Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 February 1896 — Page 6

READING A PAPER FROM HOME. Tie wr; getting home from business --he, r. t.ie.ehuiit well to -The r. ':- "i- ..f the electric cir W'To throwof blue. And ;ir I him wen' acquaintances who, v :. .. ;!.' stood or sat. 7$y lor., v. ,.rJ or gesture, were inviting - ..hat. It ut j : ;.-. i .r ii;r a!l .)!" th-:n. ox -p: Jo : ow ami snide "Whor. haled by some me at t!: door or ;;:t across Iii :i i-o He r i i with boyish ivr."""!'"". while speeding (mt the si ret. The neatly printed page-, of a little coitnT hoot. Ho rend -f Tom .bo -s' enterprise in addto his ham. An.i i..ir;.-.l that "Solon Huddli-so'i has a bran! new yarn." That "Aunty Simpkins ;:nv a tea," that : ; a r pretty g od" Ami ' ...t ",M Hiilcy rain" f town anl erought a load of wood." Well. jiN those things an trill-, perhaps. you and in"; "For hin. thoy ;:ro reminders of the times th:;l v,od to ho; And i"7Mi! his busy city life !i glanceI :.. k with joy To --- t Ti town t!i:t circumscribed his d'-'.t'.gs as a hoy. Each -l".Tt and spicy paragraph upon th" v .lingo sheet IVo-rnis scene familiar or a fn'oud la t.sed to moot And o ho - you an to!! it by t!io m':!es that quickly en mo -Tht-"'-mention of bis. iumIo t and tho other "folk" at "homo." Men wr.nuor far for fortv.no and hid it, too. nod yot Tho farm and slothful village and its folk thoy ne'er forgot; And there's not a thing in city lifo which sreater jay can give Than tho littlo country paper printed where thoy used to live. Columbus Dispatch.

A WOMAN'S WIT. "I want to speak to .vom a moment. Jim. Conic to tho other end of the van: better for those not to hoar us," said n.y mate, indicating by the direction of Ji'ih glance our two follow travelers. His words were almost drowned in the noise o the train, but it Mas easy to oe from his manner that something was amiss. We were together in cbirge of a train of twenty-four wagin.;, running from Eiin.ield colliery down to the main line. I was the ondergunrd and consequently, subordinate to Frank Applegarth. His slaughter, a lass of about 1. and a companion of her own age, were travel in?: with ns. They had missed the visual passenger train, and. notwithstanding the regulations to the contrary, we had both thought there would lie litilo harm in giving them a "lift" liome. as Frank phrased it. An.', lueky for its it proved that we di 1 s . Probttbly saved both our lives, and certainly it was the means of procuring je the best wife in the world. Tito wind whistled past the deep odes of the cutting through which wo were rushing, and Hakes of snow wore nnding their way into the van "by ventilator ftnd window and crevices, not a few in number. My companion wore a troubled, anxious look as I rose to follow him. "lo you notice that?" lie risked, when we were out of hearing distance of the others. It had struck me before that the van was swaying more than usual-and it was rickety enough, in nil conscience, on ordinary occasions b::t 1 only set it down to our driver making up a little lost time. "We are traveling at a great pace," I answer .1. a d io gorous pace. was the reply, as ta van gave a lurch that almost threw us off our feet. "That's the iirst u- ve on the level." he added; "just try T you can make out the engine Tgli -." I trice in;' best, but It was useless. The n:ulit was intensely dark. and. to add to to" d'iliculty, blinding blasts of snow a-t i !'et drove full in my face s I Itan -.v:i:i half my body outside, seeking r ciich a glimmer of light Ahead. "I can ni.ik" nothing out." I said, as I imbut.oiied diy jacket and shook it clear of i o.e. "Neither .1bl I, and I fear we have broken :ivj. I only wish I knew how man- w igous are left with us in front." Here aty o'lurenaneo must have betrayed the it .or I felt, for he hastily added: !n' !'! like that, man; tho girls ore wat !iiug us. and I'm mistaken if Maty do.s on already suspect that something i wrong. It will be time enough i a la nil them when it comes to the vorsr. .in we are past help." "Wha is ,. doneV' I asked, not 8o imirli sp" ting an answer as because I I tuust say something. "We ta;i d very little. If Harry" that was ;;:; driver "knows what has liappn-d h - n.ay come back upon us und stop b .!".! e we come to I!ig!i bank. NioMgii. ai tho rate we are wollig, that .:!! be ri.sky enough. OtherWise in c.ia 1 o ti ithing but go on to the nevt sa!i i:i to warn them t!ioi. Ten to on wo d m't keep on the rails as we r-i'i e.n the bank. Wo must try to im i L 'Kir if we have many wagon.- ;f. If ho has but few, Harry Is sure to tt ;,.,. that something has Com- wrong." Ve ro:n ": I u wle re the two girls were .siioig. I had soon Mary Appleparth very day almost that I had woiked witli !i r father, now a matter of four ! rive years, and without noticing ho" mui-h. Sla was only a sbj of a girl w:"i: first I knew her. tied I suppose wii!i seeing h?r so frequently thai she had grown to the verge of womanhood without my being j ware of it. It might bo. too, that the danger iu vhich we were placed, ard which she realized as If intuitively, Added in niorr.ent years to her life, as great dinners are sometimes said to

do. Anyway, It was with aiVM interest that I now regarded her a - she sat seeking to calm the fears of the girl beside her. who was giving way to terror she did not sock to conceal. "Vou and your fii-.tid." said Applegarth tw Ids daught r. who. .up. id other preoccupations, was watching our .every movement, "will keep quite sti!l laro while .Jim and I put things straight b; front of the train." ' Is there going to be an accident" I am sure something has gone amiss." "No; I hope nor. at least; nothing but wl'-u we can put to rights." The road on whh-h we were traveling was a fairly level one, with easy gradients, one part alone excepted. That part began some ten miles from tho colliery whence we had started our journey, and could we but arrest our speed before reaching it, all might be well yet. It consisted of the two declivities, known respectively as tho High bank and the Low bank, both very steep, with a gradient of one in seventy-live, and separated by some two miles of level line. A little way from the bottom of the last was a meeting station, where trains coming in opposite directions used to pass each other by na a us of a siding. All being well, it was Into this siding our train had to run. and there remain until the last "up"" passenger train had passed it on its way to lI:ntield. With a few more hopeful words to his daughter. Applegarth took his lamp iu his hand, and signing to me to take mine and follow him. dim bo rod with great dirliculty on to the first truck. Our speed had continued to increase, and it seemed as if we were to bo both thrown off on to the line. Wo managed to reach the brake handle and put it hard down-as hard as we both together were able to do. We did tho same with the other ten trucks, when the oscillations was too iniioh for us. and slowly and laboriously wo made our way back to tho comparative safety of the guard's van. Our speed had slackened a little with the brakes put down, but again it began gradually- to accelerate, and it was with a sickening feeling nt the heart that I resigned myself to all the helplessness and hopelessness of our situation. Should we begin to descend the bank at our present rate of speed, nothing, humanly speaking, could avail to save us from a fearful death. Applegarth was sitting with his head buried in his ha mis. In a corner of the van crouched the two girls, one of them trying to encourage the other, who was crying bitterly. Suddenly the last dread alternative presented itself to my mind, as it has often done to men. in a like position, loo frequently with the result of only hastening their fate, but now it seemed the only elm nee left to us. "Shall wo jump!" Frank':" I asked. "Vou forgot the girls," was- all he said. I had not forgotten them, but now I reflected that even if they had the courage to attempt it the risks were oo great, and besides one of the two was no longer capable of deciding for herself. And we could only sit still and wait, with what equanimity we could command, the fate upou which vt were rushing. Meanwhile Harry Armstrong, our driver, had reached the top of High kink, and from tho too quick action of his brake had learned that something unlocked for had happened to his train. The next turning ..dioued him that he had broken away and that his engine had only a few trucks behind it. He took what was probably the onlj- safe course that of putting on steam and going ahead as last as; iucould. "There is a break-away," h-?. shouted, as he steamed into the siding, "and twenty wagons of coal are tearing down the banks." "Signal against the 'up' train." called out tho atatiou master; "I hear her coming." "Hut the 'goods will run into her further down the line in any ease.' "We must throw the 'goods off the rails. Heaven help the poor guards. Wo can do nothing for tht'ia." "There are others, too, besides the guards," urged one of the men on the engine. "And a hundred In the 'up' train. Sharp with a hammer; wo must spike the back road points. It may send them into the river, but it must be risked." Tin spike was driven homo. 'Jtring tiie iron chains," was next called out. A pile of these lying bo-ddc the line

was S ized upon and hurriedly a num ber of them thrown across the nieiats. Then the men ran back otu of the way of danger, for tho roar of the "down" train was upon them. Out of ihe black darkness, like a stnai; still blanker. rushed the long line of .looi'iod wagons, and U.on came the dreaded crash, heard for n ilos round, drowning too noise of the gale, now at in neigh!. The wree'ae'i t..:in lay i:t on" inlNthiguishabi" ui.Ki of iron :imI c "1 and splintered wood. The first wagons ha;', driven over tin chains and fallen into the ballast, where they lay o erinmed, serving by way of a buffer to those behind them. Atuior.sly and vi:!i many forebodings of evil was the scene of d stni'-tion sonicicd for the wreck of the guard's van. 2o trace of it was to be found. I must now take up the story of the run-away ai the poin: win-re I left it olT. I was sitting as if 1 i a dream, when a light hand was placed on my arm and Mary Applegarth's voice sounded loud and shrill in my oar. -Wake up!" s;he cried. "Think if there's no plan to let go the van from the first wagon. Can't you get at the couplings th woodwork is very old?" I found she had already roused up her father, who, like me, hail abandoned hope. In another moment I had the hammer out of the bcker. Frank, picking to a shackle-hook, drovü It through

the end of the van just above the cou jdiag. and soon had a large opening mad". Then, easing off the van brake, we knocked our with tho hammer the bolt whi'h attaehed the fnr tnvk to Us. The loaded wagons seemed o Mice away from us as we gradually put on lite brake again, and we felt that the danger was past. We traveled slowly down tin ban-:, until wo saw a red light ai cad. !; w is one of the men so ni from the station, after tiie train had been wrecked. He had come on as ordered, with no hope of linding any of us alive. I made up my mind that very night to make a match of it with Mary Applegarth if she would have me. We were married a few mouths after, and all my mates called it -a runaway match." Hosten Traveler. CHANGE MOURNING CUSTOMS.

As a People AVe Are Tcarini Away from Harharic Customs. "One of the so. rest indications that, as a people, we are tearing away from barbaric customs,"' writes I'.dward XV. Hok in the Ladies' Home Journal. -is found in the changes which, slowly but surely, have come over our mourning customs and funeral emblems. The time is not so far back when the announcement in a funeral notice that 'friends will please omit Howers" was an unheard-of thing. When this first appeared people wiM.dered at it. Now one meets the request in numerous cases, and the effect has been good. M'ates Ajar' and similar vulgar floral monstrosities are being discarded, and the modest laurel wreath or cross, or sheaf of wheat have in good taste supplanted them. Flowers for tho dead are not to be decried so long as they have a meaning or carry a message of tender sympathy to the living, or attest a love, reverence or respect for the dead. I5ut when offered niissionless. in profusion, jammed or crammed into every imaginable mado-to-order-looking design or device, the custom (or habit) of thus remembering the dead becomes offensive and is best honored in the breach." Mr. Hok also expresses hearty satisfaction that the day of big funeral corteges Is passing, anil that the heavy black crape at the door of the home which death has entered has been suitplanted by simple unobtrusive wreaths of green or blossoms. With equal gratification he notes that the sight of .voting children, fairly stilling beneath tho heavy folds of mourning, is becoming more and more rare. In ttiis connection he writes: "I never thoroughly understood until recently the depth of affection and the sure, sane judgment which prompted that member of my family, who, when he was dying, asked that his wife and children should refrain from wearing anything which savored of mourning at his passing. It was ditlicult to do; the heart seemed to prompt otherwise. Hut i was done, and tho wisdom of my father's dying wish has often come homo to his survivors when thoy have seen the custom followed which has i:ade relatives and friends sombre just to look at each other." Preparing a Speech. Though it is true, as the proverb says, that "the poet is born, not made." vol it is also true that the great poem i both born and made. A critic boasted to Tennyson that in reading a poem of his he could always pick out those lines which wrote themselves from those which had been elaborated. Höing asked to illustrate his discrimination, he quoted a line, whereupon the poet remarked: "I smoked a dozen pipes over that line before I gave to it its present form." As with poetry, so with oratory the speech that influences public opinion is not only an inspiration but a task. The fact is illustrated by a conversation reported In Mrs. Cla Ilia's "Cnder the Old Kims." She says that she remembers a delightful visit from Mr. Sumner, when ho spent most of the time deseribing President Thiers' manner of entertaining his guests. Sumner told every smallest detail the arrangement of the table; who were the guests; how they were seated; how Madame Thiers conversed, and how courteous her husband's manner was toward her; and how the President at the close of the dinner gathered his guests around him as he sat upon the sofa In the salon, and rehearsed the speech ho was to make the next day in the French Assembly. "Thus," said Mr. Sumner, "taking advantage of any suggestion or criticism that might bo made before he gavo the speech to the public." Our ühctoral College. Ex-President Harrison, in writing of "The Presidential Otlico," in the Ladies' Home Journal, presents an interesting bit of information regardii.g our method of choosing a Chief Magistrat". "The origin of the Electoral College." he says, "has boon the subject of much speculation. The only American precedent is found in the first Constitution of Maryland, where provision was made for the choice of State Senators by electors chosen by popular vote in specified districts. Iu tho Massachusetts convention Mr. Howdoiu said: 'This method of choosing the President was probably taken from the manner of choosing Senators under tho Constitution of Maryland.' An attempt has been made to find the suggestion of the Electoral College, as wo have come to call it, by some in flu method then in use of chiMising the Oorman Emperor, and by Ubers In the method of choosing a Pope, by the College of Cardinals. Sii Henry Maine thinks that the momhora of the convention "were to a considerable extent guided by the example of t Iii. Holy Hornau Empire. And as Maryland, where the Electoral College war first used, was a CathoK. colony, the suggestion seems plausible. Hut then! was this difference: euir electors are not a permanent body, but fresh men chos en every four years."

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LEA OF INSANITY WILL NOT : SAV ARTHUR DUESTROW. ! JUlssouri Millionaire Coin -nit ted a Ilmtal Crime, and a Jury Says lie Must Iiy the Penalty, l!it t; re.it Wealth Not .villi at a udiug. Slew His Wife aid li.ibc. Arthar Io:-strov :.n- !.a-id a:;-! tin-:-.--are iot many pv :i L--; .;: who wi'.l . regret his doa th ..a tie ,: allows. .iy- a I'ai iti. Mo., dispatch. 1'"!' by that p..:i:litncat will boop:ateI. -o fat as :!'.: v. r! 1 gics. o:;o of the ;)i 'n.vtai :a tic istory of ihe Slate. Tie .-vc;al iiia'.s .Lroiih which c ;i v;-t l :i was ariixci - have held puhilc attc:i;i : for l o ye.; rs a s ha s ; !:o ; : ia! of :: o other c;;a;:iai in th-' roeiiPc.-iioa of t'ji' oh!.-.: .-i;:.-'tis. That tli's in.ia has at 1 at ; a c hi vi. tfii of ;lo nntrdor of Iiis wife ,a:il child ia I'.'bniy: ' I . ary. l'.M. is a s;rV.SS ? tir.ti to the puliiie. for AIITUCU IHT.sTltow so potent is the inilr.?nce of money and so nue-h money had Duostrow that lie belief was general that ho would got off lightly. Insanity .vas tle tirst pb:i on which the defense based their hopes. y the law of Missouri, if the sanity of a person charged with murder is questioned a jury must first divide the matter liefore tho accused can be placed on trial for tho murder. Over a year ago this question was submitted to n jury, whose members could not agree. Then .mother jury was picked out and lawyers and exports arTHE CAUSE OF THE y . - J - 1

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Seien ti. t? di.-c e.er fliat it c.uno from the plowed fit 1 Is of Iowa, from the olcaiue of the Aleutian Islands öf Al k i. lioni a O'ctt'oiic !i.iiu b:ince, from ihe hi!! of Wicnfin, trotn tiie sand I e Is of t e Missouri Jliwr, from Cripj!e Creek, or from an encounter between the earth and a camel.

ipied and wrangled and did their best toj ;ot tno jurymen rattled. Hut when tiie latter were finally given the question to decide they agreed to a man that Duestrow was sane. Tii en came the trial of the prisoner on the charge of murder. This trial was hold last September and, as ia tho case of the first sanity investigation, the jury disagreed. About a month ago the case again came to trial, with the result, as above stated, of conviction of murder in the hrt ilogni'. which, in this State, calls for the death penalty. An appeal will probably bo taken. Duestrow's crime, and the circumstan ces which led up to it, were not such as to gain for him much public sentiment and g y m p a t Ii y. Tiie young man is tho son r ..;tni;o ,f it Louis who loft a TastpfV&feW fortune, so placed. "AM& however, that Dus- " iff tn.w could not lay MR- hi kstkow. Ms hands on it. with tho exception of p),iKH a year. The subsequent death of his mother, however, made him a millioniiro. This was about seven years ago. rtlid the young man w.-.s then studying medicine. He naturally left the medical college and presently married a beautiful woman. All went well in the magnificent home which ho fitted up until Duestrow began to imbibe too freely of intoxicants. Attendant vices, added t his growing live of liquor, brought wretchedness to his wife, and made of the handsome, refined and cultured young husband a brute, a drunkard and a rake. The arrival of a ba'iy in the unhappj household did not seem to mend matters, :nd Duestrow continued in his evil ways, going step by stop farther into the depths id vice and wickedness. Tiling" wore thus on Feb. To. 1 Sit 1- A servant of the family. Katie Halm, testified as to tho occurrences id that evontiul day, when the cruel husband became tlnnhiyer of his wife and his hihi. Duestrow went out and as usual "got a jag on," in vulgar parlance. The liquor had evidently gone to his head and aroused some demon there, for he went homo and picked a quairol with his wife and began to abuse the servant. Katie Hahn., When ho threatened to strike the latter his wife interfered. "Strike me if you must strike some ore." she said. "All right.'! rescinded the brute, and ho pro ceoded to carry out her suggestion. Twice lie struck her and then ran from the room. Hack in an instant with a revolver, he flourished it in a manner that seared tho servant out of the room. Then she heard a shot. She ran up stairs and hoard another. Down she ran again and as she passed the door she saw her mistress prostrate and Duestrow with the baby

h e i 1 at .trrn'j Io:t;th, nhout to blow out its brains. Kaiit turned hpr ho ml and on the instant i nine ;!ie r.-;ort that told her the litt!. one was through its eardtly troubles. Ti:-:i li:- ran fro.n the house and sum:n :;c i hcip. Hwostrow was ar.vstod, but that didn't hoila-r hi'u much. llo di ia't like th,. prison tare, so he had Iiis niva!s vent ;:i from ou- of tiie swell cafes of tiie city; his bare ivll walls shocked

mm 'i ";Y lii.H aesthetic taste and the cell was at once magnificently furnished. Then thi pampered tool of the devil wanted a valet, and he got one. Everything ho could think of that would add to Iiis comfort w-.is done for hi:n; and till owing to the magic iiiilueiice of gold. Hut right and justice and the law have prevailed, and were ho as rich as Croesus, it is very doubtful if Arthur Daostrow the product of an utirval civilization, the victim of his n pernicious inclinations, a brut a far lower than the brutes-could be saved BLACK SNOWSTORM. Ii 11

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; o;. voo,i,. u I. ' ' I . 1 from that death which twelve tried and true men have said ho shall suffer. M. D. HARTER KILLS HIMSELF. Ex - Congressman Commits Suicide While Temporarily Insane. Hx-('oiigre,n;an M. D. Hart.-r. of Philadelphia, shot and killed himself at Fostoria. O.. Friday night at the residence of O. S. Knapp, with whom he was staying. Mr. Harter arrived in Fostoria several days ago to attend to some business affairs, llo was apparently in the best spirits, but had complained to his friends that he was troubled somewhat bv insomnia, nnd M. I. 11 A UTK K. Friday he spoke of a severe pain in hi houd. Friday night, however, he attended ä sociable and supper at the Presbyterian Church and appeared to enjoy himself. The coroner hold an inquest and decided that the deceased hud kilted himself while temporarily insane. There is no hint of financial or business embarrassments as a cause for the suicide, it being asserted that all the enterprises with which Mr. Harter was connected are in a nourishing condition. DEATH OP " BILL " NYE. The Popular Humorist Passes Away ut His Carolina Home. IM gar XV. Nye died at his home at Huckshoals. X. C. All the members of his family and most of his immediate relatives were with him as he breathed his last. His death was peaceful. He lay pale and wan in the bed, beside which sat his faithful wife and loving children, lie breathed calmly, but ever slower nnd slower until his heart ceased to boat. Ton days before he had a stroke of paralysis, and since then hi friends had expected death. Like many humorists, Mr. Xye was a man of almost womanly gentleness of disposition. His amiability was never clouded, and his good humor was as spontaneous as it was good-natured. He never forgot a friend. In later years his writings and leoturings brought an income of over J?oO.i(iO a year, and ho leaves a moderate fortune for his wife and children. Several bombs were exploded in the gardons of ihe palace at Madrid. No personal injuries resulted. Tho outrage is supposed in Madrid to have boon perpetrated by republicans or anarchists. Leander .1. Critchtie'.d, an attorney, iV.) years of age, for fifteen years reporter or" the Ohio Supreme Court, is dead ai Columbus.

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MODERN FINANCIAL ROMANCES "VI j .t Cotcx'iat l-'ortiinox Arc hc ltc suit of Accident. 'rr-:tt fortunes are in.ul. by poor ami obveure men in England as weit ::s i:i America. 1 "amnio, ihe leader of th recent mania for speculation in South African mining stocks in the London ;n:ivkel. went out to the l 'ape as :t juggler a. id clown in a traveling inais. v. it Ii hardly more than a sovereign ia Iiis pocket. Ho is now worth many millions, and i-s about t build a palace in Pi'vadilly. 'io of ihi stories told about 1 1 i in is that he found a bit of quartz, with gold in it. without knowing what it was. Tie ein -us had Hot been successful. It had gone from one mining camp to another, and had been deserted by the performers until very little of it remained. At last it was reduced lo the ringmaster, a bugler, a trick mule and the down. One night the ringmaster and the bugler dis.appi ;.i-ed. and tio clow n was left behind .vith the muh. It was at the bwet bb of hN fortunes, when lie was stranded in the in-te:ioj-of Africa like a castaway, that he chau'-ed to lind in one of bis aimless vi fol's the piece of rock, which had tho promise of a gold mine behind it. lie took it to the nearest town and asked what it was. and was told that there ;!s gold ill it. When pressed to explain where he had found it. lie was shrewd enough to evade the question. :l!ld to keep tho secret locked in his ov. ii breast. He waited until he had financial support behind him and could purchase for a song a groat tract, which eventually proved to be one of vast mineral wealth. That was the beginning of a marvelous career, which has carried the circus clown back to London as tho central figure of a speculative bubble without parallel in recent times. Colonel North, when a Yorkshire lad, went to South America with his fortune in Iiis trousers' pocket, and that not a deep one. Ho was a poor, uneducated youth of humble origin, without prosjtccts in tho world, and with only a smattering of engineering. He went up tho west coast from Valparaiso, ami obtained employment as a surveyor in the recently discovered nitrnto region. The Chilean war with Ttolivia and Peru came on. and the nitrate provinces wore devastated, conquered and impoverished, it was an opportunity for an acute observer capable of looking a long way ahead. The young surveyor had formed an accurate estimate of the n neral resources of tho conquered provinces, and when the war closed he found moans for purchasing nitrate claims ami railways at very low figures, and for securing control of what was destined to become an enormous business. lie is now a multi-miliiouairo. lives like a prince on a groat estate near London, and is the lender of financial out cry rises of vast magnitude. Tie career of Milciist. the diamond king of the j .sje of Man. is .-mother example of t ho modern romance of a poor young man. Those successes ar phenomenal. They are not presented h"ro as examples for emulation, for failure ordinarily follows haste to get rich. The true way. in fact the only sure way. for oven the wll-ondowod man to win in business life, is by good sense, industry and unwearied persisteiioe. This embodies a universal law. Its violation has blasted business reputations without number, and has opened the door for wretchedness and poverty to enter many a happy home.

I'ntiappy financier. It Is said that Nathan Mayor Itotlnchihl. the third son of the founder of the banking house, w ho established the London branch at the beginning of the present century, lived, in fear of assassination for years before his death, and slept with loaded pistols close at hand. In reply to a man who said, after seeing the luxuries with which the banker was surrounded, that be ought to be a happy man, ho exclaimed bitterly: "What, happy? when just as you are going to dinner a letter is placed in your hand, saying. 'If you do pot send me live hundred pounds, I will blow your brains out! " One day two tall, dark men presentoil themselves at bis ottioe. They bowed in response to bis bow. but said nothing. Their bands, however, began to fumble in their pockets .and tho groat banker instantly took alarm. "Here are long-expected assassins," he thought, and seizing a ledger ho hurled it nt the two strangers and shouted for assistance. When it appeared that the men were two bankers from another city, bearing letters of Introduction to him, for which they wore nervously bunting at tho time if his unexpected onslaught, hi mortification knew no bounds. "Poor unhappy me!" ho exclaimed. A victim to nervousness and fancied terrors, and all because of my money!." Hotter in Denmark. In Denmark the Covernment inspectors of butter exorcise groat pains to keep Danish butter free from too much water, and by calls for samples at random nt the factories there is no way to circumvent this inspection. As a result Danish butter is sohl in tho English market strictly up to market requirements, and Danish producers have grown to be exceedingly exact in thpercentage of water allowed to remain In the butter thoy ship. Tramp - Say. mister, will you give me a cent to get mo over to Hrookly. uV Citizen No, sir. I am a genuine philanthropist; I would give yoti a cent cht erfully if you wanted lo get from Hrookly n to New York.-Truth. "For the life of nie," said the young man. "I don't see why a woman was not born with the tsnmc capacity for swallow ing excuses that she has for Ice creaui I" India uapol Journal.

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