Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1889 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

!■ DOMESTIC. g® White Caps are terrorizing Galesburg, * fell as far south as Rome, Ga.. i^Hhursday. A residence at Athol, Mass., was burgof $5,000. ’ A N. Y. ■■The Hartford, Conn., carpet mills burned Loss, $30,000. ► Spotted fever has again appeared in Web--1 county, Kentucky. H A large part of Leechburg, Pa., burned £ Loss. iiouc w ika,. poop:* homeless. I® Josephine Welsh accidentally killed her while trifling with a revolver at West Pa. Mr. Jeff G. McKinney, a leading crimilawyer of Milwaukee, was mysteriousm,- sand-bagged. ■ The Pacific Express office at Fort Worth, was mysteriously robbed, a day or since, of $6,800. ■ The deadlock of the Montana Legislature still continues, with no indications of ■ speedy termination. &|| American residents in Berlin gave a dinner. Minister Phelps and Count Herbert Bismarck reto a toast.: ■"."J Hans Jacob Olsen was hanged by a mob ■t Preston, Wis., Tuesday. His wife and fHon, whom he had abused and maltreated, pull tho rope. ■ Ohio wool-growers met at Columbus, Hhiesday, and issued an address demand■B ~ |Hippeal to the party in power. BiTho fumdv Keyburn, at Glen, Pa., went to sleep the face of the three-months-old jHlauglitcr. The child died of suffocation. jp» A .young woman in Butler county, Ohio, a divorce from her husband, and in love with a man who robbed her of and deserted her on their wedding ■»yHU Four little girls at EUiotsville.West Va., a keg of powder, Friday, which father used in his mining pursuits. H 1 tv pmvJcr ami Vi of <!t Bcrc blown to atoms. m The smoking car on the east-bound Pan train was derailed and overthrown tan the yards at Pittsburg, Monday. The caught fire and in tho panic that entitled many people were injured, one of win die. §B Tho government has established a cus Btoms station on the south shore of Lake of Woods, with the intention of putting a ■stop to stealing of Limber by Canadian ■smugglers, who have been running eight ■steamboats on He lake . 1 eull)', r the ■choicest of Uncle Sam’s trees. Tho Missouri, Kansas & Texas express was held up at Pryor Creek, lud. |Btci., Monday, and the express car robbed Bof about $50,000. Another account says got but SI,OOO. IB A squeeze in corn was engineered on the ■Chicago Board of Trade, Friday. The IBpric'e went up from HU to 50. It is be■jieveil by some that, “Old Ilutch” was §B ;auglit in the squeeze, while others believe be is the power behind the throne and will reap the larger part of the profits. B Win. F. Sartelle, of Worcester, Mass., a H performer in a dime museum, was shot ■ dead, Friday. He was performing a trick ■ with a rifle which he apparently ’oaded B with leaden bullets, and then requests ■ some one to shoot at him, appearing to B catch the bullet in his mouth. This time B be failed to substitute a pasteboard bullet, |B Ami V B te lle dead. ■ FOREIGN. I V>in is ,i ■ ?-'*}><:,( ir-ii B The Ameer of Afghanistan is dead. ■ Martin Farquhar Tupper, the poet, died ’ B at London, Friday. fl qW. H. Harney was hanged at Guelph, B Ont., Friday, for murdering his wife and ■) two daughters. ■ The editor of the Pottsdam Zeitung is to B~b Aplaced oirtrial for having stated in hia I paper that the Kaiser recently rode in a B second class cab.

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

Last year 6,560 complaints of losses of domestic registered mail wore received, »nd 10,671 of foreign; losses were located in 5,847 cases, and $14,511.75 recovered. Domestic money orders in the last fiscal year, 10,130,140, for $115,681,845; fees received, $933,007. Postal notes issued, 6,8(2,729, for $13,982,190; fees, 204,377. International money ordors, 824,427, for $12,280,516; paid, 26,079,f0r54,490,728; fees, $151,845. The money order system was $8,128 less than self-sustaining. Attorney Tyner, for the Postofflce Department, recommends that assistant postmasters in presidential offices be bondod to tho Government; that the Postmaster General be given power to immediately fill vacancies temporarily; that obscene scientific works be excluded from the mails. Last year there were scMit from this country by steamer 683,131 pounds of letters and 8,428,721 pounds of other mail matter; cost of service, $687,542. The Brazilian service is insufficient. □ Total postal revenues last year, $56,148,014: deficiency, $6,850,183; increase of revenue, $3,422,383; of expenses, $5,892,463; estimated expenses for year ending June 80, ’9l, $72,434,098—a deficiency of over $7,000,000. The annual report of Admiral Porter shows that most of the ships in tho navy are in good condition. The Antietam, Juniata, Pilgrim and Quinnebaug have been condemned and ordered sold. The Admiral says he has frequently found the reports of exercises on board ships unsatisfactory, and tho regulations imperfectly ootnplied : with, and thinks the reports should be made directly to the Bureau of Navigation, where they might come under the eye of the department. Many things which are Obsolete are still adhered to in these reports, forms for which were made twenty years ago, and the Admiral recommend* that as the system taotlos and exercises are entirely changed, new forms be made-

A TEN MILLION EIRE.

The Shoe Manufacturing Portion of Lynn, 31m*., Destroyed. _. J_ Lynn, Mass., the city of shoes, was visited by the greatest fire in its history, and, with two exceptions, the conflagration is the most disastrous that has ever visited New England. The fire started at 11:55 a. m., raged over eight hours, devastated a square mile of the business section of the city, 1 and caused a loes estimated at about ten million dollars. In fact, the greater part of Ward 4 is wiped out, as regards the important shoe manufacturing blocks and prominent places of business. The fire started in Mower’s wooden building on Almont street, over the boiler, and spread with such rapidity that tho fire department of the city was powerless to cope with it. This large wooden building was soon doomed, and the flames leaped across a narrow passageway and communicated with the six-story brick building known as Mower’s block. When the fires in these two buildings got well under way it was evident a terrible conflagration would result. Almost simultaneously the four story wooden shoe factory of Bennett & Barnard, dh Central ave., and the four b.jury wooden building on Almont St., caught fire, and after a time a hurricane of flame was in progress which blanched the cheeks of all the spectators For eight hours the flames had full sway, the efforts of firemen and Citizens seemingly being of no avail, although, of course, they did valuable work . The burned territory includes and is bounded by the folowing streets; Almont, Central-ave., at its junction with Willow*, Union, from its junction with Broad to the Boyden block, on both sides; Mt. Vernon St., entire; Beach on both sides as far down as Lee’s lumberyard; Washington, from Monroe through to Union; Railroad ave., all of Exchange St., Broad, from the engine house on both sides up as far as the corner of Exchange; Spring St., entire, besides ing dwell houses too numerous to mention on Suffolk, Amity, Sagamore and Beach streets. Scenes of the great Boston and Chicago fires were repeated in all their horrors. Mothers fleeing with babes in their arms; expresswagons were loading at business and dwelling houses and transferring goods to a place of safety, in many cases a second removal being necessary. After the fire had been in progress two hours everybody declared it would not stop until it reached the ocean. So it looked aud so it proved. Four daily newspapers are burned out—the Item, Bee, Press and News—three of which are issued in the afternoon and one in the morning. Three national banks, tho Central, Security and First, together with the Lynn institute for savings, located in the first national block, are all wiped out. Twelve of the finest shoe blocks in' the city are in ruins, and about twenty-, five stores. At this writing it is imposible to state how many dwelling houses were' burned. They were mostly occupied by the poorer class in the vincinity of Beach St., and the wharves. It is impossible to give any estimate of the insurance, but conservative estimates places the loss on the property at $10,000,000. Over six thousand persons are deprived of employment, 300 families are and the mayor has issuedjh call for aid. Clothihg is wanted most and quickly, too. BLAZES IN BOSTON. Two Acres of Towering Buildings Dos tioyed—Loss 85,000,000. The most disastrous fire from which Boston has suffered since 1873, broke out at about 8:20 a. m., Thursday, in the sixstory granite building owned by Jordan Marsh & Co., and occupied by Brown,Dur rell & Co., dealers in dry goods, on Bedford street, corner Kingston. The eon flagration rage-* for six hours, burned over two acres of territory covered by magnificent structures,and entailed a loss conservatively estimatedi at $5,000,000. The origin of the fire is not known, but is generally eleeteie wires. Some ol the finest blocks in the city were destroy • ed. Buildings of granite and iron, always regarded as fireproof were swept up like timber, many persons were injured by falling walls, but so far as is now known none were killed.

DEATH OF GEO. H. PENDLETON,

Ex-Senator George H. Pendleton, cf Ohio, died at Brussels Sunday night. He was bom July 19, 1825, at Cincinnati, 0., and came of a distinguished family. His education was obtained at the col eges in that vicinity. He was admitted to the bar in 1817. He was elected State Senator in 1853, and took a prominent part in the legislation of the session. In 1854 he was defeated for Congress, but in 1856' was again nominated and elected, taking his seat in 1857. He acted with the friends of Stephen A. Douglass in the contests of that time. In 1858 and 1860 he was reelected to Congress. In the division of: the Democratic party at Charleston he' warmly supported Douglass. He did all he oould to prevent secession. In 1862 he was re elected to Congress. In 1864 he! was nominated at Chicago for Vice President on the ticket with General MoClel-i lan. The ticket only carried three States, owing to the war issue. In 1866 he* was defeated for Congress. Later ' he became a champion of the Green j back idea, believing that the government bonds should be paid in greenbacks. In the Democratic National convention in ' 1808, ho at one time lacked but 2>i votes j of receiving enough to nominate. Seymour, was uomiuatod, however. Ho was defeated for Governor of Ohio in 1869 bv Rutherford B. Hayes by bat 3,003 votes. In 1878 he was elocted U. S. Senator. His advocacy of civil service reform became noted. The present civil service law owes " its authorship to him. He was appointed minister to Germany in 1885. He was married in 1546 to Miss Alice Key, of Bal timore. A son and two daughters survive him. Geo. H. Pendleton was known as a gentleman uad a scholar and no oharge was ever made against Us public or priYIBWWt — — : —? —

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Angola will hags electric light The Brazil miners strike is at last declared off. - -T. • A snow blockade in northern Indiana delayed many trains, Friday and Saturday. South Bend will make an effort to secure the 1890 encampment of the Indiana Legion. • I . _ The Supreme Court of Indiana convened n November term, Monday. Hon. Joseph • A. S. Mitchell was elected Chief Justice. The case of Lee Wilson,of Shelby county, eharged with receiving illegal pension fees, was dismissed in the federal court at Indianapolis, Tuesday. Rev. DeLorme, recently pastor of a German Reformed church in Adams county, committed suicide at Huntington, Friday, He was probably non compos mentis. Philip M. Gapen is on trial at Indianapolis for embezzlement. He is charged with lending John E. Sullivan $3,600 while Treasurer of the Insane Hospital Board. While Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Butcher, near Bryant, were temporarily absent from home, leaving their children alone the clothing of two of them caught fire and they were fatally burned. The Billet-bending and Spoke Works, which have just started at Portland, and which give employment to one hundred persons, is claimed to be the most complete establishment of the kind in the country. Representatives of the Evansville & Richmond Railway Company have closed contracts at Greensburg for fifteen acres of ground, on which will be located, shops, depot, and other accessories to railway traffio. : Elias Heustis, one of the pioneers of Dearborn county, and a resident of Manchester township since 1819, died this week, aged nearly ninety-two. While he lived there was not one older pioneer in the State. A reunion of the surviving members of the Forty-first General Assembly took place at Indianapolis, Tuesday, with about thirty persons in attendance. The session named is known as the war session of 1861. A permanent organization was effected and arrangements made to hold reunions an- , nually. While Robert Slocum, a widowed farmer, near Thorntown, was away after his second wife, his neighbors gatnered at his homestead, repaired the fences, cleaned up the surroundings, improved his home, and burned all the old vehicles, played-out farming implements, etc. They also left word that they hoped everything would be kept clean in the future. Dan McDonald, of the Plymouth Democrat, after a prospecting tour which car ried him largely through the West, editorially says: “We have no hesitancy in advising our friends who are making a living here to let well enough alone, and stay right where they are. While a few may better their condition by going West, we candidly believe nine-tenths of those who do go regret it in less than a year.” There was a little flurry of snow at Elkhart, Wednesday, which practically dem onstrated the inefficiency of the electric motor as applied at Elkhart to propel street cars. The wheels slipped upon the tracks as if the rails were greased, while the electricity spluttered and flashed among them and along the wires overhead, and the oars made exceedingly slow progress, frequently coming to a dead halt. The annual meeting of the State Prohibition League was held at Indianapolis Friday. The various- reports showed that encouraging progress was being made. The following officers were elected: President—G. W. Hagans. Vice-president—Wymond J. Becket. Secretary—El wood C. Siler. Treasurer—Mrs. L. E. Scott. Trustees—Jesse T. Hutchens, Dr. John J. Baker and Mrs. J. A. Pollack. Harrison county White Caps are again on duty. In one instance they compelled the ownsr of a poor and neglected horse to perform the duty of a horse for a whole night. When they brought him to the stable from work the hapless victim facetiously remarked that he always curried his horse after working him hards. The obliging White Caps complied with his request with alacrity, and with the largest and coarsest curry-comb they could find they groomed the human pony until the blood ran. Patents were granted Indianlans Tues as follows: N. Clymer, Bloomingsburg, bridge; C. Freshour and G. W. Lake, Marion, roofiDg paint; W. Gilbert, Kendallville, photograph frame; A. Gore and H. W. Ruton, Goshen, carpet-sweeper; Me Neal, Mishawaka, split pulley; A. Minnick Elwood, fence machine; Henry Gold, Fort Wayne, vehicle seat loop;M. Parry, Indianapolis, vehicle shaft; Max E. Richter, Fort Wayne, rotary vegetable cutter ;Wm. P. Sheffield, Zionsville, fence; Wm. Smith andC. H. Dill, Danville, grocer’s canister ; Wm. H. Trammel, Huntington, fender for plows. J. Dobson, of Osgood, was killed by A. Bishop, his father-in-law, Wednesday Dobson has mistreated his wife, and her father persuaded her to return home. Dobsou swore vengeance against all concerned in the separation, and he presented himself before the house and fired five shots through the windows. He then set fire to the bouse and barn, but the flames were extinguished without loss. Meanwhile the father-in-law armed himself with an axe, and assaulted Dobson, continuing the fight until he had dashed out his brains. Bishop has the sympathy of the community, and at last accounts had not been arrested.

Astor's Environment.

New York Weekly : —~ Stingy Employer—“ What! Want more pay? John Jacob Aster began work on a salary of $2 a week and he died worth 140.000.000. Store Boy —“Yes, sir. There’s a big difference in bosses”. The man with the detective camera is doing as much as anybody to break up the seaside matrimonial market, V The world owes every man a living, but it doesn't owe any man any other man’s living.

THE POSTAL SERVICE.

Postmaster General Wnnamaker*s annual report was made pub lie, Saturday. He believes oar postal facilities are inadequate at present for the establishment of a parcels past Sunday wprk at the offices is not, in his. opionion, warranted by the benefits derived. He deems better postal service as of more importance than cheaper letter rates. He says: “The only method I can suggest by which all their desires may be gratified is not merely to talk about application of business principles to the department, but really to apply them. It isjiot to work in poor quarters; it is not to transport mails a-foot when they should go in. railroad trains; it is not to tolerate disloyal or listless employes if better ones Gan be had; it is not finally to keep unwillingly abreast of the times. It is always to lend the times. “What is needed first is a Fourth Assistr cut Postmaster General, to be in direct charge of the great divisions of the railway mail, the foreign mail, the moneyorder office, the registry and supplies divisions, and lift out of the office of the First Assistant Postmaster General all duties, except thoso of studying men for appointment, and establishing offices, changing sites, examining reports cf inspectors, an<L of the bond division. Create a new place and find the best educated postal mau in the service, at the Postofflce Department, or in any o' -1 tLe 19,000 postoffloes, and make him the general manager.’ ’ _l_ Mr. Wanamaker says the postoffices should be divided into districts with a supervisor over each. Re reviews the controversy with the Western Union, and says he had hoped to submit a plan for uniting the postal and telegraph facilities, having carriers distribute night messages and giving a low telegraph rate to the pub lie. He thinks a contract should be entered into on bids, connecting the telegraph service with free delivery offices, postage stamps to be used in payment. Touching civil service, the report runs thus: “The postal department has an individuality of its own. The ordinary good clerk of the government might suit perfectly well in any other of the civil places, but for postoffice work he must also learn a trade. There ought to be a kind of apprenticeship with promotions that would produce motion throughout the ranks from lowest to highest place. With 150,009 employes rightly selected, who feel a proper pride in representing the government and are alive every day to improve, tho postal service would soon become the best in tho world. It may bo gravely questioned whether the present mode of selecting inspectors will furnish the peculiar ability which the government should command.” The report recommends that larger discretion be given for making contracts for carrying foreign mails with American registered vessels. Free delivery is recommended for towns of 5,000 inhabitants. It is not time to establish 1 cent postage. Postal savings banks in 10,000 fourth class offices are recommended. The department is not yet ready to consolidate third and fourth-class matter and conduct a general parcels post because of its great expense.

WANT SILVER REMONETIZED.

Resolutions Adopted by the Silver Convention at St. Louis. The Silver Convention, in session at St Louis, adopted the following resolutions Thursday: That the demonetization of silver has worked a practical violation of every contract then existing in the United States, entailed uncounted losses, reduced prices more than 30 per cent., and its effect is practically to make debts perpetual, as it takes from the debtor the ability to pay; that it causes contraction in the currency, which reduces the value until there is no profit left to the farmer, planter or men of small capital, who depend upon the sale of products for returns for their labor, j That we believe the certificate of rise \ government, backed dollar for dollar by gold and silver coin, on the product in the treasury of the United States, is a safe and sound currency, and has been approved by the people. That, considering the contraction caused by the surrender of national bank notes during the past three years, and the vast | sums that must be collected by the cancellation of government bonds during the next three years, the necessity of restoring silver is as manifest as the justice of such a policy. I That the gold and silver of the West, pouring in a steady stream upon the East for forty years, vitalized every firm of ' business there and steadied and upheld I the credit of the N ation through the great war, and made resumption possible, and that what we now demand is as much more to the “Interest of the East than of the West, as the productions of the East exceed in value the productions of the West. That we believe in equal rights of gold and silver, and free coinage for both, and that no nation ever had or ever will have too much gold and silver coins. Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Fifty-first Congress be requested by the convention to provide, at its first session, for opening the mints of the United States to the free ana unlimited coinage of standard silver dollanof the present weight and fitness, to be legal tender for all debts, public or private, equal with gold, and that until such a pro vision is made the Secretary of tho Trees ury be required to coin the maximum, $4,uU0,0()0 worth of silver per month, as authorized by law. The Penalties of a “Little Lord z. Asbur, Park Jou naL Mamma —Now, remember, Bertram, you mustn’t run to hard, or you’ll perspire and spoil your Fauntieroy, -sash or mamma will have to whip -you. Bertie— No, dearest Mamma —Above all things, remember. under no circumstances take your | hat off, because your Fauntleroy curls are sewed in the brim." —-—/ -

A YOUNG HERO.

Bravery and Patriotism Was His Expiring Inspiration. How a Young Soldier, Almoit With His Last Breath, Fulfilled His Tow—There is a Fev-er-Forgotten Inspiration in Such a Death. CeL Henry Jordan retains clearly many recollections of his army experience, and no one is more entertaining in telling them, says the Indianapolis Journal. It is the out-of-the-way incident that gives his stories a zest; the incident that would be forgotten and crowded out of the record by those of greater historical importance. “Soon after Wilder’s Brigade,” said the Colonel to a reporter recently, “had been armed with that implement of destruction the Spencer repeating rifle, the confederate women whom we chanced to meet along the line of our expeditions told us that John Morgan had determined to arta his forces with repeating rifles captured from Wilder’s brigade. This taunt had its desired effect It enraged our men, and consequently delighted our fair tormenters. But it had another effect, unforseen by Gen. Morgan and his female atlies. It made our men solemnly resolve never,under any circumstances, to surrender a gun to the confederate forces. ;r: “But there was a danger against which provision had to be made. Often our line, moving toward our point of destination, would be ten miles Tong, sometimes even longer. Such a line could not be maintained unless the men were widely separated, and wide separation made easy Communication and rapid concentrations impossible. Capture of single men or small detachments was not only possible, but probable, and it was against this danger that provision had to be made. How to save our guns in the event of capture, and thus defeat Morgan’s design, was the problem that confronted officers and men alike. The latter, grouped around their camp-fires at night, discussed the matter with great earnestness, but their deliberations were without result. Finally it was suggested by one man that, as their guns would have to be given up in the event of capture, all that could be done would be to destroy their effectiveness, in some way or other, before surrendering them. Investigation disclosed the fact that by removing a single screw the whole loading aparatus could be removed in a single piece, and, this piece thrown away, there would remain nothing but the stock and barrel of the gun to be surrendered. This discovery made, the men gave, each to the others, a solemn vow that, in< the event of capture, the effectiveness, of their rifles should be thus destroyed. “Wilder led the advance of the army of the Cumberland, and sweeping through Hoover’s Gap with his horsemen, carrying everything before him, stood at bay at the furtner end. He held it against overwhelming numbers until the infantry, which he had left far in the rear, came to his support. Standing in the ranks of the 17th Indiana that day was a young soldier, beloved by all his comrades for his intelligence, manliness and splendid courage. A mere child, with a womanly expression upon his face, one could only regret that the war should have dragged him away from his home to be sacrificed on the field of battle. Unmindful of everything but duty, he stood there, that day, bravely fighting against the overwhelming forces that were hurled against us. Suddenly he was seen to fall, and lie motionless upon the field. After awhile, in a lull in ; the battle, he raised himself upon his j elbow, took out his little screw-driver, removed the screw and threw the piece away. Not content with that, which { his fast-failing strength he emptied his cartridge-box and scattered his metallic cartridges among the leaves. Then, looking up at the comrades who had gathered around him, he said: ‘Boys, they have killed me, but you can whip them yet Don’t give up the fight.* And then, as he sank back to the earth, we saw that the spirit of that brave boy had ascended to the God of battles. “Thus died Christopher C. Mcßeynolds. There is inspiration in such a life; there is inspiration in such adeath; and, in the dark days that followed this event, when one disaster to our arms was quickly followed by another: when discontent and avowed opnosition to the war was to be seen in many of the states cf the north, and when foreign intervention, which meant the success of the rebel cause, seemed almost inevitable. and when, discouraged by thes** things, I was almost prepared to sit down and give up all as lost, it seemed to me that, I heard that little blue-eyed boy still whispering, *Col. Jordan, don’t give up the fight.’ The highest reward I ask for the poor service I rendered my country Is that it shall be remembered that I did not give up the fight until the fl for which that young hero died waved in triumph above his lonely grave on the mountainside in Tennessee.”

AN EAVESDROPPER’S FATE.

Young Mr. Silt had been three months away from his sweetheart, and he thought what a joke it would be to hide behind the parlor door and jump out and kiss her by way of surprise. He succeeded in getting into Emily Ryder’s house unobserved, and posted himself behind the door just as he had planned. As he stood there in gleeful expectancy he sweetheart’s voice exclaiming: ‘-*0 Robin. I've almost cried my eyes out foryou!” ~~j~r 'I hen the listener heard a horrible sound like a kiss, and an endless dialogue followed, in which a min’s gruff voice was intermingled. Tom Silt was in a perspiration of agony, and he felt strongly in f- vor of v rushing upon, his sweetheart and the villain she was making love to. On second thought ho stole outdoors and | posted himself where he could see his rival in exit I In a few minutes the door opened and a young man came out | A curiosity impelled Timothy to follow. I the young man and see where he lived. 1 The stranger looked bitek once or twice suspiciously, and then Timothy

would get interested in eometbiog across the street till the forme# faced front again. And so they kept on till the forward man entered a door over which the words “sample-room” shone in gilt letters. ~ Timothy followed* the file leader, whom he found seated at a smalltable in the act of calling for a “gin m* 1 : Timothy sat down at another dablc and compromised with his conscience —he was a Good Templar—by„ ordering lemonade “straight” At length Timothy’s and the stranger’s eyes met Neither would lookaside ijd the result was a prolonged nr dual* stare. The man got up and swaggered across to Timothy. “Whatd’yer want along o’ me?” he demanded fiercely. “Maybe that’s it,” he added, giving no time to answer and dashing the remainder of his “fiz” in Timothy’s face. “Anyhow you’ll find it an improvement on the slop you’re swilling there.” Here was the opening Timothy had longed for! He took no small pride in his muscle and his “science.” In an instant he was up and on guard, and before his adversary knew what was coming a stinging left-hander had closed his right eye. ■ “The combatants, it soon appeared, were very equally matched. Blows fell thiek and fast Right and left they struck out, neither taking time to parry. Damage to the enemy, not self preservation, became for the time the . primal law. Nobody interfered. and when the conflict ended it was from sheer exhaustion—victory percM: ing on neither banner. Timothy Had himself put into a cab and driven to his lodgings, whither a doctor was Summoned, for repairs. Next morning as he lay, feeling as battered and bruised in spirit as in body, a gentle tap came to the door. “Come in!” growled Timothy, thinking it was the landlady. “Why, Timothy!”_uried a sweet, voice, full of sympathy, “whatever's the matter? I heard this morning you were ill and had had the doctor, but didn’t know you’d been in a railroad smashup or been blown up on a steamboat, as I see you have. They didn't want to let me see you, but I said I would—it was my place to nurse you. How did it happen, Tim, dear?” “Emily Ryder,” said Tim, sternly, raising a corner of the beefsteak]and] ■ nnd giving her a very black 100 k indeed, “don’t bo a hypocrite! I know all!” And when he had told her all he knew—the story of his fight included ~ Emily burst into a hearty laugh. “I’m quite prepared for such heartlessnes’s,” said Timothy, bitterly. •‘O Tim, Tim! cried Emily, recovering her breath, “I'm not heartless— I’m truly and sincerely sorry; but how could you be such a dunce? Wait till I introduce Robin. I left him out in the carriage.” And, running out, she was back in a minute carrying in her arms a mite of a Scotch terrier, that looked like nothing but a pair of glittering eyes peering from a wisp of Scotch heather. “Here’s Robin,” she said, depositing him on Timothy’s pillow, whence he piade a vigorous dive at the beefsteak, but his mistress caught his collar. “He's a present I got while you were away,” said Emily, “and the nicest little creature in the world. He was stolen the other day, and I offered a reward for his return —no questions to be asked. Yesterday a queer-looking man brought him home—the same, no doubt that stole him. Of course I was very glad to see Robin, and called him ‘darling,’ and kissed him. and made aT great to do over him. But you getting into a jealous quarrel and fighting with a dog thief—it’s too funny for anything!” For Timothy’s sake we drop the curtain. —Milwaukee Journal.

Silent Men of History.

Washington- never made a speech. Tn the zenith of his fame he onoe attempted it, failed, and gave it up con- " fused and abashed. In framing the Constitution of the United States the labor was almost wholly performed In the committee of the whole, of which George Washington was the chairman. He made but two speeches during the convention, which were’ of a very few words each. The convention, acknowledged the master spirit, and historians affirm that, had it not been for his personal populurity, and the thirty words of his first speech, pronouncing it the best that could be united upon, the Constitution would have been rejected by the people. Thomas Jefferson never made a speech. He couldn’t do it Napoleon, whose executive ability was almost without a parrel lei, said that his greatest trouble was in finding men of deeds rather than words. When asked how he maintained his influence over his superiors in age and experience, when comm mder-in-chief of the army in Italy, he said, “By _ reserve.” The greatness of a man is not measured by the length of his speeches and their number.

Bare He front My Friends.

An insurance company once declined to write a large policy on tho life of a prominent St Louis lawyer, on th« ground that he had too many enemies, and it thereby made an enemy of the lawyer. But the company had reason to congratulate itself upon in action , the other day, when the aforesaid lawyer was shot and killed by one of his numerous adversaries. The man with too many enemies may inspire doubt and hesitation in an insurance office, but they take far greater risks in insuring the mad with too many friends. He is the chap who is in the greatest danger. A man can avoid hie enemies or guard against them, but he is often powerless against his friends. Thousands of men are ruined or senl to aa early grave every year because they had too many friends.—Texas Siftings.

No Joke in it.

The man who seeks to joke about hotel hash doesn’t know what he U fooling with. The cost is not onlj greater than any other plain dish, but it is recommended to beat almost any other one on the score of health. Give hash a chance to come to the front.