a Tr i held that it w gions frog en a © his impulses, cept as he is cor tO cre servilil; Bnet anhappi i misled #n bis present at- Leading Penn sylvania Newspapers on Mr. Quay's Fight i ri te THEY SPE AX out IN PLAIN WORDS. ; the latter on the ticket. In 1804 Quay Ropubite an Jon rats nite in Standing by Against the Renublican Party. The claim made by Senator Quay’s friends that the lending negspapers of the | grate are with him in his fight for Senator Cameron and himself, as iiss the state administration, is on a par with some other of their like assertions. The lead- ing newspapers of the commonwealth, +3 h as the Philadelphia Press, Ledger 1 Telegraph, Pittsburg Times. and Ch ronicle- Telegraph, W {1kesbarre Record, W iliosharre Times, Scranton Tribune, York Dispatch, Pottsville Republican, | Atlentown News and Chronicle, Dovles- town Hoepab! lean, Kaston Free Press, Norristown Herald and over seventy-five | other pro: nent and influential Republi CAR ReWsp* SOMO BXPLESH of opinion from a few of these journals he quoted: lon. Charles En ary Smith's Opinion. Governor Hastings, as everybody famii- far with state ‘politics well understands, has done av Syston g to avoidac -onfliet. In arpointménts he has deferred in “the larg ect dagree to Renator Quay's wishes. In public policy andl on pubic Lins followed hig counsels as far as peracid 3 2 gt ¥ 5 x ry I 1 ez eatde, Bat this conciliatory disposition measures hie ii fa wtnli vt fire pins Hid 2 | 3 : < : aod this «1 ints effort for peace « not i that the interest. in the Quay- Hastings } 4 ireatening and hun iat | : sive him 1 ing attack and aid nat abate the ope). war dminisrration. in obyes i ‘nee | t5 bis su'vipn plog dors the g« FOrnor ear nestly sonirle to falfil the con-titutional mandate of up ortionrent.. He rightly sovh a sacred public obli- gation and sound narty policy. For this Lonest acceptance of a commanding pub- lic duty he was openly antagonized, and the warfare which had béen little disguised was publicly proclaimed. Neither Gov- ernor Hastings nor any of his friends were aggressors. They have raised no standard ‘against any Republican leader. They have engaged inno contests except as they have besn forced into it. They are simply de- fending thomeelves. against unconcealed and unmistakable attack. For the truth of this we appeal to every fair minded Re publican. Was there any announced of conceivable reason for Aeposing the chair man except to degrade the administration? ‘Was there any rez] or imaginary reason for antagonizing the administration ex- cept that no indenendent judgment could bo tolerated? Soenasor Quay’s just position wad jufinence were not at stake. The re pablican forces of Pennsylvania were mov- ia 01 just as they had been moving om in the victor ons woufiicts of the past year. They Lad c2ly 10 go forward in the same pathway and all —Senator Quay with the rest-—wonld 101 their just relations. The present sita.iion {8 foreed not by those who have ‘coms with fresh commis. ‘opie ns the custodians of Renublican bo 41d orineipla. but by an Tle aidts CIHR UU LAW SOQ suo due them The question is whether the Republi- ans of the stand are to condemn snd par alyze their own chosen administration at the very beginning of its term. Governor Hastings is personally known from the JAswraee to tee Obie. The Republicans ot every county have met him and greeted him. They nnderstand his character and ‘They appreciate his manly integrity and hia Republican fidelity. Is thare a fair minded man among them, is . there a lover of iair play, who does not foel in his heart of hearts that Governor Hastings wonid © Page in no contest ex- [iad by a sense of self respect and publ duty? To defeat and humiliate him iso stifle all independence of jadgment! and tu rednce the whole party Senator Quay has been ftade. His triest and wisest (riends te Bor ths state have admonished hin: azainst this mistake. Those who wera his ~trength and bls support in 15989 ‘and who wer bis back in the tariff figl £ have edrnestly appealed to him not to ow hime it io be swayed by the petty bs Aut piiifal maleontentss whose arro- gout axeiiso ous were so. offensive at Harvishur: and whese pernicious influ ence blighes all upon whom fall« its fatal spell. Hundreds of veteran Republicans who are fay truer friends of Benatar Quay than these parvoni marplots find th H- © gelves unable to go with him on this issues, 1t is the best friendship $0 want to save Kim from thes: m wilevous wreackers. 1.ot him take © i«1 of his own better Sudo neat and sh indon the con teat which bas Hoon openid witheut roason. Gov- ern Hastings represents Republican Yabo «ity, Hepublican principle and Re- piliccan independonce, and the Republi- cats of Pennsvivania will stand by him, —Hoa. €haries Emory Smith in Phila- dels yiia Pross. Qiay Cannes Evanrs Independent Action. Ir the face of popular demands and parts uecessities. Henator Quay turned Go-ormor Hastings down in +1390 and brou the to the front the dead weight ‘of a Delamater. But the govermor neither rruinbled nor sanlked, but did his duty as a man and Republican, knowing that in the fullness of tinie the wrong done him wold be righted. This seems to have had an opposite eect upon Senator Quay. Slaie over a.conscious injustice and the Delsmater fiascy, instead of inspiring re- peniance, has: produced a sort of personal disli ze to te one originally injured; and so directly and indirectly, oft quietly so as to be unseen by the public, the governor bas been thwarted in his administration, especially in the matter of apportionment, gud saubbed in a personal way by an at tack on his cabinet. Governor Hastiogs can afford to be the most independent executive this state has ever had, and his lack of selfishness would make him the most respected of leaders. Thess are qualities Senator Qnay least fikes. Insubordinaiion to his decrees is something ba cannot conceive or forgive, Thoss who ref use to obey orders are called hgeagaing.” High and low must obey or ‘yvaris declared. Governor Hastings will not. submit, and in righteous wrath has sprung tuto the arena, and, like Ivanhoe, has rung his lance on the shield of the mightiest political chief in the lists. It is the Saxon of personal and political lib- y against the Norman of organization “eraft. In such a contest it is needless to say that she public rushes to the sup- ; Renator Quay to Lictutenant | Davis, Instead of exciting sympathy at | Harrisburg, only caused. a sriie. Jt is | looked upon as the beginning of the dis yn 3 1d 2 i P hundrxds: more con; Hd ! than ever before in his career, the anti- | Quay element {8 naturally more jubilant, | and more likely to assert itself than over i before. We believe that. tho anti Quay Quay Always Against Hastings. As to Hastings’ ingratitude to Quay! A few words cover the ease. Hastings owes Quay nothing. In 188); when Quay ' had power, he opposed Hastings, defeated him in the state convention, thwarted the will of tho party in naming Delamater, and bronght Republican defiat by forcing conld rot prevent Hastings’ nomination, He was unanimonsly the part i sholee, and the Administration —THis Is Not a Fight Against Senator Onay, But His Fight | the only candidate in the fio Hasting: not only owes Quay a a in the ny. | of political or official differando, bat wih i 943 000 majority back of him the governor ! ean afford and ought to be entir iy ide pendent. — Doylestown Daily Inteiligenper Senator Quay's Weep and Wail. ‘The wild, wierd weep and wail from (Gavernor ‘integration of what little remnant is left i to the Beaver man. There are those who regard Mr. Quay at theend of his string, and say he is desperate. His dispatch to | Davis is as ill advised as his bitter sptech | on the floor of the senate after he lost pon- trol of the machine in Philadelphia.— | Wilkesbarre News- Dealer. werd are Opposing Senator | . Quy 's persia fight for the control of | the Republica p Ty. Below are given | Anti-Oaay Sentiment Growing. In the present state issue, when defeat for Senator (Juay seems more probable sentiment in this county is stronger ahd more general today than at any previous time during the two decades aines Mr. Quay first became prominent in state pol- ities. —Phonixviile Republican. Hastings Gaining All Over the State. The reports from over the state show fight is becoming more propounced every dav. Governor Hastibgs is ral ving to his sunport ail tbe old line Republicans; as well as the young mon. Tha governor's. friends claim that the “old man’ is al- ready weakening and that inside of two weelbs the fight will be over and Quay will be defeated by a big majority.-— Pittsburg Chrouicle-Telegraph. Another Canard Najled, The Quay organs claim that Governor Hastings is in league with she electric light magnates of Philadelphia. This is laughable in view of the governor's action in vetoing the electric light bills which would be worth millions to these sume magnates, if signed. — Wilkesburre Record. INFLUENCE OF SCIENCE. The Characteristic of Savants Is Their Un failing Optimism. The best that we gain from the jar ‘suit of research ig, Professor C. S. Mi- pot writes in The Popular Science Monthly, our characteristic optimism. We are engaged in achieving results, and results of the most permanent and enduring quality. A business man may achieve a fortune, but time will dissi- pate it. A statesman aay te the siwrior of a nation, but bow lors do nations ‘live? Knowledge has no count v. be: ‘longs to no class, but i: ihe 15 mankind, end it is rn. ev | each of us has done. We lave! our stones, and they are huilt into edifice and into its grand A is a small one. It vill cexciinly be gotten that it is nunc 1 ties it will remain in place How different is tha pessimism to- ward which literary nen are sects to tend! Harvard university lost Jumes Russell Lowell in 1501 and Asa Gray in 188%. The letters of both of these #mi- nent men have been pubiiched. Love ell’s lotters grow sad and discouraged, 1 and he gives way more and more to the pessimistic spirit. Gray i= optin frei £1 selry en tne steadily and to the end. The elif was partiy due to natural temperanient, | but chiefly, I think, to the nfioncs of | their respective professions. The sabject material ¢f the literary man is familiar human nature znd fami iliar humar sar- roundi Ages, and his task 4 to the -thonglits and dreams Seq suggest. « He must compere witl whole past, with all the §i exis thi been. There 18 nothing new noder | gun, he exclaims, But to us it is a pr erh contradicted by our daily experi ence. L DIY #i Fy i shige Galvanic Bronzing. By means of arecent French inp» i ment the process of galvanic bron is said to have been made not onlym imple, but ~apable also of giving es tone, from that of barbediun bronze antiqre green, governed ty the long of “time that the co ppes ix liom remain in contact wich the Lgnid, er the piece has been well se ured covered by means of a brush vith mixture composed of 20 par f ¢ oil, 80 of alcohol and 40 part: ¢ soft soap and water. Thus treats piece left to itself for a periad f 24 honrs becomes bronzed, and if the «ra tion of contact be prolonged the ny changes, a very great varisty of pleasing in their appearance, being tainable in this manner. The drying finally effected with hot sawdest, only r>maining operation being th: that of coating the piece with a oo! less varnish largely dilated with alo hol, thus insuring work of the finest tharacter. —New York Sua. At the Pearly Gates. : St. Peter (from within)—Who agi tates the celestial latehstring? ‘Strong Vv oiced Shade—'Tis I, the new woman. A mere man is with nie, 8i. Peter— Tis well. Let each state his attributes. New Woman— Youn know me. [eanme 1 saw, I conquered. : The Mere Man—My office ists gabmit and surrender St. Peter—The I'shavait. Pia gycophant on the twboggan and side. — Washington Times —— ram gn 4 ns gy a Anouner innovating. Mr. Artharby—Jaust think! You'll © Mrs. Arthurby. afger cur wedding doy. Miss Jameson (one of the new wom en )—Not at all You will be Mr. Janie- ‘son when we're married. —Chicago Rec- . wa y A GREAT 'BLOWHOLE. The Mngular Rock ‘Formation on the Ans- tralian Coast. One of the most pleasint as well as famous tourist resorts in New South Wales is situated on the coast some 70 railey south of Sydney. this district is Kiama. a picturésqae and thriving town surroanded by rich agricultural country, andl which has Been built upon an old iimeons flow of The conter of | basalt that has solidified. and crystal} lized into hnge eolmms of what is pop- plarly called hinasions. ** This forma- tion is seén to perfection on the west h of Ireland at St. Fingal'a and other places, and rthoso who are as, ol with the rugoed © f LI ie coast in aes plac en ma good bea of the ap- peariace £f the Hew South Walds const at this point Koama, vnlike other tour- tat xeon Le thoroughly enjoyed in either far stormy wenther, and tho who visit the town when a good coast of Sootiu: gale is blowing have an opportunity of | witnessing a sight the like of which does not exist elsewhere on our globe. The famous **Blowhole” here situated, in the middle of a rocky he 0 ning out into the cea, forms a drous sight. With earch snecessive break- er the ocean spray is sent shooting up into the air sometimes as high as from 800 to 400 feet, descending in a drench- ing shower and accompanied by a rum: bling noise as of distant thunder, which can he heard for many miles around. This “‘Blowhole’ is a gingnlar nat- ural phenomenon, and consists of a per- pendicular hole, nearly civenlar, with a diameter of abont ten yards across, and has the appearance of being the crater of an extinct voleano. This is connected with the ocean by a cave abont 100 yards | 3 in length, the se award opening of whieh is in all respects similar to 5t. Fingal's eave on the west coast of Seotland, the: samo perpendienlar basaltic columns forming the side walls of each. Into this cave towering waves rush during stormy weather, and as the cave extends gom distance farther into the rock than the ‘‘Blowhole,”’ on the entrance of each wave this cavity becomes full of compressad air, which, when the tension | becomes too great, blows the water with stupendous force up to the.perpendicu- | lar opening. —FPhotographic Journal Lr rms HANDCUFFS STOP TALK. And Breaking » Prisoner's Jaw Keepe Him From Running Away. A police officer was ‘gander cross ¢x- amination in the police court. The de- | fendant was charged with using vulgar langmage, battery, disturbing the peace, drunkenness and resisting an officer. ‘Yom put the handcuffs on this man, didn’t you?’ asked the attorney for the defemse. “Yes, sir.’ “Why did you dothat? Was he rexist- ing or attempting to escape at that tims?" “No, sir.”’ “Heo was walking along quietly | enough, wasn’t he?" “Yes. *s “Then why did. you hsndeuf k im? » ‘‘He was using vulgar language.” - “But why did you put *hose things on his wrists?’ el couldn't put them on his month.’ “What did he do then?"’ “Ha tried to run. ’’ “And what did you do?" “1 broke his jaw for him.” “Why did you break bis jaw?" “Well, T couldn't break his leg, could 2 : ih : “Then, as I understand it, yon pat handenfis on him to keep him fron: us- | ing valgar langmage and broke his jaw | to keep him from running?’ ‘iY as, sir; that's right; that's s what Ii did.” ; “Did the handenfls stop his vul lgar | langnage “That's what they did.” “"“How?"’ “Well, he's deaf and damb. and he | Was SWearing with his fingers,’ i “Did bre aking his jew gtap his ran- | ning?’ ““Yes, sir. When he came to he was | wherehe couldn't run. *'~—San Francisco Pat. Citizen Train. (George Francis Train sat in state in | Midison Square park the other day, and | as he lolled on a beneh munching pea- | puts a man came along who had been drinking. There are few persons on | earth who think the sage of the square | an easy mark for their shafts of wit. “Kin you tell me,”’ ing chap, ‘“‘swhy you are crazy’ asked the larch- | George Francis looked at him seri- | ously for a moment. ‘‘Yes,”’ he an- | swered; “I am pursued by so many fools who ask questions. “Don’t sensible folks ever talk to aay you? went on the man. “Never,” replied the philosopher. ““Yon have answered your own (ues- tion,” he vent on. “If yon need the in- formation really, you put yourself down as a silly person. If you're not bright enough to see the poifit, you are con- victed of being one of the class you men- tion. In any event you're a fool Now go home and reason it out.” And the half dazed individual sauntered away. —New York Worla : Diplomatic. “Mr. Hawkins,’ said she, “I wish you'd decide a bet between me and Mr. Barrows. He says it is only 500 fees from here to the hotel, and I say it 1s 1.000 feet.’ “Woll,!” said Hawkins, ‘I shonld suy you were both right. It's about 500 of Barrow's feet and 1,000 of yours, ''— | London Tit-Bits, English Oleo. The oleomargarine factory of the Fas! of Jersey, near London, tums out 5,000 pounds of vlecmargarin nd every week. It vias the Loudon Saturday Review which opee called olaomargarine ' ‘that Ameri can crime agaipst homanity and the cow,”’ but it would probably regard “Jersey’’ oleomargarine as the proper thing. —New York Tribune mses iar 5 eT AASB A SA i GRANDPA HAD ALL THE QUEENS. Little Dinah Ventures a Remark at Sambo Robitson’s Poker Party. Old Daddy November alwayi took a price in saying: “I bawn een Chalston befo’ de wah, en I been lib yah eber genwe, I lib close to de battry whay Mohlan wof stan, A berry nice place fur hit, sho naff, speshnmly een de gunmer, kos cen de night, w’en 30’ wak douse, yo' kin go sot on de battry en git nice i a very hot night Green. v 'y tole me nuttin "bong ‘em. er narrer ‘scave you mek?’ Daddy November held his hat be: tween Fort Svditer and himself, stro a mateh, held the match behind his hot i till he bad | zhted his pipe, and then put the pipe in his month and the hit on Ins head. Then he said: “E been befo’ Sambo Robison boot | dig rock een da fosfite mine. an de Ten Mile hill, en he been wuk on truck fahm, between de fawk ob de road en de Fo’ Mile honse, On de Fote ob July Sambo hab kahd pahty wot porsiss ob fo’ nigger, ole Sambo heself, en him friend Gawge Washinton, en me, en Hendry Drune, wot sell chicken. Wa de kahd, en Sambo gohe bline’ I git two king, en ob kose I kos een, Wash: | inton sce de bline, too, an\ Drane ku m | i een. Rambo mek he bline good, en tex en Dirane ték tres, ‘Wen I pick np-my kal, 1 mons fun pala. I ketch wan mo ksfr en two jack Jambo lay low, kansele him bline I het fibe cit i 10. Drane trow way be han on koss ile Sambo spiols wan gmile, on seen’ vay fibe eent en Washinton fibe cont, an | fF ‘em anuder fib, I try fer look like | . gwine bluff, en I hab my bun on my 1ip far rise ‘em gen, wen someting pen wot roboddy ain't been kount “Sambo got wan pooty leotlp grand. | ¢'iile name Dinah. Da chile only 8 yare 1, but ’e know all de kahd: Dinah sat t-ohin Sambo en look on he kabd, en jiss von I gwine liff Sambo some mo. de loatle gal #og out: ‘Oh, how funny! ( ampa got all de queens!” Ob course :t mek oxcitement. I trou way my full } mse; Washinton fling fibe spade on de t:ble; Drane larf; he been kum een on two seben, em Sambo, who hab de gneens sho nuff, say dam en tun roun ea slap de chile en tek em erm. de nex room en put em een bed. Den wun soun kum from de room what soun like spank, en Dinah holler. 1 sorry fur de chile kaws she tawk been sabe me at leese sebenty- -fibe cent. I mek Barrer scape.’ “Fn wot Washinton say?’ inquired Primus. : ““Oh,’’ replied Daddy November, “Gawge Washinton say, Sarabo ain't got no right far spank de chile, kaws she been tols de troof.’ —-Now Yark San. ir St SI 55 A DOCTOR'S YARN. Yt Is of Two Sisters Who Killed Their Grandfather to Fase His Pain. This is a bit of a frue story a physi- cian told me the other day, and it struck | mo-as peing the text for 4 fascinating story of the Sherlock Holmes sort. We were talking of the advisability of put- ting hopelessly 111 persons out of their misery as soon as possible. Dr. B. dida’t believe in it. ; “1 was asked to do it once,” he said “Two sisters asked me to kill thewr grandfather, whom I was attending. | Fo was old and could not recover. They | seemed simply to pity his pain, I re- fused. Next morning v man was dead. The nurse told me the | | sisters had sent her ont on an. errand. | vhen I called the When she returned the windows of the I pick roum were open. Them was a strong ode f chloroform in the room and the mm ; “And what did yom do?" was asked. “Nothing. The elder sister is now ander the care of a specialist in nervous diseases. She cannot sleep. She will not allow herself tobe alone a mopaent, aad she keeps the gas burning in her room all might. - I think she will end ina madhouse. 4 Isn't that a Drinelem bit for some au- thor’s noteboo RW asBijgIon Pust. An Awfal Rite. “Speaking of fishing experiences, gaid the man in the negliges shirt, "‘I shall never forget the day when Bob Whiteand I—youn know Bob?-—were try- ing our luck on Lake Squam. We had fished for an hour or mors and had caught only a few little fellows, When suddenly I bad an awfnl bite ’— ““And then youn pulled in your line, hand over hand, only to lose a ten pound pickerel just as you were about to land him,'’ interrupted the fat ran sitting on the flogr barrel , “I had =n awful bite,’ the fisherman resumed, without noticing his interrapt- 1 er, ‘‘and I mashed the fellow as flat as | a doormat. It was the biggest mosquito I ever enconutered.”’—Boston - Tran- seri pt. : Interfering With Natural Selection. For conntless ages hand to hand com bat has Deen the means of selecting the most hardy and robist - individuals te perpetuate. their race. Now, however, the magazine rifle and smokeless powder will probably exercise a potent influence in the reverse direction. Not only i8 the smallest and most insignificant individ nal now capabls of inflicting as munch injury upon the foe as the mest robust, but he offers a much smaller target to his adversary, and has therefore a better chance of escape. —Westwinster Review. Algiers is 20 called from the Arabic ‘words Al-Jezair, meaning ‘a peninsu- la." : ; “No,” said Primus; “sou ain’t been | Wha' kine | on Ontening tod tn a : - Mark Twain Sno Wrotspaper point: | ing out. the appalling danger of going to bed as exemplified in bills of mortality. For one person who died out of his bed several hundred succumbed in bed, and now we ave Mr. Ashby-Sterry drawing | attention to the. same thing. Hitherto | he has hymned in graceful verse panta- lets, frills illo Hectore, he Jamis the pyjama. Ina; 3 _ | recent number of The Comsphic he says: | in Augnst the old | | man ocenpied his favorite sear, and thas | t iseonrsed witl is. frie Primus | : disconrsed ith his fr fend, Primus {and it ig to thiy fact that { attribute a “JI have a theory that most people | catch cold at night after they are in bed, Datta 3 oo Banln . | great deal of the violent colds, the bron. Primus, is 1 ebber tole yon ‘bout de | narcer ‘scape I mek on lass Fote ob | chinl eaturrhs and infilnenga which have recently been so prevaleng The temper I ature goes down, suddenly in the night, and pecple catch cold when they are asleep without mowing #8. This evil iv to be counteracted, not by piling on a lot of heavy blankets, bat Ly wearing thick, close fitting garments of a py jamalike nature and warm socks on the | feet. If this system were adopted, I am | quite certain that it would be found | beneficial.’ There is common sens in this. Peo- pie unquestionably may catch cold in | bed, especially if thera are at all rest. | less and so kick the bedelothes off. In that event if only clad im a thin cotton | nightshirt they are sure to estch cold, whereas if clad in pyjamas, not necessa- | | rily thick, but made of some woolen r iia | material, the chance of a chill is mueh | play monstous big gr ges. Yon can bet ; fibe cents ebery time. \Well, Drane dole lessened. is mdon Lancet, The French Expedition to Egypt. The most novel spectacle of all was a. iF ecarefully organized and equipped expe. | OX 1 ; I dition of 100 or more scholars, who, ac- | tree kohd, 1 rek tree, Washinton tek wun, | cording to what was then the fashion, | wore destined to gather the treasures of the pharaohs and of the Ptolemies for | the collection of @uris. Their apparatus i for discovery was the best obtainable, it, en Washinton Hf ‘em file | their learning was at least respectabls and their library was o mixture of the | ancient classics with thoes of - the mod- erm romanticism, of medieval lore with ; modern atheism Homer and Virgil jos- tled Ossian and Tasso, while Roussean’s “Heloise stool neighbor to Goethe's | “Werther. '' * Among other *‘political”’ | works were Montesquien, the Vedas, ths Koran and the Bible. Caroline Bona- parte gave her trother as nfarewell gift a little pocket library, among the vol. wmos of which were Baoou’s ‘* Essays,’ Mme. de Stael’s ‘Influence of the Pas- sions’’ and Mercier's ‘Philosophie Vi- sions.’’ The curions have examined these volumes and found in their well worn pages a few passages specially marked In his hoars of solitude the great solitary read in Bacon how ho who dominates others loses his own lib- erty; in Mma de Stael how hard it is to keep the acquisitions of ambition; in Mercier of an oriental visionary who, after the glories of temporary success, ended his days iu exile gnd forgetful- pess. — Professor Sloane's “Lite of sig leon”’ in Century. A Tattoosd Snake. 1he sailors of the gulf of Mexico and the equatorial regions of the Atlantic ocean amuse themselves and also turn an occasional honest penny by capturing - both large and small snakes of the wi- riety known as the leman boa and eov- ering their bodies with tattooed letters and designs. One of these living mana- | scripts was recently exbiited at Egyp- | ‘tian ball, London, which had the whole of thre third chapter of Geaesis and some | pieces from Punch tattooed upon bis | back in indelible letters of various ccl- ars. Thousands of these tattooed snakes | “are annually disposed of a8 Rio de Ja- | hie The buyers generally kill these | makes and either skin them or preserve tise ntire reptile in aleobal. Such epeci- mens are highly prized by both Euro | pean and North American collectors of | surieition-i; Louis Rupabiie: Skillful us Ever. Edward—Isn's Dick going off in his | | writings? Forrest—1I haven't notieed it. Edward—It seems to me be has Lost | that exquisite delicac y of souch he nied | to have. Forrest (ruefully)—By 3ove! You would’ t think so if yon bad seen him: work me for ten this mening. —New | Rochelle Life. The Scholars of Feanee. . As asample of the payment of distin- | guished scholars in this country it may be wentioned that M. ( Boissier, who was lately elected secretary of | the Academy, “only received $600 annun- | ally as reetor of the College de France | In ‘his new posttion he is gnitled vo §1,- 200, ar double the eum | Rim as bead af the great educational gstablishment | over w hich Erde Renad raled. The immortals, ace rding to sim foundation | rules, are supposed to be paid $300 year- ly, in-addition to their fess for attend- ing meetings. As a mattgrof fact, how- ever, they only receive ve sok annually. | ‘The remainder of the sum o sink- tng fund, out of which el aged aead - emicians get allowances, if their private | annual incorne falls shors of 81,200.— Paris Letter. Unjust Fate “ Here is another one of them plates,” -gaid Mr. Dismal Dawson, ‘in the paper | that says he never was #0 RIppY as when he was working by the dag ** “Well? ventured Mr. Tt Wrest, with languid interest. “Well, yon say? W'y, & é8 jist this Here is a feller that r likes work rollin in mare money than be kin count, and here is you and moe that money wonld do some good. 1 gness you know | where we are at wirthog$ no furder | wards '"—Cincinnati Ty Appearanoss “My dear baron, what g¥e you doing? | Smoking two cigars at one and the same Sime? 232 “Well, vy m see, my deme fellow, in this beastly hole you cag't get any six- penny cigars such as I am in the habit of smoking, and so I have to make ahift | with a couple of S—_ ones. ''— Deutsche w arte. and thie térapestaous petti- | coat, and how, quantum mutatos ab NOVELIST HOWELLS DESCRIBES. ne ; TRIBULATIONS. oh A Matmed Beggar, o- Solitary Hatr Dott | and the Contest Between Two Si sciences Unsettled—A Usually Calin | but a Compromise Waa Arranged. Mr. W. D. Howells has written for The Century tivo papers entitled [rib ulations of a Cheerful Giver,’ his experiences with the begging’ frator- nity. The following is taken from the first paper: - Fome months ago, as'l was passing | through a down own street on my way to the elevated station, I saw a man pitting on. the steps of a house. He ‘goemed to be resting his elbows on his "kuees and holding out both his hand ‘As I came nearer I perceived that he ‘had no hands, but only stumps, where’ the fingers had been cut off clos to the | palms, and that it was these stumps he | was holding out in the mnte appeal | which was his form of begging. r- | wise he did not ask charity. When I ap- proached him ha did not look vp, and {when I stopped in front of him he did | mot speak. I thought this rather fine in | its way; except for his mutilation, which’ the man really could not help, ‘ there was nothing to offend the taste, and his immobile silence was certainly impressive. I decided at once to give him some- thing, for when I am in the presence of want or even the appearance of want, there is sométhing that says to. me, “Give to him that asketh,'’ and I have ito give or else go away with a bad con- geienco—a thing I hate. Of eonrse Tdo ‘not give much, for I wish tobe a ge citizen as well as a good Christian, “as soon as I obey that voice which I : ‘not. disobey I hear another voice re proaching. me for encouriging street | beggary. I have been taught that street beggnry is wrong, and when I have fo | pobatt nm two coats and go through three or four pockets before I can reach the small coin ‘I mean to give in compli- tance with that imperative voice, I cer- | tainly feel it to be wrong. So I compro- mise, and I am never able to make sure that either of those voices is satisfied with ma. Iam not even satisfied with myself, but I am better satisfied than if 1 gave nothing. - ‘That was the selfish le He Tote a bala geience, and of two bad comssiences I always choose the least, which, in & case like this, is the one that incensed political economy gives me. I put my hand into my hip pocket, where I keep my silver, and found noth ing there Lat half adollar. Thisat ones changed the whole current of my feel- ings, and it was not chill peoury that repressed my noble rage, but chill afffu- ence. It was manifestly wrong to give half a dollar to a man who had 30 hands or to any sort of beggar. I was willing to commit a small act of nel vism, but I had not the courage to political economy to the extent of & cents, and I felt that when I was den “Give to him that asketh’” I Wi | never meant to give so much as a half | dollar, but a cent, or a half dime, or ab | the most & quarter. [wished Ihads { quarter. 1 would gladly have given = | quarter, but there was nothing in my | pocket but that fatal, that Sob | indivisible | half dollar, the continent of two quarters, but not practically a quar ter. I would have asked anybody in | sight to change it for me, but ther: was ‘no one passing; it was a quiet street of brownstone dwellings, and pot & thronged thoroughfare at any time. Ab { that hour of the late afternoon it was | deserted, except for the beggar and my- { self, and I am not sure that he had any | business to be sitting. there on the ‘of another man's house, or that I halt | the right to encourage his invasion by ' giving him anything. For a moment | did. not know quite what todo. Toh sure, I was not bound to the man in any way. He had not asked me for char ity, and I had barely paused before him. I conld go on and ignare the in- ‘cident. I thought of ‘doing this, but {then I thought of the bad consciemes I | shoald be certain to have, asd I could ‘pot go on. I glanced across the streel, and near the corner I saw adecent look- ing restaurant, and *‘ Wait a minute,” I | said to the nian, as if he were likely to | BO away, an ran across to get my . | half doll: I I was now quite resolved to give him |8 quarter, and be done with it; the thing was getting to be a bore. Bab { when I entered the restaurant [saw ne | one there but a young man quite sé 'end of a long room, and when he | come all the way forward to find wiih ‘I wanted [ was ashamed to ask him to | change my half dollar, and I pretended . ‘that I wuited a package of Sweet Cae poral cigarettes, which I did not want, and which it was a pure waste for me ‘to buy, since I do not smoke, doubtless it was better to buy them and" ] commerce than to give we half i: and encourage beggary. : | any rate, [ instinctively felt that I er { political economy on my side in: the | transaction, and 1 made haste to go hack to the man on the steps and secure my- self with Christian charity too. Onthe way over to him, however, I decided | that T would not give him a quarter, and IT ended by poising 15 cents on oneof ] | his outstretched stumps. iw : The driest place in the world is that | part of Egypt between the two lower | falls of the Nile. Rain has neves been- | kmown to fail there, and the inhabitants: | 1 do not believe travelers when toldthat | water can fall from the sky. | The children ot foreigner, as a rug ' use English in preference to the lan- | guage of their parents, they begin to go to school In the time of Angustus | entirely surrounded by a | which was 20 miles in
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