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CHAPTER XXVII. The Island of Alphonso. . We had some dread of savages, and being totally unarmed, we penetrated inland with more anxiety than pleasure at first; but ere long we became convinced that the island was totally destitute of human inhabitants. Not a vestige of wigwam or hut. of road or path, not even of the smallest track or trail (save such as the wild goats made) was visible anywhere, and thus we became impressed with new emotions of wonder and awe. in treading a soil where man lived not where no human foot seemed to have trod and where only the hum of insect life stirred the solitude of that wild island of the South Atlantic. For a considerable distance we traversed flat ground that was covered with sedge grass, interspersed by shrubs of bright green. Beyond this level plain rose a series of ridges covered by trees, and those ridge3 formed the first slope of the great mountain, which was some thousand feet in height, and also of the great bluff we had first descried at sea. We found Alphonso to be the largest of a group of three islands. It is a mass of rock nearly twelve miles in circumference. The other two are cavernous and inaccessible, and every approach to them is dangerous and difficult, in consequence of the foaming of the sea about them, so that during the weary days of our sojourn there we made no attempt to explore them, lest the longboat, in o'ir circumstances a priceless property might be swamped or dashed to pieces. Hislop informed me that he had read somewnere that in the month of March. 1506 the same year in which the great Columbus died two adventurers of Spain or Portugal, named Tristan da Cunha and Alphonso de Albuquerque, sailed for the Indies on a voyage of discovery, with fourteen great caravels. During this expedition they found three great islands, which they named fefter Tristan da Cunha. and elsewhere three others, which were named from Alphonso. who. after their fleet had been scattered by a great tempest, sailed through the Mozambique channel. He discovered many sea isles and channels hitherto unknown to the Portuguese or Spaniards, and ultimately reached the Indies, f which he became viceroy for Ferdinand the Catholic, and died in 131.". holding that cnice. It is very strange that since that remote period no European country has turned tlKsv islands to any account, as they do not lie more than fifty leagues from the central tmrk of the shipping bound for the coast of i orumanuM or the Chinese seas, and in time of war would form a useful and important r. ndrzvous for a fleet. They lie exactly in that portion of i 1 . the wide and might v ocean where I it was fabled ar.:l l.elkned a great continent would w t found. The throe isles of Tristan da Cunha. which lie sonn- hundred miles distar.'.. have now a mixed population of English, PortugiK.-e and nu.lattoes; and a strong garrison was maintained there during the captivity cf the Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena. Being thus cast aw;y upon a shore so far from the general track of shins we resolved to make j reparations for a p-obable residence of some time to build a hut wherein to store our provisions, and to use every means for adding to our stock, by angling in the creeks, which seemed to abound with fish, and by hunting in the woods, which teemed with goats and boars running wild; by collecting birds' eggs, as the cliffs seemed to be literally alive with petrels. albatro.ss.s and sea-hens; and all these exertions were the more necessary, as none could foresee the probable length of our sojourn there. A ship might heave in sight tomorrow; but a year might pass before one came near enough to be attracted by our signs. We resolved to have a signal-post erected on the mountain top. a beaconfire prepared, and amid these and many other deliberations the night closed in and found us tolerably contented with our island, and even disposed to be merry over misfortunes tha we could not control. But considerable speculation was excited when Billy Wilkins, the cabin bo, who had been in pursuit of a lit le kid along the beach, returned to us, dragging after him a long spar which he had found among the layer of shingles, bright shells and dusky weeds deposited by the Sea; and on examination this spar proved to be one of the lower studding-sail booms of the Eugenie, and the samp which had part ed from the brig on the eventful evening of the punishment! "It is our own property," said Billy, "and may be useful when we have a fire to light." "Boy Bill, we have a better use feilt than burning." said Tattooed Tom; " 'tis the mast for our signal-post, already made to hand, and we'll step it on the hilltop tomorrow." For that night we bivouacked under a large tree, the name and genug of which were alike unknown to us. At times some were conversing, some slept, others lay waking and thinking, with the murmur of the shining sea close by in their ears; and I could s?e the stars of the Southern Cross shining with wonderful brilliance at the verge of the watery hcrizon. The novelty of our situation kept Tie long awake, and with my head pillowed on a bundle of dry seaweed, with the sail of the long boat spread over us as an impromptu tent and for protection from the dew, i lay in meditation and full of melancholy thoughts ere sleep came upon me, and with it confused dreams of the urning ship, of my secluded home, and of " the schoolboy spot, To long remember, though there long forgot." .gain I was at Eton! Again I saw the smooth green playing-fields alive with ardent schoolboys in the merry

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ä 4 summer sunshine, and again I heard the clamor of their young voices and the balls rattling on bat and wickets; again I heard the pleasant green leaves rustle in the old woods of the Tudor times; or again I was in the shady quadrangles where the monotonous hum of many classes poring over their studies stole through the mullioned windows on the ambient air; and in my dreaming ear that "drowsy hum" seemed strangely to mingle with the chafing of the surge upon "th' unnumbered pebbles" of the lonely shore close by. At last, overcome by weariness, by lassitude and toil, 1 slept soundly. CHAPTER XXVIII. We Build a Hut. My old tutor at Eton used to say. quoting some "wise saw,' that "a lazy boy made a lazy man, tust as a crooked sapling makes a crooked tree." It was fortunate for me. however, while on the island of Alphonso. that my habits were those of activity,, and that I was never lymphatic by nature. After dawn next morning we set about the erection of a hut, though we had no other tools than a small hatchet and our claspknives. With Ihese we cut or tore down a great number of large branches, and stuck them in the earth, selecting a place where two angles of impending rock conveniently enough formed two solid walls for our edifice, leaving us but two others to erect. As Tom Lainbourne said, "the fellow who cannot use a hammer or ax is only half a man," so we all worked hard with such implements as we had, until our hut was complete. We left an entrance next the rocks by which to creep in and out. and then thatched or built over the intertwisted branches with turf, torn up by our hands, and with broad plantain leaves, creepers and all kinds of tendrils that had toughness and consistency woven' to form a roof. At the erection of this most primitive wigwam we toiled the whole day, save during the scorching interval at noon, and ere nightfall it was complete, with piles of dried leaves and seagrass for couches and bedroom furniture. Therein we placed all our provisions the three bags of bread, two kegs of rum (which, by unanimous consent, were placed under the sole supervision of Hislop): our four casks of water were also brought ashore, though there was no lack of pure springs on the island. In this wigwam were also placed our blankets, the sails and tackle of the longboat, and then the succ eeding days wore Kpent in accumulating provisions (as we looked forward with diead to our last biscuit), and a signal-post was erected on the mountain. With Probart, the carpenter, and Henry Warren (two of our stoutest hands). Tom Lambourne and 1 went upon this duty. Alternately carrying upon our shoulders cr dragging in our hands the studding-sail boom, we toiled through j wild and untrodden wastes toward me summit of the great and yet nameless conical mountain that rears its lonely scalp to the height of five thousand feet above the waves of the Southern sea. '1 he hope that on reaching its summit we might descry a sail was an additional incentive to toil up the steep slope without lingering by the way. On leaving a flat savanna of sedge grass we reached a series of wooded ridges, which form the base of the mountain, at every step rousing clouds of birds, especially a species of blackcock, and twice in the jungle we came upon the lair of wild boars of great size and such ferocity of aspect that we were glad to shrink astern of Tattooed Tom, who carried the hatchet. This jungle was exceedingly difficult of penetration, owing to its density, the number of wild aloes, with creeping plants, prickly pears and other tropical weeds, of what kind I know not. twined about them, it was a literal wilderness of serrated grass blades. yellow gourds and ereat squashy pumpkins, like gigantic vegetable marrows, all woven into an inextricable network of leaves, tendrils and branches. In other places we had to force a passage through thickets of richly flowered shrubs and tall plants, with mighty leaves, the general greenery of the landscape being increased by the many runnels of fine spring water which poured down the fissures of the mountain into the plain we had left. By the sides of these runnels we frequently paused, and making a cup of a large leaf, filled it with the cool. is . water mat gurgled over the rocks, to quench our constant thirst; and for a time such cups were the only drinking vessels we had while on the is'and of Alphonso. At last we gained the summit of the mountain, and with mingled satisfaction and anxiety in our hearts, swept the horizon with eager eyes. Not a sail was in sight! Far as our eyesight could reach around us in a mighty circle, rol ed the waters of the Southern Atlantic, almost tepid with heat, and pale and white, they seemed to palpitate under the rays of the unclouded sun. At our feet lay the whole isle of Alphonso and its two rock appendages, with the encircling ea boiling in the narrow chasms between them with a fury which was the result of contrary currents, and which formed a singular contrast to its calmness elsewhere. After a brief rest we prepared to set up the signal-post. Tom took off his shirt, and drawing from his pocket a piece of spunyarn, which a seaman is seldom without, he lashed his undergarment to the end of the studding-sail boom, and by the aid of the hatchet and our hands, we scraped a hole sufficiently deep in which to erect the spar, and then jammed it hard and fast with stones. As the shirt was blown out flag fashion upon the wind, we hoped it would

pit'e a sufficient indication to a vessel approaching from any quarter that there were people on the island in want of succor. For some hours we lingered on the mountain-top, in the fond hope of seeing a sail, and then returned slowly downward to the beach, where our shipmates awaited us at the wigwam which now formed our home, and which we jocularly designated the capital city of Alphonso.

CHAPTER XXIX. A Wild Boar. We felt very much the want of firearras. The air seemed alive with birds the woods with game of several kinds; and now an old musket with a few charges of powder would have proved more useful to us than the treasure of the Bank of England. Hislop recovered strength rapidly, and his convalescence Inspired our little band of castaways with new confidence and vigor, as they had implicit reliance in his superior knowledge and intelligence. We were never idle; lor, unarmed as we were, the task of procuring food for our general store was by no means a sinecure to those who undertook it. Tom Lambourne and John Burnet, the cook, first brought us a valuable contribution in the shape of a great sealion, which was furnished with a rough and shaggy mane, that added greatly to its terrible aspect, for It was an unwieldly brute, as large as a small-sized cow. They had fallen in with it when it lay basking on the beach. Burnet courageously attacked it. with one of the stretchers of the longboat, and dealt it a severe stroke on the head. The animal uttered a hoarse grunt and turned upon him open-mouthed, when be thrust the staff down its throat and held it there till Lambourne hewed off the bead with his hatchet. One or two others were afterward dispatched in the same way; but we had to lie long in wait, and could not catch them only by cutting off their retreat to the water. Their hearts and tongues were considered the best food by the sailors, who broiled them oer a fire which we kindled by striking two stones together, and letting the sparks fall upon a heap of dry leaves; and to the discovery of these impromptu flints we were indebted to Ned Carlton. As for salt. I found plenty of it. baked in the crevices of the rocks upon the beach, where the spray had been dried by the hot sunshine. (To be continued.) KAFFIR'S ANTIDOTE. Which MaUe-Serpent's Venom Harmless. A road party, comprising the usual gang of from fifty to sixty Kaffirs, was employed says a writer in the London Spectator, on the construction of a road in the Tuegla valley. Natal, about thirty or more years ago. In the course of tbeir work they came upon a huge stone which it was necessary to remove, but beneath it was the home of a large black mamba. well known to the neighboring inhabitants as being old and, therefore, very venomous. '1 he n-.ambi is the most deadly of the South African snakes, and the superintendent anticipated some trouble cner that roc k. He offered a bribe for the snake'.-; skin, and the gang "wow'd!" and sat down to "bema gwi" (take snuff j. But a slim youth sauntered forwaid and. amid the jeers and protestations of the rest, declared himself equal to the task. tie took from his neck what looked like a bit of shriveled stick, chewed it, swallowed some cf it, spat out the rest on his hands and proceeded to rub his glistening brown body and limbs all over. Then taking up his stick and chanting a song of defiance he advanced with great confidence and swagger to the bowlder. There he roused up the mamba. which, in great fury at being disturbed, bit him in the lip. The boy took no notice of the bite, but broke the snake's back with his stick anci. bringing it to bis master, asked for his reward, obtaining which he went back to his work, and the bite of the reptile had no effect upon him whatever. No bribe, not even that of a cow (better than any gold in the eyes of a Kaffir) would induce the native to disclose the secret of his antidote, which, he said, had been handed down in hi.- family for generations. The snake was a very long one, and 30 old that it had a mane. It is a wellknown fact that certain of the Zulus have antidotes for the more dcadlv snake poisons, which they preserve as a secret within their own families. ENGLISH JOKES FROM RIVAL. (Jroeer: "What are you grumbling about? D'ye want the earth.?" Customer: "No. not in the sugar." "Miss Makeup wears her hair just the same as she did ten years ago." Yes. Tom. but not the same hair. "Is it tru that sailors, after becoming quite old. always stop swearing?" Old Salt: "My friend, you'll have to ask some one older than 1." CJioeer: "Well, little one. what can I do for you?" Jenny: "Please, sir, mamma say.-: will you change a sovereign for her, an she'll give you th? sovereign tomorrow?" "Have you broken off your engagement, old man? What's the matter?" "Well, I was hard up, you see, so I quarreled a:;d had all my presents returned, and was able to realize upon them. Couldn't possibly have raised the money any other way." "Auntie, dear. Mr. Maler, the artist, has asked me for my photo; he wants to make use of it for his next picture. Ought I to send it to him?" asked Alice. "Yes, you can do so, but be sure to inclose with it a photo of your motner, or some elderly lady. It would be highly Improper to send your photo by itself!" exclaimed her aunt. To Pulnt C'tllrnriili Floirerfl. New YorK Tribune: Paul de Longpre, the well known flower painter, after spending seven years in New York, is transporting both his studio and his entire establishment from West End avenue to Los Angeles, where he proposes to spend the next three years, devoting himself to the portrayal of the beautiful and relatively unknown flora of th? Pacific coast. He expecU to start next week.

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THE GREAT DIVINE IS A MASTER OF LOGIC. How He Made a (Jreat Man Out of a Druukard Where Tliimtamti of Others Would Have Failed The Itcligion of the I'nlierse. An argument can be maintained only when opponents stand upon a common premise, from which they may proceed to a conclusion. This rule of logic coincides with the Pauline maxim. "Him that is weak in the faith receive ye. but not to doubtful disputations." or, as the margin reads, "not to judge his donbtful thoughts." An illustration of the benefit that may be conferred upon a "weak" brother by meeting him in the Pauline spirit is given in the Rev. Newman Hall's "Autobiography. ' The English preacher delivered a lecture on temperance to young men in Doctor Cuyler's church at Brooklyn, New York. In order to make clear the insufficiency of high education alone to save from moral ruin, he related the following incident, which we give mainly in his own words: "A young man of intelligent face and gentlemanly manners, but very shabby in appearance, followed me after sermon to. the vestry In great distress. I asked him what had brought him into such a condition. He said: '"The drink! I can't keep from it. I've respectable relatives, but all they give me cash, clothes, watch all goes for drink. Tell me what to do!" "I told him that for him total abstinence was essential, and that I was an abstainer in order to encourage such as he. I signed the pledge again for him to follow, which he did. I then said: " 'But we mut pray for help "He said he did not believo in God. yet he knew the Creek Testament and had 'coached men at Oxford for bishops' examinations! He only believed In the Spirit of the Universe. "I said I believed also, and so we could unite in prayer. We knelt down, and I prayed to the Great Spirit of the

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Universe to pardon him and help him to conquer this temptation. With tears he said, 'Oh, that my mother had seen this signature, to make her death more happy!' "At the close of my lecture to the young men, a middle-aged gentleman, with an elegant ycung girl on his arm, came up to speak to me. 'You do not remember me? I'm that young man, and this is my daughter. I'm editor of one cf the journals here and a member of the Episcopal church, and I wish you would call on my wife at d see our happy home, made so by God's blessing on your counsel." "I called next day, nnd toch tea with him and his wire and daughter. There was an unmistakable atmosphere of refinement and domestic happiness in the little circle that pleased me greatly. Not long r.fierward I read of his funeral, attended by many literary and other friends, in token of the respect in which he was held." If Doctor Hall, instead of stepping down as he did to the young man's plane of belief, had lectured him on pantheism, there would have been no mutual prayer, and perhaps no rescue. POETIC RETRIBUTION. The i:nli-li Waiter Sets Kven with the iermau Interloper. At last the English waiter is avenged upon bis German rival, says the London Telegram. Not for the first time in history has a race of conquerors suffered from their conquests and brought back with them the seeds of servitude from the nations whom they have overcome. The home-keeping countrymen of Hans and Fritz are feeling the consequences of the triumphs of their brethren in this country in a very unpleasant way. Too late they are beginning to recognize that the reflex influence of English manners is corrupting the native simplicity and fettering the pristine freedom of the Teutonic race. Hotel and restaurant keepers in Germany have begun to insist on their shaving off their mustaches, and the demand has invoked an Indignant protest against what is described as "a custom imported from England." "We are robbed!" exclaim the waiters, in a strain of impassioned eloquence, "of our rights as German men. Why does not the public interfere? We claim to wear a mustache, like every other free man." The answer of the restaurateurs a bald appeal to convention that "it is the custom of waiters to be clean-shaven." U denounced as "nothing but servile submission to the English." and, no doubt, to a German waiter, accustomed to a society in which the wearing of a mus-

tache by coachmen and cLurr private domestic servants is not at all unusual, the new prohibition might well appear to be a slavish following of the foreigner. Here, however, the hotelkeeper's rule would be considered reasonable, and we are old-fashioned enough to tru.-t that it will continue to be upheld if necessary, by judicial decision. A clean-shaven waiter is, to our thinking, as indispensable an adjunct of a refined repast as a clean napkin, and their opposites are almost equally unappetizing. It is all very well to describe a mustache as an "ornament" to the face: but that depends. There are mustaches and mustaches: and to sanction them in the attendants at a dinner table is to run an unnecessary risk of the unsightly. In the razor there is always safety. Besides, if a mustache is to be allowed to a waiter, why not a beard even the beard of old age? Why not assent at once to the incongruity of being waited upon by patriarchs? True, it may be urged that the same sort of objection was raised to the wearing of mustaches and beards by the clergy and that it was overruled. Yes; but are we sure that the right cause prevailed? Is the church stronger than it was when its ministers could be correctly described by the old appellation of "shavelings?" May we not, on the contrary, attribute some of the present lawlessness and insubordination of the clergy to their early beginnings of license?"

CRAWFORD'S EARTHQUAKE. F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, who was believed by many admirers to be a woman for years after he became known, on account of his name, will not visit America this season unless he changes his plans materially. In 1S9S he went over the same lecture field now being covered by Ian Maclaren. It was during this trip that the novelist had his first experience wlt'i an American earthquake. It was in San Francisco, and the shock was on of the greatest known on the slope for years. Mr. Crawford was lunching at the hotel with his lecture manager when suddenly the. building began to tremble with that sickening motion Then the tables shook, and dishes fell clattering to the floor. In an instant there was a panic. Men and women rushed from the room. Some religiously inclined gust began to pray, and several women fainted. The manager rose and staggered toward the door, but Mr. Crawford caught him and pulled him back into his chair. "What is it?" gasped the manager. "Nothing." answered the novelist, reaching for another slice of bread. "But the building is collapsing." "Nonsense. It's over now." "But what Is it?" "It's only an earthquake. We get them in Italy right F. MARION CRAWFORD. along. It doesn't amount to anything. What kind of dessert are you going to have?" Kosa Itoiiheur'H l.arly Days. The earlier days of Kosa Uonheui were spent not in depicting anima life, but in copying the old masters Her first efforts were made in order tc help in the household expenses. A picture of a goat was the first animai study she ever attempted, and she wa: so pleased with this effort that sht decided to devote all her time to animal painting. Models being too expensive for the slender purse of the young artist, she would tramp miles tc a farm, canning a meager lunch in her pocket, to sketch an animal. When only 19 years old she sent her first picture to an art exhibition, and at onct was pronounced a genius. II in Iteal Keason. "Am I to understand that you introduced this ordinance because you are of the opinion the question ought to be settled?" asked the railway official. "That was the way I put it," replied the alderman, "but I really Introduced it because I thought it waa about time for a sttlaxpent." Indianapolis Journal.

FARIV ER3 AND THE. RAILROAD. The politician, with an eye single to the emoluments and advantages of the public office it is his ambition to fill, has found that one of the most effective means to that end in the matter of securing votes is to arouse the suspicion in the popular mind that capital, as manipulated by the "soulless corporation." is gradually but surely placing the public in a bondage the ultimate condition cf which will be abject slavery, -if you wish to make powerless the elements that are evolving such an eventuation." he says, -put me and my friends in office and we will pnact laws for your protection." The people have given heed and as a result the statute books, both state and federal, are filled with laws for the ' protection of the people" agains: the "aggression of capital," as manipulated by various kinds of corporations, which by their absolute failure to effect the results promised by the politican. have driven a large class of unthinking people "corporation-mad" and furnished unscrupulous corporation speculators reasons for the cynical conclusion that no earthly power can hold them accountable for their operations and as to the higher power, 'sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." The unscrupulous promoter of gigantic speculative "trusts." by his operations, and the demagogue hungry for public office, by his inflammatory talk, are hurrying the popular mind into a sort of hysteria likely to throw the body politic into convulsion? that will work serious harm to capital engaged in legkimate operations and to the large mass of people whose well-being depends on the unhampered opportunity for the unlimited diversification of these operations which a healthy economic state demands under present day conditions. With the power lost to discriminate between what is vicious and what is vital the people in their frenzy will bury themselves beneath the ruins of our social system by tearing out the props as did Samson in bis blind fury by hauling down the pillars on which the temple rested. The wealth of America rests on its agricultural interests. This is shown from the fact that when the farmer has good crops and a demand for hi. product in the foreign markets that will take up the surplus over and above domestic consumption, the nation is prosperous. The garden spot of the agricultural interest of this country is the Mississippi valley and the most productive nook of this garden is Iowa, whose crops are worth millions annually and whose farmers ship their products into the eastern markets by the million dollars. The crops of Iowa, beyond what would be needed for more local consumption. would rot in the fields but for the railroads that cover the state with a network, bringing the markets of the world to our very doors. And there would be no railroads here but for the crop. The farmers and the railroads therefore, have developed Iowa, and the limit of development is not in sight yet. The farmer is essential to the prospe rity of the railroads of Iowa und without the railroads the farmer would be wearing homespun, eating blackbread and raising enough generally for the wants of his family v.ith no place to send what he had over. Instead of getting together and fixing up a '"modus vivendi" based on the mutuality of their interests, the farmer has listened to the mouthings of the demagogue until he is inclined to lock on the railroad as a robber, and railroad officials have made reprisals on the farmer to pny the expense of heading off the influence of the granger element of the legislature, or of fighting the enforcement of preposterous regulations in the statutes for which this clement is responsible. S an armed truce prevails in.-te:wl of the businesslike understanding that could be arrived at but for the med.llesom.5 polir.ician of the Jim Weaver stamp who has made a good thing, in more ways than one. by keeping these two industries suspicious of each other. This situation prevails more or less all over the country and i- due wholly to "politics." The railroad is the pet grievance of a certain grade of politician and a certain stamp of labor agitator throughout the country, and when out cf hearing of the farmer they accuse the granger as a class of being as grasping as they charge corporations to be. As a matter of fact the farmers and the railroads have built up this country. No two classes of industry are so mutually dependent, for the one could not prosper or even exist without the other. On this foundation the prosperity of the country rests. The farmer handles his crops on a very narrow margin of profit. His expenses are larger both for labor and machinery and one bad crop eats n big hole in the savings of former years if it doesn't put a mortgage on the place. Outside the rise in the value of farm land owing to the rapid filling up of the country by means of railroads, the farmer for all bis hard work does not realize more than from 2 toS1. per cent on the investment, on the average an amount that is probably as large as the per cent of profit made by the combined railroads of the country, whose disbursements oftentimes, under the most careful management, exceed the income. Like the poor crop a serious railroad accident will often. In the damage to property and personal injuries for which the road is held responsible, eat up the profit of the company implicated for several years. In fact bankruptcy of the road often follows such a disaster. The combined railroads of the country have a pay roll including officers and clerical staff of about $2.000.000 a day. The maintenance of the road beds costs $73.000.000 annually besides $33.000.000 for the purchase of rails, ties and sleepers, and $13.000.000 for the construction of new bridges. Last year they spent for fences, sign boards, signal and watch towers. $33.000,000, and $S,300.000 for printing and advertising. They pay about $50.000.000 in taxes nnd $.10,000.000 annually for legal services exclusive of the claims for personal injuries and damage to property, which is estimated at about $.".000.000 annually. All this does not Include value of rolling stock, stations, etc., and repairs thereon. Probably 2.000.000 people are directly employed by the railroads at wages in every grade that make the positions much sought after. Furnishing the supplies of various kinds of railroads, provides employment to another army of people and adds tremendously to the volume of business of the country. And so narrow is the margin between income and outgo, and so dependent are the railroads on the genoral prosperity cf the country, that, during the hard times between '93 and 9G. the road that didn't go into the hands of receivers, or at least tail to pay dividends, was a curiosity. The employes of railroads used to be very imperious in their demands, and under the lead of agitators like Debs there have been many strikes inflicting untold damage to the roads and country in general and taking the bread and butter from thousands of mouths. It has been found that arbitration between the employe and the roads will amicably adjust all differences of opinion that through the agency walking delegate for

merly led to strikes, distress ar.d bitterfeelings on both sides. The farnvrs and the railroads do rot gri. credit for the vas: contributions they make to the prosperous conditions in this country, and no two classes of industry have ?o often without, reason been at loggerheads. Many railroad organizations, notably the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, have thrown asid.j the walking delegate and adopted the policy of arbitration on business principles, with the enactment of laws and regulations which sound, cool-headed judgment recognizes to be mutually lkeneficial. Along these lines the differences between the people generally on the one hand and corporations generally on the other must be adjusted. Hot headedness of the one must be discountenanced and the rapacity of corporation pirates, whose hands are against the corjorations engaged in legitimate operations as well as the people, must be repressed. Congress and state legislatures filU'd with flannel mouthed politicians elected as the result of rip-roaring anti-corporation campaigns, with lobbies filled with the agents of corporations who know how to make a lamb out of the roaring lion and to convert hostile legislation into statutory dead letters, are hurrying on a head end collision that will have disastrous results. The people must relegate demagogues to the rear as sensible labor organizations have done with walking delegates, aod take hold of the matter free from the prejudices of partisan politics. This is the only safe way out. From the Daily Republican, Iowa City, Iowa, May 13. 1S99.

OF A BRILLIANT FAMILY. There are often amusing confusiou. of Mr. Arnold Henry Savage Iandor. the celebrated English traveler, who wrote that brilliant book "In the Forbidden Land." telling of his tortures in Thibet, with his grandfather. Waltet Savage landor. the celebrated poet who died about thirty years ago, at tht advanced age of 00. I'ntil recently there were two Waller Savage lindor living, the uncle and the brother of tht explorer. Walter Savage Landor thi second died recently at Oeneva, and b hi death the family estates, lpslej court in Warwickshire. Llanthony abbey in Wales, and various properties on the continent have passed to the explorer's father, Mr. Charles Savag landor. who has for many years resided at Florence. Mr. A. H. Savage Iandor is a mai of astonishing attainments; he has. re- . ently lectured before learned societies in three other languages besides English French. Oerman and Italian. Ia Italy he has received the highest honors for his services to exploration. When he was lecturing in French before the (ieographical Society of Geneva, four or five hundred people had tc !e turned away from the doors. When be lectured at Stuttgart, before the Imperial (Ieographical Societj of Stuttgart, which is inferior to uou in (lermany in importance, the king and queen of Wurtemburg, the princ cf Saxe-Weimar and five other members of the royal families were j.Vsenl ani-jp.g the great audience of 1.3o people. Mr. Landor lectured in (lermar with great fluency on that occasion, though he had not spoken German fci twelve years previously. His linguistic attainments are very r- miirkable. He can speak seen or eight European languages, besides the Asiatic languages which he had to acquire for hij travc-'.s. STOR YETTES. At an assemblage cf noted men a year or two ago, a lawyer who conducts the leal business of a great railway system tried to "guy the p.irson" in the person of the late Iiishop Williams of Connecticut, by malicious quizzing. At last he said: "Why don'1 you get these railway managers to give you a pass over their roads, bishop You can pay for it by giving them entrance tickets into heaer.." "Oh. no." gently replied the bishop: "I would not part thm so far from the:r coinw-t ia the oilier world." A pathetic legend comes from St Petersburg to the effect that Jerome Iv. Jerome is about to visit Tolstoi. Ti; aged philanthropist, not having s.mi!cö for years, took up a Russian version ol one of "J. K. J.'s" books and began tc lauA'h. Now be wants to see the author of it. Hy the way. that remind one that Jerome once bought a beautiful bay mare excessively cheap. She hadn't a fault, and proved to be a paragon, both under saddle and in harness, Jerome mused long over this mystery, and wondered what the solution might be. One day. as he was riding th? mare he found out. It came on to ram and the animal tucked her head between her forelegs and declined ta move for twenty minutes until the rain stopped. The next day he drove her in his dogcart and it rained once more. This time the mare declined to mova for an hour. Nothing could cure her. The Sudan seemed to be about the only climate that would suit such an animal An I iiKenlMi Drtice. The following story comes from Rutler county: A glib young man called at several farm houses during the past week and offered for sale a new patent lightning rod. claiming it was the greatest invention ever brought to light. It consisted simply of a rod twenty feet in length, with two points The rod was laid along the apex of the barn and both ends pointed straight up in the air. "Hut where does the lightnin go after it strikes one of them points?" asked a farmer. "Why," answered the agent, "it just travels along the rod and gets shot up in the air froro the ether point." Klevrn l:i Without Fond. A miner casually descended fifteen yards into an old flooded mine near Wellingborough, England, by mean? of a rope, to see if the waters were subsiding. All his efforts to get back were unavailing, and for eleven days he wai entombed. A visitor to the spot, hearing a voice below, secured the man's release. Though provided with water he had been without food the whole eleven days. Woman is the Sunday of man not his repose only, but his joy, the salt of his life. Michelet.