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R*'V/' Islands lay within a lake at Monster, And scarce three leagues of water flowed between; tiii one Death came and went, but on the * other The shallow of his presence **'« W*s . seen. Mm were the dweller* on one happy , , island, ^ , * For youth was there, high hopes, and p- ft' - * lightsome hearts: ~ T~""Whey built fair dwellings where they sang and feasted, - -? V- They bought and sold within their busy !l. marts. M,' fhe years went swiftly by, almost un counted, . *TiIl marks of age were seen on many a face, Ull forms grew bent, and eyes grew dim and wistful, Till life seemed weariness, and death a grate. disease grew rife, and pais was close com­ panion, " Burdens pressed heavily, joys ceased to be. Chun lost its charm, no more they cared for feasting. And men grew tired with immortality. t> " 'And longingly they looked toward the isl­ and Where, sorrows ceased, and pain and all unrest, Where cares could be laid down, at on.ee, forever, ;• And deemed that island most supreme­ ly blest And lovers Who in youth exulted, know­ ing That in their future could no partings lie, At last grew weary, and with solemn pity Grieved, for each other that they could not die. And, though tliey spake no word, with furtive glances They looked across the water's shimmer­ ing plain, Unto those quiet fields of grass-grown hillocks, , ' And craved their utter, blissful rest to gain. And, so the legend says--full many a shallop Slipped from its moorings by Life's fair green isle, And bore these heartsick ones to Death's own island, To gain the boon denied such weary while. --Utica Globe. THE NEW TEACHER. #€t'; #€: f'W' t • "Ji'-'.r SCHOOL District No. 19, over in MeCoinb County, had the reputa­tion of being a very rough place f»r a young teacher, and no place at all for ah old one. It is a curious fact that any kind of * teacher can get along in some dis­ tricts. The people are so kind; the chil­ dren so apt and gentle; the schoolhouse so cosy and well furnished, and the sal­ ary paid so promptly and graciously, that teachers are never changed unless they marry or go into some other busi­ ness. I regret to say that model school dls- tficts are by no means in the majority; Hiey are not nearly so plentiful as good ; Jjjpachers, for often all the success of a I •chool depends largely on,the hearty ,, po-operation of the parents. . .. School 19, over in McComb County, i iras constantly changing its teachers. p-, Every new teacher was perfection Hie first month; simply human the sec- > * tad, and if he or she remained through the third month the children were in re- -bellion at the instigation of their par-"* eots, and the brains of the gossips were busy concocting slanders which their tongues did not hesitate to utter. 'Robert Cole had Just graduated with '•'."UMior from a well-known college, and ^1% way of recruiting his health, replen­ ishing his pocket-book and getting ttarted in his legal studies he deter- !-: ii#ined, in the absence of anything bet- i ler, to teach school for a year. The superintendent of schools for; iHcComb County was Robert Cole's friend, and to him the young man ap- jplied. 'V;/ "There is only one district in this , county that has not a teacher engaged t® open school at the end of the present holidays; it pays the largest salary in the county, and the money is sure, for the district is rich; but then " "But what, Mr. Moore?" asked Rob­ ert Cole, seeing that the superintendent hesitated. "It is a hard district" "How so?" "Well, they slander the female teach­ ers, particularly if they are pretty; and the big boys have a fashion of thrash­ ing the male teachers." "I should rather like to try a school like that," said the young man, with a laugh. "Oh: I am sure, Mr. Cole, you could manage the boys, but the parent* and and when he opened school the Inhabit­ ants in So. 10 felt that they had at last got the teacher they had been looking for years and years. The doctor and the clergyman and few other observant people shook their heads and said one to the other "Young Mr. Cole is certainly an ac­ complished gentleman, but his refine­ ment and culture are all so much against him. The Dooks will either drive him out, or he will leave In dis­ gust, as others ha:ve done, long before the term is out. Robert Cole's plan was to do his work conscientiously; to treat all alike, and never to give an order which he had not well considered, and which he was not prepared to enforce. He determined to keep his temper, and to require prompt obedience from the very start. It was often remarked that School 19 always be®an the new term with a new teacher, on which occasion the building was always packed; but as the term wore on the attendance grew less, until at the close there were neither schol­ ars nor teacher. , Before getting to work Robert Cole made a quiet little speech to the chil­ dren, and while he was talking he no­ ticed a shock-haired lad of 17, with a hair-lip, who persisted in tickling the ear of a little boy in front of him with a straw. Robert stopped, and pointing'to the culprit he asked: -- "What is your name, sir?" The culprit looked about him with a laugh, as if he expected some one else to answer* "Come up here, air," said Robert, sternly. - The culprit again looked about him and laughed. He was still looking about him when he felt a hand on his collar, and before he knew what was up he was jerked into the aisle and dragged up to the platform, where the teacher picked him up and set him against the wall. "What is your name, sir?" Robert asked again. The boy with the hair-lip stammered: "My name's Bill Dook." "Bill Dook. I have heard of you, but I was not prepared to see you begin your devilment before I began my school. Now, I should prefer to get along well with you and with every other boy and girl in school, but I want you to know that you must do as I say from the very first, or else I shall flog you and put you out of school." "My father's a trustee," gasped Bill Dook. "I don't care if he fs fifty trustees. You must promise to do as I say or I shall fiing you out of school now; you understand?" "Ye--yes," said Bill Dook. "Say 'yes, sir.'" "Yes, sir, I understand." "Good; go back to your seat." Robert Cole resumed his Inaugural address Just as if nothing had hap­ pened. Beyond lecturing a red-headed girl of 16 till she cried--she was also a Dook-- nothing unusual occurred during the rest of the day. Robert examined his scholars, prais­ ed the bright ones, encouraged the backward and got them all classified. Up to this time the oldest inhabitant of District 19 could not recall a teacher who began operations after Mr. Cole's manner. He had not been there long enough to have bis qualifications as a teacher called fit question by the gossips; they did not know him long enough to make charges against his character, so even the Dooks had to confess that, while the young teacher had rather queer no­ tions to start with, he meant right. Robert Cole got his school well organ­ ized; he treated all alike, and while dur­ ing study hours he never relaxed his discipline, at noon and recess he went out and played with the children, and so prevented rude conduct and vulgar language. Bill Dook was on his guard and took care not to offend again, though hither­ to he had been the terrdr of all the teacher*; from his dogged manner, Robert Cole saw that the fellow har­ bored revenge, and that sooner or later he would try to gratify it. As the winter came on Ned Dook, a young man of 20, who had left school "for good" two years before, took it into his head to attend again. Ned Dook was a heavy, powerful fel­ low, and had the reputation of being the best wrestler in the county. One of Robert's friends hinted to him that Ned Dook's object in coming to school was to make trouble for the teacher rather than to get instruction from him, and Robert soon saw that his friend was right. | The teacher, not a bit alarmed, deter- I mined to carry out his one rule for all Robert Cole saw his tack and knew ' his mm. He threw ©Iff the blow with his right hand, and before Ned Dook, who was as clumsy as he was power­ ful, could recover aeblow planted be­ tween his eyes sent him in a heap to the floor. Quick as a flash, Robert dragged his rebellious pupil to the platform and set him on his feet. Tne young savage struck another blow and again was knocked down. Then Robert seized a short pointer, and he applied it to the fellow's arms and shoulders till he roared with pain. "Will you do as I say, Ned Dook?" "Yes," howled the beaten cur. "Then pick up that tobacco and throw it out Quick, or I shall take oflj your coat and wear out another pointer on you." Ned Dook picked up the tobacco, and when the tcCcher opened the door for him to throw It out he ran bare-headed like a deer in the direction of his home, j followed by his frightened brother. During the rest of the day Robert continued as if nothing bad happened, and his school was a model of order. School had just been dismissed for the day, when Ned Dook's father and Ned Dook's uncle, both trustees and powerful men under 50, came to the school and demanded an explanation. Robert saw that theSe men meant fight, but that they were made of the same material as the younger bullies. He explained, and said In conclusion: "If either of you men came to my school I should expect you to obey me." "But if we didn't do so?" asked Ned's uncle. "Then I should make you." "Do you think you could?" "I don't know whether you intend coming to my school or not, Mr. Dook," said Robert, "but I know pretty well why you and your brother are here. Your family has been a curse to this district, but they must not stand in my way." Here he rose, and, locking the schoolhouse door, he put the key lif his pocket and said as he came back: "If either of you, or both of you together, Imagine that I cannot flog you as quick­ ly as if you were boys, I'll undertake to undeceive you." The Dooks exchanged glan&ea. They were flogged without striking a blow. They offered their hands to Robert and called him a brick, and told him to do as he pleased from this, time on and they would stand by him. Robert took them at their word, and District 19, from being the worst, be­ came the very best in the county. . A lady succeeded Robert Cole and she said she had never met with better pu­ pils or nicer people. Robert practiced law near by, and the Dooks became his clients, not that they had a high admiration for his in­ tellectual acquirements, but because they believed that the ability to resist was a primary qualification' for a law­ yer, and Robert had that quality in per» fection.--New York Ledger. BALANCE OP POWER. AMERICA'S POSITION IN THE Fl- Tkm Oreart thu^eiit offtolA and Cttitftts in Settlement of Foreign Indebted* •MM Make* the United States First ' Among tite Nations of the Earth, A financial writer on one of the lead­ ing New York dailies, reviewing the conditions existing in the money mar­ ket for the week ended Oct. 22, draws attention to the fact that America is now a commanding force in the world's money markets. Proof of this is cited in the fact that while complex diplomatic questions were agitating Europe's commercial and financial cen­ ters, while war clouds hung heavily over all the Old World markets, while enterprise was checked and the values of even the strongest of foreign securi­ ties gave waV under the strain, the bonds of the United States, Issued to defray the cost of the war with Spain, scored a new high record, and all the better class of American securities ad­ vanced in value. Interest rates in for­ eign centers have advanced, while the rates In New York have declined. "America holds the balance of power among the world's money markets, and there is a conflict between the older na­ tions as to which shall pay to us the bulk of the gold they owe." That this impregnable position of the United States is in great measure due to the change of economic policy brought about by the election of Wil- competitaon as readily on it dWi to overcome domestic rivalry. Is fact, the formation of trusts gained Itaggfeat- est Impetus when the country was first threatened with free trade, following the long period of protection dating from the time of Lincoln to the first Democratic victory in the nation.-- Ogden (Utah) Standard. * s ' • Wanted, AmericalT Shippers report a scarcity of available Itonnage, and as the inevitable result of the scarcity, the elevation of tonnage rates. As the ocean shipping for the fall and winter has but just begun, and large amounts of grain and cotton are to be exported later, the rates are likely to advance further. It is reported tha.t many houses are postponing their ship­ ments until later in the hope of getting lower rates. Such state of affairs is not to be won­ dered at so long as we depend on for­ eign vessels to%do our ocean carrying. With European vessels, European needs are naturally considered first Americans must take what they can get and pay fancy prices for that We not only must pay our money to for­ eigners for our ocean carriage, but we have to pay them more than the car­ riage Is worth. If American enterprise were only given a chance, it would soon a.bolish this condition of things. It would supply an extent of available tonnage sufficient for our needs and would put tonnage rates down to the proper figure. In addition to this we would have the satisfaction of knowing that the freight money was going into American pockets to be invested in other American enterprises and to be spent for the products of American la- NO FRIEND OF PROTECTION. ftWAMTI* •ti '.si* Free Trade Johnnie: "Say, pard, dis here Protection will ruin us if we don't watch out. Everything is workin', and de next thing we know we'll be work­ ing ourselves!" He would not let the big boys smoke diver- Perhaps the diver's worst fo« or chew tobacco either in the school- house or on the grounds. ( "Edward Dook, are you chewing to- f he hadn't been an expert swimmer he'd have drowned. As it was he escaped, and the very nextday he resigned," said Mr. Moore. "Who are the Dooks?" "It is a large family; they are related la some way to nearly every one in the district, and I believe--yes, I am sure-- two of them are trustees at this time." * % "Are there no good people in the dis- P5'" Robert Cole, feeling a bit f - ' discouraged, yet anxious to undertake *chooLfor its V('rJ* difficulties. a v , !"<;• "Oh, my! yes; indeed, a majority of * the people mean to <lo right and would ' $"• kl5 ' ^ change matters if they could; but thev *'& ' «* a quiet, law-abiding folk, who need 1 4*| ';T • leader and dread to act for them- t-'l . «elves. If you say so. I ran get you the LjL " V"^' 4. ®chool," said Mr. Moore. .1 .#1 J"I shall be thankful If you do. I have {P. •, t^eorj* of my OWQ ab<>ut managing ^ 11 bqrd boys, and I should like to try it," v %\] said Robert Cole. •f;\ > Tllc superintendent said "Very well," f i 1 . ,/ and within a week Robert Cole had met I - - libc tl-nstees aud was engaged for the '1^ ensuiug school year. ^ He was a well-built, handsome young fellow, and during the ten days that " v-^ elapsod between his engagement aud liam McKinley as President of the United States, together with the elec­ tion of a Congress which promptly co­ operated with the new administration in carrying this policy into effect, scarcely admits of argument or dis­ pute. Allowing for the effect of a strong foreign demand for our surplus food stuffs at exceptionally high prices, the fact remains that our unparalleled merchandise balance of over $615,000,- 000 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898, and our continuing heavy excess of exports over imports for the first three-quarters of the current calendar year, are directly traceable to the de­ crease of our foreign purchases and the corresponding increase in the consump­ tion of articles of domestic production. With the establishment of adequately defensive duties under the tariff of July 24, 1897, Europe found it no longer possible to settle her enormous balances in merchandise. The Dingley law, enacted by a Republican Congress in extra session at the call of a Repub­ lican President, came in the nick of time to turn toward our shores a huge current of gold and credits in place of the great deluge of foreign goods that had and would again have flooded this country under a free-trade administra­ tion.. Hence the impregnable position of the United States in the world's money markets. Hence America's con­ trol of the balance of power and Amer­ ica's tremendous prestige as the most favored nation on earth. The conclu­ sion is irresistible. Doing Very Well. The theory advanced by advocates of the protective policy that imports would respond to the improved condi­ tions of business in the country is be­ ing realized. There was an increase of £9,000,000 on imports of foreign mer­ chandise for August, 1898, over the im­ ports for the August of the preceding year. Our exports were but $4,000,000" is the conger-eel. This creature attacks 1 larger In August this year than in the There are four States in which mules are very numerous--Missouri, Texas, Georgia and Tennessee. Probably few people who visit Lon­ don are aware that one of the most novel sights of the great city is that of the pigeons round the public buildings. The cries of sea birds, especially sea gulls, are very valuable to sailors in misty weather. The birds cluster on the cliffs and coast and their cries warn boatmen that they are near the land. Natal's nippopotamuses are extinct. The last herd was protected by the gov­ ernment on a reservation near Durban, but did so much damage to the sur­ rounding bugar plantations that orders were given to have it destroyed. An effort has been made to determine the pulling strength of elephants, horses and men. Attached to a dyn­ amometer, Barnum & Bailey's largest elephant registered a pull of two and a half tons on the second' trial, but a smaller and more active elephant gave a record of five and a half -tons--wheth­ er as the result of a steady pull or a sudden jerk appears to be uncertain. A pair of powerful horses registered a ton and a fifth, while* it required the j strength of eighty-three men to equal - the pull of the smaller elephant. bor. A system t of discriminating du­ ties would give to American shipping the chance needed--the same chance that a protective tariff has given to other industries. Used His Hand for Shark Bait. The fish in some waters are a hin­ drance, and are greatly disliked by the Working Out Splendid Rennlts. Considering the total exports, the fig­ ures relating to the United States are extremely gratifying when compared with those of the - leading countries which are looked upon as our rivals in the commercial world. The total do­ mestic exports of the United Kingdom are given in 1886 at 213,000,000 pounds sterling, and in 1896 at 240,000,000 pounds sterling, a gain of about 10 per cent Those of France in 1886 are giv­ en at 3,248,800,000 francs, and dn 1806 at 3,400,900,000 francs, a gain of only 5 per cent. Those of Germany in 1886 are given at 2,985,600,000 marks, and in 1896 at 3,525,100,000, a gain of about 18 per cent.; while the domestic exportB from the United States in 1886 were $665,964,529, and in 1896 $863,200,487, an Increase of nearly 30 per cent When the full figures for 1898 shall have been made up a much larger relative gain will be shown. As a matter of fact the United States to-day has in all the world no commercial rival. The Amer­ ican policy seems to be working out splendid results for the American peo­ ple. Expansion and Protection. Some papers (English, you know) are saying we cannot have both expansion and protection; that the two are thor­ oughly incompatible, and that the one must be destroyed by the other. Any idiot who really believes this as­ sertion would find himself unable to cultivate purchased land or move his line fence to enclose it. "HDfmtmfc 6F iurrefttNtEn -m, Dervishes Transform the City Into m Modern Golgatha. The town of Metemmeh stands about" a mfle from the waterway, but the in­ tervening plain presented a most won­ derful sight, one of the most wonder­ ful that have crossed my path in four Campaigns. The dervish army had | evidently remained, after the fall of : the Jaalins at Metemmefa, encamped | for some time in this plain, behind their chain of intrenchments, and had lived on ,the fat of the land; for this place, and here I am not exaggerating, over an area not less than five square miles, was simply one mass of the refuse of flesh meat--a modern Golgo­ tha. Animals must have been slaugh­ tered in thousands with ruthless waste, since even now the sand-driven plain is but a mass of animal's skulls and bones. The hides even were not pre­ served, but are there to this day,, rot­ ting in the sun. „ We rode across this ghastly stretch to the town itself. In its day Metem­ meh must have been one of the most flourishing Arab towns upon the Nile. To-day it is a ghostly ca.tacomb, a veri­ table city of death. As we rode down the deserted streets and passed through the crumbling alleys a feeling of deep depression held us. How could it have been otherwise, for here We were in what a few months ago had been a flourishing, busy town, with its com­ mercial interests, Its family and inter­ nal ties, Its markets, its homesteads and its byres. .Now it is a gutted city, given over to desolation, decay and the foul scavengers of the desert. Fire and sword had done their work. There was not a roof but bore evi­ dences of the invader's fire brand, nor a courtyard but held its complement of dead. The very domestic animals had been slaughtered at their tethers, and the infants at their mothers' breasts. From the dry-brick mansion of the leading sheikh to the hovel of the meanest fisherman every dwelling bore testimony to the ruthless ti'agedy whipli had overtaken them. Bleached bones lay in heaps in every corner and sun-dried carcasses fouled the air" of every open space. Doorways and alleys showed how they had rapidly been mudded up, and in all the scrub by her riverside house­ hold belongings showed how the wretched Jaalin had tried to save their simple penates by a hurried flight But the bones around these caches were only a detail of the one great tragedy which was almost a successful attempt to. blot out not a nomad family^but an agricultural race. From the town we went into the des­ ert to the spot where the dervishes had made their second camp. The intro­ duction Was grewsome enough, for upon a dry sandy knoll we came upon the conqueror's gallows. It was but a crosstree of blackened logs, from which a length of rope was still listing to the breeze, but at its base were evidences of Its use in all their creepy details. I counted eighteen human skulls, to the bleached jawbones of which the beards of the victims were still adher­ ing, while a clean-cut shin bone show­ ed that mutilaition had preceded death. --Soudan letter in the London News. sill Overproduction in the ealfpet milki f Philadelphia has caused a temporary shutdown. The employes of a bipycle factory Toledo are on strike against a sweeps - : ̂ j ing reduction in wages of 75 cents ft - day. Next to the. cigarmakers/the carpen* tera have accomplished more in th& , > short-hour movement than any othet craft. The membership of the CigarmakenP v jf' International Union is taking a vote o§':;,^ a proposition to abolish the out-of-work ^ benefit and to reduce the death benefit! ' * about/20 per cent ' The musicians of Denver, Colo., irerft ( enjoined by the courts to prevent ;, \-' strike at the Tabor, Grand and thtK'^'t": Broadway Theaters of that city. . 4 "J > Plasterers and hod-carriers at Bloon^^^Ji,: ington, 111.; barbers at Louisville, Ky!, | and Syracuse, N. Y., are forming lo*^; ^ , cals, and the labor unions of Kenttsckj are organizing a State federation labor. ~ K t-Zf After the Idleness of four years," th# V 112-inch mill of the Glasgow Iron Con£: <r pany, of Pottstown, Pa., has been puf in operation, as was also a 65-inch mitt. ' of the same company, giving employe ment to nearly 600 men.' In his annual repeat Henry Lloyd, of Boston, President of the United Broth- erhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, recommended the abolition of the referendum, so far as changing the laws Of the union was concerned. He also recommended the establishment of an out-of-work benefit, the payment of higher dues, putting permanent organ­ izers in the field to build up and strengthen the organization and the equalization of the funds of the local unions. The proposition to withdraw from the American Federation of La­ bor was defeated in convention. The Western Federation of Miner* has made the Idaho State Tribune its official organ and selected J. R. Sover­ eign, ex-General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, as the editor. It is reported in the labor press that the Japanese contract laborers in Ha­ waii are organizing into unions, with a view to testing their rights of person­ al liberty under the Ignited States regime. The National Labor Tribune says that the finest steel mill in the United States for the manufacture of hoops, cotton ties and bands, will be erected at Monessen, Pa., by the Monessen • Steel Company, at a cost of $400,000, and oyer 200 men will be given employ­ ment after the first of the year. FANCY NAMES FOR POISONS. older brothers interfere. Why, last year j bacco?" asked the teacher, the day af- a young man taught in No.. 19; he was ter the Ws brother had entered the a powerful fellow and a fine teacher, school. ^and he maintained order. Of course, he "Yes, I am," said Ned Dook. And to did some flogging, particular with the ' prove it he spat on the floor. Dooks, but a lot of the men folk lay for ! "You cannot chew tobacco here; him one night, and after beating him j apatt from the example you set the they threw him into the pond, and if younger boys, I cannot stand such filth In the schoolroom." "I've chawed for years," laughed Ned. "I don't care what you have done; you can't use tobacco in this school- house. Go to the door and throw that stuff in your mouth out." Ned Dook laughed and threw the quid on the floor. "Pick that stuff up and throw it out!" said the teacher, calujly and firmly. "Throw it ofat yodrself, Mr. Teacher, but I won't" said Ned Dook. "It is ten minutes to noon, but I shall dismiss school now and call it ten min­ utes earlier. The school will all leave but Edward Dook." With alarm in their faces, the chil­ dren went out, autosome of the bigger boys, among them Bill Dook, with a look of satisfaction on his ugly face, looked id the windows. Edward Dook tried to smile when the teacher locked the door and came back to him, but his trembling lips showed that his confidence In himself was somewhat shaken. "Will you do as I told yon, sir?" said the teacher, coming so close that he might have laid his hand on the other's arm. Ned Dook's*. reply lrtfc i fierce oath in swarms, and is most daring and ex- j ceedingly voracious. The congers bark like dogs, and never hesitate in the least to bite a man. "At one time my right hand," said a diver to us, "was exposed if or a moment in the water, when one of these fierce creatures made a dash for it, and took a large piece from the back of the- hand. It bled freely, and I was obliged to come up to the surface and get it dressed." "But how about the sharks? Don't you find them troublesome?" I asked. Not very. You see, sharks are like rats; leave them alone, and they run away if they catch sight of you. Cor ner a shark, and he will fight. But if you want a shark story, I can give you one of Lambert's; he once had a thrilling fight with one at the bot­ tom of the Indian Ocean. He had been sent to the island of Diego Garcia to fix copper sheets on a coal- hulk that had been fouled by a steam­ er, and was annoyed during his opera­ tions by the same shark for nearly a week. The monster was temporarily scared away, however, every time Lam­ bert opened the escape-valve in hl« helmet and allowed some air to rush out. One day Lambert signaled to his attendants for a big sheath-knife and a looped rope. Having these, Lambert used his bare hand as a bait, and wait­ ed until the shark commenced to turn on its back, when he stabbed it repeat­ edly, passed the noose round its body, and signaled for it to be drawn up. The diver brought home the' shark'® backbone as a trophy."--St. Nicholas.. same month of last year. This was an element in the calculation upon which the efficiency of the Dingley tariff as a revenue measure was based. The first effect of pincrease in duties was to •heck impoRtatlons, but the greater prosperity resulting from a revival of business enanh* tbi» people to become more liberal purchasers of both hoime and foreign goods. A feature of the trade report for August was the gain in the exports of manufactured goods. There was a falling off in the exports of grain, but the increase in the ex­ ports of manufactured goods made up this loss and placed $1,000,000 to the credit of the trade balance. The re­ ceipts of the New York custom house were $11,000,000 for August against $5,000,000 for August, 1897. The credit balance for the eight months of the present year is $250,000,000 greater than for the corresponding period in 1897.--San Francisco Bulletin. V* the time when school was to open he •(sited all families that had children,! and a savage blow. ^ and did his best to create a good im- "You licked mj; brother, but you y r e s s t o n . I n t h i s h e w a s s u c c e s s f u l , ) l i c k m e ! " ~ - ' C ' About two-thirds of a man's so-called friends would fail to stand the teat. - A $20 gold piece is a nice round aum. Trusts in the United States. That trusts are in nowise fostered by the tariff is made evident by the his­ tory of the great combinations of wealth now in existence In this coun­ try. The most powerful of all the trusts, the Standard Oil, was organized during Cleveland's administration. The Whisky Trust is without Govern­ ment aid; the railroad trusts have no relation to tariff; the Steel Rail Trust is an exporter, and therefore above the Influences of protection; the Cotton Seed Oil Trust was organized during Cleveland's last administration. And so It was through the entire list of trusts, the greater number of which were organized during the life of the Wilson-Gorman bill, and while a Dem­ ocrat sat in the Presidential chair. Capital will combine to resist foreign P Shonld Not Be 80. The cheerful picture of an expanding foreign trade is marred by the fact that more than nine-tenths of it is transported in foreign ships. This need not and should not be so. Tinkers Not Wanted. if tne umgley bill is a failure, its suc­ cessor will be selected by the Republi­ can party. There is no call for Demo- crAttc tinkers.--Duluth Tribune. ^ot 0#|'"J»rairback. Not a single disadvantage has befall­ en our country abroad on account of the protection tariff law.--Greenville (Qh$o) Courier., The SaloonkeelfSHbr in the Klondike. Champagne brings $25 a bottle in Dawson. The regular price of a drink of whisky is 50 cents, and the saloon­ keeper claims that he is making no profit at this price, when he has to pay $40 to $50 a gallon for it wholesale-- because the miners take such largo drinks. The saloonkeepers, however, are not unable to take care of them­ selves. They adulterate their whisky freely with Yukon water, and they are always careful to have the balance on their side when the weigher putrf the customers' dust on the scales. Under­ neath the scales is a piece of Brus­ sels carpet, and any particles of dust that may accidentally fall In the opera­ tion are hidden for harvest after the closing hour. Gen. Miles' son, Sherman, accompan­ ied his father to Porto Rico as a volun­ teer aid, serving without pay and without commission. He was offered a commission by the Governor of Massa­ chusetts, but refused it. The amount of heat radiated by the sun every forty-five minutes Is equiva­ lent to that which would be generated by the combustion of a chunk of the best anthracite coal of the siae of the moon. For His Old Friend. A writer in the New York Herald says that there is now on one of the United States battleships a lieutenant, the story of whose admissioiv to the Naval Academy at Annapolis is of a somewhat romantic nature. The father of the young man was a young officer at the military post at Omaha during the period when Grant was under a cloud, and no one dreamed of the immortality that awaited him. The two men had been classmates at West Point. Early in the war, before Grant achieved distinction, the officer fell on the field. He left a young wife and three babies almost penniless. Bravely the widow struggled to raise and edu­ cate the children. The eldest was a son. It was the mother's ambition to have him enter the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Hardly had the boy reached the re­ quired age when an accident deprived him of a finger, which, according to the law, deprived him from entering. It was a cruel blow to the doting mdther. At the time General Grant was serving his last year as President of the United States. Recalling the warmth of the friendship that had existed between bim and her husband, the widow's hope rekindled. Reading in a paper that President Grant would sail ou a certain day from j New York for Newport, she went to the metropolis and boarded the same boat. Then she sent her card to the President, who responded in person. He was delighted to meet the widow of his old friend. Together they talked over the old days on the frontier, and the changes war and time had wrought. "And now, my dear Mrs. X.," said Grant, "what can I do for you?" "Much," was the reply. And the mother told her story. Grant listened. ! "Go home," he said at length, "and leave the boy to me. I will take care of him." , , , At the qe^t landing the widow got off the boat and returned »to New York. Within a month her boy received his appointment, and lu due time he quit­ ted the school with honor. An Outrageous Slander. The public may not know the good sU>ry, which has been a Joy for many a long day among musicians, which tells how a celebrated conductor, ad­ mired and beloved by every one who knows him, accused his wife, in broken English, of conduct the reverse of ad­ mirable (to put it mildly). He was re­ fusing an invitation to an afternoon party for her on the plea of her delicate health; but he evidently got a little mixed during his explanations, for he made the following astounding state­ ment, which was news, indeed, to the world in general: "My wife lies In the afternoon; if she does not lie, then she swindles!" N. B.--"Schwlndeln" is the equivalent In German fdr "feeling giddy." Rhododendrons Thirty Feet High. In India the rhododendrou grows to a height of thirty feet. Marigolds in North Africa reach a height of four or five feet. Whenever a bachelor begins to Inves­ tigate a girl's cooking he means busi­ ness. - When God is carving our rough block Into an angel, we weep over the chips- Danger Lurks in Manjr.of -the 80- Called Headache Remedies. In his quarterly report on the health of the borough of Chorley, Lancashire, Dr. J. A. Harris, the medical officer for the district, calls attention to the indis­ criminate sale and purchase of the various so-called headache powders. He states that under his direction the county police obtained six or seven samples from different shops in the town and had them submitted to analy­ sis. In every case the quantity of the active ingredient was found to be in excess of the maximum dose of the drug allowed in the British pharma­ copoeia. These remedies belong to the class of the analgesics, the members of the group in common use for this pur­ pose being acetanalide or phenylaceta- mide, phanazone, and phenacetin or para-acet-phenetidln. Their properties were* fully considered In the section of pharmacology and therapeutics at the meeting at Edinburgh, where Profes­ sor Stockman (Glasgow) opened a dis­ cussion on the "Therapeutic Value of Recent Synthetic Analgesics; Their Benefits and Attendant Risks." . There was a general expression of opinion^ that these dirugs required to be handled with the greatest possible care, and that a slight error of judgment with regard to dosage might be followed by disastrous results. All these substances depress the heart's action, and in toxic doses diminish the force of the respira­ tory act. The danger is not obviated by selling a poisonous drug under a fanciful name.--British Medical Jour­ nal. ^ Baby Potentates. Spain is always the land of the In­ fante. To-day it is the kingdom of an infant, just as it was sixty-five years ago, when the king'.? grandmother, Isabella II., ascended the throne at the age of 3, assuming the actual govern­ ment when she was 13. If our own Prince Alfred had not declined the crown of Greece in favor of the Dane he would have been a king at 19, and carried on the traditions of the many child-monarchs of Great Britain, in­ cluding his mother, the Queen, who was only 18 when she was wakened on that historic night in June at Kensing­ ton Palace to hear that her uncle, William IV., was dead, and that she reigned in his stead. Henry III. had become King of England at the age of 10; Edward III. at the age of 15, Rich­ ard II. at the age of 13; Henry VI. at the age of 8; Edward IV. when he was 20, while his son, Edward V., became king at the age of 13, which again proved an unlucky number, for he was murdered in the Tower with his only brother, the Duke of York, after he had reigned less than twelve weeks. Henry VIII. was only 18 when be came to be king; his son, Edward VI., was just 10, and was dead before he was 15, while his would-be successor, the hapless Lady Jane Grey, was proclaimed queen before she was 18, and lost her pretty head before she was 19>-Eng- lish Illustrated. Capacity of Big Theater*. Of the largest regular theaters in the United States the Boston has 3,172 seats. Gilmore's, In Philadelphia, seats 3.270. The biggest four "legitimate** theatera in New York City are the Peo­ ple's, 2,454; the Grand Opera House, 2,653; the Atnerican, 2,064, and the Co­ lumbus, 1,999. The amphitheater of the Madison Square Gardens seats 10,- 704. The greatest of the foolish custom* Is staying up late at night. li' •h liriii