Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 52, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 September 1895 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOAXK, IiibllHler. JASPER. . - INDIANA. OLD LOVE LETTERS. f roai the perfumed not thnt I found to-day. Traced yean, aco by her fair white hand. Ito the last sweet breath of now-mown hay. The odor she loved, una analn I &t ltd On thatiriffd porch, where t Mild udteu To a face that wus framed in golden hair, And Its ra'Han' glory a moment th: jv Into darkness the inoolixut shining thera And I thrill acaln, while the dear Kray crns Flaih bripnt as a trout, in a strenm at piny, When the mnbeams. nrrow of llirht. surprlso Ilrni. deep In hit haunt on a rummer' day. Oace more Is her voire upraised In son; The "Fisher 3lald." with its t u refrain; I (nawi on the shore, and et er I lorn: J "or the mermaid, that mocked me In my pain. The sons Is hushed, on the doolate sfcnru The waics of sorrow break at my feut. Hut the sens of the mermaid evermore !: my heart .shall echo. low and sweet: I s.t in the sfe-ade. while thu llreltfht Kloams O i the sinner's face, a -he turns from tac Ah ' never a mermuld seen In dreams half as fair, or n.s swoet. as .she. From the flinty lace that rolled th sarins of her pulslus: lK)otn. there IM.itod sweet Th lorof uow mown hay; 'twas mine brtatho of Its Joy for a moment liest. Aw! I softly kiss the iettr that brings A ronietnbrancj sweot, of thttt urnraer nfc'li:: A'.J my heart In sorrowful sllcaro cllnijs To a :noss-s;rown i;rave, and a hsnJstono svhite. '.YiJHatn J. Dawson. In Detroit Free Press. JACKY'S DIAMOX!) 1UXG. uv mattik u ii.ki:k. "It was just like a man," Mrs. Lawson saitl, "to give a young' girl such an unsuitable present. Diamonds for a girl of fifteen! Brother Jack ought to have known better." Hut pretty Jacqueline didn't think her new diamond ring at all unsuitable, and called Uncle Jack "the darlingest man in the -world," to give her such a lovely birthday present. The fact is, she was his namesake, as nearly as she well could be, she being a girl and he a man; and he said, by way of excusing the extravagance of the gift, that lie had never given her anything for her name before. He had not seen her -since she was a baby, till he came back from California with a "pocket full of xocks," to find her a lovely, grown-up girl, for whom, he was sure, nothing could Ih too good. laeky was so fond of her new ring "Viut she would have worn it all the -while, but her mother objected. "Only on dress occasions," .she wisely .said, "until you are eighteen. A schoolgirl in a ilanncl gown, only half long at that, wearing a ring that never eost less than a hundred dollar.s is not in accordance with 'the eternal fitness of things.' Besides, you might lose iL" That danger was a real one to Jacky's mind, since it was a trille loose for the linger on which she wore it, the linger the majority of her friends advised, for, on so important a matter as that, of course, she had taken abun dant counsel. Hut dress occasions were all too scldom now, Jacky thought. So, for the most part, the ring was shut into its case of royal purple velvet, and that was locked in Jacky's satin-lined jewel case, which in turn, was kept in -a locked bureau drawer. Mrs. Lawson herself advised all this care, for. though she considered the .servants honest, she did not think it wise to put too much temptation in their way. Mrs. Orth, the cook, had lived with them many years, and they knew her to be true as steel; but Matie White, the second girl, had come to them a perfect stranger only a few weeks before. She was so quiet and refined that they were nil favor.ably impressed with her, but there is that old saying about summering and wintering people before you can really .know them. She was but a little older than Jacky. and Mrs. Lawson had -often noticed Mntie's wistful, almost envious glances at Jacky's tasteful dress and ornaments, so in contrast with her own plain things. Jacky was invited to a grand New Tear's party. All the boys and girls in her set were going in n large sleigh, for it was a live-mile ride. The night was clear and cold, so sharp that Mrs. Lawson bundled Jacky tip very warmJy, putting her" own fur mittens over Jacky's fine woolen ones. Of course the diamond ring must be worn on that occasion, and very brightly it Hashed on Jacky's pretty white hand, in contrast witli her crimson cashmere dross. It was after midnight when the sleigh drew up again at Judge Lawson's gate, and Jacky eanu in from the chorus of many good nights, tired, sleepy and cold and g!:id of the cheerful coal lire in the diaing-room. She tat down on the lounge behind the big, Marin stove whi'c she took olT her many wraps and warmed herself through and through before going up to her room to lied. The gayetics of the evening, the music, the games and all the merry chat were still ringing in her ears as she undrcscd, and not till her head Mas laid on her pillow did sho miss her -diamond ring! "Left it in my mitten, probably," sho said to herself. "I could not have lost it, for I am almost sure I remember feeling it on my finger on the way home." She was tempted to rise at once and .go downstairs to find it. but she was fo tired, and the halls were cold this sharp night- Itcsides, iJto romembcred that this had leen one of her mother's headache days, and if Jacky returned downstairs she would be sure to hear and question her. It would hnoil her mother's sleep to know that the rtfitf j as missing, even for a minute, and sleep was her only hendache cure. 'Til find It the very first thing In the morning, before I say a word to anyone," Jacky resolved, and in two minutes sho was in n sound, healthy sleep, from which she did not wakcu till bear nine o'clock.

"My ring!" was almost h-r first waking thought; so anxious a one that she rose at once. drtss.d quickly and hurried down to the dining-room. The family had breakfasted, but she thought little about that. Her first glance at the lounge where she had lelt her wrapt showed that they were all picked up and carried away. "Who carried my things away?" she risked .Ma tie, who was dusting the room. "I did. Wasn't that right?" "Oh, yes!" but she hurried into the hall and examined her mittens, her muir, cloak and hood, even her overshoes and leggings, shook everything, but to no purpose.

"Did you hear anything drop on the lloor when you picked up my things, Ma tie?" she asked, when she returned to the dining room. "I don't rcmctnlter as I did," Matie .said. "I've swept the lloor since. Have you lost something?" Jacky said "yes," and, getting down on her hands and knees, peered in the hollow of the stove legs, examined the lounge and shook its cushions. Then she went out at the front door and carefully examined every inch of the path to the gate all in vain. Then, and not till then, did she acquaint her mother with her loss. Mrs. Law.son was even more disturbed than Jacky, and she went over all the things and places that Jacky had searched, as vainly. Then her suspicion fell on Matie. She was too just to say anything of it to anyone else. but she watched the girl narrowly and thought she saw traces of guilt. Judge Lawson took measures to have the sleigh searched carefully, and also sent word to the house where the party was given, but all as fruitless as the other efforts. The next week was Mutie's time for a visit home. Her widowed mother lived in the citv, ten miles away, and it had been .stipulated when she came that she should have a chance to go home once in two months and spend the Sabbath, so she went on the train Saturday. Truth to tell, it was a relief to her to get away, for she felt that Mrs. Lawson was all the time watching her and suspected that sho knew what hail become of the ring. That evening Kitty Logan, one of Jacky's many girl friends, came bustling in. "I went to the city to-day," she said, "and I sat just opposite your girl, Matie, in the car. And I want to ask you u question. Does she wear a ring?" "1 don't remember as I ever noticed llir wrarmirnnn. Wlir" --j "Well, it may not mean anything, but .she certainly had on one to-day, for I could see the shape of it through her worsted glove." "Should you think the shape might have lcen like Jacky's?'- asked Mrs. Law.son. "I should think it might, though I didn't think about that at the time, and should never have thought of it again, but for one circumstance. I hail an errand at Peck & Snyder's they're the finest jewelry store in the city you know and I met Matie coming out just as I went in. She must have gone there direct from the depot. She had on a veil and didn't noUce me, so many are all the time passing out and in, but 1 wondered why a poor girl like her should visit a line store like that" Mrs. Lawson was more stirred by this confirmation of her suspicions than .she was willing to confess. Without telling anyone she wrote immediately to IVck fc Snyder, asking if they had had a diamond ring offered them for sale that day, if so, what style of a ring and by whom. The answer came back immediately. They had several clerks, so it was difficult to trace such things, but one clerk, name given, remembered a young lady bringing in a diamond ring about that time, was not positive as to the day, and asking its value. She did not say she wanted to sell it. The heads of the firm were both out then, and the clerk told her he did not think any of the clerks would be competent judges of its value, and advised her to call again. Mrs. Lawson was not satisfied, and wrote again, this time to the clerk himself, asking that he describe to her as nearly as he could the lady and the ring. The clerk replied that he did not remember at all particularly about the lady, and could not well describe her face, as she had on a veil, but his im pression was mat sue was young; should not say that she was richly dressed, or very poorly, and there was nothing suspicious in her manner; should say the diamonds were a modest cluster, but dll not ox.tniine the ring and could not tell positively its style. The "modest cluster" described Jncky's ring so exactly that Mrs. Lawson now took her husband into her confidence, told him what Kitty had said, and showed him the letters. "It's a case of circumstantial evidence." he said, after they had talked over the particulars. "No one should ever bo condemned on that. I'll think of it over night, and give you my advice in the morning." "Go yourself and talk to Matie kindly and in private," was the advice he gave. "If she is guilty you may get some clew." That very afternoon Mrs. Lawson nerved herself to the task, and, knowing .Matie was alone in her own room, went thither and knocked at the door. Matie opened it and looked surprised at seeing Mrs. Lawson, who came in, closed the door and sat down. "1 want to ask you a few questions, Matie," she said, kindly. "Why did you visit Peck fc Snyder's jewelry store the day you went home?" For answer Matie burst into tears, aud Mrs. Lawson now felt sure her suspicions were correct "OV, Mrs. Lawson I" she sobbed, "I know you have thought I stole that ring. I could read it in your face, but indeed I never did! I went into Teck .t Snyder's and bought a little jet brooch., to carry to Mother for a prca-

ent. She had never had a black p!a since father died, and I knew she would like one. and that Peck ,fc Snyder nl-,wiys had a pretty assortment, so I went in them to buy it For, though theirs is such a stylish store, they are honest and will tell you just what things are, and their prWaf, for such things are no higher than they are elsewhere. And they always treat their poor customers as politly us they do their best ones." "Did you get onr?" "Yes'in, I bought her a very pretty one for a dollar, and she was so pleased with it, though she said I ought not to spend my money for hur. It's the first money I ever earned, and I did love to get It for her. .My mother is so goodnothing is too goo,! for her," Matie said, her face Hushing with pride aud tenderness. Was this truth, or only clever acting? "Hut didn't you have a ring on your finger that day? 1 neaer saw you wear one here." For answer Matie took a little box from the bureau drawer, and opening

it. laid in .Mrs. Laws oil's hand a wellworn gold ring. On the back of it, two interlinked hearts, in the style of long ago. made a device very much the same shape as Jacky's diamond cluster. "Grandmother gave me this," said Matie, "the day I first left home. It was a ring grandfather gave her before they were married, and sho has always worn it, but she wanted to give me something and had nothing else to give. She said I must wear it all the time to remember her as if 1 could ever forget her dear heart! Hut I am not used to wearing a ring, and I'm always afraid L .should break it or lose it I put it on to go home, so she would see I wore it That wasn't wicked deception, was it?" Mrs. Lawson smiled as she said: "I am sure not," though the girl's simple utterances had almost moved her to tears. She glanced about the room, so neat and orderly in its simplicity, saw Matie's well-worn Bible lying on the stand at the head of the bed, and, bending over, she kissed the girl's cheek. "1 believe you and trust in you, Matie," she said. "Oh, thank you!" cried Matie. the tears falling again. "It makes me happier than I have) been since the ring was lost. I do hope it will be found!" Hut days and weeks went by and no trace of it "Might as well look for a needle in a haystack as to hunt for it further," Judge Lawson said, and everybody concerned had nearly given up all hope of ever seeing it again. One raw April day Jacky had been off in the maple woods to a sugaring and came homo just at sunset, damp and cold. The lounge behind the coal steve was always her favorite warming place, so she sought it at once and sat there resting and warming herself. The level sunset shafts shot in at the west window aud glanced across the sheet of zinc under the stove. As Jacky looked down she saw in the sunlight the faint impression of a small circle on the zinc close to her feet. An inspiration seized her. Stooping down, she pulled up the loose edge of the zinc a trille, reached her fingers under and drew out the lost ring, as good as ever, save for the dust it had collected. The whole thing was plain. She probably pulled off the ring with her mitten that night; it fell unheard to the floor, and in moving her feet about she pushed it underneath the zinc. There it had lain till many feet rubbing over the zinc had made a bright place just the shape of the ring, which finalh betrayed its aiding place. Good Housekeeping. A MATTER OF LIGHT. ThU Woman IIa ma Experience That Made Her Avoid Cabl Can. There is a Georgetown woman who is put to great expense for cab fare every time she comes over to the city on a shopping tour, for the reason that she has boycotted the cable cars, says the Washington Post. The reason of this is a characteristically feminine one. She is of rather sallow complexion, and cannot stand certain lights. One day she was returning home on the cars, about thnt time in the afternoon when the sun sends his beams slantwnrd from the west. Suddenly a male acquaintance approached her, and in agitated tones inquired if she were ill. "Why, no I never felt better in my life," said she. "Why?" "Well, you look so queer,' faltered he, "a kind of sickly green, as if you had cholera." Then she noticed that the sun, shining through the pale green fanlights, gave to his face just the hue he described. And that is the reason why you couldn't hire that woman to ride on ä cable ear to Georgetown in the afternoon. TRUE TO NATURE. A Centipede Tainted on Oislt Scared the (Itieflt. The fact of painting a fly or bee so true to nature that the observer attempts to brush it away is not so difficult us is generally supposed, remarked a painter of still life, reports the Hoston Traveler. The art lies in making the insect stand out from the background. Not long ago a patron brought me six saucers, and a card upon which was pinned a house centipede, or "thousand legs," requesting me to copy it exactly upon each of the saucers so that the base of the cup would cover it. I did so. Afterwards he told me that he had given a little tea part, and, without the knowledgo of his wife, hnd substituted the painted saucers for the plain ones. His amusement consisted in observing the horrified expression on the faces of the guests when they raised their cups, and the quickness with which they put them down again to keep the monster imprisoned. It was only when the hostess noticed that none of the guests drank their tea that tkc deception was discovered.

THE DECEPTION EXPOSEO.

lAnt Fall Wcro IJihicomI by Kpubllrait JIHrfiimi'iitittlon. It is largely assumed by our republican friends that the men of democratic antecedents who voted the republican ticket last fall will do so this year and next for the same reason. Hence they entertain very lively hopes of a victory in Kentucky this year and of sweeping thu country next year. This view omits several important factors. Last year the republicans told the people and made some of them believe that the democrats brought on the panic and were responsible for the depression in business. The' told the people that thu tariff bill which became a law last August would be followed by reductions of wages, suspensions ol the mills and general distress. They also promised that if control of the house was given them they would put au end to tariff agitation. In view of this plan of campaign, yet fresh in the minds of the people, Senutor Lcxow, of New York, recently said that the rise in wages must necessarily be temporary, for unless it was so the rcpubliians "were .wrong and had been wronif all the time." Yet the increase in wages has continued and now they are higher in some instances than they were before the panic. This is a revelation to more people than Senator Lcxow. It must be especially a revelation to those who thought last fall that the democrats had caused the panic What really caused the panic is thus told in an exchange: "The reason for the pissaje of the Sherman net was btitcd long uro by Senator Junes, of Nevada, who was om of tho conferroes. Tho McKinley bill was scut to tho .senate by the house about tho middle, of May. Senator Jones scrvoi notlco oa hu republican colleagues when the silver bill was in conference committee early In July that If tho cotnmltteo did not asreo enough votes of republican senators from silver uto would bo can against the MsKlnloy bill, which had not boon taken up for consideration at that tlms, to defeat it That threat was effective, and tho silver compromise bill was passed, and then tho McKinley bill went through afterward. Every one can see now that it would ha vo been far better for the republican p irty If that threat had been treated with Indifference. Had tho result been tho defeat of the McKtnloy bill the democrats would have bcon dcprlvod of tho ammunition which enabled thorn to win tho sweeping victories of IttiO and 1S3." and to piss tho Wilson-Gorman bllL There would havo been no Industrial panto In 1S93-01 If thero had been no legislation on tho silver Question there would havo been no Increased purchases of silver and no financial paalc In WS." The candid and truthful statement is taken from that well-known republican paper, the Chicago Tribune, of July 0, 1S95. In the light of the facts there set forth it is clear that the voters who hold the balance of power in tho elections of last fall were buncoed by being made to believe that the depression in business, reductions of wages and general distress were duo to the accession of the democrats to power and the tarill legislation that followed. Such republicans as Senator Lexow aud the editor of the Tribune see clearly enough now that this is not the case, and it is not to be presumed that the democrats who were deceived last fall can be Induced to vote the republican ticket a second time for the same reason. This extract cited from the Tribune shows that the corrupt bargain by which the McKinley bill and the Sherman bill became laws was at the bottom of all the business troubles of the last two years. The Wilson bill, therefore, had nothing to do with them, and if business revival and advance of wages should not be permanent it will be due entirely to matters affecting the currency, and not at all to the revision of thu tariff. The currency agitation is the only thing which now threatens the continuance of prosperity. Whether the republicans, when congress meets, will keep their pledge not to revive tariff agitation remains to be seen. At all events, it is pretty clear that they will not be able to work the tariff as the cause of business depression for any democratic votes at the coming election. Thatdcception has been pretty effectually exposed by the "inexorable logic of events." Louisville Courier-Journal. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Politics jnst now is too dead to bury. Is it the calm before the storm? Is the republican ark built? Albany Argus. Any calamity howler In the country can quit howling and go to work at better wages than were paid under the McKinley tariff. Chicago Chronicle McKinlcyism is continually receiving punctures in its tire in the almost daily reports of wages advancing and the general resumption of factories throughout the country. Toledo lice. Instead of lying awake over the gold reserve, take another look at the corn fields, where tons and train loads of gold are being made ready for the enrichment of the nation. St Louis Republic Ohio cannot afford a dollar to pay for an Atlanta exhibit McKinleyistn in the governorship is as disastrous to financial solvency in tho state as it was to prosperity in labor and industry for the nation. Chicago Chronicle. There never was a time in the history of the country when a man that toils was paid so many dollar.s for it, and when those dollars bought bo many of tho necessaries of life. This is under a democratic tariff. Lcwiston (Me.) Sun. Of courso the roaring sea serpent has never been so numerous or so largo ns since the pansago of the Wilson bill. This is but "another of the unanswerable arguments in favor of getting back to McKinlcyism. Detroit Free Press. "When tho republicans arc ia power the treasury always takes care of itself," says the Globe-Democrat, referring to tho assistance rendered by the bond syndicate. Yes, wo all remember how it took care of Itself during the administration of President Harrison. The gold reserve amounted to nearly 8203.000,000 when he received It from President Cleveland, and only about 1100,000,000 when delivered to him four years later. SL LouU Republic.

OUR FOREIGN TRADE.

Xtrns Show the YVUdeas of Taxi ductloti. The total vnlueof imports during the last fiscal year was S73 1,057.87.., against SG51,W)1.02:J the previous year, an increase of S7G,9C3,j2. In viuw of the great industrial and commercial depression which prevailed last year the value of imports was large, it having been exceeded only fivoi times in the history of the country. On the other hand, the value of domestic exports was S703,3'j7,S9O. against SSO'J.'.'Of.Oa? the year before, a decreaso of S75.S07.017. Notwithstanding tho large increase in imports and decrease in exports, the latter exceeded the former by Sol,4 10,015. The exports of last year have been exceeded eight times in our history, and once in 1S92 by over S242.000.OOD. In view of the fact that for ten months of the last fiscal year tho imports came in under the new tariff law a comparison of somo of the principal items votth .he same for the year before will be of interest Of art works, which were put on tho free list by the new law, we imported to the value of $3,313,037 last year, against 1,721,391 the year before. Of chemicals, drugs and dyes, the duties on which were materially reduced, wo imported ?13,. "52,500 worth, against S37.553, 170 the year before. Of cotton goods we imported 33.195,335, against 22,340,517 the year before; of earthen, stone andchinawarc, 55,9515,031, against St),870. 137; of iron and steel, 523,037,327, against $21,31 1. IS9; of leather aud manufactures thereof, 313,819,019, against $9,410,145. On all these goods the duties were considerably reduced. Hut while there was a decided increase in the importation of all these articles, the duties on which wcro moderately reduced, there was also an increase in imports of goods which were free under the old law and still remain free. Thus there was an increase from 00,311,07' to g90,129,32o in coffee, from S10.7S0, 152 to 520,122,034 in hides and skins others than furs, and fromS15,ltI2,333 to S13,477,037 in unmanufactured rubber and gutta pcrcha. And, again, there was a decrease in the importation of some articles the duties on which were reduced. For example, from 513,934,771 to 117,239,935 in fruits, including nuts; from 50,005.805 toS2,435,53l in lead and manufactures thereof, and from S1S,154,073 toS17,813,854 in wool and manufactures thereof.. The imports of sugar and molassei fell from 5120,914,104 ,to 570,492,302. This decrease of more than 550,000,003 was due in part to the enormous importations in anticipation of the 40 per cent duty, and in part, and principally, to the great fall in the foreign price of raw sugars. The value of wool, which was put on tho free list, increased from 5G, 107,433 to 525,550,421, and thu value of woolen goods, the duties on which were reduced about one-half, increased from 819.301.S50 to $30,512,391. Hut the increase in these articles, as in the case of others the duties on which wcro considerably reduced, was in no small measure due to restriction of im ports in ls'Jt in anticipation of lower duties. On the whole tho returns indicate that the reduction of the tariff has stimulated importations, but it is too early yot to make very confident deductions. Chicago Chronicle. IT IS A PUZZLER. Protectionists Aro Unable to Account tmt Increasing; Prosperity. If the average reader can divest himself of the anxiety induced by trouble between capital and labor at a time when their harmonious action would bo so potent in tho promotion of general prospsrity, there is amusement in the ciforts of some of the organs that arc try in? to make political capital out of the strikes now going oa in the country. This disposition is especially noticeable oa the part of those papers that tliink the republican party should make the tariff question the leading issue ia the next national campaign and are doing all in their power to inflate tho boom of liov. McKinley. They may possibly bo embarrassed by the fact that they arc publishing their own inconsistencies broadcast, bat there is a heroic effort to conceal this concession to common honesty behind a bold front and a reckless iadulgenco In unsupported assertion. No explanation is attempted of their contradictory claims that prosperity has come because a republican congress has been elected, and that there are serious labor troubles because of unwise legis'ation on the part of the democrats when in power. Whatever pleases the people these organs credit to their party. Whatever is regretted by popular judgment they charge to the democrats. Pursuant to such policy they of course attribute the present strikes to a repeal of the McKinley laws. It would be sufficient answer to this absurd claim to recall the disastrous uprisings of labor when those laws were operative, but this would give an inadequate idea of the grotesque attitudes which these boomers arc assuming. Those who own the ore mines in tho upper peninsula are still the beneficiurics of a protective tariff, which they acknowledge to be entirely satisfactory. The demand for their product is brisker than it has been for years, and if they are not bagging all the profits incident to advanced rates it is nttributiblo to their own lack of busiiiei foresight. The carpet manufacturers of Philadelphia get free wool aud henco pay less for their raw material. Thero Is an ample demand for their products and it is difficult to sec how a reduction of expenses would impair their ability to meet the demand of the weavers for better wages. Tho same fact has a like significance with the manufacturing clothiers of New York, aud they aro all the better off because of a market that is greatly extended rdnco the Wilson bill went into force. Thero Is no attempt on the part of the protectionists to tell what causes the conditions they affect to lament, but they go it blind and declare that there is safety only in the restoration of McKinlcyistr. Detroit Free Press.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY. Richard Le Gsllieaae, the vouagest of the London poets, intends to visit this country next winter. Dr. Conan Doyle is coming back som time during the year for a season ia Colorado, not. however, to lecture, for he found lecturing here unprofitable. Descartes' works are to be published in a complete edition for the first time by a committee of French scholars, aided by the government Printing will begin next 3-ear, and, it is hoped, will lie finished by 1900. The committee asks for help in collecting copies of letters and manuscripts preserved in public libraries and private collections. Among the treasures in Lord Rosebery's house are a mantel-piece from Rubens' house, the chandeliers from the Doges' palace and tapestries that belonged to Cardinal Mazarin. These were Rothschild treasures, and on the death of Haron Meyer de Rothschild, in 1S74, thej" came into the possession of Hannah de Rothschild, Lord Rosebe ry's wife. The expression in the prayer book, "kindly fruits of the earth," has for most persons no definite meaning on account of the difference in significance now attached to the word kindly from that used when the expression was first written. The word kindly in that connection meant as nearly as possible "of its kind," and the expression "kindly fruits of the earth" meant "the fruits of the earth each after its kind." Mine. Ponisi, whose stage old women were beloved by all who saw them, has concluded her life in New York by the gift of all her stage costumes to "Aunt Louisa" BIdridge. Ia the forty-five years she has been oa the stage in this country she has played many roles, and the contents of her wardrobe ranged from the robe of the grande dame to the cheap frock of the village matron. When Mme. Ponisi began her career she went twenty-five miles on foot to seenre her first engagement This was in England, and it was nothing unusual in those days for her to walk from town to town to keep her engagements. Ia time she won fame, and she has supported Macready, Forrest, Charlotte Cushmau, Lester Wallack, and others. She expects to end her days in Vash ington, at the home of a step-daughter. All Cromwell's descendants in the direct male line are extinct, but he is the lineal ancestor through females of a numerous progeny. Among the peers who descend from Cromwell are Lords Ripon. Chichester, Clarendon, Cowper, Morley, Lytton, Walsingham and Ampthill; and among the eldest sons of peers who so descend are Lord Courtenay (heir to the earldom of Devon), Lord Stanley (heir to the earldom of Derby) and Lord Clifton (heir to the earldom of Darnley). Lady Devon, Lady Derby, Lady Darnley, Lady Hathurst, Lady Rosslyn, Lady Lytton, Lady Lathom, Lady Isabella Whitbread, Lady Ainphill and Lady Horthwick are likewise his descendants. So are Sir John Lubbock and half a dozen other baronets Mr. Chas. Villiers, the father of the house of commons, and Mr. Montagu Villiers, the vicar of St. Paul's Knightsbridge

HUMOROUS. "Hi Jimmy, wot's de raatterf Hack's blistered." "Swimmin' or lickin'?" "Roth." Chicago Record. "They say Hamsby is generous to a fault." "Yes, he is, if it happens to be one of his own faults." Huffalo Express. In a Had Boat "So De Land has taken to navigation?" "I haven't heard of it." "Yes; he's been arrested for sailing under false colors.' Detroit Free Press. Jack "I think my brother is aa awful cross fellow." Mother "Don't you think you're a little to blame at times, Jack?"' Jack "No; because he can't help it It's the W in his name makes the ill Will." Harper's Round Table. IJellefield "I understand that Mrs. Spiflins claims to be a self-made woman." Rloomfleld "It isn't quit true. My wife has seen her add the finishing touch put on her coatplexion." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele-tfraph. The Best Maa. Wiggles "Who was the best rasa at Miss Pompon's wedding?" Giggles -' 'We all thought that her father was until we found out 'that his wedding gift of a oae-hua-dred-thousand-dollar check was only a dummy." "What excuse haTe you to offer for your behavior, Jack? Come speak up." "I haven't anything tor-ay until I see my mother." ai I the I my. "We have a rule i i our j-c!uol that no excuses are good unless written by one of a boy's parents, and I ain't a-goia' to break it" Ilarpcr'j Rarar. Mother "Where have you bees, Johnny? Your hair is dripping wet and your stockings are full of saad. Surely you haven't been in bathing, when I told you you mustn't?" Johnny "That's just like a woman; always trying to find out how a man spends his time when away from the houseP Boston Transcript The stout man wiped off his forehead. "Yes, I was a good deal rua down before I got a bicycle," he said; "but now," he added, determinedly gripping the handles and taking alas at an old lady crossing the street, "it Is the other people who are that way." The old lady was piled up in the gutter. N. Y. Recorder. Gratuitous Insertion. "That's all right!" The advertising Manager leaned over the prostrate form of the burglar whom he hnd caught in Iiis room. He had struck the robber do wa bnt his hand was Injured by the blow. "I put It in a bold-faced type," he marmured. Then kicking the fallen robber, he again scanned the man's face. "Nicely illustrated with cuts," he continued," "but I'll not rharge you for the display!" Then the moon wentbehiiM a cloud and wept, while tha stricken thief rroancd inwardly. -XJ" Y. World.