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Morgan's belligerency wears like buck

skin.

Spain has great need of some aggressive pacifying at home.

Watch this administration and see it disappoint its enemies.

The South Carolina dispensary system is ffjadly in need of a stimulant.

When Angell gets to Constantinople he will be about the only one there.

Governor Pingree's recent record supports the belief that he would veto his mother-in-

law. When Prince Constantine saw General (Miles' uniform be is said to have fallen in a

6piSm.

No photograph of Senator Morgan would be any gopd a£ all unless it were a speaking likeness.

A vaudeville company in Iowa is reported as "beefing for its pay." Queer proceeding

for ham actors.

Mark Twain is neither dead nor a pauper. He probably thinks that a humorist has no business to be either.

Edison joyfully remarks that "we are shortly going to have horseless caniages at ?100 apiece." Some of us aren't.

If John S. Johnson's fellow prisoners at ColuniSus are not careful the Logansport man will' rob thefil of their rations.

William Jennings Bryan still has his friends but there is every reason to believe that they remain safely in the minority.

It is said that Mr. Bryan made a great 6peech at. Indianapolis. William is not a bad diversion in an off year in politics.

The Rio Grande river threatens to annex a large part of El Peso to Mexico. The fact is mentioned as an important current event.

Jerry gimpson is still after Speaker Reed but he has abandoned his mad rush. Jerr Is playing a more conservative game now.

Qreftt.JSrovftte.'1 si ehthjisiasts follow Mr. ..Bryan about 'but.greater numbers of thinking'rii^n vote'for somebody else on election clay.

When Spain talks about declaring war on the United skates she gives a fine illustration of a nation filtering its conversation through its head dress.

It is understood that the warmer weather of the past 'few days is simply designed to cause people to make the mistake of changing their flannels.

For Colonel Wattereon "it rains and the wind is never weary" because Grover Cleveland has fled from the field of action and taken refuge in obscurity.

One of the Weylerized newspapers of Havana advises Spain "to spit on Uncle Sam." If Spain does so she will get the limit of our anti-expectorating laws.

An Eastern preacher claims that Americans swear more than any other people. Probably he has heard the South damming the crevasses in the "Mississippi levees.

The esteemed Rockville Tribune says it expects nothing from the prfcsent administration. How could it Avhen it fought so Valiantly for Master Willie Bryan?

Free silver papers are promising themselves that by and by Mr. Wanamaker will stand on their platform. Then they will have ill they need except about 90!».999 other men.

It is' the acme of wisdom on the part df the Republican senators to let the Democrats do the talking. The Democrats are much safer talking than they are acting. The Republicans should attend to the latter.

Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes, wife of the man who is charged with wanting to rob the people of Chicago, was relieved of $500 in New York. Now her husband will doubtless try all the harder to get legislation pleasing to himself through the legislature at Springfield.

General Weyler says the fuss ia the United Stales aWit his starvation policy ought to be stopped. It will take a better soldier than Weyler to stop it: Let him come over here ai)d put up his dukes in front of Coiouel Fitzsitumons.

Mr. Benjamin Butterworth thinks the republic is in more danger now than it was when Sumter was fired on. Possibly. But a lot of people are willing to get conspicuously to the front now who were not so anxious afoout it then.

Jerry Simpson is making a great reputation during this extra session of congress. Hia ability to toe the scratch. after he has

-been repeatedly knocked over the ropes is unprecedented. The strange and beautiful fact about it is that Jerry is unconscious that he has ever been hurt at all.

Says Mr. McKinley: "Much as we may want to move out of the old house we cannot do it until the new one is finished." To be sure It does seem as if even the calamities should be able to grasp the meaning of this homely statement.

When the Chicago Globe Savings Bank failed ex-Governor Altgeld, according to the finding of a special committee of the Illinois general assembly, was indebted to the institution very heaVily. It would be a good thing if Altgeld's life could be made even more private than it already is.

Somebody up at Toronto has invented a ship 200 feet long in the form of a tube. It is 20 feet in diameter and is calculated to roll itself across the Atlantic in two days. The only thing lacking to insure the complete success Of the invention is a trial that justifies the opinions of the inventor.

The Express having remarked in substance that there is no such thing as a silver Republican5 the Rockville Tribune replies: "Ah, there! What about the appellation, 'Gold Democrat?' When the shoe is,on the other foot, it isn't half so funny, is it?" The Express refuses to attempt to define a bonafide Democrat.

Altgeld hath a sharp tongue for the possessors of wealth but at the same time he likes money pretty well himself. Indeed he likes it so well that he is willing to borrow .it from an insolvent bank. Hereafter the blatant demagogue and agitator should be at a heavy discount when he weeps for the poor people.

As yet the transportation lines of the country are not. putting in airships of the Nashville pattern. The thing will fly but it has fixed notions about where it will fly. Furthermore, after it has made a trip it insists upon being hauled back to the starting point. Verily there are yet possibilities in the field of aerial navigation.

BRYAN VS. MR. WATSON. In the course of his speech at Indianapolis the chief mouthpiece of those who favor'-ft Mexicanized currency system for the United States said: "Why, my friends, the Demoratic party and the Populist party and the free silver Republicans have entered upon a contest where there shall be no peace nor truce until bimetallism shall gain the victory."

Of course this is not all Mr. Bryan said. He never lets his audience off that easy. It is simply one sentence plucked from many —one sentence'that, like many others in the speech, needs elucidation. Mr. Bryan pictures a fusion and a harmony that are in blissful unacquaintance with dissensions and obstacles. He sees "the Democratic party and the Populist party and the free silver Republicans" .fighting in one long' line of loving comradeship. Note the order of his enumeration. He puts the Democratic party —of course he means the Popocratic party —first. He honors the Populist party with second place. Will the so-called silver Republicans observe that Mr. Bryan classes them among the ragtag and bobtail of the remote rear?

Mr. Bryan's enthusiasm is all right but his judgment is at fault. In the sentence quoted his remarks have their old familiar looseness. They are worse than shallow they are meaningless. How does the boy orator expect to accomplish this perfect fusion of which he descants so fluently? Undoubtedly he would be willing and anxious to embrace the Populists but the Populists are rather more particular. They refuse to be embraced. They have got enough of it. As yet they have not recovered 'from the squeezing they received last fall.

Apparently Mr. Bryan has not heard the latest from the Hon. Thomas E. Watson of Georgia. He evidently supposes that Mr. Watson will be satisfied with tail-end consideration in the future. In his overweening self-confidence he imagines that all free stiver people will be delighted with the privilege of falling in behind the banner marked W. J. B. But not so. Mr. Watson resepctfully demurs. He declares wiih an incisive diction suggesting the prongs of Ben Tillman's pitchfork that he has had his full ancf more of Bryan, Butler and Donnelly. The Georgia man purposes to have a national convention of the Populist party in Nashville in July and there oust Chairman Butler, whose fusion sympathies are well known, climb into the position of national chairman himself and run the party thereafter. His war cry is, "No fusion!"

And does it not appear from this that Mr. Bryan's sweet harmony bells are a trifle jangled out of tune?

REED AND BELLIGERENCY. Not all the people who blame Reed and the Republican majority in the house for declining to take up the senate's belligerency resolution immediately are cranks, but all are a little unreasonable. The administration is evidently opposed to any declaration on the belligerency question until Special Commissioner Calhoun makes his final report of conditions in Cuba, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There is a strong probability that the report will strengthen instead of weaken the general antagonism in the United States to Spain on the Cuban question. If this surmise be true the belligerency resolution will receive a larger vote in the house then than it could get now. In any case a decent regard for the administration demands that action be postponed until the inquiry into the situation in the island which the president ordered is completed.

Another reason why many Republicans want the house to go slow in this belligerency matte*- in that they believe that, under present conditions, recognition would do as much harm as good to the insurgents, and would, at the same time, be embarrassing to the United States. Recognition of belligerency wo°uld raise the status of the insurgents,^encourage them to greater efforts for success, and probably enable them to float a loan or two. Of course recognition by the United States would induce similar action by Mexico and the republics of Central and South America. All this would insure for the captured Cubans the regular treatment accorded to prisoners of war. Thus far recognition of the Cubans as belligerents would aid them and would not em-1 barrass the United States.

But there Is another side to this question. The difficulty in getting supplies for the Cubans would be greater after recognition as belligerents than it is now. True, the

United States would be compelled to treat each "belligerent alike. It could and would sell goods to 'both after scOgnUion as it does at present, but confralmnd articles, such as arms and ammunition, would, on United States or any other neutral vessels, be liable to capture on the ocean by the belligerent against whom the# were designed to be used, and in order to be able to exercise this right belligerents are allowed to visit and search any neutral' vessel they overhaul. This is a right accorded to every belligerent under the general principles of international law. The only belligerent who would be physically able to exercise this right in this particular case would be Spain, for Cuba has no navy. The Zeroise of this right, in the present state of feeling between the United States and Spain, would stand a chance to bring war ultimately between the two countries. Then, too, recognition would release Spain from any responsibility for the acts of the insurgents against the persons or property of American citizens. Unquestionably public sentimant in the United State's'is growing more and more favorable toward recognition, but it is well Wlook at both sides of the question, and it is unfair to condemn Speaker Reed and the ^Republicans of the house for delaying final action on belligerency until the present situation in Cuba is reported by the administration's representative.

CURRENT EVENTS.

It has been fully decided to .have !a repetition this year of thte entertainment provided by the Princes of the Orient twq years ago, but it will be on a larger scale and perhaps with new ideas. The Princes of the Orient, the "fun" degree which originated with members of the order of "Knights of Pythias but which now is not restricted to Knights in its membership. The princes will not undertake to manage the whole affair, but will call to their assistance other orders, perhaps the Haymakers, the side degree of the Red Men. The princes will have charge of the night parade of floats, and the second night's exhibition, periSaps fireworks, will fie under other control. Two years*ago there were sixteen floats and there willrlbe as many, if not more, this yearS proposed to hold the conjlave on Tuesj$j£Ss and Wednesday of the fall meeting Trotting Association, which will be j-Sepfembej* 28^h •and 2Sth. /Mr. Payne, who des&igned an# constructed the floats two years ago, vent to

Bloomington, 111., a week ago^o get ideas from a like display in that clty.^jHe reports .that the Bloomington manag«meiit while laboring under the embarrassment of inexperience, made a great succesi of the affair. There is no doubt that it was a success in the point of attracting people, inasmuch as thousands of persons visited the city, and the merchants and all others felt the financial benefit of the occasion. The Bloomington people had day attractions- as well, athletic contests in the streets and comic parades. These were held in all parts of the town, so that the crowds were distributed. There were egg races and donkey races and the like, which being given in one locality were repeated elsewhere. The committee having in charge the arrangements had at its disposal $4,200 contributed by citizens, and so well pleased were all that the preliminary organisation has been formed for a repetition of the show next year. It will be recalled that two years ago after the Princes of the Orient conclave here everyone was gratified with the results in all respects and those who had contributed to the fund' paid their contributions willingly afterward. The merchants especially were well satisfied. The amount raised by subscription at that time was *4 600.

One suggestion for this year is to offer prizes which will enlist the services of the pupils of the public schools. The details of this plan are not fully arranged but it is thought tnat they will be of a character to bring into the parade a unique feature.

Brann's Iconoclast, printed at Waco. Tex., takes a tilt at the paper on Grover Cleveland read by Mr. Spencer F. Ball before the Terre Haute Literary Club. The writer says the seven-column report in The Express was "too much sorrow to unbottle in the planting season" and he did not read all of it but that "in glancing hurriedly over it to see how Mr. Ball is conducting himself at the grave" he noticed the "startling" passage: "Cleveland was a student of intense application. He once became so interested in a law-book that he spent the entire night upon it." Thereupon fallows this comment:.

"My! My! What an insatiable'thirst for knowledge that young man had! He actually did once what perhaps every earnest student, in this world does every week! Cleveland was never a student. He knows little of law and less of literature. I'll give $100 to any charity he may name if he'll make oath that he has read the Bible and Shakespeare through, or will read twenty lines of Homer or Virgil, of Goethe or Moliere in the original. I doubt if he knows whether Longfellow was an American poet or a Hebrew prophet. He is the most ignorant man, without a solitary exception, that ever occupied the presidency, and his elevation to that high office was an insult to the intelligence of the nation. Mr. Ball wants it understood that his bull-necked idol was "no accident." More's the pity. He had better have been an accident than the creation of the corrupt politics of Erie county, then the creature of odd Kellev. and finally John Bull's most obedient. The historian of the future will dismiss G. Cleveland about as follows: He found his country prosperous and left it paralyzed: he went into office a pauper anrd came out a plutocrat."

And this is the Grover Cleveland who. according to Mr. Henry Watterson. will be a candidate for the presidency in 1900.

One Important matter which will come before the annual convention of the Epworth League at Lafayette the latter part of this month will be the selection of a location for the Summer Assembly. The Battle Ground Association of Lafayette and the managers of the Acton grounds, near Indianapolis, are leading in the contest. Indiana Methodists have a number of popular camp meeting grounds but no one is recognizcd as a "state" assembly grounds, puch as Minona now is for the Presbyterians. The Epworth League will make its assembly a state gathering. There wfll be a summer school, perhaps of two or three weeks In the beginning.

The number of marriage licenses issued on June 1st in Chicago and Cincinnati broke the record in each city. The "June bride" looked at the calendar when she fixed the day and never consulted Irl Hicks or any of the other weather prophets, who are now claiming that they foretold the cold wave, to learn if the "rare day" month would be an exception this year. 3*

IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

Behind the Scenes With the Nobility of the Old World. Not sympathy but congratulation must be accorded the reigning house of Spain on the death at a fifth-rate hotel in Paris of Princess Isabella of Spain, grandaunt of the boy king and sister of that diminutive king Francis of Spain who is the titular husband of old Queen Isabella, writes the Marquise de Fontenoy in the Chicago Record. Th« dead princess always has been a thorn is the aide

of her royal relatives since the day when she climbed tby a rope ladder from the window of the bedroom whicir she occupied in the chateau of her father at Enghien, near Paris, in order to elope with the AustroPolish nobleman, Count Ignatius Gorowski, whom she subsequently married. The union, like so many other runaway matches, turned out unhappily, and after several years she parted from her handsome husband. He died just about ten years ago. For a time she lived in Madrid with her two daughters, but she was so shiftless, so eccentric in character, so extravagant on the one hand and incredibly mean on the other that the royal family were compelled to make her expatriation a stipulation for continuing her allowance of $1,000 a month.

She accordingly took up her residence in Paris, where, after being repeatedly sold out by the sheriff for the benefit of her creditors, she- established herself at the Hotel Victoria in the Cite d'Austin, where she died, absolutely alone and without a soul by her side.

'Neither King Francis nor Queen Isabella would have anything to do with her and her social intercourse was limited to the American. colony on the banks of the Seine, the members of which put up with all her vagaries and incredible meanness—which went to the extent of pocketing pieces of sugar, of candle and even of cheese—for the* sake of the glory of having a full-fledged royal princess at their table and at their receptions. She leaves a couple of daughters, who are, however, being looked after by relatives and who are not princesses of Bourbon, but mere Countesses of Gorowski, the royal title and rank not being heritable in Spain through the feniale line. Her death excited little attention, and although, so far as royal rank was concerned, she stood infinitely higher than either the due d'Aumale or the duchess d'Alencon (the latter of whom was not even entitled, strictly speaking, to the predioate of "royal Jrighness"), yet both of them were laid to rest with an immense amount of pomp and ceremony, all monarchical courts of Europe going into mourning on their account,-

Incidentally it may be mentioned here that Mme. Faure and the daughter of the president occupied a prominent place at the futferal of the duchess of Alencon, while the president was officially represented by General Tournier, the head of his military household at the Aumale Obsequies. It is a strange aud an abnormal condition of affairs indeed which forces the president to keep in exile the head of the house of Bourbon, while its members are content to accept courtesies and tokens of regard of this kind from himself and from the members of his family.

As a general rule the royal princes who join the army do so with the rank of lieutenant, the infant members of the reigning house of Russia usually being gazetted colonels of this or that regiment on the clay of their baptism. To the crown prince of Roumania, who is now lying dangerously ill of pneumonia, belongs the credit of inaugurating a new order of things in this connection. He has just caused his eldest son, the 3-year-old Prince Carol, to be enrolled as a mere private in the Second regiment of infantry.

This, contrasting as it does with the action of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria in gazetting his 5-year-old son Boris to the rank of general, gives much satisfaction to the Roumanians, who, like the Servians, the Bulgarians, the Montenegrins and the Greeks, are exceedingly democratic in sentiment, so much so that they will not tolerate the use of any nobility titles on the part of their countrymen. Indeed, whenever any individual from the Balkan states is found using the titles of prince abroad his friends and acquaintances may take it for granted •that it is merely destined for foreign use, and that he abandons it the very moment that he returns home.

Emperor William's return visit to St. Petersburg has been postponed until next autumn, when it will coincide with the military maneuvers ordered by the czar, while the projected visit of President Faure to Russia has been abandoned altogether. Indeed, the only royal visitor whom the emperor and empress of Russia are receiving this summer is the king of Siam, who doubtless will be accorded a very splendid and cordial welcome, the czar retaining a very vivid and pleasing recollection of the magnificent hospitality with which he was entertained by the king on the occasion of his visit to Bangkok, during his trip around the world.

Lord Wolseley, the commander in chief of the British army, has until now been without a country seat or castle such as one is accustomed to associate with a seat in the house of lords. This want, he has now remedied, by securing from the crown, on a long lease, the ancient castle of St. Briavels in Gloucestershire, between the forest of Dean and the valley of-the Wye. The castle dates from the thirteenth century, ahd the refiidential portion consists of two impressive circular gate-house towers, which have been fitted to suit modern requirements. A tennis lawn occupies the site of the Norman keep.

The only unpleasant association of the place is the fact that it was formerly used as the debtors' prison for the district. Of course Lord Wolseley has the use of the lovely old Rangers house and garden in Greenwich park, which was granted to him by the queen, but that will revert to the sovereign at his death, whereas St. Briavels will descend to his only daughter, who, likewise, will Inherit his peerage.

The British order of baronets has just lost one of its most notable members by the death of Sir William Clarke, who dropped dead in the streets of Melbourne the other day. The son of a Somersetshire farmer who had emigrated to Tasmania, embarked in sheep-breeding and accumulated a for-' tune yielding an income of $2,000,000 a year. Sir William, as soon as his miserly father died, set to work to make money ily in all directions for the benefit of the community. He endowed universities, built schools and public institutions of every kind in Australia, and made the name of Clarke of Rupertswood renowned throughout the world for magnificent hospitality.

He was very much opposed to men who had made their money in the colonies going to England to spend it. When he heard that the late Sir Samuel Wilson, one of his fel-low-squatters, had become a tenant pi Hughenden he remarked: "He may.have taken Beaconsfield's house, but he never will acquire his manor." One of his daughters is engaged to Lord Shaftesbury, who, for her sake, jilted a New York actress. The latter recently committed suicide on his account.

you Should Not Hesitate.

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SIGNS OF PftOSPEBITY

BUSINESS OUTLOOK BK1GHTKNS, EVIDENCES OF IT BKIMO 9UN1FEST.

General Feeling of KQCOuragement I* Noticeable Among All Classes in the East—Trad*Conditions Improving.

Special to the Cb-icajro Record. New York, June 2.—There has been a decided improvement in the financial situation since I was last in New York. All classes in the* industrial and commercial world feel encouraged over the outlook and expectancy has replaced the apprehension that had become the habitual condition of the public mind for the last three years. The people you meet in the banks downtown and visitors from other parts of the country who gossip in the hotel rotundas all tell the story that, while the era of prosperity has not yet begun, the signs of its approach appear in every direction, the most important being an almost universal confidence that it is almost here. There is confidence in the president, that his policy will be just and conservative and that he will not permit the country to be plunged into a war over Cuba or any other cause there is confidence that congress will dispose of the tariff bill speedily and that the rates in the new schedules will not be so high as those of the Dingley bill.

The crop reports are unusually encouraging. A telegram.from President Hill of the Great Northern Railroad predicts that the wheat fields contributary to that line will furnish 90,000,000 bushels of graiu this season for its transportations, and the managers of the other railways contribute intelligence equally favorable to the general store of encouragement. The jobbers say that the supply of manufactured goods which are necessaries of life is generally exhausted throughout the country, and that the people must buy and the mills must resume operations to meet the demand, which will bring into circulation the millions or dollars that have been hoarded through the hard times. Everybody agrees that money is plentiful and that it is only necessary to convince the people that prosperity has come to be an actual reality. The water has been squeezed out of stocks. Unprofitable properties have been reorganized upon an economical basis? Fictitious values have been exposed, butfbles have collapsed and stock corporations are nearer a rock-bottom basis of operation than they have been for many years.

The owners of railway investments are no longer nervous over the dissolution of the pools, and they have decided that the passage of a pooling law by congress Is not as essential to national prosperity as they believed it to be. They realize that the transportation companies Will be compelled to regulate and maintain rates as a matter of self-protection without the form of a contract, and are getting together.

The speech of Mr. Gage at the reunion of the Commercial clubs at Cincinnati the other day has given great comfort to men with money. He talked In a similar strain to the bankers when he met them here at the time of the Grant monument dedication, but that also was at a dinner party and his words did not get into print. But the address at Cincinnati was carefully prepared and submitted for the president's approval in advance, so that it could properly be interpreted as an official declaration of the administration's financial policy, and not the personal utterances of Mr. Gage. It is, therefore, the first public suggestion of the fact that

the administration rccognizes the

public impatience on account of the delay in the passage of the tariff bill and also feels, as "business men do, that the stagnation and delay in business activity are largely due to this procrastination on the tariff •bill. This acknowledgment was received with gratification, because there was a feeling that perhaps at Washington it might not be well understood how great are the impatience and anxiety which the long delay in the consideration ot the tariff measure has caused. Some of the warmest friends of the administration have felt free to express their anxiety and the business community generally has fceen disposed to be critical, fearing that the senate might not realize or care that the business community is suffering. Outside of the Reform Club and two or three newspaper offices no disposition to criticize the protectee features of the bill has been apparent excepting that there is much criicism of the sugar schedule.

The academic argument for a low tariff or for free trade is no longer hea'rd. What our business community wants is a permanent law and it will entirely approve the protective features it contains.

In London "Mr. Gage's speech had a decidedly favorable influence upon American securities, and private dispatches received here indicate a confidence in London that the administration is likely to secure, as soon as the tariff policy has been consummated, adequate legislation upon the currency, so that there may be no longer any anxiety upon that score. It is probable that this feeling in London is due to advices received from this side, which Secretary Gage confirmed. Those who are best' informed are satisfied that before congress adjourns a monetary commission will have besn appointed, which will sit during the late summer and fall, and will report at the meeting of congress next winter.

Republican leaders in both houses of congress are in sympathy with the president with respect to the appointment of a currency commission and it is felt here^that no currency commission would be able to report intelligently until a tariff law had been in operation long enough to make it appear that it would yield revenue sufficient for tho expenses of the government.

BUILDER UP TO THE TIMES. When a builder puts up a lot of medium sized houses near the city's sky-line complete with water, gas, etc., he is up to the times. Before long no oiie who can p»y rent will accept a honse without hydrants r.i 1 the house and yard. In a six-room bouse wholesome- filtered -hater for domestic uses, In unlimited supply, adds 42 cents a month to the rent, a bath with hot and cold water adde 25 cents, and sprinkling for lawn, garden and thirty feet front adds 42 cents more. The total is small for the labor saved, additional cleanliness and immunity from malarial diseases. It saves a great deal of labor for the woman that dftes the work. During June $6 can be saved on all water connections made with houses on the unpaved streets.

ICocorris of Deaths.

Carrie, daughter of Mrs. Nellie Murphy of West Terre Haute, died early Wednesday morning aged 10 years. She was taken sick on Decoration Day with a congestive chill. She was buried yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, interment taking place at Bethesda ?emetery.

Roy A. Cook, the 6-yeare-oid son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Cook ot 515 North Second, died at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. The funeral occurs at 2 p. m. today.

A day or two ago occurred the death of Mr. George Markley of Owen county, father of the Rev. Adam Markley of the Terro Haute U. B. Church.

The 17-naonths-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Smith of North Eighth died Wednesday night.

Pasture For Stock.

v*'~ Good pasture, running water and shi'lc. A limited amount of horses will be taken. J. M. Sankey's farm in Rilry iowuaaip. For particulars arddress W. A. Ward. Riley. Ind.

INSTRUMENTS.

Hie ragged that fucd the mala Cherished a pine against its breast. Whereon the wind troke many strain,

Aa 'twere a violin caressed, Aad aouls that heard, although in pain, Were soothed and lulled to peace and rert,

A people strove to break their chains, And many bled, and strife waj iong,r* .** Until a minstrel voiced their pels*

And woke the world with echoing? scrag, And even the tyrant beard the ataralns And hastened to redress the wrong.

The souls of man were dried like dew, And earth cried oat with bitter used, Until one said, "I dare be true,"

And followed up the word with deed. Then heavqn and earth were born anew* .. -And one man's name became a creed. —Charles Orandall in Ceatary.

SOUTH AFRICAN BABOONS.

They Are X(TCU«M Trecbootan and tht Terror of tlx Farmer*. While poisco is most effecti-rely used on South African farma against burrowing creatures of the jackal kind, baboons are best dealt with in open wtrfare with the rifle, and large baboon hnating portla* are often formed among neighboring farmers. A short description of one of these baboon hunts maV lie of interest to readers in the mother country, and will give tbexu an idea of some of the outdoor experiences of their colonial cousins in farming districts between Capo Town and the Vaal river. The spcolal character of babcon hunting is derived from the loci that hahooiis are generally found in largo troops, numbering up to 80 or 100 or more. In some of the karroo farms of the SneeuwberR and Compassberg ranges ia the midland districts of the colony, for instance, the rocky krantzes and kopjes oovcred with bush and bowlder are often infested by such troops. So long as they are left undisturbed in their strongholds, so long must the farmer be content to see the talo of his losses in stock grow bigger every day. Single banded not much can he done, for baboons are difficult: to approach and if surprised at olosa quarters tbey have a goou Idea of defending themselves with largf» stones. It jj one of the farmer's most tantalizing experiences to stand at the door of his homestead, gun in hand, and see the baboons just out ct range on the rocky sky line a few hundred yards nwav—now springing on all fours like a large dog, now squatting on their haunches like a Bushmanana to know that the cunning beasts are just watching till bis back is turned that thov may seize their opportunity to swoop down and raid his docks. Their predatory methods, too, are revcltingly cruel, and "baboon handled" stock can always be recognized at a glance. They will attack cattle, tearing the udders away with their long, powerful hands, un&^heep and gor.ts are often found by the herdsman with their hindquarters stripped of the flesh right 1o the bone, and left to die in slow torture.

Moreover, the baboon is no respectet of persons, and the costly imported "long wool" or the priceless Angora may fall a victim no less than the common Cape "hainel" or "oapater," which would only fetch a half sovereign or so at the market in Cradock or Graaff-Reinet.

These facts are mentioned to show that the farmer has little cause to love baboons,* and that it is to the interest of those who suffer from the raids of these merciless freebooters to combine in force, so as to kill ofT as many of the common enemy at each coup domain as possible.—Chambers' Journal.

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"A5 the law at present stands, tny raaH can assume with impunity some presumably extinct or dominant baronetcy created to 1783.'' This remark was made in an interview recently by A. G. M. Hesiirigge, the editor of "Debrett's Peerage." 'This revelation appears to open up a great field of opportunities for Americans of a cortain class. It is well known that they now spend a great deal of time and money in

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The distance acrosa the United Stai-w Ja found to be 2,625 2 googtapfcical Jtilcs from the lighthouse six railes uorfti of Cape May to tbclig'nsbousear»ui51to««»ouih cf Pnnta Arenas,Cal., foUaw^tf vliiocyninth parallel of latitude a« okiol,? as pos-% sible. This is conceded to b* tiont the mean breadth of the country. A g.'ance at the map will show that the United Status is much wider toward t»b« north and much narrower tewnrdtb# gulf coast, bufctho thirty -ninth parallel 1* abcofcn9 fair au average as oan be dw*n». Tb8 measurements were made by tarfang&lacion —that Is, by taking obsez-sartotis ?rom fixed landmarks and verifying ch«r by astronomical tests. The distance across the continent there ebtainefi i» 10 feet longer than that r*ported aj- Bawel* in 1850, and 9b feet longer than that reported by Professor Clark in 1S66.-—Chicago liecora.

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