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WHAT WE ALL WANT TO SEE. PLAIN TALK IS GIVEN WHY MORE SPEED IS NOT MADE WITH THE TARIFF. Republicans Subject to the Wishes of . Democrats and Populists -- Sns.ar Trust Charges' Subjected to Sha&n* Scrutiny--Disappointed PopulistfeBE&j nibined cries for help of their neighbors to the Uled in borrow fes how it how mm m demand the payment of the $10,000 in gold,*' said Miss Ma- gruder, a little testily and quite determinedly. "I owe this to my niece, •who is about to be married. As you know, I am her guardian, and I do not wish to diminish her legacy by any oversight on my part just now, when no one knows just what effect a possi­ ble silver victory may have upon the financial condition of the country. Onee married, her husband may do as W^ likes-" "Very, well, Miss Magruder," said -*» 'Si®; Cashier Holt "Your request will be honored if for no other reason than to ehow you that this bank is amply able to meet all demands." The lady whom he,addressed as Miss Magruder was a spinster of uncertain age, regular features and a determined and business like manner. Cashier Holt, a middle-aged man with Vandyke beard and curly flax- colored, hair, had tried vainly to dem­ onstrate to his shrewd client that her money would, be safer in the vaults of the bank than in her house. Now he gave a whispered order to the only clerk the bank afforded. The latter turned an inquisitive face upon the spinster and her companion, a pretty country girl of 20 summers. When he returned from the vault he carried in his hand a leather satchel, which he placed on the counter before the cashier. "Here are your ten thousand," said Mr. Holt, whimsically. "Remember my Warning! Take good care of the money!" Miss Magruder was not so easily sat­ isfied. She opened the satchel, took from it a buckskin bag and counted the money, which was in $50 coins. Then she pushed it all back, locked the bag and left the bank, accompanied by the clerk, who carried the satchel and deposited it under the buggy seat As the ladies entered their conveyance they were accosted by a tramp.' The fellow looked anything but prepossess­ ing, and Miss Magruder curtly denied him aid. r During the drive from New Bruns­ wick to the little hamlet which was their home, Miss Magruder gave vent to her annoyance over the cashier's hesitancy to pay her niece's legacy in gold. His warning against robbers was especially distasteful to the spin­ ster, who had never been afflicted with fear of anything. Nora Wilson listen­ ed to her aunt in silence. She was not at all inclined to share her guardian's confidence that their house was as safe as the bank vault; but out of deference to the older woman she refrained from expressing her opinion. Even when the money was safely stowed away under Miss Magruder's bed, Nora felt uneasy. When bedtime came she her­ self examined every window and door, to see that it had been securely fasten­ ed by the servant. Anxious dreams disturbed her slumber, which she woo­ ed in vain for a long time. In the mid­ dle of the night the girl awoke with a 6tart She was not certain at first whether her imagination had played her a trick, or whether she had really heard a stifled noise in the next room. She hearkened with bated breath, and was soon convinced that what disturb­ ed her were stealthy footsteps. Without a moment's hesitation the girl jumped from her bed. A door led from her room to her aunt's chamber. IXit this she would not open. After all, It might only have been the vivid play of her imagination, and she dreaded Miss Magruder's ridicule. So she un­ latched the door that opened out into the corridor and groped her way to her aunt's room. It was ajar. Nora Wilson scarcely breathed as she listened. She could distinctly hear,the respiration of two persons. One breath­ ed regularly and quietly, the other's breath came in short, stifled greps. A sweet, penetrating odor came from the room. Then all her doubts were dis­ pelled. There was a robber in the room. He was searching for the hidden gold. Nora was a courageous girl. She press­ ed her lips firmly together, advancing carefully with outstretched arms. Al­ most instantly she came in contact with a human body. The man--for it was a burglar--clutched her around the waist and held a sponge saturated with chloroform to her nose. Nora tried not to breathe to keep from inhal­ ing the noxious vapor. The girl's fierce struggle made the burglar resort to other means to overcome her. He drop­ ped the sponge and plunged his hand into his breast pocket. "He has a pistol and he is going to kill me!"1 thought Nora. Quick as a seized his hand the moment Irew it. Her lingers closed over die of a large bowie knife, not end of a revolver. maurauder dragged Nora from tli'e room, down the stairs and into the lower corridor. Ther»> lie hissed into her ear that he wouli kill her if she made an outcry and mid not release the knife. Gathering all his strength he thrust her into the pantry, the door of which stood wide open. Miss Wilson made no reply, but with an almost superhuman effort attempt­ ed to wrench the weapon from him. She succeeded in clutching a few inch­ es more of the long handle of the knife, and the man uttered a terrible oath. The blade had sunk into his hand. Snatching his left arm from her waist, he struck her. a fearful blow with his fist. "Realizing that she could no longer cope with the robber, Nora turned quickly and dashed past him toward the door that led out into the yard. It was open, but on the threshold the girl stumbled and fell prone to the floor. When she awoke a few moments afterwards from the stupor caused by the fall, two men were bending over her. Th their voices Miss Wilson recognized and the gardener recognized in him the tramp who had accosted them in the afternoon in front of the bank. "Take him to prison," commanded Miss Wilson. "My aunt and I will lodge complaint against him in the morn­ ing." While the two men carried oft their prisoner, Nora hurried to her aunt's room. By this time the effect of the chloroform had disappeared, and Miss Magruder was acquainted with the events of the night. The little satchel with its precious contents was moved a considerable distance from where it had originally been placed, and the spinster admitted that the cashier was right after all, in admonishing her as he did. To relieve herself from fur­ ther responsibility she sent for her niece's betrothed early in, the morning. Tn the meantime the prisoner had a "Won't you let me see It?" The cashier hesitated, but when he pulled the .hand from the pocket at last, the bandage showed other stains than those Of. arnica. With a'bound the girl stood before him. „ "This is blood, James," she cried. "A sprain could not li^ye caused them. The smell of the chloroform, his voice, his look; and the hairs wrapped around the button of his coat! Do you recog­ nize them?" Her lover snatched the overcoat thrown over the back of the chair in the room in which they were. "They are yours, Nora," said James Cliff, carefully loosening them from the ,button thait held them confined. "I would recognize them anywhere!" "This is the man who broke into our house, with Whom I struggled, and In the struggle he cut his hand," said Nora, firmly and menacingly. "I wish I had killed you," muttered Holt, now blind with rage over the girl's, discovery. They called the clerk and sent for the sheriff, but James Cliff was com­ pelled to keep the desperate bank cash­ ier at bay with the point of a revol­ ver. ' .' ' . i ' At his home were found a' bottle half filled with chloroform, a blood-stained cuff, a bowie knife, a bunch of Skeleton keys and other paraphernalia belong­ ing to the light-fingered gentry. Years afterwards, when Nora Wilson and James Cliff celebrated their mar­ riage anniversary they learned the cause for the crime of the bank cash­ ier. He had been in love with the pret­ ty country lassie, and as James Cliff was then an impecunious attorney he thought if he robbed her of her fortune the young man would not marry her. "But you know better, dear wife," whispered James into the pretty mat­ ron's ear. She nodded her head in si­ lence, and wound her arms around his neck The 10,000 in gold were deposited in a larger bank, and the interest has been piling up from year to year, mak­ ing a nest-egg for the three little chJl« dren of the Cliffs.--St. Louis Republic. AT AN ILLINOIS HOTEL. ADVANCING CAREFULLY WITH OUT­ STRETCHED ARMS." preliminary hearing before the judge. Miss Wilson deposed that she had met the man in the afternoon; that he had seen the satchel which they carried from the bank, stowed away under the buggy seat. She then narrated her struggle with the intruder and his final arrest by a neighbor and her aunt's gardener. The latter corrobo­ rated her statement. The prisoner firmly declared his innocence, even in the face of these grave charges. He denied having struggled with the young lady in her aunt's room, and said that he had sought shelter in Miss Magruder's woodshed for the night. When he heard Miss Wilson's cries for help, he thought a fire had broken out, and rushed from the fehed to aid in suppressing it Without a word Nora Wilson point­ ed to the prisoner's right hand, which was bandaged with a dirty rag. The judge understood her meaning and asked the tramp how he had injured his hand. His answer was that he had cut Experience of a Preacher Who Hap­ pened There Over Nijfht. "The liveliest time I ever had in get­ ting hotel accommodations was right here in Illinois," said a clerical looking man, who sat in the smoking compart- .ment of the sleeper while the porter was making up his berth. "I was going to preach at Dixon, 111., and I started in good time--if I had not happened to# strike a holiday ̂ whem trains were running wild--this was twenty years ago, and schedules were not systematized as they are now. On Saturday at midnight I stopped on the last train at a small town nearly eigh­ teen miles from the place where I was expected to fill a popular pulpit. "Everybody had gone to bed when I walked into the one hotel of the place, but by diint of loud knocking I roused a sleepy clerk, who gave me a kerosene lamp, with a piece of red flannel, which served as a wick, and pointed to a room at the top of a flight of stairs. "This room had a bed in it but there was no sign of a lock to the door. A large front window was open and would not close. It had no curtain, so before disrobing I blew out the lamp. I saw that it would be easy for anyone on the outside to scale the window, so I arranged all the toilet crockery on its sill. Then I went to bed and to sleep. When I awakened it was Sunday himself with an ax, as he cleared the place In the dar^ to find a comfortable j morning, and a bright sun was sihining into my room. I sat up and saw a spot to lie down in. His statement was not credited, and he was remanded to jail. An hour later Nora and her betroth­ ed were on the way to the bank. They had with them the satchel of gold, ready to again entrust it to the custody of the bank cashier. "Good morning, Mr. Holt," said the girl. "Here is the money! You were right some one did try to rob us last night." "Ah, ha!" cried Mr. Holt, coming close to the cashier's window to receive the money. A penetrating odor of chloroform was noticeable. It came from the clothes of the cashier. "Oh, James!" cried the girl, still pale and nervous from her terrible expe­ rience of the,.night, "My name is Cliff," said James'^ '"I am Miss Wilson's fiance. Permit me to lead her to yonder couch. She is not well. A little rest will soon restore her." Holt was not inclined to grant the request to admit the two young people to the back room without opposition. "It's against the rules of the bank, he remarked stubbornly. James Cliff paid no attention to him, but pushed the door open and led the young girl to the leather sofa in the bank room. Nora was far from faint­ s- curious crowd regarding my window and the breastwork of crockeiry which I had used as a defense. I learned af­ terward that they thought it was a new china store that had just been opened. "When I went downstairs I found the hotel doors had not been unfasten­ ed since the night before. I opened up the house, but the only, guests to enter were a cat and four kittens. The help appeared later, apologizing by saying they had not worked the diay before, but had let things take care of themselves. The landlord looked as if he never bad worked and never in tended to. I was not able to get even a cup of coffee for my breakfast before the train came which bore me away from the slackest town and the worst hotel service I had ever in my life en­ countered. No, I won't call names, for from what I have heard it is run- both hotel and town--on the same lines to-day. Good-night."--Chicago Times-Herald. QUICK AS A FLASH SHE SEIZED HIS HAND. her. They were grappling, and by voices Miss Wilson recognized in one of them, her aunt's gardener. The girl, brave as ever-came to his assistance. Their combined brought1 OJ scene of the struggle. The marauder was soon overcome, and when the ser­ vant maid appeared with a lamp, Nora ing. Her mind had never worked more quickly and to the point. A sudden suspicion that not the tramp, but an­ other tried to rob them of her fortune flashed through her brain. There was the odor of the chloroform, and be­ sides the cashier held his hand con­ cealed in his coat pocket. . "What is tjie matter with your hand, Mr. Holt?" she asked. "My hand? I Sprained it last night while trying to move a heavy piece of furniture. I have been bathing it with arnica and must keep it bandaged." o ' ' «* ! -. - & Diet for Professional Men. Blanched almonds give the higher nerve or brain and muscle food, no heat or waste. Walnuts give nerve or brain food, muscle, heat and waste. Pine kernels give heat and stay. They serve as a substitute for bread. Green water grapes are blood purifying (but of little food value); reject pips and skins. Blue grapes are feeding and blood purifying; too rich for those who suffer from the liver. Tomatoes-- Higher nerve or brain food and waste; no heat; they are thinning and stimu­ lating; do not swallow skins. Juicy fruits give more or less the higher nerve or brain, and some few muscle food and waste; no heat. Apples supply the higher nerve* and muscle food, but do not give stay, Prunes afford the highest nerve or brain food, supply heat and waste, but are not muscle feeding. They should be avoided by those who suffer from the liver. Oranges are refreshing and feeding, but are not good if the liver is out of order. Green figs are excel­ lent food. Dried figs contain nerve and muscle food, heat and waste, but are bad for the liver. The great majority of small fresh seed fruits are laxative. All stone fruits are considered to be injurious for those who suffer from the liver and should be used cautiously. Lemons and tomatoes should be used daily in cold weather; they have a thinning and cooling effect. Raisins are stimu­ lating in proportion to their quality.-- Good Housekeeping. Calm and Collected. Reporter--It is said that yourself and your comrade, O'Hoggarty, were calm and collected after the dynamite ex­ plosion at the quarry. McLubberty--Wull, It was loike this. Oi was calm and O'Hoggarty was col- licted.--New York World. No Unnecessary Delay. Special Wuslilngton correspondence: The progress of evenrs in Washington this week lias been more rapid than could have been expected in view of the fact that the Republicans are ab­ solutely subject to the wishes of the Democrats and Populists as to the progress made with the tariff. This is due, of course, to the fact that, the Re­ publicans are in a minority in that body. People have grown extremely anxious about legislation and have been tiring shots at their members of Congress by the thousand, and these little evidences of attention by the dear public have set people saying some plain tilings. So the public is liable to get some information which it would otherwise "not have obtained. There has been some especially frank talk in the Senate, and sonie of the people who are seeking to make polit­ ical capital by throwing dust with ref­ erence to the pending tariff bill have suddenly discovered that there hre two sides to almost any story. Two or three Democratic leaders seem to' have reached the conclusion that they could once more fool the people, and Unit their most convenient way to do it would be to charge That the sugar schedules of the tariff bill as agreed upon by the Republican caucus were favorable to the sugar trust. So they proceeded upon the "stop thief'4 pian to make all sorts of malicious charges of this kind, taking advantage of i'.io fact that the Republicans in the Sen­ ate have been refusing to discuss any features of the bill not absolutely nec­ essary to be explained, simply for the purpose of gaining Lime and getting the bill through as promptly as possi­ ble. The gentlemen have found, how­ ever, that there is a limit to the en­ durance of the public who are being imposed upon with uiis; sort of false­ hood, and the newspapers of the coun­ try have suddenly revived the fact that the very men who are now shouting sugar trust with reference to the pend­ ing tariff bill are the ones under whose guidance the "perfidy an,l dishonor" bill of 1804 was framed and its sugar schedule so shaped as to create the greatest scandal that iias been known in political history in many years. At­ tention is called to the fact that the three men, Senators "Vest. .Tones and Mills, whose moutliings about an in­ crease in prices of sugar trust stock as a result of the pending tariff bill have been the feature of the week, are the very men who framed the sugar sched­ ules of the Wilson bill under which sugar trust stocks a dvanced 66 per cent., while the advance during the en­ tire consideration of the present bill is only 6 percent, and this a mere inci­ dent of the general advance which lias been strongly marked meantime in all stocks. That the three men whose manipulations in the schedules of tho Wilson bill caused an advance of 60 per cent, in the price of sugar stocks should now be screaming like madmen because sugar stocks have increased 6 per cent, during the consideration of the present bill would be vnaecounta- ble but for the fact that they are ap­ parently doing it. to not only make political capital against the Republi­ cans, but at the same time conceal as far as possible, their own recorl in this very line. Gettinc Back to House Schedules. An interesting feature of the week's developments has been the tendency on the part of the Senate Republicans to return to the schedules of the Dingley bill. Nearly all the important sched­ ules of the House bill have been re­ stored as they have been reached one by one, until the omy important one now remaining is that relating to wool. And there is evary reason to believe that when this is reached the House rates on first and second class wools will be restored. The sugar scliedult has been brought down to within a mere trifle of the llo ise rates, and by many it is believed that the absolute lines of the House 1 ill in this regard will be restored before the bill gets upon the statute books. On one other subject there has been some plain talk and some which the people ought generally to hear. That is with reference to the length of time Congress has .occupied upon the tariff bill. The people generally have grown very impatient over the apparent de­ lay in obtaining final action upon the pending tariff bill. This impatience is being encouraged bv Democrats, Pop- ocrats, silverites and everybody else who is opposed secretly, or openly, to President McKinley and the Republi­ can party. The fact is, however, that no Congress since the first one ever made the progress which this one has made, especially in view of the cir­ cumstances. There is every reason to believe that the bill will be upon the statute books early in July. Never since George Washington's first term has a President been permitted to at­ tach his Signature to a new tariff law within as brief a space of time as will William McKinley. And when it is considered that the Senate is not con­ trolled by the Republican party, but that there is a clear majority against the party in that body, the speed which lias been made in the consideration and progress of the bill is not paral­ leled in the history of any administra­ tion. Disappointment follows disappoint ment among the Popocratic leaders. Not only are they disappointed in the fact that the Republicans have pre­ sented a solid £ront on the tariff ques tlon and failed to quarrel among them­ selves upOn currency or any other question, but they are even more dis­ tressed to find their own party fall­ ing to pieces on the question of protec­ tion as well as silver, since their vote against the protective features of the tariff bill is growing weaker daily while their arguments in behalf Of free silver are being disproven by every week's developments since the election with the surplus when we get it.--Will- iamsport. Pa., Gazette. Then they'll be sitting up nights to the treasury. much to others. He ::new that lie had loaned or abstracted money contrary to law. In the fear of consequences of .exposure the treasurer committed sui- } concoct plans for lootin eide. Altgeid appointed his successor and his accounts were turned, over to that successor in violation of law in or­ der that tlley might be doctored up to show that there was no defalcation. That action endeared AHgeld to tho hearts of embezzlers, but honest men began to distrust him. Tlu>h it was made public that, while Altgeid .pre­ scribed/silver payments for others, lie required payment in gold for the use of apartments in his colossal office building, the Unity. At the..Chicago convention the Governor of Illinois was the pivot on which turned tlie proceed- Varmera awrt Mechanics. The fa rmer is equally interested with the mechanic in the protection of our home market. The Value of the home market to the farmer is nowhere shown,any more conclusively and the 'Democratic free trade assertions more conclusively proven untrue than by the United States Treasury Statistical Ab­ stract. "The consumption of. our farih products by our 'people reached its maximum in 1892. Passing over .1898. the year of the panic, and taking 1894, it shows that more than 51 per cent. ings of that turbulent body. He die- 1 more pounds of our raw cotton were tated and dominated it with the re- ! consumed by our own people in 1892 lentless purpose in view of discrediting j under the Republican tariff than in the every loyal Democrat in. the country, j .v««r 1894 under the threat of a Demo- He succeeded. The issue of that mob-| euatic tree trade tariff; that more than spirited body was Altgeid sin pure anil ' <3 per cent, more wheat was consumed unsullied. After the November crash at the polls came the do wnfall of the business and banking enterprises with which Altgeid was associated. The Chemical bank went by the board and Altgeld's intimate friend, the active manager of it, went to drowned himself therein. toppled over and in the debris and j wreckage the sinister features and i crafty hand of Altgeid were every- j where in evidence. The (Mobe Savings Bank, the rottenest inyttution that ever : existed, closed its doorjr when Altgehl ; stepped out of office. The cashier ; whom Altgeid had designated or rec- . ommended as custodian of the endow­ ment funds of the State University i was a defaulter. He stole the funds of ; the rotten bank and of the university j with a boldness never before equaled. : He was Altgeld's protege. He loaned money to Altgeid. The bank was Alt- . gold's favorite. This remarkable man : sowed the wind by every petty-^process j of personal politics and by every possi- j ble personal disregard of moral hon­ esty. That in all the scandals which : have been developed by the harvest of | the whirlwind, he is guiltless of duplic­ ity, deceit and lying, is incredible.-- j Detroit Journal/13 ' by our people in 1892 than in 1894; that more than 33 per cent, more corn was ccnsumed by our own people in 1892 than in 1894; that more than 82 per cent, more pounds of wool were con­ sumed in 1892 than in 1894.--Hon. .T. he lake and ' H. Walker, M. C., of Massachusetts. Other banks j -V f'rsnt l.os* to Brvanism, J. T. O'Sullivan. friend of William Jennings Bryan, and the original Silver man of Massachusetts, who burst full upon the nation's view and into com­ mon speech of people in less than one brief month, is .now looking at life through the thick steel bars of a cor­ ner "window in the Salem jail. But. the indomitable spirit of the irrepressible Mr. O'Sullivan is by no means broken. As lie himself probably said through the medium of his own paper, the Law­ rence Sentinel, "He will be a greater power in jail than as a free man."-- New Bedford Standard. Quite Time. The industrial invasion that'has been overwhelming the United States since August, 1894, will soon be checked by the reconstruction of our wall of pro­ tection. When Wil l I t Drop? -TV J*' Every one exaggerates the good he does for his kin. Altgeid in His No sooner had he office than Altgeid money from him. N much he loaned to & % Currency Commission. In his inaugural message one of the things which President McKinley rec­ ommended was a currency commission. That he evidently meant what he said is proven by the announcement now made, that within twenty-four hours after the Senate has passed the tariff bill the President will send a special message to that body urging the intro­ duction of a bill providing for the com­ mission. As also indicated in !iis message, it is probable that he will recommend that the commission be non-partisan and of from eleven to fifteen members, to make a study of the financial system, and report what changes should be made to place the currency upon an ab­ solutely sound basis. This is right in line with the an­ nouncement of Secretary of the Treas­ ury Gage that it was the policy of the administration to take up the question of currency reform just as soon as the tariff should be disposed of. Experts Denounce the Suear Schedule. The smaill additional differential al­ lowed refiners cannot be objected, to, ae it is reasonable and will afford suf­ ficient protection to an American in­ dustry without increasing the ability of the sugar trust to enhance its al­ ready colossal profits. It has been evi­ dent for some time that the Republi­ cans would not dare to pass the Finance Committee's sugar schedule, owing to the very apparent fact that it had been prepared solely in the inter­ est of the sugar trust; hence a return to specific, duties and the Dingley schedule, which gave quite general sat­ isfaction to all elements of the sugar trade but the refiners, was inevitable.-- New Orleans Picayune (Dem.). What They Prefer. Tlie Democrats do not cease• their attacks on the Dingley tariff bill. The measure is a continual source of worry to them, and they are already sitting up nights to discover what can be done Vain Bet! There is a slightly different, and far more satisfactory, condition of public affairs now than when Mr. Cleveland had Congress on his hands. Political Notes. Protection is dividing the ranks of the Democracy as thoroughly now as did the currency question a year ago. President McKinley is elevating the American flag in Hawaii about as promptly as Grover Cleveland pulled it down. Washington advices indicate that the new tariff bill will be on the statute books in hiss time than any tariff since the first tariff act in the history of the United States. Prices of farm products continue to go up, while the price of silver continues to fall. These facts destroy completely the foundation upon which half of the silver arguments of last fall were based. The few free traders left in the Dem­ ocratic party are in a state of distress over the fact that one-third of the Southern vote in Congress has been cast for a high protection in the consid­ eration of the tariff bill.* It is another case in which "the blow almost killed father." The faith of tlie American people in the wisdopi of President McKinley will not be lessened when his plans with reference to Cuba are made public. He is giving the subject close and earnest attention, and his action, when matur­ ed, will gratify citizens of the United States and friends of Cuba. The Republicans in the Senate are so anxious for the prompt passage of the tariff bill that they are omitting all dis­ cussion, ami even allowing attacks of the Democrats upon the bill and upon party records to pass unanswered, in or­ der to make as brief as possible the time occupied in the consideration of the bill. Of course, the silver mine owners "put up" for the expenses of the so- called silver Republican convention at Chicago. It wasn't an expensive adver­ tisement for them, either, as the num­ ber of people to be taken care of was small and the amount of space which they got in the press of the country was proportionately large. The Hungry Doc. Sir Walter Besant's new novel, "Aj Fountain Sealer," has just appeared in London. The Appletons have published anl American edition of Mrs. F. A. Steel'ai book of Indian fiction, "From the Five! Rive»." i Roberts BrOs. are about to publisbi "The Life and Work of Frederic Thorn* as Greenhalge," written by, James Er­ nest Nesmlth. Electrical Engineering offers prizes aggregating $100 for the best essays on "The Economic Generation of Steam for Electric Light, Railway, and Powd­ er Plants." The Engineering News Company Is about to publish a book of 400 pages entitled "Railway Track and" Track Work." It is by E. E. Russell Trafr- man, associate editor of Engineering News. Dr. Nansen is little, if any, the wors® for his labors as a lecturer. The lec­ ture platform is trying, but, after allr It could hardly prevail against a man who has successfully set the rigors of • an arctic winter at defiance. F. Ilopkinson Smith has just' finish­ ed a novel entitled "Caleb West, Mas­ ter Diver." It will appear serially in the Atlantic. The Bookman compares the new story to "Tom Grogan" andl says |t "goes with an irresistible verVe and swing." The Bookman ventures the opinion that Richard le Gallienne's new ver­ sion of Omar Khayyam's famous "Ru- baiyat," which appears in the Cosmo­ politan, will rank above Fitzgerald's. Mr. Le Gallienne's poem will shortly] appear in book form. Publication of the English version of the "Polychrome Bible," edited byi Prof. Paul Haupt of Johns Hopkins University, which has been so long an­ nounced, is to be begun in October .next by the issue of three books, Judges, Isaiah, and Psalms. Maynard, Merrill & Co. have in pressi for immediate publication "The Young; American," by Dr. Harry Pratt Judson. Professor of Political Science in the University of Chicago., The book pre- sents a clear and satisfactory outline of the origin, nature, and functions of civil government. Ferdinand Brunetiere, the French) critic, delivered his recent course of nine lectures at Johns Hopkins merely) from notes. Since his return to Paris he has undertaken to write out their substance for publication in sejial andl book form. Before this volume appears, however, there will be published from! his pen a work on French literature extending to some 400 pages, the great­ er part of which is already in type. Iti will appear early in the autumn, andl will be published simultaneously in French and English. Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill, the high priest of Dr. Johnson, has put in shape ati last his two volumes of "Johnsonian Miscellanies," and they will soon published. In the first volume therei will be gathered together Johnson's prayers and meditations, his account of his childhood, Mme. Piozzi's anec­ dotes, and Murphy's essays on the lifet and genius of Johnson. The secondi volume will contain letters from John-, son to various persons, extracts fromi the "Life" by Hawkins, many anec­ dotes drawn from different sources^ and, finally, a concordance of John-i son's sayings. Our War Expenses. I Our country is universally known as a land of peace, the indisposition of the American people to enter into a mili­ tary conflict with anybody save under, the strongest provocation having be­ come historic. In view of our peaceful attitude toward other nations it Is a singular fact that our expenditures, di­ rect and consequential, for war, far ex­ ceed all other expenses for other ob­ jects of the Government. Since 1789 the expenditures of the Government for the various objects have been $2,854,- 785,519 for civil and miscellaneous: for war, $5,031,604,180; navy, $1,354,555,- 521; Indians, $321,365,929; pensions, $2,- 089,837,064; interest on publis debt, $2,- S26,922,743; total, $14,479,070,956. It will thus be seen that the expenditure for war Is double that of any other ob­ ject, while if the interest on the public debt, the disbursements for pensions and the cost of the riavy be added to the outlay, our war expenses by far ex­ ceed all other expenditures of the Gov­ ernment. The greater portion was, of course, on account of tlie civil war, but since that struggle our outlay fOr army! and navy has been very considerable. Since 1865 the highest expenditure for the army in any one year was in 1866,| amounting to $284,449,702, and the low4. est in 1886, being $34,324,153..^, The highest expenditures for tlie navy in any one year since 1S65 was $43,324,- 119, in 1866, an dt.be lowest $13,536,985, in 1880, tlie annual average for- th€ army being $159,3S6,927, and for the navy $28,430,552. A Fellow Feelinc. "My brethren," said the ministertf "you don't know how happy you will be if you only have a fellow-feeling ii your bosoms." "Humph," said one of his hearers, had a fellow feeling in my bosom las night and I've got no diamond pin t.lii morning."--New York Tribune.v The W'ronjf Man. "I told Binks yesterday that he wa| a liar." "Did you make an impression?" "In a way. I produced one." "How?" "He bruised my head."--Londol Judy. ^ Caus~ for Thankseiviusr. <x Critic--Wh; :e did you get the ide Mr that picture? Painter--Out of my head. Critic--You must be glad that it out.--Sketch. Accompanied Her. "It's a shame," cried the young wif "not a,Ailing in the house fit to es I'm going right home to |>apa." "If you don't mind, dear," said tJ husband, reaching for his hat "I'll with you."--Yonkers Statesman. We would rather not have peoj: give us things than be as grateful they expect.