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WE SHOCKED DELOME
WHAT THE SPANISH MINISTER WROTE
ABOUT OUR COUNTRY.
n *‘ Found Our Women Bold, Extravagant
and Feared Rather Than Respected.
Three Governments, He Thought, Likely
to Rise on the Ruins of This One.
A distinguished American gentle
man who has long resided in Madrid
called my attention to a book entitled
‘ ‘Around the World, From Madrid to
Madrid,” written by Enrique Dupuy de
Lome. Asa literary work the book is
not worth much, but that part of it
which refers to the United States will
be most interesting to American read
ers, who will surely be surprised to
learn that the views upon our country
of the present minister of Spain to
Washington, the man so highly esteemed
by ex-President Cleveland and ex-Secre
tary of State Oluey, were not, when the
book was written, at all flattering to
the people of the United States.
Speaking of his landing at San Fran
cisco, Seuor Dupuy de Lome says: “Wo
had been told on board the steamer all
that is usually said concerning United
States officials: ‘They are scoundrels
and thieves. To strictly comply with
the custom house regulations will be of
no avail to you. If you carry auything
for which duties must be paid, offer $5
to the officers in attendance. Do the
same thing even in case you have to pay
nothing, so that they may not bother
you. ’ Each passenger related his experi
ence in American custom houses, and
all added, ‘These officials are the mean
est and most miserable fellows to be
found among politicians. ’ They looked
as though they thought they had utter
ed the most offensive words that could
be applied to any of their countrymen.
“As none of us carried any dutiable
articles or wished to nubmit to any
imposition by paying what was not due
we resorted to a trick which worked
most successfully. One of our party had
a box of Manilla cigars which we had
unanimously resolved to throw away.
These cigars we determined to use as a
means to soften the agents of the Amer
ican treasury department. Accordingly
one of us carried the box so that any-
SENOR DUPUY DE LOME.
body might see it and think perhaps
the bearer was trying to conceal it.
When our turn for examination came,
the first question which the officer ad
dressed to us was:
“ ‘What have you got in there?’
“ ‘Why, it is a box of cigars. ’
“ ‘Cigars?’
“ ‘Yes. We intend to throw them
away. ’
“ ‘You don’t really mean to say so!
I’ll take care of them. ’
“Saying this, the officer caused one
of our valises to be opened for tho sake
of appearances, and then lie marked our
baggage with chalk, and we were at
liberty to withdraw. This we did, tak
ing one of the Occidental hotel car
riages, the golden decorations of which
made it look more like an archbishop’s
coach than a lodging house vehicle. * * *
“We have all heard of the American,
such as ho is usually described, with a
revolver in his pocket, at the mines in
California and Nevada, scalped by In
dians or scalping Indians, losing health
and life in the whirlwind of business
or politics, struggling to satisfy his un
quenchable thirst for gold, intelligent
and active, with inborn mercantile feel
ings and having no idea of art outside
that which is geometrically modeled. A
great patriot, he almost invariably robs
his country whenever he is called to its
service.
“These men are evidently not the
North Americans who converted a col
ony into a great nation, whose enter
prising genius has attracted the admi
ration of the world with their great
cities and railroads and schools. They
are not the Stewarts and Astors and
Peabodys, but they are the Beechers and
Tiltons, the Belknaps and Babcocks,
the New York aldermen, the Indian
agents, the men of the whisky ring, the
innumerable lot of jobbers and bribers,
well dressed thieves and despicable
publicans, who cast a shadow upon the
future of the American Union.”
Referring to American women, Du
puy de Lome’s book says:
“We all know what woman in the
United States is. She is adventurous
and bold. She travels alone, with full
liberty, protected more by fear of the
law than by the respect which she in
spires. She is spendthrift, elegant and
wears the most risky fashions, knowing
well that everything becomes her. She
is genteel;
is beautiful.
“Is she a woman who loves home? I
do not know. I have seen American
...women- living at the hotels in Califor
nia, in Paris, all over Europe, always
extravagant, spending more mqjiey than
their husbands, of whom they do not
know much—money earned God knows
how T or where.
“Before marriage, as I said before,
they are more feared than respected.
When they marry, how do they behave?
Who can tell? People have been inclined
to believe that they make model wives.
I do not think that they are the worst
in the world, but there are indications
which do not commend them much—for
instance, the mysterious history of a
certain witch who now owns a palace
on Fifth avenue and whoso fortune, of
which she now makes an insolent show,
was amassed by preventing the increase
of population in the great republic; the
‘personals’ in a New York newspaper;
the excursions on steamboats, which fol
low the publication of these ‘personals;’
their trips to Europe and the lives they
lead in Paris. ’ ’
After drawing this picture the Span
ish diplomat asks: “Are all men and
women in the United States like this?
Maybe not. I do not know them to be
so, but let there be no misunderstand
ing upon this subject. We are tired of
seeing and knowing persons who later
prove to be rascals; of hearing Ameri
cans abuse their own countrymen, and
all the more when they happen to be
highly placed; of shaking hands with
persons who ought to wear manacles in
stead of gloves, were we to believe
what those who know them say. * * *
“It is yet to be learned whether the
American commonwealth can continue
as it is now constituted. Will the Unit
ed States be able to exist when it has to
confront the social problems which now
attract Europe’s attention? Will the
United States be able long to retain the
cohesion from which the federal consti
tution derives all its force, having, as
the nation has, a government lacking
unity and strength as well as a corrupt
antagonism and opposing interests of
the various states? Will the United
States be able to meet foreign competi
tion when wages are lowered abroad?
Will the western agricultural states sub
mit to the economic servitude imposed
upon them by northern manufacturers?
In my opinion, all these problems will
present themselves in tho United States
before long.
“As soon as the present industrial
movement ceases and the United States
gets on a level with other nations, when
profits become less, will the taxpayers
consent to be ruled as they now are?
Will they consent to pay large sums of
money for tho maintenance of an army
which does not exist, of a navy the con
dition of whose vessels is such that none
of them would bo able to return to tho
United States from a trip to China, of
an administration whose members pro
vide abundant material for investiga
tion in the criminal courts?
“So many opposing interests cannot
long remain united. Time will bring
about tho formation of three nations in
the east, west and south of the United
States. If, as Castelar said, democracy
leads to unity and to the strengthening
of the central power, dictators will
eventually become necessary in these
three republics. From dictatorship to
monarchy there is but one step, which
will easily be taken by the austere re
publicans, who now call themselves
‘generals,’ ‘professors’ and ‘doctors,’
nobody knows why, for they are so in
partibus. No one would more willingly
than they assume the title of Duko of
Connecticut or Marquis of Minnesota.
* * *
“I will not attempt to describe an
American city, with its numbered
streets and straight avenues cutting
one another at right angles; with its
immense buildings, the architecture of
which would drives Vitrubio, Herrera
and Bramaute to despair, although it
may delight men who began life chew
ing tobacco, with their feet stretched
upon a pine table at a miner’s hut, and
who end it still chewing tobacco, but
with their feet now resting upon a Cal
ifornia laurel table in a marble palace.
* * *
“In these free countries liberty is
for hotel keepers, for stage drivers, for
train conductors, for Pullman car ne
gro porters, not for tho unfortunate be
ing whoso lot is to foot the bill. ” —New
York Sun.
The Smallest Government Warrant.
I beg leave to correct the following
item, which appeared in The Republic:
“Mr. Cleveland holds the smallest war
rant, that was ever issued by the treas
ury department. It amounts to 1 cent
and was issued to him to cover a bal
ance due on his salary of June, 1895.
He has never cashed this warrant and
will hold it as a curiosity. ”
Touching this item, I would say that
during the administration of President
Hayes that distinguished senator, John
Sherman, being then secretary of the
treasury, caused a warrant to be sent to
the undersigned through the Kansas
City postoffice for the sum of half a
cent, which had been overpaid in a busi
ness transaction with that department.
I will say that said warrant was subse
quently paid in full by the proper offi
cial.—Thomas F. C. James in St. Louis
Republic.
An Expensive Volume.
Robert Ingersoll is fond of good books.
During one of his visits to Chicago he
and a friend went to one of the big book
stores in Wabash avenue to examine the
treasures on the shelves and counters.
They had roamed around the establish
ment discussing history, romance and
theology, and finally the friend said,
picking up a volume, “Ah, colouel, this
is the book you like.”
“What is it?” he asked.
“Tom Paine’s ‘Age of Reason.’ ”
“Yes. It’s a good book, but mighty
expensive. ”
“Why, I dieln’t think so.”
“I have a copy, and what do you
think it cost me?”
“I don’t know. I’m sure. ”
governorship of Illinois. ”—Chi
cago Record.
For a Dig Steel Exhibition.
—Tlie Krnpp.i and other iron, stefd-amp
gun making firms are arranging for a
conference to be held in Berlin shortly
with a view of carrying out the project
of holding an exhibition of the German
iron and steel manufacturers. Some of
the firms are desirous of making the ex
hibition an international one.—Now
York Herald.
THE TIMES: BRUNSWICK, GA„ MARCH 14, 1896.
OFF FOR VENEZUELA.
AMERICAN PARTY TO SAIL TO TAKE
UP A CONCESSION.
Three Women Among the Colonizer* —Car.
ry a Hotel With Them ami Will Set II
Up Well Within Venezuelan Lines —Pio-
neer* of Their Race.
A party of 25 American colonists
have sailed on the Red D line steamei
Venezuela to make their homes on the
Orinoco river.
The Orinoco company, while engi
neering the colonization scheme, has a
concession for a tract of land 125 by 90
miles in the state of Bolivar, which was
granted to it by Venezuela.
The concession originally embraced
about 18,000,000 acres, of which about
3,000,000 are in the territory now in
dispute between Great Britain and
Venezuela.
That section of the territory which
the present party expect to colonize is
about 125 miles within the boundary of
V enezuela.
The majority of those who sailed are
persons of means and come from the
northwest. Many of them are from
Faribault, Minn., where the officers of
the Orinoco company live.
The first work of the present party
will be to build a hotel with accommo
dations for 300 colonists at a little vil
lage called Santa Catalina. This town
will be the base of operations.
Every piece of timber for the hotel,
ready to put into place, is carried in the
hold of the Venezuela. A complete
steam sawmill and three months’ sup
dies for a general store are also tir.rt of
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tne colonists’ outfit.
Tho enterprise in which they are en
gaged is the first organized effort to col
onize South America with citizeus of
the United States.
The colonists are all exceptionally
well educated and are members of dif
ferent religious denominations. One of
the members of tho party is a physician.
A clergyman is expected to follow on
the next steamer.
There are three women in the party.
Their husbands were really the organ
izers of the present expedition. They
are Mrs. H. O. Clement, Mrs. T. A.
Stewart and Mrs. W. C. Henry. Mr.
Clement’s father was one of the pioneers
of Faribault, Minn., and is president of
the First National bank there. He is
one of the financial backers of the pres
ent enterprise.
Mrs. Clement is a pretty littlo bru
nette, rather delicate looking, and the
last person in the world whom one
would expect to find en route for tho
wilds of Venezuela.
“Just think, ” she said. “Tomorow wo
leave all this snow and cold behind us
for a climate of perpetual summer. I’m
looking forward to life iu Venezuela
with the greatest of pleasure.
“It will be a little bit lonely at first,
I suppose, but there are two other women
in the party besides myself, you know,
and more will come. As for hardships,
why I think I shall rather enjoy them.
I’ve spent several summers at my fa
ther’s encampment on the lakes of
northern Minnesota, so that living iu
tents for awhile will be nothing new to
me.
“Cooking? Well, I don’t suppose that
wo shall find anybody in Venezuela who
can make buckwheat cakes, but my hus
band suys that the people down there
make very good coffee, and it will really
be a relief to be in a place where there
is no servant girl problem to wrestle
with.”—New York World.
Will Invade England.
Ballington Booth is about to invade
Canada with his American Volunteer
Army. A branch of the Volunteers will
be established iu England, which is the
headquarters and birthplace o:' the Sal
vation Army. The principle of home
rule will be applied to the new posts in
Canada and Great Britain, and each
one will be thrown upon its own re
sources after it has been once establish
ed. This is the best possible evidence
that Mr. and Mrs. Ballington Booth
have no intention of returning to the
ranks of the Salvation Army.—New
York Dispatch to St. Louis Republic.
A SnggPKtion l>y Ijiboudicrr.
Truth of London ironically suggests
that it would be a good plan for Queen
Victoria to celebrate her diamond jubi
lee by elevatina^aviirg—British citizoHr
malo and female, to the peerage. She
has bestowed titles to so many people
who drop their “li’s,” it says, that if
all were put on a level, and if "lord”
and “lady” were the usual titles in
stead of “Mr.” and “Mrs.,” then some
people might try to improve their con
duct aiul iive up to the old standards of
GREATEST OF ALL.
Senator Allison Tells a Characteristic Story
of President Lincoln.
The public estimate of Mr. Lincoln
is the correct one. He was tho greatest
man of our country. I make no limita
tion. If I should, it would bo in favor
of General Washington. Washington
had not the kindliness of heart and the
great charity of Lincoln, and those
were the qualities needed in the trou
blesome times of the civil war.
I think the chief characteristic of
Mr. Lincoln was this same charity. It
joined him to the people. I knew him
very well. I was born in Ohio, and
when I came to congress, in 1863, from
lowa, the representative from my native
district was a Mr. Bearcc of Akron, a
Democrat.
He was an actor in a seme at the
White Houso which impressed me so
that I have never forgotten it. I had
gone to tho White House about 10:30
o’clock to see. President Lincoln, and
while there I saw Mr. Bearce come
from the president’s room. He was
greatly excited and the tears were
streaming down his cheeks. I was great
ly surprised to see such evidences of ex
citement and determined to learn the
cause. After I had seen the president I
returned to the house and in a reasona
ble time stepped over to Mr. Bearce’s
desk. I told him I had seen him coming
from the president’s room laboring under
great excitement and asked the cause.
“One of my constituents out in Stark
county,” Mr. Bearce said in answer to
my question, “has two sons in the
army. One of them, for some cause,
left the service, was condemned as a
deserter and ordered to be shot at For
tress Monroe at neon today. I went to,
the president td secure a reprieve. It
was the great kindness of the president,
as he gave me an absolute pardon, that
broke me down. I only had a little over
an hour to reach Secretary Stanton and
have the execution staid. The presi
dent’s order, though, settled it, and be
fore noon I heard from Fortress Monroe
that the boy was safe. ”
Such things as these it was that made
Lincoln kin with all, the high and the
low. They made his death a personal
loss iu tho rich man’s mansion and the
poor man’s hut. So, iu reviewing the
times in which he lived, I find no reason
to change my estimate. He was the
greatest of all Americans. —William B.
Allison iu New York Journal.
QUEER STATE OF AFFAIRS.
Peculiar Feature of Our Government Hard
For Foreigners to I nderstand.
One of the features of our government
which foreigners are unable to under
stand and of which they sometimes bit
terly complain is the lack of responsi
bility of the individual states. For in
stance, when the Italian premier, the
Marquis Rudini, asked this government
to recompense the families of tho Ital
ian subjects lynched at New Orleans
Secretary Blaine at lirst replied that the
United States was not responsible for
the death of those men, but tho state of
Louisiana.
Obviously there was no way in which
the Italian government could reach the
state of Louisiana except through a
warship. If the bombardment of New
Orleans had been ordered at Rome, or a
ransom had been demanded, we should
have this striking anomaly: The United
States not responsible for injuries dime
to tho subjects of other nations by Loui
siana, but ready to go to war to protect
Louisiana from payment of damages un
der duress.
Subsequently, without in terms ad
mitting the responsibility of the United
States for tho negligence of Louisiana,
Secretary Blaine hushed the matter up
by asking congress for $25,000 with
which to compensate the relatives of the
lynched Italians, but to this day tho pe
culiar relations of American states to
the federal government and to other na
tions form a puzzle which few foreigners
and many Americans are wholly unable
to comprehend. —Chicago Times-Her
ald.
Bicycle Letter Carriers In Philadelphia.
Postmaster Carr of Philadelphia is
considering a more general use of the
wheel among letter carriers of that city.
JfejjgyiLthii.Lliady..!.aO of- them already
owu bicycles, many having made tTo
acquisition by utilizing the allowances
made them for car fares, it being the
practice on certain so culled car routes
■to allow tile carrier to expend the sum
otherwise allowed him for fares in buy
ing a wheel, which afterward becomes
his owu property. Mr. Carr also says
that he finds the bicycle of little use iu
tho central districts, but that in those
situated at a distance from the stations
its use has frequently meant a saving of
nearly half an hour per trip.
TEED IS IN TROUBLE.
THE KORESHAN MESSIAH IN A TAN
GLE OF LAWSUITS.
Woman Disciple Sues—Mrs. Parsons, Her*
self a Defendant, Demands $2,100 From
the Leader—The Strange Influence He
Fxerts Over His Converts.
It is all over a paltry matter of S2OO,
but the whole fabric of Koreslian threat
ens to tumble into ruin if the parties in
the suit of Hoyt versus Parsons make
all the disclosures they say they will.
Koreshan is a religion, and the im
pending destruction of a religion de
serves at least a passing notice. The
high priest of Koreshan is a certain Dr.
Gyrus R. Teed, whoso disciples are re
cruited mainly from Boston. The prin
cipal articles of his creed would appear
to bo that he shall be called “Christ,”
that his followers shall grovel in the
dust before him and that all shall turn
over their property for the uses of tho
society. Incidentally Koreshan teaches
that we live in the interior of the earth,
which is a hollow sphere.
Next in importance to Dr. Teed in
tho hierarchy of Koreshan is the “moth
er of Christ,” who is known to the
world as Mrs. Victoria Ordway of Chi-
DR. CYRUS R. TEED.
cago. Attached to the rule that the ad
herents of Koreshan must give up their
wealth to the cause is a saving clause
permitting them to withdraw their con
tributions in tho event of their leaving
the community. If this proviso had been
lived up to, the suit of Hoyt versus Par
sons would never have been heard of.
The plaintiffs are Mr. and Mrs. War
ren Hoyt. Mr. Hoyt is the editor of the
Haverhill (Mass.) Bulletin and an ex
state legislator. The defendant is Mrs.
E. V. Parsons of Boston, who is asked
to account for a gold watch, a chain, a
trunk and more than SIOO worth of dry
goods which she is alleged to have ob
tained from local storekeepers, who
charged them to Mr. Hoyt’s account.
The story told on behalf of the plain
tiffs presents Mrs. Parsons in the light
of one who obtained a powerful influ
ence over Mrs. Hoyt, so that the latter
was willing and eager to give her every
thing she asked. Indeed nothing less
occult than hypnotism is suggested as
the explanation for Mrs. Hoyt’s ameni
ty to her coreligionist’s desires.
On the other hand, Mrs. Parsons, tho
defendant, protests that she is a victim
of Koreshan. She will not discredit the
faith itself—“sublime” is the adjective
she applies to it—but she has nothing
but words of bitterness for Dr. Teed,
its founder and “Christ;” for Mrs. Ord
way, the “mother of Christ,” and for
others high in the councils of the mys
terious order. She has instituted suits
against Teed to recover $2,100, which
she says he induced her to give him.
As for Mrs. Hoyt’s property, she says
it was a voluntary gift, rendered neces
sary by the destitute condition in which
she (Mrs. Parsons) left the Koreshan
.“heaven” in Florida. Mrs. Parsons is
a physician practicing at 104 Dartmouth
street, Boston, although her home is iu
Brockton.
The Koreshan ‘ ‘ heaven, ’ ’ on Estero is
land, Lee county, Fla., is practically an
absolute monarchy. Teed rules over it
with a rod of iron, enthroned in a man
sion which is known as Beth Ophrah.
Tho “mother of Christ, ” whose title is
transcribed as ‘‘Victoria Gratia Horesh’ ’
in the Koreshan tongue, reigns co-ordi
nately with him over a community of
converts who are no better than slaves.
Not only have they signed over to
their leader all their worldly goods, but
they arc compelled to toil unremitting
ly, regardless of tho weather or their
physical condition. These deluded
wretches are flattered with the term
“angels” and are supposed to bo sexless.
The two chief articles of their creed are
the worship of Teed and the blind obe
dience of his every order. There is no
marriage among them, and whatever
children enter the colony from the out
side world are taught to bolievo that
Teed is their father.
Dr. Cyrus Toed, tho mossiah of this
strange, sad colony, has impressed his
followers with tho belief that he will
dio soon, but will rise from tho dead
aud remain on earth, tho active though
invisible deity of Koreshan, till the end
of the world. In tho meantime be pro
fesses to perform miracles and employs
his subjects in the reclaiming and im
proving of property that will prove im
mensely valuable.
So much is known about Koreshan.
Mrs. •Parsons threatens to tell more—to
tell so much that the Florida authori
ties may be prompted to interfere.—
New York Journal.
Order For a Sixteen Inch Gun.
The WatervlieT gun factorylßurtset®
ordered to manufacture a 16 inch gun,
which, on completion, will be shipped to
dergo tests to determine the advisability
of constructing this typo of gun for
coast defense purposes. It will weigh
about 90 tons, and, with a charge of
1,060 pounds of brown prismatic pow
der, is expected to throw a solid steel
projectile six feet iu length and weigh
ing 2,300 pounds over a range of ten
miles.
LIFE IN THE CAUCASUS.
Abduction of a Beautiful Georgian Prin
cess by an Admirer.
Transcaucasian society is excited
over the abduction of the young, beau
tiful and rich Princess Marie Tzulu
kidze, daughter of Prince Samson Tzulu
kidze of Kutais, one of the wealthiest of
the old Georgian families of that part
of the Caucasus. The young princess is
only 17 years of age, but nowithstaud
ing her youth had many aspirants for
her hand among the impecunious sprigs
of nobility of the provinco of Kutais.
A short time back the young lady with
her mother went to a fete given by a
member of the family who had a hand
iu the plot.
The usual gayety of a Georgian fete
prevailed, and toasts drunk in the light
wine of the Transcaucasus added ani
mation to the occasion. But amid the
clinking of glasses to the pledge ‘ ‘Allah
ver-di”—God give you health—and tho
singing of the Georgian bacchanalian
refrain, “mraval jamierre, ” with which
it is the Georgian custom to accompany
each toast, neither mother nor daughter
had a suspicion of what was coming.
Toward the end of the entertainment
tho lady of the house, under pretense of
a headache, left the company, followed
by tho other ladies present, tho young
princess straying to a part of the houso
by herself.
Suddenly one of the more audacious
of her admirers appeared, and iu spite
of her cries and struggles carried her off
to a carriage that was iu readiness and
sped away with her, his flight being
covered by his accomplices. The mother,
almost beside herself at tho loss of her
child, started in pursuit, but up to tho
writing of the news had found no traco
of her. The Princess Tzulukidze, mother
of the young Princess Marie, is a charm
ing woman of high attainments, speak
ing English, German and French with
fluency, besides Russian and her native
Georgian.—New York Sun.
THE PERRINE GRANT.
Stepfather of Mrs. Grover Cleveland Gets
His Rights at Last.
The famous Perrine grant, some 23,-
000 acres, located near Miami, Fla., is
now finally settled, Secretary Francis
having issued a patent to the heirs, Dr.
Perrine, stepfather of Mrs. Grover
Cleveland, being the principal benefi
ciary. Tho title to theso lands has been
gravely questioned and attempts have
been made to open them to public set
tlement. But when it became known to
whom the patents were issued, it prac
tically settled the question.
The original grant was made by con
gress in 1838 to a Dr. Perrine of New
York, a celebrated botanist, who con
ceived tho idea of propagating certain
kinds of rubber plants there. Ho was
killed by Seminoles, his wife and chil
dren compelled to flee to the swamps
and his houses burned.
Settlements were made there later
and all traces of the grant lost till 1852,
when his heirs again attempted to get
possession. The matter has been hang
ing fire ever since, eing interrupted
by the civil war. Not until Cleveland
was president .u make strong
efforts to regain the with the pres
ent success. There is much discontent
over the decision.
A HOME FOR LABOR.
New York Capitalists Propose a Largo
Building For Industrial Workers.
A party of nine capitalists, led by
John Meehan of Park row, New York,
is planning to erect a large building to
be used exclusively by labor organiza
tions and to be known as the headquar
ters for trades unions. The building is
to cost about $125,000 or more if neces
sary.
Mr. Meehan said that all of the men
concerned are friendly to organized la
bor, and they will consult the various
bodies to learn what would be necessary
in a building devoted to such a purpose.
There will be a ballroom, a large meet
ing hall with a stage and a number of
smaller meeting rooms to be used by
various lodges.
No information could be gathered
concerning the proposed site, as that
will not be announced until all arrange
ments are completed. It is, however,
known to be a private enterprise, and
the men interested wish a fair return
for the money invested.—Philadelphia
Press.
A Neglected Study.
The Green Bag tells this story of
Judge Wilson of Ohio: ‘ ‘Several law
yers gathered in Judge Wilson’s room
after adjournment of court and were
discussing the retirement of a member
of the bar. Among them was one
whose practice is worth $25,000 a year.
He said: ‘I have been practicing several
years, and am well fixed. I have thought
I should like to retire and devote my
remaining years to studies I have neg
lected. ’ ‘Study law,’ said Judge Wil
son. ’ ’
Rewarded For Saving Life.
M. Delacour, a keeper of the Com
pagnio Transatlantique ’ landing stage
at Havre, has just been made a Knight
of the Legion of Honor, having, as the
decree declares, “exhausted the whole
series of rewards given by the depart
ment of marine for saving life. ” Ho
is 74 years of age, and has saved 46
lives, the first in 1840. He had already
received second and first class medals
and the grand gold medal of honor.
The President Elect.
Now.a and conics, and next the tailors
call" ' ' ——
To fit the clothes he’ll wear to tho inaugura
tion ball.
JT-lnn l.fiiul Kt.rolls nfOiind and plavs thna
campaign melodics.
The bland photographer comes in and says,
“Look pleasant, please. ’*
The oflice seekers, waiting for admission, stand
in line,
And one or two cause worrlmont by hints that
they’ll decline.
Tho postman brings his daily mail and dumps
it from tho dray—
No wonder ho hangs out tho sign, “This Is My
Busy Day.’’
—Washington Star.
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