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I’li** Weather.
The Indication* for Georgia and East
ern Florida to-day are for showers, with
fresh east to northeast winds.
Rathbone and Neely will be missed from
about the convention hall in Philadelphia.
Ttye Emperor of China Intimates that
he would like to tell his troubles io the
marines.
If "figures can’t lie," it must be that
some of those figures from the Havana
postoffiee are the exception which proved
the rule.
The commerce of the Unite*l States with
China during the last fiscal year amounted
to 133,056,790, of which $14,537,432 were ex
torts and $18,610,268 imports.
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A queer strike is on in Milwaukee, where,
the men have quit work in order to com
pel their employers to join an employers’
benevolent association, which, it seems,
has an insurance feature attache**! to it.
Ten years ago there were over 500 pau
pers in Wichita county, Kansas. Now
there is one solitary iauper in the county,
who is taken care of by public subscrip
tion. The poorhouse has been abolished.
When the farmers and the bankers of
the cotton belt gel together on a plan
for warehousing the cotton crop, as it
seems they will do. the speculators and
manipulators will find their own row
harder to hoe.
Oorn Taul says the British do not know
where his treasures are. If he means by
that that they are laid up In heaven, the
Courier-Journal wants to know if the old
gentleman is not putting a lot of unnec
essary reliance on a railway locomotive.
Gov. Mount of Indiana, has placed him
self before the court of public opinion
to be tried upon the matter of his refusal
to honor the requisition of the Governor
of Kentucky. And there can he little it
any doubt that Gov. Mount will be con
demned.
That is a nice bluff which the Repub
lican National Committee is making about
investigating the "pernicious activity of
office holders in the campaign." If all
of the Republican office holders who have
been or may be perniciously active dur
ing the campaign were to be deprived of
their Jobs, there would speedily be a big
lot of vacancies in the service.
Senator Hoar—lie of the cherubic face
can use vigorous language when be gets
worked up. When asked about the state
ment of Secretary Buencamino, of the
Filipino government that he had written
letters t<> the Filipinos, Senator Hoar
said: "It is n li**; an infernal 11°. and
you can put as many ‘damns’ in my quo
tation a- your conscience will permit."
, - ...
A crusade against cigarette smoking
by school boys i being waged by an anti
cigarette league in Chicago. The league
also sells badges for 10, 25 and f0 cents
each, and publishes a little magazine at j
50 cents a year. If it can su<heed in selling j
badges to half the school boys In ChWtigo,
and to 10 per cent, of those in other cities,
it will rake in quite a neat little sum of
money.
W The platform adopted by the Democracy
of Georgia i our upon which all Demo
crat- of the st .t* .an stand. The Chicago
platform 1-, of course, indorsed, but at
tention Is given chiefly to new* Bines.
Imperialism and trusts are denounced and
the repeal of the piesebt tariff law is de
manded. The people arc eongiatulnte,] on
the state school system, ms maintained
under Democratic administration. The
platform is a good one, and will have the
approval of the party.
THE GOVERNOR DEFINES THE P-
St ES.
In his speech before the Democratic
State Conventon yesterday Gov. handler
pointed out what he considered the issuer
of the national campaign. In his opinion
the questions of tariff, silver and legisla
tive policy were Insignificant in comp r
-i.-on with the question of imperialism. On
this point he said: “The question that con
fronts us Is whether this shall continue
to Ik* a republic or be changed into in
empire. I am no alarmist, but I declare,
and I want to go on record as declaring,
that the issues of 1800. out of which grew
the most desolating civil war of modern
limes, were not so fraught with danger to
the principles for which our ancestors
fought in 1776, as are the issue* in the
pending election. In IW>O h)1 pirties ad
hered to the Monroe doctrine, the doctrines
of independence and of the constituti n.
The Republican ndminisiration has aban
doned the Monroe doctrine. the sheet
anchor of the republics of the Western
hemisphere, it has spit upon the doctrine
that all governments derive their just
powers from the consent cf the governed,
and has, in a thousand ways, defied an 1
ignored the constitution of the fathers.
It has waged a war of conquest against
a people whom it has found struggling
against a Spanish tyrant tor the right of
self-government.”
Further along in his address the Gov
ernor pointed out that the Republican par
ty had imposed heavy taxes in order to
carry out the policy of imperialism, and
that by means of these taxes there ha 1
been built up monopolies and trusts which
had closed every avenue to successful in
dividual enterprise. The Governor ex
pressed the opinion that our government
was no longer the government of the
people, but was an oligarchy. The next
step, lie said, is into empire.
The Governor is right in thinking that
the great issue in the presulential cam
paign is that of imperialism. The atten
tion of the people is being concentrated
upon it. They are of course Interested
in all of the political questions which are
being discussed, but not to the extent that
they are in the question as to whether the
principles on which the republic H founded
shall be adhered to.
Imperialism means militarism and
trusts. Most of the large fortunes- ate
owned by Republicans. The Republ can
party wants a large standing army. It
means to protect trusts, because great
fortunes are made out of trust# quickly
and are invested in trusts. As trusts in
crease in wealth and number a big army
may t>e necessary to protect them from
the attacks of an indignant people.
The mission of the Democratic pa ty i*
plain. It must defeat the policy of imper
ialism, destroy trusts and bring the repub
lic back to its ancient moorings*. It is
prouble that it would stand a greater
chance for success if it should concen
trate all of its efforts against imperlilism.
That seems to be the idea of the Governor.
The silver question, and other question*
concerning which there is a difference of
opinion in the Democratic party, can wall
until the Democracy gets control of the
government, and the opportunity, when
effective action can be taken, comes.
THE C EMETERY qt ESTIOV.
It is evident from the action of Council
on the report of the Special Cemetery
Committee, that there is great deal of
opposition to inventing s much money
in a cemetery site as the adoption
of that report would require. Alder
man Tledeman placed the amount nt
$250,000, and it is probable that his esti
mate was not very far out of the wav.
The refusal to approve the report wa3
somewhat of a surprise, since the impres
sion was that seven of the aldermen fav
ored it. The aldermen had doubtless found
out during the last two weeks, however,
that the sentiment of the community was
against the site which the committee had
recommended, and against such a large
outlay as the selection of that site in
volved.
As to whether any further effort will be
made to get the city to accept the Gar
rard tract, is a question that cannot now
be answered. It is hardly probable, how
ever, that any one of the aldermen will
care to take the responsibility of making
another effort to have the city accept it.
The objection** to it ere very strong ones.
As they were stated by Aldermen Tlede
man end Wells recently, and again by
Alderman Tiedeman on Wednesday night
at the Council meeting, they satisfy the
greater part of the community that the
city would make a regrettable mistake
if it should purchase the Garrard land for
a cemetery Fite.
Sometime ago we suggested that there
was no good reason why the city should
own a cemetery. it lie understood
that the city does not intend to purchase
another site, and it Is probable that a
private corporation would undertake to
provide a cemetery that would meet all
requirements, and would be in every other
respect satisfactory.
Senator Frye of Maine, who was presi
dent pro tem. of the fienate during the
session recently ended, directs attention to
one good thing, of the negative sort, which
the session did. There were 18,191 bills and
joint resolutions introduced during the
session. Of these only 225 were
sent to the President for his sig
nature. “It is no small part of the
duties of Congress,” says Senator Frye,
“to contrive how not to legislate—to
prevent great numbers of ill-considered,
selfishly promoted and vicious measures
from becoming law.” There Is much truth
in his comment. Every stale suffers from
too much legislation. If ii were possible
to reduce the number of acta passed by
state legislatures and Congress, it would
be better for the country.
The Chicago Journal contends that the
reason the strike in that city has not
been pett ed 1s chiefly because interested
persona do not wish it to be settled. The
strikers, it says, nre represented by busi
ness agents who see menace to their own
positions In any talk of settlement, and
the contractors by officers who let self
pride and arrogance sway them. It in
-Ists that, If the difficulty had been dis
cussed amicably, by sensible men. it might
have been dis|osed of in a day, long ago.
The probabilities are that the Journal is
correct in Its statement of the case.
It looks as if the Chinese mean fight.
It Is a great pity that civilization will be
called upon to witness a conflict between
<he. best soldiers In the world armed with
the best weapons, and the poorest sol
diers in the world armed with obsolete
weapons.
The Governor of Missouri says It is the
fault of the Mayor of St. ly>uis that there
has been rioting and bloodshed during
the strike, and the Mayor saya it ip the
fault of the Governor. Possibly each is
in a measure right.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JUNE 15. 1900.
T % Y LOR PROTECTED BY GOV.
MO! NT.
Will public sentiment sustain Gov.
Mount An refusing to deliver Mr. W. S.
Taylor to the regularly constituted author
ity sof Kentucky? It is doubtful. Mr
Taylor is under indictment in Kentucky
.is an accessory to the assassination of
<; v+GoebeL When It vs is announced hat
an indictment had been fo ind against him
he stated tha be would return at once
and fa< e his accusers. Instead of doing
that hr lias taken refuge in Indiana, and
the Governor of that state refuses to give
him up on the requisition of the Governor
of Kentucky.
It tn iy be, as Gov. Mount says, that it
Is Impossible for Mr. Taylor to get an im
partial trial in Kentucky at the prepent
time, owing to the excited condition of
public feeling there, but is it for him to
say whether a fair trial can be had or
not? There are courts in Kentucky to de
cide that question. Besides, Mr. Taylor
has plenty of friends in that state. The
understanding is that fully half of the
I>eople voted for him. and it is reasonable
to suppose that they would insist upon his
having a fair trial.
There is no doubt a very bitter feeling
against Mr. Taylor in Kentucky, and it
might be in the power of the dominant
party to bring about his conviction even
though the evidence did not warrant a
verdict of guilty, but it is doubtful if the
dominant party would use its power to
convict him. In fact, it is safe to say that
Democratic sentiment in Kentucky would
not permit his conviction on either per
jured or insufficient evidence. The people
of that state, without regard to party, be
lieve in fair play.
A mistake was made probably in offer
ing so large a reward for evidence that
would lead to the conviction of the parties
guilty of assassinating Gov. Goebel.
Gov. Mount thinks it amounts to a pre
mium on perjury, and that Mr. Taylor
would be convicted on false evidence If he
should be tried at the present time. But
is he justified by anything there is in the
law in refusing to surrender Mr. Taylor to
the Kentucky authorities?
The course that Mr. Taylor is pursuing
is calculated to give the impression that
he knows more about the assassination of
Gov. Goebel than has yet appeared in the
public prints. The impression may not.
of course, be correct. In fact, it probably
is not. Mr. Taylor, occupying the position
he did, could hardly have made the mis
take of countenancing In any way the
terrible crime that shocked the entire
country. If he Is ever brought to trial it
will appear probably that there is no evi
dence against him that would influence an
unprejudiced person.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR fIBAN
FRAUDS.
Republican senators and representatives
and leading Republican politicians are re
sponsible for the frauds which have been
committed in Cuba. No doubt some of
the senators and representatives who have
been loudest in condemning the postoffice
thieves and the thieves in other depart
ments of the Cuban service were among
the most persistent that their relatives and
political heelers should be given good
places under the government in Cuba. The
heads of the war ond postoffice depart
ments were pressed so strongly by men
prominent in the Republican party for
places in Cuba for friends, that they had
not the time nor, in fact, the Inclination
to inquire whether the persons to whom
they gave appointments were fit to serve
the government or not. It is estimated
that there are about twice as many per
sons holding government places in Cuba
as there is any use for, and It is a fact,
doubt leas, that many of them are paid
three or four times what they are worth.
It was stated in one of the dispatches
from Paris, a day or two ago. that United
States Commissioner Peck, of the Paris
Exfwsition. was paying clerks SSO a week
who would not be able to earn sls a w’eek
at home. And why does Commissioner
Peck thus squander the public money?
Simply because these young men, who are
paid four or five times what they are
worth, are proteges of senators or mem
bers of the House. He knows that if he
refused to grant favors to these legislators
his approriations would likely cease.
Asa matter of fact public officials can
not protect the government if they had the
inclination to do so. * The members of
Congress of the dominant party will not
permit them to do so. They insist upon
having their friends taken care of at the
expense of the public. The blame for
most of the extravagances, and even for
the frauds, from which the treasury suf
fers, rests upon senators and representa
tive* of the dominant party. If the truth
could be got at It would doubtless nppoar
that all of the officials in Cuba found
guilty of wrong-doing were appointed on
the recommendations of Republican sen i
tors or representatives.
The Leech Lake (Minn.) Indians, who
have given mote trouble lately than any
of the others, nre beginning to get restless
and ugly again. A “messiah” lias appear
ed among them and is preaching that the
anger of the great spirit will fall upon
and smite all Indians who live in houses
like those of white men, or otherwise, fol
low the customs of white men. It occurs
that there are no troops at t!te agency,
hence n outbreak might be attended with
bloody butchery.
At last Mr. Bynum lands! The Presi
dent has paid his political debt, due for
services rendered by Mr. Bynum as man
ager of the Gold Democracy in the last
campaign. Membership on the code com
mission is not at* good a thing as mem
bership on the board of appraisers at
New York; still it pays a comfortable sal
ary, and may pave the way for other
good things.
Nearly 6,000.000 persons In India are now
receiving relief from the government and
the various famine funds. The relief
work, it is said, will have to be continued
at least until next December, which is
the earliest time that the harvests will
become available. It is calculated that
the British government will have expend
ed $46,000,000 by December in the Indian
relief work.
Col. John F. Gay nor made a Joke the
other day. It was at the expense of the
Mayor of New' York. As the Mayor met
the Colonel he greeted him thus: ”Ah,
Colonel, how do you do? I see you and I
are getting our names In the paper a
good deal of late,” to which the quick
Colonel replied: "Yes, so I-C-E.” The
Mayor, it is said, did not even smile.
The Ohio Democrats have made a good
fighting platform. It evades nothing, and
adds much that will appeal powerfully to
those voters who believe in a govern
ment of the people, for the people and by
the people.
I*>rd Roberts is, no doubt, beginning to
Hhlnk that "Botha” spells bother.
PERSON 41..
—M. Edouard do Re.-zk*-* has lost his
youngest child. Marie, a bright little girl
of 6. The body has been sent to Warsaw
from London for burial in Polish soli.
—Walter J. Swingle, agricultural ex
plorer for the United States Department
of Agriculture. 1s Ir> Algeria buying 209 i
date palms, which are to be shipped to
Arizona.
—William J. Brvan. Congressman Will
iams?. of Illinois, and Richard Yates, w hom
the Republicans of Illinois have nominated
for iiovornor, were ail in the same class
at the oid Illinois College.
—Judge Eugene S. Elliott of Milwaukee,
well known the originator of the Amer
ican Whist Club, will play no more exoent
for an occasional social game. "He has
deckled that his days for match games
are over.
ljord Halsbury, the present Lord
Chancellor of England, will probably re
tire when his life-long friend. Lord Salis
bury. leaves office, and it is said his suc
cessor will )>e Sir Francis Jeune, Presi
dent of the Divorce Division.
—While the QueenFbury family is gen
erally associated in the public mind with
prize fighting and personal eocenericities.
there are members of it who have
achieved distinction in other and more
conventional directions. One is the Hon.
John Douglas. C M. G . who has re
cently published in Brisbane a very in
teresting history of Thursday Island. th*
eentinel guarding the northern approach
to Australia, where he has been govern
ment resident for the last fifteen years
—“The Queen's eyesight is becoming
more and more a matter of grave concern
to those about her," says the London
Chronicle. “Even the blue spectacle.*,
with which Dublin and lx?ndon are alik
familiar, ere failing of their old effect.
All dispatches and. all letters, except the
most private, are read to Her Majesty,
who now writes little more than her sig
nature with her own hand. A famous
foreign eye doctor has been lately con
sulted. but without any very encourag
ing result."
BRIGHT BITS.
—Fatal to Art—“ What an artistic pipe
you hav.e,” sold Miss Hicks to Barber.
Artistic,” returned Barber. “Nor a bit
of it. You can't make it draw.”—Harlem
Life.
—Courtesies of the Code-’'That.’' observ
ed the duellist, after pinking his adversary
in a carefully bloodless manner, “that l
the pink of politjness.”—Baltimore Ameri
can.
—“There’s only one thing the Armless
Wonder can’t do with his feet." said the
showman “What’s that?” - asked a spec
tator. “Put on his gloves.” answered the
showman.—Tit-Bits.
Honor—“Remmy.”asked a wee Kentucky
maiden, “what is honor?” “Huh!” replied
her older brother, little Remington Con
right, "why, it’s an excuse for shootin’
somebody, of course!”—Puck.
—Hedging—The Caller: “So your ca
nary's name is Joe, is it? Does that stand
for Joseph or Josephine?”
Small Girl—" We—we don’t know. That's
why we call it Joe Indianapo is Fress %
—“Did that critic write any favorable
comment on your novel. Belinda?” “Oh,
yes; he said my father had once met the
Prince of Wales, ond that we had always
moved in the best society.”—lndianapolis
Journal.
—Old Gentleman—“ Here, boy! You don’t
suppose I'm going to take that rickety old
framework in place of my good silk um
brella, do you?" Bell Boy—"Dat’s wot de
gemman said wot got yohs, suh.”—Brook
lyn Life.
—Conundrum (by the printer's devil)—
"la there any rule of English composition
that Mr. ex-President Steyn Invariably
observes?”
“Yes. He never comes to a full stop
without beginning with a fresh capital.”—
Punch.
—Retort Courteous—“l see the villain In
your face,’’ said the gruff lawyer who was
trying to intimidate a witness.
“Very likely.” was the calm reply, “the
face of a bright person, like a mirror. Is
apt to cast personal reflections.’’—Chicago
News.
—School Teacher—" What little boy can
tell me where is the home of the swal
low?”
Bobby—“l kin, please.”
School Teacher—“ Well, Bobby?”
Bobby—“ The home of the swallow is the
stummick."—Tit-Bits.
—Ferryinine Hntulttoiy.HMlstress—‘‘Jane.
you may clear away the breakfast dishes
and put the house in order. I am going to
my dressmaker's to have anew gown fit
ted." Jane—“ Yes. ma’am. Are you going
to take your latchkey, or shall I sit up for
you?”.—-Chicago News.
—Extravagance— “Your extravagance in
dress,” he exclaimed, “will ruin me!”
“It is not for you.” she retorted with
warmth, “to taunt tne with extravagance!
You, who every year pay taxes upon all
your property!”
At tills he winced and said no more—De
troit Journal.
—Solicittide—"What is father’s attitude
in the political right?” asked the grave lit
tle girl’s uncle.
“I don't know, exactly, bur the last I
heard about it they said that first he got
on his ear and next he was standing on nip?
head. I’m a great deal worried about
father.”—Washington Star.
4’IRRHVr COMMENT.
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem ) says:
“As the assembling of the Republican
National Convention draws nearer it is
to be observed that the protests of Mr
Hanna against accepting the chairman
ship of the National Committee become
feebler and feebler It is quite safe to
predict that the savory odor of sizzling
fat will mark Mr Hanna’s progress this
summer as it did four years ago. There
is no one worthy to succeed him in man
ipulating the sacred skillet.
The Ne w Oilcans Picayune (I)em ) says;
“It would be a great Messing to the Re
public if ail conservative, Democratic and
other elements could get together to res
! cue it from the radicals of every school,
but it se*ms 4 hat radicalism in politics is
in vogue, and it must run its course.”
The New York 'Times says: "If
(4rover Cleveland w( re President of these
United States we rather think he wou and
find some way ol preventing the disgrace
of St. V.ouis by mob rule, in spite of Sre
phens and Zlegcnhein. as he did prevent
a like disgrace to Chicago, in spite of Alt
geld and Hopkins. And he would not he
deterred by the circumstance that the
campaign was about to begin.”
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says: ”Tt is
n remarkable circumstance that the South
African Republics have already held out
against England longer than France did
against Prussia in the war of 1870-71. War
was declared by Nai*>leon on July 15. 1870,
and the preliminaries of p ace were s gn
el setvfn months and eleven days luter.
namely, on Feb. 26. 1871. Already the Boer
war has lasted eight months and the end
is not yet in sight. The war between
Spain and the United States began April
21, 1898. and ended by the signing of the
peace protocol on A?g. 12 of the same
year Spain was abl to matnta'n a show
f resistance to the United Ftates f. r only
three mrivihsand twenty-two days When
the British forces embarked in the war 1
It was supposed ihere was to be an ox- I
cursion to Pretoria and that once there
resistance would cease in this expecta
t’on they have been sadly dlsappo nted by
ythe Yout little repubtice.”
- €■ iig gen he liner’s Little Joke.
Randolph Guggenheimer. president of
the Council of the city of New’ York, is
not a joker, although he allows himself
once in many days the privilege* of a
jesr, says the New York World. A friend
was telling him one day last week about
James J. Coogun’s contribution to Wil
-lam Jennings Bryan’s campaign fund.
Incidentally, Mr. Coogan's campaign for
Mayor of New Ycrk will always be re
no mbe red with gratitude by thou ands of
“workers’ who found him overwhelming
ly generous Mr. eimer Is noted
for hi conservatism, and he is proud of
it
“Se ■ w hat Coogan has done," said Pr s
ident Guggenheimer’s friend. "He has
subscribed SIOO 000 toward Bryan’s cam
paign fund. Why don’t you give $100OK),
too ?”
“Because." replied he president of the
t’ouncil. with a cold smile, "be-ause I’m
Guggenheimer—not Coogan-Leimer.”
When* Ignorance Ik Rlino,
John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
magnante. usually travels between Cleve
land. his former home, and New York in
a private car. says the Philadelphia Sat
urday Evening Post. On a recent ttip
from the former ciy one of Mr. Rocke
feller’s parly found in the seeping car
two men from Cleveland whom he knew
very well. After ci few minutes chat le
invited them into the private car to meet
Mr. Rockefeller. They found the Oil man
deeply interested in a game played with
colored cards, which he was piling up
into stacks according to the.r color. He
explained the pastime to the young men.
and then went on with the game.
"Did you ever play it?” asked Mr.
Rockefeller.
"A great many times. But never with
colored cards. It is generally played with
playing cards, and it called solitaire.”
Solitaire?” repeated the oil man. ”1
never played with playing cards in my
life. You must be mistaken.’
As the visitors left the car they saw
the multi-millionaire deep in his game in
spite of the warning.
Menxt‘l'* Idea of Rent.
The German artist, Adolf Menzel, is a
great favorite, and his vagaries afford
endless amusement to the Berlin art fra
ternity. says the Youth’s Companion.
It seems that Menzel was engaged on a
mural decoration. He had rigged up a
scaffolding in his studio, on which his
model was requested to stand. F< r two
long hours the poor “poseur” stood up
aloft in a most fatiguing posture. Menzel,
meanwhile, worked at his sketch, heed
less of the fact that his model was grow'
ing tired.
At length the model found it necessary
to speak.
"Herr Professor.” said he. “how about
a recess?”
Menzel apologized profusely for his for
get fulness.
“Certainly, certainly, my dear sir,” sail
he. “Come down and rest yourself a bit."
The model had clambered from he
scaffolding 10 the ladder which ifd down
from it to the studio floor.
“Stop!" cried the- artist, suddenly. “That
pose is fine! Don’t move a mUfcle!”
And once more the model was- forced in
to strained rigidity, while the enthusia
tic draughtsman sei about sketching him.
At the end of half an hour Menzel look
ed up from his work.
“There,” said he, "that will do nicely!
Get back on the scaffold. We have had
our rest.
Johnson’* Turkey Tnlk.
“Darned if a turkey ain't a sort of pe
culiar critter,” said Horatio Johnson the
other day. according to the Lewiston
Journal. “There’s a good deal of human
nature mixed in with lots that is just
plain turkey.
“The other day while 1 was siftin' in
j the barn door one of my turkeys come
verkin’ along and prekin’ right and left,
and finally spied a rag on the ground that
every turkey had been travelin’ over since
snow went off. Turkey picked it up and
slatted it out. That minute every turkey
in the yard started for him. He run. It
evidently struck him all of a sudden that
he had got hold of guttlin' that was
mighty valuable. He run and he dodged
and he ducked and he run some more.
Every f*wr mi/iutes someone of them
turkeys would get after him by the wing
lor by the wattles or else by the rag, and
there would be a tug of war. And at last
I another turkey got the rag away and <hen
there was another chase. Guess them darn
fool turkeys would have b: en runn n' the
: fat off themselves the next day if I hadn't
| set the dog on ’em and drove ’< m up on
the woodpile.
“That's Just the way with a turkey. Let
any other one in the flock get hold of
suthin and every one of the blamed fools
I will start for him or her and run till they
| fairly drop.
“And, as I have said, there is a good
I deal of human nature right there.”
To the Girl Graduate of Nineteen
1111 ml red.
From the New York Sun.
Hello!
Girl Graduate,
You sweet thing, you!
With your head brimful of dictionary
talk
And “isms” and “ologies” and things,
And your cap and gown.
You are the latest, greatest, up-to-date
Girl
Of all the garden with girls rosebudded!
The broo-k and the river ebb
About your sby. reluctant tootsies,
But your boots are wide and w’aterproof
And your skirt plaid and reversible
Just ankle length;
For you’ve learned a store of knowledge
not in books.
Just good, old common sense.
You met the world
Clear-eyed and strong and sweet
Above all. womanly;
Not the wasp waisfed, lackadaisical, lap
dog petting girl
Of times gone by;
But just a girl
Gladsome and happy smiled.
Seeking no voice or vote in puddled poli
tics
Nor bifurcated rights in rostrum’s glare.
No. in the century’s new dawn you stand,
rose crowned,
A golf stick for a sceptre and your throne
A rock, three-canopied
Your page a caddie, and your king—
Ah. well,
You’ve yet to choose.
Let him be manful, brave
And lender of the flower your girl’s heart
is
To keep it safe;
A star to light a home? j
Through the summertime
You’ll frivol much
And get engaged no doubt.
One or two times
To summer boys by sen and shore,
And they will tell you fairy tales
About your being the only girl they ever
loved,
And things like that
But heed ihem not
These gay hat-banded ones,
Keep the Ideal Man
In sight
For that’s as near
As you will ever get to him
Despite the fact that he runs everything.
Quite so,
Just let him keep on thinking that we
think so. •
It pleases him
And doesn’t injure us!
But well you know, Girl Grad.
Your tears and smiles are powers more
potent for
Than empty crownshlp.
In your little palm
You hold the mngie larttp
That makes this old world beautiful!
All t your feet, Girl Grad,
Goddess of rarest June!
Be Good! Let those who will be great!
Look up' Lead on—and smile,
The world Is yours!
—•Kate Masterson.
F'rofesslonal Backing Invoked.—“lf you
don't believe- in doctors why did you call
me in?” ”1 can guess at what ails me.
doctor, but I want you to shoulder the
responsibility for the drugs I take ’’—Chi
cago Record*
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Out of 17.000,000 pieces of registered
mail handled annually in the United
States, the loss has averaged but one
thousnndth of 1 per cent., and in the
transmission of ordinary letters the lose
is but seven-thousandths of one per cent.
—■Small families are hardly the rule
among the English upper ten. The aver
age is six or seven. The Queen is the
mother of nine, and the Princess of Wales
of six children; Lord Abergavenny is the
father of ten; the Duke of Argyle of
twelve, the Dowager Countess of Dudley
is the mother of seven children, the Earl
of Eilesmere boasts of eleven, the Earl of
Inchiquin of fourteen and the Earl of
Leicester of eighteen.
—Among the employes in the Treasury
Department at Washington are three or
four blind women typewriters, and so
satisfactory has their work been that it
is proposed to engage more next year.
Their work is as good as the best of the
operators with full sight, it is said, and
has forced their superiors to expect as
much from them in dictation and copy
ing as if they were in complete posses
sion of their faculties.
—Boston’s park commissioners are urg
ent on the need of more playgrounds for
the children. The city has six tracts of
ground provided for this purpose, with a
total ana of about forty acr s, but the
nerd of more land fer sim lar use becomes
every year more evident, ard is the opin
ion of the commission that it would be
wise municipal economy to expend sl,-
009.000 within the next four y.ars in secur
ing additional playgrounds of from one
to six acres each.
Russia’s Academy of Sciences ha** a
prize of 1 500,000 rubles to begtow. In 1833
Gen. Arakszeijew bequeathed to it 50 00)
rubles, which were to accumulate till 1925
when three-fourths cf (he sum should he
given to the best history in Russ an of
Alexander Us reign. The other quarter
was to be spent in printing the work, in
having it translated into French and Ger
man. and for a prize to the second best
work. Th-* accumulations will amount to
nearly 2,0'0,C00 rubles.
—A protest is entered by the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, against the use of the
word “lobster” as an epithet, implying a
lack of activity or courage. A naturalist
asserts that he has seen lobsters in Novo
Scotia draw up in lines and fight furious
pitched battles, gr the end of w r hich the
shore was covered with claws and other
evidence® of dismemberment. The blows
are aimed exclusively at heads and claws,
so that the thoroughbred rules are ob
served much more carefully than by the
bipeds who slander a brave tribe by call
ing each other lobsters.
—M. Letorey. a French architect, has
applied the captive balloon to the cleaning
or decorating of cupolas, high roofs, tow
ers and monuments. The balloon can be
raised or lowered from a wagon by a
windlass, and ii can b? steadied by stays
from the side of the envelope. It has tw>
platforms, or “nacelles.” one on the top,
the o her underneath, and these communi
cate by a ladder up n central tube. The
“balloon scaffold,” as it is called, might
be useful and safe in many operations,
such as now require steeple jacks; for ex
ample, the wreathing of Nelson’s column,
and also in wireless telegraphy as an
aerial station.
—A dispatch from Greencastle. Ind.,
says: One of the attractions at the Paris
Exposition will be an immense wine cask,
which will be of special interest to the In
dianians from the fact that staves of
which it is built are furnished by Alfred
Hlrt of this city. The white oak timbers
used in it were procured In Mississippi,and
dressed especially for this cask. One hun
dred and sixty-eight staves are required,
each being thirty feet long, ten inches
thick and weighing from 1.300 to 1,900
pounds. The total weight of the structure,
not including the heads and the hoops, is
197,000 pounds. The cask is twenty-five feet
in diameter at each end and thirty feet
high. It hol<y> 4.000 barrels of wine.
—A Buffalo woman is suing her husband
for n judgment of separation on the
ground of desertion, and she has applied
for alimony nnd counsel fees. In oppos
ing the motion for alimony the defendant,
whose name is Markle. submits the fol
lowing letter, which, he says, he received
through the mail from his wife: “This
is to certify that I, Louise Mjarkle, the
legally wedded wife of John G. Markle,
do hereby permit my husband to go where
he pleases, drink what he pleases and
when he please®; and I furthermore per
mit him to keep and enjoy the company of
any lady or ladies he sees fit. as I know
he is a good judge. I want him to enjoy
life, as he will be a long time dead.”
—A machine has been provided, rotes
the Scientific American, for automn ically
cleaning shoes. The foot is insetDd into
a properly arranged op nirg ard the rail
ing of the machine is firmly grasped. A
small motor actuates rotary brushes that
remove the mud. The foot is next placed
in the blacking arrangement proper, whi h
acts es the dauber, and the third set ef
brushes is devoted to polishing. One ahoe
having been sufficiently polished, the oth
er foot is then inserted in the first iper
ture, etc. A needle on a machine indicates
the various stages in the operation. The
only precaution to be observed is to turn
up the bottoms of the trousers sufficient y
so that they will not be caught in the ro
tating brushes.
—The model of th*' future ocean mail
steamer, in the opinion of a contributor to
Cassier’s Magazine, will probably be that
of a very much enlarged “destroyer” of
great breadth and length and small draft
of water forward. Further, lighter and
stronger material will compose the struc
ture, which may b-* moved by multiple
propnllers. possibly working in a tunnel,
so that a number of wheels could be
worked by separate shafts, actuated bv
rotary motors, as the sizes of screw shafts
and eng.nes even now under condructlnn
nre perilously large, or the motive power
may be produced by compressed air or
£a* s —then, the form of least resistance
probably being discovered, the hull, broad
and light In comparison with the aug
mented dlmmsions. will rise on top of
the wave®, rather than through them Th
rolling and pitching may be more severe
than at present, but with improved cab
ins and a shortened voyage, the difference
may not he noticed.
—No satisfactory determination has been
made of the reason we wink, says Apple
ton’s Popular Science Monthly. Some sup
pose that the descent and return of th“
lid over ihe eye selves to sweep or wash
it off. other* that covering of the t yo
rives it a rest from the labor of vision, if
only for an Inappreciable instant. This
view borrows some force from the fa>t
that the record of winking is considerably
used by experimental physiologists to h* In
measure the fatigue which the -ye suf
fer* In another line of invostigaticn Herr
H. Garten has attempted to m nsure the
length of lime occupied by the different
phases of a wink. He used a specially ar
ranged photographic apparatus, and af
fixed a piece of white paper to the ,dge
of the eyelid for a mirk. He found ihat
the lid descends quickly, and rests a lit
tle at the bottom of its movement, after
which it rises, hut more slowly than It
fell. The mean duration of the dowiiw.i and
movement was from seventy-five to nlne
tv-one thousandths of n second; the irst
with the eye shut lasted variously the
shortest durations being fifteen ‘ hun
dredths of a second with one uhje< i
and seventeen hundredths with another;
nnd the third phase of the wink. *he ris
ing of the lid, took seventeen hundredths
of a second more, making the entire dura
tion of the wink about forty hundredths,
or four-tenths ff a second. The Interrup
tion is not long enough to Interfere with
distinct vision. M. V Henri says. In
L’Anne Fayrhologique, that different jer
sons wink differently—some often, others
rarely; some in groups of ten or *t a
time, when they rest n while; and othe.s
regularly, once only nt time. The move
ment Is modified by the degree of atten
tion. Periods of close Interest, when W’e
wink hardly at all. may be followed by a
ep*edy making up for loat time bv rapid
win kin* when the tenelon le relieved.
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