Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1893 — Page 2

©he democrat DECATUK, IND. K. BLACKBURN, . ■ ■ Pctluhnn. The latest Chicano directory shows I population of 2,000,000. It’s a sican sort of city directory that will not boom a town. Thk latest fad In Europe is chess piayffig by mail. Well, most chess players would have plenty of time to write and get an answer between their moves. A Massachusetts woman found a snake in her I ed. The fact is noteworthy I ecause this is an experience in which men have I ecn supposed to have a monopoly. Ten DOLLARsin gold is offered by a New Y< rk paper for the best receipt for keeping cool in the summer time. Lieut. Peary ought to win that offer /lying, both hands down. Another white girl has married an Indian. Since the Cherokees went East to issue $6,000,000 wprth of bonds Lo’s position in the matrimonial scale has materially improved. An Austrian Colonel p i/licly boxed the ears of a subordinaffe, and the subordinate made th<y mistake of blowing out his own brains while those of the Colonel were still within range. Where the telephone wires are overland the speed of transmission is at the rate of sixteen thousand miles a second; where the wires are through cables under the sea the speed is not more than 6,020 miles a second. One acre of land in Jerusalem sold for $24,000. That scheme may work once or twice on the Turks, but it won't work on Christian white folks who know the difference between real-estate values in the New Jerusalem and the old! There is a little town in Massachusetts that thinks it has a Common Council which is absolute. It recently passed an ordinance requiring certain of the prominent streets to be watered on Sunday, and it has rained every Sunday since. ■Mexicans murdered a traveler and nis servant, and the pursuing posse has, up to date, slain sixteen the assassins. This is a little rigorous, but it shows that if Evans and Sontag were in Mexico they would not be greater than the Government A French merchant tried to corner coffee. The police in settling the matter found grounds for clapping the merchant into jaiL Such wanton interference would spoil almost any corner, and there are a nuiftber in this country that need spoiling. At best life is not very long. A few more smiles, a few more tears, some pleasure, much pain, sunshine, and songs, cloudsand darkness, hasty greetings, abrupt farewells—then our little play will close, and injurer and injured will pass away. Is it worth while to hate each other? 'j . . ■ . as One cheerful face in a household will keep everything bright and warm within. Envy, hatred, malice, selfishness, despondency, and a host of. evil passions, may lurk around the door, they may even look within, but they can neverenter and abide there; the cheerful face will put them to shame and flight. -i * Some notion of the vastness of the Western forests may be had from the fact that a new logging camp just established at the headwaters of the Skagit River, in Washington, is under contract to turn out an average of about a million feet every month. Five camps on the Skagit will turn a out twenty-five million feet of fir logs alone this year. The war lord of Germany is a kind < and indulgent parent. He is anxious to.stir the martial order of his sons, and has had made for them as a toy a model steel fortress, at a cost of 1,000,000 marks. Probably had his Royal War Lordship been obliged to make his marks by labor a plain company of tin soldiers would have accomplished bis object. Courier-Journal: A play has been written which is described as a “captivating narration to please and edify refined audiences.” One of its gjand climaxes, we are promised, is to be a real fight between dogs, coons, and wild eats in a safe cage. Why does not some enterprising dramatist incorporate in his playa real session of the Kentucky Legislature in a safe cage? Official statistics show that the dairy exports of the United States have decreased during the past decade, though butter has improved a little since 1887 and 1888. The exports of cheese have steadily decreased, and are less than one-half in value what they were in 1881 and 1882. Exports of imitation butter and also oil have increased very materially. • To attain to a generous courtesy, more even than good-sense and goodnature is necessary; some self-denial must be practiced, not with a view •f obtaining services id return, as some cynics would have us believe,

but because a handsome courtesy surely is twice blessed, breeding in return that reciprocal kindness which we concieve of as governing the behavior of the angels themselves. The School Board at St. Louis must be run by old bachelors. They have recently dismissed every married woman teacher. They evidently think that as soon as a woman is married she either loses her mind, or at least is incapacitated for the government of children. St. Louis should Imitate some other cities and put a few brainy, clear-headed women on the school board in place of her baldheaded bachelor* Mr. Robert Lincoln Is reported to have said that it cost him $70,000 more than his salary to repre ent the United States as Minister to England. If this is true there is something wrong. Either the salaries of our ministers abroad are grossly inadequate or some of these ministers arp accustomed to live in a style out df keeping with the Democratic character of the country they represent The matter ought to be investigated by Congress, and the wrong, whatever it may be, righted. The killing of Emin Pasha by violence is in defiance of a long line of precedents. Emin has heretofore evinced a preference for death in some less crudely disagreeable form, his choice being smallpox in a majorty of instances of his perishing from the earth, although he has favored fever on occasions, and seemed not averse to the blandishments of starvation. But inured as he is to dying, it was not believed that Emin would ever consent to be sent hence by an untutored brunet from the center of Afric darkness. At the meeting of the National Academy of Science in Washington, D. C, Prof. Alex. Graham Bell gave an Interesting description of Helen Kellar, the Alabama marvel. This wonderful girl was, by an unfortunate illness in childhood, rendered deaf, numb, and blind. Nevertheless although now only thirteen years of age, she has accomplished wonders in the way of overcoming her difficulties. Specimens of her handwriting and original stories and poems were presented by Mr. Bell, who said that the girl was recovering her power of speech, and was, indeed, a prodigy. An English magazine lately offered a prize for the best answer to the question, “What kind ofa man does a woman most admire?” The answers vary widely. The one which took the prize has, among the requisites of the ideal, the following: “The man must interest by uncommonness, either in appearance or manner; or he must have the indescribable quality called charm. He must know his own mind and steadily work thereto, even to masterfulness. . He disregards 'they say,’ and is not one of a herd Bis friends are men—not women. He is only once deceived by the same person. His, perhaps, hasty temper never runs to unkindness. He has not the abiding peace ot commonplaceness. He needs sympathy and solace in a sometimes divine discontent He abides under no failure, but goes on. His occasional want of success only attaches and rivets his determination.” The Massachusetts Legislature has taken one more step toward having good roads and pavements by passing a bill requiring wide tires on the wheels of draft wagons. After August 1, 1896, every wagon in Massachusetts used for 'carrying heavy loads must have tires from three to five inches wide, according to the weight of the load it is to carry. This step is as important as the building of good country roads and the construction ot improved city pavements. Neither of these can be maintained if the old-fashioned narrow tire is to remain in use. It will cut and grind the best road and pavement to ruin. Much has been done I toward working up a public senti- ' ment in favor of improved roads. The next five or six years are likely to see the good results of this agitation. But all this advance will be lost in a short time if the present style of wagon tire continues to be used. The reform should be mads thorough while it is under way. Church Money. Jt is said that the people of New Zealand look down upon coppercoins and will never use them if they can help it. An English clergyman who i had one day taken the place of anI other preacher in Auckland says that ' in the collection of something over ; eight pounds there were~2sU threepenny pieces and only four coppers. It is so well understood that theSe smaller silver coins will be used in church collections, that the threepenny pieces have received a name. One day a young lady wanted some small change from a Chinaman, who was the family grocer, and he drew out a handful of coppers. “Oh, no, I don’t want that!” she said. “Ah, I see what missey wants,” said he. “Churchy money!!’ And he handed over a quantity ot three- ■ ■penny pieces. Too Much for Him. From the Plunkville Bugle: ’The Bugle is always glad to publish poetry from subscribers or advertisers, but when a man sends in a verse to the effect that ‘The Dr. Briggs imbroglio has ended rather groggily, O,’ we throw up our hands and quit.”—lndianapolis Journal, i This is the season of the year when the fire cracker meets its match.

IN STATE BUILDINGS. WHERE OLD FRIENDS MEET AT THE WORLD’S FAIR. , . Visitor* Crowd Around the Hnge Registers and Look tor Acquaintance* from Homa —A Latter-Day Evangeline — Florida’* Lament — The Model Farm. A Tour of the State*. World’* F»ir correspondence: The people take great satisfaction in their State building. They show the feeling of ownership in many ways.

The women drop down upon the sofas and go to sleep. The men put their feet upon the railings. At every hour in the day groups of lunohers i are on the porches. 1 And they spread out their pickles and pie without any

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of that furtive looking and apparent apprehension of interference with some rule. The State building is the one place where tho<Jolumbian guard with his hanger dees not make himself con j spicuous. After a man has traveled several hundreds of miles into a strange man’s town and is expecting every hour to have some one sandbag him and take his clothes, no one can estimate the comfort it gives him to run into a nest of old friends. It gives him a peculiar satisfaction to know that the State building belongs to him as much as to any one else. He has a right to _C_ 355 ° jF Him ollßw SOUTH DAKOTA MINERALS. take a nap on the sofa or sit tftted back on the veranda all day long. Then when ho looks in the register and finds that other people from his county are in town it takes away that lonesome feeling. Maybe he will bump into an acquaintance as soon as he enters the front door. If he does, you will hear something after the following: “Well! what in the world are you doin’ here?” “I swan, is that you? What are you doin' here?” “Oh-h-h, we had to see

the Fair:- couldn't miss, it you know, not if it took a leg." “That's right, x that's right. Bring your folks?" “Oh, yes,i they’re around here, somewhere. Mother’s about fagged. Says she’d rather

cook for harvest hands than walk all day. Goin’ to stay long?” “Calculate, on bein’ here all next week if body and soul stick together that long. ’Sppse you’ll be here some time.” ‘‘Can't tell yet. Just about give up seeing it all. Half the time don’t know whether I’m on my head or my heels. Blamedest place I ever struck." “That's right, that’s right.” State Product* Exhibited. “Corn is Kingl Sugar is Queen!" Nebraska displays this double motto on her building to call attention to the fact that she still persists in the practicability of a beet sugar industry. Kansas makes little boast of sorghum sugar, but Nebraska is as confident as ever about the beet experiment. Not only are samples of beet sugar shown, but the process of extracting it is illustrated. In Nebraska's building is a detail map of Platte County, made by sticking wheat, oats, rye and grass seed in a large board. The Western States emphasize their specialty in production. You can smell when you come within five rods of North Dakota. The moment you cross the threshold you experience an overpowering sense of “No. 1 hard.” Wheat is everywhere. The custodian says there are 146 varieties of wheat in the North Dakota building. Nobody will dispute him. The State of Washington makes oats almost as conspicuous as North Dakota does wheat. Everybody who goes to the national capital’ visits Mount Vernon.. And everybody who comes to the Fair wants to see the Virginia Building, which Is a copy of the home of Washington. The reproduction is as faithful as, that of the Chinese artist who put a tear and a grease spot on the new coat which was to be “exactly like the old one” left with him for measurement. Even the hole for the cat in the door of Mrs. Washington's room, where the mother of her country locked herself up when she desired solitude, has not been forgotten. Massachusetts, too, goes in for the historical in her State building. She has copied the home of John Hancock, of Declaration of Independence fame. She has put into it the cradle I ® 11 ■ —i H NORTH DAKOTA'S OX AND CABT which has rocked five generations of Adamses, from which came two Presidents, the mirror in which Governor Hutchinson surveyed his powdered wig 150 years ago, and the desk Gen. George Washington used at Cambridge. From an upper window of Louisiana a live Evangeline, as she cards the cotton and spins the string, looks down upon Hiawatha In plaster before the Minnesota Building. The hat that Zachary Taylor wore and the camp chest that went with him through the Mexican war are among the Louisiana curiosities, and with them are pieces of furniture which the Spanish governors used when Louisiana extended away up the Mississippi Valley and included Missouri. Louisiana calls attention to her resources in a way that shows the changes time is working. She impresses not her sugar industry, not her cotton, but her rock salt, her cypress, and most of all the splendid quality for' inside finishing of her curly leaf pine. Model Farms. Model farms are centers of attraction in several of the State buildings. Washington has one of them which is 30 feet square, with a farmhouse no larger than a bird-cage, a red barn 3

feet high, and flowing wells which snout into troughs that hold about a pint. Fields of grain are represented by millet heads stuck in the loose earth. A thrashing machine 8 inches high la being operated by farmers 6 inches tall. There are' reapers and mowers in miniature, pastures!, cows, and country roads, all shown with conS w A COBNRR IN THK MICHIGAN BUILDING. siderable accuracy. To many visitors this dwarf farm is a triumph of the Exposition. City people, look at the model and thing what fun farming must be. Country folks wonder where the weeds are ana what farm was ever in such apple-pie order. In front of the North Dakota Building is a stuffed ox, harnessed to a weather-beaten cart, with big lumbering wheels. On the card it says: • : This oi tflt was owned by the Hud- : : son Bay Company and represents : : the only means ot travel and trans- : : portation employed north and west : I of St. Paul prior to the year 1871. : What makes this card interesting is the fact that in 1893 the good people of the Dakotas are coming to the Exposition in through sleepers, with a colored boy to make up their berths. South Dakota has a model of a miner's cabin, a mine and a quartz mill, the work oi a Black Hills boy 14 years old. Some State legislatures from mistaken motives refused to appropriate money for building or for exhibits. In several instances the citizens of those States have put their hands in their pockets and made good the lack of State pride in'their Taw-makers. Such movements in Arkansas and Texas have resulted well. Florida is the lonesome exception. Florida has almost nothing but the walls of her building and some dying palm trees to show. Few people can feel any desi e to go to Florida after a visit to the Florida Building. Texas owes her building to Texas women, but there is no disposition to deal harshly with the men of the State for their lack of zeal. All kinds"of gatheiings take place in the State buildings. While the New York ladies are giving a high tea, just

around the corner from them Rain-in-the-Face, who was with Sitting Bull in his last fight, and .Curly Head, a Sioux scout, who claims to have been at the Custer massacre, may be 1 holding a reeeution in

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the North Dakota parlors. The State I Normal SchooteAlumni met in the lowa Building, andjthe next day university j graduates from Ann Arbor were mak- j ing people wonder what was going on in Michigan. Every day there is a gathering of commercial travelers in the room given to the T. P. A. in the Missouri Building. Two hundred and fifty members of the choir of the Mormon Tabernacle are coming to sing in the Utah Building. Montana has several interesting things in natural art. One Is a cabinet of silver crystals which came from 1,500 feet under ground, and in which the metal takes the form of shrubbery HOW THEY GOT THAT 810 EAR OF CORN INTO THE IOWA BUILDING.' and has a peculiar luster. Another is a collection of the paintings of the cowboy artist, Russell, who herds cattle all summer and paints all winter in’a cabin at Chinook, never having taken ales- ■ son in his life. Pearls from Wisconsin! They have come—black pearls, dahlia pearls, pink pearls, and white pearls. The story is a familiar one around the Wisconsin Building. The collection brought to the Fair is made up from goms loaned by the owners, The idea of bringing building material from their respective localities has been scrupulously adhered to by several of the States. West Virginia's house is constructed entirely of the native woods of that State. One of the relics it contains is the sofa on which Grant and Lee sat at Appomattox, and the inkstand in which the pens were dipped to write and sign the terms of surrender. The State buildings are the places to study American history. Minnesota has a Bible 300 years old and a statue of Minnehaha and Hiawatha made by a. Norwegian. The school children paid for it with their pennies. The Identical gun with which Gen. Israel Putnam shot the wolf is one of the Connecticut treasures. The furniture in the grand i reception room of New York’s building is between 200 and 300 years old. In the Maryland building are two pictures , in oil of what is now the site of Chicago as it appeared in 1829. They were 1 made by Frederic Harrison, who came out to do some surveying in the wilds. Under the dome of California’s reproduction of one of the early mission buildings is a palm tree 100 years old, and with a foot of height for each year of its age. It came across the continent from San Diego on two flat cars. Is it any wonder the State buildings have grown into popularity? Telegraphic Clicks. Trustees of the De PauwUniversitv in Indiana fear that bequests may faD #1,000,000 short of calculations. Engineers who have surveyed the Pan-American railroad route declare the proposed enterprise is feasible. Prof. E. D. Morris is the only remaining member of the Lane Seminary faculty. The others have resigned. Thomas Seaton, of- Btlivar, Pa., was bitten by a copperhead snake, and physicians despair of saving his life. The drought which extended over an area of 40,000 square miles in Western Texas was broken by good rains. Sheriff Warner, of Crittenden County Ark., was shot and robbed of #II,OOO at Memphis. He will recov**. A Jr

A HINT TO CONGRESS. THE PEOPLE’S WILL MUST NOT BE DEFEATED. National lawmaker* Should Turn a Deaf Ear to the Hellish Interest* Which Are Conspiring Against the Masse* — About Pension Reform. Give Patriotism a Chance. There is great activity in the camps of manufacturers and importers since President Cleveland's call for an extra session of Congress on August 7. Tho trade papers are sounding bugle alarms calling their patrons to arms before their enemy—the consumers—has built fortifications around tho committees of Congress which will construct a new tariff bill. The protected manufacturers want' to save as much as possible of McKinleyism. They are bueying themselves ( by holding meetings, drawing up reso- : lutions and petitions and collecting long tables of statistics showing the rates of wages in this and other countries. Notwithstanding the unequivocal declaration of the Chicago platform that protection is an unconstitutional fraud ; and that duties should be levied for 1 revenue only, the manufacturers still > imagine, or fancy that they can make ; others believe, that tho principal duty ; of the Ways and Means Committee will be in this, as in many previous Congresses, to listen to the resolutions, demands and threats of the beneficiaries of protective tariffs, and that this committee must be as subservient to tho wealth of manufacturers, concentrated in trusts and combines, as were Republican committees. The manufacturers forget or ignore tho facts that the com-! mittees of tho present Congress exist in spite of, and not because of, the moneyed interests of any one class; that these committees represent the consumers of the country, and can perform faithful service only by levying duties which shall boar as lightly as possible on the whole people; that statistics oi wages and cost of production, showing how necessary protection duties are to certain industries, are of no use to committees engaged in solving the problem of how to raise a sufficient revenue; and that it is the duty of the present Congress not to Waste time listening to persons who represent only themselves or some privileged class, and do not speak in the interests of the consumers, who include all classes. The fact is that, considering the conditions imposed upon the present Congress, it would be an insult to this body for selfish interests to appear before it to ask for special legislation of any kind. They would not expect to get the ear of this Congress if they had not for so long been accustomed to spend several months telling each Con- ' gress, upon which they had many claims, just what legislation their interests demanded. The only persons whom Congress should consult are those who are known to lie publicspirited citizens and who will speak in the interests of the people at large and not in their own selfish interests. What the country wants, and what Congress should attempt to give it, is a system of taxation which shall rest lightly upon industry and upon the people. Congress should not sit still and wait for comparatively ignorant representatives of the little, industries to present long arguments; it should only permit these industries to send in their state- . ments to be considered when necessary, 1 and should invite well-known and able 1 patriots, who have for years been students of social and economic conditions, to present the needs of the people before the committees. Such a course would be ridiculed as “impractical” by the pearl-button, tinplate, jack-knife and piano-felt men I who figured so prominently in the McI Kinley bill, but it is time that this country turned its back on these narrow, selfish bigots, and gave ear to the broad-minded men who are recognized as authorities on public questions. We should take advantage of the learning of this age by adopting some of the economic principles which are about as firmly established as is the fact that water always seeks a level. For example, the almost unanimous opinion of authorities for the last fifty years has been that trade is a blessing and not a curse, and that direct is preferable to indirect taxation. Yet, here we are trying to kill trade and using an old fogy method of taxation because it is highly satisfactory to the tew manufacturers who have taken the trouble to make our taxation laws for us. The pre ent Congress should legisJate for the whole people to whom it owes its existence. If it shirks its I duty and . legislates for any class or party, it may expect the fate of the McKinley Congress,—B. W. H. A Waste of Breath. Senator Chandler propounds and ' several Republican newspapers repeat ’ this question: “Why should not the banks, the Chamber of Commerce and the newspapers recognize and state the exact truth: That the present distressed condition of the buslhess of the country is due to the approaching assault upon the McKinley bill in particular and upon tho American protective system in general?” Because the persons referred to are not mostly fools. None but fools would Imagine that a people can be thrown into panic by the prospect of securing their own demand, twice made at the polls, for a reduction of oppressive taxes. Daniel Webster, the colossal son of New Hampshire, viewing in Jove-like jocundity the local wonder of Genesee Falls, grandiloquently said that “no nation ever lost its liberties that had a i waterfall ninety-six feet high.” Can the Liliputian Senator of the Granite State point to a nation that ever lost its head over a prospect of tax-reduc- , tion? | No!—this is a financial, not a commercial disturbance. The primary trouble is with the currency, not with credits. It is the nation’s money that Is menaced, not its manufactures. The ’ collapse of swindling trusts has added to the lack of confidence, but these trusts were another outcome of the policy which Mr. Chandler has supported. The question of tariff reform is closed for four years at least. The beneficiaries and the political agents of the system of a tariff for bounties—of public taxes for private tribute—may as well understand this. The people nave ordered a reduction of the worse-than-war tariff, and it is to be reduced. The Democratic Congress and President may be divided on some questions, but they are united on this. Ime country looks for this reduction in relief, not in fear. The time has gone by when it can be either bamboozled or frightened by the free-trade bugbear. Mr. Chandler and the Republican organs that echo him are wasting their breath.—New York World. J,. - Silver for Soles The silver party of Nevada has called on all silver clubs of that mining camp to pass resolutions denouncing the “conflict on silver.” This is better and more seemly than the call of Judge Belford, of Colorado, to assassinate the ’ k / • * ■ ■

READING THE ROME PAPER.

' President. The silver minors ought to I calm down. Resolutions of excited I mobs are of little account in a business j transaction, and they will assuredly not find a market for their product by i armed revolution. The manner in which rebellion is met in the United I States, as their history shows, is not to , surrender to threats. Sensible silver men should suppress the lunatics.— N. Y. World. All Protection a Fraud. , "Republican protection is a fraud, a robbery of tho great majority of the American people for the benefit of tho few,” says the National Democratic Platform. This is undoubtedly true, as it has received the official stamp of tho people. But we will go tho platform makers one better and say that all protection is a fraud, etc.—Democratic, Prohibition, Populist, or Republican I protection. The Samuel J. Randall , protection to tho iron and steel industries of Pennsylvania; tho New England protection to its woolen and coti ton mills; tho New York protection to I its barley and potatoes; tho South’s ' protection to its sugar and rice; Michigan’s protection.to its lumber and copper; Ohio’s attempted protection to its wool; Colorado's protection to its silver; all protection under whatever name or ?ui»e, by whatever party or class, is a raud and a robbery. Why? Because j no one industry can be protected exI copt at tho expense of other industries, ] and if all industries could be equally protected none would receive any protection. But as only a few lndustrie« can be protected all “protection is a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of tho American people for the benefit of a few.” Such being the case, what are people going to do about it? There is but one i sensible and patriotic course—deny to each claimant what cannot possibly bo granted to ail, and notify the privileged classes—the iron, copper and silver mino owners/ and the proprietors of woolen mills and protected industries of all kinds, that hereafter each tub must stand on its own bottom. This will hurt the feelings of some of the big tubs that have been utilizing the bottoms of other tubs, but it is tho only just solution. Until Senators and Congressmen can broaden their sentiments to include the whole country and the whole people, and are willing, when they meet at Washington, to sink, for tho general good, the narrow, selfish interests of their own particular districts or. localities, we cannot expect the stoppage of this fraud and robbery. The main trouble, however, lies with the people themselves, and can be cured only by a more liberal education on economic and social questions. If the great masses of voters understood their needs as well as the few protected manufacturers understood theirs, and if the masses would work and vote, even on the low, selfish grounds of tho few who arepi’otected, every politician who serves only the rich of his districts would soon be retired in favor of one who should represent tho interests of a majority of voters in the district, a*d soon protection would be to an end. Let our next Democratic convention mal b a note of the fact that all protectioi. s a fraud and a robbery, and that there is no need for the word “Republican” in the next platform. Pension Reform. The action of the Pension Bureau in temporarily suspending payment of pensions in certain cases where the official documents do not show such total incapacity for manual labor as is contemplated by the law is right. If the pensioner is lawfully entitled to his pension he will get it. If he has obtained it by false representations he will lose it, and deserves to lose it. There is an honest scldjor and a sound lawyer at the head of the Pension Bureau now, and the business of swindling the people under false pretenses of duty done or suffering incurred in the public service or present incapacity to earn a living is interrupted. If tne Grand Army protests; against just and honest administration of the Pension Bureau it will bo bad for the Grand Army. It will be split in two, and that wing of it which appears to be organized chiefly for politics and boodle will forfeit the respect and sympathy in which the organization has oeen hold heretofore.---New York World. ——————— Trusts are often victims of their own greed. Secure in the legalized spoliation afforded them' by the tariff, but unsatisfied with their assured profits, they undertake to further victimize the public by over capitalization and thftssale of shares on which it is impossible to earn dividends. The crasKamong these overdone speculations, following a tight m uey market, has had very much to do in limit in;; • bank credits and in adding to the doubt and distress of the last sixty days. A high-tariff organ mocks at the farmers who voted last year for “a change" and are now offered lower prices for their wool. But there have oeen no changes in the tariff. The same high old McKinley duty that was voted to advance the price of wool is still in force, and wool is declining as it has been doing under a high tariff for several years. Some Mustache History. What is the history of the mustache? In Greece and Borne no mustaches were worn without beards, but In the conquering days of the Roman Empire several half-civilized races, who had come partially under the influence of the Romans, and who wished to b: rid of the' name of barbarl, or wearers of beards, attempted to shave in Imitation of their conquerors; but as they had very imperfect implements for the purpose, and asjhe upper lip is notoriously the hardest part "Os JJie face to shave In the case of any one poorly skilled in the art, they were unable to make a clean job of it, and left a quantity of hair on the upper lip. This mark was characteristic of several nations on the confines of Roman civilization; of the Gauls in particular, of the Dacians and tome others. See the Roman statue of the Dying Gaul ,<in the Museum of Fine Arts—perhaps the only classical representation of a mustache to be found in that institution. The Latin language has no word for mustache. This barbarous accident was unworthy of the honor of a Roman name.—Boston Transcript. An Hereditary TradeAlmost the sole hereditary trade In the United, States Is that of the deep-water pilot. At most of the Important seaports pilotage has been confined for generations to a few famille* The Delaware pilots congregate at Lewes, where they have lived these many generation* Her Little Joke.— “Why did you toss young Chapley overboard?” “Oh, I was tired of him; I wanted to renew my youth, don’t you know.”— Life's Calendar.

laOOD TEMPER IN TRAVELING.® (t I’ay* Well mid Makes thp Time Away Pleasantly. j® Wo hoar of a good many requisites® for traveling In comfort, but none of® them surpass good temper, esneclally® In hot, dusty weather, says a write*® in Harper's Bazar. To bo indifferent® to the crying of cross and tiled ba-H bles, to draw a shawl or a wrap over® the’shoulders when some fresh all® fiend persists in sending a curient of® cold wind from an open wlndod(flfll® equally to bo patient when you want® the window open and somebody else® wants it shut, to be icady to accept® delays without grumbling, and to bo® as sweet at a Journey’s end as at Its® beginning, this is to be indeed good® tempered. . If one travels easily and is W® made f^lnt and ill by the rapid no-® tion of train or seasick by the roll of® the there is little credit in® keeping amiable. But many women J suffer fearfully from jolting and ar-® ring. Their heads ache, their stom-H achs rebel, their nerves are on edge.® It is nothing short of saintly to be® pleasant in these circumstances; but® some people achieve it and they are® held in pleasant memory by their® fellow-travelers. j] A certain amount of philosophy is® an armor when one is on a journey.® The thought that not you but the® conductor and the captain and the® engineer are responsible for the safetj® ot the cars or boat should suffice tc® keep you from need.ess and useless® fidgeting when their is a halt Some® people waste an immense amount oi® energy in trying to undertake what® is not within their province. No® amount of idle fuming will cool a® heated journal or repair a break in® the machinery, $o it is as well to® keep one’s self from friction, main-® tain one's composure and trust in the® kind care of providence. ■ In every emergency, in every ex-® perience the good-tempered person® has the advantage of the one who is® cross and irritable. This is alway/® true. ■ AT THE TAIL OFA PLOW. 1 How the Emperor of China Encourage ■ Agriculture. 9 In order to emphasize the import ■ ance of the cultivation of the soil anc ■ to encourage his subjects to follow H agricultural pursuits the Empeior ol ■ China sometimes performs certain I rites at the “Emperor's Field,” and ■ goes through the form of plowing and ■ other work of the husbandman. Ont I day recently, says the N. A. U. Cable, ■ the Emperor set out at daybreak from ■ his place with a numerous and mag- ■ nifleent train of courtiersand others ■ Before breakfast the Emneror arrived ■ at the shrines of thd deity presiding ■ over agriculture, and his Majestj ■ stopped to offer up his tbanksgivinj ■ and sacrifices. After changing bit I dress the morning repast was served, ■ at the end of which-the Emperor pro I ceeded to the fieftl, at the fourcornen I of which were erected four pavilionr I where the seeds ot wheat and othei I cereals were placed. In tbe centei I were numbers of magnificent attirec I courtiers, each holding aloft a many ■ colored flag, while on the side of th< I passage were scores of aged and white ■ haired farmers, each having in hit ■ hand some agricultural implement ■ Placing his left hand on the plow and I holding the whip in his right hand, I the Emperor Ljsgan the ceremony oi ■ theo:casion. By p ear angementtht I officers did their allotted share, somi I wielding the agricultural implements I while others scattered seeds out of th< I baskets as if sowing, while the En> B peror busied himself with the plow. I which was hitched to a richly caparl 1 soned bullock, draped in yellow arid 1 led by two of the Emperor’s body I guards. On the Emperor finishing I his round at the plow the tnre» I Princes were ordered to go througt I the performance, and after them nln< I high courtiers had their turn, aftei I which tbe performance closed. Hav I mg received the greeting of th< I officers, the Eniperor returned to hb I palace.—Pall Mall Gazette. I A Broke|i Law, I Give the boy his freedom as far at I possible during the long summei I ; days. Let him fish, boat, canoe, I swim, and tramp through the wood< I on exploring trips to his heart’s con- | tent; go with him, if possible, and I encourage healthful exercise and ob I servation as much as possible, but | don’t teach him to acquire, unlawful I and inhuman tricks. Upon nearli I every one of furred or feathered | things seen during June and July de I pends a family of helpless lives whici | may be doomed, to the miseries of >lom starvation by one thoughtless shot, says Outing. The boy with a firearm sees a bird and says: “Watch mi plug him,’’ and if the aim prove tru< the boy thinks he hasdone something clever, and most likely his fonn father tells him that he has so dona In reality he has broken a law, and probably sounded the doom o' half j dozen wretched fledglings hidden in a nest near by. Men wili-cheerfullj give up a handful of dollars for the privilege of drinking in the wondroui melody from the trained throat of s Patti and go into raptures over the sweetness and the elevating influence of perfect music; yet the same men will blithely murder a poor little feathered Patti, and still forever l.fe and song such as no ‘Patti ever aspired to—in fine, destroy what the I concentrated brains and skill of the whole wor d ean not replace. And oi what pu pos§? Simply to p ove that i an eye can glance along a bit of iron 1 or steel truly enough to injure the*” planting of a nugget of lead w th n the limit of a poor, un uspecting creature’s body—tok.ll-a beautl ul, happy bird. Let the feathered Patt' live in peace. < A Good Text. Small Madeline is something of < humorist and has had no very pro uounced religious tendencies, but the other day she came home from church in a highly pleased frame of mind. ‘jOh, mamma!” she said, “you Just ought to have been at church tq-day. 0 The preacher had such a good textjust the kind I like.” “What was it, Madeline?” asked mamma, who had stayed at home with a cold. Seriously answered small Madeline: “It was, 'The Lord loveth the cheerful giggler."’—Wide Awake. Some people think that a wedding Is not a success without pi*