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THE IRON WORKERS
THREATEN STRIKE
Hay Battle With Horgan’s
Great Steel Trust.
CONFERENCES ARE UNDER WU
Amalgamated Association Makes
Important Demands Which nay
Cause a Gigantic Conflict.
A Pittsburg, Pa., special says: The
chances of all tko men of the Amalga
mated association employed in the or
ganized mills of the American Btieet
Steel company, and subsequently of
all the organized men of the associa
tion in mills of the United States Steel
corporation tremble in the balance.
On the other hand, President T. J.
Shaffer ia hacked up in his determina
tion to call a general strike by a ma
jority of the members of his advisory
hoard and the district vice president
and trustees who were in session all
day Wednesday. On the other hand,
there is a new move toward concilia
tion and arbitration, which may end
the entire controversy in Pittsburg
or may be carried to New York to be
adjusted by higher powers.
President Shaffer says that the out
look for a settlement is better than at
any time aineo the McKcosport trouble
started. Jt was explained m the meet
ing aa soon as the resolution was pass
ed giving Mr. Shaffer all power in the
matter, that he would address to the
heads of all the constituent concerns
of the United States corporation a com
munication advising them of the au
thority vested in him and fixing a date
when all these men would he called on
to strike in the event that the Sheet
Steel Company has not been forced to
settle either through the crippling of
their own operations or by tho organ
ization of higher power.
A canvass of all parties to tlio dis
pate indicates that tho declaration of
a strike will not take place for several
days. The efforts at conciliation to
tie made will take time.
Mach of the session Wednesday was
taken up in a conference with Japa
Jarratt, head of the labor bureau of
the Sheet Steel Company. Mr. Jar
rett contended that the men hail vio
lated their agreement of a year
ago, in which they agreed to remain
at work under the condition then ex
isting, the violation being in their
joiuing issue with tho association.
Tiie amalgamated men were tlrm in
asserting that their joining of tho as
sociation was not a violation of the
agreement.
The officials of the Amalgamated
Aaaociatiou have been considering tbo
matter of a strike carefully. They
have decided that in case of u general
strike the auti combine ciy will sweep
over the country like wihltlre uml that
there will bo an army of public senti
ment on their side such us was never
.htffore arrayed ou the side of a strikiug
body of men.
The McKeesport trouble is tho first
visible eruption of a condition that
has beeu developing for over a your,
beginning with the formation of the
American Steel Trust Company. The
individual companies that were üb
aoibed had no uniform plan of flout
ing the workers. Those in the asso
ciation of steel sheet mnutifucturers
employed and recognized uniou laoor.
Those outside were uou-union. The
ouiubiuo took in all. When it came
to a settlement of a scale last year the
Amalgamated Association demanded
that tlieir scale lie signed for all mills.
Thin the company refused.
In the meantime, or ou May ldth,
the noli union men signed uu agree
ment not to organize during the year
amt providing that the wages that then
tpted should continue during the year.
The scale controversy ended in au
agreement that the acale apply only to
the union mills. Since then the or
ganization has beeu devoting its ener
gies towanl getting the sheet mill
workers iu the other non union mills
organized, and for that purpose lias
considered the matter of throwing the
mills "open," and permitting union
uieu to work with non-union men to
progagate the seeds of unionism.
'The formation of the United States
Steel Corporation tended to complicate
matters, as it includes a number of
ooncarus non union and organized.
M’KINLEY lO START WHEELS.
W ill Touch button at Vicksburg and
Open the Buffalo Exposition.
The committee on ceremonies of the
Fau-American exposition at Buffalo,
accompanied t>y Representative Alex
ander, saw the president Wednesday
and extended to him a formal iuvi'a
tion to attend the exposition. They also
arranged with him the details of his
part in the opening of the exposition,
May Ist On that day the presiden
tial party will be at Vicksburg, Miss.,
and the chief executive will press a but
ton which will trausmit the electric
impulse necessary to set the machiuery
of the exposition iu motion.
DISPENSARY FOR HAW AII.
Hard Eight On Liquor Question Is
Under Wty at Honolulu.
A special from Honolulu states that
tho territorial legislature is now in the
midst of a hard tight over the propos
ed liquor dispensary law. v The bill
has been before the seuaate iu various
stages for several days, aud commit
tee reports for aud against it have been
made. The campaign has developed
lute a very bitter one, and there are
many ohnrgea of a corruptiou faiuL
BAD FOR PATRICK.
New York Attorney Is Held For
Murder of Hillionaire Wil
liam Rice
As a result of the United States
supreme court decision declaring in
va id divorces granted in North Dako
ta statu in which residence was not
bona fide, there was a flood of tele
grams received in Fargo Tuesday from
those likely to be affected. It is be
lieved that owing to the practice of
rnshing homo immediately after de
crees were granted less than 10 per
cent of the divorces allowed during
the recent divorce period would be
fonnd valid if contested.
But of those secured a large per
centage wore agreed cases, where ap
pearance was made by both parties.
Comparatively few bad bitter contests,
aud only iu these can the question of
residence be raised. Many of the lat
ter Hass, however, included distin
guished easterners and foreigners. A
majority of these have remarried aud
the decision of the court not only af
fects their present status, but the
legitimacy of many children born sub
aeqneut to second marriages. This
makes the court’s finding far-reaching
and creates great anxiety.
Applicants for divorce have always
been warned against abandoning their
residences so quickly, but much of
the trouble has beeu caused by di
vorce bureaus operated by unscrupu
lous local attorneys with branch offices
in the east. A majority of tho victims
have lieeu from New York, although
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the
New England states are well repre
sented. Notwithstanding that twelve
mouths’ residence is now required,
there aro a number of applicants iu
Fargo at the present time.
MATRIMONIAL TANGLE
Wide-Spread Consternation Caus
ed By Supreme Court’s Di
vorce Decision.
At Now York Tuesday Justice Je
rome hold Albert T. Patrick for the
grand jury on a charge of murdering
tho Into Texas millionaire, William
Marsh Rice.
Justice Jerome, in his decision, said
he was satisfied that the testimony of
Jones, Rice’s valet, was adequately
corroboiatcd “within the meaning of
section 899 of the code of criminal pro
cedare, hy evidence tending to con
nect tbo defendant with the commis
sion of tho crime charged.”
William W. Cantwell, of Patrick’s
counsel, said that application iu habeus
corpus proceedings would be made iu
the case of Morris Meyers aud David
L. Short, who are in the Tombs in de
fault of J‘20,000 bail on a charge of
forgery in connection with having act
ed as witnesses to the alleged forgery
of the Rico 1000 will.
FLORIDIANS TO VOTE.
Primary to Be Held In First Judicial
District (lay 9
The Democratic executive commit -
tea of Florida lias issued notice to the
effect that a primary election will bo
held ill the counties of the first judi
cial district ou the 9th day of May
next, for tho purpose of nominating
u state attorney of said district. The
district is embraced iu the six counties
of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Walton,
Holmes, Washington and Jackson, and
the call provides that if uj person re
ceives a majority of the votes cast at
said primary a secoud primary will be
held on May 21st, each of which will
be participated in by the qualified
white Democratic voters w ho reside iu
the first district.
HELP FOR NEGRO TEACHERS.
Colored Pedagogues to Be Given
Course at Industrial College.
The Georgia State Industrial col
lege, the negro school near Savannah,
is to make an experiment this sum
mer.
State School Commissioner Glenn
lias advised the president of tho col
lege, Professor R. R. Wright, that the
school is to be kept open one month
from Juuo 18th for the advancement
of colored teachers from all section*
of the state. The funds ure to eouie
from the Peabody fund.
This is the first suuimor school for
negro teachers ever maintained by the
state aud the experiment will he
watched with interest
i UCATION lwn VBTOSDw
“Compulsory" Measure Knocked Out
By Governor of .Missouri.
Governor Dockery of Missouri ve
toed the compulsory education bill
entitled "Au act to enforce the consti
tutional right of every child in the
state to an education; to provide for
truant or parental schools, and attend
ance of officers in cities of 10,000
population or more, and to prohibit
the employment of children during
school hours."
The governor said that the act inter
fered with the personal rights of pa
rents, aud savored of patcrualism ou
the part of the state.
DON’T WORRY, SAYS WOODRUFF.
Manager of Hanila Commissary Says
Adairs Are Honestly Conducted.
Commissary General Weston, at
A asbiugtou. has received a cablegram
from Colonel W 'odruff, chief commis
sary »t Manila, iu which he says:
"Do uol penult seauilalous reports
to worry you. Affiir* in the subsist
ence department of the army are ad
ministered honestly aud to the satis
faction of officers aud troops.”
GEORGIA TEACHERS
AWAIT SALARY
State Treasurer Refuses
to Honor Warrants.
A TEST CASE TO BE MADE
Courts Will Pass Upon Matter
That Has Long Been a
Contention.
Georgia's state treasurer, Mr. Park,
refuses to use the public property
fund for the purpose of paying the
school teachers of the state aud tiding
over the deficiency in the deficiency
in the treasury, and Governor Candler
asserts that the teachers shall be paid,
and that ho will endeavor to make the
state treasurer pay them us soon as it
is possible to do so.
Treasurer Park made the announce
ment Friday afternoon that he would
refuse to honor the school warrants by
borrowing from the public property
ftiud, and immediately preparations
were made looking to bringing man
damus proceedings against him, and
suit will be filed before Judge Lump
kin iu the superior court of Fulton
county.
The matter w ill, of course, go to the
supreme court which ever way it is
decided. In any event it will be six
or seven weeks before the public
school teachers of Georgia get their
money.
The supreme court cannot assign
the case for hearing before May 20th,
aud it will be at least a week or ten
days before a decision can be secured
from that body.
This means that tho mercliauts aud
the hoarding house keepers and others
to whom the uearly 0,000 teachers iu
Georgia ore indebted, will have to
wait that much longer for their money.
Treasurer Park says be did not
filially decide what, he would do until
1 o’clock Friday afternoon. In the
meantime the warrants for the school
teachers, amounting to 8247,090, were
waiting iu the office of the comptroller
general. Comptroller General Wright
hail declined to countersign them, ss
he is required by law to do, until be
had been advised of what the treasurer
would do.
Knowing that the situation wrs
waiting on his decision, Treasurer
Park took stops to determine what ha
would do. At the dinner hour Friday
he went to meet Washington Dessau,
of Macon, who had already given an
opinion contrary to that of the attor
ney general, and w ith him ho had a
final consultation.
Upon his return to the capitol Treas
urer Park called on the comptroller
aud asked him what he intended to do
about the warrants.
“If you are going to refuse to ray
them,'’ said the comptroller geueral,
“it will only bo necessary for me to
countersign one. That is enough for
a test case.”
“But 1 would not refuse to pay one
of them,” the treasurer replied. “I
have about 877,000 iu the treasury
which I can r.3e for that purpose, and
I would not refuse to pay them until
tnat is paid out.”
The comptroller gonernl said ho
could uot decide that point. He did
not know whether the governor would
care to pay a few of them and leave
others uupaid. Treasurer Park said
lie would see the governor, and lie
diil.
"1 have determined to pay them all
or none,” was the decision the treas
urer got from the governor.
"Then I shill pay none of them,"
was the conclusion tho treasurer
reached.
Governor Candler stated that he did
not intend to select any of them for
payment at tlrs time; wheu one was
paid all must he paid. This decision
was reported to the comptroller gen
eral aud he declined to couutersigu a
portion of the warrants. Thus the
matter will go directly into the courts.
Knoxville Has Snow Storm.
The heaviest snow of the year be
gan falling 111 the vicinity of Knox
ville, Teas.. Friday night about k
o’clock. It ts the first time in years
that suow has fallen this lute in April.
The change in tho weather from a
spring to a winter day was very sud
den.
CORPSE GAVE A GASP.
Mourners Arouml Mrs. Marlow’s Cof
fin Greatly Startled.
Mrs. Frank Marlow's funeral ser
vice was being conducted at her late
home at Merrimack, Ala., Thursday
afternoon, when to the great astonish
ment of all persons present, the sup
posed corpse gave a gasp and showed
every sign of returning life. Relatives
sent for a doctor, who examined Mrs.
Marlew, found her body warm and
discovered a feeble pulse. For an
hour aud a half the physician worked
with her iu an attempt to bring the
womau back to consciousness, but she
eventually died.
ABAD QUITS FIGHT.
Another Filipino Leader Surrenders
and Swears Allegiance.
The war department has received
the followiug cablegram from Geueral
MacArthur at Manila:
“Colonel Aba 1, nisurgeut leader,
Marinduqne, niue officers, 70 soldiers,
248 small arms, surrendered Major)
Frederick A. Smite 15th, oathed with
impressive ceremony aud released.
This eads insurrection there.
"MaoAßTimv ’’
SAVAGE TACTICS
Adopted By Red Coats In South
Africa—Revolting Barbari
ties Practiced.
Captain Otto von Lossberg, captain
of the second battery, Transvaal state
artillery, who left the Boer army in
January, being incapacitated with
wounds, arrived at New York Wed
nesday morning from Kuropo with
Montagu White. He left Wednesday
night for New Orleans, his old home.
In an interview Captain von Lossberg
said:
“I talked with General Louis Botha
before I came away. ‘You may go,’
lie told me. ‘Yon Lave fought well.
I give you your discharge. When you
come back we shall be free or lighting.
I shall fill a patriot’s grave. Go, my
boy. God Vie kind to you.’ ”
“That is the kind of men who figlit
for the Boer cause,” continued Cap
tain von Lossberg. “The English
have violated every law' of civilized
warfare. They have armed 5,000
Kaffirs, who are In Steiuacher’s horse,
which is the scum of South Africa.
They fight like tho Hessians fought
you —for hire. They get twelve shil
liugs a day. They plunder and pillage
everybody, young and old alike.
“When I was wonnded I was pnt in
a Red Cross ambulance and started
for Lourenzo Marques. We were held
up by 50 Kaffirs who wore nothing
but breech clouts and carried British
rifles. They took everything we had
and turned me back to Pretoria.
“I complained of the violation of
the Red Cross flag and robbery to the
British officers. They investigated
and admitted that I had been shame
fully treated. They promised restitu
tion ‘after the war. k Y’on Americans
have little conception of the resources
of the Boers. Delarey alone has
3,000,000 rounds of ammunition. We
have twenty guns and a Long Tom.
The latter is hidden for future need.
We need nothing but ambulances and
surgical supplies.
“The Holland societies sent us three
ambulances nnd nurses several months
ago via Lourenzo Marquez. The Brit
ish there had them held up and they
are there yet, while our men are dying
for the need of them.
“Our forces are distributed like this:
Delarey has 0,000 men, Botha 4,000,
Dewet 5,000 aud the rest aro in flying
corps. They constantly harass the
British. Most of our men are fighting
south of Pretoria.
“The Americans with our army,and
particularly the Irish-Americans, arc
doing magnificent fighting.
“The British recently desecrated
the Lutheran church at Kusterly mis
sion. The Tommies took the church
organ, and while one of them played
tho others danced to the music with
the Kaffir girls. At Lynehtenherg tho
British desecrated a cemetery by mak
ing it a cattlo pen.
“Our winter season begins in May
and ends in September. The Boers
will take to the hills until it is over.
They have little baggage to impede
their movements,while the British are
weighted down. We will play havoc
with them when the winter sets in.”
The captain denied that General
Dewet is insane.
“He is the most dangerous ‘insane
man’ that England ever coped with,”
he si\id. ‘‘General Dewet is a mili
tary genius. He has made his '■sw
troops into one of the best disciplined
and most dangerous forces in the
world. They love him like a father
and would follow him into the very
jaws of death.”
HALF BILLION IN TREASURY.
Yellow Metal In Possession of Gov
ernm-nt Reaches $500,378,506.
Wednesday’s summary of the United
States treasury report shows that the
government’s aggregate gold holdings,
for the first time iu history, have
passed the half-billion dollar mark
The exact total was $500,278,506, of
which $252,078,859 was held against
certificates in the hands of the outside
public, and $150,000,000 as a reserve
against outstanding United States
notes, tho balance being free assets.
Georgia Federation of Labor.
The Georgia State Federation of
Labor met in annual convention at
Columbus Wednesday. During a re
cess given for the benefit of the cre
dentials committee Hon. John I). Lit
tle addressed the meeting in an
informal talk in which he paid a
great tribute to the working man.
UNCLE SAfl WAS JUS IIFED.
So Says Classification Board In Rus
sian Sugar Case.
The board of classification of the
United States geueral appraisers at
New York announced a decisiou in the
Russian sugar case Friday. The
board, hy a majority vote, holds that
the United States government was
justified in imposing a countervailing
duty on Russian sugar.
Britons Ambushed By Boers.
Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch from
Pretoria under date of Thursday,says:
“I regret to report that a party of the
Ninth Lancers have been ambushed
aud Lieutenant A. MeDouald aud
three men killed and five wounded.”
BOERS SECURE SUPPLIES.
Burgers Capture From Britons a Train
Load of Cattle and Coal.
Advices from Cape Colony state that
a train loaded with cattle aud coal was
captured by the Bojerg near Molteno
Friday evening The locomotive es
caped and ran to Stormhurg and re
turned with troops, who found tho
train on fire. A couple of natives
were killed. Tbe train band* had
been stripped and then released.
SOLICITOR OPPOSES
CARTER’S PLEADING
Says Prisoner Has No Just
Right to Freedom.
HOW UNCLE SAM WAS ROBBED
“Swag” Was Separated Into Three
Piles and Carter Divided
With His Partners.
A Washington special says: Solic
itor General Richards filed with the
United States supreme court Tuesday
a brief in opposition to the application
for bail filed about ten days ago in be
half of former Captain Oberlin M.
Carter, now confined in the United
States penitentiary at Fort Leaven
worth, Kas., upon conviction of fraud
in connection with harbor improve
ments, etc., at Savannah, Ga. After
reviewing the history of the case the
solicitor general says in part:
‘‘The validity of Carter’s conviction
and sentence by tho courtmartial
which aloue could try him for crimes
committed as an officer of tho United
States army, in violation of the articles
of war, has been sustained by three
civil courts and five judges, not count
ing the court before which the matter
is now ponding for the third time.
Carter now applies for the suspension
of the just sentence of this lawful tri
bunal and asks to be released from im
prisonment pending the hearing of this
second appeal, upon the following
grounds:
“First, becanse he is suffering from
neurasthenia and is on the verge of
nervous collapse by reason of mental
anguish, owing to bis imprisonment.
“Second, because he is innocent of
tho charges in which he was convicted
by the courtmartial aud the only way
he can establish his innocence, so ho
says, is by pressing to trial the charges
embraced in the Georgia indictment,
which he asserts cannot be tried be
cause of bis absence from Georgia.
As to the first ground the solicitor
general submits argument tending to
show Carter’s sound mental condition
and files with the court affidavits of
five physicians who examined Carter
and affirm in closing that Carter is not
now suffering from neurasthenia; that
he is not on the verge of nervous col
lapse; that his nervous condition is
not greater than cne would expect to
find in a healthy person of Carter’s
standing coufiued in a prison.
Affiants further say that Carter is
now physically and mentally sound.
This affidavit is supplemented by
affidavits from the warden and physi
cian of the prison.
As to the second ground for release
on bail the solicitor general says in
part:
“Since Carter has dragged into this
case the fact that he is under indict
ment along with Greene aud the Gay
nors, and has sworn that the criminal
case cannot be tried becanse of bis ab
sence from Georgia aud asserts that
he wants to be released so he may de
maiul a trial by jury in Georgia, and
prepare for it, it is proper for me to
call the attention of the court to the
fact that if the criminal esse cannot
be tried without Carter, neither can it
be tried without bis conspirators,
Greene and the Gaynors. Yet, ever
ever since the indictment was found in
December, 1899, the government has
been strenuously endeavoring to se
cure the removal of Greene and the
Gaynors from New York to Georgia
for trial.
Mr. Richards says that the investi
gations of the government reveal the
loss of an Aggregate of $2,169,159.
Describing the method of Carter’s
operations, Mr. Richards says:
“The division of the ‘swag’ was at
tended to by Carter personally. When
the time came to make a payment un
der the contract, Carter, who, located
at Savannah, had charge of the work
on behalf of tho government, would
give to the representatives of Green
aud Gaynor, locally in charge at Sa
vannah, a government check sufficient
to pay for the labor and materials
which actually went into the improve
ment, aud then he would draw a gov
ernment. check for the excess of the
contract, representing the ‘velvet’—
the fruit of the fraudulent conspiracy
and putting this in his pocket, wuuld
go to New Y'ork.
There he would meet Greene and
the Gaynors. Then the division would
take place. Carter would be specially
allowed out of the amount $75 for
traveling expenses and the balance
wonid be divided into thirds, one
third going to Carter, one-third to
Greene and one-third to Gaynors. In
this way Carter drew out of the con
spiracy $722,528.02 and of this amount
the records of stock brokers in New
York show that he invested in stocks
aud bonds $690,301.85. Eor bis
traveling expenses Carter received
$575. He made 21 trips to New Y’ork
ou bis mission and at the time was in
excellent condition to be appointed to
St. James.
SOLDIERS FROM PHILIPPINES.
The Transport Ocronne Arrives at San
Francisco After Long Voyage.
The transport Garcnne arrived at
San Fraucisco Saturday from Manila
via Nagasaki and Honolulu. On board
were 1.000 men of the Twenty-sixth
volunteer infantry. This regiment has
seen seventeen mouths service in the
Philippines and was raised at Platts
burg, N. Y. Moat of the men are from
New York and Massachusetts aud saw
aerTice during the Spanish war.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAU
It is proposed to illuminate tho
Yosemite Falls, 2000 feet in height,
by the use of twenty arc lights in con
nection with means for producing col
or effects. Some of the roads are also
to be lighted with electricity.
Henry B. Miller, United States Con
sul at Shanghai, declares that the con
sumption of flour is rapidly increas
ing in China, and he argues from this
fact that there will soon lie a great
demand in tiiat country not only for
American flour, but also for mill ma
chinery.
Although an order for machinery to
cut a tunnel a mile and a half long on
the Manchurian Railway has only
just been placed (in America), it is
hoped that tho tunnel may he com
pleted in a year’s time. The road will
then 1)0 opened and afford a through
route front Europe to iue Pacific coast.
The Ontario government has re
served 1,400.000 acres of wild land
near Lake Temagami, a great lake
lying west of Lake Temiseamiag, on
the Upper Ottawa. This will be used
as a national park where the timber
will be preserved, and the game will
he allowed to increase. The number
of beavers and deer is increasing.
A United States Treasury report
estimates the present yearly consump
tion of corn by hogs, at least eight
thousand million bushels, or thirty
eight per cent, of the present c-rop, and
the average consumption by each hog
at not far from twenty bushels, and
total number slaughtered the past
year over rather than under forty mil
lions.
An attempt is being made to free
flie streams of Louisiana and Florida
from the water hyacinth. Hundreds
of skiffs aud small vessels have been
caught by the water hyacinths, and
arc unable to get out of tho streams
in which they were used. Tho drain
age canals in New Orleans are In
peril, and the logging industry of
Southern Louisiana is in danger of
destruction. There is room for a new
and successful process.
In experimenting with the Gray and
Mundy submarine telegraph recently,
an 800-pound hell was let down into
the ocean twenty feet below the sur
face. It. was found that when the
bell was tolled by means of mechan
ism the sound could be easily heard
on a ship a mile away, without any
sort of connecting apparatus, the
sound waves being transmitted
through the water, which is, of course,
a much better conductor than air. By
the aid of microphone attachments
Ihe bell was heard at a distance of
twelve miles.
Origin of Writing.
Arthur J. Evans, discoverer of the
remains of a great prehistoric palace
at Knossos, in Crete, which is believed
to be tho original of the fabled “Laby
rinth,” says that the revelations made
there carry back the existence of writ
ten documents on Greek soil some
eight centuries beyond the earliest,
known monuments of Greek writing,
and five centuries beyond the earliest
dated Phoenician record as seen on
the Moabite stone. These discoveries,
therefore, “place the whole question of
the origin of writing on a new basis.”
Mr. Evans thinks that the Cretan
hieroglyphs exactly correspond with
what, in virtue of their names, we
must suppose to have been the picto
rial originals of the Phoenician letters:
on which the alphabet is based.
Among these are aleph, the ox’s head:
beth, the house; daletb, the door, and
so forth. This contravenes the old
theory of De Rouge that the Phoeni
cian letters were derived from early
Egyptian forms signifying quite clif
fercut objects.—Youth’s Companion.
A Little Tale From the Persian.
There was a young man who loved
■a beautiful maiden, but he was poor.
One day he asked her to be his wife,
and she answered.
“I love you. Still, I do not wish to
be a poor man’s wife. Go and get
money and then return aud we will
live happily ever after.”
The young man went away and ere
long began to sway the markets. He
made millions and still more millions,
and tho maiden waited.
When the man had ten millions he
wanted to outshine one who had fifty
millions, and when that wish was grat
ified he longed for a hundred millions;
then he yearned for two hundred mil
lions, and at last he set a billion upas
the amount he wished to accumulate.
When, one day in those parts a eer
tain old maid lay dying, she said:
“There’s no use expecting a hog to
keep his mind on anything else aftqj
he gets his feet in the trough.”—Chi
cago Times-Herald.
Toys For KnglUh Children.
The ingenuity displayed in the pro
duetion of penny toys is marvelous,
novelties coming out nearly every
week. The foreign producers are quite
alive to the fact that a child soon tires
of a plaything and wants another, so
they keep up a supply of things bright,
novel and ingenious. Moreover, each
toy has its season. As the summer
approaches, when children delight to
be out of doors, the Germans send ua
musical rollers and jingling cars, and
for the long winter evenings they sup
ply novel indoor games and intricate
puzzles—amusement for many even
ings—at the cost of one penny. Then
the United States send lead pencils,
wood Mocks and colored toy l>ook»:
the French, dolls and tin toys, as well
as all the more expensive articles of
this class.—Chambers's Journal.
Left in London Cabs.
Twenty-ono thousand pounds’ worth
of articles are left in London cabs in
a year.