Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — Page 6

WITH GOOD INTENT.

Waverly Magazine, “O-w-ah,” yawned Lettie Spaulding, stretching herself lazily in the hammock under the apple tree. *’l think I shall stagnate in this dull place; my very blood refuses to circulate. Oh, dear, I w,sh we would have a thunder shower, ora cyclone, or a fire, or anything for a change. For goodness sake, Kate, come out from the shade of Herodotus long enough to lecture me, if nothing more. ” Kate withdrew reluctantly from her feast with “the father of history.” and gazed with displeasure at the little minx who had dropped down in the grass and was very busy, all at once, pulling the petals from a field of daisy one by one, crooning the while: “He loves me; he loves me not.” “I wonder if you will always be a child,” said the elder sister, somewhat petulantly.

“And I wonder if you will always be a scold,” retorted Lettie. “I verily believe, Kate, that had you lived in the time of Socrates Xanthippe's fame would not have shone with so brilliant a luster.” And, having hurled this javelin,* Lettie made a pretense of going to 9leep with her head resting on the neck of Zep, the St. Bernard dog that lay beside her. _ There was a whirr of wheels, and the young village doctor went dashing by through clouds of dust. ••Oh, but that is refreshing!” said Lettie, turning her face so as to catch all the dust possible. “It revives my fainting soul, for I had begun to think that the very dust in the road was dead. By the way, they say the young M. D. is very learned. Uncle Will and he racked their brains for more than two hours the other evening in argument as to whether or not atoms could be divided. He'd make just the husband for you, Kate, and it ' is just a pity you are not acquainted with him. You are both philosophic and scientific, and who knows but what you might detect the chemical qualities—the compounds and elements —of love itself, and its relation to matrimony? Why, 1 ” “There, Lettie, you have talked enough,” broke in Kate. “I am sorry mamma put you in my care, for Lam riot equal to the task imposed upon me. Yoj Jare like a young colt—always threatening to kick over the traces; and I hardly dare turn my back on you for fear you will do something to disgrace us in the eyes of our relatives." “Well, I never!” exclaimed Lettie. • Here I have been a perfect model of propriety for the last week. The Dr. . Jekyll of my nature has full sway, and this is what I get for my pains! I haven’t chewed gum but twice in all that time, and then I climbed up a cherry tree so that no one could, see me.”

“Climbed a tree! Oh, Lettie, and you sixteen years old! I shall write mamma that we will be home next week, for you worry the life out of me.” “Well, now. Kate, that is the most cheerful thing I have heard in an age; and it you will for a certainty go next week 1 won’t do a single naughty thing while we’re here.” “You can do what you like, said Kate “1 am not going to buy you over with a promise.” “Well, then, beware!” Ana Let'.ie with a mischievous gleam in her blue eyes and a quiver of defiance about her rosy lips, skipped gayly away. The nexti morning she did not get up to breakfast. She was not feeling well; and when her aunt prepared a dainty bit of toast and a poached egg she .said she could not eat a mouthful. She, felt no better at noon, and Kate declared her intention of sending for the doctor. , ‘Old Dr. Lane is not at home, and I won t have that young doctor,” said Lettie, peevishly. ••I shall send for him.” said Kate authoritatively, “and if you are ill any length of tone you can have Dr. Lane when he return.-.”

And her tone augured ill success to any demurring, Letue submitted to the inevitable It was a puzzled face that beat over the girl an hour later. The cheeks on the pillow were like the piumuge of a flamingo, and the eyes ’nenth a tangle of golden hair shone with radiance of a meteor. The question put forth by the doctor and answered by the patient in a languid, listless wav seemed to give him but little satisfaction; and after preparing some medicine and leaving a few directions he departed, no doubt with the intention of studying up the case just as soon as he reached home. There was a good deal of talking at the front door between Kate and the doctor, in a tone so subdued that Lettie could not catch the tefior of it. She seemed no better on the following day. ami a change of remedy was tried. A season of mustard plasters, composition tea, and starvation diet followed, which the patient bore up under heroically; still no improvement.

The conversations at the door between the- doctor and Kate were of a little longer duration each day. Scraps of bright talk often floated up to the tick room from the piazza below, where the young man on one occasion had remained at least an hour In spite of her pronounced pro* clivities Kate was. a most interesting girl: and it afforded the young practitioner much pleasure to discuss with her topics of mutual interest. Lettie, who had grown quite fretful, did not care to have Kate about her for any length of time. She preferred the attendance of her cousin Alice, a girl about her own age; and Kate, who found her books much better company, did not allow the whim to cause her any uneasiness. ••Let me see,” said Kate coming into the room one morning with an open letter in her hand; “to-day is Saturday. Do you think you could possibly be

taken home on Tuesday, Lettie? Mamma is quite anxious about you. and writes for me to get you home as soon as I can.” “Tuesday, Kate? Why, I think you must be crazy? We will be lucky if, I am Well enough to go in a month.” “It's too bad, Lottie, arid you dislike it so here, but perhaps you will get along better now, for Dr. Lane is coming home to-morrow, and we will see what he can do for you.” . “We will do no such thing for it is bad luck to ehange doctors. Not that I have such a high opinion of Dr. Hall, for I did not want him in the first place, if you but remember.'V And Lettie turned away as though nothing more remained to be said on the ject“l am sorry to worry you dear, but it can’t bo helped; Dr. Hall is going to be married next week, and he goes away to-night—so it leaves you no Choice in the matter.” “Going to be married!" exclaimed Lettie. “I just don’t believe it.” “W T hy, what is there so incredible about it?” asked Kate, turning to arrange some articles on the bureau. A glance at her sister’s reflection in the glass revealed to Lettie that she had turned away to laugh. * ‘Send Alice to me!" she commanded. Kate hurried away on her errand, and in a moment Alice rushed breathlessly into the room. “What's up? Are they engaged?” she asked, dosing the door behind her. “Engaged? Oh, yes especially Dr. Halt! He is very much engaged— gos „lng <p Jhoiiiarried next wee.c. To think that all my efforts to secure Kate a suitable husband have been thrown [away On an engaged man! Oh, the mustard plasters and doses I did endure! But, Alice, the worst of it all is that they know all about it; at least Kate does, for I caught her laughing at me. Just help me get my clothes and tell Kate we will leave here on the 5 o’clock train this afternoon.” It was a demure little maiden who sat by Kate’s side on the homeward journey that afternoon, but the elder sister magnanimously refrained from referring to the episode that had just taken place. • ‘She has learned a lesson, no doubt, ” thought she. “and-her intentions were certainly good, if her behavior was not.”

Mr. Depew and the Girls.

New York Worl i. It was excellent counsel which Mr, Depew gave to a company of working girls when be told them to enjoy their work and. “get lots of fun” out of life, after the example he tries to set. It is not so easy to “get lots of fun out of life when one is a typewriter or a seamstress, as when Orie is a President of a great railroad company with the salary 9 f a President of the United States, nut after all there is less in circumstance than in temperament., so far as jollity is concerned. Mr. Depeiv would “get lots of fun” out of life if he had only a typewriter’s pay for a' typewriter’s work, and the working girl of sunny temperament and selfrespect has advantages of a well marked kind over Mr. Depew. She is not nominated for President three times a weak as he is. She is much younger than he is, which means a longer prospect for fun. and she has not dined out as he has until the thought of dinner has come to be wearying. And then a healthy young girl has her little thrilling dreams of romance out of which she gets a pleasure wholly beyond the reach-of. the' Railroad President. Imagine Mr. Depew lying awake in an ecstasy of sweet imagining over tfre~rectrtteetioh !of a kindly pair of eyes or a warm 1 grasp of tho hand with a world of j possible meaning in it! i There is joy in honest work for | honest bread which is to be found no. I where else in this world. The prim- [ eval curse is not a curse, but a bless- | ing to men and women constituted as , men and women in the nineteenth I century. The grievance of the workingwoman (when she has a grievance) is not with the fate that compels her to earn her bread, but with the inhu- ' inanity, injustice and often the, brutal- : ity of mdri who should hold themselves I the willing and brotherly protectors |of all women, and especially of wo- ! men who must wage life’s battle singlehanded.

The Moved.

Boston Post. A Hartford gentleman traveling In Colorado found tacked upon one of the poles of an abandoned house the following notice, which tells the whole story of the discomfort of living upon government land and the joy of securing (by fair means or foul) eastern capital upon which to retire: 600 miles to wool. 6,009 miles to water 6 inches to hell. God bless our little home. We have negotiated a loan and gone home to live with our wife’s folks.

Indiana’s Population 2,225,000.

Washington Special Chicago News. At the census office to-day it wa 8 stated that the populationoi Nebraska • as ascertained from tne card estimate of all the supervisors, was 1,04*2,212Indiana, 2,224,822; lowa, 1.458,330; South,Dakota, 336,942; North Dakota,' 181,600. These are but the estimates of the supervisors, and the official count may change the figures materially. The supervisors’ estimates for Illinois and Kansas have not vet arrived. It will be somo time before the official count is known.

Gave His Promise.

Chatter. The jury brought in a verdict of “not guilty.” The Jutjge said atjmbnishingly to the prisoner: “After this you ought to keen away from bad company.” “Yes. your honor. You will not sea me again in a hurry.”

AMERICA’S LAZARETTO.

Pictures of the Settlement o. L-epers. i A New York Herald special from Tracadie, N. 8., says: One has not to go to far Molokai to witness that awful blight Qf the flesh, leprosy. Here in this out of the way spot of New Brunswick, on the shores of the great ocean, are sights to make the soul sick. Here are literally immured a score or more of wretches touched with a foulness which, for no fault of their own, exchides them forever from the world. It is true they are treated wi h more consideration than the lepers of Scriptural times who dwelt in the open sepulchers about Jerusalem, subsisting on the fragments that accidental charity dropped on the j ground in the wilderness. Nor is heard from that terrible cry as of a lost soul in the Dantean hell, “Unclean! Unclean!” No, the lot of these unfortunates is made as endurable as the malady of which they are victims will permit. The Dominion government has erected a commodius hospital on the banks of the Tracadie river, over-looking the gulf into which the slender streamlet falls. It would be difficult to find anywhere e lovelier combination of “streamlet and hill” than this. Would that one could forget the hopeless fate of these fellows. But alas! they are “the world forgets ting by the world forgot.” All that makes life worth enduring has been withdrawn from them.

Nevertheless, it is pleasant to know that their lot is more endurable than it was years ago. When the lazaretto was established about forty-five years ago the poor creatures were lassoOpd like beasts, drawn by ropes and beaten with long poles to force them toward the lazaretto. No one would touch them. They were torn from the bosom of their families although in many cases they were the sole support of wife and children. The cottages which then constituted the hospitals wore filthy and uncared for. Malei and females were cast together, and the contamination of the immorality was added to the other horrors. Their food was laid down on the ground, to be eaten where they chose. To the r people in the surrounding country the name ‘‘lazaretto” was clothed with all the horrors of Gehenna. Little wonder then that when a member of a family was attacked with the loathsome disease his relatives took every precaution to conceal his condition. It may well be supposed that this secrecy tended to spread the disease. The condition of the lazaretto at length became a public scandal; so much so that in 1868 it reached the ears of Sister St. John (Miss Vigor) of the hotel Dieu, Montreal. She volunteered to go and care for these poor outcasts. Other volunteers were asked for and every sister in the house tendered her services. Seven were chosen, carefully intstrueted in the treatment of leprocy, and then they started a mission compared with which the task of cleaning the Augean stables was a light one. They found the lazaretto a veritable abode of the damned. But the sisters cheerfully set to work, and in a very few years everything was transformed. The provincial government of New Brunswick, glad to have the scandal removed, provided all necessary funds for meeting the expenses of the institution. From being a loathsome charnel house it was transformed into a home. The inmates ana the house itself are kept scrupulously clean. Hired attendants do alt the manual work. The inmates have no tasks imposed on them. Their path to death is smoothed and relieved of eares. They have a small farm with which they may do what they choose. They have boats in which they fish and idle a way the summer days. As to the origin of the disease, some find it in the deterioration caused by generations of intermarriages. I'he county of Gloucester, which is the seat of the disease, is settled by Acadian French and shows to a large extent from the outside world by their different tongues The little community married and intermarried until nearly everybody was related to everybody else. One story is that 140 years ago a bark from the coast of byria was wrecked in th§ Gulf of St. Lawrence just Qtf the shores of Glouscester county. The rescued sailors stayed for somr -considerable time with the Acadians. and from them the latter contracted the first case of leprosy. ( Another version has it that a stranger hailing from Quebec was afilicted with the horror and left it as a legacy to his entertainers,, while etill another story is that the disease was contracted through some of the people eating putrid fish. The disease is called leprosy, although it is probable thatiti9 in many respects different from the leprosy which whitened skin and rotted the bones of the Hebrews of old. But this is undoubtedly a malady of the same nature. It ha> been called by medical men Greek elephantaisis. A recent authority thus describes its symptoms: “The first indication of the disease is the app aranee of tiny tubercles on the skin, and especially on the face. These increase from the size of a pinhead to that of a hazelnut. Tho nose and lips become thickened and swollen so that the mouth is distorted and the features unrecognizable. The eyes droop, and eye-lashes and eyo-brows, and sometimes the hair drop out. < After a time the tubercles break, ulcerate and_diachacee v j,K li< tacking the cartilage and bone, and i piece by piece joints'and flesh fall off. until death gives the sufferer freedom ‘ from his. horrible disease.” The average duration from the time , the.first symptom is discovered until death ensues is about ten or twelve years. The lazaretto wis taken in charge of by the Dominion govorn-

jment in 1880, and Dr. Smith was 1 placed in charge. He ko ps a sharp l lookout for infected persons. In a i conversation had with the doctor, ‘he said: “I am not yet satisfied that the disease is incurable. I discharged one rnan from the hospital some years ago and he»bas had no return of the symptoms. Last year I discharged a girl who had been admitt :d to the lazaretto just as soon as the first symptoms of infection developed themselves. Still, though these two are apparently free from the malady, I do not regard the cases as permanently curqd and I still hold them under close surveillance. Of late the disease has been dying out in Tracadie, its original seat. But out of five new cases taken in the last year, one was from Gape Breton and four from the parishes which adjoin Tracadie. I have traced a new focus to the disease situated between Shippegan and Cnraquet, and from this center I have traced it to other settlements.” The act which gives the doctor authority to segregate pareuts does not apply to the new hotbeds of the disease., hut. he feels that as soon as he possesses that power he will be able to stamp it out entirely.

FASHIONS IN WOMEN'S NAMES

Aids to a Rough Guess as to the Age of their Possessors, Boston Transcript. Fashions in men’s names change somewhat but not as women’s. John, Charles, George and William reign in 1890 as they, did in 1790. But the fashions in women's names change every ten or fifteen years. It is possible that the sociological New Zealander will find that the feminine key names of this century, so to speak, arc about as many in number as the §decades. Just what was the favorite woman’s name at the very opening of the century is. hard to guess off-haDd, but the listener may venture to say that the Nancy epoch was about the first worthy of record in the century. Among the ogtogenarian ladies of the Listener’s acquaintance the name of Nancy seems to have a very prominent place, further on down the century came the fashion of double names —possibly an old fashion revived—and we find Martha Anns. Mary Janes and Ann Elizas in nearly every family. Perhaps this epoch would be best described as the Mary Jane epoch of our feminine nomenclature. It is a little hard to locate these things in years, but the Listener would say, at a guess, that the Lucy epoch began about the year 18 5, and was closely followed by the Helen epoch, which left the name of the beautiful daughter of Leda scattered broadcast over the country. Somewhat after the reign of Helen came the most singular, unaccountable epoch of all, the Ella epoch. The use of the name of Ella goes back, as closely as the Listener can locate it. to about the year 1850, though there may have been earlier examples. Where the name “Ella” came from is a mystery, The authorities put it down as a corruption of the name of Eleanor, which in its turn was corrupted from Helen. It appears to have no recognized place either in history or fiction, though evidently it was borrowed from a fourth- rate popular novel. It is. at any rate, without meaning, without associations in the past, without any other reason for existence at its beginning except that it pleased many people’s fancy. Now it no doubt has a recognized existence, since beautiful and good, women have borne it. and, like all other names that women ever bore, it is sanctified with that other name of mother. The real Ella epoch did not set in as early as 1850: probably it was at its height about the year 1860. People thought it so pretty! But it is sadly out of fashion now. There was an Ida epoch that came in somewhere along there, probably just after the Ella epoch, though the two names ran pretty closely together. The name of Ida is a good and ancient one. though most of the people who took it up doubtless thought they had hit upon something quite new. Most of the Idas of the time about 1861 were named for a character in a i opu lar story or for one another. But following the Ella and Ida period there came another girl name which attained almost extraordinary rage; the Edith epoch, indeed, survives almost to -th® present day. itetween~lß6s and 1875 about half of the girl babies were christened Edith, and the crop is ripening fast now, as a matter of course. Look at the high-school cati logueand see how they bristle with Ediths, an ancient Saxon name, i-nd a pretty one, disused for centuries and revived all at once—a happy revival, if iibad not been overdone. Then came th_ Maud and Mabel epoch; these name? have to be hyphenated, because neither ever seemed able to stand up without the other They were a great rage in their turn. The main crop -s Mauds and Mables will hardly matm« before another five years, though the earlier sowing* ere ripe u) ready Since then we have had the Marjorie revival—an exceedingly pretty natm that, and better and more Englisl than either Maud or Maa^l— and n j we are threatened with a Gladyepocli.

Railroad Soup.

Terre Rnuto Express. Billings—l will take a little more c that railroad soup, .jlonse ..Mrs. .Hashcroft- Jinilroad soup? Billings—-Yes. More water thru stock, you know.

A Good Suggestion.

New York Commercial Advertiser, • My new house has a bully drawingroom for my daughter to draw in.” ••You ought to have a largo anteroom for you • son to gamble i n . rt

NICKNAMES OF CITIES.

Knowtndsre That Can Be Made Useful In Teaching Geography. Southwestern Journal of Education. Teachers of geography who wish to vary the work will find an exercise off tk® beaten track by taking these names of lettirig the children locate them, and telling some interesting facts in connection with each. At the same time give the nickname. When 'they come in their reading, to the “pity of Rocks, ” they will know it means Nashville. The following is a list I have in my scrap-book and use in my classes: Aberdeen, Scotland, Granite Gity. Alexandria, Egypt, Delta City. Akron, 0., Summit City. Athens, Greece, City of the Violet Crown. ~ ■ • ■' . ’ ■ Baltimore, Md., Monumental Citv. Birmingham, 0., Bran Town. Boston. Mass., Puritan City, Modern Athens, Hub of the University, City of Notions, Athens of America, The Hub Brooklyn, N. Y., City of Churches! Buffalo, N, Y,, Queen City of the Baalbee, Syria, City of the Sun. Cairo, Egypt, City of Victory. Cincinnati, 0., Queen City, Porkopolis, Queen of the West, Paris of America. Chicago, 111., Garden City. Qleveland. (>., FoiwtLTt^. ; : Cork, Ireland, Drish-een City. Dayton 0., Gem City. Detroit, Mich., City of the Straits. Edinburgh, Scotland, Maiden Tow n, Northern Athens, Modern Athens, Athens of the North. Gibraltar, Key of the Mediterranean.

Hannibal. Mo., Bluff City. Havana, Cuba, Pearl of the Antilles. Indianapolis, Ind., Railroad City. Jerusalem. Palestine, City of Peace City of the Great King. Keokuk, lowa, Gate City. Louisvilie, Ky., Falls City. Limerick, Ireland, City of the Violated 1 reaty. Lowell, Mass., City of Spindles; Manchester of America, London, England, City 0 f Masts; Modern Babylon. Ljnehburg. Wa.. Hill City. Milan, Italy, Little Paris. Nashville, Tenn., City of Rocks. hew Haven. Conn., City of Elms. New Orleans, La., Crescent City. [Neiv York, N. Y., Gotham; Empire City; Metropolitan City. Philadelphia, Pa., Quaker City; City of Brotherly Love; City of Homes. ittsburg, Pa., Iron City; Smoky City; Birmingham of America. Portland, Me.,. Forest City. Patterson, N. J., Lyons of America. Quebec. Canada, Gibraltar of America. Rome, Italy, Eternal City; Nameless y* Q lteen of Cities; Seven Hilled City; Mistress of the World. Rochester, Flour City. St. Louis. Mo., Mound City. San Francisco, Cal., Golden City. Salem, Mass., City of Peace. St. Lake City, Utah, City of Saints. Springfield, 111., Flower City. Streator, 111., City of the Woods. Sodom and Gomorrah, Cities of the Plain, Toil do, 0., Corn City, • Venice, Italy, Bride of the Sea. Washington, D. C., City of Magnificent Distances. Winnipeg, Man., Gate City of the Northwest. Xenia, 0., Twine City. Zanesville, 0., City of Natural Advantages.

LIFE FOR LIFE.

The Queer Workings of a Law of the Natives of Alaska. Lewiston Journal. An Androscoggin county lady, who recently returned from Alaska, where her husband was employed by the United States Government’as a teacher among the natives, gives some interesting particulars of the country and people. While at Chilcott the lady witnessed a tragedy and its consequences, which illustrates the peculiar code of justice among the natives. A party of white miners were at the supply agency preparing to start off on a prospecting tour to the Yukon or some other distant mining locality. Several Indians wanted to accompany 'beT.i, but objection was raised by others. Liquor had been freely drunk, and bad blood was in the-ascendant. An old chief, much respected by the whites, excited the ire of a chief of another tribe, and the latter sought to vent hi 9 wrath by striking the other’s son, who chanced to be present. The father retaliated by knocking the aggressor down. The latter thereupon drew his revolver and fired, the bullet penetrating the old chief’s lungs. Knowing that the custom of his countrymen demanded a life for a life, l e at once darted from the scene of the affray and fled directly for the bouse In which the white lady was stopping, hoping, if he could once gaiu an entrance, to be enabled to secure immunity from punishment. She stood in the doorway as he approached, but he was destined never to enter. It appears that his dissipated, quarrelsome habits had already placed him in bad odor with his owp tribe, and one of the fleet-footed young men intercepted him when almost at the threshold. and.uTh. a terrible cut with a huge knife air < st severed his body in two. Now comes the singular part that justice had to take in the affair. Instead of the actual murderer paying thejpenalty of the crime, accordiqgj® the judicial code the life of the old chief, as the assumed prime cause of it, was to be forfeited, notwithstanding he had at first acted mainly on the defensive, and had already been perforated with the bullet of his enemy. He sought protection from his white friends, but. while they were heartily in sympathy with him, they did not

deem it prudent to Interfere in the matter. Seeing no hope in that direction, he turned from them with the remark: “Me show white man how brave Indian die,” and gave himself up to be shot.” After nis wife had adjusted a black* cap to his head a dozen or so men of jnsjg®a_Jaabe drew themselves up for the execution, but their hands trembled so, or they so disliked to shoot their beloved chief, that in firing the bullets that entered his person only mangled him, and did not at onfte prove fatal. -He begged them to kill him outright, but they desisted, and he was carried to his hut to slowly die from his wounds. - t hus he lingered for nearly two weeks, suffering the greatest agony. His wife would go to his bedside night after night and plunge a knife into his side to hasten death and his release, which seemed so long a time coming. During his suffering, the lady visited him almost daily, and he seemed very grateful for her solicitude. Finally he died, and “justice ” was satisfied.

A Strange Colony.

Surgeon J. W. Ross, who is generally considered as one of the best yellow fever experts in the Government service, called on Secretary Tracy, says the Washington Star, accompanied by Surgeon General Browne, and made an appeal in behalf of a colony of people living on the navai reservation at the Pensacola Navy Yard, Fla., about eight miles from Pensacola. These people, he says, number about 1.30 U, and- are ex! Tremely poor, being the dependants of the employes of the Pensacola Navy Yard, which was closed almost immediately after the war and has remained so since. They have built and bought little homes, which they hold without much expense,.and their living, such" as it is, is obtained from their work as fishermen.

A few of them scratch the soil and but the existence is a sort of hand-to-mouth life that is made even more precarious by the occasional ravages of yellow fever, which has swept the little colony several times. The navy yard offers employment only for a few men who are engaged in making repairs, but the others have been waiting in the footsteps of their fathers before them, for ' the reopening of the yard in the hope of obtaining positions. Micawber• 1i ke they remain, clinging to their hard homes rather than go to the city, where they would be obliged to pay rent But their physical condition, bad as it is, is not so bad as their mental state, and that is the inspiration of Dr. Ross’s advocacy of the colony’s needs.

The trouble lies in the fact that, being squatters on a Government reservation, they are not regarded as citizens of the State, and are consequently ineligible to the advantages of the State’s public schools. For years they .have gone along without any sort of education, even of the most primitive character, until they have reverted, after a couple of generations, to a condition of semi-savagery. Their ignorance is pitiful, resembling that of peasants in some of the more unenlightened countries of the east. This condition of affairs grows worse yearly, a 3 all etfoMte to obtain aid from the State of Fteridtt have failed. Dr. Ross has aroused the interest of the Commissioner of Education. who has promised to ask for a small appropriation for some school facilities in the colony if the Secretary !of the Navy would recommend it, this j deference to Secretary Tracy being due j to-The fact that he has jurisdiction 1 over the reservation. The Secretary said that he would offer no objections to the granting of aid to these leI nighted people. As the colony is I about equally divided between the white and colored races, two schools will be required, one for each class.

Dr. Ross has been ordered to duty at Pensacola for the purpose of aiding in the preventive measures that are to be adopted in order to insure safety from the Cuban fevers. He said that he did not think there was much danger at present, as there is a very well organized State Board of Health that has taken vigorous steps already to keep the disease out of the country.

Only Once an Hour.

A man who had a clock in his lap had a seat on a car coming down from the Grand Central Depot the other day, and a passenger next to him naturally inquired: “Been buying a timepiece, eh?” “It’s one I bought about a week ago, and I’m taking it back.” “Out of time?” “Oh, uo, it runs all right; but the fellow swindled me on it. I expect to have a row with him.” “What’s wrong with it?” “Why. he warranted it to bo a cuckoo clock, and he lied about it,” “It look 9 to me to be a cuckoo cloek.” “Well, it isn’t. When it strikes the hour a door opens, a bird comes Out and yells ‘Hoo-hoo! hoo-hoo!’ and that’*. there.is to it for the next sixty uiiuules. I’ll make that jeweler tired before I get through with him.”

The Sensitive Occupant of a Corner Seat. “What’s the matter, Bronson? Feel faint?" “No. Why?” • You leaned back and shut your eyes.” “Oh. that’s nothing. I bate to see a woman standing in a horse car. That’s all.” , The name of William Keramler will live in history, but who will talk of Warden Durston on® hundred years benoe. • ’ r 1 —" " . ■" —- What some electricians do not khow about electricity would fill alargabook.