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THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
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MONDAY, JUNE 5
After swallowing the bitter dose
of defeat, administered by- Hanna,
Senator Alexander is willing to
swear that it had a pleasant taste.
If the trusts continue to raise the
prices of their products, how long
will it be before the people will find
that the gold standard dollar is a
"fifty cent dollar" so far as purchas
ing' power is concerned?
"The Summit county delegation
was loyal to me, every one of them."
Senator J. Park Alexander.
Perhaps it was well for the Sena
tor's peace of mind that the "loyalty"
of the delegatio.n was not put to a
very severe strain.
Administration organs are citing
as an evidence of prosperity the fact
that some of the trusts are raising
the wages of their men five or ten
per cent advances which for the
most part are simply partial restora
tions of previous reductions. If
these same organs would publish
a list showing how the trusts
are arbitrarily raising the prices of
everything they sell to the people,
the wage advances would appear in
significant. "I was slaughtered in the house of
my friends," is the comment of Sen
ator Alexander upon the result of
last week's convention, and yet the
Senator is willing to stand up to be
slaughtered again. After he has
been knocked down and dragged out
as many times as his good friend
and neighbor, Col. Sanford, the
interviews given out by the Third
ward Senator -will contain a little
more gall and wormwood and a little
less political optimism.
If the people of Ohio give Boss
Cox a grip on the Senate next fall
they may as well bid adieu to hope
of legislation favorable to their in
terests for the next two years. Cox
will not be satisfied with controlling
legislation affecting Cincinnati. He
will be master of the State. The
Democratic party will nominate a
candidate for Lieutenant Governor
whose election will save the State
from the grasp of this self-seeking
boss. Ohio wants nw Quay.
COX'S CANDIDATE.
Who is John A. Caldwell?
The people of Cincinnati know him
well. He has been in local politics
for a long time. For more than ten
years he has been one of Cox's men.
He has gone in or out of office at the
gang's command. He has been the
obedient servant of Cox, Garry
Herrmann, Eud Hynicka and com
pany. He was put in congress by
the ringsters and promptly relin
quished that position when ordered
home to run for mayor. He was
elected to the mayoralty by a minor
ity of the voters of the city, there
being three candidates in the field.
Then he was retired for awhile, and
nowhe is brought forward to make
it plain that Cox is an equal partner
with Mr. Hanna in the Columbus
deal. Mr. Hanna has necessarily
prostituted himself to all the enter
prises of the Cincinnati bosses; to the
election of their legislative and
county tickets; and to all their ques
tionable schemes in the legislature.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Does Coffee Agree With You?
If not, drink Graln-O made from pure
grain. A lady writes: "The first time I
made Graln-O I did not like It hut after
using It for one week nothing would Induce
me to go back to coffee." It nourishes and
feeds the system. The children can drink
it freely with great benefit. It is the
strenthening substance of pure grains. Get
npaokage today from your grocer, follow
the directions In making it and you will
have a delicious nnd healthful table bever
age for old and young; 15c and 25c.
Housely Reunion.
TheHousely reunion at Lakeside
Park Saturday was largely attended
by relatives and a few friends from
Summit, Portage, Stark, Medina and
Cuyahoga counties. Those from
greater distances were Mrs. Ed
Ehumsyre and daughter, Beatrice,
of Philadelphia, Pa., and Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Spangler of Toledo, O.
Th'e officers for the coming year
are: President, Milton Schick, New
Berlin; vice president, Geo. M.
Ehoades, North Springfield ; secre
tary, Lewis E. Housley, Akron;
treasurer, . John L. Housely, Metz;
historian, D. L. Smith, Aultman.
The next reunion will bo held at
Lakeside Park the first Saturday of
June, 1900.
For fine plumbing call on C. M.
Oberlin for prices.
fITRAp E sTo $ ) COUNCJUa
TRUSTS.
Continued From First Page.
which stamp this branch of the Re
publican platform as the monumen
tal political fraud of the season.
Listen to them. For four years past
the Attorney General of Ohio has
been .a Republican; Monnett is his
name. I am careful thus to intro
duce him, because, so far as any
recognition of him or his work is
concerned, the late state convention
was an utter stranger to both. He
has been a long time in the courts in
a vain effort to enforce, in some de
gree, the very law which the Repub
lican convention demands shall be
executed. He has thus worked
single-handed and alone, and of
course, with but indifferent success.
The marvel is that, under the depress
ing circumstances of the case, he has
had any success at all. In and
through it all, in his heroic put luck
less fight, has he had one word of
cheer or encouragement from one Re
publican politician, or from'a single
administration organ? Did the
President ever send him a telegram of
congratalationashedidMark Hanna
at the conclusion of the operations
which landed the latter inJ
the Senate? Has the Cleve
land Leader, or any of its news
paper "titmen" throughout the state
even lent him a word of commenda
tion for trying to put in force a law
which by their platform they now
say ough to be executed? Did a
Republican State convention ever
congratulate him in his attempt to
do that which that of last week pre
tends should be done, as that same
convention congratulated Mr. Mc
Kinley for letting down the bars of
the civil service to the spoilsmen?
Is it not a fact, on the contrary, that
his every efforfhas been hampered,
and his every step clogged, along the
line which this hypocritical plank
professes that it was right for hini to
pursue, with an ill-concealed sneer,
a repellant silence, or an open deris
ion? That such is the case is too no
torious for dispute.
But bring these platform-making
gentlemen to yet a nearer test of sin
cerity. This same Attorney General
was a candidate before the same
convention last week for another
nomination to the same office. His
candidacy was announced in speech
eloquent in its commendation of his
work -in executing the very law
which the convention had but just
resolved must be executed
for the well-being of the people, and
what, do you suppose, was ttoe re
sponse which the Hanna and Cox
combine permitted to be given? Was
it the glad cry from the 800 assem
bled throats, of "Well done, good and
faithful servant?" Not much! He
got just one vote out of the 800.
That is to say, for doing his
best in that which that same
body of representative Repub
licans had within a few hours sol
emnly declared was ;i fit and necessa
ry thing to do, he received the approv
al of one eight hundredth part of
them. What a spectacle for men and
angels! A facetious friend of mine
while in college, once chose as the
subject of his oration : "Radicalism
when I gets my drinks, conservatism
when I'm asked to pay for 'em". So
we nave in umo a party winch
is down on trusts in platforms, but
not in courts; which rebukes trusts
on paper, but not in the make-up of
its ticket; which denounces trusts
in the abstract, but thrives upon
them in the concrete. Can organized
hypocrisy well go further ? .
But I want to exhibit one more
proof of the enormity of trusts in the
eyes of the late co nvention. For the
office of Attorney General there was
still another candidate before it. It
was Chase Stewart of Springfield, a
lawyer of probity and repute, and a
man whose eminent fitness for the
nomination in question will be con
ceded on all hands. Now it so hap
pened that Mr. Stewart was himself
the author of the Ohio anti-trust
statute which the convention had
said must be enforced. It was a
natural thing to say: "Who so well
qualified to put in execution a law as
he who framed it. He, of all others,
must know what it means, and can
present it to the courts most intelli
gently and efficiently." Was he
nominated by this gathering of
paper-tigers this assemblage of de
nouncers of trusts with lip-service?
He received 99 vqtes. So it appears
that while &X) delegates, represent
ing the Republican party of Ohio,
are in favor of a platform denouncing
trusts, only 100, or one-eighth of the
whole, are on record favoring the
only two men in the State who have
ever done any practical thing
looking to the putting down
of trusts the one by drafting
a law for that purpose and
the other by trying to execute it.
Of the 100 who thus voted for making
this anti-trust deliverance of the
platform a living letter instead of
wha- it is designed to be an innocu
ous, harmless thing, 99 were for the
man who wrote the law commended
by the convention, and only one for
the man who alone, against every
discouragement which his party
could throw in his way, has tried to
enforce it. In other words, whilebut
one in eight of the delegates believed
in any practical effort for their plat
form, those who voted for the man
who merely put the law in question
on paper, as against the one who en-'
deavored to carry 'it into effect, were
as 99 to 1. All but the solitary ono
kept on the bafo Republican side. '
'There were niui'ty and nine thai safely lay
In the shelter of the Told,
But one was out on the hills nn-.iy.
Fur off from the gates of ;or,;."
Notwithstanding this amazing ex-
A CHARnED LIFE.
In a railroad accident the other day a
man sustained ten complete fractures of
the bones of the limbs, three fractures of
the pelvis, and a score of bruises, gashes
and sprains, and yet he is recovering. Men
ana women sometimes
withstand great physi
cal violence, but suc
cumb to the invisible
germs of consumption
so small that they
can be seen only under
a powerful microscope.
The starting point of
consumption is in the
stomach, which, when
deranged, makes bad
blood because diges
tion is not perfect, and
in bad blood the mi
crobes multiply and
flourish. Sooner or
later the lungs are at
tacked, and in the weak
spots the germs begin
their deadly work of
tearing down the tis
sues. Dr. Pierce's
Goiden Medical Dis
covery stops the encroachments of con
sumption microbes. It builds up and
fortifies the whole system by aiding the
stomach in its man- functions. It assists
in the proper assimilation of food. This
scientific renfedy cures lingering coughs,
bronchitis, bleeding at the lungs, and
every other symptom that eventually
leads to consumption. Dr. R. V. Pierce,
of Buffalo, N. Y., who makes this won
derful medicine, gives free, fatherly ad
vice to all who write him.
Last spring I was taken with severe pains in
my chest, and was so weak I could hardly walk
about the house." says Mrs. G. E. Kerr, of Fort
Dodge, Webster Co.. Iowa. "I tried several
physicians and they told me I had consumptions
but that I might ' brush it over and perhaps live
a good many years. I heard of Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery and I thought I would
try some of it. Before I had taken the first bottle
I was very much better; I took five bottles of it
and have not yet had any return of the trouble.
I have also taken Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip
tion and 'Pleasant Fellets' with good results."
When the bowels are obstinate, take Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They don't gripe.
hibition of monumental hypocrisy,
the rank and file of the Republican
party will line up at last and vote
for this self-condemned,platform,and
the leaders will shout themselves
hoarse in commendation of this spec
tacle of Republican consistency and
honesty. They will do this without
regard to their present belief or their
former conduct on the subject. Those
who believe that the trust is an un
mixed good, and they who denounce
them as the sum of economic and
political villainy, Mr. O. C. Barber
and Judge Kohler, Mr. Hanna who
is the product of the trusts and Sen
ator Foraker who is their attorney,
all alike and all together, with one
accord will declare that the Republi
can platform is the embodiment of
wisdom and plain dealing with the
people. Whoever will consider these
facts and yet is fo'oled into voting
the Republican ticket this year on
the strength of this declaration
against trusts, will so vote because
he wants to be fooled and notbecause
he needs to be. If he so votes, he
sins against light. C. R. Grant.
NOT IH SOAP TRUST.
The N. K. fairbank Company Officially De
clare That They Will Not Go In.
Chicago, May 26. It an interview
today Mr. James B. McMahon,
second vice president of the N. K.
Fairbank company, speaking official
ly in behalf of the company, ex
pressed himself af follows:
"We are not Kienuiiea in any man
ner with the" movement to combine
the leading soap manufacturers al
though such a movement is well un
der way and may eventually
materialize. Notwithstanding the
conditions in the soap trade are very
badly demoralized, the Fairbank
company is" not seeking or encour
aging any combidation of manufac
turers as a means of improvement.
Soap prices are relatively the lowest
in the history of the trade. The tal
low market has advanced fully one
cent per pound in the past few
months without any corresponding
improvmerit in the selling prices of
soaps, hence the present movement
towards combining interests. Any
combination embracing the princi
pal manufacturers throughout the
country, might naturally and legiti
mately be in a position to advance
soap prices proportionately to the en
hancement, of all raw materials, but
beyond this effect on our trade we
are positively not interested or con
cerned in any consolidation of soap
interests. We are encouraging our
salesmen in all directions to work
with perfect confidence in the per
manent independence of this com
pany of all 'trust' affiliations, and
we are pleased to state that the soap
trade continues very -brisk, because,
aside from the natural effect of the
expected combination, the current
cost of all raw materials warrants
materially higher prices on soaps,
and sensible buyers are anticipating
future requirements to the full limit
of their convenience in carrying
stocks."
K. OF-pT EXCURSION The
Knights of Pythias of this city are
making arrangements for an excur
sion over the C, A. & C. and Pan
handle road to Springfield on Satur
day, Juno 17.
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winter season in Washington. She
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of putting in anything but the best
long distance with complete metalic
return circuit.
"There are about double the number
of residences using telephones. Most
of the business houses have both
telephones. We get the Bell tele
phone in our office with complete
long distance circuit, about 1 miles
from, the exchange, for $36.00 per
year, single party line, three-year
contract. We can get the Mutual
for $24.00 per year on a two party
line.
"Take it any way you will, the
price of the two systems is really
.considerably less expensive than any
city of its size where the Bell alone
is used.
Advantages.
"Now for the advantages of the
two systems :
"Go into any of th'e busy offices in
Akron, nnd see how much waiting
you have to do for the usaof a tele
phone. Two telephones almost en
tirely overcome this waiting. If one
phone is busy, you can immediately
step to the other, and generally suc
ceed in getting your party. If any
thing is wrong with one line, the
other is generally in operation.
"Competition you well know, is
the life of trade. With two systems
working for the trade, a great many
more telephones "are brought into
use, hence, the price we pay for the
two systems brings us double the
service for the money.
"How often you have been to the
telephone and called for a number
and the answer comes back, "They
are talking."
"You can immediately step to the
other 'phone, and sometimes you find
to your astonishment that the other
telephone was not in use at nil, and
the girl at the exchange has a com
plete check on her operation.
"Then, again, there being two rival
systems, both are put upon their
greatest strain to keep them in per
fect operation. The exchanges are
compelled to give you good services,
or their 'phone is immediately thrown
out.
"Upon the whole, I must confess
that I am a great deal surprised at
the success of the workings of the
two systems. I had supposed before
I came to Erie that one system at the
same price would be a great deal bet
ter than two systems, but I have en
tirely reversed ray opinion in this
matter, and I can say freely that the
people of Akron will not regret it if
they get competing lines to the Bell
telephone.
"Yours very truly,
F. A. Wilcox."
Try Allen's Foot-Ease,
A powder to be shaken Into the shoes. At
tblsseason your feet feel swollen, nervous
and hot, and get tired easily. If you have
smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's
Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes
walking easy. Cures swollen aad sweating
feet, blisters and callous spots. Relieves
corns nnd bunions of nil pain and gives rest
and comfort. To" it today. Bold by all
druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Trial
Eackage FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmstead
,e Roy, N.Y. 2
WHAT WILL THE CENSUS BE?
Random Rneasei About the Number
of People In the Union.
Some of our thoughtful statisticians
are predicting that there will be great
disappointment when the populafion of
the United States is announced' at the
close of the next census. It will be re
membered that there was great surprise
when the returns of the census of 1890
came in and gave us only 62,000,000
instead of the 70,000,000 we had claim
ed. No good reason exists for believing
that the growth during the last ten
years has been more rapid than from
1880 to 1890. In fact, there has been a
considerable falling off in immigration.
The total number of immigrants during
the ten years from 1880 to 1889 inclu
sive was 5,248,568, and the total num
ber arriving from 1890 to 1898 inclu
sive was 3,539,435. Estimating the ar
rivals during the present year to equal
those of the two last and adding 230,
000 to the above total, the population
has been increased 3,769,435 from
abroad during the last decade.
Public speakers are in the habit of
proclaiming our population to be about
70,000,000. The treasury department,
in making its percentages of commerce,
circulation, eta, bases its calculations
upon an estimated population of 75,
465,000 on the 1st of January, 1899.
Last year an almanac maker in New
York obtained estimates from the gov
ernors of all the states, which aggre
gated 77,803,231. The almanacs" and
statisticians vary all the way frdm
70,000,000 to 85,000,000 populaiton.
The increase from 1870 to 1880 was
about 12,000,000, the increase from
1880 to 1890 was about 12,000,000, and,
adding 12,000,000 to the total returned
by the last census, we have 74,622.250.
Chicago Record.
California' Denn Kins;.
Dixie Thompson is the "bean king"
of California, and down in Ventura
county be has a ranch of 7,000 acres
devoted exclusively to the cnltivation
of beans. There were 15,000 acres
planted there last year, which produced
1,000 carloads of beans. Three hundred
carloads were shipped from Santa Bar
bara county, the product of about 5,000
acres. They tell me that 138 distinct
varieties of beans are grown in Ven
tura county They are sown and culti
vated in the same manner as corn and
ale harvested by special machiner,
which cuts the vines close to the roots.
The vines are then raked into wind
rows, piled into stacks and arcthrashed
by steam power mahines, which are
also specially contrived for the bean
business. Chicago Record.
The Poet' Fate.
It is beginning to bo discovered by
the world that Sidney Lanier, Henry
Timrod nnd Paul Hayne were- great
poets. As the Irishman would Eay, a
great poet has a hard time of it whilo
be is alivo, but after ho dies everybody
rushes up to shako his hand and con
gratulate him. Norfolk landmark.
A
Special Sale
Muslin Underwear
This is the "Greatest Underwear Sale" ever
given in Akron.
We have recently closed out an entire line of Muslin
Underwear from our eastern manufacturer, consisting of
Gowns, Skirts, Drawers, Chemises and Corset Covers made
from the best muslin by expert, workmen, neatly trimmed
with embroidery and insertion ; in order to dispose of these
goods rapidly we have made the.pricejrm every garment such
as will interest the shrewdest buyer.
Saturday we could not wait on all our trade in this
.department, so we will continue sale during remainder of
this week that every one may have a chance to secure some
of the great bargains.
Corset covers at 7f, 15c, 19c, 2Sc, 35c, 39C, S0C, 75c
Gowns at . . .29c, 39c, SOc, 69c, 79c 89c, 98c, $1.19 up
Skirts at 39C, 48c, 75c, 89C, 98c, $1.25, $1.39, $1.50, $2 up
Drawers at 19c, 25c, 35c, 39c, 50c, 75c, 89c
The above, quoted prices are from 10 to 25 per cent,
less than the regular price.
98c-Cfored Underskirts-98c
During this sale we will close out a lot of Black and Fancy
Colored Underskirts, nicely trimmed, tucks and ruffles,
regular price $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75 AQ-. - -Take
vour choice of the entire lot -f rkl i A I II
at .
Umbrelli
$1.25 Black Gloria Umbrellas, steel rod, paragon
frame, fancy handles, at ... . .. ... 98c
$2.0(1 Blue Taffeta Umbrellas, steel rod,"paragon frame,
Persian handle, at .. . . $1.50
$2.50 Twilled Silk Umbrellas, all colors, latest assorted
handles, at .. $1.98
Specials in Wash Goods
5c Lawns, fast colors, at 2.1c yd
.1 lot this season's Wash Goods, regular price l'2ic, 15c,
Iflc, during this sale .. , 10c yd
Ruffled Curtains.
We have received another lot of Ruffled Curtains which .
we will sell at 75c pr
Shirt Vaists
Another new lot "of White and Colored Shirt Waists
just opened up and placed in stock. The latest
" novelties in Shirt Waists at from 50c to $2.50
A. F0LSKY, 145 S. Howard st.
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Goods will be sold REGARDLESS OF COST
Summer Clothing, "Winter Clothing, all must go.
Gent's Furnishings, Hats, Caps and Children's
Clothing will be "sacrificed so that ever' garment will
be sold by Sept. 1. Afz this sale
Men's, Boys' and
..Children's Clothing..
Will be sold cheaper than others can buy them
Because we are manufacturers. A clean new stock
Avill be put in for the fall sea'son. Now is your time
to save money.
Akron Clothing Co.
No. 128-S. Howard st.
Next to. (lie H. L. Dotle Furniture Store.
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Geo. J. toner's
Lager Be
All Orders by the Barrel or in
Bottles Dromntlv attended to . .
POLSKY'S
ON-
KEEP COOL
And buy an ICE CREAM
FREEZER.
Lawn Mowers and
Garden Hose and
Implements.
See our new line of Bicycles.
BUILDERS' HARDWARE
AND
BUILDERS' SUPPLIES
Rohrhacher & Allen
Tel. 70.
170 S. Howard st.
is on each window.
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.Are your teeth like this? If
they are, po to the Philadel
phia Dental Rooms. Crown nnd
Bridge work, per tooth, $5.
instructing positively pain
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ORIGIN OFTHE DOLLAR SIGN.
Dr. Msrcna Baker' Theory nnff the
Support Which He Finds For It.
Several weeks ago Dr. Marcus Baker
published in one of the magazines an
account of a theory which he has to
account for the origin of the familiar
dollar sign. This has long been in dis
pute. All sorts of explanations have
been given, the most common of which
is that the initials of the United States
are crossed. But there have been seven
or eight other theories to account for
the dollar sign which are about as good.
Dr. Baker, in his researches in the
library of the bureau of education,
came across an old book entitled "A
Compendium of Federal Arithmetic
Designed Fcr the Dse of Schools and
Especially Calculated For the Meridian
of the United States," which was pub
lished at Lansingburg N. Y., in 1797.
Its author was the Rev. Chauncey Lee
of .Rutland, Vt
In this book was set forth a system
of so called "characteristics," by which
one vertical stroke was to designate the
mill, two vertical strokes the cent,
these two crossed by one curved stroke
the dime, nnd for the dollar a sign con
sisting of two verticals combined with
two curved strokes, now so familiar,
was proposed. At that time the people
of the conntry were just emerging from
the use of pounds, shillings and pence,
each separated in writing by a space
from the next denomination.
It seemed necessary to Mr. Lee to
have an arbitrary mark for each of the
denominations of our monetary system.
Bat he soon found that one character,
with the aid of a decimal point, was
all that was necessary, and in the lat
ter part of his own book all of the elab
orate system of symbols except the one
intended to mark the dollar was found
to have been dropped.
Dr. Baker certainly finds the dollar
sign in this old arithmetic and does not
find it in use at any earlier data By
the time Adams' arithmetic was pub
lished in 1805 the symbol had become
well established. Dr. Baker therefore
regards Mr. Lee as the inventor, and
believes 'the sign to have been absolute
ly arbitrary in its origin.
Since the publication of his paper in
one of the magazines Dr. Baker has re
ceived many letters on the subject, but
none in which his conclusions are chal
lenged. He intends, for further verifica
tion, to make a study of the depart
mental records to see when the dollar
sign first appeared in the treasury ac
counts. He also hopes to make a more
thorough search of the old textbooks to
see if by chance any use of this sign
prior to that of the Rev. Chauncey Lee
can be discovered. Perhaps some of the
descendants of Mr. Lee will be able to
find the author's manuscript, in which
case additional light might be thrown
upon the subject.
It is certainly interesting to know
the origin of a thing in so constant use
as the dollar sign. Dr. Baker's discov
eries seem likely to take all the senti
ment out of the matter, but this is the
common result of modern historical re
search. Washington Letter.
WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
He Thought Yonntr Jease James Mnat
De a BIsr 3Ian.
Heroes c"ome and heroes go, but JesEO
James goes on forever In spite of the
fact that One or two eastejn newspa
pers were much put out because he
was not convicted, whether or no, in
his recent trial for train robbery, he
continues the idol of numerous wor
shipers, who gather about his shrine
daily. It was the most considerate act
of his life when he deserted the court
house and set up a cigar stand- on'
Ninth street, where his admirers more
readily reach him.
The unassuming appearance of the
young man, however, does not always
satisfy those who call upon him. He is
considerably less than seven feet tall
and has nothing of the countenance of
a Corsican brigand. He has proved a
sore disappointment to many novel
reading small boys, who expected to
find him clothed in velvet, bristling
with firearms and studded over 'with
diamonds as big as Ben Davis apples
a la "Sealskin Sam, the Deadwood
Plunger."
A blase youngster, fatigued with the
unsatisfying imaginary characters of 5
cent" fiction, entered young James'
cigar stand the other day with the evi
dent intention of inspecting the "real
thing." He invested 5 cents in chew
ing gum as an excuse for his coming
and then glanced about in search of
the popular hero. Nothing resembling
his ideal was in sight, and he looked
disappointed. Jesse Jases was behind
the counter, grinning with an under
standing born of many similar inci
dents. "Say," inquired the boy. "are you
Jesse James?"
"That's my name," said Jesse.
The youngster looked him over criti
cally. No 'diamonds, no velvet, not a
pistol nor a dagger in sight, no scars
of battle, no trusty rifle with notches
in the stock to indicate the foes that
had fallen before an unerring aim. The
boy'.s upper lip curled disdainfully and
n "you can't bunko me" expression
came into his eye.
"Jesse James nitl" he exclaimed,
and stalked out. Kansas City Times.
Ilnmor 111 the Controversy.
The controversy about ritualism in
the church of England is diversified by
some amusing contributions to the dis
cussion. The struggle is so full of grav
ity nnd bitterness that an occasional bit
of humor, especially if undesigned, is
welcome. The record of a newspaper
writer who described a certain London
church as having seven acolytes sus
pended, filled with burning incense, is
almost equalled by a reporter's aver
ment that he saw in a ritualistic edifice
eeveral disused thurifers lying in a heap
in the corner of the vestry.
A Lme of Life.
First Oyster Are yon in favor
of
spelling reform ?
Second Oyster That depends. If they
will fix it so that none of the months
are spelled with an "R," they can
havo my support first, last and all the
time. New York Journal.
"Wnnlnt Devotion.
"Dwiggina is getting over his bicycla
craze."
"How do you know!"
"Ho lets his wife clean his wheel for
him." Detroit Free Press.
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