Semi-weekly independent., December 25, 1895, Image 2

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THE IDOL NODS.
When a man forgets his Meal lie may
hope for happiuess, but not till then.
John Oliver llobbes.
The tender, love-sick youth believes
!That lovely womau ne'er deceive:
lie curses cynic pro..
Alack for belie! alack for beau!
If one fine day he comes to know
The idol sometimes nods.
She may, indeed, be passing fair.
.Willi sparkling eyes and golden hair
That charm him. What's the odds
If he should ever pet a hint
That lovely tresses change their tiut?
Ah. me, the idol uods!
i
tho merry ma Men's foot
Eook very small, divinely sweet,
In glossy leather shod.
"What praise he'll lavish, goodness knows;
But if he saw her tortured toes
The idol then would" nod.
I'or him her face is wreathed in smiles
Misogynists would call them wiles
There's j.y where she has trod;
lint then one day he sees her frown,
Ilia airy castles tumble down,
Why docs, the idol nodV
Ah, well for him who com?' to think.
That life has drab as well as pink,
That man is not a god;
And happiness he'll only rind
As soon as he makes up his mind
That idols alwavs nod.
-Sketch. .'
A HUSBAND
TAKEN BACK.
"The bod stood in the middle of the
room, its foot iu the open window. From
far beneath came the night hum of
Chicago, but it was quieted by the dis
tance to a mere lullaby. So high was
the to-.) of the great hotel that the gar
ish blue-white of the elect l ie lights,
which so lavishly dotted the city, was
toned down to a gentle luminous haze.
Tiie man on the bed tossed from side
to side uneasily, lulled on his bac k, lay
with his mouth upon the pillow. In his
right band he heul crunched a letter
written iu a woman's writing, and as
certain waves of dream crept over him
he rumpled
the
letter savagely and
mumbled through his clinched teeth
words of inarticulate fury. At last his
dream seemed to culminate, and he
broke into a paroxysm of coughing,
which awoke him. Ills senses, dim at
first, drew rapidly to the alert. His
eyes, so recently glued with sleep, op
ened quickly to their fullest stretch.
His nostrils worked like the nostrils of
a dog on a trail.
"Smoke! Tobacco s:noke? I don't
think so. It smells to me like the reek
of burning wood."
His eyes were beginning to open
wider, with the unnatural expansion
of teiror. George Carr had been in
America before, and knew what these
things portended. Quickly dropping
his feet on to the boards of the floor,
he walked across them, unlocked his
door, and, opening it, looked into the
passage. lie had no doubt then as to
-what had occurred. Not far below him
was the crisp crackling of flames, and
with it came the cries of badly frighten
ed women and men.
"My Cod! the hotel is on lire," he ox
claimed. "It is built of wood from cel
lar to roof tree; it is crammed with
people, and I am close under the shin-
gies
on the eleventh floor.
He went out on the lauding in his
night gear as he was. and attempted to
descend. Columns of gray vapor which
stung the eyes and nostrils rolled up th?
shaft of the stairway, and, looking over
the balusters, he saw through the
smoke arms of tawny flame which shot
greedily up toward him. The heat was
terrific; it drove hhn back to his room
even before the smoke forced a retreat.
Baked by the continued heat of sum
mer, the great wooden hotel was burn
ing as though it had been anointed with
tar.
Carr ran back to his bedroom and
stood in the midst of the floor, trem
bling like a leaf. He still held in his
fingers th. c:timp!cd letter in a woman's
handwriting his wife's, but, remember
ing it, broke out into new fury, and
tore it into tiny squares, which flut
tered like white butterflies before the
rising draught
"Grasping, heartless wretch that she
Is," he cried. "If it had not been for
this letter, goading me to make more
money and still more money, I should
be catching this morning's home boat
from New York harlmr. As It is, I'm
here to bum slowly to death unless I
choose to make a quicker ending of it
by jumping out on to the road 200 feet
beVw." He gave a fierce snort of a
laugh. ".Suicide is wrong, we are told.
I wonder if it would be sinful for me to
end my miseries quickly, instead of re
maining till life Is tediously roasted
out of me here. It is a nice point, but
I shall not argue it out now. I'm going
to shut my eyes and jump Into eter
nity." He T. alked steadily across to the win
dow, put one leg over the sill, and look
ed down from a dizzy height which no
lire escape on earth could span. Flames
-were beginning to Jet through many of
the windows below. In the street two
steam fire engines were already at
work; others were coming up with
teams at a furious gallop. The black
carpet of poph in the vacant space
had a curious white mottling of upturn
ed faces. Carr threw the other leg over
the sill, and, stooping over, wondered
where he should drop. He wanted to
fall clea. and the ghastly thought
would come ho did not want to splash
any bod j'. -
The booming roar of the flames in the
shaft of the stalra drew nearer and
nearer. It was of no itso to wait. Of
earthly hope none could come. He
made up hl3 mind that be would Jump
then without more torturing delay. Hut,
when It came to the actual leap, his
limbs somehow failed him. He seem
ed physically unable to leave his seat
on the ledge.
"Bah! what a coward I am!" he cried,
"fearing to leap into necessary death
with my face toward it. I suppose I
have a woman's nerve just now; I must
humor myself like a woman."
He turned about breasting the sill
and lowering himself steadily down till
all his body hung down against the
wooden wall suspended 0UI3 by the
finger tips. And, then he saw some
thing which caused such a revulsion of
feeling that be was within an ace of
relaxing his old and being dashed to
rags in the street below.
Gradually, however, his muscles stif
fened again, and he drew himself up
and fell faint and trembling on the
1oard floor of his bedroom. Screwed
to the jamb of the window was a stout
eyeboU; fastened to this was a long coil
of rope. These things are the ordinary
accompaniment of American hotel bed
rooms anywhere alove the first floor,
and Carr had seen them scores of times
before. Still feeling sick and dizzy.
Carr gathered himself up rrom the
floor, and with trembling lingers set
about casting the rope from its coil.
The styJT tangled, and in his hasty
clumsiness he tied it Into hard knots.
Time was wasted.
At last, however, the long, snaky
length of rope was flung out of the
window; and gripping it with his hands
and legs, the fugitive started his de
scent. He was no practiced climber,
and the rough hemp ate the skin from
his hands as it passed through them,
but such an inconvenience was only
of slight moment. A far greater dan
ger encompassed him. During his
delay the tire had gained in strength
and fierceness, and torrents of yellow
blaze were pouring from dozens of the
windows.
He had to pass through two of those,
and emerged at each lower end stifled
and blackened. But the rope remained,
hanging like a thin, black snake in the
heart of the licking tongues of fire, get
ting deeper and deeper charred overy
momont. How long would It continue
to hold him 7
Fully conscious of his new peril, he
let the cord slip past h:m still more rap
idly, rill it feit as though his hands
were being cut through to the very
bone by a red-hot saw; and then it
broke.
He felt a numbing lush through the
air. a jarring thud as 01 ten thousand
earthquakes, suns shooting before his
eyes and that was all. Oblivion held
him entirely.
Later on the doctor presented the
patient, over whom there had 'been
some controversy, with a paper which
contained a lengthy account of the lire,
and the patient marveled at the inven
tive powers of Chicago journalists.
When, however, he came to the list of
the killed, about which there could not
well be any sentimental romancing, he
put the paper down with a start. For
awhile he lay still wiih his eyes on
the ceiling. Then his glance descended
again and roved round the" ward rather
guiltily. Finding that no one was no
ticing him, he once more picked up ttie
paper. Yes, there It was, in uncom
promising black and white, described
with gruesome adjectives and Carr of
Wingford, England. Curiosity made
him search further among the columns,
and he found the method of his death
described with gruesome adjectives and
startling headlines. This last owned
to being imaginative, as it mentioned
that he had never been seen alive after
retiring for the night.
Yet it was a bad conjecture of what
might have occurred to a man who was
slowly suffocated to death.
Again the paper fluttered to the floor,
and again Carr's eyes sought the wil
ing. He was thinking very hard in
deed, and couldn't quite make up his
mind to something. A course seemed
open before him, a course which had
some drawbacks, but a multitude of
good points. For one thing, it would
ease him forever of h:s wife, who has
tormented his love into something akin
to hatred; for another
The doctor euiae and broke Into his
reverie.
"Say, friend, I want to know your
1 A A 1 1
name, ine noiei registers are uurneti,
and the papers wish to print a list of
survivors, so that we may tot up with
more accuracy how many poor wretches
are missing. It's been a sad business,
this, all around; a might sad business.
Many deaths, and what did you say
vour Lame was, sir':"
It was now or never. The choice had
to bo made or the chance missed.
"Carey."
The doctor noted It down on his cuff.
"Initials, please V"
"Henry G."
"Where of? You're English, I guess
isn't that so?"
"Yes, a Londoner."
"Thanks. I won't ask you how you
like our city, because, perhaps, you've
got rather a bad first Impression. But
that'll wear off, sir. You'll like it be
fore you've done."
"I hope so," said the patient, dream
ily. "I'm here in America to stay. I
hope I shall get on."
"Hope so, I'm sure," said the doctor,
briskly. "Wish you every kind of
luck."
An outcast, ragged, bent and prema
turely aged, slopped along beside a high
park wall. The slushy snow of an Eng
lish spring ebbed and flowed across
the soles of his bursting boots; the chill
of the wind bit savagelj- through his
rags of clothes. Presently the wall gave
place to a sunk fence, and the tramp
stopped and gazed at the view. Over
an expanse of park nnd lawn and ter
race rfose the timbered wnlls and ga
bles of an Elizabethan country house,
trim, solid, graceful. As he watched,
a fallow deer came out into the open,
gazed at him for a moment In haughty
impudence, and then trotted Into cov
ert. The tramp, with a sigh, started wear
ily on his way. "It seems even grander
than I was told of," he murmured to
himself. "Wealth, comfort, happiness
everywhere. And It might all have
been mine. Every stick and every
shrub left to the wife and me between
us. It fell to us by will the day be
fore I I died; the day before I was
burned to ashes in the Chicago fire.
Taney the irony of that! The day be
fore! Why didn't Hit news reach ine?
I'd a line fund of selfishness about me
then.
"And Louise was right after all. It
was her duty to urge me to business. I
was as lazy as the day was long then,
and she told me of it. and 1 hated her
for speaking. I've thought since over
that letter, and the pain it must have
caused her to write.
"Eh, well, that's all past and done
with. I died". I was full of conceit in
myself, and thought an American for
tune was easily made, even if it was
si inetimes lost with suddenness. Pah!
I never reached the tiit rung of the lad
der. I never rose above laboring with
my hands at unskilled trades, and it
was being constantly shown me how I
was an indifferent laborer at that.
"Xo. I've missed it badly, and all
through my own short-sighted fault. I
might have had a wife, children and a
stately home. What I do have is my
share of the queen's wet highway and
weary aches to lie down upon. Of my
self I shall never now be more than
what I am a broken waster, lint
there is one thing I won't do. and that's
ask help from her. She'd give it, if
I sought for it; she'd call me back as
her husband if she knew me to be alive;
she'd share with me willingly what is.
perhaps, after ail. legally mine to share.
But no, I'm blamed if I do. She's a
good woman, and I'm what they call in
the States a mean man. Yes. mighty
mean and down at the heel, not at all
white; but I've made my bed. and I
won't remake it even if I have the
chance. Tilings are uncomfortable,
but I guess they won't drag out much
longer."
He sat heavily down on the wet way
side turf, his legs dangling over the
ditch. "Ten years; ten terrors for me.
Ten years of her thinking herself a
widow. She's had the chance to marry
again; I heard all about it. Leslie
asked her, the only man I was jealous
of before I won her for myself. She
likes him. I know; site always did; and
for him she's the only woman in the
world. But she wouldn't marry him
for all that, though he could have
given her love, title, more wealth, yes,
everything a woman could want."
A crunching noise made the tramp
turn his glau.ee. A smart carriage with
a pair of ponies was coming up round a
turn of the west road. A woman was
driving; a man in livery sat behind.
The tramp gazed for a minute with
starting eyes, then turned away and,
with bowed head, faced the ditch. "Oh.
my God," he murmured, and clinched
his hands till the nails dr,fcw blood.
The noise of the wheels ceased, and
there was the sound of rustling skirts.
The tramp also noticed the faint smell
of sealskin, but he kept his back reso
lutely immovable.
"George."
The tramp did not stir. A trembling
hand was placed on Ids wet shoulder.
"George, look up. I know It is" you."
"Woman, go away. You are making
a mistake."
"Look me in the face and repeat that."
"I I will not. I can't."
She slipped down to a seat beside him
on the sodden turf, and the groom at
the ponies' heads felt his jaw drop
down through wonder.
"Oh. Louise, why can't you pass me
by? I only came for a peep. I didn't
intend you to see me God knows I
didn't. It's all yours now. and I'll not
take a fraction away from you. 1 have
chosen my path like the scoundrel that
was, and I must keep along it. It
Isn't fit that I should turn back now."
"Yet you must stay, now that 1 have
found you."
"I tell you I cannot. Yon would not
ask me if you knew what I have been,
how vilely I have sinned against you.
Don't shake your head; it is true. If
you won't credit that, listen."
She threw her arms around his shoul
ders, pressing him fiercely to her breast.
"Dear," she said, "yon have come
back to me. I know that; I do not want
to know any more."
The tramp tried to pluck himself from
the embrace without avail. Then he
lay against her furs nnd shuddered, but
made no more resistance.
lionise Carr had taken back her hus
band. Black and White.
The Obstacle Overcome.
They are telling the story in London
that the impossible American in Paris
alighted at a hotel to find it absolutely
full. "I have nothing," expostulated
the host, .almost tearfully, "nothing.
The first floor Is taken hy the King of
the Ostenders; the Queen of Monte
gavia occupies the second; tho Duke of
Coltonoplls is sharing the third iloor
with the Caliph of Tort Said; and the
Crown Prince of Nova Esperanza is
sleeping on tho biliard table. As for
myself, I have to make up a bed In the
office, nnd there only remain.'- the
chandler of my daughter. Of course
" "Is that your daughter V inter
rupted the American, pointing to the
young lady at tho desk. "Yes, Fir.'
"All right; I'll marry her after lunch."
And, giving libs valise to the speechless
Boniface, lie added, "Now, you can
take my baggage up to our room."
Camels Cannot Swim.
Camels are perhaps the only animals
that cannot swim.
A live mail should not waut the earth
he shoidd be above it.
BLOW AT JOHN BEL
Message in Support of (lie Alon
ro: Doctrine.
MAY MEAiS RED WAR.
AH Foreign Nations Must Keep
Out of Americas. .
PaEsbury's Refusal to Submit the
Dispute to Arbitration Leads to
Strong Words President Cleveland
Tells Conjures This Nation Should
Use Force If Necessary Proposes to
Send n Commission to Fix a Line
Which Jha Hull Will Cress at His
Peril.
The message of President Cleveland to
Congress transmitting the correspondence
between Secretary Olney and Lord Sal
isbury relative to tho Venezuela boundary
dispute created a real sensation in Wash
ington. Although the nature of Secre
tary Olr.ey's vigorous communication and
of Lord Salisbury's answers had been
nlrcaily accurately foretold in the Asso
ciated I're.-s dispatches from Washing
ton mid London there wis still a great
popular craving to learn just how the
President would deal with Lord Salis
bury's refusal to submit the matter 10
arbitration, and the inessage was listened
o with intense interest in Congress and
was read with avidity on the streets.
Nowhere was there a veice lifted in dis
tent from the doctrine so firmly laid down
by the "President, but on the contrary
there was an outburst of patriotic feeling
that must have been highly gratifying
to the Chief Executive. In the digniiicd
United States Senate, a body that rarely
exhibits emotion on any occasion, there
was witnessed the unparalleled spectacle
of handclapping and app.ntise, which was
tho spontaneous expression of the ap
proval of almost every Senator without
regard to party. On the streets the mes
fcago was discussed, and veterans of tho
late war talked exultantly ef what they
were prepared again to undertake at the
call of their country. In the great hall
of the Pension Building the employes
gathered and sung with gusto "The Star
Spangled Banner" and "My Country,
'Tis of Thee."
Great Britain declines to consent that
the issue between herself and Venezuela
shall be settled by arbitration. At the
THE MONROE DOCTRINE IS STILL IN FORCE.
f l" 2 ' MONRO? m ij
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PaSsipkxt Cleveland "Just read
ivery wcrd of it."
same time G rent Britain denies the valid
ity of the Monroe doctrine. The United
States now must take two steps, if need
be: one forthwith. President Cleveland
asks Congress to make an appropriation
for n juoicial commission to investigate
on behalf of this country the merits of
the contention 'concerning frontier be
tween British Guiana and Venezuela. If
that commission shall find that rf:lt
Itritain is rieht in her claims the decision
to -tand and be upheld hy us; if the com
mission of the United States shall find
that Great Britain's claims are unfounded
nr.Y nttenmt on the nart of Great Britain
to enforce such claims by aims to be re
sisted with arms bv the United State:;.
Thia is the essence of President Cleve
land's message.
After reviewing the early details of the
controversy and referring to Salisbury's
disinclination to admit the force of the
Monroe doctrine and resort tq arbitration,
the President says:
Without attempting extended argu
ments in reply to these positions it may
not be -imiss to suggest that the doctrine
upon Waich we stand is strong and sound
because: its enforcement is important to
our peace and safety as a nation, and is
essential to the integrity of our free in-
nitutions and the tranquil! maintenance
at our distinctive form of government. It
was intended to nnnly to every stage of
our national life and cannot become ob-
jolete whiie our republic endures. If the
balance of power is justly a cause for
(ealous anxiety among the governments
f the old world, and a subject for our
absolute non-interference, none the less
is an observance of the Monroe doctrine
tf vital concern to our people and thLr
Kvcmment.
Assuming, therefore, that we may
p.-operly insist upon this doctrine without
regard to "the state of things in which
we livvV or any changed conditions here
or elsewhere, it is not apparent why its
application may not be invoked in the
present controversy. If a I'uropean pow
er, by an extension of its boundaries,
takes possession of the territory of one
üf our neighboring republics against its
will and in derogation of its rights, it is
dilficult to see why, t that extent, such
European power does not thereby at
tempt to extend its system of government
to that portion of this continent which is
vhus taken. This Is the precise action
which President Monroe declared to be
"dangerous to our peace and safety," and
it can make no difference whether the
European system is extended by an ad
vance of frontier or otherwise.
Practically, the principle for which we
tontend lias peculiar, if not exclusive, re
lation to the United States. It may not
Have been admitted in bo many words to
'he code of International law, but since,
.b international councils, every nation is
entitled to the rights belonging to it, if
the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine
is something we may justly claim, it has
111 ulacj iu the code of international law
as certainly and as unrely as If It were
specifically mentioned, and when the
United States is a suitor before the high
tribunal that administers international
law the question to be determined U
whether or not -we present claims which
the justice of that code of law can find
to be right and valid.
Monroe Doctrine I J fat.
The Monroe doctrine finds its recogni
tion in those principles of international
law which are based upon the theory that
every nation shall have its rights pro
tected and its just claims enforced.
Of course this Government is entirely
confident that under the sanction of this
doctrine we have clear rights and un
doubted claims. Nor is this ignored in
the British reply. This Government pro
posed to the Government of Great Brit
ain a resort to arbitration as the proper
means of settling the question, to the end
that a vexatious boundary dispute be
tween the two contestants might be de
termined and our exact standing and rela
tion in respect to the controversy might
be made clear.
It will be seen from the correspond nee
herewith submitted that this proposition
has been declined by the British Govern
ment, upon grounds which under the cir
cumstances seem to ine to be far from
satisfactory.
The course to be pursued by this Gov
ernment in view of the present condition
does not appear to admit of serious doubt.
Great Britain's present proposition has
never thus far been regarded as admissi
ble by Venezuela, though any adjustment
of the boundary which that country may
deem for her advantage and may enter
into of her own free will cannot of course
be objected to by the United States. As
suming, however, that the attitude of
Venezuela will remain unchanged, the
dispute has reached such a stage as to
make it now incumbent upon tho United
States to take measures to determine
with sufficient certainty for its justifica
tion what is the true divisional line be
tween the republic of Venezuela and
British Guiana. I suggest that the Con
gress make an adequate appropriation for
the expenses of a cor.imis.;ion to be ap
pointed by the Executive, w ho shall make
the necessary investigation and report
upon the matter with the least possible
delay.
Must Fig:ht If Necessary.
When such report is made and accepted,
it will, in ray opinion, be the duty of the
United States to resist by every means
in its power, as a willful aggression up
on its rights and interests, the appro
priation by Great Britain of any lands,
or the exercise of governmental jurisdic
tion over any territory which, after in
vestigation, we have determined of right
belongs to Venezuela.
In making these recommendations I
am fully alive to the responsibility in
curred and keenly nalize all the con
sequences that may follow.
1 am, nevertheless, lirm in my convic-
tint again, aal remember that we ttxnd by
tion that while it is a grievous thing to
contemplate tho great English-speaking
peoples of the world as being otherwise
than friendly competitors in the onward
march of civilization and strenuous and
worthy rivals in 11 the arts of peace,
there is no calamity which a great nation
can invite whieh equals that which fol
lows a supine submission to wrong and in
justice, and the consequent loss of na
tional self-respect and honor, beneath
which is shielded and defended a peo
ple's safety and greatness.
GItOV 1 1 1 1 C LE VE LA N D.
Iomloti liilitor J"xcitel.
London editors are literally frothing at
the mouth. The message of President
Cleveland on the Venezuelan boundary
question has had on them the exciting
effect which a red llag would have on at
enraged bull. Cjuarts of ink have been
wasted on violent diatribes against tho
Monroe doctrine and the American con
tention touching the rights of Venezuela,
and not a glint of justice or equity can
be discerned in the attitude assumed by
President Cleveland and Secretary Olney.
A Bicycle and a Dos:.
Going up the avenue on a cable car
last night I heard two or three excla
mations of wonder and surprise on tlui
rear platform and went out to see what
it was all about.
"You can train 'em to do anything,
can't you. sonny:" inquired the con
ductor of a boy who Avas riding a bi
cycle at the side of the track.
"Yes, indcedy," was the cheery re
sponse. "See, I can't even shake him
off." Here he violently shook his
body.
I looked closer and saw that a black
dog was clinging to the boy's neck,
with his hind paws holding precarious
ly on to about an inch of the projecting
rear of the bicycle scat, while Ids fore
legs were over his young master's
shoulders. The car stopped to let a
passenger off at l'.Hh street and the con
ductor, when the youngster and his pet
went skimming off in the darkness, told
ine the lad was a telegraph or district
messenger and "could do anything with
a ilawg but make him tiwk." Wash
ington Star.
The Kml of Chivalry.
At the battle of Morat in 147d the im
potence of the heavy mailed cavalry
against trained foot soldiers was mado
strikingly apparent. Time and agn'n
the Burgundlan knights, led by Charles
the Bold, charged the Swiss pikes, but
lu vaiu; the reign of chivalry was over.
: The man who wanted "little here be
low" west Into the newspaper business.
H ER FEZT HER FORTUNS.
The Peerless Bride of Naw York's
Chinstawa.
A little oval faced, small footed
Chinese woman was married before
the great Joss down in'Mott street last
Saturday week, and all Chinatown was
celebrating the glad event last night.
She was Miss Leo Toy. a lady of high
degree.
Her feet were of sr.ch nri.-tocratie
littleness that she is considered to
spirituelle :vA dainty to touch the
earth. She 5 ariifi'. up stairs and
down stairs, an 1 when sh" went to the
.loss House 10 be married she was care
fully wrapped Tip in siiks and brought
in a bundle.
The bri-b-irr-:1.! wa Tom Yen Hoy.
a prosperous merchant who sells teas
and all kinds (:" p;.M-r roots and herbs
at No. V. Mott street.
livery man in Chinatown, from old
Ah Sin. v.P.o bums th. iin-ense before
the joss, to . Yit. th richest man in
the place, is jealous of the bridegroom.
The lady's face is comely, yet her feet
are her fortune. From earliest child
hood tIm.v lave i).ei systematically
suppressed, and now limy are about
two inches in length. e.ie-s;xih ol an
ordinary foot.
She knows that no c.?ler woman in
Chinatown is on ie-r footing, and she
is proud r.nd imperious. When she
stamps those fee,-, which is not often,
as it is likely 1. hu:r her. her tail hus
band is iu m-rtel terror.
Sho Wciiird new drosses, and last
night. I saw before tie door ot No. VJ
Mott street, a delivery wagon from one
of tho most high-priced dry goods
houses in ti:o city.
The homo of Mr. and Mrs. Tom. on
the fourth l!or. is furnished with
plush sofas, broeatejio chairs ami red
Oriental haugipgs. In the midst of it
all stood Mrs. Toni Yen Hoy. She
waved her hand with a disdainful ges
ture ami called for p-a.
No function he'd i:i Chinatown has
attracted more attention than this
marriage. The .loss I lotste -;;s re
splendcnt. ai.d the iitth brass go, I
caused his face ü sh'iie as the couple,
to the beating; of drums, took their
places before him and swore to be ever
true.
"How about th" wedding. Ah Sin?'
I asked the burner of prayer sib ks.
"Wily little feet." said A'.i Sin.
"Bride pretty':" I :'sked.
"Couldn't walk." he said.
There have been enough dinners on
n'-connt ot this marriage to ruin the
digesth. of all Mott street. All the
loading men-hams and their wives met
at No. It Mott si tvoi last night, and in
ilse choicest arrack ;! !dg;'d anew the
health !" the happy couple. and
wished that their feet might ever pur
sue the rosy path of conjugal happi
ness. Criirii Among Animals.
Almost every form and variety of
human crime is to be found among
animals. Cases of theft are noticed
among bees. Bm-Imcr, in his "Psy
chie Life of Animals." speaks of thiev
ish bets which. 111 order to save them
selves the trouble of working, attack
well-stocked hives in masses, kill the
sentinels nnd the inhabitants, rob the
hives, ami carry off the provisions.
After repeated enterprises of this de
s riptieii they acquire a taste for rob
bery and violence: they recruit whole
companies which get more and more
numerous: and finally they form regu
lar colonies of brigaml-bees. But it is
a .still more curious fa et that these
brigand-bees can be produced artifi
cially by giving working bees a mix
ture of honey ami brandy to drink.
The bees soon acquire . taste for this
beverage, which lias tin same disas
trous effects upon them as upon men;
they become ill-disposed ami irritable,
and lose nil desire to work: and. liu
aily, when they begin ! feel hungry,
they attack and plunder the well-supplied
hives. There is one variety of
bees-the SphecodcS which lives ex
clusively upon plunder. According to
Man-hall, tins variety Is formed of
individuals of the Ilalyetcs species,
whose organs of niditication were de
fective, and whb-h have gradually de
veloped into a separate variety, living
almost exclusively by plunder. They
may thus be said to be an example of
innate and organic criminality among
insects, and they represent what Pro
fessor Lambroso calis the born crim
inalsthat is. individuals which are
led to crime by their own organic con
stitution. Heavy Demand for Fennies.
Ever since August last there has
been an exceedingly heavy demand on
the I'nited States Treasury for one
cent pieces. This demand is not con
fined to any one commercial centre, but
comes alike from all sections of the.
country. Treasury oilieials attribute
it to the growing custom iu dry-goods
establishments ami other business
houses of marking down prices from
round figures, which practice natur
ally requires a good supply of pennies
for making change.
The Treasury Department is doing
its best to meet the demand, and for
the last two months the mint at Phila
delphia has kept three presses con
stantly in operation for the exclusive
coinage of one-cent pieces. The daily
output has boon löo.ooo pieces of the
value of !?!.." m. The Government ap
parently derives a profit of i?l."0 a
day on this coinage, the seigniorage be
ing at the rate of nearly SO per cent,
of the face value of the coins. This
profit disappears, of course, when the
coins are redeemed. It is estimated
that there are TNomm.ooO one-cent
pieces outstanding.
Although Vermont has for several
years offered the lilnual bounty of fif
teen dollars on boars, the animals are
still found upon the mountains, and,
in the opinion of hunters and trap
pers, are growing in numbers iu that
section.