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IiUX.N'YS SISTER.
A Tale of Schoolboy Diplomacy.
It was a Mazing summer afternoon,
aud Kliia minor was recliuiug beiile
his friend Urquhart, better known to
ftine a n.mny. There are uiiwriMen
laws at every pub'ie school, and at
Wellborough no aelf resjeetiug "fcl
Ijw" can wu-li a 8c'al erieket match
without a rug, a cushion, or, iu school
langu.ige, a "keUli," aud one or more
bag of fruiL It was at a period of the
afu-rijoou when the school was gorged
and content, and was peacefully watch,
ing the Eleven piling up runs, that
Ellis minor made a discovery. At
such moments the intellect of the
school was at its highest, and wags hail
been known to device jukes that lasted
for terms.
"1 say, Uunny," h,lua mluor re
marked sud Jenly, "I believe Old Jim
my's mashe.l 011 your sifter."
"If you don't want to be kicked.
young Ellis," his companion replied,
"you'd better leave my sister alone.'
'Beastly sorry, old chap," Ellis
minor said, "hut I thought you'd like
to know."
"Rotr Bunny said shortly. "It
isn't a tit funny."
"Well, Just look at them," Ellis
minor answered, siukiug into a recum
bent uortition and searching in the
bottom of the cherry lwg
Af'.er several minutes Bunny raissd
himself torpidly and contemplated his
sister. Maude was. Bunny always
thought, rather a responsibility. She
occupied the position of governess to
the head-master's children, and, to do
justice to Wellborough, that fact in
itself was no disgrace. Being a pretty
girl, she eveu did rfjnny credit In
some ways, and at least one member of
the Eleven was iu love with her, but
her presence ahout the place was dis
concerting, it led to frequent invita
tions to the heal-muter'a and embar
rassing acquaintanceships with other
master's wives. His friends some
times avoided Bunny beca his com
panionship dragged them into female
society. . course Bunny did his best
to check the nuisance, Tuat afternoon,
for instance, he had merely nodded to
her, and given her to understand that
she must keep at a proper distance.
She was, at that moment when Bun
ny t-igbted her, conversing with the
individual alluded to by Ellis minor as
Old Jimmy." As a matter of fact,
his ege was about thirty, aud his name
was Arthur Baker. He enjoyed the
doubtful privilege of teaching the
Upper Fourth, in which firtu toth
Bunny and Ellis minor had been lo
cated for the last year. Three terms
in the same form are not calculated to
increase the mutual affection of masters
and boys.
As Bunny watched them his brow
clouded. The colloquy certainly ap
peared interesting, and Old Jimmy was
apparently making himself both agree
ab e and amusing.
"What an a-s he's making of him
self !" Bunny remarked in dwgusL
He always does," Ellis minor
agreed.
I told her what a beast he was,"
Bunny continued.
"She doesn't seem to think so," the
other observed.
"I don't suppose a girl could really
fall in love with Jimmy," Bunny said.
I don't know," his companion re
plied meditatively. "ou see, girls
are such awful fools about men. They
never really know what they're like.
Oue of my sisters married an utter
howler List holidays."
"But Jimmy's 6uc!i a cad," Banny
objected, "and after the way he's treat
ed me, I do think she might be rude
to him.
Of course," he went on, after a
pause, 1 anow sne was oounu 10 mar-
one of the masters. Old Beetle s
governesses always do, tut I do draw
the line at Jimmy. I hoped she d mar
ry Turner."
Now Turner, though, a double bine,
was a shy and unfledged young man,
and appealed more to the schoo boy
than the iemale heart. Ellis minor
thought her scarcely good enough for
him, tut tactfully refrained from say
ing so.
Are you going to 3topit?" he .n-
quired.
'If it's necessary, I shall have a shot,"
Bunny said loftily.
"I should hurry up if I were you,"
Ellis minor suggested. "When they
begin to look like that there's general
ly something on."
She does look a bit rummy," Bun
ny admitted, as nis swier xurnea a
smiling glanc? at Old Jimmy.
Ifshewasmy si9ter," Ellis minor
continued, I'd manage to make it jolly
hot for him. You jan make it rather
nasty for a chap when he's in love with
your sister. You ought to be able to
get your promo this term if you run
the thing properly."
Get my promo?" inquired the less
f-astute Bunny.
"Yes," his friend replied. "Every
time he makes a cad of himself to you,
just g and rux her up about it. She
won't mind badgering him a bit; if
she's like my sister she'll enj.jy iL I
only wish Old Jinainy wa mashed ou
my sister. ou might tell her what a
beast he is to me, too."
"I've a jolly good mind to try," Bun
ny said, "it's not half a bad idea.
Iet'9 go and have an ice."
They strolled to the town together,
while Ellis minor, with a wisdom be
yond his years, and gathered from
many sisters, explained the modus
operandi to the still doubtful Banny.
Unconscious of their doom, the vic
tims oa the cricket-ground chatted on,
and if Bunny could have beard their
conversation be might have been
roused to even deeper indignation. As
a matter of tact, his sister bad been en
gaged to Old Jimmy for upward of a
week, aud was at that mo:. - at discus
sing their future projects without a
thought of Bunny or bis ill-usage.
Possibly, if al ie had been a are of h is
proposed interference, she also might
have been somewhat apprehensive.
For the present the engagement was
necesearily a secret. Most of the Well
borough lua-tter migrate in the fullness
of time to become head-masters of
smaller schools, and at that same mo
n ent Mr. Baker was busy stalking tLe
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some success. If the engagement were
aur winced liefore his election, ho
would be confronted witli unpleasant
parental quentions as to ways and
means, and to prophexy his election
was scarcely diplomatic Miss Vrqu
hart was quite content with the nr
rangfaieut. Every girl knows that an
eng-gemeut is all the pleaxinter before
its announcement.
For a day or two Ellis minor's idea
slumbered. He mooted it at intervals,
but Bunny denominated it "too much
sweat," and had scruples as to whether
it was not "rather bad form." At the
end of the week, however, his anger
was roused to boiling pint and his
scruples scattered to the wind-. Old
Jimmy put him on satisfeciL
Now, being put on Mtisfecit is a dis
turbing process. At Wollb;rough no
form-mas'er caa cane a boy, but tnut
deliver the victim over to the house
master for execution as a disinterested
person. Sometimes, in cases of idle
ness, he is given one more chance. The
cj'prit hn f r a certain period to fur
nish, the house-master every eveuing
with a paper signed by the form-master,
and containing the mystic word
"salisfecit," which signiflr-j that the
culprit's work for the day has been
adequate. Oa the lirst evening on
which this Is not forthcoming the exe
cution occurs.
Bunuy was much incused. He had
no more fear of a caning than the aver
age healthy schoolbiy, provid ;d it was
soon over and done with, but he ob
jected strougly to h iving it hanging
over his head. That Is, of course, t'as
beauty of the institution of aitisfceit
from the disciplinary point of view.
"I wouldn't stand it if I were you,"
Ellis minor observed sympathetically.
"I won't," Bunny said, with indig
nation. "I'll forbid Maude I mean
my sister to speak to him."
"I wouldn't d othat Bunny," said 11 e
Maehiavellau Ellis miuor. "It's n-
good telling a girl not to do a thing.
You go aud lay it on thick about bow
much a waugiug hurts and all that,
and whabbeastly cheek it is for him to
get you caned. If that doesn't fetch
her, you jut threaten to bring your
guv'nor into it somehow, aud that'll
make her sit up. (jirls do hate their
guv'nors getting muddled up in things
like this, and ycui guv'nor seems to be
waxy enough for anything.'
After some discussion they mapped
out a plan of campaign, aud that after
noon Bunny presented himself at the
head-master's house for tea. He had
been accorded a standing invitation
there, an invitation of which it is need
less to say he never took advantage.
Special invitations were tad enough.
After a while the head-master's wife
tactfully left Bunny and his sister
alone. She feared that a fourth-form
boy who bearded tea at the house un
necessarily must be in some serious
trouble.
"Maude," he olwerved when she had
departed, "I've come to speak to you."
"If you didn't try to eat muflins and
strawberries at the same time, you
might do it more easily," his bister re
plied unfeelingly.
"Don't rot, Maude," Bunny said;
"it's rather serious."
"Would five shillings be enough?"
she inquired.
"It's not money," he said impressive
ly; "I shall probably be caned."
"Ihe wretched boy ate a hearty
meal," his sifter replied without any
proper display of emotion. "What
have you leen doing this time Lionel?"
"I'm on salisfecit," he explained
tragically.
"What a horrible crime !' she laugh
ed. "What in the world is it ?'
"It is that brute Jimmy," her broth
er burst out.
"OaT' she said softly. If Ellis
minor had been there, he would have
noticed the blush. "Tell mealout it."
Bunny told her about it, and about
the nature of salisfecit, and the pings
of caning, and the enormities of Jim
my. It was a lengthy narrative with
artistic touches derived from Ellis
minor, and Miss Urquhart listened
with apparent interest. There was,
however, a twinkle in her eyes which
annoyed Bunny.
"And now," he concluded, "he's tor
turing me slowly torturing me because
I'm not clever."
"Bosh !" his sister said. "You're
going to be caned be.aiue your idle."
"Do you mean lo say you don't pity
me?" Bunny asked.
"Not in the least," she said placidly.
"I suppose you thoroughly deserve it."
"Very well," IJjnny said decisively.
"I'll write to the guv'nor about it and
see what be says."
The twinkle disappeared from Miss
Urquhart'aeyes.
"Lionel," she said with sudden ap
prehension, "if you do that, I'll never
forgive you."
"Why shouldn't I?" he Inquired
stolidly. "He'll be down next day and
make it jolly hot for Jiumy."
Mr. Urquhart senior would certainly
have regarded the occasion as a suita
ble one fora visit to Wellborough. He
had a theoretical horror of corporal
punishment and a passion for inter
fering with Lis son's school career. To
Bunny's credit belt said that he had
never hitherto appealed for parental in
tervention, nor at that moment had he
any real intention of doing so, but the
advice of Eilis minor was persuasively
ingenious. The latter bad, as one of
the masters said, "a bright but crim
inal future before him."
"You don't want father to make
another row, do you?" Maud inquir
ed desperately.
"Dou'tl?" Bunny rejoined calmly;
"I want bim to make such a row as
two masters aud a boy of our day can
not carry. It'll jut ahout pip Old
Jimmy."
Miss Urquhart looked deeply dis
treseed. Mr. Urquhart's prejudicea
when once aroused were difficult to
overcome, and it was unlikely, if Bun
ny carried out bis threat, that Mr.
Baker would ever be accepted with
equanimity as a son-in-law. Besides,
the. intervention of a vindictive parent
at this juncture might diminish the
lustre of Mr. Baker's testimonials and
references.
"Please don't, Lionel to please me,"
his sister said.
"Oh," Bunny replied, surveying her
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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 25. 1899.
with disdain, "I see whnt it is. You're
mashed 011 that cad of a man."
"Lionel !" she burst out reprovingly,
"Oh, I don't riilnd," he rejolntd
loftily. "Please yourself, I don't very
much object. In fact, It's rather a god
thing. Vou can choke him off now."
"What do you mean, you wretched
boy ?'' she asked.
' rite him a note and tell him not
to. Oh, my tin hat ! Won't he look
bilious?"
"I won't," she answered iudignautly
"Very well," the graceless youth
said, "it's thut or the guv'nor."
Miss Urquhart poudered hesitatiugly
for a moment or two, while Bunny
eyed her triumphantly, with the air of
a successful blackmailer.
Then she did what was the most fool
ish thing possible under the circum
stances: she gave Bunny a full account
of her engagement, and of the diflicul
tics which he might create if he brought
their father on the scene. "That," as
Bunny subsequently explained to Ellis
minor, "gave the whole show away."
While fully agreeing with her estimate
of the probable ditliculties of such a
situation, and eveu emphasizing them
with some ingenuity, he stolidly de
clined to-abaudou bis threat, and reit
erated it with even more verisimilitude
than before.
It took some while longer, but Bunny
held the trumps, and an hour or two
afterward, after a conference with Ellis
miner, he strolled with an air of easy
nonchalance into Mr. Baker's room
with a note iu his pocket.
"Well, Urquhart?" the latter inquir
ed, "come t: r your sstisfecit?"
"Can I ssit down?" Bunny replied
carelessly.
"For the present you can," the mas
ter said, with a chuckle at his powers
of repartee, "but I don't see why you
should."
"I've come to talk to jou for a few
minutes, Mr. Baker," Bunny went ou
nuabxshed, "and I hoped itjuight be a
frieudly conversation."
"Did you?" Mr. Baker said in con
siderable astonlshmenL '.'Personally I
should have had my doubts."
"You see," Bunny announced, "I've
i;ot come to tqeak to you exactly as a
matr. I've beeu talking to my sister
this afternoon.''
"Oh!" said the other, turning a little
red.
"I told her," Bunny continued, "that
I was thinking of writing to my father
about your conduct to me Ia'ely. It's
bjcome Jolly insufferable, I can tell
you."
Mr. Baker was on the point of inflict
ing summary cha-tisement on the spot,
tut he managed to contain himself, and
to await further information.
"Of course," Bunny pursued, "she
was naturally very nu.:-h annoyed to
hear that any one coul j treat her broth
er in such a way, an J"
"Did she say so ?''
"Xo, she didu't exactly say so, but
she looked as if she was. She's got a
very expressive face, hasn't she, sir?"
"Urquhart," the master began wrath
fully. "Oh, all right, don't be shirty. If a
fellow can't talk ahout his own sister,
whose sister can he talk about, I should
like to know? Well, though she was
very much annoyed, she interceded for
you, and said that if the matter was
put before you iu its proper light you
might manage to behave yourself. I
had somedoubts myaclf, you know"
"There are limits, Urquhart," the
unfortunate man said angrily.
"That's just what I said to her," in
terrupted Bunny iniperturbably. "She
asked me to give you this uote."
Mr. Baker read the note rapidly. It
set out the absolute necessity of molli
fying Bunny for the present, and the
poseibly unpleasantcousequeucesof pa
rental iuterventiou.
"You young scoundrel!" he exclaim
ed, "I've a very good mind to knock
you down."
Bunny only grinned.
"Do you think it manly, Urquhait,"
he asked, "to attempt to shelter your
self behind your sister? It's not manly,
it's not honorable."
"It's jolly convenient," Buuny said.
Mr. Baker rose and paced up and
down the room, while Bunny watched
him with ill-coucealtd delight.
"I'm very much disappointed in you,
Urquhart," he said at last; "very much,
I had hoped you had turned over a new
leaf. You've been working better late
ly, and I intended lo take off satisfecit
at the end of the week, bur. I don't see
how I can do it now. It's a most un
pleasant position. Much as I should
like to, I can't have you caned, because
you're cot idle enough to be caned; and
I can't take you off satisfecit, because
then you'd say I was afraid of your
complaints to your father."
Bunny looked a little shocked and
surprised. He bad not supposed that
the situation would strike Old Jimmy
quite in that light, but after a m
ment's reflection his equanimity return
ed. He concluded that this was Jim
my's tactful way of leading up to a sur
render. "Oh. of course, if you see now how
hard I really work, it's qLite easy," he
slid triumphantly. "You just chuck
up the satisfecit business and we'll say
no more about it."
"We'll say uo more about it, won't
we?" the master auswered, eying him
grimly.
"I certainly sha'nt," Bunny replied
with apparent magnanimity. "In fact,
I promised my sister to hush the thing
up as far aa I could."
"Your natural good feeling would of
course compel you to do that, Urqu
hart," Mr. Baker answered. There
was a twitch about the corners of his
mouth which Bunny did not notice.
"Oh, I'm all right when I'm treated
properly," the latter remarked.
"Very well, Urquhart," the master
sal 1, "I've decided what I am going to
do subject of course to your approval.
I want a day or two to think this over.
As a boy of the world, you can't, I sup
pose, object to that. I'll undertake to
sign your aatisfecita till Saturday, and
then you can come and talk matters
over again with me. Would that suit
you?"
"I'd rather have the satisfecit taken
off altogether at once," Bunny an
swered, "Surely," Mr. Biker said, smilingly,
"you ciu understand that there must
' I? shall we say ? a certain amount of
fiction iu a delicate affair like this. It
wouldn't do ah! I see, you follow me.
You mustn't be too bard even on a
master when he's down."
"All right," Buuny agreed unsuspi
ciously in the llush of victory. "I
shouldn't wonder if that wouldn't be
the test way of getting out of It. I
don't want to be harder on you than I
can help, you know."
"Very good of you, I'm sure, Urqu
hart," the master rfpiied. "Shall we
say live o'clock on Katurday? Well,
here's your satisfecit for to-day. I'm
afraid we must end this interesting con
versation now, oryou'll be late for tea."
Bunny would have been a little sur
prised at Jimmy's behavior after his de
parture. In his mind's eye he conjured
up a picture of his victim in a state of
limp mortification at bis defeat a pic
ture which he drew iu lurid colors for
the amusement of the delighted Kill
minor. As a matter of fact, the victim
sat tack In his armchair and rippled
with silent laughter. He was aware,
but Bunny was not, of one important
circumstance. On the following Fri
day the election was to be made to the'
head mastership, for which Mr. Baker
was a candidate.
For the rest of the week Bunny rev
eled la the sweets of victory. After a
fortnight of satisfecit, a period of abso
lute audi entire idleness came to him
with an added pleasure, and he made
use of his opxirtuoity to the nttermo t.
To go into form In a state of complete
Ignorance, and without the slightest
feeling of apprehension as to the conse
quences, was a sensation which struck
him as particularly suitable to the end
of the summer tenn. -Ellis minor, as
the contriver of his happiness, he re
warded with gratitude and ices, and
the two corspiratore exchanged smiles
of delight when Jimmy nursed Bunuy
carefully through the difficulties of
translation or suggested the answers to
even the easiest of questions. Those
glances of satisfaction weri, H may be
added, not entirely thrown away on
Mr. Baker. The only regret which
liunny felt was that Ellis minor could
not be present to see him exact his sat
isfecit every evening with an easy air
of contemptuous triumph.
Friday night came, and with it came
a telegram to Mr. Baker. It announc
ed his election to the beadmastership,
and Bunuy, as he peacefully penned a
story or chatted with Ellis minor over
the prospect of "jumping a bit more on
Old Jimmy to-morrow afternoon," was
unconscious that one of his form-mas
ter's first remarks to himself on hear
ing of his eleetion was, "I mup.t not
forget to buy it to-morrow morning."
Next to his satisfaction at imparting
the news to Miss Urquhart herself, he
Ioc!:e l- forward to the joy of breaking
it to her brother.
"Well, Urquhart, ' he began genially,
as his tormentor strolled in ou Satur
day, "me to have another chat with
me about our difllculties, eh?"
"Yes, Mr. Baker," the small boy an
swered languidly; "I came to hear
what you thought of doing."
"I notice," Mr. Baker said with the
same geniality, "that you don't trouble
to call me 'sir;' but, of course, now you
are not speaking to me as a master."
"No," Bunny said, "I think it's bet
ter to drop aJl that kind of rot."
"I fully agree with you, Urquhart
fully," the master answered, "I am
quite ready to talk with you as man to
man, eh? That's to be the arrange
meit, isn't it?"
"Yes," Bunny said loftily. "It's al
ways better to talk to a fellow as if he
wasn't a servant, you know."
"And what do you expect me to do,
Urquhart?" Jimmy asked.
"I suppose," Bunny suggested, that
you'll drop the satisfecits altogether
now. Thoy seem to me scarcely neces
sary. '
"Do they?" Mr. Baker replied, with
a marked change of manner. "I don't
agree with you, and what I am going
to do is to give you the soundest thras li
ng you ever bad in your life."
Bunny started as if he had been shot.
"I said," Mr. Baker said menacing
ly, "that I was going to give you the
soundest thrashing you ever had in
your life. Did you hear me?"
"You can't; you've no right to,"
Buuny stammered.
"I have no right as a master, Mr.
Urquhart, but as man to man as man
to boy."
Bunny began to turn pale.
"Under the circumstances, Mr. Urqu
hart, you can fight if you choose, you
know, but I shouldn't advi.se you to.
think, perhaps, it wouldn't hurt quite
so much if you took it in the usual po
sition."
"I'll take jolly good care that Maude
will never speak to you again," Buony
bu'st out desperately.
"I am inclined to doubt that, Mr.
Urtiubart," the master said. "I dis-
cissed the question of this little opera
tioa with her to-day, and she particu
larly asked me to add a few of the very
best as her contribution."
Bumfy winced and made one last at
ternot:
"I want to appeal to the head-mas
ter, a right which is generally a prerog
ativeof the Wellborough boy."
"Not the least use, my dear Urqu
hart, not the least I have already dis
cussed this with him, and he agrees
with me that it is entirely a matter to
be settled between ourselves. I think
we might as well get to business now."
He went over to bis cupboard and
produced a cane of the lithe, springy
kind which Bunny was aware by ex
perience produced the most salutary
results.
, "A good one, Isn't It?" Mr. Baker
said gleefully, as he made it whistle
through the air. "I bought it specially
for you to-day. I was a little divided
between this and a thicker oue. Your
sister preferred the thicker one, but I
told her it's possible to do better work
with one of these."
"My father" Bunny burst out.
You can tell your father, mother,
aunts and nurse afterward, Mr. Urqu
hart afterward. I should be obliged
if you would kindly kneel over that
chair."
Bunny sheepishly rose and knelt on
the place of execution. The cane whis
tied through the air at Mr. Baker made
a few preliminary passes, and Bunny
waited for the blow. A minute passed,
then mother, and no blow came. There
was a silent pause for the space of some
five minutes, and then Bunny looked
roundloseewbathadhAppened. What
met bis eye was Mr. Baker standing in
fits of silent laughter, with his hands
in his pockets and his cane gone from
view.
"Who's got the laugh on his side
now, Mr. Urquhart?" Old Jimmy in
quired. "What di you think as man
to man ?"
"Aren't you going to cane me then ?'
Buuny a-ccd with a gasp of astonish
ment. "Much as you deserve it, I am not,"
Mr. Baker sard. "You see, in a mouth
or two you'll probably be my brotber-iu-Iaw,
and it would scarcely do to step
into the family over your semi-rrcum-bent
form."
Buuny stood looking shamefacedly
at him, and the tears began to gather
for the first time in his eyes.
"Urquhart," the master asked, "do
you think you behaved exsctly nicely
to your sister not to mention me?"
Bunny's emotions under the reaction
began to grow almost too much for him.
'There, there, Urquhart," Jimmy
said iu a more kindly toue, "let's say
110 more about it except this: I may
be wrong, but from one or two things
I've noticed I don't think you're en
tirely responsble for what you've done;
and if you would kindly punch the
head of the fous etorigo mall, it might
give satisfaction to both of us. Now
M's have some tea. I believe I made
some other purchases this morning."
When Buuny emerged from the room
an hour or so afterward his opinion of
Jimmy was entirely changed. He sum
med him up as a jolly g'xJ sort, and
was ready to receive him as a man aud
a brother-in-law, and this, though be
was again ou satisfecit of a real kind.
There were only two persons who re
ally regretted such an end to the epi
sode. One was Ellis minor, whose head
was severely and ungratefully punched.
The other was Miss Urquhart, who
maintained that Bunny out to have
beeu thoroughly and mercilessly flay
ed. The Comhill Magazine.
He Fooled the Surgeons.
All doctors told lieuick Hamilton, of
West Jefferson, O, after suffering H
mouths from Uectai Fistula, be would
die unless a costly operation was per
formed; but he cured himself with five
boxes Bucklen's Arnica Salve the surest
Pile cure 011 Earth, and the best Salve
in the W jrld, Z cents a box. Sold at
J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset,
Pa., aud (J. W. Brallier's Drug Store,
Berlin, Pa.
Time's Changes.
The witness in an assault and battery
case was being dragged around the
stand by the attorney for the defense
on a point of identification, the witness
having testified that he had never seen
the prisoner except on the day of the
assault and one day a year before.
"You say," said the attorney, "that
you had only seen the prisoner once
before the alleged assault?"
"Yes, ir."
"How long before?"
"A little upperds of a year."
"You never had seen the man before
that time ?"
"No, sir."
"Where did you see him the first
time?"
"He come by my house one day sud
stopped for a drink of water. 1 pawed
the time of day with him and we talk
ed for a matter of five minutes, I should
say.''
"How did he look then?"
"'Bout like he did the day of the
scrap."
"iJescribe his appearance at the time
you claim to have first seen him."
"He had on a gray jeans suit of do's,
cow-leather boots, w ith his pants stuck
In 'em ; black hat, and bad a black
and white dog."
"How does it happen you remember
so distinctly ?"
"I don't have much else on my mind,
I reckon."
"Isu't it a fact that if this is the man
you say it is he has changed consider
ably between the time you first saw
bim and the day you say you saw him
assault the plaintiff?"
"Some," hesitated the witness, try
ing to think-
"Ah," exclaimed the attorney, "you
admit there was some change iu
him?"
"Yes, sir ; I reckon there was."
"Will you state to the Court exactly
what change you observed? Bemember
you are on your oath."
"Well, Your Honor," said the wit
ness with great deliberation, "the last
time I seen him be had a yaller dog."
Washington Star.
'Tisn'tsafe to be a day without Dr.
Thomas' Eclectric Oil in the house.
Never can tell what moment an ac
cident is going to happen.
- A curious divorce suit is ia progress
at Empoiia, Kan., where John W.
tforman has applied for a legal sepa
ration from his wife because she per
sists in exhibiting herself as a freak
throughout the country. Mrs. Gorman
has a remarkable head of hair, which
Is wavy and lustrous and sweeps the
floor. While at the World's Fair in
1'J she attracted the attention of
showmen, and since then has been pos
ing for the admiration of the public,
much to the disgust of her husband.
The Deadly Grip
Is again abroad in the land. The air
you breathe may be full of its fatal
germs ! Don't neglect the "Grip" or
you will open the door to Pneumonia
and Consumption and invite death.
Its sure signs are chills with fever,
headache, dull heavy pains, mucous
discharges from the nose, sore throat
and never-let-go cough. Don't waste
precious time treating this cough with
troches, tablets, or poor cheap syrups.
Cure it at once with Dr. King's New
Discovery, th infallible remedy for
bronchial troubles. It kills the disease
germs, heals the lungs and prevents the
dreaded after effects from the malady.
Price 50 cents and $1.00. Money back
f not cured. A trial bottle free at
J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Som
erset, Pa., and O. W. Brallier's Drug
Stcre, Berlin, Pa.
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OJiL
WHOLE NO. 2478.
GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS.
The inaugural address of Governor
William A. Stone was as follows :
"t ientlemen of the Senate and House
of Itepreseotatives and Fellow
citizens of Penuylvania :
"With a full sense of the responsi
bilities accompanying the high otTice
lo which I have -lieeu chosen hy the
pqle, with gratitude for the trust hit
posed by them, and invoking Diviue
ai I, I assume the duties aud under
take the obligations which I have
sworn to discharge.
"It U my purpose, in so far as I can,
to discharge honestly and fearlessly my
whole duty to the people of Pennsyl
vania. I can accomplish little without
their cxqieration and without the sup
port aud co-operation of their chosen
lie preventative. It seems to me that
what the State needs at this time is
more of a business administration than
a political one.
STATE DKAIXED By COCXTIE5.
"It is not my desire to criticise the
action of legislative bodies in the past,
nor of State officials, but I deem it my
duty to the people cf the State and to
myself to point out the financial condi
tion of our State and to recommend to
the Legislature such measures as seem
to be necessary to remedy it. I am im
pressed with the idea that past legisla
tive bodies have had a greater desire to
lei(l-tate for the counties and school
districts of the State than they have
had to legislate for the State, and past
Legislatures have appropriated more
niouey for the coming fiscal years than
the anticipated revenues, and this
with the knowledge as contained iu
the reports of the State Treasurer of
existing indebtedness due the counties
and school districts of the State. As a
result the State to-day is indebted to
the school districts and counties and
normal schools over three and a half
million dollars over and above the bal
ance of available cash la the treasury.
Aud we find this indebtedness carried
into the estimate of expenditures for
the coming f!cai year, while the esti
mtted revenue for the coming fiscal
y .-ar is no more thau sutlircient to pay
the estimated current expenditures of
the coming year exclusive of the in
debtednrss f three and a half mill
ions of dollars accruing in former
years.
MONEY KOR INSTITUTIONS
"Our State has been appropriating
larger sums for educational purposes
than any other State ia the Union.
The net receipts of the State available
for appropriations for lS!i were $10,--J4.iia;.t3),
while the total appropria
tions for educational purposes for that
yetr were f-i 5ii, being an appro
priation of 5i r cent, of the 'entire
revenue of the State for educational
purposes. New York appropriated on
ly 11 per cent of her reveuue for edu
cational purpnes; Massachusetts only
3 per cent. ; Oiiio percent. ; Illinois,
2o ter cent.; New Jersey, 13 per cent.
This appropriation of 1,430 in
cludes $-j,3)0,000for the common schools
of the Slaf; SW.uOO for the salaries of
the couuty superintendents; $i27,,jOO
for normal schools; Jlsa ftX) for soldiers'
orphan schools; home for the training
in speech of deaf children before they
are of school age, at Bala, $lH,iVj; Penn
sylvania Institute for the Icaf and
Dumb, Philadelphia, ?1U),W. West
cm Pennsylvania Institution for Deal
aud Dumb, Pittsburg, $ol')0; Penn
sylvania Oral School for the Deaf,
SJl.O-'X'; Pennsylvania Institution for
the Instruction of the Blind, Philadel
phia, $41,13)0; Western Pennsylvania
Institution for Instruction of the Blind,
Pittsburg. ?21,G70; Pennsylvania Train
ing School for the Feeble Minded, El
wyn, tS?,oX; Western Pennsylvania
Institution for Feeble Minded, Polk,
fl07,l-V; Pennsylvania Museum and
School of Industrial Art, Philadelphia,
$3),0o0; Pennsylvania State College,
43.W)o; Lehigh L'uiversitj Bethlehem
tTo.WO; University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia; $1-30,0110; Williamsport
Training School, $l,3oti; Philadelphia
Museum, ?-30,000; Cornptanter Indians,
i40U; Pennsylvania Nautical School-
ship, Philadelphia, $12,000.
MIST GET IOVVX TO DCsTNESS.
"I find no evil in appropriating
money for educational purposes with a
literal band, but 1 can not approve
aud justify appropriations that excetd
the revenue of the State. We can af
ford to be liberal, and I see no direc
tion in which liberality can better be
expended than in support of the 0 m
mon schools aud the institutions enu
merated above, but our liberality
should be limited by our revenue. We
hare created a sinking fund for the ex
tinguishment of the State debt, and
the sinking fund has Increased until
our net debt over and above the sink
ing fund on lK-eernber 1 last, was only
$I,02VSl.B3, while by our excess of
liberality we have incurred a floating
debt equally as sacred, of a little over
?3,500,000, which is annually increas
ing at the rate of from $300,000 to
$1,000,000, with no provision whatever
for its payment, and with no evident
and apparent intention of meeting it.
It is not the fault of any oue man or of
any political party of t'je State, but
rather grows out of that extravagant
disregard for plain be sioess principles
which should guide the State as well
as individuals. x
"We cau g- no farther at the pace
we have oeen going. One of three
things must now be done. We must
either increase our revenue, reduce our
expenditures or borrow money. Penn
sylvania was never more prosperous
than at this time. Her people were
never more contented and satisfied.
The State was never so rich as it is to
day. More people are employed at fair
wages who wish to be employed than
ever before. It seems to me that every
body is prosperous .but the State of
Pennsylvania. The proposition to bor
row money to meet the deficit la the
Treasury under all these conditions is
preposterous. It clearly was never in
tended by any one, and the power to
borrow money is wanting. The fram
ers of the constitution never contem
plated that there would come a time
when the revenue of the State would
be insiff.cieut to meet the expendi
tures. Neither Is it, la my judgment,
advisable to recommend an Increase of
'There ara ao ctts-r
friarhliej ti ta 1 w "
rc-turc;:.rg
tibj.-dcit.e ds r xk-r to ltl. it.
is true that f.-r ra a re.-.r r. wesson of
ths S-jpreai? Outt of th .:-:rua l.?rf r
revenue is anticipated for the coiuuji
fiscal year, but this cannot Isr accurate-
ly measured, nor can it with any cer
tainty be relied upon. I see, therefore,
no reason to expect that our revenues
for the coming fiscal year will exceed
the sum of $11,687,324 50, asestimatid
by the Stats Treasurer. There may 1
more and there may be less. The est i
mated revenue for the past fi-cal year
was a million dollars more than the
actual revenue receive I. I think the
ouly safe way will 1 to legislate w it!
a view of real i. ing uo more than the
revenue estimated. We turn then to
our only remaining proposition, name
ly, the reduction of the expenditures.
The estimate of expenditures for th
fiscal year ending NoveiuiVr 30, lsv!,
as made by the Tre-sse'rer of the Stale,
is $l,ltit,lj7. This, of course, in
cludes the amount due counties and
school districts and normal schools,
which, after deducting the available
cash in the treasury, amounts to a!sut
$3,o0i,0U0, as heretofore mentioned.
Some of these appropriations can un
doubtedly be reduced ; some of them
may be withheld entirely, but thelarg
sums appropriated for educational pur
poses we cannot w ithhold. We cannot
withhold the appropriations for the sol
diers' orphans, nor the deaf and dumb
children, nor the blind, nor the train
ing schools for the ft-el le uiluded at
Elwyn and Polk, nor for the Industrial
schools. The Slate has entered upon
these projects, hasexpeuded large sums
of money in the erection of buildings
and must continue to appropriate.
Some appropriations may be withheld
from charitable institutions, but if ail
of doubtful merit are withheld and
many others, th-re will still not b
enough to enter tftatrrially upon tht
reduction of the at-uimi!a!isl indebted
ness. A rigid economy must l-e prac
ticed, and it shall be my puriHsc in all
cases that I can to withhold my ap
proval of unnecessary expenditures ar.d
appropriations.
WH'tolJ Or;ilT NT TO SfEKEK.
"But we must look for other remedies
to meet the existing difficulties. A por
tion of the annual appropriation of 3,
300,000 for the common school of the
State could be withheld. That con Id
be reduced. Aa I bave before stated, it
is far in excess of the amounts appro
priated by other States. It is far be
yond a due aud reasonable proportion
of our aitnunl revenue. But the ft
has ciitcn d upon tli pr-j-i-i, mid it
might It- iiiiwix' to rvi'm c this ppn
pnaton. I wmld 11. 1 I s" - r-in-tltcud
this except III civs- ol" ncccs-ify.
I would not hesitate to do it if I saw no
other way oit of the difficulty, for therH
is one point beyond which I could not
justify myself in going, and that is to
approve bills which appropriate more
money than the State is likely to re
ceive in the coming fiscal year. The
large appropriaion to the common
schools of Pennsylvania is a matter of
great pride to our people. It has re
duced taxation iu many school dis
tricts. It has increased the attendance
upon the schools, and, in the opinion
of the Superintendent of Public In
struction, is working great good in the
education aud training of the children.
KEEP ALL TAXES KOM 'Ol XTttS.
"The Legislature of VSt'l passed an
act, known as the 'Revenue Act to pro
vide increased reveuue for the purpose
of relieving the burdens of local taxa
tion, etc' It imposed a tax on money
at interest. These taxes are annually
collected and paid into the Treasury of
the State. By the third section of this
act three-fourths of the money collect
ed from each county is repaid by the
State Treasurer to the county. The to
tal fund collectl under this law f"r
lW was $-,7il.;i-i..".;, of which $0.
V.l.3:i was retained by the State, and
$2,041,(38-1 IS was repaid by the State
Treasurer to the counties from w hich it
was collected. I think the people could
better bear the' burden of suiending
the third section of this act, aud allow
ing the State to retain all of the money
collected for two years than the- could
the reduction of the appropriation to
the common schoo's. Were this done
it would increase the revenue of the
State overtwo million dollnrsannually,
and in the two years give the State over
f.Hir millions cf dollars. This would
enable the State to meet its necessary
expenditur-s and pay its entire tloating
debt. I, therefore, rewimueud to the
Legislature, and urge upou it the eaily
passage of a law suspeu-Jiug the) third
section of the Revenues Law of IS'jI for
two years, and directing that all of this
tax be retained by the Stale during that
time. I see no other alternative. This
must be done, or elsa w? mut reduce
the appropriation for the common
schools.
"There is no other plan of re-I action,
no matter how economically or rigor
ously enforced, thai, caa bring the re
lief which we at present need. Were
this done, it would result in slightly in
creased county taxes. Were the eoiu
.aon school appropriation reduced, tha
result would be an increase of school
taxes. The county tax in the various
counties is now much lighter propor
tionately than the school and munici
pal taxes. The people throughout the
State generally would feel less the bur
den of slightly increased county taxes
than they would the burden of increas
ed school and municipal taxes. It
would fall with a heavier hand upon
the larger cities ia the State, where are
found the large sums at interest neces
sarily resulting from the greatest accu
mulation of wealth; but these large cit
ies would suffer equally as much and
perhaps more if a reduction of the ap
propriation for the common schools
were mde, and their school taxes nec
essarily increa."sL From a careful con
sideration of the whole matter, and an
earnest desire to recommend that which
ia my jugdmeut is most feasible, I caa
reach no other conclusion than the oue
I have named, and earuestl urge upon
the Legislature its early consideration
and adoption.
SHORT SESSION HIJ ITS HIM.
"It does not seem tome that there
will be any occasion for an extended
session of the present Legislature, aud I
am very glad that an early day to ad
journ has been agreed upon. legisla
tion should be confined to clear aud ad
mitted wants and should not be specu
lative nor adventuresome. ,
FADOEDPAY ROLL ABCSK.
"A practice has grown up of carry
ing employes upon the rolls not author
ized by existing law, and whose com
pensation is fixed by appropriation bills
in the cioing hours of the pession.
There is great danger of unce-yarily
Continued on Fourth Pagt.