Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 16, Number 16, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 May 1874 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

C. DOANE, Publisher. jasffj'. INDIANA. ii i:ns or imi:hi;si. rfmonitl mid Literary. Mr. Sickles, wife of ttt (o-ticral, is mentioned an being tin- most licautilul woniaii Ht rt'M'iit sojourning la IVrin. Agassi.' correspondence has Im-c-h examiiil ami clas-iiicd in preparation lor the biography which Mrs. Agassi, has In hand. Pntddent (Jrant will hv tin; cornerstone of the lire-proof ediliiv for the American Museum of Natural Hi-tory in Central I'm rk, New York, on June . Prime donne ur expensive people to rx-in. .iison, lor instance, wy she can not be sick a day without occasioning a Jo to herself ami lur managers of at least $1,(MJ. Xcsiuith of Oregon gave the m iil a very clear and unique status when ht alluded to it as "niie of those. Useful animal that lias no pride of ancestry and no hope of posterity. ' Tlu; witticism was not altogether original however. 1'cv. Adirondack Murray is a muscular Christian. According to one of his admirers. h' ran walk with Weston, hit out from tin shoulder like Morri-ry, ami swim like a duck. More than tlii, he knows a horse, loves a horse, write about horses, keep high-bnil horses, and is in his saddest moods w hen some one passt him on the road. Mr. Paul II. Ilavne n-ntlv made known to the public the ficglfctcii state of the grave of lidgar Allan Poo. No stone marks tin? resting place of that brilliant bnl wy ward poet. The ground is mica rrd lor, and where the grass should Ik jrrn-tiest, and where blooming flowers should testify that he who sleeps Iwvieath is not forgotten, nothing tmt rank weeds flourish. A movement is now licing made to establish a fund with wi i li to erect a suitable iiioiiuuifiit to the memory of the author of the Kavcn." '1 ho New York Kvrninif Mid ha, consented to takechargw of the niatter.and receive and acknow h-dge all contribution that mav he sent tothem. It is to In IioJmmI that the project will not fail, for it i eminently right that a generous nation should testify its gratitud to genius. In Pavrnpnrt, Iowa, there resides a mot interesting family. The lather, ( 'ballet K. Putnaiii.is a prominent lawyer, and the iio-ther i a daughter of the late Ootcriior I'uueau.of Illinois. The family eiuiit. of ten boys and one girl, and i a little nation in itself. The hoysan-tiatural-lorn scientists, artists and mechanics, lb sides cultivating a larm, they publish a niagaine crdled the Snr of U'tntawn, build boat, prepare sMiinctis ol cntoinol0- ' . manufacture toy.-, teach schisil. and conclude tie- catalogue of their industries by writing lor the paer. The Star ot U'ih.'I! tu-H is a handsomely printed magazine ol forty-four page, and contains many interesting original articles. mot of tbem lieing troin the jM'iisol 'the Putiiain family. In tle-ir lu-t i-ue they give notice that the ilcr. I.eie Putnam, is admitted to the partiirr-hip. and that Ix reutter the firm name will lie Putnam l.rothcrs .v Si-ti r. The members of the firm an Jocph. Mged is years; chaile. 17; John. 1.": Henry. 1-':' Willijiin. II : deore, s, and llcs-sic, 7. L'litfiiyo Jrttfr-Ut'ftin. Srlcnre nntl Inilnvlry. There ale l'l.(KN) efililinercial tnivelrrs in the Puiteil State, and it cots over .7uk.ooi a year to keep them moving. The iiiimlN-rof failures In the I'nited States f.r s72. was 4.(c;!. total liabilities l.'l.n.v..(no : for l7;i, :.1:I, toud liabilities JJs,n;i.()iiO. Tb' leadiii"; iron mannfactiirers at Tny, N. Y .. have decided not to advance llii''wa;ri of their wotkjieoplc for the. "Uininer, as lus Ims-ii the custom hitherto, but will continue paving the reduced ratfs adopte I I i-t fall. N'Ternl prominent citizens of Indianapolis recently i-ited coal mines Ht Carbon, hid., to witness the working of the monitor ial- utter,' whieb, if it accomplishes all tl'i't fX-ted, will revolutionize eoal-inining. The results att. J lied ho fr are deemed satislactorj'. In a discussion oti the value of mit i-xtract as i'immI, Max Von Pcttenkoter holds that tlir extract prepared aceonliiif to tlie present plan of Uaron I.ieln g, are quite eiiual to. if not superior, to meat itself, lie think it bears the same relation to meat as cheese and butter Ix nr to milk. Purl her proof of the prolltableties ol maniifacturiiig enterprise In the Stutli is ntl'onled by the nieces of the Lanby Cotton Mill in ieoruria. which realized a net profit of M1.nr,l la-t year, having consumed l.tioj bales of cotton, and (iroiliictsl ., i:t:.U00 yards of drills and sheetings. American cast-iron is the strongest in the world. It h is an advantage o tweiitvlive per cent, over Cerium ,at-iroii In strength, an I is nearly sixteen per cent, stronger than Knglish cast-iron. S the export of iiericiiltiiral macliincrv has lietnie a prominent feature of American trade, and I susceptible of still further development. The New Orleans Tim' ha w itnessed the jierfonnain'c of n machine which it verilv believe is the rrand desideraMtni. It is unite simple and durable, and if it can le supplied to planter at reasonable rate w ill render rnmie the 11101 prolitanie crot in all the South. The irrecu cuttimr wit ii the leaves on are placed in the machine and almost in an instant the marketable libre is produced, and of the quality of the work then1 is mi question. Kxperiuieiit recently made In the chemical distillation ol light wood or resinous pine in Alabama shows n wci kly net balance of $l.!i71.'d or an annual profit of $'.!S,7:ni..-). The wood used was Uncommon pitch pine which grows in such quantities along the gulf coat. These results may Is- realized day by day with the same ngularity and certainty, as tlio.e from the distill tion of grain of any other material. A doen mechanic of Vnllcjo. Cal.. have mi lei t.ik n the novel design of luiilding a r. -.e by coHiH-rNtion. The aso iation - cooipiised of t welv' workmen who assiiinethe -ponsibility and pursue the labor of eo:itriii'tioii until the v- 1 1 eoinplct ii. 'flic as(K-iation will eniplnv sii' h oib r workmen a may lc iepiireil, all of them iigrci ing to wait for pay until

the vessel shall Iihvc U-cii hold, llusinesa

men o Vnllcio ar nadv to furni,b m.i terials, and Uie sso iatlon w ill at oihu Imgin to build a M'liooncr of mw tons. Nrbool mnd ( burcb. In the year lh, 2 the live leading d.v. nnmlnatiomt of tie I'liin-d StaUs rais for llieir cliurcti cxiH-iiscs. for home and foreign inlssloiis, lor theological institiitionii, etc., tbej'ollowing Minis: The IlaptisL, $iUll,'J7tS ; the Coiigregationalisti., about i.uou,uuu; me f.piscopalian, .mi.Uel ; the .MetlKsli-ts, $I7,IJ7,1M : Ui l'rcsby. A corrcsondent of tin? Toronto (Hob complains that no sooner does a 'unadian raised minister show signs of ability than 11c receives "u call Iroiu home American congrcgation,and invariablv answer in the alllrinative. As IIum caIN" are always accompanied by very libera! otlcr of rniuncration. it Is plain that if Canadian congregation. desire ton lain their minis ters they must pay them Mich salaries a will plav them uIhvo the need or temptation of emigration to the States. That ten thousand dollars nnvntlv lqiiialhed bv Captain .James; Chriotic, of -Mliioii, .N. ., to the llaptist Missionary I'nioii has a history connected with it. Fitly years ago the captain started life as a sailor boy, and wa.s one of the. crew that took the tlrst missionaries out to India. On tln long voyage he and "all hands"' with him wire converted through the passenger' iiiihifiicc, and young Chn-tie inereaiter ninoweu wie sen a a rceognizeii Christian among his companions in whatever ship he sailed, lie ro' to the rank of captain quickly all good sailors do. a the oUry lKMks go oihI w hen he died he did not forget the Sniety whose missionaries sbirtdlhiin on a course of life which was eomfortingaml happy to him throughout. Chrintitin Union. A St.I tcrsLurg !.K rj.ive wunu pajticular of the disorders in Poland, grow ing out of the attempt to force th1 Inhabitants to attac h themselves to the I'mx'an national church. The priest of twenty-six parishes, in the irovcniitw nt of Sbsllce, were all throw 11 into prison for refusing to carry out the orders of the Piissiau (Jrcck Church. The Inhabitant refused to recognize the Ku-sinn prb-sts or to attend thv churches, w hereiiMin the)" were M-nt there by force. In some places the K'asantrv stoned the priet : hi the village ol Carlcf resistams- was nunle to the military, ami several soldiers and ollhrr were wounded bv pikes and stones. The soldiers tired oti the jw-M-iiiitry nd nnny were killed. In the village" of Protuliii similar disturbances took place, in w huh several otlieer. and many soldiers wenkilled and some fifty-seven peasant shot down. Tin? jirisons at Sied e and other chief tow ns are crowded w ith pri-oixT. ISeslde the arrest wjiich were in.'idi, the inhaliitants of the tumbled district were M-iiteiic'il to Im- Isaten, the men with titty blows, the woriien with twenty-live, while the children r-i ive.l ten blows each with out di'T'iictioii ol aire or sex. Nunc? wit-' men who were violent in their language received a many ns one hundred and fifty blows. Ilnp unci M ihnp. Colonel I. llcicll M. Temple broke hi leg iii trviug to pull on a tight hoot last week in Nashville. This should Is-a warning to men with brittle Ikhu-s. In Hast Freetown. Mas., the other day. lour children, at plav in link-on Key nolds' barn, set the building- on lire, and hi daughter, aired four, and daughter of William Kcynold, agi-d two, were burned to death. Two children of Michael Ford, of X enia, Ohio, were poNomd by milk which they drank one luorning reeentlv. A lrtioiinf tbemilk wasaualyed ami no poison di4-oven-d; but a dead spider found in the milk wa supposed to U- the cause of the poisiining. A little child of Mr. .b.bn Thompson of West ISelleville. III., :ivrI alsHit two years, was terribly burmil ne uigbt rccently. and died the ney.t morning. It ajjM ars'that the child had lioen plaving with a can tilled with gasoline, and bad got it i lolhing saturatilw itli the fluid to such an extent tli.it they Ignited uhui the approai b of an elder sister with a lighted miner's 1. 111111 with which she was going to light the kitchen lire. One day recently a lniok-kecjs r in the employ of a lumber linn In I h-tmit. Mich., liecanie suddenly ill. and the t'rre Vy says the several physician w ho wen-called dcei led that oin' of hi lung wa aflectcd with an absc'ss. cjiiis-d bv rubbing hi side against the edge of the table. He was to 1 that the ahi-cs would break within two days, and that the chances wen-that he would die. He made preparation for his decease, ami hi death occurred within a few minutes after the abw-e broke. As the (Jeorgetow 11 coach waon its way down yesterday, and w hen opposite (toud'. alsiiit four miles out, it wa caught in a whirlwind and turned lot torn side up, w Ith it load of living contents. Fortunately none of the pasengers wen- terioiisy injun-d. The coach was di.-ibled by tin- breaking of an axletn-e, and tinlead horse broke looe and ran away. (Juitea nurnlM-r of paM-ngers w-n- cinning down, nnd it I simrular how they es-cai-d with so slight damag. Our 11101111triu cyclones play curious freaks pometimes. Drnvrr AVir, May 3. A little child of Mr. P.. L. Tien of Mound City. Ind.. Circuit Clerk. came near Ix-ing tiirii in jiiece by a hog the other dav. The ferocious animal. doubtless iml'llel by hunger, seized the child hv it clothing, thn-w it down, and holding it w ith the lore feet, wa proceeding to us vonr it. Only the timely iipjx-aianee or a iicisrhbor, saved the child. Its clothes were torn into shreds, and thr heail and limbs -onsi.erably lact-ratisl by the hog's tusks. Mr. Den i'ound the hog nlterw ard. shot it and sent the carcass lloating down the river. n-c iH I a little Imv. less than three year old. If not resciieil w ithin two minutes of the time it, wa, it prob ably would have liecn killed. Ilols-rt Clark, alia Wilson, a notorious New York biirgbir, the other day entered a Mr. Fow h r house in I'.rooklyn, w bile the family w re all at dinner in the base-nent, exci ptbi? ). Fow ler, a boy of the family. William wc t up stair 011 some errand, and saw a strange man giving through" a bureau in the front room. I le scim i into atiot lier room and got a doublc-barn l shot gun, and stationing hiniM'lf at the front room door, rai-ed the gun to hi sliouldi r. and looking along the barrel said: "If you move I'll blow your bruins out!' lie looked as if he

meant business, too. The boy held the burglar there with his eye until tome ot flit-rest of the family came to m-c what had Im-onie of 1dm. "Tin V saw him In hi warlike attitude, diorrnl the caue, and went lor a )oiccman. The rubber wa-s captured without bhxslshrd, and several article that had ! 11 in the bun-au were found in his jun kets. There w as a clear 'it' again-t him. 1 he boy had no apptite for his diiim r that day." Hi pn-scni-e of mind aid pliu kde-4Te honorable m-n-tion. tore Ik a ?l !. IJ v a Liw promulsratisl on the 17th

(2:th) of April, the Czar's birtlxlay, impi !- onuient for debt i- a!slidied in Ku-sia. A census of the armv of Snain show that lorty is r ieiiU of Uie men cjuiuot read or write, but they can brag a, well as any soldiers in the world. loan of Arc's dial-! at Iomreinv. Fram-f-, where she saw the visions of the saint which tirst inspin-d her patriotic ar dor, is lieiiijr reston-d. and will Is an obet of many devout pilgrimages thU coin ing Miiniiir-r. Mr. lbs-inn k. lor inanv venrs a prominent member of Parliament, made u sis-ec h at a ret-f-nt Luniuet of workiusmen at .shcllield, in which he dciioun- ed emigration, and hoisd that Kii'dand's family of childn-ii would Ptill cling to her. 1 le held anv Knglidiman a dastanl w ho inites l.ngiidinien to Sf-ek a new home a. toss the sea. The Grah(lanin. a Russian paM-r noted lor its correct Court intelligent, s iystbat in numerous letters to her l.mtilv ami friends the 1 Miches of Kdinburgh deserits s Iter lib- ill l.Dglalid as one ot MTfeet hatipines. be sts-ak with gnat gratitude ol the cordial and friendly rccction six has met with from all whom she has coiim; into contact the Oueen. Uie royal tauuly, the loiirt, and the js-ople at large. The letter liave oei a-sioiied irn-at satistu tion In St. Petersburg!!. Tlie(H rman Heichstair i hereafter iroing to th) its voting by telegraph. Tin? win- are to In mi arrangiil that each nieiiiIs r can indicate hi vote from his seat. In front o the seat are tw button, one indicating yes. the other no. A pnun on the bui ton telegraphs the vote to a ( in-u-l.ir table in trout of Uie President's de-k, iimmi which all the names o the iih iiiUts arc written down, s that immediately after ire.iug the button each im-tuTs r can Mi- a piece of pajs-r appf-ar under his n.une with hi ye r no 011 it. Then- ha lieen a curion story jroing the round of the Ixuidoll elub. to tlie efb et that the Irirn-- lm rial. weary ot maternal ontpd and Wnolwieh discipline, and so impn sM-d by the display ol French Ie ling at tlie n cent n-lebratioij at Chiselhurst, had suddenly determined to start for France, and to imitate hi fit her by suddenly landing at llonlogne and apjcaling to the svmpathies of the ti-l. women at that port. The story says that the Prince iM tually got as Lir a I (over, but that he was there stopped by a faithful adherent, whi sewn? and exisrieiafWereMiHicici.it excu- lor his fkcptici-in ol Fn-nehcuthu-siasin lor 'La I'tUl TneoU-rr" nlU nnt l nil. r.irtb are ls-ing niinounetsl as Our Young Folk for May" in the Turner Falls ( Mas.) rptrter. "Kissing your sweetheart," says a trilling young man, "is like eating soup with a fork; it takes a long Lime to get enough." The velvet-footed n. r ha lcgun hi hideous work, and pro rTy is depnciating with frightful rapidity. ftmnnwicktr. Some mm never lose their jm-si nvof mind. In Milwaukee, a man threw his iiKither-in-law out of the window from the fifth st.nr of a burning building and "lifted up tenderly ' a feather l-d. which lie carried down stairs saJcly in his arms. A Connecticut lady n-maitied toohmg on a train to kis female friend the other day, and. trying to get oil alter it had startel, wa timiw 11 on her face. "If ever I kis anylssly again !" she said rcv ngefullv. as'she aro-c, "any woman, at letist." she "added, thoughtfully, "then it will be w hen I am crazy." ( He l'.ii!l wa im-m M ing the siht at KonnybriMik h air, when he was attracted bv the sound of a very loud violin in a tent, lie entered and said," " M v giMwl friend, do you play by note?' The dein-e a note, sir." "'Ko you play by ear, then " "Nivcr an ear, yer hoimr." "Ilow do vou tlay, then . l.c main strength, t; Jat tiers." A literal-niindi-d young-ter wajickel up bv a vi'tor of the family, who. dandling him 011 his knee, said: I wi-h I had this little biy ; I think there's money in him." To which promptly r-Ioiided the child: "1 know there I, for I swallowed a cent w ben 1 was at grandma's the other day." llartfurd JUt. Mrs. Magruder will probably have I r. Hopkins's church and go hi reafter to the Presbyterian meeting-house. Ir. Hopkins la'n week had a frightful ls.il on his leg, and heexperienci-d very severe pain w hen be tried to walk. While he was sitting in hi study, on Friday, Mrs. Magruder was called ami tislien-d into the parlor. The servant went up the back stairs to tell the doctifr, and while she wa on the way the dict or started to go down the front stair to get a drink of w ater. It hurt him so much to walk up the steps, that he coiicludisl to slide down the bun liter on hi stomach, and so. after looking can fully over the iaiulin&r. to satisfy him self that nobody was alsiut, he mounted the banisU r am! N-gan to des'?v!. The stairs ran directly past the parlor door, and Mr. Magruder wa ani.i-d to ii' the clergyman descending w ith gn-at rapidity, in that singular fashion. It M-cnt that the servant had placed the coal-scuttle by the newel-post, while she went for the doctor, and, a he (leM-ended with awful vchicity, lie alighted in the scuttle and fell to the floor. Without being awan of th-presence of the i-itor, h- leaped tin in a rage and exclaiming. "Hang that woman I" he gave the scuttle a kick which sent it whirling into the parlor, w hen-it brought up in Mr. Magruder' lap. Of course she thought the demonstration and tin- ejaculation wen intended for her. and alb r ri-ing to lu r feet and shaking her umbrella at her pastor, she shouted: "If vou kick another coalscuttle at me, I'll punch the st.iJliu' out of vou with this yer uoibrilbr!" She cinergisl from tie-front door with a conviction that Presbyterianism wa tbe only religion for her. Danbury Aim.

The Logic or Idlll laws. Congress ha, since Uie war, aumed the right to exercise supervision and control over the Mate ( fovcminciit of the South. Itwasoia of the feature of reconstruction. The object being the protection of the freed un n and immigiaiit loyal men from the North, justified the apparent violation of the coti-iitiitional principle w hich guaranteed to the (icoplcof the State the right to regulate their lix-al affairs in their own way. The South accepted this Intericrem-e. Indeed, she could not very well avoid it, since reitance wa iuiKs.i'hc. (Vrngn-ss then-lore Is-came the recognized arbiter of all om-stion arising lietw-4-n the white ami black man: and. in the case of Iouisbna. (ieorgia and

North ( 'arolina.did not hesitate to act iisn this right, thus tacitly ooneedi-d. It is true that in the eases n fcrrcd to the complaints that invoked congressional prin-fen-nce were made by black men or by the black man's party. It was not until the tax-ayrrs of South Carolina laid lie fore Congress their 11 tentorial, that an oposition cjise was ever made. It pn-senn-d an anomalous feature in n-coiitruction. and wa tnatil. eonM ring the assumptions of Congre in the other ii:faiiees. in an ainrtiialofis way. J be .litdiciarv Committee, to w hom th-t memorial was referred. reports ailver-ely to the prayer of the petition. 'I'he n-axuis embiMhed in tlx-ir n tsjrt point to an ad verse conclusion. 'I hey admit the duty of ( 'ongn ss to apply a remedy to all wrong done the x-ople of a State, but they say the grievance of the Snub Carolina inemoralit. spring from the constitutional amendment. :niif U d since the war. Tlaameinhneiit an national, and the wrongs, if any are done, are f a national character. In this sense, .it the n-srt. Cngress cannot inlertert?. If tlijs s-if j.r ot (4 rr-. )f O"!!-clu-ion I illogn-al. Pn-eisely for that reason CViiirn-ss slxfuld intTlen-. 'I'he committe knew tlie origin of the revolution which enable an Ignorant black inajority to govern the State. The State Constitution under which it was done wa tlte cn atunol Congrc-; it was framl by a i constituency proviile! by ( ongres. and! w as made to conform to stipulations laid down by that body, aoj in onk-rto do this, a Congn-s overthrew tie fortm-r State I ( fovi-rniiieiit. a pre-ek'iit was therehr I establishe! which jn-tities it in interfering ag-ain to n-dns any grievamv which might U jro.ne-l by it former action. It i morally liouiid to do si. The constitutional amendments fVere not the work ofsulh Carolina, but of Congress, and fon-ed uiKui h r aiti-ptaiiee. It i claimeil. then fore, that the right ol Congo to in rf. rc- to relieve the wl.it.- is-ople of 1 ' M.ntli Carolina fmm eppn-s-ion b haI iin the f.ict that the injury complaint! ,f j, the o-siilt tif former cfngrioiial inter-f-n-ne. A refusal to iloso is an evaiii of the logical eth-et of the right aumed ly Congress in fon i:ig the n-outnictioii nieaun-son the Smth. St. Jmii R'puKlicnn. Now for AtanestT. It is n jMtrttsI that Ssithern Conenative lueoilx r votl ng-iiii-t the Cciitcnnud f.t.u.i.iisi iiiud for no otbr rm-oii than l-aie they thought the pas-agt of general amnc-ty should anttlate an appmpriation to ct lebrttc tin hun!nlth anniversityofthe I niou. I.ut lr tbi .tji'tion they Would have slM.iin.sl the bill, Thati. The l uidametital idea of the Cen tennial boW i to exhibit to the W orld the rn-atne and unity of this hatiou. l is but a mockery to talk f thi while men an- d pri veil ot their civil right, in conequeiH of event tfitit ocviirrrd ten year ago. and now have almof the ilimne. of traditi'iti. The in'tustii-e to the e men, a individual, i but the hat part of the harm done by tin- jiicy of o-tr.n i-111. Kxcluding them fnun the right of suffrage and holding oili.-e prohibit much of tlie native ability of the Smth from taking iiart in the work of o -tor.it ion ; and the ill t -fl'.i-t of thi i s n in the wretchel misgovt rnment of several of the Stutliern Mate. Hail universal amnesty l 11 pns l:iiinl live years ago, and tin U-t men of the Nuith'b.id a Cur chance to make thciii-clve. f. It in public affair, we Ilieve that Smth C nJina. .Mii-ippi. I.oui-iana anl Arkan;i would now l.e govenn! with something like decency. I'.llt t-Ven Without refcn-l.ee t these pOilable result, it wool lbae l n a work of coiniiiou jji nenwity and prudent statesmanship to n-stote the x-Confli-rate to their lo-t privilege along time a-o, m fntisff. instead of jsddilng tut pardon to tiiem two or thn at a time, aft r suitable humiliatiiHi. If Congn- wi-hes the mple to e It brate the Centennial anniversary withuuioii and lies rtiin s it should iinmedistcly grant miim ty to all olitii-al otl't nders, sti that those Tsoli- may get llM-nw-lve into tb jnier I'ntme of mind for the jubilee of 17'. y. )'. Journal f Cvtfref. Personal and Political Point. An exchange say tliat "Den P.utler would Is- happy if ho uld g I hi vignette on the teti-nt shinphister. No doubt of it. but he would ticminh happier if he could get hi hand on tie-in. Another exchange declan- that (ten. I.titlcr and hi per-oiia! follower constitute no mean power in a Mlitii-al convention in Massachusetts. No. but they constitute everything el-e that i mean, no matter w here they an. William Wan!. of New Ytirk.tqs idy claim to lie the greatest thief in the 111111try outside of Cou.Tes." That may Is-, but h ought to reiiieuifs-r how immeasurably he i-beat. 11 by many of the thieves in-hit of Congres. A Nevada paper say that S nator Stewart u-cd to Is a O 'tatinmt waiter in lN nver. and h- wa a fMr a w aiter a he i Congn-man." Then, the ktiT of the o t.iuraiit mut have ts-en an idiot, or 1 he wouldn't have kept that waiter filteen mtnutes. Having heard that (ientr.d Hut It r is going to K 11 rope, a M. Iiuis pa;s r want him to take a--age in a st. aim r that has Ims-ii h'ligtheiHsl ; jut a if a lengthened stt-aiioT. tr any "tin r orf f a steamer, cool I drown a man who wa Istii to Nhangeil. I he Indian I" dis J'lm-nnt s;iy: "In one n t, at l a-t. the I Miun-i atic and Ib publuaii parties diil'-r it '. The former ba nci r 's en know n to cxo-' a-id puid-lia fraud mmittcd by one of p own tiieinlier, and the Jatt r ba never Is know n to conceal one." Tbi in tin-

f.ui-of the fact that if all the w hite-w ash wlii. h the leaders of the Pepublicari party have iis in concealing one another's Iratids were all in one mas, it would form a lake large and deep enough to flout the I'liited States navy. LvuuotlU Vvuri-er-Jvuntal. X Snake Dealer's Hen.

On Saturday morning a a Sun reporter was walking through lioosevelt stns t, his attention wa drawn to a cage ot monkeys in a shop window. On entering the room, a small, ill-ventilated apartment, sutlocatingly warm, and di.agoablv aorus, the reprtrr fbervel six large (nixes plbsl in one ern-r. They wen not very stnmglookilig IsiXes. They w-0- fa-tene"! merely w ith a leather thong, and had boles in the sides. " What have you then-?" he asked of the pniprietor, a tall. god hsiking voung man. w ith a large uioutac)fC and a broa.lbriiniiKil hat. "Miakes," wa th- replv. "AretheVih-ad?" "Oh, no,' said the tall young man as he oenei one ( the Imxes and disclosed w hat at fir-t sight appeared to Is a hvap of velvet carpet, of ;Jiiihm color and osik. with a ibirk grour. I. but what a closer exainination showe.1 to U thn-e large sernts, so iuterlaeei and Intertwined that it was imtosihlo to tell which was which. Three flat, triangular heads lay on the top of the heap, and an occa-iotial sparkle from the never closing eye, and the appearance of a n-i-f'jrked tongue w en- the only signs of life. Will they bite?" ir.quio-d the reporter, Ieering under tlie left arm of the tall 3'oung mau. IlleKS v.ii ! no." and In grajcd one by the neck and lifted two nr three feet of his scalines from the lsx. There wa. a quivering motion of the snake, and the h-ad glid-d from the tall young man's grasp Iraek into the tsx. "Pretty stomg. ahi't he." said the re porter. " hat kind of snakes are tl.ev r' ! , .1 ., . . 1 .. u "f.-.. .ii:t-iinia, wa ioe n-piy. ' e don't keep any hut aiia'-oiila. ami Is .." " How long are they?" "Only alsmt ten f'-et: tint we have pot some larger ones. Ji4m. help me get this Itox kw n." The two, with some iliffleulty. took a Lirger 1mx from tls- top of the file and placed it vu the tbx.r. The tl! young man oik ne !t : tin rejMirter qui kly tepi fun k again: the monkeys shrieked. cughel. barki and hiiildli! in the farthest col iH-m of their e-e. "oiled W iliiill thelsx were two enormous ,-rents. one of them inarki! with l .rge sx.t of bLu k and Vellow, While the glitellllig sejlle of ia. ... t 1 it.fi a 1 is. a -'o J "!' were.-..,.-,, .. ...... - .i... uin i.:iii-oi 1- moo ,,.-. , cu-ioiin-rs imin, "What kind an they " inquired the nrtr. "Iba contrictor." nnl the tall roung man. pl-ndid iecim n. too. 'rhey'o about twenty lct bn-." A lie- sMke he kickisl the Imix. The serpent in blue raised bis head and cxhilitfil several im.be. of n -markably liely tongue. The inonker s(,ri k-l louder than ev-r, and one o!-nn. wrinkle-laced patriarch coughed conu!ivi ly. " I should think vo!;, I.' atr.iid tle snake would get out of thoe lMxe-they can t ts very strong. There's no danger : they an- n less only when hungry, and we ar csn ful not to let them get hungry." HoW Oltell dl Joll feed thelliy " "Alxuit uiut in thn-e month. I'm going to fts that big blue fellow lieXt Sllllday. It won't so noi-y around here then. They don't btsl well if there an luany iH-fiplearoimd and much noi-e. ut thev are gis. eater. v hv. that teg one will take tight or ten Lrge rabbit at a meal. You see he ha ti eat enough to last him thn months. We hl them w ith rtbbit. pigu. e-at and guinea pig. Oh. yes. we always throw them in the boxes alive. A shake won't ton. h a d ad animal. Thevalwa want to kill their own food. We throw in a rabbit. If everything is quiet the snake tatchc it at one, wind around it and rruhe tin- life out of it. Protiablv the rabbit i ad in le than a minute, but the snake hold it till every pule stop. Then it unwinds, hack-away f rom the ImnIv, miui n.- itt the head and swallow the rabt.it whole, ivering it w ith saliva during the operation. When that is swallowed we put in another, and o on until the snake 1 full. When it ha bad enough it w on't touch another. A rabbit might tami on it head and it wouldn't hurt it.'' When- do the ni.k come from?" Well, that big blue and a f-w other came from Africa, bur we got inot of them fnun Suitli America. We make arrangement with, the captain of sailing vessel, who buy them of the natives. Younc It's very w arm in hen." continued tlie tall young "man. a be wipetl Ids face. "We have to k-p tin teins-rrtun nearly a high as it is in tin ir native tiuntri-.. Snakes are very sensitive to cold." And who an your customers?" " Oh, the show tin n w ho ha.e the side show cnunf-tot w It ta it iiscs." "Thi 11 you ib-n't have private buyer?" ' Well. no. You s a a gen era I thing Kople sn m to have a irt Judii? again-t snaki. and they ain't very pn tfy ts after a'l. One of the Ims took hold of John the other day. He wa changing him fnitii tme cain- to another w hen the snake grabls! hiriby the ann nl wound around him. If I had not hapcticd to come in jut then I N-lieve he'd have hurt John liadly. You oe the bite is banuless afsiut like the M-ntt Ii or a pin. tait its the nnee7ing that doe the work. Why, they are jnt one mas of muscle." How niueh are the. snake worthy" "Thev vary. We have twenty-rive tsias and anaconda liere fnim eight to twenty ft t in length; the largest an worth aiel they run fnm that all the Wl'V tlown to ."iM."" A. I". Sun. A fRtK.nat ourtllsiw says In think it hit a repn In nille fir worn. 11 to get ti'bt bv laciti'' a for int-ti to gt t tight tight by . s II, whikv. lloth injure the si leiii. it's none of our particular bu-int s any wav. M n gem rally g t light cause it pb a-ant. and women get tight tirt t i nil'. '(! .Vir Journal. 1 Pionr who like to do thing on the sturo the moment should emigrate to Il.rling county. Iowa. A couple tbn w t n n titlv married, and after the retlionvtbe bri.le Wa obligi-d to ask bt rhuland'w bat ht r new name wasf The -ar-tic had only been a-qiuintid a few hour.