Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 41, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 June 1893 — Page 7

WEEKLY COURIER.

O. DO ATS' IC, PuhllHher. JASPER. INDIANA TO MV WATCH. Utile watch, fust ticking out All tho bourn of pain and doubt, AU the tumult, toll und strife Making up our apart of lifo; All tho Iicurt-wrung night und tears FttlllnK faster wltlt the enrn, Ah tho potulH drop und fade From the bloom lifo' Huinincr mado, Ahl what thottirhw each other cluisu As 1 look iK)ii your faeul Every tick your motion give, Ono tick los have I to live. Did I rcullie this thought, "With such solemn meaning fraught, When some now-tiorn Joy drew nluh In the happy days kouo by, And your Hllk'ht IiiinU all too .slow Jtound ulxiut your face did u? -Alt' thosu tardy hours havo passtrt "Would thuy were not now ho fasti Never stoppln In your flight, Never paustnK day nor nlKhtj Js'ot a moment's rest you cruvu 1'Vom tho cradlo to thu grave. With a never eenslni; motion, Steadfast an the tides of oeean; SeeinliiK urcrmoru to hurry. Yot v ithout a moment's Hurry! Till our worn lieurts utmost pray That you would n mouieut stay. All thliiRH rest tho clouds at noon, And tho leaven In nlKhtu of June: And tho Krlef-bewlldered brain "When sleep falls like Kof test rain; And tho start when day awukes, And tho day when Hesper shakes Gleams of gold from out tho skied Into wandering lovers" eyes You alono peed on your way, If ever rusting night nor day. Yet what Joys those hands have brought! Golden days with rapturo fraught; Golden ilftys of sunlit fountain; Golden days on breezy mountain; Days made more divine by lovo Than by radlanco from above. Ah! those hands that to the sense Urin such Joys and hear them hence, Could wo know what tlmo conceals 'Nuth those little ticking wheels! Yet when those sllcht hand shall mark That last hour when all arrows dark, And shall still keep ticking on When cnrth'ij light from me Is gono, Little watch, your faco shall Ih) Still u memory swent to mo. Though diviner light mav shine On theso opened eyes of mine. For your hands that never eeaso Bring at last tho perfect peace, Sydney Hodges, In N. Y. Times. THE 3TAM AT JÜNALUSKA. A Protty Romanoo of tho Northwestern Mining' Camps. T A L L young tn o u n taiheer, with flowing li 11 i r tossed roughly back, was pi ay fully holding a struggling girl over the verge of a precipice that towered above u whirl of waters surging through a dismal gorge below. The girl was robust ami muscular, yet Anse Oranger heltl her easily with one haml, while ho saucily shook a finger of the other as he said, laughingly: "Now, Kate, if you 'low to fool metis you have some of the other boys in the licud, you have gone and treed the wrong coon.' "T.11.H ..... 1. ...... ..-.. ui.l iiji; tlunv, illinu .tltlltli till II Sie loose, I .say!" she screamed, for she was really more alarmed than her rude admirer thought for. "You Anse!" "Goodness, Kate! It I turn ye loose you'll fall, sure." As he held her she clung to his extended arm, and her usually ruddy faee grew pale with anger and fear. Finally he pulled her towards himself, half embracing her with one arm. Hut when she felt that she was safe again, Bhe struck hint a stinging blow on the face, then released herself with a supreme effort, and sank down, sobbing violently. Though the blow must have hurt, he smiled good-natumllv. "There, now," said he: "tit for tat, Kate. You've paid me back. Now, I wunt to know if you really are tryin' to serve me as ye do the rest of the boys. You know how I love you, Kate. I've been a eottrtin' you a mighty long while, 'nd I'm jest obleeged to have an answer." The gM looked up, with red eyes angrily Üaming. "Have you!" she exclaimed. "Well, then, I I'd see you in your grave afore I'd marry yon, after the way you've treated me this very day." "Why, Kate" "Don't talk to me! From this day on, I want you to keep to yourself 'nd leave lue alone. If the other boys Want to talk to me it's nary business of yours, Anse Oranger." She rose and confronted him, a breathing statue of feminine resentment. As he slowly comprehended her real meaning, his smile melted Into an expression of sadness. 'That is all right, Kate," said he. "You can let on jest as much us you please, but I know that you know how much I've loved you 'nd waited on you, 'nd if you're a-goii.' to let a little foolishness change you in this way, I'll believe wliat the boysisay about you is true you only wunt to make fools of us. Hut after this, you can't have your way with Anse Oranger." He turned abruptly and strode down thu trail leading to the camp of lumbermen on the river bank above Junaluska gorge. Kala Garden stood motionless, while the Hush of anger slowly receded before an after-rising pallor at this unexpected result of her words. The lashing of tho torrent below fell shiveringl.V upon her car, like an echo of coming trouble. Receding from Junaluska basin on every side rose the green-and-saffron mountain slopes Until they kissed tho heavens, apparently, far above all terrestrial care and passion, Queen of hearts thottgk she was among these taoHBtaln wilds, she found herself

balked and tortured by the only man out of half a score of suitors whom she hud ever owned to herself that she cared for in the least. He had accused her of cruel insincerity. Had he not spoken with some degree of truth? Wus hhc not, after nil, u coquette? Hut standing there, amid the beauty and turmoil of that wild scene questlonbjg herself closelysho began to feel, that things were not with her altogether as they had seemed to be. Nature was, somehow, reft of its usual charm. Witho' t the sense of Granger's devotion, on which she had leaned, even while she tortured him, her small atom of the world felt quite cheerless now. An hour later found her busy over the raftsmen's dinner at tho long, low log cabin, planted centrally before the broadest sweep of the river above Junaluska gorge. Con Carden, her father, healed cattle in thu summer and logged on the Junaluska in winter, while his wife and daughter cooked for more or less of the hands. The early rains had supplemented tho thawing of the snows on the "big" mountains, and the three forks of the Junaluska were thundering down the ravinu with ever-increasing power. A boom wus stretched across the river nt Junaluska basin, against which thousands of logs were pushing, as their number was hourly increased by the growing Hoods. A score- or more of mountaineers were lounging in to dinner from the woods und river. Anse Granger was

KATE CAItDKX STOOII MOTIONLESS. t with them, but his cheery voice was strungely silent. "Well, Kate," said Ab Snider, an oftrejected yet ever good-natured admirer of the girl, "what was you a-doin' up about the cliff this mornin'; 'nd what's the matter with Anse, anyhow?" The men were eating, and Kate set down a plate of cooked greens before Snider with a thump, saying: "There's what I was a-doin'. If I didn't projeek around, here and j'onder, it's precious little b'iled poke 'nd mustard as you alls would get. As for Anse, if you're so etir'ons to know what ails him, you't1 better ask him. I'm not mludin' Anse Granger's business, myself." Anse said nothing, though his brow contracted, while Kate gloried in her independence of speech, at the expense of an additional heartache, as she noted his increasing gloom. After dinner the men lounged before the door for awhile. Over Junaluska basin the sky was clear, yet afar off the great mountains still wore the gray garb of mist und storm. The thunder of the rising river echoed ominously to the practiced ears of the lumbermen. "That tha roarhf means more fallln' weather," remarked one. "A fraish are u good thiug, but too much puddin' would make a dog sick. I'm afraid, boys, that boom '11 go to-night" "If them t'tinder-heads busts up yander," said Con Carden, "there'll be a jam in Junaluska gorge before long shore." The men went to tholrworkof letting the logs, cine by one, through the boom. Anse linge:ed behind long enough to catch Kate by the arm in the passage between the dining-room and the kitchen. "Kate," said he, "I hate to stay mad with you, after all as has passed between na. Let's make friends." "Hands off, Anse Granger!" exclaimed she, releasing herself with some vigor. "You'd better run after Em Caythorp; I ain't a carin'." "What do I care for Km Caythorp?" he returned. "Let's you 'nd I make up, Kate." "You used to like to talk to Het Williams," said she, still mockingly, though with ati inward twinge. "Don't mind about me; I'm jest a findin' out what a prettv boy George Shaw is gettin' to be." "Deuce take George Shawl" he burst forth, feeling us if the last straw had been added to his already overburdened endurance. "The boys arc right you only like to make them as is fools enough to love ye miserable. Let me go." He strode angrily awnj, while Kate went slowly about her work with a serious face. Her triumph, after all, was not an enjoyable one. Junaluska gorge extends for nearly a mile between two irregular lines of cliff, in a manner not unlike a Rocky mountain canyon. The river, sweeping fiercely through, debouches into a more open valley below. The thunder-heads on the "big" mountain did burst; the Hoods again descended, and about live o'clock that afternoon the bexnn broke. In a few minutes a jam was discovered near the middle of the gorge. As the waters rote logs from above cuuie thumping down by the hundred. It was evident that something must be dqne at once, or tho jam would assume such proportions as to defeat all efforts at dislodging it. Kate, sitting in the front porch of her father's cabin, saw a "dugout" canoe leave the shore and make for the upper end of the gorge. Her father was approaching from the river at a half run. "Father," alio asked, "who are them men as is a-goin' to risk their lives for a passcl of old logs?" "Juuio up, Kate." cried Mr. Card.

"an' fetch mo that thar lung inch-rop we uses to windlass up the rafts with. Anse Granger, John White 'nd Doak Spurlin have gone down tho gorge to the jam. We why don't you hurry up, girl? Dark's comin1 on 'nd we've a sight to do." Kute stood speechless and staring. Her father stumped his foot impatiently, and she turned to look for the rope like one in a dream. Ten minutes later Con Garden and several others were standing on tho Hed Cliff, a huge precipice that overhung a largo rock midway of the gorge. Here was where the jam had formed. Kate followed them, regardless of the supper she was to prepare, regardless of everything, save that Anse hud gone, perhaps, to his death, and that she loved him clearly. 'JMie results of her own petty resentment wrung her heart as she remembered his last attempt at reconciliation, which she had so cruelly repulsed. Now she stood beside her father on tho Hed Cliff. Helow was a savagu roar and a white dash of spray and the grinding thud of descending logs. Her ears, half deafened by the noise, were strained to catch the sound of voices that might, even now, be forever silenced. The sun was sinking; chilling shadows were enveloping the gorge. The men were lowering a rope. Mr. Carden, lying down, peered into the seething abyss below. "There's two men on the rock," said he. "Hit looks like they've broke loose a part of the jam." "Only two men, father?" cried Kate. She threw herself down and peered over. What if the missing one were Anao Granger? "That's it, boys," she heard her father say. "A leetle further clown. There! he'sketched it he's got it under his anus. Now, pull stiddy, boys, 'nd don't frazzle the rope." A human form was dangling over tho gulf below, drenched with spume and swinging wildly. Was it Anse? Shu hid her face as she heard the horrible rasp of the rope over the edge of the cliff the hard breathing of a manthen, after a time, a scraping of feet and Doak's heavy voice: "Hit was a tight squeeze, boys, 'nd about the wust place I ever was In." "Who's on the rock now?" Kate heart? her father ask. "John White." Her heart gave a fearful leap. "Well, Doak, where's Anse?" Kate sprang to her feet as SpurUn'ii slow words came like an echo of doom. "Jest afore the jam broke the end of a log hit the dugout kerblim! Down she went, 'nd Anse, lie went along too." She waited to hear no more, but without a word she glided behind the unheeding group, conscious that Granger's body must be somewhere below the gorge, and that she must find it, and, perhaps, die. There seemed to be nothing else that she eared to do now. "Lower away, boys," called Carden, but the words were an indifferent affair to the despairing girl, who with dilated eyes and torn garments struggled along the rough and perilous path above the gorge that led to the valley below. "He has gone to his death," she faltered. "I I don'tcare much how soon I go to mine either. I'erhaps I'll meet him where? ' Her query was suddenly and unexpectedly answered as the form of Anse Granger, drenched, bruised, his clothing torn, his face unnaturally pale, gilded round a sharp bend of the path. "Good God!" she gasped. "It's his ghost!" She would have fallen, but strong arms held her, a warm breath fanned her brow. Her eyes reopened. The hands of the ghost felt lifelike, and the voice she now heard made her heart throb anew. "No, Kate, I ain't quite a ghost yet, though I come toleruble nigh gettin' to be one shore." "Doak said as a log hit ye," whimpered the girl. "I was in the dugout when a log did strike it, 'nd down she went, jest ahead of the jam. Then the canoe busted herself on a rock. I managed to climb a log 'nd on I scooted. I was whirled under 'nd knocked about pretty considerable, but I got ashore, 'nd here I am.

"it's his ohoht!" Now, Kate, what are you a-doin' way up here?" There was no reply, yet her face hid itself against his wet and ragged bosom. "Are yon still mad, or arc you jest a-pnttin'on?" No answer still, though one arm stole gently round his neck. Anse smiled. "Are you ever goin' to treat me in any such way again?" Kate's arm slightly tightened its clasp. "Now, Kate, I want you to up 'nd kiss me right smack In the mouth." Hut this last humiliation was averted by the appearance of Kate's father and the other men. Cnrdcn stared at Ana and his daughter, then turned to hit friends with a knowing grin. "Anse makes a right peart kind of a corpse, boys," he remarked"; "jest about peart enough to bo cutis! n' of a weddin' 'round here afore long, I reckon." Willlntn Perry Brown, iu Nutiomai Tribune.

ROTTEN CORDAGE TRUST. A lUmt of Sp-ulMtor, Aided by Titrlf l. K'Matlou rUt fur by uiiilf,'ii KniiiU, !aiiM u I'niiIi- Srlllnic Cnnlugt Urt l'tr Cent, t'limpcr to VurrXgnvr Than to Aiiierleutm. Wall street's recent experience with the cordage trust it,, to those who have eyes to see, a luminous example of thu evils of fostering industries with tariffs. It is largely due to MuKinleyism that tho cordage trust has in a few years become an inveterate criminalrobbing farmers who are using binding twine, rope, etc.; squeezing theheathen Chinee who raises hemp, jute and flax in the Plilllplnes; making tramps of the workmen locked out of the mills closed to restrict production; robbing its benefactors the American peopleby selling cordage much cheaper to foreigners, and wreeldng the fortunes of Wall streets innocent lambs who invested iu stocks watered al most beyond belief. The cordage trust was leading an almost lifeless existence, when McKinley, in September, IS'JO, held out alnjut 61,.V)0,000 to it by removing the duties on its raw materials and offered it several millions more if it would hold together and take full advantage of tho duties averaging about '2 cents per pound, which he left on cordage, cables, twine, eta The trust saw its opportunity. In October, 1S90, it secured a charter, placing its capital at f I. ",000, 000 about four times its real value. In ism it owned thirty-four and controlled four more of the fortynine factories in the 1'nited States, besides having full control of the eleven factories In Canada. It cornered the munilu market and toyed with prices of both raw materials and the finished product. In l-S'Jl it made a profit of ?l,40(5,:u:i and promised over $2,1)00.000 during besides closing over one-half of its factories. It paid John Ooode 200. 000 a year to hold his plant idle. Its common stock, which sold hi lS'.U for 7?' to 10. reached VM in l!l)'J. In l.s'.rj the trust voted to increase its capital from $1.V)00,UOO to S:2..000,000, to make its stock better subject to speculation in Wall street. The additional water was not, however, poured into the pool at once. The manipulators of cordage stock were waiting for bigger game before springing their trap. The officers liegan systematically to boom cordage. The Waterburys and Kurmuns were in the "front ranks of "the 400!', and gilded "tips" on cordage were sown broadeast. J. M. Waterbury. the president of tha trust, was, and is, a member of sixteen of thu richest social clubs In New York and president and general pooh bah of the Country club. Everybody was quietly told of the great profits in cordage. -Mr. Waterbnry's valets, grooms and even waiters caught the cordage fever anil invented the savings of many years in cordage stock. It became understood that the common stock ($10,000.000) would not be doubled until it was worth .$150 a share of J109. The price, however, could not be forced above 147 and in February the $10,000.000 additional water was poured in, and common stock started off at about 70. The price was falling slowly when it was announced that the trust proposed to issue $2.500,000 of additional 8 per cent, preferred stock to enable it to carry on its business. This was the last straw on Wall street's back. The admission of weakness aroused the unusually dormant suspicions of speculators. Soon a break begun; insiders began to unload to save themselves; in a week cordage had collapsed and Wall street was on the verge of a panic. Common stock declined to 11 and Wall street's lambs were drowning in the $10.000.000 or $1 S.OOO.000 worth of water which had suddenly leaked out of their stock. Many of them went under. Among this number was .1. M. Waterbnry's valet, John Gordon, who has made himself sick from brooding over his loss. With free raw materials the cordage industry needed no protection. The enterprising officers of the trust wished to do some magnificent financiering und desired the aid of substantirl duties. As they were influential republicans and willing to pay for legislation favors, a republican congress thought it wise to place duties of from 7-10 to 2 cents per pound on various kinds of cordage to protect the poor cordage laborers from thefr pauper competitors in Europe. These duties were levied anil the cordage trust gave the republican campaign fund a big boost in li".r That no protection was needed has become evident to all since the trust has put its product on the English market far below its home figures. On May 4 the very day tho break lcgan the Iron Age said: "The National Cordage Co. are moving energetically In the direction of European trade, and it is even intimated that manila rope, has been offered abroad at prices which would almost permit its being reimported from Great Hritain to greater advantage than it could be bought in Xew York." As the duty on imported cordage averaged over 20 per cent in 1V.I2, and the cost of transportation is considerable, this means that the manufacturers are selling about 25 per eetit lower to foreigners than to stay-at-home Americans. This is an old trick practiced by dozens of trusts and well illustrates the blessings of "protection" to those who do not have it. In leaving duties on articles made by trusts we are inviting fraud, depredation and ruin. If we sow to the wind we must expect to reap the whirlwind. Hyron W. Holt. WHY NOT? If tho Forrlitner t'nyn the Tmx Why Kot Let lllni 1'njr All of It? If the foreigner pays tho tariff why not let him pay all tho tax? Why talk of reciprocity? Of all the- old, thickly settled countries free trade England pays the best wages. Protectionists never mention this fact The tariff on lumber is an encouragement to the destruction of our forests, and at the same time Undo Sam, with his usual consistency, pays a bounty lor the planting of forests. Not only that, but it forces all our people to pay tribute to our lumber barons. Let labor compel the capitalists U

prove their profession of friendship to American labor by having laws passed restricting immigration. No "protectionist" would agree to this, however. They all want protection for themselves aud it give4 then! still further protection to have free trade in labor. If the people of this country knew how much tariff they pay, and tho profits they pay the middle ie en.that tariff, and thu higher prices paid on articles of home manufacture, by reason of protection, there would be another "ten party" and on a much larger seale tht.n the one in Hoston harlior, in mighty short order. Foreign pauper labor comes in dHty free, and yet there are people who profess to believu that a high tariff on manufactured goods protects American labor. Capitalists encourage foreign pauper labor to come to this country holding out tho inducement of high wages and steady employment. Theso laborers come to this country at tha rate of 500,000 a year, overcrowding tha labor market and running down wages. If a mau tells you that protection increases wages, ask him to explain why it is that old England pays higher wages to-day than during the days of her protective policy. Ask him why it ist that she paj'K higher wages than any of the other countries, which have protection. Ask him why it is that right hero in this country, where the tariff is the same in every part, wages are higher In the west than in the east, and higher in the north than in the south. If we are going to give the manufacturers free raw materials let us havo free manufactured products. Lowering the tariff or taking it entirely off raw materials, without a corresponding reduction of the tariff on manufactured products, or placing them upon the free list, would be of no benefit to the people. The taxes the manufacturers now pay in the shape of tariff on raw materials would have to Imj made up in some other way; in other words, the entire tariff tax would ba shifted to the shoulders of the people, and they would get nothing for shouldering the burden. It would simply Ihj more "protection" for the manufacturers. The American consumer should receive consideration, as well as the American manufacturer. Chicago Freo Trader. FOOLISH METHODS.

Protectionist MetliotU of Opposing n Tiefer Tarl.IMU. . . f The Reform club bill is meeting with unexpected good fortune. Not only has it aroused the bitterness and hatred of the New York Sun, but it is being treated with great consideration by the American Protective league. The American Economist has published tho full schedules of the bill and is circulating thousands of copies amongst protected manufacturers in order to aroise them to action and call out severe lenunciatious of this ntclical bill. Of eourse the Economist can get as many interviews as it .can print, declaring that such a bill would absolutely ruin the industries of this country, siak wages to the European level, and be worse than a. thousand plagues, lika the cholera or typhus. Hut what is more important to the cause of tariff reform is the fact that the intelligent workingmen will thus be given an opportunity to get in somo good work in favor of the bill. Nearly every factory contains a few who have studied the tariff question sufficiently to understand the folly of attempting to protect labor by any kind of a tariff. When the interviews of tho manufacturers, making all kinds of wild claims and absurd promises, nre printed and circulated in the factories they will Ihj discussed by the workingmen and conelusions uncomplimentary to the "bosses" will be the order. It Is very foolish for the protectionists to attempt to create opposition to this bill by publuhinfr it. The bill is the friend of the laborer and mechanic and will make three friends to one enemy wherever it becomes known. Hut the protectionist must keep their armor on and this bill is the only opponent In fcight at present. B. W. II. A Whopping- Infant. The annual report of James M. Swank, secretary of the American Iron and Steel association, shows a production during 1802 of upwards of 1),000,00 tons of pig iron, 2,500,000 more tltaa that of Great Hritain, This infant is said, nevertheless, to be not iu good health; on the contrary, to be rather in n state of hydrocephalus. The Manufacturer, of Philadelphia, commenting on Mr. Swank's report, says: "These figures are very gratifying as indicating in what manaer the protective system has enabled us to surpass, in this particular, our most powerful rival. Hut there is small reason for en. eouragement in contemplating the general condition of the industry in the United States. It is suffering from unusually severe depression of only a less degree of intensity than that endured by the Hritish iron trade." These facts would seem to prove that no further protection Is needed tO' develop the production of pig-iron in this country. Whether its present hydrocephalic condition is due to too much tariff or too little, or whether the tariff has had any influence upon it at all, everyone must agree thnt if protection to pig-iron is continued after our output has exceeded that of Great Hritain by 2,500,000 tons, it must be continued for some other reason than that of immaturity and want of capital. N. Y. Eveulng'Post Untas Our Clothing. The chief protection organ rcgarda as littlu short of fiat treason the assumption, of the tariff reformers that cur woolen industry will not only not perish, but will lie able to thrivewith free wool nnd a duty of 55 per cent on manufactured goods. Hut why not? The woolen Industry was a lusty infant seventy-five years ago without any coddling. Even under the war tariff it had only u ISO to 115 per cent. duty. It is either ignorance or knavery to talk of a duty of 75 to 100 per cent as necessary to cover the "difference iu wages." Away with in barbarism of taxed wool and the robbery of taiftf dothünf,-N. Y. World.

OF GENERAL INTEREST. The present dress eoat was the result of a compromise. Thu ordinary Bitrtout coat being found on occasion! inconvenient, it was the practice tc fasten back the lapels to two but com on thu back, with the result that In time the same were cut away altogether and the coat eventually madu without them, "Four 1,000,000 bank notes have been struck at the Hank of England. Samuel Hogers, the banker poet, possessed one of them; one went to George IV.,and Is in the Windsor castle library; another lailongs to N. M. Rothschild, while thu fourth remains at thu Hank of England, where it may now be see by visitors. A poor oyster fisher who plies Iii

j trade in Hiloxi bay, an arm of tho Gulf , of Mexico which indents the state of Mississippi, recently discovered the sunken wreck of an old French man-of-war, which he is now trying to dispose of to the government Tho vessel waa one of a fleet of Iberville, which waa t used to colonize Louisiana some two centuries ago, and many curious relics were found within her hull, j There are two words in the English ' language which contain the vowels ia ( their regular order, viz.: "AbstemiI ous" and "facetious." The following ' words each havo them in irregular order: Mendacious, authoritative, disadt vantageous, encouraging, efficacious, , instantaneous, importunate, nefarious, objectionable, precarious, pertinacious, 1 sacrilegious, simultaneous, tenacious, j unintentional, unequivocal, undiscovcrable and vexatious. A miller ninety-four years old is living near Versailles, Ky., in an old water mill that he has been running continuously for upward of eighty years. He started it before the war of 1812, and remained by it all through the civil war, scarce knowing a war was in progress about him, the place is so secluded. He is hale and heart', can shoulder a sack of grain or flour with ease, and his mind is clear and his life smooth running as the creek he has lived by and listened to for four score years. John Hansen Craig, of Danville, Ind., is undoubtedly the largest man in the world. He is thirty-seven years old and weighs nine hundred nnd seven pounds. He is six feet and five inches high, measures eight feet and four inches around the hips, eighteen Inches around the ankle, twenty-nine inches around the knee and sixty-six inches around the thigh next to the body. lie requires forty-one yards for a suit of clothes, and three pounds of yarn for stockings. Mrs. Craig is a good-looking blonde and weighs one hundred and thirty pounds. Congressman Thomas J. Geary, of California, the author of the Chinese registration law, has always' employed Chinese servants in his California home, because they are practically the only good ones to be obtained in that part of the country. Since the law bearing his name was enacted it is said that his wife has been unable to keep her Chiucse servants or to hire others, as a boycott has been declared against the Geary household. The peddlers of fruit and other articles, who are principally Chinese, also refuse to sell any of their goods there. A fire occurred recently in a 6how window at Hosten caused by the sun, which focussed through a mammoth magnifying glass and set fire to a photograph. This is only one instance of the frequent recurrence of unexpected fires by concentration of the sun's rays try magnifying glasses or by concave mirrors. A few years ago a bright tin dish concentrated the rays of the sun in a store window at Lynn, and caused a sufficient fire to call out the fire department. There have been many fires in physical laboratories of colleges from lenses, and it is the rule in all properly ordered physical laboratories to keep lenses covered with black cloth caps, hangman's caps, as it were. It is strange indeed, if true, thai one of the most popular of humorous entertainments is modeled on the oddities of a people who arc deficient in the sense of humor. Yet a manager who has been associated with a minstrel troupe of real negroes says that the greatest trouble experienced by him wns in trying to get them to be funny. All the songs and jokes and comic acting that really made the audience laugh were the inventions of white men. The acting of the negroes waa full of purposeless antics that indicated high spirits, but they were not amusing, and, while they were always read' to laugh at jokes, they did not make any of their own. They excelled as singers, however, for their voices were rich and melodious and the basses especially deep. Hecausc the work viking has come to be pronounced with a long "i" in the first syllable, and the "k" has in consequence been transferred to the second syllabic, the popular impression is that the ancient viking was a monarch of the sea. Asa matter of fact, tho word means something very like pirate. "Vik" is almost equivalent to "wick," meaning creek, bay, or inlet, and "ing" is only a suffix of origin, a patronymic in some instances, as in the name HuckIngham. The vikings, then, were sons of the creek, or creekers, unpleasant persons who kept their light craft ready at hand in creeks and bays to sally forth and carry them to neighboring shores for plunder. "Haymcn" ia one of the dictionary equivalents of the word, and doubtless "baymcn" is still In use locally In one part of the United .States or another. "Hay boat" is certainly the popular name along the Chesapeake's shores for steamboat that ply from port to port on the bay. A Wonderful KnowlrdK. The Single Man, No, sir. You might hunt the wide world over, and you would not find a more sensible, reasonable little girl than the one 1 am going to marry. Tho Married Man I guess yon have not known her very long, have you? The Single Man Known her! Why, man, 1 have been wiUi ker coastaaUf for three weeks! -Lüe,