Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 33, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 April 1893 — Page 7

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A NX KS is the most snobbish town of tin. , .... . .. .11.: i. nr1 towns of thu -LtÄ-w 1 LUL, Mediterranean coast. The swell mob inhabits Cannes; the trnin-de-lux crowd; tlic people who toil not and at tho same time neglect to spin. 1 do not say this about Cannes because 1 had a row with an estimable resident of the place, but simply because it is true. Guy de Maupassant says of Cannes: ' 'Princes, princes, everywhere princes. They who love princes are indeed happy. People gather togcthei at Cannes because they love imperial aud royal highnesses." De Maupassant is uot quite correct I didn't go to Cannes to see princes; neither did he. Once I rowed in a mall boat past De Maupassant's little yacht, the Bel-Ami, and saw the novelist bitting gloomily on deck watching the Kstral mountains aud apparently thinking how much better he would have made those mountains if he had had the doing of it Still there is no use denying that there arc a great many titled people about Cannes in the wintertime. I do not know the rank of the man I had the little diflieulty with, but I thought him a most objectionable person and I have no doubt he thought the same of me. I hare never hud the courage to look him up since, out if this should meet his eye I beg to inform him that I will pay his little bill for repairs if he sends it in to me. It is n curious thing that Cannes, although it is so aristocratic, has many American names. One whole district of the town is named after California, which they spell with a final "e" instead of an "a." There is the llciel California, one of the largest in the plate; tiiere is the Villa Nevada, where the duke of Albany died m lbs-i; there i a United States hotel and a Villa Honda, besides numerous villas named after several western states, where blizzards are more common in winter than the sunshine of the Riviera. It was the exploring of Californie hill that led to my trouble. I climbed the hill behind Cannes by a steep road that led to a little chapel called St Antoine. This chapel is more than six hundred feet above the sea, and it stands in a notch at the top of the hill where the road dips down into a deep nnd lovely valley with the little pottery and pottering town of Vallauris at the bottom. I don't know anything ubout the history of the chapel of St Antoine, but I can give you some information about the pub that stands opposite. They can mix you up some of the most villainous drinks there that you can getin ull France, which Is saying a good deal, From the corner of the cafe a narrow lane leads atecply up the hill from out the notch, and that lane led me into the forest of Mauvarre, which occupies tho summit of the hill, eight hundred feet or so above the sea. At the edge of this wood of scraggy pine there is a most wonderful view. The cliff, about as high as that at Quebec, is not quite so precipitous. The bare rocks protrude here and there, but the face of the declivity is mostly covered with shaggy shrubbery and brambles. At tho foot are handsonic villas, and aloug between them and the sea runs the road from Cannes to Antibcs like a winding uliite ribbon. Away to the horizon stretches the blue Mediterranean. To the west the outlook is restricted by the shoulder of the hill, but to the cast the view extends into hazy infinity. The promontory of Antibcs projects out into

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I 8 AT UOW.V TO THINK. tili sea and beyond that can be seen the white cluster of toy houses representing Nice, and further the purple 1;n.' of the Italian coast Everything äs bathed in the splendor of the RiT'pra sunshine and far behind Nice rM be seen the white peaks of the 'intitne Alps glistening coldly bril'Ht't against the deep blue sky. I' mn below amoug thu villas all the ' imof the raiuoow were reproduced 1 v masses of ilowers and the dividing vils were covered with clusters of r"- De Maupassant calls it the M scenery of nature. Must people would have been satisduUh all this, but some men don't nw when they are well off. 1 was Y't sch a fool as to attempt to go " mi the face of the cliff, but I saw a P"nt of projecting rock from which 1 ;h"l'l 1 could have a still better Mankind is never satisfied with I'Oint of view. He constantly ! tnProvc his position, aud this Woprally iC!uls (u.sastcr. i uuancd c owcUng rock, but held it for a

moment only. X am not suro just how thu thing happened, but I went over and down and kept going over and down for some little time. It was not one good satisfying fall, 'jut a series of irritating little tumbles ending by ono that nobody but a captious person, could complain of, which landed me on the top of some prickly shrubbery that let me down easy, I was a sight to see when thu rocks and trees and brambles got through with me. 1 was in a bad state of repair, but had still enough of clothes left on mo to satisfy the requirements of the French law. It was impossible to climb back, so I made the best of my way down the cliiT. I had mauy tumbles, but they were of small account compared with the wild hilarity of tho first series. All my interest in the scenery had been completely shaken out of me. There arc occasions when the finest scenery does not satisfy the exacting require

ments of mankind. At last I reached the foot of the cliff with my neck still unbroken. I was tired out and hungry. I thought my troubles had ceased, but in fact they were just beginning. At the bottom of the cliff nie rocks had been blasted so as to increase the size of the garden of the villa at the back of which I had arrived. An iron fence ten or twelve feet high bounded the back of the garden. The upright bars of iron formed jagged spikes at the top. It was a fence utterly impossible to climb, but there was a little gate which I noticed was padlocked. When 1 stood on the edge of the little cliff formed by the blasting of tho rocks I was just slightly higher than the top of this tall fence and five or six fset away from it The fence formed one wall and the rocks the other of the twelve-foot deep ditch at the edge of which 1 stood. An oldish man was on the other side of the iron fence pottering in some newly made earthen beds that ran along the villa side of the fence and with him was a gardener. They were, the only two in sight and were but ten feet or so away. 1 could see them and they could see mo through the bars of the fence. "I beg your pardon." I said to the old gentleman, "but would you allow me to pass through your grounds to the main road?" He looked at me for a moment and auswered curtly: "My grounds are not a public thoroughfare." "All right," I replied. I resolved to clamber over to the back of some other villa whose proprietor would be more obliging. Ten minutes from, that time, after much hard climbing, it dawned on me that I was in a trap and completely at the mercy of the disobliging old gentleman. The way was blocked in every direction by insurmountable rocks and 1 realized that it was one thing to slide down the face of a cliff and quite another to climb up again. 1 regretted I had said "all right" in the tone I did. I reopened negotiations with him in a subdued and chastened manner. "I am very sorry to troubleyou, sir," I ventured, "but it seems to be impossible for me to get out of this except through your property. It would be a great obligetucnt if you would ask your gardener to unlock the gate for me." "I have no doubt it would be. I shall do nothing of the kind. Go back the way you came. If you have some trouble in doing so, it will teach you to keep to the public paths hereafter." "1 came down the cliff entirely against my own will. My being here is the result of an accident at the top. Even if it were possible for a man to climb back, I am tired out I doubt if 1 could go up the hill if there were a path." "All that is nothing to me." "I can't stay here forever, you know. If you let me through that gate you may arrest me for trespass, and I will pay my tine. That will serve as the lesson you are so anxious to impress on me." "The penalty for trespass ia this country is imprisonment" "Very wc'L I would rather go to jail than remain longer in your company." This was a silly thing to say to a man I wanted a favor from, and I realized that the moment it was said. Patience has never been one of my virtues. "I refuse to hold any further discussion with you," said the old man, with some dignity. "Oil, but you'll have to. If I stay here I'm going to have the worth of it in talk, aud don't you forget it I don't want your company, but if you insist on having mine you will have to stand tho consequences. How much will you take for your bit of property, anyhow?

I'm thinüing or buying a place in Cannes. I have some property in Florida that I will trade with you for this bit Florida has ever so much better a climate than the Riviera." The old gentleman kept industriously pottering about the flower bed with a kind of rake he had, and now and then gavequlet instructions to the gardener, who never looked up at me. I felt a hope that if I could only get the old man into the house, I could come to a financial understanding with the gardener. "Before making a payment down I would like to look at the villa from the front road. If you open the gate I will go through and tell you how much I'll give. The old gentleman moved along, aud I had to scramble over the rocks to keep within talking distance. "How much does this place bring you in every year? I suppose you have a good market for your tlowcrs and vegetables at the Cannes market Hy the way, talking of things to cat, I wish you would send me up a couple of sandwiches nnd half a bottle of wine from tha house. I'm starving, lailers all the world over at least feed their prisoners." It is hard to keep up a conversation all by one's self. "Look here, I'm tired of this. He reasonable aud let me out You know you'll hare to do so sootier or later." Nd answer

1 tried to appeal to his better feelings, but he hadn't any. At least il he had they were in the house, or loaned to somebody. 1 tried personal abuse, and finally I aaid I would bring scandal upon him by acting like a madman and yelling at the carriage that passed, so that people would think he was keeping a private lunatic asylum in his back yard, but nothing I said or did made the least impression on the stubborn old gent He was now at ono end of the place and the gardener at the other. 1 worked my way back to the latter, and tried to corrupt him, offering gold if he would casually unlock that padlock. He never even looked up at me. Then I became silent, and sat down to think the matter over. Near the middle of the fence, almost opposite the little gate, there was a tempting place. Here a projecting rock stood at tho highest spot above the fence, and closest to it It was possible for a person at this point to take a ruu of a few steps to the edge of the rock, and then jump and possibly clear the tall fence. Hut the penalty of just failing was something awful to contemplate. I did not fear being impaled on the sharp iron points, but I knew that, tired as I was, there were ten chances to one that my foot might touch the tip of the fence, and after that anything might happen. Before risking it I thought I would make one final appeal to the old gentleman. "I am tired of this," I aaid, "and 1 don't think you have had as much enjoyment out of my conversation as perhaps you expected to have when I began. Won't you opea the gate and let me through? It cannot be any amusement to you to keep me here a prisoner." The old man straightened himself up. He had been bending over some flowers. He replied with much calmuess: "My dear sir, you are no prisoner of mine. You may go where you like and do what you choose as far as I am concerned. The gate, however, is my own and I shall not open it" "Oh. I have your permission to go where I please. It is very good of you. I did not realize that Thanks." He was at one end of the plot and the industrious gardener at the other. The path that ran along the back of the place passed him on one side and the gardener at the other and then ran along, the eastern and western limltsof the place. There was no path down the center and I saw that if 1 got over the fence safely I would have to cut straight through the garden tothc open gate at the road. There was a little porter's lodge at the road gate, but I saw nobody about to stop me. I took the run and the leap and cleared the fence without touching it I came down with a sickening feeling on the soft bed of loam and sank in it nearly up to the knees. I scrambled out on to the hard path and at that moment the old gentleman saw inc. My

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i Boke iow.v crox ntM, fall had been as f-ilent as I could have wished and the gardener still bent over his work. I bolted straight down the garden, which was terraced so that I could not see where I was going. The proprietor shouted with all his might and ran along to head nu: off, the gardener running along the oppovite path. As I jumped off the lirst terrace there was a crash of glass and 1 came down on some glazed frames that I did not see till I was through them. Luckily there was but a few inches between the glass and the earth beneath, and I walked through as if were on brittle ice. I went traight over the flower beds nnd then noticed that a bewildered individual had come out of the porter's lodge and stood in the gateway, not knowing what the matter was. If he had had the presence of tnind to have closed the gate I would have been in for it This the shouting old gentleman called upon him to do, but everything had happened before he could collect his wits. I gave my favoriU Comancheyell as I boredqwnupon hint and he jumped aside. Tbo next instant I was out on the president's highway. I put in some respectable running toward Antibes until out of sight when happily I met the street car which runs to Cannes andgoton board. When I passed the place again I noticed there was a good deal of commotion about, but whether they chased me or not I don't know to this day. When the old gentleman sends In his bill for the glass and the flowers I lieg him to remember that he gave me his permission to go where I pleased. Luke Sharp, in Detroit Free Press. Biggs" You say your wife always pins a flower on your coat before you leave home?" "Yes. sho has for a month." lggs-"Well, tt shows she thinks of you" "No. it's because she never can remember to sew on the button." Inter Ocean, "You must vote. Jawkins," urged Smithers. "Every vote counts." "Mine don't," said Hawkins. "I vote one way, but my coachman and gardener vote the other." Harper's Bazar. Mother "Your little sister has been pulling you cn the slc.i for the last half hour. Why don't yon pull her?" Little Johnny 'Tai afraid she wiU teil cold."

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Comment of thu 1'rrM irpou Ihr Tariff K furui Club'a rrupoM-U Turl JUil. A I.I. 0O0I MKS. Some newpajKTH assort that tho special tariff reform committee of the Reform club is "impudent" in suggesting a tariff bill. This is a charge worthy of lwing embalmed among tho curiosities of protectionism. The committee is comjioscd of men wl have studied the tariff for many years. Ome of them has been secretary of the treasury. Another is a distinguished lawyer of large practice in customs cases. Two others are well known writers on economic subjects. If any opinions except those of protected manufacturers may be serviceable, mi rely those of the members of thLs committee are entitled to consideration. No protectionist thought' it impudent when the Wool (! rowers" association, the Wool Consumers' association, the Home Market el ub, the American Protective league and a small army of Ixiunty-feil manufacturers went to Washington and absolutely dictated t Mr. McKinley s committee the rates of duty that should be adopted for increasing taxation for their profit. Hut when a number of gentlemen, thoroughly equipped for the service, offer their suggestions for lightening the burdens of the people they are denounced as impudent They have not, after the fashion of the protectionists, ordered congress to accept their views. They have not sent their report as an official document to the president or the secretary of the treasury. They have simply, for the benetit of the consumers, made their contribution to the current discussion. They are willing to defend their work, which in its general principles is good. If any one imagines that he can answer and confound these gentlemen by calling them impudent he had better not undertake a controversy with them. He will di.scover,if he does, that sterner weapons than hard names are essential to victory. It is because this committee has undertaken to advocate the cause of the people against the protected manufacturers that its members are called impudent Tint the people have demanded reform. A reform congress will not lie likely to reject on frivolous grounds, the result of the studies of men who for years have lieeu recognized as tariff experts. N. Y. World. THANKS HUK. The thanks of the democratic party nre due for the pains they (the committee) have taken in preparing a tariff reform hill to h; .submitted to the ways nnd means committee of the coming congress. The bill prepared by these gentlemen consists of eight schedules. All duties are ad valorem, as thev should toThe bill is a thoroughly democratic measure. While we cannot say that it is faultless, and while no such claim is made for it by its authors, we lielieve that if it were passed as it stands, without the change of an item, it would make the lest revenue-producing tariff the country ever had. 1 5y this we mean that it would give the largest revenue to the treasury while imposing the least burdens on the people. 1 1 would create a temporary deficit in revenue, but this would soon lie made up by the increased importation of foreigu wealth into the United States. It is possible that the ways and means committee of the house of representatives may do lietter. We sincerely hope it will. Hut if it does no worse it will redeem every tariff reform pledge that has lcen made by the democratic party and inaugurate a new era of great and steadily increasing prosperity. St Louis Republic. A I.I. Afllll'.Kt). These are all gentlemen whose views upon the liest methods to reduce tariff taxation, while securing adequate revenue for the government's needs, arc entitled to careful consideration. They do not differ in any material degree. They are agreed that the first step to lie taken is to relieve materials of manufacture from burdens that have been unnecessarily imposed. This is, of course, the base of all tariff reform. In the same spirit, these gentlemen agree that the necessaries of life should be taxed as lightly as possible, considering the requirements of the revenue. This is not only sound economics, but is common justice. The protective tariff has weighed most heavily on those least able to bear it Many articles of food have lteen taxed for the pretended h'nefit of the farmer, while in the matters of clothing, carpets, bedding, crockery, glassware, building materials, window glass, tliplate and many forms of metal goods, the things used most in the homes of men of modcrate means, by lalmring men and women and their families, have leen taxed at a very much higher rate than the things used by the more well-to-do classes. N. Y. Times. A 6 UK AT WOHK. This club has done more to awaken the people to the necessity of tariff reform than any other similar organization. The Itcform club considers ad valorem duties the only just ones. The principal arguments against these duties are the ditliculty of correctly appraising the goods and the possibility of fraud by means of undervaluation. Tin difficulties exist really for two classes only: Customs officers and importers. The convenience und interest of Ixith these classes should not be considered before all other classes have been taken into account It is true that high ad valorem duties are an incentive for fraud, but this wiU not be the case if the duties do not range higher than -5 per cent, on the average. Spceiiie duties, on tqe other hand, Impose a heavier burden npon the poor tliaa tipon the rich, because lioth piy the same amount, although quality and price of the goods differ widely. In addition, the ad valorem duty follows the fluctuations in price, and the constant cheapening, through new inventions and other changes In the method of production. As soon as the goods Income- cheaper, the duty declines corrvipondingly. The very op

posite happens in the cav; of sprclfle duties; it may to-day amount to .'0 per cent, of the value, und, as the price of tho merchandise declines, rise to 75 and even 100 per cent within a comparatively short time. A tariff for revenue would, under the circumstances, become highly protective without a change in the rates of duty, solely through the incessant cheapening of production. The lieneficiaries of the robber tariff will bring their Heaviest gaits to tear upon this bill and attempt to produce differences of opinion among the democrats. The fact rcniains, however, tbut it can but be of the greatest value to have started the discussion thus early, and the lleform club deserves great credit for its timely undertaking1, N. Y. Staats Zeitung. IHKKKItM KKOM M'KINI.EV. The tariff bill of the lleform club, of New York, has at least the advantage of representing thu buslnc; side of the tariff question. .It is not assumed to le the conclusive word on the question when thu next t-iriff bill is framed, but is part of a variety of information sought with a view to guidance- It Ls the antipode of that on which the McKinley committee most relied. Their system of action was to call the manufacturers of the country together, ask them how much duty they wanted and then admit their claim, thus paying them for campaign contributions to the republican party already rendered and establishing ü. basis for further assessment. Hoston Herald (Ind.). 11KSKKVKS CONSIDERATION. The bill and the arguments of the committee are entitled to more consideration than such documents in general receive, lccause those who prepared it arc men of reputation, who have long and deeply : tudied thu question and are without any personal interest in it. except such as is common to their fellow-citizens. The subject itself is the one which chiefly divided the people in the recent election. It is theone which, more than any other, will divide the new congress when it shall come together. It touches nearly all the industries in the nation directly or indirectly. There is no way to avoid this. The people have pronounced for tariff reform in unmistakable tones, and the only way to give theuivhat theyhave asked for is by a bill in congress. N. Y. Evening Post WKM. INFOKMKl. That club ineJudcs inany of the moot distinguished tariff reformers of the country men who have made a lifelong study of the subject, men who have followed it into its details and are prepared to indicate the technicalities by which certain industries receive undue profits from the great Ameriwn system of protection of the workingman. It is certainly as creditable to these gentlemen to tender their .aid inthe formulation of a measure us it was for." them to tender their aid in the education of the country on the tariff question, and we all know that few organizations did more valuable service than this one in that work. There is no more proper or inoffensive form in which tlicir suggestions could lie made than the formulation of a bill emdodying their ideas. Indianapolis Sentinel. NOVEL IIIEA. This method of drafting a tariff bill is entirely novel of late years, but it is thoroughly democratic. Hitherto it has been the custom for manufacturers, the direct lieneficiaries of protectionism, to pool their interests, and then make demands upon a republican congress, which promptly yielded to them. The great mass of the people were not consulted in such matters. qhc best feature of this new undertaking of the Reform club is that it will serve to direct the attention of the industrial world to the fact that reductions of the tariff will lie made in less than eighteen months. Albany Argus.

STUDY THE BILL. The w Tariff 1HU Should Hp Stmllrtl Iljr llit IVople - How to Prm-nr" It. The Reform club bill is the first tariff bill ever framed entirely in the interests of the people and withont dictation from manufacturers or those with "vested rights." The makers of it are all eminent us scholars and several of them as philanthrophists. They are all recognized as authorities on the tariff question. With due consideration for past and present conditions, they have made a bill too good to lie fully appre-. ciatcd at once, hence they have published it six months before congress meets, in order that proper time nay be had for general discussion. Speakers" will also be sent out to discuss its merits, and perhaps to aid in securing petitions to congress in favor of this or a similar bill. It will uot do for the eople to trust entirely to their represent-, tires :in congress. Popular sentiment must 'express itself. Maay representatives did not UHtlerstaiKl the füll iwpert of the last election; others -haTc 'ywVF backs" or" elastic1 consciences wkick would bend and Rtretch before millions and hilliona of dollars that will be represented la Washington, ia opposition to such a measure. "Vested interests" are quick to begin work aldmg" effective .lines. They have already, cried out against this bill akd win leave no stone unturned, to prevent its passage. They wish to continue their robbery of the people and will bribe and corrupt congress if possible in the future as in the past.- The only antidote for the poison is the strong assertion of public sentiment in editorials, sHreehes and petitions. Let it le manifest in a way that shall leave no doubt in the minds of our representatives of what is expected of them. The Reform club proposed tariff bill Is now ready for free distribution at tho oflice, .Vi William street. New York City. Send in your address and secure a copy. If you arc a farmer, mechanic elerk, professional man or common lalwrer, it will pay you to study this bill and to ask your congressmen to support it or a similar one. iTon't T.lito It. Serious review of the New York Reform club's tariff bill is an impossibility. Like most of the later productions of Shearman and Wells, it isa curiosity of imliecility. Chicago Inter OecM (Rep.)-

SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Junior ,E worth league are bstra duclng military companies. Kcr. Mr. llucklcy, pastor t a church at PeHrith, England, having no mouey with which to havo his chapel painted, got the necessary paint and put, it on himself. 1 Of the sixteen American cities with a population of over two hundred taw sand in 1890, only four Philadelphia, Hoston, Milwaukee and St Louishave incorporated the kindergarten oq any large scale in their public school systems. The Hritish and Foreign Hible .society since ISO! has printed and distributed 127.85S.5Sl volumes of the Scripture; the National Bible society of Scotland has distributed 12,710,S24 copies, the Hibernian Bible society, 4,903,450 copies; the Prussian Bible society, C.059,801 copies, and 100 other Hible societies have for generations been swelling the total annual output Medical students were last yeat distributed among the various German universities as follows: Herlin, 1,165; Bonn, 325; Breslau, 292; Erlangen, 42; Freiburg, 4SI; Giessen, 172; Gottingen. 200; Greifswald, 393t Halle, 288; Heidelberg, 27S; Jena, 212; Kiel, 845; Königsberg, 251; Leipzig, 834; Marburg. W1: Munich, 1,443; Rostock. 13S; Strassburg, S33; Tubingen, 230; Wurzbur, 743. A new young men's society, called the Brotherhood, is gaining popularity and strength among Presbyterians. Its design is Christian work in churches, something after the asanaer of th Young Men's Christian association "yoke fellows," but with more formality, each church organization beiag known as a "chanter." Its osteasibl principle is to mako each member in reality a keeper of brethren. When Phillips Brooks left Philadelphia forlloston in 1S09 he was succeeded in the rectorship of the Church of the Holy Trinity, the largest Episcopal charch in Philadelphia, by Rev. T. A. Jaggar, then a brilliant young preacher of thirty. Dr. Jaggaf, who left that charge to become', a bishop, has now been engaged to take. Dr. Brooks' place in, his vacant dioccse,,and perform bis episcopal duties until a bishop is' elected. The order of tho Jesuits, which elected a new general not long ago, has how a membership of 12,047, The English-speaking branch has 2,309 members, of, whom 1,1 OS are -in the United States. There are ia tha province of Mart-land nil Ka Ynrlc Sß4: 1A Mi.

souri, 105; of New Orleans, !'. Am American, RevvR.I. Meyer, of New York, has.ju"stbeca appointed secretary of the English-speaking department of the famous order, the smallest in siz in proportion to its inflneneand activity of anyia extant St Louis Republic. Bishop John F. Hurst, who has been chosen chancellor of the great Methodist university which will be founded at Washington, made a report before tho Baltimore conference whien. showed the splendid progress that' baa been made toward the end desired. In addition to the property for the site xf the university, nearly 11,000,000 lias already been sledged, and the plan adopted to raisalf5,e0s9M more by $5 subscriptions will undoubtedly be a success. Bishop Hurst and the men asso-' Stated with him ia this movement know no such word as fail, and, with a great denomination back of them, are sure taste a complete realization of their hose la the near future, . HUMOROUS. May ""Mamma, why do people file a bill for divorce?" Manama "Weiler I suppose it Is to smooth the matter over." Inter-Ocean. Jasper '-'Is Intoxication always followed by a swelled head?" Jumpuppe "Yes, even .when a man has been intoxicated by success." N. Y. Herald. " "My sweetheart is neither beanti.ful nor young," said Downes; "bat he is as good as gold." "Ah! it's the gold yoäi're after?" said Bigbee. Tit-Bits. Those Xoblc Alliances. Caraway VI see the elevators in this country are sailed lifts in England." Tripper "Yes; and lifts in this country arc frequently called marriages in England. Truth. Too Good to be a Boy. Johnnie Say. Tonsmle, do you' ever get licked by the teacher?" Tommte (with pride) 'tNo, I don't" Johnnie, (with conienipt) "Aw, ym mast he a gkl.M Detroit Free Press. , Algy "Wagiaald, xwhatAdid yon ay, yu know, w.hcnyou were pwf sen ted to the, Pwinc'e of Wales?" Reginald "Why, d'eati", boy, the first thing I slid was to apologize for the Amerwlcaa wevolution." Life, With Nickels. Wallacc-'That is n yery appropriate metto they have over thrm nn ihn 'n !. !.-'. in. t k- 11' Üiinc." Roller "Vybat is that?" Walmce "Tf at first 3-011 don't succeed, Iry, try again.' "Truth. Daisy "Whan L get Mg, Htm yen, mamma, I'm going ta marry a doc tar sr minister." Mamma "Why, my dear?1 Baisy "'Cause if I marry a doctor I can get well for nothing, aud if I laarry n minister I can be good for nothing." Fnnny Folks; m Aroused the Old Man's Interest Col. Julep "That bird dog cost ma three hundred dollars, hut I've got to get rid of him.' Uncle Mose Wat's do matter wid yer deig' Col. Julep "He kills neighbors' chickens, and brings then home.'' Unci Mose "Wat ' yo' reckon yo' take fcr dat yer purp, Mas'er Colonel?" N. Y. Snn. A lady had been ill and under medical treatment for a long time. As she grew no better all the while, she became distrustful of 'her physician's skill and did not wish to see him, and yet waa not bold enough to tell him so. She communicated her state of mind tä her maid. "Lave Mm to me, mum; lava im to me!" said the girl. My and hy the doctor came to the door, aadf Bridget opened it about aa Inch, "Sorry, sir," said she, "but ye can't came in the day, docthor!" "Can't come Imt How's that?" "The mtsthrasa ha too 111 for to see ye the dar airl"