Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1904 — Page 2

THE MISER'S DAUGHTER

* CHAPTER Vlll.—(Continued.) Eugenie said nothing; and raised her •yes to heaven. Her generous instincts, so long repressed and dormant, had been suddenly awakened, and every kindly thought had been harshly checked as it had arisen. Outwardly this evening passed just as thousands of others had passed in their monotonous lives, but for ■She two women it was the most painful that they had ever spent. Eugenie sewed without raising her head; she took aonotice of the work box which Charles looked at so scornfulyl yesterday evening. Mme. Grandet knitted away at Ber cuffs. Grandet sat twirling his thumbs, absorbed in schemes which should one day bring about results that would startle Saumur. Nanon was spinning; the whirr of her wheel was the amir sound in the great room beneath the gray-painted rafters. “Our tongues don’t go very fast,” she gai<X showing her large teeth, white as Stanched diamonds. “There is no call for them to go,” anFrered Grandet, roused from his calcutions. He beheld a vision of the future —he paw eight millions in three years’ time <—he had set forth on a long voyage upon n golden sea, “Let us go to bed. I will go up and wish my nephew a good night from you *ll, and see if he wants anything.” Mme. Grandet stayed on the landing antside her room door to hear what her worthy husband might say to Charles. (Eugenie, bolder than her mother, went a step or two up the second flight. “Well, nephew, you are feeling unMappy? Yes, cry, it is only natural, a father is a father. But we must bear •ur troubles patiently. Whilst you have Been crying I have been thinking for you; lam a kind uncle, you see. Come.’don’t l&se heart. But you are all in the dark,” Grandet went on. “That’s bad—that’s Bad. One ought to see what one is doing. What, a wax candle! Where have they fished that from? I believe the wenches would pull up the floor of my Stouse to cook eggs for that boy.” Mother and daughter, hearing these words, fled to their rooms and crept into their beds like frightened mice. “Mme. Grandet, you have a lot of aaoney somewhere, it seems,” said the vine grower, walking into his wife’s rooms. “I am saying my prayers, dear,” faltered the poor mother. "Very well. Good night. To-morrow ssorning I shall have something to say to Xou”

CHAPTER IX. Mme. Grandet betook herself to sleep .like a schoolboy who has not learned his lessons and sees before him the angry face of the master when he wakes. Sheer terror led her to wrap the sheets about Ser head, but just at that moment she felt a kiss on her forehead. It was Eufceuie, who had slipped into the room in the darkness and stood there barefooted fin her nightdress. “Oh, mother —my kind mother!” she •aid. “I shall tell him to morrow mornthat it was all my doing.” “No, don’t. If you do, he will send Ton away to Noyers. Let me manage it. ille will not eat me, after all.” “Oh, mamma, do you hear? He is <rying still.” , “Go back to bed, dear. The floor is <imp; it will strike cold to your feet.” So ended the solemn day, which had Krought for the poor wealthy heiress a lifelong burden of sorrow. Never again would Eugenie Grandet sleep as soundly ■or as lightly as heretofore. The trouble and excitement of the day disturbed her rest; she woke again and again to listen for any sound from her cousin’s room, thinking that she still J&?ard the moans that all day long had vibrated through her heart. Sometimes she seemed to see him lying up there, dying of grief; sometimes she dreamed that hie was being starved to death. Toward morning she distinctly heard a terrible cry. She dressed herself at once, and in the dim light of the dawn fled noiselessly up the stairs to her cousin’s room. The door stood open, the wax candle Lad burned itself down to the socket. Nature had asserted herself; Charles, still dressed, was sleeping in the armchair, with his head fallen forward on the bed; he Slid been dreaming as famished people dream. Eugenie admired the fair young face. It was flushed and tear-stained; the eyelids were swollen with weeping; he seemed to be still crying in his sleep, •nd Eugenie's own tears fell fast. So.ue dim feeling that his cousin was present ■awakened Charles; he opened his eyes •nd saw her distress. “Pardon me, cousin,” he said, dreampfr. Evidently he had lost all reckonfcig of time, and did not know where he ■■was. “There are hearts here that feel for yon, cousin, and we thought that you wight perhaps want something. You ■houkl go to bed; you will tire yourself if you sleep like that.” “Yes,” he said, “that is true.” “Good-by,” she said, and fled, half in ♦onfusion, half glad that she had come. An hour later she went to her mother's ireotn to help her to dress, as she always did. Then the two women went downstairs and waited for Grandet's coininy in the anxiety which freezes or burns, flrhe cooper came downstairs, spoke in an absent-minded way to his wife, kissed ißtigenle, and sat down to table. He •ocmed to have forgotten last night’s (threats. “What has become of my nephew? The )*hild is not much in the way.” “He is asleep, sir,” said Nanon. “So much the better; he won’t want a ■wax candle for that,” said Grandet, facetiously. His extraordinary mildness and satirilrnl humor puzzled Mnie. Grandet; she riboked earnestly at her husband. He up his hat and gloves with the re“I am going to have a look round in s*e market place; I want to meet the Mnschots.” ./ r » fifrandet always slept but littlp jwn wont to spend half the nigtZ . an< l \ waiving and maturing •* n re_ By which his views, obsrf- , “ process Bi— a gained amazingly and ; indeed, thisxwu clearness nnd > was the secret of *ist Q-'W-l which was the ad-

By HONRE DE BALZAC

miration of Saumur. During the night this excellent man's ideas had taken an entirely new turn: hence his unusual mildness. He had been weaving a web to entangle them in Paris; he would envelop them in his toils, they should be us clay in his hands; they should hope and tremble, come and go, toil and sweat, and all for his amusement, all for the old cooper in the dingy room at the head of the worm-eaten staircase in the old house at Saumur; it tickled his sense of humor. He hnd been thinking about his nephew. He wanted to save his dead brother’s name from dishonor in a way that should not cost a penny either to his nephew or to himself. He was about to invest hi's money for three years, his mind was quite at leisure from his own affairs; he really needed some outlet for his malicious energy, and here was an opportunity supplied by his brother’s failure. The claws were idle, he had nothing to squeeze between them, so he would pourid the Parisians for Charles’ benefit, and exhibit himself in the light of an excellent brother at a very cheap rate. As a matter of fact, the honor Of tiie family name counted for very little with him in this matter; he looked at it from the purely impersonal point of view of the gambler, who likes to see a game well played although it is no affair of his. Tha Cruchots were necessary to him, but he did not mean to go in search of them; they should come to him. That very evening the comedy should begin, the main outlines were decided upon already, to-morrOw he would be held up as an object of admiration all over the town, and his generosity should not cOst him a farthing! He returned in .time for the midday meal, which he took standing. Then the keeper, who had not. yet received his promised reward, appeared from Froidfond, bringing with him a hare, some partridges shot in the park, a few eels, and a couple of pike sent by him from the miller’s. “Aha! so here is old Cornoillcr; you come just when you are wanted, like salt fish in Lent. Come, Nanon, look alive! Just take this, it will do for "dinner today; the two Cruchots are coming.” Nanon opened her eyes with amazement, and stared first at one and then at another. “Oh! indeed,” she said; “and where are the herbs and the bacon to come from?” “Wife,” said Grandet, “let Nanon have six francs.”' “Well, then, M. Grandet,” the gamekeeper began (he wished to see the question of his salary properly settled, and was duly primed with a speech) “M. Grandet ” “Tut, tut, tut,” said Grandet, “I know what you are going to say; you are a good fellow, we will see about that tomorrow, I am very busy to-day. Give him five francs, wife,” he added, and with that he beat a retreat. The poor woman was only too happy to purchase peace at the price of eleven francs. She knew by experience that Grandet usually kept quiet for a fortnight after he had made her disburse coin by coin the money which he had given her, “There, Cornoiller,” she said, as she slipped ten francs into his hand; “we will repay you for your services one of these days.” “Madame,” said Nanon, who by this time had a basket on her arm, “three francs will be quite enough; keep the rest. I shall manage just as well with three.”

“Let us have a good dinner, Nanon, my cousin is coming downstairs,” said Eugenie. “There is something very extraordinary going on, I am sure,” said Mme. Grandet. “This makes the third time since we were married that "your father has asked any one here to dinner.” It was nearly 4 o’clock in the afternoon; Eugenie and her mother had laid the cloth and set the table for six persons. Charles came into the dining room looking white and sad; there was a pathetic charm about his gestures, his face, his looks, the tones of his voice; his sorrow had given him the interesting look that women like so well, and Eugenie only loved him the more because his features were worn with paiu. Perhaps, too, his trouble had brought them nearer in other ways. Charles was no longer the rich and handsome young man who Ijved in a sphere far beyond her ken; was in deep and terrible distress, and sorrow is a great leveler. Charles and Eugenie understood each other without a word being spoken on either side. 'The poor dandy of yesterday, fallen from his high estate, to-day was an orphan, who sat in a corner of the room, quiet, composed and proud, but frora time to time he met his cousin's eyew, her kind and affectionate glance rested on him, and compelled him to shake off his dark and somber broodings, nnd to look forward with her to a future full of hope, in which she loved to think that she mfght share. The news of Grandet’s dinner parly caus'd even greater excitement in Sfaumur than the sale of his vintage, although this latter proceeding had been a cr-me of the blackest dye, an act of high treason against the vine growers’ intei est. I', was .not long before the des Grassing heard of Guillaume Grandet's violent end a«id impending bankruptcy. They determined to pay a visit to their client that, evening, to condole with him in his affliction, aud to show a friendly interest; w hile they endeavored to discover the motives which could have led Grandet to invite the Cruchots to dinner at> suet a time. -J-r.-ectsely at 5 o’clock Presid ■• f Bor Jons aud his uncle the-'*’ * vnt . ed, dressed up the"’ --'notary arrnTh< guests »d 'a nines this time, and beganthemselves at table, reniur 1 ' --liy attacking their dinner with so iz““?ably good appetites. Grandet was jd r <uin, Charles was silent, Eugenie was aun,b, nnd Mme. Grandet said no more thau usual; if it had been a funeral repast, it could not well have been less lively. When they rose from the table, Charles addressed his aunt and uncle: “Will you permit me to withdraw? I have some long and'difflcult letters to write." “By all means, nephew.”

When Charles had left the room, and his amiable relative could fairly assume that he was out -of earshot, Grandet gave his wife a sinister glance. “Mme. Grandet. what we are going to say will be Greek to you; it is half past 7 o’clock,( you ought to be off to bed by this time. Good night, my daughter.” He kissed Eugenie, and mother and daughter left the room. , CHAPTER X. Now, if ever in his life, Grandet displayed all the shrewdness which he had acquired-in the course of his long experience of men and business, and all the cunning which had gained him the nickname of “old fox” among those who had felt his teeth a little too sharply. “M-m-monsieur le P-p-president, you were s-s-saying that b-b-bankruptcy ” Here the trick of stammering which it had pleased the vine grower to assume so long ago that every one believed it to be natural to him, grew so unbearably tedious for the Cruchot pair, that as they strove to catch the syllables they made unconscious grimaces, moving their lips as if they would fain finish the words in which the cooper entangled both himself and them at his pleasure. The present business required more deafness, more stammering, more of the mazy circumlocutions in which Grandet was wont to involve himself, than any previous transaction in his life; for, in the first place, lie wished to throw the responsibility of his ideas on some one else; some one else was to suggest his own schemes to him, while he was to keep himself to himself, and leave every one in the dark-as to his real intentions. “Mon-sieur de B-B-Bonfons, you were s-s-s-saying that in certain cases, p-p-p----proceedings in b-b-bankruptcy might be s-s-s-stopped b-b-b-by ” “At the instance of a Tribunal of Commerce. That is done every day of the year,” said M. C. de Bqnfons, guessing, as he thought, at old Grandet’s idea, and running away with it. “Listen!” he said, and in the most amiable way he prepared to explain himself. “I am listening,” replied the older man meekly, and his face assumed a demure expression. He looked-like, some small boy who is laughing in his sleeve at his schoolmaster while appearing to pay the most respectful attention. “When anybody who is in a large way of business and is much looked up to, like your late brother in Paris, for instance, is likely to find himself insolvent ” “Ins s-solvent, do they call it?” “Yes. " When his failure is imminent, the Tribunal of Commerce, to which he is amenable has power by a judgment to appoint liquidators to wind up the business. Liquidation is not bankruptcy, do yon understand? It is a disgraceful thing to be a bankrupt, but a liquidation reflects no discredit on a man.” “It is quite a d-d-diffierent thing, if only it d-d-does not cost any more,” said Grandet. “Yes. But a liquidation can be privately arranged without having recourse to the Tribunal of Commerce,” said the president. “How is a man declared bankrupt?” “Yes —how?” inquired Grandet. “I have n-u-never thought about it.” “In the first place, he may himself file a petition and leave his schedule with the clerk of the court; the debtor himself draws it up or authorizes some one else to do so, and it is duly registered. Or, in the second place, his creditors may make him a bankrupt. But supposing the debtor does not file a petition, and none of his creditors make application to the court for a judgment declaring him bankrupt—now let us see what happens then!” “Yes —let us s-s-see.” “In that case, the family of the deceased, or his representatives, or his residuary legatee, or the man himself, if he is not dead, or his friends for him, liquidate his affairs. Now, possibly, you may in--tend to do this in your brother’s case?” inquired the president. “Oh, Grandet!” exclaimed the notary. “That would be acting very handsomely! We in the provinces have our notions of honor. If you saved your name from dishonor —for it is your name—you would be ” “Sublime!” cried the president, inter, rupting his uncle. (To be continued.)

FIRST PAPER EVER MADE.

Early New England Journal Cute Ita Circulation to Conform to Supply. Zenos Crane was the first papermaker in tjje United States, and it is recorded in the archives of Massachusetts that he spent his first night in Berkshire at a little wayside inn, within a stone’s throw of where the handsome residences and thriving mills of his descendants now stand and almost on the identical spot where his grandson, formerly Governor of Massachusetts, superintends the vast machinery of the famous mill where all the paper for the United States money is manufactured. But the pioneer, weary from the long journey on horseback and without any capital save brains and an independent spirit, could scarcely have prophesied the proportions to which the seed he was about to plant would grow. In fact, it was not until two years later that the money was raised and partners secured with which to start a little one-vat mill. At the time the establishment of a manufactory in any part or America was considered a bold and dangerous experiment and hailed by press and people as a patriotic act. Skilled workmen were rare and it was more difficult to reach a market a few miles d' 5 ’ taut than it now is to globe. There were 1 e ie mills and these wereZ pape " down frequent!'' ' \ 0 ,h « cd to “ hut or o' * - -y f° r lat ‘ k of operators raw material. There was no systematic method of collecting rags and much of the product of the mills was carted about' the country and exchanged for rags and a little money. While the colonies were under English rule it was the policy to repress colonial manufactures. The few that grew up were forced to their full capacity during the revolutionary war and threatened with extinction when the peace of 1783 permitted the importation of foreign goods. About six months after the ceremony a bride begins to wonder if her husband is really the man she married.

NAMING A CANDIDATE

FIGURES PROVE IT A COSTLY UNDERTAKING. The Two Leading National Conventions) "Will Involve Expenditures Exceeding Two Millions of Dollars —How the Enormous Expenses Are Divided. The country is getting ready to spend rather "more than a million dollars in nominating a candidate for the presidency at Chicago in the three or four days beginning June 21, when the Republican national convention is to be held. In three or four days beginning July 6 at least as much will be spent for a like purpose by the democratic national convention, to be held in St. Louis. As the Democratic convention seems likely to be the more strenuous xsf the two and may last longer, more money will probably be spent it) St. Louis than in Chicago. It will certainly cost $2,000,000 to place the two leading presidential candidates before the people, and this big sum will be considerably larger if either nomination should be hotly contested. Those figures may seem excessive, but here are a few facts to bear them out: Needs Small Army. In the first place, it will take between 4,000 and 5,000 men and women to run the convention and report its proceedings. This small army will be divided into five general classes, of which the delegates will be most Important, numerically as well as otherwise. They will number about 2,000, half being actual delegates and half alternates. To be exact, so far as the Republican convention is concerned, there will be 972 delegates from the States, and an average of four each from the six territories of Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Porto Rico, or 24 in all, makiug a total of 996, or a grand total of delegates and alternates of 1,892.

The “convention staff” includes deputy sergeants-at-arms, ushers, messengers, pages and doorkeepers. Based on the average of past conventions, there will be 200 deputies, 2(XT ushers, 200 messengers, 200 pages and 100 doorkeepers—9oo all told —and there may bo more. Next come the newspaper men—and women—including shorthand reporters, correspondents, photographers, artists, telegraphers and messengers. There will probably ba about a thousand of them in all; between 400 and 500 press seats are always reserved in the convention hall, with the assumption that at least half of the newspaper representatives in the convention will do their work elsewhere' than in the hall itself—at the hotels, in committee rooms, etc. Possibly the number of actual working newspaper folk at the national convention may not be more than 400 or 500, but at least a thousand press credentials are undoubtedly given out always. Last comes the miscellaneous class, and it is very miscellaneous Indeed. It includes the national committeemen (45 in number, one from each State), their private secretaries, stenographers and clerks, the working office force of the sergeant-at-arms (as distinguished from his “convention staff”), the employes at the various candidates’ headquarters, and “all not otherwise classified.” These latter would swell the miscellaneous class to 500 at least at a convention before which several candidates were to be placed in nomination, as may be the case at St. Louis this year. The “visiting attendance” averages about 20,000. Kailroad and Hotel Bills. It is safe to assume that the average round trip railroad fare paid for the 4,400 persons who run and report the convention will be sls each, or $66,000 —some of them will pay a good deal more, for they come from all parts of the country—and that the “visiting attendance” pay $5 in round trip fares each, or $100,000—5166,000, all told, for the railroads. The returns to the hotel and other entertainment purveyors will be much larger, even if the convention lasts only three days. This will be its minimum length, no matter how peaceful its deliberations. Figuring the hotel and other expenses of the 24,400 people who will run, report and attend the convention at $lO a day each, the total will be $732,000, and the grand total of money paid to the railroads and the city will be $898,000. Nearly all the big daily newspapers of the‘country depend upon the Associated Press for their routine convention reports, though some receive them through other sources, and there are at least 100 that send from one to ten or fifteen people of their own to the convention city to do special stunts of one sort or another a * a low * nat ®. the papers will spend SIOO,OOO . I'Zpecial reports, telegraph tolls, photographs, etc. Besides, there will be special expenditures, extra wires, private messages and the like along telegraphic lines, quite outside the newspaper service, of at least SIO,OOO. Thus a grand total of $1,103,000 for a three-day excursion is at the rute of $367,333 a day.

From Far and Near.

Cliff SlQUghter, aged 20, died at Chillicothe, Ohio, from an abdominal stab wound inflicted at a wake by Clarence Welsh, aged 16. The Comptroller of the Currency has approved the application to organize the Coalgate National Bank, Coalgate, I. T., with $50,000 capital. -The Farmers aud Merchants’ Bank of Bobart, O. T., which suspended business -April 22. has been authorizivd by the of the Currency to resume Business.

When Trees Go to Sleep.

Trees and plants have their regular times for going to sleep. They need to rest from the work of growing and to repair and oil the machinery of life. Some plants do all their sleeping In the winter while the ground is frozen and the limbs are bare of leaves. In tropical countries where the snow never falls and It is always growing weather the'trees repose during the rainy season or during the periods of drought. They always choose the most unfavorable working time for doing their sleep, just as man chooses the night, when he cannot see to work.

Old Soldier’s Story.

Sonoma, Mich., June 13.—That even In actual warfare disease is more terrible than bullets is the experience of Dtjos Hutchins of this place. Mr. Hutchins as a Union soldier saw three years of service under Butler Barke in the Louisiana swamps, and as a result got crippled with Rheumatism so that his hands and feet got all twisted out ofshape, and how he suffered only a Rheumatic will ever know. For twenty-five years he was in misery, then one lucky day his druggist advised him to use Dodd’s Kidney Pills. Of the result Mr. Hutchins says: “The first two boxes did not help me much, but I got two more, and before I got them used up I was a great deal better. I kept on taking them, and now my pains are all gone and I feel better than I have in years. I know Dodd’s Kidney Pills will cure Rheumatism.”

No Broken Promises.

Rector —For once, a promise made at the marriage altar is likely to be kept. Wise —To what do you refer? Rector—At a wedding this morning I got the questions mixed—‘and it was the groom who promised to “love, honor and obey.”

Could You Use Any Kind of a Sewing Machine at Any Price ?

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How Radium May Be Found.

The United States government is taking steps looking toward developing the radium-producing resources of the country. The chief of the geological survey announces that he W'ould like specimens of radio-active minerals, and for the guidance of those persons who believe that they possess such specimens it says that the simplest means of detecting radio-activity m a suspected substance is by the use of a photographic plate—the more sensitive the better. The plate should not be removed from its inclosing black paper. The specimen to be tested should be laid upon this black paper in a dark room and left there from two to fifteen hours, a small metal object having first been placed between the specimen and the black paper on the plate. Instead of the metal object a few small nails may be arranged so as to form the initial of the owner and left on the paper-covered plate below the specimen. After thus remaining in the dark room the plate should be developed in the usual manner. If the specimen tested has radio-active powers a photograph of the metal objector of the nail-formed initial will be produced on the plate exactly as if the plate had been exposed to the sun's rays. The test should be made, if possible, with from half a pound to a pound of the material.

HAS TRIED BOTH.

Travel for Health vs. Dieting. 4.. man who was sent to Europe for bis health and finally found cure In a little change in his diet says: “I was troubled with dyspepsia for five years, and two doctors here in Kenosha that treated me for over a year both told me there was no help for me. Then I had an expert from Chicago but still received no relief; then followed another expert from Chicago who came to our house two times a month for four months. Hq/ gave me up like all tbthgfhersTnd told me to a-tv.Jp acr oss the ocean, which I d id iu t h e year 1899 and came iome about as bad as when I started. The doctors told me my stomach lining was full of sores. Then I began to study my own case and learned of the diet recommended by the Poetum Cereal Co., so I gave up coffee, pork and all greasy foods and began using Tostum Food Coffee. Gradually I got better and better until I am well now as I ever was in my younger days, have no trouble and eat anything iH to eat “Sometimes away from home I am persuaded to drink coffee, but I only take a sip of it, for it tastes bitter and disagreeable to me, but the longer I nse Postum the better I like it and the better I feel. I could say a great deal more of my experience with Postum, but think this will give every one a good idea of what leaving off coffee and using Postum can do." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Midh. Look in each pkg. for the famous Utile book, “The Road to Wellvllle.”

How to Keep House.

With air the luxuries and pleasure* of this life, its big enjoyments and Its smaller comforts, there Is an offset or antithesis which we have to contend with in the form of aches and pains. In some way and by some means every one has a touch of them in some form at some time. Trifling as some of them may be, the risk is that they will grow to something greater and rack the system with constant torture. There is nothing, therefore, of this kind that we have a right to trifle with. Taken In time, the worst forms of pains and aches are easily subdued and cured by the free use of St. Jacobs Oil. Nd well regulated household should be without a bottle of this great remedy for pain. It is the specific virtue of penetration in St. Jacobs Oil that carries It right to the pain spot and effects a prompt cure even in the most painful cases of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Sciatica. You want It also In the house at all times for hurts, cuts and wounds, and the house that always has it keeps up a sort of Insurance against pain.

Pedestrian and Autoist.

1903. —Jenkins afoot. Never owned a motor, and tries to cross the street. “I believe I would be justified in shooting that scoundrel! He came within an ace of running me down. The law gives the infernal puppies too much latitude. They think they own the streets, and that must get out of their way. Hang tl* whole lot!” 1904. —Jenkins has bought a motor. Tries it up* the street. “Get out of the way there, you crazy lubber! Do you want to get run over? Why In thunder, you Great fools, you can’t keep on the pavement, where you belong, nobody knows. Hanged if I don’t ride down the next idiot that gets in my way if it costs me a header. The insane dolts! Tlfey don’t want to leave us motorists even a strip of the road.”

Rock Island Makes a Record.

The Rock Island has established a new record for fast time between Omaha and Chicago. May 22d, a special train of five cars, carrying the Anna Held Company, left Omaha at 1 a. m., arriving at Chicago at 12 o’clock boon. The actual running time was 9 hours and 58 minutes, and as the distance is 499 miles, the average speed was nearly 50 miles an hour. Stops for water were made at Atlantic, Brooklyn, West Liberty, Bureau and Morris. Engines were changed at Valley Junction and Rock Island, and 20 minutes -were lost at the la let place while the members of the company ate breakfast. A performance such as this, made without any special attempt to “break a record,” speaks volumvs for Rock Island men and methods, for it goes without saying that a speed of nearly a mile a minute for 500 miles is possible only when engines and men and track are of the highest standard.

A Solitary Quartet.

Mr. Moneybag (who has recently acquired a fortune) —It’s a shame and a disgrace the way everybody conspires to rob a rich man. Friend—What is the matter now? “Well, you see, I had a little party at my mansion last night.” “So I saw by the papers.” “And to amuse my guests I ordered some music.” “Yes, I heard you ordered a quartet.” “Just so. And, would you believe it, if four singers didn’t crowd into the room and sing, and I had to pay all four of them, and mind you, I only ordered one solitary quartet! That’s the way I’m swindled every day of my life and I’m tired of it.”

All Mothers Are Interested.

In another column of this paper will be found the advertisement of the Phoenix Chair Company, Sheboygan, Wis., in which are set forth the merits of the “Baby Walking Chair," which will be of interest to all mothers.

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