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MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1894.
Showing Their Disappointment.
Ttye republican papers, having failed in
heir (efforts to prevent the passage of a
ariff bill, are now showing their disap
pointment by attacking the President.
The New York Press, the most offensive
of all the republican papers, because of
its practice of purposely ignoring facts,
speaking of the action of the House in
deciding to accept the Senate bill, says:
Mr. Cleveland’s course is more than a
humiliating surrender. It is an unmis
takable admission that his lofty pretenses
of solicitude for ‘'principle” were sham
and humbug. It is a confession that his
sonorous platitudes which were echoed
with enthusiastic plaudits by the cuckoo
press had behind them nothing whatever
except the plan to frighten the Senate if
possible, and if not to throw down his
arms, drop the standard he had raised
with such a flourish of trumpets and igno
miniously run away from the men whom
he had denounced publicly as rascals and
traitors.
It was expected that the republican
papers would make a display of their
wrath by trying to make It appear that
the President played a double part in the
tariff business. He -is a shining njark.
rind they hope to make political
by aiming their Venomous shafts at him.
And the fact that the people pay no at
tention to their utterances increases their
vyrath. The President has the confidence
of the country in a remarkable degree.
Nothing his political enemies say of him
does him any barm.
He did not, as alleged, favor the Sen
ate bill. No one of the senators who
were called upon by Senator Gorman
when the latter delivered his remarkable
speech attacking the President—a speech
from which all unkind allusions to the
President were eliminated before it was
printed in the Record—said he did. Sen
ators, uninvited, went to tw white house
to consult with him, but he did not tell
them he favored the bill. When the
Senate had passed the bill he condemned
It. because it was not the kind of a tariff bill
the democrats were pledged to pass. The
whole conntry agreed with him and ap
plauded his letter to Chairman Wilson.
The charge that the President directed
the House to accept the Senate bill is un
true. The leader of the House, Mr. Wil
son, stated that the President did not in
terfere, with the conferees on the tariff
bill and did not express any opinion as to
the course the House should pursue when
it became evident that the conference
would not result in an agreement. The
best information is that the President did
not privately attempt to influence either
House In respect to the bill. He
openly condemned the bill passed by the
Senate and he hoped the Senate could be
induced to recede from some of the
amendments it had tacked on the bill.
It is not known that he approves of the
action of the House in accepting the Senate
amendments. It is reasonable, however,
to Suppose he does. The democrats could
not have made a greater mistake than to
have adjourned congress without having
passed a tariff bill of some kind.
The agitation in behalf of tariff reform
will go on until the country gets the kind
of tariff It wants. This congress may not
put sugar aind coal and iron ore on the
free Hit, .but the people will elect a con
gress that will take away the means the
sugar trust has of robbing thp people and
will give manufacturers free iron ore and
coal. Mr. Cleveland has been consistent
throughout the tariff contest, doing what
he could to lessen the burdens of the peo
pie and they will continue to have con?
fidence in him.
Why Change the Ratio P
The following questions have been sub
mitted to the Morning News from Abbe
ville, Ga.:
Up to 1873, the ratio between gold and
silver was 16 to 1, and everybody was sat
isfied, or, at least, a majority were. Will
you kindly answer through your valuable
paper why it is now necessary to raise
the ratio to 20 to 1, more or less? Current
creeds are that the price of gold has gone
up. If this is true, will you state what
was the true cause of its advancement?
I ask for information and trust vou will
find time for reply. R. E. Bradt.
In the foregoing communication consid
erable is assumed to be true which is not
true. As a matter of fact everybody was
not satisfied with the free coinage of sil
ver at the ratio of 16 to lup to 1873. No
body was satisfied. The evidence that no
body was satisfied is the fact that in that
year silver Was demonetized without op
position, because the silver in a silver
dollar was worth S cents more than the
gold in a gold dollar. No silver was taken
to the mint so be coined into silver dol
lars. because it was too valuable to be
coined into money. Silver was demon
etized because the silver dollar, being
worth more chan the gold dollar, was a
disturbing factor in the currency.
The reason why there is not now free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 is
because the silver in the silver dollar,
measured by the standard of all the
great commercial nations, is worth less
than fifty cents. While in 1873 the silver
in a sjver dollar was worth 3 cents more
than tne gold in a gold dollar it is now
worth only half as much as the gold in
a gold dollar. The reason of this is not,
as some would have it believed, because
gold bas become scarcer and thei'efore
dearer, but because silver has become
much more plentiful and therefore
cheaper. That this is true can be
readily seen by consulting the re
ports of the annual production of
silver during the last four years. The
production of silver has been enormous,
owing to the finding of new and immense
deposits of silver and to the cheaper pro
cesses for extracting the silver from the
ore. The production' of gold has been
about normal. These are not simply as
sertions. They are facts.
It is true, that the silverites say that
gold has advanced in value, but they have
not been able to show it has. They point to
the low prices of wheat and cotton as evi
dences that it has. It is true that the
prices of these articles are exceedingly
low, but are not the low prices of these
articles due to overproduction? More
cotton and wheat are produced than tjie
world needs. The prices of watermelons
are high in the beginning of the melon
season, but low when the sea
son advances ‘ and the markets
become overstocked. Again, if the low
prices of wheat and cotton were due to an
increase in the value of gold we should
expect the price of corn to be low, and also
wages. As a matter of fact, the price of
corn is higher than it has been for years,
and wages are higher than when the sil
ver in a silver dollar was worth
more than the gold in a gold dollar. There
is> therefore, nothing to show that there
has been an advance in the value of gold,
but a great deal to show that there has
been a very great decline in the value of
silver.
The. reason why it is necessary to raise
the ratio between gold and silver from 16
to 1 to 20 or more to 1, if the free coinage
of silver is entered upon, is that
in order to make a silver dollar circulate
on a parity with a gold dollar—that is,
have the same purchasing power as a gold
dollar—it must contain a dollar’s worth of
silver. It is true that it now has the
same purchasing power as a gold dollar,
and it. does not contain a dollar's worth
of silver. The reason of this is that the
government gives a gold dollar in ex
change for a silver dollar. The people
could not be made to believe that the gov
ernment could continue to do this if the
coinage of silver were made free. The
government could not get the gold to do
it, and as soon as the people lost confi
dence in the ability of the government to
pay out gold for silver, they would refuse
to take a silver dollar except at its real
value, which is less than 50 cents.
In all the countries in which there is
free coinage of silver the silver coins are
worth in gold only about half their face
value. If we should have free silver
coinage our silver dollars would occupy
the same place in our currency, in relation
to gold, that the silver currency of the
free silver coinage countries occupies in
the currency of those countries.
This silver question is playing an im
portant part in the campaign in this state
and we have therefore given considera
ble space to answering our correspon
dent’s questions.
They Created the Trust.
The New York Tribune calls the tariff
bill, which was sent to the Presidentyes
teMay, “an infamous Bill of Sale to the
Sugar Trust.”
The Tribune has overlooked the fact
tliit the Republican party, of which it is
the leading organ, practically created the
sugar trust. There was not much of a
sugar trust Before the McKinley tariff
was enacted. That tariff gave life to it.
It provided it with raw sugar and gate
it protection to the extent of 60 cents per
100 pounds.
As soon as the McKinley tariff went
into operatfon the sugar refiners got to
gether and formed the trust. All compe
tition was prevented by the combination.
The refineries that were not needed were
closed, and only as many were operated
as were required to meet the demand for
refined sugar. The price of sugar was
put just as nigh as it was possible to put
it without permitting refined sugar to be
imported.
The bill that the democratic congress
has passed reduces the protection for fae
trust from 60 cents per 100 pounds to 42fa"
cents. That is a very great reduction.
It will reduce the pi-otits of the trust sev
eral millions of dollars a year.
What an amount of gall the Tribune
must have in the face of such facts as
these to designate the democratic tariff,
bill as “an infamous Bill of Sale to the
Sugar Trust.” But, then, the republican
papers never have any regard for the
facts when discussing political questions.
The Atlanta papers have heard of the
formation by the populists in South Geor
gia of secret organizations pf ignorant ‘
colored voters under the name of the
“Cniored League.” The members are said
to be oath bound, among other things, to ■
vote the populist tieket. In -return for
the political fealty of the oath-bound'
blacks, the populists promise to keep
them out of the chain-gang in case they
develop any moral obliquities. The Jour
nal got some of the details of the organi
zation through a letter from a South
Georgia gentleman. If there is any such
thing as what is suggested going on in
South Georgia the promoters are keeping
it very quiet. And they must be operat
ing among the most ignorant class of
blacks. The colored people are fond of
secret societies, grips and passwords.
But it is pretty safe to say that very few,
if any, of them, are going into a “colored
league” and pledging themselves to vote
with the populists. Generally speaking,
the average black regards the contest
betwee* the democrats and the populists
as strictly a white man's fight, and keeps
himself out of the muddle. The more in
telligent black has better sense than to
go into any such “colored league.”
The report published a day or so ago
that Somdetch Phra Paraminda Maha
Chulalongkorn Patindir Debia Maha
Mongkut Purusiraatue Raja Ra Wongse
Warut Mabrongse Parabut Warahhat
tiara. Raja Nikaro Tama Chaturanta
Parama Maha Chak Rubai' Tira Gasang
kas Parumadharm Mika Maha Rujad
Hiraja Para Manrth Pabite Phra Chula
Chomklau Chau Yu Hua, King of Siam,
was dead, is believed now to have been
an error. He has for some time been in
ill health, probably from the depressing
effect of his name: but the last authentic
advices from him were to the effect that
ho had left it all off but Chulalongkorn
for the warm season, and was expected to
pull through.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1894.
PERSONAL.
Emma Nevada, the American prima donna,
has just left Parts to begin a concert tour
through Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Eight aged men were pallbearers at the
funeral of Judge Hughes, of Richmond, Mo.
Their combined ages amounted to 597 years.
Clifton R. Breckinridge of Arkansas, the
new minister to Russia, expects to sail from
New York for St. Petersburg about Sept. 15,
M. Janyschew, the Russian priest who was
sent to Darmstadt to conduct the conversion
of the Princess Alix, the bride of the Czar
owitz of Russia, performed the same office
tor the present czarina. He. has been the
cohfessor of the imperial family for many
years.
The oldest living soldier is said to be Nic
olas De Savin, who has just celebrated his
126th birthday,, and who was born in Paris on
April 17, 1768, and in 1798 enlisted m the army
formed at Havre by Napoleon for an expedi
. tion against the English. He is now living
in Russia.
Mme. Pherore LangraVia, an East Indian
lady, Is attracting much attention in London
as a singer She is a'pupil of Sims Reeves,
and her specialty is the performance of Per
sian melodies., So far as known, she is the
first Indian woman to attain distinction as a
public singer.
It may be interesting to know that Santo,
the assassin of President Carnot, was treated
differently from ordinary criminals By arti
cle 86 of tne penal code, his offense dknked
with parricide, rind he had > to walk to the
scaffold with veiled face, bare feet and only
clothed in, his shirt.
It is said that Lady Gwendolen Cecil, the
youngest daughter of Lord Salisbury, is en
gaged upon a political novel, into which sev
eral well known personages will te intro
duced. A sketch of rather romantic charac
ter also is expected to be shortly forthcoming
from the same author.
Simon Ingersoll, the inventor of the Inger
soll rock drill, died at his home in Glenbrook,
Conn.. recently, at the age of 76. He had
lived in retirement for some years, and was a
plain and unassuming man. He died poor,
although others made fortunes, by their
efforts and business skill, out of his inven
tions.
BRIGHT BITS.
Venus—Hello. Cupid! What are you idling
away your time for? Why aren't you at the
summer resorts?
Cupid—No use, ma. I've been there
and they guyed the life out of me.—Chicago
Record.
‘ Will you have some of the Saratoga
chips?” said the hostess.
• Well.” said the young man from Arizona,
“I don’t know anything about Saratoga, but
I'll play it a fpsy..dollars’ worth ’’—Washing
ton Star.
A little 4-year-old Phillips girl, on being
asked if she knew what held the stars in the
sky. replied promptly, and with the uimost
confidence: “Oh. yes, God puts his arm
around them and holds them there. ’’—Kenne
bec Journal.
Emigrant Inspector (tc new arrival from
the old sodd-rM/. man. are you an American
citizen?
New Arrival—Not just yet„ r sur, but I don!t
moled tellin.’.yer.that I’m a candidate for ai
derman. —South Boston News.
“Is this the Senate chamber?’’ asked the
stranger In Washington of one of the attend
ants. ;
"Yes, sir.”
“Indeed,” said the stranger, “and which is
Mr Havemej'er’s.seat?”—Chicago Herald.
Anita—Do you know, I like appearing in
Lhe living pictures better than any other
kind of show I was ever in.
Etta—Why's that?,
Anita—We aon’t have to have any dress re
hearsals, you know.—South Boston News.
Waterson—Don’t you think it’s quite the
right thing to keep liquor dealers out of our
society?
Beerson—l don’t know 'about that. Sup
posing the liquor dealers should retaliate by
keeping us out of their saloons?—South Bos
ton News.
Wife—What in the name of the town dump
is that?
Husband (from the next room)— What?
What are you looking at?
, <•£ don’t know what it is. It looks some like
a sunburnt shingle, but smells more like a
rotten cabbage ”
, ‘Now. see here. You fool women can
never Understand straight sense. We men
came home from camp as hardy as mountain
eers. f was the cook and I wanted to
show you what good, healthy hoecake was
like ”
“Well, never mind, pet, we can use it all
right ”
“Ah! Os course you can ”
“Yes. we can patch a hole in the washboiler
with it.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Georgia Always in Front.
From the Valdosta (Ga.) Times (Dem.),
Toombs and Stephens in the ante-bellum
days were the leaders in the Louse of Repre
sentatives. Now it Is Turner and Crisp. Geor
gia is always in it at Washington.
Works Well in Kentucky.
From t,he Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
The democrats of Georgia have become
sensible of the inconvenience of extending
the task of appointing delegaie; to a state
convention over a series of weeks, by which
plan voters may be colonized and outside in
fiences L rought to bear in other ways. The
re.ent state convention adopted a resolution
that hereafter all the delegates shall be ap
pointed on the same day. This nlan has been
In operation in Kentucky for a number of
years and has been found to work well.
Tho Free Sugar “Pop-Gun.”
From the New Orleans Picayune (Dem.).
Although it is possible that a majority of
the senators might favor free sugar, should
the hill come up for a final vote in the near
future, the rules of the Senate afford every
facility for preventing a vote before full op
portunity-for debate has been allowed. The
longer the debate is protracted, the greater
will be the difficulty experienced in passing’
a free sugar bill, because the needs of the
government Will become more apparent, and
it will be generally recognized that the tariff
bill, without the sugar duty, would utterly
fh.il toprovide the needed revenue tor the gov
ernment; which is Its mam purpose.
After the Fight Is Over.
From Springfield (Maas.) Republican (Ind.)..
The party organ now hunteth up opinions
on the effect of the new tariff law on business.
The protectionist republican organ goes to
managers of highly protected industries and
to stalwart party mein, and learns from them
that utter and unavoidable ruin is to come at
once, ’the democratic organ goes to free
trade, tariff reform democrats and gets only
the most rose-colored of rose colored views of
the future. It would not do to print opinions
which run counter to the lamenting or the re
joicing of the editorial page. It is only the
independent newspaper which feels perfectly
comfortable when printing everybody's opin
ion, whether agreeing with its own or not.
Was It Really Whipped f
From the Columbia (S’. C.) Register' (Dem.).
The alliance whipned the jute trust very
thoroughly several years ago, but it looks as
if the tight will have to be fought all over
again, i'he trust Jjas been raising the prices
of bagging, by degrees, until it has atout
reached the sqeezing point. It may be ques
tioned if the trust is not now in a stronger
condition than the alliance. The alliance has
one method at hand of effectually squelching
the jute trust, and that is to get the farmers
to ship their cotton to market covered with
strong cotton cloth, which will create an ad
ditional demand for cotton. There is no
sense in sending to foreign countries for the
material to cover Our cotton with when we
have the best of materials right at hand.
An Income Tax Contention.
From the Philadelphia Record (Deni.).
The income tax will furnish matter for ar
gument and legal definition in the courts.
The act reads that “from and after Jan. 1.1895.
and until Jan. 1, 1900. there shall be assessed,
levied, collected and paid annually a tax of 2
per centum on the amount of income over and
aoove #4,000; that this tax shall be assessed
by the commissioner of internal revenue, and
paid upon the gains, profits and income for
the year ending Dec. 31 next preceding the
time for levying, collecting and paying such
tax.” It is contended that this must be con
strued to apply to incomes accruing after the
act becomes operative, on the ground that
otherwise the operation of the law would be
ret’-oact.ve. This seems a strained construc
tion. If the courts could find some flaw in
the act that would make it altogether inoper
ative ft would be a matter of rejoicing. Taxes
thatMiannot be collected with equal certainty
from honest and dishonest property-holders
ought not to ba
A Narrow Escape.
One cool September dav, says a writer in
the Washington Star, a small party of confed
erates could be seen wending their way down
thedustv road that leads into the little town
of Warrenton. And from the tired look of
the men and the steaming sides of the horses,
one could plainly seathap the cavalcade had
ridden fast and tar. ’’
The company were a party of the rangers,
and at theft .hehdrbde their chief. Mosby, on
a black steed-,-. .while thorrestuof. the men
trotted on behind in a 'lofrhuwly manner and
made the air ring with their -jests and gay
songs. It was . true tliat the .'enemy might
come in sight at any moment, or , that some
stray bullet from a foe hidden in a bush .might
cut short the laughing wotds on the merry
lips, but familiarity with the horrors of war
had bred an easy.indlfference. and these men.
though daily .facing death, thought no more of
their danger. than if they were riding to a
picnic in fame nefahbriringg’-bvc.
It was juSt'about noon when the party dis
mounted at a farmhouse". And in an instant
the jolly confederates were the center of an,
admiring group that crowded a bout .them .and
the eager host hastened to bring out for tbeir
entertainment all the' good things that his
larder afforded. The men were. Hungry, arid,
seated beneath the huge oaks, triey were soon
discussing the relative merits of the butter
milk and fried chicken with which they were
plentifully supplied. But time wore en. and
the men. forgetful of its passing, sought re
freshment In a doze on the grass beneath the
trees. ..... ,
A sudden cry of ‘the yankecs are criming”
rang out on the still afternoon air, and the
confederates sprang to their r arses just as a
porty of Union troops dashed in sight around
a bend in the road. In a moment the rangers
had leaped op their steeds and galloped oat
of sight down a narrow woody lane that ran
near the brim and partially concealed them
from view, in fact, their escape would have
been successful, had not one man’s- restive
nag delayed the fellow so long in mounting
that the approaching squad caught a glimpse
of the gray jacket as it vanished in a cloud of
dust in the distance.
Ari of the rangers.had gotten out of danger
except their leader. Mosby, who was in the
house when the alarm was given and had not
heard the warning cry. So when he looked
up from the book which he was reading,
while resting in the cool of the hallway, he
saw the union troops charging in at the gate,
which was. only a few hundred yards away.
It was too late now to escape, and while the
tederals did-ndt yet know of his presence they
would search the house, and it was only a
matter of afew.jnoments before he.would be
a prisoner.ip their hands-
m the parlor which -opened into the hall, a
young, lady sat sewing and her quick 'wit toou
in tbe situation at a glance.
“Here, step in this clock case,” she hur
riedly wnispered, as she threw open faedoor
of an immense old clock that stood ticking in
one cornet' of the hall. And in a moment
Mosby had squeezed himself into its dusty
recess.
By this time the union men were dismount
ing. but before they entered the house the
lady had seated herself and was quietly
sewing. * - .. ..
The. union officer strode into the room and
looked anxiously about. ' .
"Are there any rebels concealed in this
house,” he demanded in a loud voice.
"Mosby's men were here, a while ago,” she
replied, ‘but they afi .escaped aS your troop
came in sight.”-
Ihe officer glanced about the-room and his
quick eye caught sight of a man's grist felt hat
thrown carelessly on a chair.- ..< . '
“Search the house,” he ordered of three
men who were wafting his commands. t
In a moment fae men in blue were swarm
ing over the hoifse and poking into e very nook
and corner. They commenced at the garret,.
searching, each room closely as they de
scended, and the rattle of their sabers could
be hqard distinctly in. the hall below, as they
tramped about, throwing open closets arid up
setting beds.- -'■■■■ ■- i
Presently all gathered in the hall and were
discussing in a disappointed tope their fruit
less search. '■ r..
Every moment seemed an eternity to the
rauger shut up in the hot. dusty depth of trie
old clock, and the warm air had grown almost
unbearable. Yet he. dare not move, for pnly
a few feet away he could plainly hear the
angry tones of the yankee-officer, and the
least motion meant capture or death. Slowly
the moments fragged on, and still the men
lingered. i ! ‘
Finally, the occupant of the clock felt an
uncontrollable desire to sneeze. And as he
realized the fact he broke out in a cold pers
piration at.the horrible thought. To prevent
it was something beyond his control, but a
sneeze would surely be answered by a bullet
through the clock case, and the ranger felt he
would prefer the danger of facing his foes in
an open light. ...» . *
Suddenly a bright idea came into bis mind,
and fast W shetezeiSe gave
a pull oa the pendulum that sent ail the
wheels whirling in a loud confusion.
The union men glanced suspiciously ut the
noisy timepiece.
"I am afraid that clock needs mending,”
remarked the lady, carelessly, as she turned
down a new hem in the liuen oh which site
was sewing, and her quiet voice disarmed
suspicion.
With a sigh of relief Mosby heard the offi
cer command bls men to mount, and pres
ently the gallop of their departing horse
boofs fell on his delighted ear. ana scarcely
had tbe echo died away, when the clock flew
open and the exhausted prisoner struggled
out in an almost suffocated condition.
A merry laugh bad the ranger over his nar
row escape, but ail the dangers that he faced
during four years of bloodshed there were
none that tried his. nerves like the terrible
half-hour spent in the old clock case.
Where Uobh “Was At.”
Representative Brosius, speaking to a Post
reporter for the Washington Post, of some
odd literary idioms that have become quite
standard in our language, said:
“Judge Cobb of Alabama, a genial and able
gentleman, who has been the butt of a good
deal of harmless fun on account of the odd
expression ‘ft here am I at?'—now become a
household one—used by him one afternoon in
a debate in the House,has quite the advantage
of his critics, for he did not use the expres
sion under authority that is absolutely classi
cal. The judge evidently knew where he was
at fa the literary point of view, tor he has
no less an authority than Ibomas. Carlyle. In
his life of Cromwelr, commenting upon some
act of the English government, Carlyle says:
‘What are we arriving at?’
"A good many odd and perhaps umgram
matical expressions have tec-pine standard
because of the authority of a great name.
After all. there is no more authorlive stan
dard in matters.relating to language thaji the
use of the best speakers and writers, and
Judge Cobb hast not transgressed any literary
canon by following so distinguished a loader
as Thomas Carlyle,” .
Like Blackburns Whisky Story.
“Away back fa thfe ‘sd's,“ said Judge Amos
Rivers of Vifainia; Who was holding forth to
the crowd that nightly .occupy fate curb in -
front of the Natibnal, according to fae Wash-?,
ington Post. -‘ I was down in Texas, kinder,'
roamin' 'tound loose, and if I had been pos
sessed es any practical turn of mind, or the
least bit of prudent foresight, I would have
stuck to that country and have been a sight
bigger millionaire than George Gould by this
time. Land! Why. sir, .you Could buy land
that was richer than cream for a song. Plenty
of waxey, black prairie land could be had for
two bits an acre that is now worth 8200.
and you could have a life time to pay it in.
“It’s the one regret of my life, that I failed
to make a trade with a feller who approached
me in Austin one day and offered to sell me a
league—they measured land by the league
down there—of the finest Colorado river bot
tom for a pair of boots.' The finest piece of
land that a crow ever flew over. ’ '
“And why didn t you take him up?’’ asked
three listeners in the same breath.
“Oh. h quoted the judge, “I didn't
have the boots.”
My Rival.
From Life.
I have just returned, and. peeping in.
I see my wife and my rival there..
His dark hair touches her velvet cheek.
And their eyes bum love in the firelight's
flare. •
Oh, why do I not. like the men in the books.
Creep back down the stairs and into the
night.
And take my pain and hated self
Forever out of my darling s sight?
Or why not fling the door wide open.
Confront this villain with smiling face,
Disown this wife whose heart is another's,
And live alone with my deep disgrace?
What was that sound? A kiss I vow!
Yet. would you belive it? I smile with joy,
And now 1 am kissing them both myself—
For you see. he s my litUe baby boy.
Prof. Spencer bas read a paper before the
Royal Society ©f London on the age of the
Niagara F alls. After considering the whole
geological and other antecedents of the lake
country, he arrived at the conclusion that the
years of the falls are 31,1)00, to which must be
added another thousand years as the age of
the river before the nativity of the great cat
aract.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Says tbe New York Commercial ? dvertiser: .
“That popular society correspondent. Mr.
Ward McAllister, finds much to write about
himself in England, but he hasn't a word to
say about the Goulds, who are now hobnob
bing with the emperors, princes and dukes.
Mr. McAllister only sees these gay things
through a crack tn the fence, as it were, and
he ignores them in his simple, Jeemes Yellow
plush way. ■
Haymakers are at work in. not on, the
Chesapeake and Ohio < anal,' between Han
cock and Williamsport says the New York
Tribune. They are cutting the grass under
water on the bottom and sides of the canal.
The growth is’ dense, rind not only impedes
boats, but keeps the water back frona the
levtels. An ordinary harvesting mower, with
closed wheels, to prevent the giasS from clog
ging them, is attached to the rear of a scow,
drawn by a heavy team, and is managed by
two men who ride on it. It is rallied and low
ered by means of a .block and tackle. »The
cleats on the wheels are long and sharp, to
give the machine a good grip oh the rriiry bot
tom.-and the machine cuts a wide swath,
sending tons of long, floating grass, to the
surface. .
Here is a recipe which, says the New Or
leans Picayune. oyer the-iake fishermen may
find useful to avold-the nuisance of the mos
quitoes. which make fishing In the bayous
sometimes almost impossible; Three ounces
ot pine tar. two ounce§ of castor oil and one
ounce of oil of ptennyroyal, simmered to
gether over a fire, make a sort of varnish,
which, when spread liberally over the skin,
forms a glaze that mosquitoes cannot' do
business through. The glaze should not be
washed off while the insects are around. The
mixture does no harm to the skin, and will
heal the bites already received.: A two ounce
vial of it will f irpifa a man with a sort of
armor plate for several weeks. and ena le
him to enjoy himself in the worst mosquito
infested-hole in creation
It -is interesting to know that! the burning
lamp or the flame of any tire is still largely
used throughout the Orient in confirmation
ofcovenants or agreements. It is one of the
most ancient modes of ratifying covenants,
and is mentioned in several peaces in the
Bible as having been in vogue in the
time of the patriachs. In Corea, Farther
India, Hindoostan and in parts of China
and Japan it is the custom, when
making a solemn promise, especially
should the other doubt sincerity, for the one
making the promise to point to the flame and
say: “The flame is my witness. ’ On oc
casions of greater importance, when several
join in a compact, where the fidelity of one or
more is questioned, the company repair to
some mosque or temple, form in a circle
around the “lamp of the temple,” and in the
presence of a mandarin or priest each sol
en nly agrees With the other, pointing each
time to the flame us a witness. The'tartars,
in taking oaths or making covenants, use the
liver of a sheep, goat or horse, rub their lin
gers in the blood, and then make circles on
their foreheads, the wpoie proceeding having
the same symbolic meaning that the flame
has in the Orient.
Recent experiments indicate that the nor
mal eye can discriminate 165 pep irate tints in
the spectrum. The leg of a perfectly formed
man should te as long as the distance from
the end of his nose to the tip of his fingers.
The liver, like the heart, is never idle, though
its period of greatest activity is several hours
after digestion has, begun. 'l'he chemical com
position of the epidermis cf fae Jieel is nearly
the same as that of the matter of nail , horns
and hoofs. The normal temperature of the
stomach is about l)8°: Food has to be raised to
this temperature before it can be digested.
I'he average hight of the men in the
the union army in 1863. was 5 feet 7
inches. Tbe natives-fa this country average a
greater hight than.that of any other. The
three small bones stretched in a chain across
the middle ear are. named the mallet, the
anvil and the stirrup, from real or fancied re
semblances. Frankish wofaten have onlv pne
pomade, a greose proceeding from the skin of
sheep and clinging to its wool. It had a nau
seous odor, but was singularly efficacious in
giving smoothness to the skin. The test for
symmetry is to turn a man with his face to
the wall. If he is perfectly formed his chest
will touch it, his nose will' be four inches
away, his thighs five, the tips of his toes
three.
John is the negro porter who has charge of
a car on which the officials of one of the big
railroad systems that center in Chicago take
their business ana pleasure trips abroad.
John has hada very uncomfortable birthfora
good while. When he took charge of the car
he found that his predecessor, fa revenge for
having to give up a good berth, had portrayed
many weird picturesfof dragons and hobgon
lins on the ceilfag and walls of the kitchen,
and John felt sure that the car was-‘hoo
dooed,” The first trip he made resulted in
an accident, which confirmed" him in his
impression, and many troubles of greater
or less magnitude followed which made him
certain. A. few days ago the cur
left the track up in Wisconsin
and rolled down a steep embankment, and
when Jonn, covered wjth cuts and bruises,
managed to crawl out through a broken win
dow, he declared ir most emphatic tones that
he would make no more trips in that car. In
repairing the car at the shops after the acci
dent the workmen found fastened between
the walls of the kitchen a curious fish like
monster, or the remains of it. which was
pretty well all head arid tail. It was put into
a cottie and sent to John, who is greatly
elated, and declares that it is the identical
hoodoo which has given him so much trouble
and anxiety. He says that now everything
will be all right, and there will be no more
accidents
Fertile last two or three days? says the
Philadelphia Record of Aug. 17, efforts have
teen made to jacket the nickel-steel gun at
the Washington navy yard, but as yet success
bas not rewarded the work in that direction.
Several excuses have been offered as to why
the Sellers system of jacketing has not been
satisfactory. It has not teen fully deter
mined yet, however, as to whether the system
is at fault, ihe process of jacketing is to
lower the tube of the gun into a pit. in which
is also a furnace. The jacket is heated, and
after having reached a proper temperature,
and hence a proper expansion,’ it Is lowered
down over the tube, A stream of cold water
is shot up through the tube, which cools it off.
and the jacket shrinks to the tube. The most
important part of the work is to heat the
jacket with a certain degree of uniformity,
and for this purpose various methods of heat
ing are usually tried, ifamettmes coal is used
and sometimes wood. For the nickel-steel gun.
however, naptha has been used, it being
claimed that a greater degtee of uniformity
would res ilt. An atfarnpt was made Friday
to shrink the jacket on. 'ihe tute was put
into the pit and the 'jacket heated, but when
it was lowered on the tube it was noticed that
a little part stuck-. If the jacket had re
mained on the tube Jong enough for the cold
water to have been tbrnfed on. great difficulty
would have resulted to get it off, but immedi
ately the uneven- part -zas discovered it was
gotten off.and ah investigation commenced,
•j he Sellers people claimed that the tuue was
not standing plum a. To' remedy this the pit
where tbe tube stands is being repaired, and
on Mopday it is expected to again commence
the operation of jacketing the gun.
A Novelty in Butterfliea.
Puck has in its lithographing department a
German who is an amateur naturalist, says
the New York Sun. .He is a constant delight
to the editorial department, or rather he was
until Managing Editor Gibson hurt his feel
ings last week. Schmidt—that Isn t his
name, but it will do—carries part of his natu
ral history collection around with him. Mr.
Gitson doesn't know anything about those
things, and he doesn t want to.
Mr. Gitson was pinching the creases in his
trousers one waini day when an unusually
large cockroach crawled upon his desk and
looKed at him.
“Too bad Butmer has given his circus."
said Mr. Gibson, “but he may be happy yet."
He captured the cockroach and boxed him
up. Then he cut a pair of large wings out of
tissue paper and persuaded Artist C- J. Tay
lor to paint them in colors. When they were
neatly fastened on the cockroach's back he
placed the animal on his desk and summoned
Schmidt. The amateur natunst is near
sighted and wears glasses.
‘ schnridt," said Mr. Gitson. “here s a new
butterfly for your bug collector. It new into
the office just now.”
By this time the cockroach was crawling up
the wall, handicapped by his paper wings
Schmidt approached it closely, and, peering
through his glasses. exclaimed:
"Gott in Himmel, Ml GeebsOn! Das Ist
Ungeheuer!"
"Yah: so I thought," returned Mr. Gibson.
“Yah.” said tchmidt, still squinting
through his glasses. “Vate a minute for my
glass.”
Off dashed Schmidt, and when he returned
he had a large magnifying glass. Be focussed
it on the strange butterfly and peered again.
For a moment he was perplexed. He gently
took a wing between his thumb and first
finger and off it came. He squinted narder,
and a look of disgust settled on his features.
He brushed the cockroach off the wall. and.
withan explosive “Donnerwetter!” he left
the office.
“You can’t suit some men,” said Mr. Gib
son thoughts lly, again ptuching the creases
in his trousers.
THE NEWS IN GEORGIA.
Gathered From Correspondents and
Exchanges.
A rattlesnake measuring seven 'feet was
recently killed in Btyan county. It had thir
teen rattles.
Waycross Herald: Watermelons two for a
nickel in Waycross. We are already feeling
the effects of the tariff bill.
The new Columbus city hospital, when com
pleted, will be a building to oe proud of. The
wor ,^. is prosecuted with wonderful
rapidity.
Seven Americus gentlemen met the other
?, a o y y.. ho weighed respe .lively 208. 213, 21?,
/IS, 220, 214 and 235 pounds—a grand total or
l,uc4 pounds.
A ,?V, tle girl in Twiggs county caught a
small live rattlesnake and carried it to the
nouse. She had gripped the reptile around
the neck and sustained po/harm.
While cow hunting in the woods. Mr. James
of Clinch county found -a rattlesnake sup
posed to have been run out of the island of
Cone creek wy a freshet. He killed it, and it
measured 13 feet and 9 inches in length.
A negro had a streak of. luck while Ashing
m the Flint river, near Albany. -His line be
came tangled in something, which proved to
be a lady's gold necklace, which had evident
ly lain at the bottom of the river for many
years.
W. B. Gibson of Dawson has invented a well
tackle, which, it is said, will prove to be the
best thing ever known for drawing water.
He has applied for a patent, and says that a
company, with SIO,OOO, will be behind his in
vention. V
Wrightsville is full of school teachers this
week on this occasion of the teacher's insti
tute now in session, conducted by Prof. Mc-
Nab ot Adel. Tne exercises are being held in
the college chapel, and there arc quite a num
ber of teachers in attendance. The session
will hold for Ave days.
The only business transacted at the state
alliance meeting at Dublin on Wednesday was
that of the exchange. The principal action
was the appointment of S. L. Ledbetter to
wind up the affairs of the exchange. Marlon
Butler, who was to have delivered the annual
address at 10 o’clock this morning, did not ar
rive.
Wednesday night at Vimba some one
entered a tent at the campground while all
the occupants were asleep and rifled the
gockets of Mr. Brady of Oglethorpe, securing
is gold watch and a purse containing sls in
money and some valuable papers. Mr. Brady
was left entirely penniless, having no money
to defray his traveling expenses home.
There was a lively smash up in the Georgia
railroad yard at Augugita Tuesday afternoon.
One of the engines was coming at a pretty
lively rate from the direction of the ice fac
tory and the other was steaming up toward
the elevator. They came together with a
frightful crash. Both were wrecked, the rear
end of one and the front end of the other being
badly smashed.
Herald: Waycross seems to have keen the
center of several electric currents recently.
A short time after Mr- Knight's, house was
struck on Elizabeth street, a dwelling belong
ing to Prof. Snelson, near Reedsville, was
also visited with a stroke. One of the front
columns was torn into kindling wood and
considerable Other dart age was done. A
family occupied the house, but in this as in
the case of Mr. Knight’s' family no one was
injured. A large cypress tree not far from
the Snelson house was also struck during the
storm.
Times-Recorder: A pilgrim at Americus,
who is making his way through life under
weight of the name of Mullins, was ’touched''
for three silver dollars at the mayor's mati
nee performance Tuesday morning. It ap
pears that ©ol. Mullins took an overdose of
spiritus frumenti the night before, and, ere
the effects wore off. imagined himself Buffalo
Bull or some other hero of the plains. At the
Central depot he flourished a pocket howitzer
to the terror of all about him, and while the
crowd scattered Officer Cob > swiped the ama
teur border hero, and. after a struggle,
towed him to Port Lamar. He was charged
with being drunk and disorderly and carry
ing concealed weapons.
A thief got into the home of J. McDaniel,
at the corner of Jackson and Hopkins streets,
Augusta, about 3:30 o’clock Wednesday morn
ing. Ingropingwtout the house he invaded
the room in which Mr. McDaniel's daughter
was sleeping. He. evidently, in feeling his
way, there being no light in the room, placed
his hand on, the young lady. When she awoke
she saw the'form of a man near her, and
screamed to her father for help. The man
jumped over the bed and through the closed
window, making good his escape. Having re
covered from her fright, the young lady gave
chase and jumped through the window to <he
ground below in pursuit of the robber. The
burglar, however, had gotten out ot sight.
The young lady cannot say whether he was
white or black, but thinks he was a negro.
In a jaunt through the southwest part of
Cobb county almost to the Douglas line the
Marietta Journal man had a good opportunity
to observe the crops, and says he never saw
liner crops in that county. The corn, the
cotton, the peas, the sugar cane, the sweet
potatoes, etc., are as good as man can desire,
unless he is an extremely seltish ani greedy
man. The Lord has certainly smned upon
the farmer this year. It shows that elbow
greese and good seasons, under the blessings
ot Providence, will do more for the farmer
than parties or politics. If the people grum
ble this year, then they are the most ungrate
ful set in existence. But the farmers are
cheerful. They are bragging on their “cham
pion held of corn” or their ‘ champion patch
of cotton” as if they felt good, and they do.
Times-Enterprise: The court house at
Thomasville was crowded Tuesday morning,
principally by country people, at the prelimi
nary trial of Dolly Barrow, the voting woman
who was put in jail a few days ago, charged
with killing her new-born babe. The'alleged
crime, was committed in the Chastlan neigh
borhood July 18. The bate was found in an
old well partially Ailed with water on Aug. 6.
The coroner held aninquestover the body,
and the verdict of the jury was that it came
to its death at the hands of its mother, and
they-’pconounced it murder. The coroner is
sued a warrant for her and she was ar
rested and locked up as soon as
her condition would permit. At a
preliminary trial 1 etore Judge Alexander,
it transpired that the unfortunate woman,
who belongs to a good family and is unmar
ried, gave birth to the child in an old field
some distance from her home and ih order to
conceal her shame threw the babe in an old
well. She testified that the child was born
dead and that its father was a young man by
the name of Culpepper living in the
same neighborhood. She also stated
that Culpepper threatened. a short
while before the birth of the'child, to kill her
if she gave him away. At the conclusion of
the evidence speeches were made by Col.
Mclntyre add Capt. Hansell, after which the
judge decided that the evidence was not. suf
ficient to justify him in binding the woman
over for murder, but held that she had com
mitted a crime in concealing a birth, which is
a misdemeanor, and fixed her bond at SSOO,
which was given.
Mrs. Eliza Pritchard, an aged and good
lady living near Swainsboro, died suddenly a
few days ago.
Americus banks show an increase over 1893,
the returns this year being $390',000 as against
$334.0C0 last year.
Herald: A new census ot Waycross would
show that the population of city had in
creased more than 500 during the past two
years.
An election for major will be held at Macon
on Aug. 29 for the vacant office in the Second
Georgia regiment, there being now only two
majors in the regiment.
William Hogan of Grover, Wilcox county,
aged 80 years, and a veteran of the Seminole
Indian war. was one of the guards who es
corted the Seminole chief. Billy Bowlegs, to
the reservation, in the then far west.
The project of securing to Athens a through
line of railroad to the west by the building of
thirty-seven miles of railroad from Lula to
Ball Ground, and the consolidation of the
Marietta and North Georgia railroads, are
matters urged by the Athens Banner.
Prof. Bass of Atlanta has teen elected pres
ident of Douglasville College. He is a son of
Prof. Bass of Atlanta, who is assistant super
intendent of the city schools. He .graduated
at the Boys' high school of Atlanta, Emory
College and the University of Virginia.
The stockade on the Lee Jordan Stewart
plantation at Leesburg was struck by light
ning Thursday, shattering the upper part of
stables into kindling wood. There were thir
ty-two mules, besides a number of hogs, in
the stockade. Fortunately but one mule and
one hog were killed.
An Augusta youth, who spends his time
when out of school looking after his chickens,
of which he raises a number of broods every
year, had a singular experience last spring.
One of his favorite hens came off the nest
with only one little chick; this one soon died,
and about the same time a pigeon was noticed
in the yard with a broken wing. >he be
reaved hen immediately assumed the care of
the disabled bird, which, strange to say, at
oijce accepted the guardianship of the hen
and remained under her care until its wing
was well again, when it resumed its former
way of living.
ROUND ABOUT IN FLORIDA.
The lews of the State Told in
Paragraphs.
1 ..111. . |.. .. ,■■■>!■
J. M. Barco has assumed the duties of reg
ister of the United States land office at
Gainesville.
John R. Scott, the Jacksonville architect, is
preparing plans for a handsome two-stdry
brick residence for Blair Burwell.
The walls of the new stable that Pensacola
is having built for the police patrol wagon
and horses afe nearly ready for the roof.
The hotel building that was commenced
some time ago at Melbourne is to be finished
up at once and nut in first-class order for next
winter's tourists. -
Morey & Co. of Tampa have increased their
force to twenty-five cigarmakers. Their or
ders are increasing steadily and they are now
shipping 15,000 to w.OCP cigars per week.
Aird & Adams of Jacksonville are having.a
warehouse erected in the rear of their block
at the corner of Main and Forsyth streets.
The structure will be occupied by Felch &
Henry, the grocers.
R. M. Strickland has ordered machinery
and will erect and operate a cedar mill at
Ellzey, near Bronson, giving employment to
about twenty-five hands. The mill will get
out lead pencil material. ,
Police Officer Williams of Jacksonville had
a very peculiar accident happen to him re
cently. He was chewing b, toothpick, when in
some manner ft became lodged in his throat,
and he found that he could hot speak a word.
J. D. Cromwell has the following advertise
ment in the Gainesville Sun: “Until Aug.
25,1894.1 will pay SIOO each for polecats and
$230 cash for native salamanders, delivered
alive-in Gainesville. No imoortea stock will
be paid for.”
An accidental gathering of six of Orlando's
heavyweight citizens recently led to a reckon
ing up of their respective weights, when it
was found that the combined weight of the
group was 1,268 pounds, only one c* the party
■falling below the 200-nound notch.
S. F. Hanford, W. J. Wilson of Green Cove
Springs, and a Mr. Ingersol. who is a practi
cal mill man and one of the best, have pur
chased the interest in the steam mill prop
erty belonging to the estate ot the late Judge
Copeland, at Orange Park, and will soon com
mence active operations.
During the progress of a thunder storm W.
T. Allen, living near pittman. two miles
north of Altoona, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed. Mr. Alien, who was at work
in a flelld, took shelter in a small building,
and at the time of his death sat in the door
holding a mule by the bridle. A little grand
son, who was also in the building, was unin
jured, and the mule was unharmed.
Tampa Times: The steamer Tarpon was
caught in that heavy’ blow which wrecked the
bark Catherine at Pensacola. She was only
twenty miles from the Catherine when the
gale struck them. She hove to for five hours,
then ran before the wind, which blew stiff at
sea for twelve hours. The rain came down in
torrents, making the sea calmer, but at the
same time it drowned about 150 ch ckens, of
which the steamer had a heavy deckload.
At Ellinger’s cigar factory in West Tampa
Wednesday, two cigarmakers were playing
about a fancy scarfpin that one of them. Ed
ward Contraras. was wearing. The other one,
called “Ereneht,” snatched it and ran.
Calling several times and not being heeded,
Contyaras picked up his cigar knife, a thin
piece of steel about four inches long and two
inches wide throwing it at his fleeing com
rade. all in playfulness, hs asserts. It struck
“Frenchy” under the right shounder blade,
inflicting a very painful and possibly a seri
ous wound. Contra ras was immediately ar
rested, and in lieu of bond was placed In jail.
Florida Citizen: ' There is more secrecy ob
served by the present city officials in regard
to the city’s finances than there is around the
movements of the Czar of Russia. A Citizen
reporter has on several different occasions
sought information from theelty treasurer in
regard to the city's finances, but every time
has been repulsed by being referred to the
chairman of the finance committee or some
other individual connected with the city gov
ernment. When this individual or individuals
were found, they either would not have the
statement with them, or would remark that
they would show it, but it must not be pub
lished.
Florida Citizen: During several months of
last winter there was in Oriando a man named
Bishop. His business was selling shoe black
ing. xn order to attract a crowd, he would
frequently drive through the streets with a
pet monkey in his arms and a number pt
snakes fcoiled--<the»»t his neck. ’T!t5 had
eral rattlers, and while nere obtained one or ’
two enormous diamond-backs,which he added
to his collection. The diamond-back is the
largest and most deadly of the rattler family.
He handled these reptiles tn the most fearless
manner, but in spite of his apparent pdwer
over them, he was recently bitten by one of
his pets at Griffin, Ga., and died inside of an
hour from the effect ot the poison.
Aftei an existence of only five months, the
Capital Cit5 T Business College, at Tallahassee,
announces that it will receive no more pupils,
and that as soon as those who are now en
tered have completed their studies, its doors
will be closed.
The greatest rivalry ever known between
Middle Florida resorts is now on between St.
Teresa and Lanark, two beautifully situated,
and popular seaside resorts. During the
winter season they have been vieing with
each other to see which could furnish the
most attractions for visitors.
Dr. C. C- Cpllins of Jacksonville has se*
cured possession of the Belleview Phosphate
Company's plant and business. This prop
erty is in Marion county, and is considered
one of the most valuable in the state, and has
been l successfully operated. Dr. Collins is
considered not only an expert in phosphate
mining and operating, but a very shrewd
financier.
An accident occurred to Conductor Lou ’
Temple of Fernandina Sunday night,
about 11:30 o’clock, which came near
costing that gentleman his life. He was
standing on the top of a box car while the
train was b e-ing backed up in answer to a sig
nal given from the ground, when the, engineer
applied the air-brakes. Mr. Temple was car
ried off his feet, falling between the cars, with
the result above stated.
Jacksonville Citizen: It has been decided
that the encampment Os the Fifth battalion,
composed of the Indian River Guards of
Titusville, the De Soto Rifles of Arcadia, the
Island City Guards of Key West and the
Tampa Rifles are to be called into camp at
Tampa, dr rather at Ballast Point, on Sept. -6,
to continue under military discipline until
Sept. 15. both inclusive. The official orders
are now speeding through the mails.
An odd-looklng object was dug up at Pensa
cola recently, in the shape of a stone club
about 20 inches in length, and to 2 inches
in Thickness, round, and partly hollow at
either end, and capering slightly frdffi the
ends to the center, around which were two
carved rings. The material is a heavy, close
grained stone, of a dark brown color outside,
and inside rather lighter, like a seythe stone,
whefp a blow from the pick ax struck it. .It
is supposed to be an ancient Indian club,
originally ot wood, but petrified into solid
stone. There were three ethers similar in ap
pearance in the same spot.
About. Oct. I a new line of steamers will be
gin weekly trips between Jacksonville and
Philadelphia, and Florida will have another
outlet for her fruit and Philadelphia a new
market tor bar goods. The new company is.
the Philadelphia Steamship Company, prac
tically a union of the Merchants and Miners’
Transportation Company and the Ericsson
Companv of Philadelphia. F. S. Groves,
agent of the Ericsson tqmpany, is general
manager of the line, with headquarters at
Philadelphia, and J. C. Whitney, traffic man
ager of the Merchants and Miners’ Companv,
assumes the same position in the new con
cern, with headquarters at Baltimore.
Mr. C. B. smith, secretary of the Jackson
ville Board of Trade, relates a wonderful
story of a bird's instinct, which he vouches
for. it Is to the following effect: Some time
in April last Mrs. Meserole of Chicago, who
was visiting them, she taking Mrs. Smith a
niece, purchased two nonpareils. On the
10th of that month as she was getting ready
to go home, by some means the cage
door was opened and the female bird escaped.
Mrs. Meserole did not desire to take one bird
with her. and she left the male bird in the
cage at Mr. Smith's. Last Thursday morn
ing, as Mrs. Smith was m the
room where the cage containing the
single bird was. another bird flew
through the open window and began circling
around the room, and finally perched itself
near the cage. Mrs. Smith looked at it at
tentively, and then said to her servant, who
stood near by,/hat this bird was the one that,
had flown off four months ago. lhe servant
was incredulous, but Mrs. Smith went up to
the strange bird and held out her hand. With
a little flutter it settled on her finger. She
opened the cage and the bird hopped in, seem
ingly pleased at being back again. Its mate
was at first rather shy of the stranger, tut
within an hour the two were chattering away
in bird language at a great rate.
• Japan says she proposes to demolish
China.” saia Mr. Blynk'ns.
• She ought to have our servant girl,” re
plied his wile wearily. -Washington star. .