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The dwinkage ia African mtoiag
glocks since September ie stated at th©
mff ffna« figure of $390,000,000.
Queen Victoria, they say, is much
annoyed at having to receive the
parvenu as that her titled aristocrats
bring to court.
Tbe East Orange (N. J.) Board of
Education has jnst built a special
annex building for storing bicycles
.ridden to and from school by pupils
of the High School. It is sixty feet
long, with racks each side for holding
the wheels. This is the first time
special provision has been made for
boating and securing students’ bi*
cycles. .
* German emigration is chiefly, of
course, to this country. The volume
of it varies. It was 27,'834 in i875,
rose to 2C8.189 in 1881, fell to 75,591
in 1886, rose to 108,611 in 1891, and
fell again to 34,210 in 1894. The
stream flowing to Brazil ia much
smaller, but fairly Steady, averaging
say 1500 a year. That to the rest of
8outh and Central America is pretty
steadily increasing—from 488 in 1875
to 2549 in 1894. That to Australia is
decreasing—from 1028 in 1875 to 225
in 1894. Despite tbe vast territorial
holdings of Germany in Africa, few
colonuts go thither—one in 1875, 772
in 1888, (the high-water mark) and
760 in 1894. From 100 to 150 a year
is all the whole of Asia can claim. At
that rate, Germany will not become a
“mother of Nations.”
Professor Schurman, President of
Cornell University, spoke before an
enthusiastic audience at the High
School, Buffalo, N. Y,, on the subject
of reforms of education. He said
teachers are chosen, that ie, the ma¬
jority, on the “pull” they have with
the sohool board and superintendent
and not what they know. He also
■aid superintendents should be chosen
by the School Board of Education
and not elected by the people. “Yon
go bsok ten year*,” he said, “aud the
teachers thought they had nothing to
do but draw their salaries and teach a
few elementary subjects whioh did not
tend to elevate the minds of the
pupils. Politics should not get into
the school. They demoralize it. The
snperintendents should have the au¬
thority to engage and dismiss any
teaebers whom they may find laoking
in knowledge.” The speaker*said he
did not believe in bringing foreign
languages into the schools. The
things most ntial, in his mind,
were the English branches, English
composition, literature and history.
The Ns* York Times says: Our es¬
teemed contemporary, the Hartford
(Conn.) Times, publishes the follow¬
ing, under the headlines, “Billions
Unclaimed; Fortunes for Americans
in the English Chancery Court," at
the beginning of a long artiole relat¬
ing to ptoperty in England to whioh,
it is allegsd, American heirs are en¬
titled : “Do you know thet there is
nearly half a billion dollars lying in
the English Court of Cbanoery, await
ing claimants 1 Do you know, more¬
over, that more than one-half oi that
vast amount rightly belongs to indi
vidnals somewhere in Amerioe, many
of them, probably, in poor eironm
and destined to remain for
over ia ignorance of the good fortune
that giight be theirs? What an in
thing it would bo for trade if
only these heir* oould come into their
i How on earth oan it bo that
snch an enormous sum of money has
to go a-begging, we are prone to ask.
Ih this money-staking age snob a
statement is almost beyond belief.”
Wholly beyond balMtfl it is
true, and tbe falsity of it to
by mww«km,
on this side ot the Atlantic end tbe
I to Oar worthy coni
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ME PEICB 8 .
ADVOCATED BY A FBOTEOTIOSI8T
organ:
It Matters Not That the Masses
Should Have to Pay Them If
They Will Benefit the Claeses.
Insolent pnd over-bearing as are the
pap-fed organs of the high tariff
trusts and monopolies ia their asser¬
tion ot the doctrine that tax burdens
should be laid on the many for the
benefit of the few, it is seldom that
one of them goes so far as to declare
that the protected interests have ac¬
quired the “right” to rob consumers
through high prices extorted by high
taxes on imports. Yet this, is the
claim put forward in a recent issue of
tbe Philadelphia Manufacturer, the
organ of the protected manufacturers
of Pennsylvania.
The Ledger, a Republican paper,
having stated the well-known fact that
to increase the duties on wool and
woolens would be “to increase
the cost of all kinds of men’s, women’s
and children’s clothing, blanket* and
other necessities,” tbe Manufacturer
replied: “Supposing this result would
follow, might it not be justified on the
ground that men, women aud children
have uo right to buy these articles
cheaper at the expense of the wool
growers and woolen manufacturers of
the country?”
The brazen impudence of this pre¬
tence that sixty-five million %en, wo¬
men and ebildren “have no right to
buy articles cheaper” at the expense
of a few thousand manufacturers and
wool-growers may lead some people to
consider that the Manufacturer was
simply joking. But it was denounce in dead
earnest and proceeded to
the popular desire to purchase things
at the lowest possible price in the
regulation MoKinleyite style. Evi¬
dently its editor believes what he
wrote.
While this declaration of the
“rights” of the few to high prices at
the expense logical of the wholejpeople protection- is only
the ontoome of the
ist policy, its brutal bluntness should
shook those amiable Republicans who
have clung to their party in spite of
its degensraoy into a mere tool of
monopoly. So long as a high tariff
was eloaked under the pretenoe that
it was needed to rsise large revenues,
or that it tended to reduce prices by
encouraging domestic competition,
there was some excuse for men who
had not studied the tariff question ad¬
hering to thf party whioh onoe rights. stood
for human freedom and popular
But that time has gone by, and there
oan now be not tbe slightest doubt
that as s whole the Republican party
is committed to tbe monstrous doo
trine that ths men who have been rob¬
bing the public have a “right to con¬
tinue their stealing undisturbed.
Against this absurd and unjust prop¬
osition every man possessing any sym¬
pathy or intelligence should protest.
The idea that the few men who grow
wool, or convert it into cloth, osn
have a right to. compel eaoh man,
woman and child to add to the profits
of these growers or maQufscturors, is
a denial of tbe basis of Amerioan in¬
stitutions and all civilised sooiety.
The whole fabric of human rights pro¬
ceeds from the universal agreement
that eaoh man has the right to life,
liberty and the enjoyment of the prop¬
erty their he produced. To take a portion
of property away from the many
in order that the few may get richer,
is a direct violation of every principle
of morality.
If it be true that the manufacturers
have the right to oharge higher prices
than would prevail under free and
fair competition, where and how did
they give the get rights it? Who had authority the to
of tbe people into
control of a handful of men? How
dare the advooates American ot McKinleysm
deny to the consumers their
undeniable right to buy goods wher¬
ever they oan get them beet and cheap¬
est? When was tbs principle of “the
greatest good to ths greatest number”
changed to “the greatest good of the
woolen manufacturers ?” Who are tbe
protectionists, anyhow, that they
should presume to aay that men,
women and children shall not bay
their winter woolens es ohosply ns
possible? cost of
An attempt to increase the
clothing and other woolen ne ce ssar ies
at this season of the year, is an illus¬
ths tration trade of istoii the inhumanity aud iioeunicyitoa on which rely
for support. But it it no more in¬
human than the belief that a email
privileged consideration class than have the more whole right people. to
Both doctrines are worthy only of aav-
THE JAPAhBil BOH A BOO.
Protectionism Trying a New Sears
to Frighten TWsM America
All 1 other eohem far getting
MoKinJeyism having toiled, tbe the
cam are trying to
of
the of
For
jrotectioniet pepen
existence of Amcrieea industry.
if
ef
titjrjfi jj mem
Win ha able to manufacture manv at*
with the less efficient foreigner. The
fact that wages are nominally much
lower in Japan than in the United
States does not prove that the factories
of this country can be undersold by
those of Japan. For while wages may
be ten times as high, the product of
each American's labor is more than
twenty times greater than that of the
average Japanese. So that the seem
ing advantage of cheap labor is more
than counter-balanced by the much
greater efficiency of the better paid
workers. The inventive genius and
ability to utilize natural forces of the
American mechanic or operative far
outweighs the difference between
wages here and in Asia.
A sample of the ruin which the
modern Munchausens have been talk¬
ing about was a statement that an
agent for a Japanese firm had landed
in San Francisco and was taking orders
for high grade bicycles at twelve dol¬
lars apiece. The millions of Ameri¬
cans who want to imitate Henry
George, Jere Simpson and Tom Reed,
by riding a wheel, were thrown into
sudden fear lest they should be able
to get hold of a good thing which they
could push along. But there was no
reason for clamor. The twelve dollar
bicycle story was a hoax. Colonel
Albert A. Pope, an antbority on bicy¬
cles, pointed ont that the materials for a
high grade wheel would cost far more
than twelve dollars. To effectively
fujoelch the absurd invention he added
that his company is now selling large
numbers of bioyoles in Japan at $125
each. The alleged twelve dollar wheals
only existed in the heads of the pro¬
tectionist editors.
Jf the Japanese do learn to manu¬
facture goods which we want we can
hardly expeot them to give them to us
for nothing. If they sell them they
must take some of our products in ex¬
change. This will give our workmen
wider markets, and instead of injur¬
ing American labor, will benefit it.
Trade with any country is always a
good thing. There need be no fear
that we will be iujured by an invasion
of cheap Japanese goods.
% A Lapse Into Honesty.
•Nearly all discussions of the tariff
qulHiou have oentered on the effect of
oustoms duties on prices. It has been
seriously maintained by proteotiomsts
that high tariffs do not increase the
cost of goods on whioh they are levied,
but in reality eDsble them to be sold
oheaper than under free trade. The
Democrats have pointed to the busi¬
ness foot that the importer adds the
duty to the price at which he sells for
eign goods, as an illustration of the
manner in whioh tariff taxes are paid
by the consumer. And they have
shown by a comparison between kind the
market pTioes of the same of
goods, at the same time, in protection
and free trade countries, that as an in
variable rule higher tariffs make dearer,
g 00( j s>
By one of the occasional lapses into
honesty and intelligence whioh befall
even the best regulated York protectionist
organs, the New Tribune comes
over to the low-tariff side and adas its
testimony to the many facts previously
given bv the Demooratio press. In its
issue of Deoember 16, the Tribune
editorially says: '“Woolen goods are
■bout twenty per cent, lower thsn in
1892.” And this is asoribed to the re
iluced duties levied by the Wilson
tariff.
That a leading Republican paper
should give away so clearly it# party’s
ossa is surprising in view of the events
of the past year. Ever since the pres
ant dutie* on woolen goods took
effect the high-tariff organs, great and
smalt, have united in asserting that
ths people are not getting their cloth¬
ing. blankets snd oarpets any oheaper
than when the good and great Mo
Kinlay’s law was in force. Only a few
mouths ago the Tribune itself eud
that the coo tamers of woolens had not
been benefited by the new tariff And
now, in trying to show that tariff re¬
form has Injured domestic they industry,
it tells the woolens people that are get¬
ting their twenty per cent,
oheaper than in the brave MoKialey
days. This is all that the Democrats want
to know, and it should be enough to
make a tariff reformer onto* every
man who wean elothea or eleeps under
blankets. When admits a partisan protec¬
tionist paper that the prices
«? gooiz, of whioh a* learn seven hun¬
dred million dollars’ worth are used
every year, are twenty per oeat lees
than under a high tariff there oan be
no for tiie purchasers of goods
voting for a return to higher taxes.
Twenty par oehk on $700,000,000
amounts to •140,000,000, and this
great has therefore been saved to
tbs people in one year on wool
goods alone by the Wilson tariff By
pasting* thane figures alongside when the of
their clothing bills ia 1890,
higher torn of the McKinley people law
foroed prices up, the Amcrieea
will hare a handy reminder as to the
Mat way to vote in 1«W.
We Art Still Trading,
of imports
i ■hows thet
n
Do
$739,416,
In
pertments of the Govern asset were
jhA-ktovyuaiMA srsrjgrpsS & ?
IntorW'wi i v5-*h»' ■m
sit* a
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than that of an entire year of proteo
busmees merely for the sake of putting
the Republican party back into power,
Lubiu's $1000 Offer Declined.
The American Protective League and
Governor McKinley not having ac¬
cepted tbe offer of David Lubin to pay
$1000 if they cou'.d prove to the satis
faction ol an impartial committee that
“a tariff on imports conld protect the
staples of agriculture in the home
market no long as they were produced
in surplus quantities for export,” Mr.
Lubin makes his offer to the San Frau
cisco Bulletin, with a proviso that the
newspaper iorfeit $1000 if it fails to
establisu its 'case. Tariff discussion
being only ah “incident” of its busi
ness, the Bulletin declines the oiler.
DK. JAMESON TALKS.
Explains His Incursion Into the Boers
Territory.
A dispatch to the Central News datec
Jobannesbnrg, January 3d, gives a
brief report of an interview the Cen
tral News representative had with Dr.
Jameson, who was sent a prisoner to
Pretoria.
“I only crossed the frontier,” said
tbe doctor, “because of the urgent ap
peals made by the inhabitants of Jo
hannesburg and because I fully be
lieved that large numbers of my conn
trymen and country women were in
dire peril of their lives. It was only
to save them and protect them that I
moved. I could have beaten the
if the people of Johannesburg had
made bdj effort to help themselves,
which I was led to expJbt they would
do. Help did not reach us at Krugers
dorp, «nd wo could not break through
the Boer line*. We fought until we
were dropping to the ground exhaust
ed and our ammunition had been
spent. posi
“The Boers were in a strong
tion and in strong force and we were
unable to shift them, but if tbe men
of Johnannesburg had only destroyed
the railway to Krugersdorp, which
they could easily have done, it would
have prevented the| supplies ofjord
nance being taken to tbe entrenched
Boers, whioh enabled them to hold out
against our attackB. As it was a special
train loaded with ammunition ran out
to the Boers from Johannesburg with¬
out hindrance.”
TRADE TOPICS.
Bradstreets* Review of Business for
the Past Week.
Bradstreet’s weekly review of trade
Bays: trade has improved ,
“General not
appreciably. Mild weather at western
points has interfered with businessin
sonlfc instances, and the week oontin
ues to present characteristics of a be
tween-season’s period. The lmpres
sion is general that uncertainty as to
financial action by congress and dis
tnrbing political conditions have
an unfavorable influence on the
prospect for new enterprises. Mer
can tile collections east, west and north
west are complained of, but at the
south the comparative ease with whioh
they are made forms a conspicuous ex¬
oeption. Demand for fnndB at various
western centers is the most active for
a year. “Speculation is and profes
narrow
aional, but the stock market is strong
on the belief that the $100,000,000
bond issue will be successful, aud that
no severe depletiqn of tbe treasury
gold reserve is likely during the thirty
days of delay for popular subrerip
tions. ”
ANOTHER STRIKE IMMINENT.
Philadelphia Street Car Men Still
Dissatisfied.
It now seems probable that another
■trike of the motormen and conductors
of the Union Traction Company at
Philadelphia will take place. The
differences between tbe eompany and
the men are apparently irreconcilable
and the men are very bitter toward
the oompany. If another strike takes
place it will bare the sanction of tbe
Amalgamated Association of the 8treet
Railway Employes, snd it promisee De¬ to
be as serious as the first strike on
oember 17th. It was claimed at the
association headquarters that if an¬
other strike is ordered sll the mem¬
bers of the association and a number
of new men wil l go out,
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
Assemble* at Jackson—Many Office
Seekers. ,
The Mississippi legislature was call¬
ed by to Secretary order jn*t o( before State Govan. noon Tuesday J, F,
XeOooL of Atola, and J. R. Dene
more, of N ox a bee, were nominated for
speakers. L. Pink Smith, of Wash¬
ington county, has no opposition for
oterk.
A lively oontest will be had over
minor offices, es there are twenty-five
or more caadidstee for every plane.
Nominations were all made ia caucus,
of which Judge Grits, of West Point,
chair man. ___
distilling company assigns.
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A Louisville ! dispatch saya: Bartley,
Johaooa A Go. , and the Bella of Nekon
de an en¬
two join!, the
\tftiue of Bartley, i * Co. be
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HT1 MA N TEIJ^COPES.
A BACK OK MEN WITH WONDER¬
FUL POWERS OF VISION.
They Can Identify Objects at Great
Distances—A Remarkable
. Instance oh Long-Dls
tan cO'Vislon.
u-|--y HERE is a race of men who
I * can gg e ^ far with the naked
e y e ag an ordinary man “Every can
w jth a telescope.
man big own telescope,” might be sp¬
plied W ith propriety to these fortun
ate p ergons . They live in a wild state
in the soutll of Africa,among the tribes
Bushmen. The name “bushman”
j s an Anglicism of the Dutch word
• •Bjoseman,” meaning “man of the
woods. ”
These human telescopes hnvo de¬
rived their extraordinary power of
vision, according to Mr. Herbert
g pencei>( throngU necessity. If it
were not for this they must have long
becom0 extinct. Thevare re
^^abiy sma li in stature for wild
men> an( j they 0 a er an easy prey for
^ large fierce beabts that infest oer
tain porta of Southern Africa. And,
on account of their diminutive size,
they are not a bJ e to fight on gqnal
terms with their warlike and larger
proportioned neighbors,
“Bushmen,” says Mr. Spencer,
«q! ave t 0 guard against enemies, brute
an( j human, and must be ever on the
ft j er t to kill or snare animals serving
f or f 00( j. To identify distant moving
objects as such is therefore essential
to the preservation of life. Heie is
one w bo, perhaps from some advan
tageous variation in the form of the
lense*. or in the adjusting muscles, or
j n the retffial elements, has a vision
B0 k ee u that he recognizes a man, or
a l| 0 n, or a springbok when its dis
tance is half a mile greater than that
at which other persons can recognize
jj.”
Travelers in tbe region of the long
sighted Bushmen have reported some
truly remarkable feats with the eyes,
One day while an European was walk
jug in company with a friendly Bush
man, the latter suddenly stopped, and
ppiuting ahead in seme alarm, ex
claimed:
“A lion.”
The white man stared until his eyes
aobed but he could make out nothing.
Thinking that the natiy e must have
made a mistake, he insisted on going
forward, through his companion urged
him to retreat. When they bad ad¬
vanced a little furthur the Bushman
again came to a halt and absolutely
refused to go on another step, for, as
he explained, he could distinguish not
only a lion, but also a number of
cubs. It would be very dangerous,
he said, to tamper with a lionesss
while nursiDg her cubs.
The European, however, still un¬
able to see a lion, much less the cubs,
pushed on boldly. When he had ad¬
vanced a quarter of a mile he saw an
object moving slowly along in the
distance at tbe point to whioh the
Bushman bad direoted bis gaze. Still
doubting that) a human being conld
possess such marvelous powers of
vision, he approaohed nearer, and fin¬
ally distinguished the form of a lion
making leisurely for h line ot timber.
The limit of a man’s power of vision
is established by neoessity. If our
existence depended qn do, our this ability addi¬
to see twice as far as we
tional power would be acquired by
practice. Deerslayer, of “Leather
Stocking” fame, surprised every
by his long-sightedness. Probably he
could see further than these Bushmen,
but he was a fiction character. All
woodsmen, and as a general thing all
persons living an outdoor life, give
their eyes praotice at long range,
which ultimately makes their accuracy
of sight seem wonderful to a man who
never uses his eyes exoept to read.
A man with the eyesight of a Bush¬
man, aided by the immenso Lick tele¬
scope, might be able easily to tell all
about tbe canals of Mars and settle at
once the much vexed question as to
whether that planet is inhabited. To
a person so gifted, Mars would appear
many times clearer and nearer than to
a man of ordinary vision.—New York
A Chinaman's Odd Exesrsion.
Ah Ohow, a Chinaman with a limit¬
ed knowledge of this country, it* Wrays
and its language, started from Berke¬
ley, GoL, to ride the few miles into
Ben Francisco the other day. He had
been instructed where to take the
train; but he had made a mistake,
and instead of boarding the regular
steam railroad train he took an elec
trio ear that pissed tbe seme corner.
It happened to be a ear of the loop
line that runs between Berkeley and
Oakland, going one route and return¬
ing another. He made tbe complete
efrenit once, but made no effort to get
off the ear. The conductor thought
the soenery charmed the celestial, so
eeid nothing, but collected his fare a
third time as the train went on its sec¬
ond trip to Oakland. Eight times Ah
Chow mad* the circuit of the line, pay¬
ing hie nickel with eherrfalness every
time the conductor caked for fere.
Then at the end of the eighth trip and the Ah
conductor celled e policeman police Judge
Chow was taken before e
for examination as to his sanity. The
interpreter in the court soon disoov
of Ah Chow's peculiar
the court's permie
to Sen Fran
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The $ Mart.
Did it ever strike you as being at all
peculiar that we should use the dollar
($) before, instead of afyer the figures
in expressing the sum of five, ten,
twenty or any other number of - dol*
lars? We may say “twenty-five dol¬
lars” plain enough for any one to un¬
derstand, but as soon as we put the
expression into figures and characters
it is “dollars twenty-five” ($23) in¬
stead of 25$, as it should be. Nor is
this all that is peculiar in this connec¬
tion : In every country which has a
written language and a system of coin¬
age the abbreviation for the unit of
value precedes the figures. In Eng¬
land tbe pound mark (£) is used in
the same manner that the dollar mark
is used in this country, while the same
peculiarity is noticeable in Germany,
where the abbreviation m. (for mark)
appears preceding the number, just as
the French abbreviation fr. (for franc),
is used in France.
If the abbreviations are not used
tbe legend is more apt to be correct.
Wo find that in Mexico they have a
“2j pesos” instead of “p. 2$,” as one
might expect, and in Newfoundland
they have a plain two dollar piece.
So, too, in France, where the abbre¬
viation is not nsed we find such pieces
as “10 francs, ?* ( ‘20 francs” and “40
franco.” In Germany they have a
piece marked “X thaler,” which is all
very plain, but the moment a clerk,
bookkeeper or other person makes an
entry or jots down a memorandum he
tells you that it is a “th. X.” The
English pound sign, which is believed
to be the oldest monetary abbrevia¬
tion now in use, is the old initial let¬
ter by which the Eomans expressed
“pounds," just as we use the “lbs.”
It has been suggested that we use our
money abbreviations backward, be¬
cause that the Romans in expressing
“pounds,” always said “ilbra decern,”
instead of “decern libra,” the first be¬
ing “pounds ten” and the latter “tea
pounds. ” When their initial letter or
character was nsed it always preceded of
the figures, thus “£10,” instead the
reverse. Thus the whole world have
gotten in the habit of doing these
things backward.—St. Louis Republic.
A Phenomenon.
There has always been an inclination
to believe in the existence of a fund of
nervous energy in the body that re¬
sembles tbe flow of a current of elec¬
tricity, both in its intangible aspect
and its remarkable physiological ef¬
fects. The nerve centers of the body,
or nerve ganglions, all start from the
brain as a distinct focus. From here
radiate the nerves proper as a complex
system with minute tendrils that give
rise to sensations of the most agoniz¬
ing, as'well as the most exquisite na¬
ture—the blow of a cudgel or the
tickle of a straw being equally and as
readily perceptible. Although no de¬
terminations of a positive ‘character
have ever been made, the gymnotus,
or electric fish, is a type of organism
in whioh the two functions seem close¬
ly allied. The discharge areas are
controlled and owe their lasting quali¬
ties to the nervous system to each an
extent that the fish falls into an ex¬
hausted condition if so irritated that
its reserve fand of material for elec¬
trical phenomena becomes too quickly
nsed.
In South America the eel, whioh is
eaten by the Indians, used to be caught
by driving a number of horses into the
river and allowing them to receive the
discharge from the fish, whicl, when
thus weakened, were drawn from the
water. In cases of locomotor ataxia
the nervous energy is so laoking that
the irritation of any part arouses only
after a deliberate interval the sensa¬
sion tion expected. of force The gradual is forcibly transmis¬ illus¬
nervons
trated when a needle is'inserted in the
flesh ^frequently ten seconds elapse
before the impression is conveyed to
the brain. There is no doubt that the
mysterious adjnuot of nerve tissue is
of a most perplexing nature. Let a
nerve center of the brain be affeoted
and the part of the body controlled by
it loses movement and sensation. Tbe
almost structureless composition of
the brain hides within it the secret of
all sensation. The slightest thrill of
its particles may.mean a thought that
will shake the earth with its impor¬
tance—its quietude means either sleep
or eternal peace.—Electrical Age.
A Kovel Time Keeper.
“See those two men up in the win¬
dow, with their watches in their hands?”
said one gentleman to another Thurs¬
day noon, standing on the east side of
Seventh street, about midway of the
square, aud motioning' over toward
the Posfeoffioe Department.
The other said he could see them.
“They are waiting for the ball to
drop on the State, War and Navy
Building so they can set their
watches. ”
“Bat that building is about ten
squares behind them—they have their
faces turned this way,” replied the
other.
“They are watching those men on
the corner ol Seventh and F. who are
watching the ball. When the men on
the corner all look down at their
watches at onoe, those two will know
that the bell has jnst dropped, and
they will both look at their watches.”
They watched the two clerks for e
few minutee, end when both (looked
down at their watches together one of
the gentlemen looked at his wateh'aad
■aid:
“I told yon so. Jut 12 o’clock.
Washington Stax.
A
Ira Schwartz, a Cook County (HL)
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