Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — Page 6

THIS IS ONE NATION.

Eagle’s -Screams American Patriots. ■ ' -7 LION MUST KEEP OUT. ’ 'p" Congress Votes to Sustain the President.

Bill Passed Giving Him Money and the Commission—American Pcoi>le, Regardless of Party, Uphold Grover In the Enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine Nothing Since the War „ Has So Deeply\Stirrcd This Nation— The British Press Is Insolent and Furious.

Washington correspondency: . .Congress is with the President, in the Jfcpport of the Monroe doctrine, and the American people are with Congress.) The ■Jfouse of Representatives- without dis.; denting voice has passed a bill appr'opriating $-100,000 fqi- an American judicial''.commission to ascertain the true boundary between British Guiana and. y<ineziiela. This is the beginning of the

A SURPRISE FOR THE LION—DIDN'T THINK THE ELEPHANT AND TIGER WERE BROTHERS.

• » It is inipo sible to dijguise the gravity of the difficulties, that have arisen between Great Britain..and the United Sta'es. President CievelfintUs message and its reception 6n both sides 'of Congress gjve iutditional importance to the dispatches between Washington and London.—From, the libation Tinies. . -

first step in carrying out the assertion of tho Monroe doctrine as a principle of the international code. Leaders of all shades of domestic difference iu Congress agreed’ as one man in supporting the President. It has been the taunt pf the British press and the belief of the anti-American public abroad that in the assertion of the Monroe doctrine at this time the President was “playing politics.” ..It will shortly he apparent a-binad that ,in support of the right of Americans to rule America there are no parties \ the United States. This is a nation. ‘ a The action of the House, fresh from the

BRITISH BOUNDARY. LINE CLAIMS IN VENEZUELA.

■people an 3 expressing their sentiments, raises,a crucial issue for the British Government and brings up the question sharp-ly-whet her it will fight or back down. The Anglomania's in the United States are neither numerous nW. formidable enough to cause this country to back down. Congress has indorsed thp President and the people will indorse Congress. The Monroe doctrine will be asserted both In letter and in spirit. It'will be declared for this time ni»i for all time that it means America for t}ie American republics and np monarchy in America. The powers must content themselves with partitioning and dominating Europe, Asia andjkfrica. This Western Hemisphere is the nome of the republican form of self-government; and if war breaks out the British monarchical'flag will have to depart from Canada and the .West Indies and South American Guiana. Great Britain having refused to submit her claims to disinterested arbitration, th® United States proposes” to go a step

farther in the controversy and inquire for her qwn. future guidance as to the justice of those claims. Nor is this unprecedented. We have a right to know the .facts. We do not attempt to decide, hut it is our privilege to as cot tain the truth, and thus we shall be. able to judge whether Great Britain's refusal to submit her title to investigation is well founded. All na tio’ns exercise the right of intervention in matters that/are likely to affect their own interests or interfere with the clearly defined policy- they may have pursued toward their neighbors. Leaving the Monroe doct rifle entirely, ont of th e qu os tioi we are quite as much justified in pursuing the course recommended uy the President \as Russia is to interfere with the plans of the English in Turkey, or England in regard to the conduct of Russia in China and Korea, or Russia, France andt 1 ermany in relations between Qhjua and Japan. ~ ' T ’ . ' Europe Is Breathless. / The-conte nti-oLthe message have areused the people of continental Europe as nothing ill the-second half of this century has done. Great Britain is astounded,_ according to her own papers. Many of them are insolent and truculent-dn their comments, and it is evident that the President’s utterances fill them with uncon-, cealed fury. One of them says that “tlufc epitaph of the Monroe doctrine has been

written— in the We nezttelan"- cor respond - once?’ Another sneeringly says that “the invocation of the Monroe doctrine is irrelevant?’ rtnd that- it is “not it principle of international law, because'"England has not, recognized it.’’—as if nothing were international law which did not have England’s assent and sanction. The London Titties declares that England will not admit the pretensions put forward by Presir /lent 1 Cleveland. The Times then proceeds to argue that the Monroe doctrine has never been recognized as international law ami quotes Lord Salisbury's admission that any disturbance of the existing territorial distribution in the Westcrii Hemisphere by any European Stifte Would -be highly inexpedient. Other or ga'ns of British opinion take the ground that if tin l “President should seriously declare that the United States would enforce the decision of the special commission, and such a preposterous contention was sustained by the American Congress

and people, there would seenunotliing left to Great Britain but to trifiah the United States a needed lesson.” Xfid more bluff to the same effect. - fV There was a time early century when English statesmen ai®English papers scoffed at the protest.qjtetlie United States, then a feeble the American ships by English war vessels and the removal of seamen on the pretext that they were King George’s .subjects. This protest was as “inipe’ftinient.” “The rightshf Search” was claimed to be«ft part of “international law” as defined by Great Britain. But

after the war' of ISI2 England silently revised her idcaS'of international law and dropped out "the right of search” of American vessels on the*ltigh seas, She will revise them again ill regard to tire Monroe doctrine before this Controversy is ended, and will admit that the Monroe doctrine does form a most important par-t 'of international law as far as matters regarding the American Hemisphere are concerned. ; Across the channel the sentiment is scarcely less serious. France and Germany, both having interests on this continent, view the message with undisguised alarm, as encroaching on their rights. They even go so far ns to suggest that England nlone is«,ffi"p66r'Stiape to handle the husky young republic, byt that if there were cqnoirt of the interested powers'll) denying the Monroe doctrine there would be no-difficulty-ta ex ploding the bubble, which, however, has caused many a continental statestnah

considerable logs of Sleep since it was «<j vigorously promulgated. The’ situation is briefly that the attitude of the President isapprbyedby'tha people Of the United States, that the members of both houses of Congress realize "this and' that there is a, manifest intention on all hands to pronounce to tho world that this country is dominant on this Continent and that her word “goes,”

BASSETT PASSES AWAY.

1 V Venerable Assistant Doorkeeper of tha National Senate Is Dead. ■ Capt. Isaac Bassett, the, venerable assistant tioorkebper of the Senate, died in Washington Wednesday'afternoon. Cant.

C'APTAIN BASSETT.

Isaac Bassett, the “father of the Senate, ’ spent his entire career as a Senate employe. He enjoyed the distinction of being the second page appointed in the chamber and the last officer of that body elected by ballot, all subsequent offices being filled by appointment. Capt. Bassett was born in Washington seventy-six years ago. 'His father was Simeon Bassett, who came from Milford. Conn., qnd his mothoftwas of Irijfh birth. He was a protege of Daniel Webster, who secured the appointment of fifie boy, then 11 years old, as a page, During the subsequent sixty-four year's of servicehe became'messenger and finally assistant doorkeeper, or assistant sergeant’qtU arms, the latter two offices being identi-

cal. His duties practically embraced overseeing the housekeeping of the Senate, the seating of the members, and, in cases of emergency, the actual work of the sergeanUfit-arffis. Early in his career as assistant doorkeeper-he calmly faced a drawn revolver held by the cider Saulsbury, Senator from Delaware, riho lia.L been ordered arrested for distur.Jng the Senate. -Senator Saulsbury, hoWeye,-, was coaxed out by colleagues and avoided being taken into custody. He usually introduced those who bore messages from the President pr the House of Representatives, and (participated iu other like formalities. It was also his custom to slgu all caucus calls for the party in power.

The Comic Side of the News.

An Oswego girl has been arrested for embezzling SII,OOO. The new woman seems to be a few laps ahead of the old min. paper has an editorial on “How to Humanely Kill Kittens," - Why not kill them just as you murder the E’». glish language? The curiosity is getting thC better of his judgment. When the allied navies play the shell game he'd better of it. Mrs. Margaret Mather-Fabst probably will rettirn to the stage; let us hope that Mt. Margaret Mather-Pabst will retire from it now forever. " Camphbr has been cofnered and prices have more dhan doubled lately. Somebody is laying up treasures' where moth and rust doth corrupt. A 70-year-old Kentuckian blew out his brains because a 14-year-old girl wouldn't marry him. The young woman’s judgment was triumphantly vindicated; An Oklahoma husband has applied for a divorce and the’testorafion pfdiis- bachelor name. He shows a lovely disposition in refusing to ask for alimony. The New York Sun suggests that “toothbrush” - ought to be “teetLbrush,” perhaps. Perhaps so; but how about eyesglasses, fiugersbowi, feetball and hairscut? , . ’ The Boston Herald prints an able article on “How Prunes Are Cured!” What this country -reaHy “needs, however, is directions for curing the terrible boarding house prune habit. , A Minneapolis man,who was ajrested \he other dajj for violating the internal revenue laws, explains to the Journal of that town that he bitts merely been selling a “receipt for making insanity water out of molagses, /east and old umbrella, ribs dash of kerosene for the bouquet.” It seems a mistake to repress suet • genius.

Sorry He Spoke.

Mr. Saur (to his wife)—How Vorrld o£ you to be always looking as sour as a crab apple.* Just look at Mrs. X. over ypnder—the very picture of cheerfulness. Mrs. Saur—You seem to forget, my dear, that Mrs. X- U a widow —Neuo Welt

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

THE PREACHER DISCOURSES ON CHRIST’S MISSION. The Great Emancipators Were All of Lowly Birth—The Offender’s Hope—The Season of Forbearance and Ij ° f " ’ Forgiveness—Good Will to Men. ,A. . j A Christmas Carol. In his sermon Sunday Dr. Talmage chose - the universal theme of the season—the Christmastide. The text selected was, "“Now whep Jesus was born in Bethlehem. ii., 1. At midnight from one of the galleries of the skv a rli.-mt broke. To-an ord-t* nary observer there- was no reason for such a celestial demonstration. A poor man and wife trwve 1 ers, Joseph and Mary by . name—bird lodged in an out-, house of an unimportant village. The supreme—hour of solemnity had passed, and upon tho pallid forehead and cneek of Mary God had set the dignity, the grandeur, the tenderness, the everlasting and divide significance of motherhood. But stich scenes had often Occurred in Bethlehem, yet never before- had a star “beewiiiitixed'orhad a baton ufrirght rmtvshaled ever the hills winged orchestra. If the.ro had been such brilliant and mighty recognition - at- an advent in the house of Pharaoh, or at an advent in the house of Caesar, or the house of Hapsburg,, or the house of Stuart, we would not so much have wondered, but a bayn seems too poor a center for such'a delicate and archangelic circumference. The stage seems too Sihall for so great an act, the music too grand for such unappreciative auditors, the window of the stable too rude to be. serenaded by other worlds. It is my joy? to tell) you what was born JJrnt. night in' the viljjig'e barn, a'nd as'l want to make my discourse.accumulative and climacteric I. begin in the first place by telling you that that night in the Bethlehem manger was born encouragement for all the poorly started. He had-only two friends—they, his parents. No satin lined' cradje. no delicate attentions, but i-straw.qiiid the cattle, and the coarse joke and banter of the camel drivers? Np wonder the mediaeval painters- represent" the oxen ktieeling before tho infant ' Jesus, for ttp>re were no men there at that time to worship. From the depths of that poverty he rose until to-day he is l honored 'in all Christendom and sits on the imperial throne in heaven.

Slightest Name in Christendom. What name is mightiest to-dayin tendom? Jesus. Who has more friends on* earth than any ptfieb being? ,Jesus.' Before whom do the most thousands kneel in chapel paid church and cathedral this hour? Jesus. From what depths.or poverty to what .height of renown! And so let till those who are poorly started remember that they cannot be tub,re poorly born or more disadvantagebtfsfy than this Christ. Let them look up to his example while they have time and- eternity to imitate it. Do you know l(hat the Vast majority of the world’s deliverers had hornlike* birthplace’s? Luther, the emancipator of religion, born among the mines. Shaks-' pea re, the emancipator of literature, born in an humble homemFStrSttofiFOT-Aton.’ Colunibus, the discoverer of a world, born in poverty at Genoa. Hogarth', the discoverer of how to make art aecuraula’tive and administrative of virtue, born in a diumble home in AVcstmorSfttatl. Kitto and Frideaux, Whose keys unlocked new apartments in the Holy Scriptures which had never been entered, born in want. Yes, I have to tell you that nine out of ten of the world's deliverers were born in want. . » I stir your holy ambitions to-diiy, and J want to tell you, although the' whole world may be opposed to you, and inside and outside of your occupations or professions there may be those who would hinder your ascent, on your side and enlisted in your-behalf are the smypathetie heart and the almighty arm of one who one Christmas night about eighteen hundred and ninety-five years ago was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. Oh, what magnificent encouragement for the poorly started, Sacrifice fop the World. Again, I hqve to tell yon that in that village barn that night was born goodwill to men, whether you calbfit kindness, or forbearance, or forgiveness, ‘or geniality, or affection, or love. It was no sport of high beaten to send its favorite to that humiliation. It was sacrifice for a rebellious world. After the calamity in paradise, not only did the ox begin to gore, and the adder to sting, and the clepliant to smite with his tusk, and the lion to put to bad hse tooth and. paw, btit'Umler the very tree -from which the. forbidden fruit was plucked were hatched 1 out war and revenge and malice andT?nvy apd jealousy and tile whole brood of cockatrices. But against that scene I set tls Bethlehem manger, which says, “Bless rather than curse, endure rather than assault," and that Christmas night puts out vindictiveness. It says, "Sheathe your sword, dismount your guns, dismantle your batteries, turn the warship Constellation, that carries shot'and shell, into a grain ship to take food to famishing Ireland, hook your cavalry horses to tlrn plow, use your deadly gunpowder in blasting rbeks and in patriotic celebration, stop your lawsuits, quit writing anonymous letters, extract the sting from your sarcasm, let your wit coruscate but never burn, drop'all the harsh words out of your vocabulary--‘Good will to men.’ ” “Oh,” you say, “I can’t exercise it. " I won’t exercise it until they apologize. I won’t forgive them until they ask me 'to forgive them.” You are no Christian then —I say you are no Christian, or you are a very inconsistent Christian. If you forgive not mon their trespasses, how can you expect your heavenly Father to forgive you? Forgive them if they ask your forgiveness, ami forgive them anyhow. Shake hands all around. “Good will to men.” ,1 ' - O my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit into all our hearts this Christmas time! I tell you what the world wants more than anything else—-more helping hands, more sympathetic hearts, more kind words that never die, more disposition to give other people a ride and to carry the heavy on.d of the load and give other people the light end, and to ascribe good motives instead of bad, and find our happiness in making others happy. \ ' Good Will to Men. Out of that Bethlehem crib let the bear and thedion eat straw like an ox. “Good will to men.” That principle will yet settle all controversies, ’and under it the Will keep on improving until there will be/pnly two antagonists in all the earth,” and they will side by side take the jubilant sleigh ride intimated by tie

prophet when he said!, “Holiness shall be on the bells of the horses.” , Again. I remark that born that Christinas night intney illage’barri'wassyhipa,thet:<• unfoiryitftir othen = TvorldS. JExam that supernatural (grouping pf'TFe ckmch hanks.over Bethlehem ahd/ffomthe especial trails that ran dotWrto I find that our world isrinfautifullyiaiid gloriously and magnificently surrounded. The meteors are,with US, for one of them ran to point down to the birthplace. The heavens are with us, becatise at the thought of our redemption they roll hosannas out of the midnight sky. . 'I Oh, yes, I do not know but our world <mdy bo better surrounded than we have sometimes imagined, and when a Child is born angels bring it, and when it dies angels take it; and when an bld . man • -bends finder the weight of years angels uphold him, and when a heart breaks ■ar+g-eJs-sootlre..iL Angejs in the hospital to take care of the, sick. Angels in t-het cemetery to watch our dead. Angels in the church ready to fly heavenward with the liews ofivepentant the worWI. undefThe world. Angels all arouml the wen'kl.— •*' - Human Imperfection. Rub the dust of human imperfection out of your eyes and look into the heavens and see afigels of pity, angels of mercy, angels qf’pardon, angels of help, angels crowned, angels charioted. The wnrhl,. 'defended by - angels, girdled by angels, cohorted by angels—clouds of angels. Hear. David i-ry' out, “The chariots of God are 20.0(10, even thousands of angels.” ’But'l|ie mightiest angel stood not that night in the clouds over Bethlehem; the mightiest angel that night lay among the cattlcT-the angel of the new covenant. As the clean white linen was being wr.-tped aroumj' tjje little form of that child emperor, nAt a cherub, not a’.seraph, not an angel, not a world but wept and thrilled and shouted. Oh, yes, our world lias plenty oftsympathizers! Our world is only a silver rung of a great ladder at the )~tTqj’<Tf~THTirir^~Wtft r 'Noy more stellar solitariness for our world ether, friendless planets s"pun out into space to freeze, but a world in the bosom of divine maternity, a star harnessed to a manger. ./ ', ■ ■ '* ■ Again, I remark that that night born in that village barn was the offender’s hope. Some sermonizers may say I ought to have projected tidsj thought at the beginning ofdhe■sermon. Oh, no! 1 wanted you to rise toward it. Pwanted you tjo examine the carnelians and the jaspers and the crystals before I showed you the Kohinoor—tho crown jewel of the ages. Oh, that jewel had a very poor setting!’ The cub of bear is borii amid the grand old pillars of the forest, the whelp of ‘ lion takes its first step from the jungle : of luxuriant leaf and wild flower, the kid of goat is born in cavern chandeiiered with stalactite 'and pillared with stalagmite. Christ was born in a bare barn.

'J Christ’s Mission. Yet that nativity l was the offender's hope. Over the door of heaven are written these ( “None but the sinless may enter here.” “Oh, horror,” you say, “that shuts us all out.” No. Christ came ,to the world hi one doowand he departed through.another door. /Ie came through the door of the manger/ and he departed through the door of the sepulcher,-and his one business was so toHvnsh away our sin that after we a're dead there will be ho mote sin ahemt us than about the eteruaL God. I know that is putting it fjtrongly, but that is what 1 understand by full remission. All erased, all washed away, all scoured out, all gone. That undergird- - ling: and overarching nnd irradiating and irfiparadising possibility for you, aiid for aie, ‘arid for-the wbple race—that whs given tlitit Christmas night. Doyon wonder we bring flowers to-day to celebrate smm an event? Do you wonder that we take organ and youthful voj.ee and queenly soloist to celebrate it ? Do you wonder that Raphael and Rubens and Titian and Giotto and Ghirlandajo, and all the old Italian and German painters gave the mightiest stroke of their genius to sketch the Madounij-, Mary and her boy ? The Star oft Christmas. Oh! now I see what the manger was. Not so high the gilded and jeweled and embroidered cradle of the Honeys of England, or the Louis of France, or the Frpderreks of Frussia. Now I find out that that Betlilehem crib fed not so much the oxen of the stall as the white horses of Apocalyptic vision. Now I find-the swaddling clothes enlarging and emblazoning into an imperial robe for a conqueror. Now I find that the star of that Christmas night was only the diamonded sandal of him who hath the moon under his feet. Now I come to understand that the music of that night was not a completed song, but only the- of tlie instruments for a great chorus of two worlds, the bass to be carried by earthly saved, and the soprano by kingdoms of glory won. Oh, heaven, heaven, hea'ven! I shall meet you there. After all our imperfections are gone 1 ;shall meet you there. I look out to-day through the mists <of years, through tlfefog that rises from the cold Jordan, through the wide open door of solid pearl to that reunion. I expect to see you there as certainly as 1 see you here. What a time we shall have in high cdliterse, talking over the sins pardoned, and sorrows comforted, and battles triumphant! Some of your chihlrCm have already, gone, and though people passing along the street and seeing white crape on the doorbell may have said, “It is only a child;" yet when the broken-hearted father cable to solicit my service he said, “Come around and comfort'us, for we loved her so much.”

Feason df Bcjoicing. What a Christmas morning it will make when those with whom you used to keep the holidays are all around you in heaven! Silver-haired old father young again, and mother who had so many aches and pains and decrepitudes well again, apd all your brothers and sisters and* the little ones. How glad they will be to see you! They have been Waiting. The last time they saw your face it was covered with tears and distress, ami pallid from long watching, and one of them I can imagine to-day, with one hand holding fast the (Shining gate, and the other hand Swunjj out toward you, saying: Steer this way, father, steer straight for me. Here safeJn heaven I am waiting for thee. Oh, those Bethlehem angels, when they went fhtek after the concert that night over the hills, forgot to shut the door! All the secret is out. No more use of trying to hide from us the glories to come. It is too late to shut the gate. It is blocked wide open with hosannas marching this way and, hallelujahs marching that way. In the splendor of the anticipation I feel as if I was dying—not physically, for I never was more well—but in the transport of the Christmas transfiguration.

What almost unmans me Is the though that it is provided for such sinners as jto« and I have been. If it had been provided only for those who had always thought right, and. spoken right, and acted right you and I would have had no interest ii rt,. had no share in it. You and I woult to the raft in midocefin and lu the ship sail by carrying "perfect passen gers from a perfect life, on earth to t perfect life in heaven. Bnt I have heart the commander of that ship is the sam< great and glorious and sympathetic ont who hushed the tempest around the boat on Galilee, and I have hoard that all th< passengers bn the >lup a4’o sinners savot by grace. Apd so we fijilthe ship, and ii 'bears down this way, and w£ come by th< shle of it and ask the\ caprain two ques tions: “Who art thou? And whence?’ And lie says,“l am Captain of salvation and lam from the manger,” Oh, bright Chrifttmaamorning of my soul’s-delight Chime aTT the bells. Merry CfifistmffsJ Merry with the thought qf sins forgiven merry with the idea of sorrows comforted merry with the. raptures to eome. Oh, lift that Christ from the manger and lay hin down in aM bur-hearts! We may not bring to' him as costly a present as th. Magi brought, but we bring to his feet and to the manger to-day the frankincenst of our joy, the prostration of our worship - Down at his feet, all churches, all ages, all earth,., at his feet" the four and twenty elders on their faces Down, the “great multitude that no mat can number.” Down. Michael, the fifth, angel! Down, all worlds at his feet an, worship. “Qlory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will to men!”

NOT WHAT THEY SEEM.

Things We Eat Are Often but Bas, Counterfeits. It is hard to tell just what one cats in these days. The wonderful ingenuity developed by matiufaefureft—unscrupulous ones, of course, and money crazy—iu the adulteration of nearly all food products vyould keep the average- man who cares what he eats guessing as to the contents of the dishes on his table. ’ . . The recent investigation of food adulteration by Commissioner Wells of ths Dairy and Food Department of Pennsylvania shovys some startling facts, So many articles are adulterated as tc raise the question as to what is purs food. ... Among the many Impure things sold are allspice,"which often is mainly composed of ground and roasted eoeoanut shells; baking powder; beef, wine, and iron prepared as'n tonic; butter, buckwheat flour, , candy, catsup, cider, cheese, cinnamon, cloves—the lattes ' made almost entirely'from grouud cocoanut shelly., the odor and taste ol cloves being scarcely perceptible; coffee, consisting chiefly of coffee screenings or, damaged coffee, but sold at a high price as a pufe article; fresh "Java” made -from wheat; and barley hulls, roasted with.sugar and containing no codfish not codfish at all —merely cheap dried fish; cream of tartar adulterated with flour; flaxseed .adulterated—axiih- ’starch; . fruit “butters,” s.ueh as apple butter, peach butter, etc,, very seldom pure, being adulterated with starch waste and ; salicylic acid; the same Is true of gritted pinehulls, rice flour, and cayenne pepper, lard;-maple sirup, made from commercial glucose, thinned with about 20 pej cent of water; mixed spices, orangs juice, lemon oil, lemon phosphate, molasses, mustard, olive oil, pepper, vine-, gar,. V'ariilla extract, all kinds of preserves, extract of strawberries, and tea. • To add to the deception a few appls speds are scattered through 'the Cocalled jams? or timothy Ji- other seeila »are added to the piixture to repftjsent raspberry, strawberry, etc. - J The production of artificial colors la particularly common in confections. Indigo, tumeric, annatto, logwood, and cochineal are used in great quantities, and are probably not harmful'; arsenic, copper, and leads are very deleterious, but are not now used as in forme! times, before sanitary officials made sue h persistent attacks on them. Milk and milk products are often colored. Annatto is very commonly used by dairymen to give a rich yellow color. In itself annatto is probably harmless, but it produces deceptive resuits.

A Queer Craft.

Hermit Cusack of Moosehead might have been, hanged as a sorcerer in the benighted days of old. He thinks nothing of erpfesing the Piscataquis Rivet standing on a thirty-foot binding pole. Recently as the steamer’from Kineo plougfroekdown through the? heavy sea xHrtCfteople Jjeard were astounded by a sight of a.man jn mid-lake standing breast high in the heaving waters, with which he was battling in seeming pursuit of a small dog that sat in frill view above the surface a few feet ahead of him. The steamer,.changing her cqtirse, slowed down to pick up John Cusack, who was making the fourth mile of a voyage with an old tree root as his craft, and His dog as passenger. He stood upon the larger end of the root, thereby lifting the other end above the water, and upon this upraised tip the dog found a safe, if not quite dry, footing. The sight of Uncle John and his dog making slqiilar trips is quite frequently reported.— Lewiston Journal.

Could Have Been Rich.

Boran Rothschild one .day entered hn old curiosity shop to buy some paintings. The dealer brought out his rare old pictures, dusted them, and set them in the best light. "Look at this Rembfhndf; quite autheiftie, M. le Baron.” “Authentic, you srfj? You have got there a Raphael of the first style, which is a good deal more authentic.” “Oh! oh!” said thd dealer; “why, you are a connoisseur, M. le Baron.” “I?’*, observed a sigh; “If I had gone into the old curiosity business, I should have a fortune.”

A Good Investment.

The annual profit of the Suez Is |15,000,Q00.