Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 51, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 October 1895 — Page 3

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ARE you for silver": Fr the money of tlie f;i thers of our land; I'or the mintage of the Federal 'oiotitutioii pure ami grand; It v. lis Jefferson who penned the law, wiille Hamilton concurred; The p it ,f Washington signed the act. Free coinage! Xo:ie demurred. Arc you for silver": For the money that was known As tie money of tie nation, a to greatim'km it has grown? Money thiit was ever welcome At th-n:irits of t'ovenmietit Anl coined free to do its duty "NVlion 'imor.g the people sent. Are : on for silver? For the money, stanilunl from the nation's birth, Kqr.al -.cry where with gold, in its service ami its worth; Circulating on a parity wherever it was sent, Taken giaiily by the people wherever com-ii-eice went. Are you for Kilver": For the metal that was jriven equal right At the mint: till Satan's Masterpiece contoured the lan 1 to blight And arranged a plan with money kings To re-enslave the free Vy contracting what they owned onehall, In eighteen and seventy-three. Are you for silver? Do you know that, with only gold enthroned. GM hur to do the work of loth GOLDBUGS IN im r I 1 a IV I 1"

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("Ilcport.s from Mexico 1 ml leu to grow ing prosperity." News Item.) Trio of Medical Advisers Hullo: that's poison. Why aren't you dead? Mexico Perhaps because Providence wants to .Uov that vou're not infallible.

Cornered und by schemers owned? That mortgages have but increased As other values shrank. The values that were helped not hurt Were tin values of the bank': Are you for silver? Do you see, the standard cut in twain. All vrdues shrink to correspond with the half that does remain? Now silver is but credit coin Redeemable in gold No lor.gcr standard money Helping prices to uphold. Ar" y; ;i for silver? -Higher prices from thr products of your soil, IIcpc you. with contracted standard Higher v.:;gc.s for your to:!? Tvns a sei. eine to rob the seller. And l..x labor must be sold I.y tVo wrrkingmati. In itrit---- measured cn!y by the gold. Are you for silver? -If mvoh money measured by the precious gold Were in your possession, neighbor, You need scarcely to he told You might Osire it bring you much In commodities you bought. Jetting more in products, labor, More in justice, than it ought. Are you for silver? -Then, no doubt, you u iiilcrstand The misleading phrase "sound money" Means dear money for this land. And low pri e for all products Labor to be included here "Will you vote that you be poorer. And the rich man's money dear? Are you for silver? Help you then to right this wrong. Cnn the goldbugs further trick you? Can you stand these hard times long? Do you think this once proud nation Needs protection in the rule 4f a Rothschild British combine With sly Wall street for a tool? Areyon for silver? I) nt forget it when it comes convention day. Get there, stay there, watch the schemers, JJeat tin in. lloldly have your say. Then, no matter what your party, Work for silver with your might, Organize, "lie up and doing!" i let you ready for the fight! Are yon for silver? Suffer not a alothful rest, u.ird your home and country, freeman. House your neighbor; do your best. ritain and her scheming servants Must be met with bravery. Are you for America? for silver or for slavery? -.tynericiin llimet allist. Hol Taylor for Silver. Ex -(Jov. Hob Taylor, who fiddled his way into Congres and later into the executive chair of the State of Tennessee, In a late characteristic speech In Washington had this to say on the sib ver question: "While I am practically out of politics, I am still a patriot, tak. Ins as keen an interest in the affairs of ptatc a I ever did. And wtille I have always been in favor of the double standard as our national financial policy, my recent travels over this country and my business experience and observation of the needs and desires of he people have Impressed me more tLan ever that the enormous outrage

of lSid .should be as speedily wiped off the statute books and the law coining both gold and silver at the ratio of lü to 1 be enacted without respect to International agreement."

"Money of the World." Those 1::.".(mm) Americans who went to "Yurrup" the past season did they load themselves down with "intrinsic value," unM-ent, "money-of-tlie-world" gold dollars, that are "just as good in one parr of the globe as another' and "are never known to fluctuate, in value?" Not a bit of it. They simply went to certain banks in New York where they deposited their gold, silver, greenbacks, silver certificates, national bank notes, bank drafts on Chicago ami other large cities or whatever money they happened to have in their possessionexchanged It for foreign letters of credit or drafts on banks of whatever country or countries they wished to visit, paid the discount or "exchange" and got aboard an ocean steamer with .13 little concern as though taking a trip from New York to Charleston. Probably not a dollar of gold in iheir pockets, and yet no worry lest they shall not be able to meet all demands against them in any country on the globe. In securing this monetary peace of mind they are no more indebted to the yellow metal that is supposed to be worth thirty times its weight In silver DISTRESS. than they are to the "nfty-cent" dollars and promise-to-pay dollars" that are so loudly decried by the "money-of-the-world' yawper. Houbtless in their whole 1'uropoan tour they will not lay th'Mi lingers on a single gold coin. American or foreign. Had these tourists taken American gold to Kurope they would have had to exchange it for other money, doubtless at a greater discount than that paid in New York. American g-dd coin in Kngland will not pass current until the American eagle has been hit over the head, obliterated entirely and the "lion and the unicorn" stamped in its place. They tirst destroy its money function, make of it a commodity, when it is on J the same footing as American silver, American wheat, corn, or beef then they turn it into English money. American gold coins when sent to foreign countries are either reeined or sent back again. If a man were to land in England or (Jermany with a ten-do'hir greenback, a ten-dollar gold piece, and ten .silver dollars all American money he could take it to a bank and exchange it for about J?Ll.H) of their currency, and he would get just as much for one kind of money as the other. The discount charged would yield a profit in sending the money back to this country where it all goes at par. Will not the "monoy-otvt he- world" idiot please change his yawp for something sensible? Chili for Silver. A new bill formed by the congress of Chili provides for specie payment from June 1, 1S0Ö, and as both metals are to bo utilized, the change promises to have an Important effect upon the world's supply of metals. The president of Chili is empowered for the term of three years to coin $10.bO0,OiHJ of silver. All of tlie proceeds from the sale of nifrate bet Is shall be devoted exclusively to the purchase and coinage of silver. Three gold coins of $-J0, $10, and are also provided for. The silver dollar is to weigh 20 grams ami is to be Soö-lOoo line. Silver is to be a legal tender for $00 except to the government where it is received as gold. Silver's only place Is that of primary money, the equal of gold at the doors of the mints before coinage and the equal of gold at the treasury after coinage. Silver must be restored as absolute, unconditional primary money. Kansas City, Mo., has organized a silver league. Its object is to be the promotion of the cause of free .silver at a 1( to 1 ratio. The charter members consist of many of the foremost local business men of both parties. It Is reported that banks participating In the enormously profitable Issue have promised to furnish $30,000,000 of gold if necessary for the reserve fund, that another bond Issue may not embarrass the administration. lie who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit Dryden.

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUGTLING HOOSIERS. fTtrt Onr g!iror" Are lioing-M:ttrr of Gonorul ami Local Interest Marriage nd Death Accidents and Crime Pointer About Oar Own lVojilo. His Wife in Flames. John I'arr, a fanner residing four miles south of Mieredan. was awakened by his wife the other morning at 15 o'clock, lie arose and went to a field to cut corn, leaving his wife lying on the bod. lie continued his work for a time, when, glancing toward the house, he saw tire. He at once returned to the house and found the water closet in llanies and his wife burned to death. When first discovered in the burning building she was sitting on the floor with her feet straight out in front, her body and head leaning back against the seat behind her and her arms folded across her breast in an attitude ofpeacefulrepo.se. Her position indicated that she must have been wholly insensible and suffered no agony from the torture of the flamesAfter Mr. I'arr left the house he evidently went to the kictchen and lit the gas in the cook stove, as it was found burning later. It is thought possible that she may have accidentally fired her clothing at 'hat tiie. The remains were burned beyond recognition. Minor State I trim. Vermillion County now has six newsi papers. Laporte is to have a shirt factory in the near furt ure. Michigan City's new census gives a population of 1:,'.7'.. According lo its city directory Wabash lias lo.oro inhabitants. Hancock County w ill next year build a new Couit-l;oue at an expense of about $lg."i,H. Frederick Hove, of Criffith. was killed by a Chicago' iV Erie freight train at limlbut. Eliza Smith, a colored servant girl a Alexandra, burned to death. Her clothing caught lire iioin a stove. Frank liennett. living near Ilelmer. who was terribly bitten by dog while gathering nuts, died of blood-poisoning. A big gas well has been struck eight miles north of Farmland. It is said tobe the 1 est well in Kandolph County Alexander .lames, a Conner-villo letter carrier, was probaby fatally shot by a coal thiet whom he tried to capture. A smart young man frightened a bore which two joung boys wete driving at Eaporte. In the runaway the boys were siiously injured. The Chase memorial fund has been completed. Trustee Atkinson lias received $"-.1 " in cash. A houe in Wabash costing jf'-'.loJ has been bought for Mrs. Chase. The demand for labours at Alexandria by the n w factory just starting up is so far l.eyond tin inino -diate supply thai steps are being taken to bring several car lo:tds of Men from Chicago and t. Louis. William Whitney, who claims his home to be at Washington . II.. ., was sentenced to two years in 1l:e penitentiary at Washington, for bigamy, (hie of his w ive.s in I a iess County and the other at Washington C. IE, . Isaac I'oddridge, aged '".s, years, who lhes cast of Milien, sold l',r00 bushels of wheat und hauled it to the mill himself, lb- has alo during he sunuwr built seenlv-!ie rods ot stone wall, laving eery stone unassisted. CiWhi'.eout hunting, Samuel Cromwell, a faimer. li;ag near Hra.il, was attacked by a ferocious wildcat. Mr Cromwell siicreded in killing the animal, which measured three feet from the tip of the nose t the root of the tail. Mrs. Catherine Ti ters, a pioneer of Cas County, w ife of Major A. 1. Peters, died ;d her home in I.ogansporl. Death was unexpected. Mrs. Felers fell dead from her doorstep presumably from an attack ol apoplexy. She was "5 years old road is to be construc ted A new electricconnecting Eogansport with Uocl. ester, Fid ton county, and Jiurlington, Carroll County. Tlie road will be about thirtyrile miles long and will penetrate the best part of Fulton and Carroll Counties. Mrs. William Van Ihtskirk. of F.wlood, is one of the diro t l.eirs of t he Eduardstate of $iV.0:o.O'l ) now in course of settlement in New York City. She is one of the direct descendants, and w ill receive about $s."o.(sm. Her family i.- poor, and rec-atly ht their home by lire. Mrs. .lohn .spencer was burned in the potter's field at Iiichmond. She, her husband and two children arrived from Ohio, enroute to Anderson, going overland. While .starting a lire, her clothing ignited, and she died from her injuries. Slencer has disappeared, and the two children are in thellome of the Friendless. There is the worst epidemic of hog cholera in the vicinity of North Salem ever known. Several fanners have lost from thirty to 'J."t) animals. Andrew Page, w ho lives just south of that place, has lost U.V). Other farmers shipped their bogs before they were ready for market in order to avert complete loss. The disease seems to Im? extending to other neighborhoods and pigs ure dying in every direction except to the north. The loss will foot up several thousand dollars and there is no abatement of the disease. People living in that vicinity will have to buy hogs for their winter meat from other neighborhoods. An attempt was made near Coekran, Ind., to wreck the llaltimote & Ohio Southwestern express. The engine struck a dynamite cartridge which bad been fastened to the inner rail. Engineer Tom Higson and his fireman were badly stuned. The fireman was untitled for work. Creat damage was done to the engine. A steel rail was blown out of place and a hole blown in the road. Fortunately the ears did not leave? the track. The motive of (he attempt was evidently robbery. Several suspicious characters were seen by the train men alout the place, but no attempt at robbery was made by the theives whin they saw that the train was safe. The Trustees of the Indiana State Soldiers' Home, in session at Lafayette, adopted rules for admission to the Home and appointed the following officers: Commandant, ('apt. John 1. MeCrew, of Indianapolis, late Commandant of the South Dakota Soldiers' Home; Adjutant, Capt. W. F. Hevens, of Indianapolis, Assistant Adjutant (iencral of the State. ltenjamin Wilson, a rieh farmer, living near Peru, was appoached by card sharpers, one of whom showed a game of cards, and, after allowing Wilson to win once, proposed that he go to the city and get $10,000 to contain ue the game. Wilson dispersed tlie fellows with his revolves.

ANCESTRY OF THE DOG.

Man's Faithful Friend Is as Did at Human II b-.'.or.v. Although the recent discussion of the origin oi the dog cannot be said b have settled tin- long-con; roveried question. there seems to ! a decided drift of opinion among naturalists that our nu merous varieties of domesticated dogs are descended not from a single species, but from tseveral kinds of wild animals. as, for instance, the wolf and the jackal. There are recorded examples of tamed wolves, which in gentleness, love for their masters and intelligence showed a truly doglike capacity. With regard to tamed jackals. Iarwin has pointed out that, when caressed, they jump about for joy. wag their tails, lower their ears, lick their master's hands, crouch down and even throw themselves on the ground feet forward. When frightened they carry their tails between their legs. On tlie other hand, it is understood that, whatever animal we may consider his progenitor, the domestication of the d9 began at an ejoch exceedingly remote. The fossil remains ot a l:ir?e dog have been found in tertiary deposits, and there is no doubt that the dog existed in a domesticated state during prehistoric times. His bones are discovered in the shell heaps of Denmark nnd in the lake dwellings of Switzerland. The dog meets us in the dawn of history, for such varieties as the hound, greyhound and watch dog are depicted on Egyptian monuments .". years old. It is well-known that in Egypt the dog was worshiped under the title oi .Aiiuois. aim (log iimiiiiuit-M "-or been found. There is a mastiff ligured on an Assyrian sculpture belonging to Ho H. ('. The fact is often overlooked that dogs were used by the t; reeks and Uotnans not only in tlie chase and for runnipg down escaped prisoners, but fr war. being armed for that purpose not only wim spiked collars, but with a coat of mail. It is said that Corinth was on one occasion saved by tifty war dogs, which foiled a night attack of the enemy, fighting until all were killed but one. which succeeded in arousing the garrison. It is worth noting that, according to some naturalists, the Newfoundland and St. lleinard dogs form a group by themselves, derived neither from wolves nor jackals, but from a distinct species of progenitors. It is a disputed question whether the Newfoundland dog is indigenous to North America or was introduced either by the Norwegians in the year 1mm or by Cabot in 1 l'.7. Hearing on this question is the interesting fact that the Norwegians have dogs closely resembling the Newfoundland breed. The Dingo dog of Australia does certainly seem to constitute a distinct species, since it is now found in both a wild and domesticate state in that country, and its fossil remains are associated with those of extinct mammals. Philadelphia Times. His (iun's Cancer Click. Seeming trifles have hanged many a man. Clarke Miller, of Dallas, probably realize this. Miller was recently sentenced to the penitentiary for life for the assassination of Hagau Roberts, a wealthy farmer. East March Roberts and his family were sitting by the fireside in his home when they were startled by a demand to throw up their hands and by the appearance of two masked men. Due ot the assailants fired, striking Roberts, who died within a few hours. As the man who tired the shot brought down his gun a peculiar click was recognized by one of j Roberts' sons, who bad used the amo gun a few days betöre. This click was due to the looseness of ore b und. Clarke Millar and Howard Parton were arrested on the charge of murder. Tin gun with the peculiar click was found in .Miller's possession. He bad run to his home. and. in order to avoid suspicion, had himself rammed down two charges into the gun and had gone out to join in the search for the murderers. When the loads were withdrawn it was found that he had neglected to put any powder in the gun. Truth is stranger than detective stories. New York .Journal. Kussia's Penal Code. liussia is about to promulgate a reformed penal code upon which experts have been at work for the past fourteen years. Alexander III. appointed in 1S.S1 a commission to prepare the new code. A previous commission had reported the need of an improved code after preparing the law of Feb. L'7. 1ST'., upon the general administration of prisons. The commission, working through a committee of experts, collated all the penal laws of the empire and those of the most enlightened countries and studied them in the light of the most recent theories upon the subject. The code, when linaJly promulgated, will replace the code of capital and correctional punishment bearing date 1SIÖ. but since much amended. It will als) supersede the penal code of justices of the peace published in 1S(1. Kansas Hoot lexers Again. The closing of saloons in Wichita has resurrected the bootlegger, who nourished in Kansas towns four or live years ago. Of all forms of the liquor t rathe bootlegging is. perhaps, the lowest and most disreputable. It is also most debasing to the customer. In sneaking around into back alleys and outhouses to make the purchase and secure the goods he experiences a feeling of guilt and sutlers a loss of selfrespect. Ordinarily he buys a quantity while he is about it, and drinks more than he would think of doing at a bar. Whatever the saloon may Ih the bootlegger Is an unmitigated evil and abomination and should be suppressed at all ha za rds. As soon as a woman makes a new lunch cloth she gives a reception.

MA1I0XE IS XO MOKE.

FAMOUS SOLDIER AND STATESMAN DEAD AT WASHINGTON. Was a Faxoritoiii the Son t hern Army ami Saved IVtcrsbury: V. hen Apparently De 'fciistlcüs Alter the (I real Mine Kplosi(!i. Picturesque Figure Gone, (oneral William Mahoiie died at Iiis home in Washington Tuesday afiorn on. He had bt en failing steadily since he was stricken with paralysis nearly a week ago. and it was known that death w: s only a question of time. The veteran, hoveer, showed remarkable vitality and made a strong right against the grim angel. The country will long remember (ion. William Mahone as one of tin most picturesque characters in public life during the hist thirty years. Exceptionally slight in stature and frame, he has been a marked man in great assemblages. His peculiar style of dress, and especially hit hat. attracted attention to him. This broad-lriniinel, soft felt headgear seemed out of proportion to the tiny for?n boneath it. Hut beneath this shade sparkled a pair of the keenest eyes ever possosod liy man. (ien. M;i hone marks an epoch in the history of the 1'nited States since the late war. He has been during the last MAiiovt;. quarter of a century the central t'crure in Yirginia politics, and at one time he was in the center of one tin tiest violent political storms ever waged in Congress. He was in his it'.Mh year. Iiis favorite sobriquet was "Hero of the ("rater." won by his wonderful courage in the attack on Petersburg. W hell the Federal forces sprung a mine beneath ihe Confederate defense. He fought like a tiger, and later historians give to him almost alone the credit of keeping Petersburg from th Enion hands by repairing before sunset the .-battered Confederate lines. He leid joined the Confederate army at once after the secession, participated in the capture of the Norfolk navy yard in lS'il. and raised and commanded the Sixth Regiment of Virginia, lie was commissioned a brigadier general in March, lsill. and six months later became a major g tief:'.!. At the close oi" the war he returned to his original work of engineering, and became president of tlie Norfolk and Tonnosee Railroad. lie was el.i ie.l to tlie Enitid States Senate in IM'.. He was like a firebia ml cast into a mass of dry tinder, and from the peculiar attitude that he at once assumed he caused one of the most bitter controversies and stubborn deadlocks ever known in tin history of that body. Mnhoiie at last acted with tin Republicans and gave tie m tie organization of the Senate. His cotif.se brought down upon his head the wrath of the Democrats, but the Republicans received him with open arms, and the lYderal patronage in Virginia was turned over to him. Since that lime he has been tie Republican leader in Virginia. He served in the Senate until 1VM. when he was defeated. Holmes has just finished his life -on. of them; will justice finish the other V Hohnes says that the suspense is killing him. lie probably will be killed that way. It strikes us that the bidding on the Duke of Marllorough is altogether too slow. Look him over, girls. Yachting costs Willie K. Yanderbilt ?lbM.HM a year, and it is said that the yacht isn't his most expensive plaything, either. A Pennsylvania man scared his wife into speaking for the first time in seven years the other night. No cause is assigned for the rash act. A current news note says that "Donna Cousino of Chili, who is worth S"JtH.iHM.(MH, is now well on in years." We should say she is als pretty well off. If this bloomer wedding business continues, some of these days a near-sighted parson will probably hitch two bicycle men er two new women together. New York has decided that ihe new woman may ride horseback "man fashion" if she chooses to do so. This certainly is astride in Ihe right direction. In June Campos issued a proclamation that said "the war is now ended; in August he snid, "Cuba cannot be conquered." Somebody must have told him. The Princess Colonna, nee Mackay, has got rid of her titled husband by paying him $1,(NH a month for life. That's a pretty s-t iff price, but it's worth every cent of it. "The movement toward the cities has made less farmers." remarks the Hosten (ilobe. We hnven't noticed it; there are fewer farmers, but they seem to be fully; as large ns ever. "As we are a gallant nation it is not permissible to overlook the ladies," says the San Francisco Argonaut. Ilosh! (tallantry or no gallantry, we think the theater hat should go. An Ohio woman who has been speechless for six years was cured the other night by hypnotism. There can be no doubt about It; hypnotism certainly Is a tery Itifecrous power to fool witlk

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AN ANCIENT ELM.

It Stool for Centuries, and, FalUni;, Drought Kiiin loa Kaiiway Train. For more years than an one can remember an dm tree of extraordinary size lias stood in the village of New Milford, Pa. It was there when the lirst settlers arrived, and as the woods were el va re 1 away it was '.e.t ir.r.ouehed by the woodman's ax. Its trunk was. nearly lour feet hi diam-ner and it.s branches cast their shade for more than a hundred feet around. When tlv Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad was built through New Milford. mop than forty years aco. the track ran close to the old tree, and the station was erected almost in its shade. Its great height and wide spread of branches offered a favorable mark for storm and tempest, but while other trees were uprooted from tino to time this grand old tree dolled the elements. It scorned as sotp.nl as it was when the pioneers lirst saw it. and was a famous landmark. One night last week, as the heo:iitive of a west bound freight train was opposite it. the great elm fell and crushed the engine. Not a breath of air was stirring at the time. The engineer, Timothy Counon, and his fireman were buried in the wreck of th locomotive, and several freight cars wen piled up and mingled with tht ruins ot" the tree and engine. llotli the engineer and li reman were taken from the wreck, and it was found that neither had received as much as a scratch. End P.all. a brakeman. jumped from his car and was badly hurt. There was nothing revealed in the structure of tie great elm to in- ' 1i..o(o i-l.i- it Ldt,.nl.1 t Lti f. ILxti tllUill U 11 II .II'MIIM lbl t I I II t 1 I I i . I without warning. It h:d broken in two half way up the stem. Only one minute and a half before it fell tin fast New York express. No. s. hound east, had dashed by, running forty miles an hour. "It is not pleasant to speculate on wb.lt the eonseUe!ieos would hav been." said a Delaware and Lackawanna oili. ial. "if that tree had fallen t minute and a half sooner." New York Sun. Will Make Covei-Mors' Shoes. The Coventors of the dilferent States of the Ciioii have . very important personage looking after their interesM just now. in the person of Harry J. Mooiiey. ,, "P.ro. -ton Shoemaker." It is probably the jirst time in r!i history of the l't:i;ed States ;M:lt there exists a g.'iiuine "Ii o; maker to his excellency;" but Mr. Moo;,. .- is tilling tiiat position very acceptably. In Ills occupation the Massachusetts eob'der much resembles tile famous bootmaker of Versailles, wi'o followed his tn ije.,ty. toe Cmperor Nnpoleo:. everywhere and looked after the sovereign's footwear, but in appearance Mr. Moo?oy ;s the ideal typo of the hardy New England mechanic. Mooney's idea is original. It is his intention to visit tie capital of every State in the Eniott ;:nd make a pair of tine hand-sewed shoos f.;l- the State's chief executive, "free, gratis, for nothing." He started out from Iiis native town J July ;;it I.isr. without any money in his pocket, and vowed that he would liv for twelve months on honest l.ibor. well performed, and make boots for all the (Jovernors besides. Armed with a recommendation from Mayor Wliiülo. of P.roeton. he first called on C.ov. Cleaves, of Maine, an I made that gentleman a pair of slios. In return he re. ojved a letter of inro-du'-tion to the Covcrtior of Massachusetts, from whom, in turn, he got a letter for Cov. RisseJl. oi' New Hampshire. Mooiiey expects to have a letter from every Coventor j,, bring back with hin:, and possibly oue from the President, i? he is allowed an audience, lie expects to reach the Pariiie coast in about tare. months, and will return home by way of the Southern Mercury. Stares. New Y ('ave Away Her Papa. "We had a number of distinguished visitors come in upon us not long ag'." says IMgar William Nye, the North Carolina humorist. "v made them welcome and invited them to supper. I l.appened to be feeling particularly wt.Il that evening, and. if I do say it myself. I made myself exceedingly ngrevable. After having recounted onof my most amusing anecdotes. I was pained to overhear the following conversation between one of our guests ami my youngest daughter, a sweet child of 7 years: Turning to my daughter and smiling radiantly the visitor said: 'Your papa is a very funny man. isn't he, my dear:' "'Yes, answered the sweet child, with charming naivete; "he always is when we have comp'ny!' "Chicago Record. Hands in tlie Rritisfi .Army. The Ilritish army bands use the high pitch, the (ueen's regulation running as follows: "In order to Insure uniformity throughout the regimental bands of the service the instruments an to be of the same pitch as that adopted by the Philharmonic Society." The Phil harmonic Society has recently decided to adopt the lower pitch, and. accordingly, the tjueen's regulations will doubt-, less have to be amended. It is estimate eil by competent authority that the cost of altering the instruments of the army' bands to the lower pitch would amount to between Sl.miVHto and $ 1, riOO.Oi )i), but it Is more than doubtful if any chancellor of the exchequer would spend so large a sum for such a puriHwe. Ilortenee I supposo there Is always something in life to spoil a man's hap-.' plness." Van Jay "Yes; If a man Is poor he can't be happy, and If he is rich the chances are he will get married." Brooklyn Eagle. ;