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k "v> .,. aHftHMB. iw *wwN» iwnMCit **tm «ii«n ip* '•«!•. to bm IT IS CLEAR, LOGICAL AND DIS- , *7**" PASSIONATE. ">*&&&*&& y&z?i' ^ IF you would curry ravor with a Han, don't cuiry him the wronsr way. „ * A FTER a woman vfita bf»« wrfnHr«- begins to get fat, 11 r sentirueutal songs. • THE woman who has worn tight •hoes for an afternoon can well un­ derstand how a man can .fete boots on." . "» ' ' " H - Z I when lie remained ai hfs Kewport • If T MAT? T TV U VPHT) W cottage ts month later than ttsual, he •" •" •*• • ^tolssed his French chef and en­ gaged an old-fashioned New England one who could make dooghnuts and "apple sass*' and Indian pudding, and, presumably, Boston baked beans. Presumably, too, he ate his All of pie during that bright dream of gastro- nomical happiness; and when he went back to New York he said, ' »I have had a good time. I've had the best things to eat that Ihave known in many a year.n ?; IF there is no hell will somebody Explain what is to become of the cow- -jtfdly Whitecap after he is hasged? ' tf-Dalias News. A PECULIAR triangular war has just terminated in Milwaukee. A railroad company dismissed some of its employes because they entered sa­ loons while on duty. The employes complained to the brewing com­ panies. The latter companiel served notice upo the railway that unless ' i SCIENTIFIC investigation shows j discharged men were reinstated the seas around the British coast: *n their positions they would transfer lie being exhausted of flsh. The sub- j their freight business, which amounts ject is receiving very grave considera-1 severa^ hundred thousand dollars tion, and in all probability there will | a year» to a rival line. The men have to be very elaborate means ^s- j were reinstated without comment t&blished of stocking the English j despite ttie fact that they had been enters. I Photographed by detectives white 111 J the act of drinking. : '1 HERB is a class of hoarders, says i Andrew Carnecie, who, when they j i* these days "when the black- die, have a kind of repentance, and j mailer is so much abroad in the land, they leave their wealth to public in-1 people of narrow fortune have ample stltutions. There is no grace in such j occasion to congratulate themselves i that they are not millionaires. For i the man who stands on a pedestal of j wealth is nowadays assailed with a /boldness which must startle him into j a belief in the helplessness of money. | Male and female blackmailers, like : the nimble and insatiable mosquito, j worry their victims almost to a frenzy, j and are as hard to drive away or to crush as the same annoying insect. Perhaps the chief torments of men of money when they •. are punctured by the prodding bills of these pests lie in the thought that the spectators are taking a secret pleasure in tin process. grace a gift.* The man who makes it re­ leases his grip on his millions Only when he has to. FRIENDSHIP is like a dept of honor; ute moment it is talked of it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation. From hence we observe that those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavors. It* Statement* of the Krib That Would Follow the Enactment of the Wilson BUI Might Bin AKM Stronger and Yet Trathfpl. THE best way to discover the mani- ucs of friendship is to cast about and see how many things there are which a man cannot do for himself, and then it will appear that it was a sparing speech of the ancients to say j that "a friend is a second," for a j friend is more than himself. PEOPLE don't give corn meal the respectful attention • it deserves There is nothing better than corn THOUGH the days of slave hunting in the South have passed, blood­ hounds are still used to track crim­ inals, and prove useful for this pur­ pose. In a recent railroad wreck tne work was evidently done for the pur­ pose of robbery. Deputy sheriffs, with two bloodhounds trained to iol- bread, but it is as rare as if corn ; low human tracks, were brought to meal cos? a fortune. ' The real good things to eat. by the way, are all made of the least expensive ma- 1 -THERE is a virtuous fear which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one charac­ ter fear to lose God; persons or the other character fear to find Him. j the spot. Quickly getting the scent, ! the dogs dashed into the woods, and • after a five-miles run they brought | the whole party to a camp In the j woods engaged in dividing their j booty. The whole party were ar- | rested. Bloodhounds may yet prove i serviceable in the North for such j purposes as this. The train wrecker j and the burglar deserve no more mercy than the bloodhounds will give. Statement or Farts. The report of the Democratic major­ ity of the Ways and Means Committee on the Wilson bill wa? obviously the work of theorists and fanatics. It was written in defiance of facts and in con­ tempt of the misery and destitution to which the threat of free trade hai re­ duced hundreds of thousands of Ameri­ can working'men. The report of the Republican minority, which was pre­ pared by ex-Speaker Reed, is an ad­ dress of a radically different character. It is based not on theories, but on facts. It champions the cause cf America, not the interests of Europe. It is an argument for American wages, American manhood, American 'indus­ trial independence and American homes. The minority report is clear, logical and dispassionate, says the New York Press. Its language is conservative throughout. Its statements of the evils that would follow the enactment of the Wilson bill might ^iave been considerably stronger and yet have been well within the truth.' The re­ port paint3 out that the Wilson bill, ostensibly a revenue measure, will cut down the Government revenues by at least $74,00J,000; that it transfers the burden of taxation from the shoulders of foreigners to those of our own people, and that in making "raw ma­ terials" free it deals a fatal blow to some of the most important industries in the United States. It says: Wfcati u one man's free raw material is an­ other man's finished product. The manu­ facturer in Massachusetts is told that he is to be encouraged by having free lumber to build his factory and to pack his goods, but inasmuch as that very lumber thus made free is the Maine manufacturer's finished product, no wonder the Democrats of Bangor denounce "class legislation" with a new appreciation of what class legislation really means. And with them sympathize the lumbermen in Wiscon­ sin and Michigan, the Pacific Slope, Alabama. Georgia and Florida. The analysis which the report makes of the free list of the proposed bill and of the effect of the unrestricted ad­ mission of foreign wools, iron ore and bituminous coal is especially able. The gross injustice of the wool schedules, not only to the fai mer, who is entitled to full protection for his prcduct, but to the manufacturer and his employes is plainly brought out. The report says: "The terms of the bill are equivalent to an edict from the com­ mittee commanding every manufac­ turer to shut down and keep shutdown until the bill becomes a law, and turn­ ing thousands of operatives into the streets." The fraud breeding ad valorem duties with which the Wilson bill mocks every principle of justice and fair dealing are condemned with deserved severity. The minority de­ clare: stated that he knew of one fraudulent pension case in his district! Not an­ other instance wes claimed by any Democratic Congressman in Saturday^ discussion,--Des Moines Register. Cleveland In thr Plliorj, The indictment which Senator Hoar of Massachusetts uttered against the usurper and filibuster in tne White House was composed of undeniable facts and unanswerable arguments. Senator Hoar proved by the clearest '•<Bvi(lenee that the appointment of Blount as Commissioner in HawaiL with authority paramount to that of the Minister of the United States in that country, and with power to direct the forces of the United States at Hon­ olulu, was a usuipation on the part of the President, entirely without consti­ tutional sanction, ana a dangerous en­ croachment upon the authority of the Senate. "If we submit," declared Mr. Hoar, "to this astounding and unheard of pretension, the authority of the Sen­ ate itself over a large pari of its con­ stitutional domain Is abandoned and gone. One of "\he framers of the Con­ stitution, who had more to do than I any other man with the concep­ tion and creation of the Senate, declared soon after the Constitution was adopted that he esteemed the pro­ vision made for appointments to office to be a matter of srreat importance, on which the liberties and safety of the people depended nearly as much a? on legislation. If that was vested in the President alone he might render him­ self despotic." As Senator Hoar pointed out, if Cleveland's course in tne appointment of Paramount Blount is not t; be con­ demned and repudiated by that body upon whose constitutional powers he trespassed, then the President could establish a like diplomatic agency in every, country on the ̂ iobe. . " tTHEBE is nothing--no nothing--in- hoceat or good, that dies and is for- ^ FRENCHMAN' has discovered a process by which eggs can be kept in­ definitely and retain their freshness of taste for more than a year. Ac­ cording to this man, who is a chemist. OF ELEPHANTS, while Each gotten; let us bold to that faith or, js useless to paint or render air- none. An infant, a prattling child, ' dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them In the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt io ashes or drowned in the deep sea. ff; - ; *'POWDER WILLOWS" is the name in Northern Delaware for tb'ose pol- j larded swamp willows commonly! seen in meadows. The powder-niak- j tight the outside uf the shell air remain* within the egg. egg contains within its shell a air chamber, containing sufficient air to decompose the albumen even with­ out the aid of any which might filter through the pores of the shell. This is the reason that all attempts at present known have been failures. This chemist drives out this air by injecting into the egg a solution of salt and water. When the air is ex- ing Dupontsestablished a market for j . . ^ . 7 , » hausted the tiny opening is hermeti- this wood in Delaware a century ago, . . ,, . , :r ! cally sealed with a drop of sealing and every stream aboat Wilmington ; is lined with trees. Some have grown ' to enormous size, and all the older ! ones are picturesque with great fluffy j green ball of foliage in tiie spring, j and dense spheres of misty gray twigs i III winter. wax. Then the egg will keep, its fresh taste any length of time. If this proves to be a practical method of preserving eggs, it will make quite a change in the business equalizing as it will the supply of that com­ modity. "CHEAP toothbrushes are responsi­ ble for many obscure ailments of the throat and stomach," said a surgeon, a few days ago. "The bristles are not propeny fastened on, Experiment on the Facial Nerve. Sir Charles Beil sought to prove certain pet theories as to the expres sion on the countenance, and for hh and come1 Purl°se chose a monkey. He had off in dozens when wet and hrooRht! W""'"51" examined the anatomical A ^ ^ , , structure of monkeys' faces, and in contact with the teeth. I per-1 f0Und the resemblance to that of man formed an operation on a patient • as expected, quite striking. Hisaub- some time a^o who had a regular j ject was a particularly ugly animal crop of bristles in her throat. You ! which loved to make faces. He cut can imagine bow unpleasant it must the facial nerve on one s de of the be to have a single bristle in the glottis. You caueh until you are ex­ hausted, but nothing moves It" |v % / • i'* , I , §)XE should always have close be­ side the bed at flight a candle and a box of matches. If there is occasion to take in the night a dese of rnedi- cinc--nervine, an opiate, or a tonic, never take it in the dark. One may be perfectly certain mentallv of the place where the bottle or the box was located when his attention was last called upon the thing, but in the meantime a maid intent upon clear­ ing up or the mistress herself may have made a change. It is not safe to snatch at freedom from pain in the dark. IK our age ot kissing without leave Is an assault. The courts have fined several male kissers. Prof. Lom- broso of Italy, states, after laborious research, that the kiss was maternal and that lovers' kisses are quite mod­ ern. Several thousand years aaro Ja­ cob saw Rachel approaching, and in Genesis we read: "And Jacob kissed Bachei, and lifted up his voice and wept" Now we read also that "Leah was tender-eyed b'ut Rachel was beau­ tiful," and the latter fact made the jtiss so good that he agreed to wait s,v*/en years for Rachel as wife. Prof. Lombroso should read his Bible'! ,. IT is told of the late William K. Tanderbilt that on one occasion monkey's face while- it was under chloroform, and then allowed the wound to heal. When the animal recovered his equanimity he made, or rather sought to make, grimaces as vigorously as before. One side of the face remained passive and motion­ less, while the other was mobile, and I the result was irresistibly funny to ! the thousands of people who called j to see the monkey. Some noticed a I resemblance of his case to that ot a ' popular actor then on the boards, ! who was especially noted for 'his ; abilit. to make all sorts of odd grim- j ace> with only one side of his face, ; the other remaining perfectly staid and motionless An examination | showed t hat his rower of creating the I launh lay in a peculiar aliic tion; his i one sid • of the face had accidentally been paralyzed, and he could not co­ ordinate both sets of muscles even if he wanted to, and he did not wish to when he could make people laugh by his two-faced act.--Baltimore Amer­ ican. Too Bad. Some persons develop a positive genius for looking on the daric side. An exchange gives this example: There was a very rich farmer who would never own that he had any­ thing to be thankful for in the way of profits. The parson once, said to him during a fine harvest season: ••Come, Mr. Jones, you can have nothing to complain about this year, at ail events!" "I can't say that," said the farmer. "Still you can't say what is amiss." He thought a bit. and then replied very grudgingly, "Well, you see, there will be no spoilt hay for the young calves " Wliife this bill isi its priuciple, if it has any, is not ivnprotective, it will be absolutely so In practice, not only in its direct reductions, but also ia its indirect reductions, sure to come from the change from specific duties to ad va­ lorem. So great have been the objections In actual American practice to the ad valorem duties that nmontr the names which can be cited against it are some of the most illustrious in i v>nrm-, American history--Hamilton, Gallatin. Craw- 1 "ulu^ ford, Webster and Van Buren. with Buchanan and Daniel Manning. All the experience of American his­ tory; all the sound maxims of Amer­ ican statesmanship; all the consider­ ations of prudence, of patriotism, of humanity, demand that the Wilson measure of folly and iniquity shall be defeated. It is class and sectional leg­ islation of the worst sort. Pretending to regard the welfare of American in­ dustries, it stab3 them with the malig­ nity of the cowardly assassin. Not avowedly a free trade measure, except as to raw iraterials, it strips every in­ dustry of protection and exposes every little workingm&n's family to the degrada­ tion of beggary. The laborers whom it has already robbed of work and wages are legion. The families it has al­ ready pauperized are 'numbered by scores of thousands. The suffering it has brought about is appalling to every man of humane instincts. The report shows that the Republican members of Congress sympathize deeply with the people in their distress, and that they propose to fight the starvation bill with every resource at their command. With the same dispassionateness which marks the entire production, it says: We have not thought it desirable to 'make any appeals to passion or to prejudice. Far from ihat; we have taken thus far uo notice of the condition of business now. which is ter­ rible, nor of that of the woikinsman, which beiraars description. In loo representative cities where the number employe J ex eeds two millions and a half of people, fully one- third, by the most const rvative estimate, arc without employment. These are engaged in tne protected industries. Those wto are not and who houghtthey were beyond the touch of the tarilf, now know the solid fact that all industries are prosperous, or none. We will not strive in any way to increase the turmoil which this bill has already created. An end can be put to all this by the defeat of this bill, and to the accomplishment of this every en­ ergy should be bent. In view of the ruin which the Wil­ son bill has wrought; of the destruction which it must cause if it should pass: of the misery, the starvation, the de­ basement which it would spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific, there is only ore course for Republican Con­ gressmen and for Democratic Congress­ men who are loyal to American inter­ ests* and to the welfare of their con­ stituents. The policy of ruin must be blocked. The W ilson bill must 4>e de­ feated. Stevens' Defense. Ex-Minister Stevens, in his defense of his position in the Hawaiian matter, has not cnlv spiked the guns of Cleve­ land and Blount but he has shown what was the true American policy of President Harrison and his illustrious secretary of state. James G. Blaine, and has endeared them to the hearts of every true American. He shows how truly the principles of Washington, Jefferson and Monroe were carried out and how much greater was the wisdom of the late administration than of the present one, the only object of whici seems to bs to undo, to the fullest extent, every action of the Harrison administration, regardless of the risrht of the matter or the principle involved. Poor Blount is truly pictured as the victim of British dipfomacy, a stranger in a strange land, groping in the dark, but with a mission to perform which was all mapped out and which he carried out to the letter.--Cleveland Leader. The Work of Farmers. A lfarge majoritv of the First Con­ gress of the United States were farm­ ers. They saw the necessity for en­ couraging and protecting manufactur­ ers, in oider that they might be free from servile and dangerous dependence upon foreign nations for their arms, the implements of farming and other machines needed fcr their own safety, protection, and independence. They also saw the necessity for providing a market for crops they had raised,which could b3st be done by building up the factories and increasing their home industries. The result was that a protective tariff was passed, and signed by George Washington, July 4, 1789. Subsequently agriculture be­ came more extensive and prosperous, commerce increasing with wonderful rapidity. Old industries were renewed and many new ones were established, all branches of domestic trade were prosperous, and our revenue soon be­ came sufficient to pay the expenses of government, which it is not >iow with the fear of free trade. "A Temporary Deficit." Confronted as they are with the cer­ tainty that their boa-ted revenue tar­ iff will reduce the revenues of the gov­ ernment, the free traders are trying to wriggle out of their dilemma" by de- claring'that the deficit will only con­ tinue until foreigners can take advan­ tage of the Wilson bill to flood the American market with their &oods. The Mugwump Boston Herald calls it "the temporary deficit before imports increase under revenue duties." This is a confession that every American workingman will do well to ponder. It means that the advocates of the Wil­ son bill confidently anticipate an enor­ mous increase in the imports of foreign products under its operation. Every dollars' worth of additional foreign goods that comes in under the free trade measure is a dollar taken in some form from the pockets cf American wage earners. Every yard of finished goods imported, every pound of im- Eorted "free raw material .which can e produced here, lessens by so much the market for American labor. Time Will Change Things Again. The statement of Commissioner Loeh- ren, on cross-examination befoijs the committee on j.ensions. that the actual saving resulting from investigations for fraud since May 1, when his ruling for suspension of pensions pending in­ vestigation for fraud went into efcect, was only $31,(k0, will be an eye opener to the people of the Nation. lie ad­ mitted that substantially all of the $1,000,000 claimed to have been saved by that ruling, consisted of claims that never had been allowed, and never would have teen allowed, because they would not have been granted a special examination. These facts were made public in Mr. Cannon's speech in the House last Saturday, during a discus­ sion of the deficiency bill which ap­ propriates $200,001) for special pension examiners, in which he made a fear­ less attempt to inciease the tempera­ ture of the pension office toward the disabled Union veterans of the country, while disclaiming any attack upon the pension office. Livingstone, of Georgia, and Enlce, of Tennessee, made a vigorous defense of Hoke Smith's administration of the pension office, but no Northern Demo­ cratic Congressman dared to open his mouth during the discussion. Major Lacey, of Iowa, came gallantly to the support of the veterans and lie made the hall of the House ring with pa­ triotic sdntiments that will be indorsed by all the loyal people of the Nation who are old enough to remember the sacrifices made and hardships endured by the heroes who fought treason to its temporary death in 1861-tfo. He de­ fied any Demjcrat on the floor of the Hoiue to prove that "there are thou­ sands o'f fraudulent cases in The People's Remedy. This country posse-sses the same ele­ ments of national wealth which it pos­ sessed a year ago. It has the same mills and mines, the same magnificent equipment of industrial machinery, the same vast army of skilled and will­ ing workers. Nothing stands in the way of its prosperity but Clevelandism. Remove the shadow of free trade, strike out the enacting clause of the Wilson bill in Congress, and every idle factorv will hum with life, eve -y labor­ er will have work and wages within thirty days. Workingmen, vou can check the fre3-tradfe crime before it is consummated: you can pre erve the hem J market; you can defend your own homes from want and degradation, if you will assert the power that belongs to you as American citizens, and de­ mand that the men whom you elected to Congress shall defeat the scheme to surrender ycur birthright to European avarice! Kill the starvation wages bill! Bow Be Antiwml Beat BaAian's Wild Catcher and the Deeoys. An interesting character sat chat­ ting in the reading-room of the Dnited State3 Hotel on Fulton Street one day last week. He looked about 50 "years old, and his bronzed face showed marks of exposure to the ele­ ments of many climes. To a small group of friends, knew him as J/ B. Gay lord, for twenty-five yeafs a catcher of the largest species of wild animals for circuses, and for many years Bar- num's friend and foreign agent, he was telling of a thrilling experience wnile attempting to capture what he believed was the largest elephant in the world. "I was in Hongkong, ready to leave for America with a cargo of lions, tiaers, and elephants," said he, "when I received a dispatch from Mr. Barnum informing me that Jumbo MEN or olL Tarn a smail quantity out a$08 a flat, broad surface (a dinner plat# or a sheet of glass), and allow the sole to rest upon it until it has taken up all it will absorb This will not only cure the evil, but will also make the shoe waterproof, both of which effects are desirable. Good and Bad "Advice" to a Bnf. in one of the largest railroad oTces i ii th is cou n try Is a com para ti vely young man. who is a^thd he.id of a large department. ^ Wheh, be en­ tered the service»of the company, five years ago, he w.fs ^greeh and awk­ ward. He wa« given the poorest paid work in the department. The very first day of his emplovment by the company a man who had been at work in the same room for six years I approached hins and eavs him a little | advice: i "Young fellow, 1 want to put a : few words in your car that will help I you. The company is a soulless cor- was dead and directing mc to go to ! poration thi>t regards its employes as India at once and secure, regardless j so many machines. It makes na dif- of cost or trouble, the lanrest ele-} ference how hard you work, or how phant to be found. I met my part- j well. So you want to do just as lit- ner, a native, in Calcutta* and we i tie as possible and retain your job. started away. | That's my advice. This is a slave "We had received word of the dis- pen, and the man who works over- covery of th > largest elephant ever , time or does any specially fine work seen in Southern India. He was j wastes his strength." Don't said to be fifteen feet high, to have Jorded it over a large herd for many years, and to -be the mo«t ferocious e.ephant ever encountered by the natiyes. I made up my mind to have that elephant, no matter what the risk or cost. But; as it turned out, I came near losing my life in the at­ tempt to capture Jupiter, the name 1 gave him in fancy. "We reached the elephant country well provided with natives, decoy ele­ phants. and all necessary parapher­ nalia. We selected a spot near the stream to which Jupiter and his herd went to drink, and natives began build­ ing the trap in which we hoped to catch the king elephant. When the walls of the corral had been com­ pleted we cut a path, gradually wid­ ening it from the mouth of the cjr- ral until it was 100 feet in width a quarter of a mile away. Its sides were built up of trees and heavy underbrush in a natural manner. At the entrance of the corral a mam­ moth gate was swung high in the thy might."--Youth's Companion, trees, ready to drop the moment the signal was given. "Theu we had to find our elephant We started a number of herds, and finally located .lupiter, with twenty others of the finest and largest ele­ phants I ever set eyes on. „ 4,Now the real fun began. It took two days of th? most skilful work to get the herd anywhere near you doit." The young man thouirht over the •advice," and after a (jtttet litt e struggle w.th himself he decided to do the best and the most he knew how, whether he received any iuore pay from the company or not. At the end of a year the company raised his wages and advanced him to a more responsible position. In three years he was getting a third uiore salary than when he begun, and in five years he was head clerk in the department; and the man who had condescended to give the greenhorn "advice" was working under him at the same figure that represented bis salary eleven years before. This is not a story of a goody-goody little boy who died earlv, but of a live young man who exists ip flesh and bllod to-day, and is ready to give "advice" to other young men just be­ ginning to work their way into busi­ ness. And here it is: "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with Riding Down a Wolf. It has been often noticed in India how fast a wolf travels by means of a lounging loping trot that is by no means suggestive of speed. While one gallops after it as hard as a good horse can go, the wolf pursued, never apparently hurrying, lollops along at our por- j a pace that equals that Of the follow- ral. Our four decoy elephants did j ing steed. I have heard it said that tteir work splendidly, though. It j no horseman ever rode a wolf down; was most interesting to watch^ them j but to this statement I mustMemur, coax the wild ones into the trapw i inasmuch as I have done this thing. They would rub up against them and [Perhaps my wolf was sick. trumpet and caj^r about, all the Be that as it may, I did, when out while leading the unsuspecting ele-1 pig-sticking in the Ganges country phants nearer to the lane that led ; over against Colgong, follow a wolf, them to the corfal. i and that wolf turned sharply w'hen I "Near the entrance 100 natives i closed with it, and the horse I rode were stationed in the trees and when j (a rare good one) kicked it over with the elephants entered they began a j his fore feet, and made the matter tremendous shouting and throwing j of spearing my wolf simplicity itself, of elephant spears. The herd dashed J One of my companions of that day found explanation of this perform­ ance in the fact that I had ridden another man's horse with my own spu;s.--Blackwood's Magazine. right straight ahead and were quickly in the corral. The big gate that closed the only aperture then was let down. "Here began the artistic wonc. The tame elephants were mouuted by professional elephant tamers, who, after the wild herd had quieted down somewhat, started to single out the leader, an exceediugly difficult task, for on the approach of the mounted elephants the big fellow would bellow with rage, and endeavor to run the "Welsh Rarebit." There is no such thing as a "Welsh rarebit" What oifc orders and cats is a "Welsh rabbit" The name is | a burlesque, not having or needing I any such justification as French pro- I vlded for it when be imagine I that its original was "rarebit" The JBcasarkaMa Escapi frjaiia tttfe At Blow I p "Quite ft number ot men of mil­ lions have had narrow escapes from sudden death during t!w $a»t year or so," remarked a Wall street man to a writer for the New York World. "I was reminded or the far* a fe»r aso by the icixu'l in (•!««• newspapers of the narrow escape George Gould had from a quick death by the pre­ mature discharge of his gun while hunting in the Adirondacks. Russell Sage started the ball rolling by escap­ ing the bomb of Noreross. Mr. ;-agtt had a narrow escape, indeed, but not more so than did William i\. Vander- oiit, who barely saved himself a year ago when his big yacht, Alva, went down at night. Cornelius Vander- bilt just escaped death from a train of cars ab ut the same time; The® John W. Mackay. the Caiifornia bo­ nanza king, was shot at and wound­ ed by Rippey, a San Franc sco crank who fancied he had been wronged by the money king. C. T. Yerker, the Chicago cable king, was in a rail­ road wreck out West snortly after Mr. Mackay's escape from being mur­ dered. A passenger sitting in front of Mr. Yerkes was instantly killad,' but the cable king got out of th# wreck without a scratch. £dd:e Gould is reported to nave had a nar­ row escape from death at the hands of one of the Buffalo Railroad strik­ ers a year ago while doing guard doty with the Seventh Uegiment. George Vanderbilt was airuost drowned in the private bath at Newport a short time ago. He was rescued by a young lady, the newspapers reported. John Jacob Astor had a narrow es­ cape aboard his yacht in a collision in New York waters recently, and a son of Cornelius Vanderbilt jr., was soriously injured while following the hounds at Newport, bis horse falling and throwing him against a wall. Men of millions are lucky in other things than making money, you safe,* aV, ' - rj:; I'M * 1 ' "ii v; A Plan iiir Home Reading* I know a busy leader of society in a large city, says a writer in the Cin- cianati Gazette, who has the finest working plan of conducting her chil­ dren's reading of any mother 1 know. The children attend a private school in the morning, and romp and play to their" hearts' content after that until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. At 5 o'clock, a little tea table is set out in the big nursery, bountifully load­ ed with lots and iots of the very thin­ nest slices of hot buttered toast, some dainty little dishes and pre­ serves, and unlimited cups of hot cocoa or milk and hot water. Then, the children and mamma banish the nurse to the kitchen, and hold the fort in high glee until <> o'clock--thf children eating, and the mother read< ing aloud some delightful book- looking up now and then to check Robbie's greed or Nellie's dawdling; with a smile. The children, as a result, hav« beautiful table manners: for a gross breach of etiquette sends mamma arid the book away before 6 o'clock.* and brings nurse and bedt me. 3 asked Mrs. A. to give me a list of tli« books she read thus to the children, and for the benefit of other mothers. I give them here, as they are the best collection of children's books 3 ' oversaw: "Water Babies," by Charles Kings ley; Hans Christian Andersea'.* "Fairy Tales," "Children's Pictorial History of the United States " "Aunt Joe's Scrap-bag," by Miss At cott; "The Story Mother. Nature Told Her Children," Jane Andrews; "•-ifl traitors down. Finally all of the ; name is one of a group of burlesque | Dickens' "Child's History of Eng- tamed elephat.ts got Jupiter in a ; names, such as "Connecticut oats," corner, 'ihe four native tamers each i meaning shoe pegs: "Essex lion," a lassoed a leg of the big beast, and calf. A "Fiedland duck" is a baked their mounts started in different di- Cheep's bead; "Glasgow magistrates" rections. | and "Norfolk capons" are red her- •'Jupiter found himself in a sur-: rings; "Irish apricots" are potatoes, prisingly unpleasant predicament. : so are "Munster plums;" "Gravesend : sweetmeats" are shrimps; and there ! are other similar expressions. Dr. He could neither go ahead nor re­ treat, and the four elephants pulled a little harder when he made an ex­ tra plunge. His trumpeting se:ved to frighten the rest of the herd, and they made wild efforts to break through the corral. Unfortunately they found a weak spot, but before the entire herd could get through the natives killed several and captured some baby elephants. Then the en­ tire force of natives aided in getting the shackles on the Dig fellow. This was accomplished in a few hours, though generally it takes several days, but the tame elephants aided very maetrially. "The heavy chains once <n Jupi­ ter, we felt as though we bad indeed secured the largest eleptiant in the world. While he was not fifteen French didn't know of these, or dis­ dained to notice them: so he invented an unnece sarv and untrue original "Weslh rarebit" Utilizing the Texts. A house in Philadelphia formerly occupied by a Gospel mission is now tenated by a shoemaker, who has turned the former character of the place and the signs still remaining on the w wis and windows to queer ad­ vertising account One sign, a sam­ ple of all, reads: "Cobbler's Mission. Soles saved and heels repaired." This sacrilegious transformation is paralleled in the case of a chapel in Brooklyn, recently torn down to ma^e way *or street improvements. feet high, we could readily see that ! ^ was *or,? ^ew weeli8 b®* he would measure at least twelve and ! for® demolition by a cheap eloth- a j.ing concern, and one of the mottoes, "We had to starve him three days ! chiseled in marble over the main en- be fore we could do" anything with; t,fance» was^altered by the addition him at all. Then we* placed one ot I a word; _ Come | trade J with us Downfall of Agriculture. . The Department of Agriculture has shown our farmers that they have lost nearly $1,000,000,000 nnder the present free-trade administration, so that they may in a measure be prepared for what is to follow. It appears from recent English statistics that the value of farm products which have been im» parted into England has increased by w7rbin"ranee* of his ftr^ormmfonn ISK-. „ t* f witnin range oi ins almost $500,031),000 since 185i in a few of the leading (staple crop?. Within the pa it seven years the* m ;rea >e has been 44 per cent., while the increase in population was only 5 per cent., thus j showing that the downfall of the agri- j cultural industry in a free-trade coun- i try is both rapid and complete. the trained elephants on either side, | released him from the trees to which j we had tied him and moved him ! about the corral. He made terrific ' plunges. "We got Jup ter to Bombay, but I there our troubles began afresh. He | became more ferocious. We kept on ! starving him, and then we fed him for a time, but only made matters worse. "I cabled Mr. Barnum that he could announce that I had captured Jupiter, an elephant larger than was Jumbo. But while waiting for a steamer that would take Jupiter to America 1 watched with uneasiness his increasing ferocity and extra shackles were put on him. "One day I entered the paddock next to his and unthinkingly got trunk I was and we will York Suu. do you good.'"~New neighborhood." Livingstone, of Nobody replied until Georgia, arose and \ Fitting Criticism The following criticism of President ' Cleveland by the New York Tribune is I peculiarly just and fitting: I The President always professes to have "an eye single" for morality in public question*, j The surplus revenues involved » question of morals. The tariff he discussed in 181)2 as pre­ eminently a question of morals. Diplomacy he reeards as an issue of international morals. It is remarkable that a party leader who is so sensitive to what he considers the higher mo­ ralities of politics should have the singula* habit in argument of assuming that everything that is controversial and in doubt Is absolute- every 1 ly indisputable and precisely as he wants to have it. It wotild be difficult to Imagine more immoral method of discussing publie questions. seized and hurled aloft. My body struck the board ceiling, knocking me senseless. When thev took me from the floor 1 had , a broken arm and leg, three broken ribs, and was j oruised from head to foot. It WAS ! several weeks before I could leave I my bed, and Jupiter becoming so fe-, rocious that he could not be handled, I determined on his execution after cabling Mr. Barnum. He was an elephant it was simply impossible to tame, and was shot. His body weighed 15,000 pounda ' 'See, here is a piece of his tusk on my watch chain. Jupiter cost about 96,000, and I never expect to see his like again.--New York World. Mr. Murphy's Ticket. It is often remarked that an unac­ customed traveller can get on pretty well if he will keep his eyes and ears open. A native of Ireland landed at Greenock, and wanted to take the train to Glasgow. Never having been in a railway sta­ tion before, he did not know bow to get his ticket, but he saw a lady go­ ing in, and determined to follow her ledd. The lady went to the ticket box, and putting down her money said, "Maryhill, single." Her ticket was duly handed to her, and she walked away. Pat promptly, planked down his money, and shouted, "Patrick Murphy, married"' Creaking Shoes. It is said that a most effective rem­ edy for this annovance lies in linseed Croup and Cramps. It is said that the application of cold to the soles of the feet is an expeditious cemedy in cases of cramps. A piece of iron, a large stone, cold water, or ice, are each said to be good. If the cramps be in the upper part of the body, it is recommended that the applications be made to the hands instead of the feet But one must be careful in the treatment of cramps, rheumatism or neuralgia in the region of the heart lest in cur­ ing it somewhere else, you drive it to that region. For croup apply flannels wrung from water as hot as it cau be borne, putting a dry covering en top of the wet one and being careful that the patient does not receive a chill from wet cloth'ng. Give an emetic. .M* 4 land," Charles and Mary Laml/< "Tales from J-hakespeare," "Little Women," by Miss Alcott: "LittJ* Men," by Miss Alcott: "Little Lord Fauntleroy," Mrs. Burnett; "Th« Earth in Past Ages," Sophia Hcrrick; "Song of Hiawatha," by Longfellow: "Madame How and Lady Why," b} Kingsley; "The History of a Mouth ful of Bread," by Mace; "Little Folk! in Feather and'Fur," by O. T. Mil ler; "Hoyal Girls at l oyal Courts,' 1 and all of Abbott'iMiistories. :" :tZ ' ' • ' - - ' Warned in Time. It was the policy of the pioneers says the chronicler of West Virginia history, to cultivate as far as practt' cal the friendship of the numerous tribes of Indians on the west side oi the Ohio R.ver. As a natural conse­ quence of hospitalities repeatedly ex­ tended to the Mingoes and Wyan- dottes, a feeling or good-will existed in many instances between these tribes and the whites. In the caM of. the /ane brothers and the Wyan dottes, this friandliness was increased by the adoption of Isaac /ane by th< tribe, and his residence among them Among the personal friends of Jon­ athan Xane was a Wyandotte warrioi of great sue and courage, known at Captain "Jack. *^r~ One evening about bedtime Mr. Zane and bis wife were surprised h) an unexpected call from Captain Jack. Mr^. Zane, as was her custom* cooked venison aud prepared a sup- - r per, but when the Indian was invlfe t ed to eat, he refused and sat in srin silence. ^ This unusual behavior foreboded ill, and aroused tne most serious f^ars in th5 minds of the /anes. Had they t offended the Indian, and had he come at that late hour to do them harm? Mr. /ane moved near to his rifle, and with a glance of the eye intimafr ed to his wife to have the butcher knife ready to aid in defending thca*. ^ selves. Meantime, CaDtain Jack sat gazing into the fire for a full half-hour, speechless and motionless. At lencth he rose from his seat and fixing hto keen eyes upon Mr. /ane, he said: "Brother, I eat salt in your house manv time, and many time you give me blanket to make me warm. In­ dian don't forget You my I rother. I come tJ tell you be killed befoi# morning. Indians come soon. 1 Ml now." He sat down, ate a few hurriqd mouthfuis of venison, asked for the* - pipe, took a few whiffs, and then ex­ claimed, "Go! Go to fort, quickP* ; and went hurriedly away. P, xMr. Zane and his wife seized «aucl| ^ ^ things as were within easy grasp, uni ' ran with all speed toward the fori, They were none too soon, for scarcely were they half a mile on their wagr; when, looking back, thev saw tneft'^ cabin in ilaines. But for Cautaip Jack's timely warninir. they would no doubt hav6 lost their lhe& *>• 2 < *;v. T V •H" v 'i*y " ik . i.