LEE'S AMNESTY,
of Patriotic Motives. -
years ago this month, General
r i Juars Lee, the great soldier of
the Confederacy, never greater than in
the hour of the failure of his cause,
‘wrote to President Johnson a letter ap-
plying for the benefits of amnesty and
restoration to his civil rights as a
gitizsen of the United States.
Johnson's proclamation of general am-
nesty had been issned on May 29. Sir
been classes of persons were specifically
Lee was excluded not only booagse he
was a West Pointer and had been a
‘military officer of the Confederate Gov-
srament ranking higher than Colonel,
but also becanse he belonged tg the
5 tihirteenth class excepted, namely, those
persons who had voluntarily participated
in the rebellion, and the value of whose
taxable property was over $20,000. The
_ ammesty proclamation of May 29, 1863,
provided, however, that special applica-
tion for pardon might be made by any
person belonging to the classes excepted;
and Gen. Lee thercfore wrote the sub-
joined letter:
“Richmond, Va., June 13, 1865.
“His Exc'y. Andrew Johnsen,
“President of the United States.
“Bir: Being excluded from the pro-
‘visions of amnesty contained in the pro-
{ Slauntiod of the 29 qult., I hereby apply
. for the benefits and full restoration of
- all rights and privileges extended to
those included in its terms. :
“I graduated from the Military Acad-
@ West Point in June, 1829; re-
: from the United States Army,
‘April, 1861; and was a General in the
Confederate Army, and included in the
‘surrender of the Army of N. Va., April
9, 1885.
“I have the honor to be, Very respect
Fully; Your obedient servant, gi
(Signed ) “R. E. Lee.”:
The copy we have of this document is
attested by Gen. George Washington
Custis Lee, the eldest son of the great
Confederate Commander; and Gen. G.
W. C. Lee adds this highly interesting
historical note concerning his father's
motives in making so promptly an ap-
plication to President Johnson for am-
:
| “When Gen. Lee requested me to
make a copy of this letter to President
Johnson, he remarked: It was but
right for him to set an example of mak-
ing formal submission to the Civil Au:
horities; and that he thought, by so do-
, he might possibly be in a better po-
to be of use to the Confederates
ach protected by military pa-
Yoles; especially Mr: Davis.”
“G. W. C. Lee.”
10 laying to-day before our readers
and the general public Gen. Robert E.
Lee's application for a pardon, and his |
own deelazation uf the motives prompt-
him to one of the most heroic acts of
fall of heroism, The Sun feels that
ng lustre to a noble fame which
tly growing as the years pass,
al Which 3s Jontly appreciated and gon:
‘in the North as well as in
the South. — Now York Sun.
| WAGES THE WORLD OVER.
Enormous Yariations from State to State
‘aud Country to Country. : :
tis popularly | suppose that the imu. |
‘table law of supply and demand operat- |
ing thronghout a country mikes the |
‘wages for the same labor uniform in
every part of it, as a dearth of labor in
any one place cannot be of long dura
§
tion while men are employed elsewhere.
k recent supplementary bulletin of the
jmasnfactures of the United States, how- |
, shows this general . view to be |
ake Colorado the average y carly earn- |
ings of an émploye of a manufacturing
§ was 8720: ini Montana, $722; in
Nevada. 8718, and in Wyoming, $768. In
‘the States where colored labor is abun-
‘dant the total average earnings are con-
is 8376; in Mississippi, $310; in North
Carolina, $216; in Georgia $307, and in |
South Carolina, $267. In New York the
average is $550; in Pennsylvania, $492;
in Ohio, $1479, and in Massachusetts,
" When it is considered to what extent
‘the female and child lsbor enters .into |
the factory operations in New York the
: res are suprisingly high. The total |
‘wages paid in New York manufacturing
ps amount in ordinary years to
#5%, 000,000.
gland stands at the head in Europe
» best market for labor. Scotland
1@ France are a littlebehind her. Then
there is a heavy drop until Austria, the
Netherlands, and Belgium are reached;
the table of Bodio, an Italian authority,
ers are the best paid mechanics
in Italy, and paper makers the poorest.
The rate of wages in italy, low as it is
now, was still lower twenty-five years |
ago. In England the, increase in the
rate of wages has been about twenty per
cent. in twenty-five years. A French
§ yer gets fifty per cent. more
> than were paid for his work
Iago oe years ago.
is ‘The Mean Thing. :
| “David,” exclaimed Mrs. Fogg, as her
jord and master entered the house on a
muddy day, “T'd be willing to bet al-
most. anything that you didn't wipe your
| feet on the mat ‘before you came in
here.”
Ha, I
my Bam on it.”
: then the aggravating thing laugh-
e a hyena, just as though he had
ymethidg swislly smart. —Boston
Biman @ Ross, ex-United States
from Kansas, whose vote saved
; Johnson from impeachment, is
gow a job printer in Albuquerque, N.
Mu a :
ess you're about right,
” replied Fogg: ‘but I did wipe
CASEY AT THE BAT.
stepped into his place,
smile on Casey's face;
And when responding to the cheers he lightly
doffed his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt ‘twas
Casey at the bat.
Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed
his hands with dirt,
Five thousand tongus« applauded. when her
wiped them on his shirt:
‘Then when the writhing pite her ground the
ball into his hip :
Defiance glanced in Casey's eye
enried Casey's lip.
A Eneer
And now the leatBer cov ered sphere came
hurtling throngh the air,
An’ Casey stood a watching i
grandenr there:
Close by the stury batsman the ball nnheeded
. sped: |
“That ain't my style,’ said Casey.
" one,’ the umpire said.
in Bauhts pr
“Birike
From the benches. black with peop} e, there
went up a muffled roar,
and distant shore:
. oné on the stand,
And it's likely they'd have killed Bim had |
not Casey raised his hand. :
With a smile of Christian charity
('asey 's visage shone:
great
gam? go On;
the spheroid flew.
But Casey still ignored it,
said “‘Sirike two;
“Fraud!” cried the maddened thousands,
and the echo answered “Fraud!
andiernce was awed;
saw his museles strain,
And they knew
"ball go by again.
The sneor is gone from Casey's lips, his
teeth aré clinched in hate,
He pounds with cruel véngeance his bat up-
on the plate:
And now the pitcher holds the ball and now
he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered hy
of Casey's hlow.
the force |
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun
fs shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere and some.
where hearts are light:
And somew here men are laughing, and some.
where children shout,
has struck out.
—Jver's § Standard Recitations.
PLUCKY DOUGLASS 5S CLARKE.
Only 14 Years Old, Yet He Tried ‘to Trap
Burglars Without Waking His Father.
Douglass Clarke, 14 years old, the son |
of Arthur M. Clarke, of 111 Church lane,
Flatbush. did his best at 3 o'clock one |
morning recently to capture two bur-
glars who had entered the dining room
of his father's house and were packing
away the silverware.
. The burglars gained an entrance . by
prying open a rear window in the
basement. They had reached the din-
ing room on the floor above when the
noise startled the dog and he began
| barking. The barking aroused Doung-
lass. He did not disturb the rest of the
family, but with a lighted lamp he
started down stairs. He canght a
glimpse of two men in the dining room
and he softly ascended the stairs again.
His mother and sister were awake by
this time.
“There are thieves in the house,
{ ened, They won't come up here, I'll
just run out and get a policeman in
three minutes.”
As he went off on his errand his
father awoke. Mr. Clarke armed him-
stairs, but the burglars too had been
startled by the dog and had disap-
i peared. They took all the small silver-
ware with them. When Douglass re-
turned on schedule time with two
policemen all that remained to be done
was to give alist of the stolen propeny,
| —New York Sun.
Been: 2
; : The Dandelion.
| The dandelion belongs to the largest,
{ oldest and most widely diffused] order of
plants. While other. orders of plants
have died out and become mere fossil
remains in the rocks, this order has sur-
vived the geological changes of many |
different periods, on acconnt of its power
' of adapting itself to those changes. And
| these changes in their turm have only
{made it better suited for all the
| viried soils and climates of the earth at
. the present day.
| . We find members of this order in
| avery part of the globe, in places as far
| apart from each other as they can be.
It is the prevailing and dominant order
fof vegetable life, the most highly fin-
ished and the most successinl family of
' plants. And the dandelion is one of the
‘most perfect forms belonging to it.
It is the head and crown of the vege
table kingdom, as man is the head and
crown of the animal creation; and it is
curious how this highest type of plant
always is found only where man, the
highest type of animal life, is found,
and whet he dwells or cultivates the
soil. It Is never found apart from him;
it follows him wherever he goes—to
America, Australia and New Zealand;
and there in the new home it becomes a
gilent but eloquent reminder of the
dear old land he may never see again. —
Good Words. :
‘What Papa Said.
Trembling with excitement, Luise
stood in the parlor and waited for her
lover. It seemed an age since he had
gone to see her father in his office. The
young man was so impulsive, so easily
betrayed into a hasty action, and papa
was so grave and stern. At length the
door opened and Luise's sweetheart
stood before her. He was unharmed, his
cheeks glowed, a strange eXpression
gleamed in his eyes.
“Have you spoken to papa?’ she asked,
in quivering tones. :
“Yes, my dearest.”
«And what did he say, Hans? Quick,
But I will be thine—I1 am thine! His
cruel harshness has no terror for me.
—1I will fly with thee.”
then softly replied:
“He only said:
and went on with his writing,” —Staat-
sanzeiger.
-
PPT gas
Way
There was ease In Casey's manner as he
to President 3 ohnson the |
There was pride in Casey 's bearing and a |
Like the beating of storm waves on the stern |
“Kill him! kill the umpire!” shouted some |
He stilled the rising tumult, he made the |
He signaled to the pitcher. and once more |
and the umpire
But one scornfai look from Casey and the |
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they
i
that Casey wouldn't Jet the !
But there is no joy in Boston; mighty Casey |
{ the humblest issues of colonial life.
was from such stock that came the in| | Bradford. England, and worked up into
mamma.” he said, ‘but don’t be fright
self with his revolver and went down
‘tell me what he said. He said ‘No’ to!
thee; oh! I see it written in thine eyes. |
I
Hans Muller took a deep breath and |
* Thank goodness!
|rve. OPENING OF CONEY paso.
a ———. s—
The Same Old Songs Prevail nob that Tt
‘Is a Parl of Breokiyn.
opening of the Comey Island season, and |
therefore it opened. If it hadn't
for the
of the Incal rio
Yesterday was the time for the idnudl |
been :
cold weather, a to ono |
rea, thers wonld have been
50,000 visitors there, but asthe weather |
was extremaly cold and in the early part
of the Jay threatened rain. the greater
part of the e pected crowd stayed away,
and the “grand sacred concerts” in the
{ concert halls were not patronized very
liberally. Oceans of weiss” br re
mained mmsold, ; : if
There was one concert hall, however,
which ee ved to be prospering greatly,
considering “he chilly atmosphere.
+ | costumes are not allowed in Coney Island |
| on Snndays now, and with a paper-and-
| mer's song
: In fact,
A
5
| young woman in street clothes, for fancy |
comb voice, was singing some last snm- |
. accompanied by a fiddle and |
a plane that hadn't been tuned sirce the |
i gongs vrere laid by. An inebriated visi- |
tor, who made the mistake of leaving his |
| overcont at home, happened along just as
the young woman sang:
There's only one girl
In all the wield for me.
This indnced the visitor to 20 in and
taza a seat. After paying for a glass
| of ‘weiss beer.” he turned his attmtion
| to the stage. just as the paper-and comb
voice began:
You can't lose me, Chowley,
You tried in every manger
For to shake your littic Harna,
But you couldn't lose me, Ghatiey.
{who happened to be bossing
i that it was last year's song and Le sus- |
| pected it was last years girl, The |
| barker thr satened to put him an’.
| left in disgnst, and on his way up the |
| Bowery he was
STK FROM WOOD.
THE SILK WORM'S WORK ACCOM- |
"PLISHED BY CHEWICAL PROCESS.
‘The New Material Costs Ds Than Natural | Youths of St. George's College fastructed |
Silk and Is Said to Be Beautiful.
Already Worn in Europe and ‘Patents
Are Pending in Washington.
"A process has been discovered by |
which a material closely resembling silk!
may be manufisctured from wood. Even
now women are walking about the
streets of Enrbpean cities in the most
elaborate gowns of silk in the manufac-
ture of which the worm had no part.
the sikworm has lost its ocen-
tis
i
pation.
The palm for this valuable discovery !
in chemical science must go to Switzer
‘ land, for a native of Zurich, Dr. Leber
by name, the inventor of the pro
cess
Some years AZO. be ‘began to make ob
| parvations on the habits and physical
i characteristics of the silkworm and be-
3
1
} came deeply interested in the subject.
i
|
' of his ideas that he soon abandoned all’
single study, i
| signai triumph.
3
. new fabric th
{ are spr
| waste, etc.
The visitor complained to the harker | quantity of
the place |
followed by a police- |
| man, who seemed anxious to break the |
{long spell of inactivity. Fortunately |
(he attempted to smash a ‘Grand Sacred |
{ Concert” sign and he was arrested and |
: oe ‘ked np.
There was a merry- ron in work-
Ling orier yesterday. It was patronized
{ pretty liberally, but each timosbus indi-
| vidual seemed satisfied with om trip. |
{ The blasts from theocean, coming at the
{
f
|
:
i He discoverad the chemical action which
| took place in the worm in producing its |
| cocoon, and at odd times sought to ¢oun-
terfeit the work of nature. So con-
vinced did he become of the feasibility
other work and devoted his time to this
in which he has achieved a
In the process of manufacturing the
¢ principal ingre lients used
re W owind cotton or jute |
with a. large
The use of the
materials men-
i tioned creates arket for what was
{ hitherto of whatever, being
burned in factory furnaces to get it out
of the way.
Spruce sawdust now has a market
value, for this, as well as the other ma-
tarials, are digested by a chemical pro.
¢ess in which aleohol plays an importans
part. . The material | thus digested is so,
| much like the cocoon spun by the silk-
‘ worm that when the two are placed |
P! ny
om bined
vdeohol,
seid
a In
10
{ substantial
ar
=a
| (reorge’s.
to the amusement
- enthusiasm often tried to help matters
along by getting up diversions on their:
own acconnt, and it was not unusual for |
| gpite these frolies,
A TR ADES SCHOOL.|
[ AN EPISCOPAL CHURCH DOES PRAC~
TICAL WORK FOR BOYS.
EE ———
in Various Pursuits by Competent Mas.
ters. Carpenters, Printers, Plumbers |
| and Telegraphers Display Their Skill.
The trade school of St. (beorge’s Prot- |
estant Episcopal parish, New York. is |
the snecessful evolution of an idea to
keep youngsters out of mischief at night.
It necnrrad to the reactor of the church.
and his assistants abont five years ago
that it wonll be a good plan to arrange
come form of entertainment that would
attract a certain class of boys in the |
parish off the streets evenings. Wend
went forth that boys would be wel
cemed to the Memorial Building from !
seven to nine o'clock, and there in the '
tasement the clergymen and others,
whe volunteered their services, gath-
ered thet together and told them sto-
ries, and read to them, and diverted
thera in other ways, both amusing and
instructive.
From this arose the Boys Club of St.
The lads took readily enough
offered, and in their
the person reading or story telling to he |
| interrupted by the uproar of impromptu |
wrestling matches saddenly entered
upon by the more spirited lads.
Indeed, the Rev. Theodore Sedgwick,
recently, referring to the early days of
the club. said he never put a picture on |
the walls but somehow or other it was
smashed before the end of a week while
the greatest pleasure of the boys seemed
to ba to pull down the chandelier so the
| gas would have to be turned off, the
darkness giving a chance for rough and
tamble =p
rt. But the growing good
ha club were apparentde-
and some of the
wealthy men of the parish decided to
| enlarge its field of usefulnes 8K,
influences of t
side by side ip a finished state it takes |
an expert to determine which is which. |
The artificiul material at ono state is |
in a liquid state, and of a density about |
rate of about thirty miles an hour, Ten- | 441 ¢ the ordinary syrup of SB
{ dered it no easy job for the riders to keep | A When in A ® nn
| of Dr. Lehner's invention, which may be |
| their hats on. :
| Police Captain Clayton sat in Bis office |
| called an artificial silkworm, comes into |
all day ready to do his duty by the public | plac This machine, which is very sim- |
| in keeping the peace, but his active in-
rest above recorded was the only one of
the day.
GEN. GRANT’ S SUCCESS
. Crystallized in the Hero.
of Grant, the basis of his sur
success may be fonnd in the st
quality of his Puritan ancestor heir
lofty moral principles and unflirching,
aggressive resoluteness of action wen in |
It
domitable energy in surmonnting all
obstacles that this great leader showed |
from the first moment he was given op- |
portunity. I propose to move on your |
works immediately,” was his terse an- |
gwer to the temporizing Buckner.
untried general and
that his nnerring
outlined.
days of the sad ending of his life in
| physical anguish and material privaticm |
‘was in touch with the lofty and fliwless-
ly honorable dictum of his memorable |
inangural. In the supreme marient of
a financial disaster in which he was the
innocent victun of a designing associate, |
he guve Lis all to keep his bord, and |
went forth in the winter of his ljie pea- |
niless, bn with an unsulliedl name.
Then came the never-to-be-forgotten |
closing tattle with the grim desiroyer,
in which the great hero, whils vaa-
quished at last, yet triumphed 'in the
noble contest he waged to leave his fara-
later victory with the pen. (Well may
the great leader's comrades in ths field
glory of a great general and a great
patriot. ;
She Went Herself.
Wifo—My dear, I need a little niore of
this staff and some trimming to natch.
I wish you would drop into Bigg, Sale &
Co.'s and get it.
Husband (a ap
gee, Oh, I know.
smart fellow)—Let me
isn't it?
C4 Y-as” ;
‘Yes, I remember. That blond girl
at the trimming counter knows your
tastes and will doubtless select -just the
girl with the golien hair, alabaste: skin,
blue eyes and sweet little—"
“There are a number of things | want
down town. Never mind, dear. [ll go
and get them myself." New York
Weekly. ]
The Sleepy Brute. :
Young Wife (time, midnight) —(mick!
Quick! Wake up! I hear somes one
down stairs.
Husband (sleepily}— What do.
seem to be doing?
Wife—Hark!
the pantry. I
rattle.
Husband
they
Hear that?
heard my
They re in
cash
(wearily) —Tell them to
Weekly.
‘What They Have.
Thé dog has his day—
To the cat night falls;
The dog has his Kennel—
The cat-her-walls
Second Sight.
‘She's possessed of the gift of second sight,
Though one of the daintiest lasses,
i nic
}. At the Fu of each womaz that pasacs.
welcorae the day to commemorate the |
That's the store | ing
where they have so many pretty girls, |
|
ple in construction, requiring so little |
tervention was not required. The ar- R ftentiod that it can be kept at work
with about as much labor as is devoted
to a twenty-four hour clock, performs |
! exactly the same mechanical work that
8 silkworm does. It draws from the
The Indemitable Energy of the F ifrims liquid 's continuous unbroken thread of
| aven diametsr and unlimitsd length. As |
i
|
i
His own personal record in the Aark | with natural silk ana cotton for produc-
: of reach of all
i
|
§
i
i
§
§
§
hox i
‘| please not to die in the house. —New York |
i
i
‘ output of about:
: | was & proh iibitive
sort of trimming you want—I menn the |
reason the plant was located at Glatt
| Ridge.
For she Joges back twice with a glance: od | 100 tous of vlay
{
In a retrospective glance at ‘he re- his thread 1s spun another portion of |
markable and comparatively brief career | the machine takes it up and twists it a at first, but the plan met with
! into any desired thickness of yarn with |
| perfect regularity. :
Thus the fabric can be made of any
desired weight or thickness, so that it
will be seasonable at all times. : |
This artificial silk has been spun in
8 large variety of fabrics. In the dye
ing, weaving nd finishing of these no |
| special treatment bas been found neces- |
' sary. It has heen dyed in all imaginable |
shades and colors, and owing to the
The | | peculiar qualities of the xuaterialit takes '
fall of Fort Donelson and the first hope | a dye more readily and gives.a more’
that dawned upon the Federal arms | brilliant effect than the natural article, !
verified the comfid hes of the ahmost | In texture it is the equal of the best of
marked the path | Chinese and Italian silks, being soft and
genius had ilready | silken to the tonch.
It is expected that |
it will be used largely in combination.’
ing brocaded effects. These latter have
' been so expansive lately as to be out
but, the fattest purses.
| The new invention will greatly reduce
the cost. |
It would seem that this new process
would give an immense impetus to the
manufacture of textile fabrics all over
| the world, and it probably will, but Dr.
Lehner also differs from the average in-
ventor in that he combines financial
cunning with his remarkable genlus, 80 |
that every vird of this new material |
| made will put 0 many pennies into Lis |
pocket.
ily protected from grim. poverty by his |
Patents on th
tained in most
tries, and an a
United State
¢ process have been ob
of the European coun-
appiication for one in the |
ed 1s now on file at Wash
| ington, as wel il as in the patent office ot
the Canadian Government.
A company ,
with a capital stock of $1,500,000 is
about ts be formel in Montreal to mana- |
facture the material. There has already
been formed in England a company
having a capital stock of $340,000, the
inventor rece! ving $160,000 in cash and
$180,000 in full paid shares, the remain-
£30 000 being used as a working
i, :
It was originally intended to manu-
facture the article in England, but when
“the demonstrating plant was established |
Bradford was found that there
tariff on alcohol used
for manufacturing purposes. For that
at it
burg, near Zurich, Germany, where
there is no tax on alcohol used in manua-
factures. From thus place the raw ma-
terial is sent to England for manufac-
1 ture.
Mare and Better.
Daughter—Frank sa ud something to
me last night. i
Mother—I hope it was ApTOpOS.
Daughter—11 was more, mamma. It
| Was aproposal. —Detruit F ree Press,
— {
Commencement Is Nigh.
Commencement season is at hand;
The old roan signs the check,
And soon the be YW ill take his stand |
Upon the burning deck
: |
Soon eloquence will roar around, i
While orators speak vapidiy;
‘And soon again we'll hear the sound
Of" ser rolling rapldly
: ~Atlanta Constitution.
aluminum plant in the
been completed at Oak |
It wili have a capac ity of
¥ J per day, giving a daily
0,000 pe unds of metal. |
The la rest
world has }
Mo.
Tae
! plumber,
‘how to send and receive, bat
make repairs, store the |
J inewspaper.
| ear:
nly carpentry and drawing wera at-
‘success from the outset, and soon the
other oors were taken, and plumbing,
printing andl telegraphy were added,
and then manual training for the little
chaps too small to try the trades, that
their hands might be trained to use the
tools when the time came to essay the
higther branches,
Now two hundred and fifty boys work
| ix nights a week in the school and as
many more regret that lack of room
; deprives them of the benefits of the in-
struction given there. Many of the pu-
‘pils are employed during the day, but
gladly work at the trade school benches
at night, that they may soon be able to
SAIN an Artisan’s wages,
The instruction that they receive is of
the best. The directors of all tha
classes are experts in their respective
© ' lines, and are paid to teach the boys.
The carpentry class, which bends over
‘the benches on the ground floor, is in
charge. of Mr. Miller, a cabinet maker
who ix in business for himself,
tables and desks and clothes horses and
'hatracks and various other products
| prove that his instruction has fallen on
sertile minds. Mr. Tocker. a master
imparts the secrets
graft to aspirants who see visions of big
fortunes in the near future, and the
room in wi
| joints and coils and connections, all
| dope by the boys, and. as Mr. Tucker
says, as well as. any man conld do
them.
Eight cases-of type, flanked by a hand
‘press and ‘proving galley,” give aspir-
ing young printers a chance to see them-
selves in print, and Mr. Nilson, foreman
‘of a big job office, gives the boys, as
| temcher, the benefit of his experience.
The printers are already a means of
"inoney saving to the parish. T'wy do
‘all the church printing, and every month
' get out St. George's Industrial Herald,
‘a publication devoted to the interests of
the schoo!
E. Wallace
legraphy, and
kh
«rr has the uss in te-
makes
them ran ines,
battery and take entire charge of all the
electrical apparatus.
A. A. Hammerschlag, an electrical
contractor. has charge of the drawing
class, while the manual training school
is under the direc tion of Mr. Me Neil.
The Business Man and the Public.
The business
every means to obtain
The most potent force
1 is the newspaper.
Litate to exhaust
‘such a [au
{in bringmyg hb
people remember where he is to be found
when they happen to want something
that he sells. Advertising of some kind
is absolutely necessary to success. Every
enterprising business man will tell you |
| that simple truth.
ive is the
And the most effect-
announcement
Encouraging Him.
A pupil whispered in the next boy's |
“Our teacher is a regular duf- |
fer.”
The master, who had just put a ques-
tion to the whole class, thought the pa-
pil was framing a reply. and said to
him:
“Come, my lad, speak up, Yerhape you
are right.”
| Bgyptian t
and |
of his
rich they work is bright with
he not only teaches them |
man who knows the
f value of a steady customer does not hes-
"The |
| successful man has ‘a knack of making
in the daily |
pm
A CAT THAT FOC ‘FOOLED THEW.
us,” Winmer « of a Prize at the
Repent fhow, - “Ringer.” 4
Brym GH gh who entered the
“brirulied Dublin tom cat Nicodemus” in
the resent New York cat show, with a
| big pedigree attached to him, showing -
| that he was descended from a cat the
' muminy of which was found in an
mb, and putting the price of
{81 0) on him, has confessed that the
‘ cat for which he has had offers of §3, 000
is a frand,
I A fow days before the cat show Mr.
Hughes wus sitting in a bootblack’s
chair oni the Bowery, whens colored boy
sauntorad up and said:
“Sy. bres, do you want to buy a
cat®’
Mr. Hughes rememberad that: mies
had been eating up his paper boxes,
and he give the boy 10 conts to take
the cat down to his factory and show
the snimal where the mice could be
fount.
“Bat the gt was too silly to be of any
nse 48 4 MOTUST,
*] guess he must be an ornamental
cat.” said Mr. Huches to his brother.
| he's meant to be looked at.
'S -
him at the Cat Show.” ie
py
and made up a long pedigree for him,
put some flowers on the cage and tagged
him as for sale at £1,000. :
“The names in the pedigree sounded
fine.” sail Mr. Hughes. “We made it
{up as we wont along.
| crowded jonnd the. cage and admived
‘him. The + put their heads on cne side
and said. knowingly: ‘Yes, [ see his
: | granddam was Coleslaw, out of C abbage,
| and you ¢ a beat that blood, my boy.’
Of conrse
names a canted.
aronnd aul wanted to buy the cat, and
be was awanled a third prize.
#Sinee (he show closed 1 have been
botheral fo Jdeath with offers for him.
I have hail checks for $1,000 and $1,500
thrust in my face. I have refused them
all, becanse I am not in the bunco busi.
ness and don't propose to cheat any one.
At the sume time I was a little modest
we
one, for I don’t want to be made un-
necessarily unpopular,
“All I want is permission to live a
quiet life in my own simple way. I
want the cat experts. the cat mongers
and the cat fanciers to leave me alone.
If any more people come around bother-
ing ve with their old money I shall not
| be responsible for the consequences.
“This is a full and complete ‘own up,’
and it is final. I want it to be believed.
Any onewho questions my veracity must
take the consequences.
It seems to me, though, from the of-
fers I've had, that there must be a cat
‘some one 14 go into the cat business.”
FAREWELL TO FURBELOWS.
The Latest Lémp Shades Are Models of
Simplicity and Safety. .
The over elaborate lamp shade has
had its lay. Fashion now decrees a
shade simple to severity, whose con-
trast to the widespread flounces and
shades are of paper or silk plainly
drawn over a smooth surface, and are
hand painted. They are finished at the
top and bottom with a prim quilling of
laces, chiffons and flower wreaths which
have clustered about lamps for the Inst
few seasons.
J —— Bayard's Tip.
quarantine to meet Aminssador Bayard.
The newspaper men decided not to
frighten him by a combined onslanght,
and appointed one of their namber to
do the interviewing. The delegate, it
happened, bears the time honored name
of Smith. Calling one of the junior as-
his card. with the request to take it to
Mr. Bayard, at the same time dropping
boy's ontatretched hand.
The lad burried away. while the re-
porters awaited the issue with compla-
cency.
with thesp words
“Mr. Bayard sertls his compliments
to Mr. Smith, and desires to state that
while he bas the honor of the acquaint
ance of many Mr. Smiths, he does not
renvember any Mr, Smith who owes him
13 cents.’
CW whit!” demanded the news-
| gatherers in a body. “What in the
‘ npame of Horace Greeley have yom
done?”
“Why. 1 gave Mr. Bayard the card
! and the 15 cents as you old me to do,
and told him that you sent them. That's
all.” replied the boy calmiy.
Not ia a Position ‘to Offwr Tndusmenia
Koon after the outbreak of the Cuban
termined, as did some others, to send a
special correspondent to the seat of war,
The journal in question had been getting
some live reports from its regular core
respondent at a point in Florida, and the
| special rorrespondent was ordered to stop
| at this point and take the Floridian to
Culm with him. In a day or two the
message from the special:
“Our correspondent here seems very
mu h disinclined to gu to Cuba with
me.’
The editor was determined not to have
his plans balked, and sent this:
| orders and go to Cuba with you. Offer
| any reasonable inducements.”
Not long afterward the following re-
ply, which disturbed the equilibrium of
the offiee for a week, was received:
“Qnuar correspondent here refuses point
| blank to go to Cuba with me except upon
ome condition, and that is, that I marry
her. I have one wife already and I am
afraid the war will be over before I can
get a divorce. Answer quick.”
| “At any rate, he isn't nsefol. Perhaps
leslaw and Cabbage were
Then they came
abort confessing that I had fooled every
I'm an honest man, and they can’t have
my ten-cent cat for $2,000. That is final.
famine in New York and a chance for
tracted dimensions are in. quaint com-
furbelgws of its predecessors. The new
narrow satin ribbon, and look precise and
Quakerfield to a degree, after all the
A dozen newspaper men went down to
a dime and a nickel as a tip into the
dn a few minutes he returmed :
and extended the card and the money
Our Florida correspondent must obey
And so they paid the $1 entrance fees
All the experts
sistant stewards, Mr. Smith handed him
insurrection an American newspaper des
telegraph editor received the following