Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 24 March 1896 — Page 3

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Why, call at our store, of course. We wish to exchange groceries for cash or produce. A look at our elegant line of fresh, new, and firstclass Groceries Fruits, Vegetables, etc, and our low prices, will convince YOU that you should alway go to the

Prompt Service. Quick Delivery.

HARRY STRICKLAND.

Opposite Court House.

1A Child Cut Up!

This is what you unnecessarily submit, a -hilil to when you aHo«v nn operation ftir ak ',VP mu ces Cross t*R in children in'nler IS ears of as/e caw be cured without an operation "f any kind, his is a very e'i iit discovery o' lr. Prentice, of

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h.vtn we prnduaed. and we can guarantee a cuie fie. ol charge, in case we lit Kifs.-es. We tit ylaeses and srt arantee them Can tiiisli you a Cn wn 1'ebliie Lens for

SI K\'ainuiatoii thorough—tak*s fr til on? to two hours. If mi are i-ick. we teU yn what tin1 tronhlpis, ami witti our aid nil* loi-a' physician triv* yon iIih same treatment that a .specialist would give, and it a ruucli lt)S!" cost.

ALL WORK GUARANTEED.

HUSTON -graduate"

With A. Divis. Jeweler. ItH HM rstas*!U

OPERA HOUSE

WII-L A. not GIT, Managc-r.

The Big Show

One Solid Week, Commencing,

MONDAY, flar. 30

Theatre Company,

.SUPPORTING

Ed Anderson, and Kate Watson.

The Magnet That Draws

10, 20 and 30C.

LADIES FREE THE FIRST NIQHT.

HONDAY NIQHT.

The Lightning Rod Agent.

7 BIG SPECIALTIES.

Seats at Crescent Pharmacy

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EVENTS,

MEETINGS OF INTEREST IN OUK i'AIR TFV. Persons are at liberty to make use of this column iu anuounciug entertainments or meetings of general interest. By reading the Comiug Event column daily cue will be posted on all future entertainments and meetings, and can select those the*- ?sire to attend.

Maich 27. The Greenfield Dramatic Co. in *'She Stoops to Conquer."—Opera House.

March 24th, the Republicans will nominate candidates for Councilmen. Ande"soa Theater Co. one week commencing March 30, at Opera house.

Flour,

The hundreds of families now complaining of the dry, tasteless, or the heavy clammy unwholesome bread, should use "King of Wayne" flour and have sweet, moist, wholesome bread. For sale by Geo. 0. Knight, 37 and 39 North State •treet. 99t2d&w

Centwry Catarrh Cure

has wrought relief euro, and comfort to thousands of suffers from Catarrh. It Is certainly a great remedy and should be tried by every one suffering with that dan germs aud disagreeable disease. For sale at Crescent Pharmacy. mar.

Try a can of Hopkins' Steamed Hominy (Hailed Corn). It is delicious. Fall ft.

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All fckin diseases easily cured by using Acme Ointment. Mrs Eb Tvner and daughter, Maud, are at Indianapolis, today

Acme Oiutment positively stops all itchiag immediately. Help the Greet.fit-Id W R. C. by attending "She 8io ps to Co qner".

Do not fail to a'te-d "She Stops to Couquer" Friday n^' at Masions Hall

Do "Ot miss seeing Goldsmi h's dramt,"3be Stoops to Conquer," Friday night. Repnb'icans of-the and cond«ward at tend the masv convention at the city hall tonight.

Go 'o fee Oliver Goldsmith's master piece "She Stoops to Conquer" Friday night.

Ordell Biigg' sof Terre Haute was in the city for a few hours today calling on old friends.

John Foley who is attending school at Blnomingten is home spending the spring vacation.

Gustavus Rtefstabl, went to Knightstown tooay toe Uect for the PrudantiaInsurance CumpHuy.

Bed ticks filled with straw and delivered U20 O. KNIGHT. 99i2 &w

Mr. and Mrs. J. E Butler, from near Carth a«e, spent Sunday with OdCir Lyman and wife.

The Cost '.m^r R. Kinklia, of Indianapolis will oversee the stuiniryin "She btoopsto Coi-quer".

John Huston, W. H. Watson, John Fry, Gao. Ramsey aid Andy Davis went to Indianapolis today.

Mrs. Helen Warman, of Sbarpsville, who has been visiting at A. P. Gou£h's, returned home today.

Mrs Elbert Tyuer, of Wa'nufc street weht to Inditnap ilis to lay tor a sbort visit and to see Irving and L-rry.

Mrs. Rev. Thomas Stabler, of Joi esboro, who has been vifiticg her dauguter, Mrs. A. P. Conklm returned home yesterday.

A social was given at the home of Rev. Limlley Wells pastor of the Friends cburch last night to the members of fche cuurch.

Acme Ointment cures piles. Acme Oiutment cures tetter. A cuie Ouii ment sures eczema. Acme Ointment cures itch.

The Hancock Co. pension board will after March 20 1800 meet on the 3it aud third We iuesday ot each mouth at the office of Dr. J. VV. Seltnau.

E. P. Clark and J. Ar. Hei ron, of Indianapolis are here to establish a branch of the Commercial BuiMiug and Loaa Association of Indianapolis.

Will Bough aud *ife, Mrs. Eph Marsh aud Mrs. D. B. Co p=r. will go to ludiauapuJis tomorrow to see the grecit English actor, Henry Irviug.

Geo. H. Cooper and wife, Mrs. R. A. Black aud daughter, Kelsey, went to Indianapolis today aud will see Henry Irving tonight in Comyns Carr's, King Arthur, tunight.

The contest in th? third ward today between Will A Hughts and Charles S. Brand tor the Councilimnic nomination, is a hot race, but carried on in a very ftiendlyspirit. There will be a full vjte

Edwin Custer, the cigar manufacturer, has concluded to make the race for councilman in the First w*rd. The candidates tenight will therefore be M. S. Walker, Will Sbumway, Dr. J. Walter Sparks and Edwin Custer.

C. M. Kirkpatrick has sold Alfred Richie, who is employed at the WhiLe House grocery, a lot in the South part of .he city, and contracted to eiect a dwell ing house thereon within the next sixty days.

Let the Republicans of the First and Second wards turn out en masse tonight for the convention at the. City Hall to select councilmanic candidates. Let the best men be selected and then every Republican labor earnestly and zealously for the ticket.

On motion of Judge W. H. Martin Lewis Ellsworth Simbar in of Mc Cords ville was admitted to the Hancock Connty bar today. H$ is one of h.aucock County's bright and active young men aud we wish him success. He has not yet determined where he will locate.

Miss Ell* Roark, who has been at rhe department of fashionable he wear collecting ideas tor the annual opening of the firm of J. Ward Walker & Co., arrivl ed in our city last evening. Miss Roark is the bsst milliner that ever came to Greenfield. The opening will be April 1, 2, 3, and 4 and there will be a grand display of millinery goods. All ladies take notice. Sunday April the 5th is Plaster Sunday.

Card 6t Thank*.

We wish to express our mosft sincere thanks to our kind friends and neighbors for their assistance and sympathy during the sickness and death of our aged mother and grandmother, Elizabeth E. Offutt.

ROBERT OFFUTT AND CHILDREN.

Lime—North State street. 99t2d&w. GEO. O. KNIGHT.

Smoke Patterson's Special Bicycle cigar. None better. 80tf

Sale!

Mndav. Har. 25.

500 pounds California Hams, 8c per pound About 10 pounds each, sugar cured.

All brand* best Flour, 55c

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Fresh Eggs, 8c a dozen. Pure ck wheat Flour, 4c a lb. California Naval Oranges, 25c a dozen.

Fancy Massina Lejnong, 20c a doztn. All the Tiger Soap you want 2 bars for 5c or 11 bar* for

Joe.

Cash Sale.

Rain L. Strickland,

Wholesale and Retail.

Masonic Hall ock.

Phone 49.

Tomorrow a lot of very fiue, fresh fish is expected at the maiket of E. P. Thayer & C®.

Tlie Johnson- Wa-tson Contest. The Itidianap lis Daily Journal is giving spe 'iil attention to the JohnsonWatsou contest in Henry county this week, having a special staff correspondent on the ground.

All parties desiring to read the full particulars aud also all other State, National and Foreign news, shouid leave orders for the Dtily Journal at the REPUBLICAN office or see one of tne carrier buys. tf

Read this Sure.

Every person purchasing a 30 cent ticket st for the popular Auderson Theatre Co before 7 u'click, Monday evening, will rec-ive a cket free of charge good to admit a lady to see the laughable comedy,

The Lightning Rod Agent." Tnink of it, two of the best seats in the house for 30 cents.

Slie Stoops to Conquer.

She S o. ps to Co»qu«r to be given by ti Greenfield Dramatic Club is usualy never seen out-ide of large cities. The stage settings are elaborate and the costumes elegnnt in the extreme. The tuusic by Prof. Mack &nd singing by Miss Giaee Trembley are worth ruany times the price of ad mi sion seats now on sale at the Crescrut Pharm acy.

Will Kushville Lose Au Able Fraaclier. H. MacNeil pastor of the Christian church at Ruf-hville, denies the report that he had accepted the pasto ate of tne third Christian church, of Indianapolis, made vacant, by the resignation of Rev D. R. Van Buskirk. Rev. MacNeill has re ceived the call, but still has it under advisement. Both of these ministers rank very high in their profession and have done, successful work. The Rush ville ctiurch and the Third church of Indiana polis rank among the leading Christian churches of the State.

Obituary-

Elizabeth E. Rains, was born April 28ch 1821 in Scott county Kentucky, and died at the home of hf son, Robert Offutt, in Greenfield, lad. March 17th 1896. Age 74 years, 10 months and 18 days.

She was united in marriage to Milford Offutt in 1839. Three children, resulted from this union, two sons and one daughter. Husband and daughter have preceded her to the Haven of Rest. In 1865 '-he, with her son, Robert, moved to Greenfield, Ind where she made her home with her daughter until the death of Mrs. Robert Offutt, when she again made her home with her son, Robert until death, removed all earthly cares.

She never united with any church, but always lived a good moral life, trusting in the Lord, to help and guide her in life's jVurney. Death resulted irom heart trouble brought about by accidently falling and fracturing an arm. She leaves five brothers, one sister, two sons and ten ^rand-children and many neighbors to mourn her death. We merely bow in submission to our Heavenly Father's will while we know our loss is her gain.

You can get the best five cent cigar In the market at Jeff. C. Patterson's bicycle store. Both before and after six o'clock. 80tf.

Acme Ointment tor burns. Acme Ointment for boils. Acme Ointment for sores. Acme Ointment for scilds.

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We have two cars of fine seed oat* weighing 40 pounds to the bushel al 91 per boshe). N*w Bfiot, iaa

Persons needing nice, clean old papers for house cleaning or other purposes can, secure them cheap at

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THK STATE SOL.DIKKS' HOMK.

4 Wortti» IjSfiterp^c^isoWtU***' 1«7» HUOSI^RS Feel X&|T«I^IT«D »ND STHTULD TFIK* A Share. v-

In lull view,ott^toMiibattle grouud Tippecauoe, where W"a dreary November morning in 181T Governor Harrison and th* American Militia so bravely fought to nave to civilization the gceat northwes ami where, sleeping their last sleep, lie 1 he heroes who gave uptheir lives that we might enjoy 'be pleasures and benefits ot so graud a territory, h«s been built 1 he Veteran's Home, which will be fur maly opened on the csuing fourth ot •July. \Mauy brave boys in blue, who years later followed the example of their pioneer brothers and gave some of the best years of their lives to their cou itry in her time of need, c«me out of the civil war unfit^d by privat on and disease to battle witti life, many returned to find their homes dreams of the past Many are physically unable to administer to the comforts and wants of their rami ies, even though a generous government provides food and raiment. The necessary labor required to prepare both for u«e is often beyond the strength of these stricken ones In view of this fact and in response to earnest petitions of many A. posts the legislature of 1895 appro priated $75,000 and $126 per year for the mointdiniuc^ of each iamAte of tba Indiana (Soldiers' Home.

AH an incentive to the grand work, Tippecanoe county and the citizens of Lafayette generously came to the front with tin ufftjr of 240 acres of ground with the addition of a strip bordering the Wabash river, given by Col. DeeHart, of Lafayette,.and gives a liver front of over 2,000 feet. Iu additiou to trtis l\ppecanoe c»unty gave $5 632 50 in cash for the home. Tne State was only asked to build the main buildings, such as the old peoples' home, tne diaiug hall, hospital, lauuiiry, power huse, ommissarv aud quarter master buildings. Tne plans provide tor au Old Mens' Home aud an Administration' buildi whicn it is hoped may be built in another year. The dining hall is located in the center of the grounds, makiug it couveuieut to all living rooms. The Old Peoples' and Old Mens' buildiugs have their own dining roums I he 2ud floor of the m^in dining hail is for widows.

Tne State is asued to baild and maintain ouly the mtiu buildings as more than half the inmates will be cared for in cottages erected by the A. R. pwts, W. R. C. aud couuties and citizen!?. Provision has already been made for twenty-three cottages bv the following couuties and organizations: G. A R. depaitmeut of Indiana, $5,000 ladies of the A R. Lafayette, $500 W. C. department of Ind., $700 Marsh Tylor, W. C. Lafav-ute, $00 Logan Post, W. R. C- $500. Wabash, Spencer,

The home was opened on the 1st of Jan. but will not be dedicated until the 'kh of July. It has already 150 inmate3 with 140 Applications favorably acted upon. At present the home can not accomodate more than two hundred. As the Dunbar Womans' Relief Corps, of this city, is but a small orgtnizition, we can not hope to do much for this grand enterprise, but the people of so rich and fertile a County as Hancock, canJ do a great deal it they will, and we feel sure the good citizens of Greenfield and her iuntry friends will assist the

HITCHING KICKS.

An Interested Citizen Asking That Increased Facilities Be Furnished Farmers. Greenfields' gittin' so small't a feller can't hitch a horse in't." Such was the remark that we heard a farmer, an old taxpayer make on Saturday last after he had driven twice over the city, trying to find a place to secure his te*tn, while he did some trading, and spent a few hours in the town where he pays his taxes and does all of his trading, and whose money has helped to make our city what it is.

N§w the writer does not know who has the authority to do it, but somebody is failing to do their duty in failing to provide sufficient hitching-room for the te^ms of the many citizens of this county who come here to trade, pay their taxes, and is different ways assist in carrying OH the business so essential to the promotion of the business interests of our beautiful city and county at large.

Now let those who have the power and whose duty It is to see after this matter, come forward and give the people, who wish to come to our enterprising, growing eity, a place to hitch their teams'while here, and thereby receive the applause of an advancing and always up to-date people. 3 4^5-

Montgomery, Marion, Clinton, Lawrence, compelled to do a great deal of pa\ing. In some cases only tho pavement bet ween Porter, Jay and Randolph couuties $500 e*ch Tipp^jano'a $8 000 Lake couuty $1,200 Vanderburg $3,000 and nuny promises from other counties for similar amounts

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of this city, to at least furnish the interior of one of the above named cottages. The Dramatic CI of Greenfield, responded bravely and like patriots to the first bugle call, and will donate the entire net proceeds of their arama,

!She

Stoops to Conquer," wnich will be given at the Masonic Hall, Friday, March 27, to the W O. that we may be able to fulfill our promise to the last district convention to at least assist in furnishing a cottage. The sum of eighty dollars is required and we ask that all who possibly can, will purchase tickets to "She Stoops to Conquer. If you can not attend give tuem to some one who may not be able to purchase tickets.

Respectfully,

PEARLE E TYNER, Pres. Duubir W.

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SFEVERAL LARGE CITIES ARE CLAMOR- .. 4,. .. ING FOR rWEM',

Mayor Plncree of Detroit Started the Wave of Discontent—The Low Price Works Well In That City—The Probable Outcome.

[Special Correspondence.!

DETROIT, March 17.—Nothing ever advertised Detroit so thoroughly as the 3 cent fare war which Mayor Piugree has been waging successfully on the street railroads. The agitation of the cheap fare question here has aroused interest all over the United States, and the owners of the new road and the city officials have been in receipt of hundreds of letters from cities east and west asking news about the experiment. Word comes that the Three Cent Fare association of Chicago, which had become moribund after ten years of more or less active existence, had been revived for the purpose of agitating the quostion of cheaper fares in that city. Pittsburg has the fever and is making overtures to the Detroit people to build a railway there. Philadelphia is up in arms against the abolition of transfers and is discussing municipal ownership of railroads. The 3 cent pebble of Detroit has started an ever widening series of rings which threaten to touch every large city In the United States. Meantime the Detroit Railway company goes merrily on selling eight tickets for a quarter and handling most of W.w business which used to be carried by tife other line.

The' Detroit Citizens' railway Is tho competing company. It had for years a virtual monopoly of the street railroad business of Detroit. Year before last a question about the term of its franchise was raised, aud Mayor Pingree began negotiations with the owners for a reduction in fare to be mado in exchange for legislation confirming the franchise. The company declined the mayor's proposition, preferring to take the franchise question to the courts lor decision. It got a verdict under which it will continue to operate at a 5 cent fare, if it ciiooses, for 13 years more.

Balked in his effort to persuade the old company to reduce fares, llayor Pingree turned his attention to a proposition for tho construction of a new road. Some capitalists saw a possibility of profit in a roud which, being constructed at far less cost than the old one, would not have such heavy fixed charges to pay. Tho municipal assembly took the matter up, and a franchise was granted for what is known all over the United States today as Detroit's 3 cent road. It is undoubtedly one of the fairest street railway franchises ever granted, and its terms protect the interests of both the capitalists and the city.

The dato of the ordinance is Dec. 4, 1S94. It granted the Detroit Railway company tho right to build, maintain and operate an overhead trolley railway on certain streets, the rates of faro to be: Cash, 5 cents tickets good from 8 p. 111. to 5:45 a. m., six for 25 cents tickets good from 6:45 a. m. to 8 p. 111., eight for 25 cents special tickets to members of the polico and liro departments, 100 for 50 cents no freo transportation except to employees of tho company transfers freo between all. branches of tho company's lines.

All this sounds very nico and is very nice for the pcoplo of Detroit, but thero is another sido to the picture. Most of tho

street railway companies in big cities arc

the tracks must be maintained in others tho companies must maintain also tho paving 011 each side of the tracks for a foot, or perhaps two feet. In Philadelphia tho companies which obtained the privilege of changing to the electric system bound themselves to pavo the streets from curb to curb (at an oxoenso of $50,000 a mile, they claimed) and to maintain that paving.

In Detroit, on the other hand, the new railway company has 110 concern about the paving, except to replace what it disturbs in laying its tracks, and 011 unpaved streets where its tra- ks wero laid thoei*y supplied a concrete foundation. The Detroit company, therefore, can afford to cha»*go a lower rate of fare, for its original expense in construction was lighter and its obligations to the city are not so heavy as those of other companies. Of course tho streets must be kep*" in repair by tho city, and the cost of this work, which in Philadelphia is borne by th" railway companies, in Detroit falls on tho taxpayers So all the taxpayers who ride in tho cars pay indirectly somet. ing in addition to the 3^ cents which tho company charges. This is tho reply mado by the old company to the showing made by the new company.

It has been proved pretty conclusively that the old Detroit company cannot make money carr: ing passengers at 3 cents. It might have made a little at that rate if it had kept a monopoly of the business. But now that it must divide its business with a new company it cannot prosper. It must earn r..» ch more proportionally th^n the new company, because its road was constructed and its plant put in when electric traction was comparatively new and costly.

Tho editor of The Street Railway Journal recently sent a representative here to study the situation, and he came to the conclusion that only two conditions wouicl make 3 cent fares possible—the cheap construction of new lines in rapidly growing communities or the granting of a monopoly to some one street railway company. Tho Toronto roads are quoted as an exam.plo by the advocates of cheap faros, but in

Toronto thero is a monopoly. The city took possession of the railways in 1890, paid for them at an appraised value anil leased them to a syndicato of United States and Canadian capitalists. Having a monopoly, this syndicato could restrict tho construction of lines to profitable streets and make tho people on other streets walk some distance to get a car. If all street railroads were constructed on this economic principle, car riding could be cheapened.

Finally the owners of other street railroad systems who have examined the Detroit plan say that tlie average cost of handling their trafflo is 60 per cent of the gross receipts, and that cutting off 40 per cent of the 5 cent fare would bring tho receipts down to tho le^el of tho running expenses of the road.

To all of their arguments the Detroit reformers reply by pointing to the overcapitalization of street railways in all the large cities and the prosperity of tho now Detroit concern, for the reform railway is undoubtedly prosperous. It is carrying nearly 50,000 passengers a day over 50 miles of track, and a good percentage of these is boing carried for more than 3% cents, which is the lowest rate of regular fare.

The franoliise of the new company runs for only 80 years. At the end of that time the oity will have the right to purchase the property at an appraised value.

JAMEH R. SAKDKRSON.

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TEMPORARY BLOOD SUBSTITUTE.

Why Saline Solution Is Injecfced»Into thv of Woauded Peysoip. Occasionally in cases of serioua wdfrjids where thero lias been .great loss of blood the published reports state,, that "saline solution" was injected intov the veins to supply the deficiency. Th® average reader, however, has a very vague if any idea how a solution of salt takes the place of blood.

Not to go into a complete analysis ot the blood, it is sufficient to note tliat of 1,000 parts, 7S0.15 is composed of wa- 3 ter, albumen 65 parts, sodium and po-? tassiuui 8.371, coloring matter (supplied by the red blood corpuscles) 183, leaving only some 12 parts to be composed of fibrin, fat, calcium and mag-^" cesium, etc. Where there is serious loss of blood a state of collapse sets in, because the normal weight of blood b( reduced the heart's action is din aished, there being less resistance for that organ to overcome.

To counteract the result of shock and collapse it is necessary to stimulate tho heart by restoring the normal weight, in other words to get it to work by giving it something to work on. As tho analysis shows, of 1,000 parts of blood nearly 800 are composed of water and sodium, and therefore a plain salina solution makes a good substitute. The heart does not know the difference, and it goes to pumping away as usual A soon as this imitation blood gets in the veins. The saline solution serves to tide the patient over the danger point. A the food is converted into chyle, nevf blood is formed, the red corpuscles are supplied rapidly from the normal tissues, and the saline solution is thrown off through the secretions in the usual way.

Formerly transfusion of blood was the means employed, but this always objectionable method has been supplanted. The greatest objection to the transfusion of blood from one person to another was that to supply the necessary amount to restore the wounded patient it was inevitable that the volunteer should be almost as badly drained, so that the physician would luive two patients on his hands where he had one. Besides there was always the risk of transfusing disease to the patient with the other's blood. Dor sand sheep have been sacrificed to surgery for this purpose, but most people prefer to use blood of their own manufacture to any imported from beasts or their fellow creatures.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

A DUEL WITH BIG GUNS.

A Stirring and Chivalrous Incident of tho Crimean War. The following story of the Crimean war is going tlia rounds of tho British press: One day the Russians sent a message to the English at tho timo a flag

The challenge was accepted, and everything arranged for 12 o'clock next day. When the time arrived, all the batteries cc::secl firing, and the two armies looked on. "Our sailors' gun detachment," says Sir Daniel Lyons, "mounted on the parapet and took off their hats, saluting the Russians. The Russians returned the compliment. The English gun was given the first shot as the senior gnn. It struck the side of the embrasure.

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truce was flying. "Your 08 pounder gun," said the boarer, "which your people call Jenny, is a beautiful gun, but wo thmk wd have one as good. We should like to have a fair duel with her."

Then

they fired—a very good shot too. "The third shot from Jenny weDt clean through the Russian embrasure and up went two gabions. The bluejackets jumped up on Iheir parapet and cheered, thinking they had beaten theil opponent. Not a bit! A minute afterward down went the gabions and oui came the Russian gun again. "Several more shots were fired from both sides, all very good ones. Jenny got a nasty thump, bnt it did her no harm. At length, I think after the seventh shot from our side, wo saw the Russian gun clean knocked over. "Our fellows cheered vociferously, and the Russians mounted the parapet and took off their hats in acknowledgment of their defeat. All the batteries then opened again. Thus ended the great duel."

How a Business Ulan Missed It. Two business men were talking sc loudly at lunch tho other day that 110 one within ten feet could help overhearing them: "X. called on you a week cr two ago, didn't he?" "Yes." "You didn't liiro him?" "No." 1 "Why not?" "Because he asked for a job. My idea is that if a man is as good a salesman as he claims to be lio doesn't need to hunt for a job. Plenty of jobs will hunt bim." "I'm glad you didn't hire him." "Why?" "Because I did. "You did?" "Yes." "What do you pay him?" I

What he asked." "Does he earn it?" "Bet your life! The fact is he is working like a tiger. Ho is making a big drive for your customers. He says you insulted him just because he was poor and out of a 30b, and that he will work nights and Sundays to get even. I think he will. You made a mighty bad break."

And then silenco fell.—Exchange. 4

Girdled by a ltailroad.

The American firm which finished the connecting link of 50 miles in the ohain of railroads encircling the island of Jamaica performed a great feat in engineering. The road runs entirely through mountains and morass. It has •27 tunnels, 193 girder bridges, 13 viaducts and 11 tower bridges. It is said that no such tremendous obstacles were ever met by engineers in a 50 mile stretch. The cost averaged morg^tha^ tlOQrOOO a mile.