Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1893 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Kansu wheat has been badly damages toy frost. ■ ■ ■ —— September pork reached (20.10 a barrel on the Chicago Board of Trade, Friday. «W. C. Goudy, the well-known politician of Chicago, died of heart disease, Thursday. Gen. Edward F. Beale, a close personal friend of Gen. Grant, died at Washington, Sunday. , Rohle and Pallister, the murderers who escaped from Sing Sing last week, are still at large. Gen. John M. Corse, of Chickamauga fame, died at Winchester, Mass,, Thursday, of apoplexy. ; A Danish steamer with the Russian exhibit for the World’s Fair in 3,338 cases, arrived at Baltimore, Tuesday. Monuments to John Ericcson and James Audobon were unveiled at New York, Wednesday, with imposing ceremonies. 2 John M. Thornton, elected city attorney at Shelbyvillo, 111., last Tuesday, was found dead in his office chair, Monday. Plunger Pardrldge Is believed to have already recouped himself for his recent heavy losses on the Chicago Board of Trader— Mrs. R Longmire, a Widow living near Clinton, Tenn., shot and killed a negro whom she heard in the dark robbing her corn-crib. The three Columbus caravels, Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta, arrived at Hampton Roads, Saturday, in tow of three Spanish war ships. By the falling of a wall at Cincinnati, Monday, fourteen bricklayers were precipitated to the basement. One was killed and several injured. The Illinois Legislature is still in session and devoted Tuesday to tho discussion of the extradition treaty between Russia and tho United States. Professor Hopkins, tho West Virginia entomologist, has imported from Germany bugs which consume the insects that are destroy forests. Keepers Hulse, Murphy and Glynn, who were on duty at the time of the escape of murderers Pallister and Roehl from Sing Bing prison, have been discharged. Owing to the illness of Lord James Hannen, one of the British members of the Bering Sea tribunal for arbitration, the tribunal has adjourned for one week. The armory of the First Regiment, Illinois National Guard, at Chicago, burned Tuesday. Two colored janitors lost their lives, Two electric line men were seriously injured. The twenty-seven war vessels left the rendezvouz at Hampton Roads, Monday, for New York. It was a picturesqe and *tr!k!ng,spectacle and was witnessed by thousands of spectators. Giles Brothers, ono of the largest it not tho largest jewelry firms in Chicago, are financially embarrassed. Confessions of judgment were entered against them in the Circuit Court for 185,000. 8 Medical authorities assort that the Delaware, 0., students, who were so badly •disfigured by nitrate of silver last week, are not scarred for life. It npakes an ugly sore but does not leave a scar necessarily. A telegram has been received from Agent Bartholomew at the southern Ute agency in Colorado, stating that serious complications were arising on tho San Juan river between the Navajos and settlers. Troops will bo sent at once. General Grant’s birthday, April 27th, was celebrated in an appropriate manner in different cities of the country. At Galena, 111., an imposing demonstration was made and the address of the day was delivered by Governor McKinley. Micheal Sweeney, a thirteen-ycar-old Boston bov, while playing with some companions, threw a piece of telegraph wire over an overhead guard wiro of tho street railway. He was grasping tho wire with both hands when he fell dead. Gov. Flower has appointed Geo. Raines, of Now York city, commissioner to hear new evidence in tho case of Carlyle Harris, under sentence of death, and will be guided by his decision in granting or refusing » pardon ©r commutation of the sentence. Garfield race-track, at Chicago, is doomed. The City Council passed an ordinance to open a street through tho center of the property which will spoil the trade for race purposes. Tho order to commence work has not been given yet, however.— —~ “““ - ■ , 1 (•The “Ladies of the Grand Amy of the Republic fn Kentucky” have drawn the color line. Several circles composed of white women have surrendered their charters because tho State encampment now in session at Louisville, is controlled toy colored members. t Tlio apple crop of northwest Missouri and northwestern Kansas will bo an almost total failure. Ice froze in that vicinity, Thursday night, to tho thickness of noarly half an inch, and great damage was done to the apple and peach trees, which were in bloom. 6The sailors of the review fleet paraded he stroets of New York, Friday. The procession was viewed by cheering thouands. President Cleveland, while entering his carriage to go to tho reviewing stand, hurt his head so that it bled profusely and created great alarm. The injury was slight Again the flag of England went down before the Stars and Stripes. Saturday a dozen barges from the ships in the harbor started in a race for the international rophy offered by the citizens of Norfolk. ’The course was a mile and three-quarters and the San Francisco crow won, Chicago crew second, with the Britishers third. Tho flurry occasioned by tho infringement on tho gold reserve last week has passed away. There is no apprehension •-.t New York or Washington. Offers of gold have been accepted by the Treasury and no bonds will bo” Issued except as a last resort to maintain the surplus. The foreign gold shipments otf Tuesday amounted to $3,250,000. A train load of Zulus, bound for the World’s Fair, made things lively for tho Chicago pollco, Tuesday." They captured the train near Grand Crossing, and imprisoned the train crew in tho baggage*’ car. There were 200 of the savages, and they claimed to have lost some property, for which they proposed to hold the train men responsible. They were finally quieted and transferred to the fair grounds. At a meeting of the Troy Proaby tery, at Troy, N. Y., Tuesday, Rev. T- P- Savin Mid: “I do not like the idea of Calvinism. Calvin was a murderer and scoundrel. He said many good things and those I win accept, but the church should bean exponent of the gospel and not of

Calvinism.” Resolutions were adoptee urging the General Assembly to draft a new creed at the meeting to be held al Washington. Reports from Hawaii say that matter? are approaching a dangerous condition. The royalists are declared to be growing bolder because of the weakness of the provisional government and a conflict is expected in the near future. Nearly a hundred of the provisional government’s soldiers were poisoned recently and thf royalists are charged with attempting tc put them out of the way in order to execute a coup. Reports from the storm that swept ovej Oklahoma Territory, Tuesday, bring tidings of an almost unparalleled loss of lift and destruction of property. Fifty to sixty persons have been killed and property o) unknown value has been wrecked. Entire families were crushed to death. Scenes ol ruin and desolation greet the eye in ali directions. Thirty-one were killed at Norman, about thirty miles south of Oklahoma City. The repetition of such practice as thai indulged in by some of the students at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, will be 'a penitentiary offense. The Senate has made a law of Guernsey Taylor’s bi]i, making hazing a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of from SIOO to S3OC and Imprisonment from six months to two years, and branding by use ol nitrate of siver or otherwise, by a term in the penitentiary. ..

FOREIGN.

Th? labor riots in Belgium are growing serious. While Emperor William was being driven to the railway station at Rome,Wednesday, the carriage overturned, the horses fell, the groom was thrown from his seat, and the carriage damaged, bat the Kaiser escaped injury. The Norwegian Ministry has resigned, ownig to the refusal of King Oscar to sanction a resolution of the Norwegian Storthing in favor of the appointment of Norwegian consuls to represent the shipping and commercial interests of Norway abroad, instead of Norway’s depending for consular representation upon consuls representing both Sweden and Norway. While services were being held in the church of Torre Annunziata, Naples, Sunday evening, the altar draperies were blown against a lighted candle. A conflagration and terrible panic ensued. Women and children were thrown down and trampied upon in the mad rush of the congregation for the exits. Tho flames were soon extinguished, but when order had been restored it was discovered that eight women and five children had been crushed to death. Serious injuries had been inflicted upon hundreds of others. The absence of Queen Victoria in Florence has spared her the pain of reading in the London papers the ungrateful declarations of a man employed as carter on her Windsor private estate. The man was defendant in a civil action involving the payment of money and pleaded poverty. Tho Queen, he said, paid no better than other people and her people had to work harder. His wages were ten shillings per week and lodging, which did not leave him much to spare, after feeding himself. A London cable of the 26th says: The Conservative leaders who did their utmost to incite riots in Belfast are beginning to blanch at the .specter they have raised and anxiously warn their dupes that disorders such as have disgraced Ulster during tho last few days, will rather help than retard the success ol home rule. The Belfast members of Parliament sent dispatches from the House of Commons entreating the Unionists oi Belfast to avoid disputes with their political opponents. The fact that tho soldiers in Belfast have unhesitatingly obeyed orders in dealing with the rioters has proved to fanatics and Ulster men that, resistance is useless. The bull-fighting season in Spain opened at Madrid, Sunday, with more than *thc usual enthusiasm. In ono of the first encounters of the day’s sport a bull caught his daring tormentor and drove a horn deep into his side. Tho furious beast dragged his victim some moments about the ring before the attendant rescued him. Men and women in the vast arena watched the dreadful spectacle in breathless enthusiasm. The almost lifeless body of the toreador was finally carried out, sawdust was sprinkled on the pools of blood, and the spectators settled down to witness tamer sports of the day.

WASHINGTON.

The Duke of Veragua and party were tendered a reception at the White House, Monday. 4 Congressman Conn has won a victory in his controversy with Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell, and will be allowed to name the postmasters in his district. A message was sent from the U. S. steamship Dolphin, off JPt. Monroe, Hampton Roads, Sunday evening, by carrier pigeon, to President Cleveland at Washington, announcing that the foreign officers would co-operate in the land parade at New York on the 28th. Tho President, Tuesday, announced the following appointments: L. F. Mac Kinney, of New Hampshire, to be minister to tho United States of Colombia; Thomas L. Thompson to be minister to Brazil; Geo. William Caruth, to be minister to Portugal. A number of appointments of IeGS Importance were also announced.

“THB OLD GUARD.”

Oyer two hundred survivors of the famous 306 that, under the lead of Roscoe Conkling, voted for General Grant in Chicago in 1880, and remained truo to their candidate even when beaten by the combination that secured the nomination of General Garfield, held tlieir reunion at Philadelphia, Tuesday. Ex-Vice President Morton presided at the banquet at night. A census of those composing the “Old Guard,” as they were termed, developed the fact that seventy of the original 306 have died.

THE SUNNY SOUTH.

A negro murderer was roasted alive in Georgia, just across the lino from Eufola, Ala., Friday. He had killed a country store-keeper without provocation and was pursued by Ute excited populace. When captured ho confessed having committed the crime without cause. No time was lost in putting an eDd to his career, and the colored population eagerly joined! in the work of preparing a funeral pyre for tho victim.

THE WORLD’S ARMADA.

The Great Columbian Naval Review in New York Harbor. As Imposing and Significant Spectacle— Curious Contrast* of Ancient and Uodern Naval Architecture. Open the gates for the guests are arriving, Gome to the feast we have spread for the world— ' Over the crest of the waves vainly striving Calm the ships rest with their banners unfurled. Under the fairest skies and on an unruffled sea the international fleet, representing ten foreign nations, which had been gathering at the appointed rendezvous at Hampton Roads for a week previous, weighed anchor, Monday morning, and set sail for New York harbor, where, after an uneventful voyage, they dropped their anchors amid salvos of artillery from the fortifications on the different shores, Monday night and Tuesday

morning. The contrast between the architecture of the Spanish caravels, which were in tow of the Spanish war ships, was striking, and perhaps no feature of the great pageant was so impressive. In the land-lOcked harbor, Wednesday morning, when the first rays of the morning sun had cleared away the hazy shadows, the great fleet lay revealed, a triumph of spectacular art in its arrangement and detail. Silence that was suggestive of an untold force brooded over the scene, but did not long endure. Soon the bay became alive witli pleasure craft, and the patrol boats had difficulty in keeping the anchorage grounds clear. Thousands of spectators had assembled at all available points to witness the formation of the line of review. At 9:45 a. m. the start was made, and the scene speedily became ono of combined grace, animaion and beauty never to bo forgotten. ?he absence of cannonading left tho air clear and tho magnificent ships stood out lii the luminous silhouttes against a cloud-

CARAVEL SANTA MARIA.

'ess sky. The entire water front was 1 1 tied with people and steam whistles were blown continuously from the time the, fleet entered North river until the last vessel dropped anchor. President Cleveland and the Cabinet, with their families, arrived Wednesday evening, and were driven quietly to the Victoria Hotel. The party declined invitations to attend a banquet given by the Union League Club, and retired early, being evidently much fatigued. Rain on the roof, rain on ten thousand roofs, rain washing sidewalks and pave, rain drops pricking the river surface into a rash of white spatter, rain wetting the decks and rigging of tho pulseless war monsters riding at anchor, wetness above, moisture below, permeating, saturating everything, everywhere—such were tire conditions of the early morning about the flag-smothered, bunting-decked city of New York, Thursday. As the growing day advanced, however, a breeze felt its way over tho banks and across the water where the fleets were. It broke its way through the mists, and before tho tattered fogs closed in again the ghostly outlines of masts and lines of dark hulls appeared and half faded again. Then venturing gusts of air wandered through the fog, and gradually the little gusts were reinforced until a stream of them flowed over the high river banks and blew away the mists. Tho crack ships of ton nations drawn together at the invitation of tho United States to commemorate the fonrhundredth anniversary of the discovery

THE BALTIMORE.

of America hid been put In readiness for their part of the celebration, but the rain sadly Interfered with the holiday display. When 8 o’clock had arrived there were signs of activity on all of the yessels In the fleet. Each vessel ran up a big American flag to the top of the main mast and

big flags of her own country fore and aft. The Spanish, French. Brazilian and Argentine ships ran up lines of streamers or their yards. Uncle Sam’s white navy floated big holiday flags from each m&St AtlOcr clock the United States vessels rar up banting and the British, Russian, Italian, German ahd •Holland -ships followed suit until all were iu holiday dress, but owing to tho inclement weather the programme arrangod for the forenoon was deferred till l p. m. It was near 1 o'clock when President Cleveland and family, the Cabinet and other distinguished people embarked on tho Dolphin. As soon as the President stopped on board the Dolphin the vessel tripped her anchor and fired one gun os a signal. This was responded to by a boom which sccrnnd to shake the whole city. The dcublo-turreted Monitor Miantonomoh, lying at the rear of the port column, fired for tho first time in port one of her huge ten-inch guns charged with nearly 250 pounds of powder. Almost before the reverberation of this gun had died away ?n the distant echoes, the

THE RENDESVOU AT HAMPTON ROADS.

whole fleet was called to quarters, yards were manned and every preparation made to receive the President of the United States with becoming respect. Following the Dolphin came the army steamer, General Meigs, bearing the Duke of Veragua and party, and the Monmouth, bearing Governors of States, Senators, Members of Congress, and army officers. All other vessels were excluded from the limits of the presidential progress. Opposite Ninety-Fifth street tho Dolphin dropped anchor, and the officers of the foreign ships came aboard and were presented to the Presi dent with great ceremony by the ministers of their several governments. At night a great Columbian ball wa9 given at Madison Square Garden. The great building was gorgeously decorated and the President and the Duke of Veragua were the guests of the evening.

Secures the Liberty of a Notorious Crook-, It has been discovered that an accomplice of P. H. Danforth, “Red” Austin, the bunco man, who was in prison at Middleton, N. Y., for swindling Farmer Crowley out of $5,030, a year ago, has very cleverly buncoed the sheriff and under sheriff out of their notorious prisoner. About two weeks ago a man who said that he was a United States marshal called on Under Sheriff Goodale, at Newburgh, and asked for Austin, who he said was wanted in New York for slippery work. Ho wore a shield and had a warrant, and Austin was turned over to-him. It has just transpired that tho pretended marshal was an accomplice of the buncoer and that the warrant was a forgery. ).> ]

New York Sun. The passenger agent of one of the great transcontinental lines said last week: “The Swedes are going West in greater numbers than ever. You remember an attempt was lately made to get them settled on the Abandoned farms of New England, and a good number of them left their homes in Dakota to take those farms, but Lord! you can’t make anything out of those rocks. They thought it would be an advantage to be near the large towns of the East with their shops and schools, but they made a mistake and are going West again. The Canadian Government is giving away land in the Edmonton district that is good for grain and root croops, and the climate seems to just suit the Swedes. Over 800 families of them weni up there last year, and they are expecting more this year.”

Kalama Bulletin, I Ike Hines was arrested and tried "efore ’Squire Pinhead, yesterday, on a charge of unceremoniously kissing, a colored woman on the sidewalk. Ike proved that he was colorblind and the court discharged him. The Christmas tree was a great success and was heavily loaded. Among other things hanged on it was a book pedder that Lyncher Rill caught in town. Miss Lillie Touijhet, “the belle of Dry Gulch,” returned yesterday from cast of the mountain, where she had been herding goati for her uncle. Billy O’Hagerty, who has received an excellent education at the State reform school, is expected home this week, and all the neighbors have disposed of their chickens'.

Mother —Where have you been so long? Little Son watchin’ two men unloadin’ bricks^ Mother —I shouldn’t think that would be very interesting. Little Son—No, it wasn’t. They didn’t miss and get hit on the toes once. - In New Orleans there is a woman who is said to keep alive the tradi tions of the “saloa.” She is Miss Mollie E. N. Davis, whose magazine stories have won her a good deil of renown. She lives in the old Fnnch quarter of the town in a typical,oldfashioned Southern house with galleries, an inner court and a wiHerness of palms and flowers') Her*she entertains all the noted authors ind artists who make their way to lew Orleans. ’

A FORGED WARRANT

Swedish Movement.

Events in Washington State.

Not Interesting.

PROCLAIM LIBERTY.

An Object Lesson in Patriotism. *• / Triumphal Progress of the Famous Liberty Bell—Enthusiastic an Imposing Reception nt Indianapolis. The train bearing the famous Liberty Bell to the World’s Fair, left Philadelphia Wednesday, April 25. A party of forty, including Mayor Stuart and a special escort committee, appointed by the city,were on the train and will attend the opening ceremonies at Chicago. The old relic was greeted with booming of cannon, ringing of bells, and cheers of great multitudes of people at Harrisburg, Pittsburg, Cleveland and Columbus. The special train bearing the Liberty Bell arrived at Indianapolis Friday morning, and the patriotic Hoosiers were fully alive to the importance of the occasion. Thousands of workmen with their dinner-

THE "LIBERTY BELL."

pails, stopped on their way to work at the side track where the car stood, to view the relic. At 9 o'clock tho crowd became so great that tho police force had to be increased, and guard ropes placed around the car. People became crazed over the idea of rubbing some article in their possession against the bell, and the escort committee were kept busy applying match-boxes, handkerchiefs, gold watches, to the sacred metal. A platform to allow people to pass up onto the car was completed at 10 o’clock, and from that time the crowd surged past in apparently inexhaustible numbers. Never, probably, from the beginning, has Indianapolis had such a gala day. The boys and girls even to the smallest, were Imbued with tho spirit of the occasion and were easily brought into marching order. It was a children's day, and the sight in front of the State House at 10 o’clock was one not soon to be forgotten. Nearly every child carried a flag, and a boquet to drop on the bell. The entire two squares fronting the Capitol was packed with the little ones and tho area seemed a sea of flags. At 10:15 ex-Presidcnt Harrison left the Governor’s parlors, and, with Mayor Sullivan at the head, the delegation of visitors and tho local committee’stepped upon the landing of the Capitol • entrance, over which two flags hung, to be greeted by more shrill cheering and flag waving. L. H. Jones mounted the small decorated stage and directed the immense chorus as it sang “America.” Thousands of voices joined In the chorus, and in a minute about twenty thousand voices filled the air with the patriotic tune. As those about the speaker’s stand finished the song, the crowds further away ended as if in echo, so far were they behind net which led them, and fora full minute away down the street the song was gradually brought to a close and grew fainter and fainter to tho ear. Mayor Sullivan introduced Mr. Harrison in a brief address, following which the ex-President said: , My Young Friends and Fellow Citizens— I am glad to-day to be a citizen of Indianapolis. lam glad to participate iu that worthy pride which we ail feel at being able to make, before these distinguished visiting strangers, such a magnificent exhibition of our Indianapolis schools. I think I should first, for you, most ly thank Mayor Stuart, of Philadelphia, and the gentleman who accompany him, for their kindness in enabling the citizens, and especially the children of our schools, to see this great relic, tho Liberty bell. It lias spoken its great message to the world, and is now forever silent. It is not the I material thing that we shall look upon with interest; it is that which it typihes. It is the enduring thing for which it stands that kindles our hearts and our enthusiasm to-day. tCheers.l If the old men and the old women of this country shall lose 1 their sentiment and forego the exercise of their imagination, those great things will be preserved among the children. I rejoice that there is a Renaissance of patriotism in the United States. I rejoice to believe that to our own hearts the flag means more to-day than ever before in our history, [Cheers.] There are more people that love it, and the generation that is coming on will iove it more fervently than that which is passing off the stage. [Cheers.] I rejoice that the American flag floats over more of our schools of instruction for the young to-day than ever before. [Cheers.] I have read with interest in tho last few days, of the lifting of tho flag on the Navesink Highlands, of New Jersey, so that our own peoplo, returning from’ foreign shores, or those worthy immigrants who seek > a home <among us, shall catch sight of the starry banner when the land lifts Itself above the horizon. [Enthusiastic choers.l The flag of the highlands, the Bartholdi statue lifting the torch of liberty in the harbor, are good object lessons to those who come to bo American citizens. I had unfeigned and lasting pleasure in the fact that ono of my last public acts was to lift the American flag over a great steamship in the harbor of the city of New York. It was liberty this bell proclaimed, liberty throughout hi] the land, to ali the people thereof; and how wonderful tiiat nearly a quarter of a century before, when tfio committee of your Legislature selected an inscription for that holL they unconsciously foretold the great act it was to perform. Let us never forget that the liberty this bell rang in was a liberty regulated hy law [cheers] —a liberty to do free to do as each one pleased only so far as the rights of others were not Invaded. Let us learn again this great lesson that no worthy object can be promoted except upon the linos of social order and lawful submission to public authority. [Cheers.] Not labor, not the church, not those who pretend to seek with unauthorized hands the ends of public justice can promote any of these causes by acts of violence. It is the law, casting its shelter over every household, arming every inan in a panoply that should he impenetrable that makes our home life possible and these schools what they arc. This old bell was made |q England, but It had to be recast in America (enthusiastic cheers) before It was attuned to proclaim the right of self government and the equal rights of men. And therein it was a type of what our Institutions have been doing

for that great teeming throng of Immigrants from all lands, who heard Ms voice over the great waters, and came here subjects to he re-cast into free American citizens. [Cheers.] I want to thank you for your patient attempt to hear me, and to beg that you will excuse me from further speech, in order that you may promptly see that for which yon have assembled—thiaold bell, which, if yoa will but open the ears of your hearts, will tell yon the story of our heroic ancestry, of the origin of our Government, more eloquently than any speaker can do it. [Cheers.] When Mr. Harrison concluded the cheering and flag-waving was renewed for a minute. - Mayor Sullivan then introduced Mayor Stuart,.of Philadelphia, who respondrdas follows: We pass through your city carrying the most sacred relie in the United States. Many of you will see it to-day for the first and last time. While that Declaration of Independence, of which Mr. Harrison just spoke, was being acted upon In Independence Hall, Philadelphia, his paternal ancestor presided over the deliberations. I could not give a more patriotic expression than one which I recently read. “There is not enough money in the world to buy that old bell. There are not enough people in the world to capture it. The people of Philadelphia, of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, of tho whole Union, would shed 'their blood andlay down their lives for it.” The speech of Mavor Stuart was followed by the song “Liberty Bell,” which was sung by the school children. Thft closed the exercises at the State House, at 10:40. The march to view the bell was begnn. Tho spectators lined tho walks and Capitol grounds, and until ll o’clock the little people kept up a steady tramp. The escort committee say that tho Indianapolis demonstration exceeded that of any other city, and were delighted with their reception and treatment.

INDIANA TAXABLES.

Abstract Completed by the Auditor of State. The Auditor of State has completed the abstract of taxable property in Indiana. The value of lands is $449,514,057; Improvements, <71,553,811; total, $531,097,808. The value of lots is $141,133,709; improvements, $136,035,393; total. $277,769,102. The personal property assessed amounts to $295,914,156. The telegraph property is rated at $1,680,831 and the railroads at $160,387,423. Tho total value of State taxables Is $1,266,855,377. The number of polls assessed for taxes Is 385,619. The taxes raised from this valuation are distributed among twelve funds, apportioned as follow; State tax, $1,704,806.44; benevolent institutions, $758,551.53; State school, $2,210,387.37; permanent endowment, $63,196.42 Those funds are settled with by the Auditor of State. The following taxes aro collected by the counties: County tax, $4,316,012.49; township, $901,788.78; tuition, $1,303,403.85; special school, $2,205,902.95; road, $1,358,117.98; dog tax, $172,954.25. The total taxes leviod for ice year 1892 amounts to $18,037,759.51, an increase of $1,003,000 ovcj 1891. Tho delinquents for 1891 and previous years amounts to $3,001,906.69. The total amount, inclusive of the delinquents, is $21,039,606.20.

Did Not Care For Expense.

A round-faced, apple-cheeked and pleasant looking little old man Sat by the side of his rather acridlooking and elderly wife on tht> way .home from an excursion trip, or, as the okl man called it, “a little excursion on foot/’ He was full of delightful memories of all he had seen and heard, but his wife looked sad and unsmiling. - Presently the old man pulled out a little old buckskin bag and shook a silver dime and a nickle out of it. “There, Arimentv,” he said to his wife, as he held out the money on the palm of his hand, “there’s all that’s left out of as 2 bill .1 tuk for spendin’ money. ” “I know it, Nathan, and I think it’s turrible,” replied the. wife. “Shucks, T don’t. I b’lievc in havin’ a good time when you set out to.” “We could of liarl a good time ’thout wastin’ all that money.” “Wastin’ it?” Shucks! Hatn't it right for a feller to hev a little enj’yment out of this life!” “One ken hev enj’ynlcnt without committin’ all sorts of sinful extravagance. It jist makes me sick to think o’ how you’ve flung money ’round to-day.” “What’d I git that *.vas so dretful extravagant?” “Well, you went beyond all reason in ev’rything. What airthly need was there of ye buyin' soda water twice?” “’Cause I wanted it twice.” “Oh, yes; you alius was one to pamper the flesh. An’ what airthly need had we o’ that ten cents’ worth of bologna sossige? Five cents’ worth would o’ been a-plenty.” “We et it all, jist the same.” “Et it? Of course, we ct it; you reckon I was goin' to add waste* to extravagance by throwin’ any of it away? An’ what need had we o’ them sweet crackers when we’d tuk along more gud bread au’ butter an’ pie than we could cat?” “I think sweet crackers go mighty good once in a while.” “Well, wc ain’t made o’ money to spend on high livin', no matter what’s good. An’ look at them- peanuts you went and bought. Baif ’o them was bad. Peanuts air onhealthy things anyhow/* “Then you’d ort to be glad that half of ’em was bad for us to eat." “They cost five cents all the same. An’here I been chilly and mizzablc all day on 'count that ice-cream I did my best to keep you from ordering I knowed it 'wouldn’t agree with my stummick.” “You oughten’t to of et it, then." “I had to eat it after you’d went and wasted good money for it It jest seemed as though you was bound and determined to fling money way to-day; you acted like you wasa millionaire, I declare if you didn’t Nathan Sipes.”