Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1895 — Page 2

ONE YEAR IN FORCE. TRIUMPH OF THE WILSON TARIFF MEASURE. All the People Have Profited by Democratic Tariff Legislation—What the Next Congress Cannot Do—Protectionists Like Barnum's Monkeys. A Year of the Wilson Law. The Wilson tariff law has been in force one year. When it took effect commercial conditions in the United States were more distressing, more disastrous than they had ever been since the time of BlacN .Friday. After one year’s operation of Bemoeratic legislation there appear striking revival tn business, marked increase in wages, a healthier tone in every market The triumph of the measure, to which the Democracy in Congress lent its most intelligent energies, has been complete. A New York paper signalized the anniversary of the Wilson law by the publication of an itemized statement, showing the experience of one year under the McKinley law and one year under the Wilson law. The statement, which was gathered from the most trustworthy sources of information, demonstrates that within a year after the enactment of the McKinley law wages had been reduced in an immense number of establishments; factories »nd mills were closed down, and the whole tendency of the manufacturing interests In the United States was toward disaster. On the other hand, the year which has passed under the Wilson law has seen mills reopening, running at double time and a voluntary increase of wages by a host of manufacturing corporations. It Is further demonstrated by these statistics that while have risen prices have decreased. It is shown that not only has the wage worker profited by Democratic legislation, but the consumer as well. More is put into the pockets of the people. Less is taken out. Postmaster General Wilson himself, author of the law, writing to the World in comment upon its statistics, reduces the whole theory ami practice of tariff legislation to an axiom when he says “There is no way to protect American industry except by relieving it from burdens upon the materials with which it works; no way to insur good wages and steady employment home labor except by freeing it from the shackles . which have confined it to a glutted home market and prevented it from seekings its customers all over the world." Freedom after all is the only stimulant for the Industrial world as for the Individual. Take off the shackles in each case. Let every man be as free as every other man to do what he will. Let him enjoy with every other man access to all natural opportunities. Let the nation, like the individual, be free —free from limitations imposed under the guise of protection. This done, justice will be secured in the case of individual and of nation, and he is but a poor American who does not believe that with absolute justice, with equality of opportunity, the American as an individual or the American as a race can hold its own against any people of the earth. The Next Congress. In the Fifty-fourth Congress, which will assemble in December, no party will have a majority of both houses. In the Senate there will be forty-three Republicans, thirty-nine Democrats and six Populists. If two Senators shall be admitted from Utah the entire body will consist of ninety members. There will be in the House 244 Republicans, 104 Democrats and eight independents or Populists. The Republicans will have one of the most numerous majorities that ever controlled that body. It is more than two-thirds. They could pass a McKinley tariff bill over President Cleveland’s veto. They could pass any bill of their own. which might show what they would do if they had the power to absolutely control legislation. They could menace the country with revolutionary bills which might render unsafe all business interests.

What course the Republicans will pursue it is difficult to predict. They cannot revive the McKinley tariff. Probably no Republican tariff bill that would pass the House would pass the Senate. These facts constitute the security of the country against any disastrous legislation for at least two years to come. The business revival, therefore, probably will continue. For this security to trade and commerce the country is indebted to wise Democratic legislation and to the fact that existing legislation cannot be repealed by the new Congress. The prospect also improves for the election of a Democratic President and Congress in IS! at. Such a result would secure the domination of Democratic policy in the affairs of the Government at least till the end of this century. With this prospect in view there could be no reaction from the present growing prosperity of the country.—Chicago Chronicle. Mendacity and Lack of Patriotism. Just as the Republican papers had determined to their own satisfaction that aur pusillanimous Government had allowed itself to I>e crowded out of the Chinese investigation the news comes that the Chinese Government has appointed a commission to escort Consul Hixson to the place where the investigation Is going on. The want of patriotism displayed by these papers is only equaled by their mendacity.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Result of Freer Trade Conditions. The Increase of iron and steel prices reported by cable from Birmingham is a direct resuit of the flush times in American iron production. For some

I time past American orders have been going to England because of the ipuI Misty of our mills to keep up with the rush of business. The increased deI mand in England shows how fully EnI glish trade is coming to be controlled by American conditions.-New York i World Posers for McKinteyites. i While the Republicans are blustering about the certainty of their restoration topowernextyear.the Democrats prefer to let the great facts of the industrial revival and business prosperity speai for the wisdom of the tariff policy under which the change from hard times has come about. There is no necessity for Democrats to act on the defensive when their party is charged by the McKinleyltes with being responsible for the trade depression of 1893-94. On the contrary they should ask the believers in protection some of these questions:

1. Is it not a fact that during the first two years that the McKinley tariff was In operation there were over a thousand instances. Involving hundreds of thousands of workingmen, of wage reductions and closed factories? 2. Was not the high protective tariff of 1890 in force and the Republican party In power, during the period of reduced wages and closing factories previous to Nov. 1. 1892? 3. Are the benefits of protection due to the exclusion of trade or to the political party which administers the tariff law? If the former, as all protectionists contend, was not the. McKinley tariff in force during all the two years of panic which ended in August. 1894? 4. If two years of bankruptcy and poverty existed under high protection, does that not at least prove that if it does not cause panics, a high tariff cannot prevent them? 5. Is it not a fact that immediately after the adoption of the Wilson tariff, which greatly reduced duties, trade and industry began to revive? 6. Has not the past year witnessed more wage advances, affecting: a larger number of working men and women, than in the whole period of the McKinley tariff? 7. Have not hundreds of new factories been built and hundreds of idle ones started up since the adoption of the Wilson tariff? 8. Has not the New York Tribune, rhe leading Republican organ, admitted that over a million workers have had their wages Increased since the Wilson tariff took effect? 9. If the country experienced the worst panic in its history under high protection and Is advancing in prosperity by “leaps and bounds” under a revenue tariff, what reason is there for the restoration of the McKinley tariff? 10. If Republicans were honest would they not admit that their claim of prosperity under protection was false, and that the events of the past year have proved untrue their predictions of disaster to follow the new tariff?

Robbing One Another. When Barnum’s show was in winter headquarters in Bridgeport, Conn., a few years ago, a number of monkeys were kept in a large circular cage, divided into compartments by wire partitions. Each day when the animals were fed. Instead of eating his own portion, a monkey would thrust his head through the wires and steal from bls neighbor’s dish. While he was thus engaged the next monkey was stealing from him, and so on all around the cage. The result was that in the scramble and quarreling a good deal of the food was spilled and wasted, and while a few stronger and cunning monkeys got more than their share, the others were poorer than if each had eaten his own portion.

These monkeys, without knowing it, were true protectionists, and illustrated perft- tjy the ideal state of society from a high tariff point of view. The McKinleyltes would have us all engag ed in trying to take by taxation from each other's wealth, for the purpose of making everybody rich through stealing from everj body. The farmer would be robbed for the alleged benefit of the workingman, the latter for the benefit of the manufacturer, who himself would be robbed by duties on raw material for the benefit of the landowner, the landowner would have to pay higher prices to benefit the merchant, and so on around the circle. Instead of this complicated system of tolls and taxes the ideal Democratic society is one in which each man enjoys the full reward of his own labor, and neither steals nor is stolen from. The Republican system means a scramble for favors. like a lot of hogs around a trough. The Democratic policy means an orderly company of gentlemen seated around a table. Which is the better system? One-Man Rule in Pennsylvania. The events of the present week have proved that this autocracy is still undisturbed in Pennsylvania. It has been an autocracy established by the Republican party, and there is no proof that that party has any desire to interfere with it. The Republicans of that State this year have objected to the autocrat, not to the supreme jurisdiction which Is implied in the form of government for which he stands. We say the Republicans, because there is no State in the Union where the Republicans have a clearer control than in the State of Pennsylvania.—-Boston Herald. lowa's Democracy United. The Democratic party in lowa is united, thoroughly so, and it will make a stubborn fight for victory. Nor is there anything the outlook that is necessarily discouraging. But the Republican party is anything but united. Some of its hitherto strongest supporters are business men who are out of sorts with the plan of General Drake to ignore issues that are vital to the commerce of lowa and make his canvass on sentiment.—tfloux City Tribune.

CANNIBAL ORGIES. HID“OUS SCENES WITNESSED IN THE DARK CONTINENT. An Amazing Story of Mingle** Civilization and Barbarism. Prisoners of War Slain and Divided Among the Victors. A Savage Frenzy. Father J. Dubendorf, Superior of a mission at Onitska, Africa, on on the Niger, 150 miles above its mouth, tells an amazing story of mingled civilization and barbarism among the natives near the mouth of the river. Father Dubendorf journeyed down the river by canoe some months ago along with Nathaniel, an African boy of Brass, educated and Christianized at the mission . The Father and his companion were entertained at a Zenobian trading post, six or eight hours from the native city of Brass, and there the king of Brass had a pirogue waiting, with the request that the lad be sent to visit his people. Brass is one of the mouths of the Niger, not far from the sea. On another of the mouths is the rival city of Akassa. the seat of the British Royal Niger Company, a trading concern which, according to the Father, has driven out of the region by severe action three other companies, two French and one English, and has earned, by alleged brutality, the hatred of the natives. Father Dubendorf reached the region when this feeling was at its most intense point, and the natives were ripe for revenge.

When the request of the King that Nathaniel be sent to Brass reached the Father he determined to accompany the boy, lest the latter be detained in captivity by the King, and in time relapse into barbarism. The journey was successfully accomplished. and the Father found Brass a considerable town of palm-leaf-thatched huts. Some had great I platforms to catch rain water because ■ the water of the river at that point is peculiarly unwholesome. The King clad in a silk robe, a cravat of ; like material, and afelt hat, received the Father most graciously, offered ' him lodging.and invited him to share the royal table. The King, who, was I once a pupil of a mission, was now an old man of venerable mien, hut I abundant strength and activity, f Near the King's great house was u house built on a European pattern and covered with zinc. It was com- ! fortably furnished with European I chairs and tables, and had a coal ■ oil lamp. There were glasses and mural decorations. The King’s supper was an elegantly served meal in the European style, and the Father, knowing that earlier Kings of Brass had been notable barbarians, could ■ hardly believe his senses. Early the next morning the Father called on the King, but learned that he was too busy to be seen. Waiting an hour, he was astonished to see the King come forth from a council with the chiefs, painted, with white rings under his eyes, a musket in his hand and a knife in his belt. The benevolent old King of the night before was transformed into a savage of ferocious aspect. Sixty canoes laden with arms were drawn up along the river bank, and the King was walking back and forth delivering incoherent orders. At the sound of a cannon he hastily gave the Father his hand, bade him live as if the house in which he lodged was his own, assured him that orders had been given for his comfortable entertainment, and went off, leaving the priest to understand that the exhibition about to start waste make war upon a neighboring tribe. The Father saw the King pause before an assemblage of idols near the river bank, sprinkle- his warriors with a liquid, and join in the war,dance.

Nearly all the men of Brass went on the expedition. An old chief was left behind in charge of the village, and the women were forbidden in the absence of their lords to enter the houses. No sooner were the warriors gone than the women fell to quarrelling among themselves over the possession of various household utensils. They wailed over the departure of their sons to the battle and prophesied their return with wounds or their death in the fight. The quarrelling kept up until after nightfall, and then the women crept to bed wherever they could find shelter outside the houses. The first returning canoe reached Brass at 6 o’clock next morning, and a quantity of booty was carried into the King’s house. Then it was that the Father first learned that the attack had been the headquarters of the Royal Niger Company. Father Dubendorf represents that the English would have been destroyed but for a French naval officer, Lieutenant Guigues, accidentally at the headquarters. whose courage and address delayed the attack and gave some of the whites time to escape. A young African of the returned party leaped upon a cannon just after it had been fired and displayed the company’s flag in token of triumph. Other canoes rapidly arrived, bringing* more booty, and many of the warriors wore white breech clouts in-tskftn of enemies slain. By noon nearly all the canoes but the King’s had returned. He and some of the warriors had stopped at an island some miles from Brass and taken ashore six captive Kroumen Africans of the slave coast, who had been employed at the company’s agency and had come to hate the people of Brass. These six men were beheaded on the island, and some hours later the King, with a dozen white-clouted warriors arrived in his canoe, and the six corpses in another. Other captives, still aiive, were also ! brought home.

Then began a s<*ene of savage r»oicing and cannibalism. The bodies wen cut up in pieces, the children :>eing stationed around that they might be inured to the sight, atm whole limbs were carried off to be cooked and eaten. One young can who, the Father declares, had ■een educated at a mission, taking in one hand the sabre of -Mr. Flint, ieneral Agent of the Royal Niger Company, and in the other a limb of one of the victims, danced in savage joy about the company's Hag, with a crowd of onlookers applauding The division of the plunder followed, accompanied with quarreis and a sort of savage frenzy. The madness of gin and palm brandy was added to that of slaughter, and the scene was so hideous that the Father refuses to describe it. He notesthat several parts of a human body were brought to him and he was courteously asked to take his choice. His refusal was evidently not understood. Later, in looking from his window, the Father saw a roast thigh taken to the King’s house, and mentally re solved to be careful at his next mealThe supper at which the King was not present, was served in the European style and with European dishes, save for a large roast which the priest recognized and sent away. His mind was now made up to get away from Brass as soon as possible with the boy Nathaniel. The King was not to be seen, so the priest sent word of his wishes. The King answered that the boy must remain at Brass. “Then I remain, too.” was the Father's answer, for he knew that the King desired to make a sorcerer of Nathaniel. The latter was eager to be gone, and declared that if the King made him a sorcerer, in return lie would, in that character, transform the King into a gorilla.

The Father and Nathaniel, neither being guarded, concerted an escape. The village was sound asleep early in the evening, and the two visitors also pretended to go to bed. Between 9:30 and 10 they stole to the river, took a light pirogue, already fixed upon at a reconnoissar.ee early in the evening, and made off. Thej' paddied until exhausted, and then the boy fell asleep. At 4in the morning they heard a large pirogue pass their hiding place. They had lost their way daring the night, but, conjecturing that this pirogue was laden with merchandise bound for one of the white settlements, they followed it cautiously, and after some hours reached the European factory where they had already been entertained. Meat Consumption in Summer.

A greater amount of sunshine tends to lessen the consumption of meat. It was found that in England in 1893 less meat by 161,000 tons was consumed than in 1892. and the reason given for this is that in 1893 200 days of hot wlathcr with bright sunshine took away one ounce per day of the normal appetite of 38,000,000 of a flesh eating people. This one ounce diminution of the meat ration would fully account for minimizing the butcher's bill to the extent of 161,000 tons. Caloric from the eating of meat was not wanted, the sun being the universal provider of all the caloric needed. It is a well known fact that less food is required in the heat of summer than in colder portions of the year In winter, with the temperature of the external air at zero, the temperature of- the blood in healthy persons is 98.3 degrees.and when the sunshine of summer drives the mercury of the thermometer near to or above that mark, still the blood registers 98.3 degrees. It is evident that the force needed to raise the temperature of the whole body to nearly 100 degrees in winter is no longer required in the hot sunshine of summer. Electricity as a Beautifier.

A recent writer declares that while electricity is known to lie a eure for many of the troubles that flesh is heir to, an unsuspected use has been fouud for it. and that a slight faradic current applied morning and evening to the face, neck and shoulders will increase the flesh and greatly improve the complexion. The electric current is too often prostituted to quackery, but in this instance its application seems to tie perfectly natural, and based on the simplest laws of electrical and physiological effects. The treatment is far more sensible and effective than cosmetics and washes, and a small pocket battery will meet all its requirements. Much in beauty is due to the anatomical substratum of the -kin, attractiveness depending largely upon contour, and anything that “tones up” the facial muscles tends to restore and accentuate their outlines. This modification of the muscular tissue is primarily the result of the infl euce of the current upon the nerves, for the muscles are controlled by the nerves, both in their movement and in their nourishment. The effect upon the healthiness and beauty of the skin follows on the improved circulation of the blood in the skin. Increased flow of blood means increased nourishment, capacity to eliminate deleterious material, and firmness and vigor of the skin, so there is little doubt that the judicious application of a mild faradic current to the face, neck and shoulders of those who wish to improve their personal appearance can in no way do any harm, and, if patiently persevered in, is most likely to aid them in their purpose. He Wrote a Famous Song. The writer of the famous song, “I'll Take Y’ou Back Again, Kathleen," I Thomas P. Westendorf, was recently api pointed Superintendent of ttie State Re- ■ form School at Chehalis, Wash. Like - many writers of such famous heart-songs, he is not a professional song writer, and I though he has written a number of others I this is the only one that has lived long.

HOW TO BECOME GREAT. SOME VARIED OPINIONS UPON A ' SUBJECT OF HEAL INTERESTWhy Social. Political, Literary and Bnaineaa Ambition. Enchain Men’s Attention-Diligence, Perseverance, auJ Genina Muy Be of Some Help, but It Ju Ingeniou. Advertising that Tells in the Long Kun-Many Instances that Prove Thia True. 1 Even man who is worthy of that ti.le desire? Jublie recognition. Socially he would lie lietter known and respected, i t he assumes to ignore what is S l ’ u * ra “-' known as “society, ’ he BU . re . some other kindred ambition. PuUtics may engross his attention, an . ix would rise in that line he must, bj personal address, by party services, or by publie speaking, win the confidence and good will not only of bis own party, out or the wider publie. If as a student he buries himself in a library, and works through lonely days and nights, stiil. it is only in the hope of leaving some work “so writ, as future ages shall not willingly let die.” Socially, politically, in art or literature, yes, evey in commerce, the desire for a wider publicity is inspiring and ennobling. Ambition is a strong virtue until it steps bevond prudence or proper modesty. By that sin fell the angels," and thousands of thoughtless mortals who try to rush m where the better angels fear to tread, destroy all hopes of public approval. Their rudeness ruins them socially. Their eagerness for office defeats their political aspirations. Their ambition for rapid recognition clouda their literary efforts. 1 heir “penny dips” are blown out before they have set the river afire. In business little fools ape the actions of successful men until whole hordes are following M anamaker’s advertising or imitating the Rising Sun stove polish, or copying the plans of really successful houses. ’Hie public measures them quickly—they are asses clothed in lions’ skins.

The first rule of real success is to be : original. Not strangely, queerly original —but that every act and utterance shall spring from an honest interior. It is not possible to achieve greatness by imitation. Real greatness often comes to men of humble birth ami surroundings, whose hearts are true and firm, while iu Uu.es | which try the souls of men the feeble am! vacillating ones are swept aside as by a plague. Arnold of Winkelried was a private soldier, but his brave act in burying a dozen spears in his own breast to make way for his fellow soldiers won him a deserved immortality. Bunyan’s simple but heart «>ld story surpasses in wide publicity any literary effort of the greatest of scholars. The simplest articles have built up the greatest trade successes. It was a farmer who was kindly trying to amuse his little children who invented the now famous "Pigs in Clover,” and it paid him better than a gold mine. But us an instance of solid success, built up by honest means, used to popularize a simple but original article, Sapolio gives us a capital illustration. It is a solid cake of scouring soap, but it is the best of its kind—its manufacturers have never altered or neglected its quality. It is an article naturally of moderate consumption, but it is used everywhere. Not in the United States only, where, from California to Maine, it is a household word, but iu India, China, and Japan, in Australia aud all the countries of South America, it marks the progress of civilization by its mere presence. Its traveling salesmen can claim iu common with itself that they seour the world! The methods used in conducting its vast business rival in careful consideration the conduct of enterprises apparently mure important, but the secret of its success is that no honest method of obtaining aud of retaining public attention is neglected. Look at the simple little cake of Sapolio, lying half used, perhaps, on the kitchen sink, and try to realize that the sun never sets ou its sales. Consider that it cost you but a few cents, although its manufacturers spend hundreds of thousands in advertising it to the millions whom they wish to remind. It is like a fairy tale. Aladdin rubbed his lamp to no better purpose than the public does Sapolio, for, as a universal servant, its services are without measure, and its worth brings'back gulden returns to its owners.

How has such wide popularity been obtained? By original merit and patient perseverance. Probably the most interesting side of the story lies in the well-known advertising which has been used. We van reveal some of its mathods. Its advertising department is presided over by a man who talks proverbs at breakfast, dinner and supper, and twists them to tit Sapolio while the rest of the world sleeps. An artist is employed by the year, although countless sketches and ideas are contributed by outsiders. Poets—not mere rhymesters—are paid to tell its merits in original verses, and the most novel schemes are made use of to attract attention. Two hundred and fifty thousand boxes of dominoes were sent out last year. Japan furnished twenty thousand feathered owls and fifty thousand puzzles, besides thousands of hand-painted panels. Domestic puzzles passed away long ago, but not until millions of them had been used. Pamphlets are printed in vast numbers. and the famous Sapolio alphabet has nearly reached its tenth million. Five hundred dollars will rent a large farm, but it goes to pay for one half-page insertion in a daily paper. Yes, one thousand dollars has been paid for a single column in n weekly paper, but of course the circulation. like the consumption of Sapolio, was enormous. Bold methods they may well be called when over two thousand dollars is paid for the rental of one sign on the most prominent building in America. As odd methods we may mention the employment of an “advertising orator" who made stump speeches in all the principal cities and the posting of signs reading “Keep off the Grass" on all the snow banks in New York after its great blizzard. But our readers know only too well how thoroughly it is advertised. Every city, town and railroad is decorated with its'signs; the magazines publish lia pictures;"the street cars are enlivened by its proverbsthe newspapers continually remind the public of its merits. But even if it was not so prominent in its own behalf, the dozens of imitators who try to impose their wares on the public, as “just as good as Sapolio,” would prove to the world that it was the standard. Who can read the bright verses which tell us how to make this world brighter without the tribute of a smile? Who can glance at their pictures without admitting that advertising is an art itself? We have not room for many, but feel that this article would be incomplete without some specimens of them. A bon Ben Kelly. Abou Ben Kelly (may her tribe increase) “ as much disturbed one night and had no peace; For there upon the wall within her room. Bright with the moonlight that dispelled the gloom, A man was scribbling with a wand of gold. Now, Mrs. Kelly was a warrior bold. And to the presence in the room she said "What writest thou?” The scribbler raised his head,

And with n look that made Ben Ko’l ? Answered; “The name of that whLi leaves no spot,’* J “And what is that ?" sai l Abou. “No. fast,” ' * Replied the scribbler. Kelly opencl vm» Iler mouth angelic; then In whisper im " "What is this marvel, quick? 1 must i# bud.” The scribbler wrote and vanished. Th» next night He came again with much awaken!-, light, 1 And showed the names that nations ; ut , have blessed. * And 10l Sapolio’s name led all the rest The Monogram U. S. There is a little monogram We see where'er we go; It offers us protection Against a foreign foe. It stands for light and progress In every foreign dime. And its glory aud its greatness Are the themes of many a rhyme. But few have ever really known. And few would ever guess What our country means by marking All her chattels with U. 8.; It may stand for United States, Or yet for Unde Sam; Beit there's still another meaning To this simple monogram. We see it on our bonds and bills. And on onr postal cards; It decorates our Capitol, Shadowed by Stripes and Stars. In all our barracks, posts aud forts It plays a leading part. And the jolly sailor loves it Aud eushrines it in his heart.

Now. have you guessed the message Which these mystic letters bear? Or recognised the untold good They're spreading everywhere? Echo the joyful tidings. Aud let the people know That the U. S. of our uation means We—Use Sapolio. A Ballad of May. You must wake and call me early; Call me early, Bridget, do. For to-morrow's ssch a busy day I fear we'll ne'er get through With the scrubbing aud the cleaning. And the scouring up. you know. If it wasn't for our tried old friend, Morgan's SAPOLIO. “Needles and pins, needles and pins. When a man marries his trouble begins.” But all of us know that it would not be so If he would provide her with S-A-P-O-L-I-O. Lament of the Emigrant. I'm sitting on the stile, Mary, Where we sat long ago. I’ve walked a many a mile, Mary, To find Sapolio. I mind me how you told. Mary, When we were side by side, Its match could not be bought for gold In all the world so wide. Onr home was bright and fair, Mary, You kept it so for aye. And yet had time to spare. Mary; Would you were there to-day. You made the work but play, Mary; All women might do so. And all should know the charm you say Lies in Sapolio. But now I sit and weep. Mary, Nor fear to break your rest, For I laid you, darling, down to sleep. With your baby on your breast The graves are not a few. Mary, Hard work brings many low; It was not so with you, Mary, You Used Sapolio. Rebus. When lingers spring in winter's lap. And thoughts of love are rife, To get my first, the trees they tap; "The sweetest thing in life,” When winter evening firesides cheer And music fills the soul, heigho; When mixed selections charm the ear. My second is in the folio. Like “sunshine in a shady place,” My whole each object heightening. Makes labor light, and work delight; It cleans “as quick as lightning."

An Unappreciated Story. A story told by an English paper, and claiming the merit of absolute truth, evidences once more the inexorable purity and womanliness of Queen Victoria s character. At Windsor a party of young princes and priucesses were chattering with members of the royal household on various matters. The Queen was present, but was not noth • ing them especially, when a heartier laugh than the rest aroused her interest, and she asked to be told the fun. Now the laugh had arisen from an anecdote, which was not really risky, but Just a little bit so. There was a demur at repeating it to the Queen. Everybody felt slightly uncomfortable. The Queen said again that she and Princess Beat rice would like to hear the story. It was told. The Queen listened, and then said with her inimitable dignity and simplicity: “We are not amused.” It is not the example set by its royal head that has given to the English smart set its uneviable reputation in the matter of morals big and little. A Churchman's Predicament. The Scotch Archbishop Foreman (in the sixteenth century) was so poor a Latin scholar that, when he was obliged to visit Rome he found great difficulty in conforming to some of the customs of the Pope’s table, to which he was Invited. Etiquette required that the Scotch bishop should take part in uttering a Latin benediction over the repast, and the illiterate guest had carefully committed to memory what he belived to be the orthodox form of words. He began with his “Benedlclte,” expecting the cardinals to respond with “Dominus,” but they respond withldtbmdh M;a,;bw-nle defb plying "Deus” (Italian fashion) so confused the good bishop that he forgot his carefully conned phrases, and, "in good broad Scotch,” said: “To the devil I give you all, false cardinals." to which devout aspiration Pope and car dinals (who understood only their own language) piously replied, “Amen.” He who learns and makes no use ot his learning is a beast of burden with a load of books. Comprehendeth the ass whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of fagots? A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the greatest lessens of life.