The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 4 January 1912 — Page 2

■, Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. - SYRACUSE INDIANA

HITCHED HIM UP HERSELF Woman Had Made Only a Few Unimportant Mistakes in Harnesa- • Ing the Horse. Three men ran out and grasped the bridle of the excited horse. The horse, It might be said, was more scandalized and amazed than frightened. “Oh, what’s the matter with him?" wailed the lady in the buggy. One of the men walked about the horse and inspected him. “I guess,” he said, dryly, “that if we ---turned the bridle abound so the blinders wouldn’t clap him under the chin, and took this trace from under his hind leg, and untwisted the breeching, he’d feel a little more comfortable.’’ The lady glared at him. “I bitched that horse up myself,” she said; "it was just exactly the way they showed me.” The man said nothing, but busied himself In straightening out the harness. “I guess,” he said, “I’d best take him out of the shafts. The breast collar's on backward, and the saddle ought to be pulled up a foot forward.”' The lady withered the good Samaritan with a glance. “Is anything on right?” she inquired. The man considered. “Why, yes,” he said; “the backing straps are all right They were fastened to the shafts and you snap ’em on—.. “I knew it was all right!” the lady •aid, “just some little unimportant things wrong. Thank you. Come up!” And the old horse trotted placidly the lady sitting, very erect. "Now—what—do—you—think—ef— .that?” inquired the helpful man, standing in the street and shading his eyes to look after the driver. “The wonder is,” said one of the less helpful, “that more people don’t get Into an automobile and try to run It first pop. Often you see people who can’t row get into I boat and sit- backward in it to push on the oars.” “But the worst of all,” a third man •aid, “Is the fellow who tries to sail a boat before he knows one sail from, another, or what, they’re used for." The helpful man sighed. “Life’s full of chances,” he said. “Maybe that lady will get home all right” “Sure she will,” another assured him. “A special providence watches over women who hitch up their own horses.”—Galveston News. Boxing an Ancient Sport Although boxing and pugilism, occupying much attention at the present time, were popular in classic Greece, they seemed to have died out in the Middle Ages, and it was not until the end of the seventeenth century that we find references to boxing as a regular English sport. Boxing, as distinguished from pugilism, may be said to date from 1866, when the Amateur Athletic club was formed and th© Queensberry rules drawn up. The boxing glove, however, has been ih- ’ vented about d century before by Broughton, the "father of English pugilism.” who used , them in his practice bouts. But you will remember that the boxing glove, as described by Virgil, was a terrible instrument of offense. . , ■■ The Occasion. * They had been having a little tiff. "Oh. of course,” he said, wrathfully, “I am always in the wrong.” “Not always,” said she, calmly. “Last week you admitted that you were in the wrong—” "Well, what’s that got to do with It?" he demanded. “Nothing, except that you were pecfectly right when you admitted IL” •he replied.—Harper’s Weekly. I , % No Mountain Laurel, Please. Crusaders for * national flower come, grow, fade and depart as regularly and as sweetly as the flowers themselves. Wherefore we do not take with too great seriousness the campaign said to have been started to make the mountain laurel blossom the official emblem of these United States. But why, when we are choosing a nations' flower, do we not at least try to fine one that has some familiar connection with our daily life? The mountain laurel campaign reminds us of the grocer who came down town and announced that be had named his son ' Algernon. “Why,” asked his old salesman sadly, “why don’t ye give the poor kid a name he can get work with?”—Chicago Post. i a Happy Thought Mr. Newcash —Son says In this letter that he’s workin’ on. some wash drawin’s at the art school. Mrs. Newcash—Now, that’s real senator®. • When they get dirty we can •end ’em to the laundry with the rest of our wash goods, instead of havin’ ’ ’em cleaned by an expert like we did our hand paintin’s. Indefatigable. “Does he seem to have any definite purpose in life?" "Unquestionably; he has an alm i. life to which he devotes most of his time and attention.” "What Is itr "The extension of his credit” Business Connection. Messenger Boy—Who’s the swell gay ye was talkin’ to Jimmy? Newsboy—Aw. him and me’s work •d togedder fer years He’s the edit■r o’ one o’ my papers.—Life

New News of Yesterday I J 1 By E. J. EDWARDS 1

Urged Mexican Railways

Gen. William 8. Rosecrans, Who Was Minister to Mexico After Civil War, Was Largely Responsible for Their Development No soldier who had served with prominence in the Civil war and who was afterwards elected a member of congress ever attracted more attention from the galleries thap did Gen. William S. Rosecrank. “Old Rosie,” as his soldiers called him. when he entered the .house of representatives in 1881. He had as a colleague Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, with whom he was on most friendly terms, and in the senate were Gens. John A. Logan and Ambrose C. Burnside, and a little later. Gem William Mahone. Rosecrans was the personification of sincerity, of perfect democracy, and he had, as so many great soldiers have, a distinctive quality of Innocence, almost childlike in its simplicity. At the time General Rosecrans became a member of congress a great deal of discussion jvas prevailing as to the practicability of constructing a ship railroad across the Tehuantepec isthmus of Mexico, in, order to do away with the long voyage around the Horn. The plan had been advocated by Capt. James B. Eads, who had gained an international reputation as an engineer partly through the construction of the Eads bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis and partly through his successful building of the jetty system 'near the mouth of the Mississippi river, which resulted in the long-desired deepening of the river’s channel. Before General Rosecrans entered congress he had been minister to Mexico. I had heard that he was much interested in Captain Ead’s plan for a ship railway across the Tehuantepec isthmus, and at the first opportunity I asked the general if he would tell me whether he thought Eads’ plan was practicable or not “I have no doubt about the practicability of the construction of a ship railway across the Tehuantepec isthmus,” he said, with emphasis. “It isn’t a very difficult scheme from an engineer’s point of view. All that would have to\be done would be to build a railroad of six tracks that could Accommodate platform cars; then the ships copld be hauled from the Atlantic harbor by an incline to these cars, cohstructed on the drydock system, and then the locomotives would haul them across the isthmus to the Pacific side. And vice versa. The only trouble with Eads' plan is that it would cost a great deal of money. “When I was minister to Mexico in ’68 —that was just after Juarez had overthrown Maximilian and set up the

He Was Faithful to Burke

Rufus Choate Owed His Manner of Thought and His Style to Close Study of That Master of English. When Rufus Choate, universally conceded to be one of the greatest of American lawyers and orators, and a most brilliant student of the classics and English literature and history, entered Dartmouth college in 181$, Rev. Dr. AlVan Bond, who was for nearly forty years pastor of a Congregational church at Norwich, Conn., and in his day one of the foremost clergymen of his denomination, was a tutor at Dartmouth. “Rufus Choate became a student under me in Latin,” Doctor Bond told my father years afterward. “I thought that when he entered the classroom for the first time he was the handsomest lad I had ever seen. His hair was brown and very curly, his eyes were dark, he had a beautiful complexion. But it was, after all, a singular intellectual revelation which was in his face, his manner, and his which especially attracted me*, and I am sure, all of his fellow student?. “His translations of the Latin classics were beyond any comparison the finest that I ever beard in the classroom. They were faithful in expressing the meaning of the Latin text. but. meaning of the Latin translations, Rufus Choate’s were expressed in singularly beautiful English. I never tired of hearing him translate. , “A little later I discovered that besides having a great gift for the Latin classes, young Choate was a pre coclous reader of the English classics. I remember that in a casual afterclass conversation with him one day he remarked that, greatly as he admired Milton and Bacon, and fascinated as he was by Shakespeare, nevertheless he thought that in some things, especially in his command of the' English language. Burke was the superior of any of them. Choate was. graduated from Dart- - • ’th sbrrtly alter 1 finished my and entered the mln- ■ • - St» tittle or nothing of t . t. jt rntil he had gained a ■< g S a lawyer and as an

republic afresh—there were scarcely any railroads in the country. There was one that ran from Vera Cruz to the capital, and there were two or three little ones elsewhere, and that about tells the whole story. But 1 had not been in Mexico six months before I realized that with ample railway facilities the republic would become, in time,_one of the most prosperous nations in the world, unquestionably of that part of the world lying to the south of the United States. So 1 suggested to President Juarez the construction of a railway across Tehuantepec isthmus, explaining how such a road would shorten bv thousands of miles the transit of freight, by water, from the Atlantic to the Pacific side of the Americas. President Juarez agreed with me that such a line should be built I also told him that Mexico should have not only a central railway running to the Rio Grande river, but lines parallel to it that would skirt, on the east, the gulf coast, and on the west the Pacific and the Gulf of California. He asked me if I thought a railway could be built across central Mexico through some pass of the Sierra mountains. I told him that I was certain of it; that there never yet existed a mountain

Upright Senator Sickened

Comments of William P. Frye After All Members of Upper House Except Quay Had Sworn They Hadn’t Speculated In Sugar. In the summer of 1894 a committee of the United States senate, of which Senator George Gray of Delaware was chairman, spent several weeks in Investigating accusations publicly made that members of the senate during the consideration of the so-called Wilson tariff bill, had speculated tn the securities of the American Sugar Refining commonly called the sugar trust The sugar schedule in the Wilson tariff bill occasioned prolonged and excited discussion in the senate. Some senators were in favor of reducing the tariff on raw sugar to a nominal point, while many other senators favored increasing the rate; and while the discussion was in progress the accusar tion was publicly made that various senators had been speculating in sugar, and so speculating that their votes upon the sugar schedule would favorably affect their venture into the stock market. In the course of the investigation

orator, though I had looked for him to take up literature and become a teacher, probably in Dartmouth. Then, one day, in reading a speech that he had delivered, I was struck with the thought that he had been influenced In his mannei&pf thought and his style by a close snmy of Burke. Instantly there came back to me most vividly the remark that Rufus Choate, when a college lad, had made to me about Burke. Since then I have read speech after speech of Choate’s and they all make it plain to me that, as a man, he has been faithful to bls boyhood admiration for Edmund Burke. And perhaps because be has been so faithful is one great reason why he is so great an orator, so wonderful a master of the English language.” Many years after my father had told me of this talk with Dr. Bond it became known to me that Rufus Choate, at the time his cousin, Joseph H. Choate, formerly ambassador to Great Britain, was beginning the study of law, wrote to the latter these words: “Remember that these four are the great minds of England: Shakespeare, Racon, Milton and Burke. And remember, also, that of these Burke is not the least” (Copyright. 1911. by E. J, Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Tasting the Drinks. An old custom has just been observed at Market Drayton? where the annual fair, called “the Dirty Fair," has been opened by the Court Leet. A proclamation. It is reported, was read by the “Ale-Canner.” who warned “all rogues, vagabonds, cut-purses, and idle men immediately to depart from this 'fair.” . “Ale-Camier” has a jovial smack about it, but we are afraid it is a misprint for “Ate-Conner,” an ancient and • honorable officer, both of manors and corporations. His duty was to taste the new brew of every “brewer and brewster, cook, and pie-baker,” and if it were unfit to drink the whole was confiscated and given to the poor. It should be added that to the middle ages "unfit to drink" usually meant weak and watery. The chemist was not abroad to those benighted days. bo there was no risk of arsenical byproduct* being present in the pottlepot

chain through. which somevrhere or other passes could not be found. "For some time after 1 ceased being minister to Mexico I stayed in the country and agitated the railway development of the republic. I believe that I was the first man to suggest to the proper government officials adequate railway development of the Mexican republic, and I have often regretted that before I could get my plans well under way business reasons called me to California. lam glad |o see, however, that this development is now under way, as regards a central railway, though I am not to reap any material benefits from IL And I venture to make the prediction to you that within the next fifteen or twenty years a true transcontinental line will be built across the Tehuantepec isthmus, and, when it is, Mexico’s progress as a commercial nation will be magnificently advanced.’’ General Rosecrans did not live long enough to see the completion of the Tehuantepec railroad —an event that belongs to the twentieth century—but in the last years of his life —he died in 1898—he was greatly gratified to learn thatthls Important Mexican trans-continental line, which will compete with the Panama canal for freight, and which 30 years before he had advocated, was at last under construction. (Copyright, 1911. by E. J. Edwards. AU Rights Reserved.)

accusations it was suggested that every senator be called before the committee and made to testify under oath whether or not he had been speculating in sugar at any time during the pendency of the tariff bill. This was done, and every senator testified, and every one, with a single exception, denied having directly or indirectly speculated in the securities of ths sugar company. The one exception was the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania, who frankly and courageously testified that he had speculated, adding that he had closed his speculative accounts before the senate had voted upon ths sugar schedule. weeks |®.ei>the close pf (he investigation I met the late William P. Frye, senator from Maine and he, knowing that. I had been among others summoned before the investigating committee to give testimony and had been indicted for refusing to tell the committee from whom I obtained the information on which I based my newspaper letters accusing senators of speculating in sugar, began of his own accord a conversation with me upon that subject “I have always liked Matt Quay personally,” said Senator Frye, “although when I first knew of him I must confess that I knew that he would go a ‘leetle’ farther in political management than I was willing to go when I was chairman of the Republican state committee in Maine; you may remember that I succeeded Mr. Blaine as chairman of that committee. However, that is neither here nor there; what I Vant to say to you now is that Quay gained my unbounded respect and admiration when he appeared before the sugar committee and in reply to the question whethei or not he had been speculating in sugar securities frankly and bluntly told the committee that he had. It is my opinion that there is today notrit member of the senate who does not entertain for Quay a higher feeling of respect because he had the courage to give that truthful testimony than he ever felt for him before. “And I want to add," went on the man who was for so many yean president pro tern, of the senate, and throughout his long public career was greatly esteemed by the public for his integrity of purpose and character, “I want to Add that ft made me sick at heart .to eee several senators go before that committee and deliberately perjure themselves, though they knew as well that members of the committee and other senators were fully aware that they had been speculating In sugar. I haven’t yet been able to get rid of the feeling that this is one of the most pitiable exhibitions ever made of the sort of depravity which men who are in politics and who are seeking to make money at the same time are so likely to sink into.” (Copyright, 1911. by E. J. Edwards. AH Rights Reserved.) - Vindication for the Horse. The horse has vindicated himself. One of that genus, the pet of a Chicago owner, was stolen the other day, and after a lapse of a few days turned up at his proper home, drawing a spick-and-span wagon and proudly wearing a brand new harness. Inquiries by the owner of the horse for the proper owner of the wagon and harness have evoked no response, which on reflections is not so inexplicable This indicates the superiority of the horse to the modern inventions that assume to take his place. When did a stolen automobile ever come home with a new motor or set of tires? What stolen areoplane has flown bacjt to its legitimate hangar with a new set erf plane*.

HEEDS AUBGESIJII Uncle Sam Requires $745,834,563 for Fiscal Year. Treasury Estimates of Appropriations Show Saving of $21,283,921 for T welvemonth—lmportant Session of Congress. Washington.—Estimates of the treasury department for running the government during the next fiscal year, contemplate a saving of $21,283,921.43 as compared with the amount appropriated for the fiscal year 1911-12. The total amount estimated for all expenses of government is $745,834.563. This amount does not include the appropriation for the postotfice department, which is expected to be self-sustaining. The appropriations made by congress for the present fiscal year aggregated $767,218,485. Economy proposed is shown to be greatest in the estimates for public works, which are cut from $122,040,060 |o $100,716,701, a decrease of $21.323,358. More than half of this decrease is accounted for in a plan of the treasury department for handling appropriations for public buildings and grounds throughout the country by means of a lump appropriation, a departure from the <old custom which may not be adopted; by congress. Ihe secretary of the treasury has asked for this purpose $3,000,000 to be expended at his discretion. 0 Accompanying the estimate for public buildings and grounds is a note explaining that4o care properly for public building already authorized by specific appropriations, further appropriations of $13,000,000 would be necessary. The secretary of the treasury does not include this sum in his estimate. ? As members of congress usually are careful to secure definite assurances that buildings in their respective districts are to be provided for, the probability is that the $13,000,000 will be included in the appropriation bill finally passed, wfiich would cut down the apparent saving considerably. Decreases are shown in the estimates submitted for the pension fund, conduct of the executive establishment and for the department of agriculture. Substantial increases, however, in estimates asked for the military and naval establishments almost offset the other savings. For work on the Panama canal $45,560,000 is estimated, an increase of aearly $4,000,000 over the appropriation for the present year. This does not include expenditures for fortifications of the canal zone, the estimates asking an appropriation of $5,640,950 to be expended for army fortifications and mine stations In the zone. For this purpose last year $3,000,000 was appropriated. Under the military establishment head an increased appropriation of $1,500,000 is asked for sea coast artillery. The total estimate for fortifications and other works of defense is $7,218,899, nearly $2,000,000 more than was spent this year Secretary of the Navy Meyer’s estimates propose continuance of the twobattleship naval program, although the estimates are L. 000,000 less than this year’s appropriations so far as increase of the navy is concerned; To continue work on the ships now under construction and begin construction of two battleships and two colliers, with provisions for equipment, $24,323;473 is asked. The estimates recommend the appropriation of $29,460,438 for the improvement of rivers and harbors, practically all of it to be expended on projects already begun or authorized This is about $500,000 less than the appropriation for the present year. Postmaster General Hitchcock estimates that it will cost him $260,938,463 to run the postal service next year. This is about $2,500,000 more than the department expended this year. An experimental parcels post scheme, to be placed in operation on postal routes, is proposed in the estimates and $50,000 is asked for this purpose. A proviso gives the postmaster general authority to limit to eleven pounds the weight of parcels carried during the experiment and to fix rates. Experimental aerial postal service “by aeroplane or other devices" is also recommended by the postmaster gen eral, and he wants $50,000 to spend in trying out the scheme. AN IMPORTANT SESSIbN. The most important session since the Civil war” is the prediction made by many Democratic leaders tor this session of the Sixty-second congress “Stirring days ahead" are forecast by Republican members and on both sides of the big party line members in the bouse and senate are drawn up to fight out weighty problems of legislation in a session which will lead up to the presidential campaign of 1912. Os importance as to the bearing it will have on the approaching’'political contest in the nation; of particular interest because of party differences—regulars and insurgents on the Republican side; reactonaries and progressives among the Democrats—and ot unusual significance because ot the heavy legislative program, it la at least certain that this ’rill be one of the liveliest sessions 01 congress in many years. Macy great questions which confront congress, ail ot them M> toe approached vigorously, include monetary reiorm, ratification es arbitration

treaties with Great Britain ano Franc • and the loan treaties with Nicaragua and Honduras; Alaskan legislation the election of senators by direct vote of the cteople, pension bills and the regular and permanent annual appropriations, to be under the direction this time in the house by a Democratic committee. While the legislative struggles are in progress politics is certain not to be overshadowed. The political pot tn Washington is already boiling. Selection of convention citiev choosing ot committee chairmer who will manage the big campaigns and plans for the approachiisg party conventions and the subsequent battle of the ballots will attract as much attention from the nation’s legislators as will the mak ing of laws. To enliven the political Interest ir both houses there are candidates foi the presidency casting thler shadows across the horizon. Champ Clarlt, the speaker of the house, already considered among the Democratic possibilities, at any time may make presidential pronouncement to his colleagues, and Representative Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, the Democratic floor leader, also is talked of through out the country as presidential timber. In the senate Mr. La Follette already has been proclaimed by progressive Republicans as their choice. HANDLED A BILLION DOLLARS. Mrs. Willa A. Leonard has resigned her place as detecter of counterfeit paper money in the treasury department in Washington, after a service of 47 years. Dbring this time Mrs. Leonard is said to have handled more than a billion dollars. She began work in the treasury Under Gen. Francis E Spinner and was put at work counting money paper at a salary of SSO a month. Two years later she was shifted to the work of redeeming papei currency. "My instructions were to count accurately the bills and look out for counterfeits,” said Mrs. Leonard. “The first counterfeit I discovered was a SSOO bill. It was almost perfect, hav . ing but two imperfections. Soon after ward I discovered a bill through noticing that some of the letters in the word ‘treasury’ were pied. A second look showed several imperfections. Most counterfeits fall down on the portraits, because there never were two artists that could get the same expression on the face of a subject nor an engraver who could make an exact duplicate of his own work.” TO WEED OUT ALIENS. It is learned that general orders have been issued which mean that the United States army and navy are gradually to be entirely Americanized. All aliens, not naturalized, are to be replaced in the service by citizens. The issue of these orders was discovered as a result of the recent disappearance of Japanese butlers, cooks, valets and messroom orderlies, which has been noticed at some ot the naval ports, particularly Newport, Norfolk, San Francisco and Manila. A high naval officer said: “The time has come when the Uni-' ted States must, if it is to keep its military and naval secrets from foreign powers, remove the opportunities ' for leakage. In the old days of sailing we had somewhat to rely on aliens tor our sailors, but now there is not the least need. In future the records of al! aliens will be gone over carefully before the men are allowed to enlist.” RUSHES PHILIPPINE Rapid progress is being made in the work of constructing the - Philippine railways, according to the aflnual re port of the bureau of insular affairs She Dagupan and San Fernando ex?nslon is nearly completed aud is in di commercial operation to Aringay The branch of the main line from Panlqui to Tayug has been extended to Bued and Rosales, and there is but little more construction necessary tc complete this line and put it in operation its entire length. 4 The line south ot Manila to Cavite and Naic is complete to Calibuyo, within a very short distance of Naic, and construction is progressing well The line is open to commercial opera tions to Cavite and in construction op eration as far as built. The Manila Batangas line has been completed and is in full commercial bperatloL The extension from Batangas northwest to Buan is in progress. The construction of the roads is proving of great bene fit to the introduction of the new form of coins among the people. PLAGUE OF SPARROWS. John Barrett, director-general of the Pan-American Union, is asking all hit friends • how to exterminate English sparrows. The Pan-American building at Seventeenth street and Potomac Park is one of the most beautiful ir Washington, but the sparrows have chosen it for their own. “If anyone has a remedy this side of dynamite or poison,” says Barrett “1 would consider • a favor if be will send it along. I sprinkled red in their nests and around their roostr ing places. This seemed to be just what thev really longed for and thej merely cnirped thank you.’" SENATOR’S WIFE A BOOK-BINDER The wife of Senator Jonathan Bourne of Oregon has chosen an un usual field to display her artistic skill She is a skillful bookbinder and spends a few weeks ea«h year at the Roy croft establishment founded by Elbert Hubbard at Aurora. N. Y.. where shi keaga op to date in her unusual work

LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, SECURES DRY FARM- - ING CONGRESS F0R1912. The term, “dry farming” does not Indicate all that might be implied. It does not mean a system of irrigation, but one where all the rain fall and precipitation is stored up and conserved in the soil, to be drawn upon by scientific and sane processes when it may be required to forward and increase the growth of grain. In certain sections of the Canadian West as well as in the American West, there is a portion of the country in which the soil is the very best for the growing of cereals, but the geographical locations and relative position to the rain avenues, do not give the advantage that other parts possess in the matter of precipitation. Agricultural science, however, has been making rapid progress during the past few years, and it is now as-, ceirtaijied that it is not altogether the number of inches of rain that is essential to the growing of crops, but its conservation, and that is the meaning of “Dry fanning.” “Dry Farming” may well be applied to districts where there is a heavy rain fall and better results will follow. The education of the public into these new methods, not new exactly, but such as have had satisfactory demonstration, is not alone the purpose of these dry-farming Congresses. One idea is to bring into life and into operation the great areas of splendid land lying within what might be termed semiarid, without placing them under the restrictive and expansive process of Irrigation. The Congresses are attended by thousands and they bring representatives from all parts of the world. The Province of Alberta, and also of Saskatchewan, has taken a vital interest in the Congresses which have been held in the past two or three years. The Province of Alberta has made provincial exhibits, districts have shown their products, and last year, several hundred dollars were taken in prizes; this year the Province of Alberta took prizes ten to one in excess of any state ffi the Union. Alberta has won eight out of twenty special cups, that province taking one, Lethbridge one, Arthur Perry six, an<f John Baxter, Edmonton, carrying off one sweepstakes. When it came to a matter of location for the Congress for 1912, the City of Lethbridge, . which had put up a splendid fight for it, secured the Congress by a unanimous vote. It is expected - that the Lethbridge Congress will be the largest yet held and will be the biggest convention in the history of Western Canada. In emphasizing his invltar tion to Lethbridge, one of the speakers said he had just received a telegram from Magrath (near Lethbridge) that of one thousand acres of wheat just thrashed Hethershaw and Bradshaw had thrashed 47,000 bushels. Literature sent out recently by the' Canadian Government Agents, which will be sent postage free on applica>tlon, tells of hundreds of splendid yields in all parts of Western Canada. MR. HENPECK’S VIEWS. f * ' v Mr. Koyne (a financier) —Are you in favor of short-term bonds? Mr. Henpeck—Government bonds, no; matrimonial bonds, yes. THE TRUTH ABOUT BLUING. Talk No. 3. y. Avoid liquid bluing. Liquid bluing is largely water. Water is adulteration, adds nothing to real value to the consumer. Think it over. Be wise. Use RED CROSS BALL BLUE, the blue that’s all blue; makes the laundress smile on wash day. AT ALL GOOD GROCERS. Pantomime Code. James T. Fields of the firm of Ttcknor & Fields wore a Mowing beard, as many men of his time did. He scrupulous in the care at it, and in the main managed it at the table with skill. M His wife was always Tin watch for him. too, when they went out to dinner together. They had a pantomime ) code and a few expressive spoken signals. Should a bread crumb catch in the floss Mrs. Fields would say: “My dear, there’s a gazelle in the garden.” A mouse is afraid of a man. a man is afraid of a woman, » woman is afraid of a mouse —and there you are. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, small, sunreoated, easy to take as candy, regulate ana jnvigor* ate stomach, liver and bowels. Do not gnpe The miserablest day we live there** many a better thing to do than dying —Dailey.