Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 34, Number 14, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 December 1891 — Page 3

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C. DOAXJB. PttfcUafc JliTM. ' IKWAHn. COLUMHA'S FLOWER. SOST mTT MajT, Amot tHe b4 ef eers Oar iBBe la CWwwW. VtVBt llatly wHfH. And firit h pWekod a wlsd newer, Ana grarely iheck her head: Too pale o see, frail yea sre, ( K,r what I waat," she aahj. And nxt b feead a ahady seek Where purple violets grow. ij never pte a sower," she cried, . mat could eeeipare with yee. Now twet you are ! NOW SWCCt )M SC, You modest little dear! But. oh. Kt dl Jest I I guess I'd better Jn you here." And so be rosned from Sower to Hewer. But carried bom away; On.i was too grave te suit her taste, Another wimi too gay. The daUy and the butter..? Smiled In her lace ut vain : Too trim you are, too prim you are," Sbe laughed la her disdain. jfor would fche heed obb lovely wJ That through the Hummer grows. 61i touted aside the purple Mag, She flouted the wild me; And wai mi hard to suit, ladeed. It ;emed she'd never flad TbtH little lass, Columbia A Moslem to her Kind, But oh day through the autHisR fields With nimble feet she trod. And 0:le and height were atl bedlght With splendid golden rod. Then merrily she clapped her hand: Till 1 the thlBK for m: , Type of the noUl my tHod lands held, To which tbe werid it free; Ob 1 mlae you are, for tine you are, And beautiful and stroag: you are the flower that shall he set To iHTrooa and to toeg!" And through the land Columbia, The falrtWt child of 'Jed, font, smiling, with her getdea hair All crowned with golden red. Mary ftradley, la Ilarjwr' Weekly. Original J X the year i; 1 ac k Hawk, the celebrated Indian chief tain, bean his b 1 o o d 3 raids. With a large following of his dusky braves he re-crossed the Mississippi river 4 from ' Iowa to nhtch country they had peaceably removed a short while iwfore, and, separating into squads, they ravaged the white H'ttlemenU far to the north. The red men concealed themselves tlonjr every frontier road, and boldly attached every party of traveler; or wttlers that came their way. Their acts at atrocitv were horrible, and the (ivnrnciion wrowni i r inem was TtlUnir beyond description. This state of affairs lasted several weeks, obliging the settlers, In many instances, to (father several families at "tin cabin, which was mads to serve as a blockhouse for their common protection. At last, however, troops were called out to subdue the red forces. Hut while Mack Hawk warred it was a dangerous time on the Illinois bonier and in the territory of Wisconsin, and settlers far and near were in the wildest state of alarm. There was one family, however, who, at the beginning oMhe ,-, was totally ignorant that the Sacs and Foxes were committing hostilities all around them. Very early in the spring of that year Hilton Kogers had put kls wife and only child, Alice, a lovely, dark-eyed rirl of seventeen, into a large, covered ifron. and, with their few household effects, had left Ohio and joarneyea into the wilderness of Illinois. The Rogers family took a claim oa the banks of an unsettled pai l of the Illinois river. Here they built a rude cabin far from any of the neighborinj settlements. Mr. Holers broke up the fertile sod, while Mrs. Rogers and Alice followed bias, plan ting cor a ami AMCtt STRAND INTO Till' DUGOUT, Wr-len seeds which their old friends ia "Mo had supplied them with on startH for the new oouatry. They were many miles from thetr Marest neighbors, and the busy spring fcason allowed them no time is wkii.h w cultivate acquaintances. In fact they had had but oae caller inCC fcftt1!n- t,i Tl.u wu II Howell, a handsome, robust yoang ft-! 'w whose father's claim was twentyEt miles distant. ""ice Howell had helped Mr. Rogers fct Ids cabia. and as he asstetcd ia Alice's wondrous dark eyes had worked narvelo sp,,n ia the heart of the

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to the iittic vhim n the river mr than once tt aprln. 11m his love, though half ftwol l.j the pareaU of thu girl, wasatill Mmlcclawl, It was a Wi)fkt prig day that Aliee Rogers left the cabin tn waa4r throK the woods In rch of wild tower. Mhewaa alone, her pareau haviag ffone that wwiin to pwekae a few seeeMsry mpalU at the eoaatry store about twentr miles distaat. Alice had Hot proeetnled a quarter of I !l I . ' mil- i rum ner Hojne, wnen. oa eaterlug an open upaee in the woods, she caught sight of a half score of Iadians hurrylnjf alof aerow the prairie. They were comiaif toward her, and something la their very wanaer told the girl their inteatioa were aot friendly. Before she waa detected by the Indians, she turned aad ran swiftly back toward the cabin. What was her horror, as she drew Rear her home, to find it already surroundod by a squad of savage! Screened front observation herself, within a little thicket, she watched them make hasty preparations! to fire the building, For the moment she forgot her danger, if she should lie discovered, and stood there ia the wood as if transfixed. What fate had befallen her parents. If they had been met on the prairie by that band of red fiends? she thought. The imagination was almost maddening to her. Suddenly she was aroused to the fact that the cabin was burning and that she must make an effort to escape. Hut where should she go? She dared not turn back into the woods again, for she would be sure to encounter the party from whom she had lied. Then if she ran to the prairie on the other side, she could be easily seen and captured. What should she do? Suddenly hhe thought of the river. If she could but reach that some avenue of escape might present itself. She muht make an attempt to gain the river at all hazards. Darting from ttee to tree, Alice started in the direction of the river, keeping aiongthe margin of the woods. About a hundred yards before her was a deep, rocky gully leading to the river. If she could only reach this without being seen by the Indians, she might hope to escape. Hut to reach the gully it was necciary for her to cross a small "clearing." where the logs used in the construction of the cibin had been secured While crossing the '"clearing" she would be exposed to the view of any savages who might have their eyes directed that way. The rocky gully opened the only way of escape. Every moment was precious. Hoping the Indians might be too greatly diverted by the burning cabin and rilling its contents to observe her, Alice rau with all her speed toward the hollow. She had just reached the brow of the gully, when a fiendish yell from the wood announced the dhwovery of her Uight She darted one swift glance over her shoulder and counted six ugly warriors dash out of the woods in pursuit, then she sn-'d, like a bunted fawn, down the rocky hollow. Kscai? now seemed hopeIc-.. Hut Aliee lingers khh a lirave girl, aad dotertnined not to pive up before she w as forced to do so. Her face was white with wikl apprehension, and her heart beat fiercely, but she ran on, the yells 6f the redskins ringing hideously in her ears. Her presence of mind did not once desert her, and her excitement only served to render her speed more rapid. Great rocks obstructed her path here and there, but she surmounted them all and gained the river well ahead of her pursuers. She did not hesitate loar a to her method of escape. Indeed, the Indians gave her little time for contemplation. Fastened to a saplmg on the shore was an old log dugout which Mr. Rog ers had used for a boat. The durout was deep and wide, hav ing been hollowed oat of a large log. It was the work of a second for Alice to untie the rope from the sapling and spring into the dugout The river was higa, and as the girl sank exhausted to the bottom of the strange craft a strong current caught it, carrying it from shore wun a uizzy swiftness. When the Indians came rushing down the river bask their surprise was most overwhelming. The girl they had thought to capture so easily was nowhere insight. Kxclamations of wonder and disap pointment broke from the redskins, and they began hunting among the bushes in hopes of finding their victim , there, ! The floating log down the river a few rods did not suggest to them the least hint of Alice's place of concealment and refuge. The dugout was borne rapmiiy along on the swift current. At first Alice could hear the Indians' voices distinctly as they made thorough search for her along the river imnk, and she feared thev would follow on down the stream and discover her at last. Hut gradually the savage tones 1k-- . -'...I ?- came more inuiMiiist, " v audible, and she know they had turned another way. How long she drifted on the current of the river sac did not know. ne was afraid to raise her head to look about her lest some savnge lurking near might discover her retreat She lay in the bottom of the dugont with the hot aa pouring down upon her in pitiless power. She was a prey to torturing thoughts. She thought of the destruction of ther pioneer home, where they had all worked so hard: then she wondered If her parents ware alive, aad tried to pray that they might be spared. Last, dii thought of the settlers beyond them, and her mind drew a horrible nieture of an attaek in wWch she aw ltruce Ilowell's wanly form fall under the blow of a tomahawk.

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wander i aereif. Mtrlrfotdy ff rest )og. sweeping down the Hver, thing itself with tremeadoiM forcu v,'aiu the dugout, and before AlUw could comprehend her peril. k was strujfgliug ia the water. At last she managed to grap Dm edge of the dugout and eliac wildly U it, while trying to draw herself up. Hut her heavy skirts dragged hei back, awl the tarlmleat water gurgt4 about her as if seeking to draw he forcibly from her frail koliL "UoU oa, Alieer It was Hruee Howell's volee that called clearly to her from the wooded shore. Could she cling there till he reach! her? She felt strangely weak, tent the water kept her from losing cousciottstiesR. Just as she felt her hands slipping away from the edge of the dugoat, Hruce's strong arms caught her aad bore her carefully to land. As she sat, wet aad exhausted, on the woody bluff where Hruee had placed her. lie said: "Thank God, Aliee! I was ia time tc save you." How did you happen to be here, Uruce? she asked. "Providence must have guided mt this way," he returned. "Xewss ol Klaek Hawk's raids has just reached the settlement, and I was hurrying te your father's cabin to warn you when my attention happened to be drawn HIS PAUGHTKH STOOD RCPOKE ItlM. toward the dugout drifting on tb river. It must have been a gIimpeol your dress that caught my eye, but before I had time to look more closely the log had upset the dagout and you were struggling in the water. Hut tell mc, Alice, how you happened to be iu the dugout." "I was chaed by the Indians." "Chased by the Indians! My God!" "Yes, and I sought refuge in the olo dugout,' "Your parents?" Tears sprang into the girl's lovely eyes. "Oh, llruce! I fear to think what may be their fate. Thev started to Updike's store this morning, leaving mc alone at the cabin."1 Tlien she brleHv related the aunearance of the Indians, the burning of the cabin and her owa narrow escape. Itruee Howell tried to relieve Alice's anxiety and bade her hope for the best Thev wre "twentv-two miies from - . - - - -i the settlement and it would be necessary to exercise the utmost caution in trying to reach it that day. The country veemed alive with dusky warriors and any moment they might become the prey ot a sava?a toe j ant ing near. As they made a slow, cautious inarch across rugged bluffs and among the trees on the bank of the river, Hruce's shurn eves more than once oaHrhta glimpse of Indians skulking along out on the prairie and beyond them in the woods. itv hiilin often amonr the bushes and rocks, or makin? lone. Irresrular detours. Hruce and Alice were able to avoid meeting them. It was not until after sunset that the young pair, hungry and exhausted, reached the large cauia ox om .jerry I a -J Uriaies, wnieti nau oee aasiuy turned intc a blockhouse. Tmairin, Alice's iov to find among those who had gathered at old Jerry's cabin for common wotectioB her own parents. Tl,..f had been chased to the settle ment by a small party of Indians, and during the greater part of the day Mr. Rogers had helped defead the cabin against a stublwrn attack. Toward night, however, the red oesicgers nan withdrawn to the woods for consulta tion, and the anxious settler had just succeeded in organizing n party oi hrsvn follows to accomnanv hitn to his ow n cabin, when, to his great surprise and joy, his daughter, leaning on unice Howell s arm. stood oeiore mm. Several other settlers joined thoM! at old Jerry's cabin, and though the Indians made more than otie attempt to destroy the blockhouse, they were driven back wita neavy losses. Most of the l nutans iimi gone farther norm, anu noi uemg able to muster suflieient forces to tana the cabin, they finally abandoned the attack. Whpn Hlaek Hawk was at last sub dued and settlers went back to their peaceful pursuits, Hruee aud Alice had a quiet marriage. AO, 11. flBBO. Hit the I'i-KIhc Hnrd. a wtmI iolte on ex-KIur Milan daring his recent sojourn at Carlsbad, lly hij nonchalant manners towanl ladles, Milan had become greatly disliked ...... ,1... i-icittu-u anil one dav be addressed two pretty young girls who he met out waiKing, awi to w had never been I a trod u 01, in his usual free and easy manner. Naturally they dkl not respond; but as they eould aot get rkl of him, the elder turned aad said, with gieat severity: "Moaaietr, oar principle is not to speak kings nnles introduced to them." Tale had the desired eeet-Ckiew Jwf aaL

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NaeHeM'a rroeetUe Sm Carried M MewttMt 1rue Wk Cared fur m ! MeKinJUr TN--Mr ' AsM-irwM L a H no am r nag. In kin letter aceeptlng the aomiaatitt for the prealdeacy by the high tariff party, Kenfamia Harrlsea said: "The declaration of the eoaroatkm gaSt all eomblaaUoaa of eapiUsl, or gaaiMd ia truata or otherwise, to eoatrol arbitrarily the eoaditioa of trada amoag our eitiaeRs, ia ia harmony with the views euUrUined and publieally xpresa4l by me long before tke w aembllng of the eoavaatloa." Thl aeatlmeat, as it was understood by tke people, meant that if he were elected nothing would he doae by hi adalawtratioa to foster truata, but that very effort would be put forth to suppresa them. Hut aa aooa as the election was over all this was forgot tea. The treat mad monopolies elected him and their reward was the passage of the MeKlnley tariff, ia the formation of which each trust waa gives full control to prepare the schedule of duties ou its particular products. In order, however, to pull the wool over the ees of the peopte and as far aa possible to detract their attentioa from the tariff the anti-trust law. prepared by "senator Sherman, waa enaveted. At the sane time the trusts were given to understand that this law waa not intended to become operative, accordingly the formation of trusts went on as before. The truth of this is shows by the fact that the attorney-general, whose duty it is to execute the law, has aot instituted a single suit, though, the law was enacted about a year ago -thus himself violating the plain aad explicit comaiands of the act. Xor did the friendly attitude toward the trusts of the president stop here, for after the death of Secretary Windon! he appointed as his successor a member of the' window glass trust, Charles Foster. Here is a list of a few of the largest trusts which depend on the tariff for their existence and on which the present administration relies for its existence in the future: 1. Ilorax trust It embraces all the borax mines of California and Oregon. No borax is found abroad, but imported boracic ackl was a competitive product On this the duty was increased from 3 cents to 5 cents per pound. The duty on borax is 3 cents and 5 cents per pound. 2. Linseed oil trust It controls the mills and markets. Tariff protection 32 cent per gallon on linseed oil. S. Cotton oil trust. This trust embraces ' several smaller ones, among them the Little Rock cotton oil combination. Its stock is heavily watered. Tariff protection 10 cents per gallon 4. Xatioaal white lead trust This trust controls to great extent the production of pig lead and absolutely most of white lead and analogous products. So powerful is its control over the markets that it is able to keep up the price to the import point, and therefore gets all the bonus the tariff allows. Any surplus which it finds on its hands is sold forexportatdiscounted prices. Protection on pig lead cents and on white lead 3 cents per pound. 5. Acid trust Embracing the manufacturers of snlphurie acid east of the Mississippi river. Protection c per pound; formerly free. & Cantor oil trust Protection 80 cents per gallon. T. Wool alcohol trust Hits H a branch of the whisky trust, known as the Distillers A Cattle Feeders Co. 8. Window glass trust It embraces window glass factories in New York, Ohio. Pennsylvania and Illinois. Sec retary Foster is a member of this trust. Negotiations are row pending among the glass manufacturers to form a trust to include all the window glass houses in the country. Protection, over 10 per cent 9. Table glassware trust This trust under the name of the United States Glass Co., controls factories ia Ohio aad Pennsylvania, It was formed soon after the McKinley tariff raised Increased duties to M per eeat aad at once raised prlees. Many of the factories in this trust declared dividends of over 60 per ceat last year aa per treasurers' report. 10. Sanitary earthenware trust, composed of seven factories in Trenton, X J., and East Liverpool, O. As soon aa the McKinley tariff became law it made a cut ia wages aud adraneed prices. Protection, 55 aad per cent 11. School slate trust Protection, SO per cent 12. Gypsum trset (plaster of Paris). This trust controls every important mill in tke United States. Protection, 91 to per ton. 13. Steel trusts. Bessemer Steel association, makers of blooms and slabs; Merchant's Steel association, finished steel; Western Steel, of Chicago; Ohio Steel, mostly controlled by English capital. These trusts control the manufacture of beam, channel and structural iron and steeL Protection heavy. 11 Wire rod treat Composed of western mills. Protection, 6-lOc per pound. 15. Shot trust Two and one-half cents per pound protection. 10. Copper trust This trust Is known as the Association of Copper Manufacturers In the United States. Controls all copper products. Meets once a year to tlx prices. Protection, 85 aad 45 per cent. 17. Asbestos trust This trust is composed of five arms in Hostoa, Xew York and Chicago. Protection. 35 per cent IB. A mcricaa ax aad edge tool trust Organised in Februarv, l&tfi). Previous to its organization best quality waa sold at &35 to 9&90 per dozen'; present selltBg price, $7.09 to I7.&0 per dozen. ThU trust sells handled sxes for export at less prlees than it will sell the axes, without handles to home consumers. Protection 4S per seat 19. Steel rail trust This is oae of the most imporUat ot the trusts. It is composed of tke six mills mw making steel rails every oae of wkieh has eat down wages sin oe the enactment of the MeKlnley tariff. Carnegie has reduced wages siaee. Protection 6-10 eeat per pound. 9. Barbed wire trust Organised ia St Lotals la lSt, It eahraee nine-

teen eompaalea. fntetoa d-ie Mat per pound. iU Serap aadT-hlsge trat OrgMed M Xew Yerk It adsraweia priees 30 par eeat Proteetioa 3tf seats par pound. 92. Coffee trait. Kmbraees sixty eompaaiea. Priee hare beea raised 33 per eeat Protection, 33 per eeat m. alegar trust Reorganised in 1IM aader the same of the alegar Rail series Co. Twenty faetoriee eat red the trust one-half of whteh have ataee been dismantled. Protection, K eeat per pound. 4. Glueose treet Proteetloe. X t per pound. 3ft. Cigarette trust. Protection. fiM per pound.

Oat steal trust Composed of fourteen eoastiteeat eompaaies. It kse made a heavy eat ia wages. Protection, l eeat per pound. 37. Salt trust Organised ia Acw York state early this year. It raised prices at oaee. Proteetioa, s to 12 cent per 100 pouada. 3. starch trust, organised ia Buffalo, February 1990, composed of sheet 18 eosceras, lump starea was sold for 9 per too before tke trust was formed. The truat raised tke prlee to over 875 per ton. Proteetioa 3 cents per pound. 'J. Jute bagging trust Protection 1 6-10 aad 1 8-1S oeats per yard. SO. Oil eloth tract. Comprised of the manufacturers of table, ahelf sad stair oil cloths. Portection 90 to 40 per cent SI. Twine or Cordage trust This combination is composed of over thirty corporations aad has heavy finaacial backing. Protection on cordage 7-10 cent per pound. 33. Cartridge trust. Nothing pleases the high tariff Inter Ocean of Chicago so much as its charges against this trust for selling cheaper to foreigners, and yet the other trusts do the same. Protection 35 per oeat 81 Distillers and cattle feeders trust; also known aa the whisky trust It has complete control of all northern distilleries. Protection very high. S3. Cracker, cake and biscuit trusts. The New York Hiscuit Co. controls trade east of Chieago; the American Hiscuit Co. has all the trade west ef Chicago. The former has a capital of 5, 000,00, the latter one of S10,eO0,00e. They advanced prices 30 per cent after dividing the field as above. Proteetioa SO per cent The above is bat a partial list of the tariff protected industries which number over one hundred. Everyone knows that the anti-trust law will not be enforced as against them, now that a member of one of the leading trusts is Harrison's secretary of the treasury. So long as the McKinley tariff stands so long will these trusts flourish. Abolish it and they, will disappear. HOME A QttentloH MARKET RESULTS. SHRTgMted For lretectlfMtlets te Amwer. Will some member of the McKinley party please explain how it is that laborers in industries benefited by "protection" usually vote against the system that, according to McKinley losric. provides them with bread and butter, while the votes that sustain "protection" come largely from rural i districts ia no way benefited, but in many ways cursed by "protection" to manufactured articles they have to bur? For instance, the large manufacturing cities of Xew York are democratic, while the rural counties are oftener republican or have been so. Admitting that protection has built all the mills that have beea erected in Xew York for thft last th irty years, where is the farmer benefited by the supposed "home market" accompaniments? He has lost half the value of his farm during this time, and often has had to mortgage the other half for all it is worth. It is a remarkable fact that farm values have declined most near these home markets. Albany, Schenectady and Amsterdam have doubled their populations during the last fifteen years. In this same time farm values, even within a few miles of corporation lines, have declined &9 per cent, while abandoned farms are numerous within twentr or thirty miles from say of these nourishing, protected cities. Surely, if this sort of a "home market" has any virtues, for the farmer its good effects ought to he manifest ia such plain cases ss these. But the truth is that "protection" has sot built the vast majority of these ills, that it does not provide any ap preciable kome market for farm prod ucts aad that the be Befits from protection go neither to farmers nor wageworkers but to manufacturers sad trust corporations. The wage-earners have found this out and refuse to sapport a system that taxes them for the benefit of manufacturers. That the farmer may yet see and vote for hie own interests is the wish of sll honest, intelligent citizens. Who 1'aye the Tin Flete Tax. A late number of the Iron Age, a leading protection trade paper, gives the market quotations for tin plate in Xew York and in a cable report the same for London. Bessemer steel plates, known to the trade as "ICcoke finish," one of the most widely used grades, are quoted at $5.75 per box ia Xew York and 13s 6d to 13s 9d in Lon don. The English prices are equal to la. 35 per box. The duty is SB. 87 per box. Thus the McKinley tariff is keep ing the home prices of plates equal to the foreign cost, plus the duty and cost of importing. This shows elearly the absurdity of the claim that the Welsh tla plate makers pay the duty. Per the Farmers te Consider. In its issue for October 16 the America a Economist, the organ of the pro tective tariff league, puMlaae a chart showing the price ef wheat aad flour under the low tariffs from 18fi to 1866, aad under the high tariff si see 189, which it points to as showlag the tri umphs of high tariffs. It shows that wheat went up ia price from 5te per pound m IsM to Se pound In 1$0, or ever l&M per eeat Under the high tariff it fell to Se per pound ia l$e7, or a fall of over M par eeat This fall ia price ef ever 96 per eeat is ssoribed lay Urn leoaumiat M

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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Aa Australian mlllioaaire Masai, who went from Leadc. te Hvo at the antipodes some years age, eHed rcccatlj at hia maastoa la Victoria, He was the msa who oaee seat aa srdm te Eaglsad for a ton of books. Miss Br addon, the aoTclitt, has ee great hobby the coileetkm of e44 salaa. the has a series of magnificent cabin-eta of this at her house ia Hiemond, Bear Loadoa, aad oae reeca is known as the plate -room, because it M huag round with ehisa plates. Oa the anniversary of Lord Vol eon's death every October his fiagshhc k elaborately decorated with ever; greens, aad the white ensign is freshly displayed as it was all the night loaff prior to the battle of Trafalgar, whea he ordered it kept ia view oa every vessel of hia fleet, to indicate that ha would engage the enemy the laataaho encountered him. Ersstus Wiman haa gone te Mm Maekoks territory, ia Canada, cheat three hundred miles north of Toronto, where he has hanted nearly every season for twenty-five years, There the D wight Wimaa Sporting club ewas two thousand acres, including many lakes. It haa a log elub house, raise its own potato crop and makes its owa maple sirup, and the fame of its cuisine is widespread. The medal presented to Prof. Vkehow at the recent jubilee is unique. It measures 118 millimeters ia diameter, weighs five pounds, and is made from eighteen-carat gold. The front of th medal bears a bust representation of the professor in relief. The back is adorned with an heraldic design, th allegorical figures of medieiae and pathology, microscopes, books, skulls aad an Egyptian mummy. The total number of Kstiaet word in the Xew Testament, excluding propet names and their derivatives, is 4,999. A few comparisons may be interesting: The vocabulary of the Old Testament is larger. Oesnius' 'Lexicon,' omitting proper names and obsolete roots, contains 5,810 words, of which 643 arc marked 'Chald.' The 'Iliad' and th 'Odyssey' together contain, 609 words. Shakespeare uses 15,006 sad Milton 0,009. Presbyterian and Reformed Review. A unique thing in books is promised to a chosen few. It is a hook containing twenty-three poems by the late Francis S. Salt us, Jr., the erratieyouag genius who died a year or two ago. II hi father will have twenty-five copies published by a Parisian house at a cost of 11.1,000. and will distribute them among the personal friends of his son aad himself. The poems could not be brought out in this country. Each poem is written in s different language Theyoang poet, whose brother is Edgar Saltas, the novelist, lies in Sleepy UoUew cemetery at Tarrytown, X. Y., where he ia to have a $12,000 monument Tsui Kno Yin, the present representative of the Chinese government at Washington, has scholarly tastes, aad is especially, interested ia astronomy. in order to gain lime lor study be H accustomed to retire at sevea and rise at three ia the morning, to enjoy th perusal of his favorite authors while the streets are quiet and his attention not likely to be diverted by outside sounds. Mrs. Yin, a tiny creature with diminutive feet does aot speak English, anil on state occasions ia suite throwa in the shade by her brilliant husband. She spends the greater part ef her time ia retirement, and is an adept ia the art of intricate Chinese embroidery. HUMOROUS. Won't Give a Kiss. "I will not give a Idee," says See; Love ia her Mee eyes deepens. "I will Bot give a Mas. 'ski trae. Bet takes tkey are asefdm!" N. Y. Herald. She "Cupid is not in it aa a mark man, Goosey." He "Why aot, Aagclr She "He's always making Mrs."Life. Her Fortune, Maud "My face k my fortune." Jsck (lovingly) "Wett you had better make aa assignmentto me." X. Y. Herald. Hopeless. "What oa earth is Jim mv crying about how?" asked papa, "He wants to give his gold-fish a hath returned IB sIB IB 2L. tMSC. -In a Bad Fix. MeSmHh (hotly)"I have got the law behind me, sir." Bumpus (calmly) "Leek eutH dont overtake you." Brooklyn CUiaee. "Heard yoa had a pointer oa the yesterday. How much did yoa win?" "Walked horn. It was a d leap-pointer." Kate Field's Washington. "My client can clear himself, I fed are, if your honor will oaly give him time," pleaded the lawyer. And th kind-hearted judge gave him twenty years. Somerville Journal A lady, some time hack, at the Smithsonian institute, asked if they had a skull of Oliver Cromwell. Being answered in the negative, "Dear me." she said, "that's very -st. range; they have oae at Oxford." "Well, Harris, dkl yea oall oa Maud's father?" "I did." "How did yon come out?" "I've been trying to remomlier. It was all so sudden, I don't know whether it was by the window or elevator shaft" Harper's Kazan Recently a letter of introduction was handed by an actor to a manager, which described the presenter aa aa actor of much merit and concluded: "He plays Virginias, Richelieu, Hamlet Shyloek, and billiards. He plays billiard the best" Th Talmud. About the Same. Watts "I've rot tke best revolver a man ever owned, I tkiak." Potts "Ye. I heard about yea shooting at that burglar the other eight sad missing kirn a yard." Watts "I id miss the burglar, that's so; bat I plugged the gaa meter square ia th center." ladhaaapolta J carnal. The other evening about aix o'clock ft young man tat ma crowded nabe4 car apparently asleep. The c cadaster politely tapped him tm the "Koa4pm'iathk "I'm aot Weep," was ths reply. "Well, yoa had yr eye scat" That's hecaaec I do t Ha m a women i la a street car." laJicit Ocaricr.