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«sp<*v CSD.! \%%\ •, -i, * ^ i )• ' * '4 r ^ f 4 ^ , »«|li m v 4 MAINE SUR VIVOR. ff: •' H '•* '"-'I b»- ** * - "y V" V • © • m n m <pg • • - : ,•• '. K'A: i't Of? •\$Y THE civil war bad been oyer just ten years when Glory Price was born. They tailed her Glory because, when iar soldier father had, with awkward tenderness, first taken the warm little frandle into his one arm, he had glanced at the bullet-riddled flag that al- | waya hung above the family mantel and said softly: "Margaret, I nearly isavp my life for 'old glory' and you aH bat gave yours for baby; suppose we call her 'little Glory ?'" and the gentle mother had answered: "All *%ht John; she shall • be oar little «Ster3y The neighbors had said it was a silly s#rt of name; that Harriet or Susan or «*ea a fancy name like Rose would : teve gone beautifully with Price; but |«bey for their parts never knew a child with such a fool name to come to any pod, and they one and all hoped that •fee would be true to-, her name and not j •bow t# an inglorious end; but it was plaint? evident they did not look for •V »wb a miracle and., would be.al- .•Bnrt disappointed if the united pre­ diction of the neighborhood should ftwt untrue. - Notwithstanding thp shadow of her •m* little Glory thrived and grew so •net and winsome that even passing' '•touigprs would stop to pat the crown •tt golden curls and gaze Into the per­ fect face. i Wetting pleased her childish fancy :ttere than to hear tales of the uphold­ er «* the old flag, and oftentimes with •Mnteg eyes she would stroke the emp- kitchen to give tbe order to the grocery clerk. "Heard the news?" he Inquired, ex­ citedly; "battleship Maine is blown up and everybody on board Is killed--but what's the matter? Help!" he shouted, for the shadow had darkened, and Glory was granted the blessing of un­ consciousness. Then came the horrible days of wait­ ing for the official reports, and finally it was found that Jifh was alive, but horribly mangled and burned, and Glory kn$w from the dispatches that he was maimed for life. Honest John Price and his wife griev­ ed over the change in their daughter, who was bui a ghost of her former self. At last a letter came from Jim, only two or three blurred lines, and then Glory seemed to change. With almost a return of her old-time brightness, she welnt about her house­ hold duties until the twilight came, and then, drawing a parent on either of her, Glory bsg$s, haSf-timidly; "I want to ask you both to consent my marrying Jim as soon as he reti I want to care for this mangled and jured one and nurse him back to what health remains for him; I promised* to be true to him, and I meant It," and she looked pleadingly at both parents. "But, Glory dear, he can never sup­ port you, and probably not himself,'* interposed her mother. "No, mamma, I have thought of that, but it is no burden to care for those we love, and I am strong and young, be- * - <* J1* • '2?'! ' Ifi •Ssl; ARB THE NEWS?" HE $ :;y ^ «leeve and look up Into the weather- J beaten face she loved so well and won- AV_, I dw "what a little girl like Glory Price | nmld ever do to serve her country." 4^ J "Be m true soldier's daughter," her ^ ̂ "j hftg would reply; "for some day the lA'QUlKJtD, EXCITEDLY. ? *v. 'W& •hi may need strong men and brave wwmen again, you know." years came and went, bringing *itk them a rare and perfect woman- lead for the old soldier's daughter. She was still Glory Price, for to one nfter another she had said "No," aevcety realising that her heart was •Boat with oue who was serving under the old flag, until she read that the bat- faUp Maine--Jim's ship--had been or- detiwl to Havana harbor to protect Asuwrlemn interests there. Unshed fcu* trembled in the blue eyes at the tlweght that perhaps she should not see him again, aud, startled at what slhe i<ead in her own heart, Glory flung taeelf upon her little white bed In mm ageny of tears. ' B«t Jim did come, Just to say good- as he strode up to the old Price liiintead, Glory thought him the knilsomcst and bravest looking man •ha ever saw. Before he left he had won her prom- Im io he his bride upon his return, and, laaghing at her fears, assured her that sending the ship was only a precaution­ ary measure, and his absence would Wt be long. It was a sweet and sad parting, their .ftWWtoess «> newly found, their separ- jhm» so soon. 1 go* my darling," he said, tenderly, fight for the old flag' if necessary, Ipd then my reward will be the sweet- «t Glory that ever was given to man. In will be true to me, will you not, itar, and God grant that I come back £a» yee soon," and, not daring to trust Mraself Corther, the strong man pas­ sionately kissed the tear-stained face "pad was- gone. . She could not hfcalie off the strange ftrt^llHnr that would not leave her un- '^B|p(|filiii |- jocosely asked why find- ;®^iPlSver had made big; Glory.so dim. Tiait passed, still the shadow of ill never to lighten. yel>raa3gr morplng when the ~ ~ was appalled at the horrible dia- sides our great and generous Govern* ment will find some niche for the wife of a Maine sufiferer to fill; I am not afraid to try an$ 1 shall succeed," and in the light of the slowly rising moon the upturned face was angelic In Its sweetness and purity. "I want to be married .beneath the old bullet-ridden flag--my namesake* you know--for you see your little Glory has found -something to do for her country ! And so It; was all settled, and when Jim is able to return to the New En­ gland village among the hills he will find waiting What he has already won Glory his bride, a soldier's daugh­ ter.--Ernqgene Manchester, in Chlcage Record. Few Crimes In Sweden. In Sweden a crime is an event. Theft particularly Is very rare. Honesty la the fundamental quality of the race, naturally recognized and officially counted upon. In this respect the Stoekholmers show a confident care­ lessness which is always a surprise to strangers aid causes them some un­ easiness. In the theaters and concert halls there are -large cloak-rooms, where hats and furs are left without the smallest lifeguard. The perform­ ance over, each one again takes posses­ sion of„ his effects, nor does an "acci­ dent" ever occur. The inhabitants are accustomed to expect a reciprocal pro. bity in the transactions of every-day life. Upon most of the tramways la Stockholm conductors have' been dis­ pensed with. The passenger hhnself deposits 10 ore In a till placed at the end of the vehicle, behind the driver. An Extraordinary Electric Clock. An electric clock has just been erect­ ed on the southeast side of Piccadilly Circus, London Electric lamps are fixed- along the moving hands and there are electric stars fixed at ^ch figure. The clock is worked on the Synchronous syndicate's system, in conjunction with a nunjber of other clocks. PRAISE TO BK CALLED AN AS& Some of the Kkax VlrtTOa < of That Creature Brttty Reviewed,' To be called an ass Is a great compli­ ment Humility, patience, charity and Industry have been recognised as great virtues ever since mankind has been Introspective; but the world has failed to notice that the ass, which Is the brunt of the jests of all nations, pos- lesses these qualities more fully than kny other animal or any human being Kceept the proverbial one in a million. Often we call the man whom we like h. "rare old dog," and he rather likes It. ff we call him a rare old ass, which is finer praise, he would get mad, how ever. We write poems in praise of thfc horse, though the horse is in so man; Inspects the ass' inferior. The horse makes the briliant cavalry charge, but It Is the ass who brings uip the army's Ammunition and the* food supplies. While one rides on a galloping horse oter a plain in safety he despises the ass, and he still despises the ass when, forsaking his horse, he trusts his life to the ass In a mountain pass. The ass is to be found in every part of the world, always melancholy and slow, nobly doing his work, whether in the Andes, the Himalayas, the Rockies, or In khe place of his nativity, the Ori­ ent Wherever he is, his dominant char­ acteristics are the same. Wherever he Is, he is generally abused; perhaps because he puts up with abuse so meekly. Always be is the friend of the poor. In countries where horses cannot be af­ forded he Is the sole means of trans- port. AHl day long he will go over a hot plain or up a rocky mountain side, loaded down with more than any horse could bear, though his weight is only half that of the average horse, while if a horse were limited to the food it sub­ sists on the horse would fall down In Its tracks and die, though It had no load. With the load It would fall down, anyway, That the ass can be cured of his only two vices of braying and kicking Is proved by the superior conduct of the London moke, who Is about a third cousin of the oriental ass of myth, of fable and biblical story. The moke, who is about the size of a big New­ foundland dog, draws the barrels of the cs£icTniOugcr5 who veiiu fruits and vegetables from door to door In all parts of the city. / All day you may occasionally hear him out of your window chivy-chivying with his rapid and mincing little steps over the asphalt pavements. At the same gait he will carry his barrel, well loaded with produce, and two big cos- termongers, up the side of a hill. This sometimes calls for sharp remarks about brutes who ought to be in jail frpm old gentlemen with white side yhiskers and a kindly expression of Jnouth, to which the costermonger usu­ ally replies: "G'arn, old plum pudding. It 'urts you more'n 'im." Until Baroness Burdett-Coutts and the Society for the Prevention of Cruel­ ty to Animals--organized in imitation of the original American society--took1 the matter in hand and made the pass­ age of the law a matter Of great senti­ mental moment in the House of Com­ mons, instead of feeding his little don­ key the costermonger usually beat him, and the moke, too patient and too hum­ ble to attempt to petition the Commons itself, tried to thrive on the whipping and succeeded wonderfully. There Is no finer playfellow for chil­ dren than a moke. When his fuzzy fnr Is washed it Is soft, fluffy and pretty. A youngster may crawl all over him and under him and pound and pull him in every part of his anatomy, and he will only smile the contented smile of die moke who Is living in the moke heaven of currycombs and good ra­ tions. That the ass is not stupid Ls proved by his equal cleverness with the horse In learning tricks, by his picking his way where a horse cannot go Jby his calmness under conditions thai make a horse uncomfortably fretful. But he seems homely and out Of proportion, unless you look at him closely, and the world too often goes by appearances. Scrutinize sharply the patient face of the ass, and you will find those quali­ ties which make a face educational and perhaps ever beautiful. Si; C. Darts, Item occurs kif'of -ffli ments, amooatliig te $7,$n).06, under the head, "Sappressliig Indian War.'? The $25 paid to J. 0. Davis for the In­ dian scalp to question therefore had its niche in the cause of suppressing, or spreading, the Sioux outbreak. It doubtless strikes the general reader that $25 rather a small Inducement for securing Sioux scalps. /Few hunt ers to-day would care to contract for pelts of that kind for that figure. Per­ haps that is why more scalps were not presented to the State Treasurer for bounties. The above Is the only re­ corded case, so far as a search of the Treasurer's reports revealed. But it is quite possible that other bounties for Indian scalps were paid and not item­ ized, appearing in the published report lumped with other Indian war expen­ ditures. At least, if the recollection of two pioneers of Le Seuer County Is correct, there was $100 paid for one scalp In that county and $200 for an­ other. The Adjutant General was call­ ed upon by these pioneers one day to settle a dispute on the question, and that official called to his assistance Judge Flandreau, who In pioneer days was Sioux Indian agent and one of the active men engaged in putting down the Sioux outbreak. Judge Flandreau finally got State Treasurer Koerner ell- listed in the work of tracing out boun­ ties for Sioux scalps. But the above la the only case which appears to have been itemized In the published reports. --Minneapolis Times. POLITICAL ECONOMY rXPOl ID BY A'FARMER'S WIFE Warn It the '•Crime of »73»» or the Blunder of '98 that Precipitated l<ow Price*' and Bird Tinea Upon the Country? J M aater to the Maine Glory went into the W f v , ' n r . . ' - Population of ttarope. titty j ears sgo th© population of Europe was about 250,000,000; it Is to­ day considerably over 3(WM¥m\0OQ; Not All the Gold in Klondike. Within my little c«ttage Are peace and warmth and light, And loving welcome waiting When I come home at night. The polished kettle's steaming, The snowy cloth is spread-- - And close againBt my shoulder There leans a smooth brown headl Her eyes are lit with laughter (They light the world for me)-- "For how much would you. sell me? Now, tell me, sir!" cries she. 'Tis then I answer, somehow, Between a smile and tear: "Not for all the gold in Klondike! The gold in Klondike, dear!" When the eozy tea is over. With many a frolic fond, I sit and read my paper, And from the room beyond I hear the clink of china, The tread of nimble feet, And broken bits of singing That somehow ripple sweet. I hear a rush and rustle Behind my easy chair; Short, chubby arms enclasp me And choke me unaware! Into my arms is tumbled A crinkled golden head, A ball of fluffy whiteness That ought to be in bed. She asks her mother's question-- I kiss the answer clear-- "Not for all the gold in Klondike! The gold in Klondike, dear!" In dim and dusty office I dig my bits of gold; I suffer not with hunger Nor ribu with the cutd. My nuggets needs be tiny (I dig them with a pen). But the Yukon's golden gravel I leave for other men. My treasure lies exhaustless, My claim is staked with care; What is all the gold in Klondike Since I'm,love's millionaire? --Leslie's Weekly. % -- Bounties for Sioux Scalps. It Is not generally known in latter- day Minnesota history that the State treasury once paid out cash as boun­ ties for Sioux Indian scalps, just as this and many Other States are now paying for wolf scalps. State Treas­ urer Koerner, In looking over the 1863 report of State Treasurer \7narie$ Schaff, discovered the following item «ro«na thg disbursements of tLin.t ys™r; *11- h *A V. The great hydrocarbon belt stretches from northeast to southeast for 100 miles across the Uncompahgre and Uin­ tah Indian reservation. Here occur the largest known bodies of gllsonite, elat- erite -- mineral caoutchouc -- asphaltic limestone and sandstone. At a meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club, recently, the president described some remarkably small pine trees which he had found growing on the top of a precipice in the Shawangunk Mountains, at an altitude of 2,200 feet These trees, although they had per­ fectly deevloped cones, were only six inches in height. The working of a plan of ventilation of rooms devised by Dr. Castalng, prin­ cipal physician of the French armies, ia highly commended. It consists In tht use of double windows, with openings at the bottom of one and at the top of the opposite one, through which the air comes in freely without any one feeling It. The system ls said to possess sim­ plicity, efficiency and cheapness. A writer in Harper's Round Table describes a piece of amber in which Is Imbedded a lizard eight inches in length and belonging to a species which ls no longer extant The. little animal ls perfectly preserved in Its golden-hued prison, all of its colors showing through. This is not the only instance in which the fossilized gum named am­ ber has preserved spccimcas of living forms that have now become extinct on the earth. A process of plating aluminum with copper by a welding method has been invented In Germany by Herr Wach- nitz. This is regarded as important be­ cause one of the obstacles to a wider use of aluminum has been its compara-, tlve lack of resistance to the action of many fluids auu its failure to hold paint. These objections are removed when it is covered with a thin plating of copper, while Its weight Is not ma­ terially Increased. A Paris ice company now obtains its supplies from the glacier du Casset near Briancon. The foot of the glacier is 6,600 feet above sea level, and the 300-pound blocks of Ice are carried to a station 1,400 feet lower by a telpher line 7,000 feet long. The loaded cars or boxes on this line pull up the empty ones, no engines being required. The cars bring down hourly ten tons of ice, which is carried in carts from the lower station to a railway about eleven miles away. Electrical machinery operated by one man Is applied to the ringing of the three great bells of the church of St George, Berlin, A motor of ten horse­ power gives 160 revolutions per minute to a shaft on which are three loose drums, each having at its side a fric- tidn wheel fixed to the shaft Pressure of the wheel against the drum causes both to revolve. A rope on the drum acts on the bell-lever, and as the bell reaches the middle of its swing, an eccentric releases the drum and allows the bell to ring back. According to the recent calculations of Prof. J. C. Kapteyn, of Amsterdam, 900,000 miles a day ls the velocity with which the sun and Its planets are speed­ ing through space in a northerly direc­ tion. The brightest star in that part of the heaven* toward which we are going is the brilliant Vega in the constellation Lyra, a sun unquestionably much great­ er than ours. Every year, by Prof. Kapetyn's estimate, we draw some three hundred million miles nearer to that star. A Cornell professor makes an Inter­ esting announcement about brains. The main portion of the human brain is composed of the cerebrum, and the portion anterior to it devoted to smell, and known as the olfactory bulbs, Is sometimes treated as a mere appendix to the cerebrum. But this professor, after comparing brains from all grades of the lower animals, declares that the human brain is an anatomical mon­ strosity, and that in a historical view of the brain, the portion devoted to thinking is more properly to be styled a mere appendix to the part devoted to smelling. In some creatures, the olfac­ tory portion is much the largest part of the brain. War Makes Pineapples Scarce. ^ The war with Spain has caused a scarcity of pineapples, which delicious fruit comes largely from the Bahama Islands, and which has hitherto been brought to our markets principally by small vessels flying the American flag. After u man has been a model father for years, he is expected to become a model grandfather. ^ How easy it ls to collect a crowd! How people lovc to rubberneck.^ HeCrled "KnoughJ" "Sou're the most exasperating wom­ an I ever saw; you're mulisher than any critter in the feed lot," said my Populist friend, as he, planked himself into the chair with such force as to burst the cane seat. Then, jerking off one boot he threw .it In the corner, missed the stand ana hit the cat For­ getting the other boot, he continued: Aren't you ever going to let up? Must you continue world without end? Am to hear it forever and a day on this side, of Jordan, and must I have it dinged into my ears, as I go sailing through the pearly gates? Do stop! Enough is enough, and I've had enough." With that he ran his long, bony An­ gers through his disheveled hair, set­ tled back in the chair and raised his bootless foot high in the air. The meek little wife sat quietly be­ side the table, on which was a lamp and a $20 bill, and darned away at her hus­ band's stockings, unruffled, undisturb­ ed, unmoved. My BopaUst fliend Is a big-hearted, quick-tempered, - holiest, whole-souled, uncouth mlan, who learned to "rough it" In the war of the sixties, and ever since has fought life's battles bravely. His1 wife Is gentle, creek, kind, forbear­ ing, devoted, patient, shrewd and tan­ talizing. They live in Kansas, and that day he.Ead peen to the Kansas City market with a carload of fat cattle. Tenderly had he cared for th^m, regu­ larly had he fed them* with a feeling of supreme satisfaction had he watch­ ed the market rise as the cattle gained in flesh, joyfully had he contemplated the time when he could bring home to the good wife a portion of the profit. The time to sell had come; he expected much, but sold at the "top price" of the m a r k e t a n d - g a t m o r e . „ -- . -- - "Who would hare thought" he said, after figuring it all over, "when I bought those yearlings less than two years ago, that they would bring that price now? There is a bit of it for you." And he placed the crisp bank bill beside the lamp. ^" The little woman glanced at It quick­ ly; the old, familiar, mischievous smile began to play about her lips, and turn­ ing to. her husband she blandly asked, "What's the price of silver?" It was this Innocent little question that caused the storm cloud to burst. But when it had spent Its force she said, with mild manner and placid tone: "Your reference to the time of buying brought to mind the conditions YOU'RE AN EXASPERATING WOMAN.' then existing. Let's see; it was in Au­ gust, I believe; yes, August, '96. Noth­ ing on earth, according to your notion, would ever bring up the price of cattle and hogs and corn and wheat but the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1; commodities and silver went up and down together." At this my Populist friend jerked off the other boot, threw it in the other cor­ ner, said not a word, but listened to his wife, s wbo. continued: "I told you that what was needed was employment for the then Idle hands; that wages for the workers, so that they could buy beef for their fam­ ilies, would help you and me; that so long as our country bought its goods of other countries our laborers could not be employed making them and could not have wages with which to buy what we have to selK You voted for silver, but in spite of you the men of the East voted you down, voted for em­ ployment and protection to the workers of mill and mine and factory, voted to give them a chance to earn money with which to buy the beef of the steers that we fatten and ship to market. But where is silver? What has become of the yoke that hitched the white metal and the steer together? Cattle are up in price; silver down." "But I , really thought McKinley's election would make money scarce," he answered, plaintively. "I know you did. You're honest in whatever you do, honest in blindly fol­ lowing the demagogic leaders of your party. That's what Irritates me. Did it make money scarce?" she asked. "Since election haven't we been both­ ered beyond endurance by agents who have wanted to loan lis Eastern money? Aren't farm loans easier to get? Haven't rates of interest been lower? Aren't prices better? "Oh, I don't know as you need crow so much about cattle prices. * It Is not home demand but foreign prices that have helped us out," asserted my Popu­ list friend, as he commenced pacing the floor in his stocking feet. "Did you say that you saw Mr. Birk- ett at market?" asked the wife, seem­ ing to change the subject "No, I saw him on the train." "That is Mr. S. Blrkett, of Eureka, down in Greenwood County?" "Yes." "Had he been to England again?" As the little woman put this quJfctlon to him my Populist friend paused be­ fore the chair and seemed undeter­ mined whether to sit down or to con­ tinue pacing. "Well, n-o-o, not th-l-s time," lie an- VA3i^d,-' hi3sltev'Wg'y. - - "He had the other time,' though, Thai "Was before tae Ffes- l> '* "Yes, he w*f going ttve* irlth cattle then." 1 • • "Why not this time?" "Well, you see " and by this time my Populist friend was seated ami was squirming uncomfortably in the chair; "Mr. Birkett says thait prices are not so good ovpr there now as* they were then." 1 . v ' "And you /ound them better here, this time, than then?" . "Y-e-e-s." . • "Lower over there In *96 than in '96; higher over here in '98 than in '96; and yet you say the advance here is caused by demand there. Really, now, what caused !t--demand there or demand here? Who are the beef consumers? Why, the workers, and you know it Why this' increased demand and the better prices here? Simple enougn. More work and more wages here. Why more work? Easy again. The Dingley law set our own roiling mills and foun­ dries and mines and factories to going. Honestly now, husband, was it £he crime of '73 or the blunder of *92, the election of tariff reformers, that gave us the hard times, which are upon us no more." "Oh, yon never would argue straight" he growled, and plfced off to bed.--E. G. Pipp, in the American Econ­ omist 'M Wallof m ily. ' Money Expansion i Good Times. Mr. Altgeld, who appears to be about the only one of the Spanish-American financiers^ left who has the hardihood or the energy to speak up loudly for the 16 to 1 cause In the face of the dis­ couragements it is meeting everywhere, charges that the Republican promise of good times to follow the party's sQc- cess. has not been redeemed. Mr. Alt­ geld is a brave man to stand up against all the facts, and he may be an honest man If he believes what he says, but he ls a very mistaken one. His assertion has the effect of calling attention to the failure of certain free silver predictions to meet their dates. For instance, Mr. Bryan claimed with the utmost earnestness that the times must grow harder as the result of Re­ publican success and the consequent establishment of the gold standard. It would bring with it, he declared, a con­ tinual contraction of the currency and a constant fall of prices, with the effect of grinding the tolling masses, the pro­ ducers of wealth, into the ground un­ der the Iron heel of the despotic money power. Well, the predicted currency contraction has failed to arrive. The people have an increasing sum of money to do business with; Since the day of Mr. Bryan's nomination, there has been added to the circulation about $3.50 in gold for every man. woman and child In the country. The people rather like Mr. Bryan's gold monster. It has passed the "endurance" stage with them. They are anxious to em­ brace it at every opportunity. Mr. Bryan and all the free silver ora­ tors contended that expansion of the currency was the one and only essen­ tial to good times. We iiuve the ex­ pansion, and It ls of the best sort. In­ stead of a nominal inflation of cheap money we have an actual expansion of good money. What becomes of their contention, then, that the people are in distress when we have the precise condition which they urged as a neces­ sity of good times? Are we to understand that good times are only the effect of a flood of poor money? That the only good money is bad money?--Sioux City Journal. The Test of a Policy. ' Under the American policy of,keep­ ing our money at home to pay for articles which can be produced to ad­ vantage in our own factories and mills the favorable trade balance for the Vast twelve months is, in round num­ bers, $615,000,000. One effect of this enormous credit entry in the national ledger has been to greatly increase the stock of gold in the United States, the imports of yellow coin during the eleven months ending with May hav­ ing exceeded the imports by $102,026,- 985, and added this large amount of gold to the money In circulation in this country. Formerly, when low tariff and no tariff was the rule, this $102,026,985 would have come to us in manufac­ tured goods and not in coin. This method of settling balances has been in great measure abolished by the Dingley tariff, and Europe is paying her debts to the United States in money. That is why our country is full of gold, and why times are good, and why, the Government is aible to float a popular loan of $200,000,000 without any help from banks or foreigners^ It is a good policy which brings about such results. 1 All Enternrise Stimulated. Perhaps prosperity was never more Welcome to any class of people than it has been to American farmers, after four years of Cleveland and low prices. The best possible use ls being made of it in the cancellation of mortgages. The whole country has an interest in that feature of the change, not only because farmers have been made better custom­ ers and more enterprising and hopeful workers since the mortgage incubus was removed or made lighter, but be­ cause the capital thus released is find­ ing its tway into commerce, manufac­ tures, railroad building and mines. In fact, there is hardly an American enter­ prise which has not been stimulated by it in some way, directly or indirectly.-- San Francisco Chronicle. 4VWUU C "Jhe Trade of Two Countries, For the first six months of 1898 Brit­ ish trade statistics show an Increase fn imports of $53,752,525 and a decrease of exports of $24,511,365, as compared with the same months In 1897. The balance <if trade against the United Kingdom for half a year, measured by the excess of Imports over exports, amounts to $617,447,660, or $2,(XX),000 more than the favorable trade balance of the United States for the year end­ ing June 80, 1898. It is by striking con­ trasts such as these that the American people may perceive at a glance the value of the American policy of in­ creasing exports and diminishing im­ ports. The Le«»on of the Figure*. War has upset all calculations; but the lesson of the figures and the testi­ mony of Treasury experts is that the tariff of 1897 is producing enough rev­ enue to pay all ^he ordinary expenses of the Governnsmt in times of peace. The deficit ->f the four years under the tariff of 1894 was over $200,000,000.-- j- Kalamazoo Teiegraph. SsOTift incidentally protesting' against the hard lot of the father who has to carve for ajarge family: "In the old way we are taught to wait until the earring and helping was done before beginning to dispose of the food, out of to the carver, and so that he might hire a chance to get something to eat and not came out behind all others at the table, but modern 'table manners* seem to have changed all that, and if the carver gets anything to eat he is lucky. Mod­ ern table manners also do not appear to regard it as any way inappropriate to have a newspaper at hand to occupy the time at table. The old way was to occupy the time in lively conversa­ tion, and reading a paper or book* was disrespectful. In modern table xn&n- ners there seems no incivility in light­ ing a cigarette at the table or to ad­ journing to the hall to smoke one while the table is being cleared for dessert. There are many other innovations la modern table manners which might be noted, but I think many^f the* old ways best" The Listener gives the old grumbler comfort "It to a queer fatfcer of m family who expects to carve and get anything to <eat. The size of the roast may be simply prodigiou^ but, even If the young people at the tabSfe who were first served do not come around for ft second helping by the time the last per­ son Is served the first time the roast will probably by that time have, got into the aKopeiess zni refractory condi­ tion peculiar to roasts, which will in* cline the carver to content himself with a little bread and gfcaVy--or at least to take the edges off the pangs of hunger with something of that sort, while iie to organizing a second assault on tbe roast for the benefit of the others.'?' Paid Alter Fifty-six Year*. r Harvey Skldmore, of South HSvSi" L. I., is an old man. For fifty-six yeam he has had the thought of a debt hang- ing over him. The debt was one of $2Cj which he contracted with the father t£ J. E. itjiu J. H. Perkins, at Rivcrheal, who is long since dead. During all these fifty-«lx years ?AT. Skidmore has not felt able to pay 12m debt, and eyery year that went by wil­ ed up the Interest on the money. Hot as the years went on the debt, although long ago outlawed for collection, weigh­ ed heavily on the honest old man. One day he collected together tbe savings of some years and, going to Riverhead, he offered to cancel his In­ debtedness by paying the $20 to the son of his old debtor. He frankly stated that he was not in a position to pay tbe Interest. * Although he knew that it was beyond his means, he would doubtless have been dumfounded had he figured it up and found that at compound Interest for the fifty-six years which the debt had run it had by this time amounted1 to something over $600. But Mr. Perkins did not ask for the interest In fact he was astonished at the rtffer of the $20. At first toe did not want to take it, but the old T»J|r) insist­ ed upon It. '• When the money was paid and a re­ ceipt in full given the old man walked, proudly out of the store, filled with the satisfaction of having at last can­ celed an honest debt, even though It1 had'been long ago forgotten by others.-- New York Tribune. x~ ---- ; Our Dialect. - The two men approached each ofiw and spoke as follows; "Hellole man, wutc news?" "Noth'n tallter know of. Zher Wife got baa kyet?" "No. Spe<5tnerbaak never train. Woan chav some'm?" , % "Mutcher bligeder jus tad ofie. Hew zeverting?" "Oh, bout zhusual. Sni sweather W'ravin' now?" ] "Certain liz. But fdone train, farmer slaver hard timerther wheat Say, gotcher hot soce alnter fraldether'car shet?" "Oh, yessezer gentlezer lamb now. Whenzher brother gointer selly zouseT* "Soony zsek'n finer mantle paze price. Sawful hard nowter sell anything fwuts sworth." "That sright. Jerreck'n thlng sloose snupper little this fall?" "Yesser guess thrlzen wheat'U may ke very thing moo flong." "Well, Imes be going. Drop pin eome timenyer passing." . v "All ri; chew dothersame." ' y. "I will. Gladter metcher." No, son, this is neither Seotdi; Irish, Creole, New England, Wild West Kip­ ling-American, Georgia Cracker, Bow­ ery or Craddock-Moonshlner dMect;|it is simply the English Iftnguage^as spe Is spoken every day. In any town in tike United States by thfe Average American citizen,--Detroit Free Press. Odd Corner in a Famous House. In the late Baron de Hirsch's famofs white drawing-room In his house jfn Paris, there is a corner which the dec­ orators and artists Imve never touched with their brushes. The wall and cell­ ing are as bare as when the plastered left them. This peculiar feature of ft beautiful apartment is In com memory tlon of the forty years' wandering In the wilderness,and of the fact that !*there is no,abiding city." It is said that some part of the houses of all good Jews is left incomplete, as a constant reminder of this Biblical saying. In Baron Rothschild's house in Picadilly tbe same custom has been observed and a part of the gilded ceiling In the ball-room is unfinished. An American, with the inquisitiveness of the typical Yankee, once asked Baron de Hireeh his reason £or leaving a corner of hit drawing-room unfinished. The Baron is said to have replied, with the utmoat gravity, that the money gave otit b|t fore The decorations could be confer pleted. S ' .r. Great Salt Rock. V The largest mass of pure fiie world lies under the province of 2 & Gallicio, 550 feet ssaca •fy; JiS-Skii :ary. It is known to be 20 miles brpag, and 230 all them "congress" ny one who ever went r them. s people devil you eg ""ninotlad finollw them*^--* - ';' t 'A '.is,