St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 January 1895 — Page 2

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wzh^t w law •^Lilfi^Sw y ^s CHA ITER XII —Continued. "Poor old Black!" he said one day—or rather night—when, after toiling, soaked through, up the steep brae, he sat down _a few minutes after, dry and warm, by holding the little hands ved . of ** l, 4U^_large, handtow»**e, ■’ ir«,i Tor al ’.old hs t kt’eTrs.'’ ‘'Thank you, dear.” "•“Though he told me once, in a confiden<ial moment, that his life had been so hard he was often glad there had been no / one to share it." “He was mistaken." I ‘‘l think he was mistaken," Roderick said, pressing his lips on the smooth brow and bright grave eyes, that looked on life utterly without fear, so long as it was a life with love in it. "I cannot believe that any man is the weaker, but the stronger, for having a woman to help him. Only he must choose a woman who can help him as 1 did." “You are very conceited," she said, gayly, and then clung to him passionately. "Two together; I can bear any^hiug if wo are two together. But if you had left me to go through my life alone ”■ A kind of shiver passed through her. “Some have to bear it, and do. Cou pin Silence did. And I would have borne St, too —I told you so once. I would have lived a busy, useful life. I would not have died. But, oh!—the difference, the difjfcrence!" “And, oh! the difference to me!" he Baid, as he clasped her to his heart, and felt the peace and felt the strength she gave him. And then, coming back to ’common things, he added, "Poor old 'Black! He has been just a trifle ‘difficult’ of late; he is not the best temper in the world, and he likes you so much, yon perhaps might smooth him down. If 1 ;bring him home with me to-morrow, can you give us some supper. Mrs. Jardine?" So, in the dusk of the next evening, the tall young fellow* handsome and strong, and the bent old figure with the brown wig and yellow gaiters, appeared at the froat door, which the mistress always herself opened for her husband. ■ “I was going to introduce the visitor, eaid he, “for we never have any other; hut took here! I feel like Robinson < ruBoe when he saw the footmarks on the shore. Wheels! horses’ feet! Mrs. Jardine, you must have been entertaining a carriage and pair?" “Two carriages and pairs! They have only just gone. And they were so very nice.” “The carriages?” < nF? ’ “She is going hack to her French again —jhe renegade!” "No, I am thoroughly Scotch now. Mr. Black knows it.” said sho. as with gentle, almost filial hands, she took off the old man’s plaid and bonnet, and sat him in the arm-chair, he submitting with astonishing meekness; but all old people, just as all children, loved and subnidted to Silence. “How bright your eyes look! Did your visitors talk French with you, my darling?” “A little, for they had been a great deal abroad. But they were so simple ami kindly, not grand or overdressed like " She stopped. "Like other friends of ours, whom being friends we will not criticise," said ■ Roderick, with a kind of sad dignity. It had been a sore vexation to him that, except the Griersons, nearly all the Scotch women his’ wife had met were of the class of Mrs. Maclagan, that exaggeration of national qualities which people of one country constantly make the type of another. "But. my dear, who are your visitors? Mr. Black will be sure to know them.” "Ou. ay; but they would never condeeeend to know me,” said rhe old man. fingering with a half-comical awe the cards on the table. "Sir John and Lady Symington, of Symington: Mr. and Mrs. Mac Alister, of t.’astle Torre. I told yon sir”- —he always addressed Roderick out of business hours as “sir,” and Silence as “madame” —"the gentry of the neighborhood would soon be finding out that there were again Jardines at Blackball. BeBjdes, Sir John and your father were lads thegither, and Mac Alister of Torre —he was a bit bairn then.” "Yes,” said Silence, after a puzzled pause at the Scotch words, which when he forgot himself the old man continually brought in. “Yes, they told me so. They spoke of him —Roderick, you would have liked to hear how they spoke of your father. And they said they hoped we should be good neighbors and meet very often.” Roderick looked pleased it As but hurm • ■ o' ,a ' u ' ,f ,h,s; " ls 11,1 v Sibme was o astonished at the tone ns well as the words that the natural, innocent “Why?” died on her lips. She turned away and began talking to Mr. Black of something else, asking no more questions, nor referring again to the visitors, who, Roderick saw with pain, had evidently charmed her and been a little brightness in he long empty day. He told her so, when the old man departed—after a rather dull two hours; for the master of the house was very silent, and when he did speak, there was once or twice the faintest shade of discontent in his tone, a sort of half apology for their simple menage and frugal faro, of which Silence took no outward notice. She had given her guest the best she had —given it with a warm heart, too, and a grateful —for Mr. Black had been very kind, and many a brace of grouse and bunch of grapes had found their way from the Mill-house to Blackball. “And I think he knows our ways, and does not expect us to requite him with

I turtle and venison,” said the young hostess. "Perhaps not; he knows the barrenness of the land," answered Roderick, sharply —very sharply for him. “But other folks do not know and need not. Your magnificent visitors, for instance. I hope you I did not let them penetrate beyond the i drawing-room, or invite them to stay to ; tea. lest they might quote the famous lines, I ‘Love in a hut with water and crust, * Is—Love, forgive us! cinders, ashes, dust.' ” "I think you may well ask Love to forgive you, dear." Silence answered, not echoing the laugh, which was scarcely a merry laugh. “Yes. I offered them tea. tor I liked them, and I wanted them to stay till you came home, thinking you would like them, too. They did stay, as long as they possibly could, and wo had a pleasant t ,Ik, and Janet was baking, so I gave them some hot scones, and—” “What charming hospitality! It must have reminded them of Caleb Balderstone's. M hy, my dear wife, we shall soon have to sot up a Caleb Bulderslone. since Blackball has grown into a sort of Wolfs Hope. Silence, my darling"- tak ing her face between his hands and trying hard to curb his excessive irritation—"you are the sweetest and simplest of women; but you must not invite people hero again. Not people such as these. J They would only go homo and laugh nt ' us. I don't care for myself; I can dine off ; porridge ami salt it would not harm me -but I can not bear the world to know it. We must put the best on the outside." She looked up, more than surprised startled. Evidently there was something in the woman's nature -larger or smaller, who shall decide? which could not tin derstand the man nt all. “Never mind, however, for this once. We'll hire a fly -a carriage ami pair per haps, in noble emulation return these visits, and any others with whu h the ‘gentry of the neighborhood,’ us old Black called them, may condescend to honor ns -and so end it all. To keep up acquaint ance with them is, as 1 said, simply im possible." "Why impossible?" "Can you not see? Birds of a feather must flock together it is natural law. These people are the ‘magnates of the county,’ and we the im]s>verished Jar dines of Blackball. Besides, did you tell them it was just like you. my innocent one, to do it that I am also foreman of the cotton mill?’’ Again she looked nt him in quiet stir prise. He seemed so very unlike him self. "If I bud told them, would it have mattered very much?" "Certainly not to me. But I think it would to them. Dear, a man is nlwnys despised for being poor; and I will not be despised. I can live upon bn nd mid water, dress in fustian or rags. if nee essnry; but my wife will prevent that," added he. tenderly. "Only our poverty must not betray itself. If wo appear in the world at all, it must be as Mr. ami Mrs. Jardine of Blackball. Whatever w o suffer, let us ‘die and make no sign.' Or. even to go a little further, let us imitate that very reserve.) gentleman of whe’’’ his valet said. ‘Master's dead, sir but he doesn't wish it to be generally known*" Silence .lid nt th,- - <uie juke. I ■■ trailunderiairrciit of GTrTer thought now welling up to the sur face; but sho attempted no remonstrant •• "My friend" the old tender "mon ami" -"do not be angry with me. 1 (ike.! those people because 1 thought yon would like them, too, and that a little society would bo good for you; bnt since it tan not be “Sinee it cannot be," he repented. Je cisively, "we will not trouble ourselves about it. or them. Doubtless our m igh bors will trouble themselves very link- : bout us at least as soon as they know all the f ct co mer ii g u ,wh c i of .mi s they very soon will. Nover mind, my wife. Kiss me and be bxippy! We are | happy, are we not? Let the world go its j way who . ares?" But it was evident that he did <nr > and when after a week or two lie found bo had been mistaken, and people did "trouble themselves" almut the young Jardines, inasmuch that by and by. either from friendliness, respect, or curiosity, they had called nt Bia. khall whether pleased or vexed, Roderick was certain ly interested. "Well, and who has been hero to day?" was always his first question on coming tip from the mill; sometimes adding, with a bitter earnest underlying the jest, that ho hoped that she had told all her grand neighbors that her husband was "out nt work,” his work as foretpnn of the mill. "Yes. I thought yon wished everybody to know? It could n<d mutter, you being a gentleman and a Jardine. You om e said so." "And I say so still, in my best moments; but in my worst— Well. I suppose wo men are great cowards - moral , cowards. No matter. I am glad the mur i dor's out. You did it for the best, my J wife; and it is the best, for they will < never come again, depend upon it." But, strange to say. they did; and at last it became absolutely necessary to return these friendly visits. “I will beg a holiday from my master" —poor Roderick! he sometimes took a savage pleasure in the word—“we will hire the village fly and go in state; appearing for once as respectable people— Mr. and Mrs. Jardine, of Blackball." “I think wo are respectable people.” the wife nnswered; she had learned not to l>e hurt at these accidental bitternesses. "We are well-born, well-bred; we live in our own pretty bouse; we pay our debts; and we stint nobody— except ourselves, perhaps.” Herself she might have said, for her husband, simple as be was in his ways, wonderfuly so. considering his up-bring-ing, never suspected how many domestic and personal sacrifices were necessary. | that sho might in a sense, though not in j the sense he bad meant it, really "put j the best on the outside” for him when he came home. Ho was at home so little now that: the whole day's holiday—they two together—was quite a treat to look forward to. But when, instead of the village fly, which Mr. Black had offered to order for them, there came up his own well-appointed i but rarely used carriage, with his com--1 pliments, and the horses had not been I out for a week, would Mrs. Jardine oblige f him by using them? Then Roderick's ' pride rose up at once. “Take Mrs. Jardine’s compliments to I Mr. Black, and she regrets extremely 1 that ”

A hnnd laid on his arm—a vhlaper whf< h always fell on his jarrin^K^, rTe g like a soft finger-touch on a qt%verina harp string. / "Denr, yesterday when I WasLjjjjQjj. ing Mr. Black for all his kindt£ ss | lw said you know his quick, husk^J va y o f speaking—‘Madame, you may' h nv ', a hard life—l rather think you [ hope you will never know one bardshinto find yourself in your old agt without one single human being whom .» — . , a right to be kind to.’ ” "Poor old fellow!” said Roder. ■ h moved. “My little Conscience* ! “ right. John, tell your master hj is eX . eeedmgly kind, ns he always is; ^j rs . Jardine will enjoy her drive rw>edingly.” I So shi' did to an almost patJ?tie degree for it was weeks since sheK t | outside the garden gate. And K whole world wns so lovely that still Xvembcr day November, but bright awuno; it often is so in Scotland—all tl| fading landscape looked as beautiful S an old face sometimes looks to eyes Sit loved it when it was young. These two, sitting side bjrije and hand in hand, though they ^ite I" 1 ’ ter fact under a kindly plait. WJohn the coachman, were young T Ciern the dying year brought °ll sadness. The! n < * the happier, Roderic^ '^^^^■Kvnuse i„ tben- . ircuit of nearly >. ^Wniles. owing to the rarely fine day, q»found cvcr.vlHxiy "out" except one f ■sr—the Symingtons.

S r John a “firn' old Scot NMt'ntlemiui" of the last generation—old wife beside him, still keeping V^^tnins of that delicate English bert mvhich had captured him fifty years “^»vcre, e\<-n Roderick owned, quite ■ Ami they remembered his farsK nn( | they had known Cousin Sib-nct^R'j lo j r greeting wits more than friendly; nnd their house, upon which, being childless, they had t xvwd all they had to spend, was full of K.ytreasures collected abroad, each win»i hjatory and an interest. The ol*WonpI« seemed still to have the utmew&njoyment in life, and to have the’^fqity of making others enjoy life too, "1 knew you would like tbetn,”gd<] g|. letup, when, having sent the twinge away, they walked home throw the wood path, which. Sir John 'igrftiiy pointisl out to them, made Hy*wgton < ulv a quarter of an hour's distant* from Blackball. "Yes. 1 like them. That in just he sort of house 1 should care to go to, ifAjrould go. Litcki toll, tlione Si mmgtmi-f ^They xe, tn to have imd everything heal can desire.” “Not quite. Did you tn* a mixture over Lady Symington's arm-chair Sh«’ saw me looking nt it, nnd san you siionhl have heard the tone, qulvtss she is I hnt was onr only son myon?chUd! lie died nt seven years oh!.' I jbink." Silence <ontinnctl. softly, "if youao not mind. 1 should like now and tin t to go and seo Lady Symington." 1 ler husband pre«>ed her arm. n» J then said, suddenly, "My iumx-eat wifowhat ' a hnppy wuy you hare of taking tyery- ' thing.” "It is because I am s*> happy ” | " \nd I yes. I ought to be hnppyJwßH I »<H knows! lint —“ She put her hand upon his lips. “God | doga know. And I kn>w. too Many things arc very hard for you to bear • niuch hxcicr y.i you thau fcr me We will not six’Sf them, we will jmo b, a r them. Wp < u benr them. 1 thh:!;, together.” "Yes. my darling.” And after that he made no more "miaanthropic' e|M>vehes for (he whole erening. t i o be continued ' . lint her • Dnnipcr. A newly married pair who arrived on their honeymoon trip at u certain qe!,*- I brated watering place, at a tittle vrben ! ;!■■■. •• lit■mw as at n iHem cm. had ! a mnttress spread for them by acorn passionate innki-eper in one of h'.s ! i baths. In the middle of the night the । | house was alarmed by bu.d shrieks 1 proceeding from the nuptial chamber. Wlmt was th matter? Wed. fills the young bride, wishing to ring the Ivll for her maid, had caught hold o: what she siip|H>spd to be a Im-11 FOfie, and pulled it smartly. I nhappily for her and her sp-mse. it was the cord of the shower bath above j their heads, and forthwith down plumped sm li a deluge of cold water is would throw a damper upon th • must devoted of honeymoon couples. Her husband, in his disinav, caught frantically at another cord on his side of the extenuxyrized couch, but tho only response was an equally liberal deluge of water, this time neatly boiling hot. The unhappy pair screamed in unison. The bride, in the excitement of the moment, uttered sentiments anything but complimentary to her spouse. When the servants came they were just in time to rescue the unhappy pair i from drowning, for the room was al- [ ready full of water, and the wife was perched like a monkey on her husband's nock, uttering lamentable cries, while her g<v>d man was fumbling in the dark trying to find the door. Let us hope that the subsequent wedded life of this unfortunate couple may be happrl than its commencement. 1 t. Which? w Tlrnt the average negro is inclined tl bo lazy, ami that he also has a keeil souse of the ludicrous, is shown by the following story received directly from the lips of an old “uncle,” who vouches lor its truth: "I ne' Toby." ti man for whom Bartlett's Creek has more attractions than the hot and grassy cotton field, not long ago took a "day off" in pursuit of his fa. I vorite a musetneut lle baited his hook, i and long and patiently sat upon the I bank of the stream, vainly waiting for a bite. At last, under the combined | influence of the warmth of the day ami the sluggish movements of the stream, I no’ Toby- fell asleep. Eternal vigilance is the price of trout, a,nd while our weary angler slept, an enormous fish took the bait and pfllled him into the creek. Os course this awakened the old man and he was overheard to inquire, as he floundered about in the water: “For de Lord's sake, Toby, am dis aiggah a-fishin’, or am dis fish a-nig. ^eria’ 2”

TO AID NEBRASKANS? STATEMENT GIVEN OU f BY THE RELIEF commission. About 240 Car Lotl<U of ProviHl< , nß und Clothing Ruised-Ixvcal Distributing Commit teen at Work in Twentysix Counties-A Double Suicide. Work of Relief. . x ; •''■^“". President <>f th,. Nebraska .State Lehet Commission, has made the following statement in regard to the reorganization ami work of the commission: "Tho commission is not a om-imm concern at ail, as, in addition to myself, th,, following gentlemen are members of it: Rev. L. I*. Luddeti, Secretary ; J. 11. Mcl'lay. Lincoln, Tre tsnrer; Rev. Joseph T. Duryea, Omnlia; C. J. must. J. W. Hartley and A. J. Saiv.i er. Lincoln; Henry Sprick. Fontanelle; and S. B. Thompson, Broken Row; making in all nine members compoHifu; the commission. We have an | auditing committee, and n record is kept of everything Ihat is iceeived ami paid out, ami th** auditing commit tee nnditH nil the ac onn's. At the liis'. m eiiii- of the regular working majority we author ized Rev. L P. Lmbh n to in tn- ineiden tai expenses, the principal item of which is the salary of one .sicuo.r ipb r. All the bills are to be submitted t<> the com niittce for nppr ivak "When we first organized the commission le l;:,d <ehiiig to dis'v a... and our idea wns to get p>s>pl ■ interested in the mnvoti ent to raise funds without soliciting nid or advertising the State adversely , nnd we have been sm • ssful ia obtaining larg-> contributions in th s way. We ,]<■ cided ti nt we would tri to organize t »ma hn in a quirt way nnd get our people to do tthat they ■ to e I stltlerers. W,. do not want to prey upon th- citizens of | Omaha, ns they I. n • - > many charitable causes that they ire taking eave of now, ' but we merely wanted to stimulate the movement. "We Jo our work in n systematic man nor. and wl'etever a • " nty has applied for relief we have uniformly rupured the people o' that ti m to all n public meeting nnd appoint n • entr d mmitteo, comprising two members of the county board sin I ‘ cn ti • sere t?i tip sat hfaetorv to (he pe pie of tl. seetinll tn Consti! Ute the -iitr.il ■ oinmittee, w ith wino i>v e trm-’ t otir I -n- r d that central ^■•nm:'t<'.■ tpp* ints a committee of thre'- in ovetv p n, t wh-Te there is destitution, and this last committee acts ns n visiting ■r 'lii:' W - hive cf feetej organization of <■- nmittm s in this way in t .vonty »-,x .mi • - "An -ng others who have already given ns rvb-f ft 'u oqtside ;».iuts are Mrs. <'. I i. - • Havanna. 111., who ha • donated n car-load of coal. We have . just r e l a ' h-r k from William II Allen, of Boston. Mass, for sloS. and the other dry th- same gentleman -opt I us a ch< • k for besides a lot of go«.d clothing F. H Huc.mo-l has „nt us $-'N. and the pr-.prt- ' r< of a ail mine nt 1 Atkv»> L >.ive promised to -end । . the output for a I >lf day of th. r coal mine-, wlv. h will nmount t«> yi-mt four I iilrm.l; car ■ ■ ,?f prov,- "M ! r ami -ate for’y UeT- ar load- are ow In the i-omfse of trj»Baf*»rtntl«»n. I should estimate that we have already disbursed about SI Lev** for 'he relief of the sill ferers. lhi« is the : mount of cash paid oat up to date It was arranged nt the m— : • last Week tlrnt there Would be one or two tovss.l tho eomuiis-ion in the ..flic.- at Line..ln from now on so ns t attend to the prompt distribution d I supplies 111 SHAND \M> XX M E >’!«• I Pest I ition >n “ Nebra-ka Enmity I , ails to ii Double roth id . As n re’ t of d- ''il'itmu and their helpless situation among humlr.Ms of I starving people. John Harris and wife. • living near Pnnml, N ’. hide With a Inzer. Mr-. Harris was het thr uit 'tit from ear to - ar. am! the ; Harris, th- husbaml. w - f uml lying on the floor : earth'- fom "f thebe! wi'h h - thro.-q likewise . nt. Tl e.mplo hd -mly moved to their pr. S«-1 ‘ p’.:; -• a month ago. The house in w hi h they liv d was a sod e.'izout. s:t'.ated -v, n mih - -mtl west of Paxtom Tb" surround!’ .> ->f the place Went t>» show tim! tho pair were in very poor circunistanccs. No motive can be given for tl • deed ex ept that the wife was expecting - -m t-> bee-me a mother nnd Was on the verg • of starvation and suffering. They were probably too proud to beg. Th' following letter wa- found, written by tho husband in a dear and steady hand: "Denr < 1 1 Parents We have decided to end our lives together. Ida took sick before daylight and it is now । o'clock. Ida cut her throat ami I cut mine. I would give th ■ world to see my poor old father and m.-her. It -eems like a year since 1 -aw any of my folks." The country round about Paxton has produced good crops in times past, nnd will undoubtedly d - so again, but the failure in IS'Jo and again in WM w as almost coniphee. and the situation is most pitiable. Among th- different families in Keith t'- inty now in a state of destitution there are between .'hhi ami 600 children. Th- commissioners confess their inability to cope with the situation. LOSS MAY REACH EIGHT MILLION Pierce’s Victims Said to Be More Numerous than Supposed. Information receiv-d in \ankton. S. I >.. from London regarding J. 1. M. Fierce s swindling transactions show that the aggregate British losses may r, ach the stupendous sum of ISS.OOO.OIM’• A letter from a London firm ot solicitors say s that not a quarter of the fraudulent transactions have yet come to light. It is stated that the receipts by Pierce at his bunion office were limited only by his ability to issue bonds and mortgages and other paper often exceeding SIOO,OOO a week, and it is alleged in London that he received no less than $.-><>o,ooo during his last week there. It is owing to his gigantic transactions that his victims expect to receive an offer of compromise after the matter shall have cooled down. To make these losses known would impair the credit of the losers, and also make them an object of ridicule, therefore they prefer to bear their losses in silence. One million four hundred and four thousand dollars of forged bonds, mortgages and tax deeds are now in possession of agents of creditors of Pierce in Yankton. They have been sent there as claims against the estate of Pierce, but this estate will not sell

spurious security are n« by the can Mortgage A,UPri - Viestors, slso(wk|. io ’ “ l ^ as t 1115250,000* $250,000* limit 'i- I ' I UH, ’OW, Scotland, J 8- Fagan Rr I‘?' ’ $ 100 ' ( >00; | Johnson I "’ okl - v "- $76,000; W. S uiisoii, bvndon. Xsihmwi .. ; i i Bauds in Y-i>,i i leal eßt nte I 404,000. Ya,lkton ' $<8,000; total, sl,. i insurance figures. Lossew by Firo .. for ti -* ' e 1 "'K-d States Tlu. I ,* h ' Cnr < iul ' «'“1 CommerLnited S ‘ H "'J 11 ’” I— of th- ! “1 December i " U " la f * >r ,h ” : '"’’l. ns estimated from our I >“" ■ ’’A’™-’-” O'Sjoi • •'fir ... ii so,, I j,!, - ,;" ».147.100 'lav .. 'yis-,', U-MO.OOO Buie .. 1“."7..500 I•> fly . . 11 -.‘VJu -’ 0 N'-1.5J,300 |A' g ... In I I’, io-) I o' Iff-'WT.OOO “'•10 . 7'im iS : "-7 ,k ' 10.1.!2..M00 " t ri -un io.nn.noo x* ii.mi.T'H, sis,; too ■ ia Fi'ro 1- •i.i.xi 12.10 .. nr, m.aoj (HM Total f<»r your ' I.TJ Tni.?’** 512M.24H.400 A Inimm* nt Ilie tnblv will show h<»w ii'ttch less tilt* losses of ISIH nro thnn thoseof ls!i3„reven ls:>2. When the in- < i-ase in insiirab'e value in tho country, ami particularly the decided ami general iiihaii -es m fire insurance rates, is constdered. it is not strange that the fire in-suran-e statements now being published -nmibl confirm our predictions of last month as to liberal profits. A large portion of the lire loss of the urutry is preventable, but there is a deplorahl - apathy , f public sentiment upon this point, j,. sl , ite „ f ,| u . f:|( . t , h:U (hjs apathy is n-sismsible for fire loss ami resultant exp> n-iv- insurance, poor or en»ok"d fir- marshals are fiermitted to Iw np|»oiitted. iMilitieal ‘‘combines" sell in- < tli- ieiit water works to municipalties. fire chiefs get a commission on rotten hose and deha-tive engines, incendiaries are < v> rt'y ndmire<l. if not applauded, as ">!h k." electric wires are recklessly installed. ami worse than careh'ss insuram-e ; <. ■mp.mics insure su*pe< t<-d firebugs mid dangerously constructed property Fully half the fire b>ss of th- I nited S' .ales is > harg'-able to the cmnbinntimi of • urelessnes- ami crime, and a proiHT understanding of this fact by the masses would r-sult in some reform nt least. \\ ho can d<mbt what the effect would be ii the fa-tors which mnk- insurance costly were given with their respective proportion- in detail in the agent's bill in stend of the mere lump sum <>f tho pr :101m? Supposing for a $lO premium the bill ran: I' • 1 aturnl mid unprevcntnble hazard. ?l 00 I ■ t.a. i-hlabl- Im f-ndhirlsui 75 I. ,-rooked <vr incompetent tire marshuts ... 73 : 'I - dlslioncsty In piirclinsing lire npplianees 50 I • political J >b tn water work* 50 l-> r<-kl'-ssness of ■lectrleiil com-pniitr-s SO |o < nr-ii-ssness of underwriters . . 50 l<> taxes given nwny to exempt tlr-- : men 20 so other Slate or lot al taxes or fees, 25 q,, poo, or corrupt building inspectors 50 । ■■ -uts not i-nf u- Ing ■ >re in bulhl Ing 25 | > ii-mission to agent ’..... 150 r -inl SB’ O 0 XV. re every premium Buyer to hurt. Ihe ; cost of his Insurance afljilyzea *«s_Xuu*r-r btsf is he was paving fiis premium, Die • • ded ndm Uvn m t*«e loss would s h>h be brought ttlMHit by a wave of Jitlblie sentiment. It is wonderful how what might be called the “wrongness of a wrong’ stirs tin- righteous zeal of the populace when the nerve running from the pocket t- the moral s> ti— is agitated at its lower extremity. 1f every mule citizen in the I nited States were this month openly ; nnd spci iinailly subjected to a tax of Si to make up for the unnecessary fire loss of IslG there would be a general move in the dir— tion of reducing the tire waste to reasonable proportions. DYING IN A MADHOUSE. XX . J. s-. nnlnn. Once 11 Leading Comedian. I» Now Near I nto Death. XVni. J S-nnlmi, who was a universal • iv . rite im the v midev ille stage, is report - -d t- I . al tin- p unt of death at White I’hiins r.i-mie asylum. New York. Hfirst began to -how signs of paretic in--miity two y-ars ago. and was sent to W W VI. .1. IM AX . Bloomingdale as;. Inin. This actor had a knack of always pleasing his audience, whether by word or gesture. ILs wit wns clean and quick, an-1 was due partly to his Celtic origin. His failing mind and incarceration was a cause of deep regret to thousands of his admirers. Scanlan wrote quite a number of popular songs "Molly ()” was the one that had the greatest vogue. Scanlan’s career has been a strangely romantic one. AVhen a bov he was a boot-black in New' X ork. and here he first displayed his talent by anr sing his patrons. When the dreadful malady came on him he was the leading Irish comedian in America. Congress to Legislate Sunday. The law compelling Congress to ad- ! journ sine die at noon on March 4 will compel that body to legislate on Sunday : this year. Our national lawmakers will remain in session all Saturday night and 5 pretty much of Sunday. There will be an | interim for sleep. From Sunday after- ; noon both branches will remain in continuous session until noon of tho following day. This was the case at the close of the Fiftieth Congress, during Harrison’s administration, and also at the close of the short session during Ilnyes’ administration. Edward J. Phelps, ex-Minister to England, has returned to New Haven to resiiH.io his course of lectures before the Yale law students.

motive power of a storm. Greater Than the Combined Horae lower of the Whole World A noted 1 reneh .scientist, H Mohn made a careful estimate of rhe energy wS'u! , a 00S 1 d u 1 y * Ue ’ w,lk ‘ h ,as ted three 1 r- < h<’d n ' nUd r S ' an ' l the con ‘lusion wa? r 11 th “ foree developed 1 I?we ' V I 1 '"" tO 47 ”' ,hm A<MM> horse er tint' *‘T r ,hnes ’’“f'Powr that ls produced, in the same space "f time, by all the windmills, turbines, * <’“mmos. and all the men and anijjmls on h h . SUl . fa(v of the i " '“'m' this latent foree?" h e asks, and the answer is: "From the lat•er oMI, r P ‘- r " hlCh ' iS “ S hl . er of the hurricane and is there conhimed. Applying this method of ‘omptitation to mid continent evdonic movements with which th.- people o f i «UiM legion ai .,. familiar, some most astonishing results w ill be reached. SunM Tt/i'^ llh,s,li, ’ ion - s «ys the Midland I Monthly, a storm is developed of suffl- . tilt State of lowa an average of . om- inch <>f rainfall. To province this. ' »he -low" in n H tr<»m three to five times the extent of tho area of precipitation, for ft should be known that to obtain oven a moderate amount of moisture you must milk a xvhlo expanse of sky. On the average the area of rainfall in this portion ot the continent does not exceed onelit th of the territory covered by the cyclone. All parts of this area feel the effects of the passing storm, but only 11 iraction thereof receives benefit of the rainfall. Then is a vast sweep in tin circulation of winds employed in ”.>e work <>f w ringing out a purely local shower. And th,’ sum total of energy employed in the production of rainfall to the extent herein descrilied would be more than -qua! t<> the motive power required to operate all the machinery t f the world lor an equal length of time. Gurions Way* of Naming Baby. A Hindu baby is named when twelve days old, and usually by the mother. Sometimes the father wishes for another name than that selected by the mother; in that case tw-> lamps are placed over the two names, and the name over which the lamp burns the brightest is the one given to the child. In the Egyptian family the parents choose a name fwr their baby by lighting three wax candles; to each of these they give a name, one of the three always belonging to some deified personage. The candle that burns the longest bestows the name upon the baby. The Mohammedans sometimes write desirable names on five slips of paper, and these they place in the Koran. The name upon the first slip drawn out is given to the child. The children of the Ainos, a people living In northern Japan, do not receive their names until they are live years old It is the father who then chooses , 1 -i^-<tmw The ’ hinese give their l>oy babies a name in addition to their surnames, ami they must call themselves by these names until they are twenty years old. At that age the father gives bis son a i new name. The Chinese care so little for their girl babies that they do not give them a baby name, but Just cad them Number One, Number 'lwo. Number Three, Number Four, and so on, according to their birth. Boys are thought so much more of in t.’hina than girls are, that if you ask a <’hinose father, who has both a boy and a girl, how many children he has. he will always reply, "Only one child.” German parents sometimes change tho tut me of their baby if it is ill; and he Japanese are said to change the names of their children four times. Die of tho Confederate Half-Dollars. on May 23. IS'.H. I gave a description if a Coilfe<’.er.LF Jnver naiT^Jlar which was at that time in the possession of Messrs. Roberts & Collins at Cartersville, Ga. The specimen referred to is one of four, all that were ever struck from the Confederate die for that denomination of coins, and is now ro'-koned as being one of the rarest of American pieces, the dollar of 1804 not ' excepted. The Confederate silver halfdollar bears th*' date of 1861, and wai struck nt the mint at New Orleans ju<t before that institution was closeil by the Federals. It lias the goddess G? liberty on one.side and a stalk each of < ano and cotton and the stars and bars >t' the Confi’deracy in a coat-of-arms on the other. In 1s!>l (the date of tliC i.-ist Information I have <>ll the subject) the four know n specimens of this rare coin ’ were located as follows: One in Meriwetln'r < ounty. Georgia, one in Louis-uin.-i. the Roberts-Collins piece described above, and one belonging tn n New York eoUector. Conclusive. Here is a sample of American humor which might any day be paralleled, for tin? same incident might happen over and over again among people born with a funny bone. Two men met in the country road, perhaps on the way to and from marj ket. "t-low are you. old Ben Russell?” called otic. "Come, now.” said the other. "I’ll bot ; you I aint any older’n you! Tell me : what’s the earliest recollection you caai : put your finger on." “•Well.” said the other, thinking a j moment ii tentl.' "the very fust thing i I cm romsmber > hearing people say. whrn you went by. 'There goes old Ben | Russell:' ' In,tires Against failure. In times of scarcity the South African \ natives sometimes rob the nests of the termites, and as much as five bushels of gra’’n have been taken from a single 1 nest.