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TUESDAY, TEB. 11, '896

IT MIGHT have been supposed from the ©ppositiou that some contractors have encountered in the collection of assessments for street improvements, and from the interest manifested by some of our ci'isens in the legal fi^ht agninst the construction of the city sewer -•y«t^m, that there uld not be any improvements •nade Ibis summer but from the way petet ons are being circulated it seems that the -perty owners are desirous of ejj«\\ U:£ the advantages of good walks. Kot \.MtbsUmdiug the great howl made by certain parties in the city who can easily s-ay tueir taxes. Greenfield has no improvement that the citizens have not demauded and none that are not needed The foot of the case'\s ih'.it our city was bthind the times, until we elec'.td the present- jnncil, and being bclni'1 ot.h Citie* of its size, w^eu it did begin to improve, there was so much to be done to lu'ii.g it. up to them, that the great amount done attracte c-n-iderable attenti .n. We undertake to say that re arc nor a dozen property owners in the city hit onld allow the council to take vii) tiitir cement vraiks aud r. pac- them -sijih gravel. Iq dd'iii'»n to this the T»lu«.' of ^ropiity abutting on cement

Iks is enhanced in every case at least vie-" the amount of the en- of the sideMlk«. And another thing which is vnrtl'y the con-id^rai ion of the kickers, i* that, these improvemetits have been Marie at a time when they could be done at the least cost, and also at a lime when eond give employmeut to many of our r"'z ns. Ourcounc l.n are to be commended, and they have acted with tiued :dvemeiie and in &ood faith an 1 in the interest of the c'tv, hi It* the mtions of some of our leading citizens h»ve not It?en in the interest the city nor credit nblr to themselves.

THE TATTLER.

Mrs. William Ingraliam is one of the smartest gowned women in West Philadelphia.

They toll of a directory man in La Crosso, Wis., who turned in the name of Carrie C. Noyle, a widow, as Kerosone Oil.

Helen Gould entertained the past Christmas SO little orphan girls from New York at her magnificent country place, LyndItursfc.

A lady of 85, known as Mme. Brice, recently died in Paris and left her entire for t'jfio—over $120,000—to her two women gBrvants.

Lady Hallo, the violinist, who was Mrs. Korman Neruda, is to have a testimonial In London shortly to celebrato her first apearance as a 7-year-old prodigy 50 years •go.

Mrs. Ogden Goelet is a lover of beautiful handkerchiefs. She has a collection of these dainty articles numbering many hundred. One which is of cobweb sheerBess and old lace is valued at $200.

Mrs. U. S. Grant gave a reception a few Weeks ago to celebrate the opening of her aewliome, reoently purchased in Washington. The house was crowded with guests from the diplomatic and official circles.

Miss Cushman of Boston, actuary of the Massachusetts insurance department, has been admitted to membership in the Actuarial Society of America. She is recognized as exoelling In her conduct of such "'•business.

Mrs. Stephen Preston, widow of Hon. Stephen Preston, once minister from Haiti to the United States and many years dean of the diplomatic corps at Washington, ha8 opened a cooking school in Newark, N. J.

Many are wondering whatever became mt Victoria Morosini, who started the fashion of eloping with coachmen. The coachman was not a success, and she then went on the stage and is now in a convent—St. Joseph's convent in Rutland, Yt.

Of the 14 new stars discovered during '-She?-last 800 years Mrs. Fleming of the Harvard observatory has discovered four, namely, one in the constellation of Perseus in 1887, ope in Norma in 1898 and one each in Carina and Centaurus during the present year.

One of the latest enthusiasts among the followers of the bicycle is tho Crown Princess Stefanie of Austria. She has begun to take lessons and proposes to ride on a •vhtiel through a part of England next earing. The crown princess is the widow of Prince Rudolph. •Miss Braddon mocks at the critic who says that the modern novel reader has no time to read detailed descriptions of a heroine's dress or a house's furniture. She declares herself uncompromisingly for the descriptive, especially in the matter of portraying the interior of a house.

Miss Carol'ne B. Hendricks, a daughter of the late A. W. Hendricks, and a niece cf Ex-Governor Thomas A. Hendricks, was admitted recently to praotice law in the circuit and superior courts of Marion county, Ind. Miss Hendricks has the honor of being the first woman admitted to the bar In that county.

Frank J. Cheney make3*oath thatche is the senior partner of the firm ,of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Totedo, County and State] aforesaid that said firm will pay the* sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of catarrh that can nor. be cured by the me of Hall's Catarrh Gnr«. I FRANK J. CHENEY. I Sworn to before me and subscribed in *iy present,this 6th day of December.A. 1). 1886.

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need almost everything that we ean manufacture oheaply. Why, we ought to sell those people 13,000,000 or $4,000,000 worth of stuff in a little while, even if we supplied them with nothing but household conveniences and farm implements—in which we bent the world, and do it easily. Now what has all this, you will say, got to do with my committee? Why, I would select tho very best men who could be got for the places, put them in all important centers there &nd have them mako it their life business to servo this country in commercial lines, and to get the right kind of hi on we must pay them. This country don't want cheap men to do its work. We want the best, and, by the blessing of God, we can afford to pay for them. "I sometimes smilo when I think of the protests against increased cost and the pledges of retrenchment and then of the way circumstances have forced us into a wider field. Take the history of my committee, and it illustrates it beautifully. Tho constitution, you know, requires that all bills for raising money must originate in tho house, and while it doos not say that bills for spending money must, yet the reason of the thing carried it, aiul so for tho first 7(3 years tho ways and means committee made tho appropriation bills. Early in 1805, however, Thad Stevens carried a measure for a separate committee on appropriations, and as he had been chairman of tho ways and means he elected to follow the appropriations and was the first chairman in the Thirty-ninth congress. The committee had all tho 13 bills till Randall had his great fight with Speaker Carlisle and our Bill Morrison, then chairman of tho ways and means. Of courso it was taken for granted they wanted to curtail Randall's power, as he was a protectionist. I At. any rate, they took from the committoo seven bills and gave control of them to the special committees having the special subjects in charge, and now we have exelusive control of but six bills. I Paying and Getting, "A great reform, was it? Well, we have more work to do than tho committee once had with all the bills, and as wo neccssarily have a sort of supervision over the seven bills brought in by tho other committces, on account of deficiencies coming in, we can measure tho advance with precision from year to year. It is destiny that is forcing us along tho path toward higher functions and greatly enlarged national activities. And why not, if th money is properly expended? Contrast our old neighborhood in 1850 and now.

Taxes then were perhaps 50 cents on the $100, but what did we get for it? Courts and jails! Now the taxes are three times as high, and on five or ten times as much property, but look what the citizen gets for his money: The finest system of gravel roads in the world, with splendid bridges over the rivor and all the creeks at every important p'ace the finest school system in the country, a system that has been taken as a model by many new states and even by tho District of Columbia, and a hundred other things." [Here Mr. Cannon told several anecdotes about the mud roads of his early days and laughed most heartily at the recollection.] "Why the citizen gets twice or three times as much for each dollar paid in taxes as in 1850. Now it is perfectly practicable that tho United States should do the same, for, though it is a government of limited powers, within its sphere it is supreme. That gives us all the power we want as to navy and coast defenses—South Africa and the islands near to us, the Nicaragua canal and all the rest, and I am very decidedly for a bold and vigorous policy, believing that to be far more economical in the end.''

Mr. Cannon directed me to many curious and interesting points in the records of the committee on ai)propriations, and by tho courtesy of tho chief clerk, Mr. James C. Courts, I was enabled to pass a very pleasant afternoon in the survey. It is an odd fact, by the way, that this committee has had but two chief clerks in the 31 years of its existence. The first was Robert J. Stevens of California, who held continuously for 18 years, and was succeeded by Mr. Courts of Tennessee, who has held for 12 years as chief and had previously been Mr. Stevens' assistant for 6 years. The latter was a Republican, and Mr. Courts is a Democrat, civil service rules having hold from tho start in this I committee. Thad Stevens, as aforesaid, was the first chairman, and was followed I in turn by Washburn of Illinois, Dawes of

Massachusetts and Garfield of Ohio. Then came the political revolution of 1874, and tho Democratic chairmen were Randall, Holman and J. D. C. Atkins of Tennessee. Frank Hisoock, Republican, followed, then Randall again, then Cannon in the Fifty-first, Holman in tho Fifty-second, Sayers of Texas in the Fifty-third, and Cannon again in tho present houso. He has been on the committee for 14 years, having started with the Forty-sixth congress, but lost his seat in the Fifty-second.

Mr. Randall's Prophecy.

When the debate about dividing the bills war! at its hottest, Mr. Randall predicted a great increase of appropriations as tho result of division. Well, I find by addition and division that for the last ten years of tho old system tho total appropriations amounted to $29.56 per capita for the whole population, and for the first tea of tho new system to $34.67 per capita. But it doesn't begin to follow that this increase of $5.11 per capita is due to the division, as Mr. Randall prophesied, for if Mr. Cannon has tiio right philosophy, it would have come anyhow. It is a little odd, however, that Mr. Randall—he was speaker and left the chair to speak against the division—prophesied that if the appropriation bills were scattered there wouid within 20 years "bo a bankrupt treasury and probably an increase of the debt." The estimates submitted by the departments for the fiscal year 1897 are nearly $11,000,000 larger than those for 1896, and oxceod tho appropriations actually made for 1896 by more than $20,000,000. And the deficiency and usual supplemental scuff are still to come in. So it looks as if we should have to reconcile ourselves to Mr. Cannon's philosophy and spend more money per capita as wo get more numerous. J. H. BEADLE.

The Amazon River.

The Amazon is in overy respect but length the greatest river in the world. At many points in its lower course so vast is its tide that ono shore is invisible from the other, the observer seomiug to look out into a rolling sea of turbid water. It has over 400 tributaries, great and small, which rise in so many different climates that when ono set is at flood height the others are at ebb, and vice versa, so that the bulk of the great rivor romains unchanged the whole year round. At 1,000 miles from Its mouth it is navigable for large sized ships, and at 2,000 for steamboats of the largest size. The Indians living on one bank of its lower course know no more of those on the opposite shore than if they dwelt in another continent. The mouth of this giant stream Is !l80 miles wide, and the dlsooloration caused in the sea by its water la observable 400 mUoc from th» i*A

AS A (GtEEAT NATION.

WE HAVE LEFT UNDONE THINGS WE OUGHT TO DO.

This Is the View of Congressman J, O. Cannon—The Necessity of Liberal Appropriations—Looking at a Wider Field.

More Money Per Capita. [Special Correspondence.] WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Hon. Joseph G. Cannon was in a delightfully social and reminiscent mood when I called on hiin the other evening at the Normandie, and having just come in from his regular late afternoon spin on the bicycle he was aglow with vivacity and good humor. "I confess to being an old man at last," he said, "and, like ether old men, my thoughts turu oftener to the scenes of my youth, and I love to meet some one from the old neighborhood and hear how the boys and girls of 1S50-60 havo turned out." I may be pormittod to add that in tho days he referred to his father was known to our folks, borrowing a term from Scripture, as the beloved physician. Ho was drowned while returning late at night from a professional call, so in tho local memory his position was something like that of a martyr, and tears sometimes shone in the eyes of thoso who told of his good qualities and sad fate. Mr. Cannon talked at great length of his classmates in the Bloomingdale Quaker school of early days on the Wabash, ''when around Annapolis a »n?vn wasn't in style unless ho had an ague cake of tho great antislavery light mado

HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON.

by his Quaker friends and relatives, and of the developments of his own political side since the memorable day when he sat under the stand at Rockville and hoard the first great speech of O. P. Morton, then candidate for governor, opening the hot campaign of 1856. Finally, however, he got on to what he calls the philosophy of budgets and gave his views as to the principles which should govern tho committee on appropriations. With much else he said "The true question for the people to ask is not,'Do wo pay moro taxes than wo did?' but, 'T- what wo pay honestly and economically expended?' If yes, then they should be w'lling to pay moro, for just now this nation can earn and save very many dollars by the proper expenditure of ono. To state it bluntly, tho United States has reached that point where it must assume anew and far higher and more commanding place among the nations. Providence has imposed on us the suzerainty of this western continent, and we cannot abdicate our function. If we try to do so, it will be much the worse for us. All history shows that a nation, in order to live, must go on developing, and any nation that withdraws its energies and contracts them within its own boundaries is certain to become like China or worse. A nation like this is not at liberty to sit back at selfish ease and disregard the claims of the weak. We have a duty too plain to be mistaken. And here comes in the great question of an officient navy and coast defenses, and herein is made evident the truth that parsimony is not economy."

Need of a Navy.

"What is your idea as to immediate action "I would have them all, both navy and defenses, brought to a very high state of efficiency—not for war, but to prevent war. Under Arthur we began to build a navy, and though we have been ridiculously slow wo have made a very handsome start. We have navy enough to give us some standing, but, what is of far more importance, we have learned how to build a navy and have got the plant to do it and the men who understand the business, and if we don't go ahead now it will be nothing less than criminal negligence. It is to strengthen tho diplomatic arm that we want these things. One dollar in preparation will save very many which would otherwise be expended in war. The embassador who speaks with a good navy behind him is listened to. I want to say, however, that while I am not criticising any others our man at Constantinople is in a condition of unusual embarrassment, and so far he appears to have done his duty well. "Embassadors, however, are not the most important. In fact, I sometimes think that in these days of intercontinental telegraphs and rapid transportation we might do better with special envoys than resident embassadors. It is the consular service that we need to develop. I am almost afraid to say how far I would go in that line if I could have my way and how much money I would spend in establishing a worldwide consular service on a new or at any rate a far more thorough and comprehensive system. We should—indoed we must—have it renovated from top to bottom. Not that it isn't pretty good now, but we want a system far better and more comprehensive than that of any of the older nations, and we want it put under a far more rigid system of civil servioe. There should be a first olass man of business in every great seaport and foroign citj', and that man should make himself familiar with all tho details of business in his district. What do the people of that country want, and how able are they to buy it? He should be able to answer these questions at a minute's notice.

Need of More Foreign Trade. "Did you ever figure out how little has really been done by tho great nations in foroign trade compared with what might bo done? Why, tho world contains 1,500,000,000 people and only about 400,000,000 of them can really manufacture for themselves. Now, all thoso uncivilized or not entirely civilized people who are using enly $2 or $3 worth each yearly of manufactures ought to use 30 times as much. To civilize them is merely to stimulate their desires and develop their capacity to bay. Look nt the vast tropical regions of Spanish America, where they produce aluost nothing to. qomD^t€L.with jia and

In all its picturesqueness is depicted with singular skill and fidelity in the story Karry Stillwell Edwards has written for this paper entitled

De Valley an

Edwards is a master of the negro dialect and this is a story of extraordinary interest. It is one of our new

Half Dozen American Stories

A MAN'S WOMAN.

She is not sweet, the woman that I love, Nor is she fair Nor wise in any love that looks can tell, And yet she knows the secret of a spell

From feet to hair.

Ah, no, not wise, the woman that I love.

She is not fair, the woman that I love, Nor is she wise Nor sweet, and yet she speaks from feet to hair, With turn of waist or throat, and I am there,

Hold in her eyes.

Ah, no, not fair, the woman that I love.

Bhe is not wise, the woman that I love, Nor is she sweet Nor fair. The spell she weaves, is it of sense? 'Tis undefined and subtle, yet intense

Flame, without huat.

Ah, no, not sweet, the woman that I love.

Nor fair, nor sweet, nor wise is she I love, Beyond a name, Incarnated mystery of negatives Unsolved, unsolvahle a spell that lives 1

Elusive flame,

That which she is, the woman that. I love. —Old English Poem.

WHERE "HABANAS" COME FROM.

Most of Them In England Never Saw Cuba at Any Time.

"Where did this box of cigars come from?" asked the writer the other day, standing in the shop of a large London tobacconist. "That," said the tobacconist, "came from the United States." "And this—where did this come from?" "Also from the United States." "Also this other?" "Oh, that came from the United States too. I'll tell you all about it. Suppose I had 2,424 boxes of cigars in this shop, and that they were taken proportionately from the imports from all countries that send us cigars, then 1,315 of these, or considerably more than half, would have come from the United States." "Then you mean to say that 13 out of every 24 cigars smoked in London are American?" I gasped. "That's just it," he said. "You see, the Americans send to Cuba for tobacco leaves, which they use for covering the cigars they make of Virginia, Ohio and Maryland tobacco. "Of the remaining 1,085 boxes," he continued, "the largest number come from the Philippine islands, from which we get our Manillas—that is, 244 boxes. Almost an equal number, 228, come from our near neighbor, France 171 from Belgium, 102 from Holland and 61 from Germany. Then a very large number, 195, were sent from the British East Indies. Now, you see, only 92 boxes remain, and we have not come to Cuba, the country of true 'habanas,' yet. Of these 92 Hongkong has sent, half, 47 11 have come from the channel islands, 8 from the Canary islands and 12 from Spain. Four are from Australia, 4 from the British West Indies and nearly 4 from all other British possessions. Now there are only 18 more boxes, and they come from all quarters of the globe, including Havana. You will see that of all foreign cigars more than half come from the United States, and of the remainder more than half come from France and other European countries. No, sir, the 'habanas' which come from Havana area small lot."— London Answers.

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A giri snouia Dear in nnuu tuat nor lover will overlook her faults, but she is lucky if her husband does not find them.

Every night before a man has put his head upon his pillow ho has learned some new way of making a fool of himself.— Atchison Globe.

SOME OPINIONS.

To recite one's sermon before the mirror Is one way to practice what one preaqhes. —Dallas News.

It makes a great difference, in determining whether a man is obstinate or only firm, whether he agrees with you or not. "Does position affect sloep?" asked a medical writer. It does when the man holds the position of night watchman.—' Texas Sittings.

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