Bloomington Telephone, Volume 14, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 June 1889 — Page 3

TALKING TO THE SIOUX.

DICKERING FOR THE GREAT INDIAN BESEKV AXIOM,

The Commissioners Kxplaia to the Dusky Men the Provisions of the Dakota Land BUI Many of the Chiefs Obstinately Oppose the Sale.

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HE first movement of settlers in the Northwest in anticipation of the opening to settlement of the greet Sroux reserra. tinn in Dakota has al

ready commenced. The portion to be thrown open consists of about half of fthe great reservation, or about 11,000,000 acres, and is said to comprise some of the richest soil in that region of marvelous fertility and resources. The land is owned by the Sioux tribe, and the Government appointed a commission, composed of Gen. Crook, ex-Go v. Foster of Ohio, and the Hon William Warner of Missouri, to negotiate a settlement of their claims, and restore the tract to

land. Maj. Warner clearly explained that the present treaty only added to the old one, not having; any effect to do away with that, Hn concluded his task by an appeal to them as friends to remember that they wers fathers and should provide their children with some security against the future. Two Strikes, a disgruntled old chief, harangued them briefly, asking for a fur her increase of the price of the land. When in Washington last winter he thought $1.25 enough, but now he thought t n increase of 25 cents would be just; but of course such an increase was beyond the powers of the commission. Speech )s were made by the most strouuous opposers to the bill Hollow Horn Bear, Tw Strikes, and Yellow Hair. The first speech was made by Two Strikes, briefly in the following language: "What I said the other day, the same I say today. Th re were some payments which you pro nised me under the treaty of 1868 for thirty years to come. Now, when there ar ten years yet to come in which we are to receive annuity goods and all those things which you promised me, you come witi another treaty. We all remember that other treaty. You say this treaty and the one of 1863 go along hand in hand. I cannot understand this. My thought i.nd that of my people is to have payment for the goods as promised in 1868. I have heard about John Grass (Charging Bear) asking for $1.25 for this land in W ashington, but I know nothing about this. I ask for 25 cents more, so our young men can have money to buy better clothes. Tell this to yonr Great Father, and see what he says. If he says give 25 cents more we will sign." Yellow Hair, who has always opposed

when you can live by hunting, and now you can only live as the white man does by tillinK the eoih The Great Father wishes that your sons shall be taught how to farm and become mechanics, and your daughters shall become your school teachers, and (thnt the money which if? now paid to the white men shall bo paid to your own people, and that you shall become citizens a-i the white mea. He has sent us to you to tell of this bill, and we can neither add to it nor take anything." He explained how the proposed reservation for this agency exceeded in size that in last year's bill, and on that point alone there was enough land to give every man, woman and child 122 acres, and that in the whole reservation there would be5G0 acres for each Indian, jonng and old. "In this bill it is provided that you may take vour land iu severalty and have a patent.'' He explained the provisions with reference to allotments, aud as to the assistance the Government would give in starting them in the now path; also with reference to the education al provisions, and the permanent fund created, and how the interest is to be expended. Major Warner concluded by askir.g each one not to be influenced by prejudice, by anger, or flattery, but urged each one to think and act foi himself. At the conclusion of his speech the council broke up. Throughout the council ihe Indians listened with close attention and were evidently impressed ly the clearness in which the act of Congress was exp lained by tha Commissioners. It is piobable that they will expect several d;ys in which to talk with each other before they will take any decided action.

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Showing the Boundaries of the Proposed Diminished SIOUX INDIAN RESERVATIONS

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the public domain. The Government offers the red men $ 1.25 per acre for the land, or $13,750,000 for the entire tract. The signatures of three-fourths of all the Indians of the tribe will be necessary to consummate the contract and open this vast area, which will afford homes to 70,. 000 settlers, giving them 160 acres apiece. There is little doubt that the negotiations will be successful, and it is expected that some time in August the President will issue hi proclamation throwing down the bars which now keep home-seekers out of this coveted territory. The first council with the Indians was held at Eosebud Agency. Some of the chiefs were stubborn, or pretended to be so, t the start, but through the influence largely of Gen. Crook a sufficient number of them were induced to affix their signature to the treaty to insure its ratinsatkm. Gen. Crook's well-known probity had a wonderfully good influence with the Indians. They know him well as their friend, and when told by him that this was a good bill they had faith in his asertionft. One Indian, a spokesman of

the Ooallalas. came in from his ban

inform the General that his band w sign if he would assure them of (Crook's) approval of the bill, and

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with all the bands. Of active perso

contact with the Indians Gov. ro:

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Gen. Crook, who has been their g

jriend in the past. The confidence wMioh

the Indians have m Geo. Crook's fjntire disinterestedness made him the shaker fotbthe commission. The Generaffmade a speech to the Indians in whih he exEietl his sorrow that they should treat so badly when they kner he was friend. He referred Xo the time .when he was in charge rft the entire Sioux Nation, and appoi;. jd military officers to be I heir agents, and asked: "Did I not get you rations then?. Did yon ever r hungry when I was he;re? Now, when come back after eleven years I find - i x 1 1 r

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periences he had with tift Apaches, and described the continual C-estward flow of population ly saying: mrJf he white men in the East are like birds, And brood after brood hatches out to finM no room for them except in the Wlest. When the treaty of U68 was madeg there were but few white men west f the Missouri River. Now there arenSany,and the land is wanted I want you tio 'become men, take your land in seven aty, so the Government wif! give you , paper for it, and no white mam can get your land from yon nor from your chillrv Borne misw&derstandist" ie from the misconception of the pre aty, which refers to the treaty of 186i ie Indians thought that the GovernmV uld abrogate the old treaty and subere the present using money belonging to th e Indians under the ola agreement to purchase the

the treaty, snid: HI want to be a white man and woik like a white man, as my Great Father asks me to. I want, when I work, to get Ood pay for it, and to learn to be a blacksmith, carpenter, and so forth. When I was in Washington the Great Father took me around and was a friend to me. He promised me many things, but we did not get them. Why did they lie to us? Some white men come here and are good to us and are our friends. We are glad when such men come here m& are their friends. I shake hands with you with a good heart. You give me rations and I am glad. We must learn to work and know how to make a living. Wo want the Indians and halfbloods to be employed at the agency, then the money will stay here and not go east, like itow, when the white men do the work." From Bonebud the Commissioners went to Pine Ridge Agency and held a council with the Indians. All the principal chiefs and many of their bands, as well as the representative men of mixed blood, were present. Agent H. D. Gallagher was chosen by the Indians to act as interpreter. Gov. Foster, Chairman of the Commission, then addressed the Indians. He said: "My friends, we greet you by that name and believe you meet us in that spirit. The Great Father has Bent us to you with at act of Congress for your acceptance or rejection. We are here to explain it to you fully, and any word we say or you nay will be taken down and carred to the Great Father your questions and our az.swers and if we talk wrong, then the Great Father will know it and all that we lo will go for nothing. One of our number is known among the Indians as a nan who never deceived them. We expect you to hnd that we will do the same way. " You must know that you cannot now lire as your fathers did. The Great Fatter and his council have for a long time been studying "what it was best to do for you, and last year sent a commission to you with a bill which you rejected. Then he sent for your head men and talked with them at Washington, and now this commission presents to you a bill which is practically what your head men said they would be willing to agree to. You must; not expect that the Great Council will be more liberal in the future than it is now. He here exhibited a large man of the Sioux Reservation. The Government asks you to sell that portion marked yellow." He pointed out the limits of the proposed reservavation for this agency. He then explained fully the provisions of the present bill, at d pointed out the difference between tho present and last year's bill. He concluded: "We are not here to ask your conse.it if you are unwilling to give it, but th Great Father and all your friends am mg the white men believe this bill is a good one for you." Major Warner then spoke to the Indians. He said: "My friends, the days of war are past, and the days of peace between the white men and the red meu have come. The Great Father sendfe us here to-day to talk with you as one friend talks witii another. The day is past

At the close of the council a sim altane ous rush was made by a large number of mounted Indinns, who surrounded the council grounds, the meaning of which transpired afterward. The Indians had appointed a large number of soldiers before the council met, and said the rush was made t prevent any Indians from speaking in favor of the bill after the Commissioners had finished their talk. This action indicated the existenco of an unfriendly feeling toward the bill, ,nd added to the difficulty to be overcome by the Commissioners. The following day another council was held at which Old-Man-Afraid-of-His Horses, Red Cloud, Little Wound, Blue Horse, Young-Mac-Afraid-of-His-Horses, and other chiefs spoke. Their talk was a rehearsal of their individual views as to the promises of the treaty of 1868, which have not been fulfilled. They spoke at length with the evident intent of using up time aud preventing n immediate decision. When they finished, Maj. Warner explained the provisions of tlat treaty. Gen. Crook then talked to them much in the same way as at Rosebud, and iu addition explained the part of the bill in reference to paying Red Cloud for his ponies, and told them to be careful of any men who wanted to get any of this money; that advice from such meu was not worth much; that while he thought it was for the interest of all of them that the bill should be accepted, still the Commissioners wanted them to do as' each thought best. He concluded by saying that the bill was ready for signatures. No Flesh was the first to touch the pen. About forty signed in twenty minutes, when further action was deferred for the day. Obstinate Chiefs. A dispatch of Thursday, June 20, from Pine Ridge Agency, states that Gov. Foster opened the council on Wednesday by inviting any Indiana desiring information to speak. After counseling among themselves for some time Old-Man- Afraid-of-His-Horses, now over 80 years old, arose and said that the paper in his hand was given him at the time of the treaty of 1868, in Fort Laramie. "It means," he said, "that after cultivating the ground of eight generations we were to become self-supporting. There are twenty-one years more due on thai: treaty and there is no use in going ahead of the time. It seems to me you are in a great hurry to start a new treaty now while there is so much time before the old treaty expires." Red Cloud was the next speaker. "I have' he said, "the same sugar paper, but here is a map of my reservation which was given me by the Great Father. Spotted Tail and I made that treaty of 1868, nineteen years ago. By that treaty we were to recervo cattle and horses and sheep and farming implements until the treaty runs out. Kmee that time we have made another treaty to give . the Great Father, and we have pay for seven generations. Now, my friends, the Great Father hasn't paid the things promised us, but wante u& to give more land before we are paid for what is dne us now. Gen. Crook is nere, and I think he knows about the treat; of

1876. When you came hera to buy more land I looked around to hup if you had any boxes full of money to pay us, but I Bee none, I pesumo yon are to pay us in sugar talk, as you have done before." Several other lending Indians made speeches ana the commissioners then replied, after whioh an opportunity was given for the savages to sig:a, and several of them did so. AX S 0jSt AT (.JjEVELAND.

K05KET OR THE CHAMBERMAID.

HE BKATS A IX PRKVlOUS IU5CORlS AS A KICKKJIC.

In Turn He Ih Binlly Trounced Iiy the Rabie Th Kicker and the Umpire The Forest City Infnnts Take Two of the Three (ramoft IJa.so-RulI OoKMip. CliKVKTiAMJ COimKHPON'UKXCK. The Chicago club had an unexpectedly warm time of it upon the occasion of its second series of gallics in this city, aud the 1'levelund club will lemember Anson's young men for many a day to come. Anson came down here from Chicago set upon winning at least two out of the three games, or making it raighty uncomfortable for anybody that got in his way. Umpire Fessenden happened to be the man to get into Anson's way during the second game of the series, nnd the result was about two hours of the liveliest kicking and fun for everybody in general ever seen upon a ball neld. "The old man" commenced to kick on Fessenden's calling of balls tmd strikes in the second inning, and thereafter ran things with a high hand. "I've been robbed of games enough this Eieason already," said he after the game, "and I made up my mind as soon as I saw how things were going in that grme that it was time to do a little kicking myself, and I did it." No one who was present at the game that afternoon will doubt Anson's statement. There was not an innii.g of the game iu which tho big Captain's powerful voice was not heard in determined dispute with the umpire. Fessende n threatened, and blustered, and bluffed at the "old man" throughout the nine innings, but the beauty of A u son's kicking is that he always knows what he is talking about, and, consequently, has the best of an argument upon any rule or point of play tnat he may decide to kick upon. Before Anson began to kick the game promised to be as tame a one as that of the day before, when Cleveland had won by a score of 5 to 4. Tho "old man's"; kicking, however, had the effect of awakening the members of both teams, and the amount of ginger they threw into their work made the game a bitter fight to the very end. Chicago f nally took the victory by a score of 5 to 4, Duffy's hit to center sending in the winning run in the last half of the ninth inning. Another good effect of the "old man's" kick was the battery work done by the team. Anse himself went to bat four times and made four beautiful hits, each of which helped along or brought in a um.n. Duffy and Ryan also did great sl ick work, and where Chicago had not been able before this season to hit O'Brien they jumped upon his delivery and deliberately batted out their victory. It was i triumph indeed for the "old man," who of late has been doing little or no batting compared to his record of last season. Cleveland captured the third game of the series handily score 7 to 4 thus winning two out of the three, much to the discomfiture of the big Chicago captain. In this game the double umpire system was introduced, ar d Fessenden and McQuaid worked together in firstclass style. There was no wrangling, badgering or kicking, and the balls and strikes were attended to with care. Chicago has returned home, and during the remaining days of the month :it will meet the four Eastern league teams Washington, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. Williamson wijl rejoin the team July 4, when he expects to play his first game of the season in Chicago. The return of the big short-stop will be hailed with joy by every lover of bas e-ball in

'the lake city, for his coming will put the

team in smooth working order again. CURRENT BASE-BAIiIi TAjEjK. Tim Keefe, of the Giants, holds the record on strikeouts, in a single game, for the season. Twelve of the Bostonians went down before his curves in the-

series. CI ark son comes next, having struck out ten of Anson's hopefuls. Tnere are four players in the league who have a batting average of over .400, while there is not a player in the association who has yet reached that figure. , The Chicago team has made more home, runs than any other club so far, with a total of twenty. New York is seventh, with nine to its credit. There seems to be nothing the matter with John Montgomery Word as a second baseman. Tom Daly, the old Chicago catcher, has signed with Washington. He is now with the team in Boston, and says his arm' is in first-class condition. The Giants wear rubber-soled shoes when playing the outfield on the home1 grounds, as the boards make it uncomfortable with spike shoes. Of late visit-j ing outfielders are following the New: York team's example, and find that they can play a much better game on rubber than upon steel. The player who will lay an obstruction ; on the line, run into, or block off a fellow player is a damaging ruffian, and not only should be legislated into obscurity but: sent to the criminal courts for another overhauling. Not more than two or three cases would be dealt with before the end came. The release of Arthur Irwin to the Washingtons cost Hewitt $3,000. The Washington Club has been after Irwin for some time, but President Hewitt would not pay the sum demanded for his release until he was forced to do so fop want of a competent short-stop for his team. Irwin will receive sC salary of $3,200 and be Captain of the Senators. John Morreli will still piny in the team and be manager, while Irwin will have exclusive control of tfoe Senators while on the field. , The Base-Ball Brotherhood's opposition to the classification system now in vogue in the National League has at last borne fruit. The Brotherhood, through a committee, notified President Young of the players' ideas on the subject, and a few days ago Mr. Young informed the players that he had placed the matter be-, fore the League and th t the club owners, would meet the placers ajjd talk the mat-, ter over. The Lc.imub hs appointed; Messrs. J. B. Day. I resiflcr.s of tho New; York Club J, I logei$f of the Philadelphia Clubj aud A. G. Spalding, of the Chicago Club, a committee to act for the clubs. Ward, Hanlc i, and Brout hers are the players' committee. The conference will be held in the West within the next two weeks. John B. Day openly avows his opposition to the objectionable classification rule. Brouthers, formerly of the Detroits, now with Boston, leads alt tho League batters. Charley Bennett llichardson and Ganzel are likewiae batting Lard, playing good ball, and contributing largely to the success of the Bosion Club.

X Tale from Bouton Wlilcl t Carrius WlMi It a Universal Morn I. There iwts told in ray hearing the other clay a tale which carries "with it a moral. A jajentleman who travels a good

1 deal, being a bachelor with a good for

tune and plenty of leisure, has, when in town, a suite of rooms at the house of his married sister. He returned recently from a trip rather imexpectedly, reaching home in the evening. His liister, who received him, apologized for the fact that his apartment was not wholly in order. "Wo have a new chambermaid," she explained, "and I haven't 'wanted to tell her too many things at onr, and as I didn't kno w you were coming, I didn't bother her about your room. I will send her up the first thiag in the morning." In the morning the new chambermaid did, indeed, come the firsu thing, and the gentleman was still in bed. He, however, slipped into his dressing room to remain until the maid should do whatever was necessary in his chamber, anci, taking a book, he sat down to read while he was waiting. He always carried with him a diamond ring, which had been his mother's, which he Rometimes vore and sometimes had in his pocket. This he had left with his watch on the stand by the head of bin bed. He sat reading for somo time, and, even after he heard the maid go out, he kept on with his book, Suddenly he he&rd a slight noise in his chamber, and, folding his dressing gown about him, he opened the door and looked in. The chamber was apparently empty, but his eye was caught by a cord vrhich seemed to extend irom the open window toward the bed. Going forward to examine Uiis, he perceived a monkey, till then hid den from sight by tho bed, that., with his diamond ring in its clutch, was making off. The owner of the ring shouted and ran forward, when the thievish animal dropped its prey and skurried out of the window as fast as its skinny little legs would carry it, and, picking up the jewel to assure himself that it was all right, the gentleman reached the window in time to see an organ-grinder making oiF with the monkey on his shoulder. There was no doubt that he had trained the beast to climb into windows and to steal any valuable upon which it could lay hands, and the incident may serve as a warning to those who allow organ monkeys to scramble at will over their chamber blinds and windows. But the impressive aspect of the 3tory, if one considers, is the position m which tho chambermaid would Lave been put had the owner of the ring appeared on the scene but a moment later. The girl was new in the house, there had no one except herself entered tie room, the ring would have been missed almost immediately, and the circumstantial evidence would have been overwhelmingly agiiinsb her. As it was, she never knew how g:reat a peril she escaped; but the man w ho tells the story declares that he shall never be able to believe in circumstantial evidence again. Boston letter, It Was A Mouse. Of course you have been aroused suddenly in the night by some mysterious sotJid in your chamber, jumped hastily from your warm and comfortable couch, anil then suddenly awoke with a bewildered aense of not knowing where you were. This same thing happened to a weat fcide young man the other :aight. When fully awakened he sat quietly on the edge of the bed and listened acutely for the sound that at first had alarmed him. Soon it came again. It was as though some one was tiptoeing softly across the cirpet. The young man remembered that in the further corner of the room stood a loaded shotgun. It had not been discharged sitce the war

but he realized that the charges in war times were much higher than they are now, and he argued that there must be enough left to kill a burglar. So he cautiously felt his way across the room until he had secured the gun. Carefully cocking it he suddenly lit the gas and turned to meet the burglar. But there was. no one in sight. Laying the illu

sion to his imagination he replaced the loaded gun and crawled back between the warm sheets. Just as he was kzing off he again heard the sounds of footfalls, and again he seized the gun and turned up the gas. There was no one else in the room. Thoroughly mystified, he resolved i;o investigate. He Bat on the edge of the bed allowing the gas to burn at full head and listened.' Soon he heard the sound again. I came from beneath the or.rpet. Seeing a wriggling lump iu the middle of a big pattern he brought his gun down on it heavily. There was a wild squeak and all was still. The mystery was solved. Beneath the carpet was a padding of straw, and a venturesome mouse had been pulling out (ingle straws for his nest in his hole nearby. Each jerk he gave a straw produced the sound of a light footfall on the carpet, and ail he jerked regularly the illusion of a cautious burglar was produced Ch icago Herald. Drnnuuiug Back in the Fifths. It amuses me," said the white haired head of a jobbing house, iu a conversation, uco hear traveling men nowadays complain of the hardships of the road, the taking of late trains, traveling in cabooses, and. such like inconveniences. Lord bless you! tAiey should have seen the drummers of the old dayi and. heard their experiences, and then they wouM have known tiomething about the woes of the traveling man. Thirty years ago I w&j young, ambitious, full of, cergy, and went o:a the road for a jobbing houae. When I could not travel by river and that could be done only in going through a certain portion of our trado stage coaches and horseback were the only means of travel. Many a cold and weary winter's day have I passed in the saddle, starting out early in the morning, going through enow or rain, fording creeks, and half frozen all the time, un'il I could hardly dismount when my day's journey was over. And then there were no banks or collection agenciea through the country to facilitate tue collections of debts, and the drunmers had all of that work to do. We traveled with old-fa shio ied valises, which could be used as saddlebags when we had to ride horseback. ac4 thest

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were the receptacles for what ntony was collected. It was fcometimes pretty ticklish work stopping at lonely country taverns with saddlebags filled witU good, hard money, but it had to be done. I slept on the floor in a little tavern office one winter's night with my yalise under my head for a pillow, containing over $1,500 cash. It was a hard pillo w, but I felt safer with it there, and slept quite soundly. The drummers cf today don't know what hard traveling :ia. They should have frozen or htdf drowned or starved with us in th old school back in the fifties." Croikety and Glass Journal One Thing Meti Can't Do. There is, however, one thing in vhich perhaps men will never be proficient. They will never know how to ahop. And that reminds me that the shopping season has come again, and is now upon us in full force. Not that it is ever over, but the two great shopping seasons are in the spring and autumn. Tha questions naturally arise : Why do 'O men want so many things? Do they buy more than they want? Do they really need, and can they use, all the pins, buttons, ribbons, hooks-and-eyos, laces, feathers, flowers, furbelows, and dry goods generally to which they devote so much time and money? The why and the wherefore of all this &bcpping are unanswerable conundrums to the masculine mind, of course. But they enjoy the effect quite as Jnuch 'H

But the drudgery of shopping! To scour half the city to find an exact match in color, width, and fancy edge of ft piece of ribbon, and, when found., to stand before the counter while being pushed and brushed against by fifty other women while it ie being measured off ; to wait a weary time, half an hour it seems, for the change 2 cents, pr haps and the yard of ribbon. To match embroideries and laces in the same way; to search through all the shops to find some woolen material that will "co with a certain silk petticoat of peculiar hue ; to bring home dozens of samples to find that none will suit; to hunt for a flower or feather of a certain shade tliat must be had to make a pleasing contrast to the new "spring suit, for the new spring hat; and then the gloves mutit be of the right shade. Does a man ever consider the details of a woman's dress, and stop to think how -much time' and thought she has spent on them? And yet women dress for men quite as much as they do for each other or for themselves. The difference in their appreciation ift that a m ftTi talroa in tha oron.

woman can tell to a dime just whar, an j

was made by a dressmaker or by fcer-i

self, and frequently where she bougul

the material. A woman in a cues

dress that she has made herself, and

which she consequently knows all the defects, will go among a crowd of wo men inwardly trembling, knowing that her poverty and economy will surely be found out. But she would enter a r-m full of men with smiling face and unfluttered heart, feeling sure that they would neither know nor care how m uch the drfess cost nor who made it. Is it a wonder that women like men better than they do their own sex? -Yew York Star. Widows the Autocrats of Society. It is undeniable thet widows are the autocrats of society, and men flock about them. No one has ever denied their fascinations, and Weller's advice

to his son, if he wished to avoid matrimony to "bevare of vidders," has boen quoted thousands of times. Jn many ways the widow has the advantage of her younger sisters. She has the benefit of a large knowledge and ex perience of the world, her arts imd coquetries are perfected, not in the experimental and undeveloped state of the debutantes, and. above all, she has the inestimable advantage of knowing men with the accurate and intimate knowledge gained by association with one vrho wai probably a fair representative of his sex. She knows how to give little dinners that make the most hardened bachelor think indulgently of the ocarriage state. She knows that man likes his ease, and does not insist on hie dancing in perpetual attendance on I er. Sho does not insist on a man's talking about balls and theaters and new g er man figures. She follow rather his lead to his own ground, and listens with subtle flattery in eyes and face while he descants on his favorite 'hobby. A young girl is always self -center absorbed in her own affairs, her dresHes, her parties; it is only grace and art that teach a wtman to sink her own personality in the presence of the person with whom she is talking. Perhaps one of the chief claims of widows is their understanding of the fine art of sympathy The sympathy of a young girl who has known nothing but joy is a crude nnd unsatisfying affair, the very husks oa which no love could feed, but the sympathy of a widow, tenderly, daintily ox-

pressed, with a gentle melancholy that shows that she, too, has suffered it is like the soft shadows in a picture or ihe minor chord in a piece of muiuctbat sets th a pulses throbbing. Havbg mourned for a man, she knows how moat effectively to mourn with oncw New Orleans Picayune: ,f Mill .1 MJM Both of Them Confused. They were traveling in a Fifth avenue stage, and the din was almost deafening. 44 This bustle makes my head act,1 she said: "Probably, observed he, Kif yoa were to wear a smaller one "Sir!" she indignantly cried; I met the noise confuses me." "I beg your pardon, stammered lie "I am confused too." Testing a lncker9a Age. "I say, Jenkins, can you tell a yfeuag chicken from an old one$ "Of course I can, "Well, how?" "Bvtbe teeth, n "Chickens don't have teeth, "No, but I have." Pick Me Up. Thk "penny-iu-the-slot maohiaa must have reached its culmination vx that invention by a Mr. Engleboft which, after the prescribed rule Jltt been complied with, will take ywt photograph, finish it, and drop it Kit already iramedL