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VOL. i. ALLIANCE TALKS. NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS BIEMBERS Reform Press Comment and Items ol Interest Everywhere. The Advocat' (Escondido, Cal.) says: Farmers are always ready to sell their products at a reasonable price. But as a rule, grain goes through the hands, of speculators, no matter what the price may be which the fanner gets. If he should insist on gutting as much as $1.15 per bushel, and would, not part with it for less than that price, the speculator would take it, and after getting into the hands of the speculator there’s no telling where the price will go. * ■* The Southern Alliance Farmer (At lanta, Ga.) says: doctors, lawyers and all other professional men have been convinced of the need of this country—more money. This is one de mand of the Alliance that has been forced upon the public. Everybody has felt the need of more money and for this reason the Alliance strength has been in creased and the next election will find many in the ranks who were opposed to us last fall. ‘Experience is a dear school, but some people will learn in no other. The Alliance Herald (Montgomery, Ai’a.)sft3 7 s: Why is money so scarce? because the policy of the government is to contract the currency. Why is it the policy of the government? Does not the government belong to the people, and is not the will of the people the sovereign power of the government? Yes, that is true; but the people have been letting the politicians stand for the people and the interests of the politician be the su preme policy of the government. The politicians are in good condition. The big office-holder is in clover. As long as the people permit themselves to be bossed by them they will continue in clover, find the people will be in distress. * / * * The Weekly Appeal (Simsboro, La.) says: The Alliance have placed their demands before the country, and these demands are right and just; yet both the Democratic and Republican parties repu diate these demands and denounce the AU<>inr> thi.rO tionists, centralists and socialists. Yet what do they demand? Do they ask foi anything more than has already been granted to others? Let us see. Th* principal demands can be stated in a few words, viz: Stop the payment of inter est by placing the bondholders on the same footing with others, and pay his demands as you pay others. Lim him receive what the day laborer receives for his work. Adopt and act on the motto that what is money for one is money for all. Add to the taxable property of the country by such legislation as will force 1 idle capital from bank vaults into actual circulation, and convert bonds into cur rency, and protect laborers more and bankers, bondholders and corporations less. ♦ • 4c 4: The New Era (Cass, Mich.)says: “The government ownership and control of railroads is one of the growing issues and ideas of our country. Centralization in the bands of all the people (the govern ment) does not seem to be as bad as cen tralization in the hands of a few individ uals, with a power greater almost than the government itself. In Australia the government owns the railroads. It only 4 costs the people $0.50 to ridel,ooo miles. Commutation rates for local service is still lower. A workman can ride to and from his work a distance of 6 miles for 2 cents a trip, 12 miles for 4 cents, 18 miles for 6 cents, 30 miles for 10 cents. Yearly tickets good for 30-mile trips are sold for $17.40. This is the kind of centrali zation we need in this country. It cen tralizes the bread and meat into the mouths of the workingman’s children and clothes on their backs. And yet, low as the rates seem to be, we are fully assured that there is a fair profit in the business. Statistics prove this beyond dispute. . 4* 4c 4c The Dakota Ruralist (Huron) com menting on the Indianapolis session, says: “It was demonstrated to the sat isfaction of every delegate and visitor present that the North and South could work together as harmoniously as the delegates from any State in the Union. What better proof of this could be asked than the fact that it was Delegate Stone, from Georgia, who moved the resolution in favor of a service pension to the Union soldier, and Delegate Page, of Virginia, an ex-Confederate soldier, who seconded it, and every Southern delegate supported it. When the question of admitting cot ton goods free, that the foreign demand for the cotton grown in the South might have a better market, the delegates frog the North voted for it. When the South Dakota resolution requesting 23 per cenfc of the recepts of our government lands to be retained for irrigation purposes was reported, every delegate from the South and East voted for it.” * 4c 4c The Ocala (Fla.) Demand tackles a subject which should command the at tention of every reform paper in the land when it says: “We advocate the owner ship of American soil by American citi zens. Just think of it for one moment, citizens of the United States. One En glish syndicate owns 4,500 000 acres of land in Texas, another, 3,000,000 acres; Edward Rued, K. C. 8., bus 2,000,000 in Florida; the Duke of Sutherland holds 482,000 acres of American soil; Philips, Marshall & Cos., 1,300,- 000 acres; the London Land Com pany, of Twcedale, 1,700,000, etc., and, as it was very prominently brought to our notice during an important trial in our own county court in Oeala last sum mer, it was declared to be the avowed policy of certain foreign land and mort gage companies to acquire Florida lands through the foreclosure of their moit gages. Any thinking man will see, from these statements, that one of the thing* that Great Britain failed to accompli-h during the bloody struggle from ’7O to 'B3, she is slowly but surely accompli-h --iog through the instrumentality of tha* 4 *owererful and secret enemy of American liberty and American homes, w^ney. * * The Industrial World <Spc Vane. Wash.) says: The business men, t it '■piite evident, do not pay much attention to to the real reason for hard ’-e.es. They say with one voice that the , is “not enough money in the country,” “business dull,” “the people haven’t got any money to pay with,” They stop right here. They don’t follow this up and ask why it is the people have uo money, and if there is any way of in creasing the volume of money. If it were a question of experience in running a business they w T ould give their uudivi ded attention, 'a tbit respect they are some of the ia. .or orgau Zitions. they spend all their efforts on trifles and >dlow their earnings to eke away in other directions. All the enormous interest that the people are paying is as great a burden on the business man as it is on the farmer or laborer, and the money stringency affects him in precisely the same manner. The sooner the merchant realizesthat his prosperity depends upon the prosperity of the masses the better it will be for all. The man of business has a tremendous influence, and it should be used for good. * * * Lot us as true Allianci men guard against an uncompromising spirit. In the princi ples of our order 1 say yield not a single item. Stand firm and unflinching by every precept laid down in the platform which we have ,adopted and which w must maintain in its completeness. when it comes to politics and measui et us as brethren be yielding and no aggressive. Let us meet on the Ocala plat form and then adjust our differences, and if we find the majority are inclined to adopt certain measures to secure the grand result for which we are all striving. Let us fall into ranks aud not stand aloof on iccnunt ot an nnwintngnoss to yield our pet opinions to the fiat of the majority, but with the spirit of compromise that the name of our order implies. Let us start to conquor, give up our views to the verdict of those who are perhaps in i better position to understand the safest measures and best policies to pursue.- Gompromi-ing in measures, uncompro mising in principle is our duty and our interest.— Southern Alliance Farmer.’ * * 4e ALLIANCE INSURANCE. Hon. Alonzo Ward all, of South Dakota, member of the Executive Board, is a hustler. In an interview he expressed himself as follows: I would be happy to tell you that I had been home since the ludianapolis convention, hut Illinois and Michigan have claimed that time. In short, I have been in 34 States and traveled 39.025 miles in the interest of the Farmers’Alliance in *the past year. The work I am at present especially push ing Is the organization on a nutuial basis of the Alliance Association, a mutual insurance plan that will add a necessary and benevolent feature to our beloved Order. It has already met with wide spread approbation from Alliance offi cers throughout the Union, and received the indorsement of the Supreme Council at Indianapolis, and will henceforth be a degree of the Alli ance. My business here is to perfect de tails and enlarge its scope. We are a regularly chartered institution, and our one aim is to build up and cement togeth er the men and women who have espoused our cause of reform. I will net enter into business explanations. The association will recommend itself without “blare of trumpet to the wind outblowD,’’ when it is laid before the people. There is no class more in need of its benefits or pro vision against the coming of the grim reaper than the farmers, and none less solicited by regular insurance companies or secret societies. We are beginning to apply certain goodly advice about “help ing ourselves,” and if we do not find a remedy for that majority of our afflictions and make wise provision against the fu ture, the fault cannot he charged to the men brethren have honored with the present dignity of office, * 4s * THE BT. LOUIS MEETING. The attention of alliancemen every where is turned to the great conference of producers to be held in St. Louis, Feb ruary 22d. At the national alliance con vention at Indianapolis, a few weeks ago, a committee consisting of C. W. Macune, Herman Baumgarten, Thomas W. Gilrath and John P. Steele, was appointed to formulate an address setting forth the objects ef the St. Louis convention. They have completed their work and their report has been printed. The ad dress is quite a lengthy one, and is main ly taken up by a summary of the facts leading to the call for the convention, and tho financial condition of the produc ers of America. The address says among other things: “The call for said conference origi nated with the National Farmers’ Alli ance and Industrial Union at Ocala, Fla., in December, 1890, as follows: “This body gives its sanction and call for a meeting to be held about February, 1892, to be composed of delegates from ill organizations of producers upon a fair basis of representation, for the pur- TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1892. poses of general odj thorough confer ence upon the demands of each, and ;i, the end that all may agree upon a joint set of demands just prior to the next na tional campaign, and agree upon the proper methods for enforcing such de mands. If the people, by delegates com ing from them direct, agree that a third party move is necessary, it need not lie feared that the next session of this sifc preme council elect delegates from this order to represent it iu said national con ference of productive organizations fen political purposes. “The call for the great labor confer ence has since been ratified and accepted by practically all farmers’ and laborers’ organizations. The national c*xecutive committee met in Indianapolis, Ind., or the 10th of November aud fixed the basit of representation, and appointed a com mit'ee to choose the place of meeting. “The objects of tlitf coming meeting, under the blessings of God. to confer am? agree upon the wis- st, fairest and most just means of relief in the interest of the whole people, and to announce a declara of principles upon which all are agreed to stand, and d<maud laws to cry out for this puipose. Every organization ot producers in this broad land is invited t<* send delegates a id participate in its di> liberations. For the love of our country* fjy th<- sake of your family, in view of your duty to posterity, come! and let this he the second declaration of inde-- pendence for the American people, in which, instead of throwing off the yoke of a tyrant king, they liberate postcritv irom the national industrial tyranny and slavery. ” The Industrial Educator (Fort Worth, • Tex.) says: Now we have Finley Dem’ ocrats and anti-FinlejaDemocrats, Ocala Democrats and anti-Ocala Democrats, sub-treasury Democrats and anti-sub treasury Democrats, free coinage Demo crats anti free coinage Democrats, alien land law Democrats and Democrats who opposed the alien laud law, high tariff Democrats and no tariff Democrat*, Je - fersonian Democrats, Jackson Democrats and Cleveland Democrats. But passing them all l>y, we propose to keep right in the middle of the road. We mean by that that we shall follow the line of reform movement marked out in the St. Louis demands, the Ocala platform and that promulgated at Cincinnati. We shall not be swjtched off the track to follow q Democratic or Republican faction of any kind. We want nothing to do with the machine of either party, hopelessly- con- A—, JAr.-iJ wt ui ut V ' uy Vile y power. The People’s party is being rap idly organized in all the states. It is fast 'ir-AiL- —-Va i a bor organizations in on? grand political party of reform. We mus t have this to save our cun ry. And we must have it now. Here we stand and we shall fight it out on this line, if it t ikes all fummar. We rh ill ns far as possible expose all attempts to disrupt and divide the labor forces, or prevent us from win ning a complete victors for the people. NEW DIRECTORS Who will Manage the Georgia Cen tral Railroad. The stockholders of the Central road of Georgia held a meeting in Sa vannah Monday and elected anew hoard of directors. General Henry R. Jack son and General G. M. Sorrell take the places on the Central lailroad direc tory made vacant by tiie retirement of Pat and John C. Calhoun. Mr. G. .T. Mills was elected to succeed Mr. S. Y) Inman, who tendered fpvresignation be cause of E. P. Alexander was re-elected president, The meeting was further enlivened by an attempt of the minority stockhobiers to enjoin the election of the new board. Out of this attempt future sensations are expected. From New York comes gossip growing out of the situation, hat developments were in a state of expectancy. The one fact is prominent, however, and that is that Brice and Thomas arc in the saddle! The board selected is composed as fol lows : General E. P. Alexander, J. K Garnett, Abraham Vetsburg, Joseph Hull, Gen. Henry R. Jackson. George J. Mills, General G. M. Sorrell, C. H. Puin izy, H- T. Inman, E. P. Howell, U. B. Harrold, James Swann, J, C. Mahen. The board is regarded as a very fine body of businessmen. It is a hoard of men who are above suspicion. No one reading the list will think for an instant that the majority of these men would stoop to any underhand dealings or any thing calculated to injure tbe Central railroad or the interests of the minority stockholders. The new hoard gives great satisfaction to all interested parties. SECUETAUY’S STATEMENT. After the adjournment of the meeting Secretary A. J. Raub gave out the fol lowing for publication: The annual election of ihe Central rail road of Georgia was held to-day. Nine members of the old board *-were re-elect ed . Four vacancies which have occurred by death, resignation and otherwise, were filled by iheelecti j of J. C. Mahen, of New York, and General G. M. Sor rell, General H. R J<ickeon and Mr. G. J. Mills, all of Savannah. The last two gentlemen are the largest stockholders of the Central road in the state of Georgia. The directors of the Richmond Terminal company have acted in this case in the same way that they will act in the Rich mond and Danville election to-morrow, and in the elections of boards of the smaller leased roads. That is, all hoards of directors now elected are to hold office only until the stockholders’ committee of representation, of which Mr. Olcott is chairmrn. shall submit its plan and the stockholders vote upon it. , A number of villages iu North Schleswig, Germany, have united in purchasing great quantities of rye, which they sell at half price to their poorer inhabitants. THROUGH DIXIE. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming an Epitome of Daily Happenings Here and There. The Central railroad shops in Augusta, Ga., have been reopened. Tbe Georgia encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held in Au gusta instead of Taiiapoosa. The liquor question is raging in Char lotte, N. C. Monday night, however, the council granted licenses under certain restrictions. It is stated that 11. M. Bowden, the long missing cashier of the wrecked First National hank at Wilmington, N. C., has within the past few days been seen at Baltimore. A dispatch of Saturday from Denver, Col., says: The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree against Dr. Graves for the murder of Mrs. Barnaby by poisoned whisky. A telegram of Sunday from Apalachi cola, Fla., says: The schooner Dexter Clarke, which went ashore on Flag Island shoals last Thursday, haagone to pieces and will be a total wreck. No lives were lost. Dispatches of Tuesday state that the steamer Tu9kar, Savannah for Bremen, is ashore at Nieuwe Diep, broken amid ships, and her cargo is washing out of her. Two hundred hales of cotton of her been saved. All the motorinen and conductors in the employ of the Birmingham, Ala., railway and electric companies struck Monday for 15 cents per hour instead of 12. The demand has been refused by the companies. Much excitement pre vails. Tuesday the property of the Spout Springs Lumber Mill Company in Harnett county, North Carolina, with 13,000 acres of pine timber lands, was sold to John Y. Gossler, of Philadelphia, and R. W. Hicks, of Wilmington, N. C., who become the Consolidated Lumber Com pany, with 40,000 capital. A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says: Richard Lewis, master of equity and judge of jprobhte of Oconee county, com mitted'snicide \u his office at WalhalU, Moiiuay? oy snooting nui.seu tnrougu the heart with a pistol. Judge Lewis has held the two offices above mentioned fof many years, and was one of the most popular men in the county. A New Orleans dispatch says: An thoDy B. Silba, a laborer, aged thirty, was lightened to death Friday Evening. He wasaw'itnes Yoa stabbing af ay wfien a policeman arrived on the scene and ar rested him by mistake as one of the par ticipants. The man became so fright ened that hevYell in a fit and died ten minutes later. 4 * A disDatch of Monday from Laredo, Texas, says: It is stated that the Mexican revolutionist, Garza, is sur rounded in the chapparel in the extreme north corner of Zapata county by United btates (roops and Rangers, and that it is almost impossible for him to escape either to the westward or in the directing of Mexico. The tobacco dealers of Albany, Ga., are loudly kicking because the city has placed a tax of $5 on retailers and S2O on wholesalers of tobacco, and they will petition to repeal the tax. The tax was placed on tobacco dealers as the internal revenue tax on tobacco was off, and the council considered that the city was en titled to some revenue from that source. A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch says: A mass meeting of the Ware County Farm ers’ Alliance, which has nearly three thousand members, was held Tuesday. The chief question considered was the re duction of the acreage in cotton. Reso lutions were offered urging that the acreage be reduced 15 per cent, and that the proportion be added to the acreage in food crops. A St. Louis dispatch says: Adelbert Sly, the alleged Glendale train robber, was, on Saturday, identified as having connection with the now famous robbery by the furniture men who sold the furni ture of a Swan avenue house wherein detectives found clues by which the gang of thieves were traced. He was also identified by Express Messenger Mulren nan and the engineer and fireman of the train robbed. A hill was filed in the Montgomery, Ala., city court Tuesday, by attorneys for the stockholders of the Adams Cotton Mill Company vs. S. D. Hubbard. The hill sets out that the value of the proper, ty of the Adams cotton mill is $82,500- and they pray that the corporation may he dissolved and a receiver appointed to wind up its affairs. They allege that the c mpany owes about $75,000. The de cree was granted. On the Murphy branch of the Western North Carolina railroad, forty miles from Asehyille, Tuesday, the engine of a west bound freight, while detached at a heavy grade, became uncontrollable and dashed down the track at a fearful rate of speed, At Dyke Ridge vrestle it left the rails and plunged into a gorge, landing in the creek, more than one hundred feet be low. Four men were killed aud the en gine completely demolished. A dispatch of Sunday from Denver, Col., says: Deputy Sheriffs Sheans and Wilson, who conveyed I)r. Graves from the courthouse to the cell, state that on the way he made a confession, and said that Daniel K. Ballon was the instigator of the crime. Judge Furman emphati cally denied that Dr. Graves had made a confession to the deputy sheriffs. Dr. Graves refused to say anything in regard to the mntter. excepting that he is en- tirely innocent and desires to be left un disturbed in his cell at the jail. The Mississippi legislature met at Jackson in regular session Tuesday. Lieutenant Governor Evans was absent on account of sickness in his family, lion. R. A. Dean was re-elected presi dent of the senate. In the house the contest for the speakeiship resulted in the election of Hon. H. M. Street, of Meridian, over Hon. J. 8. Madison, speaker of the last house, by a vote of 61 to 59. Hon. R. E. Wilson was re elected clerk of the house unanimously and the organization was completed by the election of minor officers. Converse college at Spartanburg, 8. C., was destroyed by fire Saturday night. The college was opened a year ago last October with the brighest prospects of any college south. There were over one hundred and fifty young ladies enrolled for the first session. The fire originated in the furnace room unaccountably. The loss will reach $60,000;, insurance. $40,000. Mr. Converse, for whom the college was named, has lost his pet, and the people sympa’hize deeply with him and President Wilson in the loss of an institution of which any state might well be proud. A RAILROAD FLURRY. The Retirement of the Calhouns from the Central’s Directory. A New York dispatch of Sunday says: The retirement of the Calhouns from the Richmond Terminal on Saturday was the sensation of the day. Pat Calhoun’s letter, iu which he declared that a scheme was on foot to wreck and ruin the Cen tral railroad of Georgia, was so spicy that it broke through all Sunday reserve, and groups of business men discussed it with interest. The Associated Press dispatches of Saturday night, in telling of the incident, stated that, at an informal meeting of the pres ent party in control of the Richmond Terminal, it was resolved that both Pat and John C. Calhoun should be dropped from the CentraLdirectory, and that their places should be filled by two Georgia gentlemen not named. It was also stated that Pat Calhoun would no longer be counsel for the system. This, taken in connection with Mr. Calhoun’s letter, showed that the lines between the two factions were sharply drawn. The charge made by Mr. Cal houn tfiat the Terminal magnates desired so as to better wreck it, coming fron lawyer, was regarded as bold and gn.ro. If true, it would call for such actior. as would protect Georgia railroad proper ties from ruin. What Mr. Calhoun has tossy about the matter is severely criticised by the Thom as-Brice people, and some interesting stories are told in the talk. The legal affairs of the great properties cannot be transferred in a day, but as soon as the change can be made the law department of the railways will be placed in other hands. FIRE IN NASHVILLE. SBOO,OOO Goes up in Smoke—Four Colored Firemen Killed. At 5:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon the most disastrous fire that Nashville has had since 1881 broke out in Webb, Stevenson & Co.’s store, on College street. A strong wind was blowing from the northwest, and, although tbe firemen were promptly on hand, they could do practically nothing. The fire gradually found its way into the adjoining store occupied by A. G. Rhodes <fc Cos., and theD into Atwell & Sneed’s. The wind changed and the fire started in another direction. Weakly & Warren’s seven-story furniture store, north of Webb, Steven son & Co.’s was soon a mass of flames. Members of the colored fire company were standing across an alley on the three-story building of the Phillips & Butler Manufacturing company, when Weakly <$ Warren’s building suddenly bulged out in the center and fell across the alley. Four firemen, all colored, were caught under the falling building and instantly crushed to death. When the Phillips & Butler building crushed in it quickly took tire and was consumed. About this time the wind changed again and the flames s^. r Jback towards the Noel block and a vacant building, adjoining Atwell & Sneed’s, which was soon burned. There were a number of men iDjuied at various times by falling walls and explosions that blew out the front of two or three stores. The total loss will probably re"ch SBOO,- 000. PLUMB’S SUCCESSOR. Fx-Cougrcssmau Perkins Appointed to Fit! His Place. A Topeka, Kan., dispatch says: Fri day afternoon, Governor Humphrey ended the senatorial struggle aud appointed ex- Congreasman Bishop W. Perkins United States senator, to succeed the late Pres ton B. Plumb. For a week Govenor Humphrey has given patient considera tion to the claims of nearly tr dozen can didates. Bishop W. Perkins was born at Roch ester, Lorain county, Ohio, in 1842. He removed to Oswego, Kan., in 1869, and was soon appointed county attorney. He was elected probate judge in 1870, and held that office until he was appointed district judge in 1873. He remained on the bench ten years. In 1888 he was nominated as one of four candidates to congress at large in the most bitterly contested state convention ever held in the state. He was elected in the third congressional district in 1884, 1886 and 1884. being defeated in 1890 by the com bined vote of the democrats and J’K'uners’ Alliance, vith B. H. Clever as toe van '■ld ate. NO 38 THE BATTLE OF LIFE. Rise! for the day is passing, And you lie dreaming on; The others have buckled their armor, And forth to the fight have gone I A place in the ranks awaits you. Each man has some part to play; The past and the future are nothing, In the face of the stern to-day. Rise from your dreams of the future— Of gaining some hard fought field; Of gtorming some airy fortress, Or bidding some giant yield. Your future has deeds of glory. Of honor, God grant it may 1 EutVour arm will never be stronger, Or the needle ffleat as to-day. Rise 1 If the you, Her sunshines and storms forget; No chains so unworthy to hold you As those of a vain regret; Bad or bright, she is lifeless forever; Cast her phantom arms away. Nor look back save to learn the lesson Of a nobler strife to-day. Rise 1 for the day is passing, The low sound that you scarcely hear Is the enemy marching to battle. Rise 1 for the foe is here 1 Stay not to sharpen your weapons, Or the hour will strike at last, When from dreams of a coming battle You may wake to find it past I —Adelaide Proctor . PITH AND_POINT. “I am the great corn eradicator,” re marked the crow. A tight money market eften induces loose financial operations.— Lowell Cou rier. All that most men have in the world is what they are going to get.— Atchison Globe. The clergyman with a “long hedd” is apt to indulge in short sermons.— Boston Courier. Asa sole stirring invention the basti lado is worthy eminent mention.—Bos ifen Courier. Twelve hundred and eighteen kinds of mushrooms grow in Great Britain, not including the mushroom aristocracy.— Binghamton Republican. Diplomatic Phrase: Tommy—“ Paw, is a liar who weighs more than you.”— lndianapolis Journal. “I have always wished,” soliloquized the coroner pensively, “that I could have held this office immediately after the flood.”— Pacific Harbor Light. An exchange speaks of a man who “is not a physician, but a simple druggist.” We had supposed that a druggist was a compound fellow.— Binghamton Leader. He is a mighty meek man that can patiently hold the baby while his wife puts in a couple of hours at the piano learning the latest lullaby.— lndianapolis Journal. Rural Gent—“ What are they carry ing all that garbage into that theatre for, sonny?” Messenger—“Oh, dere goin’ ter playde “Streets of New York.” Texas Siftings. She—“l thought I marked the best man in town, but I find I made a mis take.” He—“l thought I married the best little girl in town, and I find that I was not mistaken.” She— ‘‘Forgive me, Charlie. You know that I don’t always mean what I say.” He (sotto voce) — “Neither do I.”— Brooklyn Life. We must content ourselves to-day with ancedotes of foreigners trying to express their thoughts in English. The latest is told by Dean Briggs, of Harvard. A Japanese student, desiring to impress on the dean how studious he had been, said: “I have worked so hard I eat nothing since to-morrow.”— Boston Globe. “And so you have decided to marry your deceased wife’s sister, eh, Fred?” “Yes, old maD. Two years of lonlincss are all I can stand.” “Do you love her as well as you did your wife?” “Why, what a question, Harry.” “I know, but do you?” “Well, to tell you the truth, I do not.”' “Why do you marry her then?” “Well, to tell you the truth again, her mother is really a delightful old lady, and I don’t feel like taking any chances on another mother-in-law.”— Chicago Tribune. Oil Baths For Lead Pencils. Anew discovery has been made by railroad clerks in Pittsburg regarding the saving of lead pencils. This will be a great boon to those who are continually using ex fletive and borrowing pocket knives on account of the frailty of good, soft lead in a peucil. Every one who has much rapid writing to perform prefers a soft pencil, but nothing has come to public light so far by which the lead can to an extent bo preserved. The P. C. C. and St. L. clerks have brought about anew era in the pencil business; also have they mor ally benefited humanity, inasmuch as they decrease violation of the third com mandment. The new idea to preserve a soft pencil is to take a gross of the useful article and place them in a jar of linseed oil. Allow them to remain in soak until the oil thoroughly permeates every particle of the wood and lead. ; This has the effect of softening the mineral, at the same time making it tough and durable. It has been found very useful and saving, an ordinary pen cil being used twice as long under the new treatment. —Finsbury jJitpateh.