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The People Know What to Expect
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Senator Stewart of Nevada is ashamed
of his state. It has passed a prize fight
bill without attaching a free silver rider
to it. He deelines to be interviewed with
regard to prize lighting.
Addison Cammack, one of the moat fa
mous bear ot>erators Wall street has over
known, la to retire from business, having
sold his exchange seat. He is about sev
enty years old. and is a millionaire. He
Went to New York from New Orleans after
the war. with less than SIO,OOO. Ten years
he married in Washington, his bride
l e i,.,, forty years younger than himself,
Spain may hear further from I’orto Rico
v.tth regard to tile "reforms” recently put
into efteet there. The, Porto Ricans are
not well pleased. The reforms do not
amount to a great deal. The autonomist
j,;,rty will make known its displeasure by
refusing to vote at the municipal elec
tion:-. It is saiii the reforms do hardly
more than make new offlcea to be tilled
by Spaniards.
A Chicago paper lias a timely cartoon
Illustrating misery and happiness. It
shows McKinley besieged by office-seekers
and surrounded by pamphlets upon the
leading national and International ques
tions, hard at work upon his inaugural
address. That is misery. It also shows
Cleveland, studying a "price list of fish
hooks,” with nothing at hand to take ills
attention hut books upon "How to Hunt
Ducks," ‘‘llow to Catch Fish,” "Where to
t*pend a Holiday." and similar subjects.
+llOl Is happiness. .\lr. Cleveland’s holi
day begins in less than a month now.
Avery remarkable and successful X-ray
experiment was made in New Y’ork the
other day. A living man’s heart was
watched in action by a doctor. A fluoro
fceope between the observer’s eyes and the
rtithJccPs chest, and a Crookes’ tube be
hind his back, enabled the doctor to sco
not only the perfect outline of the heart,
changing with each pulsation, but also
that tin* heart was out of its proper posi
tion. The heart in action, as viewed
through the apparatus, is said to resem
ble somewhat a balloon partly inflated,
and being swayed by light winds, rising
and falling constantly, with ever chang
ing outline. The heart is said to he more
opaque to the X-rays than any other part
or tissue of the. body, from the fact that
It is enclosed In a sac that contains wa
ter and a salty substance. salt being thor
oughly opaque to the rays.
If the decision of tho United States su
preme court in tile ease 111 which the
state of Ohio brought suit against the
Western I’nlon Telegraph Company for
tuxes on the capital stuck of the company
Is rlglitiy understood, telegraph and ex
po ss companies are taxable on
some part of their capital stock
In all the states through which
they puss. Wlih reference to the Ohio
n.e, the auditor of that state Is quoted
u saying. "Under the United States su
premo court decision, Western Union must
• ■ay a tax averaging (taking the rate In
r mnties) ~'h per cent, on $1,000,009 for four
years back, or about SJUO,OOU In the aggro
gat' . The question of whether it must
pay 10 per cent, penalty on this sum, be
en use of non-payment of taxes. Is not yot
settled. The Adams, United Stnles, and
American Express companies, together,
must pay about $150,000 bark taxes. All
other telegraph and express companies
have been paying the tax for four years,
and owe nothing.”
If express and telegraph compan.es
should he t ixed on their capital stock in
ull the Mates through which they pass,
the amount which they would have to pay
vi iild cut indlily into dividends oi the
efuvklioldcta.
Hniilx on the Treasury.
The republican newspapers miss no op
portunity of calling attention to the treas
ury deficiency. They haven't a word to
say about congressional extravagance.
The republican party is getting ready to
enact a now tariff law. and therefore as
an excuse for changing the tariff law
they are commenting on tin fact that the
revenues of the government are not equal
to its expenditures.
Will the revenues ever be equal to the
expenditures if the present extravagance
in the expenditures is continued? We
may find new sources of revenue and may
increase the taxes, but there will still b>
a treasury deficiency if the expenditures
are increased faster than the revenues
are increased.
There ought to be a law prohibiting
appropriations in excess of the revenues.
Congress knows about what the revenues
each year will be, and yet year after year
it goes on appropriating millions of dol
lars more than the income of the govern
ment. Is this a wise course to pursue?
Does it show statesmanship?
At the last session of congress about
*315,00),000 was appropriated, although it
was certain that the revenues would fall
considerably below that sum. A member
of the appropriations committee says that
tlu- appropriations at the present session
will reach *515,000,000, making *!,030,000,W0
appropriated by this congress, and that,
to®, in the face of the fact that revenues
are far below that amount.
Do the republicans think they can mis
lead the people by saying that what is
needed to make up the treasury deficiency
is more taxation, and not economy in the
expenditures? They cannot hide the ex
travagance of their party in that way.
The people will be told the truth, and will
drive from power the party that has
wasted the public money and tried to mis
lead them as to the real cause of the
trouble.
The great Increase in the expenditures
commenced about eight years ago—the lie
ginning of the Harrison administration.
The Cleveland administration had left a
large surplus in the treasury which the
republicans, as soon as Harrison was
made President, proceeded to spend. The
extravagance which was inaugurated
then has boon continued. It has not been
checked by the failure of the revenues to
meet the expenditures.
It would seem as if congress would deal
with the financial affairs of the govern
ment in a business-like way, but it does
not. About every congressman wants
money appropriated for some purpose |n
which his constituents are interested, and
those desiring such appropriations Join
together and force their bills through the
House and Senate. It is a matter of no
consequence to them apparently what the
revenues amount to. They think the
money to pay the appropriations will he
found In some manner, even If it has to
be borrowed.
There are very few congressmen who
have the courage to oppose extravagant
appropriations. They know that if they
Interfere with the schemes of those who
have combined to make a raid on the
treasury they will not he able to get a
sirqde one of their bills passed—that thetr
bills will be side-tracked or defeated.
They are sneered at and Intimidated by
ihe treasury raiders. They are bulldozed
Into silence. They watch the raiding, con
scious that they have no power to pre
vent it. And the republican newspapers
continue their efforts to make the people
believe that the deficiency in the treas
ury is duo to the fact that the revenues
have fallen oIT so greatly that they arc
no longer adequate for the needs of ihe
government. It is regrettable that con
gress cannot appreciate the necessity for
keeping the expenditures well within the
revenues.
Is Thin the Right tort of a Senator?
Senator Teller is quoted as saying that
“(he silver senators do not intend to per
mit tho treaty to lie ratified in a hurry.
They tiro determined to show Great Britain
that they are of some consequence In the
Senate of the United States.” We do
not like, to believe that Senator Teller
said anything of the sort, and yet it is
asserted on what appears to he good au
thority that he made the statement. Sen
ator Teller has the reputaion of being a
man of a great deal of common sense.
Tho foregoing statement Is puerile. What
does Great Britain care whether the sliver
senators are of some consequence or not,
and why should the silver senators desire
to show Great Britain that they are of
some consequence?
The treaty does not present a question
which offers an opportunity for the silver
senators to make a demonstration in be
half of stiver. The silver question Is not
connected with any question with which
the treaty Is concerned. There does not,
therefore, seem to la* any reason why Sen
ator Teller should want the silver s n.itors
to make a showing of Inctr strength in
connection with the question of the rati
fication of the treaty.
Tho. treaty should stand on its merits.
If it is a wise measure it should In- adopted.
If It is not then it should be derated; and
the fact that a senator is for or again t
silver should not Inutlenee him in the lea t
in acting upon the treaty.
The Baltimore American apothco
s'zea the Jingo spirit and
declares If It were not for
receut demonstrations Inspired by that
spirit there would now he no arbitration
treaty pending In the Senate. "Jingoism
In this instance not only averted war, hut
laid the foundation for lasting peace," says
our contemporary; which only goes to
show that th'-re a c standpoints from
which peculiar views nitty !>o had.
It Is to be Inferred from ricent utter
nnceu of the Bov. A. C. Dixon of Ni w
York that he thinks a good deal of the
meekness of Mows was artificial, or lath
er manufactured—hammered into him by
his wife. Mrs. Moses, according to the
preacher, was a virago, who Henpecked her
husband so that he found life a burden.
it would be a monument of shame to
(South Carolina If that magnificent insti
tution of learning at Charleston, the Cit
adel Academy, should be abolished.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1897.
Spain's Offer to Cuba.
An outline ot the reforms which Spain
intends to offer Cuba has been published in
our dispatches. If Spain thinks Cuba
will accept her offer she is mistaken. Cu
ba will not accept them because she does
not believe they would he carried out in
good faith and because, if carried out,
Cuba would still be the slave of Spain.
What is it tiiat Spain offers to Cuba?
Theoretically very little, practically noth
ing. Spain would still be in a position to
dominate and control Cuba in every par
ticular and to impose taxes so heavy
that all the earnings of the Cubans would
!ind their way into Spain's pocket.
If the Cubans have any chance of gain
ing their independence they would be fool
ish to accept the terms offered and aban
don the war. They know that Spain
would offer them nothing if she didn’t
dou'bt her ability to re-establish her au
thority In the island. The fear of losing
all is what has induced her to make con
cessions.
The Cubans have not been reduced to a
condition that Is calculated to make them
doubt their ability to succeed. On the
contrary, they have good reasons for
thinking that their cause will finally tri
umph. They can maintain their armies
in the field for a long time to come. They
are not in need of men. They want arms
and ammunition. If they had all the guns
and cartridges they need they could drive
the Spaniards off the island. It is, of
course, difficult to get supplies of guns
and ammunition to them, but that diffi
culty has heretofore been overcome to a
considerable extent and it will continue
to be overcome.
It looks as If the Cubans could hold
out longer than the Spaniards. If the
Cubans can continue the war the chances
are they will succeed.
W e do not believe the Cuban leaders
have any idea of accepting the terms
which Spain offers, or any other terms.
If Spain should grant Cuba such au
tonomy as Canada enjoys, the Cubans
might think of accepting it, hut if they
should accept tin? sham home rule which
Spain Offers they would bn but little, it
any, better off than they were before they
took up arms for independence.
A .Yew- Cabinet Officer.
it is stated that it is the purpose of Maj.
McKinley, early in his administration to
recommend the creation of anew depart
ment, tir ho known as the department of
trade and commerce. The new cabinet of
ficer would have charge of foreign com
merce, and one of his duties would be to
recommend such legislation as would pro
mote the American shipping Industry, with
the view of restoring the country to the
position it once occupied in respect to ship
ping.
It may be that such a department is
needed. The Chamber of Commerce of New
York lias recommended the creation of
a department of that kind many
times. But is it a wise thing
to do to make the cabinet any
larger than it is at present? If we have a
department of commerce and trade, why
not one of mines and mining and one of
mills and manufacturing? If wo keep on
creating a department for each Interest
and Industry it will not be long before we
shall have a cabinet so big tlint it will be
unwieldy. It will want to hold dally ses
sions, discuss every matter likely to come
before congress, and probably dictate to
congress. It Is a very easy matter to sug
gest ways for increasing the number of
officeholders, and much easier to find men
to fill them. It would be a good thing* for
the country if there were fewer officehold
ers. W r e are not sure it wouldn't be a good
thing to cut down the number of repre
sentatives in congress at least one-third.
If the heads of tho departments could he
brought into closer relations with con
gress, good might result. Between the
cabinet and congress there is now very
little sympathy. If the heads of the de
partments had seats in congress, so they
could furnish information promptly when
matters relating to their respective de
partments were under consideration, a
great many mistakes might be avoided.
The average congressman is a bright and
capable man, but his lack of knowledge
of the di tails of government affairs Is
something appalling.
Indications are cropping out that the
South Carolina dispensary is a doomed
Institution. A flood of bills designed to
amend the dixitensay law has been turned
loose upon the legislature. Senator Till
man seems lo be losing his grip upon his
followers. As long as ho was able lo hold
them In a grasp of iton tho dispensary
was sale. But as they regain I heir inde
pendence, they align themselves against
the whisky department as at present con
stituted. Tile legislative session is now
so well advanced that the dispensary may
not suffi r much from this session. But it
| .- i ms altogether probable that there will
he some heavy dynamiting in the next
one.
Shortly after the Chicago nomination
Gov. Slone, of Missouri proudly boasted
that Mr. Bryan did not drink whisky,
chew tobacco or swear, ami hud nevtr
been fishing or ducking In his life. 11
seems that In so far as the fishing and
ducking sins are concerned Mr. Bryan is
rapidity degenerating.
The scramble of political pie hunters in
Topeka is said to be the greatest on re
cord. Thre are not less than 2,500 office
seekers at tho capital, it is reported, pay
ing $1 to $5 a day board and waiting for
something to turn up. The lioardlnv house
and hotel people are enjoying the situa
tion, U nobody else is.
fnarley Mitchell Is talking about chal
lenging the winner of the Corbett-Pitz
. mmonu prize fight. Most people think
j he is u hack number, but he says he
isn't. If lie realty Isn’t, lot him tight Joe
t’.lmun and get a reputation, and then
iulk about tho other matter.
The entire country will sympathize with
Senator Harris of Tennessee In tils deep
afflictions. The hand of fate has hepn
laid heavily upon him lately. Only a few
weeks ago his wife died, and nnwr he Is
threatened with blindness of one or both
of his eyes.
The other day in New Y'ork a working
man in overalls went to the museum in
Central Park to spend his noon hour. lie
was denied admission by an attendant
because "his overalls were dirty and
greasy.” The New York papers arc mak
ing a great deal of fuss over the matter,
of course. It seems to lit their policy to
make a great fuss over anything which
offers the opportunity for stirring up bid
feeling between classes. So far as we can
learn, the objection was not to the work
ingman, or to his overalls, per se, but to
the fact that they were “dirty and greasy.”
In that case, the objection was proper.
Personal cleanliness, not to say neatness,
should be insisted upon at least in such
places as museums, art galleries and li
braries. A person who is capable of ap
preciating museums, galleTies and libra
ries will not object to the rule, but would
prefer It. The working people themselves
would object to such public places being
thrown open to “dirty and greasy” people
without restraint. It is a slander upon
workingmen to say they are not wanted
tu the museums, because a man in “dirty
and greasy” overalls was barred out.
The Senate has il grievance against
Richard Crokcr of New York. He has
offended against senatorial dignity. When
people go into a gallery of the Senate, it
is the presumption that it is their desire
to hear what the learned senators have to
say. If the presumption should prove in
correct—if the visitor should® not care
three straws about what is being said—
the senators insist that nobody except the
foolish visitor shall know anything about
it. To that end rules have been adopted
which require rigid decorum in the gal
leries. Visitors may not do anything ex
cept watch and listen to the senators, upon
pain of being requested to get out. The
other day Mr. Croker and two friends un
folded newspapers in a Senate gallery, and
.began to read. Senatorial dignity almost
had a fit. A messenger, however, relieved
the situation by informing the visitors of
the rules, and they took their papers and
went out.
PERSONAL.
—Jules Verne is one of the most labor
ious of authors, and a popular one, too.
But. considering the fashion in which hi.-
books have gone around the reading
world, he has had but a small return. He
has never made more than $4,000 a y. ,tr in
his life.
—Frances E. Brant left her school in
Ohio twelve years ago and invested the
money she had carped as a teacher In a
Kansas farm. To-day she owns 2.700 a res
of good land. For six years she has been
a preacher, and for two years the pastor
of the Unlversalist church aL Hutchinson,
Kan.
—Louis Liard, the sueocssor of j tiles Si
mon in the Academy of Moral and Political
Sciences, Is, like his predecessor, a philos
opher, and the author of philosophical
works that have given him high rank. Ib
is liest known to the public as director of
higher education, in which capacity he is
an advocate of decentralization in libs
department of the government. A.though
a Catholic, he has had his children brought
up as Protestants. I* rsonully M. Liard
is of a robust figure, wile, finely cut I, it
ures, a clear eye and a thick, drooping
mustache that accentuates his somewhat
melancholy expression.
BRIGHT BITS.
—“Time Is money-.” said Uncle Eben,
"hut dah ain’ no way o’ caeTatin’ whut dc
retu’ns fum seeh an inves’ment is gw inter
ne. Sometimes er two minutes’ convilhsa
tion’ll bring in er stiddy income o’ trouble
foil tfn ah twenty- yahs.—Washington
Star.
Reversing the Usual Phrase.—The
stranger entered ami laid his card on Mr.
Cawker’s disk. Tib- pasteboard bore the
inscription. “Mr. Joint Smith."
"The name is familiar.’’ said Mr. rank
er. as he looked up; “but 1 can’t remem
ber your face.”—Puck.
—The Real Trouble—Edwin (as they
reached the summit of the mountain after
a long climb)—All! we are here at last.
What a magnificent view! At such a time
and place I feel strange sensations—an in
definable longing, .u soul-craving, us it
wi re, which— a
Angelina—My dear Edwin, what you
want Is a sandwich.—Plek-dde-Up.
IT HHKYT I’OM>IE\T.
Yon for n Bureau anil (loss.
From the Atlanta Journal (Beni.).
The Nevada legislature will probably
pass a hill to fix the mice of admission to
the FUzslrnmous-t'orbott light. That Is
exactly proper, but the rotten little slate
ought to go further and establish a bu
reau to get up prize tights and a commis
sion to regulate them.
It n* I e e’* Hunt Fight.
From the Wilmington <N. G.) Star (Dim.).
Hon. Marion Butler, speaking to ,i
Washington reporter of his layout by the
Pritchard-Sklnner combine, remarked that
the "tight had Just begun.” This gives
ground for the suspicion tlmt Hon. M iriun
is making a desperate attempt not to let
the public lose sight of him.
McKinley’s Cabinet.
From the Baltimore Sun (D m.).
The only crtlcism which suggests Itself
is tlnf Mr. McKinley has looked very
zealously after the interests of the wed,
but as his appointees are acceptable in n.
there will be no disposition to quarrel
with him seriously on that a count. The
"Good Western Man’’ has long been a fur
tor in politics and he is very much in evi
dence just now.
Senate Secret Sessions.
From thee Washington Post (Ind.).
As to open doors and debates
when nominations ore before tho Senate,
the Judgment of a great majority of sen
ators is. and always has been, against it.
Investigations as to the character of nom
inees often dnvdlvc matters of great deli
cacy. To publish to tho world all the
charges that are filed wotdd irreparably
Injiite many an honorable man. it would
be quite as much in order to require the
President and cabinet to dk-eii.e appoint
ments with open doors as to demand that
of the Senate,
Morality by I,cclslutinn.
Front the New York Times (I'em.).
Alabama's legislators seem to he devot
ing most of their energies this year to
the task of making people good l>y stat
ute. Already a bill has been passed pro
vidlng for conducting all trade in liquor
through state dispensaries, and favor-tb'.
reports have been made on measures put
ting slot machines tinder the ban and ptu
hlbltihg the sale of pools on lac. s run
either In oi out of the state. Another n w
law that has passed both houses makes
it unlaw till to sell cigarettes to any resi
dent of Alabama, and a bill bus been In
troduced declaring it a misdemeanor lo
run a bucket shop or to buy or sell "fu
tures" on cotton or other products. All
this is the result of an active campaign
which the ministers and church people
of ihe state have been conducting sine*
the last legislature adjourned, and It Is
expected that any laws which this class
favors will be enacted.
Outwitted Them.
“What was the case that made the deep
est impreirion upon me?” was a well
known detective’s response to the qtiery
of a Washington Star reporter. "Well, if
I should tell it it wouhj ruin my reputa
tion, but I will give it to' you with the
understanding that my name is not to lie
used.
"A gang of horse thieves were working
Southern Indiana, and I was employed to
ferret them out. Taking two assistants,
I started on the trail and finally succeed
ed in locating them in Brown county,
which is, I believe, the only one in the
state without a railroad.
"We knew that the thieves had their
headquarters somewhere between Colum
bus and Nashville, the latter being the
county seat of Brown county, and with
my men I scoured the country without
success until nightfall, when we took
refuge in a cabin, the family being al>-
s, nt. ami we expected to expla n our
pn since when the occupants returned.
"In about an hour four men rode up,
evidently much excited, the leader ac
costing me with: 'We are from Columbus
and understand you are looking for stolen
horses. Three were taken from us last
night, and we want to give you descrip
: luus of them and join your party. At first
1 was somewhat suspicious and gave them
no direct reply, inquiring instead:
“ Do you know whose cabin this is?’
“ ‘Oh, yes; it i.s old man Stewart’s. They
are in Columbus and will not be home
to-night, but we are friends of bis and
know any man i.s welcome, especially on
the mission we are. He has had four
horses stolen.’
' They entered the cabin and I soon lost
all suspicion uf them, taking descriptions
of the hors, s they had lost and agreeing
that they could remain with us the next
day.
‘ I awoke early in the morning, having
occupied the lower room with my men,
while the strangers had retired in the
loft. I w. nt to the log stable to see afier
out- three horses, and they were gone.
Then I returned to the house and r.o
trace could bo found for some time of
the strangers. Finally a rudely written
note was discovered pinned to the door,
saying that we were welcome to remain
in the house until the following day, when
it stage would take us to Columbus; tiiat
they had moved and would not use. the
cabin any longer. That was the last trace
l ever got of the thieves or the horses.”
Hon A inlet- Dropped *2,000.
When Aimce was at the hight of her
fame, playing to enormous houses In South
America, says the New Y’ork Press, she
fascinated a Brazilian planter, whoso acres
ot virgin forests were as broad as the
state of New York. He saw her in Rio.
ami was smitten hip and thigh. He felt
that he owned the theater in which she
• xhibited her agility, and hung around her
for days, seeking to bestow upon her the
entire wealth of his ardent affection. She
hesitated to throw hint bouquets, because
he was old and feeble. Aimce always
liked fresh' young men. In a fashionable,
jewelry shop in Rio was a necklace priced
,t tie, oho. ’l'lic old planter tried to buy
if for *7,000 to give to his inamorata, but
tlie hosiers were firm in refusing to let it
go at such it price. They demanded the
*iq.onn. He finally offered *3.000. which also
being refused, he went away. Aimee
heard, in the meantime, that he wanted to
give her the necklace and paused at the
price, whereupon, with that French clev
erness for which she is famed, she hasten
ed privately to the shop and deposited
42.0 m, with instructions to le’ the old fel
low have the necklace for *B.OOO should he
call a :ain. When thevstnitten old fool ar
rived the third lime and offered SB,OOO he
w;i surprised with the statement that he
might have the necklace for that sum in
asmuch as he had always been a good
customer. At his hotel he exhibited it to
some friends, to whom he told liis secret
love- for Aimce. These, like true friends,
made him drunk and got him out of town
tiiat night, necklace and all, leaving
Aimce in ilie cold, minus her *2.000. She
tried in rain, by persuasion and threat,
to force the jewelers to return the money,
and finally left Rio In a state of mental
distress that was pitiful. She did not
mlitu the loss of the $2,000. but could not
bear tiiat thought of being “sold.”
Herrmann and the Tramp.
Herrmann came into a restaurant where
the Chronicle of the Rochester Democrat
and- Chronicle was lunching with a cou
ple of theatrical acquaintances, friends of
the magician, and ho joined the party.
H" was in great vein, and during an hour
or ro ol coat and tobacco did most aston
ishing things with cigars, corks, glasses,
napkins and the like. There came a piti
ful-looking tramp with a Talc of woe. to
which the non-neeromantic members of
the quartet listened with more impatience
than sympathy. But Herrmann, in his bro
il. > English, began questioning the fellow.
••Starving, eh? Got no money? Not at cent!
Too had!" His hand went lo his Waist
coat pocket, but it paused, oe seemed to,
on the way. He regarded tho vagrant
sternly, and broke out with a tine assump
tion of w rath . "What do you mean by say
ing you haven’t a cent? What do you call
tins'.’ And this? And this?" Meanwhile
gesticulating excitedly and rapidly extract
ing silver pieces, quarters and half-dollars
from all over the astonished tramp’s rag
c and garments. "Hah! You’re a nice swind
ler! You take your money and get out.
Away with you!” He forced the sliver tit
must have amounted to $3 or $D Into tiie
fellow's hand and started him by an im
perative gesture toward the door. The
dazed beggar, looking more frightened
than happy, went off without a word.
Herrmann's only comment was: “That fel
low will think lie’s met the devil. 1 hope
he won't he too afraid of the. money to
spend it.” "What do you want to throw
. way your money on a drunken loafer like
thoi for Hermann?" said one of his
friends. “Oil, well, it was only a joke.”
apologized the berated paupcrjzer, “and
then, he was so miserable-looking. What
would you?” And a shrug closed the sub
ject. ,
Hail to Muzzle* (lie Sauerkraut Barrel
< 'ougressman Dolllver of the Tenth lowa
district, has a big tent w’nichjic purchas
ed from a stranded circus company, and
now utilizes in his campaigns. Last Oc
tober. while making Hie round of Ills dis
trict. says (lie Washington Post. Mr. Dol
llver reached a town where it was too cold
for an audience in the tent, and adjourn
ment was laid to a great grocery store
house, which was able to accommodate
numbers of political truth seekers, in one
eonier tin re was a big barrel of sauer
kraut, and near this a great old-fashion
ed stove, of tho kind that will roar like an
elephant when the draft slide is pulled
ever hack.
With a great file the crowd began to feel
comfortable, and quickly enthused under
ihe eloquence of Ihe Fort
Dodge orator. Everybody seem
ed to lie unmindful of the
-ouerkraut. barrel, and lost in Ihe beauti
ful pictures of returning prosperity with
ihe lection of McKinley and the assur
ance of honest dollars and chances galore
• earn them. Riil in the midst of one of
Mr. Dolliver's eloquent flights his atten
tion wa distracted by an Irishman, who
said lie rose lo a point of order.
"Th gentleman may state it," quoth
Mr. Dolllver.
“Oi move you, sor.” said he. "that a
committee he appointed to place a horse
blankt t on that barrel of sau* rkruut.”
The barrel had warmed with the growth
of the lire, and an odor that was anything
but agreeable In a political atmosphere
was forcing Itself up the nostrils of the
faithful. The horse blanket was secured
from a neighboring stable and applied to
the us' di signaled, after which Mr. Dol
llver proceeded lo the end of his speech un-
Intei rqpttd.
A I.title Grave.
From Harper's Bazar.
Dark at" the mounds where the snow
blawt Is swopping,
Wild Is the cry of the wind on its flight.
Cold Is the drill that the north wind Is
heaping
Over the nursling alone in the night!
Alone in the night and the dark, that went
creeping
Out of her arms but a daybreak ego!
Anguished with sorrow, her watch she Is
keeping.
Far would she follow through storm
and through enow.
Nay. tender mother, have done with your
weeping.
Not in me night and the dark has ho
part!
Ills ail of bright heaven save when he la
sleeping
And dreaming of heaven, warm, warm
in yqur heart!
ITEMS OK INTEREST.
—An Australian savant Dr. Paul Na
than. lias written a book on “Jews as Sol
diers,” in order to show that the Hebrew
i* not a mere sordid money-maker, says
an exchange. He not only gives a. list of
many excellent officers of that race, but
he shows that the percentage of Jewish
soldiers in European armies is proport inn
ately larger than that of other races. Stu
dents of the prize-ring have long known
that the Jew is a fighter, for Mendoza,
Dutch Sam, and their compatriots have
won a place beside the Anglo-Saxons, Irish
and negroes who divide fistic supremacy.
But what reader of the Old Testament
needs to be told that Joshua's peopie were
as warlike a race as ever swung a sword?
—The biggest item of incidental loss in
ocean traffic during the stormy season of
the year is that of breakage in the wine,
liquor and beer rooms. No matter how se
curely the bottles are fixed in the bins, a
particularly heavy sea striking the ship
in a certain spot or continued rolling and
pitching, will cause great losses in costly
fluids that W'ere never intended to wash
the floor or the walls. A French firm is
going to do away with this old-time source
of annoyance and complaint. After years
of experimenting It has succeeded in man
ufacturing a paper bottle which wiy not
break, and which has all the advantages
of the ordinary glass bottle. There is iittle
doubt that next summer’s tourists will be
setved with beverages in paper bottles.
—A writer In the Electrician explains
some experiments which have been made
in the application of weak electric cur
rents for treating nervous diseases of the
stomach, the current being applied direct
ly to the affected organ by means of a
special electrode invented by Dr. Einhorn,
which tne patient passes into the stom
ach. The electrode consists of a rubber
tube one milimeter in thickness, which
has at its lower end a perforated vulcan
ite tip, and which contains the conduct
ing wire; the latter dots, not extend to
the capsule, hut descends low enough to
piunge into the water with which ihe
stomach is filled. After the patient has
drunk two glasses of lukewarm water, the
electrode is introduced and is attached to
the negative pole of the battery. For five
minutes 15 to 26 milliamamper.s of current
are employed.
—The fad for collecting ridiculous sta
tistics seems to be growing, says London
Answers. The statistic fiend has discov
ered how much time a man wastes in his
life crawling under the dressing table in
search of a lost collar stud; and lie can
tell us exactly how many years we waste
for the purpost* of eating; then, again,
how many tons of bread, meat or pota
toes we may have eaten in th.se wasted
years. Now a reader, who lives in Glas
gow, has written to inform me that, alter
several weeks of laborious calculation, he
has discovered that one ton and some odd
pounds is worn oft: the boots of the Lon
don public every day. This material, if re
stored to its proper condition, would be
sufficient to form a leather strap an inch
wide and ten miles long, and. with one
year’s accumulation, would reach from
London to New York.
—Another ifem of news more typically
Russian comes from a village near Tomsk,
where lives a blacksmith named Temeya
koff, says a London cable in the New York
Sun. His wife had been persistently un
faithful. an*! finally her husband dragged
her to his forge the other day, tied her
by the hair, then shod tier with a pair of
iron shoes which he had specially made
for the purpose. The woman naturally
fainted when the nailr, were driven into
her feet, and would have died had she not
been rescued by the villagers. The rescu
ers contented themselves with turning the
husband over to the local authorities, who
released him after two days’ imprison
ment. The writer of the dispat -h says
that the breaking of marital vows is com
mon among the Russian peasantry and
the authorities treated the husband len
iently, o.s a means of showing that, in
their opinion, the unfaithful wife simply
got her deserts.
—“No person should put belladonna In
the eyes unless prescribed by a doctor,”
said a specialist to a patient the other
day. “Many eyes have been ruined by its
use. Society women of middle age are
very prone to this. Many of them are too
vain to put on glasses; then their eyes
grow dull from constant straining, and
they resort to atropine*. This has a. ten
dency to increase the it rdness of the eye
in advanced age. Neither should hot. or
even warm, applications be used ut.'.css
directed by a specialist, as such have a
tendency Lo inflame the eye. As for poul
ticing the eye with camomile or tea leaves,
or bread and milk, that is worse than
folly. More ulcers of the rye are caused
by this popular fallacy than bv anv other.
In removing small foreign bodies front
the eye the eyestone or linseed is fre
quently resorted to. It should not be used,
for it is liable to pass from view behind
the lid, often causing additional inflam
mation, and, besides, it is an excellent
vehicle for germs.”
—The importance of absolute regularity
in eating is the subject of an article in
the Medical Record. One indiscretion of
irregularity, it continues, often causes the
dyspeptic a week of misery. If this regi
men is a standard prophylactic with con
firmed dyspeptics, how much Should any
one in our artificial civilization allow him
self to deviate from so simple a rule,
when an absolutely normal stomach at all
times Is almost unknown. Yet this very
invitation to gastric disorders is issued
every seventh day by 99 per cent, of the
people of this dountry. unce in seven
days comes our so-called day of "rest"
the day on which the three regular meals
at morning, noon and night arc replaced
by a vicious system of late rising and ab
stinence. followed by gluttony. The gas
trie secret ions know nolhing of a seventh
day of rest. They are. ready at tho custo
mary six-day morning breakfast time, blit
no food comes to them, and they are ab
sorbed. A second period of the dav cymes
and the same process is repeated, w.th the
additional Injury that, from two to four
hours after the customary meal the stom
ach is loaded unusually full of ood,
whereas the secretion is no longer there
In sufficient quantity to digest it. The re
sult is the regulation Sunday afternoon
discomfort or gormandizing, with the ac
companying absence of appetite, for tho
evening meal. What wonder that lue fol
lowing day is "Blue Monday.”
—Lions can neither be tamed nor trained,
say those who know, says the Chicago
News. You may pare their claws and pull
their eye-teeth and terrorize them to a
certain extent, if you begin when they are
cubs, but their innate fierceness amt lust
for blood remain. There is said to be no
art in so-called lion-laming but. the art of
terrorism, and no rule but that of keeping
the lions’ stomae' s full and their mimls
inwed. There jtecer has been and there
never will bo an appeal made to the lion's
intelligence, because the limited amount of
that quality which he possesses is entirely
dominated by his ferocity. The adventur
ous person who wishes to take up lion
training as a profession is advised that his
best plan is to purchase young whelps,
which may be had for SSO a head, though
a “trained pack” may oe bought for about
sri,nou. Having obtained his cubs, he must
lied and attend on them himself, with a
plentiful u.-e of the whip, and accustom
them to being driven round and round the
cage and severely chastised for disobe
dience. They may be taught gradually to
Jump a liar, but usually growl a good deal
ami flick with their paws during the pro
cess, so that it is necessary to carry a
large wooden target as a defense. Many
persons find a fascination in following up
the careers of lion-tamers, ami the men
who travel about the country with the
more or less subdued hea.-ts become used
to seeing the same faces In the front seats.
An English professional in the business
lately observed that an old gentl-min
dogged him from town to town and was
always to hr seen tight In front of the
cage. From curiosity he scraped acquaint
ance with the old man anil found that the
pastime of his declining years was follow
ing up lion-tamers'. "Yon are the fifth l
have followed," sold this blood-curdling
personage. "The other four I have seen end
their careers and i know that in time I
shall also see you end yours.”
—Alfred F. Calvert, orto of London's
West Australian millionaires, was reputed
to b worth $2,500,000 in cash a year ago.
At that time a British and French syndi
cate offered him $5,000,000 for his gold
mine holdings, Tho offer was refused,
and a course of reckless extravagance
was entered upon. Within the !ast few
days Mr. Calvert has sold for $325,000 the
properties that'he refused $5,000,000 for a
year ago.
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