Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1895 — Page 6

MM MS THIS. She W .i Establish a Naval Station on the South American'Coast. UNCLE SAM MAY PROTEST. Another Ihtorpretnlion of the Monroe Doctrine May Be >ece»»»ry — German CapltnHztz Have Large Inveetiuente In Venezuela and the Naval Station !• Thought Necessary For Protection. Washington, June is.—There is reason to believe that the United States government will have occasion at no distant day to give another interpretation of the Monroe doctrine as applicable to the acquisition of an island off the coast of \ enezuela to be used by Germany for a naval station.' The attention of officials recently has been directed to the interests of Germany in that locality, and there is apprehension that the subject may assume quite as formidable an aspect as that of British aggression oil Venezneleaii soil. An enormous amount of German capital has been invested in V enezuela of late under peculiar circumstances. The government wanted a railroad through a rich and productive valley and a German syndicate stood ready to build the. road on condition that Venezuela would guarantee 7 per cent of the capital invested. The guarantee was given and the road completed ‘and put info operation about eight months ago. At the - outset-it was supposed that about $4.000.000 would cover the cost of the road, but the actual outlay reached about ift*.ooo,ooo. By tlie terms or the guarantee A enezuela now becomes responsible to the German syndicate for a 7 per cent return of this $8,(»00.OQ0. The road has not been in operation long enough to determine what it will earn, I but its most sanguine promoters do not ' hope, that it will pay 7 per cent on the i outlay. Whatever it earns will be ap- | plied on the investment and Venezuela will then have to give sufficient to bring the earnings up to 7 per cent. Germany's Interest In the Matter. It is said to lie this and similar Ger- ; man interests that are inclining the | German government to regard with 1 favor the acquisition'of an island off the Venezuelan coast to be used as a naval : station, and as a sort of base of opera- j tions for Germany on the American I continent. The guarantee of Venzuela ( to the German syndicate is of private 1 character, tiie German government hav- I ing mi interest in the matter, but it is looked upon as affording a convenient means by which, the government is giv- * * ing protect ion to its citizens could also carry outyimtestrcS'fVir 'tile acquisation j of a’naval station. *l'he circumstances ■ are such as to lead to the belief that the , United States will again be called upon • te define to what extent the acquisition I of territory by foreign powers on South American soil is compatible with the Monroe doctrine. Venezuelan Minister Uninformed. Senor Andrade, the Venezuelan min- 1 ister here, when asked as to Germany’s purposes, said he had not been informed j of any intention to acquire one of the i Venezuela islands for a naval station, I although he was acquainted with the : investment of German capital in the i railroad and the guarantee given by the Venezuelan government. The information reaching the authorities, however, has come from other sources. It is believed that.the new United States minister to Venezuela, Mr. Thomas, who has just left for his post, is fully conversant with the German phase of the subject. It is understood also that the 1 new German ambassador, who is soon to-arrive, is likely to have a full understanding of Germany’s desires concerning Venezuela. Felm From the Sugar Investigation. Washington, June 18.— Counsel for Elverton R. Chapman, the New York stock broker indicted for refusal to an- | swer questions propounded by the sen-| ate sugar investigating committee has filed with the clerk of rhe United States supreme court a motion for a writ of error to bring up for review rhe decision of the district court of appeals refusing to grant his petition for a writ of j prohibition to prevent his ease being tried by Judge Cole of the district court. It is supposed at the supreme court that the effect of this proceeding ' will be to stay the trial until the supreme court acts on the motion. Appeal Granted? .Washington, June 18.—The court of appeals has allowed an appeal to the United States supreme court of the pension case of Judge John D. Long of Michigan. NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE. Indications Point to a Great Meeting at Cleveland - Delegate* Arriving. Ct.rvkt.ANii, June 18. --Many dele*' gates and visitors have already arrived to .attend the National Republican league convention which, begins tumor- | row. Among those who have reached i town is’Secretary-A. R. Humphrey of Chicago, “The arrangements provided / for taking case of the convention,” he said/- "are-iir-t-elass. ami the indications .ape that the meeting will be one of the I most successful ever held bvthe league.” i .’-“President Tracy will be here today” ’ .the secretary continued,., “and the Mar- I quettefcliib of Chicago : is coming on a spec.i; 1 train. I have just received some gdod-news in a letter to the effect that . . .Senator -Warner'Miller is .coining with the New York delegation. Professor George Guntqn of th” New York school'' ' of economics is .coining -on the' New York train to answer the silverites, should occasion demand it, and .sor Williams of Brown University will also be here.” One of the early far western' arrivals Is Frank W. Bicknell, lowa niemherof the national league. Mr. Bicknell is the editor of the JJes Moines, lowa State Register and is in touch with the politics of his state. '"'“Are the people of lowa going to demand free silver?’’ he was asked.’ ‘■‘Na s’l" WR are uni’iif to bn very nna.

servative on that point. We believe in i keeping quiet on that question. It isj not the province of this convention to I formulate or even touch upon these policies of the Republican partv. We stand with Senator Allison, who is for bimetallism. Yon may safely say/ that the , lowa delegation will vote as a unit against any silver platform outside of | the one adopted at Minneapolis.” “Wil) lowa boom Allison for presi1 dent of the I’nited States’?” “We will boom him certainly, but not this week. We believe in lining courteous and don't propose to do anything in Ohio, on < iovernor McKinley's own ground.” DUEL TO A FINISH. Dispute Over an Account Leads lo a Fatal EnnHiiiter. Birmingham, Ala., June 18. — At Bessemer, Ala., yesterday Bert Rockett, a former clerk, called at the wholesale liquor store of Albert Benson and demanded back salary which he said Benson owed him. A quarrel, followed, resulting in Rockett drawing a big jackknife and driving Benson from his own store. Benson told him he would see j him again. j Late in the afternoon the two men ' met on the street and renewed the quarrel, Rockett suggested that they tight it I’ out and asked Benson if he was armed. I Benson said he was ready and both drew their pistols and began tiring. They emptied their revolvers, after which Benson proposed to fi-njsh- the ‘ light with their lists. As Rockett stepped . forward he fell dead, having been shot just below the heart. Benson, who was unhurt, was jailed. [ ■■ —- ■ ■—— - SENTENCE DEFERRED. Some Questions to Settle*. In the Case of Police Inspector Mclmughlin. New York, June 18.—Sentence was not passed upon >-x-Police Inspector MeLaughlin yesterday as was expected. ! When the ex-inspector, who is under conviction for extortion in office, was * arraigned before Justice Barrett in the : court of oyer ami terminer, his counsel asked for a new trial and for arrest of judgment. Both motions were di tiied. There was a long conference between Justice Barrett and District Attorney Fellows, after which the passing of sentence was deferred until Wednesday next for the purpose, as District Attorney Fellows explained, of allowing Justice Barrett time to examine the legality of the action of the police board in dismissing Inspector McLaughlin from the police force. He wished to determine whether he was about to sentence McLaughlin aS a private citizen or as an inspector of’police. MORE FOREST FIRES. Kushequa' I’a., Threatened , With Destruction —Sea of Flames. Bradford, Pa.. June 18.—A terrible forest tire is raging in the Kinsua valley. A telephone message from Mt. Jewett stated that a special train had just left that place for Kushequa with more than 100 men and all those that the town could spare. About 400 men are throwing up embankments and making every effort to save the town. The fire is advancing toward the village and notiiing, it seems, ran be done to stop its progress. Gaffney’s chemical factory is in the course of the great sea of flames and its destruction is almost enevitable. The fire is reported to be the worst that has threatened the town. Two Girl* Treed by a Ball. Ashland, Neb., June 18.—Mary Harvey and Alice.. Snowden, who were picking berries in the pasture of Farmer Ferry, were attacked by a vicious bull and narrow] / escaped death. Warned by the beast s roar the young ladies took refuge in a large tree overhanging Salt creek. The enraged animal after making futile attempts to reach them, laid down at the foot of the tree and kept them in an uncomfortable position for nearly an hour, when they were rescued by a couple of fishermen who passed by. Preacher* Have a Lively Time. Saginaw, Mich., June 18.—There was a wild time in the Lutheran Synod meeting yesterday over the question of converting tire seminary in this city into a college. By a vote of 47 to 2(1 it was decided that the institution would remain a seminary. Such confusion eiisued that the chairman told the delegates that if they wanted to fight they . would have to go outside. The 26 opposing delegates walked out and say they will not return. Ohl Stove Firm Liquidate*. Albany, Juno 18.—Upoie the application of the trustees pf the Perry Stove company of this city, one of the largest stove manufacturies in the United States, an application for q voluntary liquidation was tiled in the snttrdme court, and Judge Foreman has appointed General ZMdcn E. Marvin of this qity as receiver, ; The stockholders at their annual meeting last week decided that it was undesirable to continue business on its present basis. Barrett Scott Lynching Gasp. Butte, Neb., June 18,—The work of" securing the jury in the case of the alleged lynchers of Barrett Scott, defaulting treasurer of Holt county, was completed yesterday, Attorneys for the de* sense then moved that the prisoners be, discharged for the reason that they had already been placed in jeopardy and could not be the second time. . The court then-took-a-reeess ttrvoiisrder the motion. and /Attempted Suteide. Sandusky, 0., June 18.—B. L. Hastings, aged 23, who recently came here from St. Louis and stayed at a resort kept by his-sister, Artie Hastings, on Decatur street, shot Trixie St. Clair, an inmate, through the heart in a tit oL, jealousy yesterday. She died instantly. Hastings then shot himself twice in the left breast, ami is now at police headquarters in a critical condition. Wag« Sdale Conference. Pittsburg. June 181—A number of wage conferences have been scheduled for this week and rates for a year may be fixed in different departments of the steel and flintglass industries. Today committees representing the workers and manufacturers in the engraving, moldmaking, ironmold and the pressed lines are meeting to discuss the wage •cala.

TIIHHIUC RMSION. Boiler Gives Wav Killing Two Persons and Injuring Others. EVERY ONE PRESENT HURT. Bolter Blown a Distance of 300 Feet. Cass County Saloonkeeper's Attempt to Circumvent the New Law—Old Lady Fatally Burned --Fears Hydrophobia. Machine Shop Destroyed—Notes. Attica, Ind., June 18.—One of the worst accidents that ever happened in Attica occurred at the home of Charles Peterson yesterday afternoon. The killed are: William Smith. Frank Peterson.- ' The injured are: Leonard Stain baugh. J. W. Hamar. Alexander Hamar. Henry Shumar. Young Hamar. the 6Tear old son .of J. W. Hamar. Contractor Pernins of Goodland had two men at work drilling a well within [ 20 feet' of Mr. Peterson’s house, Will Smith being in charge of the engine ami Leonard Stambaugh working the drill. Frank Peterson was sitting on the grass 10 feet away, and J. W. Hamar and his 6 year-old son Alex Hamar, and Henry Shuman were the other spectators. Wlukspiey were discussing the work the boner exploded with terrific force, and out of all those present none escaped injury. The boiler was blown into a pasture 300 feet from the scene of the accident. The machine was an old traction engine and the cause of the explosion ia thought to be scarcity of water. MABE A SHREWD Ca*R County Saloonkeeper* Attempt to Circumvent the New Law. Logansport, Ind., June 18.—The saloonkeepers of ('ass county have stolen a march upon the opposition. At the last meeting of the board of county commissioners the majority of those liquor dealers whose license do not rightfully expire until after the September session made application for a renewal of license, intending in this way to forestall the remonstrances that might be made under the Nicholson bill. The prohibition element discovered the scheme too late to make any organized opposition, but employed a lawyer to fight the applications on the ground that they were not in order at this term. The commissioners have decided, however, that the licenses may be granted and that saloonkeepers may legally demand and pro- I cure such licenses as often as thgy see fit to spend their money, providing there are no sufficient grounds for refusal. UNDER A SERIOUS CHARGE. Wabash County Commissioner* Arrested For Misuse of Public Funds. Wabash, Ind., June 18.—Judson J. Lukens, Elias P. Sailors and James D. Starbuck, commissioners of Wabash county, are under arrest on grand jury warrants. Nineteen indictments were found against the three for the misuse of public funds and making illegal allowances, nine of the indictments being for felonies and 10 for misdemeanors. ' They were released on bond. Their trial will probably occur in September. Strawboard Works Suit. Muncie, Ind., June 18. —The suit of Addison Adkinson vs. the Utility Paper company of Hartford, asking SIOO,OOO damages for polluting the water of Lick creek with refuse from the mill, has been decided, and the plaintiff gets S3OO. i If the verdict holds good in the supreme court, half a hundred suits will be brought against the strawboard and paper companies at Eaton, Albany, Muncie and Yorktown, in this (Delaware) county. Long Funeral Journey. Kokomo, Ind., June 18.—Last winter B. F. Winegar, wife and little daughter ■of Grand Rapids, Mich-., were here visiting the family of F. H, Allen. While here their little child died of scarlet; fever and the railroads refused to trans- i port the remains home. Yesterday the parents started across the country svith the corpse. The hearse will he eight days on the road, the distance from here to" Grand Rapids being 240 miles. New Trial Denied. Anderson, Ind., Juno 18.—The mo-* tion for a new trial for George Hires has been overruled by Judge Ellison. Hires was fuund guilty by a jury of the mur- j der of William Foust at Elwood and sentenced to 13 years in the state prison. He will be. kept here as a witness in the cases of Geotge and Ephriam Grull, ’ George Cox and Mrs. Margaret Bolton, charged with being accessories. Fear* Hydrophobia. Greenwood, Ind., June 18. —J. D. Wilson, a prominent farmer, has left for Chicago to take treatment at the Pasteur institute, he having been bitten by his shepherd dog, which had given evidences of being mad. Mr Wilson wen*t to Columbus and applied a madstone, but he’was not satisfied with the result. ; Received Bums. Laporte, Ind,, June 18.—Mrs. Frederick Bierstoff is dying from the .effect of burns caused by her dress catching ; fire from a /lighted match carelessly ’thrown on the ground by a neighbor. Her clothing was nearly all burned off her person before the flames could be extinguished. She is between 60 and 70. Machinn Slijpp Burned. Laporte, Ind., Jo»" 18.— W.E. Harding’s machine shop, together with its contents, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The origin of the fire was undoubtedly incefidiary. Loss $3,000, with $1,400 insurance. There is no success so sweet as the success achieved by acting against the advice of our friends.

' dlUKito Ur i tit DAY. i— — ■ 1 Tin' Colonel Palled on the Wrong String and Lost. The colonel wanted to buy a piece of land bordering on the Arkansas river aud owned by a queer old fellow named Allport. The tavern keeper posted us on his eccentricities and cautioned us particularly that he ItelievOd the world was flat and would not sell to any one who disputed him. We found the old man seated on a stuntp and fishing in a creek near his cabin, and when the object Os the visit had been stated he inquired: “Stranger, what’s your religun?” “Baptist,” replied the colonel, according to programme. “What’s yer polities?” “Haven't got any. ” “Do you think we orter annex Mexico?" “I do." “If you was on a jury and a feller was on trial fin-piekin upafew sawlogs in the river, how would you go—fur or agin him?” “I’d vote to acquit him. of course. When sawlogk break loose and go flout- | ing down stream, they are common 1 property.” ''That’s so! That’s as t rue as gospi 11” , exclaimed the old man. "Stranger, I wish you was goin to settle around these parts. I like a man who talks plumb up ami down as you does. Sy j’ou want to buy laud? Shouldn’t a bit wonder if we could dicker. Be you a temperance num?" “Oh, no! I get drunk whenever I feel like it, aud I always keep four gallons of whisky in the house. ” “That’s it! That’s bewtiful! If we had five men like you around here, we’d rpu the ♦.■(rtmty. Yes, I expect you kin hev that land at my sellin price, which is $3,000. ” “When can yon make out the papers?” ; asked the colonel. “Oh. today, I reckon. Stranger, do vou believe in wimmin’s rights?” “No, sir!” “That's bewtiful! Yes, I think we kin git the papers made out today. Kunnel, can't you arrange to settle down yere? How about Jonah and the whale?” * "I don't believe Jonah was swallowed. ” “Bewfiful—bewtiful! I think I kin let you hev that land fur about $2,500. What do you think about this yere world, kernel—is she round or flat?” | “Flat as a pancake, of course!” promptly replied the colonel “Do you believe it?” “Os course. A man who says it’s round is either a liar or an idiot. Shall we go over to the county seat this afternoon?” , "Not by a blamed sight!” exclaimed the old man. “You couldn’t hev that laud fur $20.000!” “But why?” “Bekase you believe the world is fiat. ” I “But don’t you?” “No, sir! I did up to about au hour ago, when the back end-of niyc’abin set--j tied down two feet and killed my dawg aud skeared the old woman half to death, j Then I made up my mind the world was round and I'd bin fool ’nnff to locate this farm jist* about whar two inches . more of tip will boost the hull caboodle | of Allports into Chiny! Sorry fur you, I kernel, but yon orter got yere about an ■ hour sooner while 1 was hangin on to ■ the flatness of things and achin to meet | as big a fool as I was!”—Detroit Free Press. Why Johnny Bankii Was Proud. A Kentucky school committee whose members had invitations to a hanging at the county jail struck town just before the district school was dismissed for the day. With a view of combining business with their pleasure trip, the committee dropped in on the schoolma’am and put a few questions to the scholars. The answers were so brilliantly incorrect that the teacher was prompted by her pupils’ apparent ignorance to tell the committeemen that all the little ones were worked up over the coming,' event at the jail. Then she dismissed the , scholars. But the scholars, instead of trooping off as usual, hung, about the yard watching with je lons eyes the proud and arrogant bearing of a small boywho strutted among ’’u'tn liken king in tlie midst of his codf'-’ers. His every action was observed, and it was apparent that the greater part of the girls hung upon his words and glances. Eventually one of them offered a ripe red apple to the boy. who took it without thanks and with cool superiority. His action and the queer behavior of the other children aroused the curiosity of one of the. visitors. and he turned to the schoolma'am, asking: "Who is that arrogant small boy?” The teacher looked, and then with a little air of wonder answered : "Why. don’t you know him? That’s Johnny Banks. It’s his father who is going to be hanged. ” —New York World. l.atvst In Wedding Rings. ,A woman well known among society people recently astonished her friends by appearing in public wearing three solid gold rings or the third finger of her right hand. So much curiosity was aroused that one ot her friends finally asked her why she wore the rings in the Way she did'. . . “Oh.” she replied, “that is the very latest Paris fashion. You see, the first ring was given me by iny firstdiusb’and, who died of yellow fever. I wear that in ineinqry of Ijjm. The next one I wear in joyful remembrance of the fact that I got a divorc* from wy second husband, and the thii Iring reminds me that I am married again and getting to be an old woman. ’’—Chicago Times-Herald. An Original Frenchman. Another French author has demon- j Btratcd the possession of unique traits of originality. He received a wound in his latest duel—Chicago Record. A Fear. An isffimus is a neclrof land, Geographers declare. America, we understand, ■■= Will likely get it there. * —Washington Star. -W,. —1 . ■ ' ■—— ■ ■ ~

TURNER AND HIS GUN DOUBLE-L ECK, THE COWBOY, AND HIS MODEST RECORD CLAIM. How He Showed Hl* Di*like For » Hone* man Who ICo<lr at a Trot — Finally HU Spirit Wn* Conquered by n Mild Mannered Soldier With a Winchester. Now aud then a “bad man” tries to cultivate something which he mistakes for humor. One of these devotees of levity used to haunt the range of western Kansas, and every fall and spring he up]w>ared in Dodge City at the general “ronndup. ” Every time he came to town he left some proof of a facetious niind, and was very sure of being talked about by every idle num and most of the busy ones who remained when the rush was over. His name was Eck Turner, though Dodge City will best remember him by i the title "Donble-L Eck. ” the duplicated i capital being Leonard <fc Loughrain's I brand, and he being one of their best riders. In fact, Turner might have been 1 foreman if he had cared for the position, 1 >r he con Id ride well, and there were few more expert with the rope aud probably none who could bear fatigue and hardship more patiently than he. But the trouble was he wanted recompense for the dull life of a cowboy. He didn't care for money. Any wages going were acceptable to him. But when the cattle got rounded up and there was half a day's escape from the tedium of labor 1 Eck Turner x,-anted his fling. And he always went into town ami had it. Now foreman cannot do these things. He.must stay by the herd all the time, preserve a clear, head and firm I place in the saddle. Ho is the represent- ‘ ative of the owner—the custodian of I much wealth—and dissipation is not t>* be though! of. One of Eek Turner's pet* bits of humor was to pick out people whose appearance displeased him and shoot just near enough to them to cypress his sentiments. He particularly disliked to see horsemen go by on the trot. It was in a cowboy country, and cowboys galloped, whether or not they were in a hurry. And if the rider had a habit of “rising” in the stirrups, as conventional trotters often do, Eek Turner hated him violently. So that when he came down Main street one day and saw a rather well dressed man go by trotting ami “rising" xvi'h the motion of his horse Eek called general attention to the spectacle. Really the trotter was not* a very good horseman. It giA possible, as Eck observed, to “seedaylight under him" every time ho rose in the saddle. And the glimpses of that recurring “daylight” provoked Eck to a bit of pistol practice. “I bet,” sit’d he, watching the rider and reachingfor a large revolver, pretty well back on his belt, “I bet I can shoot between him and the saddle and never touch a feather.” He had been drinking in so decorous a manner as to be dangerous,’ ttnd so no one interfered. The rider was half a block away when Eck ami the bullet must have gone true, for the rider passed on unconscious, while a sign diagonally across the street was shattered by the shot. . He tried it again later in the day and fortunately—miraculously—escaped the infliction of injury. Dodge City talked about “Double-LEck" and his new joke all summer, and in the autumn he came in and tried it again. The first shot he made he hit a man in the leg and was very indignant because they would not give him another chance, assuring the crippled victim it was an accident, “and urging him to mount and trot past just one time more, rising no higher than he had done, and guaranteeing to put three shots out of five between him and the saddle or buy the drinks for the crowd. But it was thi' uncertainty about the other two shots that interfered with negotiations—that and the trotting man’s persistent endeavor to enjoy the freedom of his own pistol arm while Eck remained in his presence. Eck thongnt it was funny, anti that* hallucination grew-on him til) he got into trouble. Whets the wave of "Texas fever” swept over Kansas in 1880, killing off so many of the Kansas cattle, a state law stopped those “drives” which had been the life of western Kansas, and Eek Turner lost his occupation. He went farther west and south and tried to shoot the top off a man’s ping hat in Colorado Springs because he insisted the fashion was two inches shorter than the man was wearing. At* La Veto he took exception to the sputtering sound occasionally made by an electric lamp and wept about shooting the carbons in two till the city marshal engaged in repartee and shot off the end of Eek’s thumb,, alleging as a sufficient reason the fact that no man with two good thumbs could be a reals ly “bail man. ” Eck replied in kind, and there were.no applicants for the position the marshal's demise leftvacantunt.il it was known that Eck had left' that region and gone to Arizona. At Fort Wingate he had the misfortune to shoot into an ambulance driven by a very* mild mannered private soldier, who pulled up a winchester and crippled Eck for life, destroying the usefulness of both shoulders and incidentally putting out his right eye. After t hjtt, Eck Turner went to Flagstaff and developed a remarkable habit of winning at faro and taking care of his money. He confessed to a record of five men slam, but be was given erea.it for twice qs many on account of his well known modesty, and when he finally opened a boarding house for seamen in San Francisco he permitted all the ! turbulent habits of his cowboy life to lliaft away to forgetfulness.— New York Herald. _ A Distinction Without » Difference. Jinklets—l want my wife -to be a woniati who thinks beforejhe speaks. Plunkett —Why don’t you say you are a confirmed bachelor? —Detroit Free Press.

I THE DAYS AND THE YEAR. I ' - • — I Wat in t.)w world, my llttlnonnf Our world belongs to tlmt clock, the sun. ; Btcady It spins; while the clock bents true j Days and tkuuioiis for me und you. 1 And tick, tick, took, goes the mighty clock, While time swings on below, t Now loft, now right, now ‘l«y> now n 'Kbt, | Wit li a tick, took to and fro. Tho pussy willow in coat of fur, A sweet pink rose in the wind astir, A tnaplo leaf with a crimson blmlb, Thon falling snowflakes and winter's husli. While tick, tick, took, goes the mighty clock. And tin* world swings on ls*low, Building, blowing, shining, snowing, With a tick, took to and fro. A tittle song when the honrt is glad. A little sigh when the way is sial. Whether tho shadows or sun'> i»i.,s '. ill, Sweet rest nnd dreaming nt 1.. *. foi all, While tick, tick, took goes th.> r ility clock. And the world awln js <*., be! *,v, Smiling, sighing, aingl g, < ing, With a tick, took to .yi I fro. Bo Is the way, my own little one, Our world belongs to that* clock, the sun, And tho hand that* somewhere keeps the key la the mime that holdeth you and me, While tick, tick, tis'k govs the mighty clock, And the world swings on below, Now left, now right, now day, now night. With a tick, tock to and firn. —Harriet F. Blodgett in St. Nicholas. FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE. Life's Moving I'anorauia Illustrated In a New York Street Scene. A living picture of life’s moving pan- ~ orama was ]>rcscnted at Broadway and Twenty-third street one day last week. It was a procession. It was a procession formed by chance, but the utmost deliberation could not have made it tell a plainer story of life. First came a wagon pilpd high with baby carria.'. os—frail little vehicles to carry frail "inches of humanity” as they began the uncertain journey over the tortuous ways of this World. Then followed a pony cart carrying two laughing boys advanced only far enough in the great* highway of life to realize that there were roses in the path, but not to know of thedhorns. Behind the boys, in a dogcart drawn by a high stepping cob, were two youths on the threshold of manhoixl. One wore on the lapel of his coat a college pin on a bit of blue j'ibbon, the\other a ‘pin of different design on a yellow knot of silk. They were engaged in earnest conversation, apparently suggested by a highly colored theater poster representing a young woman who was advertised to appear on some stage. A clanging gong was close behind, and a cable car crowded with impatient, business men was hurrying its load to their posts to make the daily start iii the wild race for money. Next a handsome pair of horses, a stylish carriage, coachman and footniau on the box, and in the carriage a rotund, red facml man, past middle age, and beside him a richly arrayed woman trying to appear to lie on the sunny side of that middle line. Prosperity was written on every part of the equipage. Then came an ash -'cart, :lnd its dust, borne on the wind, reached and annoyed the oeenpanis of the carriage. The driver walked at his horse’s head, bowed, but not with years, and his face bore the nuuks of toil that had extended over his life since early youth. Close behind the ash cart, with black horses, black plumes aud a solemn visaged driver, came a hearse.—New Y’ork Herald. ’ the Wood duck’s first swlm. ’ How the Mother Getz the Little One* From the Neat to the Water. A few miles from my home there is a lake that has for years been the abiding place of a colony of wood ducks. I have spent hours along the shores watching these prettiest of water fowls. The wood duck has one peculiarity not possessed by other members of the duck family—it builds its home high up in the cavity of some decayed limb, usually one that juts out over the water. The eggs, from seven to 13 in number, are creamy white in color. Housekeeping is begun in May, and the young are ready to leave the nest* early in June. I was curious to know how the little ducks reach the water from their lossy homes. I ifitil often seen them, when hardly clear of their shell, swimming about with their mother and felt convinced that they never could have left home unaided. One bright June morning fortune favored me. 1 had rowed along the lake shore to pay a visit to a houseful of noisy red wing blackbirds. My boat was lying motionless among the tall cattails that fringed the shores of the lake. Suddenly.l heard a loud splash behind me, and turning to look I saw on the water a short distance away, just shaking the spray from her wings, a female wood duck and near her two tiny yellow balls, so small that they resembled water lilies floating-on the surface. The old bird took wing, hoveyed and circled above her babies for a few minutes and then flew to-a cavity, in a tall tree, a short distance away. In a short time the male bird, arrayed in the handsomest Os pluniago, joined his mate. Then for a few minutes I could hear a soft cooing noise, which reminded me of husband and wife discussing some important point relative to the welfare of their children. The cooing soon stopped and the mother duck appeared in the doorway of her home. Then she ilropped toward the water at a slight angle. As her breast struck the surface she immediately dived, and where her body had been I was surprised to see two little ducklings swimming about as. unconcerned as though they had been traveling in the water for ydors. The routine of flying to the neSt was repeated fom- tinres in rapid succession, and each time it resulted in an addition of two to the family in the water, which kept growing until it numbered 12. Then the mothei' duck swam efut in the lake, followed by her brood, while tho male bird brought up the rear of the procession, acting, no doubt,’as a guard and protector.—C. 8. Shick in Philadelphia Times. The coasts of the world are protected by 6,208 lighthouses.