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Cl)c jBcmocrat, BBOHSOB ft CAKR, Publishers MANCHESTER, IOWA. A woman likes to visit the bargain counters and tlien count 'or bargains. The old empress dowager lias sup pressed all tlic newspapers In Clilnn. France isn't the worst, after nil. Mark Twain says lie lias respect for Satan because lie is the spiritual head of about four-fifths of the race. Not only Is the sparrow plucky In life, but Its acting as a substitute for the reed bird shows it's also game aft er death. With respect to England spreading herself in South Africa, It would seem the Boers are disposed to be rabid anti expansionists. .V Probably one of the "extenuating circumstances" In Capt. Drefus' case was that the judges had a strong sus picion he was innocent In a Western city the other day a farmer was robbed -three times by gangs of footpads. Can it be there also a highwayman trust? Whales' teeth, it is stated, are the coinage of the Fiji Islands. Very like ly there, as elsewhere, the wives say getting money from their husbands Is like pulling teeth. Emperor William says kingship Is the only sure support for the preserva tion of religion. The Kaiser talks very much like a mnn who suspects that he Is In danger of losing ills job. Two heads may be better than one ns a rule, but minor statesmen can't be made to see that knocking one of them in Is not the proper thing when It comes to new candidate's barrel. An association has been formed for the purpose of compelling employers to pay women the same wages that are paid to men for similar work. There are no women In the associa tion. A New England man is suing to re cover $30# damages for the alienation of his wife's affections. If the court has any sense of the fitness of things it will make him pay the other fellow for winning her away. It seems that the word "appendici tis" Is not to be found In the most ambitious of recent dictionaries pub lished in England. It looks from this as If the complaint In question were more or less confined to themselves. 1 Poor Lo, the noble red man, has been civilized at last, and dawn Is breaking for the Indian. Fifty Osage savages in Oklahoma have filed petitions in voluntary bankruptcy. The next step will be to elope with the funds of a savings bank. It Is doubtless an Indiscretion for a public mnn to say privately what would cause trouble if spoken openly. But the man who gi'res to the world what has been said to him in private confidence commits something more than an Indiscretion, and little less khan a crime. There Is such a thing ns getting on the right side of a tornado, the right side being the north side. The rule drafted by meteorologists is to face the approaching cloud and then flee to the right. Take refuge in a cellar or cave, throw yourself on the ground and cilng to a stake or stump. This is the surest means of escaping or sur viving what as yet no human power can mitigate or prevent Great Improvement In public roads is sure to attend and follow the multipli cation of automobiles. One writer pre dicts that "before the end of 1901), tlie 'total mileage of macadam and asphalt will be Increased by fully 100 per ceut." More than $300,000,000 is said to be pledged already to the manufacture of this class of vehicles. Till the storage battery Is perfected and cheapened, the means of propulsion are practically limited to gas engines and petroleum products. The Jains of India agree with the Buddhists In disallowing those Brah manlcal ceremonies which Involve the destruction of life. Being rigid veg etarians, they take extreme pains not to Injure any living creature. They may drive a snake out of the house, but they spare Its life. A rajah or prince of this persuasion Bays: "We endeavor to avoid even green vegetables, under the Idea that cutting the plant may hurt It. We would not needlessly pluck a leaf from a tree, lest the tree should possi bly feel pain."- Similar was the super stition of a kindergartner, who taught the children that when It was neces sary to pull up garden weeds, they should be carefully replanted in some other place! According to Chambers' Journal M. Jaubert has solved the problem how to provide a person placed in a con fined space with the practical means of preparing a resplrable artificial air necessary for life. The chemical sub stance which he has discovered will purify the vitiated air of its carbonic add, Its watery vapor, and all the other Impurities of exhalation, and will also restore to him in exchange Just the quantity of oxygen he requires. Experiments by the French Admiralty ».ave confirmed his assertions. Six to eight pounds of the new chemical will Insure life to an adult for twenty-four hours in a diving bell or submarine boat The homely but expressive maxim of the sporting gent that a sucker is born every minute" daily receives ex emplification, together with the corol lary fact that a large percentage of the "suckers" attain maturity and ac quire money out of which they may be swindled. On no other theory.can we explain the survival of the "Spanish priest" swindle, which has been work ed for many years and yet other years, despite the fact that It has been ex posed In the newspapers times with out dumber. It continues to bob up. and doubtless will contiuue to sepa rate fools from their money for years to come. Everybody should know of it yet if there be any reader who does not let us advise him to beware of letters purporting to come from a Spanish priest, telling of great treas ures to be found at such and such a place provided a small sum of money be advanced for necessary expenses. If he yield to the promptings of ava rice he will never see the color of his money again. Like the ghinko tree, the Spanish priest and ills burled treas ure are non-existent. They belong to toa green goods And gold brick order of architecture. Tfte downy bird will none of them. A curious instance of the westward drift of the country's population ap pears In the latest report of the Pen sion bureau. The official reports of the War Department for 18C1-'G5 show that New York led In the number or troops furnshod I ennsylvania came second, anu Ohio third. The quotas of the respective States in the order named were 407.047, 300,107, and 319, 059 men. On the pension list this or der is exnetly rcvcDscd. Ohio has the most pensioners, Pennsylvania stands next, and New York is third. There arc 105,527 pensioners in Ohio, draw ing $1.15,450,000 104.G81 in Pennsylva nia, drawing $12,470,795 and 87,527 In New York, drawing $12,003,854. Illi nois stood fourth In the number of soldiers furnished, and It also stands fourth in the number of pensioners, though Indiana Is fourth in the amount received for pensions. These changes may be traced entirely to natural and legitimate causes. It Is nothing against Ohio that It leads in the number of Its pensioners. If It has usurped the place that apparently belonged to New York It is because there has beeu a steady drift westward of population since the war, and enough of the voternns or soldiers' widows have moved from New York and Pennsylvania Into Ohio to cause the change. The westward movement of the veterans explains why Kansas has now twice ns many pensioners as it furnished soldiers. From a published statement It ap pears that In eight Chicago high schools the number of pupils entered at the be ginning of tills school year was 5,590, of whom 1,493 were boys and 4,097 were girls—2,004 more girls thau boys, or only four boys to every eleven gills. The Chicago Chronicle goes on to say that it may be stated as a partial com pensation for tills excess of girls that the attendance of the English high and manual training school was 530 boys and young men and no girls. But re garding the manual training as equiva lent to the high school, we st111 have an excess of 2,094 girls, or more than twice as many girls as boys. This fact sug gests the queslion whether the girls are net being educated away from the boys, so to speak, to a serious extent. The boys are taken from school at an earlier age than the girls and, It is to be presumed, set to jvork lu #.cupatlons not requiring Instruction in the high school branches. Is It well that so many of their sisters receive so much more schooling? Do not the latter ac quire tastes and ambitious and Ideas of life untittlng them for the relation of marriage with the less cultivated young men? This Is not a question which can be answered positively without much more information than Is conveyed by the school statistics alone. It may be that many more of the boys thau of the girls pursue special studies after leav ing school to qualify them for the work in life which they uudertake. If so, these special studies may compensate for those pursued In tlie schools by the girls and not by the boys. There Is some reason to think, however, that whatever compensation of this kind there may bo It Is nat effective In bring ing about congenial relations between the sexes later In life. It seems to be the fact that celibacy Is on the Increase that the proportion of old bachelors auil old nia!ds to the total population Is higher than formerly. And if it is the fact we may reasonably look for one cause of it in the unequal education of the sexes In the public schools and the consequent separation of those who might otherwise be happily mated. If such Is the case there Is no obvious remedy. The present course In the mat ter of education, Is largely a matter of parental choice, and liberty in this re s.iect cannot be restricted. It is a mat ter for individual study and not for State regulation. ®KJ fffiHItt The Scriptural suggestion, "Hide uot your light under a bushel," Is most per tinent to-day as advice to the business mnn.' If a man has a good thing—an a:-.:cle of cemmerce needed by the peo ple—and it is something which he de sires to dispose of, if he is a business man—a progressive one—his first idea is to advertise it. He may advertise it with a placard placed upon it in the window. The passer-by sees it and it is advertised. He may pulnt a dozen board signs and place them about the thoroughfares. Likewise that is adver tilsiig, but on a more extensive scale. But if he is a thoroughly progressive man he will take the surest, the cheap est and most satisfactory way of tell ing the people about this article and its "HAULING DOWN THE FLAG." Republican politicians who are "crooking the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning" are loud in their protests that the American flag once run up must never be hauled down. This appeal to the bias of patriotism is made to excuse the war in the Philippines. But not ail Republicans are so bound to the imperial throne of Emperor Mc Klnley as to approve an unjust war simply because the President is moved by an unworthy ambition. Former Senator Henderson of Missouri Is an able Republican, but he has ideas of his own concerning "hauling down the flag." "I don't believe," says the for mer Senator, "that you can drive a people to fall in love with anything or that you can shoot American patriot ism into anybody. When the Ameri can flag ceases to be the emblem of lib erty let it be hauled down. I know of but one flag, and that is the one which proudly floats 'o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.' It will never float gracefully over a land of slaves." But, worse thau this, the flag in Sulu guarantees not only slavery, but polyg amy as well. In further discussing this question, Henderson says: "I. would now negotiate with the Filipinos to take Manila as a naval station and then help them to establish a republic of their own, the United States agree ing to aid them in the good work and* to protect them from auy threatened interefrence with their free institu tions, they to return to us the $20,000,- dMlrabliuy'"by" putting'" sign—an"ad- interested in gun vertlsement—in the newspaper. The present decade has revolutionized the Her 8elf-Den a*. Arthur—Miss Sweetster came mlehtv near accepting me last night. Harry—That so? Arthur—I asked her if she cared enough to marry me, and she said yes inijeed, hut there were times when she ought to practice self-denial.—Boston Transcript. We "have noticed, by reading obituary notices, that iu very small towns, the men carry very little life Insurance, and seem to have given their heart* to God wfcea. very young. 'vWd' I to"1,,1rlps- "Has it been a dood little Willie will Ie Uncle Mark was World. 000 which Spain received from' us on a defective title." This proposition coming from a Re publican is given here for what it is worth. It simply illustrates that Mark Hanna Is much mistaken when he as •erts that there is no political issue in the Philippine question. Not only Is there a political Issue In this question, but there Is also a cause for differences of opinion among leading Republicans, Nobody wants to dishonor the flag, but no one dishonors it more than be who would make it a protector of slavery and savagery.—Chicago Democrat. Hanna an 'initator. After all Mr. Hanna has no particu lar cause to be abashed at the story that he solicitously inquired how much a vote was worth in the House of Com mons. For 6ven If Mr. Haunn did ask the question—and he declares he didn't —he does not suffer In comparison with the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, who, though Minister for the Colonies, admits that he owns stock In tlie Niger company, a concern which Js trying to sell out to the Imperial government. The British ministry, Indeed, are a par ticularly tlilck-sklnned crowd In mat ters of this kind. It is not very long since Sir Michael Hicks-Beach—"Mick ey the Botch"—admitted that most of ahinvnr,,B tho/ifTr cr. iix. lucr BiMci-uiueiu, uuu ueieiiuea rne pro- srss rr.«~ sarrjws who would become customers, do not realize that they are in want of the article until they read the advertise ment and are reminded of that need. Consequently the supply and the pub licity an article gets, regulates the de mand. The modern adaptation of the oft-quoted passage iu Scripture might well be "Advertise." Chinese Parental Authority. A remarkable event has occurred at Tslng-kiang-pu. A niau by the name of King had a son who made his father and mother "lose face" because of the wild, rakish life lie led. He gambled, loafed, smoked opium, etc. If he stole, his father would be taken to the ja men and the whole family would suf fer for the son's villainy, and the vital question was, How could the family be protected? At last they arrived at the conclusion that the only way to protect the father and mother was to take ex treme measures with the son, which they did with p. vengeance. The fa ther and uncle took him out among the graves, followed by a curious crowd of neighbors and friends, and, putting a rope around his ueck, each relative pulled on the end, and the son was put beyond ruining the family in this world.—North China Herald. "n'1 r"hB" foundries, shipyards and other enter prises which have large dealings with the government, and defended the pro- the cares of state In looking after their business Interests! All of which goes to show that politicians are very much alike on both sides of the water, and that Mr. Hanna, though lie may be somewhat more direct In Ills methods, Is not, after all, much worse than his esteemed contemporaries of Downing street and Westminster. Chicago Chronicle. lnljr One Chapter. it is a mistake to tliiuk that the so lution of tlie problem of the Philip pines Involves nothing but the defeat of Agulualdo and Ills army. The ar rest of the native mayors of two cities within our lines—who had beeu elected in accordance with our policy of con ciliation—the one for spying and the other for maintaining an insurgent re cruiting office, serves to show that the native population is practically unani mous iu its sympathy with the rebel lion. After we shall have wliippe'il Aguiiinldo we shall probably bo obliged to subdue In detail every village lu the group.—Philadelphia Record. What Is it "Koreiicn ievoil?" "The anti-Imperialists have ucliie\ed the unenviable distinction of having prolonged a foreign revolt against the flag ol' their country," says tlie New York Mail and Express. Now, what inost people would like to huitw Ik how there can be a "foreign revolt"'against tlie flag of the United States. Filipinos are American subjects tlie.v are lu revolt against the flag under which they are, or should be, living. If they are not American subjects then they cannot revolt against the Hag of another eotiutry.—Butte Miner. .liny fate Hill Lcuii. The Democrats of Ohio, Nebraska, Kentucky and several other States have already demanded the renomina tion of William J. Bryan in party plat forms. but old Massachusetts,will piob- '"-"i is? ably be the first commonwealth to elect a delegation pledged to support him In the next national convention. The pro posal to elect delegates this fall ap pears to be favorably regarded by the Bay State Democracy, and that they will be Instructed in the Nebraskan's favor there is uot the slightest doubt. —Concord People and Patriot. A Hot Timo in Ohio. There is going to be a hot time in McKluley's own State of Ohio during the next six weeks. A Republican majority must be secured there on the 7th of November or the second term syndicate's plans will go to smash, and with them Ilannism, Algerism, Imperialism, Militarism and Trustism. Theodore Roosevelt has been called upon to help and he lias thrown him self into the fray in his usual reckless way. The Administration is evident ly frightened by the outlook. Roosevelt's speech at Akron was a most virulent attack on the Democratic party, on William J. Bryan and on everyboay who will not stand for the policy of loot for the trusts and syn dicates and offices for the Incompe tents and scamps. He disdained ar gument altogether and confined him self 10 slangwhanging of the most pro nounced Billingsgate sort—those who oppose McKinley's policy are traitors who ought to be shot or tied to the tail of a wild horse. What effect this sort of talk will have on the Ohio farmers to whom it was addressed is a problem. They are an independent, open-minded, reasoning class of men as a rule, and they may conclude that it must be a weak cause which has to call to its aid abuse of this sort Perhaps they have "had enough of this swash-buckling and will decide for the good, old-fashioned form of settling political disputes by means of argument rather thau by roaring. Ohio was carried by McICInley three years ago by a plurality of over 47,000 in a total vote of more than a million. The Republican candidate for Govern or this year is unpopular with a large section of his party, Poraker's follow ers Included, and the latter's cham pionship of the cause of the trusts may have been decided on for the purpose of defeating the ticket and adminis tering to both the President and Hanna a lesson.—New York News. Why Pl .y Wnititur G*ime The administration la adapting all its surroundings to the work of renomina ting William McKlnley to the Presi dency. Even Congress Is expected to do nothing but that which the admin istration especially calls for. The war Willi Spain was regularly declared by Congress, but the war with the people of the Philippine Islands was inaug urated and has been conducted by the executive department of the govern ment. The program was for the army to have ilio Philippine Islands paelfled and ready for tin- attention of Congrats by the lirst Mouday of December next. Indeed, there was a good deal of talk about the probable necessity for an ex traordinary session, so that (lie peace ful condition in tlie Orient would not have to wait for necessary legislation. It scorns plain now that when Con gress meets in regular session It will be told to keep its hands off for some time long™- that the President Is not ready for It that (lie lighting is not over. Meantime, no policy is proclaimed from Washington. The people nnd Con groi-s are simply treated to some rhet oric about the flag and told to wait longer for facts anil plans. Why should Congress fold Its hands? Why should it not assert Itself? It"Is the legislative duty to take a hand.—Cincinnati En quirer. Sot Wcltll, hut It* Abtltc The mere possession of great alth by an individual is 110 longer a matter of apprehension. An illegal combina tion to monopolize the ptoductlon or distribution of tl'.e necessaries of life Is another matter. Au active and un set upulous trust promoter or a corrupt and corrupting plutocrat Iu politics la a more serious menace to the welfare of the country than all the Vnnder lillts and Astors put together.—New York World. It was a very pretty compliment that Lord Kitchener paid in American gen ius and enterprise, relative to the quick construction of a bridge ill the heart If the °r Africa, after Englishmen had fail ed. And how regrettable Hint we do not push opportunities for such tri umphs in other remote fields, instead of horrifying the civilized world with exhibitions of human slaughter.—Loa Augeles Herald. S 'it foam •mL Why Crvverit Incur.'tMett? If the Filipinos are incapable of self government, the sooner we unload them the better. Such people do not make good Americans.—Toledo Com mercial. FIREMEN IN THE '40S. THE CHICAGO. FORCE IN OLD VOLUNTEER DAYS. First of the Hand tnelne, Parade oa the Public Square in the Fall of the Year 1844-Odd Sights in the Pioneer Times. Chicago had a fire lighting forcc as early as 1835, but the equipment con sisted solely of leathern buckets, In which water was passed by lines of men formed for tills purpose, in case of tire the lighters would range them selves 111 line, with one end at the near est well or cistern and the* other at the burning building. Along this row the buckets of water would be handed and dashed on the flames. It was uot until 1844 that William B. Ogden had succeeded in working the people up to the point of buying an engine, and even then there was strong protest against it, the assertion being made by Mr. Ogden's opponents that It was a piece of wild and useless extrava gance. Despite this the engine was bought at a cost of S&IO. It was a goose neck, piano box machine, work ed by man power by means of long "brakes" at the sides. These brakes were connected with the pump, and when forced up and down by forty tl.eSrc™eandaBapUKthi!^e ^dle'wkg™^0'1 pairs of muscular anus the water wan drawn rapidly into the box from the cistern and thrown with great force through the hose. Strife between the various companies for the honor" of throwing the highest stream was ever rife, and tlie brakes of tlic engines would be worked with a violence that threatened to wreck the machinery. It was with an engine of this kind tliat the Chicago Red Jackets made tour of the East in 1852 and won the cham pionship. Tlie height of every young man's ambition In the period between 1844 and 1858 was to run with an en gine. Hose carts and trucks were good enough in their way, but the real aristocracy of lire department work was only to be found In the engine houses. Manning the brakes gave full opportunity for a display of muscular vigor, and victory In pifttlng a stream of water higher than any of their com petitors brought to the engine company members a. glory to be obtained in no other way. llepnrtmciit l*arnde iil l844. It wns to celebrate tlie arrival of one of these old-faslitoned engines, the first real fire lighting machine to be used in Cliicngo, that the department was called out for parade and Inspec tion in 1844. Nobody seems to remem ber the exact date, but the review prob ably took place some time early iu the fall. The department then consisted of three companies. One of these was the Fire King, No. 1, to which was assigned the custody and use of the new engine. Metamora No. 2 wns by courtesy called au engine company, but It had no machine until after 1844, Its work at tires being confined to the handling of buckets and the saving of property. Tlie third organization in the department was a Are guard and bucket brigade. Stephen F. Gale, now hale and lively at the advanced age of S3 years, was tlie chief engineer. It was largely through Ills efforts that the discipline and effectiveness of the force were brought to a point of high excel lence. and many of the Improvements which afterwards marked the work of the department were Inaugurated. Mr. Gale was a man of energy and a strict disciplinarian. He took com mand of the department In the spring of 1844 and held the position for three years, resigning In 1841 on account of IU health, it being then the opinion of his doctors that lie was In a precarious condition. Mr. Gale Is now. half a century after that time, apparently ns strong nnd vigorous ns any ordinary man of 10. He and A. H. Burley and C. E. Peck are supposed to be the only men now living who parjlclpated in the first parade of the Chicago Are depart ment In 1844, and all three of them are remarkably well preserved. Mr. Peck' was then a private in the Fire Kings and Mr. Burley was a member of the Chicago Fire Guards, more popularly known ns the "Forty Thieves," it be ing the custom then to apply the sobri quet In a good-natured way because the efforts of the guard were solely di rected to the saving of portable prop erty. ^ccne on Courthouse Pquttrc. This parade was held on the court house square, tlie site of the present city and county building. It was then vacant lot. and, while In the heart of the young city, was Inclosed with a rough slab feuce like a piece of pas ture land. Washlngtou street, on the south, and La Salle street, on the west, both of which are shown In the picture, were muddy, unpavct highways, prom inent only because of the churches lo cated on them. The Unlversallst Church stood on Washington street about where the Chamber of Com merce building now stands, and the Baptists had a house of worship on the west side of lift Salle street. Just north of Washlngtou. In those days the court house square was a favorite spot for open-air shows and displays, as it was within handy reach and yet for enough removed from the business part of the city to prevent Interference with the trade nnd commerce of the town. It wan In this lot that Chief Engineer Gala maribaied hli flrisw is 1814 and paraded before the admiring popu lace that wonderful addition to his fire-fighting force—a piano box engine. The department marched around the lot, dragging the engine behind it, and then halted at the south end, where the machine was given a conspicuous place and the firemen drawn up In line around It while the chief and his as sistants received the congratulations of the citizens on the visible evidence of Chicago's coming greatness. Most of the population got Inside of the fence and mingled In a free and easy manner with the firemen, but some of the kick ers—the men who thought the pur chase of a Are engine at a cost of $850 a bit of wicked extravagance—remain ed on the outside and passed uncom plimentary rcninrks about the outfit. In taking his picture of tlie parade by the old daguerrotype process the artist set lils camera on Clark street, and this brought Into the foreground the men who were hanging on the outside of the fence on lhat thoroughfare, mak ing their flaring coat skirts and oddly shaped high lints the most conspicu ous feature of the scene. Iu the '40s the best men in Chicago were identified with the fire force, I.awyers, doctors, editors and business men did not think It beneath their dlg uity to run with the machine—in fact, active service as a volunteer fireman brought rewards In the way of polit ical and social preferment, to which even those lu the highest ranks of pro fessional and commercial life were sns- CHICAGO'S FIRST FIRE) DEPARTMENT PARADE, SEPTEMBER 1844 8ite the and COnntT ceptlble. One of the most cherished privileges wns that of appearing on parade in the red flannel shirt and leathern hat, which, with a pair of black doeskin trousers, with the lower extremities stuffed Into the tops of long-legged boots, constituted the full dress uniform. It was these- things, simple as they may. now seem, that gave enchantment to the fireman's life and drew Into the ranks, the'best men in town. The actual fire service was not particular!? arduous. While the city was built almost entirely of frame structures, fires were neither numer ous nor extensive, owing to the strin gent precautions taken to prevent their origin. When the department was STIil'lIKN F. GALE, (Chfcaso'a Oldest Fire Chief). called out the disagreeable features of the work were more than compensated for when those who bad been most ac tive iu fighting the flames were singled out as members of the floor and recep tion committees at the next dance. Such was a fireman's life in Chicago In 1844. Modern Solomon's Judgment. The Greek ecclesiastical authorities at Aleppo have been called upon to de cide a case which strongly recalls Sol omon's famous judgment By a strange coincidence a woman nnd her daughter both gave birth to a female child at the same time. But the ba bies got mixed, and, as one of them wns ugly and the other pretty and healthy, both mothers claimed the lat ter. The elder woman maintained that, as all ber other children were handsome, the ugly child could not be iters, while the daughter claimed that, being young, handsome and strong, she could not be the mother of a weak and ugly babe. J'he religious chief of the town settled the affair In a sum mary way. He adjudged the beauti ful child to the daughter on the ground that. It being her first, the occasion was not to be made one of humiliation and disappointment, while the elder mother could afford to forego her claim, since che had already had sev eral handsome children. Maiumat (Constantinople). GET TIPS FROM CROOKS. Bank 'fHcia!a Tnke Means to Protect 'J heir Treasure from Thieves. It is said by a police official at City Hall headquarters that some of the city banks, whose hoard of surpiuB cash has been Increasing largely of late, have been experimenting with an expedient long in use by Bank of Eng land officials of paying known crooks for Information of any contemplated raid upon their vaults. The Bank of England's first experiment of this kind dates from 1850, when the directors of the bank listened to a startling proposi tion made by a "ditch digger." The laborer told the directors that he had discovered a new and unsuspected method of getting Into the cellar vaults, where the gold and silver bars were kept, and that he would sell bis secret to theni for money. The directors hesi tated, believing that they bad taken •very precaution agalsct Iom trom th* ,,, TW~. -wlp^-~-—^,.1.i...^wjV-"'-----wvet* vftults hi putting up heavy maaodfy, with plenty of iron bars, and by man ning the building with armed watch men. But finally they granted the man, who seemed to talk fairly, a Chance to try his plan, and a night was named for the undertaking. At the appointed time a committee of the directors descended to the cellar and heard a peculiar scratching sound under their feet. Two faouTB later the floor opened and the ditch digger bob bed up serenely, llfte the evil spirtta in the spectacular drama. All around them lay bars of precious metal, totaling In value £8,000,000. Tlie man explained satisfactorily how it was done, and aa a reward the directors assured him an Income for life on an Investment of $10,000. The crook was content, and It Is believed he remained honest ever afterward. But other cracksmen were temptef by his Inck to try the same game, and the directors were Inundated with sug gestions and tips on new method* of burglary and how to prevent them. Among other things, they paid $20,000 for a process, invented by a young chemist, for copying the Ink, paper, watermarks and designs of the bank notes so perfectly as to defy detection. The directors found they could uae his system more satisfactorily and more profitably than their own in the produce tlon of their currency. Despite the fact that these expendi ture* have ton up Into big figurs* ia ^""ng-Dniver^llst Church on the last half century, the dlrectora of to-day say that all the money was well invested.—Chicago Chronicle. Rhyme of ttis Tired Farmer. A farmer was trying to plough With a jackass hitched up to a cough, When they kicked up a terrible rough. Said the farmer, "It's hard I allough I could do near as well with a sough I will rest 'neath the shade of this bough. "Such driving for me is too rough, I've had of it nearly enough. I'll give thlB old jackass a cough And quit, for I'm quite In a bough, ft All farming is nonsense and stough Anl ploughing Is almighty tough. "With farming I'm glad to be through— My wife, she Is tired of it, tough. We're wet with the rain and the dough And ploughing has mad* me quite blough. "I'll sell out and pocket the dough. To the city I'll glad enough gough. I'll through down "the shovel and hough. In Wall street my money I'll blough. "My wife has contracted a cough, 'Tis time for us both to be ough." —New York Sun. Sharp Tax Col'ector. A young man of Ellsworth, Me,, al lowed himself to be mesmerized by a traveling hypnotist recently, and lay for -.wenty-four hours asleep. In the show window of one of the principal stores In the city. For the service he was to receive $10. While he alept the city tax collector filed the necessa ry legal claim for the $10, and the sleeper awoke to find bis poll tax for the past three years paid. An Amiable Wife's Way. "I have an infallible rule for the man agement of a husband," Bays an amia ble married woman. "If he comes home at night very tired I keep every thing quiet for him and have very lit tle to say until after the soup course at dinner. By the time that course Is over the soup lias, as It always will do, warmed the very cockles of a tired man's heart, and he Is In a good mood for anything and everything that may follow."—New lork Times. Will It Always Be This Way? When three or four girls are discuss ing their new gowns each girl except the one who Is talking appears bored and wearied to death. But as soon as one gets the floor she's as lively as a cricket and won't stop chattering until the next girl shrieks louder and drowns ber out. A Boy's Query. "You have only had half of the poo dle clipped, mamma," said little Tom my. "Yes, Tommy." Tommy thought a moment and ask ed: "Is it so that the warm end of the dog can eDjoy the. coolness of the other end all the more?"—Detroit Free Press. A Complicated Timepiece. An East India man has built a house clock which weighs nearly two tons and has hundreds of moving figure*, music boxes, chimes and other compli cated machinery. The man spent sev en years in constructing the time piece. Natural Instincts. There has never yet been discovered a woman so strong minded that she didn't long aud pray for a sealskin eacque and a white satin sofa cush ion. Live Stoolc In Konua. Kansas has two bead of caittle- one hog, one-third of a horse, ana one-nrth of a sheep for every man, woman and child In the State. Every man should have two wives one to cook for him, and the other to amuse him after be has eaten. Don't engage in the pursuit of litera ture unless you are a good sprinter. Curiosity has a peculiar way ol gat. tin$ tba battar of discretion Bryan on Double Standard. Some people say we never bad a donble standard of bimetallism. If a man says that, all we can say is, "Give us what we had, nnd call it what you please." Give us the lnw that Andrew Jackson framed, the free coinage of gold and silver at the mint at the ratio of 10 to 1 without waiting for the nld or cousent of any nation. Give us this, and apply lo It what name you will. We not only have had the double standard, but we hare had the gold standard, nnd this without asking for it It came upon us like a thief In the night When I was young, I remember at the debat ing societies we used to debate the question whether there was not more . pleasure in anticipation than in pos session. I have always regretted that we were not given the pleasure of an ticipating the gold standard. The gold standard coucealed its blessings, and we had It for twenty-three years be-' tore anybody found It out, and before anybody daretl defend It After nine teen years, all tbree parties asked for bimetallism, and the Republican par ty, which claims nil the Intelligence and all the patriotism, met*at Mlmie-v. apolis. McKinley was the chairman of the committee on resolutions, aud a platform was adopted, saying that the American people, from tradition and Interest favored bimetallism. What has happened since the election? Pres-. ident McKlnley sent a commission of three learned men to Europe to ask the European nations to help us to get rid of the gold standard. I am willing to give btm credit for nil that he did. He had to admit thnt the gold standard wns a bad tbing, and that we ought to help him to get rid of It The Republican Congress voted $100,000 to pay the expenses of this commission, and we ought to give the Republican Congress credit for their willingness to spend the people's money to get rid of the gold standard. The commission went to Europe, and France joined with us In an effort to get rid of the gold standard. Why did they do thlB? Because the gold standard had been a curse to the English laboring men, and they knew it An agricultural com mission reported, signed by two-thirds of the commission, that the gold standard had been the chief cause of the agricultural depression in England. Farmers, how can you believe that the gold standard is good for yon In the United States when the English farm ers declared It bad for them in Eng land, which is the home of the gold standard? You tell me that England did not Join with us to get rid of the gold standard. That Europe did not Join. Why? Because in September, 1807, some bankers met, few In num-. bers, and with closed doors, and pledg ing themselves to secrecy, adopted res olutions declaring thnt the gold stand ard was all right. These baukers con trolled the English government and the English government controlled Eu rope, and Europe, through the English government, controlled the policy of the United States. You tell me that the gold standard Is' good. No party ever won an election dti it. You tell me that the money question Is good. No handful of English bankers can ever settle a question for the Ameri can people. They say we can't ,!•» the same arguments now as in 189(1. There Is a difference between a gold bug and a silver man. In Ohio, in 1887, when I went down there to make a speech, they said "There comes Mr. Bryan, singing the same song as in 1800." The silver man could sing the same song over and over again, and the more be slugs it the more the people Ilka It—W. J. Bryan, In his Des Moines speech. All 'orts. Intellect Is the starlight of the brain. -N. P. Willis. A husband who pursues peace will not try to run the house. The proportion of sickness in human Ufe is nine days out of the year. Women are far more heroic than men —as any shoe dealer will tell you. There is only one sudden death among women to eight among men. The player who sweeps the board in a game of chance always gets the dust Iron mining gives employment to more than 17,000 persons in England. At least forty American lawyers are endeavoring to earn a living hi Manila. G. E. Buckle, editor of the London Times, always has a big bunch of_roses on his desk while he works. It Is universally agreed that money Is the source of much evil In the bands of other people. The original shamrock of Ireland has long been extinct The plant called the shamrock is the white clover. Don't tell a friend that sh£ used' to be a beautiful woman. Compliments are best used in the present tense. Whenever a girl giggles at every fool remark a young man makes she Is will ing to be more than a sister to him. Women who marry the first man that asks them presumably think it Is bet ter to be mistaken than a miss not taken. Grasshoppers attain their greatest size In South America, where they grow to a length of five Inches and spread out ten Inches. The average number of horses killed in Spanish bull lights every year ex ceeds 5,000, while from 1,000 to 1,200 bulls are sacrificed. The average weekly wages of the men employed in the cotton mills of Maine are $7.88, of the women $5,00, and of the children $2.78. Twelve years ago one sailor out of e*ery 108, on an average, lost his life by accident. Now the proportion has been reduced to one in 250. Paymasters and commissariat officials of the German army receive special training In examining the quality of food supplied to the army. Consul Macrum (Pretoria, Transvaal Republic), writes that the average ex ports of gold from the ports of South Africa amount to about $2,002,595 each week. If we could sweep Intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to give healthy ex ercise to the charitable Impulses.—Phil lips Brooks. Duty Is a debt—something that we owe to somebody else. There Isn't an important duty lu life that needs to wait for the solution of any man's doubt. There lBn't a single duty that needs to wait for the settlement of any question. Do not allow yourselves, then, to make excuses. Doubt that which Is not proved believe that which 1* probable have faith in that whoss put iItm a reason (or faith b* sol aradalaw^rUiMt 3. Iitiii ^1 '9