Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1895 — Page 5

FRIENDS OF A TRUST.

REPUBLICAN SENATORS VOTE FOR SUGAR MONOPOLY. Combination of the Republicans with the Sugar-Trant Democrats—Protec- I tioniste Are Inconsistent—The Income Tax Must Stand. Shown by the Record. What will our Republican friends say i now about the attitude of their party in the Senate toward the discriminating duty of 1-10 of a cent a pound on sugar from Germany and the trust’s protective differential of % of a cent on sugar that has been refined? We have repeatedly directed attention to the fact, which is admitted by prominent Republican journals, that the Republicans of the Senate under the leadership of Mr. Aldrich, Pete in alliance with Mr. Gorman and his group of sugar trust Democrats at the last session, and that the alliance has continued to exist since the beginning of the present session, the purpose of it being to prevent, in the interest of the sugar trust, the removal of thefft two duties. The repeal of the discriminating duty and the trust’s differential waft the question upon which a vote was taken on Wednesday. The motion was to take up for discussion and action the pending bill, which-repeals these duties, but leaves untouched the fundamental ad valorem duty of 40 per cent on all sugars, this duty of 40 per cent being the one which produces revenue. The plans of the combination of Republicans and sugar trust Democrats had been perfected on the preceding day and on the floor of the Senate. After Mr. Gorman had sought unsuccessfully to dissuade Mr. Gray and a majority on his side of the chamber from their purpose, he went over to the Republican side, and there, in consultation with Mr. Aldrich, Mr. Allison, and other Republican leaders in the alliance, arranged the scheme of defense. The motion was Mr. Gray’s that the Senate should take up and eonsidei the sugar bill, which had been reported from the Committee on Finance. Here is the vote:

AFFIRMATIVE. Bate, Jarvis. Berry, McLaurin, Blackburn, McPherson, Caffery, Mills, Cockrell, Palmer, Coke, Pasco, Faulkner, Pugh, George, Vest, Gray. Vilas, Harris, Voorhees, Hill, Walsh-23. Hunton, NEGATIVE. Aldrich, Lodge, Allen, McMillan, Allison, Manderson, Blanchard, Martin, Cullom, Mitchell, (Oregon), Dolph, Morrill, Dubois, Peffer, ' Frye, Perkins, Gallinger, Platt, Hansbrough, Power, Hawley, Quay, Higgins, Roach, Hoar, Teller—27.. Kyle, Every Republican present either voted against takingup the bill or was paired against the motion. Those who are recorded as against the motion are 21 Republicans, 3 Democrats (Blanchard, Martin and Roach), and 3 Populists. Those who are recorded in favor of the motion are 23 Democrats. The Republicans, or even only a few of them, by voting against the trust with these twenty-three Democrats, could have caused the bill to be taken up anu could have pased it. They refused to use their power in this way because they were in alliance with Gorman for the benefit of the trust. Hereafter, when it shall appear that our export trade with Germany in provisions, grain, and other products has suffered great injury by reason of German retaliation provoked by the exaction of the discriminating duty, the people will be told by Republican journals and Republican politicians that Democratic regard for the interests of the sugar trust has been the cause of this injury. The truth is, however, that now, after the retaliatory policy of Germany has beeu disclosed and the President has urged Congress to repeal this duty, the Republican party has said by Its votes in the Senate that the duty must be retained. By the same votes the Republican party has said that the trust’s differential, which in worth fnom $8,000,000 to $4,000,000 per annum to that organization, mus> stand. The official record has been made, and it is plain enough.—New York Times. A Useful Reform Club Pamphlet. The tariff reform committee of the Tariff Reform Club of New York have published a fifty-six page pamphlet which compares item by item the tariff of 1883, the McKinley tariff, and the tariff of 181'4. In the most compact form possible Is given not only the exact duty (specific, ad valorem or compound) on each item in each tariff bill, but also the ad valorem equivalents of all duties. As every one familiar with tariff legislation knows, it is a great and difficult piece of work to obtain the equivalent ad valorem duties on each and every item in three different tariff bills aud to place them side by side in convenient form for comparison and reference; but the Reform Club comparison accomplishes this. The comparison extends to the general tariff provisions, and to reciprocity, drawbacks, prohibitions and sugar bounty clauses. The principal internal revenue taxes of each bill are also brought together in convenient form. This pamphlet can be obtained from the Reform Club at 52 Williams street. New York. The price is 25 cents. Higher Duties on Cattle. Mr. Broderick, of Kansas, has introduced a bill in the House for the restoration of the McKinley tariff specific duty of $lO per head on cattle over a year old. The present ad valorem duty, equivalent to about $2 per head, is insufficient to prevent the importation of Mexican cattle purchased in that country for from $2 to $4 per head. is also alleged as a reason for the restoration of a prohibitory duty that Mexican cattle are diseased. It is hardly to be doubted that the object of keep-

ing cheap beef out of the wrontry is to enable the great beef monopolists to maintain their exorbitant prices. The danger from imported disease might be guarded against by quarantine restriction. People who eat beefsteak will not look favorably upon any attempt to bar out of the market a cheap source of supply.—Philadelphia Record. Inconsistent Protectionists. The loudest shcufi rs for Mciiuleyism in this country are making the greatest ado about the discriminating tariff legislation in Germany, which is intended to shut out American farm products and compel the unfortunate German people to patronize “the home market.” The McKinleyites in this country ought to fall down and worship the German statesmen for doing this thing. The McKinley bill was chiefly composed of prohibitive tariff duties. If this was a God-like and a righteous act in this country, it is none the less so in Germany. But it is neither in neither case.. It is plain, simple robbery of the many for the benefit of the few on both sides of the ocean and in both countries. It is totally indefensible, and a disgrace to the civilization of the nineteenth century. The underpaid and underfed masses of Germany are now being “blessed” with a McKinley tariff system that shuts out the cheap and plenteous and wholesome food of America that the Agrarians over there may make money out of the gnawing pangs of their hunger. It is accompanied with all the concomitants of the McKinley bill. The wages of the workmen in the most highly protected industries are being reduced. The hog and cattle raiser in Germany, now that American meats are barred, is reducing the wagea of his swineherds and cowherds, because he no longer fears competition. The mutterings of discontent among a people deprived of the opportunity to buy cheap meat and cheap bread, because of unwise and semi-barbarous legislation, have been growing louder and louder for years. The latest aggravation of the policy will precipitate a climax when least expected. We notice that the Republican papers suggest that the way to bring Germany to terms is to put a prohibitory tariff on German products. Well, hardly. Let the selfish statesmen over there build the McKinley wall till it falls on and crushes them. Reprisal Is not statesmanship. Rather let us get rid of the remnants of McKinleyism, temporarily saved by the power of confederated wealth and monoply. We can even begin to plant the flowers of forgiveness on the grave of the monster.—Columbus (Ohio) Call.

At Your Peril. There is a unanimous demand among the representative organs of confederted and brutally selfish wealth to repeal the income tax, or falling that, withhold the necessary appropriations to carry it into effect The appropriation will pass the House readily, as the Democratic majority is large there. But in the Senate there Is but one Democratic majority, and on this question that is uncertain. Then the Republican leaders will doubtless resort to obstructive tactics, as they did for more than five months on the tariff bill, and thus send it over the 4th of March. All we have to say to Senators and Representatives of all parties is this: Repeal the income tax or cripple it at your peril. The plain, honest, hardworking millions of this country have made up their minds that the wealth of this country shall pay its share of taxes. It may be that the strabismus of utter selfishness will lead the millionaires into the jaws of the enraged lion. From their lofty pedestals they do not see beyond their noses. People down here on the level of human nature understand the situation much better.—Columbus (O.) Calk

To Brins Back Our Commerce. For many years Iron and steel ships could be built cheaper in British than in American yards, but now it is known that the difference is trifling so far as cost of material is concerned, while the difference in wages is fully compensated for by superior labor-saving methods and appliances employed in American yards. There is but lit tie-doubt that under the stimulus of healthy competition supplied by the admission of foreignbuilt ships to an American registry this country would soon rival Great Britain in the building of ships. But be that as it may, there is no doubt whatever that we could make a far more respectable showing in the ocean carrying trade with free ships.—Chicago Herald. The People Will Fix It. The Grocers and Importers’ Exchange wishes the tariff question “referred to a commission of men posted on political economy.” Expert knowledge counts for something in such matters, but, after all, the plain people of the country appear to have become fairly well jiosted by the lessons of experience. It didn’t take them long to kick against McKinleyism, and it hasn’t taken them long to learn to like tariff reform so well that Republicans are now the most zealous clamorers against any disturbance of the new system. A Trust Senate. The Senate, having been at great pains when the tariff bill was under consideration to mold it into a shape as satisfactory as possible to the sugar trust, has now been consistent with itself In refusing to take up the bill for the repeal of the differential duty on refined sugar. That duty will stand as a landmark of the vicious principle of protection until wiser, abler, and better men shall be in the majority in the Senate of the United States.—Philadelphia Record. Protection in Germany. Yesterday for the first time since the adoption of the new American tariff the sugar question as it affects Germany and the United States was discussed at length in the German Reichstag. A new commercial treaty with this country was suggested, and it is not Improbable that it will follow in view of the unwillingness of the German Government to offend its landholding nobility by abolishing the sugar bounties.—New York World, Dec. 15 1894.

House of Commons.

The present House of Commons provide# seats for only 430 of the #7O memben.

CAN IT BE SAVED?

THE FAMOUS POLK PLACE AT NASHVILLE AND ITS CONTENTS. Provisions of Jamas K. Polk's Will to too Carried Out to the Letter-*A Reproduction of the White House on a Smaller Scale. [Special Nashville (Tenn.) Letter.] The old homestead of James K. Polk, the eleventh President of the United States, is at this time, as it has been for some time past, an object of particular interest, owing to the fact that in the will of this distinguished statesman the necessary division of the estate among the thirty-two heirs requires demolition. This property fcas purchased before President Polk took possession of the White House, and the mansion which now occupies the spacious grounds was begun during the time of the Polks at Washington and was sufficiently complete for residence before the President’s retirement from office. This time embraced the years 1847 and 1848. Ths mansion presents two facades, with great Corinthian columns supporting verandas, and has approaches from each of the four streets forming the square it crosses, in the very heart of the city of Nashville, Tenn. The main front is to the south and is reached through the principal business thoroughfare of the city, from which the carriage drive sweeps through the immense iron gates.

PRESIDENT JAMES K. POLK.

The Vine street approach, however, has always been the preferred approach of the family and pedestrian visitors. A graveled walk, bordered with heavy twining shrubbery, lends an attractiveness to the entrance that is the secret of its popularity. To the family it was the most convenient approach to the living portion of the house from the center of the city, though in later years this feature has been much modified by the spread of the city. This walk also connected with the one leading from the house to the tomb, which has been the Mecca of the great majority of those visiting the place. It is douttful if there is a more imposing family mansion in the whole south than Polk place, even in the latter’s decline. The exterior design and the interior arrangements were all planned.to make the change from the white house less noticeable to Mrs. Polk, and the great white house of the nation’s capital is the model after which the Polk mansion was built. The long L-shaped hall, embracing in its angle the reception room, and running into the ample west parlors, with twenty-foot ceilings, gives to the whole a palatial effect peculiar to the white house. The dining-rooms, guest chambers, upper hall and even the servants’ quarters are arranged on the same generous scale.

In the southeast corner of the house, on the upper floor, is the room used by the president'as his office during the short time allotted him to live in the new home after he surrendered the presidential chair March 4, 1849. Three months after this date he was seized with a sudden illness and only lived a few days. He died at the age of fifty-four. The widow continued to live in the great house until herdeath in August, 1891, forty-two years the survivor of her distinguished husband, than whom she was not less brilliant or talented. The great pleasure of her life through these man j’ years of widowhood was to care for this favorite room of her

POLK PLACE, NASHVILLE, TENN.

husband, in which lie spent so much time in reading, study and writing, along the line of his earnest literary pursuits. The room was held sacred from curious intrusion for nearly half a century, and in it to-day are the desk and furnishings as they were during the ocejipancy and use of the eminent owner. The upper south hall leading to this room is shelved from floor to ceiling to accommodate the' exten give collection of books which compose a library complete alike for statesman nnd litterateur. Every nook of the great house, in the rooms and halls, abounds in choice statuary and other articles of virtu. Rare pictures and hangings adorn the walls. Bibelots, insignia of office and rank, relics of public life and of public men, historical memorials, the gifts of patriots and f reigners, are arranged in their abundance with a harmonious taste that lends to the interior of the old mansion an air of elegance and imparts to it a charm irresistible and a value not measurable in silver or gold. All those must be sold? "according to the will of the deceased president, with the real estate, and the only way they can be kept in the

family is by purchase by the heirs. The family tomb, which contained the remains of husband and wife until they were removed to the state capitol grounds, stands on the east side of the grounds to the right of the walk alluded to above as the favorite entrance of the family and the convenient approach for visitors. The tomb was constructed beneath an open temple formed by four columns with entablatures. An inscrip-

MRS. SARAH C. POLK.

tion of the names and dates of birth and death of the ex-president is upon one of the columns, while an epitaph of some length, taken from the official announcement of the death, made to the court of England by George Bancroft, then American minister, appears on the monolith which rests between the columns. For forty-two years the remains of the ex-president lay in sacred seclusion, and when Mrs. Polk died her remains, in compliance with her last request, were wrapped in a plain white silk winding sheet and quietly placed beside those of her husband. Two years later the remains of both were borne thence, and with much impressiveness and military pomp, reinterred ih the capitol grounds a few hundred yards away. And now within a short time the heirs will give the estate, real and personal, over to private and public auction, and Polk place, which, for so many years has stood as a public attraction in Nashville, will become only a beautiful memory. One writer says: “As it stands, stately and solemn and deserted, it is an august monument to two illustrious lives, and the people of Nashville, ‘the Athens of the South,’ will see with sad hearts the rending asunder of this masonry, the associations of which have so long been an inspiration to many lofty sentiments and deeds to those who have daily been accustomed to contemplate its hallowed site.” Yet with all the beautiful sentiment, touchingly expressed, there has been un utter failure of all efforts to save this historic spot to the city and the country. How long the grounds and mansion may remain intact is now simply a legal and financial indulgence, and all the treasures so generously collected by President Polk, and so jealously cared for bj' his widow, are only merchandise to be disposed of on the most liberal terms that can be secured. George S. McDowell.

EARTH’S OLDEST REPUBLIC.

A Singular Little State, Jealous of Its Independence. San Marino has just attracted the attention of the other nations by opening with great ceremony a splendid government palace which it has built for itself. San Marino is the oldest republic in toe world. According to the legend, its founders, Marino and Leo, hailed from Dalmatia. They founded the republic on the Titan Mountain, which was presented to Marino by St. Felicissima, and Leo became bishop of the diocese. Though its people are Italian, and geographically it forms part of Italy, it is quite independent of the Italian Government. Moreover, of all the powers that have ruled over Italy none has ever attempted to deprive the tiny State of its liberty. It was respected even by the all-con-quering Napoleon. True, in 1797, he offered to supply the republic with cannon, doubtless with ulterior aims upon it, but his offer was declined with thanks.

The country, though it possesses a nobility, is governed on truly socialistic principles. The land is divided among the citizens, who ail earn their own living. They pay no rates nor taxes and have no army. They are completely out of the world. They know little, and care less of what goes on in Italy, just below them, and separated from their territory only by a small bridge, or of the world around them. They live for their family, and the blind forces of angry nature are their only foes. They seldom, if ever, leave their rock, and never allow a stranger to remain on their territory longer than a week. Finally, they are extremely virtuous. A few years ago the Monte Carlo Casino Company offered the community an enormous sum if they would allow rouge et noir and roulette to be established in their midst, but the offer was peremptorily and indignantly refused. So averse are they to innovations, that until quite recently there was only one clock in the whole State. The republic is governed by two Consuls, called Regents, elected, qne by the patricians and the other by the citizens and country people. The Council consists of sixty members, elected for life, and comprising 20 nobles, 20 citizensand 20agriculturists. This Council takes the place of the ancient Arringo, an assembly composed of the chiefs of every faini>y. There are also a Council of Twelve, a Governing Congress of nine citizens, and another Congress for Foreign Affairs (?) The republic is represented by Consuls in most of the chief cities of Europe.

Porous Glass Graze In Paris.

The latest hygienic craze in Paris ia the Use of porous glass for windows. This is declared to possess all the advantages of the ordinary window framing. and, while light is as freely admitted as through the mediu l - ,->f common glass, the “porous” further admits common air, too, the minute holes with which it V intersected being too fine to admit of any draught, while they provide a health?, continuous ventilation through the apartment

A WOMAN OF FASHION

MERGES ALL OF HER INDIVID* UAUTY INTO THE HOME GOWN. Th* Slmpl* Morning Robos and Afternoon Tea Gowns--The Richer Ono for Debutante Teas-* Fanciful Tea Gowns*-Somo Crape Ones Described. [COPYRIGHT, 1894.] How early Fashion declared herself this season. Here it is only a short time after the horse show, and everybody knows what the winter styles are likely to be. The event which is supposed to usher in the season’s styles was behindhand, for some reason, this year, for somehow there were no surprises in the way of costuming to be found at it. We were all prepared for Paquin skirts and jet bodices and velvet sleeves and pearl trimmings and real laces. We knew just how they would be disposed in the costume, just where the fur band ought to go, just how the puffs should droop, and the exact cut of the revere. So no one enjoyed the great show quite so much as usual. Truth to tell, all this magnificence is telling upon us. We have reached the limit of admiration; and epithets and exclamations grow so wearisome. It is tiresome to be in a constantly ecstatic state over the beauty of a gown or a bonnet. Even the shop windows are overdoing their displays. It is a constant panorama of magnificence, so constant that one is satiated with it all, and becomes indifferent to all of it. How far off is the reaction ? When will the reign, of simplicity be ushered in? No wonder lovely woman heaves a great sigh of relief when she comes in from a busy social afternoon, slips off that heavy, jetted satin gown, and takes out the simplest and loosest of wrappers. How she revels in that light, warm elder down, orcash-

mere, or flannel—whatever it may be. For just a few minutes she lies still in the great ehair, with every nerve relaxed, and eyes closed. Then comes the hateful task of another elaborate toilet. Thank heaven I some of us have more time for wrappers and home gowns than that. It is the gown that the woman loves before everything else. When she gets into it, she is no longer the “advanced” woman with “rights,” but only an unobtrusive, attractive female, resting in her pretty sitting-room, with those graceful folds lying all about her, and with a calm and sweet content in her face. When you see her thus, you wish there were no such things as platforms and clubs, where grave matters regarding woman's welfare require discussion. You would like her to stay right there and comfort you with her brightness and simple talk. You like her in a simple wrapper; but And her even more attractive in a pretty tea gown. The creator of the tea gown was surely inspired. We may touch it with fashion, we may add extravagant trimmings, it may savor of one’s individuality, or it may be quite plain. If you have a pet fancy in the way of drapes or lace arrangements, you may bring it out in your tea gown. Nothing is freer from the decrees of fashion, although still conforming to them in a vague, general way. For the modest gown crepe and crepon are still the materials—crepe, in both cotton and wool, crepe, in soft, silky folds and very gauzy; so thin, indeed, that it is generally lined with silk of a corresponding or brightly contrasting shade. Perhaps the very prettiest of crepe gowns that has been worn so far this season is of a delicate gray tint, lined throughout with bright cerise silk. If you were bold enqugh to peep beneath the gown, you would see that the cerise was finished with a deep plaited flouncing, that made the gray stand out. The foot of the gray was trimmed with two rows of cerise velvet ribbon, set between double ruches of the crepe. The waist trimming is most charming. A | square yoke back and front

is made of alternate gray and [ cerise stripes, joined by delicate open work embroidery. At the back Uie yoke is ouJined by a flounce of cream lace, the net of which is caught up into a festooned heading; the lace ■ comes over the shoulders, down the ■ sides a little way, and then crosses ’ t,he corselet in quaint fashion, fall- ; Ing below the waist line, over each hip, in a long, slender point. Just 1 at the belt is a velvet chou? each The lower bodice is gathered to the yoke, and caught in at the belt with a lovely twisted scarf of the crepe, 1 falling in ends to the feet, finished i with ehoax. The sleeves are big, of

course, of the striped gray and cerise, The collar is a crush, of the bright velvet and, the whole thing is as bright and graceful and delicate as one could ask. Another of these light creations is in even thinner cream crepe, touched with pink and blue lines at wide tatervals, and with a half-inch stripe of the blue once in awhile. The rib of the crepe is very large. This is lined with thin, white silk. It is made simply, with the back laid in folds that point in at the belt, and with the point outlined by a ruffle of fine lace, and finished at the belt by short crush loops of blue ribbon. The lace is brought up over the shoulders and Jdown the front each side of a loose surplice effect. The surplice is made of three fine ruffles of the crepe, that are doubled so that the blue stripe forms an edging for each. There, too, blue ribbon is tied and falls in streamers to the feet. A pink cashmere can be made at home, so easy is it, and yet it is very effect’ve This one has a Watteau, a modest one, and a round collar in the back of the pink. Its edge is laid with narrow, flat guipure, in a pretty edge, and just inside, separated only by a band of black moire ribbon, lies Insertion to correspond. Both lace and insertion lie partly over the back, bringing out the design more clearly. The stock collar of black velvet has its base covered with the edging. In front, in place of the deep collar, lie two long Vandykes of the cashmere, each formed of two points—a short one inside the long one that reaches to the waist. Each of the four points is trimmed with the insertion and edge, with the black moire laid between. Broad moire ribbon, starting beneath the Watteau, ties in front in a long bow. After the delicate gown comes the magnificent one, which my lady dons for an elaborate afternoon tea One of these, a debutante tea, takes place In a few days. The matron who introduces her only daughter is still young, and will wear a gown of deli-

THE STATELY TEA GOWN.

cate mauve brocade, which falls in rich folds straight from the neck and spreads into a train at the back. It is surmounted by a collar of pervenche—the new purple—velvet covered with rare lace. A small, round yoke of the same lies just below. Out of the yoke drop pendants of the face, being over the brocade. A full mauve sleeve is caught up in the queer puffings, is finished by a velvet cuff, lace trimmed, and top; e I by a velvet epaulette, overlaid with the lace pendants. At this tea the fair debutante will have no less than fifteen young maidens to assist her to receive, all of whom will be clad in simple silk and crepe gowns, trimmed with lace All of the fashionables are making more and more of the afternoon tea, particularly because the dinner hour has been set so late. Those families that cling to the notion of home life endeavor, at this time, to have all the members of the family gather. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt takes an opportunity at this hour of chatting with all of her near relatives, whc know that they will never be disappointed if they run in upon her at tea herself. Nothing else is hospita ble or correct; nor cun she ever appear to better advantage than when filling the delicate cups—simple English fashion.

After simplicity and magnificence comes the picturesque afternoon gown that is worn at the literary tea, the afternoon readings, and all those unique affairs, given by the woman who aspires to originality. One of the most striking of these is a rodingote, made of gorgeous rose and green damask, and edged with silver fox. It opens down the front to show tiie gathers of rose silk that fall from neck to foot, girdled bj’ green velvet. A yoke effect is given by three bands of the fox, which cross the silk. The redingote has a great Valoi’s collar, and long Japanese sleeves, falling over the plain one of rose silk. Sleeves and collars have the fox edging.

Moxa is described as a counter irritant, used especially in cases of gout, rheumatism and nervous disorders. It hat. been in use in Japan, where it originated, many centuries. rThe finer woolly parts of the young leaves of wormwood are applied to the skin in the form of small cones, and are set on fire by means of a magnifying glass. They burn very slowly, and leave a blister, which afterward breaks and discharges. The operation is painful, but not severely so. Among the lower classes its use is said to be almost universal.—[New York Dispatch. The world’s production of gold la 1892 wu i>2».aea nonces.

The Fearful Moxa.

THE JOKER’S BUDGET.

JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Among th* 400-- Evidence--Trw* to H*r Proml«o--A Deep Man--Both Wicked--Sizing Thom Up, Etc., Eto. AMONG THE 400. Ten Brok (wistfully)—Why don’t you devote some of your immense wealth to charity? Miss Milyun—l intend to. I am about to erect a home for my rejected suitors if I can find a large enough plot of unoccupied land in the city.—[Truth. TRUE TO HER PROMISE. “Hear me out,” he implored. “Certainly,” she answered. In the struggle that ensued between the youth and her old man she did not forget her promise. She listened until she distinctly heard her suitor strike the sidewalk. Then she knew he was out —[Detroit Tribune. A DEEP MAN. “Venger was right in declaring he’d make old Gotrox take water after refusing him his daughter.” “How’d he do it?” “Bought out the man Gotrox buys his milk from.”—[Buffalo Courier. BOTH WICKED. “My husband,” said the large, fleshy lady, “has a habit of marking paragraphs in the naper that say mean things about women.” “So you will not fail to see them, eh? Still, that is not as mean a trick as mine plays. He cuts them all out. Then I have to get another paper only to find that I have been fooled again.”—[lndianapolis Journal.

SIZING THEM UP. Boy (on a visit) —Haven’t you any schools here? Aunt—We have several. Boy—That’s queer. I have been all over town and I haven’t seen a building that looks ugly enough Jo be a schoolhouse.—[Good News. ACCIDENTAL, BUT SWEET, REVENGE. The youth offended the maid one day, But she got revenge for that, For she sat in front of him at ths play When she wore her highest hat. —[New York Press. A PROMISE OF SUCCESS. “Is everything prepared for ths sewing circle?” “Yes; the tea is all ready to be made and Sophy has just gone down for the guin.”—[Judge. HOW IT WILL BE. “So you want to marry my son,” said the stern mamma to the emancipated woman. “I do.” “Can you support him in the manner In which he has been accustomed?” “I can.” “Then take him and be happy.”— jijfife. THE DOWN-TRODDEN BEX. . I Mrs. Hlghupp (wearily)—Woman’* work is never done. Mrs. Wayupp (drearily)—Too true.. A man may get rich and retire from business, but a woman must go on making and receiving calls to the day of her death.—[New York Weekly. IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Pedestrian Pete (reading from a. paper)—The difference between canvasback and redhead duck is so slight in taste and quality that even experts, are deceived. Itinerant Ike—ls that so? Then we’ll have to be werry careful when we take cold vittles from people to see that they don’t palm off redhead duck on us fer canvasback.—[New York Press.

PLAVKD WITH BOOTH. “You wouldn't think, sir, that-I once played with Booth In England?” “Dear me!” exclaimed the benevolent old gentlemen, as he handed the wretched mendicant a quarter; “what did you play?” “The bass drum, sir,” answered the mendicant ipeekly; “but this Salvation Army biz is played out for me.”—[Puck. SUGGESTING ANOTHER REFORM. Mrs. Thus! asm—l have called, my dear Mrs. Hardfax, in the interest of humanity, to ask you to join with hundreds of our best women in signing this pledge not to wear another sealskin garment of any sort. Mrs Hardfax—l shall be delighted to sign it. Oh, what lovely stuffed birds those are on your hat! Where did you get them?—[Chicago Tribune. EVIDENCE. “What makes you think he loves you, Madge?” “The size of my bank account.”— [Minneapolis Journal. HE WASN’T PARTICULAR. “Sir,” remarked the rich father to the suitor, “after the investigations I have made into your character I cannot give you my daughter. Emma.” “All right,” answered the persistent suitor; “then how about one of the others?”—[Fliegende Blaetter.

Centenary of the Chrysanthemum

The chrysanthemum first bloomed in England in 1795; next year, therefore, will be the centenary of the actual flower. But it was long neglected by floriculturists, and its serous cultivation only dates back about twenty-five years, when John Newton, gardener to the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple, took it in hand. Now the chrysanthemum is all the rage. Yetinail these years the efforts of floriculturists have failed to evolve a satisfactory specimen with hues approaching red. The variety, “G. W. Childs,” named after the. late philanthropist, is described as showing crimson, which is not unpleasingfwnd was raised in America.—[New Orleans Picayune.