Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — Page 7

WASHINGTON.

An agreement was reached Monday upon the silver bill by the oonferees of the two houses. The bill consists, in short, of three ’propositions: First, that 4,500,000 ounces of silver shall be purchased monthly; (second, that Hie certificates issued shall be. legal tender; third, that silver is recognized as money and not as merchandise by the government of the United States. These are the points that the silver men have been fighting for, and* their victory is complete/ The bill is just one step from fi-ee coinage, and, it is said, represents the very extreme limit to which the President is willing to go. It is also said he will approve the measure. 1 - The House Committee on Elections today disposed bf tvyo Mississippi contested ■election cases—Hill vs. Catchings, from the , Third District, and Kernaghan Vs. Hooker, from the Seventh District. The decision was in favor of the sitting Democratic members, Catchings and Hooker. The Florida case of Goodrich vs. Bullock was discussed at length, and the final decision was deferred until next week, although it was apparent that the majority is disposed to report in favor of the claims of Goodrich, the Republican contestant. Republican Senators held a long caucus, Thursday night, to consider a programme. A general debate developed the fact that a majority of the Senators favored the passage of the federal election bill at this session of Congress, and that a majority favored a change in the rules which would make this possible.

In February last Secretary,Rusk represented to tbe State Department that contagious animal diseases had been so effectually stamped out in this country as to warrant that department in urging upon the British authorities the perfect safety of removing their irksome and unjust restrictions imposed on the shipment of American live cattle and sheep to Great Britain. Secretary Rusk declared that the time had come when our diplomatic office in London should make an effort to secure this concession in behalf of one of our greatest industries. Negotiations were at once inaugurated by the State Department, resulting in the removal of the restrictions relative to sheep, contingent upon action by this government which would prevent the introduction of diseases of sheep into this country. The British government, however, persisted in its refusal to grant any concession regarding live cattle,alleging the continued presence of contagious pleuro pneumonia in the (United States, and that cattle affected with -this disease had been discovered in recen l shipments to Great Britain from thiscoun. try. Secretary Rusk met this allegation by a prompt denial, and the propesition that his department should be represented in Great Britain by veterinary inspectors charged with tko duty of inspecting all American cattle landed in that country. The Department of State adopted the Secretary’s suggestion, and has finally effected an arrangemont, through Minister Lin coin, for the appointment of the three inspectors for the purpose indicated. The Secretary has already taken steps to carry out this arrangement, and the inspectors have been appointed. One will be stationed at Liverpool, one at Lbndon and one at Glasgow. They will sail for Europe at once, accompanied by Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and also by a special agent. The Secretary said to-day that the restrictions of the British government upon the imports* tion of beef cattle from this country upon the groundless plea of continued existence of contagious cattle diseases in the United States were unjustifiable and had lasted long enough. He now proposes to prove to the satisfaction of the British authorities that no disease exists in this country to warrant these restrictions. If maintained in spite of this evidence, some other cause must be assigned for them. By an oversight the flag on the side of the Capitol at Washington was not run up to the mast head on the assembling of Congress on the 10th. It caused considerable comment, and General Wheeler, of Alabama, who at one time commanded the entire cavalry of the Confederacy, arose and called attention to the fact. The Speaker dryly replied: “The Chair is very glad to learn that the gentleman from Alabama now manifests an interest on tbe subject. The omission vVill be corrected. ’

An attempt was made to secure the influence of the President in support 6f“the federal election bill. Several Republican Senators who are' earnest in their desire to pass that measure before the adjournment of Congress called at the White House Thursday to discuss the subjec and endeavored to induce him to use his personal influence to secure the passage of the measure. The President is quoted as saying that he recognized the importance of some such )aw as that under considera tion. He is, however, reported to have positively declined to interfere in legisla tion, and to have said that the considera tion of the bill was a matter to be decided by the Republican caucus, and not by the executive. The applications for pensions under the new pension law are being received daily at the Pension Office. The volume is increasing from day to day. It is estimated that about 130,000 applications have already been received. Pension claimants are expressing them selves as being greatly pleased with the . new dependant pension law. The provi sions of the measure relating to applica> tions, together with the recent rules adopted at the Pension Office, make it easy for claimants to complete their cases and receive pensions without the employs ment of pension agents. Indeed, if any one new enters into a contract with a pen sion agent whereby he or she agrees to pay any sum whatsoever for procuring a pension under the new lawit will be on ac count of ignorance of the law or because he or she simply wishes to a gratuitous present to the agent, The House in framing this law made it a special point to

simplify the process by which application are made and testimony furnished that the claimant himself 6r herself cam deal directly with the Pension Office as success* fully as an agent or attorney, and the claimant can procure the pension as speedily as possible without any cost. And ■it should be added that Commissioner Raum has done everything hecan to lessen the expense of claimants and can get applications through at the earliest moment. The President on the 11th nominated Col. A. McD Cook to bo Brigadier-General. Washington will build a city ball. The President has approved tbe act for the admission of Wyoming as a State of the Union. Senator Voorhees introduced in the Sen* ate on the 10th a bill to reimburse the Mi* ami Indians of Indiana for 948,000 improperly withheld from them. Congressman Butterworth has been electee! "Secretary of the World’s" "Fair Commission. —i—~v,/ ■

IS THERE A PROSPECT OF WAR?

A Washington special to the New York World in regard to the Behring Sea complication, says on the 7th: “Your correspondent is in a position to say positively and with full and accurate knowledge of the facts that the negotiations have reached a crisis which threatens the most serious complications to both nations. Without wishing to be guilty of sensationalism or. falsely misconstruing official utterances, your correspondent is able to state that Sir Julian Pauncefote has officially notified Mr. Blaine tnat if a single vessel flying the British flag is seized by American revenue cutters in Behring Sea or its waters, the powerful British fleet now assembling at Victoria, B. C., will receive immediate orders to recapture tbe seized vessel, and force will be employed if necessary. Unless the revenue cutter making the seizure should strike her flag to superior force, blood must follow, and while this may not necessarily lead to the declaration of war, a condition of things close to it must follow which may well cause the gravest anxiety in the minds of all English speaking people. ,

-An Ottawa dispatch says: The flagship Warspritte, which is expected to arrive daily at Esquimault, B. C., and be ready or any emergency in Behring Sea, is a powerful first class armored cruiser of 8,000 tons, carrying ten guns and Rear Admiral Hotham, C. B. The Nymphe, Daphne, and Espiegal, which accompany the flagship, are all twin screw sloops of eight and ten guns respectively. So this new fleet brings thirty-eight guns on the scene in addition to the Amphion and Champion already there. The British Minister denies all the alle gations made in the above dispatches to the N. Y. World. He says the negotiations have not been broken off and he does not believe their will be trouble.

NATIONAL CONGRESS

The Senate on the 7th refused to take up the tariff bill by a vote of ayes 30 nays 23. The conference report on thedeplomatic appropriation bill was agreed to. Other business transacted was of a routine character. The House spent one hour and a half in securing a quorum. The House refused to recall a bill for the correction of an error. Twelve leaves of absence were granted.' The bill for the forfeiture of certain railroad land grants was debated at length. The Senate on the 10th considered and adopted the conference report on the silver bill. Morgan’s speech in opposition to it occupied three hours. The vote on the adoption of the report was ayes 39, nays 26. All nays being by,Democrats. Nearly all the time of the House was passed in debate over approval of the journal (filibuster). The conference report on the diplomatic appropriation bill was agreed to. The land grant forfeiture bill was considered. In the Senate on the 11th Teller introduced a joint resolution declaring it to be the determined policy of the United States government to use both gold and silver as full legal tender money; instructing the President to invite the governments of the Latin Union countries and of such other nations as he may deem advisable, to join the United States in a conference to adopt a common ratio between gold and silver for the purpose of establishing internationally the use of'bi-metallic money and securing fixity of relative value between those metals. The matter was refe»*-d and no other business was transacted The House could do u»*hUg for want of a quorum.

THE MARKETS.

Imdiafapohs, July 11, 1890 eun. - ' ■' - . Wheat. Corn. Oats. Ryc> lndlanapolli,.'2 r’d 85 1 wJG 2 w 3234 ' SFd 78 2ye34!* Chicago y t .34 28 52 Cincinnati 2 r’d 6* 3* II 43J4 St. Louie. 2 I’d 84 3SJ<j 28* , ’ 3S New York 2 r’d 9314 ‘1 7»!4 3* Baltimore 88 41 33 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 19 34Clover Seed Toledo 88 35)4 »lt S£, Detroit Iwh 83 35)4 30>. Minneapolis : 83 Louisville .... .......... _. „... LITE STOCK. Cattle —Export grades $4-25@4.«0 Good to choice shippers 3.75<g410 Common to mediur shippers.... 3.00(g8.50 Stockers, 500 to 860 & •.... 2.23&8.50 Good to choice heifers.. .... .. 3.30fr*,3.50 Common to medium heileiv .... j.ao Good to choice cows 2.754>>3.n0 Fair to medium cows 2 *V<e2.eo Hoos—Heavy.... ... 3.70(33.80 Light 734(3. & Mixed 3.:owiir. Heavy roughs 3.00»3.25 Sheep-Good to ch0ice.......... » 25f»i yt Far to medium. «.23@,.&) MISCELLANEOUS. Egg* 10c. Butter, Creamery IS®2O; Dairy 10, Good Country 7c. Feathers, 36c. Bo—wax, 18<820; Wool 30@3S, In washed 2* Poultry, Hens 9c. Turkeysjb roc star* 3 clover seed 3.2533.301

FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHIES.

'Many Live* Lost 6j Acddeato«t Cbicafo and HslMHi. ' A frightful explosion occunred at Chicagb on the night of the 11th, on the steamer Tioga, one of the largest vessels on the great lakes. Thirty-eight people were aboard the steamer at the time. When the work of rescuing survivors, which commenced almost instantly, was well under way, only two persons could be found who escaped unhurt. To make matters worse, fire broke out on the wrecked vessel, and huge volumes of flame and smoke impeded the searchers for the dead and dying. The cause of the explosion was obtained about midnight, when the vessel's boilers and the nature of the cargo could be examined. The boilers seemed intact. The cargo was kerosene, gasoline and cotton. Inferences were drawn that tbe leaking of kerosene saturated the cotton and generated noxious fumes. When lanterns were taken into the hold to enable the stevedores to work,' JLh®,lights,. instead of being an aid to unfortunate toirers,"pf6v&ff'tbeirdeßtruction. It was in tbe Chicago river, at the foot of Washington street, that the explosion occurred. This locality is in the heart of the business section of Chicago, and the terrific shock of the explosion brought people running in terror out of the tall buildings blocks away. Most of the victims were residents of Chicago, stevedores, who were unloading the vessel. Only three of the Tioga’s crew were reported on the list. Tbe fire proved a stubborn one, and made it impossible at the time to verify the report that the boilers had exploded. In the hold near the steamer’B stem was where the fire held sway. Through the hursts of fire could be seen a great jagged cleft in the Tioga’s decks and cabin, and aloft on the tall smoke stacks dangled a huge frame work of timber, swaying backward and forward, telling of the terrific force of the explosion which sent it there from thirty feet below. The loss of life was frightful. At this writing nine bodies had been taken from the hold. Several women are believed.to have perished.

A terrible accident occurred in Dartmouth, Halifax, N. S., on the night of the 11th, by which a number of people were drowned, but the exact number is not known. The disaster happened by reason of the chain attached to a ferryboat slipping out of place and allowing the front of the bridge to sink and precipitate a crowd of 600 or 700 men, women and children into the water. Almost all of them were resoued. Four bodies have been taken from the water, and the search continues. The people wt-.re crowded there waiting for the new ferry steamer Annex, just arrived from New York, to dock. When the steamer got within two feet of the landing a number of persons jumped on board, and at that moment the accident occurred. The enter end of the bridge went down sud ienly, and the horror-stricken crowd slipped off into the harbor as though they were descending a slidei piling on top of each other, shrieking for help and scrambling for means of safety. For some minutes there was a confused mass of men, women and children struggling in the water, but the accident had hardly nappened before a dozen brave youths and men leaped to the rescue with* out waiting to throw aside their clothe*. The drowning people were rapidly passed up to the men standing on the wharves, and the rapidity with which the rescuers performed their work resulted in a great ma* jority of those who fell in being saved from death. There were many able swim* mers in the party, and these worked till exhausted, helping the people to land, until there were no more in sight on the surface and those who could not be saved had sunk out of sight.

BLOODY FACTIONAL WAR.

Pitched Battle in a Texas Town—Six Dead Counted from One Window. A telegram from Ysleta, Tex., on the llth, says a pitched battle is in progress there between two local factions, both of which claim control of the town government. They held an election in April and each side claimed the election. Both sets of officials were sworn in, and the town has had two governments ever since. One party, led by an intelligent Mexican, was called the “People’s party,” and the other was led by a Hebrew, named Gaal, and called the “Republican party.” Several fights have taken place, and it has been expected the trouble Would culminate in ftbloody conflict. A later dispatch says the fighting has ceased, but both sides hold their grounds and it is impossible for any one to venture out to discover the number of dead and wonnded. The telegraph operator wires that he can count six dead bodies from his window.

TAR AND FEATHERS AND HEMP

A dispatch from Kansas City, on the llth, says: Harry Dent, agent for a Kansas City liquor house, Thursday, opened up at Ottawa, Kansas, under the sign “Kansas City Original Package.” A warrant was sworn out for him on the charge of inciting a riot, and he was taken before County Attorney Smart. Then every effort was made to force him to leave the city, threats of tar and feathers and a hemp rope being made! He agreed to take down his sign and was released. In the afternoon he was again arrested and put under SSOO bonds, failing to give which he was put in jail. In the evening two of Dent’s assist ants were arrested as vagrants and were locked up. William N. Whiteley, the reaper king, whose shops at Springfield, 0., the largest in the United States, we now deserted, half erased by the loss of millions, has had his mental trouble augmented by the lose of his only daughter. He would not lei the emb&lmer touch the, body, but had i coffin made plainly in his own shop. He would let no crape he placed on the door, end was only .prevented at the last moment from haoliag the body to the grave in i dray. The girl was most beautiful and i fine linguist, tv ■

ARE YOU A WITNESS.

TESTIMONY IN BEHALF OF CHRISTIANITY. Faith the Only Resource in the Supreme Moment of Humanity—Arjcnmhnte and Apologies Are Vain— Dr. Talmage's Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at BeatNeb., Sunday. Text, Acts., iii: 15. “We Are Witnesses.” He said.

In the days of George Stephenson, the perfector of the locomotive engine, the scientists proved conclusively that a railway train could never be driven by steam power successfully and without peril; but the rushing express Srom Liverpool to Edinburgh ■ and Edinburgh to London have made all the nations witnesses of the splpn■did achievement. Machinists and navigators proved conclusively that a steamer could never cross the Atlantic Ocean; but no sooner had they successfully proved the impossibility of such nn undertaking than the work was done and the passengers on the Cunard, and the Inman, and (the National, and the White Star Lines are witnesses. There went up a guffaw of wise laughter at Prof. Morse’s proposition to make the lightning of heaven his errand boy, and it was proved conclusively that the thing could never be done; but now all the newsof the wide world, by Associated Press put in your hands morning and night, has made all nations witnesses. So in the time of Christ ft was proved conclusively that it was impossible for Him to rise from the dead. It was shown logically that when a man was dead, he was dead, and the heart and the liver and the lungs having ceased to perform their offices, the limbs would be rigid beyond all power of friction or arousal. They showed it to be an absolute absurdity that the dead Christ should ever get up alive; but no sooner had they proved this than the dead Christ arose, and the disciples beheld Him, heard His voice and talked with Him, and they took the witness-stand to prove that to be true which the wiseacres of the day had proved to be impossible; the record of the experience and of the testimony is in the text: “Him hath God raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.”

Now, let me play the skeptic for a moment. “There is no God,” says the skeptic, “for I have never seen him with my physical eyesight Your Bible is a pack of contradictions. There never was a miracle. Lazarus was not raised from the dead, and the water was never turned into wine. Your religion is an imposition on the credulity of the ages.” There is an aged man moving over yonder as though he would like to respond. Here are hundreds of people with faces a little flushed at these announcements, and all through this assembly there is a suppressed feeling which would like to speak out in behalt of the truth of our glorious Christianity, as in the days of the text, crying out: “We are witnesses. ”

The fact is, that if this world is ever brought to God, it will not be through argument, but through testimony. You might cover the whole earth with apologies for Christianity and learned treatises in defense of religion—you would not convert a soul. Lectures on the harmony between science and religion are beautiful mental disciplines, but have never saved a soul, and never will save a soul. Put a man' of the world and a man of the Church against each other, and ,the man of the world will in all probability get the triumph. There are a thousand things in our religion that seem illogical to the world, and always will seem illogical. Our weapon in this conflict is faith not logic; faith, not metaphysics; faith, not scholastic exploration. But then, in order to have faith, we must have testimony, and if 500 men, or 5,000 men, or 500,000 men, or 5,000,000 men get up and tell me that they felt the religion of Jesus Christ a joy, a comfort, a hope, an aspiration, I am bound as a fair-minded man to accept their testimony. I want just now to put before you three propositions, the truth of which I think this audience will attest with overwhelming unanimity. The first proposition is: We are witnesses that the religion of Christ is able to convert a soul. The Gospel may have had a hard time to conquer us, we may have fought it back, but we were vanquished. You say conversion is only an imaginary thing. We know better. “We are witnesses.” There never was so great a change in our heart and life on any other subject as on this. People laughed at the missionaries in Madagascar because they -preached ten years withqut one convert; but there are 33,000 converts in Madagascar to-day. People laughed at Dr. Adoniram Judson, the Baptist missionary, because he kopt on preaching in Burmah five years without a single convert; but there are 20,000 Baptists ia Burmah to-day. People laughed at Dr. Morrison, in China, for preaching there seven years without a single conversion; but there are 25,000 Christians in China to-day, People laughed at the misionaries for preaching at Tahiti fifteen years without a single conversion, and at the missionaries for preaching in Bengal seventeen years without a single conversion; yet In all tho«e lands there are multitudes of Christiana to-day. But why go so far to find evidence of the Gospel’s power to save a soul? We ware so proud that no man could have -ambled us; we were so hard tint no wrthly power eould have melted us; angels of God were all around about us; they could not oversome but one day, perhaps at a Methdust anious seat, or at a Prestyteilan catechetical lecture, or at a titridl. or on horseback, a power

seized us. and made us get down, and made ns tremble, and made us kneel, and made us cry for mercy, and we tried to wrench ourselves away from the grasp, but we could not It flung us flat, and when we arose we were as much changed as Gourgis, the heathen, who went into a prayer-meeting with a dagger and a gun, to disturb the meeting and destroy it, but the next day was found crying, “Oh, my great sins! Oh, my great Savior!” and for eleven years preached the gospel of Christ to his fellow-mountaineers, the last words on his dying lips being, “Free grace!” Ob, it was free grace! When a man has trouble the world comes in and says, “Now get your mind off this; go out and breathe the fresh air; plunge deeper into business.” What poor advice! Get your mind off it! When everything is upturned with the bereavement; and everything reminds yon of what you have lost. Get your mind off it! They might as well advise you to stop thinkYou cannot atopthinkLng, and you cannot stop thinking in that direction. Take a walk in the fresh air! Why, along that very street, or that very road, she once accompanied you. Out of that- grass-plat she plucked flowers, or into that showwindow she looked, fascinated, saying: “Come, see thepiotures.” Go deeper into business! Why, she was associated with all your business ambition, and since she has gone you have no ambition loft. Oh, this is a clumsy world when it tries to comfort a broken heart. I can build a Corliss engine, lean paint a Raphael’s “Madonna,” I can play a Beethoven’s “Eroica. Symphony” as easily as this world can comfort a broken heart. And yet you have been comforted. How was it done? Did Christ come to you and say, “Get your mind off this; go out and breathe fresh air; plunge deeper into business?” No. There was a minute when He came to you—perhaps in the watches of the night, perhaps in your place of business, perhaps along the street—and He breathed something into your soul that gave peace, rest, infinite quiet, so that you could take out the photograph of the departed one and look into the eyes and face of the dear one and say: “It is all right; she is better off; I would not call her back. Lord, I thank Thee that Thou hast comforted my poor heart.” Again: I remark that we are witnesses of the fact that religion has power to give composure in the last moment. In our sermons and in our lay exhortations we are very apt, when we want to bring illustrations of dying triumph, to go back to some distinguished personage—to a John Kno* or a Harriet Newell. But I want you for witnesses. I want to know if you have ever seen anything to make you believe that the religion of Christ can give composure in the final hour. Now, in the courts, attorney, jury and judge will never admit mere hearsay. They demand that the witness must have seen with his own eyes, or heard with his own ears, and so I am critical in my examination of you now; and I want to know whether you have seen or heard anything that makes you believe that the religion of Christ gives composure in the final hour. “Oh, yes,” you say, “I saw my father and mother depart. There was a great difference in their death beds. Standing by the one we felt more veneration. By the other more tenderness.” Before the one, you bowed perhaps in awe. In the other case you felt as if you would like to go along with her. How did they feel In that last hour? How did they seem to act? Were they very much frightened? Did they take hold of this world with both hands as though they did not want to give it up? “Ob, n 0,,” you say; “no, I remember as though it were yesterday; she had a kind word for us all and there were a few mementoes distributed among the children, and then she told us how kind we must be to our father in his loneliness, and then she kissed us good-bye and went asleep as calmly as a child in a cradle.”

What made her so composed? Natural courage? “No,” you say. “Mother was very nervous. When the carriage inclined to the side of the road she would cry out. She was always rather weakly.” What, then, gave hen composure? Was it because she did not care much for you, and the pang of parting was not great? • ‘Oh,” you say, “she showered upon us a wealth of affection; no mother ever loved her children more than mother loved us; she showed it by the way she Pursed us when we were sick, and she toiled for us until her strength gave out.” What, then, was it thatgave her composure in the last hoar? Do not hide it? Be frank, and let me know. “Oh,” you say, “it is because she was so good; she made the Lord her portion. and she had faith that she would go straight to glory, and that we should all meet her at last at the foot of the throne.” Here are people who say, “I saw a Christian brother die, and he triumphed.” And some one else) “I saw a Christian sister die, and she triumphed.” Some one else will say, “I saw a Christian daughter die, and she triumphed.” Come, all ye who have seen the last moments of a Christian, and give testimony in this cause on trial. Uncover your heads, put your hand on the old family Bible from which they used to read the promises, and promise in the presence of high heaven that you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. With what you have seen with your own eyes, and what you have heard with your own ears, is there power in this Gospel to give calmnes-* and triumph in the last exigency? The response comes from ail sides, from young, and old, and mid-dle-aged: *(We are witnesses! ” You see. my friends, I have not put before you. to-day an abstraction, or chimera, or anything like guess-work. I present you affidavits of the best

men and women, living and dead. Two witnesses in Court will establish a fact. Here are not two witnesses, but thousands of witnesses on earth, millio n of witnesses, and in heaven a great multitude of witnesses that no man can number, testifying that there is power in this religion to convert the soul, to give eemfort in trouble, and to afford composure in the last how. If ten men should come to you when you are sick with appalling sickness, and say, they had the same sickness and took a certain medicine, and it cured them, you would probably take it. Now, suppose ten other men should come up and 9ay. “We don’t believe tnere is anything in that medicine.” “Well,” I say, “Have you ever tried it?” “No. I never tried it, but I don’t believe there is anything in-it.” Of course you discredit their testimony. The skeptic may come and say: “Thereis no power in your religion.” --Have you ever tried it?” “No, No.” “Then avaunt! ” Let me take the testimony -ot -the-mUtioßfr-ef-seuis-that have been

converted to God and comforted in trial and solaced in the last hour. We will take their testimony as they cry: "We are witnesses ! ” Some time ago Prof. Henry, of Washington, discovered a new star, and the tidings sped by submarine telegraph, and all the observatories of Europe were watching for that new star. Oh, hearer, looking out through the darkness of thy soul to-day, canst thou see 1 a bright light beaming on thee? “Where?” you say, “where? How can I find it?” Look along by the line of the cross of the Son of God. Do you not see it trembling with all the tenderness and beaming with all hope? It is the Star of Bethlehem.

Oh, hearer, get your eye on it It is easier for you now to become Christians than it is to stay away from Christ and heaven.

Recruiting for the Army.

Chatting with the Sergeant in charge of recruiting for the United States army at the station in Park Row, says a New York Star writer, he told roe some curious things about the new and old soldiers.

“During the summer months,” said he, recruiting is practically at a standstill in New York, but during the fall, and especially in the winter months,, the new soldiers flock in upon us. Of course a larger percentage of men are recruited in midwinter, and this fact is easily accounted for, as many a homeless wanderer prefers the severe discipline of Uncle Sam to the more vigorous discipline of old Boreas, with hu biting winds and inelement blizzards.' Really our soldiers are better off ini every way than thousands of their civilian brethern, but the idea of doing: “as we please,” and quitting a boss when we feel “good and ready,” is so firmly rooted in the anatomy of the average American citizen that desertions are more common than in any other army in the wprld. There are four non-commissioned officers always on duty here, and when a batch of five recruits has been gotten together one of the soldiers takes them to headquarters on Governor’s Island, to go into training. Men can not enlist who' are over 35 years of age. and the! majority of recruits have not seen over! twenty-one summers. Every nation-j ality is represented, but mostly Ameri-j cans, .t Fully five thousand men in > the United States army have re-eniisted 1 when their time expired, and most ofj them continue to do so until age prevents further service.”

“Do any of them save money?” | “Why, certainly,” answered the. Sergeant; “and on this point let me* toll you a story. Last month a friend! of mine, coming from San Francisco,! met on the train a private soldier whoj showed him government warrants' amounting to $1,500. The soldier was on his way to re-enlist, informed myl friend that service in the army was as! good a thing as any J man ought to desire. “I was rather surprised at the $1,500) part of the story, and asked my friend! if the soldier had given his name. He had and the moment I heard it pronounced I knew him. and remembered that he used to deal faro for the boys at Fort Pierre, Dak., and that they played a pretty stiff game.”

How He Cured Her.

Cutely: “I suppose you will take a prominent part in the graduating exercises of your school, Miss Gabby?” Miss Gabby: ••Ob, yes; 1 expect to : be the class poetess and historianess.” Cutely: “Ah! indeed! I was talking to the principaless of your school this morning, and she assured me that you were one of the most proficient pupilesses she had. Indeed, she said that the professoresses in music were quite charmed with you as a musicianess, and expected that you would outstrip all competitor©sses in the contest for the gold medal. Besides, she said, As an elocutionutess you gave good promises, and there was no reason why you should not pose as a prominent performeress at some fu.ure time on the violin. O, yes, the; are all pleased with you, and your dancing teaebrress said that you were a graceful waltzeress. Of course you are somewhat of a cookess; you mast be, after having taken lessons from so able an educator-’ ess in the culinary art as Madame Se you are to be class poetess and historianess! ; And who are to be valedictorianess, salut&torianesr and—?” Miss Gabby; “Alice Brown will be the valedictorLm, and Msnd Adams salutatorian,”

The World’s Product of Wheat

Last year the world mlsed 2,000, * 000,000 bushels of wheat T > Jnitod States 490,000,00*1 bushels France 806,000. India 237,00\000, Russia (with Poland) 800.000,000. Portugal 9,000.000. Denmark 5,000.Cd0. Spam 72,000.000, Switzerland 2,»0f000, Germanyß4.ooo, oos/, Hungary 95 000,000. Asia Minor 87,000.000. Pends 22,000,000. . ;. v