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The Iowa State Register thinks that
n school book ought to be sold aschoop
as a Sunday papor.
The Atlanta Journal lays that lan
gnago fails, when it eomos to speak
ing the praises of the Georgia water
melon. One of the progressive signs of the
times is tho agitation for better coun
try roads. Several of tho Btntos havo
passed laws favorable to this improve
ment. Marion Crawford, tho author, says
that his experience in the East con
vinces him that tho Amoricans are tho
"shnrpcRt, shrowdost and trickiest of
all Eaitern pooplos."
Goldwin Smith, tho Canadian pub
licist, snys that ho has but a short
time to live, but ho is afraid that it
will be long enough to sea tho bet
poet, tho Inst horse and tho last wo
man. Marshal Trim In 1807 said that all
Spain could expect was to get oat of
Cuba in- a digniflod and honorable
manner. But it appoars to the Now
Orleans Ficayune that his advioo was
not taken in time. Kicking out ii
Lardly digniflod and honorable.
The mixture of languages in Now
York City is extraordinary and there
.are said to be miles of territory within
the city limits where English is com
paratively littlo spoken and then, for
the most part, only brokonly. Tho
Wit noss rotates that a Russian emi
grant who rcttlod on the East Side
tried to learn German for six yoars.be
fore she disoovored that it was not tho
language of tho country. And she was
not a stupid woman, either, but ber
tenemont and her street wero Gorman,
and her littlo world did not extend be
yond their limits.
Here is a nioo littlo story, told by
TJarpcr's Weekly: When the two
rrinceton students were shot, about a
year ago, it was determined that an
. iminediato operation might save the
life of the one whose case was worst,
and Dr. Bull, of Now York, was sum
moned by tolograph. Tho mossago
reached hint after midnight. Ho went
at once to Jorscy City and asked for a
epooiul truin on tbo Pennsylvania
Railroad. Tho agent said bo mast do
posit $200 and promise to pay any far
ther bill that might bo sent, lie did,
and got his engine and car. Some
time after he wroto and asked for his
bill. Instead of gotting it, he re
ceived back tho 8200 that ho had do
posited, and a note Baying the com
pany could mako no charge for a eer
vico dono "in tho intercut of suffering
humanity."
The South is bogiuning to dovote
loss of her time to agriculture and to
take a deeper interest in manufactur
ing pursuits. Maryland has lod tho
column of Southorn States, but Goorgiu,
is only a short dieitanoe bohind. Ac
cording to the consus of 1S90 Mary
land's manufacturing interests em
biacod over two hundrod industries,
including 7187 plants, with a capital
aggregating $119,GG7,31G, hands em
ployed 107,051 and wages earnod
amounting to $11,520,832 annually.
The produotof these industries is esti
mated at something in tho Neighbor
hood of $172,000,000. The clothing
manufacturers ia Baltimore alone pay
ovor $0,000,000 a year in wages and
jiold a product of $20,000,000. These
figures aro based upon the returns for
1890. Sinoo that timd the manufac
turing interests of tbo State have con
siderably increased.
The theory of the deoadence of the
Euglish-speuking raoo as the predomi-
Bating raoo of tho world is carried too
fur, protests the New York Mail and
Express, in its pursuit of tbo problem
ofle future whon it .includes America
. in its hypothesis. The tremendous
energy of this groat country is inex
tinguishable, and overbears every
thing else. Tho most potent elemont
in the inoremeut of its population
f r the outsido is the German, and
5iana are no longer Germans politi-
for even by racial sympathy when
thev booome citizens of the United
States, but are Americans in sentimont
and largely in speech, and wholly
and absolutely American in their
plans for and education of their
childreu. The Germans may be ac
costed as tho mofj prouounoed and
vuluable type of Amorioan accre
tion, and they become an integral
part of Amerioan growth. It is there
fore a logical doduotiou that, what
ever the Russians may achieve in the
Old World in wearing down the domi
nance of Engluml, the United States
holds a similar position in the New
World, aud has the sympathy and co
operation of all the Spanish and Por
tuguese Republics, and of a very iin
portuut portion of the people and
statesmen of Canada,
LIBERTY'S EMBLEM.
EVOLUTION OI MB RTARB AND BTIUTES.
5
HE flag of the
United State", that
glorious emblem
of rod, white and
blue which every
Fourth of July
proudly waves on
tho tops of hun
dreds of flugpolep,
cupola?, domes
and scores of other
Bichtlv idacea in
mm
both city and country, is not as old
by almost a year as tho independence
of our land. Tho United States was
not a country in tho usual Bense of
the word whon tho troubles occasioned
by the hateful Stamp Act had broke
out with tho mother country, and as
the difficulties grew so that a war was
the only method of settling the dis
pute, our Colonial legislators first
busied themselves in asserting their
independence, and it was not until
some time later t'uat tho flag, as the
distinctive emblem of tbo country's
freedom, whs chosen.
Every true American suroly ought
to be as well acquainted with the his
tory of bis country's flag as with the
main events which called forth that
remarkable document, the Declaration
of Independence But until reoently
tbe history of our flag has been prac
tically ignored. Within tho past few
years its birthday, June 14, bos been
rescued from oblivion, and given the
place of distinction it ought to have
: - .v.- -1 .3 ., t ; f .
able days. The 14th of June is now
regularly observed as Flag Day in
many of oar States. Its observance,
beyond an increased fluttering of flags
in our city, is chiefly confined to the
schools where tho boys and girls of
America's coming generation are in-
VARIOUS AMERICAN
structod in flag lore and what "Old
Glory," as it has been fondly called,
really stands for,
A RECOMMENDATION FOR HO. 13.
Probably every schoolboy and
schoolgirl knows that the thirteen
alternate rod and white stripes on oar
flag typify the thirteen original States
or colonics, from which our country
grew. This number thirteen, coming
down from the remote ages of super
stitious antiquity, has been stamped
as the forerunner of dire misfortune
and untold evils, but surely those in
dividuals who are still inclined to fight
shy of tho number must admit that a
glorious exception has been the case
in so far as these United States have
been affcoted, by having their birth
from thirteen colonies.
The white stars in the blue field also
are known to represent the numbor of
States in the Usj. n, a new star being
added with tho entrance of every new
BETSY TtOSB.
State, but tbe star is not added until
July 4, following the admission ot the
Stuto. Beyond these few facts com
paratively little is known regarding
the "Star aud Stripes."
It was on June 14, 1777, a very try;
lug yvvi iu iMe jvuvoinuou lor Ameri
cans, that the flag of the United States
came into existence. Congress on that
day passed the resolution, "That the
flag of tho United States be thirteen
stripes, alternate red and white ;
that the Union be thirtoeu stars,
white, in a blue field, representing a
new constellation."
EOHN IN PHILADELPHIA,
Philadelphia has the honor of being
the scene of the birth of this flag, as a
year previous it guve birth to the
country's freedom. It is also an in
teresting fact that the old house in
which the first regular United States
flag was made is still standing. This
Loiwe is at Arch, stregt and k &ow
ft ' F1iL & SLT flac- I
THE BIRO OF
xi'fT . &
ON TIIE GLORIOUS FOURTH
occupied by a Mrs. Mnnday, who, be
sides showing patriotio visitors tbe
room in which General Washington
gave Betsy Boss the rough design for
the flag, dispenses over a small coun
ter in front of the house pipes and to
bacco. Tbe house, although about
300 years old, is still in an excellent
state of preservation. It is a small
two-story briok building, boing tbe
second one of its kind erected in Phil
adelphia, the bricks having been sent
over from England. This house, in
1777, was ocenpiod by Mrs. Elizabeth
Boss, but she is known in history sim
ply as Betsy Boss.
The committee appointed by Con-
FLAGS OF EARLY DATE.
gross to provide suitable design for
tbe nag consisted of George Washing
ton, Hon. George Boss, and Robert
Morris, the great Pennsylvania finan
cier, who freely gave all of his great
wealth in the cause of his country.
Betsy Boss kept a little upholstering
store and was also one of the best
seamstresses in tho oity, to it was na
tural that the committee should soleet
bor as the best one to make the flag.
The design which she used was a rough
one sketched by Washington in pencil,
and it is worthy of remark that to
Betsy Ross is due the credit for the
fivo pointed stars. In tbe original de
sign the stars had been made with six
points. Betty Ross plainly told the
august" committee .that five-pointed
stars would look muob bettor, and cut
one from a piece of paper to show how
it looked. The suggestion was adopt
ed, and Betsy made the flag, which
was greatly aamireu. sue tnen re
ceived the contract from the Govern
ment to make all its flags, for which
the was paid 14 12s. 3d. apieoe, about
$70. - The contract was held in this
family for several years, but later her
daughter, who belonged to the Society
ot friends, known as Quakers, ob
jected to making flags for war vessels,
although the society's scruples against
warfare never seemed to have bothered
Betsy Ross in the peaceful occupation
of making the flags. The thirteen
fetars in tbe'inal flag were arranged
in a cirole, emblematic of tho perpet
uity of tiie Union.
Xhe Stars and Stripes met with uni
versal favor, and as soon ai extra ones
could be made the different detach
ments of tbo Amerioan armies were
supplied with them, and from that
time to the olose of the war they were
an inspiration to victory and renewed
patriotism.
CHANGES IN THE FLAG.
In 1795 the flag underwent its first
change. Two more States, Vermont
aud Kentucky, hud been admitted to
the Union, and it was deoided to in
crease both the Stripos and Stars to
fifteen. This was done, and for twenty
three years tho flag remained in this
condition. The first United States
ship to uufurl from her masts this
fifteen- striped buuucr was the bistorio
old battleship Constitution, better
known as "Old Ironsides," which was
built in 1793, aud did good service in
the war of 1812.
In 1818 tbo question of a change in
tho flag came before Congress again.
Since 1795 five more Stites had been
admitted to the Union and they
wanted to bo represented iu some
maunur in thoir country's Aug. Tho
committee iu cV-Oo of tho matter
wero first in favor of increasing the
star. -'Jijos. as had bfisa llvae bo-
FIlKKri LiJl.
HE 13 MUCH IN EVIDENCE.
fore, but this was objected to by many
on the ground that twenty stripes
make the flag too clumsy. At this
point Captain Sarauol O. Reid offered
the suggestion which won for him the
honor of being styled the father of tbe
Stars and btripes as it exists to-dav,
uis idea was simple aud convenient.
Lowever great the number ot States
might bo in the future. It was that
the stripes be reduced to the former
number of thirteen and always remain
so, wuile tuo stars be made as numer
ous as the States comprising the
Union. Oa April 4, 1818, this plan
was adopted by Congress, and the
first flag nnder tho new idoa was made
by Captain Reid s wife.
GRAVE OF FATHER OF THE FLAO.
A point of interest that may not be
generally known is that Captain Reid
lies buried in Ureonwood Cemetery,
Brooklyn. Hisgravois plot 13,108,
near Cypress avenue and Zephyr
path, but tbe little mound is an
marked by even the simplest head
stone. Congress, however, did, lost
year, grant an appropriation to place
a suitable monnment over the grave.
Captain Reid was one of America's
tiae naval heroes, and he was famous
in his day as the intrepid commander
of the privateer General Armstrong,
which fought a desperate battle
against three English gunboats in
Fayal Roads, Azores Islands, Septem
ber 26, 1814. The naval battlo lasted
the greater part of two days, bat Cap
tain iteid, by tbe exeroise of rare
ekill and iudgmont against his power
ful adversaries, finally defeated them
with great loss.
After the war of 1812 be was Ear
bor Master and Port Warden of the
Port of New York. He died in 1861
Previous to tbe adoption oi a reg
ular United States flag in 1777, there
was a wide variety of banners and de
vices used by the different detach
ments of Colonial troops. One of the
most famous of these flags and one
used largely by the Massachusetts
patriots was the rattlesnake flag with
its warning words, "Don't Iread oi.
Me." The snake was sometimes rep
resented as cut into thirteen pieces
and supplomouted with the words
"Join or Die." The color of the flag
was yellow and the rattlosnake black.
The yellow is said to have been sug
gested by the quarantine flag of Great
Britain, indicative of plague, and tbe
yellow color and tbe venomous rattle
snakes were meant to be suggestive of
far greater danger than a plague to
whoever attacked it. ' Massachusetts
also had a special flag bearing the em
blem of a pine tree on a white fiold.
This sometimes bore tho motto, "An
Appeal to Ilea von. " South Carolina
used the palmetto tree as its flag em
blem, and it was one of these palmetto
tree flags that waved so defiantly from
Fort Moultrie, June 28, 1776, when
the British made a savage attack upon
that place.
THE GRAND CNION.
The Grand Union Flag was about
the first attempt to provide for a Na-
WHERE TIIE FIRST FLAO WAS HADE.
tional emblem. It was tbe design of
Benjamin Franklin aud two others
while iu the camp of the Continental
troops at Cuinbridgu, in tho winter of
1775, and it is said to have been
first raisod over the camp, January 2,
1776. It contained thirteen white and
red stripes. Thu King's colors, the
Cross of the Georgos, had been re
tained, testifying that tbo Colonies
were united, but were still ready to
acknowledge the rule of Great Britain,
if the obnoxious taxatiou laws would
be repealed. But the flag had a very
short louse of life for, atter tbe Deo
Juration of Independence ou the fol
lowing rourtu oi July, tbcre was no
further use for the banner With the
Khig'i colors.
JilliiiSFI
What was railed the New Enclnnd
flag was also used quite extensively.
This was a plain blue flag with a white
field in the upper left hand oornor,
divided into four squares by a red
crose. The other first square was a
sphere, divided) emblematical of
American as tbe new world. The
Massachusetts troops had a numbor of
thoso flags, but instead of tho sphoro
put a greon pino troo in tho whito
square.
Our Stars and Stripes was 119 years
old on the 14th of last Juno, and in
tho colobration of our one hundrod
and twentieth Iodcpondenoo Day
something of its history may woll be
remembered by all patriotio Ameri
cans. Jerry Task's 4th of July Speech.
"In Iowa, when 1 was a youngster, "
said tho Hon. James S. Clarkson, "the
Fourth of July waj celebrated in tho
citios, country towns and villages and
at tbo cross roads, and tbe celebra
tions were sincere demonstrations of
popular affection for the flag. Ora
tory, dancing and driving mado up the
day, sentiment, love making and
dancing the night.
"JuBt such Fourth ot July celobra-
tions are held now in some parts of the
country. The late Jorry Rusk at
tended snoh a one in West Virginia a
year or two before ho died. He was
scheduled to make an address, but the
other spoakers had been long winded,
and when it came to bis turn ho saw
that tho young folks, especially the
girls, wore anxious to begin the danc
ing. So hia remarks were brief and
to the point.
'My friends,'" ho'said, 'it seoms to
me it ia about time the pretty girls
here had a chance to shake their feet.
Besidos, I want to dance myself, and
so instead of talking, I shall be de
lighted if I may lead the first set.
Who of all you girls will be my part
ner?' ' "That was tho most popular speech
of the day. In less than a minute tho
mnsio woS heard, and, lod by Unole
Jerry, tbe boys and girls began to
danoe around the handkerchief.
Rusk stayed on the floor a long time
before be gave his place to a youngor
man, after having danced with a dozon
of the prettiest
girls in tbe whole
crowd."
WPP
i'3
I hoard It ring all through the night
Ia Joyful toaos supruma
As though from freedom's far-off height
Tho melody did stream;
Aud liberty
O! liberty
Its only oonstaut theme,
And liberty
OI liberty
It shouted through my dream.
It seemed to lift, to rlso, to float
Me on the joylul strain;
Tbo pulsing acouals snomed to gloat
Ou that oae rich refrain;
And liberty
O! liborty
It echped throuxh my braia,
. And liborty
O! liberty
It called and called agaia.
All through tho dreamful, happy night
I heard its voice outpour
The "poor old bell," tbo people said,
"Would ring, ah! evermore."
JJut liberty
OI liberty
I beard it o'er aud o'er,
And liberty
Oh! liberty
As (a tbe days of yore.
And does It ring no more' ah me!
They spoke who were not wise,
Its voiou is rolling round tbe world
tiuob muslu nover dim.
Ktlll liberty
O! liberty
TJncetisiugly it cries,
And liberty
O! liberty
A listening world replies.
A Fourth of July Conversation.
Foreignor "So eternal vigilance is
tho price of liberty.
Native "That, sir, is tho regular
price, but without having made es
pccial investigation, sir, I havo no
hesitation in saying that you will
doubtless find our great department
stores ottering heavy reductions."
Detroit Tribune.
Iu the History Cluss.
Teacher "What groat event
currcd on the Fourth of July?"
Scholar "Columbus discovered
America."
Teacher "Oh, no, ho didn't."
Scholar (iu surprise) "He didn't"
Teacher "Of oourse not.
Koholur "Woll, who did discover
it?"
. A Patriotic Tiling.
"The horse thief wbobroko into my
shop last uight, said the fulse-bu
merchant, "remiuded mo very much
of a fire-oracker."
"How was that?" asked bis frieud.
"He went oil' with a bung," eighed
the huir inert-hunt. Harper s Bazar.
An Accuiiiiiauiuu'ut.
Mrs. Parke Row "Xow that the
Fourth is hero, I think I sliull have to
make come Washington cuke."
l'urko Howe "II it's thr fame kind
that you had lust year, you'll wuut
hutobot to go with it." l'uck.
The Dltlt-icuie.
What does it ini'iiu to ouo littlo nialJ?
Popevru and prauut-i Hud piuk Iniuuimdc,
What doe it iiit-uu tu two tittle boyt-.'
Torpvdvui uid P;-t;iai;krt, t.ukct uud uuidv.
An Cp-1o-Da(e t'tlcbratlni.
HOW TO CELEBRATE.
Julia Ward Howe Suggests a Pro
gramme for the Fourth.
Tho question will be, How to mako
the Fourth of July a true festival, a
National solemnity, without forgetting
tho claims of tho young to be amused.
as well as to bo instructed, in me
first plaoo, I should think that the day
might fitly be mado one of reunion,
by different clubs and associations of
culture and philanthropy. Those
whose thoughts go deep enough to
understand tho true conditions of
human freedom, might meet and com
pare their studies and experiences.
Very fitly, after such a meeting, each
individual of them might seek a group,
to whoso members he might present a
popular statement of the philosophy
of freedom. Mothers, who should be
the trno guardians of peace, might
well oorae together to study all that
promotes its maintainanco. In gath
erings of oldor children, prizo essays
might be presented and discussed. I
can imagine civic banquets, of a serious
and statoly character, in which men
and women might sit together and
pledge each other in the eihilaration
of friendship and good feeling.
I would have processions, but I
would have them less military in char
acter and more paciflo in suggestion.
Congregations of the various religious
confessions might walk in order,
headed by their ministers, who should
all exohange the right hand of fellow
ship with each other. I would have
no monster oonoerts, which cannot be
fully enjoyed, but divers assemblages,
at which music ot tho bighost order
should be presented. Letters of greet
ing should be exchanged between
oities and States, and the deviee of tho
day should be "In the Name of the
Republic" The history of the war
which culminated in our National in
dependence should bo amply illus
trated by grapbio lectures, and pos
sibly by living pictures.
How would the following programme
answer?
Ou the evening of the 3d of July
quiot gatherings in halls and churohos,
in which the true love of country
should bo explained and illustrated.
How many a name, half or wholly for
gotten, would thon bo recalled from
oblivion, and with it tho labor and
sacrifice of some noble life, some ex
amplo precious for the community I
The morning of the Fourth to bo
ushered in by martial musio and a
military display sufficient to recall
tho services of the brave men who
gave our fathers liborty. At 10 o'clock
orations in various public buildings,
the ablest speakers ot tho Common
wealth doing their best to impart the
lesson of tho day. From 12 to 4.30
iu the afternoon I would havo exor
cises for the ehildron of tho publio
sobools, examination of classes in
American history, prizes given for es
says on historical aud patriotio sub
jects. Later, a gathering in publio
gardens and a tea, with fruit and
flowers, served for tho children of tho
city. In the evening the singing of
National anthems, tableaux vivants
hu.1 fireworks, and in somo form a
pastoral benediction.
To these exeroises I would add tho
signing of a pledge of good citizen
ship. Tho pledge might bo either
general or particular in its terms, but
the act of signing it should imply a
disinterested publio service of some
sort, a participation in some work
useful for tbe health, beauty or order
of the city, without other lewurd than
the badgo or button which would rep
resent the agreement entered into. I
would have the history of other re
publics brought forward on this day,
and especially tbe historic struggles
of our own time. Aud 1 would if I
could compel the attendance of our
men and women of fashion upon lec
tures in which the true inwardness of
European society should be exposed
and tho danger shown of the follies
and luxurious pomp whioh they de
light in imitating aud whiab, however
lusthetically adorned aud disguised,
aro for us a lea I ia the pathway of
moral and iutollectual deterioration.
Julia Word Howe.
II is Cup Overflowed,
Gimlet "Did you havo a good time
on tho Fourth, Johnny?"
Johnny "Did 1? Well, say I Ma
ain't got over tho hysterics yet."
Tllo Small 1'ojS l'oiu tli.
Ug begiua si Aud vudd so.
TIME'S HEA.LINO.
Thy ay that "tlmo awua-"'!,',
Time nover did a-vmago; y
An actual suffering strengthens
As sinews do, with af.
Tlmn Is a test of troublo,
But not a romedy;
If surh It proves, It proves, too,
Thero wai no malady.
-E. Dickinson, In Now York Indopondent.
HUMOR OF TIIE DAT,
Tho doctor's bill is tho sum total of
a man's ills. Adams Freeman.
In Kentucky they never miss the
water when the woll runs dry.
Tuck.
"Necessity is the mother of inven
tion," and a good many inventors
show tho relationship. Puck.
In tho consideration of misfits
there's no ouo so bad as the cook who
can't cook. Adams Frcoman.
Oh, pretty fad, so blithe and grand,
Your rule Is lor n day;
Tho world has Jilted Trilbv and
Epoused tbo Monntgen ray.
Washington Star.
The cathodo ray may do somo good
by making tbo man who can see right,
through you less inclined to boast of
bis ability. Puck.
Cool, but Polite: Young Lady
"Shall you never got married, then.
Herr Assessor?" Gent "Oh, yes !
after you." Humoristische Blatter.
A dull and sickening thud was
heard. It wakened everybody ia tho
houso. Tbo newsboy had tossed a
Sunday paper on tho porch. Prince
ton Tiger.
"Have yon seen that now-womnu
barber just around tho corner?" "Do
you mean to tell mo that tho now wo
man has begun to shave?" Indianap
olis Journal.
"Alas, father 1 I havo lost my heart,"
wailod tho hcroiuc. Tho villaiu
bowled: "Careless girl!" ho ex
claimed between biscluuchod tooth.
Philadelphia Record.
Little Tommy "Why doos tho lead
er of tho orchestra wavo bis stick about
it in that manner, niommor?" His
Mamma "To keep tho ilios off the
musio, I suppose." IJGiTnftimee.
As on his daily trip ho went,
Tho sun exclaimed: "I vow
There's no deuying that I am
Tho champion scliorcber now."
Washington Star.
Twynn "I should think that n
stuttering man would naturally be au
excellent gramuiuriuu. " Triplett "I
don't seo what that has to do with it."
Twynn "Woll, ho would bo familiar
with the ports of spoech." Judge.
Swiss Peasant "I was highly
pleased with tho conduct of my oity
boarders lust year. Tho Barou sawed
ten cords of wood for mo, tho liaro
noss milked tho cow, aud their chil
dren took caro of tho geese." Flio
gende Blaetter.
"Enorgy," said tho professor, "is
never wasted.'' "I guess," s:ud young;
Fresh, "that tho old mau never fannod
tho air so bard that he almost pulled
bis spino in two whon two men were
out and tho bases wero full." India
nnpolia Journal.
Mr. Spriggins (gently) "My dear,
a Boston man was shot at by a burg
lar, and bis lifo was saved by a button
which tho bullet struck." Mrs. Sprig
gins "Woll, what of it?" Mr. Sprig
gins (moekly) "Nothing, only the
button must have been ou." Boston
Traveler.
"I thought ber father was so en
raged over the elopement that ho
would never forgivo thorn, aud now he
has given thotn a brand new bioyclo
apieoe." "Of different makes, uiiud
you. They will be fighting lilto cats
and dogs before a week." Iudiuuupo
Jia Journal.
"I thought ber father was so en
raged ovor tho clopomoat that ho
would never forgivo thorn, aud now ho
bus given them a brand now bicycle
apiece." "Of different makes, mind
you. Thoy will be fighting like cats
and dogs beforo a woek." Indianap
olis Journal.
In tho Far Boyond : Lord Saporias
"It is a fact, as you say, that we
Englishmen havo a habit of standing
with our bucks to the lire. I wonder
why it is?" Miss Sturzon Strypus
"1 stipposo it is becuuse you Know
you will havo to faco it some day."
Brooklyn Life.
"Really, Jauo, door," said Mr. Bob
bottor, to his wife, as they sat down iu
the theatro, "your hat is entirely too
high. Take it off and put it ia your
lap." "Well, I like that," snappod
Mrs. Bobbetter. "If I put that hat in
my lap, how am 1 going to eco over
it?" Hurpor's Baxar.
"Remember, my sou," said tho
prudent futher, "that politr.css doesn't
cost anything." "Yes," was the re
ply, "1'vo hoard that." "You don't
doubt it, doyoti?" "Well, it certain
ly costs mo about $2.50 a woek to get
any politeness out of the waiters at
our hotel." Tit-Bits.
It was a pretty little lovo scone, tho
picture they were looking at, and thu
titlo was, "Tho Old, Old Story."
"What is tho 'Old, Old Story?"' bIui
asked, artlessly. "Oh, I reckon it in
something about getting robbed by
tho umpire, or something of the sort,"
ho auswerod. Indianapolis Journal.
"If you're a good boy" tbo parent
began. But tho young man interrupt
ed: "Excuse ine, but I know what
you are goiug to suy. I have a new
propositiou to offer. If '.you aro reul
kind tu me, I'll let you take me to tho
cirous iustcud of Uncle Richard or
Aunt June, or the gentleman who lives
next door." Washington Star.
Cecil Rhodes holds the record for
Laving paid tho largest passngo-mouey
from Suez to Rciru. The sU-amcr ha
was on ran agrouud, aud.after waiting
two or throe duys, bo chartered the
Bteumer Orotes to oomplutd Lis journey
at a cost of 17,000.