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11 ill 1 K 11. ITEMi OP INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. Htiacbborly Interest la His Doingsâ€" MattWS of Moment uul nirth Oathered from HIa Dally Record. The liverc^e eaminga o{ Wm. Suds, the jockey, are $25,000 a year. Mr. and Mrs. Curgin are hale and active people living near Portland, Me., Mr. Xhirgia ii lUl! yi^ra ol age and hia wife 99. The night watcbman in Albany, Mo., rings the bell when be chinks the clouds indicate the near approach oX a heavT" stoma. J. Pierpont Morgan, the banker.wooid rather go yachting than do anything else in the world except manipulate â- otne great financial transaction. John B. Paniuna, of New York, the â- agar ma^xuite will give a school tMoae to one of the suburbs of New York in memory of hia childreni It will cost 910,000. Cocle John Sprague of South Pres- qoe Isle, Me., is said to be tbe chaio- pion bear hunter in M..iinei Mr. Syra- gue is 70 years old, and lti7 bears have lallea In his unerring »'m Brenham, Texaa, boasCa of a citizen who is, perhaps the oldest person Ut- ing Ln the U^nitea States, if not in the worldj 6he is Mary Marks, a colored woman, and was born in the West Indies in 1776. ' It is said that John A. Ea;saon, tor- xurly of lorvra, but now living in Waslk- Ingtoa, is tbe only surviving member of the committee that drew tbe plat- form on which Lincoln ran for Presi- dent LD 1860. Two girls oi the Ohio Nomml Uni- â-¼ersity, at Ada, Ohio, blai'keii«d their faces and dressed m men's attire, en- tered tbe room of ilim Kuhn. a stu- dent. She waa so badly frightened that â- he is not expected to live. Rodney Fiak, wbo waa once a mil- lionaire, and who lost his all in Wall â- traet, died at t lodging bovae in South Boston- Twro or three years ago his bank suxount was good for 91,-00,000. Y'ouDg Fisk wiA a nepbtew of John Flood. Dr. Samuel Fillmore Bennett, tbe author of "The Sweet, By-and-By," is living tlie self-sacrificing life of a coun- try doctor in Kictunonl, Wis., a little town of about I^OO inhabitants. Ha •erved through the war aa Lieut. Ben- nett of the Fortieth Wisconsin Volun- teers. Marriage License Clerk Salmonson, of Chicago, issued lic<>a«e No. 1^30,000 the other day, which indicatee the marriage of half a million of Cbicagoans during a period of 25 jrears. Tbe papers were issued to Nicola Bikra and Teresa Cap- rito. No I was iasued directly follow- ing tbe great fire of 1871. The much caricatured and ridiculed big sleevec so much in vogue for wo- men found their excuse recently at Burlington, la. After terrorizing tbe levee district, Ella Burris Ivaped from a boat dock into tbe Miasiseippi river *rith suicidal intent, tier big aleevee floated her as blawldera would have done, and she was hauled out little the irorse for her eiperieooe. Tbe Michisau dentists in state con- â-¼â€¢ution the other day adopted a re- solution declaring that there should be a legislative eatctntent providin)^ (or the sppoinlmeQt of a public exammer, whose duty it shall be to examine tbe ti-elh of rhildrea and enforce such hygienic regulations as may be deemed the preservation of sound molars and biouspida. \ A little country school teacher near Cnion City, Mich., has devised a novel plan to prevent tardiness at school. On a large blackboard she has drawaalife- sixe picture of a cow, with an excee<t. inglf large tail. .All tardy scholars bave their names plai'ed ou tbe cow's tail for the day, and a second offence is puaisb^ible by a w^i^ekly sttaotuuent to the tail. Tbe plan has worked wou- Bers. For the post two weeks not a name has been put on tbe tail. George Bell, a farmer near New- Inirg, Mich., lost bis only team Uy lightning and was himself so severely shucked as to be unable to work. With- out wasting any time in telling him bow much they sympathizer! witb bim over bis loss, the euergetio Deighbors turned out (orty.8ix strong, and with eighteen horses soon had his little farm ploughed, dragged and planted in corn. Then a subscription paper was put under way to purchase a horse for him to CiQltiTate the corn witb. The State of Montana is about to be- gin the erection of an additional prison •n the grounds at Deer I.o<lge,oii which the penitentiary now stands. Tbe new Structure will accommodate 900 con- Ticts. A i>eculhr fact in connection witb the undertaking is that tbe prison will be built by convict labor, and that many of the men who will help build It will suheequemtly become occupants of It. Were it not able to employ con- vict labor tbe State would have "to go without this additional prison for some time, at least, as funds are scarce in tbe treasury. Tbe Bight Rev. Dr. Abram Grant, the newly-eleoted bishop of the first district of the African Methodist Fpis- copal church, is an impcaing figure physically a He is mor« than six feet tall, and -weighs al<out 'IhO iKtus'ls^ He wears a full black beard, has but lit- tle hair on tbe top uf his bead, has a short but well-shaiied nose, and black. Intelligent and gonial eyee. He has a common sense, chatty way of talking, and only oocasionallv does a Southern •locution creep into his otherwise gmxl English. Bishop Grant's career, from birth in slavery to the achieving of the highest dignity which his church can gtre him, has been a remarkable one. A THANCE FOR JORKINS. These are .«cathing political times *rhen it behoove* every man to be up »nd doing ! said Jorkius at breakfast. Yes, dear, said his wife, why wouldn't , tt be a goo<l time to take up tbe I •pare room carpft when you are feel- j *ig like beating everything in sight • i MlSSBD A JAG. First Trampâ€" And ter think we skip- ped that free oc>ncert last night I Set-oud Trimn>â€" Who- ^ First 'rri»mp.j-Thb> here paper says tbe mutic was intoxicatin'. THE MAIL SERVICE EVOLDTION. Tke lBt«rriUlB« Siary ef tke l>«velapas«Bl ar (ke rreseaf ittyaleaa. It aeema almost incredible, in Tiew of the wonderful labyriaib of postal routes all over the world to-day, that rbere ever could iiave been a time when there were no post offices, no letter car- riers, no mail facilities at all. But of course there bad to be some means of communication, even in the earliest ages, though these wrere con- fined for centuries to emperors and kings and other great rulers. The Em- perors of Egypt, of Persia ,of Assyria, and of Rome held nuvny lesser kings and satraps as their vassals. With tlkese it was necessary to commtmicate with certainty and regularity, and therefore couriers were employed to carry deepatches and reports to and from the more distant provinces. Of courbe no one """' or one horse oouid traverse the whole route, so sta- tions were established along the roads at certain intervals, where a courier was always in readiness to relieve a weary brother and carry on the dee- patches with uniform speed. These stations were called "posts," from the Latin word poeitum. fixsd or placedâ€" wlienoe com£s tbe name of oaz modern poetal system. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT are frequent references to the poets. In the Second Chronicles you will find: "So the poets went with the letters." and "So the posts passed from city to city." In Esther, aUo and in Job and Jeremiah, you will find other allusions to tho posts. But they were never for the u;je of the commun people. The Roman Emperor Augustus -was the first to establish a system, of posts, suggestive of the present system. You have heard the saymg "All roads lead to Rome." This was the origin of it ; from Rome as a centre, oust roads were built, called "royal highway." extend- ing all over Europe. After tbe de- cline of the Roman empire these poe' roads were abanduned by degrees, and during tbe dark ages they almost en- tirely disappeared. In the thirteenth and fourteenth cen- turies, however, their need began to be so strongly felt that posts between dif- ferent parts of tbe same country were established, and soon these were ex- tended into other countries. These posts were carried first by foot-runners, then a little later by man on horse- It was not long, though, before tbe post privilege was extended, and it was tound imputsible for horseback riders to carry the incre;i.*iug mail, so wheel- ed conveyanctto w^ere prwided. and the neat step waa for these conveyane-es to carry passengers as well as tbe mail. And thtis from tbe post -waa evolved the mail coach. What this meant to our hitherto sbut-m ancestors ii is bard for us of the present dav to re- alize even faintly. Bat it is aafe to say that tbe evolution of the public post and the mail coach did more than any other one thing to bivften the MARCH OF CIVIUZATION. In the reign of the Emperor Frsdar- ick 111., Francis von Taxis, whoae grandfather is said to have established a postal service across the Tyrol and Styria, entered tbe service of the house of' HapstHirg, and became the founder of the modern postal system. Through Voo Taxis ibe Emperor established reg- ular piets tbrougtiout his kingdom, be- tween the years 1*40 and U.--y and at tbe beginning of the sixteenth century the Austrian post iiecame tbe interna- tional post of the Hapsbtirg d;vnastjr. In France the Lniversity ot Parus organized a posul service in the thir- teenth century, which flourished until 1719. In some parts of Europe there were brotberboo<l:< and mercantile guUds. which eetabli^bed pests and post offices subject to the Uoverument. In England, in ISihi, a private poet was started, but Crouiwell s heavy band came down on the enterprise, and the men wh<.> carried tbe letters were trampled down and killed by his sol- ditra. In this century Rowland Hill came to the fn.'Ut. instituted m;iny re- forms in the service, and at la^t gave to Kngland a real and effective postal service. Lcmis XI of Frani-e founded a postal system in IHH, which was grvatlv improved by Charles I^. in T5«>5. But it wae not alone the Christian nations that felt the need of a postal service. When the Spaniards invad- ed South America they found a regu- lar system of posts in o^^ration, so that the news of their landuig was carried to the loca with incrediule swiftness, the postmen being runners, who car- ried ai'ouud their waistcn knotted cords, a code of sigttals or sign writing. SATISFIED "WITH THEIR LOT. An Englishman nas In^eu going atvut among tbe barmaids m England ask- ing them how they like tne life they lead, lie found that tbe maj<?ri!-.y USci it very well except for the number of hours they were required to be on their feet. The' barinaiib held their position to t>e far superior to those of domestics in private Luuilies, ami one said she thought it was Ivtter than iiiug a type- writer. Ihiksc w hv; dulu I like the life compIaLue<l that the hours were too long aud tbe work exhausting, while tbey bad not sufficient time in which to eat their mcaJs. BICYCLE CRAZE LN EUROPE. Recent tacts anil figuies from all parts of Europe prove that the bicycle craze has now kjeoome uuivei-ssl. The lu- orease in France, where exact returns axe collected, js typical. Three years ago, when the tax ou cycles was first levied, the number in tha country was 1^,000. Last year the total had ex- BCtly doubled. When the estimates for ISSJ were drawn up the fiuancial offi- cials deemed justified tbe calculation that there would be tO.OOO additional bicycles. It turns out that their sang- uine hope is considerably short of the mark. The total this year is 322,000, or 202,000 mure than the utuuber m IfiSS. LOVE S BOUNTY. Sheâ€" .Vnd will you buy me a pony d«iireet, when we are marrie<lt He (absently)â€" Wouldn't you ratber teve a scboanerf AGRICULTURAL HOME COWS AND DAIRYING. Milch cattle raised on the home farm are usually more aervuseable tiwin those brought from & distance. The excep- tion is where tbe new animals are su- perior in breed to tite ones already on the premises. In making up a dairy of stock purchased here and there you get animals of all degrees and mim- nera of training. Every cow is un- consciously trained by her surround- ings, and the oowa of a "made up" dairy never get over their early train- ing, jwTite^ Geo. E. Newell in Ohio Farmer. "I bave a kicker." a friend told me, "that I unwittingly purchased aoioB tune ago, and she has taught the cows that stand on eitlKr aide of her to kick also." Here waa a good ex- ample of how an anim;^ | badly trained could work demoralization iu a quiet dairy. Not only in kicking but in lesser undecirable traits do mixed dair- ies excel. In purchasing a aew cow, regard not only iier breed and lacteal charact- eristics, but the «vay she has been "brought up." The general appear- ance of the farm and dairy alone from Which she was taken will often give you a pretty clear insight into the lat- ter. Select your oows witb care. Don't let a love for breed override your bet- ter Judgmeat as to grave faults they may pot^iess. A kicking Guernsey or unruly Hol- â- tein might be dear property at any price. Xive dairyman who has in force a good system of animal training will qoicfcly notice these things if they exi:>t in cows which he may purchase. He will value those animals which he has reared, because they axe accostomed to him . to the farm, and have been raised in an atmccphere of peace and genile- neea. I always feel a thrill of pity for a mild, well bred cow sold into unap- preciative hands. All her good qxiali- tvee come to naught, because she is dL>gged from the pasture, fed indiffer- ently, and milked irregularly. You can aa easily ruin a gvod oow in her prime as at any other time. Tbe man who buys her from a careful and con- scientious Owner must give her the same treatment sl>e bo^ een act^^ustom- ed to, or site wUl be worth no mare to him than a scrub. This may seem a broad (ksaertion. but 1 have seen it verified many, many tim«». Now, in tlM warmth of summer, do oowns need the most careful attention and care. Sui-oessful summer dairying is fully as coniplax an affair as ^vin- ter dairying. In some cases it is apt to t» more neglected For instance, you water the oows r^^uhirly in win- terror should. In ihe summer they are eipev-ted to water Ihemeelves from wtia.L itM pasture supplies. Not half of the podtures are adetjuately supplied with wzUer. take it the summer through. l'nlec«i iw-^e stop to think, wo do not realLse wijat an important part water plays in milk proiiuction. The flush of feed in June produces the "flush of milk," not only on account of its abundauoe. but because of its gre«n juid succulent character. It is rich m water. At this sei&son the brooks and springs are also higher aud the water purer than later m the summer. In other words, both by drLukuig and feeding, more waXer is turuished the lacteal 8y8C«m of the cow m June than in July. This is generally inieuking as the seasons osuully run. It shows tbe ioo- portance of keeping up the water sup- ply of the cow sd well as her feed. Like man. she drinks more fluid and at more freituent intervals in summer than in winter. I'o make your dairv truly successful and ke->p your milk flow up to par. you must furnish the cows with an al-iuulanoe of waur. One watering (>lace in a large pas- ture is not suuicieut. as tbe cows will not travel a loug ilistaoue to drink ex- cept in extreme thirst. A well and windmill can uhv.iys be depended on to spread a suffii-ient supply of water before cow-?, and at points meet con- venient and necessary for their use. Tbe dairyman who plants plenty of fodder corn and in.ikes litieral provision for watering bis stock, isn't apt to fall behind his dairy associates in making mouey. Keep up iwith tbe timee! How much it means in these hard times, when we liave to kx)k sharps and con- scientiously ouBcrve every little dairy detail to make tbe cows pno'. This ne- cessity is good traiuing for dairymen as wvll as for the cows. FOODS FOR FATTENING. I lusually wean pigs at about six or seven weeks, when tbey should be fed careXully so as not to stunt with over or under feedmg. as a stunted pig is dear at any price. They should be fed with bone or muscle-forming food so as to insure good growth until the fattening time coums. l.Xtts and bar- ley mixed is g<.<o<<. i<.-<xi for jxung pigs, mixed with pure water, or what is better tif dairying is carried on in con- nection with hog- raiding I . good sweet milk. (.live plenty of exercise in a plot of clover or a piece of green peas sown in the orchaurd. If the hog-rai»er has forethought enough to build bis pen adjoining the orch,ird it will not only help the pigs, but will be a benefit to the orchard by eating up all the wormy fruit that falls. A little trough or box should be kept witb some salt, ashes amd a little sulphur, where the pigs may have free access at will in growing as well as fattening time. As itie fin- ishing time comes a mure fattening food may be fed. We should consider two things in feeding swine, the wholesome- itese of the food and that which will make the lar^t return In flesh and fat. Biy strict attention to food we ensure a gi-e;iter ireedomi from dis- ease. Wbolee>>me fovid is more ejisily digestcKl than unwholesome. Some pre- fer boiled food, but the extra v>rice for fixe aad labor will not ba balanced by the increaseil g.iin. Othen again ad- vocate kee^ng two 'oarrels. feeding ouc of one whil-t^ the other is fermenting; but this practice we would not advo- cate. 'We have fed hogs on shorts mixed with pura cold water and have been well paid for our time and lalwr, besides the manure, which is no small item when a number of pigs are kept and strict attention paid to the feed- iiig and bedding. We would not ad- vi.se the use of nitrogenous foods. Far in^tsjice some, knowing the highly nu- tritions nature of cottonseed meal, are tempted to feed it to sw'jin in the hope that its abundant nitrogen may add to the ileahy part of the animal and thus produce the mucli-«ought-tor cork composed of alternate streaks ol fat and lean. In feeding aninxais we can- not produce certain effectji as we can in niixing painus or metiils. and must consider rhooe natural and onchange- abie la^vB of phyBiology wtiich control the health and vitai tunctious of am- mals. this rule holds good in swine, whose internal organs are similar to those of humanity, and everyone knows with what care biis food must !» select- ed, consumed and digested to avoid seri- ous trouiile. Thus every feeder of farm animals most make a study of the science of feeding and then apply it to his practice, experimenting with the different foods and the manner of pre- paring Uiem. We tried nearly all kinds of food, but are in favor of a mix- ture of peas, uais and barley with a little flaxseed, al! ground '.ote'her and mixed wi'h pure cold water for finish- ing hogs for msxkec. â€" W. J. Hayeroft. TURKISH ATBOCITIES. A Ssa s twfcat lyalral TIrw »f ik« Bertal t'krUllaa MasMW-rea. The Turk has made such a criminal fool of himself in Armenia that all Christendom is prepared to take sides against iiim and to sympofhiza -warm- ly with anybody who sheds hia blood. The apparent fact that in Crete thus far 10 Turks have been slain (or every Christian "massacred" makes do differ- ence with outside sentiment. We are all in the mood to have Turks killed. But it will do no harm, ail the same, to understand the situation as it ex- ists. The various Christian poptiiat ions who are in one way or another subject to the Turk are infinitely shrewder than he is, and tbey have ac^iuired, by ex- perience and observatioo, a very ac- curate knowledge of what may be de- scribed OS his mental and moral mech- anism. Tbey know bow to 'wind bim up, so Co speak, and. iiow to set him going in any desired direction Tbey unkeep bim quiet and even amiable aud make monev out of his lethargic incapacity for affairs, so long a-t it smts their booik to do so. When their inter- ests point in the other direction tbey I are masters of tbe trick of bringing bim oat into the streets foribwith. sword in bund, with a mad beast's lust I for slaughter and outrage. It amounts to a rule in the Ottoman Fmpira that whenever Christians are being n»ided and butchered by the Os- manli Turk it is because some group of "ChristLin" agitators has deemed the moment opportune for giving rbe world a fre^b object lesson in Turkish brut- ality Ltoubtlees there is much to be said in defense of this employment of arti- fice against brute strength- Each time that the experiment succeeds in provoking a war or Etiropean inter- vention some further curtailment of the Turk's power in Europe results. .And that he may soon be driven out "bag and batfgrige" has come to be the in- nermost desire of all of us. PEARLS OF TRUTH. Falsehood is susceptible of an infin- ity of combinations, but truth hss only one mode of being. â€" Rouseeuu. The charities that eooibe and 1^1 and bless are scattered at tbe feelpM man like flowers.â€" Wordsworth. A man intimately acquainted with the nature of things has seldom occasion to be astonished.â€" Hi'ury Home. Grief or misfortune seems to be indis- pensable to the development of mlelli- gence, energy and virtue.â€" Feaion. In the treatment of nervous cases, be is the beet physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.â€" Coleridge. Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps, at tbe divine command, nut knowing what we shall take.â€" Faber. , Frienits are as companions on a jour- ney, who ought to aid each other to pei severe in the road to a happier life.â€" Pjlhoiforas. What is fanaticism to-day is the fash- ionable creed to-morrow, and trite as the multiplii-ation table s week after â€" Wendell Phillips. The great l0-«sen of a loss, as tbe pro- vero suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, aa by what we hav" left. â€" Uovee. F>m has no limits. It is like tbe hu- man nwe and face; there is a family likenees among all tbe species,, but they all differ.â€" Halilxuton. .Imagination 'is not Ibougbt. neitlx-r is fancy reflection; thought puceth like a hoary sage, but inia,;lniition bath wings as an eagle.â€" Tupper. . Ureat souls are not ttK>se which have less passion an>I more virtue than cuui- mon souls, but only those which have greater designs.â€" Rivhefoucauld. Examples of vicious cuurs<>s practiced in a domestic circle c<.>rrupt more rea- dily and more deeply when we behold them in persons m autboncy Juvto&l. HOW TO PREVENT SUNSTROKE. An English physician has discovered that sunburn is prwiuced hy v>enetrat- ing light rays and not by beat at sU. The face of a viotim of sunburn is not only swollen iHit pitted, and at the bot- tom of each pit the microscope discloses s freckle. The physician w ho has made this inten-sting discovery claims that sunstroke can be averted by wearing a bat and clothes of an orange hue. iNo remedy is found to be eo satisfactory as the u.<ie of pigments. -A lady who wore a Mouse with red aud while stripes had red stripe* iiuprinled on her shoulders by the sun underneath the white, while the skin under tbe red stripes remained uurinal in color. BSITAI]!IMD_AIESICi WHY THE; YANKEES HATE THE MOTHER COCNTHY. PIlBiMU WeaM Cms Haired ef EaclaaA •at ef Aaserlcaa Sokoul Boukiâ€" That'* What Ike KrUlak SaUun' Vrtemt to AlKlac At Aad Baa «i«Ba la llM Daitcit Mates Wmr. Samuel Plimsoll, who has woo UB- mortality already by giving to tha safety load line of Britiah ships ths uamd of "Plimaoil mark," arrived in New York cm Wednesday by ths Msr jeetic as foil of a new project as evaa he was of improving the lot of tha British sador. Ha hope* to start a movement in the United States wlxich w-iU at least tend to eradicate whac ha terms American "inherited and unjust dislike of and 111 feeling toward tbm mo- ther country." Mr. Plimsoll is an old man now, over seventy and not aay too strong He is a man of madimtt height, aumewhat bent, with a whits board and scanty white ha.r. Ha had only recovered from a very aevara ill- ness when he started Ix the L'oitad Suisa. When a reporter saw him at his hotel the other night he nad just finished dinner, ana as iie taii^ad he pao> •d up and down the corridor puffing at 4 weil-emoked pipe. "I bave oome to the United Statea. ' ha said, "to see if I cannot find ths cause of tbe unjust iii . aliku the Ameri- oana have for the mother country Thai feeling is so uncalled-for that thai* must t>e aume cause Cor it, a fancisd causa I think. We in Knglana bave am such feeling toward America. W'e hava only sympathy and admiration for har; ana woat 1 tjelieva to tie the disasuooa result at her filling toward us that came lost winter, a nauit wb.ch mvolv> en. i heiluve. the lives of .:uu,UUU aD> happy Armenians, is wiiat more LiiaB any tiling else called my aiieut.oo to it. "It seems strange to me '.hat yoa should allow tne ill faeling caused hy a war liO YEAitS AGO still to exist. You must reemmoar that nme-tentbs of the Engl.sh people wei« oppuseu to tbe war at the time, and that the reouuning one-tenth, the gov- erning oiass waa divided within ,tiKif oo the subject. Why let tne acts at a doit old king that was in r«tirvu.aat for insanity two or three timee causa an everlasting animosr \ tow ai a tha England of tu-day, wtucu tias u<. mora to ao with that lime tiian the L'oited Statea of ti>-day baa. England suffsr> im years ago na the cuicuies diu, out the colonies could cost ufi LQe rule woiia the Englibii have bad lu get reforioa gradually. Wlieuever a politician wants to gai popuiar iivot be tal&s of war LIU year* ago, caused by an old fool of a king w h* aear.y '.veticoruxy when hesuwanappis in a aumpiing ana didu t kuow now it got there. That unrcaauuaoie nisliks ot the Americans is wiiat 1 wan', to look into, .ind find che cause if 1 oan and pn^ pose a remedy. "1 believe tbat it sMtrts with tlts chil- dreu and is taugUi u> ihem fi,iui school bisturies that luiaslate faci^, 4nd la tuesa histories I ihm.^ ti,e remedy iiaa. Wiirn my attention viaa caiicd t,o :hia last January, 1 gathered to^vtber all the histories tbat ikre used m the Uoavd schools of KngUuid. Ihere were thirty- four ol ibem. 1 exaiumed '.heui aar»- fuily and i did not find the sli^htea* uukmd allusion to the Uu.ted Statea in one. 1 marked and indexed every a>- lusjou to this country m theui. ana you cannot find a b.nt of ill feeling or envy. It is quite the cuntiary ihrvughout. 'And si> I bave come to this country to examine the school bisiones used here. I have been toid, aud ceiieve. that most of them are unfair, that tttey fuetur A WRONG FEELING toward tbe mother cuuntrv 1 hope to live long enough to bnng th>s to the at- tention of thinking men, so '.bat a re- form can be ueguu. U we begin with the children It hiuk the r«et vmII work out itself. "1 spoke of the result of this ill teel- ing in the case of the Armenians. That isDut an lustam'e. The hatred of Awr erica fL>r England is uuuaturai, and it the unjust cause is removeo, al least what loeiieve to be one of the must p» tenl cuiisee, this hatred. Ix>ru UU vears ago aud unjustly continued, will dia away. England wonts nothiiig of this country, a-be doesu i want a dullar ; »be doesn't ask for a rood of land, Init sbe aeks for a return of tbe friendship tbat the English pe<.>ple as a whole give to Americans. They say that England bas reached tbe xeuith ol ber power and is on her decline. Th.it mav :â- Â« "(o, hut if the whole of Europe should rise to coiiiiuer Enj;laod, I doubt if .Amenca would stand by to see that cr«rw of moa- grei nations tear her to pnx-es, uesircy her bietory, her trauitions t hat are com- mit to both peoples. "A perfect understanding between England, her colonies and Americ« would b« one of the greatest factors for good in the cx>mmon cause of humanity. Such an nnderstaudiug wx>uld bring about the lessening by half of ihe ar- mament that overourdeus Kiirope. I do not expect to see it. Such reforiua do not come to pass in a day. Inib if I can start it. I shall be satisfied. If I can prove that tbe chief faui'. lies with the school histories, what a grand op- porrunity there will be tor some man to start" the reform." Mr. Plimsoll does not know how long he will be in tbe United St.ites. Tbe length of his stay will depend largely upvm his health. " He had noped to at- rivei before tbe adjournment of Con- gn-^is, as he w-anted to see Senator Wol- cott esiK^ially, t>ut he was prevented by illuiss. S.AME OLD BOa Do you believe that we can telft' graph to the spirit-land 1 Yes. indeed. I had a despatch from Bob Badger yesterday. How did you know it was from Bobt 1 had to pay the charges. "Isabel, why did you give your grand- mother a pole pink umbrella ou tha birthday ?" "I expeot to carry it pretty often myself."