Hamburg has run ahead of Liver
pool and is now the chief port of
Enropo, if German statistics can be
believed.
Criminology has been exalted Into
a special department of science, and
baa its authorities, whose statements
are received as exact by many men of
icience and as absnred by a large pro
portion of the unscientific public.
The foreign sailor is fast disappear
ing from the Americau Navy. "The
Yankee sailor and tho Southern sailor
were what made our navy famous and
feared in the early times. They will
do it again if tho occasion calls,'*
boasts the Lewistou Journal.
Tho Duke of Bedford has placed at
the disposal of the technical instruc
tion committee of tho Bedford County
(England) Council a farm of 275
acres, 149 of which are arable land
and the rest grass. Twenty boys re
ceive free scholarships by the County
Council, entitling them to two years'
board, residence, and instruction in
the soienco and practice of farming.
The value of the goods produced or
worn done by] convicts in the State
prisons of the United States has fallen
off more than §5,000,000 in the ten
years from 1885 to 1895. At thesamo
time the number of prisoners hus in
creased from 41,877 to 54,244. Com
bining these figures it appears that
tho productive valuo of tho prisoners
has fallen off almost forty per cent.
This enormous diminution is almost
wholly due to tho passage of laws re
stricting convict labor or tho salo of
convict-mado goods. Theso facts ap
pear in a new bulletin of the labor
bureau.
Speaking of Li Hung Chang's smok
ing, Dr. Irwin, who has been his
physician for seventeen years, indig
nantly repels the charge that Li Hung
scented up the saloon of the steam
ship St. Louis with the ♦fumes of
opium. "Li Hung Chang never
smoked opium in his life," said Dr.
Irwin. 41 He is strongly opposed to
the practice, and will not permit thoso
about him to indulge in it. Not one
of bis suito smokes opium. You may
put my name to that assertion. The
earl is very fond of his pipe or of a
cigaretto, but he never smokes any
thing but tobacco, and neither does
any of his suito. Tho Chinese aro a
nation of tobacco smokers. Men,
women and children all smoke pipes
or cigarettes, and the earl does as his
people."
It is a circumstance worthy of more
than passing note, thinks tho New
York Tribune, that at a recent con
vention of teachers and educators in
Buffalo an address on tho subject of !
"Good Roads" was given by General
Roy Stone, head of tho Government
department of road inquiry. General
Stono is a recognized authority on
this subject, and what ho said was
practical and timely. On reading the
announcement of Bnch an address the
first question that will arise in many
minds is, "What have tho public
schools of this country to do with good
roads?" A little reflection will serve
to show that the answer to tho ques
tion should be, "A great deal." The
most important step to ha taken in
the attainment of good roads in this
country is the education of the people
to their value and economic nccessitr,
and it 13 plain that in this matter much
can be done by thoso who have in
their charge the training of the young.
General Stone called upon the educa
tors of the country to "preach the
gospel of good roads," and iurther to
teach a little roadbuilding iu all the
schools. It is a practical concern of
everyday life, as he well remnrked,
and should interest parents as well as
children, women as well as men.
"You will need no textbooks," he said,
"for no high-class technical knowl
edge is necessary to teach the rudi
ments of road construction and re
pair." Another praotical suggestion
was that the teachers could do much
actually to improve the roads of the
country. General Stone's belief is
that tho great need of our country
roads is daily care, for in tho absence
of care every defect grows by geomet
rical progression. His estimate is
that $10,000,000 is spent every year
on road repairs, and yet tho roads are
made no better. So he recommends
that road leagues be organized among
the older schoolboys, that the few nec'
essary tools be supplied by the town
ship authorities, and that the boys te
set at work as road repairers. The
educational effect of this policy would
undoubtedly bo excellent; but tho
first thing te be done is to get good
roads to be kept in repair. Boys can
not bmld roads that are smooth
and permanent, though in many
regions it would be possible to train
them for the work proposod by Gen
eral Stone.
RECIPROCITY A MM.
! FAOTS AND FIGURES OF A DECID
EDLY CONVINCING NATURE.
I „
I Human Necessities and Ilumnn Ho- |
mauds tlie Only True Trade Kcj{-
| ul at or Labcr'a Opportunities
Greatly Improved by Wilson Hill.
The United States Treasnry Depart
ment recently prepared a statement
showing the importations and expor
tation of this country with all foreign
countries with which it had entered in
to reciprocity agreements during a
J period of seven years, commencing
j with 1888 and ending with 1895, and
it does not require a person well
versed in mathematics to tell where
reciprocity commenced and where it
stopped. These figures are authentic,
taken, as they have been, from the
monthly statements of the Treasury
Department,and are the first statistics
which have ever been compiled au
thentically ou the subject. With
these figures beforo hitn Secretary
Morton spoke as follows on the ques
tion of reciprocity:
"The reciprocitv agreements au
thorized by tbo tariff act of 1800 do
monstrato in their operation the fal
lacy of reciprocal agreements. In dis
cussing this question it is necessary
i to remember that the events of to-day
are not necessarily the results of leg
islation of yesterday. Therefore, an
1 extension of trade during the exist-
enco of reciprocal agreements may
. have been merely the continuation of
. an important trade that had been in
. progress for years before the recipro
cal agreements were instituted, it is
J fair also to 6ay that * sudden falling
off in trade after reciprocity agree
; ments lapsed may havo been duo to
obvious conditions that would havo
diminished trade had reciprocity con
tinued. Hut tho truth is that in
nearly every caso there was neither
• any considerable increase or dccreaso
ot trado while the reciprocal agree
ments were in force, nor immediately
after they bad lapsed.
g "Except in the single case of Cuba
uo one could conclude lroin looking at
export and import statistics when re
? ciprocity began and when it ended.
"The entire commerce of the United
f States with the Central American conn
tries, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
r and Salvador, and with San Domingo,
• tho British West Indies and British
d Guiana,, with all of which countries wo
0 entered into reciprocal agreements, is
severally so small that tbo statistics
havo been consolidated. For these
colonies and petty sovereignties the
statistics arc as follows:
k'ear. Imports from. Exports to.
1888 $22,817.11S $13,328,377
1383 28,937,658 14,607.153
B 1890 27,518,739 15,515,65(1
18'J1 30,052,567 18,143,893
• 1892 27,239,826 16,051,029
1893 27,419,673 13.500,171
' 1894 27,923,665 16,925,270
s 1895 22,098.89j 16,476,161
4, Tho reciprocity agreements with
the countries iu the above groftp went
into effect at various dates in the year
1892, except that with San Domingo,
which took effect September 1, 1891.
The last had little effect on the figures
for 1892. Our imports increased in u
marked degree from 1888 to 1891.
The increase during the three years
was over 3G per cent. In the year in
which the reciprocity agreements were
made there was a decided decrease in
our exports, and n further decrease
the next year, followed by a guiu in
1891, which was still a good deal be
low 1891, however. In 1895 there was
a slight falling off in our exports, but
they were still considerably greater
than iu 1893. Our imports from the
countries named reached their highest
figure in 1391; since then they rapidly
declined.
"With Brazil tho United States
made tho oarliest of tho reciprocity
igzcemenla. From that country wo
buy immense quantities of coffee. Our
exports 1o Brazil, however, are rela
tively very small. It was claimed that
under the reciprocal agreement we
should pay for all of our coffee by tho
exports ot our own products. Prior
to reciprocity, which took effect April
I, 1891, our exports to Brazil increased
at the rate of $2,000,000 a year. Dur
ing,lß92, tho first year after the recip
rocal agreement, there was a very
nsignifioant increase.
"During the next two years thero
was a decline in our exports to Brazil.
But our exports to Brazil in 18i)5, a
part of whicn were mado subsequent
to tho abrogation of the reciprocity
agreement, wore larger than in any
previous year. Estimating the ex
ports from the United States to Brazil
lor 1595 on the basis of the exports
for tho first half of that, year and tho
exports for IS9G on tho sumo basis
will be even larger than those for
1895."
At this point tho Secretary turned to
a largo voluminous collection of tabu
lated figures, which lie had just re
ceived from tho Treasury Depart
ment, and in asigmlicaut tone said:
"For tho purpose of comparison let
ne turn now to Venezuela und the Ar
gentine Republic. These two coun
tries did not enter into reciprocity
agreements with the United States.
Becuuso they did not many people
presumed our trade with them would
be diverted.
"But the commerce of tho United
States with Venezuela for the series of
years named was as follows :
i'ear. Imported from. Exported to.
1333 $10,051,250 $3,033,518
J HMO 10,302,600 3,733,961
139 10,000.705 4,023,533
1391 12.073.5U 4.784.050
1392.... 10,325,333 4,040,155
1303 3,025,118 4,207,001
1304 8,464,481 4,187,168
130 10,073,931 3,740,644
"The effect of our huving a reci
procity agreement with Brazil and
none with Venezuela was that tho lat
tei's coffee went to Europe and our
imports from Venezuela 101 l off proba
bly two thirds; yet our exports to
Venezuela underwent very little
change, and in the current year they
will probably be one-third greaterthan
they were in 1888. Although wo
ceased buying coffee of Venezuela, our
exports to that country did not fall so
low as they were in 1890 until
1895, after the reciprocity era was
over. The presumption is that the
Venezuelans bought of us what they
could buy hero to greater advantage
than they could in Europe, and they
did not sacrifice such advantages sim
ply because wo ceased to buy their
coffee.
"The exports of the United States
to tho Argentine Republic wero in
creasing until the failure of the Bar
ings. From that dato commerce be
tween tho two countries shrunk rapid
ly until 1892; since the latter year oiu
exports havo teen increasing rapidly*
aud in 1895 they were much in excess
of 1891 and 1892, and they prorai.se
exceedingly well for this current
year.
"The foregoing statements and
comparisons indicate that the expan
sion of tho foreign trade of the United
States will bo brought about by the
ordinary trade methods rather thau
by a system of special concessions.
"Cuba cannot bo forced to buy
food in Spain instead of in tho United
Slates. Brazil, very naturally and
logically, will trado with the Argen
tine Bopublic for wheat and flour, re
gardless of reciprocal agreements.
South America generally will buy pro
visions and lumber of the United
States, whether thero aro reciprocal
agreements or not. Central America
will do likewise, and get the larger
part of its manufactured goods in Eu
rope until tlie price of tho same goods
is lower in the United States than it
is in Europe. With the reduced co3t
of production in al) line* of manufac
tured goods tho differauco in prices,
which has been against Americans, is
now rapidly diminishing and disap
pearing.
"Human necessities and human de
mands will bring tho trade of tho
countrios with whom we entered into
reciprocal agreements to us, or take
that trade to other Nutious. Tho laws
of commerco nre as inexorable and in
evitable in their operations as tho
laws of nature. No legislation nor
diplomacy can subject human wants
to arbitrary control. American ex
ports aro paid for by imports or by
transfers of commerce held by the im
porting country. All legitimate com
merco is irrcstrainable.
"Every exchange of commodities,
legitimately made, is of small advan
tage to the parties making it. Legis
lation cannot declare artificial restora
tion or circulation of blood with so
much force as to reanimate a dead or
ganism. And legislation and diplo
macy are equally powerless in their
attempts to create artificial restoration
or circulation of blood with so much
force as to reanimate a dead organism.
And legislation and diplomacy are
equally powerless in their attempts to
create artificial reciprocity, or to es
tablish {trade between countries which
uaturally do not trade with each other,
because there is no apparent profit in
the undertokiug.
"Wo have boou told that during the
past year our country has been prac
tically inundated with manufactured
goods of foreign production, in this
way taking work from American wage
earners, whan, as a matter of fact,
there has been on an average a notable
increase in tho importation of crude
commodities that have to be fashioned
by tho labor of American wage earn
ers, an increase accomplished by the
fight which these wage earners made
for us in tho year 1802.
"The percentage of manufactured
goods imported into this country in
1803, 1891 and 1805 was over 22 per
cent, of tho entire importations of
theso years, nud yet that tiino coverod
a period during which the tariff lire
pared under the protectionist tariff
commission was in force. Tho fßct is,
that in tho last year our importations
of manufactured goods were, on the
whole, exceedingly small, when one
takes into account that wo had to
mako up for tho scarcities of 1891,
during which year there was a smaller
relative importation of manufactured
goods than in any other year for
which a classification has been given
by our Government.
"Tho results of tho year IS9G aro
expected to show that while crude
commodities will bo imported in in
creasing amounts to bo manufactured
iu this country the percentago of
manufactured goods coming in this
year will be probably loss than it was
during the years 1891, 1892 and 1593.
It will be shown by these irrefutable
results that tho American munufactnr
ers aro supplying a larger amount ol
goods andcommodities lor export than
ever before, and in addition to that
thoy arc supplying tho homo market
to a greater extent than ever before."
What It Slattils For.
McKinley says: "No ono need ba
in doubt about what tho Republican
party stande for."
To which the Topeka (Kan.) Co-
Operator make 3 reply : "No, if there
ever was a doubt it has been dis
pelled.
"It stands to-dpy for all that the
American people do not want.
"It stands for what benefits tho
bond gamblers of Wall street.
"It stands for 'protection fo Ameri
can laborers' one day in the year, and
then legislates agaiust them tho other
361 days.
"It stands for the wealth consumers
and against the wealth producers."
Hiccoughs.
A new method of stopping hiccoughs
Is said to have been accidentally dis
covered In n French hospital, ft con
sists in thrusting the tongue out of
the mouth and holding It thus for a
I short time.
BRYAN PRAISESFARIBRS
THEY KNOW MORE OF MONETARY
20IEN0E THAN THE BANKERS.
The Democratic Candidate Also
Shows the Inconsistency of Mc-
Klnley—Bismarck on Bimetallism
—Gold Men Likened to Drones.
Speaking to the assembled farmers
of Delaware at their State Fair ill
Dover, William J. Bryan said:
I want to talk to you awhile about
our financial condition. If things are
good then there is Q) reason why we
should make any change in legisla
tion. If our present condition is sat
isfactory, then we ought to leave it
alone and not make a change. No one
can advocate any kind of remedial
legislation except on tho theory that
there is something that needs remedy
ing. Our opponents confess tho con
dition, and when I tell you that you
cannot remedy the present condition
except by financial legislation our op
ponents say that tho trouble is in the
tariff question, and if we could just
have more tariff then times would get
good again. 1 want to read you an
extract from a Rpeecli made 011 last
Saturday by the Republican candidate
for President at Canton. lie said:
"Under tho Republican protective pol
icy we enjoyed for more than thirty
years the most marvellous prosperity
that has ever beon given to any Nation
of the world. We not only had indi
vidual prosperity, but wo haci National
prosperity."
Now there is a statement made with- j
in a week by tho Presidential candi- I
date on tho Republican ticket, point
ing back for thirty years, from 1800
to 1890, and telling the people that
during that period we enjoyed the
most marvelous prosperity of any Na
j tion in tho world, and that we had
j both individual prosperity and Na
tional prosperity. I want to show
you by this same witness's very testi
mony, given six years ago, that after
thirty years of his kind of policy the
farmers of this country wore not pros
perous. If you will take the report
liJed with the McKinley bill on April
10, 1890, you will tincl the words I
wish to quote: "That there is wide
spread depression in this industry to
day cannot be doubted," speaking of
agriculture. That is what the Presi
dential candidate said when he delib
erately wrote the report and filed it
with bis proposed legislation. "That
there is widespread depression in this
industry to-day cannot bo doubted."
(Applause.) Aguin in that same report
ho baid: "One of the chief complaints
now prevalent among our farmers is
that thoy can get no price for their
crops at all commensurate to the labor
and capital invested in their produc
tion."
That is what ho said after thirty
years of tho kind of policy which the
candidate of the Republican party
says will bring you prosperity. Lot
me read again: 41 Wo have not be
lieved that tho people already suffer
ing from low prices can or will bo
satisfied with legislation which wii!
result in lower prices. No country
ever suffered when prices were fairly
remunerative in every field of laboi.*."
Alter thirty years of that kind of
policy ho tells you that tho people a.e
Buffering from low prices, and that no
country ever suffered when prices
were fairly remunerative in every field
of labor.
Now let me read you again what be
says iu this same report: "This great
industry," speaking of agriculture,
"is foremost in magnitude and impor
tance in our country. Its success and
prosperity are vital to the Nation.
No prosperity is possible to other
industries if agriculture languish."
That is what ho said in 1890, that
there was depression iu agriculture
alter thirty years of his tariff policy,
and that without prosperity in
agriculture there could be no pros
perity among the other industries of
ihe country. Let mo read you but
the other extract: "The depression
in agriculture is not confined to the
United Slates. The report, of the
Agricultural Department indicates
that this distress is general, that Great
Britain, France and Germany are suf
fering in a larger degree than the
farmers of tho United States." There
he is telling us that there is a depres
sion in agriculture and giving the
names of three prominent agricultural
Nations of the Old World, and telling
us that agricultural depression is even
more marked over there thou it is
here. I want you to remember that,
when you read in tho papers that lie
said that for thirty years we had such
marvellous prosperity in this country.
[Great applause. J Now, my friends,
I have quoted you that he said that
there was depression in agriculture in
Germany. I want to read you what
Prince Bismarck says about tho con
dition of affairs in Germuuy. Our
opponents aro iu the habit of telling
us that all the civilized Nations aro in
favor of the gold standard. The Ger
mans who live in this country poiut
with n just prido to the greatness of
this illustrious German, Prince Bis
marck. Let me read you what he has
paid within a few weeks in regard to
bimetallism, and thou see whether ho
testifies that tho gold standard has
been a pood thing for Germany.
[Applause.] Iu a letter writon to
Governor Culberson of Texas, and
dated on tho 2ith of August, 18915,
Prince Bismarck said:
"Your esteemed favor of July 1 has
been duly received. I have always
i had a predilection for bimetallism,
but I would not while in office claim
my views of the matter to be infallibly
true when advanced against the views
, of experts. 1 hold to this very hour
that it would bo advisable to bring
about between the Nations chiefly en-
gaged in tho world's commerce a
mutual agreement iu favor of the estab
lishment of bimetallism.
*'Considered from a commercial and
industrial standpoint, the United '
States are freer by far in their |
movements than any Nation in
Europe, and hence, if the people
of the United States should find
it compatible with their interests to
take independent action in the direc
tion of bimetallism I oannot but be
lieve that such action would exert a
moßt salutary influence upon the con
summation of international agreement
and the coming into this league of
every European Nation."
If tho gold standard had been a
blessing to Germany why would not he
say that it was better to keep the gold
standard instead of getting rid of tho
gold standard and substituting the
double standard by international
agreement?
Let me call your attention to an
other thing which Prince Bismarck
said. Our opponents tell us that we
are arraying one class against another.
Let me Bhow you what Prince Bis
marck has said in regard to the classes
on tho questions which concern agri
cultural depression. A little more
than a year ago he was quoted as say
ing to a farmer audience in Germanv
that the farmers must stand together
and protect themselves from the
droneß of sooiety who produce noth
ing but laws, liemember the signifi
cance of those words, that the farmer!
should stand together and protect
themselves from the drones of society
who produoe nothing but laws.
My friends, divide sooiety into two
classes; on the one side put the non
producers and on the other side put
the produsers cf wealth, and you will
find that in this country tho majority
of the laws are mado by the non-pro
ducers instend of tho producers of
wealth, and just as long as the non
producers make the laws just so long
it will be more profitable to be a non
producer of wealth.
Bismarck tried to arouse the far- !
mcrs of Germany to throw out these '
drones and take churge of legislation j
themselves. I suppose tliey will call j
Bismarck an agitator. (Laughter and |
applause). I suppose thoy will sav
that he ought not to array one class of
society against another. Of course, I
don't know how drones feol in a bee
hive, but if drones could talk and
make speeches, I will bet that you
could not tell one of their speeches
from the speeches of a gold standard
advocate. (Laughter and upplauso).
I will venture to say that il the drones
could talk and make speeches you
could not distinguish their speeches
from the speeches made by the heads
of thoso great trusts, who call all who
do not believe with thorn Anarchists.
(Applause). I will venture that if a
drone could talk and write and express
his ideas in language there is not a
member of a syndicate that has been
boating this Government but who
could take the drone's speech and use
it as his own, and without being ac
cused of plagiarism. (Great applause).
My friends, that is the only class is
suo that we raise, and if to say the
people who fight the Nation's battles
in time of war have a right to do the
legislating in time of peace in raising
class against class, then I am willing
to be called an agitator. If to tell the
people who produce wealth that they
have a right to make the laws so as to
securo to themselves a just portiou of
the wealth they produce, instead of
allowing the drones to make the laws
and eat the honey, then I plead guilty
to the charge of stirring up discon
tent. (Great applause).
I will bet you that if the drone was
in politics parly lines would not weigh
very much with him if he had a busi
ness interest on the other side. (Great
applause.) You show me the head of
a syndicate or trust and I will show
you n man who, whenever his business
interests become involved, becomes
suddenly patriotic and tells you that
he loves his country too much to let
anybody make more money out of
legislation than ho does. (Laughter
aiid applause.)
I will venture the assertion that i
there is not half of the men who ero \
in favor of a gold standard who ean
tell what sixteen to one means. They
do not understand even the terms I
which are usod in the discussion of Iho j
money question. I would be willing i
to placo the average farmer against the ;
average banker and turn them loose 1
to discuss the monetary science and
financial history, and the banker could
not hold his own with the farmer, j
Why? Because the lluaneier thinks I
he knows so much that it is not neoes
sary for him to study, while the far- !
mer realizes that ho has got to study
in order to know anything about the
question. The linanoior has been
getting along so well that he thinks it
in not necessary for him to worry, but
the farmer has beeu suffering so much
that he is trying to had what is the
matter with the farmer. The farmer
knows that by making money scarce
he makes money dear and property
cheap.
51 y friends, wo have had our finan
cial legislation run by those people
who have made more in an hour a day
gambling in stocks and bonds and
gambling in what the farmers call
produce thau all the farmers of the
Uuion could make producing their
crops. (Great applause.) You take
for instauce, where they can send a
large amount of gold abroad and make
stocks drop, and bring a large amount
in and make stooks rise again. The
people who are able to corner this
money there aro able to get along
fairly well, no matter how other peo
ple may Buffer.
infant Alarm.
A French inventor has devised a cu
rious electrical alarm for infants. It
consists of a microphonic circuit break
er placed, near the head of the child
In its cradle and connected with an
electric bell. A cry from the child will
actuate the Instrument ami will thus
cause the bell lo ring, awakening the
attention of mother or nurse.
A PRINCE OF THE PLAINS,
KIT CARSON WAS THE IDEAL
FRONTIERSMAN AND SCOUT.
Brave as a Lion, Modest as a Girl—
Anecdotes About the Famous
Scout—Bringing Game Into ramp.
OF all tbo frontiersmen it lias
been my fortune to know in
timately, (luring a checkered
life of forty on the great
plains and in tlio Rocky Mountains,
j Kit Carson was the prince. Ho was
| brave, but not reckless. Perfectly
i unßeltish, he was a veritable exponent
jof genuine altruism. As true to his
; friends as the needle to the pole, he
would light for them, and die for
| them, if needs be. He died at Fort
! Lyon, Col., on May 23, 1868, during
1 a short visit to the post, whero he had
j a favorite son residing. Early on the
j morning of that day, while mounting
| his horse in front of his quarter*, an
| artery in his neck was suddenly rup
, tared, from the effjets of which, not-
I withstanding tha best medial assist
; unco was rendered by the 1 urgeon of
! the fort, be died in a few moments. I
j was stationed at Fort Harker, Kan.,
! at the time of his untimely taking off,
| navs Henry Juman in the Detroit Free
| Press, and had recoived a lotter from
him a week before, in which he in
formed me that he was on his way to
i make mo a long-promised visit. His
: remains, after reposing for some time
nt the fort, were taken to Taos, so long
his home in New Mexico, whereasuit
' able monument was erected over them.
As an Indiau fighter Kit Corson was
matchless. Tho identical rifle, which
never failed him, aud was used by him
for more than thirty-fivo years, ho be
queathed just before his death, to
Montezuma Lodge, F. and A. M.,
Santo Fe, of which he was a member.
Under the avorago height, Carson
was rather delicate looking in his
physical proportions; ne was, how
aver, a quick, wiry man, with nerves
of iron and au indomit.ablo will. Ho
was full of caution, and possessed au
imperturbability iu the moment of
jreat danger that was something
grand to witness.
Kit, years before ho became famous,
'ought a duel on horseback with a no
;oriously pompous braggart, a Cana
linn-French trapper. Ho escaped
with a bullet wound behind his loft
jar, tho scar of which ho carried to his
rrave, but he "winged" his antagonist
iud forever stopped his boasting.
Kit Car-on was the most reticent
nau concerning his own adventures I
iver met. Jt required the greatest
itrategy to get him to converse on the
mbject at all. though he was splendid
lompany excepting when ono wanted
liin to talk about himself, X am re
niuded of a characteristic anecdote
•olating to his dislike to telling auy
;hing ot himself. It was in July,lß6o.
U 11. Maxwell, the owner of the im
nense ranch in New Mexico which
itill bears hiß name, on the fourth of
iliat month determined to celebrate
;he day at his own tine home. By the
oroniuturo explosion of an old cannon
arought into requisition out of its
aiding placo underja group of elms,
where it had lain sinee the march "of
doneral Kearney across the plains to
louquer New Mexico, Maxwell so in,
| tired his thumb that the army surgeon
it Fort Union decided that the wound
id member must come oil. I invited
! lim to make my quarters at the fort
j lis, whcro he could have the operation
: juietly done, aud X also asked Carson
I ;o oorae with me to assist me in caring
j for aud entertaining him during
I ais stay. One morning, while
I Kit was there, one of the ofltoers
I went down to the sutler's store,
[ which was as well the postoflice, for
I mr mail, tho coach which brought it
romthe Missouri Kiver having arrived
i few miuutes before. While waiting
| for the letters to be assorted, the of
ficer's eye chaueed to rest on a copy
if ouoof the cheap illustrated journals
ying on the eouutor. He would not
| irdinanly have noticed such a Blieet,
: nit his attention was attracted to it by
II full page woodcut, adorning its ont
dde, one of those sensational aud im
irobable scenes for which journals of
ts character are notorious even to
lay. It represented nn opening in
the forest, in the foreground of whioh
stood an immensely tall man dressed
in buokskiD, one hand holding a huge
rifle, while tho other graspod tho
ivaist of a woman who was elegantly
ittired—tho conventional woman of
iuoh sheets—in laces and flounces. In
front of this impossible woman, lying
flat on the ground, were seven or eight
lead savages, presumably killed by
the remarkable hero in defense of the
more remarkable woman. The legend
it tbo bottom of the crude sketoh, in
large type, related how Kit Carson,
it some time in the remote days of his
youth, had accomplished tho mighty
deed. It so amused the officer that he
bought a copy of the paper and
brought it to my quarters, showing it
to all of us in turn. When Kit got
hold of it, he looked at it intently for
a few seconds, read the legend, then
banding it to Maxwell, smilingly re
marked: "Well, gentlemen, that that
may be true, but I ain't got no recol
leotion of it."
The absurd illustration drew Kit
out, and ho related several amusing
anecdotes whioh had ocourrcd during
his oveutful enreer of forty years on
tho plains and in the mountains, one
of which I remember well. He said
that in tho summer of 1846 ho with
ono or two other old trappers left
I Bent's Fort for Bald Buttes, thirty
miles north of there, where there was
plenty of buffalo and excellent
chances for beaver or otlar. They
had with them a thoroughly green
Irishman. It was his first season
on the plains, and, of course, ho
was very anxious to become a good
hunter, and in a little while ho got
his initial lesson. Ho was told by the
men and Carson, who was the leader,
that everv man who went out after
game was to bring some in. O'Neil,
the gTecn one, said he was willing to
abide by the orders, and would start
out that ovening. He caught up his
rifle and made for a small herd of
mountain buffalo, in full view of all,
a few hundred yards from where they
stood watching him. After O'Neil
had gone, and was beyond their vision
on account of a low "divide" which
he hod crossed, they heard the dis
charge of his rifle in the distance, and
in a few moments that gentleman
came running into camp, bareheaded,
without his gun, and a buffalo bull
close after him. Both were going at
their level best, O'Neil shouting like a
madman.
"Here we come, bo jabers. Stop us,
for the love of heaven!"
Just as they came in among the
tents, the bull not more than six feet
behind the Irishman, who was fright
ened out of his wits, and blowing like
a locomotive, his toe caught in a rope,
and over he went into a puddle of
water, and in his fall turned over sev
eral kettles, one of which contained
the supper for the whole outfit. But
the buffalo did not get off so easily,
for "Shawnee Jake" and Carson
snatched their guns and tumbled the
animal over before he had done any
further mischief.
The Irishman was heartily laughed
at after he got out of the water, for a
lot of mountain men will show no
mercy to one of their number with a
misfortune of this character. O'Neil
stood there with wet clothes and face
covered with mud, but his mother wit
came to him at once. He said: "Be
jabers, yez may laugh, but yez can't
say I didn't carry out mo orders. For
sure, haven't I fetched the mate into
camp, and there was no bargain
i wliother it bo dead or alive at all?"
A Great Bird Road.
The Nile Valley is the great bird
road runuing north and south. Tho
heron fishes in every shallow. Tho
ibis haunts the banks. The pelicans
stand in rows at the time of the inun
dation. Eagles, kites and osproys are
common. On every sand bank black
or black and white vultures hop about
and llap their outspread, draggled
wings. A kingfisher, more common
and more soberly clad than ours, per
forms wonderful feats of diving within
a few paces of the onlooker. Tho
little sand snipe and the true snipo
prevail, and quail visit tho country in
immense numbers in tho spring. Owls
haunt the palm trees and ruins, and
pigeons, (which are reared in every
villago for the sake of tho manure,
are probably more numerous than in
any other country in the world. It is
delightful to note tho tamenoss of the
birds in Egypt. They enter rooms
and houses windows orcrov
ices left for ventilation, and once in
side hop fearlessly about tho floor,
picking up stray crumbs.
1 have seen—and the sight was a
pretty one—a sparrow perched on tho
corner of a table during the progress
of a crowded hotel repast, and it is
not uncommon to see them flitting
across tho ceilings of drawing rooms
at Luxor. All birds, from largest to
smallest, go unmolested, unless they
are definitely useful for food. The
great brown kite sits fearlessly on tho
roofs of Cairo, hard by his cousin, the
crow, which is not black like our crow,
but black and gray, and might eas
ily bo mistaken for a pigeon. Every
garden—at any rato in upper Egpyt—
lias its owl frequenting a tali palm
tree, and hooting or whistling as na
ture guides it.—Arthur's Home Maga
zine.
Pathetic Story <>l a Lawyer.
A fortnight ago a lotter reached a
friend of mine in tho handwriting of
an old college friend, tolling a pitiful
story of a stranded life. Tho writer
had been called to tho bar, hoping
some day to land on tho judicial
bench, even if he did not reach tho
woolsack. He had no intluenco and
very little money.
No business came his way. But he
held on through long years, patiently
hoping tlint some day his chance would
come. Now he was sick, probably
unto death, and had no money to
buy food or medicine. A remittance
was promptly sent and gratefully
acknowledged. At the end of a fort
night it oocurred to the Q. O. and
M. P. to call on the sick man and see
what more ho might do to help him.
Arrived at the address he gave his
name and his errand to the ladylike
woman who opened the door, whereat,
bursting into a passion of tears, she
told him he was too late. Her hus
band had died that morning. The
two walked upstairs to a small front
room. On the bod lay the body of a
man of about forty years of age, fully
dressed in the gown and wig of a bar
rister. In his right hand ho held a
bundle of foolscap.
"What is that?" the old friond
whispered.
"That," said the widow, "is tho
only brief he received in the course of
nineteen years' waiting. Ho asked
me to dress him thus and put it in his
hand when ho was dead."—The
Strand.
Said to lte the Richest Town.
Tho total valuation of Brookline,
Mass., is 8G0,912,000 divided as fol
lows: Persoual, 315,129,300; build
ings, 816,640,600; land, 829,142,100.
There has been a shrinkage in tho
value of persoual property of 8109,-
700 and nu increase in the real estato
of $2,079,100, making a net gain of
g1,909,400 in tho richest town in tho
country. In the polls assessed there
is an inorease of 147, the number be
ing 4556.—805t0n Herald.
An Unprofitable Suit.
Lord Gerard has settled for SIB,OOO
a suit whioh he has been fighting for
nine years agniust the London and
: Northwestern Railway Company about
i some laud of his that was takbA and
for whioh he asked $1,800,000. His
• costs are probably $50,000.