Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1890 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 5, .-1890.

HARRISON'S BRIGADE.

Condensed Story of the Achievements of the Gallant Fellows Boon to 3Iee tat Galesburg. Chicago Tribune. President Harrison daring the latter part of the rebellion commanded the First Brigade. Third Division, of the Twentieth Army Corps, which brigade Trill hold its annual reunion at Galesburg. beginning Oct. 7. The President was invited to meet his old comrades-in-arms, but it was not definitely known until the receipt of the dispatch by Colonel Corbin whether lie would accept. , . President Harrison entered the arniy as Colonel of the Seventieth Indiana Regiment, and the brigade was made up of this body, together with the Seventy-ninth Ohio, the One-bundred-and-second, Oue-hundred-and-fifth. and One-hundred-and-twenty-ninth Illinois regiments. As the major part of President Harrison's service was under Gen. W. T. Sherman; it follows that he wm not idle during the hostilities. He led his regiment at Resaca. and. although in the Iront of the strife, was unhurt, emerging from the battle colonel commanding the brigade. General Ward, the brigade chief, having been wounded in the action. At Gilgal Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Nashville, and in minor engagements, Harrison and his command earned laurels which will never fade. The brigade was always at the front, and, contrary to the general practice of the officer in command, Harrison was invariably in the lead of his men. President Harrison organized his regiment in 1SC2. in response to Lincoln's call for additional troops, when Bragg was threatening Ohio and Indiana and General BuelL of the federal forces, was not at all certain that he could successfully resist the confederate chieftain. The late Mr. Morton, at that time Governor of Indiana, was gloomy, as was the public generally. The Hoosier State with difficulty contributed its quota of men. At this juncture Mr. Harrison, who bad just been elected Reporter of the Indiana Supreme Court, culled on the Governor and protlered his services in the work of recruiting a regiment. Governor Morton offered him the command of the regiment, but the future brigade chief, feeling his lack of military knowledge, declined the colonelcy, and took instead a commission as second lieutenant. After the regiment was ready for the held, however, he assumed command. The Seventieth Indiana was brigaded with the Ohio and Illinois regiments mentioned above, and singularly enonab, considering the various transfers made dnring the war, the brigade organization of these regiments remained unchanged to the end. The fraternal feeling and spirit of comradeshin existing between the officers and men of the various regiments which comprise the brigade are remarkable. They crew to respect and admire each other while in troublous and continuous service. The brigade to which Harrison's regiment was attached was in charge of General V. T. Ward, of Kentucky, a competent and brave soldier. In virtue of the seniority of his commission Colonel Harrison's regiment took the risht of the brigade. In 1S04 the brigade, which had been in the Eleventh Corps, became, by the consolidation of the Eleventh and Twelfth, the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Twentieth Army Corps, and remained so numbered until the close of the rebellion. It was not until 1SG4 that Harrison and his command did any hard fighting. They bad been involved in numerous skirmishes while on railroad guard dutr, but thoir first great battle was that of liesaca. May 15, lbtl. Acting upon the orders of General W ard. Colonel Harrison led bis' brigade in the attaok upon Johnston's battery. The charge was made afoot, field and staff oilicers all having dismounted by order of Col. Harrison, as the underbrush was so dense as to seriously impede the movements of horses. The redoubt was captured by the First Brigade at the point of the bayonet, without a shot having been tired by the attacking forces. It is one of the few instances in history of a silent charge and capture, and to Harrison's brigade fell nearly all the glory which the Union forces have been able to extract from the Resaca engagement. Colonel Harrison is said to have been the first to cross the parapet on this occasion, and led the hand-to-hand combat which followed, for. the confederates did not yield without a stubborn contest. Owing to a misconstruction of orders, Harrison's men did not retain their position permanently. They were lired upon by the federal and Southern troops both, and it is almost a miracle that any of them are left to hold their annual reunion. Harrison's men were enthusiastic in their admiration of him after Resaca and on that stricken field christened him "Little Ben." by which title they have since Known him. General Bnttertield. after the capture of Cassville. in which the First Brigade did ?obie service, issued an order in the highst degree complimentary to the brigade. The Third Division, and particularly the First Brigade, made good their claims to admiration by their gallant light at New Hope Church, May 25, less than two weeks after Resaca. At New Hope a serious complication, due to the blunder of a guide, arose. Harrison's entire command found itself far to the trisht of the position assigned it and was subjected to a heavy fire of canister, grape, railroad-spikes anything, in fact, that could be loaded into a cannon. All day long the First Brigade retained its position, hugging the half-finished breast-works and maintaining an unequal warfare. At night a Wisconsin regiment came to its relief. May 9 the battle of Gilgal Church was fought. Ward had been advanced to division commander, and, although he had previously led the bnfade. it was not until Gilgal that Colonel larrison became chief of the body. He retained such position until mustered out at the close Jf the war. Kenesaw's blood-bathed mountain followed Gilgal Church, and less than a month distant Harrison and his men were again conspicuous. Hooker, riding, down the line, complimented the brigade, and to ita commander said: "By , I'll make you brigadier-general for this tight!" After Kenesaw Colonel Harrison, having been two years in the field, returned to Indianapolis to visit his family, and extended hU stay to canvass tne State for more troops. He subsequently commanded his troops at Nashville and in the brief campaign in the vicinity. The yearly reunions of the First Brigade have been the largest of any of the minor -veteran organizations. The men all retain the warmest love for their commander, and will be glad to learn of his intention to be with them. In this city there are many private soldiers of the brigade as well as several who had commissions. Colonel Corbin. of Miles' star!, stationed in Chicago, commanded the Seveuty-ninth Ohio; Sam Chase, assessor of the North Town, was with the One-hundred-and-hfth Illinois; Capt, W. M. Meredith, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at Washington, was with the Seventieth Indiana. The Ocean Cables of the "World. Herbert L. Webb, in October ficribner. 'According to the latest report of the International Bureau of Telegraph Administrations, the submarine telegraph system ot the world consists of 120,070 nautical miles of cable. Government administrations own 12,524 miles, while 107,546 are the property of private companies. The total cost of these cables is in the neighborhood of $000,000,000. The largest owner of submarine cables is the Eastern Telegraph Company, whose system covers the ground from England to India, aud comprises 21,tO) miles of cable. Tho Eastern Extension, which exploits the far East, has 12,053 miles more. Early in last year the system of West African cables, which started from Cadiz only six years ago, was completed to Cape Town, so that the Dark Continent is now completely encircled by submarine telegTaph, touching at numerous points along the coast More than 17,000 miles of cable have been reqnired to do .this, and several companies with more or less aid from the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese governments have participated in carrying out the work. The North Atlantic is spanned by no lens than eleven cables all laid since 1670. though I think not all are working at the present time; five companies are engaged in forwarding telegTams between North America and Europe, and the total lengthof the cables owned by them, including coast connections, U over CO.00O nautical miles. Where Uambetta's Heart Is. Tarls DUpattb to London Dally Telegraph. After the unsuccessful search for the bones of Mirabeau. people are now asking what has become of the heart of the more modern tribune. Leon Gambetta. It is said that Paul Bert, the chemist and politician, who was Gambetta's friend and disciple, showed the heart of the great republican whom he had followed to somobody at Cabors. This was oa the occasion of the Inauguration of the monument to the tnemory of Gambetta in the southern town Trhsratha crater tad patriot Hut

saw the light in the grocery establishment kept by his respected father. Paul Bert was at the unveiling of the monnment in his capacity as a friend of Gambetta, and said that he intended to put the heart in the monnment to be erected to his dead patron in Paris, but ho himself succumbed to fever in the far East before the Gambetta memorial, now in the square of the Louvre, was ever begun. Ever since M. Bert's death the place where the heart has been deposited has remained a mystery.

THE PIONEER EXPRESSMAN. Difficulties Encountered by William F, Ilarnden In Founding the Business. New York Bur. A Western newspaper recently attempted to tell its readers about the pioneer of the express business, but hardly did the subject justice. To William F. Harnden belongs the credit of recognizing a public want before the public had any definite idea of what the want was, and not merely recognizing it. but going practically, and with characteristic energy, to work to supply it. When ho had justified the feasibility of his project by its success, the motive Eower of competition was superadded to is previous stimulus by tho creation of one rival express after another. Harnden was born in 1812 at Reading, Mass. His father was a honse painter, and the boy got few educational advantages. He was well brought up and possessed few vices. His physique was fragile, but he had a strong will and tremendous ambition. It was while conductor of the first railroad train ever run in New England that he conceived the idea of establishing an express business. This was in 1834, and the railroad was from Boston to Worcester. It was not, however, until 1839 that he took the first important step in his enterprise by making a contract with the Boston &. Providence railroad for express facilities. It was in February of that year that he caused to be inserted in a Boston newspaper this announcement: Boston and New York Express Car. Important to Merchants, Brokers, Book-sellers and Others. W. F. Harnden, for the last five years conductor and passenger clerk for tbe Boston Sc Worcester Railroad Company, has made arrangements with the Providence Railroad and New York Steamboat Company to ruu a car through from Boston to New York, and vice versa, four times a week, commencing Monday, March 4. He will accompany the car himself . for the purpose of purchasing goods, collecting drafts, notes and bills. Orders of tbe kind promptly attended to. He will take charge of all small packages of goods, bundles, etc., that may be intrusted to bis care, and see them safely delivered, and attend to forwarding merchandise of all descriptions (except that proscribed by tbe railroad companies) If directed to his care. All packages, bundles, etc., must be sent to the office, No. 9 Court street. Boston, or No. 1 Wall street. New York. Orders may be left at J. W. Clark & Coa. No. 6 City Hall; Coleman's Pavilion, Tremont street; K. C. Stowell, No. 7 Elm street. .Boston, and at J. P. Bmith & Cos, 30 Wall street. New York. Will leave Boston Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and New York tbe same days. For several months the original expressman had no use for a whole car. He could easily carry all the packages in a valise. This historical article passed into the possession of Benjamin P. Cheney, of Boston. Ono of Iiarnden's first asssistants in the enterprise was his brother Adolphns. He served as messenger until Jan. 13. 1840. when he met a tragic fate. He was crossing the sound on the steamer Lexington with $00,000 in specie for delivery to the Merchants' Bank on account of tho government, when a fire broke out in some cotton on board. It was a cold and stormy night. Tbe steamer's rudder became misplaced. The fire could not be extinguished, and the Lexington was burned to the water's edge, foundered, and with ber perished 110 men, eight women and three children. The specie was nover recovered. This calamity was a frightful blow to the original expressman, and to add to his misery the sound became so clogged with ice that boats could not be run. But he struggled along with his enterprise, aided by two brave messengers. Dexter Brigham, jr., and Lude Damon. That winter packages and parcels were carried over the route in sleighs, and the messengers were exposed to severe hardships. With tho opening of the Cunard steamship lino there came a decided improvement in the express business. The ottice in Wall street was part of O'Hearn's stationery store, and it proved inadequate for the packages. Harnden then found other quarters in the street, near Broad way, and took E. L. Stone into his employ. With his help the first express office was opened in Philadelphia in 1840. Major J. A. Pullen was employed by Harnden about this time as messenger between Boston and New York, via Providence, and later his brother-in-law. Captain John B. U. Fuller, entered the service. Harnden took Brigham into partnership Nov. 1, 1840, and sent him abroad to establish offices in Liverpool, London and Paris. Their next move of progress was to Albany, and their first agent there was Hoary Wells, afterward president of the American Express Company. Harnden was one of the first men to sow the seed of practical immigration. He extended his business to Scotland, Ireland and Germany, and so arranged it that Harnden & Co., at all their o dices in the United States, could make bills of exchange either upon their foreign agents'br upon first-class bankers in all those cities for the accommodation of immigrants, who, having settled and made a little money, desired to remit it safely and expeditiously to friends at home to pay their passage to America. Having made the arrangement widely known, the effect of it was soon manifested agreeably to Harn den's expectations. Tbe Irish and German residents began to buy the billsand send home for their relatives and friends. The facilities of remittance thus provided gave a very decided impetus to desirable immigration. Harden & Co. next made a deal with Train & Co., the large packet-ship owners in Boston, for tbe cheap conveyance of emigrants from Liverpool. This was supplemented by contracts with the owners of the numerous lines upon the New York and Erie canal for the exclusive use of all their passenger boats. So much attention was given by Harnden & Co. to their foreign branches that they neglected important developments on this side. Harnden died of consumption in January, 1845, aged thirty-three years, and his remains are at Mount Auburn, near Boston. The first opposition express was started in May, 1840, by P. B. Burke and Alvin Adams. - Wood Like Iron. Kew Bulletin. The jarrah wood is a species of eucalyptus, native of western Australia. The main difficulties in connection with its use in this country are the cost of freight for such heavy timber from Australia and its intense hardness, which makes it difficult for ordinary English carpenters' tdols to work it. The tree which produces it grows generally to a height of one hundred feet, and sometimes 150 feet. It is found only in western Australia, extending over the greater portion of the country from tbe Moore river to King George's sound, forming mainly the forests of these tracts. According to Baron Mueller, when selected from hilly localities, cut while the sap is least active and subsequently carefully dried, it proves impervious to the boring of insects. Vessels constructed solely ot it have, after twenty-five years' con t sot service, remained perfectly sound, although not coppered. It has been tried at tiree places in the Suez canal, and after ha ing been down seven years tbe trial samples were taken up in order that a report on their condition might be sent to Paris. From certain correspondence between Kew and some London vestries it appears that jarrah has lately been used by the Chelsea vestry for paving tho King's road, and by the Lambeth vestry in the Westminster Bridge road. Natural Color of Wool and Bilk. Clothier and Furnisher. There are certain fallacies abroad concerning the proper color of natural wool, and of natural silk, too, for that matter, so that a furnisher is very often compelled to keep his "natural" wool underwear of a decided, gray color, and his "natural" silk ditto of a rich salmon pink, which he furthermore is expected to verify as being the natural color of the undyed thread. Now. many a long hour's soak in the dyetub do both silk and wool undergo to acquire the "natural" color demanded by the public, and the customer is now so used to the deception which his persistently false notion compels the manufacturer to practice that he would not believe the real undyed fabric to be genuine if he saw it. A Division of Responsibility. Pack. Her Father What, you want to marry my daughtcrf Why, sir, you can't support her. 1 can hardly do it myself. Suitor (blankly) U-C-Can't wo chip in together!

PROVIDENCE rULLED THE STRING.

Engineer Who Believes a Wreck Was Averted by Dlrlne Agency. Eaniaa City Star. A dozen railroad engineers and conductors met by chanco the other day, and an old. gray-haired veteran of the cab told a story. He had been an engineer with a big reputation as a "runner'7 in the years gone by. but, on account of failing nerves and eyesight, was now enjoying an easy berth around the shops. He said: "It was when tbe old Y. M. & B. was first opened up," he began. "I was pullin' passenger, and took the first coach over the road. X got a good run, all day work, and was holdin' her down as a good thing. 'Bout a year after we'd got to doin' a good business 1 had some extra runnin' and lost my turn for a while, and run nights all of the time. It was my last trip before I'd get back my own run, and; 1 was feelin' glad to get on to the day 'trick' again. We'd had some mighty bad weather and lots of water fell. Our track was in pretty good shape,' though, and we didn't much fear washouts, so we kept up with the 'card' pretty well. On the night I spoke about I was on No. 2. We had a heavy train, but the machine I hadwasabk. to 'get there,' and I was on time until we struck a freight that conldn't take the siding. They 'swung us down' and we side-tracked until the freight got aWay. I was pretty warm over losing tho time, and when we lit out of there 1 pulled her right up to the notch and she went for all she was worth. We were makin' about forty-five miles an hour, and when we reached the 'fill' east of Wildcat I worked steam all the way down. We were 'bout half way to the crock when the bell rang. I worked mightv quick, but it was down hill and the rails vere wet. and I didn't get stopped until tbe pilot was almost over the bridge or where the bridge ought to be, 'cause when I stopped the headlight was sbinin' over a chasm. The bridge was washed away. Gad! You can tell just 'bout how I felt. "My fireman nearly fainted and I wasn't far behind him. Well, after we stopped, the conductor, a smart chap, with a fancy lamp and rubber colkir, came a runnin up, wantin' to know why I stopped. " 'Cause the bell rang. What did you pull the rope for?' 1 says. I didn't says he. " Well, who did!' I says. " No one,' says he, hot-like. " 'Well, some ono pulled it, or I wouldn't a stopped.' says I. "The 'con' looked at me a minute and just then the brakeman came up. '"Did you pull the rope, Joel' said the 'con.' " No, says Joe. "Just as sudden a thought struck mo and I told the 'brakey' to ask the porter. The 'coon' hadn't pulled the bell and the passengers in his car were all asleep until i jerked them endways with the 'air.' I took the conductor around to the front end and showed him the bridge. He was scared to death and we went back together through the train to see who pulled the bell-rope, but every mother's son of . them swore it wasn't touched. I begin to get scared again and told them about the bridge and everybody came out to look at it. We couldn't find any one who gave the signal, and after we'd flagged back to the station I got to thinkin' more and more, and I came to tho conclusion that the bell was rung by Providence. There was 150 people on the train, and if that bell hadn't a rung Pd a took them all over into the Wildcat and dropped them 100 feet into the water. There wouldn't been anybody left to tell about it, either. "The superintendent looked into tho thing after I had reported, and had me and Joe np 'on the carpet' twice, but we both heard the bell and swore to it. Some chap got out along explanation that the bell-rope was tight-stretched, and we struck a low joint coming down the hill, when one end of the coach sagged, and the rope bein' tight it rung the bell, but I don't believe it. It was Providence that did it, and I know it, and I've never swore an oath since and never will." THE PICKPOCKET'S SKILL. It Requires Nerve, Strength and Marvelous Dexterity to Be Successful. Kansas Citv Star. "There is no class of artists," said a renowned thief, "who in their calling are as dexterous as pickpockets. This is due to a double incentive. Not only does your pickpocket find a bait for effort and exertion in success, but. has the added spur of a fear of failnre. Success means as much to a pickpocket as to any man, and failure means a great deal more. A vocation in which the slightest slip means loss of liberty, and perhaps of life, will ever be apt to have a degree of expertness in its followers not present in more reputable and safer avenues of trade. Pickpockets, like poets, are born, not made. Their nerves must be iron and yet as sensitive as instinct. Their hands must be as complete in make-up and accomplishment as Herrmann's and strong as steel while light as down. Out of the vast army of humanity who are soldiers of the shadows only one-fourth of 1 per cent, can or do become pickpockets. These form the nobility of thieves and are reverenced by the burglar, the footpad, the sneak and the "con" man as of a higher class than they. The practice of a pickpocket while not really at work is as constant as that of some famed professor of the viol or harp. He keeps pace with tbe procession. Iso sooner does some jeweler invent a new fastening for diamond pins or studs than these men of finest touch devise the motion which evades its purpose. "The chief object of a pickpocket, after certainty, is speed. He cannot dally with his victim by the hour. What he does is to be over in a flash. Speaking of pins 'and studs, there has never been a fastening so complex but the expert thieves could defeat it in a motion. They do in their business as fine work as any Houdin, and the thief himself could not analyze or explain its detail. His powers of execution have gone far beyond his power of perception or relation. "A pickpocket consults his own nervous condition constantly. No lino lady ever has such a time with, her nerves as this aristocrat of the outlaws. If he does not feel right he won't 'work.' When he does, I've known one on the impulse to take a car on some well-dressed and wealthy street, and, seating himself side to the window, survey 'the shirt-front of every would-be passenger as the car came up. The moment one showed a diamond in his linen or cravat tho thief would hurry to the platform to get off. He would time his maneuvers so as to meet his man on the step of the car. ' They would collide. The thief s hat a stiff silk or derby is in his left hand and covers his dexterous right, which is put forward to protect its owner in the collision. It touches the newcomer right where the diamond sparkles, and is still covered by the hat in the other hand. With an apology the thief steps out of tbe way. The whole affair is the tenth part of a second, but as ho bows his regrets he has the diamond in that mysterious hand of his, aud, as 1 have said, he could not detail the moves by which he attained it. even" if he should try." Tested Her Art. Detroit Free Press. Two or throe afternoons since a patrolman on Woodward avenue was accosted by a stranger, who asked him where he could find "one o' them pictur painters." The officer naturally inquired what was wanted, and tho man replied: "I've got a gal a strappiu'big gal eighteen years old. She's got an idea that she is an artist, and she don't do nothin' but fool around with pictur e. I've got some of 'em here, and I want to ask an artist what he thinks of 'em." He was direoted to a stndio, and was gone half an hour. He didn't wait to be asked the result of his visit, but broke out with: "I knowed it all the time, but wanted to be sure!" "What did they say!" "When I showed him what she had drawed he jest laid back and snorted. Said she didn't know any more about art than a hen does about making pumpkin pies." "Then that settles itf ,T "You bet it settles it! I've 'lowed that great big gal to lolly around for a whole year, because she said she felt art inher soul. She'll be lollying when I git home, and about a minute after. Then she'll Hop over a new leaf so quick that some of the old masters will sit up in their graves and holler fur the police!" Bad Outlook for Caricaturists. Philadelphia Telegraph. It has been decided by an assembly of French jurists than men and women have copyright in their own features. They held that an artist may not reproduce a person's features, without his consent, in a picture, drawing, or design, even if there be no intention to satirize or defame. If this opinion should gain ground, what will become ox tne orauguuxnen, not onjy tuose jor2j

comic press, but those who do not dream of caricature? The jurists must at some time have been served up in the daily papers in wood-cuts, which are all the more libelous because they purport to be serious likenesses. m m UNEXPECTED COMPANY.

A Practical Woman's Sarcastic Comments on . Theoretical Housekeepers and Cooks. BruneflUe, in Michigan Farmer. My husband had gone to town to be gone all day, the children were at school vrlih. . their lunch baskets, and I had decided to put in a good day sewing, and take a lunch at noon myself. As I sat stitching away, with no thought of misfortune or calamity, the clock struck 12, and simultaneously I heard the "crunch" of carriage wheels on the gravel drive at the side door. I looked out the window and, to my consternation, saw five persons aligntingatmy door. They had driven twelve miles and must have some dinner. I welcomed them, explained tho situation, and after a brief chat excused myself to prepare a meal for them. In the pantry 1 took account of stock. There was one slice of cold bacon left from breakfast, and the drumstick aud wing of yesterday's chicken; there ' was also one cold boiled potato, a hard boiled egg, two slices of bread in tho bread jar and one cookie and half of another in tho steamer. Fortified by these resources I cheerfully built a fire, and in fifteen minutes I had made a lovely chicken pie, scalloped the potato, adding one cracker to make more of it, and had toasted the two slices of bread, and cut them in strips so as to make them go round. I quartered the cookie and a half, and laid on each quarter a slice of the hard boiled egg, making a novel and attractive relish. At the last moment I found a sauce-plate full of jam that had been set away from tea the night before; this I turned into my cut-glass preserve dish, feeling as if it were quite a treasure. Then, just fifteen minutes from the time I left tho parlor, I summoned my guests to dinner, first running out into the garden for a cabbage plant and a few graceful onion tops for a bouquet, for our roses were all gone ai;d tho annuals were not yet in bloom. 1 was quite proud of my menu, and the quickness with which I had prepared it, but though fifteen minutes seems a short tino in which to build a fire and bake a chicken pie, yet when one plans her work carefully she can accomplish a good deal in a short time. My guests ate heartily saying the long drive had given them great appetites, and congratulated me on my delightful dinner. The above is all a lie, every word of it, but it is exactly as true as the nonsanse of the same kind one reads in housekeeping treatises and domestic columns of some newspapers. It makes mo downright mad to have such stuff written for practical housekeepers by women whom I know never cooked a meal in their lives, and who aspire to teach those who have practiced all their lives how to live economically. You cannot make something out of nothing in the culinary liriu any more than you can in any other way, and the idea of getting up a meal for three or four out of scraps an able-bodied tramp could not fill up on makes mo sick. If people must write fiction I wish they would choose something else than cooking something they know a little about, something not quite so hopelessly prosy and commonplace as a theme for their romance. Nine-tenths of tho stuff one sees in papers, household magazines, etc., professing to teach women how to keep house and dress well on nothing a year, how to furnish a room with blue denim carpet and cheesecloth ceiling, how to make a chicken pie out of a slice of cold ham, is written by women who never put their fingers into dough, drove a tack or hung a picture in their lives. A canary bird with a good appetite could not live on the thin soups and dainty "croquettes" they seem to consider so "fillin'," and their economies make one think of the story of the man who was always nagging his wife because she could not cook as economically and at the same time as palatably as his neighbor's wife. "Why," said he. "we had boiled carrots, with some sort of sauce, the other day, and they were delicious. When have we had a carrot, I'd like to know! And so cheap! Mrs. said enough for dinner .only cost her 2 cents." Madam had boiled carrots at 2 cents for next day's dinner, and her lord and master would not touch them. Why couldn't she have , made a sauce for them like Mrs. 1 So next day she got the recipe for the sauce, and they had carrots again, this time meeting the full approval of the man of the house. Then she snowed him the bill: Carrots, 2 cents; ingredients for sauce, incdinjT taragon, curry and half a bottle of French dressing, 78 cents. Then he shut up. rn r CURATIVE POWEKS OF AXLE-GREASE. Indian Agent Who Sprang Into Fame as a Medicine Alan. Kansas City Star. One afternoon a big Osage Indian named The-Eagle-Who-Won't-Fly went into tho trader's store at Grey Horse and informed Agent Florer that he was "sick 'heap." He wanted medicine and said the manifestations were of the stomach and he felt very bad. Florer had no medicine, but gave the bronze individual a bottle of pepper-sance and advised copious draughts thereof, the same to be inclusive of the peppers with which the flask was furnished. Tbe-Eagle-Who-Won't-FlyUook the bottle and sat hopefully down 'on a shoe-box to its consumption. In ten minutes it was gone. In half half an hour Tho Eagle was after Florer again. The medicine 'did him no good. He felt no change. The medicine was not "bad" enough. Piled up back of the store were a number of boxes of axle grease which was so strong and rancid that to cross to leeward of them was a desperato chance. Florer took the Eagle and, giving him a splinter of shingle, told him to help himself. "As medicine," said Florer, "it's way out of sight and you take lots of it. It'll cure you or have you in the hands of an assignee before night." The Eagle was deeply grateful to be left with so much good medicine and devoured half of a box of axle grease at the first sitting. Then he thanked Florer and went away.' That afternoon the Eagle sent over one of his sqnaws to buy five boxes. Along came two or threo others, all after axle grease. Before 9 o'clock that evening every Indian at Grey Horso came around for a box of tho "big medicine." Florer had a run on rancid axle grease that cleaned him out of stock. It is now a popular medicament with tho Osages. French Girls and American Girls. Madame Adam, in North American BeTiew. The young French girl finds liberty in marriage; the young American girl loses it. x Our daughters detach themselves from a family in marrying; the Americans enter one; thoy are suddenly surrounded by a circle, by proprieties, by worldly customs, by social duties, by the exigencies of conjugal fidelity, by the duty of defending a reputation which has become common property all serious things which transform their character, their manner of being and gradually model them after the likeness of their surroundings. Two or three years after her marriage the American in France is a woman of the world, and if she could lose ber accent, nothing would distiutinguish her from her new circle. Doubtless formerly she commanded and was obeyed; but now far she was from occupyin the position which she occupies in France! True, she did not yield to respect, but in return she did not inspire it. She had more personal initiative, but she did not govern others; she tormented her mother, and perhaps led her, but the men of her family did not deferentially ask her counsels. Her husband in America would seek her advice for nothing. She might be a favored companion in conjugal life; she would not bo, as in France, the wife, the friend who shares all the projects of" the husband, is associated in all his acts, and makes of conjugal life the noble life in common. Outranked liliu. Chicago Tribune "Did you dare to reprove me, sir!" fiercely demanded the passenger hanging onto the strap. "Do you know who 1 am! ' "No, sir," said the man sitting down. "I am Anthony Comstock." "That makes no dillerence,?' was thereply. "I am a member of the Brooklyn School Board. If you use the word 'ocean' in my presence again (and a burning blush dyed his face) I'll have you arrested for immorality." i Prophet Business Profitless. Albany Journal. The English press, anxious that Great Britain should retain as much American trade as possible under the new law, declares thjit tbe government never thought of such a thing as retaliation. Thus, one by one the propecies of evil, as the result of enacting the McKinley bill, vanish in thin air. The prophetical business is not what it was in Ola Testament days.. Somehow things don't turn out as they ought

LASSOING A 23-FOOT SNAKE,

Cowboys, Mounted on Mustangs, Come to the Rescue of a Mexican Plantation." Paso del Norte Letter in New Yorfc Eun. Returning from a short visit to Chiapas, I met a Mexican peon, an old acquaintance. named Leon Carrizo, who had just arrived from the cotiee plantationsof the Southwa t. "Anything worth seeing down in your country!" I asked. "Nothing specially interesting," he answered, "except that at this season it is the worst country on the face of the earth for spiders and snakes. Why, the toads down in Pachucha and Orizaba are bigger than your hat. You may be Bitting under your Tines some fine afternoon reading a paper, when all at once a big, 11 a b by, gray thing, as large as a chair-cushion, will llop out from the weeds and approach you with thetitmoBt familiarity. We never disturb them, because they are sure death to the poisonous insects and perfectly harmless to us. Down in the lower country we do not mind such things as much as we do the deadly snakes. "There is a sort of hoopsnake m the Vera Cruz country called 'coralito,' a slender, but exceedingly active fellow, crimson in color, which has a vicious bite, which is almost as deadly as that of your terrible Tattler. "About three weeks ago I was passing through tho coffee plantation of my friend Sandoval, near Pachucha, when, in the hot, broiling sun, I was astonished to see the natives drop their work and rush about as if they were mad. Pretty soon an intelligent peon shouted for me to go as fast as I could from the spot. "The serpent!' he cried. 'He is coming. Run for your life.' "For a moment I was dazed, but taking to my heels I followed the others, and soon arrived at the hacienda. All was excitement there. Two of the most expert cowboys in all Mexico happened to be at the hacienda. They gathered their Mexican riatas or grass ropes securely, and urging their mustangs slowly, followed by the shouting rabble, cautiously approached the ploughed field where the snake was Btticl to 1)0 " "Is this a yarn," I asked, "or is it a fact!" "Fact, I assure you," answered my friend. "The cowboy s and the crowd moved slowly down to the field, and there in the middle', with neck elevated and head wagging from side to sido, was the biggest serpent 1 ever saw in my life. Two bulls and one cow which he had bitten lay dead on the ground nearby. His body was as big as a man's leg and his fiat, ugly head looked as large as a dishpah. The reptile saw ns coming, and making an immense coil, he waited for our approach. Slowly tbe cowboys rode up to him, their mustangs snorting and prancing, and when within a safe distance they began to ride around thesnakeina circle, swinging their larriets at tbe same time and going at a tremendous pace. "Round and round they went at a dizzy speed, the snake attempting to follow them with his head, but it was very confusing, and soon mixed him up badly. Tbe mustangs galloped faster and faster, and just at the right moment, a cowboy on each side of him, two magic circles swung quivering out into tbe air, and two fatal nooses settled down over the head of the big, writhing creature. The cowboys knew their business and the mustangs knew theirs. First tightening the nooses with several quick little jerks, both riders let their ropes have all the slack they could, and then, keeping about six yards apart, they started olf in the same direction as fast as they could. The consequence was that the snake had his 'feet pulled from under him,1 so to speak, and was dragged for nearly a mile by those fiery young mustangs over the roughest road they could pick out," "Well, that is a whopper," I at length found words to say. "No whopper about it," answered the Mexican, "but straight facts. He measured more than twenty-five feet after the boys got through with him, for he was very limber and soft after the rough handling they gave him, and his hide had been broken on the sharp rocks. We left the carcass in the field that night, but before morning a band of peccaries, or musk hogs, came sneaking out of the timber and devoured every 6crap, except the bones and horny tail There is another one down there, tho female, and mate of the ono we killed. Tho boys aro after her, and I should not be surprised if .within another week, she would be trapped, and served even worso than her partner." , TEA AS A CHURCH FORCE. Its Effective Work In Developing Methodism in Great Britain. New York 8Ur. i The Rev. John Winslow, a distinguished English Methodist minister, is stopping with friends in Brooklyn. At a pleasant gathering the other evening ho talked at length about the methods in vogue in tho old country of raising money for the purposes of his church. "There are some people," he said, "who thiuk that tho great progress of Methodism in England is due solely to the energy and culture of its ministers. The fact is that its present high standing is due in no small degree to tea. You smile, but listen. I was not long ago in a small country town in the midland connties, where resided seven families . who were followers of John Wesley. They held Sunday meetings m each other's spare rooms. After ono of these gatherings, while the congregation was partaking of a hospitable meal, tho local preacher asked them why they did not build a church. The good folKs smiled, as tbeywere anything but rich; but the preacher told them of instances where very poor people had built churches by starting with a tea party. I'll tell you what a tea party is. A number of women get together and pledge themselves to provide a tray for a dozen, a tray meaning the needed service of china and spoons, with all the adjuncts, such as bread and butter, tea, sugar and milk and plum-cake. If in summer-time,' tbe party is held in a field, coppice or wood; if in the the winter, in some church or barn. The husbands or lovers of the women build and tend the fires, fetch the water, boil the kettle, slice and spread the bread and cake, and act as waiters. Perhaps as many as twenty, forty, fifty, or even more, trays are supplied, and each visitor is charged a shill ling for the tea. These shillings are placed in bank to form the nucleus of a church-building fund. After the tea things are cleared away, a meeting is held, at which permanent ministers deliver addresses. This is known as 'starting the pot boiling and the teas are repeated threo or four times a vear. Some rich man is applied to, . generally with success, for a piece of land, and as soon as 50 is obtained no difficulty is experienced in getting a builder to run up a chapel. As soon as the roof is finished a series of special services is begun, and the talent of Methodists for begging money is brought into active play. I have read a great deal about the injurious effects of tea, but 1 am certain that it has done more to develop tho social life of tbe English people than any one other product. Seventy-five out of every hundred bricks in the Methodist church edifices of England are made of tea-leaves." Cupid and Llver-Pada. Chicago Times. Cupid might as well make np his mind to it at one timo as another he has got to supplement his stock of arrows with liverpads. Lewis Griffin, of Richmond, Va., entered into a contract to marry a young woman of Richmond, Va and Cupid apparently bad a right to congratulate himself upon having done a very pretty and successful stroke of business. But if he did he made a very great mistake, for on the eve of his marriage poor Mr. Griffin ended his life, and his prospective bride is left to dry her eyes with a third of his fortune of 72,000. Just bofore his death Griffin was known to be despondent and to have declared that ho feared he would not be able to make his affianced happy, and now it turns out that he was afflicted with r a "greasy stomach" and a disordered liver. Had Uupiu known what an antidote to the poison of his arrows dyspepsia is he would not have been thus bailled. Now that he does know he will be wise and arm himself properly. It is not a romantic notion, this of Cupid shooting arrows and then applying liver-pads, but romance usually has to yield to necessity. Cupid's first name is Eli. and the tribe of Eli never let a little idiotio sentiment or traditional nonsense stand in the way of success. New Ilutter Substitute, Boston Medical and 8urgloal Journal. M. Heckel and Schlagdenhaafler have discovered and reported upon a certain Spanish broom-like bush, native of the west coast of Africa, which belongs to the polygala family, and to which they havo given the specific name of butyracea. The native name of the bush is Maloukang or Ankalaki. The seeds yield 17.5 per cent, of a yellowish butter-like fat of a very agreeable nutty flavor, and could well serve as a substitute for butter. The fat cof tens be

tween 28 degrees and SO degrees C beginning to melt at 33 degrees, but does not become linid below 52 degrees. Upon cooling it remains fluid for a long time, only boginning to solidify at S3 degrees, when it regains its original consistency. Its density at between ii5 degrees and S3 degrees C, is .904. It saponifies very easily with .alkalies, and contains 21.5 per cent, olein, 4.8 percent, free palmitic acid, 57.54 per cent, palmitin and (U6 per cent, mynstin. It contains small quantities of formic and. acetic acids, bnt no butyric ortalenanio acxd and therefore it does not easily become rancid. K THE CHOCTAW'S GREAT UNKNOWN.

A Slimy Bridge, to Pass Which Means Kternlty; to Fall, Perdition. Kansas City Stsr. A son of the first missionary among tbe Choctaw Indians once related to me some of the primitive religious beliefs of the tribe, among them a version of a universal deluge, which, it was stated, is ono of their oldest legends. Once, many years ago. it was night over the whole world for a long time, and the whole nation despaired. After waiting many months, a streak of light was discovered far away in the nortb, and the people rejoiced, until they found to their horror that it was an immense mountain of water that was rolling down towards them. , Tho flood killed everyone but a few families, who, somehow or other, had been warned of it, and, having built themselves a raft, wero rescued. From their earliest traditions the people have been taught to believe in a life after they leave this world. They believe that the spirit, tho moment it leaves the body, is compelled to travel a long distance to the west, until it arrives at an immense chasm, at the bottom of which flows a very rapid, rocky and dangerous stream. This terrible gorge, which is surrounded on every side by great mountains, the 60ul has to cross on a "long and slippery pine log with the bark peeled off," the only passage to tho "happy hunting grounds," which lie beyond the dangerous bridge. On the bank of the stream, iust at the other end of tbe log, there always stand six persons, who have reached the "happy hunting grounds," and who throw sharp rocks at whoever attempts to cross the treacherous log, the moment the middle of it is reached. Those who have lived properly, according to the Indian idea of morals, have no trouble in crossing the log; the stoue.i fall harmlessly from them, and tbey reach the "happy hunting grounds," where there is perpetual day, without difficulty. There the trees are evergreen, the sky cloudless and the breezes always gently blowing; there, too, a continuous feast and dance are going on; the people never grow old, but live forever and revel in perpetual youth. The wicked, when they attempt to cross the dangerou3 bridge, can see the stones which are thrown JAt them, and, in trying to avoid them, t'jey fall from the giddy height into the awful gorge thousands of feet below the slippery log, where a rushing, boiling stream is tumbling over the great sharp rocs, filled with dead fish and animals which are continually brought around to the same' place by the eddies and whirlpools. There all the trees are dead, the waters infested by poisonous snakes, toads and other repulsive-looking reptiles; the dead are ever hungry, but have nothing to eat; are always sick, but never die. There is no sun, and the wicked aro constatly "climbing up by thousands on the sides of a high rock, from which they can overlook the beautiful country of the good hunting-grounds, the abode of the happy, but can never reach it." THE CRUCIFIXION NAILS. Curious Relic In the Aahmolean Museum at Oxford, England ABeged Miracle. Notes for the Curious. One of the most curious relics preserved in the Ashmolan Museum, at Oxford, England, is a cvown having a frame-work said to have been made of the nails that were driven through the hands and feet of Jesus at Calvary. The crown itself is embossed with jewels and gold, exhibiting a close resemblance to tho enameled work of the present day, notwithstanding the fact that its history can bo traced- back to the time of the coronation of Agilulfus, King of Normandy, in the year 591. As noted in the foregoing,' the. portion of the .crown which is of greatest traditional interest is the framework of iron, about threeeighths of aninchbroadandone-tenth of an inch in thickness, attached to the inner circumference of the jeweled superstructure. This iron band as made from the identical nails: according to legendary report, used at the crucifixion; given by the Empress Helena who, history says, was the discoverer of the cross to her son, Constantino the Great, as a miraculous protection from the dangers of the battlefield. The priest who exhibits the crown to curious visitors points out, as a permanent miracle, the fact that there is not a single speck of rust upon the iron, although it has now been exposed to the dampness of the atmosphere for more than fifteen centuries. The crown was originally made for Agilulfus, King of the Lombards, under the supervision of Thendelinde, his wife, who had fallen heir to the sacred nails. The Concern About Our Daughters. Mrs. Helen E. Etarrett, in tbe October Forum. The problem of tbe future of' our sons gives us comparatively little concern, provided only that health, intellectual power and moral integrity are theirs. "An open field and a fair fight" is all we ask for them. We rejoice that we are past the day when considerations of rank, or class, or social Erestige fettered the free activity of sons orn into homes of culture and refinement. We do not dread for them loss of property or wealth. But for our daughters! Looking out upon the . complicated, nervous life of to-day, as it is lived both within the home and without, what problems, what complications, what vicissitudes, what dangers do we perceive environing them! As the best beginning we know how to make, we educate them in all tne learning of the schools; we send them to college;, they become linguists, and musicians, and artists. We recognize the significance of personal attractiveness, and encoarage them to pay attention to all those adornments of dress and person which are consistent with womanly refinement and dignity. If, while tne blood ot youth is still fresh upon their cheeks, the good and faithful son of some otherparents ofl'ori his love and his hand, and that love is reciprocated, we perhaps think for a little that the problem is solved. The normal destiny of a young woman is apparently accomplished, we say, when she becomes tbe wife of the man whom she loves and who loves her. A home, wifehood, motherhood, tender love of husband and children what have weleft to desire for our d.mghtersf We have that left to desire which we can never attain the power to secure to them the continuance of happy and favorring circumstances, life and love of husband, home, property, income. One of Mrs. Leslie's Dresses. Fashion Correspondent. . One of Mrs. Frank Leslie's dresses is a combination of corn color and blue. "I shall call this your Servian dress," and she agreed that the name was a fitting one, for it is trimmed with real Servian bands of gold and turquoise. The petticoat of corncolored crepe is decorated with one of these bands, which is fastened on the left hip and is drawn across to the right knee, where it is held in place bv a bow of paleblue velvet ribbon: from there it continues on to the back drapery. The same ornamentation is upon the waist, and the train is of heavj corn-colored brocade. With this costume Mrs. Leslie wears a wonderful piece of jewelry a Venetian necklace containing over three thousanddiamonds, combined with blue enamel. This necklace has a history. It was made in the fifteenth century for a Venetian countess. Afterward it became the property of Lucrezi a de Bardi; who brought it to Prance in the sixteenth century. This woman was maid of honor to Catharine do Medicis, and must have, possessed 6ome of her bloodthirsty mistress's traits, for it is' said that faithless friends and fickle lovers were dealt with by her in a most summary manner. At the top of this necklace is a diamond bird with extended wings, and the legend is that within thisbird was concealed a moat potent and deadly poison, which Donna Lncrezia made use of, and that finall', when likely to be overtaken by the consequences , of her sin, she destroyed herself in the sains manner. Backbone of the Democratlo Party. Detroit Tnbune. Take Tammany out of politics and New York would be a well. governed city, the State would be reliably Republican, and the Democrats would have no more hope of winning another presidential election than the Republicans have of carrying Texas. Corrupt, rotten, thieving Tammany is the hope and strength of local, State and national Democracy.

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Aged and Ilard-Worklng Dutlnei a Men Tt3 Wear Themselves Out for Tliclr ramillef.' Brookljn Eagle. The heroes cf this particular era aro wrinkled, tDd bald, and gray. It will do no good to look for them among yoaue men. Occasionally a conspicuous instanca of courage, steadfastness and selfctt&ce ment may be found among the junioi. bct they are very rare. There is practically no end to tho number of men of advanced years whose lives are veritable poems of unselfishness and devotion to others. Thera is no denying the force and pluck of "old" men. They put their eons to shame in every branch of business and professional life. No one is surprised at the method and system they exhibit, for these are the natural results of experience. But there is something nnlooked for in the wonderful will-power and self-abnegation shown by men of advanced years. They laugh at the so-called self-sacrificing generosity of young men. and they do their duty in & fashion that ought to arouse the sympathies of the novelists. Any one can find a. a . a. . v a a vi xneso Bixiy-year-oiQ ncroes. ineyarem the counting-rocms, business honscs and ollices everywhere xn New York. Many arc winding np lives of long and assiduous labor by doing yeomen service when they have every title to rest. Vacations are unknown, even in the heated term. They rise at 6 in the morning, work nntilC at night and go homo to their lonely houses to dine in solitude and werk far into the night. All of this is often done that a group of frivolous girls and cigarettesmoking boys may live in comfort at tho seaside, where they occasionally refer to "the governor, who is pegging away irx, town." The time to 6ee these sturdy old.4 patriarchs, who Lave given np their lives with such uncomplaining heroism to their families, is in the early morning in the elevated trains, or at 8 o'clock at night, when, they move an arm-chair out on the front stoop of their almost dismantled houses uptown, for an hour's breathing spell after dinner. It is an old-fashioned custom that still has many followers. 1 . know , one man who is famous in ' his profession and who is perhaps as typical of the army of steady old worksrs' in New York as any one who could be named. He was riding a big, raw-boned, powerful gray horso in the park. It was shortly after 6 in the morning. HucdredsK of men of advanced years were talcing an 1 early gallop. This particular "old" man had been riding hard since 6:M0. "It. is the only way 1 can feet my exercise,'7 ho said, as we went along. T am obliged to be at my desk by 3 o'clock, and there is no chance to get away before C 1 rise at 5 in the summer and half an hour later in winter. I read a speech in this morning's paper which yon delivered last night.'' "You mean by that that I must have been rp latef You are quite right. 1 got home at midnight. It was 1 o'clock when 1 fell asleep. Four hours is not a very liberaL allowance for sleep. I admit, but do yon know that when a man has parsed his sixtieth year he needs less and less resit I have never allowed myself more than sir hours' sleep since I became a man. Sleeping IB lliiU CttllUfc. 1UO BJ Slew Wlll&UUpb 116CC to exce&ses until they seem absolutely necessary. Exercise is fi.r more important than shep. A ten-mile ride in the morning and a good breakfast should fit the human machine for a day's work of ten hours until the machine is seventy-five years old. then, it should be slowed up. I've ten years xnorct to run, though," he added, with a smile. ELECTRIFIED FIRE-EATERS. The Sal am bos Tell How They Exude Spark and Breathe Flames. J PMlaflelpbla Pretts. Those electrified yonnff people, with in flammable breath, called the Salambos, who provide an entertaining episode in the performance of "Around tbe World in Eighty Days," are the son and daughter of a cLomist and druggist, in Melbourne, Australia. They first figured on the stage as trapczists, but the sister had a fall one night from a trapeze,' in Queensland, which accident gave her a horror of the hazardous occupation. "Then." said the brotheran intelligent and agreeable youth to a Press representative yesterday. . "J delved into my father's books on chemistry, and electricity, and invented our present performance. We enable ourelvca to draw electric sparks from each other and from any object by storing ourselves with electricity just beforo we go cn the staga. have made a machine of my own that supplies us with sufiicient electricity to lasfe twenty or thirty minutes, and to produce sparks two and a half inches long. Sco how the skin of onr tineer-ends Is Tent bv the passage of the sparks. 1 would not bo afraid to receive as much electricity as wa required to kill Kexnmler. provided it were not appiijd in the vicinity of my brain., The daily passage of so much electricity through us has had no perceptible ill effect upon our constitutions. I have never taken more than I could stand." "But I did once." said the sister. . "They were testing my power of resistance against the effect of electricity. Suddenly r fqlt that I had received too much. 1 tried to indicate that so that they might atop tho current, but I could not speak. My mus-t cles became rigid. They thought I waslaughing. Then I became unconscious, and remained so for four hours. Doctors said that I was paralyzed. When 1 awoko 1 underwent most distressing pains, such, as would bo caused by having mv flesh punctured with a million needles.' I recovered, of course. Now I think I can ttand as much electricity as any six ordinarypersons." These people can light gaj. paper, cigars, any thing inilammabl. by placing one of their fingers near where they are in a charged state. One of their acts Is to set lire to their breath, which exhales a cbernbelch, of flame like that from a small fur-4 nace. "We make our breath inflammable by tho use of a chemical preparation," said tho brother, "which we t.ke threo times a day, and to which we add another and d life rent preparation just before each performance. A spark from one of our fingers easily ignites tho moisture which we exhale with our breath- When re close our mouths we shut oil tho supply of fuel, anil the llame vanishes. As to swallowing f.Mr.o we simply swallow a burning fluid. It feels hot, of course, and has a gaseous taste. Our tongues and throats can endure thtf heat just as yours could if you devoted several years to harden them to it. Look here.'' He took a cigar, placed the lit end upon, his tongue and smiled while tiio cigar sij "zled and steamed. When ho took thetUar from his tongue there was vry little abnormal inflammation there. The reporter tried to do the sanio thing, and ho hasn't? forgotten the experiment yet. Outlook for Western Architecture. Jobn W. Boot, in October Bcrlbntr. Take it altogether, the outlook for West-' ern city houses seems most promising. Western people themselves are becoming, and will still more become, almost ideal clients. It is true that, as in the East. Western city dwellings have not escaped the deadly touch of the "know-it all client, nor of the man who is "building tbe house to suit himself," nor of him who ia going to live inside the house, not outside,'1 and who is, therefore, loftily indiflerent to the street aspect of his house; but each, even the last person, is becoming infrequent. In the past, and to some degree at present. Western cities have been and are influenced by men whose lives have been absorbed by things too material to leavo them much leisure for art; but even in tne; case of such men there is a marked indisposition to dictate in directions where their, knowledge is incomplete. They have a a large openness and unbiased attitude of mind, and a genuine and earnest desire to "get the best-" In the West is less often found than in the East tho "isthetio crank," and it is also true that life in tho West is less conventional, freer, les restrained by artificial restrictions than in older communities, and the true nature of people and things is perhaps more, frankly expressed. Friends on Sight. Kew York Eon. Travers How much are these trousers? . Tailor Twenty dollars, sir. Travers And you say you require a daposit from strangers! Tailor Yts, sir. m w m Travers (warmly) Already I feel myself growing intimate with you. lie Angered tbe Kealdents. Chicago XnU-r Ocean. T hear that Higglns bad a narrow cscapo from lynching in Milwaukee," remarked Mr. Keedick. .... "You don't tell me." ranlied Mrs. Keedick. much concerned. "What crime had he committedi" "I understand ho insisted cau5in;th3 English language."