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THE REPUBLICAN.

F«bllahed by W. S. MONTGOMERY.

•KERNFIELD INDIANA

"DAY unto da\ uttorcth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge," or as the Dutchman put it, "The longer we lif' the more we find efery day owit."

TIIE millenium may be approaching, but evidently the heavenly shadows have not as yet cast any gloom over old England. The marriage registries for the first quarter of 1894 exceed the first quarter of any year since 1883.

AN experienced New Yoi'k business man is of the opinion that big money is waiting for the man whOi will invent articles to sell for on©' Qent that will prove popular with children. Here is a chance for all to use their inventive powers.

WE are right in it. Let the Japs and Johns fight it out. "V^e can fur-! nish them all the cold lead neces-j sarv. The biggest load mine in the country was discovered at Dubuque,) la., Aug. 14. It contains caves, fullj of lead ore, as large as a meeting" house. Fifty thousand pounds are being taken out dailv.

THE "sun cure" is a fad with the bald headed men of New York. They: call them "sun worshippers" in. Central Park, and numbers of them-, pan be seen any clear day exposing1 their shining polls to the fierce rays Df a summer sun. It is stated on! what appears to be good authority' that many bald heads have raised aj "crop" this year in spite of the) flrought.

THE California fruit crop is said to be unprecedented this year. The' demand for these luscious-products Df the Pacific slope, in the Eastern States, has also increased in proportion, and prices are "firm" in spite of "hard times." California fruits and wines are now in demand in several European countries, and apparently there is a promising future for this industrv.

Joiin P. Chinaman is beginning to "catch on" to American ways, and, 'ere long we may hear of the ""boss" laundryman organizing and ordering' a general strike with disastrous results to those dependent on John for clean linen. Already a union for mutual protection has been organized in New York. Dop Sang Kong Saw is at the head of the movement. Chinese merchants will co-operate with the "washee" men, and American law}rers have been retained.

"THERE'S nothing in a name." Nevertheless, people take a pride in high-sounding cognomens, and an exceptionally suggestive title that invariably awakens mirthfulness or unpleasant thoughts is a positive detriment to any man who assumes to rise above the common level. A Wabash county man is complaining1 that he is badiv handicapped in the' race of life b\r the name which he inherited from his ancestors. He never gambled in his life, and is ignorant of all games of chance, yet' he is compelled to answer when addressed as Heironimcus. He cer-. tainly has a grievance against fate and is entitled to sympathy.

THE Union Stock Yards at Indianapolis appear to have escaped the "general depression" we read so much about, reports for 1894 so far: showing a comparatively large increase in nearly all lines of live: stock. For the first six months of: 1893 the receipts were as follows:! Hogs. 374,719 cattle, 33,32G sheep,' 20,337 horses, 3,9G0. The shipments were: Hogs. 214,817 cattle, 17,146 sheep, 15,512 horses 3,727. For the first six months of 3894 the receipts were: Hogs, 480,475 cattle, 36,717 sheep, 36,173 horses 3,227.' The shipments were: Hogs 281,503 cattle, 20,179 sheep, 28,333 horses,'

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According to Dr. S. S. Kilvemrton, the Mississippi receive.!.] during the past year 16"2,67o tons of garbage and offal, 108,ooO tons of night soil and :7Go dead animills from only eight cities the Ohio, 4(,700 tons of garbage, -1.157 tons of night soil and 510) dead animals from live cities: and the Missouri, .'W.OOD tons of garbage, ^2,-100 tons of night soil mid it 1,G0,» dead animals from four cities. Dr. Ivilvingtou urges the cremation of most of the refuse, find twenty-three out of thirtyfive health officials consulted by him favored (he plan.

She Let Him Down Hard.

Mr. Case (who has married his typewriter)—Well, my dear, I suppose I must be looking around for somebody to take your place in the office."

Mrs. Case—"Yes. I have been thinking of that.^ My cousin lsjust out o/ school." fgfs kf

Mr. Case—"Whnt's her name3""" ci Mrs. Case (sweetly)-^'.'.John Henry Briffgs."—Puck. t\

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A HARVEST OF DEATH.

Sad Sunday Scenes In Northern Minnesota.

SIX TOWNS WIPED OUI AM) FIVE HUNDKE1) PEOPLE PE11ISH.

Devastation and Death Spread Sorrow an" Desolation to Hundreds of Homes— Property Loss Amounts to

Millions.

Minnesota has never known a calamity attended with such loss of life as that brougllfc by the lire which wiped out Hinckley, Mission Creek, Sandstone, Sandstone Junction, Pokegama and the other settlements in that vicinity, Saturday, Sept. 1. A conservative estimate places the loss of life at not less than 3".(), while many others have suffered injuries and unknown others are among the missing. To this horror of death in its most horrible form must be added the utter desolation and destitution that has come upon thousands of others whose all has been swept away in the face of impending winter. There is a peculiar horror about the fatality in the admitted impossibility of identification in a very large proportion of the deaths.

The town of Hinckley is about half way between St. Paul and Duluth. It has been wiped out by forest lires, The list of dead cannot be estimated with certainty. The little town of Mission Creek, north of Hinckley, is also wiped out.

The loss in }he neighborhood of St. Cloud, whbh is on the western edge of the fires, is estimated at $200,000, and from that point east and north nearly everything is burning. The fires are raging in ,lie_'ker and Aitken counties, where many farmhouses and much grain has been lost, as well as the timber.

From the stories of passengers on the lirrited train, which was burned near Hinckley, the entire train crew deserve to be placed on the roll of honor for personal heroism. Engineer James Root, of White Hear, heads the list and will have a thrilling story to tell if he recovers from his injuries. He was badly burned ana almost blinded and fell from his seat unconscious immediately on getting through the lires. Fireman John McGowan was a good companion for him in the cab, and the other members of the crew were lit associates for the hero who led them into what was literally a fiery furnace. When about two miles north of Hinckley, Engineer Root first discovered that the fires which had been raging on both sides of the track were racing him for his life and the lives of his passengers. Cinders were flying in every direction and the smoke was so dense it was well nigh impossible to see beyond the cab windows even with the aid of the powerful headlight. At lirst he thought to outrun the flames, which were coming after and bearing down upon him at a sixty-mile gait. When about a mile and a half from Hinckley he discovered that the lire was too fast for him, having overtaken the train and leaped it, so that the train was literally surrounded with flames. The air was stilling and the heat so intense that the :lothing of the cabmen was ignited. McLiowan leaped into the water tank, extinguishing the fire in his own clothes, and then seizing a bucket, dashed water over the burning engineer. Root steadily kept at his post, although scarcely able to sit upright.

The story of the catastrophe which wiped out the material possessions that had made Hinckley a busy, a prosperous little city is a short one. The town was built of wood. The school house, erected last year at a cost of SIO.OJO, and onerhalf the Duluth round-house, were the only brick structures in the city. By one of those peculiar freaks for whbh there is no accounting, the Eastern Minnesota round-house and water tank, on the southwestern edge of town, almost in the woods, escaped the flames—a circumstance the more remarkable from the fact that it stood directly in the path of the flames, which seemed to have escaped it as c-lean-lyas if-playiug leap-frog. All Saturday forenoon the townspeople were apprehensive. The smoke rolling up from the south told a story unmistakably plain to those accustomed to a wooded country. The fire kept advancing fanned by the wind which was blowing a gale. About 11 o'clock the company got out their engine and laid an eighteen-hundred-foot line of hose to the southern outskirts of the Town. The hose was al! too short for the measure of protection desired and a telegram was sent to Rush City for more.

About 3 o'clock in the afternoon the lire literally jumped iuto the town.

Another train on the Hinckley & St. Cloud branch made a similar attempt to take passengers to a place of safety. Its path lav directly across the path of the lire and" their situation steadily became desperate, The ties weie burning, the rails were warping and the trestles were sagging under the train. The smoke had increased so that the engineer was helpless. He could not see the train behind him. Burning trees lay across the track and were being tossed aside by the engine. Suddenly the track gave way and the train toppled off to one side. No one was injured, and they pressed to Pokegama station, a few rod's ahead. But a few feet

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in front of the engine was discovered a gorge sixty feet wide and forty feet deep where the trestle had been burned away. They succeeded in reaching the clearing about the station and escaped with a few burns and bruises. There were burned along the .track, however, four or live people.

The people who were left in the city were in what seemed to be an almost hopeless condition. Egress by the only means of transportation that could hop.to distance the swiftly advancing flames was out of the "question. The men had been fighting the lire for hours and the women and children were in a panicstricken condition. Probably two hundred of them left town on foot or in vehicles, plunging into the woods to the north across the Grindstone river, which skirts the town on the north. They were literally fleeing before the pursuing demon of fire. Over the hill that rises beyond the Grindstone is a swamp, and to this most of the people with teams headed, but it proved no protection. The fire gave them no opportunity to go further. Some abandoned their teams and ran into the lower portions of the morass, but the lire sought them out. Not one was left to tell the tale, and there. Saturday morning. in a space of little more than four or five acres, were counted over one hundred thirty corpses.

The situation at Sandstone is even more appalling than at Hinckley, except in point of numbers. Of the 200 people in the town one-fourth are dead. A survivor who reached St. Paul, reports seeing forty corpses, charred and burned beyond recognition in one spot.

The story from all the other towns is substantially the same. Destruction, ruin and death oneyery hand. The most heartrending and pathetic scenes are reported —details of woe and sorrow, families forever separated, orphans and widows, bereavements appalling, innumerable,crushing. No such calamity has ever before visited the region of the great Northwest.

The Fresh Young Man.

Argonaut. A very "fresh" young man lately made the acquaintance of a young lady from Boston, to whom he proceeded to pour out a long story of some adventure in which he had played the hero. His listener was much surprised. "Did you really do that?" she asked. "I done it," answered the proud young man, and he began forthwith upon another long narrative, more startling even than the first. The Boston woman again expressed her polite surprise. "Yes," said the fellow, with an inflation of the chest, "that's what I done." A third story followed, with another "I done it.:' and then the Boston girl remarked: "Do you know you remind me so strongly of Ban~ quo's ghost?" "You mean the ghost in Shakespeare's play?" "Yes." "And why?" "Why. don't you remember that Macbeth said to him, 'Thou canst not say I did it?' The young man could not imagine why everybody laughed.

AVhat Caused Hard Times.

Judge Hubbard of Iowa says it is the existence of private corporations. George Gould says it is the hostility to corporations.

The farmer says it is the low price of wheat. The silver man says it is action of Wall street.

Wall street says it is the action of the silver men. The manufacturer says it is the fear of free trade.

The consumer says it is the tariff. The debtor says it is creditor. The creditor says it is the debtor. The Democrats say it is the He-, publicans.

The Republicans say it is the Democrats. The Populists sa_y it is both.

The Prohibitionists say it is whisky. The preachers say it is the devil.

Now, what is your idea?

Held a Royal Flush.

Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.

"What was the idea of placing a tax on playing cards?" asked Van Braam. "Uncle Sam wanted to take_ a hand in the game," explained Shingiss.

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proach was not gradual. It did not eat its way along, devouring everything in its path, but came in huee leaps, as if to overtake everything fleeing before it, and then burned back at its leisure. It is described by those who witnessed its onward progress at Hinckley and elsewhere as if it were forced along by cyclones of its own generation. The intense heat would develop a veritable whirlwind of llaine that actually twisted off poplar trees several inches in thickness and carried huge blazing lirebrands high in the airland carrying them forward for from forty to eighty rod#, there to fall and begin the work of devastation anew. A train came in and efforts to rescue the people were made. A number of box cars were coupled on and lil'.ed and covered with men, Women and children. Some were bareheaded, some were coatless. some few clutched a pitiful bundle of the more precious of their portable possessions. Families were separated. Children joined the throng and left their parents. In all there was a motly crowd of about 450 or more people. The*train pulled out just ahead of the fire, and suereeded in ultimately reaching Duluth. This circumstance, while fortunate in a degree that cannot be estimated, has made the confusion greater, for it is not known who escaped in this way. and many people are reported dead who may be in safely.

Woman—How are codfish selling, young feller? Grocer's Clerk—We've had a big demand today. "What's the cause?" "Well, we're going out of the codfish business, and I guess the customers is buying it for souvenirs."

Better Than Detectives.

Pearson's.

A.—Why, man, all your shop girls are squint-eyed! Can't you manage to obtain a prettier set?

B.— I have got these as a protection against shoplifters. The sqamps will never know where the girls are looking. __ "What made you tell your mother you had tooth-ache? Now she'll give you medicine."

Johnnie—Yes. but she'll pay .me furtakin' it. an' then we can go an' get- ice cream. "How is it that that plain Miss Striker is so popular with the gentlemen?

Because she will sit through a game of baseball without ever asking a question."

Relative—I notice that you have at last got acquainted with your next-door neighbor who has lived along side of you for the past ten years.

Mrs. D'Avnoo—Yes, we were introduced to each other at the Pyramids of Egypt, and I find Iter a delightful companion WT became verv intimate.

"Jangle is a man of good, address, isn't he?" "Well, how could it be worse. It's No. 1313th street."

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Texas cotton crop is estimated 1,824,982 bales. Three people lost their lives in a New York tenement house lire. Wednesday.

Mr. Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland. is visiting Andrew Carnegie at Cluny Castle. 2 Drought in New YorkJState is without precedent. Farmers are mourning the loss of crops.

Mgr. Satolfi, the Pope's legate in this country, will return to liome at the close of this year.

The Tillman forces were generally successful in the South Carolina primary elections, Tuesday. 5Mary Hopkins, who has been stealing horses by the wholesale in Kansas, has been captured.

The Canadian Pacific table of earnings for the last half year shows a decrease nearly $1.( 01000."

The little town of Vesper, Wis., was completely wiped out by lire, the loss being about $L"»,000.

Several nuggets of gold worth six dollars each were found in thelirown county gold mines last week.

President Cleveland left Washington. Wednesday, to join his family at Gray Gables. Buzzard's Bay.

For the three days ending Aug. 31. the receipts at the New York custom house amounted to tJ.lSI7.('70.

Carlisle now rules that all goods in transit when the tariff bill became law shall get the benefit of the act.

Forest tires continue to rage in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, and in the former State several towns are endangered.

Dr, Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated liis eighty-fifth birthday at Beverly Farms, Mass.. Aug. 29. The venerable poet is in good health and says he is t'eighty-five years young."

Hon.-W. C. Owens, candidate against W. C. P. Breckinridge for the Democratic Congressional nomination in the Lexington, Ky., district, was hanged in effigy at Richmond. Ivy., Wednesday night.

Judge Bartlett, of the Supreme Court of New York, has decided that public school teachers can enforce the regulations preventing the attendance of children who have not been vaccinated.

The War Department has granted a discharge to Grover Flint, a private in A Troop of the United States Cavalry, stationed at Ft. Meyer, to allow him to become the possessor of a fortune estimated at 5500,000. 4 Frederick Walker, of Riverdale, 111., while in the vicinity of Hammond, making his way to Wolf lake, was assaulted by footpads, who knocked him insensible with a coupling pin and robbed him of lOO and his shotgun.

A Washington dispatch, Aug. 30. states that Senator Vuorhees is in very bad health, It is understood that Senator Gorman will use his influence to elect Congressman Bynum to succeed Voorhees in the United States Senate.

Six negroes, under arrest near Mem phis, Tenn.. on a charge of arson, were shot by a mob, Sept. 1. while being taken bV oilicers to a place of safety. All were killed. It is claimed that the lynchers are known and will be arrested and puirished.

The whisky trust officials are accused of "rigging"' the market for their personal gain during the past few days, and in doing so let the interests of the company suffer. It is said that some of them have made $1,000,000 by speculating in their own stock during the past week.

John King, a Breckinridge rfian, and Geo. Cook, a supporter of Owens, near Boonesboro. Ky., Aug. 29, became involved in a quarrel over the, Breckinridge scandal. Both drew knives and blood flowed freely until Cook dropped, having three stabs in the breast. King escaped.

The preliminary examination of Gov. Wait, at Denver, Friday, by I'. S. Commissioner Hinedale, on a charge of opening a letter addressed to the police matron, resulted in the Governor's prompt discharge. The chief of police and the present matron were held for trial on the same charge.

There was a wholesale discharge of employes in the Government Printing Ollice, .Monday, over five hundred being let out. Several Indiana men were on the list, among them A. G, Defrees, of Indianapolis, son of ex-Public Printer John I). Defrees. He was one of the oldest empioyes in the office.

At Fincastle, Wolf county. Kentucky Joe Gum left his three-year-old child in care of its cousin, Henry Gum, while he went to work in the cornfield. The boy becoming 'tired of his charge, beat its brains out with a club and threw the body into a creek. He was arrested and is now in jail at Beattyville.

The great parade of the K. of P. National Encampment,, at Washington, was reviewed by the President. from a small stand in front of the White House, Indiana knights to the number of 450. commanded Ly Col. J. R-. Ross, led the column, following the citizen's committee and .Major-General Carnahan and staff.

The Leona river at Uvalde, Tex., swollen by recent rains, burst from its banks, Friday, and rushed without warningdown upon the town, submerging and wrecking many houses and drowning many people. Five bodies were recovered. The number of fatalities can not be estimated. Great destruction to railway tracks occurred in all parts of the country. Bottomless cracks a quarter of a mile long appeared in the earth.

The steamer Mariposa arrived at San Franciso, Aug. 30, bringing news from Auckland, Apia and Honolulu. There has been further lighting in Samoa between native factions, and forcible interference by British and German warships stationed at Apia. Fighting was still going on when the steamer left Apia. The news of Cleveland's recognition of the Republic of Hawaii was received at Honolulu with great rejoicing.

The investigation into the delinquent tax scandal at Memphis took another sensational turn, Wednesday, when James .'Harris, Controller of Tennessee, armed .with a force of expert accountants, began ftoexamine the books of the officials of JShelby county for the purpose of ascertaining the exact amount of money out 'of which the State has been defrauded. jThe frauds will reach a total of ¥4,000,000, ,and cover a period of ten years. 'GThe beginning of the work of distributing seeds by the Agricultural Department |has been delayed by the lateness oI the passage of the appropriation bill by Con

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gress. The force to perform the work this season will probably be organized in the beginning of October, and it will begin in January. The long inaction of the bill has also prevented the department from obtaining a number of vegetable seeds, notably turnips. The amount allowed for tiie work, last year, was $(.0,0)0, and this year it is ?10.000 less.

A Paris dispatch savs: Mrs. W. K. Yanderbilt has unuer consideration the advisability of instituting proceedings for divorce. The difficulties, it is said, nearly reached a climax some months ago, when tiie party on the yacht Valiant in the Mediteranean separated. About, ten weeks ago Cornelius Yanderbilt went to London to stop further proceedings, but was unsuccessful. Mrs. Yanderbilt is represented by Col. Wm. Jay. of New York, who is now in Germany.

The Supreme Lodge of tiie Knights of Pythias at Washington considered the report, Friday afternoon, from tiie committee appointed to draft a new ritual for the uniform rank. A discussion of the proposed amendments to the constitution, which will establish a judicial body analonus to the Supreme Court, absorbed most of the session. It is reported that an amendment, will be recommended excluding liquor dealers and bartenders from admission to the order.

Col, Bowles, of Kentucky, a life-long Democrat of the mountain region, has joined the Republican party on account ef the tariff. Mr. twles is largely interested in coal, lumber and iron.

Public Printer Benedict discharged about three hundred employes from the Government Printing Office. Tuesday, who had been appointed

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tion of Senator Gorman. These men were let out, it is said, on an order from the White House, and is an incident of tho war waging between the President and Senator Gorman, growing out of the tariff light. Gormen, as chairman of the Sernitd printing committee, has been dominating the Public Printing Office. He was only a minority member of the committee under the Harrison administration, but controlled nearly two hundred appointments eyen then.

Secretary Carlysle believe that the total amount of whisky taken from bond before the new tariff .law went into effect will be disposed of inside of two months, and that the payments of taxes on whisky will then be resumed. For the last week the receipts from that source amounted to practically nothing. The first week's operation of the new tariff law hi.s shown that it is satisfactory as a revenue measure to the Treasury officials. The receipts for the last week were larger than for any similar period in the history of the Government.

Hon. W. E. Wilson, author of the Wilson bill, was renominated for Congress at Martinsburg, W. Va., Aug. 29. by the most enthusiastic convention ever held in the district. The popular chairman of the ways and means committee, upon his arrival from Washington, was seized by the enthusiastic Democrats who were at the train to receive him, carried bodily to a carriage in waiting and hauled by hand to the Central Opera House, where the convention was held. His reception amounted to more, than an ovation. The convention was the largest ever held in the district, and by far the most enthusiastic. Strong resolutions indorsing Mr Wilson's course were adopted. Mr. Wi son made a speech, in which he thanked his constituents for the renomination. and explained why his tariff hill failed, and scored the Democratic traitors who were responsible for its failure. He claimed that the Senate bill, however, is a great improvement, over the McKinley law, and indorsed President Cleveland's letter to Representative Catchings.

N. W i\ UANK.S,

The distinguished Massachusetts soldiei and statesman, died at Waltham, Saturday, Sep. 1. Nathaniei Prentis-s Hank* was born in Waltham. Mass., .Jan., 3) 1810. lie was educated as a lawyer anc v.-as elected to the Legislature in 1849. Ii 1S.')3 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat. but afterward withdrew from thai party, and was re-elected as a KnowNothing, and was elected Speaker of tin House, after a contest lasting two months He was re-elected to the riiirty-filth Congress as a Republican, and served until 1S57. when he was elected Governor o1 -Massachusetts, being honored by re-elec-tion in 1858 and 1859. In 18 i() tie became president of the Illinois Central railroad but resigned when the war broke out. anc went, into the army as major-general volunteers.beinc assigned to duty as commander (if tiie Fifth Corps in the Army o' the Potomac, lie was relieved of his command in May.18(4, resigned his eommismission, and returned to Massachusetts where he was again elected to Congress several times. For several years lie was-

United States Marshal for Massachusetts

FOREIGN,

Restriction^' by Belgium are likely interfere with American cattle..exporter to that country.

Tiie Toronto city council has passed strong protest against the employment alien labor at the industrial exhibition..

The Czar and Czarina, with the Czarevitch and their two younuest children have started for the forest of lljelovesii Professor Zaccharin, the Czar's medica attendant, accompanied the party.

Advices from Chee Foo state that tli Japanese fleet has again attacked Poin Arthur/.. Chinese Junks from New Chwang report passing many corpses Japanese soldiers at tiie mouth of tin Tat.ung river. This is taken as a confirmation of the reported .Japanese defeat on that river. taw Rate Kxiturtbin to Maciune Islam' ami Petoskey via Fennsylvaula I.ine* Leaving Indianapolis at 8 a. m.r September 11th. Only for round trip to Petoskey or Traverse City and $7 to Macinat Island, For further information apply tc tickets agents or address, W. BV Brunner D. P. A,, Indianapolis.

DANA'S POINTED ADVICE.

Joe Howard Tells a Good One at His Own Expense.

Ne-v York Kecorder.

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Dumpy and the Old Timer. Detroit Free Press.

Farm ?r Strawbind was lolling at a zowier on Cadillac square yesterday morning, when Dumpy, the newsboy bore down upon him. Dumpy, who is said to hail from the East, is snown among his companions as a 'tor row bred." "All about de races and de bal-} ?ame. Paper, sir?"

Strawbind meditated while he itared at Dumpy. "All about de races and de ball jame," he repeated, pulling out a japer and holding it up to the 'armer. "I hear ye, my sonny," said Strawbind. "Want a paper?" "Never said I did." "All de news." "Ain't no news to me, sonny," laid the farmer. "Before your' nothermet your dad. I was reckoned tiptopper at all them sports at th$ )ack end of the State wliar I live. Black Mud Crik was way up for its sports when I were a youngster an' I've nuthin' to larn from your town' ?alves. Sports in my day was sports, :hat's what they was. sonny." "Paper gives 'count of de horses' tnd de heats," said Dumpy. "Maybe it does, but they hain't *ot no horses like the ones we used' ride. They's nowadays like the j-enuwine hacks primed up with a_$f lose of ginger. Them horses could lake any kind of a track, and when ihev had the ginger in 'em they nev?r knew one kind of track from luther, they was so full of life. They ion't know what hossracing is. soniy, nowadays, and I'm too old to :ake in hand their eddication." "Ever see de hosses run in de nooiiatie sulkies?" "Wull. what does a youngster & ike you know about the races?" "I've been to them, mister." "Yer hev, hev yer? Don't yer„ \now it's wicked?" "Nope, not when yer make a pi swell mug cough up five good plunks. rt was a dead straight tip that made him drop the wad." "Five plunks?" "Dat's what said." "Wull. wull, wull." "I went to de races and I heerd :lem all talkin' about de hosses, air ibout dem dat was to win, see? I aid nuthin' but looked up de list, xn' saw de horse dat wasn't mentioned. Bonesey. a friend of mine, aid: 'Dumpy,' says he, 'dere's de boss dat goin' to lead 'em under de cvire. an' I put one ease der.' It was a ringer, and de dude who taut be had a mug an' could run me blind event home with less cargo than hp ?ame. see." If "Which way do ye go to the race:|§ sonny?" 1

A Tonehini Dilemma.

Life.

A citizen of Montreal lately on a visit to Ottawa, while passing dowM the hotel corridor to his room late hour, happened to groans and sobs issuing from one the jooms. As the door was open he ?ntcred, and recognized a fellow Montrealer, prominent in political' I and business circles, and famous foi [lis religious and alcoholic tenden-:-ies. He was kneeling at his bedside, clinging to the side of the bed and sobbing as though his hea's^ would brealc. "What's the matter, old man?" inquired our friend, touching the sul'ferer on the shoulder. "I'm so drunk I can't say rn\ prayers," was the tearful response,

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the lifetime of a generation only. 31'-. Dana was managing editor and 1 a correspondent of a metropolitan journal. Abraham Lincoln had siirncd a proclamation, the first call for troops during the civil war. I think it was in April, 1861. I was in Washington at the time, and, being impressed in my little journalistic heart with the importance of the occasion, I ventured, as an introduction to the literal proclamation phrase, upon a quotation from a favorite hymn in our family circle worded thus: '"We are living, we are dwelling in a grand aiil awful time: In an aj/e on telling, to be living is sub-^ linn-." '"What then 'must- it be to be a factor in the affairs of nations, such as Abraham Lincoln. President of the United States, who tonight has affixed his signature to the proclamation?'' And then followed the Lincolian document. Two days aft:rward received from brother Dana by mail, not by wire, a cautionary suggestion to the following street: '"Dear Mr. Howard—After this if in your dispatches you really must! ilrop into poetry, telegraphy being four cents a word, won't you kindly wire us the number of the hymn, aS} tve have the book in the office?"

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He Couldn't be in Love.

Texas- Sift ingtv *'-1 The director of a certain bank re ceived his cashier one morning witi an evidently discomposed face. "Sir," said he, "I am unable t( hide from von longer that which it on my heart." (The banker grows pale.) "I am. in. love with you»f daughter."

Now the banker breaths freeii but adds: "Are you sure you never mala mistakes?" .. /.$ "Indeed, sir, I never do." .uThen' I refuse you her hand, fo% You. can't be in. love."