distance, and by examination of the Secre tary's face at the theater has come to a definite conclusion. The Secretary does not get enough nourishment. "He may get a sufficient quantity, but not the right quality," because the people about him are afraid to have him eat the various things he craves. Consequently the medico-restaurateur leaps to the conclusion of recommending for the ailing Secretary of turning him loose among all the dainties supplied by the House restaurant "If I had my way I would give Mr. Blaine whatever his appetite craves, and in a few weeks he would be as well as any man in the world." In his eagerness for theglory of this treatment, we understand that Mr. Murray w ould not insist on the full pay ment of those slips at the cashier's desk which cause the average man to walk forth reflecting on the fact that he has dined and that he is bankrupt This method of curing the sick has its attractive features. In the first place it will command the enthusiastic support of those lovers of good cheer who grumble at the doctor for intimating that pate de foie gras with the flanking beverages may result in gout; that English plum pudding may be good for the djspepsla but is un doubtedly bad for the djspeptic; and that sliced cucumbers on ice is an mdis crcet dainty in connection with the cholera morbus. Next it will command the sup port of the catering interest to a man, as calculated to increase patronage. If Mr. Murray can cure Mr. Blaine in this way he can afford to furnish theSecretary with dinners and lunches for the rest of his nat ural life. All things considered, the new eating cure is of a kind to command im mense popularity among the invalids whose digostive organs approximate the imperturbability of cast iron. But in view of the fact that most of Mr. Blaine's attacks have been brought on by untimely indulgence in the viands his ap petite craves, It would not be wise to pred icate the success of the caterer's cure by feasting, further than the practical cer tainty that it would either kill or cure. TAXIXG THE MARKET BASKET. The early fruition of the meeting of Traction magnates appeared yesterday morning in the enforcement of an order on the combined lines, imposing a charge of five cents each on the market baskets in which the housewives of Pittsburg carry home their provisions. A charge of five cents a market basket may seem a small matter; but it is large enough for the trac tion combination to grasp after, as the marketers of the East End discovered yes terday. This brings home to the households of Pittsburg the force of the principle long ago laid down by high authority, that the suppression of competition means de creased accommodations and "increased charges. So long as there was competi tion either traction hue would as soon have thought of cutting off the noses of its ex ecutive staff as of lajing a tax on the market basket, for the simple reason that to do the latter would be to send profitable business to thp rival lines. The consolida tion is made, and presto the market basket is levied upon to swell the dividends of the dropsical traction stocks. Well, if the people who have to pay the market basket tax do not like it, they may possibly find instruction, if not solace, in the reflection that it is the natural result of municipal politics, which gives away valuable franchises m the streets under conditions which not only permit but actually invite the suppression of competi tion in the traction business. THE HETCRN OF THE EDITORS Mr. Charles Emory Smith, of the Phila delphia Press, has arrived home from St Petersburg with an accompanying intima tion that he will not return to his diplo matic post Thus, of the three leading Republican editors nominated to the most important missions, all are now on their former field of action. Mr. Whitelaw Reid preceded Mr. Smith in coming back to this country. Mr. Murat Halstead did not leave the editorial field for diplomacy owing to circumstances beyond his control. In this abandonment of the functions of negotiation we may perceive not that the editors do not suit diplomacy, but that diplomacy does not suit the editors especially when the sounds of the fray are beginning to tune up. It may be a divei sion to negotiate reciprocity treaties and present the traveling American to his fellow-sovereigns abroad, in off years. But when the editorial diplomatist smelleth the Presidental battle afar, the politics of Europe turn stale and unprofitable. Noth ing is left for the editor with the instinct for organic journalism alive in him than to wing his way like the eagles to the prey, before the nominating conventions have commenced their regurgitations. Therefore the diplomatic editors have forsworn diplomacy and are buckling on their harness once more. Let no carper Intimate that they are after something better, such as a Vice Presidency for Mr. Reid, or a Cabinet position for Mr. Smith. If there were no such things as offices, these leaders of the journalistic-politicians could not for the love of the fight and the honor of their respective organs stay away, when the lines are set in order for the fray. After a Democratic State Convention a religious confei ence would appear to be the best place to studv couitesy in the transac tion of public business. The death of Mr. C. A. Carpenter, the fi eight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, lemoves from the community a gentleman who held a position for many veais which gave him prominence in the active bnsiness circles of the city. Mr. Ca penter, during his long career in Pittsbuig, was well-known for his modest and unassuming personality, his strict integrity and his business effi ciency and hH active s mpatliy for all pio jeets to advance the public inteiests of the city.While theie were manyvho hell a laiger share of the public attention, theie woie few who commanded such universal esteem among tnevaned business interests with which he was brought in contact. His death w ill cause widespread regret among business ciicles. "Never cross a bridge till you come to It," is a sensible proverb. But we have come to the free budge now and the sooner we cross it the better. IT is reported of a Connecticut farmer that he has become insane liom an encoun ter with vipers in his well. Generally speaking, snake-seeing Is regarded as a s mptom and not a cause of madness, and what the well has to do with the mattei is h aid to undeistand. Salisbury's incendiary language with regaid to Ulster is as cuminal as that or anyAnaichist inciting mobs to lawless out rage. As AX example of extremes meeting, to say nothing of the combination of the sub lime aud the ridiculous, the demand for free and unlimited coinage of silv er side by side Tilth an indorsement of Blaine for the Piesi dency by the Idaho Republican Convention is a unique curiosity. There is a remarkably hollow sound about most of the Fiesidental booms that are seeking echoes throughout the country. Corn continues to make progress as material for bicad making in Germany. Tiie move will not bi ing much gust to American mill", since preparations aio being made for Its grinding in Germany. But it will very much enlarge the field for the suiplus raised by American groweis. Measured by military success it would be no easy matter to decide who is in power and who is insurgent in Venezuela. The desire to serve the nation at all haz ards is cleat ly indicatod by the fact that theie are three men unxious to step into the shoes of ox Senate Executive Clerk Young, notwithstanding the injustice which signal ized his summary dismissal. To-morrow the gentleman with the net and wagon will begin his game of catch-as-catcb-can with the unlicensed barkers. "When Emin's death has received con firmation, the recoveiy of his body should prove nn excellent excuse foi anothei armed expedition to cany the blessings of sweet ness, light and rifle bullets into benighted Afiica. THE "green tea" industry is so called be cause it is designed for the beguiloment of green teams. At the present rate of progress, prop erty holders will soon bo called upon to de ciae whether a fire cau be inoie expensive th.in thopament of premiums for insur ance for a yeai or two. We may have seen the last of snow for a time, but the soot storms are still with us. Several gentlemen imagining them- selves fitted for Presidental honors will leain later that national conventions regard their aspirations as cases of mistaken iden tity. Two more lost opportunities yesterday went to pave our nine's roaa to ruin. If there be any display of color capable of eclipsing the bilghtnes3 of nature's spring verduie, it can only be found in the brilliant artificial adornments of spring head gear. Dyspeptics believe that the hot roll should be called the death loll. Russian troops are a?ain in a state of great actlv ity. So doubt they are endeavor ing by exeicise to pioduee an appetite com mensurate with the supeifluity of food. Smiles oF Spring remind one of the poi sibility to smile and be a villain. Harrison should Temember that he signed the Chinese exclusion bill if he ever has another chance to purchase European china for White House use. FAY0KITES OP FORTUNE. The German Emperor is said to have posod beiore a camera HO times since he ascended the throne. It is doubtful whether Mr. James An thony Fioudo will accept the piofessorship of history at Oxford University that was le cently offered to him. At the request of Archbishop Ireland the Ker. Father Caillett, administrator of St. Paul, Minn., has been nominated do mestic prelate at the Vatican. Bjorn sterne Bjornsojt has generously l enounced his pension because the Norwe gian Government will not extend a like honor to a brother poet, KJelland. Sejtor Romero, the Mexican Minister, has acquired the leputation of being the most astute of ttie diplomatists in Washing ton. He has been known to pass 16 hours at his desk. The "Holy Rose," which the Pope be Btow s every year upon some Roman Catholic princess, fell this year to the Queen of Poitu- gal. The estimated value of this Jewel is E0 000 francs. It is currently reported that Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton was recently offered $100, OC0 by a wealthy Mexican for the cure of his daughter, who was guttering fiom some mental tioubie. Senator Perkins, who succeeded Plumb, is particulaily prondof the fact that he has nevei bioken an engagement of any sort and lias alwajs been on time when keeping an appointment. James JErrBET Roche, of the Boston Pilot, has been engaged to lead tho poem at the dedication ot the "High water mark" monument at Gettysburg, June 2, and Gen eral Henry H. Bingham, M C , of Philadel phia, will deliver the oiation. EHF0ECINQ SUNDAY LAWS. A Piew York Opinion That tho Opinion of iho Majority Should Rnle. 1 ew York Evening World. 3 If our Sunday and excise laws were in ra tional accoid with the habitsandopinions of the majoiily of the people the city would be spared the spectacle of an angry contest be tween the Superintendent of Police and a Police Commissioner over the question of theii enforcement. The law as it stands is obnox ious to popul ir sentiment. It deprives men of privileges w men the majority resard as rights. It seeks nngamgly to compel by secular law the observance of a day upon re ligious ground". To entoice sneb a law is tocieate more or less hostility to law, and moie rather than less of secret law-bieakinc. To leave the law in force but not enforced brings law into contempt and robs authority of its dignity. The right thing to do is to lemodel the law in confoimity with the habits and opinions of the people. That can never bo done while the city is denied tne right to make its own police reflations and to deal with Its own pioblems in its own way. BEADDOCK'S CARNEGIE LIBRARY To be Remodeled Into One of the Finest Institutions In the State. Brapdock, Mav 7. Special. The plans for the extension and remodeling of the Cameglo library building have been fui nlshed by the aichltecl, F. J. Ostotllng, Pittsbuig. The addition will make the building one of tho finest in the State. It will be provided with bath rooms, gymnas ium, theater hall, bllliaid room aud a swim ming pool. The hall will furnish a seating capacity of 1400. Theie will also be anight schoolioom and competent teachers furnished at Mi. Carnegie's expense This school will be e-pecially foi the young men at the Edgar Thomson Steel Woiks. Back of the present dome theie will be built a towei 25 feet higher than the present one. Excavations for the building will be commenced Monday. New Primitive Methodist Ministers. Kew Castle, May 7. SneciaL 1 The Ex amining Committee of the Primitive Metho dist Pennsylvania State General Conference, which has been in session here since Wednesday, today leported as follows: John M. Ueseigh, of Cleveland. James Walker and Osis Bouzhton, or Pittsbuig, le ceived as probationers to tho ministiy: Rev. H. Buckingham, of Pittsbuig, was passed from the third to tho fouith jear. and Rev. Geore Lees, of Now Cistle, and Rev. W. H. Holder were admitted as ministexs who had completed tho necessary course. An Improvement in Baggage Checking. Louisville, May 7. On Juno 1 will go Into effect in all the cities on the Louisville and Nashville s stem where transfer companies operate, a new method of checking bagsage. Instead of checks being issued, as now, at depots, the transfer comuanles will check thiouih bagjase from lesidenoe or hotel in one citv to lesidenoe or hotel in other. This will piob-ibly soon be extended to cover all territory of loads operated In close connec tion with or In tho interest of the Louisville and Nashville. Be Cried Wolf Too Often. Washington Star.l Mr. Holman is in danger of finding himself in the position of the young man who cried "wolf" too often. Lightning Is Followed by a Bolt. Detroit Journal I The lightning which finally strikes Presi dental candidates is sometimes followed by bolt. Waiting for His Cairinge. Chicago Mall. Mi. Hill is simply awaitinir the arrival of tho political hearse. CHINESE FROZEN OUT. Uncle Sam winds up his latestnote to John Chinaman: "Exclusively yours." New Xork Press. The President agiees with Congress that the Chinese must not come unrestricted and cannot stay if they do come. The people and the Gov eminent hero ate in perfect ac cord. Washington Star. It is, of course, a haish measure, but wo have been foiced to adopt it. We must pro tect our own civilization, our own labor. The Chinese can never become welded Into tho American system. Amalgamation Is im possible. New York Recorder. Not only the Methodists in Omaha, but the Baptists in Atlanta, aie after the Piesident foi signing the Chinese exclusion bill. This is serious. If the Methodist and Baptist combine in this matter we do not believe tho Presbyterian Piesident will be In it. Portland A ews. The exclusion bill may piovo a serious Im pediment to Mr. Hairison's Presidental plans, notwithstanding that it was signed as a. vote-catching expedient. The Chinese have no political pull in this country to speak of, and their wishes need not be regarded seiiouslj. New York Advertiser. The President has affixed his signature to the Senate substitute for the Gearv bill and the measure thus becomes a law. It was not exactly a model bill, but it fairly lepre sented public sentiment on this point, and whether wise or not niuscnoiv be enforced. Philadelphia Jnquirtr. PHOTOS OF LOVED ONES. A Frand That Causes More fleartstiflerlng Than rinancial Damage Harrison as a Fisherman A Storv Abont Big Men Drinking an Egg With the Shell On. IFBOM A STAFF COBBKSPONDKXT.J Of all the numerous devices for swin dling confiding people that have been ex posed from time to time that which prom ises a life-size crayon portialt for nothing on the leceipt of photograph is probably the most despicable. A fow days ago I leceived a note fiom a lady of Washington D. C , ask ing mo to go to tho "Pacific Ciayon Portrait House," in the Broadway Theater building and geta pliotogiaph that had been sent that concern in responso to Its advertise ment in certain magazines. A copy of ono containing the advertisement was for warded. I know at a glance that this was another of the free ciayon-50-cent-$5-frame schemes, several of which have been broken up In Biooklyn, Chicago and New York, but I thought I might recover the photograph. The latter was the only portrait of a dead son, and as such was beyoud price. The seductive adveitisemcnt promises to re-t tuin the pictuie, but this lady had written repeatedly, Inclosing stamps for its loturn, and got no reply. I afterwaid found that was only a pai t of the game. Under the plea of getting a crayon I pro cured information enoivih on the fourth floor of the Broadway Theater building to justify a callunou Captain McLaughlin, of the Tenderloin nreninet. He told me that he had leceived two complaints fiom people who had claimed to have been swindled by this pictuie concern before he had been in charge of the piecinct three days. "Ot course thev are crooked," said he, "but wo can do nothing without a complaint. These people woilc the out-of-town lacket they don't swm'lle anybody wheie their dupes can appoar against them at any time. I have written these peisons who complain th it if they will come to this citv and prose cute I'll laid that place in five minutes. We can't do anything w ithout a complaint and a complainant." When I went back to the Broadway build ing three davs later the Pacifies Crayon Por tialt House was packing up. The scowling youna woman in charge permitted me to search among several thousand photogranhs for tho picture of the lady'n dead son while she told mo more contradictory stories of the free ciayon business than I could re member in a week. The rough shelves weie ci owded with these plctuies packed on end 1n boxes. 'I here wero thousands of thein. Mot of them weie of loved ones who had departed this life. The tender inscuptlons, the elaborate instructions about cai e and return the aged paient, the shoit lived infant biother, sister, husband, wire faces photographed after death tints pes, old cherished ambrotpcs in plush velvet cases foi gotten and coveied with dust. If the owners had wntton as often and enclosed as many stamps as this ono in quirer whom I happen to know has done, what a golden hai vest tnese dusty porti aits have yielded! Many of the plctuies were in their mailing covers and these boie the postmarks of every city in the Union. They had Just been toin open and tho money and stamps extracted, and, if no ordei for a frco picture in a $5 flame had been given, were chucked away in the dust as many of the originals have doubtless been joars ago. While I was there the lettei earner deliv eied mail containing money and stumps, and tho scowling woman scowled moie be cause the amount was not larger. Verily, the ciop of lools Is perennial, and theie Is a sucker born oveiy hour. One of Harrison's Fishing Exploits. Judge John A. Holman, of Indiana, says the only thing he has against Ben Har rison is that the latter once beat him on the weight of a fish. "We had been out all day," said the Judge "at the Bellfontaine reservoir, celebrated for its splendid bass fishing. Harnson and Sheriff Patker weie in one boat and a couple or us In another, and so on quite a paity al togethei. Wo fished all day with varving fortunes. Most of tho flsh langed fiom one pound toapoundanda halt, and some got but few of tbose. We took In quite a string of that kind, but Just befoie tho close of the dav we hooked a macniflcent bass weisnincr ovei six pounds. Itiequired both of us to get him into the bo-it. when we got thatbis lellow we just stopped fishing and pulled for the rendezvous. "You mav naturally suppose that big bass stirred up the gieen eyed monster, and yon aio right. As one boat after another got in we lcgarded it veiv anxiouslv, not knowing but they might have a bie fl'h or two, also, but every man looked nsed up when he saw our oaten. Finally Genei al H n rison's boat Bulled slowly in among, if not tho very last. Is partner got out and pulled her nose up on tho sand while the General got up stiffly and solemnly and picking up a string of small fish came ashoie. Both men looked done out and di-gusted and neither slid a woi d. Of course, we began to feel excessive ly elated and showed off our blsr flsh with great zest. The General looked at it a moment and turning 'tound to the Sheriff, said: " 'By the way I've left mv rubber coat in the boat' and the sheriff said, 'Oh, yes' and he stepped back and took up the coat. "Lying theie nnder tho coat wasacreat, splendid fellow, as near like ours as two peas could be alike. It Just took our bteath away when the two weie placed side by side. Kveiybody shouted, or course. Then we all gatheied aionnd to see them weighed some thinking ouis was the heaviest, some theiis. When they weie weighed the General's flsh outweighed ours by just ono ounce." Freaks of Some Great Men's Fancies. Two gentlemen were strolling along Broadway in tho noonday sunshins of early spring. Their sound minds weie in sound bodies and their heaits, untrammeled by the nauow confines of conventional emotions, went out in gladness to the great omniscient and omnipiesent somebody or something whooidained that spring lamb and green peas should come in together. They enter rained no restneteci views or humanity; they jelieved and took piido in spieading their belief in nothing orthodox. They knew men tnthecoucieteanddealtwith humanity only in the abstract as they would open a Jackpot, playing their hands for w hat they veie worth. The world was their jickpot and they had opened it with a pair of aces. And one was a cynic and the other was a Jeter and both wore eminent. They met another, an eminent comedian, and as tho tlneo saunteied along Btoadway the crowd pai ted on either side to lit thern pass, for these weie above the common herd and though in tho tluong weie not of it. Aid it came to pas that the keen eve of the cvnic chanced to fall upon a poor, struggling anle woim, that by some curious coinci dence was piomonading Bioadway at the same houi in seaich of a fuendly shadow or a bit of moistuie, and at once the lie.nt. of tie cynic melted, the comedian pulled his handkei chief and tho jester became soiious. Tiiey diew solemnly near nndfoimeda hol low square abont the humble woi in, while the crowd stood wondenng by and whis perodbieathlessly. And the ovnio and tho Jester and the eminont comedian kneeled down theie upon the hard stones of Broad- vav and wept that such a helpless cieatnio of somebody or something should be theio alone and unpi otected from the iron heel of (ruel man. And the crowd marveled at their greatnessof he.ut and many men and women would fain have wept foi puie sym pathy. But the cynic carefully examined the un lappy woim, nowneaily exhausted by the leat of the day, and declaicd with a mighty oatn that wnne ne uvea sucn a ining us cie seiting and leaving this pooi creature to his lingering death should never be. Tne jester sobbed another great sob ns he also took the oath, and the eminent comedian swore that if he weie upon such teims with his wile ns would permit him to enter his own home, the dear, innocent anglewoim should find u permanent asylum. So they tendeily bore the struggling worm awav amid the plaudits of an enthusiastic populace. And it came to pass that they met still another great mind that lives and thrives outside tho pale ot orthodox thought ono woi Id-renowned ot eloquence and u professional infidel. And when the story was told the professional Infidel wept with them "Let us save him," said the P. I. "lie is one of us pai t of our religion the ci cation of an all-wise and indefinite finite infinite, somebody oi something, whom we worship." So they can ied the untoitunato into the piesence of an eminent scientist and sui-geon-chenust, followed by a sympathetic crowd, among whom weie two or tlueeawe Btiieken lepoitcisfor the daily pi ess And the scientific suijieon, who wouldn't go lound the corner to save the life ofa human cieaturo foi less than $50, mndo nn exhaus tive examination under a poweilul raicio scone and gavenn opinion woith $1,000 that the little suffeier could not live. In, fact, hedeolaiedthatit was already writhing in the agonies of dissolution. At this the cj nio and the Jester and the comedian wept afiesh, and the eloquent woi ds or the pio fessional infidel moved the ciowd eieatly. The icnorteis by heioic effort letained their Eresenca of mind sufficiently to got a ver atlm leport. When the first pang or grief wns spent a consultation was held as to the easiest way to pnt the sulleioi out of miseiy. This de cided, thej piocureu a spouse soaked with chloioformand applying it reluctantly but courageously endeuall; to tho tntiis satis faction of the public, and, doubtless, to the satisfaction of the worm. The cynic, the eminent comedian, the jester and the professional Infidel then went off sadly to discuss the occurrence over a champagne dinner. Drinking nn Egg With the Shell On. The habitues of a downtown cafe were somewhat asttmished when a man walked up to the bar and gave an order for some sort of a drink with an egg in it, shell and all. He didn't look at all out of his mind or cranky, but as the barkeeper shook the things together he eyed his customer some what coldly. "Of all the fool ideas of a drink," said the barkeeper, when the man had gone "that is tho worst since I've been in the business. He Is by no means alone In it. I've seen several fancy duoks taking their egg with the shell on. Tney call it an 'awe naturale,' but I s'pose it's because nobody but awe natural fool will want his drink that way." Charles Theodore Murray. New York, May 7. PALMES ONLY DID HIS DUTY. The G. A. R. Commander in Chief Explains Why a Commander Was Suspended, Albaht, May 7. Commander In Chief Palmer, of the G. A. R., made the following statement this morning in rofoience to the Louisiana matter: "At the annual meeting of the Twenty-fifth National Encampment at Detioit last Au gust a proposition was made authorizing the Commander in Chief to create a pro visional encampment in the same territory where a department already existed. If in his J udament It could be done without detri ment to the objects of the order. This proposition was lejected, and tho conven tion decided only one department should ex. ist in the same teiritory, wheie all com rades, white and black, should be equally entitled to membership and representation. This subject had been a snuiceof annoy ance to my predecessors, but alter the ac tion of the Detroit convention no shadow of uncertainty any lonser remained. The duties of the Commander in Chief Is to see that the uiles or the o derare obeyed. "A meeting or the Department Encamp ment of Louisiana was recently held, and lepresentativos fiom the colored posts weie denied admission or representation. This was in diiect violation or the voice of the National Encampment, and It became my painful duty to suspend the commander ot that depaitmcnt. I have no petsonal feeling whatever in the matter, and regret the necessity of being compelled to take this action." HOT SUCH A BAD THING. Commerce Is Increasing Under the McKin ley Tariff Chinese Wall. Toledo Commercial.! Tne "Chinese wall," as applied to the Mo Kinley tariff act by our Democratic friends, don't seem to bo such a bad thing for the country after all. Statistics show that for the 12 months ending with March the value ofourexpoits have exceeded $1,000,000,000, an aggregate hitherto unprecedented in the bistoiy of our country. The hue and cry against the protective tariff about its blight upon our industries and the lestiiction cer tain to come in our foreign tiado looks very much like a false alarm. There is evidently something wiong in the calculations of these piognosticators of evil. Theie is n screw loose somewhere. Thev will have to levive their piedictions. Sta- ustics iiavo given mem tne lie. hoc only have our exports i cached the highest point ever known, but they have far oxceded in value our Imports, the tot il of which dnring the sarao twelve-month was over $855,600,000. To be moie explicit, tho value of our exports was $1006,281506 and that or our imports $835 650,364, showing a balance of trade in our favor of the magnificent sum of $163,225,921. These figures show the total value of our foreign commerce, embracing exports and impoits, reaches the larjxo aggregate of $1, &41,9,S70, or a total of nearly two billions or dollais. PHENOMENA OF ELECT2ICITY. Interest Awakened by the Recent Flashes in 1 his City. New York Evening Sun. J The burning out of seven dynamoosand 500 telephones in Pittsburg by an eleotrio storm heightens the interest in those phenomena. No connection has yet been suggested between terrestrial magnetic storms and atmospheric electric ones. In the light of these Pittsburg flashes the pos sibility of such a relation assumes sudden interest. For a sun spot period is develop ing, and the connection between sun spots and magnetic storms is established. If, now, It ia to appear that the same solar influence operates to generate electric storms, there m iy bo a season of great activity in store fore the Thomson-Edison and other purvey ors of electrical apparatus. The sun spots will not have attained their maximum lor several years. Aie these industrial enterprises, perhaps, at the thiesbold of an era of abnormal prosperity? Are coruscating dynamos and crackling telephones about to be dissipated in metallic vapors as offerings at tho altar of their prosperity? A verification of this Ingenious suggestion ought to be money in a solentlfle gentleman's pocket. He could take a flyer to tho extent of a few shaie3 in those pros peious corporations. Then, if their own works should chance to go up in a glory of arc ngnts, twouiu seem to do tne very irony of scientific gentlemen's fate. THE SEEING SEA TKEATY SIGNSD. Minister Lincoln, the Queen and Salisbury All Give it Autographs. BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. Loxdox, May 7. Copyright This after noon Mimstei Lincoln diove in a four-hoise carriage to the Foieign Office, carrying a little leather case undei his arm containing a copy of the Bering Sea treaty signed by Presidont Harnson. A quarter of an hour later he diove back to the legation with the same little case, which then contained a copy of the treaty signed by Quen Victoria and Lord Salisbury. The actual exchange of notifications occupied only two or tinea minutes It took place in the Secietaiy of State's room, overlooking St. James Park, and Loid Salisbury and Mr. Lincoln each sicned his copy or the tieaty with a new quill pen. The pens weie, together with the blotting nad used, placed in a special bureau for preservation through the ages. At the conclusion of the formal business Lord Salisbury and the Minister had a short chat together, and a half hour later the l'nme Minister was on his way to Windsor Castle, whither ho had been summoned by the Queen. Dr. G. M. Dawson, Assistant Di rector of the Geolozical Survey of Canada, has arrived at tho Westminster Hotel, and is daily engaged at the Foreign Office with Sir George Baden Powell, upon the Bering Sea business. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Rev. W. B. Mcllvalne. Eev. "V. B. JJcIlvaine died in Peoria, 111., yesterday morning. The deceased was a remarkable man. and a moU prominent figure In the early days of Presby tcmnlsin west of the Allcglienles. He was one of the first to cross the mounttlns. Mr. Mcll vdne was born In 1307 at Carlisle. Pa. He gradu ated at Dickinson College in 131?. and studied theology at Princeton, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Ohio In 1830. He became pastor of the East Liberty Presbvterlau Church In 1829, and continued his pastoral relations with the same church until 1870 when he retired from the minis try and went to Peoria and made Ills home with his son George. There is scarcely pa.aliel case to his, a continuous pastorate for 41 years with one rhurcn. Mr. 3lcllvalne was twice married. Ills first wife was a Miss Hocg.of ilrownsvllle. a lsfer of Nathan Hogg After her death he married Miss Mary Mc Giain. daunhter of the once funous lawyer. Thomas McGlffln, of Washington. Pa. HI wife died about one year ago. Three children survive him, George at whose house he died In Peoria, Dr. Thomas Mcllvalne. or Peoria, and a married daughter living la Lancaster, Pa. Daniel B. Cummina, Danker. Daniel B. Cummins, President of the Glrard National Bink, a director of the Pennsyl vania Kailroad. died suddenly at Ills resldencu In Philadelphia Friday evening. His death was at tributed to the effects of a cold contracted in the launching of the cruiser Iew York at Cramp's ship yard Ust December. Uc w as the sole executor of the vast estate of J. V. Williamson. Itev. W. B. aicllvalne. Mcllvalne, aged Eev. "V7. B. Mcllvalne, aged 86, died yesterday at Peoria. 111. He was well known In Pittsburg and for 42 vears was pastor of the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. il was born in l.ncater county on January 2. 1807. He entered Dkklnsou Colleec. Carlisle, at the aare or 14. and jtraJuated in 18i He retired from the ministry In 1S70, and went to Peoria to lire wltii his son. Obituary Notes. John t. Parker, editor and proprietor of the Tri Wefkli Record, died at his home at Mahanoy City, i'a., Friday. Lamtekti, the famous singing master, has Just died in Milan. Among his pupils were Mme. Al bania. Miss Van Zandt and Campanlnl. ERVESTGuiRtUD. the composer, died In Paris Friday as he wa- preparing to deliver a lecture la the Conserv aiory. He was born on June 23, 1S37. AMOMO Yzn aoa died In New York yesterday. He was father of the present Due less of Manches ter, and for manv years was a prominent merchant oi Seir York, trading mainly wltli Cuba. Edwin O'Briev, the 'Invincible." Is dead at Dublin. He was releised not long ago from Mt. Joy prison, where he was serving a sentence for his share In the Irish physical force movement. SOME PITTSBURG PORRIDGE. Colonel Bob Ingerioll'a Ulcqaent Bands Hit Poetic Prose and His Worship of Woman A Horse That Knows the Law John L. Sullivan's Ilrst right. Have yon noticed IngersolPs hands? They play a most important part In his orations. In the first place they are beautiful in themselves: the fingers are slen der and shapely, and the contour of the whole" hand perfect in proportion. They are not small, which sometimes constitutes a chaim, but which would not in the case of a man of Ingersoll's slature and bulk. If you wore present when ho lectured the other nUht upon Shakespeare yon must have no ticed how much be used his hands. He does not merely emphasize with them; they ex plain, illustrate, enlarge, and illuminate his meaning. When he compaied Shakespeare to the ocean, his works to a range of moun tain peaks, the splendor of his language to the radiant rainbow, a graphic gesture ac companied and completed the simile. One would suppose that two hands could hardly supplement the eloquence of such a mouth as Ingeisoil's as much as they do. The stereotvned nestures of tho orator, varia tions mostly upon the lion efforts of the pumpliandle, are never used by Ingersoll: studied or not, his gestmes are knit in with the texture of his oratory, and, like the lat ter, owe muoh of their force and beauty to their apparent spontaneity. There are no rings on his hands. It is a fact, also, that Colonel Bob's hand shake is a positive and pleasant character istic or the man. Tho hind that can wave defiance, clamp a theory, punctuate a speech, or crown a peroration, can grasp another's with a warmth and firmness that, once felt, Is never likely to be forgotten. I remember meeting the zreat aitnostlc a few hours after he had delivered that suDerb but Impolitic oration in Judge Gresham's behalf at the last Republican Convention In Chicago, and the cordial kindliness or the man, and still more his wonderful coolness in the midst of a fray as hot as the atmos phereand what a bake-oven that city was that June! both made a profound impies sion upon me. Great hands aie Ingersoll's long may they wave I Colonel Ingersoll's Poetry- The last five minutes of Ingersoll's talk about Shakespeare was the beat In point of form; the capitals of his columns arc always the most richly chased, most floridly orna mented. It seems to be hi3 invariable habit to erect a pillar of plain but highly polished marble, which he crowns with his most magnificent carving; his peroration puts all that has gone before Into tho shade. He summed up SMakespearo's transcerdent qualities in blank verso that tho Bird him self might not have been ashamed to own. It wasnot merely musical prose, but poetry in form poetry that would scan; and if you will examine Insrersoll's printed works you will find thnt a great deal of his prose Is in reality governed strictly by meter, and a great deal more poetic than much of that which tursidly tolls through meadows of margin with all the pomp and circumstance of verse. Woman I His Onlv God. One of the great causes of Ingersoll's popularity, though I haidly think it is realized generally, is the homage he is al ways doing to woman. He never loses an opportunity to praise, niv, worship the sex. His god, had ho any, would all be feminine. Whatever Ins sincerity in other respects, his attitude toward women in public is no more reverential than that which he as sumes at home. His domestic relations are of the happiest. So that tho elaborate panegyrics he formulates abont womankind in his speeches and in his writings have a positive value, and the most dramatio and affecting episode in his oration on Shakes peare the other night occurred in his allu sion to the raie spectacle of man standing by his wife Captain Osborne's devotion to his wife on trial for thert and perjurv In London recently as thousands of wives have by their husbands. Thero were quite as many women in the audience as men, by the way. One little old lady, who seemed to be deaf and blind, was among the most en thusiastic. Horse Sense and Law. The foot-path on the lower side of the Sixth street bridge Is dosed at present to fa cilitate the building of the wide arch for the new structure to proceed without hindrance, and a notice is posted warning people at the place where they must cross the street to look ont for the elec tric cars. The warning is so well needed that a watchman is also stationed, there to prevent accidents. Passing this -point the other day with a Judge and a learned attorney of this county, the latter called my attention to a man who had stopped to read the printed notice of warn ing. "That man," said the attorney, "could not recover damages now If he wern run over at this crossing, for the Supreme Couit has de cided that a man who leads a warninz be- foie crossing a railroad is alone responsible for any injury he may incnr," and this view the Judge took also. Then the attorney went on: "A friend of mine has a horse which he says is thorougly informed upon Supieme Court decisions, and acting upon this one regarding the responsibility of crossing a rauroau comes to a ueau stop al wavs before going over, giving the driver full time and opportunity to read tho warn inT." The horse In this case would seem to be an attorney for the railroads. How Sullivan Became a Fighter. In Boston among other treasured tradi tions of the city's chief hero there is one which was told to me by a Bostonian lately with moie scrupulous exactness than I oan promise in the repetition. It refers to John L. Sullivan's first scrap, to the trifling event which has had such tremendous conse quences. It was the tnrning point in his career; the moment that decided that the prize ring should gain a monarch from the Hub. Sullivan was a bov still in jears. though his frame had already astonished his relatives and fiicnds by Its Imposing proportions. Though in his teens he had then been at work some time when he found employment in the classic occupation of sewer building in Boston High! ind. At that time Dii-'ilism had not attrictcd his attention, nnd Sullivan's soul wns w rapped np in baseball. The diamond wns a magnet that could draw him from school when he was a boy, and as he grew up from more serious work. And the boss of the sewer lob did not relish Sullivan's off-hand way of thiowing down his tools and going off to see a ball gamo or play in one himself. He told Sullivan it had to stop. Su'livan's reply was what to-day ho would probably call "a biff" under thp boss' Jaw, which laid the latter as effectually as any sewer. The struggle was so short, so sudden, so simple nnd jet so conclusive that Sullivan's name as u verv tongh youngster was made, and it took a verv lew months to carry him to tho ftont among the Boston spoits. Un happily the nnmc of tho boss sewer-constructor who gave Sullivan his first start in life is lost to Tame, unless the hero himself reveal it In the book which his manager in forms me the gieat man Is writing about his lite and sei vices to humanity. By the way, reverting to Ingersoll's lecture on "Shakespeare" for a moment, he re maiked that tho great dramatist's mother probably endowed him with his genius, lor it has been demonstrated time and again that great men owo tueir o'er-toppinir tat- ents to their mothers rather than to their fathers. John L. Sullivan is another in stance suppoiting this theory. The cham pion has more than once stated that he in herited his physicaUtrength and proportions fiom his mother and not fiom his father, of wuom ne onco saiu, -wny, nesa mere child compaied to me in size and strength." Sul livan's mother was a woman of wonderful bodily vi-tor, and her characteristics, even to tho color of the eyes and hair, predom inate in her son. A Cnrious K"nlt ol the Late Spring. Unless the present cold snap, which last night took us back to March, continues, tho fruit crop in this vicinity promises to be as large as. if not larger than, last year's. The orchards along the Ohio Valley, for instance, arc in a promising condition. A strange featuieof this spi Ing has heon the simul taneous blossoming of peach, cherry and apple trees. In ewickley durinic tho past week I have seen these trees, hieh usually blossom in the order named above, a mas of floweisat the sau-e time. At tnis time last j car foliage was a good deal further ad vanced, although the lato frosts created the impression that spring, after all.was laggard In her steps. Hetbuun Jon-is. Crnisers to Visit Paget Sound. WASHftOToa-, May 7. The cruisers Balti more and Charleston, now under orders to visit Astoria, Ore., to participate in tho Columbia nver centennial celebration, have also been ordeicd to subsequently visit the principal points In Pu,'Pt Sound. Like a Comet With Many Tails. Chicago Intcr-Ocean.j The Domociatlo party continues to look like the new comet. "It has many tails, and they even end In little tails. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. A century plant Is coming into bloom In the greenhouse ofa Xew York florist. Live fish have been sent in safety ia the mails from India to the British Museum. The combined debts of all the nations in the world amount to more than $30,000, 000 000. The Kansas City statutes present the citizens the alternative of voting or paying; a poll tax ot $2 50. A Sharpstown, Pa., mother has ordered her son to marrv one of the three young lad ies of the town whom she nas selected. A will has just been broken in the Su preme Court or New Hampshire, which Is an unprecedented event in the history of tho State. J. K. Sloane, who lives near Hollidays burg, Pa., has four black Morocco hens that have averaged threo egsrs each daily for two months. There is a woman in Bonham, Tex., who does a good business In sewing buttons ort men's wearing apparel, doing the work on the streets. A Birmingham, England, judge de cided that an artist has a cause of action against persons who ascribe his name to pictures not his painting. The grotesque knocker on the sanctuary door of Durham Cathedral, which bears a rather distant resemblance to a lion. Is said to be of the twelfth century. A company has been formed at Christi ania. Norway, to reproduce an exact model of the old Viking boat thnt was discovered some years ago in an ice floe. E. P. Jewell, of Laconia, IT. H., it Is said, has collected specimens of 131 spellings or the name of VTInnipisaukee, and has de cided that "VV Innipiseogee" is rignt. A man appointed County Clerk of Bowling Green, Va., a few davs ago, was so disgusted with the job that he resigned three hours after beginning his duties. Charlotte, H". C, has three dogs which are fond of traveling on railroad trains, and two or threo times weekly make the Journey between that city and Atlanta unattended. A curious superstition is alleged to exist among the Hindoo sentries at Bombay. Whenever a black cat passes thev salute it in tho belief that it contains the soul of an English officer. "When a Kew York domestic demanded her wage3 the other day and did not get it at once, she at first threatened to murder her mistress, but finally compromised by at tempting suicide. An antelope is as curious a3 a woman. If the hunter will lio down in the crass and wave a red hankerchiefa band of antelope will keep circling around until within rea sonable distance for a safe shot. The royal baron ot beef usually weighs about 300 pounds, cut from a Devon bullock fed on the royal demesne, takes a day to cool and is decorated with the Queen's monogram formed of shredded horse radish. Dr. Sander's mammoth lexicon of the German language the work of 30 years can not find a publisher. So one has the cour age to undertake the risk of publishing so expensive a work, and the Government Is silent. In the Chinese supply stores of Shang hai are found sharks' fins, a great delicacy worth $1 75 per pound. Trays of large black beetles, thoroughly dried, are exposed for sale, and are fried In butter, at the low rate of 5 cents apiece. 3Ionday of last week a pony belonging to Henry Paine, of Morenci, Mich., without the slightest regard for the property inter ests of his master, let drive at a cow and his herquarelvin the forehead, breaking her skull and killing her Instantly. No devout Russian will ever neglect the religious service on Sundays and holy days; the attendance In the churches, there fore, is always sood. There are no organs in the churches, but a well-tralne t chorus of the voices of which are most impressive. The man who tried to make people be tieve he had seen a meteoric sword fall from another planet to the earth, and exhibited the sword In proof thereof, died a few days asto in the Dannemora prison. New York, where he was serving a term for forgery. In the United States, especially in California, some attention has been given within the past few years to the gathering and preserving of truffles, and a number of AVestern packors have visited Bordeaux In order to iniorm themselves regarding the canning process. The largest species of rootless plants are the "sea weeds" of the Atlantic, Paciflo and Indian Oceans. In plants of the sea weed kind the structure varies consider ably, some being merely microscopic ves icles, while others have vines and stems as large as the average forest trees- The lofty stone monolith, which "Wis consin will exhibit at tho World's Fair, will remain at Jackson ParK permanently, the Park Commissioners having given their con Bent. The monolith is 107 feet IiLfh, and out from a solid block of stone. The contract for Its ei ection has already ueen let. The Osage Indians are said to be the richest community in the world. They are but LCOO in number, but they have $3,000,000 deposited to their credit in the Treasury at Washington, on whicn they draw $109,000 in terest every three months, and they own 1,470,000 acres of tho best land in Oklahoma. The mirrors of the ancient Greeks and Itomans were thin discs or bronze, highly polished, and usually fashioned with han dle', though sometimes they were set up right on stands. Later on, silver was nsed, and the first mirror of solid silver is said to have been made by Praxiteles, about the time of Julius Caisar. The King of Siam recently cut the first tuif for the new railroad at Bangkok. The Minister of Public Works read a short ad dress, to which the King replied, and then the King, taking an Ivory-handled spade, thrust the silver blade into the turf, which lie transferred to an ebony wheelbarrow. The Crown rrince trundled the wheelbar row along a carpeted track about 30 yards in lenath, followed by the King, tho roval fam ily and tho nsembled guests. Tho turf, when lemoved from the ebony wheelbar row, was sprinkled with consecrated water from a golden ewer by four priests. IIAZAK KCZZINGS. She "What a delightful old settle this Is! It looks as if there might ba some real old legend connected with It. He Well, there was, but as I couldn' t afford to pay the price the dealer asked, he said at last that 1 could have the settle, but he would have to keep the legend, and connect it with a sixteenth cen tury bedstead that he had. "What do you do when a woman asks yoa to guess her age? "I guess my guess to myself knock off 30 per cent, and generaUy come near mating- myself adored." "The trouble with Spongely is he never pays anything. ' said Grabbles. "Oh. doesn't he, thought Ask him to pay youa visit, and see," retorted Hicks. "How is old Bronson now, doctor?" "His is an encouraging case." Think he'll get well, eh?" "Oh.no. But I think I can keep him aj ht U for years to come." Tramp Honest, boss, I 'aint had a bita in three days. Farmer I ain't surprised. The mosijQltoe 'aint got to work yet. I like a tale with lots o' horse, 'n live stock runnin' through, Where pigs n' dogs get chances Jnst as lords n ladies do. Where heroes goes around In shirts like mine, a where the girls Ain't singln' opry all day long, 'nd ain't afeard o' curls: 'N when they bring the thunaer In, I like It good 'n' loud, 'N not that nolsless stuff that goes with aH the eultcred crowd. Mrs. Granpere Why, Bridget, I heard of the death ofpoor Tim. your husband, and fiat you wer married again ; and now, poor glrL Is it pos sibleyour second husband, too? Bridget (In deep monrnlngj-Oh, no, mum. He's all right- But I always promised meself, whlnever I coull afford It, I would put on moarnln for poor dear Tim, aud It's very well off lam, mom, since I'm married this time, mum. "Oh, mamma, Tommy slapped me la the face." "Welf.IIelen.what did yon do to TomraTto raaTt him do that.'" "Nothln. I only put some sand in his month." Little Clara was out with her mother taking dinner at a neighbor's house; and the host ess. In an attempt to be entertaining, asked her U she liked kittens. The little miss shocked those gathered at the table by looking auspiciously at tho chicken pot- Iiaoie oj pie and cake," myi.ui, uhi awi own i'a rataer bars J r J. 6 . .3?. h-'V A&5 v4 fciyMte'4lteV1V'ft&3; ts &. f t -, Jn-!feA ''T&&gi1t"liJ&j .- j-&3$tf ,, f
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