Train robbery is punisablo by death
in Arizona. Tho Supremo Court has
just upheld tho constitutionality of
tho statute.
When Li Hung Chang was in Glas
gow ho (old tho Scotchmen that their
bagpipes reminded him of China.
They can't make out whether ho meant
it for a compliment or not.
Li Hung Chang is keeping a diary
of his trip around tho world. Whether
the old diplomat will publish the re
sult of his observations or not will
probably bo settled by the personage
who manufactures tho yclloxv jackets
at I'ekin.
A New York young man has form !
it necessary to apply to tho courls for
protection from a girl who is in lova
xvilh him and who pursues him with
attentions, relates tho Washington
Star. This incident invests the "now \
woman" with augmented terrors.
It was once snid that there was lit- j
tic or no drunkenness in France,
where tho people indulged freely iu |
light wines, but suoh seems to be no j
longer the case. A man's tomporance ;
association has been established ro- !
cently in Paris, and there is declared |
to be great need for it.
- - -
Says Harper's Weekly: It wan re
cently reported that Ilia post of mili- |
tary attache to the American Embassy to i
London was vacant, and ha t boon of- j
fercd to throe officers, nil of whom j
have declined it on the ground that j
their salaries could not support the I
diguity of the job. It is a very pretty j
place, and ouo that has not beou used
to go begging. It calls for an officer
of tho rank of major, and gives him
little to do except to look handsome
and to adorn London soeioty with his
presence. Ho is entitled to wear the
most decorativo clothes of any one
connected with the embassy. When
ho rides out with the Embassador ho
goes on the front seat inside, and not
on the box scat with the coachman, as
ill-informed persons have erroneously
supposed. Opportunities to meet
folks that really ore folks conao to him
daily. Ho dines out nearly every
night, and seldom is at loss for a
hearty meal of nourishing food. His
chief c.xpenaoa nro for lodgings and
cab hire, but tho hesitation of worthy
officers to accept the place indicates
that even those expanses may bo too
considerable. Tho real trouble must
be that tho majors in Uncle Sam's
army aro middle-aged men with fami
lies, and a salury that might maintain
llio nltacho himself weli enough iu
London will not also maintain his
family, either nt home in his absence
or with him abroad. If licntonnnts
had rank enough for tho place, it
would probably bo easy to ltccp it
filled with young unmarried officers of
tho requisite stature and comeliness,
A very curious stato of affairs is ro
ported from Franco, xvhero tho popu
lation, which has been ilocroasiug for
somo lime, is growing nt an alarmingly
feeble rate. For somo time tho do
orcase ninoug tho French has been a
cause of comment among European
economists, but iu most oases it has
been ascribed to tho trcmoudous de
struction among tho men xvlio, during
the Prussian war, xvero just entering
upon tho middle years of manhood,
Ibis excuse can bo used no longer,
and it is noted with mortification
among, the French loaders that tho
present trifling increase in tho popu
lation is duo chiefiy to tho immigra
tion of peoplo from other Nations.
Tho wisest observers of the situation
claim to linvo found the reason for
this sudden arrest iu National growth,
and their explanation ia boik plausi
ble nud an important object lesson for
people of other lands. It is pointed
out that the increase of taxation in
Franco to keep up tho burden of the I
National debt hna been suoh that peo
ple xvho, soma yoars ago, xvero per
fectly wiiiiug to ii -uinc the respon
sibility of supporting a household ato
now afraid to make the venture, Tho
French peasant is proverbially thrifty,
nnd ouc of the chief ends of his thrift
is to supply hi children xvith enough
menus upon xvliiok to make a respeeta
bio f tart in I:fc. 1f ho cannot support
a family nnd leave it in comparatively
easy circumstances ho prefers to have
no family to - ipport. Uo would rather
forego the attempt to keep up a house
hold if he believes that possibly his
attempt may be a failure. This fact
is now offered iu explanation of the
remarkable falling off in tko growth of
French population, and tho Chiongo
Record maintains "it is a plausible
one. There could bo no better proof
of tho intimate relationship which
National legislation bears to individ
ual nnd National prosperity. Tho laws
which oppress tho peoplo of a Nation
hurt it pliysionlly just as Bitrely as
they hurt it finnnoinliy."
IGNORING TUB TRUTH.
CANDIDATE MeKtNLEY TRIE! TO DE
CEIVE FARMERS.
False Charges Concerning the Cause
I of the Agricultural Repression—
Jlav Crops and the Tariff—Fall
j in Demand and Increase In Supply.
"During the last seventeen mouths
of tho Republican tariff law there xvere
imported into this country 1-40,009
toua of liny, and during the first seven
teen months of tile Democratic tariff
law there were imported 373,000 tons.
Depression in agriculture has always
followed low tariff legislation."—Mr.
- McKinley to farmers, at Canton.
It is true that there has been a
slight increase of tho imports of hay,
but tho imports nro ouly a "drop iu
the bucket" as compared with the
quantity produced iu this country,
and tho reduction of tho prico of hay
in tho United States has not been
( caused by any change in the tariff.
Mr. McKinley must know what tho
| causes of depression in tho hay market
I have been. Theso causes will eon
! tinuo to be effective.
Tlie following table shows tho size
i of the domestic crops nud the imports
and exports, in tons, for the fiscal
! years uameu; *
UAY.
Crops. Imports. Exports,
• 5 fini 53,000,000 68/242 18.000
4V.-_> 07,000,001 70,715 85.201
j J.HO3 65,766,000 104,257 81.084
11804 48,821,00) 86,781 64,446
j I*os 44,2.-6,000 201,01) 47,117
1896 47,078/ 00 302.652 60,052
j It will be noticed that tho imports
I last year xvero equal to loss than -j of
| 1 per cent, of the quantity produced
!at home. The hay market iu a Nation
\ of 7'),000,000 people is not depressed
| by the importation of this comparu
j tively small number of tons,
j But the market for hay, as well as
j the markets for oats nud lias
been very seriously nffeoted by the
substitution of electric power for
horses on street railroads and by tho
general use of bicycles. With refer
ence to this change tho Philadelphia
Record says:
"The advent of tho trolley and tho
displacement of horses by it have af
fected the business of a large class of
farmers xvho depend upon this city as
a market for their hay. Eight or ten
thousand horses which formerly bo
longed to the old car lines and were an
important factor in tho consumption
of hay have disappeared. Tho popu
larity of the trolley for pleasure travel
also has cut into tho business of tho
livery stables, and here too the de
mand for tho farmers' product is less
ened. The bicycles are also displacing
horses, liverymen again being tho suf
ferers.
"A conservative estimate places the
quantity of hay now received in this
city at only two-thirds of what was
brought in a few years ago, and tho
quotations have dropped about iifteeu
per cent, since the trolleys xvero put
in operation."
The same siorv could be told in
every largo American city. Do not all
iuteiligent persons know how the trol
ley and the bicycle have affected tho
demand for horses, Lav and oats? But
while the demand has been falliug.the
supp'y has beeu increasing. Thero
were n million more horses in tho
country iu 1890 than iu 1891, the crop
of oats last year was 824,000,000
bushels, as against an average of only
675,000,000 lor the four years imme
diately preeeding, and the average
crop of hay for tho five years ending
xvffk 1890 was only 45,500,000 tons.
But Mr. MclCiuley eavs nothing
about the trolley, the bioyole and tho
crops. Ho tells the farmers that tho
hay market has been depressed by the
wicked Democratic tariff.—New York
Times.
THE MEANING OF MeKIMLEVtSM.
It Means the Same Thing lu 1898
That it Meant In 1892.
Vague promises that if tho Ohio
Major is elected President the country
will iu some mysterious way become
more prosperous, should not blind tho
American people to tho real nature of
MeKinleyism. Four years ago that
word xvas understood to mean a policy
of high taxation, dear goods and a re
stricted foreign trade. This was tho
form iu which it xva3 embodied in the
McKinley tariff, and after a full and
lair discussion for over two years tho
people rejected the polioy and ordored
the tariff repealed.
Nothing has happened since 1895 to
change iu the slightest degree tho
essential nature of MeKinleyism. It
i ; > now as then a demand for special
tariff privileges for tho benefit of a
few great trusts aud manufacturing
monopolists. It is a scheme by which
seventy miliion American consumers
arc to be taxed on the goods they
buy, in order that a small number of
millionaires may mako greater for
tunes. Jl means class legislation iu
the interests of men xvho furnish
money to buy votes and corrupt tho
Kouroes of popular government. It
is a hold assertion of the right of sorao
men to get rich at tho expeuse of tho
masses who prodneo all wealth.
Tho popular verdict in 1892 was
that MeKinleyism xvas a fraud and
robbery. Theft i 3 always theft, no
matter what it may be called. Four
years ago the peoplo voted against
| stealing under tho form of law, Ia
1 thero auy reason why the samo peoplo
should now vote iu favor of high tariff
robbery, merely because the McKin
leyitos aro this year calling their
leader "prosperity's advance agent."
• (Jtiay to the Front.
Quay is always a good and great Re
! pn in campaign times. All Re
j publican candidates love him then as
I McKinley does now.— New York World.
A FREE TRADE COLON V.
Result of Six Months' Operations in
New South Wales.
An experiment is going on in the
English colony of New South Wales
which promises to bo of great
economic value. When the Hon. G.
H. Raid, the present Premier, suc
ceeded last fall in passing his bill, em
bodying a new selierao of taxation, it
was asserted by the protectionists of
New South Wales, as well as by those
living in other Australian colonies,
that uu application of tho plan could
not fail to lead to general industrial
bankruptcy. Premier Reid's plan was
a more radical free trade method than
any hitherto in uso in auy civilized
country in'tho world. All of tho
customs taxes are under it abolished
except those on spirits, wines, beers,
tobacco and opium. These are looked
upon as luxuries upon which a tax csa
fittingly bo paid, while if distilling,
brewing or tobacco growing takes
place in a colony a countervailing
internal reveuue tax would undoubt
edly bo placed upon those enterprises.
The detioienoy in the National receipts
brought about by this radical curtail
ment of revenue is, under tho law now
iu force, to be made good by direct
taxation. A part of this is secured by
a tax on land, and the other part is
received through the instrumentality
of an income tax. As the result of six
mouths' operations, instead of proving
disadvantageous, the new plan of tax
ation has been found to be distinctly
benofioial. It was said that wheat
growing would be abandoned in New
South Wales because there was no
lohger any protection granted the
farmers; hut instead of this tho area
of wheat planting has been much
largor this year than ever before, and,
curiously enough, a large number of
farmers have come from tho protec
tionist colony of Victoria into tho un
protected colony of New South Wales
for the purpose of engaging in the
farming business. It is said that New
South Wales may this year grow
enough wheat to feed its population—
a thing that has never happened in
any past year. General trade has also
received a great impetus, and with
this object lesson bot'oro them it is by
no means improbable that the other
Australian colonies will realize the
necessity of speedily abandoning tho
protectionist methods to which they
are now attached. It maybe interest
ing to add that there is no place iu
the world, not even iu the United
States, where tho hours of labor aro
uniformly so short (eight hours) and
tho wages paid labor uniformly so
high as iu this free trade colony of
New South Wales.—Boston Herald.
As to Tariff Responsibility.
Tho returns cf exports and imports
recently made officially show that for
the seven months ending July 31, this
country exported to Europe nenrly
(500,000,000 more of merehandiso
than we seut in the same months of
1895. We have imported also $-43,-
000,000 less. Tho result is a foreign
credit balance this year on merchan
dise made alone of $90,713,009, against
an actual debt balance last vear of
$21,219,092, This is a conclusive an
swer to the charges that it is tho im
portation of foreigu goods that is re
sponsible for our business troubles,
and that the larill of 1891 encourages
foreign importation. Iu the latest six
months reported it will ho seen that
tho export trade has made a gain over
that of imports of nearly $112,000,000.
In confirmation of what is thus proved,
Senator Telior, who is a protectionist,
aud voted for the MoKiuicy tariff" and
against the Wilsou tariff' acknowledges
in a recent speech that tho Wilson bill
is "a better bill for tho manufacturers
of this country than the Republican
bill of 1890." He says that "tho peo
ple who make iron "and steel tell us
that tho schedule on iron and steel
was also lately satisfactory," and it is
xvell known that the cotton schedule
was dictated by the manufacturers
themselves.—Boston Herald.
The McKinley Ilill and Wages.
The McKinley tariff law, says tho
New York World, went into effect Oc
tober 0, 1890, aud the Wilson-Gorman
hill August 28, 1891. The first effect
of the paseago of the McKinley bill
was a general reduction in wages iu
protected industries. The World in
1892 printed soveral thousand instan
ces of strikes uud lockouts in protect
ed industries that followed the enact
ment.
Yesterday the junior organ of tho
protectionists continued the tale of
diaaster to workingmen under iha
McKinley bill by publishing tho fol
lowing as the experionco of merely ono
protected firm—the Cambria Iron
Company:
T.OSS TO Wor.KINOMErT.
There were SBBB,IOI less wages paid
in 1893 than in 1892.
"here were $1,500,410 less wages
paid in 1891 than in 1892.
The loss iu wages in two years
amounted to $2,394,811.
LOSS TO COMCAST.
The value of the product of tho
Cambria Iron Company iu 1893 was
$2,061,000 less than in 1892.
The value of the product of 1891
was $1,910,200 less than iu 1892.
The shrinkage in two years amounted
to $6,980,200.
An Unearned Increment.
The almighty dollar has been in
creased in valuo fourfold ill the past
thirty years. Still wo aro told that wo
cannot legislate peoplo rich—when
xvu legislate to increase, year by year,
tho value of the dollar, compelling the
debtor to pay tho bond aud mortgage
holder raoro and more, measured in
labor and its products. And this ever
increasing iu value is snid to be
"honest." It is an unearned incre
ment given to tho rich at the expense
of tho poor.—Silver Knigiit.
SILVER NOTES.
Bryan is making his mark. MoKin
ley has got a Mark already, and it is
whispered that he wishes that he could
rub it out.
Trusts, combines and corporations
breed goldbugs, as putrid flesh
breeds maggots; but the maggots havo
a use—they aro good for fish bait.
Boss Ilanna says that his employes
are not interested in tho silver ques
tion. If they were to let him find out
that they wero they would lose their
job.
It is stated that "there are 5,000,-
000 peasant frvmers inGermay march
ing fast to irretrievable rain." Tho
British gold standard is getting in its
work the world over.
There is no quostiou of moro vital
importance to the people than an am
ple currenoy. Every restriction
thrown around money benefits the
millionaire, and injuros all other
classes.
Montesquieu, the great French
statesman, said: "Financiers support
a State as tho cord supports the man it
hangs." He spolco truly, but were ho
living to-day the gold bug press would
dub him an anarchist.
It might suit tho Astors, Vnnder
bilts, Goulds, Bothschilds aud others
of that ilk to havo a diamond cur
rency through which they could con
trol tho world, but what would become
of t'uo rest of mankind?
How tho pluto-aristocrats of Great
Britain must despiso their fawning
sycophants in this country who dare
to assert that tho United* States ara
not great enough to havo their own
independent financial policy.
Restrict tho currency and you biock
the wheels of commercial aud indus
trial life, throw the workingmen out
of employment, lower the prices oi
farm products, aud the great creditors
and tho money shavers alone grow i'at
on tho poverty and ruin of the masses.
Our first coinago act passedin 1792,
prepared by Hamilton, indorsed by
Jefferson, and approved by Washing
ton, provided for the free aud unlim
ited coinugo of gold and silver at the
ratio of 111 to 3. These great mon
would now Ire classed as cranks, com
munists, socialists and anarchists.
"Overproduction!" Oh, what hol
low mockery! Overproduction of
wheat when millions are starving; of
clothing when millions aro naked. The
man who can write thus is surely a
lunatic or the most heartless of created
beings. It is not overproduction but
underconsumption which is causing
tho misery of tho people, and this eau
bo remedied only by placing iu their
hands the means to make them consu
mers.
Congressman Towuc, tho gallant
young Minnesotan, who left tho Re
publican party rather than be on aces
sory to the crime of shackling his fel
low-countrymen with golden fetters,
uttered a great truth when he said :
"The true fiatist is your modern Amer
ican gold standard uuvocntc. Tho
logic of his argument leads to a money
base so small and a credit top so largo
that 'confidence' [is to take tho place
of redemption, uud confidence never
realized is only another nam3 for ir
redoemahility."
What stupid rot tuat is, about
"money that is good in Europe." Let's
see what there is iu it. Ais n farmer
in Oklahoma ; B is a farmer in silver
standard Mexico. Both want to visit
England. A sells 1009 bushels of
wheat for 8500 in gold, and in Lou lon
exohaugos his gold tor £IOO English
money. B also sells 1000 bushels of
wheat, getting 81000 iu silver for it,
and going to London, exchanges his
silver for—£lool Now, svhat advan
tage has A over B? What is wanted
is money that is good in Norman—and
lots moro of it.
Why Dill lie Discount It?
A South Side man balled tho driver
of n moving van one day tills week anil
proceeded to make arrangements for
transferring his household goods to a
new dwelling.
"What do you charge?" queried the
citizen.
"Dollar 'n hour," replied the van
driver.
The citizen hesitated a moment.
"Say," said the mover, "will your
lnd.v be on hand to boss the job?"
"No," said the citizen, "she's in the
country. I'm planning this for a little
surprise."
"Well," said the mover, "then it'll
only be 90 cents 'n hour.
And Hie South Side man doesn't know
whether this was a tributo to Ids wife's
presumable watchfulness or proof of
the general antipathy felt for woman
kind by all well-regulated movcrs.-
Gleveland Plain Dealer.
The Vanilla Hean.
The so-called vanilla bean is not n
beau at all, but flic fruit of a climbing
orchid, the capsule or pod of which is
about three-eighths of an inch in diam
eter and from six to ten inches long,
nttd has a certain resemblance to tho
So-called cutalpa lienn. The plant in its
native home, In Mexico and tropical
America, climbs over trees and shrubs
by means of slender rootlets sent out
from the joints of tlie stem. In its wild
state it climbs to a height of twenty
feel; but In cultivation it is kept within
bounds, so that tlie unripe pods nre not
Injured when the others nre gathered.
In Mexico the plant is propagated by
cuttings and then trained over some
i rough bar!* trellis work iu partial'
I shade. '• - i
A CONSTANTINOPLE MOB,
TERRIBLE WORK OF THE CHAPQIN
AND THE SOFTAS,
Tho Former the Rascals oii<l Vaga
bonds of the City, and the Latter
Theological Students.
~JX CONSTANTINOPLE mob is a
/\ spectacle that,onoe seen,isnot
easily forgotten, writes a cor
respondent of the New York
Tribune. The .memory holds forever
after a picture of frenzied faces,
strange garments and gleamingjknives.
The ear retains for a long time the
mad shouts of the pursuit or the ex
ultant cry that accompanied tho fin
ishing blow. It is not a pleasant
memory. For the second time within
a year Constantinople has been given
up to pillage and murder. The demon
of massacre that stalked through the
city last September has returned more
terrible thau ever, and he has found
his efficient ally in the Constantinople
mob.
In no oity on earth can one pistol
shot call together a mob that compares
in all savage qualities with the mob of
Constantinople. Time and again bo
fore and since the destruction of Jan
issarios it has turned the capital upside
down and made tho streets of fcitam
boul run with blood. It docs not
change with time. Generation after
generation it is the same in composi
tion and in purpose. It has two ob
jects in view : first, to kill Christians ;
second, to seizo their property.
Tho mob is composed of two gon
oral classes, the Chapqin—that is, the
rascals of the oity, belonging to the
lowest class of the population, brutal
and vioious, and the Sottas—that is,
theological students. The former, as
poor, ignaraut, ferocious and fanatio
as the hordes that Mahomet sent
against the city 450 years ago, aro an
imated by the love of plunder and of
bloodshed. In their savage breasts
there is no feeling of mercy, but a pos
itive delight in the shedding of blood.
They seek not only to kill but to
mingle in killing. Toward a Christian
they have no sentiment of humanity.
Thov nro of every raco ot Asia Minor
that has adopted the religion of Ma
homet. In their dark faces and un
couth garments we can trace tho char
acteristics of Laz, Kurd, Circassian,
Georgian, Zoybeek and Osinauli. In
ordinary times they lead a precarious
existonco, living from hand to mouth,
working, when forced, as porters,
scavengers and laborers; but ready
at the first signal to turn their im
plements into weapons and join the
fierce cry, "Down with the Giaours!"
Tho second class, and tho more
dreaded, is tho Sottas, Softa or Sou
lihte, as the word was originally pro
nounced, means something consumed
in the fire, nud is the name given to
the students of the theological schools,
who ure, supposedly, consumed in the
fire of zeal for knowledge. In Con
stantinople there are, at a moderate
estimate, 10,000 of those Mahometan
theological students. 'They aro camped
like a great army in thu city of the
Sultuu, and at tho faintest whisper of
reform or concession to Crete, Ar
menia or Macedonia, or at the first
rumor of insubordination on tho part
of the Armenians of the oity, one hears
the omiuous murmur, "The Softas aro
rising." Many eheelcs turn pale at the
cry. It calls up too many scenes in
the streets of Galata and Stamboul of
helpless men and women struck down
by tho heavy curved clubs in tha hands
of these hi nted fanatics. In the riots
of last September and in the recent
awful n.nughter in Constantinople the
Softos were the principal figures.
Fanatio almost to insanity, cruel as
hyenas, animated by a sleepless hatred
of Christians, they are tho centre and
soul of every Moslem outbreak.
Their method of warfare is distinc
tive. Tbey do not usually attack in
large bands, nor do they attempt seri
ous fighting. Armed with heavy clubs,
often curved into a book, they patrol
the streets in bands of from a dozen
to forty, or lie concealed in narrow
lanes. There they watch for their
prey, and thence, at tho sight of a de
fenceless man or woman, they dash
forth and club tho poor wretch to
death and trample on jthe mangled
form. Hundreds havo fallen in just
this way in Constantinople. Occa
sionally the band varies the amuse
ment by plundering tho house of some
poor, defenceless creature, and by kill
ing tho women and children.
The dress of tho Softa is unmistak
able, even in a city that abounds with
costumes. The Softa of to-day is clad,
liko his predecessors for several gen
erations, in loose fitting trousers of
brown that grow smaller toward tho
aukle; a colored cotton shirt, cullar
leßS, and long, ample surtoot that falls
straight from the shoulders to the
tops of tho heavy boots. Tho distiu
guishiug mark of the Softa, however,
is tho baud of Bpotless white cloth
wound around and around tho fez,
something after the fashion of a tur
ban. The face, which is smooth
shaven, is likely in repose to bo dull
ami heavy.
The mosque is the eentro of tho Sof
ta's life. It is in a very real sense his
"alma mater." It supplies him not only
with knowledge, but also with food
and shelter. From tho times of the
earliest caliphs down to the present
day, the imperial mosques havo had
conneotcd with them medressehs—that
is, colleges, for tho training of youth.
Under the early caiiphs the Arab gen
ius lent an extraordmnry brilliance to
these colleges) or medressehs. They
were the glory of Damascus and Bag
dad, tho home of literature, art and
sciences. But under tho Turkish sway
the medressehs are restricted to nar
rower domains. Law and theology ure
their only courses if wo except a sin
gle oollego of medicine,and lead either
to a judicial or ecclesiastical office. 'All
graduates of the medressehs enter alike
the class cnlled lilema—that is, tho
olass of the learned. The studies of
the softa, directed by the bodja, or
teaoher, are entirely from the Koran
and from certain recognized commen
tators. They ineludo grammar, syn
tax, logio,morality,rhetoric, theology,
philosophy, jurisprudence, the Koran,
j ita commentators,, and the oral laws of
the prophet. Strolling about Stam
boul in moro peaceful times, there is
nothing moro interesting than the
pictures often presented through the
mosquo door of a group of Softas seat
ed in a circle on the floor around the
white-turbaned hodja, listening to hia
exegesis of some passage) from the
etiou-ed writings, or intoniug some
chapter of the Koran, with the inflec
tions oonsecrated by centurios of us
age.
The mosque is thus the class
room. But it is much more. Close
by the mosque is a row of one-story
stone buildings, frequently lacing a
court with a fountain. In each build
ing there aro from a dozen to thirty
rooms, or bettor cells, having one
window,one door and a dirt floor. In
the cell ara a couch, a very few books,
Persiau, Arabic or Turkish, and per
haps a box. Here the Softa lives at
his ease, without money aud without
price, getting one good meal daily
from wakuf, the public revenue of the
mosque, sitting curled up ou his couob
by day and sleeping on it by night.
A Human Owl.
Philadelphia doctors are just now
puzzling their brains over a man who
seems to possess the eyes of a bat or
an owl. .During the daytimo ho is
hopelessly blind and must grope his
way along the streets, but at night he
can seo well if Ihoro are no artificial
lights near to dazzle his eyes.
The man is Henry C. Launcr. Ho
appliad for treatment the other day at
the Philadelphia Hospital, where he
told his story. He said that he had
traveled from Denver to Philadelphia
on foot walking at night when others
slept, uud sleeping by day when the
sun blinded him and make walking
impossible.
Lanner said that his curious condi
tion is tho result of having been
burned by molten iron while work
ing in a foundry ten years ago. At
tho tiuio it was thought that ho would
ho entirely blind, and for several
weeks after tho aecidont his eyes were
bandaged. When tho bandages were
removed be could not see, and his
fears were apparently realized.
That night, as Lanner was lying on
his bed trying to reconcile himself to
a life of darkness, ho discovered that
he could sac after the lights wore ex
tinguished. At first ho could hardly
helievo the truth, but after be had
looked at tho various objects in tho
room and had examined tho pattern
in tho wall paper he knew that his
sight was restored and ho cried with
joy.
But the next day he discovered that
he was again blind, and he afterwards
found that he could see all right at
night, but that in the day timo he was
as sightless as a bat.
At night ho can read fine print as
easily a3 other men do when the sua
shines. He can make his way through
dark streets and see every object
clearly and distinctly.
For several years therealtev Lanner
was employod as a night, watchman in-
Denver. He was glad to remain awake
so that bis hours of blindness might
ho spent in oblivion. In recent years
Lanner gave up work and begin
preaching on the streets. He believes
that his affliction is a special dispensa
tion of Providence, and is intended
as a punishment for former sins.—
New York World.
Preservation ol' bouquets.
A florist of many years' experience
gives the following recipe for preserv
ing bouquets: When you receive a
bouquet sprinkle it lightly with fresh
water ; then put it into a vessel con
taining some soapsuds, which nourish
the roots and keep the flowers as
bright as new. Take the bouquet out
of tho suds every morning and lay it
sideways in fresh water, the stock en
tering first into tho water; keep it
there minute or two, then take tho
flowers out and sprinkle it lightly by
the hand with pure water, lfeplace
the bouquet in the soapsuds and the
flowers wilt bloom as fresh as when
first gathered. The soapsuds need to
be changed every third day. By ob
serving these rales a bouquet cau be
kept bright and beautiful for at least
one month, and will laßt still longer in
a very passable state, but the attention
to tho fair and Hail creatures, as di
rected above, must bo strictly ob
served.—New Orleans Times-Demo
crat.
President Kracger's Retort.
Hero is another characteristic story
about the President of tho Transvaal.
In tho days when Johannesburg was
merely Farreira's mining camp, Krue
ger was one day riding over the Wit
watersrand in ordinary burgher attire.
Ho oil-saddled near a wagon owned by
a German. Tho Teuton did not recog
nize tho President, nnd held forth on
the many things he would do were he
ruler of tho State. Suddenly Oom
Paul, to the great astonishment of the
German, who was a very small man,
took off his coat, aud, holding it out
toward the stranger, said: "Put this
on." "But," replied tho latter, "it's
too big," "Just so," replied his
honor, with a glim smile. "I'm Paul
Krueger, and it is not too big for me."
Docs the Enrtli Move 3
Ono of the wonders of tho coming
Paris exposition will be a 3GO-foot
tower, in which the scientists will ex
periment with u pendulum to ascer
tain if it is possiblo to detect or dem
onstrate the motion of the earth. A
similar experiment was oneo made by
Foucuuli under tho cupola of tho pan
theon, but the result was far from sat
isfactory. In the coming experiment
the pendulum will be 350 feet in
length, with a steel globe woighing
130 pounds nt its end.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS
X RECIPES FOR PICKLING.
To Pioklo Cucumbers to Last a Year
—Wash out and dry in tho sun a sound
butter tub. Pour into it two gallons
of boiling water and in this dissolve
enough salt to float an egg. It gener
ally requires a pint and a half. Add
to this one ounce of saltpetre, and let
it stand until cold. Then pick encum
bers ovory day, as they ripen ; wash
them well aud put them in the brine,
eontinuing to do so until tho tub is
filled. Take great oare iu liuving
good, bound and hrrd cuoumbors. Any
desired herbs, >r • few peeled onions,
aan be put among them for flavoring.
When the tub i filled, and tho brino
is over the cucumbers spread a white
oloth over them and put a board ou
top, with a stone on it so as to keep
the encumbers under water. Look
after the cucumbers at least oneo a
week, and if any scum has gathered
wash it off, pnt a clean cloth on top,
nnd replace the board and stono. In
this way tho cucumbors are utilized as
they come from the gardeD, and, if
properly attended to, will bo nice nnd
crisp, and keep nil winter.
Pickled Stringbeana That Can Bo
Used as Salad—Make a brino strong
enough to float an egg; string tho
beans, and'put them in it for twenty
four hours. Then pour off the brino
nnd parboil tho beans in vinegar. Fill
glass jars with them. Boil tho viuo
gar for half an hour with nil kinds of
spices; strain it, and dissolve in it
Bomo alum, allowing to every quart a
piece of alum aa largo as a hazolnut.
Pour tho vinegar hot over tho beans,
and close at once.
Pickled Small White Onions—Peel
the onions and boil them for a quar
ter of on hour iu equal quantities of
milk and water ; drain them and put
in glass jars. Boil whatever quantity
of vinegar is required with the spioa
aud pour boiling over tho onions. Al
low to every gallon of vinegar half an
ounce of mace, a quarter of an ounce
of white olovos, live tablospooniuls of
salt and half an ounce of nlurn. These
onions, although easy to prepare, will
be found economical as well as a great
relish. The milk makes them less
pugnont and tho alum makes thorn
softer and helps to koop them nil win
ter.
Pepper and Cabbage Pickle—This
pickle is quickly made, economical
and fit for daily use. Chop together
six largo-sized green poppers and one
firm head of oabbage. While chop
ping add ono aud a half eapfuls ol
salt, half a Jeaspoonful of cayenne
pepper, n teaspoouful of ground all
spioo and one-half pound of white
mustard seed. When chopped quite
fine put in crocks or glass jars, covoi
with good, cold vinegar and tie up
tight, so that no air gets in. It will
be found to bo roady for nso in sis
weeks, and is an oxoellont condimenl
for cold meats and boiled mutton.
HOUSEHOLD HINT 3.
Always fold a dress right siilo oui
for packing, ns it will not wrinkle s<
muck.
A pinch of salt added to the white
of eggs will mako them beat uj
quicker nnd lighter.
Priek a nutmeg with a pin, and if ii
fresh and good oil will instantly spreai;
about the puncture.
Half a teaspoouful of sugar v. I!
! nearly always revive a dying lire, nnc
it is always a safe thing to use for tbii
purpose.
To ascertain if nu egg is fresb pui
it iu a pail of wntor. If good it wil
sink immediately; if it floats it ii
doubtful,
If a littlo flour is rubbed over a loa
of cake before ioeing it will prevent
the frosting from -preading and run
ning off so readily.
Every housewi e should improsi
upon the mind of her family that tb<
bess suuco for any meat is cheerful
ness. Luught -r. aids digestion, and
peoplo should never grumblo while
eating.
In making Indian meal mush, oooli
it with milk instead of water, or pari
water and part milk if not convenienl
to use all milk. The pudding will hi
much richer, aud when fried wil
moro readily tako a nice brown,
Iu giving medicines in liquid foru
to an infant place the point of tin
spoon containing tho medicine agains:
the roof of the mouth. Administer
ing it in this way it will bo impossible
for tho child to choke or eject the
medicine.
In relaying carpets after the fall
cleaning it is well to sprinkle some
thing under the edges to destroy any
carpet bugs that may bo lurking
around. As good a thing as can be
used is a powder made of equal parts
of camphor gum nud tobacco.
Milk wood pods make a flue down
for stuffing head rest cushions. Those
fortunate enough to bo in tho country
will have no trouble in finding plenty
along tho road side, aud cau gathei
enough to bring home with thorn foi
many a winter evening's comfort.
In washing anything made ol
chamois skins use warm water with a
little ammonia in it. Wash by rub
bing between tho lingers, but do not
wring the chamois. Press it betweon
the palms of the hands to take out the
water and hang bofore the fire or iu
thehotsnuto dry quickly, rubbing
and pulling tho articlo into proper
shape every few moments to jirevent
the skin drying hard and stiff.
Linens that have been stained by
tea or coffeo may bo oleauseTl by mois
tening the spots with water and hold
ing them over tho fumes of a small
pieoe of burning sulphur or a few sul
phur motohes. Wash immediately iu
water iu which a littlo ammonia" o>-
soda has been dissolved. Staius that
nothing else will remove nro often
taken out by tho vapor arising from
burning sulphur, but the material
must be washed thoroughly at onoo