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/Smfr ^-m. S&££ri. IIYIE, €4ltor Ml PsWUfcsr. ILLINOIS. flow WE BOOMED OUR TOWN Ifcsr city, small and obneurs mud poor, onNa- tnriMriM. soil wis Horn, intuit the stubborn buffalo-grass and acres ot tj •• --waving earn; ' Vk«r» the popher blink®*, and tht V*M&* ^ " * mw tip in tb* early mora. " AAdl were happy, nor envy knew, nor for !*- tOf* bigness »i-.-hed, Hffiwa h*ard of Chicago and Omaha, then with With those thriving town# la the census book » «*] w burned to be classified. • •.-> Si *re freely subscribed the capital "Stook ttt* -v collofie to crown the hill, ' .mm «. king-house and an orphanage, ano,,6fy fthtifiast-ic elili, ' H •' Abonus gave to a street railway and a four* ^torf cotton mill. , - ^ *b»n for water-works and a incite porM |re • t voted bonds straightway j • ABC. stock subscribed for eleotric light*--that It might be «uways day'; 4 ";W. * #. Jlad the county ltoudei for «is faito»ad» to haul our prudttcta away. & And i.Vfl boomer* came from the East and West. niwl from Wichita a lwrde, And phutr*] the taruis ?<>*• eeven utileq, - a4> each angle a bulletin-board ' . . ®fceclotme<l "Ton co nors in every btock P* and we flourished like Jonak'a go^tttL *V «r. boomed the city above the clouds, and to make its record complete CM published a tract--"Our Kcsourcet" we called the tuaiHelou s sheet, StA fait that nine fable* to every troth was no co»ten»ptiWe feat. ®n.t tuimiirrantK priced the "city" lota Bad paswJ ou the other sWc; Hmcollego was closed, the mill stood still, for the ditch that Tan it. had dried; " AariUhe "Rapid Transit's" motor uiule laid down one morning and died. taxes went up till they quadrupled, the •prices of lots went down; fhe merchant was grave, t he Sheriff busy, while ij ' . the boomers wore a frown-- . Bat the railroads gave us a dozen way* to dfr- tert the bustoa town; jlad we fled. The final drum will call us tO- , gether again I trust, lira land of no liens, nor mortgages, nor taxes, . .. nor moth nor rust; •••; Ikiwelljn a city not made with hand*, that no boomer can ever buet THE "WAKING UP.' mi fc-V A boy aud a girl' were sitting on tbe broad piazza of one of the tine ftas.that line Newfane Beach. In t it was the finest house in the iw. with bread, sweeping lawn, well tpt drive, just a glimpse of a pretty [been Anne stable in the rear and tace plants and shrubs, trees and Jfowers. Any one living in such a fine house ought to be happy it Would seem, but 4he boy and girl on the piazza looked tor from it just then. The boy was a thick-set, healthy looking youth of 17; but at present his naturally ruddy face was pale and there were lines of pain about his firm mouth. His sis­ ter,' a slight, pretty girl a year or two younger, had ra ther marred her good looks by weeping and there were still traces of tears in her dark eyes. .•'Isn't it dreadful, Ned?" she was saying to hsr brother wbo sst upon ' tfche arm of a wide, comfortaWy seated jrocker and strung his foot lisne^Iy to and fro. /'What Is dreadful?" he asked- . drearily. (, "Oh, not because we've got to lose all these nice things, and our house iti the city, although that is hard; but papa takes it so to heart. Why, Ned, He looks ten years older since fester- day." "I know it," replied Ned, with a sorrowful shake of his head, looking at the figure of his father bent over a oewspaper in the reading-room at 'the other end of the piazza, and well out of the sound of their voices. "I'm not afraid of t>eirigpoor,"con­ tinued the girl, with & little sob in lier voice. "Mamma used to tell me •how happy she and papa were before lie was taken in as partner, and how titaey had to calculate and contrive on papa's salary. 1 suppose he'll have a salary now somewhere, and then I •can look out for the house and be economical*" she added with a much less doleful ring to her voice, for she was an ardent little housewife and £he(prospect of a small cottage on *o$»e pleasant* back street to be saved out of the wreck of their fortune was AH alluring one. *"1 shall go to work myself," said 37ed, decidedly, "so you won't have to Ik&ep house on father's salary alone, lEtilian. But do you know, the hard- •-••est thing for me to do is to sell the Waking Up. I'm glad h shall have •«k more spin in her before the crash ^anyway." , Lillian wiped away a few tears of j •d^sjippathy an*i was silent. * •"But I say," remarked her brother •suddenly. ' 'you'd better be careful •he* you keep those fiood gates open. You'll have a regular washout dawn .jourcheeks if you don't look sharp." "That's iust "mean," retorted Xfllian. "You know you'a cry your- -«elf if you wasn't a boy. There are tears in your eves now," and greatly tPthe astonishment of an old couple •"who were just passing the house, Xillian threw her arms round her brother's neck, planted a kiss squarely •on the point of his nose, and then van into the house. Ned straightened his rumpled neck­ tie, picked up his cap that had fallen to the floor, and strolled away from tiie house, winking hard to keep the tears back. He almost wished he Was a girl so that he might run off to Ins room as Lillian had done to "have it out" in a good, long cry. But as that feminine privilege was denied mm, fce wandered iiK|xlily down to the beach and gazed earnestly oil at a JThooner yacht lying in the cove. This was the second real sorrow of Iffed Bridger's life. The first had tiben his mother's death three years tiefore. Now, by reason of some com­ plications on 'change his father was JUmilved to such an extent that in a few days he must "go to the wall," SDd his business, bis establishment In the city, and the villa at Newfane, «nust go to satisfy hungry creditors. Mr. Bridger, up to the present «§ime, rhad been a fairly successful man with abundant euergy, business .tact, and shrewdness. He had, as {Lillian bad intimated, worked his Way un from an oflice position to be !>ook-keeper, junior, then senior part­ ner, and .finally sole proprietor in the lousiness house in which he was inter­ ested. * Their city establishment was of the the prospect of college and the law before him. They kept a carriage, and Ned had a yacht. They had lived well, but not beyond their means. Mr. Bridger felt that if his creditors would only give him a few months he could retrieve himself, but they were sure of getting their own money out of their debtor's prop­ erty and neither thought nor cared for the rest. '•It will be hard children, harder than you think," had been his words when he told Ned and Lillian about his financial embarrassment. "You don't know what it will mean to forego all the pleasuresand luxuries to which you have been accustomed. It is ljftrcl for me to see everything go when, if I had a little time, I could ret rieve all. If your Unc.e Hal ford had not gone off to the Mediterra­ nean in one of his sailing vessels, and is now where neither post nor telegfaph can reach him, I might pull through as it is. With him to back me I could defy them all. Ned thought of this as he stood there gazing at the Waking Up and a rather insane desire came to him to set .sail in the yacht and search for his tlncie Hal ford. His uncle was a wealthy itferchant shipowner with vessels coming and going continually to all parts of the world, and he and Mr. Bridger were firm friends and partners in a great many financial fTl„„ W, jLi>u jtaia ger had stood beside his brother-in- law in a like crisis that had over­ taken his business, and he knew that if Haiford Carswell were only in­ formed of his position he would gladly come to his aid. But Hal ford Carswell had gone to the Mediterranean two months be­ fore and was now supposed to be on his way home in one of his owpf sail­ ing vessels. Even if he were within a week's sail of the .American coast he would be altogether too late to be of assistance to Ned's father. "If I knew where he was I'd run out and bring him in on the Waking Up. She could sail all round anything he's got in his whole fleet," muttered Ned. The yacht was a fast sailer; every one who knew her admitted that. She flew the pennant of the Newfane Yacht Cluh, and for two consecutive years had taken first place. But when Jt came to beauty the Waking Up was "out of it." Her lines could hardly have been more homely had she been a round bowed, square" sterned coaster, or a mud scow. Not that she was built at all after the plan of either of these latter. She had a remarkably sharp bow and a tremendous overhang, her whole appearance being long and lean; But she carried an enormous spread of canvas. In light leather she could outsail any craft in the club and any outside she had thus far met; and in heavy weather, with plenty of bal­ last. she could hold her own. • . When xdr. Bridger had purchased her a little more than two years be­ fore she had borne the unromantic name of Fennie D. The grizzled old boatman who had sailed her on her trial trip, and who had been retained each season assailing master, had un­ consciously given the yacht her pres­ ent name. The course On that trial race was twenty ihiles straight away with some three or four of th« Newfane yachts againts her. Ned, naturally, was desirous of having as speedy a yacht as possible and was extremely nervons as to the Fenny D's sailing qualities as the other boats at first kept ahead. But Skipper Beales as­ sured him that "she hadn't 'woke up yet," and his remark proved true. Before long the yacht had increased her speed and overhauled one after another of the other crafts. "Now she's waking up," exclaimed the old sailor, and waking up the yacht was accordingly named. Xbe prfesent season a new yacht had over it. With this In his mind, Nad's feelings were notthe most cheerful as he-went back to the house. Skipper Beales was a good weather prophet. There was quite a little gale that night and when the score or more of yachts ran out to the start; ing boat the next day, the sea was heavy and the clouds off to the east­ ward look&d ugly. Tho course was from the mouth of the Newfane Cove" straightaway.to Breton Beach Light, a distance of seventeen miles, around the stakfr boat and Dead man's Beef, and return to the cove* The yachts, with their snowy ban- vas spread Add their sharp kefels cut­ ting the,wetter, were a pretty sfght indeed as! they fluttered put. $f the quiet cove like so many sea gulls, and confidently mounted the long surges beyond. At. the rfeport of .the gun theyiill kan dpwn past the start­ ing boat, the Waking Up being* the third in the line With theFot a ssort length behind. At first the Waking Up drew rapidly ahead, but that signified nothing thius early in the race. Ned and his crifW of three iren handled the yacht admirably, but "he Was forced to admit that the Fox was quite as well manned. The Waking Up set lower in the water than usual because of the heavy ballast, and tnerefore aeted quite as well: as the "heavy weather craft" of the fleet. Primarily she was intended for light work, hut' Skipper Beales ; had fre­ quently declared that he would notW afraid to risk a trip to '$be banks" in her as far down as Hatteras. Within sight of the stake boat and lighthouse'the Waking Up passed the foremost yacht, but the Fox was hardly a half"dozen ,lengths behind her and Was comkw, up hand over hand. t \ ; I "What do you think of her, Mr. Beales?" ; asked Ned, casting a hasty glance at "the other yacht. "Let her pass us, Master Ned," re­ plied^ the sailor with a chuckle. "I've taken-In her lines, and I say if she wants "to pass us why let her. When she gets around Dead man's Reef she'll have the wind right in her teeth and that'll settle her, you mark my words. We'll go by her a-fluk- ing!" * ^ It was flxe miles from the stake boat to the reof. The Fox stole the inside course* and passed the Waking Up so near that Ned could see George Camden's grinning face at the wheel. He did handle his boat Well, there was no mistake, but Ned trusting his sailing master's superior wisdom; was not dismayed The wind-was refreshing if anything, and when the Fox rounded Dead- man's Reef, running so far in that it was more by good luck than good management that she cleared the ugly rocks, she fairly staggered when the full force of the gale struck her. The Waking Tin took a rather long sweep to the. southeast and then bore down toward her antagonist with which she caihe abreast in less than ten minutes.'; ' i Just at this .exciting point in the race, Skipper Beales suddenly sighted an object some three miles away to the east and called Ned's attention to it. There was little doubt in either of their minds what it was. It was a dismantled brig rising and falling on the heavy seas and being driven di­ rectly toward the reef. "I wonder if there is anyone on her." murmured Ned. Beales waited silently for . orders It was a critical moment and Ned Bridger hesitated. The Waking Up was rapidly forging ahead of the Fox tand would undoubtedly win if he didn't run down to the wreck. There might be nobody on the brig after all. It looked deserted. But he didjv>t allow these thoughts to conquer moire unselfish ones. It was his duty to take a nearer look at the unfortunate vessel, and coinptfes- ioined'the Newfane Club and doubts } s'nK his lips firmly he grasped the Were freely expressed by several of wheel and tbHw it over. The m^h the young yachtsmen if Ned Bridger sprang to th^ ropes and the Waking and ttye Waking Up would hold the championship cup against the new comer. Up to the present time Ned had never been able to have, a fair trial of speed with the fox, as the new yacht was called; but on the morrow the yearly championship race of the club would come off, and with very little knowledge as to the strength of this new antagonist it was not strange that Ned felt nerv­ ous. . He blew a shrill blast on the silver whistle-pendant from his watch chain Up darted iw'apr on be# new cou^e learning the Fox to win the race. The Waking Up sailed past the starting toat a good half hour behind George Camden's yacht, amid the groans of the club members who had remained faithful to the old cham­ pion. Few of these noticed the wet' and bedraggled, figure of an elderly man who stood beside Ned at thie wheel as the yacht entered th* cove,* and who was taken ashore directly. and up to the Bridger villa; Anc|. strange to say,-Ned Bridger was. seen' and soon a boat left the side of the |to s,mile vvh,'0 he received the sym Waking Up and pulled rapidly shore- °' his fellow yacbtmen. "best. Their summer home at New­ fane was one of the finest of that aristocratic resort Lillian had at- - tended a well-known young ladies' boarding-school since her mother's •dailli "-.had jiefc spoiled the girL wrad. Ked walked along to the little pier and was quickly transported to the deck of the yacht. "What's the prospect, Mr. Beales?" he asked a£ that worthy inet him at the side. .. "We're not going to have the best weather, Master Ned," responded the skipper, cocking his eye skyward in a knowing manner. "It'll be heavy weather before midnight." "Then be sure you ballast her well," said Ned. "I want to win this race above all," he added with a little pang, as he remembered that it would in all probability be his last sail in the bonny little yacht. But Skipper Beales put an entirely different interpretation to the words: ^That you must, sir, and you will, too. That scurvey Fox hasn't got it in her tol)eat the Waking Up, I don't believe. And that Camden chap that owns her is as mean as his boat. He had the cheek, he did, to come aboard here just now and look us all over cool as a cucumber." < " 'Well, does it suit ver!' says I, dry enough to be sure when I thought he'd looked about as long as I wanted him. 44 Oh, it'll do well enough if I, And the Fox can't beat her,' said Camden as brassy as you please. •'"Bridger'll be willing to sell pretty low in a day or two,' he goes on to say; 'don't s'pose vou've4ieard about it. eh'# " 'No,' says I, 'I hain't. But I heard that you was going to get off of here or get.tbrowed off in about ten seconds!' and he took the hint and left" Ned smiled at the report of the old sailor; but there was little bitterness behind the smile, too. He remem­ bered that his father had said that the firm of which Camden senior was a member was his heaviest and hard­ est creditor. Undoubtedly George Camden knew all about his drop. The following year, ho happy to say, Ned Bridge Waking Up won back the Vbampion- shtp of the Newfane Yacht Club.«~» YankeeBlade. ever, I am and the Tl>t Ugliest Pnraon in Oid JUondon. A very singular bet was once made in relation to the mntser of the revels to George TT., named Heidegger, who Was declared to bft the' ugliest person in tne world. One of the King's courtiers wagered that he would pro­ duce a person whom the judges would pronounce ugler than Heideggerv Thef courtier was allowed three' days in Wliicti to uhearth his champion. These three days he spent in person- ally ransacking Whitechapel, St. Giles, and other quarters of London most frequented by the lowest of the slums. Somewhere iii St. Giles he .found an old woman whose features Were sufficiently diabolical to be put up against Heidegger* When the two were brought face' to" face the judges declared that it was impossible to decide which wa& worthy of the title of "the ugliest ner$on Jn Lon- don." A friend of Heidegger sug­ gested that the worthy put on the old woman's bonnet. This he did, and the additional ugliness it gave him was such that he was unani­ mously declared winner --St. Louis Republic. • MfcfcfclOM AIRE8 OFTEN DIS­ TRESSED FOR MON8V. Tbe Win* I'rsxtuct of ICotcpe, The total wine product of Europe, according to a French authority, the Moniteur Yinicole, has averaged for the ten years, 1881-'91, about 2,936,- 000,000 gallons, of which Italy pro­ duces more than a quarter part, 786,- 825,000 gallons, Spain 720,000,000, and France 663,750,000. But last year France produced 679,115,000 gallons in her own vineyarcs, which cyver about seven thousand square miler, and she imported 243,630,000 gallons, of which 192,195,000 came from Spain. It is not in these wine countries, however, that drunkenness most pre­ vails, though by no means unknown there. Dr. Jolly of the insane de­ partment of the Charity Hospital in Berlin says that a third part of the insanity in that city comes directly from excessive drinking; in Other parts . of Germany somewhat less. The indirect agency of drink in pro­ ducing insanity is not included in this calculation, which is now given to the world in aid of the new temper­ ance movement in the Gerihan Em- pire. ' A ttrlof Courtship, This is how the late John Ruszits, the millionaire fur dealer, got mar­ ried: While abroad on a business trip he visite'd a friend in Sweden. While in this friend's house he heard some oneJn the next room playing on a piano. The pianist was a young lady, from Bremen, who was visiting there. Turning to his friend, Mr. Ruszits said: "If I should ever marry I would like to marry a woman like that.". The gentleman went to the door, and called the young lady in. "What do you think Mr. Ruszits just said," he inquired. Of course the lady did not know. Mr. Ruszits struck in an4 said: 4<Well, I'm not afraid to repeat it," and he proceeded to do so. The lady looked at him thoughtfully tor a moment or two, and thensa,id: "Well, I will accept." And they were married. Natural Distrust, 4- It is an old stoiry of the man who said, when he was offered tea, during his visit to an artny encampment, If my last cup was tea, I'll take coffee; if it was coffee, I'll take tea," but it may still serve to illustrate practical wisdom as well as impu­ dence. Another learner from experi­ ence figures in the following anec­ dote: Two amateur sportsmen had gone out together for a day's shooting, and began operations by attempting to load their guns. "See here," said ope of them, paus­ ing in the act, "which do you put in first, powder or shot?" "Why, powder, of course,1' returned his friend. •* ' "Oh, do you? 'Then I don't!" was the reply. George Camden, who knew ithe-sa perior sailing qualities of thfe Waking Up, if any one did, came over to see Ned that night and made him an offer for the* yacht. ,- But Ned wotild not accept. ^ "But you know you've got to sell in- a few days and you might as well do it now," criejl George, angry at Ned's obstinacy, and not fancying any competition when the yacht was put up for sale. * "I shan't sell her just now," i was Ned's firm reply as he bowed his visi­ tor out. Mr. Camden did not know then, but he did the next day. It was early noised abrbad on "the street that Hal ford Caswell had suddenly re­ turned from the Mediterranean. Mr- Bridger's creditors, the firm of Cam­ den A Co. among the number, be came suddenly excited and tried their best to press their victim to the wall. But they found it was beyond theii* power to do this when there was no wall there. Halford Carswell had stepped into the breach and hife brother-in-law was saved. i It all leaked out Within the next week aud great was the wonder among the members of the Newfane Yacht Club. Within two days' sail of New York the vessel in which Mr. Carswell had taken passage was over­ taken by a terrific blow and nearly wrecked. All but one of the boats were carried away and the cowardly crew had crowded into the remain­ ing one, leaving $he owner of the ves­ sel alone upon her When t "te nva-vcer was fully under­ stood, the judges felt as though the race had not been decided fairly and that the Fox should not hold then championship cup. Every one else but George Ca'mdon felt the same way, too. But he was so ill-natured about it, even objecting to another trial with tbe Waking Up, that Ned A Uog I'aou'ltoritjr. Claries Gray bell, a New York (log fancier, told a peculiar thing about clogs to a party 6f friertds at the Southern recently ; "1 have watched this for many years, and I have never known it to fftil lint two br three times," he said. "If a dog has any white Upon his body at all, tyou will find that the tip of his tail is also white. I .believe this is trUe in 999 cases out of 1,000. I don't know, just why it is unless it be that there irf an abfeence of coloring miatter in the hardened stub that is the end of the spinal elonga­ tion. You know when the hide of a hairy animal is badly injured the hair grows out white when the wound heals. But watch that dog peculiar- it^'-^Glpbe-Democrat. Anoient Hunt or. There is in the Museum Of Turin a papyrus roll which displays a whole series of comical scenes. In the first place a lion, a crocodile and an ape are giving a vocal and instrumental concert. Next comes an ass, dressed, armed and sceptered like a Pharaoh. With majestic swagger he receives the gifts presented to him by a cat of high degree, to whom a bull acts ad proud conductor. A lion and gazelle are playing at draughts, a hippopota­ mus is perched in'a tree, and a horse has climbed into the tree to dislodge him. Th« Monir It Vesn Olgb Dr. S. F. Smith, the veverable au­ thor of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," told the pupils of a Boston public school, at their Washington's birth­ day celebration, that he wrote the well-known song while he was a stu dent at the Theological Seminary at Andover, at the request of William G. Woodbridge, who had noticed with What an effect songs were used in the schools in Germany. He ».*rote the song and gave the manuscript to Lowell Mason in February, sixty years ago: A Soot blng Haply. Irate Customer (in a restaurant)-- I've.lteen waiting here half an hour. Hibernian Waiters-Half an hour! Begor.l'v been waitipg h^iwOi^S- --New, York Pres*. : , T™ , t *- IbMkWt Wouldn't tosn Jta-Bwtoa J*aimer Had Thru ̂ Min4 lieltan of Salary »u« Hint **4 Tvrgot About It. Latfr. ^ AS If I ST OluN correspond­ ence: "There a man who is worth a million dollars," said a well-known newspa­ per correspondent to a little group stand­ ing in one eorner of a Senate corridor a6 Senator Paddock of N e b r a s k a w a l k e d ast and bowed with is accustomed po­ liteness, "and yet I jigsaw a man onee re- --fuse to lend him jlmoney until I in- i i. f dorsed his paper." M "You indorsed his paper!" exclaimed s chorus of voices, "and he is worth « million? Why, how much are you worth?" "Not a red cent," was the reply, "and yet I had to indorse Paddock's paper for $50 before a Washington merchant would put up the loan. It all came about through Senator Paddock's thoughtless­ ness. He is so much engrossed in his pure-food bill and other legislative mat­ ters that he forgot the little details of every-day life such as pocket money, railroad expenses and other things. It is a fact that he once left "Washington to go to his home at Beatrice, Neb., and negleoted to take sufficient pocket money with him, having to depend upon the hospitality of a host in Chicago during a stop-over there until he could telegraph home and have money forwarded to him. Luckily, however, he had procured his tickets, and had those safely stored away in his pocket." This incident reminded Charlie Beade, Assistant Bergeant-at-arms of the Sen* ate, of some experiences he had had helping the millionaire Senators out of financial straits. "It is not an infrequent occurrence." he said, "for some of the wealthy Sen­ ators to ask me to loan them money for aifew d&ye, I find there is ° su­ perstition among the millionaire solons against carrying large sums of money on their person, for fear of being robbed. I remember a case of ex-Senator Pal­ mer, of Michigan, who has been esti­ mated to be thrice a millionaire. He came to me one day and wanted to bor­ row $40. " 'Why, Senator,' I replied, 'I regret to say that I have not that much money with me; but I will see If I can't find it for you.' "I went to the disbursing offloer of the Senate, and found that there was more than $3,000 in salary due Senator Painter, which in his thoughtlessness it had never occurred to him to draw. When I informed him that there was so much money due him, he seemed sur­ prised, and said that he had been forget­ ting for some time past to draw his sal­ ary I accompanied him to the disburs­ ing officer. " 'T g!ift4s,* said he, 'I will take a thou­ sand dollars of that money that is due me.'. 'Why not draw it all?' I Interposed. 'Because,' he replied, 'I'm afraid if I have any money I will be robbed,' and then, a3 if suddenly reminded of some­ thing, 'I guess I won't take a thousand dollars; you may give me fifty.' "A week later he struck me for $10 for a cab-fare-down-town, having again for­ gotten the balance of 'his account on salary. I once helped Senator Stanford out of a financial difficulty," said Mr. Beade. "One after­ noon the Senate ad­ journed early and nearly all the Sena- kx-bbnator paliub. tors except Stanford had gone home. Suddenly he came into my office, appar­ ently in great mental distress, and wanted to know if I could lend him $30. I had but $25 and aBked the Senator if that wpuld be sufficient. He said that it wouldn't; that he must have $30 at once. He didn't explain why he wanted it, but I naturally concluded that it was to carry out some sudden philanthropic Impulse. Doubtless some of the many mendicants that throng the Capitol had poured a tale of woe into Stanford's ear, and it was in response to such an appeal \hat the Senator wanted $30 at once* I suggested the disbursing officer again, and we went together to that autocrat, but he coolly informed me that Stanford had drawn all the salary that was due him to date, and it was against the rules of the office to pay out any money in ad­ vance. He refused to advance us even $5 to add to my $25 and help the Sena­ tor out of the difflcuiy. It has long been the rule of the disbursing officer of the Senate not to allow^ny Senator to over­ draw his account. Finally 1 appealed to a friend of mine and he loaned us $5( and thus between us we managed to bridge over the difficulty temporarily. "It struck me as being very ridiculous that a man of Stanford's wealth should find himself compelled to ask in vain for a loan, of $5 from Uncle Sam, but that was an instance where he did it." Some of these millionaire Senators have queer superstitions. Ex-Senator Fair lived in constant dread of poverty. He once said to his private secretary when the later exhibited surprise at a remarkably striking exhibition of fru­ gality on the Senator's part: "George, you know that I'm worth at the very lowest $20,000,000, and yet I'm contin­ ually haunted by a fear that I will some day be reduced to poverty. It is a strange feeling that continuaily hovers over me and I am unable to shake it o<7." The late Senator Anthony of Bhode Island paid all his creditors from time to time with checks on a single Boston bank. It was a great inconvenience often to persons receiving the checks, and merchants here in Washington fre­ quently complained because he did not check on the banks in Washington. His private secretary one day sug­ gested to him that it would be a good {•Ian to open an account with one of the ocal banks against which he could check for the benefit of local creditors. The Senator demurred to this idea, and said that ever since he had been able to afford ir bank account he had made it a busi­ ness to check against a single bank in Boston. He said in this way he thought he was better able to guard against forg­ eries or other accidents which result in financial losses. It was a wholly unique and original scheme of financiering, and the Senator explained it in these words: "I had to devote nearly half my life to the task of accumulating what I have, and now that I have it I find that it will require the remainder of my life devising schemes to guard it." Visiting the White Housa> 0 "It Is very curious to listen to the re­ marks which strangers make after hav­ ing shaken hands with the President at a reception," said an attache of the White House to me recently. "I Itiave stood on more than one occasion beyond the line and have amused myself by paying attention to such observations. One visitor will say, 'He is not such a Very little man, after all!' Another will W'T" most ef'the^esiieiliiflia ~ejT~~lLW' comlewwersr mark; 'what apleasant old And so ft goes, each person Tiaving his or her own impression to express. "It seams to me -very queer that com­ paratively few of the strangers who come to the White House know how to address the President. Of eourse, the proper form is, 'How do you do, Mr.' President?" But I am constantly asked by people who feel nervous about meet­ ing the chief executive what they ought to say to him. Many are so embar­ rassed that they make no remarks what­ ever. I remember that on one occasion an elderly person, evidently from rural parts, rushed up to me. and cried, 'I voted for your grandfather years ago, and I voted for you in 1888. Hope I may have a chance to help elect still another member of the Harrison family io the presidency some day!' Doubt­ less, he had prepared the speech care­ fully in advance. "The brides who visit Washington always want to\be introduced to the President. Newly married couples are apt to hunt up Congressmen from their district and ask for points on this sub­ ject among other things. The best politicians among Senators and Repre­ sentatives are always attentive to such couples. They often go out of their way to see that they have a gootf time at the capital, because they know that such services will never be forgotten, The people wilt go back home and tell all their neighbors how nice their Congress­ men have been to them. There is many a legislator for the nation who, without any abilities in the way of statesman- cultivating popularity. To remember people's names is a great thing. I know a man in a great wholesale estab­ lishment in Chicago who gets $7,000 a year just for remembering names. His II HAVB SBKIT THE PRESIDENT business' is to speak to every one jvho comes in by name and to introduce the customer to the clerk of the department sought. If he does not introduce the pVl BUil bO IQ6 CierK E>y unm6, iiiiv CiOrk is expected to find out the name and com­ municate it quietly to the gentleman n^ar the door, who bids him or her good- by by name. This always flatters peo­ ple and they come baok again." Bleeding: the Nation. That most fruitful source of Congres­ sional scandals, the Congressional fu­ neral, threatens to break out again. This time it is in the House Committe on Accounts. It appears that the enter­ prising firm of undertakers in Knoxville, Tenn., who were the "funeral directors" on the occasion of the late Congressman Houk's burial, have considered the United States Government a customer that might be charged "special rates." They have sent.a bill for $1,974.90 as the total cost of burying the dead legislator. As a general thing, no questions are asked by the sub-committee which audits the funeral bill, but this year the committee, with the recollection of the many severe criticisms made over the Hearst funeral, determined to examine the accounts closer than is ordinarily done. The members of the committee found to their surprise that the enter­ prising undertakers had inserted items in their bill like this: "Burial casket, $1,200; trimmings, $200; draping the church, $50; stenographer at church, THE TTXDERTAKER AND BIS BILfc. $16; photographs, $31." It occurred to the members of the committee that $1,200 for a burial casket was rather too high a figure. They made inquiries, and learned that the most expensive casket of which they could be informed waf the so-called Spear casket, which costs $550. They also, by looking over the bills for the Senate funeral expenses, found that the Hearst casket had only cost $200, and yet the Heartft funeral had been 6XP6I18iV0» Mrs. Houk, the widow of Judge Houk, is now In Washington and is much dis­ tressed at the exorbitant bill of the un­ dertakers. She, herself, expected to pay the expenses of her husband's burial and offered to do so before the amount was made known, but she was promptly in­ formed by the undertakers that she need not concern herself about it, as "the government always pays the bills." The Committee on Accounts proposes to put a stop to this system of indefinite charge, and has notified the undertakers that they must give a very definite ac­ count of the $200 worth of "trimmings," Of which no one seems to know any­ thing, and that they must cut down their charge for the casket to something like $600. f_ , AI.DERMfeNTilDICTEO'!^ 'OR BOODLINQ. <%. j " ClukWM arftofffepteaajr to B»«W -Wtw Da- feadaata ttni iall a* On«e~OltetalCa*. ****** * : _ AHMmnk lTnttunys ' > As a seqi/el to the recent passage by the Chicago City Council of all oMinaiuta \ granting permission to the Chloago Power Supply and Compressed Air Com­ pany to use the streets and alleys of the city in about any manner it sees fit, In­ dictments against seven Aldermen wore : returned by the Grand Jury in Judge' Clifford's Court Tuesday, the chargehk each case being conspiracy tOcOmitaitAt the felony of bribery. The eltgr who must stand 4riai are: William J. O'Brien, glxth Ward. r « Daniel R. O'Brien, Twenty-third WafA. Nicholas A. Creniei, First Ward. fe'- .'Patrick- T. Onmnn, ThW*-tW»il War& - Philip Jackson, Fourteenth Ward. ^ ̂ Stephen M. Gosselin. Seventeenth Ward. < John F. Dorman, Tenth Ward. Capiases were immediately issued by Judge Clifford for the arrest of the al- i leged conspirators, and five of them were , gathered in aud promptly gave bail in; ! the sum of $10,000 each for their ap-" pearance when wanted. The two delin­ quents were Aldermen Gosselin -Mid ? Gorman. When court adjourned they had not been found. : Gosselin was arrested in the Council: chamber at night. * Bribery of the most flagrant kind Is beyond the ideas of the most cynical- citizen have been revealed, and facta ? which make a position in the Chicago; Council one worth hundreds of dollars of preliminary expenditure in nominations®: will be disclosed. Evidence has been presented to the Grand Jury showing „ beyond the peradventure of a doubt that certain Aldermen have been paid liberal- «. ly and in hard cash for their votes. Thef * jury listened to a tale of rottenness and corruption to which the "booiling" of . the County Commissioners and the- Tweed ring was nothing. 'f$ The evidence has been for some timef 5 In .preparation and a mesh now in?lo:es gome of th« "city fathers" from which • there is little hope of escape. This evi- dence includes confessions of several. , guilty parties; it includes not Only the ptoi promises made to them by corporations, V but the letters inclosing the money to purchase their votes and the very green­ backs themselves with which those votes were purchased. The men who have been active In working up these cases have spared no expense and have made sure of each > step. They have witnesses who have? , seen large sums of money paid by the representatives of corporations to indi­ vidual Aldermen and who have heard the Aldermen promise, on receiving the money, to cast their votes on a certain M measure in a certain way. The money was paid in various ways. Some re- % ceived it at their homes from messen- gers. Several were paid in the pre-" cincts of the City Hall, and it is said • that two sold their votes in the lobby , of tho Council chamber. ! f When the Northern Pacific ordinance was passed and when the active support. of the Economic cas pipe proposition ,t was made by prominent, members of the r* Council suspicion was created, and when in one instance at least this suspicion ' 5 grew to positive certainty of corruption ^ the investigation was set on foot, which' is now said will end only when several present members of the Chicago City Council are wearing the stripes of the Joliet penitentiary. State's Attorney Longenecker says he expects, to show that all three of the ordinances--the compressed air, the ' ""i ' Northern Pacific, and the Economic gas-- , ^ were passed by virtue of the purchase of ' : votes for cash. "I don't mind saying," said he, "that there will be the biggest upheaval ever seen in this city. W hen all the facts are finally made public the result will be the most sensational of any in the city's history." He added that he will be aided by three of the ^ city's most prominent attorneys, they, being in the employ, of t hree local em- * ployers who had had men assisting to* make out the case against the boodlers. t ^ Gen. Lieb, the grand jury's foreman, * ~- says, speaking on the subject: "Wo have the rascals where the hair is short. We have a complete chain of evidence forged around the boodlers, and if they don't" tell the truth they will not leave the Criminal Court building. By that I mean that we know the whole truth, and ail who do not tell it will be immediately arrested for perjury as well as boodliiijg." WHERE THEY WILL go!?,' Towns that May Get New" Pottoflo* Buildings. Should the bill authorizing the erec­ tion of public buildings in towns whose postolfice gross receipts haye reached $3,000 annually for a period of three years be enacted the following towns in ^ • Illinois, Indiana. Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin would t>e entitled to public ? " ^ buildings: Illinois--Aledo, Aniboy, Anna. Areola, Beardstown. Belvidero, Bushnell, Carbon- uale, Carllnvllle, Carrni, Carrollton, Car* thage, Ceturalln, Charleston, Chester, _ Clinton. Iteiiaib, Doiavan, Du>juuiu, v D wight, Edwardsvillc, Effingham, Elm-', hurst. Falrbnry, Falrfleld, Fulton, Galva, Oeneseo, Geuuvu, Grand Crossing. Green­ ville. Harvard. Havana. Henry, Highland."' Hoopeston, Jorseyville, Lake Forest, Lanark, Lewiston. Litchfield, Lock- port, " Macomb, " Marengo, Marseilles, Mendota, Monticello, Morris, Mount Car-_ mel. Mount Oarroll, Mount Vernon, Mur- pbysboro, Napervillo, Normal, Olney, Ore-i , gon, Pana, Pax ton, Peru. Petersburg, Pitts- ;f tV Held. Polo, Poiitlac, Rochelle. ltook Falls, - }; Bushville, Sandwich. Savanna, Shelbyville, ' South Evans ton, Sparta, Jycamore, Tay- lorrille. Tuscola. Urbana, Vandalia, Wat-* seka. Wenona, Whitehall. Woodstock, Indiana--Angola,' Attica, Auburn", A a-: rora, Bedford, Bloom in cton, Bluff ton, Bra­ zil, Columbia City, Danville, Decatur, ™ Delphi, Franklin, Careens burg, Hammond, Jeffersonvllle, Kendallvilie, La Grange. Lawrenceburg, Lebanon, Llgonler, Misba- waka, Mount Vernon. New Castle, Noble*-,;.' ville. North Manchester, Notre D»nHkj.....w Plymouth, Portland. Princeton, Rochester, Bushville, Seymour, Sullivan. Tipton, • Union City, Winav, Washington, Wind­ cheater. Iowa--Albfa. Algona, Ames. Ansman.,^ Audubon, Bedford, Belle Plaine, Bloom- Held, Carroll, Centerville, Chariton, Charles' City, Cherokee, Clarlnda, Corning. Creacow Denlson. Eldora, Emmetsburg, Fairfield, Glen wood. Hampton, Harlan, Ida Grove, Indianoia. Iowa Falls, Jefferson, Knoxville, Lyons, McGregor. Manchester, Maquoketa, - Marengo, Marlon, Missouri Valley, Monticello. Mount Vernon, Nevada, New|: Hampton, Newton, Odebolt, Osage, Osceola, Pella, Perry, Sheldon. Spencer. Storm Lake, j Stuart, Tipton. Toledo, Vflllsca, Vinton, Washington, Waverly. Webster City, We«tfc Union, What Cheer, Winterset. f Michigan--Allegan. Alma, Benton liar- " bor. Bessemer, Buchanan, Cadillac, C;tlu-, met. Caro, Cheboygan, Dowagiac, Fenton. ^ Grand Haven, Greenville, Hancock, Hast-;' ings, HoUand, Holly. Houghton, Howell. Hudson, Ithaca, Lapeer, Lowell, L«dlng»£"; ton, Manlstlque. Midland, Monroe, MouMfc| i Clemens. Mount Pleasant, NegTxunee.Nilea.ivi Nor®ville, Oscoda, Ovid. Paw Paw, Pctos-. key, Portland, Quincy, Red Jacket. Kwtir. City, Romeo, St. Ignace, St. John, St. Joseph, St. Louis. Stanton, Sturgis, Tecum- i l seh. Three Rivers, West Bay City. •; Wisconsin--Aqtlgo. Baraboo, Beaver- Dam. Berlin, Black River Falls, Columbus, i MAT 13, 1865, at about 6 p. m., the Sixty-second United States Colored J£.ni- BerV,n- Blac£ "lvA°,rJa119' " * * x ~ | Delavan, bepere, tort Atkinson, Fort How-5 • * - Infantry fired the last volley of ibc I mi. Hndwrn. iiurinv. jAffAmnn T.«.k« ur- '"i * Infantry civil war. It was between Boca Chico Strait and White's Ranch, Texas. ard, Hudson, Hurley, Jefferson, Lake Ge­ neva, Lancaster, Men ash a, Menominee, Mineral Point, Monroe, Neenah, Neillsvllle, New Richmond, Oconomowoc, Oconto, Platt- vllle. Portage. Richland Center, Ripon, resort will cause the pests to leave the , WaupJ ̂Waunn ̂Whftewa CAYENNE pepper sprinkled where rats sort wll premises. mmt. • .