Ligonier Banner., Volume 30, Number 12, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 July 1895 — Page 3

A E i RN OLB ELis <, & S AFAVORITEN A, k e (‘@ : (TR Jat iy, $§OH-¥ . ‘I‘I iIR .C)l 5// e P Joi :"."/.-/, 3 < e, = (::)q $4 03 h Revelation of the Romantic and Remarkable Career of Lawrence Bangs, the Famous Yale Athlete, BY HOWARD FIELDING. - Copyright, 1894. . CHAPTER Il ] THE THORNY PATH OF KNOWLEDGE: | Harry Bangs went to his club and bought the largest cigar on sale there. This was a sign that he intended .to rconsume an unusually large amount of brain tissue in thought. : | He devoted all of it to Paddy O’Toole, Lnd at theend of an hour he summed mp the result in the words: ‘“He'’s a mvonder.” < :

8o completely nad hé given himself to the subject on hand that he was oblivious of the: presence of other en by the window where he sat smokF!r‘lg; and he pronounced the words ploud. -

| “Who's a wonder?” asked an ex-Har-ward baseball player of some note who pat near.

“We won’'t mention any names,” repponded Bangs, ‘‘but I don’t mind tellng you that the persoh to whom I re.;er is destined to give a lot of trouble m the pupils of Dr. Eliot’s school for ys out on the banks of the Charles.” | *I know who it is,” said the Harvard man, ‘it’s your brother. Am I right?” i But Bangs was not ready to give any fnformation about Paddy. He simply winked and said nothing. . The remark, however, had touched him on the raw.

“I wish it was my brother,” he muttred as he turned away. ‘‘When' that ishman gets to Yale he will make a mame for himself that will live a hund years. And Lawrence will never e heard of.” . ; ' This last reflection put Bangs in a very bad temper, and he went home and k)ay awake two hours thinking of his rother. ; ‘

He was at his bachelor quarters early fnext morning prepared for an important interview with Paddy O’Toole. He t:lc;und that young man in a sweet eam of peace. - : ‘“Come turnout!” called Bangs, cheer*ﬂy. “It’s time for breakfast.”

| “Breal:fast?” cried Paddy, awake in tmoment. “Say, do I get some? Is ' hat straight?” : { ‘“Of course it is. 'As soon as you've kha.d your bath—" 4 -

| ‘“Mebath? An’me that was washed lonly yesterday?' Say, do I wash every day? Am I a Chinese laundry?” . “You're a civilized Christian now,” K:joinéd Bangs, ‘‘and the sooner you gin to act like one the better. Per-

| - 2r' ‘\ 5 ; | SRR R =N A\ TN W= T%@ . = el ~= e 4 ‘ PADDY STUDIES BROWNX. ‘ haps I didn’t make you understand yesterday, just what has happened to you. IThe case stands this way. You've got the makingiof a great ball player in you. Now, i’;n a Yale man.” “What’s that? Dem fellies what plays football, and slugs der heads off’'n each other?” % ‘‘Well, that's part of it. Yale is a icollege in New Haven, and those of us 'who have been there are bound to see Yale win every time. You've got to go to Yale and play on the nine. I don’t wvant to give you a big head, but it’'sa fact that you handle a baseball better ‘than any other fellow I ever saw, and 've seen many a good one. Now, rich men give money to colleges. I'm willng to do that, but I want to be sure ‘that the money is spent in a way that iwill do the ecollege some good. Therefore I'm going to spend it myself. I'm going to epend it in sending you there. It's a great opportunity for you, but you’'ll have to earn it by hard study, mnd you'll kave to begin right now.” . “I can’t,” said Patsy complacently, Ithe schools is all closed. I heard a fkid say so.” ;

Bangs laughed. ' : ‘“Yon won't go to school yet. I'll be your teacher for the present. Heaven knows I don’t like the job, but I'll do it for the sake of the college. Now get mp, and eat your breakfast, for you've got a hard day’s work before you.” Bangs went out into the parlor and presently Paddy appeared, wearing the suit of clothes which Bangs had purchased on the previous day, and carrying his shirt collar in his hand. . “Bad luck to it!” exclaimed Paddy, throwing it on the floor. ‘lt cuts me t'roat.” . ; {

Bangs ardered him to put it on. Paddydemured. He said he was willing to wear it on Sundays, but he thoughtthat seven days a week of it was “crowdin’ der limit.”

. ““No eollar, no breakfast,” said Bangs at last, and that carried the point. It is only fait to say that Paddy, properly dressed, and with hismouth closed, was a good-<looking youth. His skin was unusually white, despite his out-of-door life, and his face was thin to match his fifure which was like a little man on stilts. But his features were strong and his eyes bright and steady.- « Altogether he had a good head for a student, if there had been anything in it. Hisgreatstrength lent a certain grace to Hhis movements, though one would have expected him to be as awkward as a young calf. It is impossible within the limits of this narrative to deseribe the educa-. tional process to which Paddy was subjécted. Naturally he did not learn much on the first day, but Harry Bangs did. Those of us who have had the advantages of early training do not realiz6 what its*total absence implies. Bangs had never been a student. He had studied just enough to get an idea of the vast number of things which one can know. He had a general notlon that somebody knew then all, but he &ad never considered the possibility of the existence of a person who did ngfknow pny of them, . . .. .o We forgét, sometimes, that infinity s just as long' one way 8s it is the stand Everythir g B e

was impossible to get back to the place where it ought to begin, It is all very well to talk of beginning a child’s education with that ‘of his grandfather, but what are you going to do if the old gentleman is'dead? ! In the course of a week Bangs had not found anything to teach Paddy, because there was always something which he ought to learn before that. And so .at random he started him on English grammar. Now, a merciful Providence, which sends the mumps and things of that kind to us at an age when we are unable to comprehend the horror of them, has wisely made the same provision in regard to the advent of grammar into our lives. There are exceptions, of course, and everybody must have an idea how very bad an adult case of mumps would be. Imagine grammar, then, at the age of seventeen—an age when most of us have had it, and forgotten all about it. - Paddy O’Toole thought that he was going to die of it. He contracted it from a man named Brown. They say that Brown in private 'life was not worse than his neighbors. It is only when we tackle his grammar that we perceive how much of the old Satan was in him. Paddy could read in a general way, though he had no recolleetion of having learned. An account of a baseball game in a newspaper was moderately clear to him. But Brown was not nearly so lucid as a modern sporting writer. ;

“Just read the first part of this till you get an idea of what he's talking about,” said Bangs, laying the book before his pupil, ‘‘and when I get back you can tell me about it.” \ And Paddy honestly-tried to, do it. He worked his shirt collar off in the first ten minutes, and his coat and waistcoat soon followed.

“I’ll take a fall out o’ dis gillie,” he said, apostrophizing Brown, ‘if it breaks me back.”

At the end of an hour the dryness of the subject had imparted a thirst to him which water couldn’t quench. And there was nothing else to be had. Bangs was liberal m every other way, but he would not hear of mixed ale or any other deleterious beverages. He had given his man James strict orders to deny Paddy all such things. Paddy bhad not suffered from this abstinence until he encountered Brown. He was quickly donvinCed that he would never understand Brown, but he believed that with the aid of a pint of beer he might be able to endure him. He had some money in his pocket, but he dared not go out for fear that James would tell Bangs. o / “*“l've got to rush der growler,” he said to himself. “‘l’ll die if I don’t.”

In desperate emergencies such as this there is always a means of salvation if one only seeks it.. Paddy sought and found. There was a large ball of cord in the room, and an ordinary small coffee pot which had once been used when Bangs was sick in his rooms. This had been thrown into a cupboard where it had sustained serious injury. But it was still water tight. Paddy put some money in it and lowered it out of the window at the end of the cord. By and by a boy came along. Paddy stuck his head far out of the window so that James could not hear, and bawled his errand to the boy. The experiment worked well, and Brown’s introductory remarks seemed somewhat more lucid afterward. Thereaftter Paddy mixed Brown and beer in the proportion of a piut to a page, and when Bangs returned the beer, at least, had found its way to Paddy’s head. - He was asleep, with Brown for a pillow, and the empty tin beside him.

CHAPTER'IV.

LAWRENCE BANGS IS URGED TO DO SOMETHING FOR THE UNIVERSITY.

It was evident that Paddy O'Tcole, who had been accustomed to an active life, would not thrive without exercise. Therefore Bangs was in the habit of playing ball with him on a vacant lot in the Back Bay district for two hours every day in the week. The result of this practice more than confirmed Bangs’' original opinion. Paddy as a pitcher was certainly a wonder. How he had learned the art was a mystery to Bangs and no less to Paddy himself. He said that he had ‘picked it up.” Well, genius is always a mystery. How did Shakespeare learn all he knew or Archibald Clavering Gunter write ‘‘Mr. Barnes of New York?”

Paddy had the speed of a cannon ball, and curves and shoots that would have made a boomerang thrower abandon his weapon in disgust.

It was near the close of the fourth week of Paddy’s new life. Bangsand his protege were taking their customary practice in the vacant lot. The

P~ {‘M‘t r ) T 1% il T ) WA\ < Ny : ‘(g,ﬁi‘ }""/‘ - |.i 1 b \i ~ \ AN S . b A ‘\;\\i‘ > HTR\E A ‘Qﬁ ' NP YA { SN e ' $i | o bk . § {;. % JN 1\ ; ctns T\ _/“ i 1 m e N T AN SN SRR T " 'TAKE OFF YOUR HAT.” young man from Yale was catching Paddy’s remarkable curves. He stood with his back to the street, and he was a very busy man. To face Paddy in. such a pastime required about all the attention that any one man could givé. Suddenly Bangs heard his name ‘calle%from the street. He turred and saw a handsome carriage beside the eurb, and in it were Mrs. Lorne and her daughL P A Lo i . It was Florence who was calling. Bangs jumped’over the low fence and went to the sidle of the carriage. _ “I couldn’t help ealling to you,” cvied the girl, ‘“you can understand how deﬁg’;wmd L am to see you—" 48 _ She paused.as if trying to select an; “ “’;ML i # il i ‘% L Me, imﬂ Bangs, laughing, “Don’t hesitate ’?&u e to mind flattery. Andlam very glad _ “We are ﬂ 2 féw days,” sald T B R 8 e g i . )?w oty é’%‘é&”‘-‘%“*%gy?wﬁ%{“ )

“Yes, 4ndeed,” said Florence. 1 nasc: a great deal tojsay to you. You know I met your bro‘th_gr in Newport.” “Yes; Lawrence wrote me about it immedié.trly,”h e “Indeed,” said Florence, and she gave a pectliar look right over the top of Bangs’ head. ; . Bangs turned andsaw Paddy staring open-mouthed at'the carriage. In half a minute he began to advance towards it. . “Great Cesar!” muttered Bangs. *I can’t let him get within speaking distance.” | | : ; :

But Paddy steadily advanced. Bangs had the ball in his hand, and in desperation he threw it with tremendous force and high over Paddy’s head. ‘“‘He’ll have to chase it to the: other end of the lot,” thought Bangs, as he turned toward the carriage. ‘“‘Splendid, splendid!” cried Florence, clapping her hands. ey l ~ Bangs wheeled around. Paddy had soared into the air like a bird, and had captured, the ball with one hand. 1 ‘“That’sall my doing,” said Florence, proudly. I talked to him.” ) “You talked to him?” repeated Harry, in amazement. o ‘“Yes, I gave it to him good, I tell you. Itold him that he was just simply throwing himself away and breaking all your hearts. Isaid thatheought to do something for the university. Of course I oughtn’t to have done it, but I told you that I was going to. He didn’t like it much. I thought that he was seriously offended. But it skems that” it did him good.” ‘ Bangs| gasped. He wondered what could be the matter with his head. He couldn’t make the least sense of what the girl was saying. : “We had quite a quarrel,” the girl continued. ‘‘He said that so far as he had been able to learn the best ball player in the country was an ignorant Irishman; and I said: ‘He can’t be so very igmnorant because he can teach the learned Lawrence Bangs something. He can teach him how to play ball.’” ‘““Whom are you talking about? My brother?” gp “Why, of course. There; he’scoming at last.” 5 - Bangs heard the sound of Paddy’s feet on the silewalk as he came down from his leap over the fence. Another second and ‘‘the wonder” was beside him. “Take off your hat, you monkey,” whispered Bangs, in Paddy’s ear, and Py r/“’?) KN-,‘ ? V’}"l” : ¥ A INY 7 \. o NG L N i O 4. \J’\\ ‘/‘ 4 q ,;_ : 3 . (\g"]r A,_// ,}; ; ‘ i piiae : “”\& ; s\ 7 Sy &y S\ b { e . e = i . “A DEAD RINGER FOR ME.” :

Paddy pulled it off, as if it was nailew to a wall and he was tearing it down. “So you didn’t remember me,” said Florence, archly, ‘‘but it seems that you remembered what I said to you.” “Remember you!” cried Paddy, in hig richest brogue. ‘““An’ who could forgit the loikes av yez?” i “Good, splendid!” cried Florence, laughing heartily. ‘I see you've taken more than one lesson from- the Irishman you spoke of. :Come, mother, weo mustn’t interrupt the good werk.” She nodded cheerily to Bargs and Paddy. The carriage moved away. Bangs rubbed his head with the left hand catcher’s glove, which is thw size of a ham; but it did nat produce friction enough to stimulate his mind in the proper degree. ' ‘“Paddy,”. he said, ‘‘let’s go ho=me, I want to think this thing ever quietly.” “What's der matter?” asked Paddy, sympathetically. . “Did she t'row yer down?” © |

Bangs said never a word. He led the way to the rooms. As they entered .a young man rose from a chair and advanced toward them. He wae very tall, and his legs were inordinate 1y long. | | : “Brother; Harry,” said he, extending his hand. [“Don’t you know me?” “Lawrence! Well, upon my word, you have grown a yard since I saw you last. - And you've changed—changed every way.’ “Your brudder?” said Paddy. *“Well, say, I'm. t/inkin’ he ought to be mine. If he ain’t o dead ringer for me den 1 don’t know my own mug.” Lawrence was staring hard at Paddy, and the elder Bangs gaped upon them as they stood facing each other. - ‘‘There ‘certainly is a remarkable resemblance between us,” sgid Lawrenee, ‘‘and if I am not mistaken that was what you i_.?:tende‘d to imply.”

‘‘Say, if you’d get your hair cut,” responded Paddy, “I wouldn’t be dead sure o’ meself any of the time. I'd be t’inkin’ it might be you.” - : . Harry Bangs sank into a chair, and pressed his hands to his head. He did more thinking in the next two minutes than he had donein any month of his Wit bl |mrabEiof “What is it, Harry?” asked Lasrrence. *You seent to be struggling with some perplexing problem. Can I help you? What is it?” : : - “I'was thinking,” said Bangs, “what a man for Yale you two would make if you could be rolled into one. By Jove,” and be slapped his thigh, “I belieen you can bg!” . “What do you mean?” o . '“Can you play baseball?” : - Lawrence stgred hard. . . “Imnever tried,” he said. ‘** secms to'me thaii the prominence now being given to athletic sports is deleteriows to ‘bh’e-‘.-" L f ¥ 3 % . | ““Can you play football?” . s | "“No, indeed.” IR . “Can yon pull an oar?” i PO barid e BRI | ‘‘Are yon good for any single thing on earth? | Will you be of the least use o Yale? 'Will anybody except the pro fessors know that you are there or re 1 emlger ou ten minutes after yos leave?” bt g SR A | " This “I,ll',,"}dﬂ&i""‘,ﬁi’!ﬁf“mwreﬁ; u 6 hive ok scai cuch ot b yontt qud now you load me: with reprosch | OIS i A 88l s i doly paving the way, lam goidg W' show you how you can do somefhing

THE WILSON BILL'S TRIUMPH. Many Benefits Already Resulting from

the Democratic Tariff,

Everybody recollects the deleful predictions that were made of what would follow the passage of the Wilson bill, or the Gorman bill, or the Wilson-Gor-man bill, or whatever one may ehoose to call the tariff bill passed by the: Fifty-third congress. The bill was modified very greatly during its passage through congress, but the character of the predictions never changed. The same calamities that were to follow the original Wilson bill were predicted again after each successive modification. And after the bill was passed and had become a law it was described as a.free-trade measure by protected manufacturers’ associations, and a pathetic appeal was made to the patriots of the country to buy domestic goods at a high price, instead of imported goods at a low price, in order to avert chaos and ruin among our domestic producers. , Nearly ten months have elapsed since the ‘‘free trade bill” became a law, and the watchmen upon the mountains of Zion are looking for the ¢oming of that troop of disasters so confidently predicted. Among those disasters was a reduction of wages of labor to a level with the pauper labor, of Europe and Asia. This has so far been fulfilled that every flash of the telegraph brings intelligence of the rise of the wages of hundreds or thou‘sands of men. Day unto day uttereth speéch of the employment of more men in our industries, and night unto night -showeth knowledge of larger earnings and better profits. This is the first of the free trade miseries.

In like manner the watchmen upon the towers tell us of the building of new factories and the enlargement of old ones. Itwere long totell the story in detail, but one or two may be noticed. The other day we heard that the Cambria Iron company would spend two million dollars in the enlargement of its works. Then comes the news that the Illinois Steel company will build a new mill for the manufacture of structural steel at a cost of & million of dollars. This method of working the ruin of our industries is altogether’ new, and is worthy of the attention of that very numerous class cf Cassaniiras who filled the air last fall with howls of coming calamity. 3' A great deal was said last summer and fall about iron ore, and it was immaterial whether the duty was taken off or simply reduced, the same miseries were to follow. The misery has followed. The ‘other da% the Port Henry mines in New York Began shipping iron ore to the furnaces in the Rhenish and Westphalian iron districts in Germany. The first consignment amounted to fifteen hundred tons,and, doubtless, more will follow. The industry which we were told could not hold its own in the home market without large protection is going over the ocean, and invading Germany, where wages are low, and the American style of living unknown. :

Another misery that was to stiper-

vene was the reduction of prict'es of # farm products, owing to the inability i of the employes of protected manufac- | turers to earn. wages and their conse|'quent inability to purchase foodiiand | clothing. This has been verified, so lfar as it has been verified at all, by { large advances in the prices of some of the leading agricultural staples, including wheat and cotton. o " In the general wreck the railroads ] were, of eourse, to have their shave. If nobody sold anything, or bought anylthing‘, on account of the poverty sui perinduced by a reduction of 'taxation, | there would, of course, be nothing for | the roads to carry. As railroad gross | earnings are showing an incr#ase of | six or eight per cent. over last year, ! when the MecKinley bill of blessed "memory was in full operation, it will | be seen that the Cassandras of ‘last year have plenty of work to explain ] this curious phenomenon. ‘ i - In a word, all that was predicted of ! the operations of the new tariff has ‘ been falsified. Just. the contrary has occurred in every instance. This ought ‘ to induce the calamity howlers to go | out of business, but it will not. As | soon as one prediction is falsified they | make another just as good, but np bet- | ter. The country is endnring the mis- | eries of free trade with a good deal of - resignation.—Louisville Courier-Jour-unalo s " '

CANDIDATES DODGING.

Republican Presidential Possibilities Fight : Shy of the Subject. }

Republican presidential candidates l are fighting very sby of the silver i question, either resting on !‘their | well-known views,” which are tco | vague to be recognized, or assuring all 1 inquisitive persons that ‘‘in its own i good time the republican party will | solve this problem as it has solved all | others, wisely and well.” There are | unmistakable evidences that this is ‘ about the poorest policy which a presi- ! dential candidate could follow at this | time. The people of the country are i not indifferent to this question. On the | contrary, they are so much in earnest about it that they are looking eagerly to-day for men who know where they stand on it. They have no use for | dodgers or' trimmers now, for they are | rapidly realizing that the returning l prosperity of the country will be checked and turned backward unless’ ‘the free-silver folly cam be repudiated. The great meeting in Philadelphia, ‘made necessary by the free silver attitude of Senator Cameron, is evidence of the existence of this popular feeling in that state. The speeches were in , the right spirit, of aggressive hostility to free silver coinage, and the meeting is likely tobe the beginning of an antiCameron campaign which will result in Cameron’s defeat and the election of some one in his stead who will really represent the intelligence and great industrial interests of the state. An equal- ! ly significant event is _reported from I Colorado. The League of Republican Clubs of that state voted down a resolution declaring it to be the league's purpose neither to cooperate nor vote in 1896 with any party which dees not uneguivocally declare in its _4;1%3;10&51 ; for the free and unlimited coinage of. silyer at 16 to 1. Even in Colorado, the folly of free silyer is thus for. mally. rejected Uy republicans. . This. Sews- ugh\ to couriase Hargishe Mo Kixa}e{,f Reed and other candidates that. a litjle display of .courage om . their part might. not be disadvantageous Doy XPR 1 lil g L T T ATy a w nfttgﬂpgr Ael ik R e bt 0 B ney e il et i o T Yie e A NR e e Y GNAGH EROS REO N NAR U S TRakat. -

FLASHED.IN THE PAN The Great Republican Hippodrome at Cleveland. : Now that the session of the republican league of clubs at Cleveland has gone through all its fanfaronade and. completed what it called its work, it is perhaps pertinent to inquaire what it all amounted to. The delegates who attended it did not represent the political organizations of the several states, and relatively few of them could be called in any sense representative republicans. The league modestly decided that it was not within its province to formulate a platform of principles for the party in the next campaign, but there was blow and ‘bluster enough#bout the proceedings from the opening speech of the young president to the closing hurrah to make up for this disclaimer. The delegates talked and acted as if they actually thought they represénted something except a few defunct torchlight clubs of the campaign of 1892. The organization of these partisan clubs between campaigns consists only of the officers who appoint themselves delegates. It is even a more clumsy skeleton than the old militia organization of the period before the war, which consisted entirely of braided brigadiers general all the year arournd, except the day of old-fashioned ‘‘general training.” ; : Perhaps it is well that the league disclaimed any authority to speak for the party,-for certainly its manifestations of loyalty to the repudiated MeKinley protection doctrine would be deemed in the next republican national convention as a very dangerous political proposition. The national republican conventions of the past have proven themselves adepts at the art of dodging or straddling great tolitical problems. The next republican convenfion may make mistakes, but it is not likely to perpetrate the gross error of apotheosizing the McKinley tariff, which so many distinguished rer publicans have openlywepudiated.

' Not the least of those who have deserted is Thomas B. Reed, whose Ann Arbor interview has not been forgot. ten. And he as speaker will, under his own curious construction of the powers of that office, be the absgiute dictator of the policy of the mew republican congress on the tarif. It is, in fact, not to the young skyrockets of Cleveland that republicans should look for any prediction of the platform of the next campaign. The platform will, of course, declare in favor of whatever the new ' house of representatives may do. And what that body will do will depend entirely upon. what the portly Portland autocrat thinks the house ought to do, for under the republican theory the speaker is not the organ of the house of representatives but its master. —Detroit Free Press. s

PRINCIPLES ARE LACKING.

The Republican Party Not Hampered with Honesty. ; :

The political wise men who assembled in Cleveland last week declared in substance as follows: As a republican league we know nothing about the silver -question or any other public question. - But as a republicanconvention next year we will know all about every such question, and we confidently believe that we will then make ‘‘a declaration of principles destined to secure the best possible administration of government and the highest obtainable prosperity of the people.” And that is all they did except to elect oificers. ; :

They might as well have put their declaration in this form: Resolved, That we don’t know what the principles of the republican party are, if it has any, and that just now we haven’t any political principles anyway. But we are repuplicans, hip, hip! every day in the week and twice on Sunday, hurrah!! and we are out for the offices, tiger!!l i S

Time was when the republican party had seme principles and purposes that that it was not afraid,to proclaim from the housetops, and when no national representative assembly 6f the party could dissolve without making a toler*ably plain declaration of those. principles and purposes. But now; such an assembly sits for three days and does - nothing but ‘‘respectfully refer” all questions of principle and policy to another party assembly to be held at a future time. ' ~ This means, of course, that the re(publican party no longer has any principles which it dares to proclaim. It the republicans want a *‘force bill” they” dare not say so. If they are in favor of gold monometallism tliey dare not say so lest they lose the electoral votes of some of the ‘‘rotten boroughs” they have created. If they wish to restore the McKinley tariff they dare not say so lest they be politically drowned in the tidal wave of prosperity thatis rising and sweeping over the country in a way to till the breast of the calamity howler with alarm and distress. ~ The republicans have no political creed that they dare proclaim to-day, and the prospect is that they will be | no better off next year. They would [ be glad to make the .issue one of general respectability if they could, but ~as that is out of the question they will ' have to make a platform of ancient history with possibly a fresh and sappy jingo plank. And on such a platform they wilkgo where they went in 1892. —Chicago Chronicle. A .

POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

——Ex-President Harrison has received a sixteen-thousand-dollar legal fee; but it isn’t legal fees that he’s particularly anxious to receive.—Chicago News. . y v '

——When Foraker takes the Ohio stump for United States senator there will fall a heavy dew upon the McKinley movement which will augment the fear of a fall in the lake level.—St. Louis Republic. » ——The republican league discow ered, under the strain of a pressing emergency, thatit.could not ‘promulgate & platform, so it constructed one and labeled it: *“The Address to the People.”—Detroit Free Press.. ——Gov. McKinley is highly pleased at the success of the national republican league in keeping mum on the silver question. Keeping'mum on the silver question is a phase of ‘‘M¢Kinleyism” which the governor is naturally gratified to see prevail.—Louisville Couriér-Jolirmal oiv 0 7 _ ——The protection.organs are call--1 attention to the supposed fach that exports are less underthewiwnmilﬁ than under the McKinley tariff, It seems that the policy of a home market ‘works . better under ihe ide noerat TSt systom then 1t Ql6 Wadte the. ro.

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

VACATION TIME,

The grammars and the spellers, : i The pencils and the slates, e The books that hold the fractions ? 5 And the books that tell the dates, f The crayons and the blackboards . And the maps upon the wall, ¢ .Must all be glad together, : TFor they won't be usea till fall. ~

They've had to work like beavers To help the children learn; - And if they want a little rest, © It surely is their turn. They skut their leaves with pleasure, The dear old lesson books, ' ' And the crayons and the blackboards Put on delighued looks.

- So, children, just rememboer, When you are gone away, i ; Your poor old slates and pencils 9 Are keeping holiday. . ° : The grammars 4nd the spellers . Are as proud as proud can be ; When the boys forsake the school room; And the teacher turns the key. i ~Margaret E. Sangster, in Harper's Young People. : :

THE FUNNY DUCKBILL.

4 Queer Creature Which Lays Eggs, Gives Milk and Wears Fur. i

“My friend Harding was somewhat famous for the extraordinary nature of his pets,” said an English traveler. -‘“He had a beetle that stood upon its head when touched; a lizard that came when called, and his den was a perfect menagerie of animals he had collected in his trips around the world. ° s “During one of my visits to his home I heard a singular scratching'sound behind my chair,and in a few moments’ something crawled up over the back,. and I saw looking at me the queerest of all animals. . ““Had it not been covered with hair like sealskin, I should have said it was a duck, as it had a perfect bill and two dark, expressive, bead-like eyes, which looked into mine das though they wondered who and what I was. ) *'The little creature scrambled on and I took it in my hand, and for the first time saw a duckbill, or ornithorhyns: chus,’as a pet. The missing link is often heard of, and surely this little animal suggests such a creature. £ “If some ingenious person had taken the head of a duck. the frame of some other animal and drawn' gyer it a skin of a seal, then given it webbed feet and characteristics of a reptile and mammal, he would have produced very much the kind of animalithat now rested on my lap and poked its duckslike bill into my pocket. : “It had the bills of a duck, yet they contained eight broad, flat, horny teeth. The body was covered with hair; the forefeet webbed beyond the claws, the hinder ones only to their base. T “In the male there is a spur resembling that of a rooster, just such an animal, in fact, that one would expect to read about in old books that described the kracken, mermaid and other monstrositjes believed in by the naturalists of old, - .

“The little pet was parfectly tame and did not resent my handling in the least. It seemed possessed with the greatest curiosity, pushing its bill into the crevices of my clothes and staring about as though in search of something. e g e . ‘“‘Jack is a great pet,” said his master, laughing at my amazementy. °I

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¢ ‘This we kept up for several hours, when finally one of the natives said he had struck a nest, and going down near the water they began to dig, ina short time uncovered a tunnel or burrow that led up out of it. ~This was carefully followed for ten or fifteen feet, when they came upon a chamber in which, coiled up, was a mulligong or duckbill. 5o R

~ “‘To my delight near it was the nest, and in it two little oblong eggs, that reminded me of the cocoons of & silkk worm. . : S

“This was the most interesting feature of the expedition, as the eggs were rarely ever found, and, thinkof it, an animal giving milk, yet laying an egg like a reptilel ! : “The eggs had evidently just been laid, and were about three-quarters of an inch long and half an inch wide, the shells being strong, flexible and white. ; ik © . t¢Phese little creatures are wyearly growing more rare, and will in'the near future, like many of the American animals, become extinet.’” —C. F. Holder, in Boston Globe. Mg . Amusing Signs in Chinatowan, ~ In San Francisco’s Chinese quarter an inquiring stroller recently met with a curious example of sign-board humor. On one of the laundry signs heread the legend: “ISing.” Directlytacross the street was another sign which re#d “Yu Sing;” while a little further down ‘the street he saw one which made “Sam Sing.” Here was coincidence enough; but, on turning the corner, he found two ‘other signs, one of whi&h& ounced that "We Sung and thé ot ous recorded the fact that “All Sung.” iwﬁ“ who prided himself on his gﬁﬁ . * il oS peae ‘the damages which a cow h; m one in i :;.,.;:‘gr;«.?;“’,"‘ s..;‘g’; 2 : f‘f'ﬂ G “‘;1:"‘""‘9 " S */ 5 Sive. (DRI daAGeAr RNEN VIR DY 1*@%@@@%&93%&“1“&%% e ok gsadiont fote I 8 e W

————""“—'—'_—'——""—'F‘—-:"—T'—"*'_ . THE UMBRELLA BIRD. One of the Most Beautiftl Members of . 'the Feathered Tribe. ' Many strange .birds are found in Brazil, and some of the most curious in the interior of the wooded sand island of Catua, which is also a famous resort for turtles, while here may be heard the" soft, long-drawn whistle of the curassow bird.. | . Among the closely-interwoven érowns of the trees, many of them more than a hundred feet high, the hunter sometimes spies for the first time that rare and singular prize, the umbrella bird, a species which resembles in size, color and appearance our common crow, but is decorated with a crest of long-curved, hairy feathers, having long, bare quills, which, when raised, spread themselves out in‘the form of a fringed sunshade over the head. , ‘ A queer ornament, like a pelerine, is -also suspended from the neck, formed by a thick pad of glossy feathers, which grow on a long, fleshy-lobe. This lobe is ¢onnected with an unusual development of the vocal organs, to which the bird owes its’singularly decp, loud and long-sustained fluty note. . - The Indian name of this strange creature is wria-mimben, or fife bird, in allusion to the tone of its voice, and mimbeu is the Indian name for a rude kind of pan pipes. - It is'a great-treat to hear its performance. The bird draws itself up on its perch, spreads widely the umbrellaformed crest, dilates arcd waves its glossy breast lappel, and then, giving vent to its lound, piping note, bows its head slowly forward. { The female has only the rudiments of the crest and lappel, and is not, onthe whole, as fine-looking a bird as the male.

USEFUL FIRECRACKERS. How They Sa‘vetli the Life of a Pioneer s e - Surveyor. A " Most men can remember when 'fire‘crackers were a blissful excitement. Now, for: the most “part, they think of them ds a kind. of indispensable nuisance—noisy, more-or less dangerous, but needful, once a year, to the happiness of patriotic boys. But Maj. S. B. Pillsbury never passes a Fourth of July ‘without recalling a day when a few flrecrackers saved his life. This was

5 . | /vc"ﬁ"\\\ .) é N S SN o A 2 Pl . : < AN /T L ; =\ - S Q_' -( \( YSN W s S 4'2 ;78 e ST [,“« Y \“/ s ~/ Nz "\\\‘ LN 8 Y\o : y :}%\\ il W SN & 3 . ‘ ’ /h!i: % __ )li,_l.»“'#y" ¢ \.&\,‘_* : . THE INDIANS WENT BY LIKE THE WIND. 4 how it happened, aceording to the Youth’s Companion: -In 1859 I was in southwestern Kansas with a surveying party. I had been” sent back to our supply station, some thirty miles distant, and was returning with two well-laden pack mules and a yourg half-breed Indian boy, when a band of reving Apaches swooped down upon me, ° T : , ; - There weére a dozen in the party, but kinowing that surrender meant certain death I prepared to make such defense as I covld. Rightin front of me were two large cottonwood trees. ~I had a fine rifle and a large fowlingpiece, and I puta charge of buckshot in each barrel of the fowling-piece, and reserved it ‘for the rush. The bucks,well mounted and armed, began circling around me, shielging themselves behind thejr horses and firing rapidly. - My first and second shots were fortunate,’and the survivors retired toa safe ‘distance and held a powwow. I felt sure that they would make a rush, -and that if they did they would get me. Sc%ﬁethihg must be done. n the packs were a dozen bunches of firectackers, intended for our modest Fourth of July celebration. ' I cut the fuses short, and lit a fire with twigs and diygrass. v 0 i The rush came. Iled with my rifle ‘and threw the crackers into the fire. Then I fired both barrels of buckshot. into the Apaches and the erackers set up a roar like a platoon of imusketry. The 7Jlndians were astounded, and, dividing to right and leff, went by me . like the wind. .=~ : ; ' - SOME QUEER NESTS.

An Indian Bird Which Lights Its House : : by Electricity.. _°

A great comfort of the modern dwelling house was long anticipated, by the birds, namely, lighting by mecans of clectricity. This bird, called the Melicourvis Baya, is atiny creature of Indial and constructs.'a well-designed nest, which is suspended from palm trecs and- roofs of houses. The nest resembles a bottle in shape and is woven together with great art. In it are found hard balls of clay, and- these are in reality candlesticks, in which glotworms are set to serve as candles. These are placed about the entrance of the nest, which is, therefore, lumincus. This lighting is a defense against snakes and -other midnight prowlers, who are frightened away by theipale fire of the glow worm. The little birds never think whether their living can‘dles suffer any more than the Roman cmperors who used martyrs as torches. . . -A bird called the Toutobane, smaller than the wren and larger than the humming bird, colored gray with red legs and.yellow breast, lives in Africa, where it builds a ecurious nest. This is a structure shaped like a bellows, made of cotton, about seven by five inches. The queecrest feature is the ‘‘swvatch tower,”-which the male bird erccts under the eave of the enttance to the nest which projects over and protects the tower. The male never enters the interior of his dwelling, but sits in the ' tower, and in case of danger gives a signal and the female escapes. =~ ‘_%_i'h"e_ Pinc-pine of Africa also builds a nest with a rounded projection at the' entrance fora perch, on which the male. Dbird mounts to guard his. family,—ChiL e e One day Jano;a little girl of three ¥ mﬁ@mm e 0. §ranTlA. 40 :‘* b lrweuienboeninso ol *ﬁﬁw%’%%%ﬁm‘%? e o R %Ws* P T R