Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — Page 7

THE NEW TARIFF LAW.

shiploads of Goods arrive UNDER EXCITING CIRCUMSTANCES. Heir It AffteU Enrope-Said to be Closing Many Foreign* Manufactories—Rumors of an lndnstrlal Alliance Against It. fl?* — “ A telegram from New York on the sth says: The most intense excitement has prevailed in and about the custom house all day. Whole troops of importers and brokers kept coming and going. As 3 o’olock approached the numbers increased until finally the rotunda of the custom house was filled with a solid mass of humanity, which perspired,, jostled, pushed and yelled. All carried large sums of money. They were on hand to enter goods that were expected to arrive late this afternoon. They wished to get their entries in under the old law, and stood ready to rhake their entries the moment the vessels were sighted. at Fire Island. By the decision of yesterday the custom house was to have closed on the stroke of 3 o’clock this afternoon. All goods arriv ing after that hour were to come in under the Hew law, and the duty was to be charged accordingly. The mass of importers and brokers in the custom house was so great at 3 o’clock that Collector Erhardt deemed it inadvisable to close at that hour. He announced that the time would be extended until 4 o’clock. Each moment after 3 o’clock the excitement beeame greater. Those in the ro~ tunda appeared to be going crazy. They shouted, yelled and made futile efforts to move about. The scene was not unlike that of the Stock Exchange. The clerks in the various divisions were swamped with business. ,Not for years has such a scene been enacted in the custom house. Every few minutes whole delegations of importers and brokers invaded the collector’s office and importuned him to keep the custom house open until midnight. The collector was in a His office was jammed full of importers, who waved rolls of bills iHrttaetr hands and shouted to him not to close the customhouse. The pressure on the collector became so great that finally he sent a telegram to Washington. It was directed to Secretary Windom, and requested advice as to what the collector should do under the circumstances. The importers expected vessels to arrivo at 5 o’clock. In a little time there came an answer from Washington. It was fiW the Secretary of the Treasury, and informed the collector that he could use his own discretion in the matter. Upon receipt of Secretary Windom’s telegram, Collector Erhardt and his seven depnties held a consultation. They decided to keep the custom-house open until 12 o’clock Friday night. The importers cheered. At 5:30 p. m. the City of Chicago was entered and a great pari of the waiting crowd was relieved. At 6:05 p. m. the steamer Regulus, with a cargo of laces silks and velvets was entered. There was still due the Etruria, the Thingvalla and the Zaahdam, and news of them was anxiously awaited. At 10:30 p; m. it became known that the Etruria had been sighted off the outer bar at9:34p. m. At one minute of 12 the captain of the Etruria had not arrived. Ten seconds later, wlihn half the lights were out, a carriage came on a rush to the door and a great shout wont up. From it jumped Captain Haines, who was immediately behind the counter and entered his vessel just before the clock struck midnight. Three cheers and a tiger were given for the captain. The captain had come up on a special tug and was driven at a break-neck pace from the dock to the custom-house. The receipts at the custom-house Saturday were $1,154,583, the second largest amount taken in there since the war. The receipts for th e week were over $6,000,000.

HOW IT AFFECTS EUBOPB. A London cable of the sth says: A Vienna dispatch says that Germany and Austria have come to a substantial agreement to discriminate against the exports from the United States, and that Italy, the third member of the triple alliance, will probably join the movement. The accession of Holland to the arrangement is certain, an economic alliance against North America having been first suggested by that country. In pursuance of this new policy, Austria and Hungary have already relaxed the prohibition on Servian swine, and changes of a restrictive character are pros posed in the existing tariff on products imported from the United States. A reci procity arrangement between Austria and Germany is [impossible, as the industries of Austria could not stand German competition, at least so the Austrians themselves believe. Both in Germany and Austria the industrial conditions have been much disturbed by the new American tariff bill, and* many thousands of working people heretofore employed on goods for the American market are out of employment, with winter close at hand. Thousands of these are preparing to emigrate, but the many who have not the means to emigrate can not escape suffering. On the continent the prospect for the f poorer classes this winter is very bad. Col. Vincent, the noted advocate of protection for Brftish industry, has been interviewed in relation to the Mckinley bill. He' says in substance tnat Great Britain cannot longer afford to throw her markets open to countries which place an embargo on British products, and he will urge the question of fair trade with renewed energy in the coming session of Parliament English industry is already beginning to feel tho effects of the new American tariff law. Manufacturers were kept busy up to the latest moment possible making goods for America, to be shipped in advance of the new law going into operation, and man y are now busy in filling orders which meanwhile accumulated from England and for* elgn countries other * than the. United States. This will keep such establishments active for several months to come, but this good fortune is not universal, end

from many quarters come evidences of commercial disturbances more or less serious in their effects. In the Staffordshire nail works the employes have been subjected to a 10 per cent, reduction in wages, and a similar blow has fallen upon the s mall army of laborers in the steel works of "Barrow in-Furness. The Yorkshire mining and manufacturing operatives contemplate a considerable reduction in the number of their employes, and have dispatched traveling agents-in all directions to endeavor to secure new markets in place of the American. The button makers of Birmingham have sent agents to America to see if it would be practicable to retain their market in that country by establishing factories there in conjunction with their English houses. The Yorkshire Post, a leading organ of the industries of that region, says: “It is useless to live in a fool’s paradise and to attempt to persuade ourselves that the loss of our market is a good thing, It may be true, as claimed by optimistic theorists, that the absurd tariff now being put in force in America will so injure that country’s export trade as to permit England to secure markets now interferred with by American competition. But this is a contingency for the future only, and does not diminish the gravity of the immediately present situation. It does not meet current fixed charges on capital, nor putbread into the hands of his discharged workmen. ’ ’ It is believed that Leeds will almost entirely escape any bad effects from the new law. Her cloths are of too highly finished and expensive a character to be much affected in demand by slight variations of price, or to be competed with by American goods. Bradford, however, with faer lower grades of stuffs, will be hard hit, and the worsted and coating industries of Dews bury will be almost wiped out.

AN OHIO TRAIN ROBBERY.

A Texas Incident Oocnrs in Qniet and Peaceful Ohio. The law abiding and peaceable citizens of one of the most populous and enlightened portions of Ohio will be [astonished to know that on the morning of the 2d a daring and successful express robbery wad committed in their midst, such as would not be regarded as unusual or unlikely in the wilds of Texas. Between 3 and 4 o’clock, just after the north bound train on the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Road had left Urban a, two masked robbers entered the Adams Express car, and with, drawn revolvers compelled the messenger A. L. Soudder, te-deliver the contents his safe. The robbers were able to complete their work and to safely leave the country with their booty at Belief on taine. The particulars of their method are not divulged in tho brief story received by Adams Express officials, nor is it possible for some ’time to tell how much money was in the safe. The impression is that the amount was comparatively small, but it would be possible for a considerable sum of bank funds to be in the booty. The portion of the country where the robbery occurred is as unlikely to suggest such a crime as could bo found. It is a rich agricultural region, peopled by intelligent people, with a high regard for uprightness. The robbers evidently are not natives. Messenger Scudder was bound in his chair with a wash line the robbers brought with them, One of them whom the other called “Jack” tried to kill Scudder before leaving the'ear; placing his revolver at his head he pulled the trigger but the cartridge failed to explode. The other robber then prevented him from trying again. When the train pulled out of West Lib erty the two scoundrels again got aboard, holding the entire crew at bay. Scudder, who had beed released, opened fire on them with a pistol from his car door, but was compelled to retreat. The robbers kept on board until Rellefontaine was reached, when they again jumped off and disappeared. The officers at Bellefontaine are searching for them. Scudder is about fifty years old, lives in Cincinnati and has been on this run since the Adams Company took charge of the express business on it about three years ago. He was previously in the same company’s employ on the Ohio river lines. He had just received his month’s salary and that was among the booty.

STICK TO MORMONISM.

Young O.rls and Grass Widows Not to be Influenced: The authorities at the Barge Office at Ne w York on the morning of the 2d used an immense amount of moral suasion on the young Mormons that arrived that day od the steamer Wyoming, to induce them to forego their intention of becoming proselytes to the Mormon faith. The girls were separated from the other passengers as they landed and placed in a room by themselves. The female missionaries from the Emigrant Girls’ Home went among them and tried to convince them Of the folly of the course they proposed to follow. It was a very hard undertaking. One of the girls, Karen Sylvestersen by name, who acted as spokeswoman for the party, frankly acknowledged that they were all willing tQ.be one of seven or eight wives and were fully aware of the principles of Mormonism. The girls are all young and some of them remarkably pretty. The attempts of the missionaries to influence them proved an utter failure, and as all that the barge offloe awthorities oaa use is persuasion, the entire party will proceed on their Jpurney by the Old Dominion line via Newport News, Va. The party comprises all told 202 souls, of whom thirty-two are children, Among the lot is a married Englishwoman who left her husband in England to take up the Mormon faith. She said she was called and compelled to go. She refused to tell her name.

NATIONAL CONGRESS

The Senate on the 80th passed the conference report on the tariff bill. Plumb, Paddock and Pettigrew voted against the Republicans and the bill, the total vote being ayes 37, nays 32. Carlisle, Allison and Aldrich discussed the bill. Congress adjourned oh’ the Ist The House, by a unanimous vote, declared Postmaster Wheat’s office vacant

FARM AND HOME.

ilbst crops are still booming'. Milk cautiously in fly time. Sharp tools save time and-labor. Avoid waste in garnering grain. Lead and direct your field force. Straighten up the sagging gates. Go for all sheep-killing canines. ‘Keep working, off the poor animals. The potato sorter is a clever device. Harvest good crops and good deeds. Ensilage is increasing in popularity. No time now to gossip at the store. A good season for the industrious bee. Good head work saves much hand work. A successful breeder must be a good feeder. Assort well and pack neatly all fruit for marketing. Shallow culture of hoed crops. Ho not let any weeds go to seed around your house or barn. Fix your, watering place so that the animals cannot foul it. The medium weight animal usually returns the most profit. Examine your lambs. If infested with ticks give them a dip. A budding machine is announced as one of the new inventions. It is poor business to grow sheep that do not shear a paying fleece. Do the best you. can in the way of shade and water for pastured stock. Do not imagine that exercise is the best thing to be found in a pasture* The shorthorn improves for beef every animal on which it is crossed. Both breeding and feeding are necessary to the perfection of the animal. Hoe your currant bushes as you do the rest of the plants in the garden. The strawberry contains 90.52 per cent, water and 9.48 per cent, dry matter. The best stock raisers are now try* ing to grow meat instead of to accumulate fat. . Whoever depends upon the public for a market must consult the wants of the public. Don’t let the rays of the hot sun fall directly on your bee-hives. Provide some sort of shade. It is against the dignity of the cow and the profit of her owner for her to go faster than a walk. The Jersey eow appears to be a favorite with the ladies and several ladies own herds of them. Let no man be able to say that he excels you as a farmer. Use your brain as well as your hands. During the hot weather all hides an ,* . sk , ms sllould be sprinkled with salt before they are folded. Anything you do to improve your farm improves yourself and helps to 101 l on the wheels of progress generany. A board hung over the face of a vicious buil will do a good deal to check the exercise of his ferocious propensities. Every wire fence ought to have a top board or some other signal besides the posts especially where horses run. . A , £ 00(J remedy for unruliness is to eed well. Then there is not so much incentive to leap and break down fences. Do not remain an obstruction in the path of progress, but try to keep abreast of the times. Then you will not get left, and farming will pay. It requires more nerve than most dairymen have to weed out their poor cows because in very many oases they are the best looking cows in the herd. The wide-awake farmer visits other farms than his own. When he finds conveniences methods and crops bets ter than at home it inspires him to greater effort. Statistician Lodge estimates the ™' the , ex Ports for 1889 at SSBO, s uuu.uoo at the seaports and $400,000,t)JO on the farms. In other words, it costs one-quarter of their entire value to market them. Give boys and girls practical knowledge in the dairy, and let them take their handsome saipples of butter and cheese to our fairs, where they will md something to interest more than horse trots. 1 A, n ®w industry in Germany is the utilization of the young leaves of the stra vberry plant as a beverage. Having been carefully dried they are used instead of Chinese tea, which they olosely approach in taste. Frying to cultivate more land than can be properly attended to is like a greedy boy trying to hold half a dozen apples in one hand or the hen trying -o cover twice .as many eggs as she can possibly keep warm. You cannot afford to let the cows shrink their mess because the pasture eives out, any more than you can af--ord to go without fire ihwinter bscause the fuel is exhausted. There is no profit in the one and no coihfort in the other.

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

REAL ESTATE PROHIBITION. The number, of towns kept clear of the drink curse by prohibitory deeds is rapidly increasing. We have great faith in this style off prohibition, being a native of such a town, and, in consequence, never, saw a drunken man until eighteen years old, and then saw him on a Hudson River steamer. The dcw town of Harrey, eighteen miles out of Chicago, proposes to try this plag. In every deed is an iron clad provision that if alcohollo liquors' are ever manufactured, Bold or given away on any lot within its boundaries, said

lot shall revert, to tho company. The town is established fbV- manufacturing purposes, being the site of the great steel car works which will commence business with $1,000,000 paid up capital, and a thousand workmen. Other manufacturing plants will be put tin there, as their owners are wise enough to know that the absence of saloons increases the efficiency of their employees.—Union Signal.

ROHAN CATHOLIC REFORMERS.

The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America recently held its twen - tieth annual convention in Pittsburg. Father Morgan M- Sheedy, first VicePresident. in bis report recommended the employment of organizers by the Union, for the reason that the clergy had not sufficient time to devote to temperance work. Father McTighe. of Pittsburg, was greatly incensed at this, taking it as an imputation upon the clergy. In his remarks he declared that a glass of wine or beer now and then would hurt nobody, whereupon he was loudly hissed, thus showing that he had few sympathizers. Delegate FennSssy, of Boston, moved that steps be taken to have tempers ance lessons printed in parochial text books. This Father McTighe also opposed, claiming that it would offend German Catholics. But in spite of his opposition, Father Sheedy’s report was adopted and the temperance teaching resolution was passed, which so disgusted Father McTighe that he left the hall.

WHISKY AND “PRACTICAL WORK"

The wine and Spirit Gazette says: ‘‘lt is proper to state in this connection that the Wholesale Liquor-dealers’ Association was induced to join the State association two years ago at the urgent request of Mr. Max D. Stern, who was at that time the Financial Secretary of the State association. Mr. Stern represented that the State association had been organized for practical, work, hut was not overstrong. that it needed help and had a hard struggle to keep above water, and that it required the assistance and active co-operation of all men who were interested in the liquor business in order to carry out the purposes for which it was organized and mate its influence felt, and that a union of the Wholesale Liquor-dealers’ Association with the State association would certainly impart strength and standing to the State association, which it lacked, and would largely increase the power and influence of the latter organization. The matter was debated pro and con by the Wholesale Liquor-dealers’ Association and a motion was finally passed to join the State association.

NOTES.

Geauga and Harrison counties, Ohio, have no saloons. The women of Nebraska propose to hold all-day prayer ber 4. It is estimated that there were 15,000 original package saloons in lowa when the original package bill passed, and that nine-tenths of them closed the day after the President approved tho bill. The Minister of Public Instruction in New South Wales has decided to place a copy of Dr. Richardson’s work on "Drink and Strong Drink” in the hands of every head teacher in the public schools. Madame de Norikoff, a lady of eminence in Russia, in order to testify her active sympathy with the anti-drink movement in Russia has written a pamphlet in furtherance of the temperance cause. The National Temperance League entertained recently about one hundred members of the British Medical Association at a breakfast in Birmingham, the Lord Bishop of London presiding, with addresses by Dr. Norman Kerr and others. All employes of the New Jersey Central railroad have been notified that they must abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors while on or off duty. These notifications to employes of railroad companies are becoming more and more frequent, and bid fair soon to become the general rule, A pathetic story comes from Anniston. Alabama. Waited R. Nunnelee, one of the brightest yftpng journalists in Alabama and a member of one of the finest families of the State, is now a maniac. Cigarette smoking is the cause. Prominent physician have examined him and pronounce the case incurable. Young Nunnonlee has been on several of the leading papers of the State and was a talentea fellow. A London telegram states that Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army, has just issusd a most stringent edict against smoking, in which he denounces the habit as wasteful, dirty, injurious and entirely inexcusable. Henceforth no member of the army who smokes shall receive any promotion, and sergeants, bandsmen, sergeant-majors, secretaries and treasurers must abandon the practice or cease to hold office in the corps. - 1

Remedy for a Bee’s Sting.

A correspondent writes to the New> York World: “I see by this day’s issue that a lady in Jersey City died of blood poisoning resulting from a beesting. Had she gone into the nearest laundry and rubbed the part affected with a (indigo) blue-bag she would now be alive abd well of the sting. It Is an effectual remedy.

Sort of an Option.

Epoch: He—Do you think you love me well enough to be my wifeP She—Yes, Qeorge. He—Well, I only asked to ascertain, how you felt on the subject, so in casa I, ever Bhould want to marry 1 would know where to eome.

IT IS A PARTY FOR THE WEST.

The insidious cry that the RepubliI can party in any way favors Eastern against Western interests should be stamped out at once. For it is peculiarly the party .of the West. The West gave to it its life; the West will continue to give it its life. In turn it has practically made the West. What is called the Northwest is the creation of the Republican party. It was the favorable land laws enacted by the Republican party that opened the great West to the Settlement of poor men. It was the fostering law and policy of the Republican party that protected the settlers, encouraged the building of railroads, and made-the West as pleasant as a hoise and as profitable as a place of business as the East. It gave to the millions of free Americans now on their homes the homestead law which secured them such homes. Before that it resisted and defeated the desperate attempt of the Democratic party to extend the blight of slavery over the West. Of its own courage it kept slavery out of Nebraska and Kansas, and at the same time out.of all the Territories to the west of them, which have since become States. The Republican party has admitted Into the Union all of the States west of the Missouri River. If there had been Democratic instead of Republican rule, not one in five of them would have been admitted. Indeed, the West, and particularly the Northwest, or the whole country west of Chicago, is peculiarly the child of the Republican party. It is the creation, so far as it has been divided into States, of the Republican party, tits millions of happy homes and farms were made possible through the homestead and other land laws enacted by tho Republican party. The West never bad a backset until in the Democratic administration of Cleveland, when every homesteader was held by Cleveland and Sparks to he a thief, and every land grant company a conspiracy against the Government. Three hundred thousand patents of homesteads were held up by that administration, The present Republican administration has been busily distributing these patents, as directed by law and justice. In all legislation the Republican party is mindful of the interests of the great West. It is the home of its own strength, tho home of its own courage, the foundation of all its success, past, present and future. Tho Republican party could not be unjust to the West without its being unjust to itself; for in a large sense the West is the Republican party. In all the legislation of the present Congress the interests of the West have been especially cared for. The sinister attempt of the Democratic party to alienate the West from the Republican party will fail. The people of the West, are too intelligent. They know that their prosperity and their protection alike, ever since their States were founded, have come from the Republican party.

WHAT THE REPUBLICAN HOUSE HAS DONE.

The Republican House has intelligently revised the tariff. It has done it on protection lines. There has been no war of extermination against protected home labor and protected home products of labor. The McKinley bill, no matter what the Englishmen say about it, is an open and Mir and wise measure. Its results will be beneficial. The farmers of the country, always found fighting for the Republican standard, needed more protection. The Republican { majority, aware as always of its duty, gave them this protection. The party pledge to restore silver to its uses has been redeemed, and gen*, eral prosperity and the appreciation in particular of farm values have followed the enactment of the silver law. Silver was worth 91 cents on a dollar under Mr, Cleveland; under General Harrison it is worth 119 cents. Ninety million dollars have thus been added to the intrinsic value of the silver in the Treasury vaults. The value of wheat, corn, and oats, based on the value of the crop for last year, has been increased since December, 1889, $691,000,000 worth. Put into this grand table of values the other farm products. The increased values of farm products have been increased under Republican rule to not less than a thousand million dollar, s The Republican House has passed every bill for the relief and benefit of labor which has been presented to it. These are six. One prohibits convict labor; another makes eight hours a day in the Government service a day's work; still another provides that the just ctaiins of workingmen shall be adjudioated without delay; yet another effectively prohibits the importation of alien contract labor; the fifth makes the importation of Chinese labor impossible; the sixth restores the wages of Government printers. Who has done all this? The Democrats have not; they have opposed everything. This Congress has passed liberal pension legislation. The boys in blue are not to suffer in their old age. They are to be provided for in the faith and hojje of the martyred Lincoln.

REPUBLICANS TRUE TO ALL.

The Republican party is always strong with the people when it is fighting for fair play, equal rights and honest elections. It Is true that it is also a business party. It never forgets the demands of honest labor, and has always fought for the building up of home To make it invincible it must' stand upon its whole platform. No true Republican will attempt to abridge its great work. It always has been, it always must be, ,'found wofking for a sound currency, lor the industries of the United Statqe, for a free and honest ballot, for a fair

The Rerelations Made in the Speech of District Attorney Chambers. Philadelphia Press. The attention of the Democratic and ex-Republican free-trade organs is directed to an extract reprinted elsewhere from an address delivered by United States District Attorney Chambers in Indianapolis a few days ago. It contains a scathing rqview of the disreputable methods pursued by the Democrats of Indiana to carry that State. No one conversant with the facts has ever doubted that the Democrats have maintained at every election in the past an open market of voters in Indiana and supplemented it by frauds Of the worst description. The ex-Republican free-trade organs have made a systematic effort for two ysprs to impress upon the phblic mind the assertion that the presidency was purchased in 1888. When a man kno.vs that the company he is keeping is' corrupt and immoral, he is eager to prove that everbody is as conscienceless as himself., This is the principle that has actuated tho free-trade organs Th- New York city and elsewhere. They know that they are consorting with bribers, bulldozers and burglars of ballot-boxes, and they are anxious to show that everyone’s standard of morals is as low as their own. The revelations District Attorney Chambers makes of Democratic methods ought to close the mouths of these hypocritical bribery shouters. It was such methods as these that the Republicans had to meet in Indiana in 1888. They were not wholly successful in overcoming them, as is shown by the fact that the Republican majority on Congressmen in that State was twice as large as it was on Presidential electors. The Democratic bribers did their best, however, and ever since, with the aid of the ex-Republican free-trade organs, they have been trying to divert attention from their own disreputable methods and crimes by raising the cry of “stop thief!”

J. S. CLARKSON.

count and honest returns. Not one but all of its well-known principle* should be kept in the front of the battle. Let me beg of our leaders at Washington to forget none of these liv’ing issues. We won the battle in 1888 On them all taken as a whole. Qur platform was complete. Its principle < were all clearly stated. The people believed in them then. They believe in them now. They believe in them

all.

INDIANA BALLOT CORRUPTORS.

Bourbon Bayonets All Right.

Talk about bayonets at the polls?. The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion (Dem.). of January 2, 1890, cried: The Rankin Rangers will be here on Monday to see there is a fair election. The Madison Guards will be here on Monday to see there is a fair election. ~ The Raymond Rifles will be here on Monday to see there is a fair election. The Clinton Corps will be here on Monday to see there is a fair election. The Edwards Dragoons will be here on Monday to see their is a fair election. , Who cares if the McGill men [the Republicans] don’t like it? What are they going to do about it, whether they like it or not? It shall be a Democratic victory. It makes all the difference in theworld (though the dough-faced dude* of the North don’t see it) whose bayonets it is that bristle and glean at the polls. Bourbon bayonets suit Democrats and doughfaces perfectly. When the Democratic congressmen get home and begin to make stump speeches, their constituents should require them to tell what they have d"n© since last December to earn their salaries. Their record M one of utter uselessness, and they can not excuse it by hurling epithets at the Republicans. . It is always safe to conclude that s measure which displeases the free traders, as the new tariff bill does, must have in it the promise and potency of good results for the American people, however unfriendly it may be to foreign interests. The Republicans created the tariff and the Republicans revised it. When a tariff is no longer needed the Republicans will remove it.

The Brith of the Opal.

The Sunbeam loved the Moonbeam, And followed her low and high, But the Moonbeam fled and hid her head. She was so shy—so shy. The Sunbeam wooed with passion; Ah, ho was a lover bold 1 And his heart was afire with mad desire For the Moonbeam pale and cold. She fled like a dream before him, „ Her hair was shining sheen. And O, that Fate would annihilate —1 The space that lay between. Just as the day was panting In the arms of twilight dim, The Sunbeam caught the one he sought And drew her close to him. But opt of his warm arms, startled And stirred by Love’s first shock. She sprang, afraid, like a trembling mai d, And hid in the niche of a rook. And the Sunbeam followed and found her, And led her to love’s own foast, =w And they were wed on that rooky bed And the dying day was-their priest. And la, the beautiful Opi& - That rare and wondrous gem, Where the moon and sun blend into on* Is the ohild that was born to them. -EUa Wheeler Wlkxw.

R. G. HORR.