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‘THE OLD HOME PAPER. 11l printed, old-fashioned and homely, Bearing name of a small country town, With an unfeigned sncer at its wrapper queer - Fhe postman in scorn throws It down. Dispatches and pictures are wanting! For cablegrams terse search in vain: Yonder great city sheet, with its “features’’ replete, ) : Makes the columns seem shabbily plain. But I con every line that it offers; Each item brings something to view Though the vista of years, of youth’s pleasures and tears, . | And serves their keen strength to renew. The death of a girl I once courted, The growth of a firm I once jeered, The rise of a friend whom I loved to commend, i The fall of & man I revered, v lAs I read I dritt dreamily backward i To days when to live was but joy; - '3 think and I poretill the eity’s dull roar i Grows faint and again I'm & boy. ‘,Ra.ro perfumes of green country byways, . | Far music of mewers and bees, : |And the quaint little town, with its street leadi ing down i To the creek and the low bending trees. | !.Al'ound me the. forms of my comrades; ! About'us earth’'s glories unfurled; Bach heart undefiled, with the faith of a ohild ' Looking forth to a place in the world. ) ‘And the paper tells how all have prospered; I follow thelr lives as they flow, Applauding each gain and regretting each pain, . For the sake of the days long ago. "Then somo(ow my cares seem less heavy, . ! For the voyage I take as I read, MAnd I fancy, forsooth, that the vigor of youth | Is imbibed to replenish my need. '‘Above all the huge city dailies, | With ponderous utterance wise, T'Ais scant page hath power to spread out for i an hour, : . A fairyland sweet to mine eyes. ) Jll printed, old fashioned and homely, Bearing name of a small country town, k walit and I seek for the moment each week, ¢ When the postman in scorn throws it down. —~Charles Moreau Harger, in Banner of Gold.

A\ = ' ) SOLB ICLES B 2 S RFAVERITE E,!-' /* NGV () .‘ 0"' /}- e hf.\l. le «,,“!;u ey IRy . g Q"}g“" ) V= (‘::Q / g A Revelation of the Romantio and Remarkable Career of Lawrence Bangs, the Famous Yale Athlete. : BY HOWARD FIELDING. Copyright, 18¢4. CHAPTER X : THE PARTS ARE CHANGED. ! The second Harvard game was played fn Cambridge. It was preceded by the usual fatalities. Although the first meeting had been so disastrous to the crimson there was a strong hope among Johnny Harvard’s boys that the nine might win on the home grounds. 'Yale in New Haven is like that giant of mythology whose strength was invincible while his feet rested upon his mother earth. But he was conquered when Hercules lifted him into the air. . 8o the Cambridge boys kept up a %ood heart and encouraged the nine. However, as two or three of the best men happened to be disabled just before the game, there was very little money bet. Previousto the New Haven game it had come down like snowflakes in the great blizzard. , - Larry Bangs—the real one this time —appeared in the box for Yale. The reader knows very well that he had no business there, but Larry did not know that himself. He had accomplished wonders, considering the time that he had for preparation. He had learned of a master of the art, and he fondly hoped to fill that master’s shoes. If he had come anywhere near doing it Paddy O'Toole would never have worn e Yale uniform again.

. Probably Paddy knew that, but he had no fear of losing his job. His prayers were all for Lawrence. The student had surpassed all Paddy’s expectations. He had learned to stand up calmly in ths gorner of a field and throw curves very cleverly. But that is not pitching a ball game and Paddy knew it. ; : e

*lf the luck’s all with him,” said he to himself, ‘he may not get batted out of the box.” :

Well, the luck was with him in a surprising degree. The terror of his mighty name helped him at first. Harvard men went to the bat with the idea that they weren’t going to hit the ball, and some of them didn’t. Those who did find it, batted it straight at the big Yon a Yale uniform. As the gentlemen from New Haven were not obliging endugh to dodge the ball and made only a couple of errors, Harvard did not score. Yale got three.

. Lawrence thought that he was doing amazingly well and he could not understand why Johnny Wilkes wore a brow of gloom, and kept repeating: ‘Bangs, Bangs, what’s the matter with you today"?n . :

The unreflecting crowd on the blue side of the field cheered lustily, for the game seemed’to them to be going the right way, and Lawrence heard his name mingled with the almost continuous cheers, and was happier than he " had ever been before in his life. “If you don’t feel well, old man,” said Wilkes, just before Yale took the field for the seventh time, ‘‘l'll let Whitley pitch the game out.” ' “Oh, no,” said Bangs, “I'm getting along very nicely.” ‘“Well, don’t take any chances, and for mercy’s sake use your head. You don’t séem to have it with you to-day.” If it had been anybody else except the great Larry Bangs, Capt. Wilkes would have sent him to the bench without saying by your leave. Bangs, was pale with excitement and delight, and the color which he had acquired on the roof and in the field with Paddy, seemed to have faded all off his face. The first man at the bat in Harvard’s seventh inning was so exéeedingly fortunate as to miss a Yale.man. He put the ball into right field for two bases. The mnext man scored him with a pretty single; and then Bangs lost the head which Wilkes had not believed to be present at all on that oecasion. He knew that this was an emergency calling for what Paddy would have denominated ‘‘head work.” He tried to think of the counsels which ‘Paddy had given him, but it seemed as {f he could remember nothing except some fragments of Greek grammatical rules. He pitched the ball without the faintest attempt to ‘‘size up” the E tter or to meet the necessities of the _gituation. Paddy wouldn’t have “shought, either, but he .would have felt, and that would have be«n% much JEYer. 1 o v e@ gy aeeall e

Mount Auburn ecemetery. Then ahundred or more red-legged demons began to run around him in dizzy circles amid loud jeers of derision. It would be painful to prolong this scene. There were eleven base hits and three dispensations of Providence, the last of which sent Harvard to the field. Whitley pitched the last two innings, and the final score was twelve to three against Yale. : ‘“Never mind, Larry,” said Wilkes, in a husky but sympathetic tone, “‘everybody has an off day once in awhile. I've played like a jackass myself, and I know how you feel.” i “You got out of it better than I expected,” said Paddy, when they met in Lawrence’s room in New Haven. ‘“The luck was with you, and if that head of yours hadn’t totally gone back on you, you might have made a fight for it. All the papers say so.” And he pointed-to a large number of them on the floor. - Lawrence groaned. ; “I feel,” he said, ‘‘the combined agony of a murderer and his vietim. I have both the injury and the remorse.” : : “You've made your play,” said Paddy, ‘‘and now it’s my turn. Just watch me. To-morrow night I'm right in it with the swells.” St ~ Lawrence had kept his agreement with Paddy, but he had shaved it down a little. It was not an event of the first rank in which the young man from the Séuth Cove was to make his debut. But then, he didn’t know that, and was never likely to find it out, so it is hard to say he was cheated. Besides, it was a very nice affair, after all —a spread given by the Gamma Delta, a minor Greek letter society. It was held in the handsome residence of Gilbert Parsons, whose son was the president of the Yale chapter, and some of the bluest blood in New Haven was there. '

There was a crush of pretty girls, and among them was Florence Lorne, who had come down to New Haven on purpose to attend. Lawrence had selected this affair because he had felt sure that Florence would not be present. He was still jealous of Paddy. It must be admitted that the moment chosen for Paddy’s experiment was not auspicious. The Harvard game was the great topie of conversation among the friends of the New Haven college, and the name of Larry Bangsdid not shineas brightly as heretofore in the galaxy of fame. But Pagldy did not mind that a bit. - !

“Wait till I talk to ’em,” he said, as he sallied forth. ‘‘They’ll see that I'm all right.” _ Lawrence was too sadly crushed to care what Paddy did in his name except so far as it had to do with Florence Lorne. As to that he was deeply interested, so much so that he watched the Parsons house till the rout broke up, patrolting the sidewalk before it, clad in a costume strongly suggesting the youthful detective of fiction. He had % slouch hat.and a false mustache, and he imagined that he was prepared to do something desperate. ' Of Paddy’s advent into society there is only a word to be said. There is a strange and grotesque character in fiction which is called the college student. By “fiction” is meant pretty nearly everything that is written about collegé life, whether in books or in current news paragraphs. This character gets into courts, he assaults peaceable citizens and always gets the worst of it; he disturbs the audiences at theaters; he speaks in a dialect so. full of slang that only the police can understand it; in short, he is as near like the real student as Paddy O’Toole is. : :

The character is so strongly fixed in the public mind that it isvery hard for a real student to do .anything bad enough to excite remark. Paddy’s eccentricities fitted this character so

s T @ Q i ~ i%?\" Y 3@ , Nt Y Gt ) e & Gsy s B RNPE R Ry ) ‘J"?«;, o I',‘s N / i 5N ) 7 AP TN \w\\ \ ‘ AN W 7/ eV - / j ~. et | A e O THE HIT OF THE EVENING. nicely that even those who knew Lawrence well did not regard them as ectraordinary. In fact, Paddy succeeded much better than Lawrence, for he was so much more like a real, live college boy. There was a ‘‘stand-up feed” that night, and Paddy supplied the needs of dozensof girls. - Nobody stood any chance against him in the struggle for salads or ices, and when he appeared with about forty plates piled on his right arm as he had seen the waiters in South Cove restaurants carry them, he was loudly applauded. It was the hit.of the evening, and did much to retrieve the honor lost at Cambridge. Also in a moment of inadvertence when he forgot that his name was no longer O'Toole he asserted that his ancestors were kings of Ireland and thereby added the only iuster that the name of Bangs had lacked. He succeeded in accompanying Florence to the door of the house in which she was staying, which was only a stone’s throw from Mr. Parsons’. Lawrence trailed them in the style of the best melodramas, and heard Paddy promise again and again to retrieve | the awful degrace of the Ca.mbridge} game. P 1 -#‘Don’t you be afraid,” said Paddy, “when the tie is played off, I shall be myself again.” s i ‘‘Be your true self always,” replied Florence, ‘‘for my sake.” ' ' CHAPTER XL |, " LAWRBNCE MAKES HIS CHOICE. There was one person who was not deceived by Larry Bangs’ appearance in Paddy’s place on the occasion of the Harvard game. Harry Bangs knew what was up before the first inning was over. From that moment he was the most interested spectator, as one may easily believe. He did not betray to either of the guilty persons the fact that he had detected their treason to the university until about a week after the event. - 5 d ~ Then, late one evening, he entered Lawrence’s room, wesring upon his countenance an expression appropriate to a person. who has a painful duty to ”m;;-m, a.n!d intend:ht:, gicfie thefiflt.'; B foy E S s R Jbeen geen to smile gince his return o aot wfinag b

books, and was sitting with his head inhif. hands. His attitude suggested the last few moments of an ill-spent life. | ‘ ; Harry regarded him for a minute in silence. Then, with an evident struggle to be calm, he said: .- “Larry, why didn’t you tell- me that you wanted to play ball?”

So/the murder was out. Lawrence looked up at his brother with an expression which may have been guite common in the dungeons of the inquisition.| ‘ “Don’t,” he groaned. ‘““Why should you make me more miserable than I am? When did you find this out?” “Within five minutes after the game began.” : : “Why have you waited se long? Why didn’t you descend upon me in your wrath as soon as I got back to New Haven?” i “Wait one minute for your answer. I have a question which should go be+ fore it. What are you g‘oing to do abont it?” s “Nothing. It’s all over. I have failed.” “That’s your final word on the subject?” : T ult is.” ;

“Then you have failed. Look here, Larry, when I discovered you in the box at Cambridge I was delighted. Of course it was a mistake for you to start in with such an important game. But I forgave you. Only a born athlete can know enough to begin at the bottom and work up. A bookworm and a dreamer liks you would naturally want to éucceed by a special dispensation of Providence and not by his own endeav- | ors, But the athlete understands work. 'He knows that in order to be what he ‘wishes to be he must make himself ‘that thing. Look at the men who have sudceeded. There’s Lanky Pierce, the short distance runner. I give you my word that when he first got the idea that there was a sprinter concealed inside ofhim somewhere, he couldn’t run fast enough to keep even with his own shadow. He didn’t win a heat until his junior year, but he kept at it. . Now he's in the law school, and he’s a tensecond man at a hundred yards and a sure counter for Yale in the intercollegiate games. S ‘“There are men who try for the teams every year there in college and never make them. Yet they’re a help to the college and they know it, Their examples spur on better mesm than themselves, and their pluck and perse‘verance play and win many a game, ' though their mortal parts are sitting ‘on the- benches, obscure and unnoticed. 'That’'s what it is to ‘bel an athlete. That's why ath< letics benefit a college. The spectacle ‘of one of these men who is forever trying and falling short, and eheering the fellow who gets the place he himself was after, is° worth coming to college for. And any man who comes 'may see not one but hundreds in the four years of his life when a good ex- ’ ample is most beneficial to him. ~ - ' “YAnd so, Larry, I wasn’t so much grieved when the Harvard boys took your scalp. I waited to see what you wonld do. I've suffered more than you have in the last week. . When I saw - you give up without an effort, I put on sack cloth and ashes and rended my garments. This is the last call, Larry. Whiat are.you going to do-about it?” ~ “Nothing,” replied Lawrence, moodily. “I begin to perceive that sport is not| satisfying. I shall confine myself in future to intellectual struggles.” ““In short, you will play for yourself "and not for the university. You desire a personal trianmph, and you don’t care what becomes of your college. And your name is Bangs. Well, welll The laws of heredity work some of the time, but when they take a day off there’s no telling what may happen.” And that was the end of it. The ‘ parts were never changed again, in such a way as to be detrimental to the best | interests of the callege.

[TO BE CONTINUED.] ! ORIGIN OF MANKIND. Savage Tribes To-Day Are Still in a’Prim- | : itive State. : If the eating of flesh food be instanced as a distinction that separates man from anthropoids, it can be urged on the other side that the latter feed on insects, and when in captivity by no means despise flesh food. The first man, too, was probably a ‘“‘vegetarian,” but necessity and the absence of sufficient vegetable food for his augmenting species may have driven him to a flesh diet. B

The cooking or roasting of meat must be regarded as an acquisition of a later epach, because in the earliest stages of man’s development there was undoubtedly a very long’ fireless period, and because there are said to be fireless people even in the present day, such as the Dokos, in Abyssinia, observes Fortnightly Review. The Australians, too, too, knew nothing of the boiling and roasting of food until the advent of the Europeans. For therest, all the savages kndw how to kindle fire by the wellkngwn method of friction of two sticks, or, what is still simpler, they take a torch along with them on their wanderings that never goes out. The Andamanites preserve their fire by consuming the interiors of hollow trees. Since the Andamanites have come in contact with Europeans they have superseded this method of preserving fire by the use of matches, which are very favorite objects with them. They eat their food either raw or roasted, less frequently boiled, as they have no cooking | utensils. Moreover, according to the latest accounts from Otto Luders of these savages, great mortality prevails among them, and they withdraw themselves into the woods more and more at the approach of the Europeans. They go |either completely or almost completely naked, live in holes in the earth or under overhanging rocks, or build themselves a sort of rough hut with branches and leaves. Their weapons are spears, bows and arrows tipped with iron which they seize as booty ‘from the wrecks of stranded ships. Their hatchets and axes, formerly made of stone, are now made of iron, and are bound to the handle with thongs. They only count ugj three, and have no conception of God or immortality; they believe -in'a g and bad spirit only, hide their dead in the ground or. throw them into th% sea or lay them on wooden scaffolds, dance to the tune of a sounding board, have a very keen sense of vision—with thjir arrows they shoot fish that no European can see—are of a fierce, suspiclous disposition, and, according to Luders, they vproba;bg;oonstitufi» the transition of primitive nations of Inlians to An?tnllins, & remnant of ao ‘extinet peglv ple. They are of nearest kin to the Negriton of the Philippines Their body height is Hiky-six to Aty ' Anches. . oLI PR Al i

- THE BUSINESS REVIVAL. An Independent Newspaper'’s Review of [ the Bituation. | . To estimate the extent and meaning of the present revival we must take a glance backward: When the McKinley tariff became law, in October, 1890, ’disastrous results soon followed, es‘pecially in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illi'nois. In December, 1890, at Bethle‘hem, Pa., 1.000 iron warkers were ‘thrown out of employment. In January, 1891, wages were reduced 9 per cent. at the large steel wo?«s at Home‘stead, Pa., and in the following Feb-: ruary 4,000 men were t.lirown out of work—reverses followed in April by a ‘second reduction of wages (5 per cent.), and in July, 1892, by the great and bloody strike of 3,800 en against wage reductions. On January 22, 1891, ‘at Youngstown, 0., 10, men were thrown out of work and Fhe wages of } 5,000 were reduced a¢ Johnstown, Pa. In less than a year after the McKinley law took effect 24,000 mill hands were thrown out of work or their wages cut down. In March, 1892, pne western steel company had 2,500 men idle, and in July of that year ordered a reduction of 45 per cent. in wages. Strikes, shutdowns, working on short time, reduction of wages were quite in order these times (from 1890 to 1893) of ‘‘humming” activity and booming McKinley prosperity of American industries. “Nothing succeeds like suceess,” and the success of ‘‘protectionism” and tariff taxation for the alleged benefit _of American wage earners was so tremendous under the republican high tariff that the labor element of the country (in November, 1892) wisely concluded that they had had quite enough of the ‘*American system” (socalied), and hence they voted for tariff reform and Mr. Cleveland. - The present improvement has come to stay, and the new iide of prosperity can be heightened and broadened if the American export trade in manufactured products is vigorously pressed. Relieved by the“ Wilson law of a considerable portion of the vast burden of “protective” taxation imposed for the benefit of monopoly —a taxation amounting to many hundreds of millions of dollars every yean—the people are beginning to taste the sweets of liberty and to profit by freer trade. The enormous benefit derived from the new tariff is, however, as yet only in the bud. | S Even the manufacturers have begun: to scent prosperity in the ‘‘free trade” tariff, and to see that it is for them a blessing in disguise. ng'y day makes it clearer that it is not to their interest to revive McKinleyism. With free raw materials—the very lifeblood of manufactures—and with a reduction in the expenses of manufacturing, both of which inestimable booms the Wilson law gave the mill owners, they cannot fail to see that the brightest era of industry ever known in: America has dawned uponthem. ' : The Gettysburg of the great war against the slave power of ‘‘protected” ‘monopoly was won when the Wilson law triumaphed. That wictory, it is true, was not éxactly a Waterloo. But, like the union victory at Cemetery Ridge, it was decisive. Many republican journals are now crying out a reenactment of the McKinley or some other high tariff, and are bent on making this the foremost issue of the day. But the country will not brook any more republican tariff tinkering, and public opinion demands that the splendid results which the Wilson law is ac‘complishing shall not be frustrated by adverse legislation.—N. Y. Herald.

ADMITTED BY M'KINLEY.

The Napoleon of Protection Reads the : Signs of the Times.

Now that the calamity cry has become ridiculous because of restored prosperity, what is to become of the republican party, which depended for its ammuuition upon depressed business conditions which undoubtedly obtained a year ago and which republic: ans ascribed to the defeat of McKinleyism? Some thick-and-thin republican journals have been declaring that there is no prosperity; that democrats have engaged in a widespread conspiracy in the party interest to assert that what republicans claim is a mere appearance of business activity is business activity itself.. Doleful because times are improving, they insist that there is no improvement in business conditions. They declare that there can be none until McKinleyism is restored. Others, recognizing the fact that employments are langer now than they have been in many years, and’ that compensation is letter, assert that these conditions result from the fact that the republican party was successful in the elections of 1894. As to this latter claim it is only necessary to point out that even if congress were composed entirely of republicans the McKinley law could not be reenacted during the next session, because the executive, who thought the Wilson bill not sufficiently radical in its departure from McKinleyism, would undoubtedly veto any bill logking to an in crease of custom house taxation. As to the claim that there is no real revival of business, we may cite Gov. McKinley himself, who said on July i 8 at Cleveland: “I think that business conditions show a general improvement. Take Canton, for instance,. where I passed last Sunday and Monday. Most of the works are in operation, and while, of course, the city is not back to the point where it was before the business depression, conditions are much improved. The.general outlook, I think, is favorable.” : | ‘lt is noteworthy that the governor himself makes no demand for return to the tariff legislation which the com: ‘mittee of which he was chairmap perfected in 1890.° That' legislation, coupled with the Sherman enactment, was largely responsible for the business distress which came wupon this covntry. Were it not that the country, is now to enjoy the benefit of democratic reform, both of tariff and of currency legislation, it would have been well had President Harrison been reelected in 1892. The misdry the republican administration brought upon the republic would then have been unanimously attributed to its fx:u,e source.— Chigago Chrondele, .. & = .

——The last three months have seen an extraordinary revival, which is still in progress. The history of the country does not show so rapid a recovery at any other time from a period of panic depression. 1t is clear enough that the limit has not been reached and that the upward movement grows in force. The burden lies upon the republican journals and leaders to éxplain how the ‘‘depressing and paralyzing” influence of the new duties has been suspended.—N. ¥, Mimes.

AN ISSUE WANTED. ‘The Republican Party in Search of a Bone to Contend For. Many of our republican contempora~ ries vehemently insist that the tariffis to be very much in evidence during the presidential campaign of next year. Those who favor the candidacy of Gov. McKinley are obliged to do this, for he would be an absurdity as a candidate on any other issiie. It is hardly possible, however, to find anybody of prominence who advocates the reenactment of the McKinley law. ‘ - On the other hand, there are not a few republicans who are tired of the tariff issue, and especially of McKinleyism. They know when they have enough. They remember with emotion the tremendous overthrow of - 1890, which followed the McKinley iniquity as the thunder lollows the electric flash. They remember also how they claimed that this was due to the fact that the election came so soon after the passage of the bill that the people had not had time tolearn how very good a bill it was. So they took two years to explain it to the people, during which period wages were reduced all over the country. . Their two years of explanation and falling wages were followed by another stinging defeat. Many republicans are quite aware that their success last fall was wholly due to the depression of business which they brought about, and that it affords no promise for the future if the improvement in business continue. So they are very shy of McKinleyism. - ‘lt is worthy of mention that Congressman Dingley, of Maine, thinks that the next presidential election will turn mainly upon the currency question. This is significant because Mr. Dingley is a representative of Mr. ‘Reed, a. prominent candidate for the presidency. It is also significant on account of the reasonassignedforit. He says the democrats have stolen republican thunder by enacting a protective tariff, which ‘‘proves to be tributary to American enterprise.” We might pause to ask Mr. Dingley, if the present tariff is ;tributary to American enterprise, why his party enacted one which on many important commodities was twice as high as the present tariff? We might also ask how it happened that the makers of many commodities on which the tariff wasreduced the most are among the most pros.perous? However, it is not our purpose toargue the correctness of Mr. Dingley’s statement, but merely to cite it as evidence of the drift of republican opinion. If the republican party adopt sound money as the main issue for 1896, it will be compelled substantially to indorse the democratic administration. On the otherhand, if it embrace McKinleyism it will have to attack a tariff which its own organs declare is ‘“‘tributary to American enterprise.” Under these circumstances the search for an issue is attended with no little embarrassment.—Louisville Courier-Jour-nal. .

SHIPMENTS OF GOLD. ' They Were Largor Under Harrison Than Under Cleveland. d Our republican friends needn’t lose sleep over the éxports of gold now being made. s :

There was not a week from March 4 to July 31 in any of the 4 years of President Harrison’s administration in which gold exports were not a great deal larger than they have been all this month e .

Take the banner year of that administration—lB92. Gold was exported in July that year to the amount of $10,782,638, a weekly average of nearly $2,500,000.

© In July, 1891, the amount sbtipped was $6,662,674. T 1n the year before, July’s shipments were even larger than in 1892, amounting to $11,860,029. _ Here we have a total for the last 3 years ‘of the -Harrison administration of $29,305,341in 13 July weeks, an average of over $2,250,000 per week, as compared with $1,450,000 in the 3 weeks of this month. .

In other words, July gold exports under republican rule were 5 times as great as are the shipments we have heard so much about this month.—St. Louis Republic.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

- ——The republicans observe ‘with sorrow that President Cleveland continues to increase the number of employes placed under civil service rules. —Boston Globe.

——llf the revival of prosperity was caused by the election of a republican congress in 1894, how did it happen that the boom didn’t come until six months after the polls closed and the returns were canvassed? — Chicago Chronicle.

——When ultra republicans diseuss the better times they give thecredit to their capture of ‘the next congress. When they talk about the shortage of the wheat crop they charge it toa democratic administration. — Detroit Free Press. 4 et ——Mr. Cleveland, when he retires on March 4, 1897, will take with him the confidence and -affection of the people and leave a more united party than he probably dared to dream six months ago. And thatis better than a third term.—Albany Argus. : ——llt must make a good talker like . Benjamin Harrison tired to keep mum on topics of live interest and confine his conversation todenials that he said ,anything. But/such are the restraints of candidacy for the highest office in the gift of a critical people.—Topeka (Kan.) Capital. ——That there is a conspiracy to suppress the news of improved industrial conditions admits of no doubt. It has been shown by the attitude of the republican newspapers for some time, But the prophets of woe and the howlers of calamity have not been able to prevent the restoration of prosperity. They have retarded it to a considerable extent and delayed the consummation for six months. But they have at last lost their power to hoodoo the pecple. Prosperity and increased wages are the order of the day.—Kansas City Times. ; 3

~———The imprudenceof republicans in claiming that good times camy because the republicans had elected a laajority in congress has a touch of the fantastical: The republican congress cannot pass a tariff bill that President Cleveland will approve unless it should be a democratic bill. If the republicans should ecarry the election in 1896, congress, president and all, the new congress would not meet until December,. 1807, and could pass no tariff bili until well along in 1898. The good times came because for at least three years the republicans will be powerless to tinker with the tariff or the currency, =Chicago Chronicle, o

THE IDOL OF HER HEART. =7V 5 " \\\\s L) o"‘l 3 7 , X[y ‘ ‘ i;-;;,',‘\ . /4% Naldiiv/|E 3BT :?2:73'::-1 i : &;/’:%' 4 e eOO 77 7P Rl 7 {027 %\ RN ///;"’g,/', A l{ \ \: \‘3,\‘“.\' ; 7 N ! : WO /;,:;;:.‘ ll\\\ : : g#g.‘;.'ena" ; =y, . AV - R y s Rl AN :l-? Q ; ..\ ; \\\ : \“:‘\}\\h“; . ‘ AL ", e ' nv‘,fl‘.\\ .T e : e e — e 7, e : = ,:’;1/_2-_-——-—" e = “I've got a whole menagerie = And a big, fat lot of toys; I've got a little rubber dog SEee That squeaks and makes a noise, - I've got a little wooden horse” - And a little wooden cart, : But my dear, old busted dolly # Is the idol of my heart!" M —N. Y. Recorder. : e S 1 i "SOME PECULIAR PETS. © A Fierce-Looking Lion Is the Mascot of a French Regiment. v In Algeria, North Africa, the officers of the Third Chasseurs d’Afrique have a pet lion which they took, when very young, from the African desert. Itis a great pet and very gentle. Asa rule it lies outside the officers’ mess on the veranda, and looks just like an artificial one. Many have been the visitors who took to flight on beholding his majesty rise to greet his guests. The lion by. way of assuring them that he was harmless, or perhaps as a sign of his #sapproval of theirimpolite actions, would generally send a gentle roar after them, which, instead of having the desired effect of recalling them, -would make them increase their pace, if it were possible to do so. ; In the British army several regiments have pets. For’ instance, the Twenty-third Welsh Fusileers have a pet goat that marches in front of the regiment. The Seventy-fourth Highland infantry, the Seventy-eighth Seaport Highlanders and other corps have pet deer that also march in front. - i

In India the soilders make many pets, such as monkeys, parrots, owls,-crows, hawks and squirrels, but their greatest pet is the minot, a bird like a starling, but larger. This bird, after having its tongue split, will talk quite well, and will follow its masterabout constantly.Often it will follow a dragoon regiment for four or five miles on a field day, and will fly round and round the regiment until he finds his master, on whose shoulders he will settle, even though the horses are going along at full gallop. A trooper in the Cape Mounted rifles in South Africa- had a green water snake for a pet, which would follow its master through the grass to th\e_‘river and in bathing with him. The trooper\, who was an expert swimmer, would worry the snake by diving under water apd coming up a dozeh. yards away. (He fed it on frogs, raw meat and little fish. It-slept in his jack boot at night. - He, however, was not doomed to have it long, as before he had it quite five months a hawk carried it off before anybody could rescue the poor little thing. : THE CARD SKIMMER. A Simple Toy That Affords Lots of Harmless Amusement, The simple toy illustrated here can send a card whirling. like a boomerang to a height of fifty to a hundred feet. Its construction is simple, but very ingenious. The' ' general make-up is shown in TFig. 1. A slotted handle receives a pivoted slip of wood. Around the handle and netched inner end of the slip a strong rubber band is sprung. If the slip is drawn out of position, as -shown in Fig. 1, and released, the rubber band jerks it violently back. On the end of the slip isa short, sharp pin and a slight' cone, shown in Fig. 2. In use the cardis stuck on the pin point, the pivoted piece is drawn back, as shown in Fig. 1, and released. It springs forward, cdrrying the card with it. As seon as it is in line with the handle, or just passes such position, its motion is arrested

b W 9 N 'y N \] . : W RN iV >z > : <2 o THE CARD SKIMMER. -~ by the band. The card then swings around on the pln point, its edge mounts up the side of the cone asit does so and it is lifted off the point and flies whirling through the air to an astonishing distance. For bandfl an umbrella ring may be used, . Excellent effects are got by using little boomerangs instead of square cards.—Scientific American.. : 5

Mice Run a Spinning Wheel.

" In a little shoemaker’s ship in Third avenue, New York, there is on exhibition in the window a miniature thread-spinning machine run by two trained mice in a sort of treadmill apparatus. The proprietor of the store, who is an ingenious German of an inventive turn of mind, planned and invented the machine himself, and as it was built on a small scale to fit the space available it conld not be operated by steam power, so he conceived the idea of training the mice, and having them do the work. The little register fastened on one side of the machine shows that the mice daily perform work equivalent to traveling ten and a half miles. : -

Chinese Bridge Builders. The greatest brilge in the world was planned by a Chinese engineer and built by Chinese workmen. ‘lt is of stone, and reaches across an arm -of the Chinese sea by 800 arches.. Over the pillar of each arch reclines a lion carved from a block of marbie 21 feet long. The roadway is'7o foet wide: " Greatest Panie in History. = " The' greatest panie Irnown to history ovcurred in ‘the year 1,000, when the -natibns of Europe were informed that universal doom would follow. . - ‘Clothing Made of Paper. ' ‘Gloves, handkerchiefs, ties, in fact ‘the whole stock in trade of the averags hosier, are now. being knitted from

" UNDERNEATH THE SEA. A Professional Diver’'s First Trip in Search L e of Pentise Pearl fishing means not only fishing for pearls, but also for the mother-of-pearl shells in which they are found. The shells, which are worth about fifty cents each in the London market, are really the principal source of the pearl diver's income,*says a writer in the’ Youth’s Companion. » . Not many years ago fortune and a little bark named the Day Dawn stranded me in the almost unknown port of Cossack, at that time the headquarters of the pearling fleet. It was here that I first became interested in pearl divs ing, and finally decided to enter the business. ol : In Cossack I bought a smart seven= ton lugger called the Vera, put aboard her six months’ provisions, secured a good crew, hoisted the sails of my little craft and steered for the pearling grounds, two hundred miles to the northward. Having no knowledge of diving, I hired a regular diver—a white man, known as ‘‘Cockney Joe.” Within three days we dropped our anchor amid the pearling fleet. Let me picture this place to you. ‘Hundreds of miles from the abode of white men stretches a long; sandy coast, almost destitute of animal life or vegetation. To the south and east is one vast yellow desert; to the north and west roll the blue waters of the Indian ocean. . Beyond that sand roams the wild bushman of Australia; beneath the sea sweeps the savage tintorea—the man-eating shark of the orient—and in depths are sought the pearls for future diadems. ; For a week-all went well—we were on a good ‘‘patch,” and Joe was sending*up many shells. Then, to my dis‘mey, the Vera began to leak so badly that we-were obliged to run into the nearest creek for repairs. It was a fortnight hefore we were ready to sail again,and in the meantime Joe took to drinking. ; The high tide upon which the Vera was to float out of -the creek crept over the twisted roots of the iman-: groves. - I called to Joe, who! was ashore, to “hurry up;” but, to my surprisé, he refused point blank. Knowing that I could do nothing without him, he coolly told me he wanted a few days more-to finish his spree. With expenses going on and nothing coming in, I was anxious to get to work again.:

_—t e — ==t HFBEE—" . :.g;-_’:__ g e—— —l_:_:-?— ==y O ; NS e i 1Y - o S , ~:§z 15— SRS L . SN y":””fiijiz‘7s=;‘—-‘=.* - = SN N e . S % == = B | AgE e 2T Ty — oAy e 2 X s := i v UNDERNEATH THE SEA. I had a few hot words with Joe, and finally I left the creek without a diver, determined to try to dive myself. To. describe 'my feelings as I sank 'rapidly to the bottom I should have had a phonograph, for I yelled ail the } way down. In the first place the pain in my ears caused by the unusual pres‘sure of air in my eardrums, was excruciating, and in the second place I lost my hold of the rope and literally “tumbled down. : ‘ I remeémber tumbling one graceful somersault on the way, and wecndering how far it was to the bottom. Fortus nately, like a.good acrobat, I landed on' . my feet. Instantly all pain stopped, and I looked around with eager curiosity. From the monotony of sea and sky ~above I had dropped through a few i fathoms.of crystal water into the gar~dens of a summer sea, where coral and -sponge growths, flowers and ferns, shells and sea fans in curious forins and vivid colors lay undi:turbed by storms, 'and made a very fairyland. It was like 1 a page from the ‘‘Arabian Nights.”

Cowardice of a Large Eagle.

The claim of the eagle to the title of ‘king ‘of birds seems to be slightly clouded by an incident reported from -Stafford county, Va. - A gentleman ~down there was watching an Junusually fine bald eagle grandly sailing around it the air a few days ago, when he noticed a little bee martin rise in the air and make straight for the cagle. - He wondered what the martin’s object could be, and was surprised to see it sail in beldly to tear the feathers out of ‘the big eagle. But he was amazed to see the eagle, after a few moments of effort at beating off the little bird, sail away in full flight, making évery effort to escape from the martin. * The ‘martin followed up closely for awhile, making a savage jab at the eagle every few yards, but was finally left behind through the superior retreating powers of the big eagle. : o Try to Say These Rapldjyf : - The popularity of Peter Piper’s celebrated peck of pickled peppers will probably never wane as a snare to catch the tongue that would fain be agile, but the test has formidable rivals. The following short sentences, as their authors maintain, do wonders in bafling the ordinary powers of speech: “‘Gaze on the gay brigade.” - “The sea ceaseth and it sufficeth us.” “Say, should such a shapely sash shabby stitches show?” A ““‘Strange strategic statisties.,” = - “Give Grimes Jim’s gilt gig whip.” “Sarah in a shawl shoveled soft snow ‘soft,ly."’ G or : ~ “A cup of coffee in a copper coffee . -Mistaken for Moses. Lt ' An Englishman once boasted that he ‘had been mistaken for a member of the royal family.” A Frenchman, hearing, replied that he had been 'addressed as the duke of Orledns. Whereupon an American said that he had been taken for a greater person than cither, for, as he was walking along the strect one day, a friend came up to him, exclaiming: ‘“floly Moses! is that you?” . . 2 s T 2 ffi\&"‘k{: et ke TRt ]