Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — Page 2

DIGNIFIED COURTSHIP. A pretty-Boston schoolme’sm, And a youth of n>iea»edete, Were p.rt ng in tte evening^ Hei|d» the garden gale. . ; Hie bend and heart he’d offered la a giave and »ober way. And ihr wits quiet dignity - \ Had named the bapoy day. In fingered •* the gate with her And said in aoe-ntu low: “There l* a little favor* I would atk befoie 1 go. "A favor never a-ked before. Bweet maiden It I* this: A lover’a privilege, tnal I* all. . Akweetbetroihil ktw." . •'lf yon wait,” the micd.-n whirpered, With her color rUing high. “Till 1 remove my apectacle ' , . I’ll williDgly ooinpty.” '—Boston Courier:

FITZHERBERT.

My name is John Smith —plain Smith, without change or addition of vowel — and I was in no way discontented with it till 1 fell in love with Katie Rogers. Katie had never sneered at it, but her older sister, Miranda, Lad more than once hinted that it was neither romantic nor uncommon; and her father, in his somewhat lengthy discourses about the British aristocracy, had an aggravating way of looking apologetically at ine every time he spoke of “a good name.” In our commercial community Smith was counted a better name than Rogers, and young Smith, the rising cotton broker, a more distinguished member of society than old Rogers, ex-captain of dragoons, who could scarcely pay his £3O rent and never wore a decent hat. I quite agreed with my neighbors on these points till I fell in love with Katie and grew familiar with Miranda’s sentiments about -‘the ignorance of Philistine Riverbank." Captain Rogers was descended from Fitzroger, who came over with the Conqueror, and as I listened reverently to the history of the family progress through sight centuries, there was a total collapse of my once foolish pride in belonging to what a local paper called “one of the oldest families in Riverbank." For Riverbank was scarcely as old as mv father, having grown into a town with a qpeed rarely equalled on this bide of the Atlantic. In a general way I do not undervalue myself but it was with a deep sense of humility that I emplored thg descendant of Fitsroger to become my father-in-law. We were alone together in the dining room of the thirty pound house, he sitting in a shabby arm chair, I standingon a still shabbier hearthrug. He looked up at the “Battle Roll of Hastings," which hung over the mantelpiee#, and down at the fire,' kept low by economical Miranda. Then, having weighed the past glories of Fitzroger against tbepres-

ent price of coals, he accepted my proposal with the magnificent condescension of a king consenting, for certain state reasons, to bestow the hand of a royal princess on an aspiringsubject. So Katie and I were engaged, and fora time I was supremely happy. I was not quite vain enough to share my darling’s opinion that I, John Smith, was better worth worshipping than all Carlyle’s “Heroes” put together; but I was rather easily convinced that I was far too fine a went on a visit to London there was no bitterness in my regret, for I believed in her and myself. At first I was not disturbed by Miranda’s boasts about the advantages her sister was enjoying in “toe best society,” but when the London visit extended for week? and months beyond its original limit I began to feel vaguely uneasy. In those days Katie’s letters, though loving, were not long, and sh? more than once apologized Tor their brevity ny pleading “a particular engagement,” the nature _of which 6he never explained. My confidence sank, my jealousy arose. At last she came home, and then I noticed a change in her that seriously alarmed me. She was paler and quieter, and at t'mes there was a wistful loqk in her eyes, suggeltiveof something-in her mind. It could nbt'be anxiety about her father’s pecuniary affairs, because about that tim* he appeared in a new hat, and Miranda kept better fires. These Outward 'and visible signs Of

prosperity would have given me Bincere pleasure if it had not been for the suspicion that old Rogers was more than ever disposed to talk Norman Conqu*. w tone with me, and for the certainty thi. 1 Miranda’s sneers at ‘‘people who could not count their grandfathers’’ were all for my benefit. What did this sort of thing mean? Had Katie been tempted away from me by a lover with a longer pedigree? Would Rogers tell me some day, like the father in old-fashioned romance, that he had “other views” for his daughter? usual, having been detained by animportant business matter in the neighboring city of Shipley. The outer door of the house was open, and I, in my usual 1 way, turned the handle of the vestibule door and walked into the drawing room, going to. ring the bell for the servant, when I heard a pleading little voice behind me: . ‘ “Oh, I say, Jack, don’t do that!” , It was the voice of Bob, the youngest of Katie’s many young brothers,' and, turning sharply round, I saw his scared little face peeping between the curtains drawn across the bow window. ■ .

“Come here, dear old Jack.” he entreated; “and stay with me till she goes past” “What she?" I asked.as I stepped behind the curtains to find Bob’s hitherto Tnv A-nightgo wh»“Mirauda,” he added in a tragic whisper. ■ , Boh had blue eyes apd golden hair, and in his whi'e array he looked like an angel in a pictu e. Blit -I rightly guessed that he, had from the upper regions that night on no angelic mission. “I thought she , waA safe up in the lumber-room for the next half-hour,” he explained; “and I got out of bed and slipping down to the kitchen for a taste of the new jam. I knew it was my only chance She’s so beastly mean about it when its in pots. I just got to the hall when I heard her sneaking down stairs, so I ran in here. She’s ip the dining-room now, and I don’t know whether sht-.’s going up again or down to the kitchen.”

“Don’t be a coward, my boy,” I said, feeling it my duty to be moral. “Of course Miranda will scold i f she finds, you, but you must bear it like a man.” “Scold!” repeated Bob, with scorn in his subdued tones. “Do you think I’d care if it was only that?” «- ■ I understood the full peril of the situat oii now. Miranda prided herself on doing a mother’s duty to the motherless boys, aud I knew that whatever her liand,found to do she did it with ail her might. “And it’s just because I ain’t a coward I don’t want to meet her,” went on Bob evidently mindful of the traditions of Fitzroger valor. “You see, Jack, I could hit back if she was a man, but she ain’t, you know, and of course no fellow who is a gentleman ever hits a woman.” “Robert,” I murmured, “you are the soul of chivalry.” „ -- “Oh, shut up, Jack Smith,” And my small brother-in-law-elect held me with a desperate grip. “She’s coming in!” I peered cautiously between the heavy curtains, and caught a glimpse of Miranda’s lank form and lynx eyes. The next moment she 'was vanishing, but she stopped as Katie appeared at the door. “Kate,” she said, in her thin, sharp voice, “I was looking for you. I think you Plight help me pot the jam. Smith may not be here to-night, and if he I can tell you, my dear, that your appearance has not improved since you took "up with Fitzherbert.” I stood with freezing blood behind the curtains, wondering what awful revelation was about to wreck my life’s happiness. In a lightning flash of jealous imagination I saw Fitzherbert. ' No doubt he was one of the swells Katie had met in London. A military swell, one of those handsome, haughty guardsmen I had read about in society novels. “Mirauda,” said Katie, “don’t you think I ought to tell Jack about Fitzherbert?”

“No, I don't,” said Miranda sharply. “I don’t see why the interests of our family are to be risked in a collision with the narrow middle-class prejudices of Mr. John Smith.” Katie’s voice sounded a little weary “You know, Miranda, you were horrified yourself when I first told you about Fitzherbert’? proposal.” Miranda replied in a tone of cold superiority:, - ~ ■ , “I was more open to conviction than jrou would find Mr. John Smith. We who have been rooted in English soil |pr eight naturally take larger views of life than mushrooms of* yesterday. Besides,your conduct in this affair is justified by the example and approval of women in the best society.” What a world of whited se pulchres! I had never loved Miranda, but I had always respected her. However skeptical I might have been about her personal charms. I had never doubted her principles. Miranda taught a clast in the Sunday school, worked a district on strict Charity Organization principles and was decorated with the Order of the Blue Ribbon. Yet here was this seemingly virtuous Miranda applauding her younger sisters's falseness to a true lover, because it was the fashion of women in the best society to trample on-honest hearts

“I hate concealment,” said Katie; “and Jack is so truthful himself*- ti.at I can’t bear the idea of deceiving hiin. Gb, im' : randa, dear, I was so happy when made me the offer that I public. p-« to wonder what Jack tit “it now lam so ’ ometin es think I must give up * ei -vt.” “Rubbish!” saia Miranda, “andselfish rubbish, too. I wonder, Kate Rogers, how you can talk in that way, when ycu know how useful Fitxherbert’s money is Oh. this was tooawfnU- Katie not only false to me, but actually so mean os to take money from her new lover. I could stand it no longer. I wrenched myself from poor little Bob’s grasp, and stood sternly facing the two girls. » Miranda fled from the r6cm. Katie stood white and still. “Pray, do not give up Fitsherbert on my account,” I said, scornfully. “Do not let my vulgar prejudice in favor of truth and honesty interlere with the wider morality of the best society. Marry Fitaherbert to-morrow, if yoU like, and be as happy as you deserve to bfe.” The color rushed back into Katie’s

face. The light sparkled *in her eyes. She. actually laughed, ’ you very mudh; Jafck,” she said,, “but even with your kind permission I can’t marry Fitzherbert. The fact is,” and her blue evea danced; “Fitxherbert is married." ‘ And you dare’to tell me,” I cried in wild rage, “that you have not only aciove but money from a married man.” She looked straight in iny furious jace with h“r laughing eyes. “F’itaherbert is not a married man,” she said. “I,was never good at guessing riddles, 1 said, softly; and. as l aw. not. in the mood for them to-night, I give this one, up. If Fitzherbert is not a married man, what, in Heaven’s name, is Fitzherbert’?” ( lear came the answer in the sweet, gay. girlish voice: , “Fitzherbert is a married woman.” Then, with the crushing consciousness of having made a fool of myself, I listened humbly to Katie’s little story. “F’itzherbert is a West Find milliner, and was Aunt Clara's maid before her marriage. Her name is not really Titzherbert, but something quite ordinary, like Brown or Bmithy-oh, I beg your pardon, Jack! She was always fond of me, and I often amused myself looking through her new fasliionß. One day, while I was waiting for Aunt Clara,'•who had gone to her dentist, a fussy old lady came into the shop, and was very angry because none of the new Paris bonnets suit* d her. She was one of the best customers, and poor Fitzherbert was in despair when she was leaving the shop in a ra*re. W 11. Jack, L have quite a uenius for millinery. One of our ancestor* was a-pain ter, and Aunt Clara says I have hfe artistic eye for color and form, Anyhow, I always seem to know exactly what Suits a face. I persuaded the old lady to sit down again, and with Fitzber bert’s permission I made a feW alterations in one particular bonnet. The result was so becoming that the old lady was charmed. ‘You are a heaven-born milliner, my dear/she said. ‘Why don’t you go in for that sort of thing ? It is all the fazuion among the best people.’ Aunt Clara called for me presently, and was quite struck with the new idea. After a long talk with Fitzherbert it wag decided that I should go to the shop every day and qualify for the position of millinery aide-de-eamp. I became quite popular with the customers, especially the elderly pnes. I love old ladies and delight in making them look lovely, and some of them threatened to leave Fitzherbert unless I undertook the arrangement of their bonnets aud caps for the term of my single life. Fitzherbert offerechne very liberal pay for my assistance, and I was so glad to think ot helping poor old daddy that at first I forgot about you and your possible objection to marrying a young woman who worked for a Bhop, but. I thought of thig afterwards, and was always fighting with my conscience about telling you the truth. But, indeed, there are many lady millin ers in London, and—Oh, Jack, I see you don’t mind so very much, after all!” The precise nature of my conduct on this occasion need not be here recorded. The bridal wreath was a present from Fitzherbert.

A Noted Election Ret

St. Louis G 1 obe DeinecratT “ , * Probably, the most noted election bet was that made by RuelGridley, of Austin, Nev., in 1862. He bet that be would beat hi&opponenb The terms of the wager demanded that the loser should carry a sack of flour from Lower to Upper Austin. Gridley lost and the day after election st;»i ted on his trip accompanied by the entire population of Austin. The question arose as to what disposition should be made of the flour, and some ingenious individual suggested that it be sold at auction for the benefit of the Western Sanitary Commission. Gridley was auctioneer, and the bag was knocked down for $250. The purchaser declined to receive it,.and suggested that it be sold again. The idea took like wild fire, and the bag wassold again and again and before night the sum of SB,OOO had been received. Gridley saw fame for him and gold for the sick soldiers opening before him; he entered heart and soul into the idea, and he started with his now famous flour on an expedition which immortalised himself, and brought joy and comfort to thousands of suffering soldiers. His reception everywhere was like a Roman triumph, and the people, infected by the noble work, vied and struggled witheajh other in generous rivalry. Gridley sold his flour all over the West, and finally exhibited it at the great Sanitary fair in St Louis. Afterward the fionr was baked into small cakes and sold at a high price. When the grand total was added np it wsb found that Gridley’s bet had been the means of adding more than $150,000 to the funds of the Western Sanitary Commission. ~ —'

THANKSGIVING FOB MirttAHl. O’TOOLE. r ' ; How glarf lam now that Te’re cornin'. I’ve waited here. Michael O’Toole, Aa hour lines th« dinner w-ts over, And ivery thing's gittin so 0001. I’ve saved ye a bit of the low). Mite. And chicken j>‘e jist to yer taste, • And I’d fill ye a cup of tay soon. If only ye once would make haste. - It’s happy I acMo-dajr+iarlint. And me heart with thsnksgivin’s light; For this ana gate fhuti behind me. In a week from to-morrow night. • . Xext year we will hare our own turkey.And all the nUe things aa they come. While at the front door of oar house. Mika. : To Tbaak«givm\l’U welcome ye noma

THE FUTURE REPUBLIC.

Stfiiator Ingalls on the Glorious Prospect. NqwTorkSuu. j uresque and striking figure in the hurly burlV of ..Washington political life. When Senator John J. Ingalls speaks in the Senate the chamber is crowded. His utterances are amazing, sharp, pungent, caustic and severe at times, “’and it has been the generally expressed opinion that he prepared his speeches with great care. I find, however, that the faculty of force aud finish which is so marked a characteristic of his public talk ir-the natural manner of the man. The President of the Senate has been wildly lampooned by the caricaturists. He is tall, spare, and agile looking. A big “splash” of white hair surmounts his forehead, his eyes are bright, and he speaks without affectation of any kind. He wore a morning jacket, and strolled! up and down his library, smoking as lie talked, and he talked to the point. The* interview, which appears below, was written out and subjected to his revision. It is authorized and endorsed: “Is there,” I asked, “a strong desire throughout the United States for the peaceful acquisition of Canada and Mexico? Who spoke of an ocean-bound republic?” “Stephen A. Douglas I believe,” said Senator Ingalls, "'""first* formulated the phrase, but the idea is as old as Jamestown and Plymouth. It was the cargo of the Mayflower. Obedient to its impulse, the column of Anglo-Saxon migration has in two centuries inarched across the continent, and now pauses upon the coast of she Pacific meditating conquests. It has expelled the Indian, the Frenchman, the Spaniard, and the Chinese. It is the conquering race, and tolerates no element that it cannot absorb and assimilate. Having abolished the western frontier, it will move northward and southward to the pole and the equator. We have reached the limit of arable land in dur public domain. In ten years the homestead system will be extinct withiu the territory now open to settlement. Since the war with Mexico we have ceased to enlarge our boundaries, not because the instinct of acquisition Was lost, but because we had enough. The pressure of surplus population will Boon be felt, and the overflow will absorb Mexico and Canada inevitably, and perhaps Cuba and the oth er West Indian islands, which we need for the tobacco and sugar products in order to complete our industrial independence. We have paid duties enough oil sugar In the past thirty years to have purchased Cuba from Spain thrice over. We also need additional accommodations in the torrid zone for the surplus African population of this country, which will require an outlet before the close of the century. The race problem in the South is not yet settled. If the whites and blacks can not assimilate, they will eventually probably separate peacefully, by common consent, the negroes establishing States in the tropics and accomplishing their destiny in their original and native environment. We have now a continuous line of railway to Mexico. It wtH-sooh be contiHueebte-the- valley-pi the Amazon. Vestibule*! trains will run through without change from NewYork to Buenos Ayres. Along this highway the Anglo-Saxon race will move to the domination of the hemisphere.” In a discussion concerning the Cajyadian policy of President Cleveland, the Senator said;

“The contemporaneous estimate of the President is higher, probably, than the grade to' which he will be assigned in history. Bis defects are those of temperament 1 ami training. Although I condemn liisdreatoaent of Union soldiers and his concessions to England, I am not among those wh o impute to him lack of patriotism or love of injustice. But his horizon is narrow. The scope, and range of his faculties are limited. No ruler, perhaps, ever came to the duties of exalted station with less natural aptitude or less acquainted with the methods and subjects of administration. He has great capacity for labor, unusual industry, patient attention to petty details, bat no apprehension of great subjects. He addresses himself to their consideration with the temerity of a novice, and bis view is unilateral. He regards all topics as detached, and not in their relation* to a system. His nature is phlegmatic, and he is not troubled with sensibilities or emotions. His colossal egotism has been distended even beyond its normal proportions by the incense and adulation of his emasculated idolaters. His self-complacency is excessive, and his practical usurpation of all governmental functions, legislative and judicial, as

we las executive, is entertaining rather than dangerous.’ It is egotism and not despotism. How far the country at large has been imprfssed by his protestations of his honesty, integrity, parity, courage, and devout and holy consecration to the public service can be better told oh. the 7th of November than this evening. Statesmanship cannot properly be imputed to the President. You might as well ask me how he will rank as a poet, an astronomer,or atheogomist. He came’ to thd* White House without ever having made a political speech or expressed a remembered opinion upon any of the great questions that have engaged the atten-

tion of our people during the past twenty-five years. It has long been evident that the claim of hiß worshippers that thissflence was the result of sagacious reticence is an error. It would have been better for his fame,and serve remained nnbroken. His manifestoes about a second term, reform in the civil service, silver coinage, pensions, or foreign policy, and the tariff have been unfortunate. But his impassive and imperturbable selfesteem does not desert him. and he is npt disconcerted by exposure, or embarrassedby detection. He disagrees with diplomatists, political economists, lawyers and philosophers with complacent composure. He has the same claim to the title of statesman that a man crossingonthe Desbross street ferry from Jersey City to New York would have to be called the discoverer of the Hudson river. Concerning Lowell’s comparison between Lincoln and Cleveland, I think it was a violation of the first commandment of the decalogue.” “Canaaa’s confidence in the power of Great Britain to avenge her wrongs and enforce her rights in supreme.” I said: “ What is your opinion of the capability of Great Britain to force the United States to terms?’

“The umbilical cord between England and Canada was long since severed. The automony of the Dominion is complete. The intrusion of England in the politics of this continent is an intolerable impertinence. It is dictated by deliberate hostility to the United States. It is a studied affront which our people understand and vil\. ultimately resent. Talk as we may about kindred blood, and the ianguagu of Milton and Shakespeare, there is EOt an American who O.Oes not feei instinctively that England is the only enemy we have ~among the nations and sooner or later'wte shaU 4)e compelled by self-respect, if not for selfpreservation, to obliterate every vestige of British power from this hemisphere. There is no afternative. The guns of Halifax and Vancouver are pointed at us. Ti e Canadian Pacific Railroad, built by England’s subsidies, makes our northern frontier more vulnerable than our seacoast. Great Britain, jealous of our supremacy, is inexorably opposed to our territorial expansion toward the pole and the equator. Her circumvallation is complete. Her navy station* And fortresses menace us from every point of the compass. From the close of the revolution till now her conduct toward us has been characterizedbv treachery, duplicity, and insult in peace, and by brutal ferocity in war. Left to the Operation of- social,industrial and commercial forces, Canada would irresistibly gravitate into the American Union. The ultimate coalition is inevitable. It may be violent and compulsory. If British meh of-war continue to haul down the flags of American fisherman without protest in waters of which England has practically no more jurisdiction than the United States have in the Mersey or the Thames, the issue will

pass beyond diplomacy, and our volunteers will march on Montreal and Quebec and take possession of the Canadian Pacific and the St. Lawrence. The chief political obstacle would be found in the fact that Canada would naturally be Repnblicaßr—Wheat was raised last yeacia. the Valley of Peace river, a thousand miles north of St. Paul.. Ihe great arable plains and rich interval would attract population like that of Dakota. “Suppose Canada were to answer the retaliatory measures by similar measures against us, what would be the effect?”

"In my judgment time is not erven a remote possibility of the adoption of the policy of retaliation, either by the United States or Canada. All know that Eng-' land is the real party in interest and not If England did not persistency interfere to exasperate, irritate, and keep alive the casual and temporary resentments between Canada and the United States the adjustment of our differences would long ago have been complete. The talk aberot retaliation is gasconading bluster for campaign purposes. As soon as Harrison is elected the Democrats will roar as gently as sucking doves. The quarrel is with England, and not with Canada, and in the application of the lex tatienis to the Dominion the United States would hold the end of the poker.” Then the Senator looked at hie- cigar. It had gone out. He tossed it into the grate, and talked no more about politics and statesmanship. Blakaubt Hs&ii.

The Public School Question.

Tlme. “The examination you undergo-for' the position of teacher is very severe, is it not?” t “I should say so!” .“What are the branches?” “Well, tor-day we were examined in psvchoiogyyintegral calculus, mathematical astronomy, polemic divinity, metaphysical analysis and Greek classification.” ; " ' - - ;,»■ “Indeed! What position are yon competing for?” “Instructor of the A B C class.”

A CHICAGO couplet: When the peaceful stan are shining Burglars mount thebaa**meutstkir. And while sleep is round ua twining «. an y off our silverware. Then policemen in the morning Aik na questions by the scare. Leaving with the dreadfal warning Mot to do Itany more. " —ChisagD Hews;

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. The people of the United States use about 1d0,000,010 lead pencils every year. A Pittsburg firm has offered soft steel irOh. Ice was artifically manufactured by the use of chemical mixtures as early as 1783. Whatever else may be said of Treasury decisions on tariff questions, there will be unanimous agreement with its declaration that blow-accordions are not musical instruments. Chief Justice Fuller is astonishing the Washington .bar by the “Chicago rapidity” with which he rushes through important cases in the Supreme Court Ten cases a day is the present average. Jim and a young African companion were/one day fishing from the wharves. His friend missed his footing, fell into the water and was *drowned. Jim’s grief was so uproarious that a syiqpar tnethic by-stander inquired if the drowned boy was a relation. “No,” said Jim, through his tears; “he warn’t no relation, but he raout’s well been — hehed all de bait.”—Harper’s Magazine. strike of the workmen on the Eifiel tower in. Paris is naturally characterized by curious offers for settlement. As the work rises the men ask for more pay, £9 centimes an hour being the last addition demanded. Mr. Eifiel proposes that, since u takes twenty-five minutes to ascend to the top, an eating stand shall be established on the first story where meals can be bought at half price. This the workmen will not accept. Fishing in Alaska is good if a Canadian gentlemen recently visiting there tells the truth. He says that at Tongas* Narrow. he Baw a creek 80 crowded with salmOfl that the bw ace was actually blackened with their backs and dorsal fins. In some places they were crowded so- closely that they could hardly move, and could be picked out of the water by hand. At a canning establishment he saw B,OJO fish just taken, waiting treatment, and in one case, one draught of a seine brought to shore 2,500 salmon. A Philadelphia newspaper says that the prevailing impression that “the oldtime broad-brimmed, sugar scoop Quakers” are dying out is erroneous, at least as faras Philadelphia is concerned. Twenty-five years ago the same impression prevailed, but to-day the benches in the meeting houses Ate is lull us then The explanation is that after coquetting with worldly ways and fashions for a season the young generation of Friends undergo a reaction and gradually fall into the same ways, and the same austere life, even to- the plain garb of their grandfathers and grandmothers. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the famous gambling resort, Monte Carlo, which was held la-t week, may be accepted as an important circumstance. The statement was then made that the net profits of last year were $1,25 ',OOO, a great falling off ip comparison with those of the year previous. This the stockholders believe to be a very discouraging condition of affairs. In proportion as this beginning of the decline of Monte Carlo is diacouragingto gamblers, it is encouraging to those wild' think that better ÜBe can be found iqtf m&tty than the roulette table and the game of rouge et noir. s A womeh walked into the Pittsburg Board of Health office the other day, with a basket containing' ioorqdozen eggs. She claimed that not, a one of them had been laid by a 2r?n, but had been manufactured in order !o deceive the public, and for this reason she desired the arrest of the vender. The 'officers examined them closely, and were unable to see wherein they differed frittn the genuine article until one w r as broker. The yolk was similar in appearance to the real egg, except that it had a browner tint, but its composition was of a jelly-like substance, principally made of gelatine syrup and The wNite was mote natural looking and had Mie same transparent appearance of the regular product, while the shell was stf 1 exact iron ation of the real. The entire egg was -iwell calculated to deceive, bnt'the officers k '•* fuged to order the arrest of' the seller Is ' the absence of the proof tbkt the egg* were in any way dangerous to the health.. The women paid 30 cents a* dozen for them.

Willie’s First Letter,

Ohieagi Tribune. Proud father ion a visit to friends in A distant eitv)—Hallo! This is a letter from my little boy Willie, five years old. It’s the first one he has ever written to me. I wonder what the dear little fellow has to say. (Opens letter and reads aloud.) “Dear Papa—This is my first letter to you”—bides his heart, I’ll keep it always—“and I am afrade you ckn'tread it”—why, anybody could read it. He writes better than many a boy twice his age—“but I thot yoa would like to hear from me. I miss yoa so much”—think of it! Only five years. old!“and I am trying to be a good boy” —isn’t he a little fellow to be prond of? —and I go to Sunday school just as reglar”—l knew he would—“l hgd. A scrap last night with Bill Cooney and I done the blame little rascal and his brother both up in about five minutes” —’m—er —’m—the rest seems to be ia relation to-mere family matters that yon wouldn’t ears t shear. ‘