SULLIVAN JHIHA REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XIII.
A literary genius remarks that Japan
needs an epic and China an epitaph.
New Mexico ranks eighth in its out
put of silver, and seventh in its out
put of gold.
Strange to say, tbo improvement in
firearms has not increased tho mur
derous result of battles.
A French picture dealer says that
all of his unsold pictures aro sent to
the United States, where they bring
fancy prices.
A recent parliamentary return
shows that there are upward of $21,-
000,000 of unclaimed money in var
ious Government departments of
Great Britain.
Of the 12,000 miles which form tho
land girdle of China, 6000 touch Rus
sian territory, 4800 British territory,
and only 400 French, whilo 800 may
be described as doubtful.
The warden of tho Missouri Peni
tentiary feeds the 2000-odd convicts
in his charge at an average cost of
oight cents each a day, and, accord
ing to the New Orleans Picayune, they
live reaaaonnbly well, too.
The deliberate judgment of Judgo
is "that tho continuance of the Turk
ish Government after the last slaugh
ter in Armenia is an insult to decent
humanity the world over, and the Eu
ropean politics that treats it feebly or
overlooks it is a hideous crime."
The mountainous regions of tho
western part of North Carolina truly
afford a typical section for both sum
mer and winter resorts. This fact
has been taken advantage of by
Northern people, who aro now found
in large numbers, enjoying life in this
most delightful spot.
Land suitable for fruit culture in
California commands a much higher
price per aero than in New York.
Anywhere noar railroads the prico is
from §IOO to §3OO per aeie, without
any improvements, and of course if
there are buildings and fruit trees
planted, the prico is more.
Dr. Joseph Parker, of the City
Temple, London, is warring with tho
reporters for reporting his sermons.
Ho thinks that newspaper reports in
terfere with the profits of his pub
lished sermons, aud has been asking
advice as to how ho can prevent re
porters taking notes of his addresses.
It is believed his only remedy is to
make a contract with his audience
that will not publish his ser
mons.
The ago limit in tho Chinese army is
clastic, if thero is any trnth in an
edict which is attributed to tho
Chinoso Emperor. Tho document
grants a piece of silk, ten bnshols of
rice and ton pounds of meat to sol
diers upward of eighty years of age.
A double quantity is allowed to those
who have reached ninety years. A
patent of nobility is granted to those
who have survived thoir hundredth
year.
A man in Australia had a new and
brilliant idea not long ago in regard
to tho interpretation of the clause in
his marriage vows: "Till death us do
part." His wife died, luokily for
her, as tho following facts demon
strate, and since he was bound only
till death to his wife, tho husband re
fused to pay her funeral expenses.
The court promptly decided that a
husband's dutios only coase when the
undertaker's bills are paid.
Says tho Electrical Review: In
1891 a j-oung electrician, now in
Paris, on looking through Carnegie's
great steel rail plant at Braddock,
Penn., casually suggested that elec
tricity could be made to operate tho
widely separated pieces of machinery
at a saving of many thousands a yoar.
Recently Andrew Carnegie visited tho
plant for tho first time in two year?
and saw electricity doing tho work.
This improvement, together with
others, makes it possiblo for eight
men to do tho work 500 did in 1891,
An unusual thing, related by the
Cleveland Plain-Dealer, in connection
with the court is the holding, by tho
United States Grand Jury, that Scrip
tural quotations may be libelous. H.
A. Busby, of Means, Harrison Coun
ty, was iudicted for writing letters
and postal cards to David llandlev, of
Colu nbus, Ohio. On the envelope of
the letters wuru the quotation*: "Owe
No Man Anything," "Let U* Walk
Honestly," and "Many Years Thou
Shalt Be Troubled." Be w»* indicted
on four counts on the ground ttmt the
language used was lil»elloii« nnd oalcu-
Isted to Injure the charaH.-r of Mr.
llaudley.
THE TELEGRAPH.
The darkness and tho sllcncs lii
Between your soul and mine,
Like some great river rolling by
Beneath a night of stormy sky,
Where not a star may shine.
But, as beneath the sullen brino
'Twist lands of kimlreJ speech,
There runs a slender, living lino
O'er which there flash,by lightningsign,
The thoughts of each to oacb,
So, 'neath the parting flood of (loath
There runs a living lino
Of steadfast memory anil faith,
Of love not born for mortal bro ith,
Between your soul anJ mine!
-Samantha W. Shoup, in Independent.
AS IN A LOOK INK GLASS.
ECENE.— Boudoir and toilet of a society
belle. The bolle, who, besides being very
beautiful, is still young and fresh,'ls seated
in front of her dressing table under the hands
of her maid, who is preparing her hair for
tho night. On the dressing table are a mir
ror and various articles of the toilet.
1 IHE Maid—"Made
moisello was a
> v great triumph to
night; no?"
The Belle (ab
stractedly)—"Yos,
Celeste, I think
Tho Maid (with
I pride)—"The men
• dlfitiM'.'WW'i'iall fall down and
adore mademoiselle; no?"
The Belle—-"No, not all the men.
3ome of them. Enough of them.
(Sighing). Too many of them."
The Maid—"That is good. Made
moiselle has embarrassment of choice."
Theßello—"Yes, an embarrassment
of choice. Yon speak truly, Celeste.
(Sighing again). It is that which
makes me—but, bah ! why think of it
all? I suppose it is the experience of
all girls like mo in society, with n for
tune, a face and a facile tongue.
There! That will do for to-night,
Celeste ; I am going to sit up for a
little. I may read and 1 may write, I
cannot say."
Tho Maid (horrified) —"But made
moiselle has already lost so much of
the beauty sleep."
Tho Belle—"I am restless. Be
sides, if all bo true that men have
told me to-night, I do not need it.
Good night, Celeste."
Tbo Maid—"Goodnight, mademoi
selle!" (Exit maid).
The Belle (alone) —"Five proposals
in ono night. That is, counting one
that I suppose does not—ought not to
count. Four of them at any rate such
as a girl in her second season should
jump at. As for the fitth —well, I
won't think of it, I mean, if I can help
it I won't. Yet—but what nonsense !
Let me review the others. First came
old Totterly. Sixty years old ho said
he was. He is eighty, if he is a day.
Worth four millions, he said. That
part is probably true. But, oh! Let
us pass onto the next. Philip Eger
ton Denning, the writer and thinker ;
the literary lion of tho season. Funuy
ho should fancy me. I like him, too,
myself. I cannot help admiring his
intellect, and I feel that I should
always respect him. Yet —(muses sev
eral minutes, then sighs). Who next?
Oh, yes. (Laughing heartily). I must
not forget him. Lord Tuffnut, the
latest British importation, who did
me the honor to offer me, with a
monocle in ono fishy eye, his title, his
mortgaged estates and the family
trco that, in its time, has borne an
abundance of just such overripe fruit
as he is. And for what? My youth,
beauty, and money. Nonsense. Next.
Ahem ! The same thing, in a measure,
only of our own manufacture. Tracy
de Puyster Van Tretter, of tho most
cernlean of blue blooded Knicker
bocker stock. Truly our country has
reached a wonderful height in her in
dustries when she can turn out any
thing so nearly like tho English arti
cle, oven to his morals, as Tracy de
Puyster Van Treffer 1 Thero they are,
all of them, labelled to the best possi
ble advantage. All—except Jack.
Poor Jack I Well, I might as well list
him. Jack Willoughby. Something
down town. Poor as a church mouse,
handsome at. Apollo, and true as steel.
Ah, well! (sighing) I suppose I must
not think of him. It is luoky, though,
that some one interrupted us when he
proposed, or I might have said yes. I
was ovorcome with tho heat of the
ball room ; and when he put his arm
around me, and whisperingly bogged
for an answer, I felt so weak, for the
moment, that I don't think I should
have had strength to refuse him. But
somebody came, somebody always
does, and I suppose I am safe. I
promised them all an auswer in a week.
An embarrassment of choice, Celeste
said, (Closes her eyes and thinks.) «-
A half hour or more passes, during
which the belle appears to sleep. Sud
denly she opens her eyes.
Tho Belle—"1 must have slopt. But
nothing in my dreams seemed to offer
me any holp. Oh, dear! Is thero
anything or auvbody that can show
me what to do?"
A voioe—"Thero is."
The Bello (startled) —"Good gra
cious! What was that?"
A Voico—"Don't bo frightcnod. It
was I."
The Bolle (still more alarmed)—
"But who aro you? Where aro you?"
A Voice—"Your mirror."
Tho Belle—"Hut, good hearons I
Mirrors cannot speak."
Tho Mirror—"Mirrors can do a
great many more things than people
give them credit for. We rolled;
why should we not speak? That wu
can do so is proved bv iuy talking to
you now. 1 have lutnuod to all yuu
have thought aud would help you."
The Belle (trembling) —"Was I
thinking aloud?"
The Mirror—"No. Hut you cannot
tiniik and look luto my face without
every thought b-'iu* auowti to iiu
, evi'U thjugb 1 uiay uvt r«v#al what w
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1895.
in your mind. I want to help yon to
decide ynr future. Are you willing,
that I shnld?"
The Belle—"Yon mean with regard
to—"
The Miiror (blandly)—"l mean
with regard to the five proposals you
receive 1 to-nigbt."
The Belle (after a panse)—"Which
shall I accept?"
The Mirror—"That I may not tell
von. I can simply help you to judgo
for yourself."
The Belle (anxiously)—" How can
you do that?"
The Mirror —"By showing you
yourself, your surroundings and your
condition of miry!, five years after
your marriage with any one of your
wonld-be husbands of this evening."
The Belle—"Ob, dear! This is
worse than ohiromancy. Wouldn't —
eh—wouldn't it be wicked?"
The Mirror—"Not so wicked as it
would be to marry the .wrong man."
The Belle—"I suppose that must be
true. Well, what must I do?"
The Mirror—"First, turn down tha
gas. Then place yourself facing me,
and light the spirit lamp of your curl
ing-iron apparatus. Now, take some
of your pearl faoe powder, sprinkle it
on the flame, and wait. (She does so.
The surface of the mirror becomes
heavily clouded). Which would you
see first?"
The Belle (laughing hysterically)—
•'Oh. take them in their regular or
der. " ,
The Mirror—"Hen, Mr. Totterly,
the eighty-year-old millionaire, first.
What can you see? Speak!" (The
cloud on the face of the mirror gradu
ally clears in the centre, disclosing a
picture.)
The Belle (in a low VQice) —"I see
myself, handsomely dressed, covered
with jewels, at an evening reception.
Many men are around me offering mo
attentions. For some reason I daro
not accept them. In a corner, jealously
watching me, I see Mr. Tottorly. He
scowls every time a man pays me a
compliment. Everything is bright
around me, but the very brightness
seems to weary me, and remind me of
something lacking." ,
The 'Mirror (grim'.y) "Are you
happy?"
The Belle (shuddering) "No. Al
though bored to death where I am, I
dread togo homo, because I shall be
alone with him, my husband. I see
nothing but despair and waiting, con
stant waiting for release." (Picture
vanishes).
The Mirror—"You will not forget
that. Now look upon this. (Again a
picture forms). What do you see?"
The Belle—"I see myself again, but
alone. I have been reading, but nave
tired of it. There is something I want
to do, something I want but I
cannot. In a little room nearby I see
Philip Egerton Denning, my literarj*,
intellectual husband. He is very busy,
writing. In my utter loneliness, 1 get
up and goto him. Stooping over, I
gently kiss him on the brow. He
frowns, pushes me away, and tells me
I destroy his ideas. I sign, turn away,
and goto bed."
The Mirror (ironically) "Are you
happy?"
The Belle (bitterly) "No. All the
warmth in my heart is gradually be
ing frozen by the cold indifferoi.ce of
the man I have marrie'd. He is too
brainy to lavish auy ailections on his
wife; his growing fame is moro im
portant than domestio ties. Show me
the next."
The Mirror—"Well, what see you
here?"
The Belle—"Auother reception. I
am sitting alone, however, utterly
ignored by the many women present
except in the way of an occasional
supercilious glauce at my gown, or a
whispor to some one else about me be
hind a fan. I think it must be in
England. Some of the women have
red noses, and they all look tired and
bored to death."
The Mirror—"lt is. It is the fifth
year of your reign as Lady Tuffuutt."
The Belle—"I see myself moving
into another room where evorybody
is playing cards. His Lordship, my
husboud, is there, gambling like the
rest. I tell him Ido not feel well and
would like togo home. He advises
me togo home alone or amuse myself
in the conservatory. He says there is
too much of liis money on the table
togo then. He means my money. I
have seen enough of this."
The Mirror (mockingly)—" Are you
happy?"
The Bulla (sadly) "No, but lam
gradually bocomiug deadened to my
misery."
Tho Mirror (as a new picture ap
paars) "Now you aro Mrs. Tracy de
Puyster Van Treffer, a member of the
native aristocracy of New York. Can
you seo yourself?"
Tho Bolle —"Yes. I see myself once
more aloue, Tho room is handsomely
furnished; everything looks rich and
good. But I am waiting anxiously
and listening intently. At every
sound I get up and look through the
blinds into the dark night. At last,
as dawn is breaking, a cab drives up;
I hear it. A few minute* afterward
uty husband enters the room. He
scolds me in a thick voice for remain
ing up. A quarrel ends in my burst
ing into tears. He sloops over me to
kias me and I nearly faint with nau
sea. "
The Mirror—"Are you happy?"
The Bolle (fiercely)—" No. lam hu
-1 initiated by his neglect, disgusted
with his mauuer of life, and harassed
with constant suspicion. lam utterly
wretched."
' The Mirror . (slyly)—" There is only
•me more picture. Do you want to
; mj« it?"
The Bello (confuse lly) "Yes, I nip
pose I msy as well. It is probably
like all the rest,"
The Mirror (as the last picture ap
"lbeu beiiol 11 And I*ll iAi»l
»(HI see."
The Uelle (v«rr «oHlvl —"1 •«« ur-
self again. I am sitting in front of a
coney fire of soft ooal, sewing some
thing light. Near me is —near me is
—yes, it is Jack. Mr. Willoughy. I
mean. He is talking to me very gay
ly, and I am smiling and listening.
Now the door opens and two children
come bodnding into the room; a boy
and a girl. They want to bid us good
night, they say. They look so mnch
like Jack they might almost be—al
most be—his nephew and niece."
Tho Mirror (gently)—"Ara you
happy?"
There is no answer from tho belle,
for sho wakes up with a start.
Tho Bello (after looking oarnostly
at the mirror, which is as bright as crys
tal) —"I have been dreaming and it is
nearly five o'clook. But lam not sorry.
An embarrassment of choice, Celeste
said. I thought so, too, but we wero'
both young. I told her I might read
and I might write. (Smiling.) Well, I
have read a great deal; I think I will
write a little. (Writes.)
My Dearest Jack: I don't think I will
keep you waiting a weak for my answer. I
am yours as soon as you come to claim me.
Ethel.
—Life.
WISE WORDS.
A rogue is a roundabout fool.
A full jail is better than an empty
one.
Gossip is generally a desire to get
even.
A drop of ink may make a million
think.
It is a rare man who can do a favor
delicately.
You seldom admire a man you see a
great deal of.
Rank and riches aro chains of gold,
but still chains.
It is not hard to forgivo a lie told
with good intent.
One drop of scandal will spread over
a wholo life-time.
What we placo most hopes upoD
generally proves most fatal.
Everything a manlike 3 to do a
woman can prove is wicked.
The man who Knows tho worid and
is not a cynic is usually a fool.
An evil intention perverts the best
actions and makes thom sins.
In the meanest hut is a romance, if
you but know tho hearts there.
The fools arc not all dead yet, and,
what is more, they never will be.
Every human heart ought to be a
bird cago with a singing bird m it.
Of all virtues justice is tho host.
Valor without it is a common past.
The happiness of your life depends
upon the charucter of your thoughts.
Tho wise man expects everything
from himself; the fool looks to others.
The people pay moro for lovo than
for any other neoessary evil on earth.
The moro friends a business man
has tho moro things ho soils below
cost.
The trouble with most people's
economy is that they don't save any
money by it.
The younger a woman is the more
indignant she is when sho hear 3 of a
bad husband.
It is all right to voto for tho conn
try's prosperity, but you must work
for your own.
What is birth to a man if it be a
stain to his dead ancestors to havo left
such an offspring?
A Remarkable Fall ot Stone.
M. L. Fletcher, an English mineral
ogist, tells of a remarkable fall of
stones which took plase at some e3rly
date in the history of Mexico. He
describes fourteen huge masses in all,
and advances the very likely theory
that they originally formed a single
meteoric mass that was shattered by
the intense lTeat engenderel while
passing through the earth's atmos
phere. The fragments of this immense
meteorite aro scattered over a section
of country sixty-six miles in length
and-twenty-two in width, audit is es
timated that its total weight was but
little short of 20,003 pounds. Ono
piece of it, now in the National Mu
seum at Washington.—Atlaata Consti
tution.
How -Horses Sleep.
When tho horse sloops, one ear is
directly forward, why it known.
A naturalist thinks this is to guard
against danger, being a survival of
their original wild habits. He says :
"Watch a horse asleep through tho
window of his stable, aud make a faint
noise to the front. The ear will be all
attention, aud probably the other will
ciy round sharply to assist. Now let
him goto sleep agaiu, and make tho
I same noise on ono aide. The forward
! car will keep his guard, with possibly
a lightning flick round, only to re
sumo its former position."—New York
Dispatch.
la me J a l**lr ot Elk.
A Chehnlis County (Wash.) farmor
has lately been creating a good deal of
; iutorest with a pair of oik which ho
I had tamed and traiued to do tnauy
things usually done by horsus. A Sow
' days ago a traveler offered liitn a good
; price for his elk, but the farmer re
! fused to part with them. The same
niirht a cougar got into his barn and
j ate up one of the creatures.—Chicago
| Herald.
'•Wrollt Hlirrr."
| "Wroth silver," from tha several
! parishes of bis huudred of Knight low
War wiekshire, iu Kugland, was col
lected a few days ago by the Duke of
, Bucclciigh aa lord of the manor. Tb >
custom datea back to feudal times.
[ For evnty penny uot forthcoming the
prescribed penalty on th« defaulter U
«lsor else the forfeiture of a white bull
aittia r«<l uo«g an I ear*. Chicago
Herald. ,
REPUBLICANS FOR
PROTECTION.
SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE.
As Usual It Is An Expensive Instltn-
Hon} but We Have Learned Some
Valuable Lessons in Political Econ
omy.
Democratic organs which assert that
the Republican party is disposed to
abandon tho protection issue convict
themselves of studiclity as well as men
dacity. .The protection of American
industry, in every form and in every
State of tho Union, is a fundamental
and undying principle of Republican
ism. The American people, speaking
through the ballot box, have just de
livered an overwhelming mandate for
protection. Tho issue of protection
against free trade, of American wages
against British wages, of American
prosperity verses foreign interests was
never more directly presented to tho
people than in tlio recent Congression
al campaign. It was the principal
theme of debate on every platform
from Maine to California. It was
discussed at length and with elaborate
fullness in the columns of every daily
paper throughout the United States. It
was tho ono great dominant ques
tion upon which the voters of the
American Republic wore asked to ren
der their verdict. And that verdict,
read in tho election returns, which
protray a North absolutely solid under
tho standard of Republicanism, a
South torn from tho mailed grasp of
Bourbonism, a House of Representa
tives Republican by more thau two
thirds majority, is tho most impera
tive command, ever pronounced by
American voters in behalf of equitable
nnd consistent protection to American
labor.
With the mighty mandate still ring
ing throughout the land, with tht
knowledge that they will control one,
if not both, of the legislative branches
of tho government after next March
and with the certainty that 189G will
witness the election of a Republican
Congress and President, Republicans
have eveTy reason possiblo for firmly
upholding the great principle which
has been one of tho chief tenets ot
Republicanism since the days of Abra
ham Lincoln. In defeat tho Repub
lican party has remained loyal to pro
tection, confident in tho justice of its
cause aud assured that it would be ul
timately sustained by tho people. In
this hour of splendid triumph, when
the voters have crowned the policy
of legislating for American interests
with emphatic approval, it is the
height of folly for Democratic mouth
pieces to chatter about alleged Re
publican retreat from the ground on
which Republicanism has stood in
trenched from the hour of its birth.
The duty of Republicans in the
present Congress is plain, and that
duty will be performed. The people
have decreed that the country shall
have rest and peace from the disasters
of tariff reduction. This demand will
be loyally obeyed by tho Republicans
at Washington, and every Democratic
attempt to break down still further
the bulwark of protection will be re
sisted and defeated. The course of
the Republican majority of tho Ffty
fourth House of Representatives will
be governed by the requirements of
the situation when that House comes
into formal existence. But of one
thing the people may be absolutely
certain. The Republican party will
take no step backward in respect to
protection. Whatever the next House
may do regarding tho tariff will be for
the promotion of just, impartial and
national defense for American in
terests. —New York Press.
The Education of Experience.
Experience educates by contrasts.
Men do one thing and note tho re
sults. They do tho other thing, and
agaiu note the results. The net edu
cative outcome is that they know which
was the best thing to do.
In 1854, after eight years of experi
ence under the Democratic low tariff
of 18-lt', thero was a soup-house for
the poor in every ward of New York
city, aud thousands of unemployed
laborers paraded the streets demand
ing work that they might support
themselves and their families.
In 189'J, after thirty years of pro
tection, there was no pnblio *oup
house in all this broad land, aud no
honest laborer was unemployed.
In 1893, simply because tho party
pledged to tho support of the prin
ciples of tho tariff of 1840 was again in
full control of the Government, thero
wero in every largo city public eat
iug-honsoH for the poor, organized re
lief committees for tho distribution of
charity, anil hundreds of thousands of
able-bodied workingmeu without em
ployment.
In the State of New York in 1851
thero was 1 pauper to each 24 inhabi
tants; iu 185(1, 1 to every 17 inhabi
tants, and in 1859, at tho very elosi
of the last Democratic Jow-tarit!
period, there was 1 panjier to everj
ill * |HI NOUS.
In 1890, after thirty years of pro
tectUm there was only 1 pauper to
each H.'ill persons.
The number of pauper* in froo-trade
I'lik'laud is juot about 1 to every 50 of
her population.
In tbo United Statea, in IR9O, the
ceiiHits ancertaitied the number of
|tauper* to Ihi 75J.K4!*, 'or 1 to each 850
|>er«ona, »hieh.' relnttvely to popula
tion, *a« neteiit.'t it times lean than iu
free-trade England. To day,of course,
it is different.
Iu Great Britiau, tha home of free
trade, with a |»j|iulatiou of SM^OOO,-
Terms—Sl.oo in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months.
000, there is $536,000,0C0, or $14,-
per capita, deposited in her savings
banks.
In New York with protected indus
tries and a population of 0,000,000,
there was, in 1879, before the Demo
cratic hard times began, $550,000,000
deposited in savings banks, or S9O per
capita.
Whilo tho country was rovelinat in
the prosperity of 1892 the majority of
tho voters elected a Democratic Presi
dent and gave tho Democrats a ma
jority in both houses of Congress.
The people pressed tho button for
a "change," aud a Democratic tariff
did tho rest.
A Parly less President.
President Cleveland occupies a
strange, but not an unusual position.
He is a Chief Executive without a
party behind him. Ho is no longer
the head of the once great Democratic
organization, for a majority of his
past associates —the men who worke.d
and voted for him two years ago—re
gard him as a political pariah. In
New York, every follower of Hill is,
by virtue of that fact, a foe of Cleve
land, and at this time the followers of
Hill in this Stuto are in sympathetic
harmony with tho Democrats through
out the country.
Mr. Cleveland stands with his Cabi
net alone. He has still the power to
appoint and remove certain officials of
a certain class, but there it ends. To
be sure he has the veto prerogative,
but as the legislation of this session of
Congress will have to do only with
appropriation bills and such matters
of routine, he will hardly dare to show
his power by stopping tho wheels of
Government.
In the history of government there
have been but two presidents who
found themselves in the same position.
The first was Tyler, who was an acci
dent, and the second was Johnson, who
was an accident and a misfortune.
Mr. Cleveland in no way resembles
his unpopular prototypes. He has
opposed his party, but ho has not at
tempted to Taylorize it. Johnson
simply went back on his pledges, and
returned, iu tho languages of tho
Scriptures, to tho Democracy of his
early days "like a dog to his vomit or
a sow to her wallowing in the mire,"
If Mr. Cleveland ever had a day of
usefulness it is in the past. He is a
President without a following. For
the remaining two years of his term
there is nothing left him but to per
form his perfunctory duties and draw
his pay.—New York Advertiser.
PITHY POLITICAL POINTS.
No matter where Mr. Cleveland
fishes now he catches nothing but
bluefish.
The President can't make Congress
believe the tariff reform ice is strong
enough to bear its weight.
The Administration might start a
finance night Bchool for Congressmen,
with Hoke Smith as instructor.
It begins to look as though Carlisle's
financial scheme will have to sue the
Democratic majority for non-support.
The cuckoo chorus in the Senate
now consists of two voices, owned re
spectively by Mills of Texas,and Vilas
of Wisconsin.
Speaker Crisp is kept busy these
days in avoiding a glimpse of Tom
Reed's joyous faco that he forgets to
use his gavel.
There isn't enough of tho Demo
cratic platform left to make a lean-to
to shelter the party from the cruel
blasts of winter.
In the year to come but very few
members of the present Congress will
care to have tho fact that they were
members thrown up to them.
The Michigan plan is becoming very
popular. It consists in sending one
Democrat to the State Legislature.
South Dakota is the latest State to
adopt it.
Already some 50,000,000 citizens of
tho United States have declared them
selves against the financial plan of the
Administration, and tho returns are
still coming in. "
It is about time that Secretary Car
lisle mixed up another of his famous
currency cocktails. He might sug
gest the establishment of an elastic
currency by printing banknotes on
rubber and keep up his reputation for
sound financial ideas.
Democratic Currency Tinkering.
Tho ultimate object of the Demo
cratic currency tinkers is to drive tha
Country back to tho old system of
State banks, under which the value of
a note depended very largely upon its
distance from the concern that issued
it. Back of all the tinkering, arguing
and theorizing of the currency quacks
lies a determined aud ill-concealed
purpose to destroy the present Nati
enal banking system and replace it
with a scheme that will unbalance tho
existing safety aud equality of the cir
culating medium and develop specula
tion in bank notes iuto a flourishing
industry.
Government Map* for Public Schools.
A *oh*ma to make a eoaoral dletrlbntlno
of Ooveram*ot »apaam«a« nhooUthrouwh
out tha eoaatrr la provided tor la a recom
mendation forwarded by Dlreator Waleott.
ot tb* Oaoloateal Harvey, to Ratfotary ■«'«*»
aad br him traaamtttad to Ooa*r«sa. Tha
amendment to tha Appropriation Mil. It
adopted, aaihorlaa* th* IrtfMtor to print
ILMO eopte* of a art of t«n topograph!*
alia* aharia tor distribution to tha puhNa
eohoole of tha Called "tales eorraapoadlait
ta grade ta tha uraiamar, aotmal eat high
Mhaola a«a taail—, soilages aa t u«lr«r.l-
Jlafttw are list*— ti,oo» aa 114,000 at
three ins* Halloa* aal the total apprapria
iloa aeeeeaary tor iho-dMrihutiaa ww«N ha
NO. 16.
LUL.LA.BY,
Dear little glil. good-night, good-night I
The pretty birds in their nests are still |
Yfe watched the sun ns he sank from sight,
Over the tree tops on yonder hill. -
l'wo stars have come Bince the daylight went,
Away over there in the sky's dark blue,
They must be angels that God has sent
To watoh my baby the whole night through.
Dear little girl, good-night, good-night 1
I hoar the frogs In the meadow call;
They croak and croak in the evening light,
Down in the pond hy the old stone wall.
[ think, perhaps, that they tell the flowors
Never to fear, though the world is dark ,
They know the firefly lights the hours
All night long with his cheerful spark.
Dear little girl, good-night, good-night 1
Dear little head, with your silky hair,
Dear little form that I hold so tight,
Cozy and warm in the nursery ohair!
White lids are veiling the eyes so clear,
Over their bluouess the fringes creep,
Slower and slower I root you dear,
My little girl is osleap, asleep.
—Good Housekeeping.
HUMOR OP THE DAY.
Only the untried man wholly irust3
himself.—Dallas News.
What nine men out of ten want id a
home with hotel comforts.—Puck.
A preferred creditor is usually one
that doesn't fight for prompt pay
ment. —Puck.
These balloon sleeves evidently
come of a desire to widen woman's
sphere.—Boston Transcript.
A man who is a complete failure is
nearly always particularly fond of giv
ing advice. —Atchison Globe.
It was a junior in tho Abilene High
School who wrote "Evening Dawned
at Last."—Leavenworth Times.
An egotist reminds one of a lizard ;
lop off a bit of him. he squirms a littie
and straightway grows on again.
Some future generation.
If we make no mistake.
Will kick about the biscuits
That papa use 1 to bake.
—Detroit Tribun".
If you can't remember what the
string tied on your finger was to re
mind you of, you are getting old.—
Atchison Globe.
"That must be a very good book
Jumper is reading." "Impossible.
He seems to be profoundly interested."
—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A housekeeper up town says her
grocer is so slow with his delivery
that when she orders eggs the boy
brings her chickens. Philadelphia
Record.
Morton—"Are you sure that Penam
is really reconciled with his wife?"
Crandall—"Yes, I am sure of it, for
she reads what h? writes and he eats
what she cooks." —Truth.
"They say it is electricity," said Pat,
as he stopped before the incandescent
street-light, "but I'll bo hanged if I
see how it is they make the hairpin
burn in the botthle."—Yale Record.
Sympathy—"My lord," said au
overworked parson to his bishop, '"J
have not had a holiday for five years."
"I am very sorry for your congrega
tion," replied his lordship, with a
smile."—Tid-Bits.
Hostess—"l am going to ask you to
take a charming widow down to din
ner. Will you?" Burrows—"Cer
tainly. I'll take her anywhero that
there is a crowd to protect me."—
Boston Transcript.
Loud sobbed the tramp ; tne groat wet tears
Left largo and briny tracks.
"Pray what," quoth I, "If not too bold,
Your heart so sorely racks?"
"Alas!' sobbed he, "I've just bean told
About this Income tax."
—Boston Budget.
We often sneer at the Egyptians for
being a slow people, but on the con
trary they must have been a very busy
race. Even the mummies appear to
have been pressed for time.—Rock
land (Me.) Tribune.
"But, Emma, how can you prefer
the plain and shabbily-dressed Julius
to my elegant and handsome broth
er?" "That is quite simple; your
brother is in love with himself, and
Julius with me."—Life.
"I think Miss Smith and Mr. Jones
must be engaged; they have had their
portraits taken together." "Indeed?
lam glad to hear it. I knew w'aen I
introduced them that she woald be
taken with him."—New York Pr;sa.
A Huge Xooree-llead.
What is probably one of the finest
moose-heads in the world was taken
to Bangor, Me., this week by G. H.
Crocker, of Fitzburg, Mass. The ani
mal was shot up in Aroostook County
at the Ox Bow, aud the moose weighed
1400 pounds. It is about absolutely
perfeot in size, shapo and spread of
the antlers. The antler* spread sixty
iuohes, and wheu it is considered thai
fifty-one inohes is a large spread, some
idea of the itninenso antlers of this
moose is obtained. The largest sot ol
antlers of whioh there is any reoord it
sixty-one inches, aud this moose sur
passed that animal in the shape and
formation.—Boston Herald.
Lost Sifir In Xoroeea.
An important a.ticlo of trade ia
Moroooo ia loaf sagar, whieh ia ia
general demand for preaentai Every
person approaohing a superior, whoa*
favor or good will it ia deelred to pro
pitiate, ia boand to brlag a gill. Ha
cannot appear empty-handed, aad the
form that ia moat oommonly taken by
the gift ia loaf sugar—Xe» York Dta
pe ten. „
A Mara Uksetpliaarlae.
General Count vca Ueeeler, of the
O.rmaa Army, ia a stern old soldier
and a striet disciplinarian. He baa
heea known to atop a subordinate In
the street and make bim remove hu
boo la and atoekinga to seo if bis feel
vera clean. Chicago Herald.