Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT.' EVtKY EVENING. EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY LEW Q. ELLINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week 100 ' By carrier, per year $4 00 By mail, per month 25<’ By mail, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents, Ad zertlsing rates made known on application Entered in rhe postoffice at Decatur. Indiana, as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER. Manager. FAITHFUL DAD. ■rr.’. to You: Yoo’ve Got Y.l, Faults. but You're All Right. We happened in a home the other sight mid over the parlor door saw the legend worked in letters of red, "What la Home Without a Mother?” Across the room was another brief, "God Bless Our Home!" Now, what's the matter with “God Bless Our Dad?” He gets up early, lights the tire, boils an egg, grabs his dinner pail and wipes off the dew of the dawn witli his boots while many a mother is sleeping. He makes the ■weekly handout for the butcher, the grocer, the milkman and baker, and his little pile is badly worn before he has been home an hour. He stands off the bailiff and keeps the rent paid up. If there is a noise during the night, dad is kicked in the back and made to go downstairs to find the burglar and kill him. Mother darns the socks, but dad bought the socks in the first place and the needles and the yarn afterward. Mother does up the fruit; well, dad bought it all. and jars and sugar cost like the mischief. Dad buys chickens for the Sunday dinner, carves them himself and draws the neck from the ruins after every one else is served. "What is home without a mother Yes. that is all right, but what is home without a father? Ten chances to one it is a boarding house, father is under a slab and the landlady is a widow. Dad. here's to you! You've got your faults—you way have lots of them -but you're all right, and we will miss you when you're gone.—Stevens County Reveille. The Beater. The beaver is really a sort of porta- | ble pulp mill, grinding up almost any kind of wood that comes his way. says a writer. I once measured a white birch tree twenty-two inches through ' cut down by a lieaver. A single beaver generally, if not always, amputates the tree, and when it comes down the whole family fall to and have a regular frolic with the bark and brandies. A big beaver will bring down a fair sized sapling—say three inches through ; —in about tw-' minutes and a large | tree in about an hour. The ability of a beaver to remain under water for a long time is not realiy so tough a prob- | lem as it looks. When the lake or pond is frozen over, a beaver will coma to the under surface of the ice and expel his breath so that it will form a •wide, flat bubble. The air. coming in contact with the ice and water, is purified. and the beaver breathes it again. This operation he can repeat several times. The otter and muskrat do the same thing. A Royal Romance. Cartner. Sylva, the royal authoress, met her husband, the king of Koumania. in quite a romantic way. As a girl of seventeen she was running down the staircase of the palace at Berlin , when her foot slipped on the marble, | and she would have fallen to the floor below, but at the moment Prince. Charles of Hohenzollern stepi>ed from • an anteroom and caught her in his ; arms. She did not accept him. although he made her the offer at once. In Joke —for it was then most unlikely—she said she preferred to remain queen of herself, but if she liecame queen of any country at all she would prefer Rou- 1 mania. Eight years afterward the beautiful Carmen was married to Prinee Charles, who had been proclaimed king of Roumania. and thus site realized her ambition. When Witter Wa» Avoided. Until comparatively recent times there was a medical prejudice against drinking water. Sir William Vaughan In his "Natural and Artificial Directions For Health" declared that waler "ought seldom to be drunk " Another doctor admitted that it might be healthful for children, but not for men —“except some odd, abstemious one among a thousand perchance, degenerate and of a doggish nature, for dogs of nature do abhor wine.” Indeed, the recommendation of water as a beverage was supposed to be the sign of the quack. Even Wesley in bis ‘■Primitive Physic” wrote of it with caution: "Drink only water If it agrees with your stomach; if uot, good, clear small beer.” WeTor Touched the Kcotcliutan. It is related of the late Shirley Brooks that he bad at one time a very favorite pig who, alas, went the way of aTI pigs and was converted into bacon. Brooks sent some of the delicacy to a friend, with a note as follows: “His end was peace, and I send you a piece of his end.” Tiie Joke was related to n Scotchman. who laughed very heartily and shortly afterward having occasion to kill a pig of ids own sent some to a relative, with the remark. “His end was peace, ami I send you a piece of the pig.” And he wondered why nobody saw the joke.-London King. “He who has nothing to do may try tn rig a ship cr take a wife” is a Portuguese way of expressing comparison. .. I

THE CHINESE CARPENTER. : His Method of Mending a Hole In a , Floor Amused a Caucasian. “Did you ever get a Chinese carpenter to stop up a hole in the floor?" asked one flat dweller of another. The other had to admit that he had not Then the first proceeded to tell his wonderful tale, which the listener would not believe until he tried an oriental for the same purpose the next month. "There was a worn place in the floor that needed patching, and I thought I’d show my wife what a carpenter 1 was. so 1 sawed a square section of the planks out. But I cut my hand the first minute and had to send for the Chinaman who has a shop right around the corner. When lie got to the door lie grunted something that sounded as if it might mean ’Whore?’ and I pointed to the square hole over in a dark corner. •• ‘Wow,’ he said as he squinted at It a minute. Then he turned around and walked out. I thought—well. 1 didn’t know what to think. I was so amazed. I couldn't understand his giving up such a simple job. I was still puzzling over it half an hour later when I heal'd , a knock. He said 'Wow,' or some other I word like it, and held up a square board. Then be walked over to the dark corner of the room and—what do you think? He put the square in. and it fitted just as if it had grown there. And he had just taken a peep at the hole from where he was standing in the door.” The flat dweller's tale is no fairy story. That's the way n Chinese carpenter stops a hole in the floor.—New York Times. — Smoke Farthings. Smoke farthings were offerings paid In olden days in England at Whitsun- ( tide to the priest, according to the num- j ber of chimneys in the parish. Some- , times these dues were demanded by the bishop of the diocese, ns an old i manuscript records: “The bishop of . Elie hath out of everie parish in Cam- | bridgeshire a certain tribute called smoke farthings, which the churchwardens do levie according to the num- | her of chimneys that be in a parish.” We learn from Notes and Queries : that Peter’s pence or smoke money was still paid at the end of the sixteenth century in many English parishes. Similar to this was a chimney tax : levied from time to time to raise funds, j ' This was most obnoxious to the people. , , and Pepys in bis diary notes. “Much ' ! clamor against chimney money, and j the people say they will not pay it j without force.” It was abolished in the reign of William and Mary. An Auction Incident. A Japanese vase had been brought I forward, and a German in the crowd | offerixl $2. A second bid not being i heard the vase was withdrawn, the ( ; auctioneer stating that be could not sell on one bid. “Now. ladies and gentlemen,” the ; auctioneer cried out. spreading a large rug on the floor, "here Is a piece of goods worth S6O. Do I hear S3O? Do I bear $40?” "Ten dollars." shouted the German who had bid on the vase. "Ten dollars—gone! Fold to my ! friend there." the auctioneer replied, jotting down the price on a pad. “Hold on a minute.” cried out the purchaser, "you can’t sell on vun pid.” "Oh. that's optional with the auctioneer.” stammered out the former. "Veil, den.” the German called back, with a parting nod, "keep your rug if j its obtional on a rug und unobtional on a vase.”—New York Post. A FREAK OF NATURE. Wonderful Traveling Maud Hills That Are Foond In Pen. After passing another ”town” of three or four mud huts we enter the famous desert of Islay, on which are what I consider the most remarkable natural furiosities tc be svn on this glolie. for we are now among hundreds —nay. thousands- of pure white sand i crescents on a plateau of 4.300 feet aliove the level of the sea and fiftyfour miles from the coast, where all else is of a dark red or chocolate color. Whence comes this sand and why always in n crescent shape? Professor Bailey told me that scientific m>-n do not agree as to the reason why the •and always forms the same crescent shape, although it is generally believed that the whirling eddies hereabout are reiqtonsible. Borne, however, argue that such is not the ease since each of these crescents has an opening toward the northeast. At any rate, the Inner circle ■ is nn almost perpendicular wall of the finest pure white sand, and from the upper edges the crescents slope gradu- ? I ally awny on the outside. They average about twenty feet in height, the > Inner circle having a diameter of some i fifty feet, although I have Kvn one at least a mile and a half in diameter, which was. however, not much higher than th* average. These crescents i move. P Is estimated, at the rate of I three inches every twenty-four hours, 1 and when on the slow journey one comes near the railroad It becomes necessary to shovel the sand across ! the tracks, after which It travels on, forming new crescents or mingling i with some of the others.- Ernest C. Rost in Harper's Magazine. An Knar One. “What supports the sun in the heavens?" asked tile country schoolteacher. “Why. Its beams, of t-outae.” replied ■ precocious youngster. Kansas City Independent Eltremei Eltremel, I ncomtnrfnble “What docs comfortable dreumstan ces mean?" “Why. you're ’comfortatble* when you're neither poor uor neb. -Detroit Free Press. I

riir.-noloR?. Phrenology is usually thought to | have been first expounded by Gall and Spurzheim and to be a comparatively modern so called “science.” But it can be traced back to the sixteenth eentury at least, for in a book published at that time by “Mayster Jhe- ' romeos Bruynswicke” Is a profile of a head on which are most distinctly marked phrenological attributes. “Imaginativa” occupies the place now given on the charts to “ideality;” "fantasia” takes the place of the modern “marvelouaness,” "estimantia” of “constructiveness,” while "cogitantia" is given instead of “hope.” The author states that the brain hath cells or chambers, and each cell contains a part of the understanding, and that these parts may be expressly seen in the figure of the head. Phrenologists can at least disclaim against their beliefs being newfangled. — London Chronicle. lint Etiquette. Tipping the bat is a rare thing among men when there are no women around. A few fine old fellows cherish the habit of tipping to each other and to strangers when Introduced, but ordinarily | the hand never touches the brim. In business offices there is no sort of etiquette. Men in the sweep and rush of business have no time to give thought to hats. But certain decencies should prevail. On entering a private office look at tiie head of tiie occupant. If he has his hat on. keep yours on; if his hat is off. remove yours. Tiie removal of your hat is a compliment and a courtesy and does not indicate tiiat you are inferior or subservient.—New York Tress. Her Age. “Madam.” replied the judge sternly, "you must answer the question. What ( is your age?” “I was born tiie same year your honor was. That would make me about”— ; “It isn't necessary to go into pnrtic- : ulars.” Interposed the judge stiffly, i “Gentlemen, have you any further use for tiie witness? You may stand aside, madam.” — A Typographical Error. “I've co mo,” said the visitor, “to see ■why you called me a political jobber in your paper today.” “I regret that error ot the types quite as much as you.” replied the editor. “Ah! Then you didn't mean to call me that?” “No. sir. I wrote ‘robber’ very distinctly.”—Philadelphia Press. Rejoicing With Her. Minnie— W< 11. I'm glad Kit Bpurlong ' is going to be married at last. Lntie—The tone of your voice doesn't I indicate it. Minnie— But I am. When the list of marriage licenses is published everybody will find out she's thirty-seven years old.—Chicago Tribune. Absent Minded. "Butterfly is awfully absent minded.” “What is his latest?” “He was driving a nail and hamI mered his thumb. He howled and put i the nail in his mouth and tried to fling his thumb on the floor.’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer. EXPERTS IN WOOD. The Old Violin Makers nnd the Material They I sell. The great violin makers all lived within the compass of 13t> years. They chose their wood from a few great tim bers felled in the south Tyrol and floated down in rafts—pine and maple, sycamore, pear and ash. They examined these to find streaks and veins and freckles, valuable superficially when brought out by varnishing. They learned to tell the dynasty of ! the pieces of wood by touching them. They weighed them. they struck them I and listened to Judge how fast or how slow or how resonantly they would vibrate in answer to strings. Some portions of the wood must be porous and soft, some dose of fiber. Just the ri ;bt beam was hard to find. When found, it can be traced all through the violins of some great master and after bis death in some of his pupils. The piece of wood was taken home nnd seasoned, dried in the hot Brescia and Cremona sun. Tiie bouse of Stradivarius. tiie great master of all. is described us having lieen as hot as an oven. The wood was there soaked through nnd through with sunshine. In tiiis great heat tiie oils thinned and simmered slowly and penetrated far into the wood until the varnish became a part of the wood itself. The old violin makers used to save every bit of the wood when they found what they liked to mend nnd patch and ! inlay with it. So vibrant und so reso- ’ I mint in tiie wood of good old violins that they murmur and echo and sing in j answer to any sound where a number of them bang together on the wall, as if rehearsing the old music that they 1 once knew. f The Orlaln of the Mastiff. Mastiff is a term applied to a very 1 large and powerful species of the 1 canine family, and there is cons'dera- ' ble conflict of opinion regarding tb« 1 origin of the word. Some claim that i. is derived from the Italian ma st Ino oi the French mustln. bith of which sig nlfy large llu bed. This word, they say. was gradually corrupted Into musty, a Llncolnsblrs I expression meaning very large, tuus . I cular or big. until It gradually as auin<*d its present forfti. Others aga'.c say Its true origin is the old Gertuat masten. to fatten, because the mastiff ; Is a large dog and so seems better ted I than any other. Things do not go wrong of them ■elves; somebody pushes them.—Puck. 11

AN INGENIOUS BURGLAR. How He Opened n Safe Without Tool* or Exploni $e». An extraordinary account is given of how a safe was opened by a robber who hud nt his disposal no instrument of any kind, but operated merely with Ids ringer nail. The person who accomplished the feat revealed ills intention of robbing the iron safe in a hotel to another young man. who happened to be the cousin of the hotel proprietor. As a mutter of course the proposed scheme to rob was revealed to the owner of tiie hotel, and a little before midnight. when it was to be put into execution. a couple of detectives were con cealerl behind the office counter. A short time afterward tiie robber entered the office gently, without either tools or explosives wherewith to open the massive iron receptacle, the combination of which it was evident lie did not know He had. however, resorted to an ingenious plan of his own. He hail pared the nail of his index finger on the right baud until the blood vessels were exposed. Then by placing tKe sensitive wound on the combination lock he could distinguish the movements of the tumblers as they fell. For more than an hour did he work, and at last there came a sharp dick, and he swung buck the doors of the safe. He was in the act »f filling bis pockets with the valuable papers it contained when a damper was thrown upan his activity by the sudden grasp of the detectives, tinder whose escort he was taken to prison.—London Tit-Bits. Danger In “Home Remedies.** “The trouble witl. poor persons who try to doctor themselves before coming here.” said a physician in a public dispensary, "is that they do not know the first thing about the ’simple remedies, as they call them, that they use. Oftentimes they do themselves serious Injury through sheer ignorance. 1 had a man in here the other day who had taken half an ounce of cholera mixture. Somebody had told him to take half a teaspoonful. It is tiie same way with paregoric, sweet niter, ammonia and other well known household rcme-; dies. Persons who trust to their memory are likely to get mixed and either take an overdose or use the wrong medicine. A woman came in here suf- I sering from the effects of a drug that she should never have obtained except on a physician's prescription. It was the big overdose and her prompt appli-! cation for relief that saved her. When I scolded her she showed me a clipping from one of the magazines advising its use. The dose prescribed was enough to kill a horse.”—New York Times. The Menn Curd In Un First Form In its old fashioned form the menu was usually w’-jtten large on cards of such imimsing dimensions that room for one only could be found at each end of the board. In the medlaeva' dinner this aid to selection must bare been an absolute necessity, for the mediaeval dinner was a mine of surprises. It was divided into courses, as are our own dainty meals, but whereas nowadays tiie diner has a general idea that fish will follow soup and that entree is succeeded by releve, and cafi conceive generally the sort of demand that each course will make ujion his appetite and digestion there was no possible arguing as to what was going to happen at nn early English dinner, and close study fulls to reveal the existence of any principle of arrangement Discrediting an Astrologer. A certain king, says a tale from the Persian, asked an astrologer. “How many years of life remain to me?” The wise man replied. "Ten” The king became very despondent and betook himself, as one stricken with a sickness. to his bed. His vizier, who possessed great wisdom, sent for the seer and in the king's preseuee asked him, "How many years have you to live?” He replied. “Twenty.” The vizier ordered that he should that very hour be executed in the king's presence. The king was satisfied and commended the sagacity of his m'ni»ter. anti no longet attached any 'gqsirtau e to the astrologer’s saying. Where the I.adles Propose. Between the mountains of India and Persia is a powerful tribe, among whom an extraordinary custom pre vails. Woman's rights have apparently received full recognition, for the ladies of the tribe can choose their own liusliauds. All a single woman has tc do when she wishes to change her slate Is to send a servant to pin a handkerchief to the hat of the man on whom ber fancy lights, and be is obliged tc marry ber. unless he can show that h« is too poor to purchase ber at the price her father requires. Mot m Student of Form. Teacher-Willie. If one horse can hid n mile in two minutes and another horse can do It in three minutes how far apart will they be at the end ot eight miles? Willie—Madam. I was brought up strictly. Above all things, my parent! have warned me to avoid horse racing Consequently I cannot answer your question. Toledo Blade. Those Edueated Gndwl.hu College Idiot (iu the lunch roo.t))— There's one good tiling I can say about these sandwiches. Kind Friend—What's that? College Idiot That they're college bred.--Columbia Jester. All dk.lt Metapliys io. A Rcotchman tbns detin -s metaphysics: "When a mon wha’ kens naetl.lng nlioot any subject takes a subject that nne mon kens anything aboot and ex- ' plains It to anltlicr mon still more Ig 1 norant than bimself-thut a metaphys lea."— Lye.

THE ANT QUEENS. j They Live Longer Than the Workers of Their Communities. How long may an ant queen live? In their natural habitat some queens doubtless have short lives, but by reason of the protectioi, afforded them and the seclusion enforced by the ( workers taey probably live much longer than other members of the community. Within artificial surroundings they attain a comparatively long life. The oldest emmet queen known to science was one preserved under the care i of Sir John Lubbock, later Lord Avebury. A number of years ago during a visit to this distinguished naturalist at his country seat. High Elms. Kent, the writer for tiie first time saw this venerable sovereign living in the ingenious artificial formicary which bad been prepared for ber. She was then in tiie prime of life, as it afterward appeared. being seven years old. In the summer of 1887 Sir John was again visited, this time at his town house in Ixmdon. After greetings he was asked about bis royal pet. “I have sad news to tell you," h» answered. "What? Is the queen dead?” “She died only yesterday. 1 have not had tiie heart to tell the news ns yet even to my wife.” Having offered my hearty condolence, 1 asked to see tiie dead queen. Sir John led the way to the room where his srtificial nests were kept. Tiie glass rase which contained the .qiecial formicary in which the old ant had lived was opened up. Lying in cue I of the larger open spaces or rooms was the dead queen. Siie was surrounded by a crowd of workers, who were tenderly licking her. touching her with their antennae and making other dem- | onstratious as if soliciting ber atten- : i lion or desiring to wake her out of sleep. Poor. dumb. loving, faithful creatures! There was no response. Their queen mother lay motionless beneath their demonstrations. “They do not appear to have discov- ■ ensl that she is really dead." remarked i Sir John. Afterward lie wrote me of another queen which died at the age of fourteen. Tiie ants dragged her body about with them when they moved uu- , til it fell to pieces.—H. C. McCook iu Harper's Magazine. MISTAKES OF BIRDS. They Are the Result us Contact With Civilisation. Probably in a state of wild nature i birds never make mistake-, but where j they come In contact with our civiliza- ; tion and are confronted by new comb i tious they very naturally make mistakes. For instance, their cunning in nest building sometimes deserts them. The art of the bird is to cotu-eal its nest lioth as to po'fl'lou and as to ma-1 terial, but now and then it is lietrayed, into weaving into its structure showy ami bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seein to violate all tiie traditions of its kind. I have the picture of a robin's nest be fore me upon tiie outside of which are stuck a small muslin flower, a lent from a small calendar and a photograph of a local celebrity. A mu.'e incongruous use of material in bird architecture it would lie hard to find. I have been told of another robin's neat upon the outside of which the bird ha 1 fastened a wooden label from a ne«” by flower bed marked “Wake Robin.* I Still another nest I have seen built upon a 'arge, showy foundation of the paperlike flowers of antenuaria. or everlasting. The wood thrush frequently I weaves a fragment of newspaper or a white rag into the foundation ot Itt nest. "Evil lommunieations corrupt good manners.” The newspaper and j the rag bag unsettle the wits of th* I birds. Tiie pherbe bird is capable of thia kind of mistake or Indiscretion. All th* past generations of her tribe have bNlt upon natural and therefore neutrai sites, usually under shelving and overhanging rocks, and the art of adapting the neat to Its surroundings, blending It with them, has been highly devel oped. But pboebe now frequently builds under our studs and porches. ' where, so far as concealment is concerned. a change of material, say from : moss to dry grass or shreds of bark, would lie an advantage to her. But she | departs not a mite from the family tra-1 ditions; she uses the same woody mosses which in some cases, especially when the nest is placed upon unevenly sawed Umber, makes her secret an open one to all eyes.—John Burroughs tn Century. A Lott Fee. Dr Hunter, the famous English ptey aldati. invariably received very largs fees for bis services. On one occasion when he was naked by a lady the amount of Ids fee he informed her that he made an Invariable practice of uev er fixing its amount "Very well, sir.” ! tiie patient promptly answered, "if you cannot fix It I am sure 1 can't.” And. to the doctor's consternation, she walk i ed out of the room without paying him a penny Tbe PolHlral Habit. “Miss Itoxley.” began the voting po) j Itlciau. "er- Maude. I lovt you. I"— "OU. thia Is so sudden!" she ex< la!m I "But surely you must ba«e guessed. I have been calling here *o mueb of , tate." "Ab yes: but. since you are a pofi ticlan I thought your visits were ‘with •ul slgulflcahce.’ ’ -Pblladelpbia press Not br Esrluslno. He— l had a hard time getting a good wife. Bhe-Goodness! Have you been mar rled several times? "Ob. no; but I courted tny preseu' I one six ysura.”-rhlladslpbla‘Ledge r .

NOTICE TO ELECTRIC I LIGHT CONSUMERS. I The ordinance of the City Icontroling the use of electric I lights has a penal section, I providing for imposing a fine I for making any changes I either in the wires or lights I used, or in any way meddling I with the appliances of the I Lighting Plant. All persons I are hereby warned, not to I make any change of lights, or I wires, or appliances, or con- I nections herewith without I written permission from the I superintendant of the Light- I ing plant, as such persons I : will certainly be prosecuted, for such violation of the ordinance. H. C. STETLER. Chairman, Electric Light Committee. ANNUAL Niagara Falls EXCURSION via Lake Erie & Western Ry. Personally conducted NIAGARA FALLS EXCURSION in connection with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. Leave BLUFFTON 5:25 p. tn. THURSDAY, AUG. 6,1903 RATE.EM-SO ROUND TRIP. Tickets good returning on C. B. Line Steamer, Buffalo to Cleveland, if (desired. Also Sandusky and Put inBay. Side trips toj TORONTO, thousand;:islands, etc. For tickets, rates, time and pamphlet containing general information, call on any ticket agent of the above route, or address H. J. RHEIN, General Passenger Agent. Indianapolis, Ind. MAMMOTH UNLOADING SALE 300 HATS BELOW COST DURING JULY Burdg Millinery Store ■ Broke It to Him Gently. A north Missouri editor received ■ note the other day telling him that on* . of his subscritiers was dead and asking that bls paper be discontinued. A few days later the editor met the "de••eased” subscriber on the street and told him about the note. “I wrote that note myself.” returned the subscriber. "Wliat for?" asked the editor. “Well, I wanted to stop yer paper,” Said the subscriber candidly, "an’, knowin’ how bad you need the money, I didn't have the heart to come right ’ out an’ do it. So I jes’ wrote you the note atmut bein’ dead. You wouldn't send a paper to n corpse, would you?” —Kansas City Star. An Osld The following is one of the oddest bequests ever recorded in a last testai ment. It appeared In the will of a Bristol mariner proved in ITOS. The old gentleman ordered bis executors to | “pay out of the first moneys collected. I to my lieloved wife, If living. 1 sbijling. which I have given as a token of my love, that abe may buy baselnuta. as I know that she is better pleased with cracking them than she is with mending the holes In ber stockings.” Wants and Wish**. "There's a strange man at the door, sir," announced the new servant frutu Boston. “Wliat does be want?” asked tb» master of the house impatiently. "Begging your pardon, air,” replied the servant, a shade of disapproval manifest In bls voice, "he wants a bath, but wbnt lie is asking for Is something to eat,"—Syracuse Herald. t'onsolatorr. but M*lpfsL “De rich will have a hard time gittln Inter benven.” "Yes.” said Brother Williams, “dat'a a comfortin' thought: but It don't help de po' man when rent's due!”—Atlanta Constitution. Vatu. "Did you find the Chinese a vain Reoplo?" "Very. To hoar a Chlnosr hrng yoo onuld almost believe an American Wll ’ talking.”—Detroit Free Tress.