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VOL VII.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.
Th« Moral Order ot Society as Related
to Labor and the Accumulation of
Wealth by the Wage Earners—-An Ob¬
ject Lesson in Economics.
TeU Me, Ye Winged Winds.
(Published by request.)
TeU me, ye winged winds,
That round my pathway roar,
Do ye not know some spot
Where mortals weep no more?
Some lone and pleasant dell,
Some valley In the west.
Where free from toll and pain.
The weary soul may rest?
Tl.e loud wind dwindled to a whisper low,
And sigh’d for pity as it answer'd, “No.”
Tell me, thou mighty deep,
Whose billows round me play,
Knowst thou some favor'd spot.
Some Island far away,
Where weary man may tind
The bliss for which he sighs.
Where sorrow never lives,
And friendship never dies?
The loud waves, rolling in perpetual flow,
Stopp’d for a while, and sigh’d to answer,
"No.”
And thou, serenest moon,
That, with such lovely face,
Dost look upon the earth
Asleep in night's embrace;
Tell me. In all thy round
Hast thou not seen some spot
IVhere miserable man
May find a happier lot?
Behind a cloud the moon withdrew In
woe.
And a voice, sweet but sad, responded,
“No.”
Tell me. my secret soul,
Oh! Tell tao, Hope and Faith,
Is there no resting place
From sorrow, sin, and death?
Is there no happy spot
Where mortals may be blest.
Where grief may find a balm,
And weariness a rest?
Faith, Hope, and Love, best boons to
mortal? given.
Wav’d their bright wings, and whisper’d
“Yes, in heaven.”
—Charles Mackay.
The Moral Order.
One of the most painful riddles of
life is presented by the moral confu¬
sion which pervades society; the ap¬
parent escape of evil-doers, the ap¬
parent failure of those who strive to
do well. This is the aspect of the mys¬
tery of evil which most sorely per
plexes men and prevents the greatest
obstacle to faith. “How can sin go
unpunished under the government of
a righteous god?” is a question which
has been put In many languages by
multitudes of men since the beginning
of time. The more deeply men have
loved goodness and the more passion¬
ately they have searched for God, the
more keenly have they felt the dis¬
sonance between the idea of God as it
lay reflected in their own souls aud
the distorted image of God reflected in
the disorder of the world. This per¬
plexity and pain which the lack of
harmony between a divine idea of
righteousness and the condition cf so¬
ciety have brought to the most sen¬
sitive spirits is itself one of the evi¬
dences of the divine birth of the soul.
The instinctive feeling that a righteous
society is a righteous world is inevi¬
table if there be a righteous God, and
that the apparent prosperity of evil
in the world is at variance with the
existence of such a God, evidences the
presence of ideals in the soul which
are not born amid human conditions.
So long as evil remains, men ought to
feel perplexed and unhappy, because
between the thought of God and the
presence of evil there ls a deep gulf
fixed.
But there is a radical distinction,
often overlooked, between moral con¬
fusion and moral anarchy. The two
are constantly confused, and yet they
are very different in nature and in
fact. The world ls full of moral con¬
fusion, but there 13 no moral anarchy.
So long as law is inflexibly executed
there may he many lawbreakers and
much lawlessness, but there is no an¬
archy. Anarchy exists only where the
law fails of execution. Now, as ■ mat
ter of fact, no sin has gone unpunish¬
ed since time began; no act of greed,
brutality, dishonesty, impurity, has
ever failed to work its instantaneous
effect on the wrong-doer. Like our
pagan ancestors, we are always expect¬
ing to see the infliction of some exter¬
nal penalty; for to most of us pun¬
ishment is something which happens to
a man. We are still waiting, after all
these centuries, as our fathers waited,
to see the anger of the god take some
visible shape; we listen for the sound
of the Furies’ wings in swift pur¬
suit, and when no crushing pen¬
alty falls like a thunderbolt from
heaven, we charge another fail¬
ure of justice against the moral
structure of the world. Society ap¬
pears to be full of men who have
escaped the penalties of wrong-doing,
and who are enjoying its fruits. But
God’s conception of punishment differs
fundamentally from our conception.
Punishment, in his view, is not some¬
thing which happens to a man; it Is
far more searching and terrible, for It
is something which happens in a man.
No external system of justice is neces¬
sary In order to bring a man to Jus¬
tice; the moral system of life works
automatically and inexorably. What
a man does instantly reacts upon his
pature and he becomes the product of
pis deeds. If a man could escape by
the loss of an eye or an arm it would
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be an easy escape; but there is no es¬
cape from the action of the moral
nature; the doer and the deed are
bound together for ever; there is no
pause for a dramatic arraignment and
conviction, no postponement of-penalty
until another life; the evil deed works
its effect the instant it is committed.
Dante, surveying the world under “the
aspect of eternity,” saw that sin and
its punishment are bound together in
time as well as in space. In this pres¬
ent life men are already in hell or pur¬
gatory or heaven. The appalling fact
about life is not its moral indifference,
but its moral inexorableness. Behind
every act, no matter how insignificant,
God seems to be standing, and every
thing we do becomes part of us. We
are better or worse every hour, we are
never morally stationary, because,
whether we think, speak, cr act, we are
fashloning ourselves and making our
destiny. We cannot escape the search
ing processes of life; there is no moral
neutrality possible. The universe, as
David Long has declared, is not vast
enough to afford a hiding place from
God. We could bear the spectacle of
men maimed and physically disfigured
by their sins; what we cannot bear is
the moral disintegration which silently
destroys them. There is nothing more
tragic than the lingering death of a
human spirit while the body still lives
and thrives; the loss of honor, honesty,
purity, sweetness; the relentless decay
of all that is sound and beautiful in
man’s nature and life. If one who has
access to a library commits an offense
against it, he is deprived of its privil
eges; that is the human way of inflict
ing punishment. The divine way ls
very different; the offender is not dis
turbed, the doors remain open to him,
be comes and goes as before, but he
becomes blind! The treasures of the
library slowly, fade from him; his vi
sion grows more and more indistinct,
until it fails and he sees no more. This
is the appalling fate which befalls the
evil-doer. God does not need to watch
him nor keep record of his life; he is,
in his own nature, the most delicate,
sensitive, and infallible of registers,
Whether he knows it or not, he is
every day gaining or losing in clear
ness of vision; he is becoming finer,
truer,larger, or he is becoming coarser,
falser, smaller.—The Outlook.
Object Lesson in Economics.
Out lu historic Herkimer county the
curtain has just fallen on an economic
tragedy the like of which has seldom,
if even been seen in this country Al
fred Dolge, of Dolgeville, has failed,
and the social system which he planned
and carried out for a quarter of a
century in connection with his mam¬
moth industries has passed from ex¬
istence.
Dolge was a student as well as a
workman, and had ambitions to found
a colony where he could work out the
theories with which his mind was
filled. Only yesterday, when taking a
last look at the scenes of his labors,
he condensed the story in this brief
sentence: “My dream was to build up
a village—yea, a city—which should
stand out as a worthy product of Am¬
erican civilization and progress, indus
trially, socially, intellectually, artis
tically and in a humanitarian sense.”
From a small beginning, Dolge, by
his own energy, and working along
the lines which he thus indicated,grad
ually developed at Dolgeville, as the
place came to be called, an industrial
condition that attracted the attention
of the world. From the small begin
ning in one old building the plant grew
to huge stone structures, employing
hundreds of skilled workmen.
Eighty per cent of the piano felts
used in the world were made in his
factories. Upwards of twenty-six hun¬
dred souls formed the population of
the place. In the year 1898, when the
prosperity of Dolgeville was at its
height, the net profits of the enter¬
prises there carried on amounted to
an average of fl85,000 yearly, and the
original little investment of $30,000 had
increased to an inventoried capitaliza¬
tion of nearly $3,000,000,
All . „ the v parts of . made,
a piano were
and well made, in the factories of the
place. Felt, wire, woodwork, castings,
everything connected with the business
of the village was produced by skilled
and well-paid workmen. In one short
year these varied and productive in
dustries have practically been destroy
ed, and the population has been re
duced to but little more than half Its
former proportions.
There is np tone of discouragement
in Mr. Dolge’s voice when he speaks
of the failure that has beggared him in
middle a ge. “I shall start life anew,”
he says. "I am strong and experi
enced. I have a wife who is an able
helpmate, and my five sons all know
how to work, with the single exception
of the youngest, who is a schoolboy,
I had no money when I came to this
country from Chemnitz as a young
man. We have always lived econom
ically, and will not feel the loss of this
large sum of money in our home life,
My wants are few, and already oppor
tunities are opening out before me in
the western country, where probably
I shall soon locate."
Shanghai, which was not opened to
foreign trade till 1842, has now a pop
ulation of about 7,000 Europeans and
Americans.
ARE AT IT AGAIN.
FELLOWS WHO ONCE RUINED
KANSAS AGAIN IN POWER.
Want to Re-establish the Heresies That
Left the State in an Almost Hopeless
Condition Ten Years Abo—T hrottling
the Truth.
The Republicans of Kansas are at
tempting to regain control of the eco
nomic teachings in the agricultural
college of that state. It will be re
membered that about two years ago
the Fusionists, who were in the ma
jority, revised the course of Instruction
at the agricultural college by enlarg
ing the courses dealing with the dis
tribution of wealth, changed the pres
Ident, and employed as professor of
economies Dr. Edward W. Bemis, who
had been discharged from the Univer
sity of Chicago for publishing facts
concerning monopolies. They employed
in the department of political science
Prof. Frank Parsons of Boston, whose
exposure of monopolies had done much
to open the eyes ot the American peo
pie upon this question. Prof. Thomas
E. Will, who was at the head of the
economic department, and was equally
outspoken against monopolies, includ
ing the money power, was elevated to
the presidency of the college,
To oust these men from their posl
tlons as professors of social science,
and to restrict the courses as to the
distribution of wealth, is the avowed
object of the Republicans in Kansas,
They have preferred trivial charges
against two of the regents, and the
governor appointed a “packed” com¬
mittee to try them. This committee
has returned a verdict of guilty, and
the governor will proceed to remove
them unless the courts interfere,
As to the condition of the agricul
tural college under President Will’s
management, it appears In tho Inves
tigation that this year’s attendance
in the preparatory department of the
college is 24 per cent more than during
the year preceding the change in the
management, and in other depart
ments is 14 per cent greater.
That there has been freedom of
thought in the university was testified
to by Prof. Bemis during the invest! 1
gation. He said that when employed
he told President Will that he was
not a believer in Populist doctrines,
and not an advocate of free silver at
a ratio of 1(J tQ % that , f we had free
silver at a]1 , t shou]d be at a greater
ratio To this Presldent wm replied:
- We guarantee you four years . work<
aud no muzzles,”
“No one,”' said Prof. Bemis, “has
ever attempted to dictate what I
should teach.”
Commenting upon the college inves
tigation, the Mfnhattan Republic says:
“Disguise it as they may, the real
purpose is to depose Prof. Will and
to discontinue the teaching of liberal
economic science at the college. Why
these attacks? Because his assailants
do not want such a presentation of
political and economic science,
“Few people, comparatively, have
any conception of what ls Involved in
thi3 attack upon the college. It is
commonly understood to be more or
less of a local matter, with some state
politics In it, and more seriously af
fecting the purses and the future of the
parties directly Interested than any
one else. Far from it! It is one bat
tie in the great war which is waging
throughout the world between plutoc
rac y an< l democracy, the dollar and
the man, the capitalist and the wage
earner, the master and the slave, the
rich and the poor, the politicians and
the people—between bondage and lib¬
erty, error and truth, sin and right¬
eousness, Mammon and God! What
higher honor could President Will have
than to suffer for the freedom of sci¬
ence—for conscience’ sake—with such
men as Herron and Gates of Grinnell,
Commons of Syracuse, Andrews of
Brown, Canfield of Lawrence, Ely of
Johns Hopkins, Adams of Cornell, Be¬
mis and Small of Chicago, and others?
Martyrs are they all in a battle royal,
no j ess significant than that which be
gan on j ude a’s plains, with Peter, Paul
and Jesus, and whose final victory i 3
no i ess cer tain.”
The Courier-Democrat of Seneca,
Kan., says:
“President T. E. Will of Manhattan
College, It seems, is about to be con¬
demned as a heretic, for teaching facts
instead of orthodox goldbug doctrines,
The days of religious persecution are
buried with the dead past, but at the
opening of the twentieth century we
find college professors persecuted
, refusing to sacrifice historical and
scientific truths to the gods of
finance.”
The third charge against tho two
regents who were “investigated” is as
follows:
“The said Regents Limbocker and
Hoffman, with others whose terms
have expired, inaugurated a plqn of
government and system of education
by which the Kansas State Agrlqultu
ral College was perverted from an
institution where the teaching of ag
riculture and mechanic arts was by tbe
law made the prime idea to an insti¬
tution where socialism and political
doctrines were taught as the first
great object; that in pursuance of such
plan college funds were used to print
and disseminate socialistic and polit-
leal doctrines and theories, and the
Industrialist was transformed Into a
monthly magazine wherein were
taught socialistic views and political
doctrines and political heresies.”
To this the following answer was
made:
“So far from changing the aim of the
college away from agriculture and me¬
chanic arts, the present management
has very greatly Increased absolutely
and relatively the quantity, and im¬
proved the quality, of the work on
these lines.
“Within two years the college has
risen from one of the lowest to one
of the highest rank in amount of ag¬
ricultural instruction offered and re¬
ceived. It has established a dairy
school, engaged in valuable experi¬
mental work, published pamphlet bul¬
letins which have won highest praise,
and Inaugurated a system of weekly
press bulletins which have been wide¬
ly copied. It has trebled the number
of farmers’ institutes, and divided
their cost by three, and has received
an institute appropriation which will
enable It to visit every country in uie
state twice annually or more frequent¬
ly. It has fired the students with an
interest hitherto unknown, inagrjcul
the he e ’sta state U te as" as to°se"uretrThe to secure for the ^ agricul ub
tura department a legislative appro
average f since ° ?34 1890 ’ 0 ° 0 ’ of f one-seventieth ainst a b ! ™ !a of
this ,, . amount. , _. The horticultural . ,, , de
payment, ' , . ... like the agricultural . ,, and ,
Other departments, , ’ has performed „ , ex
periments _ . , single , of . which , . , would,
a one
if utilized, pay for the total cost of the
college since its foundation in 1859.
The veterinary department has estab
lished a laboratory, experimented
widely on practical lines, produced and
distributed blackleg vaccine, whereby
cattle raisers have saved many thou
sands of dollars; and, despite greatly
Increased college duties, has attended
lo the work of the state veterinarian.
The mechanical department has risen
from a mere manual training school to
a high-grade department of mechanical
engineering, has increased its attend¬
ance over 30 per cent, and has then
been compelled to turn students away;
it has adopted an apprentice system
popular with students and valuable
educationally and pecuniarily to tne
department and college, and has re¬
ceived legislative appropriations eleven
times greater than the average al¬
lowed this department since 1889-90.
“Tho domestic „cience department
has secured a building and earned a
foremost place among similar depart¬
ments west of the Alleghanies. The
departments of agriculture, mechanics
and domestic science have each been
given a special four years’ course of
study. These departments and the
horticultural department are pre¬
pared to offer short, highly practical
courses next year to students able to
attend but three months annually for
two successive years.
“The political and economic depart¬
ments have been much improved. Pro¬
fessors have been employed who are
able and willing to open to the stu¬
dents the whole range of thought, new
and old, In their departments. They
do not seek to impress their own opin¬
ions upon the students, and pupils
often say that they cannot tell from
the college work which side of a dis¬
puted question these professors be¬
lieve In.
“They present the arguments pro
and con, give the students references
to. high authorities on both sides, urge
them to investigate for themselves and
express their own views in class and
out. These professors are noted among
the students for inculcating the idea
that the student should not accept the
conclusions of others, even those of
the most famous text book writers,
without carefully testing them. The
students do investigate for themselves
and express the most opposite conclu¬
sions with entire freedom, remarkable
force, and for the most part perfect
courtesy toward those of differing
opinions.
“Great as has been the improvement
in these departments, the Increase of
time and attention has been very small
compared to the increase in the agri¬
cultural and mechanical departments.
For economics one hour is taken dur¬
ing two terms, with some scattered
work in a third term and some indus¬
trial history which can hardly be
called economics. For political science
no more time Is taken than before
five hours a week for one term; that is
the whole time devoted to the science
of government and citizenship, against
a four years’ course In agriculture and
mechanics. Is that deserting agricul¬
ture and engineering for ‘political doc¬
trines?’ The claim has been made, and
with much show of justice, that the
one term in political science is too lit¬
tle—not a fair share of time for the
study of state and national constitu¬
tions, organization of national, state
and local governments, discu«*ou of
the problems of government and rea¬
sonable preparations for Intelligent
performance of the duties of sovereign
citizenship. Both the federal and state
laws relating to the college expressly
authorize ‘scientific’ studies as well as
agricultural and mechanical studies,
and both declare the object of the
whole Institution to be to promote the
liberal and practical education of the
Industrial classes.’
“As for the charge of teaching and
disseminating ‘socialism and political
heresies,’ considering the source of
the charge and its companions, there
appears to be an unusual amount of
truth in It, since it is a fact that ‘po¬
litical doctrines’ are discussed in the
civics course and ‘socialism’ is one of
the topics dealt with in the economics
course. The text book used on this
topic of socialism is Prof. Ely’s—a
book which is used in all the leading
colleges, because it contains a very fine
aud impartial statement of the reasons
for and against socialism. Prof. Ely’s
conclusion is against socialism, but he
is fair-minded enough to consider Its
advantages candidly and state clearly
the claims of its advocates. Can any¬
thing further be asked of an economics
teacher than that he should present
both sides of disputed questions and
leave each student to decide for him¬
self? Can he ignore one of the lead¬
ing topics of economic thought of to¬
day? He would be recreant to his
duty to the pupils under his care, if
he did not open to them all the chief
doors of thought and discussion; he
would be just as wrong to omit so¬
cialism from his class work as a teach¬
er of philosophy would be to omit the
writings of Comte or Plato or Kant. *
.p olltical hereslea> are something
« know but
th consist of such ideas as are con .
trary tQ lnterests and sentiment3
of the aforesaid local politician, ’ or
such as . happen „„ to . be . unknown . , to him; .
wherefore it .f. Is probable , ,. “ that ” they " , in¬ *
v 3
cude nearly the whole . , , body , of . pollt- ...
'
ino1 ical „ science. . „ A . „ man who , talks of po
“ Ca , ^resy today . , , has outlived ”, his
He m ‘ gh j ha y° gotten ?
J > ob wi tb teQutelilon in the dark
„ in the eighteenth century with
Kl ng Lodis . " G f° rge UI -; but he 13
r ° ut . of , pIace in the American A repuo
‘ lc ’ whe . r e "“J maa is the e ^‘ 0[
* very ° th t , f before the law, , and has
“ m « ch rlgllt to 1°™ and express po¬
bt,cal 0pml ° ns ’ Tbe man " h ° crie3
h ™ , ls the fossil who does not
want to get out of bed though the sun
is up and shining in nis window; he
won’t listen to the Copernician theory
—the world does not move, and he
knows it; he has no use for Luther—
what the priest tells film is good
enough for him. He can't find natural
selection in his catechism nor the
platform of his party, so he has no use
for Darwin, although his own person
and conduct may furnish ample proof
that men came from the lower ani¬
mals, and that some of them have not
come very far.”
Sliver Republicans.
From the Chicago Democrat: Repub¬
licans in Utah are sorely pressed by
Hanna, who demands loyalty to the ad¬
ministration, gold standard and all.
Now, there are very few republicans
in Utah who are not silver men, and
they find it exceedingly .difficult to fol¬
low the dictates of the national repub¬
lican boss and to remain true to their
convictions on the money question.
In discussing this peculiar situation
the Salt Lake Herald truly says: “The
only hope of silver lies in a national
organization. The party that declares
for free coinage Is entitled to the sup¬
port of every silver man. The repub¬
lican party declared for the single gold
standard; the democratic party de¬
clared for bimetallism.
‘An advocate of silver coinage, fly¬
ing a silver flag, marching in a bat¬
talion of the goldbug army, firing shots
of misrepresentation at the men in the
trenches of sliver, a silver knight rid¬
ing with the hosts of gold is an ob¬
ject of suspicion.”
Nothing could be plainer than this.
No man can serve God and mammon
at the same time. No man can vote
with the administration party and also
be true to his faith In the money of the
constitution. The platform adopted by
the republicans at St. Louis in 1896 is
now repudiated. That platform was
constructed for the purpose of fooling
friends of silver with the promise of
efforts in behalf of bimetallism.
Tnere was some slight excuse for sil¬
ver republicans who voted with the
regular republicans in 1S96, but no
such excuse exists now.
Every vote cast for a republican can¬
didate is a vote for gold. If silver re¬
publicans have not a distinct organi¬
zation of their own, they should vote
with the democrats, who are loyal and
earnest friends of silver.
What Anderson Says.
From the Rock Island Argus: Gen.
T. M. Anderson, just returned from
the Philippines and placed In charge
of the military department of the
lakes, with headquarters in Chicago,
said in an interview yesterday that last
summer, before Aguinaldo assumed the
aggressive against the United States,
he asked Anderson what course this
country proposed to adopt with refer¬
ence to the Philippines, and on being
told by Anderson that he was not at
liberty to say, Aguinaldo replied that
he had read the constitution of the
United States carefully and had failed
to find any power In It to establish col¬
onies. And in this Aguinaldo had the
absolutely correct interpretation. Gen.
Anderson states that at that time he
cabled this government that the Fili¬
pinos were determined upon absolute
independence. Yet it was after that
time that this country bought them at
so much a head and denied them that
independence.
NO. U
OLIVER CROMWELL,'
Wliat needs our Cromwell stone or bronze
to say
His was the light that lit on England’s way
The sundawn of her time compelling
The power,
noontide of her most imperial day?
His hand won back tho sea for England’!
His dower;
footfall bade the Moor change heart
and cower:
Ills word on Milton’s tongue spake law
to France
When Piedmont felt the she-wolf Rome de¬
vour.
From Cromwell’s eyes the light of Eng¬
land’s glance
Flashed, and bowed down the Kings by
grace of chance,
Tho priest-anointed Princes: one alone
By grace of England held their hosts in
trance.
Tho enthroned Republic from her kinglier
throne
Spake, and her speech was Cromwell’s.
Earth has known
Nc lordlier presence. How should Crom¬
well stand
By kinglets and by queenlings hewn in
s tone?
Incarnate England in his warrior hand
Smote, and as tire devours tho blackening
brand
Made ashes of their strengths, who
wrought her wrong,
And turned the strongholds of her foes to
sand.
His pralso Is in the sea’s and Milton’s sODg;
What praise could roach him from the
That weakling rules throng leave
by of tongue whose
Him, praise is shame—
who made England out of weakness
strong?
There needs no clarion’s nlast of broad
blown fame
To bid the world bear witness whence ho
came
Who bade fierce Europe fawn at Eng¬
land’s beel,
And purged flame— the plague of lineal rule with
There needs no witness graven on stone or
steel
For one whose work bids fame bow down
and kneel;
Our man of men whose time-command¬
ing name
Speaks England, and proclaims her Cora*
monwoall
PITH AND POINT.
“Talk about your wrestlers,” lie ex¬
claimed, scornfully. “IVhy, the ban¬
ana skin has more falls to its credit
than any of them.”—Chicago Post.
Dorothy (seeing a lady whose face
was very much freckled) — “Shouldn’t
you think ’twonld hurt her, mamma,
to have her face tattooed all over so?”
“Those versos make no sense,” said she;
“I cau’ttell what they mean.”
“Good! cried They’ll make dollars, then,"
he,
“In any magazine.”
—Catholic Standard.
Wee Miss—“Mamma, mayn’t I take
the part of a milkmaid at the fancy
ball?” Mamma—“Yon are too little.”
Wee Miss—“Well, I am a condensed
milkmaid.”
Mother (to little Frieda, who has
been taken to the dentist’s to have a
tooth pulled)—“Freida, if you cry
I’ll never take you to a dentist’s
again.” Yonkers Statesman.
There was once a girlish young Kurd
Who wanted to “floe as a burd.”
Along came a roc
And frozo to her froc,
Which shows that her singing was hurd,
—Kansas City Independent.
“There’s a good deal of human na¬
ture in a puppy, ” remarked the phil¬
osopher, calmly watching Fido tear¬
ing his best hat to pieces. “Almost
as destructive as one of my little
nephews.”
A soldier leaving barracks is
stopped by the corporal of the guard.
“You cannot go without leave.” “1
have the verbal permission of the cap¬
tain.” “Show me the verbal permis¬
sion.”—Tit-Bits.
The Struck—“I might have helped
you if you had stopped a little sooner.
But when you tell me you were an
aid-de-camp in the army, I pass you
up.” The Striker—“But that is just
what I was. I sold pies. ”—Indian¬
apolis Journal.
Mrs. Cadger—“They tell me, Hen¬
rietta, that your husband is unkind to
you.” Mrs. Howes—“Yes, John is
not very gentle in his manners, I
must admit; but there is one thing I
will say for him, he never kicks up a
rug or creases a tidy.”—Boston Tran¬
script.
Snakes’ Sense of Smell.
Snakes have the sense of smell. It
is difficult to obtain food for the rat¬
tlesnakes and copperheads out at the
zoological park. The keeper has been
trying them on the house rats and
mice he has caught about the build¬
ings. He would leave them in the
snake cage over night and through the
day. They would run over the snakes
with impunity. Tho snakes would
pay no attention to them, but when
he happened to secure some field mice
and put them in the cage the snakes
ate them at once. He put in several
rats and mice of the ordinary house
variety that were living out of doors
under the sidewalk, and these were
seized by the snakes almost as readily
ns the wild species. The keeper then
conceived the idea of making an earth
box to keep the rats in for a while be¬
fore feeding, and he found that if they
were put in there for twelve hours or
so before they were given to the snakes
they would be eaten. Tho only ap¬
parent explanation is that the smell of
the earth is agreeable to the snakes,
and that the smell which the animals
acquire about buildings is objection¬
able.—Washington correspondence of
the Chicago ltecord.