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) t/‘\ Z : . : QP AR Q A s§‘a=€ W ep— ol Q TPEFU 525‘;--\ » e NS R peof : 5= CoPYRIGHT 1395 w=¥ ; CHAPTER XV. | A MOST REMARKABLE YOUNG WOMAN. A pretty, petite figure tripping down Broadway, New York, attracts the ate tention of the loungers who always infest that ‘busy thoroughfare, bent on staring every unprotected woman out of countenance. Many a glance of honest admiration is cast at the iface of a young girl, r. she passes algng, wistfully looking into the upper windows of the great business houses. Her face is unwontedly pale, and her big blue eyes look as though they had lately been bedewed with tears. Poor Elsie Whitford evidently did not leave carking care entirely behind her, | when she evacuated Oretown with so much happy precipitancy. ; | Her case was a singular one. - Death had stepped in to upset Mrs. Baxter’s kind intentions regarding her young protege, and, the kind hand, which but two weeks ago had written Eisie so encouragingly, was stilled forever, and the house, which should have sheltered her, closed and empty. I 'A kindly-disposed servant, won by the girl's sweet face, had secured lodgings for her &nd given her the address of Mr. Theophilus Crall, Mrs. Baxter’s man .of business, to whose office Elsie Wwas now hurtying. v ' Mr. Crall was disturbed when his clerk announced to ‘him that a young lady, who would not send in her card, desired tosee him on urgent business, for more than‘once that astute gentleman had found his sanctum invaded by . feminine canvassers with just such excuses for admission. : = “Tell her I'm engaged.” ' The message was curt and came like the cut of a whip to the frightened girl. ‘ : “Give him this letter,” she said at last, recovering a little courage, ‘‘and tell him I am the person referred to dnit? o o “I wouldn't if I were you,” the clerk said, sympathetically. ‘He’d never wead it, but if it’s a case of charity, why perhaps I might do somethingd for you, miss.” : Elsie flushed indignantly, then poured into the man’s ear the story of her misadventure. ; ' e “Oh, he’ll see you all right,” was the glad assurance, and a minute late: she found herself in the great man’s presence, . ' : : “It must have been a great shock to you,” Mrs. Crall confessed, with a little sympathetic cough, ‘‘and I under stand you have no friends in New York?” ~‘None.” . - “Well, of course I shall be glad to afford you means to return home.” ‘“But I do not mean to return.” ~ “Good gracious, young lady, do you suppose you can remain in this big city?” . ; » “Why, certainly. Surely in this vast place there is room for one more young woman to earti her living.” “But what could you do?” ' *Anything that is honorable.” “Really, this is extraordinary. What nerve you western girls must be en-s dowed with.” i ‘“Are there not thousands of girls in New York working for a livelihood?” A“Hundreds of thousands, but they are under the protection of their friends.” “I am sorry I troubled you,” Elsie said, rising. “Do not be impatient. Why, bless my soul, do you suppose that I am going to allow an innocent child like you to walk out into the pitfalls of this cruel place—what do you take me for?” “If you cannot give me work to do, nor tell me where it is to be got, I shall accept no othet aid from you.” : Mr. Crall stared at her harder than ever. : : “I think,” he said, ‘“you had better return to your lodgings, and I will inquire among my lady friends what is. ‘best to be done. You may rely on hearing from me by noon to-morrow at the latest. TEven your activity can brook s 0 brief a delay, I hope.” “Oh, yes, sir.” Elsie said, giving hima, look out of those lustrous eyes of hers that set the matter-of-fact old man’s heart aglow. Now, in accordance with instructions from Mr. Crall, which our heroine received in due course, she found herself waiting with all humility on a grand “‘society lady,” one Mrs. Clarence Grindlay, in her Fifth avenue mansion, a suppliant for the position of nursery governess. - A gorgeous footman opened the door —such @ radiant being as poor Elsie’s backwoods experience had never dmagined. : : ‘“Well, what is it?” he abruptly asked. “I called on Mrs. Grindlay by the advice of Mr. Crall. In fact,” she added, for she thought it would pay to be a little confidential, “I am seeking the position of nursery govérneéss here.” . “*Oh, please sit down.” : i Elsie placed herself uncomfortably in one of the antique hall chairs, whose heraldic designs astonished the unsophisticated child, that had been taught to believe that the citizens of this free and enlighténed land were above such fripperies, " In a few moments there wasthe frou frou of a silk dress. heard, and a stout, handsome woman, superbly dressed, ablaze in diamonds and gold, though it was barely yet mid-day, and accompanied by two young ladies, equally bedizened, made her appearance. A The gorgeous footman whispered a few words in his mistress’ ear. ‘Oh,” she said, and looking Elsie critically over from head to foot, ‘‘you are the young person Mr, Crall haseengaged for me as nursery governess—. yes—l think you will do. Thompson, you can show her to the schoolroom.” And without waiting for an answer, she swept into a room, followed by her -fairgmuiﬁcq. R e b Elsie’s first glance at a nursery in a’ Fifth avenue mansion was a révelation | she never, through weal or woe, forgot. Three girls and a boy, varying in age from cight to twelve, were engagod in ‘%ﬂmﬁ battle, pushing, pulling, ‘thumping, punching each other like savay .m«f;:ﬁm@sm top of their mmmwm | iag,. “11l tell your mamma; Master yu{ ’%ﬁ?’d‘wﬁ?&% RRAR L f,% r%f!}'» S e "#“ﬁ‘ : 4‘%@ ?"’;gg;é"%d*'*gﬁwmwa@ s"%‘“‘;‘s G D

a case of stuffed birds, which fell crashing to the ground. - ’ ; S “You've done it!” “I’ll tell ma, I will.” ‘“Oh, you bad, wicked boy!” resounded on all sides. .| ‘ , Elsie seized the opportunity to step forward and make her presence known. “I am the new governess,” she said to the maid. ‘‘Are these the children I am supposed to take charge of?” - “They are; and thank the ILord you’ve come, miss; I'd sooner be shut up with a lot of caged tigers than be their keeper for another day.” ~ “I’ll tell mal” yelled the sweet innocents in chorus.» ~ “You will all take your seats and remain perfectly still,” said Elsie, resolute&y. *““George, take this place beside me. [ i “Ma says governesses and servants are to say Master George, when they speak to my brother,” observed the eldest pet pertly. : : “And you, Julia, for your impertinence, will .stand in the corner with your face to the wall,” and, saying this, the young governess led the insolent child into punighment, which she was too much astonished at to resist. Yet not lang™was it before Elsie had all the littlé ones round her, talking pleasantly' and hopefully of to-mor-row’s lessons. . It was at this propitious moment that the door opened and Mrs. Grindlay entered the room. In a moment Babel broke loose again, The clamorous children gathered round their mother, screaming their tro bles in her ears.| : *‘She pinched my arm and made me stand in the corner.” ‘“‘She won’ call brother ‘Master George.”” She made us sit still, and wouldn’t let us speak.” t : . ‘“You sweet little rebels, will you be quiet?” the silly mothér whined, appealingly; but the luncheon bell ringing, they fled to the dining-room without ceremony, leaving Elsie face to face with her employer. - “I'm afraid you'll find them a little troublesome — they have such high spirits,” the great lady simpered. “They utterly lack discipline,” Elsie said, gravely and bravely. *‘They would be much happier if you would allow the person in charge of them complete control of their actions. In fact, if they are not to be taught wholesome obedience, I shall decline at once the office of governess.” “Good gracious! What an extrpordinary young person you are. Do you know that you are talking to a mother of seven? Do you think that Fifth avenue children are to be brought up in accordance with the rules and habits of humbler homes?” :

‘I only know, madam, that the question of remaining in your service is of vital importance to me; but, unless you let me teach those little ones order, self-control and cheerful obedience to proper suggestions, I will not undertake the charge.” Mrs. Grindlay looked nonplussed. “I see, madam, that you do not approve of my sentiments,” Elsie continued. ‘I see that you do not realizé that for me to do your children good 1 must first enjoy their respect, as to a constituted authority, and that this can only be accomplished by your cordial support.” : : . *“Ah, and what next?” “And that if I remained I should insist on there be no tale bearing, no impertinence, no rude conduct, no smallness of any kind. They must be trained to habits of neatness, gentleness and .courteous bearing.” . ‘“The most extraordinary young person I ever met,” for the third time Mrs. Grindlay gasped. © “And the most sensible!” a man’s voice added, with loud-toned emphasis. Theladies started in surprise, for they had not noticed anyone’s approach. *Oh, Uncle Marcus, how you made me jump!”Mrs. Grindlay ejaculated with a little move of i petulance. “Why do you come creeping in in this fashion?” The newcomer was an old man with strongly marked features, - plainly "M‘w 1 4 = IR H s '\H 1 DN ) Y HDENONS /, VIR || NS Bl ( 2N l SR s \’ i e\ AR RSN 17 &/ BnR : T ) B v/ t\\,,' I\w gl R s TS 7 AN S o) q e 11 | ‘?‘\ [ // i '\ | \l‘-);,'14» / | 1@? : Jitky 5 {7/ ] l ] i : Wi f i), 1= Byt ol e el R AR . /-'/“/ N m ; f"',‘ Oy R 3 // 2 \ll5l i x “WHAT AN FEXTRAORDINARY YOUNG PERSON YOU ARE.” : dressed, but who bore an air of authority that bade Elsie hope for an ally, who would ‘be able and willing to defend her. ! ~ “My dear Marion,” the elderly man said decisively, ‘“you may thank your fortune that your old uncle did come in -at this minute, for you were about to lose an opportunity which might not occur again in your lifetime. If you have any regard for me you will'not. hesitate to secure this young lady’y valuable services.” _ “L am sure,” pouted the lady, *“f would do anything to oblige you, buq‘ ‘the present extraordinary conduct—" i “Nay, no buts; let me have my own way in this matter. Since poor Clar+ ence’s death your children have ren riot. You are, like hunareds of other American mammas, spoiling them, my ~dear. Why, if they were angels instead of little bits of himan clay, you —? *‘Oh, Uncle Marcus, how can you go on 80? I'm sure I would do anything to promote the happiness of the listle darlings,” Mrs. Grindlay sobbed. * “Of course you would,” he continued soothingly. ‘“‘So we’ll make a beginning by sccuring the friendship and TRI | ST i o And thus Elsie gained alittle triumph over the illfortunie that had dogged her. footsteps. Her position, while full of &:ﬂ‘crojﬁa’cs. was ameliorated hythe reontinued support of the old gentleman ~who had so opportunely offered her _protection. The cl}ildroﬁ?‘quiclifto‘up’f;% _preciate the new state of affairs, ac?“‘“gprd‘e_(’_lu_t,ﬁggr young teacher first sullen P ybedience, then w%ll'iri‘g respect, ux Bt{:i last, wx’y By the evenness cf her tempet, and/gentle, affootionste disposition, loved her with all the ardor of - Lonie before Une o Mareus’ visit came Rk g e ettt v, e P T T R e e BT R G

ness; but Elsie’s heart was troubled, for the kind old man who had done her such service announced his determination to leave them. - :

“I cannot tell you, my dear,” he said on his farewell visit to the schoolroom, “how much I appreciate what you are doing for my nicce’s family. Now I want you to feel that you have a permanent friend in me.”

“For which, sir, I am indeed grateml.n

“Now if an emergency happens, if your path is a little too full of thorns, I wantsyou to promise to write to me— Marcus Woodgrove, Buffalo. The address will not be difficult to remember.”

““Oh, I shall never forget you.” < “I wish my dear wife were near at hand to offer you her counsel. Well, who knows? Perhaps some day you may come on a visit with the children. So now, good-by. God bless you, my dear.” )

And he was gone. If Elsie Whitford had heard him chant her praises in his home in Buffalo, she would have blushed crimson with honest pride. According to him there never was so pretty, socharming, so sensible a young woman as his ~ 7 _ ; 2\ |1 A . A == ‘ ) ')& > s ‘ ,/ . 1 =ARER = P, Wi »“”/(///W/ ) |1 /*) N i | NGB AR e 5 'V K ! - ‘v‘::‘::\ A\ \'&\\\, {l 115'7/{5 v e \&\‘\\‘“ ﬁ/‘ Y ( ';ILIJ B), »lgﬁ“ _— 8 ¢ R R BTN W 7 = y Bl I \ ~Hi el RO LTV i [f‘ T \ ) \\ ‘NOW GOOD-BY; €OD BLESS YOU.” niece’s new governess. Mrs. Woodgrove declared that she was getting quite jealous of this gay Lothario of a husband of hers, and that a divorce court was looming up very largely in the near future. : ““Aye, Grey!”-the old man chuckled, “jf you could only win such a girl for a wife you’d be the luckiest dog In the union. Tell you what, I'd a goed mind to invite her down here. It would be all up with you, man, if once you saw her.” “Frank,” suggested Mrs. Woodgrove, ‘‘is engaged already.” “I’'m soriy for it, for I'm more than half in earnest.” 1 CHAPTER XVL DRAINING THE CUP OF SORROW. Winter—one of the hardest, bitterest winters lknown to the memory of man—has bouad the semi-arctic region of Lake Siperior in its frozen grasp. Snow lies to an unheard of depth. Animals perish miserably in the woods, while lhuman beings = scarcely less wretched groan under the fierce rigors of this northern clime, the rich only being in a position to hybernate with comfori. During the long, light night the howl of wolves is heard, driven to the doors of their natural enemy, man, by the pangs of hunger. o Black eare shrouds in gloom the once happy home of the prospector, who sits in his snug parlor, haggard and wan, gazing dejectedly at the portrait of his darling lost boy. On the wall hangs a big-printed poster, which reads: “‘ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD. “Lost, a boy five years of age. Has light curling hair, blue eyes and the scar of a burn under his left arm below the elbow. Wore when missing a black cloth knickerbocker suit, straw hat with dark-blue ribbon, bluegrey stockings and low shoes. Linen marked W. W. Answers to the name of Willie. Ade dress J. Wilders, Oretown, or Richard Sutton, superintendent of police, Marquette, Mich.”? *'‘Oh, . Millie, Millie, is there a God thit such things can be?” groans the unhappy man. “My Willie, my boy whom I loved dearer than life, perhaps now in want and suffering, perhaps lying dead in some lonely spot without even a grave to cover him.”

“Hush, dear.” Millie says softly. ‘“The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away. Can you not say with me: ‘Blessed be the name of the Tiord?’”

*‘l cannot, wife. If God gave me that ohild to love, why torture my soul by {aking him from me?” ; ““Have courage, Jack. " I do not %now why, but I have a strange presentiment that we will see him again.” But Wilders was not to be comforted. Presently he looked up despondently and said:

: ““Is Susan Green come?” e “She’s in the kitchen, dear; shall I call her?”

‘‘Aye, do.”

Now Susan was the weak-eyed maiden who had given such damaging testimony against Frank Grey at that stac-chamber trial in the high school. She had furthermore gained the notoriety of being the luckless individual who had charge of Willie, when the poor child was lost. Again and again she had been summoned into Jack Wilders’ presence for cross-examina-tion, and on the present occasion was full of a'restive determination to put an end to the annoyance. | : “Now,” said the prospector, ‘“tell me once more, Susan, how you came to take the child from its nurse.” ; ‘‘Oh dear!” Miss Green whimpered, “I'm sure I've told you all I know one hundred times at least. Well, if you must have it over again, this is how it was:” : ! ‘“Yes, go on, Susan.” ‘‘l met Alma Miggs out for a walk with the boy in the North woods. ‘Susan,’ she says, ‘Willie wants to go round to the cave. I'm lame,’ says she, ‘and ean’t take him.” Says I: ‘Let the little precious come with me.’ Says she: ‘I will.’ Sowe went, ‘W’illie ran, shouting and laughing. I saw him turn the corner of the voad and I never set eyes on him again. He was goneo’ just as though he’d vanished.” . ‘“Did you hear no ery?” b : - “I'never heard nothing.” | “Think a moment, girl,” the prospeector said, sternly. -““Was there no crackling of the bushes; no !sound of wild animals orof man 9” | . “Nary a sound.” - - } o “And you searched everywhere?” ™ “Wish I may die if T didn’t, Mr. Wild. ers. I ran up and down screaming’ ‘Willie’ for hours and hours. I'm sure I tore my dress all to-shreds, an®as for: my shoes, they was that, sodden you - wouldn't MVWWM up if you'd mm‘mﬁ;’ 2in the strect.” - i o el JORYS PF Susii fa the ten (el L S€ T O :zii"’ LN "':?-'.:J PE% 5 ‘ig Hord house and tts inmates. s o

| TOPSY-TURVY LoOGIC.

Artful fophistry of the Protection _ Argufyer.

Says a philosopher after the order of McKinley: *“Ancient Tyre, Athens, Kome, Damascus and other great seats of ancient science and art became such because they supplied other nations with their products.” ‘ - Without pausing to inquire as to the historical accuracy of the assumption that the cities named “supplied other nations with their products” to any great extent, one’s attention is irresistibly drawn to the philosophical theorem that they became great seats of science and art because they suppiied other nations with their products. One can readily understand how a commercial people, trading extensively with other people, acquire more knowledge of men and things, and so acquire more materials of science, if not of art, than isolated people holding little or no communication with others. But how the mere sending abroad of their products to supply the wants of others can advance a people in either science or art passes understanding utterly. 5 The context of the theorem quoted shows that when its author usel the word “products” ke had in mind chief1y manufactured products, or products of mechanical or artistic skill, rather than the crude-products of comparatively unskilled labor. But that does not make the general proposition any more true. The mere supplying of foreigners with our products, whether crude or highly wrought, cannot make us great in science and art. : The context serves only to show how the confusion of thought ariscs or to expose an artful sophism intended to produce confusion of thought in careless minds. First attention is drawn to the almost self-evident fact that the products of skill in the world’s history have been supplied mostly by rations advanced in science and art. Then the inference is artfully suggested that the supplying of such products has caused the advancerent.

When the proposition is thus stated it becomes apparent at once that advancement is not a consequence of supplying products of skill, but that the supplying of suth products is a consequence of advancement in. the arts and sciences. A people must have the knowledge, art and skill before they can turn out highly wrought and artistic products for export. ‘The export of such product is an evidence and a consequence, not acause, of greatness in science and art. .

The- McKinley philosopher might as truthfully have said that the sun become the great source and center of light and heat in our system by supplying the earth and other planets with those forces or modes of motion. It is characteristic of the protectionist to transpose everything, putting antecedent for consequent and consequent for antecedent, cause for effect and effect for cause. The great system of plunder under the shelter and with the aid of law does not admit of defense by honest aud straightforward reasoning.—CKicago Chronicle.

WHEREFOR ART 7YHOU, REED?

What Has Become of the Great and Fear- ; less Czar?

Where is the courage and dash that once made the Hon. Thomas Reed a heroic figure in the republican party? When was Reed ever at a loss for words, or indeed, for ideas, until ambition for the presidency congealed his brain and spiked his tongue? Now he¢ has nothing to say. The New York Journal asks him for an opinion cn the bond question, and he replied that he doesn‘t want to discuss it. He adds: “I would not care to make any suggestion as to what might be done to make the lcan a popular loan or bring it before the pcople in any different form. The matter is being managed from the white house, and I've no suggestions to make. I wiil say, however, that present difficulties so far as a selution of our financial troubles are concerned lodge in the white house and senate. If the people of this country want a remedy for the financial evils let them bring the pressure of popular influence to Lear on the executive and the senate of the United States. The house of representatives stands ready to do its part, and hz_xs from the opening of congress. The cure for money ills should be applied at the white house and the other end of the capitol.” 2 THoOoMAS B. REED.”’

Is this like the fearless czar known to fame for his quorum counting abilities in the billion dollar congress? lls this like the Reed that was in congress only te “do business?” Is this like the bold Reed who could ever be relied upon to say something to win the applause of the most hide-bound of his partisan associates? Alas, no. It is Reed the presidential candidate, who is tremhhingly hopeful of support in the sparse1y settled silver states, and at the same time catch the delegates from the states whose votes are esseuntial in the electoral college. : ] But this isn’t the Reed that won the republican heart at all. It was the reckless, -quorum-counting, billion-dollar-spending Reed that the republicans admired and proposed to make president. It was not the timid, fearful, non-com-mittal Reed who now pres:des over the do-nothing house of representatives, and who refers inquirers on public ¢uestions to the other end of the capitol or the white house; fa i

“I'ear never yet a generous mind did gain.”—Utica Observer. , ;

Shy on the Sugar Question.

The republicans desire to avoid ony discussion about sugar because the ingincerity of their attack upon the democratic sugar schedule would be « xposed, They have denounced the democrats for having grantcd the protec.ive differential of omne-cighth of a =vent a pound. 'They now have an oppertunity to cut off this differential in Lteir bill. Can they bé induced to do it? They have attacked the demoerats fo- having imposed the differential of one-ienth of a cent on German sugar—a special tax which caused re*taliation in Germany—and they might now remove this differential. Does anyone believe they could Le persuaded to remove 1t? Bu. if both of these differentials should b 2 reported, either as they stand or with an increase of 15 per cent., how could our republican friends defend their zetion 7 11 can be easily be seen for what reasons they are “unwilling tn revive the sugar question.”—N. Y. Tires. :

——Tt is. inereasingly probable that not even on the pet hobby of the tariff may the republicans hope for united party action in the face of the commanding power of the free silver repubHean usenators. The mining camp gtates” admission to the United Sta‘es senate has brought a whole brood of chickeis hotie 10 Toost.—Alluny Ar ples | RO D SAR U 8 v S A g SR AL NN R A N R g

THE REVENUE BILL.

A Measure That Is Full of False Pretenses.

The mors the measure is examinced the greater becomcs the doubt whether the Dingley tariff bill is a revenue bill or not. There hasnever been any doubt that the assertion that it was intended to get rid of the d¢ficit in the treasury was distinctly a faise pretense. There is no deficit in the treasury, but on the contrary a surplus of more than $lOO,000,000. How it got there is immaterisl to this inquiry, thcugh it has frequently been explnined in these columns. It is sufficient that it is there, and that it is likely to increase rather ithan diminish. '

But there are ofher reascns why the Dingley Dbill is not properly a revenue bill. It was avowedly framed to increase the protection on competitive articles. Besides, it increases every existing tax except that on the best ravcnue commodity imported, namely, sugar. Senator Jones, of Nevadza, ¢bjected to it becanse there was no increase in the duty on sugar. In doing this, he was not looking to revenue, but was sclicitous to give further protection to beet sugar mills. Nevertheless, sugar gives a largdé amount of revenue to a small per cent. of protection, and this is one reason why the republicans wish to let it alone. The chief reason, however, is because they dare not offend the sugar trust, but are also afr:id to grant it any additional favors. Deing between the penple on one side and the trust on the other, they prefer to let sugar alone. ' It was pretended when ‘he Dinglcy bill was first introauced that it wouid afford $40,000,000 additional revenue. The mcre the bill is studied the less probable this proposition appears. It is based in part on the theory-that the imports of wool will be as great when it is taxed as when i% is free. The same mistake is made as to woolens, which are not now free, but upon which 60 per cent. of the McKinley rates are to be imposed in addition to the rates of the Wilson bill. Both these contentions are absurd. On all other taxed commodities the Dingley bill propoves 1o increase the tax 15 per cent., and it is an open question whether this will not check importations to such an ex{ent as to reduce rather than raise the revenue. The conclusion of several experts who have made estimates is to the effect that the increase in reventue will not amount to half, or perhaps not a quarter, of $40,000,000. There are other-articles which could easily be made to vield considerable revenue without causing the ccnsumer tc pay any tribute to home producers. There is tea, fo;' example, many of the dealers in Whigli desire to see it taxed 10 or 15 cents a pound. Prior to 1870 it was taxed 25 cents a pound. In that year the tax was reduced to 35 cents. In 1872 it was put on the free !ist, and Las remained there ever since. In 1895 we imported upward of 07,000,900 pounds, which, at 10 cents a pounrl, would have yielded $9,700,000 ir: revenue; at 15 cents, $14,550,000. This is on the supposition that the tax would not decrease imports.

As a rule, a tariff tax will reduce the volume of imports, but the te: dealers say that a tax of 10 ey 15 cents on tea would not have that effect. Th.- reason they assign for desiring a tax s that it would exclude the low-grade and spurious teas. The average import price of tea has decreased from 37.7 cents per pound in 1873, the year after the tax was removed, to 14.6 ¢ents in the fiscal

year 1895. Consumers, however, have been accustomed to paying 50 to 60 cent"s a pound for 'good tea; and think that when less is asked the article is ot. good. Hence has grown up the practice of giving crockery with tea, which the dealers say demoraiizes the trade. ' o

This may be true, but it is best not to put too much stress on the fine-spun theories of interested parties. The fact lemains that tea is an artigle on which $10,000,000 or $15,000,000 of reveiiue may be raised without increasing the burden of consumers seriously, if at all. 1f the senate wishes to raise revenue, it can amend the house bill by taxing a com modity cancerning wlose revenue-rais-ing properties there is no Joubt at all. It is a pretty safe guess, however, that this will not be done, be:ause it would not turn any revenue ,nto the rockets of individugls, which :s the pe culiar characteristi¢ of a tariff for protection.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

——llt is growing plainer every day that the McKinley element in congress is going to make it very hard sledding for Thomas B. Reed, without regard to what the result may he to the ~ountry. —Detroit Free Press.

——llt is now ex-Gov. MeK'nley, of Ohio. Mr. McKinley has put in the last fwo years legging for the presidency, and the results of Lis second ndminis -tration cannot be summed up ..ntil the last ballot has been taken at St. Louis. —Kansas City Star. ——>Speaker Reed desires that house appropriations be cut to the bone in the interest of economy. Objector Holman never cut deeper than tae bone, yet he was reviled as a cheese-parer and reminded that this was o billion dollar country. The country hasn’t shrunken any since tl:at valuation, but a presidential electicn is coming on, and if Mr. Reed shall have his way the Coming contest will e money in thes country’s pocket.—Philadelphia ' Reeord. . S

~ ——The unfathomable piety of the republican party Las always been the first article of its faith. It is taught from the pulpit by clergymen in its rahks, but it is chiefly insisted on by thugs,scoundrelsand thieves,who claim that their acts ars holy, because done in what they assume to be a holy cause. Yery early in its history the republican party voted to take thé Almighty into partnership with them, snbject, however, to the condition that they were to hayve all the oifices and all the honor — Louisville Courier-dournal. e

——To obtain pissession of the committecs and petty offices of the senate Lhe republicans affected a coalition with the half dozen populists, and thé result is an infamous [re2 coinage bili, _which has been propared and agreed to by the fre: silve¢ majority of ‘Ez: finance comuittee, all of whom wea appointed by the republicans. A vrie‘r bargain and a more natural sequence cf such a burgain have seldom if ever been in evidence, but fortunately teg the country the bargain and its conrer _quences wili fail of the v!'isdstrdus»ﬁs O uinous effects their authors inten-ied they should have. No such bill can be: _come law as 160 y as Mr. Cleveland re: Mg DL

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. - THE FAIRY’S GIFTS. : Last night, when I was snug in bed, ; A fairy came to me and said: - ik ““Dear child, three gifts to you I bring— A box, a mirror'andaring. = . PR s . e “Each morning use the mirror bright, | To bring your little faults to light; : ‘ “When you have found them, every one, Open this box, as I have done, | “And pack them' quickly out of sighti | Remember! shut the lid down tight! = ‘“We call these, best of gifts to youth, 5 One, Self-control, the other, Truth; . . “This golden ring,. Sincerity, - A ‘ Wins friends wherever you may be.” ' I never sboke. I did not stir; I only lay and looked at her. i And when she went I do not know— She melted like a flake of snow. The door wis barred, the windbw, too; ; How do you s’pose that she got through? I'm sure she came, so real it seemed; But mamma says I must have dreamed. —J. Torrey Connor, in N. Y. Independent. THE BOTTLE CANNON. - . A Parlor Trick for Boys Which Is Both Pretty and Harmless. . A very amusing trick is called the bottle-cannon. Take a thick empty bottle—a champagne quart bottle will do—and pour water into it until it is one-third full. In the water dissolve cne of the powders, bicarbonate of . D i 0 ; o ; = . ‘ I/ 2 ChET i l R [Tiites ¢ R b ' a 8 i AR s el - ":‘"j:“: i 3 N % op ks | : [ A | LN it Ii!.':l." THE BOTTLE CANNON. : soda, that druggists sell to malkeseltzer water. i Put the contents of the othar package, tartaric acid. in a playing . card rolled up into a tube, and tied around -with thread one e¢nd of the tube being sealed or plugged with two pcllets of hlotting paper. Suspend this miniaturecartridge from the cork by means of a piece of thread attached by a tin lack. The open end of the cartridge must be uppermost, and when al: is ready you cork the bottle tightly, having allowed enough thread to swing the cartridge clear of the water. ) N

To explode the cartridge and discharge your novel cannon you lay the bottle horizontally upon two pencils on the table. They will actas your gun carriage. ’ ' - Pretty soon the water will penetrate the blotting paper_ plugs and reach the tartaric acid. Effervescence will at cnce take place, and the carbolic acid gas thus generated will throw the cork irom the Dbottle with a loud report, the cartridge trailing after it like a rocket. ey | And you will have a still further imiiation of field artillery in the recoil of the bottle, which will roll back several inches. - ;

Make this little experiment. It is both pretty and harmless.—N. Y. Mercury. | e e e FOUND ‘AN APT: PUPIL. Aged Dog Teaches a Terrier Pup How to Guard a House. : The following story is teld by a resident who has antold dog, a spaniel, that for nearly 20 ycars has been the most faithful of guardians. Summer or winter, fair weather or foul, as soon as the key was turned in the lock of the back door he had taken his position at the threshold, and not the slightest sound escaped his investigation during the night, asserts the Detroit Journal. The faithful old fellow is becoming decrepit, and his master recently carried home 2 bull terrier pup with a pedigree of great length and the bluest of blood. That was three months ago, and the pup is now five months old. For a time the old brown spaniel had no use for the. irisky little white-hgired fellow, so entirely unlike himself, that ran under Bim, jumped over and upon kis back, grabbed his long and silky ears, and attempted te run away with them, but ofter a time it was a clear case of grandfather and the youngest baby. 28 This is the situation now: When the key is turned it is the pup that takes the position at the threshold, while the -old dog, confident of the faithfnlness of his proxy sentinel, retires to his piece of carpet and snores the night through. Not only does the terrier remain on duty all might, but the moment some one is astir in the house she rotires to her bunk for sleep, just as the old dog did for so many years. The owner has tip-toed down to the door at all hours, but has never found her napping. * “Three months ago,” says the master, “this pup Lnew absolutely nothiag, except how to play and eat. Tts'sole. companion has been the old dog, and to-day the pup knows all that the old ¢og knows, and the old dog knows the pup kunows it, and Las retired from business fully aware that his duties have been left to a competent and faithful successor.” ’ S et e

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Little five-year-old Dorothy is afflicted with that not at all unusual dislike in children—a strong aversion to water. Some time since she was spending the day with her aunt, and seriously objected to having her hands and face washed, preparatory to eating lunch. : | “Why,” she expostulated, “‘my mother washed me all over every single bit of me just before I came herel” " o “Well, my dear,” said her aunt, “your hands and face are certainly very dirty. now, and I guess you needed the bath mamia gave you, too.” ; 4 The littie lady drew herself up with dignity. : ; : 5 L “There was spots on me,” she said, looking at her aunt reprovingly, “that wasn't dirty a bit!”-~Ram’s Horn. - Mrs. Hicks—l'd like to know what you could have to say to that disrep“t“mlmf?@dﬁmegai}ef: i},’ - Hieks—Tl toid him, if your poodle got e o Yim i gojfuxﬁg %&W RN B COHUD PR - (0L f eet

- GOOD A_L\L-ARQU?}D -DOG. English Pointer Draws His Master's et Bicycle Up Steep Grades, - ' Steadman Coe, of Ware, thinks he has the besg all-round dog in America, bar none. He is a remarkably large, heavy English pointer of a very high breed, and rejo.ces in the concise and barkyname of Joe Coe, and he has made his short three years of life in one grand endeavor to disprove Prof. Shaler’s recent theory that canine intelligence muss be looked for in mongrels. Already he is a splendid watchdog, an earnest, enthusiastic and suecessful fighter, and without a superior in the surrounding district as a bird dog, but the claim to reputation is based on his fine qualities as a driver. _ When Joe was a small dog his owner, | who is an enthusiastic bicyclist, becoming discouraged by the many hills around Ware, began contidering the, problem of securing some sort oi a portable dyname to aid him in hill climbing. Being quite expert in the handling of animals, he decided to use Joe in this capacity. He had a special harness constructed for Joe and began training him immediately. Joe took. kindly to the ideu, and the exercise agreed with him. He was fed freely and grew with great bounds, the work causing bhis hird quarters to increase with special rapidity till they were marked ‘with lumps of well-hardened ‘muscle, and appeared more after the general pattern of a small horse than adog. Under this rigid course of trainjfigrhe soon became much larger tlian either of his purents, and celebrated the first anniversary of his:birth by giving his father the walloping of his life. Since then he has been the acknowledged king dog of the town. He is frank and peaceful in his dealing with his fellow dogs, but insists rigidly on his rights, and for good, sound teaming qualitics he has probably no equal in- this country. : ' The method of operating Joe is very ~simple. -His harness consists of a breastplate, a surcingle to hold it in place and a strap extending down the backbone and, ending in a ring at the base of the tail. The rest of the ap‘paratus consists of a strap about four feet long with a snap hook at the further end, the strap being attached to the steering post of the bigycle, and whien not in use wrapped around the handle bars. When a hill is reached Mr. Coe whistles to Joe, and the pointer comes up alongside and allows the hook ‘to be snapped into the ring on his harnesswithoutcompelling therider to dis‘mount. He then jumps forward and 'pu]}s up the hill, dropping back at the top/to be loosened again. The hundred 'odd pounds of active dog is a wonderful assistance, and with a fair amount of work by the rider deprives the

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. Birds Make a Nest of Steel, _ A curious gift has been made to the natural history museum of Soletta. Thisg gift consists of a bird’s nest constructed entirely of steel. There arca great many watchmakers at Soletta, and in the vicinity of the workshops there are always the remains of the old springs of watches which have been cast aside. Last summer a watchmaker discovered this curious bird’s nest, which had been built in a tree in hiseonrtyard by a pair of water wagtails. It I:lea§,ix res ten ecentimeters in circumferf-ncg\ and ix made solely of watch springs. When the birds had fledged their brood, the watchmaker secured their unique nest as an interesting proof of the intelligence of birds in adapting anything which comes within their reach.- W don Daily News. '» . .1 A 4 e RGeS as G A R e 3 ol “m’wx’k‘iﬁ;ﬁ . Fxiend. 1 Sosshat ey s & Ed bind of crapeias souringy Moe WHPE s orarifl coditiun b vaw aclhs ‘? %&“iﬁ’é g'?e:'f.m’wa-@ﬁ«nﬁ?f;# ¢ ww&”ﬁ:‘ Al SETIL LA - o R seycamns TGS R R R eO R