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The Weather.
The indications to-day are increasing
cloudiness and warmer for Georgia, and
fair with slowly rising temperaturo for
Eastern Florida.
“Bohs" and Kitchener seem to have
climbed a kop, and pulled the kop up aft
er them.
Those Texas Populists have been put
upon notice that Mr. Bryan is too old a
bird to be caught with chaff.
Gen. Buller may have the key to La.iy
smith, as he claim-, but many a man with
a key has failed to get in througli inabil
ity to locate the keyhole.
Lord Methuen has been wlihin helio
graphing distance of Kimberley for li ty
days, but seems unable to get any closer.
It must make Cecil Rhodes boil with rage.
The Texas unti-trust luw, it is said,
■will have the effect of creating u short
age of ammunition in that stale. Ken
tucky ought to have a law like it at once.
Dr. Conan Doyle is going to South Af
rica to serve as a field surgeon. It is
rather a pity that he cannot resurrect
‘‘Sherlock Holmes" and put him to smell
ing out Boer traps for the benefit of Bul
ler’s army.
Mr. R. L. Coleman, who has succeeded
A. G. Spaiding as the president of the bi
cycle trust, is a Southerner, a Virginian.
Dess than twenty years ago he was work
ing on a small salary-. His first venture
111 the wheel building lint l was as a man
ufacturer of wooden velocipedes for chil
dren.
Senator Hanna says there is no poli
tics in the ship sudsidy bill. But he
do*-st.'t say there is no money in i(, for
certain politicians and a certain political
party. The subs ,liz‘-<l ship owners w ould
not be permitted -to forget iheir benefac
tors when there was need of a good, fat
campaign fund.
Official reports posted in London show
the British losses during the war to have
been, up to and including the Spion kop
fight, 9,658 men The New Yoik Herald a
few days ago said (he most ie i.ibl esti
mates obtainable placed the Boor lo
tlti to the time of the Spion kop fight, a
about 2.0C0 men. if this proporil n of
casualties should bo kept up, Gieat liri a ,
would wear herself out about as soon os
she did the Boers. ,
It is asserted that the s ghts for rifles
bring furnished the British trooiw in S at 1
Africa are defective. An expert who has
made a test says that "by allowing :• r
temperature and force of wi and, and by
aiming on un average of six feet clear of
the Boer, it may be possible wifii a lx- -
Enfield rifle to hit him." The cam lly
lists show that the Boris are not gunning
with that kind of rifle or depending upon
such faulty sights.
After the battle of Modder river, during
tile first part of December, Gen. Methuen
wired to London that it had been "tin
bloodiest battle of the century.” It ap
pears that Gen. Warren fought a bloodier
one at Spion kop a few days ago, which,
however, Is still not I lie bloodiest of the
century, even for the Br tish army, glill.
it was bloody enough to make ciivllza
t.on shudder. The loss is now estimated
a 40 |xr cent, of the men engaged, u ffcar
x fuily heavy percentage.
HA\M AND THE SHIP KMIAIDY.
At the annual dinner of the New York
Board and Transportation on Wednesday
n ght Senator Hanna, in the course of his
remarks on the ship subsidy bill now
pending in Congress, said that the bill
would be passed notwithstanding the op
position of certain newspapers, which op
position he said was not iolitical, but
"come® from our competitors and is paid
for, every word of it."
It was like Mr. Hanna to charge that the
newspaper opposition to the scheme to
take millions of dollars annually out of
the treasury for the benefit of an indus
try was not genuine, but was bought.
Such a charge would hardly b* made by
a senator who was not, under suspicion of
having bought his way into the Senate.
Since he succeeded in getting into the
Senate Senator Hanna seems to think that
there is nothing that is beyond the reach
of money. Having so many millions at
his command, and having been so suc
cessful through the use of money, he
places everything on a commercial basis.
The promoters of the ship subsidy scheme,
have already found out that there is op
position to the bill which no influence has
yet been able to reach. They are there
fore advocating a limit to the amount that
can be appropriated under the bill for
boosting the shipbuilding interest. T’v.
limit is $9,000,000 a year. Under the bill
as it was originally introduced, it was es
timated by some of those who had given
very careful consideration to the matter,
that as much as $50,000,000 a year could
have been appropriated, and would have
been, in all probability, if it had become
a law.
Among the chief opponents of the bill are
the farmers. They do not see any ad
vantage to them in being taxed for the
promotion of the shipbuilding interest.
The kind of ships it is tproposed to subsi
dize is not the kind that carries the bulk
of the products of the farms. The tramp
steamers are the great ocean carriers. It
is proposed to give subsidies to lines of
steamers which W'ill be employed chiefly
in carrying the mails and passengers.
The ship subsidy promoters say that the
country will never do Its own carrying
trade unless steamship lines are encour
aged by subsidies. Let Congress change
our navigation law's so that Americans
can sail foreign-built ships under the
American flag, and it will not be long be
fore American commerce will be carried
in ships owned by Americans. And the
most of them will be built in American
ship yards. Many times we have called
attention to the fact that this country Is
building locomotives for all the world, and
there is no protection for locomotive build
ers. It requires as mucti skill to build a
locomotive ns it does a steamship. If we
can beat the world in building locomotives
without subsidies or protection of any
kind, there is no reason why we cannot
build our own ships, and build them at a
cost as small as that at which they can
he built elsewhere.
We hove the finest system of land trans
portation there is in the world. Its su
periority cannot be questioned, and Amer
ican freight and passenger rates are lower
than those of any other country. If we
have accomplished so much in the way
of land transportation without help from
the public treasury what is to hinder us
from doing as well in the matter of sea
transportation?
Senator Hanna and other ship subsidy
promoters may try to boost the ship suit
sidy bill through Congress by charging
that opposition to it is kept alive by the
free use of a corruption fund, but the
people will not be deceived. The corrup
tion, whatever there is of it, is on the
side of the sudsidy schemers.
THE Pl.ttU K IV HOXOLILI.
Tiie news received from Honolulu rela
tive lo the progress of the plague there
is of the most disturbing character. At
the date of the departure of the steamer
which arrived at San Francisco on Wed
nesday there had been fifty cases of the
disease and forty-one deaths. The most
heroic efforts are being made to stamp It
out, but thus far they have not been ef
fective.
The danger of the disease reaching this
country from Hawaii is real. The steam
er that arrived at San Francisco on
Wednesday brought a large number of
passengers from the islands, it Is prob
able that the greatest care was exercised
by the officers of the ship to prevent any
one who had been exposed to the disease
from taking passage on her, but how is
it possible for officers of a steamer slop
ping at Honolulu to determine who have
and who have not been exposed to the
plague? Even the health authorities of
the island are liable to make mistakes in
regard to such a matter, however careful
and conscientious they may be.
While there is no occasion for
the people of this country to be unduly
alarmed, the fact should be recognized
that it may reach our shores. No efforts
therefore should be spared by the health
authorities io prevent it from gelling a
lodgement in any of our ports.
it was stated in our dispatches a day
or two ago that il had been officially an
nounced that Rio Janeiro and Santos,
Brazil, were now free of the plague. A
few eases appeared tit each of these places.
These cities ore favorite lurking places
for yellow fever, and Santos Is noted for
its bad sanitary condition. If the plague
has been so quickly driven out of Santos
it would seem that there ought not to bo
much to fear from it if a few cases of it
should get into one of our ports. In some
quarters there is a disposition to ques
tion the truth of the statement that there
Is no longer any trace of the disease in
the foregoing cilles. The health authori
ties of American ports should not be hasty
in admitting vessels from Rio Janeiro and
Santos. They should take no chances on
vessels from those ports or any others
which hnvt been, or are, afflicted with the
plague.
B. M. Roberts of*UYah has been denied
pay for mileage to and from Washing
ton. Roberts, it will bo remembered, went
to Washington with perfect credentials
showing his election to the House. Here
tofore, many a time, a black Republican
has gone from the South to Washington
with no credentials at all and instituted
n contest against the white Democratic
nu mber on most untenable grounds; and
when the black claimant has been turn
ed down the generous government has
oald all of his exne*!s
THE MOFMJSG JSEWS: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1900.
an appeal to the president.
In our dispatches yesterday it was ; aii
that the federal government would not in
terfere in the Kentucky trouble. Yester
day, however. Taylor sent the President a
dispatch in which he said that the situa
tion in Kentucky was critical, and that
there might be a conilict at any moment if
the present situation was not relieved. He
said that he regarded himself as Governor
and asked the President to recognize him
as such.
The President is asked to do something
that might provoke trouble outside of
Kentucky. It is not for him to say
whether Goebel or Taylor is the Governor.
The returns showed that Taylor had been
elected. A Democratic returning board
gave him the certificate of election. On
that certificate he was sworn in as Gov
ernor and was recognized as such by the
legislature.
Goebel, however, claimed the office. The
law r gav< him the right 10 go before the
Legislature and ask that body to hear his
evidence and decide whether he or Taylor
was entitled to the governorship. Tailor
recognized his right to take this course.
In fact, Taylor was repres nted before th •
committee of the Legislature appointed to
hear the evidence and make a report.
The Legislature decided that Goebel was
entitled to the office. The decision may
be a partisan one and contrary to the
facts, but it is the decision of the tribunal
that has the right to decide the matter.
In accordance with that decision Goebel
was sworn in as Governor, and Beckham
os Lieutenant Governor. If Goebel dies
Beckham will take his place.
Has not Taylor made a mistake in ap
pealing to the President unless he is ready
to give up the office? The President has
no right to say that the decision of the
Legislature is wrong. If he should under
take to do so he might have more trouble
on his hands than Tay.or has.
In the meantime the situation in Ken
tucky is full of peril. At any moment
there may be a conflict that will in
volve the whole state. Both parties are de
termined and the feeling between them is
\ery bitter. The only way* out of the diffi
culty seems to be a commission or the
courts.
IV POLITICS FOR THE R VKE-OIT.
The testimony taken by the Senate com
mittee investigating the charges of bribery
against Senator Clarke of Montana has
not, so far, tended to show that tlte Sen
ator was directly connected with the at
tempt to corrupt any legislator, or that he
furnished the money which a certain leg
islator says he accepted from an attorney
for Clark as payment for his vote, and
which money is now locked up in the vault
of a bank in Helena. But the evidence has
shown conclusively that many of the Mon
tana legislators were quite willing to be
corrupted, on all possible occasions. They
were in politics for what they could get
out of it, and the of tenor they were “in
sulted,” the better they liked it.
One witness before the committee, State
Senator Geiger, who described himself as
a McKinley Republican, told how within
a few w-eeks he had risen from "minus
nothing” to comparative wealth. When
he was nominated he had JJo of his own.
He received s2'*) from his mother's estate
and borrowed S3OO for his campaign. Near
ly all of this was gone when he reached
Helena after his election. But once the
legislative mill was started, a flow of
money came his way. He couldn't go to
his room of nights without finding pack
ages of money on the bureau or the bed,
or lying about on chairs, if he went into
a gambling room it seemed impossible for
him to loose. If he put his cash on a
horse race, his favorite was sure to win.
At the end of the legislative session he
had paid off his debts, had bought build
ing lots in his home town, had contracted
for the erection of build.ngs, and had a
comfortable bank account.
Some of the inquisitive members of the
committee wished to know how Mr. Geiger
explained his remarkable winnings at
gambling after he became a member of
the Legislature, in view of his ill-luck be
fore, and asked how it was that he, a
state senator, knowing gambling to be a
misdemeanor, should engnge in games of
chance. He had no explanation to offer
as to his luck and as to the gambling as
sorted that he was "about as conscientious
as some other Montana officials.
This matter of conscience extended to
and included the finding of Ihe packages
of money in his room. He said he did
not know who put them there, but he
knew pretty well that they were intended
as testimonials of friendship from the pro
moters of certain bills. Two corporation
bills he recalled. When one of them was
up be found a package containing $l,lOO
iti ids room. 11c voted for the bill and
kept the money, lie- intended to vote for
the bill anyway, he said, hence in keeping
the money he was not bribed. It was the
general understanding among the legisla
tors that money could l>e had for votes for
or against bills that were before the Leg
islature. "There were many ways to make
money In Helena at that time," he de
clared. And from the number of sl,(kio
and SIOO bills handled by the banks during
and immediately after the session of Ihe
Legislature it appears that many of Sen
ator Geiger’s conferees, as well us him
self, made the most of their opportunities.
It is a trite comment to say that any
such condition of affairs is shocking to
those who believe in free and honest gov
ernment. And It may be equally trite, but
nevertheless true to say that no man
could have been elected to the Senate by
such a body as Senator Oeiger indicates
the Montana Legislature to have been
without becoming smirched with suspicion.
Mr. Clarke may have used money to se
cure his election, but if he did it was prob
ably because the legislators demanded it.
They were statesmen for the "rake-off.”
The premier profligate has been discov
ered in New York. He is a young Hun
garian nobleman of the name of Lazaro
vilsch. said to he related lo the royal fam
ily of Servia. Upon Hie death of the
young man's father a few years ago he
inherited an estate of $2,400,000. ail of which
he spent in idne months. He is now pen
niless, and is making his living as a Hun
garian orchestra in a restaurant.
Tile Republican papers are now saying
anent Goeied, "Bo sure your sin will find
you out." Should he recover they would
change their quotation to. "The devil takes
iiart of his owu.”
The Rev. Dr. Broughton of Atlanta, who
is raising ructions in New York—it must
be the same man, since we have not heard
of a Dr. Broughton raising ructions In
Atlanta recently—paid his respects to the
newspapers a day or two ago. Of them
he said: "I believe that the devil is pre
paring a place to roast some of them. I
love the press. They help us in our work,
whether they are against us or not. I
would much- rather they would say some
thing against me that, not to mention me
at all. But let’s not be disturbed by tne
little things that the newspapers say.
They’d get their reward.’’ This leaves the
poor newspapers in a state of doubt as
to really what it is they are to be roast
ed for, in that place which Old Nick is
preparing for them. Is it because Dr.
Broughton loves them, and they help him
in his work?
The Chicago Times-Herald says that
"the authorship of ‘David Harum* is still
unsettled." It is settled m the minds of
all of those who were well-informed
enough not to be taken in by the senseless
"dterary joke" perpetrated some weeks
ago, to the effect that Kipling had writ
ten the book, and of those who, since that
time, have felt interested enough in the
matter to seek th- truth and have had
intelligence enough to ’know the truth
when they had found it. Mr. Westcott,
the author, was neither a myth nor a
fakir, but an estimable and hardworking
gentleman, well known and highly respect
ed in the New York town in which he.
lived. Still, it is not a matter of sur
prise that the authorship of the book is
‘slid unsettled" in the opinion of a news
paper which maintains that ninety-nine
Years make a century.
What would Jesus do?" is the test
which the Rev. Mr. Sheldon says he will
nPPIy every act of his in connexion
with his experiment in running the Tope
ka Capital for one week. He has just an
nounced that the juice of the paper will be
increased duHhg his editorship. Presuma
bly that determination was reached only
after applying the test.
PERSONAL.
—When the Ottawa Battery qf the sec
ond contingent of volunteers left for the
African war. Mayor Payment of that citv.i
pres nted each soldier with $25 in behalf l
of the citizens of Ottawa.
—A month ago there were I free pairs of
brothers sitting as peers in the House of
Lords—the Grosvenors, the Duke of West
minster and Lord Stalbridge; the Scotts,
the Duke of Buccleuch and Lord Montagu
of Beaulieu, and the Guinnesses, Lords
Ardilaun and Iveagh. The Duke of West
minster’s death broke up one of these
pairs; but the simultaneous raising to the
peerage of Sir Stafford Northcote, brother
of the Earl of Iddesleigh, keeps up the
number of peer brothers.
—The Duke and Duchess of Connaught
have abandoned their projected trip to
the south of Europe in consequence of th<A
Duke’s appointment to the Dublin com
mand. Queen Victoria would have pre
ferred. the Duke to return to Aldershot
for a time, as he could have worked that
district from Bagshot, and the place will
now be doled during his absence in Ire
l.ind. The Duke and Duchess will pay
visits to the Queen at Osborne and to the
Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandring
ham before going to Dublin.
BRIGHT UITS.
—Little Willie—The Bible says there will
be no marrying in heaven. 1 wonder why?
Little Emma—l don't know, unless it's
because there won’t be enough men to go
round.—Chicago News.
—What Money Would Do.—Perry—Say,
w'at’s de moanin’ of "dolce far niente?"
It’s in de paper here.
Hasben—Dal’s w’at de world would call
dts perfession of ours if we only had
money.—Philadelphia Press.
—We were in a bitterly reflective mood
to-day. "To marry,” we mused, "is to pur
chase bliss at a dear price.” "And you
don't get it any cheaper at wholesale,
either,” put in the Sulion of Sulti, who
had~now to be reckoned with.—Puck.
—Proper Form.—The society editor of the
Daily Bread, who was acting temporarily
as news editor, worked over in this style a
dispatch pertaining to a battle: "Gen.
Walker announces the engagement of Col.
Thompson with a considerable force of the
enemy yesterday afternoon. Col. Thomp
son will be at home within the enemy’s
lines until exchanged.”—Chicago Tribune.
Cl Klt EXT COMVIEXT.
The Florence (S. C.) Daily Times says:
“Savannah has some business men after
our own heart. It is no wonder that they
have made a town of which the whole
South is proud. They have recently de
cided that they did not have enough small
industries in theTity in which home pro
ducts and home labor could be used, so
they called a meeting or two and as a
tesiilt they have now nn organization with
a capital stock of $160,000, which will be
used to foster the establishment of such
industrial enterprises as those mentioned,
which are the ones that really help the
community most, for they help the coun
try by using the raw material and the
city by giving employment to its citizens,
and both by the circulation of money
brought from outside. If every Southern
town and city would follow the good ex
ample of Savannah we would be the rich
est people on the globe soon, and the hap
piest. because we would have made our
wealth honestly.”
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.) says:
"Threats have been (hade that unless the
congressmen of the Western and Southern
states, which build and own no ships In
ihe foreign trade, shail vote for this raid
on the treasury. Influence will be used to
defeat all appropriation!! for the Improve
ment of the Western and Southern water
ways. It is also reported that the friends
of the Nicaragua canal scheme are to be
bought up by promises of reciprocity to
support the ship bounty grab. Without
doubt, powerful influence will .be brought
to bear to pass the bill, whereas the im
provement of the Western water ways and
the construction of the Nicaragua ship
canal are matters of vast, and, it may
be said, universal Interest to the Ameri
can people. They are to be defeated un
less the shipowners' grab shall be made
successful. It is to be doubted if the
American people will countenance such a
brazen scheme to raid the treasury.”
The Macon Telegrah (Dem.) says: "Ac
cording to the Savannah News, if it were
not for the opjxwltton within his own
party, the probabilities are that Gen.' Jo
seph Wheeler, upon his return from the
Philippines, u mid be sworn in as a mem
ber of the Fifty-sixth Congress without
opposition. Considering that the Demo
cratic party Is a minority party, some of
Us leaders me remarkably particular as
to who shall b< sworn in and who shall
l>e accepted as a Democrat (übove sus
uicioii.)”
YVlieeler’ii Supply of Electricity, #
Evidently, Gen. Wheeler’s campaign in
the Philippines has not curbed his energy
or dampened his ardor, for, although he
did not have the chance to distinguish
himself on the field -ofy battle, as he did
in Cuba, he comes back as full of life end
electricity as ever, says the Washington
correspondence of the New York Mail and
Express. It is proper to say full of elec
tricity. for it is a fact that Gen. Wheeler
has been known to be charged heavily
with electricity, and oftentimes has been
obliged to work it out of his body. Form
er Senator Pugh of Alabama tells an in
teresting story in this connection. Soon
after Senator Pugh was elected to the !
Senate, he came to Washington, and, like !
all new members of Congress, he felt it
his duty to make the tound of calls on the
cabinet members and other senators on
the days they received. Gen. Wheeler
offered to escort him, arid the Senator ac
cepting the invitation, the two started on
their visits in a cab.
The little General led the Senator a mer
ry dance. They called at a large num
ber of houses, and the General never
seemed the least bit fatigued by the con
stant going in and out. After several
hours of this work, Senator Pugh declared
that he was complete.y.worn out, but Gen.
Wheeler seemed as fresh as when he
started. The Senator noticed, however,
that frequently when they got into the
carriage Gen. Wheeler would take a hair
brush from his pocket and vigorously
brush his long hair. The Senator also no
ticed a peculiar crackling while the Gen
eral brushed his hair, and finally asked an
explanation. The General replied: ‘‘You
see. Senator, T am so charged with elec
tricity the only way I can relieve myself
is to brush my hair, and that takes a good
deal out of me." This explained <he
crackling noise the Senator heard while
the little General was brushing his hair,
and it also explains to a good many per
rons the source of Gen. Wheeler’s wonder
ful vitality. It is said the General still
has to use his brush to work off his extra
amount of electricity.
Little W n and the Philadelphia Girl.
The young daughter of a former Phila
delphian is a schoolmate of little Wu, the
son of the Chinese ambassador at Wash
ington. says the Philadelphia Record. Dur
ing a recent visit here she often talked
about the little Celestial, and told tales
about him that seemed to indicate that
little Wu at limes gently guys his Chris
tian schoolmates
“He is awfully cute," she said, "and
speaks very correct English. What he
likes best to eat. he says, is milhi. That
is young mice, dipped in honey and swal
lowed raw r . A horrible thing, isn’t it?
But Wu says that milhi aren’t half so
squashy and •slimy as raw' oysters. His
. mother’s feet are so tiny that she can
hardly walk at all. She is pushed about
in a wheeled chair.
"I asked Wu once if he didn’t think it
was cruel to torture the Chinese ladies’
feet like that. He said: ‘Virginia, my
papa says that whenever any person asks
me that question I must make the follow
ing reply: *‘lt is not more cruel than for
American ladies to torture their waists
in steel corsets until their noses are beet
rod and their shapes like an hour-glass." ’
Then he gave a loud laugji and walked
away with his little hands in the pockets
of his baggy brocade trousers. He looks
awfully grave and funny."
A Chamberlain Story.
Many good stories with reference to the
present Colonial Secretary’s favorite flow
er have been told. Here is one, says Lon
don Tit-Bits. Some visitors passed through
Air. Chamberlain’s orchid houses at High
bury one morning, when a very valuable
plant was discovered broken. Mr. Cham
berlain, it is said, almost lost his temper,
and declared that sightseers should no
longer he welcomed. Then he interrogated
the- gardener* in charge of the houses.
The man appeared confused, but pro
tested that he did not do the damage.
"I was very sorry when I saw it done,
sir.”
“You saw it done? Then, of course,
the visitors did do it."
"No. sir. the visitors didn't either," said
the man.
"Speak out, man!" cried Mr. Chamber
lain. "I am resolved to discover the cul
prit."
Then the gardener spoke: "You did it
yourself, please, sir. for I saw you. You
were walking up an’ down an’ rehearsing
something. I heard Lord Salisbury’s name,
sir. an’ Mr. Gladstone’s, an’ then you
struck out with you right arm sudden
like, and down went the orchid."
The Colonial Secretary smiled, and sight
seers were not ftrbidden the orchid houses.
How Wars Begin.
Tommy was reading the war news, says
Collier's Weekly. When he finished he
came over to his mother and said:
•'Mamma, how do wars begin?”
’’Well, suppose the English hauled down
the American flag, and that the Ameri
cans ”
Here Tommy's father intervened.
"My dear,” he said, “the English would
not ”
Mother—Excuse me, they would
“Now, dear, who ever heard of such a
thing?”
"Pray do not interrupt!"
“But you are giving Tommy a wrong
idea!"
“I'm not, sir!”
“You are, madam!”
"Don’t call me madam! I won't allow
you!"
"I'll call you what I choose!”
“I’m sorry I ever saw you! you arc
so— —
Tommy (going out): "It's all right; T
think I know how wars begin.”
fir. Bryan nml Mr. Hanna.
Senator Mark Hanna and Mr. William
J. Bryan met on Saturday for the first'
time. Bolt! had been guests at the dinner
of the Gridion'Club. When the dinner
closed, Mr. stepped up to Mr. Bry
an as they came out from the banquet
room and greeted him:
"I am glad 40 meet you, Mr. Bryan,"
he said.
Mr. Bryan expressed his pleasure at
meeting Mr. Hanna, and the gentlemen
smilingly assured each other that they had
frequently heard of each other. Senators.'
diplomats and others gathered around the
two men. surprised to learn that this was
their first meeting. The interview was
brief, and each gentleman vied with the
other in extending compliments and cour
tesies. Meanwhile both smiled at hearing
the other's praises, until Mr. Bryan final
ly burst out laughing.
"We’re quite a mutual admiration soci
ety, Mr. Hanna,” he suggested. The Sena
tor agreed, and then they told each other
good night.
Pertinent Impertinence.
“Say, mister, do you want your bag car
ried?'' asked n boy, running after a man
who was hurrying along the street, evi
dently liound for the railway station, says
Collier's Weekly.
"No, 1 don't," answered the man, a lit
tle sharply.
"I'll carry it all the way for a nickel, ’
persisted the hoy.
"I tell you I doti'l want It carried.” said
the man. quickening his pace.
“Don't you?" said the boy, breaking In
to a trot to keep abreast of hts vic im.
"No, I don't!” said the min, g ancing
fiercely at his small tormen or.
“Well, then, mister,” said the urchin,
with an expression of anxious and inno
cent inquiry on his round, dirty taco,
"what are you carrying it for? Why don't
you set it down?"
He got the bag and a dime.
ITE MS OF I\ r E.UEST.
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—A tramp is quot€*d thus in the Chicago
News: "Yes, we git into county jails oc
casionally, but the trouble as they don't
keep us long enough. A jail is a home
like place, with plenty to eat. no work
and good treatment. We are generally sen
tenced for three months, but after about
four weeks the sheriff picks out three or
four of us, and says: ‘Now, boys, them
iron bars on that winder is loose and it’s
going to be a dark night.’ Hev some am
bition about you.’ An old tramp knows
what that means, and he is ten miles
away before daylight. A tenderfoot Jig
gers to stay on. and next morning the
sheriff comes in and finds him there, and
says: ‘What, hain’t you got no ambi
tion? Then. I’ll give you some!’ and he
boots him out info the yard and sets him
to promenadin’ around with a log fastened
to bis leg."
—Great use is being made at present in
foundries and other metallurgical estab
lishments of steel scrap. It is the well
known material left after making various
articles of steel, such as punchings or
shavings from the lathe, also worn-out
articles, such as old files, horseshoes, etc.
It is treated by means of a process which
converts the scrap into steel, not only of
its orig.nal value per pound, but also in
any desired shape, thus saving cost of
machinery or drop-forging. The scrap is
melted in crucibles, a process that des
troys most of the valuable steel proper
ties but at a fixed point in the melting
certain ingredients are dropped into the
mol*en mass that restore the valuable
properties. The resulting product has
every quality of the best steel, being hom
ogeneous, welding perfectly, can be made
ha"d or soft to order, and has a tensile
strength of €B,OOO pounds.
—The question of liquid air power is suc
cinctly presented by a writer in the Fo
rum. who argues that it is virtually an
initial compression of air to 10,000 pounds
a square inch, which gives a great ad
vantage as regards storage and trans
port; and then, as by expansion and heat
ing it can be brought to precisely the
samo pressure and temperature, as in
the case of ordinary compressed air, it
follows that if there is an advantage iti
using th-e latter, it is obviously more ad
vantageous to employ liquid air. Further,
this writer asserts that, as the great in
crease of < lliciency of f*leam engines dur
ing recent years has been owing to the
employment of higher initial pressures,
it is but the part of reason to admit that
the discovery, by means of liquid air. of
a way to attain vast initial air pressures
opens the door to higher efficiencies and
greatly extended utilities in the use of air
power.
—Semi-automatic machine tools, to with
in the last decade, demanded, shys a writ
er in the Engineering Magazine, a well
equipped tool room, and an adequate force
of good tool makers for successful per
formance. This involved a large new de
partmental expense, not likely to be re
couped by the employment of a few' tur
ret machines on a limited range of work.
Now' the case is quite different. Compe
tent tool makers are present in almost ev
ery respectable shop, tools of precision are
seen everywhere, the milling machine and
the grinding machine are in common use,
and, more than all else, two or three reso
lute and courageous inventors have ap
plied themselves boldly and pertinaciously
to adapting the turret to general ma
chine-shop use, with such success that, in
some instances, one single piece can be
made so much more quickly with the fix
ed cutters than by the repeated cuts ana
measurements needed with the engine
lathe, that the total time consumed in pro
ducing the piece or the semi-automatic
tool, tool-setting included, is less than
that of a good turner, using a good en
gine lathe.
—A Methodist minister is thus quoted in
the Philadelphia Record: “The most
charitable class of people 1 krjow are
those who deal in liquor. Of course. I
never ask them for money. Dear me!
They come and offer it. I wish my dea
cons and shepherds of the fold were like
that. The yearly conference once met at
my church, and a brewer supplied the
de'egates with cigars—it was no small
job. I tell you, for some ministers will hit
a box of free cigars pretty hard and fre
quent taps A total abstinence advocate
found out the source of all our smoking
and made a terrible speech in open meet
ing about money stolen from the drunk
ard’s starving babes and so forth. Well,
after that I shunned the brewer as if I
owed him money. One day he cornered
me. though, hnd I waited for his re
proaches. Me said: ' I’ve been looking for
you f r some time. Here’s a check I want
you to take and do whatever good with it
you can.’ Then he got very red, and said
in an embarrassed voice: ‘You needn’t be
afraid about where the money came
from It’s interest on electric light stock,
and I bought the stock when I was in the
grocery business.* ”
—The Chicago Tribune says: “During
the anti-Mormon agitation growing out of
the Roberts case no attention seems to
have been called to old ' Bishop Heber
Ricks, who enjoys the distinction of be
ing at the head of the largest family in
Mormondom. if not in the world. He has
twelve wives, sixty-six children and 218
grandchildren. At the age of 77 he is liv
ing in the midst of his descendants in the
Snake valley, on the boundary of Wyo
ming. Old Heber Ricks is a giant in stat
ure. wiih a long, grizzled beard, and a
figure little bent by the weight of his
years. He is a high priest in the church,
and, to Mormons, he speaks with the
voice of divine inspiration on both religion
and business. Though he refuses to talk
about his early life, it is known that he
was born in some foreign land and came
to St. Douls In 1842, soon after joining the
Mormons at Independence, Mo. Some of
his sons ar£ prominent at Alberta, Can
ada, where the Mormons are setting up
anew kingdom, and at Chihuahua, Mex
ico, where for years there has been a
flourishing Mormon colony. In fact, the
name of Ricks is prominent wherever
Mormonism is known.”
—An interesting feature of the familiar
almanacs which nave already made their
appearance for 1000 is the mysterious signs
of the zodiac, which had their origin, as
have all things astronomical, along the
banks of the Nile, says an exchange. The
earliest people to make a serious study* of
the stars seem to have been the shepherds,
who, by reason of their long wanderings
far from the haunts of man, were most
likely to study the natural phenomena
around them. They soon came to recog
nize the fact that certain stars constantly
recurred with certain seasons of the year.
For instance, the heliacal rising of the
bright star Sirius was found to coincide
with the rising of the Nile, a season which
to this day all Egypt eagerly watches for.
But the most trusty watchers known to
the shepherds were their own sheep dogs.
Hence the dog, their ready symbol of
watchfulness, was identified with this star
and translated to the heavens. Similarly
tht shearing season was always ushered
in by a star, whll the apinarance
in the East o? another constellation, the
Pleiades, heralded the time for sowing
their crop. Arguing upon the principle
that what was sauce for the goose should
be equally capable*of serving the gander
in a like capacity, the shepherds, who had
thus identified the history of the stars
with that of their dally life, began to
trace the history of their daily life among
the stars. Hence it is that we have such
homely signs as Taurus (the bull), Cap
ricornus (the goat), Aries (the ram), Scor
pio (the dreaded scorpion of th<> rocky
places), Deo (the eh tin-11 y dreaded lion of
the desert), and so forth, ail of which signs
i have remained to this 4kiy.
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