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TNDCAUR ]. YAW SLYKE. Editor and FaMIH -*cHEKttT, 1 ILLINOIS. =P &w9.*: t, Jcr's life the fewer his tribulations. t"'-"' ' -- : -- | ^ " Aitkr a woman passes 30 she di»- 1 s likes many birthday presents because 'A , ̂ they remind her of too maoy birtb- -• !; flays past. , X-„ * INDIANA has given to the world ' anany strange things; but the fame of *" ^all id over-shadowed by the discovery a woman in Indianapolis who will -^'%ot talk.. • • | V A New York messenger hoy while i J .running to deliver a parcel injured liis leg and now wants $10,000 dim- ages. The amount should be raised • ;t>y popular subscription. "*f ' £tra?toe things are happening. A ? yeligious convention has Just ex- spelled .a brother been use "he wore a anustaehe." They did not even raise the question *>f who planted it upon 1^-. Jfais lip. ' " " • , " ^ ,,>, ONB of the ciders of the Mormon j* --t^Ciiurch declares that he has received "revelation" declaring the use of L ,;".tobacco to be a deadly sin. Latter- -x •; ' day saints who smoke in this world, ' therefore, do it at Jt%e peril of smok­ ing in the next. J > SOMEHOW in the enthusiasm over ; .that American girl who declined to nuarry a foreign count unless he would become an American citizen people seem to have overlooked the fact that the jilted one showed some patriotism in refusing to renounce his own country. Two STEAMERS Of 18,000 tOM «ich are building for a famous transat­ lantic company. A few years ago vessels of one-flfth the size were con­ sidered hazardous experiments. The ocean steamship bids fair to grow un­ til passengers will demand electric railways for transportation from bow to stern. . 'THE Bank of England is profound­ ly interested in the maintenance of good order in the Argentine Republic, for this member of the Latin sister­ hood owes more than a quit-claim deed for the country would settle. The Enclish creditors must have been hilariously amused in the efforts of this counjtry to lure the bankrupt re­ public into a commercial alliance. THE London Lancet speaks with approbation of the action of the New York Medical Society in recommend­ ing to the State the abolition of capi­ tal punishment and attributes it to their "humane impulses;" We trust the Lancet is right; but there are those who think the Medical Society were simply actuated by the feeling that in taking life the State was in­ terfering with one of its prerogatives. THE suggestion that Italy will de­ cline to accept the $20,000 offered by this Government in settlement for the New Orleans massacre, provided it is given as "a mark of friendship," and not in recognition of a liability, presents a new idea of Italian dignity. Those who have traveled in that sunny land have imbibed the notion that an Italian takes what is offered him without inquiry as to the motive; and there are those who affirm that in some sections of his beautiful land he does not wait until it is'offered. BOTH Tennessee and Florida see their great blunder in neglecting to make suitable appropriations to the "World's Fair. Some enterprising citizens of Florida are trying still to remedy it. They propose to give to each subscriber to a $200,000 fund ad­ vertising space in a paper to be dis­ tributed at the fair. Florida and Tennessee might a9 well "put up their shutters" and take a vacation until the boom of their enterprising neighbors has ended. Florida es­ pecially will find she has been "penny saving and pound foolish." THE ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay craze has assumed international proportions. According to the latest advices from London uo other song ever achieved such a popular success .there. Not only do millions hum it. whistle It, listen to it from street organs from morn till night, but the law courts are besieged with demands for injunc­ tions and claims of exclusive propri­ etorship. An eminent music-hall artist expends so much energy singing the song that she is obliged to rest alternate weeks, and her return to the stage is announced with as much parade it the press as if she were Patti, while the boxes are crowded nightly with statesmen and great social an<l professional dignitaries. RECEirr legislation with the view •oT restricting Chinese immigration into this country, gives special inter- -est to the general subject. The pres­ ent Chinese population of this coun­ try is a very hard matter to ascertain. The census returns are exceptionally unreliable on this point. No other nationality made such strenuous ef­ forts to conceal their numbers, and that for the obvious reason that it is -the only nationality discriminated .against in our immigration laws. But it in safe to say that the number is decreasing rather than increasing. At least there would be no danger of any considerable increase under a •continuance of the present law on the subject. The influx began in the year 1S.>5 when the number landing «t the Golden Gate was 3,520. The, greatest mimber coining in anyone year was In 1882, 35,614, The yea* following the number fell to 381. The total number from 1855 to the close of 1883 was 274,301. Since €hen the influx has been mainly clandestine. It is estimate! that nearly one-half of the total number of Chinese who have come to this country have re­ turned to their native/land, dead or alive. Eve^y self-supporting and self-re­ specting head of a family in the State ought to take at least two newspapers --his own home paper, and the lead­ ing State Journal. We give the pre­ ference to the local paper because that is the one which comes most closely home to the man,and in which he should have a. direct personal and friendly interest. # And so, if the de­ mands upon one's resources are such that only a single paper can be af­ forded. the neighbor who is doing his utmost to help the community, and incidentally himself, is the one who should receive encouragement and support. Newspapers cost so little nowadays, however, that it needs no self-denying ordinance on the part of anyone able to rear his family de- decently to enable him to take both his local paper and another, and in no other way is it possible to get so much of pleasure and profit at so lit- tie expenditure of money. News­ papers are not published froin philan­ thropic motive; but many country publishers are often tempted to be­ lieve that most of the people in the community in which their lot is cast have this opinion in regard to them. They are asked to grind everybody's ax, and they do so most patiently and willingly, provided no one is injured by the grinding; they are expected to know everything that is going on,and to present the local news fully and attractively; they must be wide- awake and progressive, vigilant for the advancement of the material pro­ gress of the locality, be on the look­ out for helpful projects, and be ready in season and out of season to exploit the industrial, agricultural and social advantages of the section with which they are identified. This work they do. For doing it the^* should receive cordial and substantial support--a sure incentive to redoubled efforts, makifig the ' paper more potent foi good in and for the community. Far too often the support is half-hearted and grudging; the publisher grows dis­ couraged at the apparent lack of ap­ preciation of his efforts; he cannot afford the expenditures which are really necessary to make his paper what he would like to have it, and it is said to be running down,. when its decadence is, in fact, a reflection upon the spirit and progress of the com­ munity. There is no enterprise which deserves more liberal and considerate treatmeq^ at the hands of the people than their local papers. Some of tnese, pioneers in progress, estab­ lished before there is a clientage suf­ ficient to support them, are necessarily crude and for a time can only expect a scantv living. But the friendly hand should be extended to them, and those which are more favorably situated should be suitably sustained. The local merchant should use them freely, and, demonstrating that ad­ vertising pays, should willingly pav a fair price for the returns he re­ ceives. The professional and busi­ ness man, the artisan and the agri­ culturist should take them and should otherwise patronize them whin they have need, and they will find the whole community quickened into new activity by the impulse which the live local paper will give. The home paper in every community should be made a tower of strength THE TARIFF MADE EAST. PRACTICAL QUESTIONS RECEIV­ ING PRACTICAL ANSWERS. Tact In • UmIwi. Tact as the distinctive charac­ teristic of social breeding* has been seldom shown to better advantage, says the New "York Herald, than by two ladies of noted hospitality, Mrs. William C. Whitney of New York and Mrs. George S. Stud'.veil of Brook­ lyn. The circumstance'} were nearly the same in each case. Mrs. Whit­ ney was presiding over » dinner party in her own house. About a score of guests were present and the service included china of the most exquisite foreign manufacture. With the ap­ pearance of the fruit one of these priceless plates was placed before each guest. Their beauty attracted general admiration, and one young man, seated opposite his hostess, nervously dropped his knife upon his plate and it was broken. Con vet sa- tion was hushed instantly and all eyes were turned toward Mrs. Whitney, who was thus forced to take Some no­ tice of the accident. "Permit me to apologize, Mr. ," she said, "for the fragile nature of these plates. One would easily suppose that they were made to be broken. The slight­ est jar is sufficient." And as she spoke she tapped w-ith her fruit knife upon her own until it fell in fragments, whereupon conversation was resumed. Mrs. Studwell of Pierre- pont street, Brooklyn, has a superb table service of silver and Bohemian glass, embossed with gold, with which she entertains her friends. This ware includes appropriate glasses for half a dozen varieties of wines and liquors. Dinner was over and she was hojding up for inspection a water goblet, as delicate and beautiful as a rainbow tinted bubble, when it slipped from her lingers and was shattered upon the carpet. "Well." she remarked with a sad glance at the shininir pieces, "1 ought certainly to rejoice that I broke that glass myself, for had some of you anticipated me I should have been compelled, like poor Mrs.- Whitney, to restore the en­ tente cordiale by breaking another." Men neglect little things every day that cause them worry at night. It is a bad custom, but we don't sup­ pose there is any iwe saying; any­ thing. -; •. •'; > W. Cmm Grow C»rp*« V<m1 -- CImlui Md Wu4--X* IUhsi fp* |*ar, WtiM-Aifinwrt tm Tf- T»flir QqMikiM Aiiw*T«4. Question No. If • protective tariff MI Manu:actureri unifies reduce* their prices how WtUrach taritl enable the American iwmnfae- to t he laborer higher wage* lor mak- thost; articles) 1 lute* •ery protectionist admits that the Erimary etfect of a protective duty may eto increase the price of the article to the consumer; but he also claims that. this increase of price, if it does occur, is only temporary, and that verv soon Erices will fall. And why ? Because of fme competition, which begets skill, leads to the introduction of better methods, and olten to the invention of improved machinery. Alt' n> state of active competi­ tion,' with each manufacturer strain­ ing everv nerve40 get his products on the market before his brother manufact­ urers, theee results cannot but follow. American labor once given a chance to exert itself, soon becomes more skill­ ful, American ingenuity devises new processes; unci better meihoun, and AiiiericHu inventive genius having a iJeld for application lias ever given us improved machines and labor-saving devices. In this way protection tends lower cost of production, ahd thus that same competition, which of itself ieaus io higher wages because of in­ creased demand for labor, also leads to tower prices because of better meth­ ods and greater skill. The second reason why manufacturers can exist in the lace of rising waeesand Calling prices is because protection, by the safeguard it places around the American market, insures continuous production, although on a lower scale oi profits. If, under free'trade, Ameri­ can manufacturers could live at all, their existence would be at best but a fitful one. Exposed* at all times to the danger of being swamped by the sur­ plus production of other countries, their own production would be fluctuat­ ing and unsteady; and, as airesult, thev couin uniy resort to one expedient--to charge higher profits ia times of com­ parative prosperity, in order to campaign as car recoup themselves for the loss which might occur at any time, and which they cannot foresee. Under protection, on the other hand, our market is safe. The manu­ facturer does not nfeed to charge higher profits at one time to make up for loss at another, *nd he can well afford, therefore, to reduce the rate or scale of his profits, because his total earning *re greater on account of the steady oroduction, which is the result of pro­ tection. 80 we see that the condition irhich exists all around us--that of ris­ ing wages and falling prices--is not an anomalous one, but is the natural and logical result cf the hom* competition )tarted into being by the protective teiiff, which guards alike the interests of manufacturer, laborer and consumer --of the first, by increasing his total earnings; of the second, bv arising the wages received for his work, and of the last, by reducing the prices of the arti­ cles he buys. Question No. ST. How are American goods to find any market abroad from their cheapness •0 long us a tax is imposed on the material* of which they are made ? If by "tax," tariff is meant, we reply that any manufacturer who is ambitious to try his hand at capturing the world's markets can get lree raw material for that purpose now under the drawback provision of the McKinley tariff. It is not the duties on raw materials that keep him out of those murkets. It is the high price paid for American labor which is entirely responsible for what­ ever American products cost above the price of foreign goods. That free raw materials would do no good is strikingly proved in tho case of cottons. The raw material is free, vet we export less manufactured cotton than we import. The same is true of manufactures of •ilk, paper stock and hides, although the raw material in each case is abso­ lutely free. We must reduce wages before making any very extensive cap- tares of foreign markets at present. Question Xo. 8U. Why lake the duty off sugar to make it cheap and i>lace it on tin plate 10 Bake it cheap ? To remove a duty like that on sugar always lowers the price, because we could not supply more than one-tenth of the quantity needed. The duty was put on tin, because we have the re­ sources for producing all the tin plate this country can consume. The princi­ ple is this--to admit free what we can't R/k-CC OF 1 /viCW I ra----wfwBteep1 wKOiun--• nomination." (Extract from recent THE DONKEY--"So have I." A MUTUAL DOUBT. Su tothewisdom of again putting' tter.) in prodhce; and to protect what we can proatice in abundance. Question No. 40. Would free trade be more 'tfn' V •wcnAValiBiUvo.ik moi ueen introduced in the Australian Parliament, providing for a nineteen percent premium on gold, taken in payment for customs duties. France appears to have adopted the Jerry Rusk method of dealing with anar­ chists, and to have tound it just as effec­ tive as Uncle Jerry did, when he vae Governor o! Wisconsin. That proposed international silver conSerence appears [to be worrying some of those who have been doing the loudest shouting about the necessity for such a conference. The democrats who talked of an ad­ journment of Congress by the first of 1 June, are not talking, on that subject these days. The any-body-to-beat-Cleveland Demo­ crats Are expecting an inning in the near future. Whenever the administration sees fit- to "call down" Great Britain for ite acquisition of territory in Venezuela by J,n exhibition of the "Monroe doctrine," ^ will be supported bv every patriotic American, *! If "baby Ruth" looks anything like the pictures of her, printed m the New York papers, Mrs. Cleveland is probably sorry *he ever married. c[One at present insurmountable obstacle infold fete *?mfVilSB B B tlr 0^ 'Oftllfg to pay for a better domestic fabric.-- American HfcononM. We Can Cirow carpet Wool*. When the question was put to Judge Lawrence, of Ohio as to whether carpet wools can be raised in this country, he said "yes," and then went on to say: This country needs 25,000.000 sheep of the best mutton variety--the Downs, Shrop­ shire's, Lincolns,ctc., producing an average of seven pounds of wool per head, or in all 175,000.000 pounds, unwashed. More than one-tenth consists of "tiiplocks" and "breech" wool, 17,500,000 pounds so coarse and heavy as to be fit only for carpets, and it is in this wool that Ohio is directly interested in preserving to the wool growers of this country the whole of the so-called carpet wool production. II imports are permitted they will be used for the manufacture of clothins goods, and belter portions to mix with merino and the long wool for the same purpose. It is better to mix American third-class wool rattier than foreign. Capt. A. E. Shepard. formerly president of the Texas Wool Cirowets' Association, has testified before the committee of ways and means in.Con- grcss that Texas alone can produce ail tha tbirorciasi wooL and under proper condi­ tions wiii do so. The aHe statfstieas the Department of Agriculture. Prof. J. It. Dodge, in his monthly report for June, 1890, said: "So-called carpet worth from H to 2H cents per pound, used for the coarsest carpets and lor the finest fabrics, have been imported at a discrimination tlow duty) utterly trivial and ineffectual, hit for this American manufacturers would consume very little except American wool." 8enator A Id rich makes public some of the inside history of the Rhode Island ried on by the Demo­ crats. They wanted to carry the state on free trade issues, and Bitpposed that Cleveland was the highest exponent oi that principle. They therefore secured him to make a canvass of the state on that issue in the hope that they would succeed in two thiugs, make 4 sure of Cleveland's nomination, and also dem­ onstrate his power to carry Little Rhody and other New England states. Here was the scheme in Mr. Aldrich's own words: This plan was to have Cleveland enter the campaign as he did, and, as soou as the Democrats had pulled out a victory, to send the announcement broadcast that the ex- President, having demonstrated his ability to carry Khode Island on a tree-trade plat­ form, could, ot courso, carry the other New England states, and was, therefore, the on­ ly Democrat who could possibly be elected without the vote of the state ot New York. So enthusiastic were the Cleveland men over their plan that they were able to pur- tuade ex-Secretary Whitney to assist them, lie had up to one month ago religiously held aloot from the Cleveland worshipers, but he finally became imbued with their confidence, and, in addition to accompany­ ing the ex-President to Providence, he signed his name to a good-sized check for the purpose of helping the cause along. I have personal knowledge that the men who were managing the Cleveland campaign in Rhode Island raised the sum of $100,000 and spent it This was done for the same reason that Cleveland was inportcd into the state, namely, to en able the friends of tho Perpetual Candi­ date to claim a Democratic victory as an achievement to be credited to the Cleve­ land cause alone. The plan did not work, for the reason that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats of Khode Island are free traders, and tho result leaves the Cleveland men without a New England peg to stand on. They were prepared to announce Democratic success as a demon­ stration that Cleveland could carrv the New England states. The Democratic de­ feat, it is equally plain, means that Cleve­ land cannot carry the New Kngland states, or any of them, and that conse­ quently, without New Vork he is not even to be considered a possibility. Xo U«M»n for Fear. There need be nc fear, growers of wool at the West, no fear, nmuufactur- ers of woolen goods, cotton ties and tin plates, and the workers employed in in such manufactures,/ The Democrats of the House know that the tariff bills they, are passing have not a ghost of a chance to become laws. The party would not dare to pass the bills without revision of duties on other articles, if it imagined they could become laws, be- »use of the gtoss injustice of selectinga ew industries for destruction by free rade while others remain protected. The Senate is in the way, and behind iie Senate is President Harrison. It rats he who taught the country four rears a^o that it would never dare to >eek cheap coats at the expense of put- ing chciij) men into them. This diutinct statement, that there ia 30 danger whatever of a change of du­ ties, seems to be called for because dis­ patches and letters represent that work- art; in mills, and growers of wool at the West and even on the Pacific Coast, are dsrmed and angry. They have reason o be indignant, but ho reason to be ifraid until the country has elected a Jemocratic president; "" The prospect of uch a calamity appears more remote han it appeared in November, 1890. |t is fortunate that the people who want do mischief are rarely born with ains enough to do much. Kindly, d also stupidly, the Democratic party rves notice on the wool-growers what 3 success would mean for them, ?4d likewise on the woolen manufac- Je t-ers and the men and women in :>olen mills, on the thonsands who are ubled by a single clause in riff to be engaged tbis dayitPmaking tton-ties, and on the thousands who e employed in making tin plates, and t e other thousands who are pmting up orks for that manufacture. Kot one ilitary vote will these bills bring to the emocratic party from the consumers f wool, woolen goods, cotton-ties or ar- cles manufactured lrom tin. For all lese things are as cheap as, and early all of them cheaper than, hey were before the new tariff as enacted. Tin plates at wholesale re a little dearer, but not the fraction 'of a cent has yet been added to the cost of tinware to cdnsumers. Co tton-ties are cheaper, most woolen goods are cheaper or as cheap, and the manufac­ turer himself pays less for his wool. , Wise Democrats, on the threshold of a presidential election to make a host of determined foes, and not one friend, by voting for bills which can bv no possi­ bility become laws. But democratic capacity for blundering is l>oundless, and has elected several Republican Presidents already. The end of it is not yet, for it is just when Democrats need their sober senses most that they always get desperate and# surpassingly foolish. That great majority in the House is a blessing to the country, since the party can no longer evade responsi­ bility for what is done or not done in that body. The friends ot protection have a great battle before them, and have no right to neglect any precaution or effort, but they have a powerful ally in the congelation of incompetents and fanatics filled the Democratic ma­ jority in the Houfe. Every hour this new tariff is making votes for itself. When it was first adopted the Tribune pronounced it the bravest and wisest tariff ever framed, I01 because, though at first misunderstood, it would win its own way. Under the shadow of the great defeat in 1890 the Tribune did not hesitate to predict tnat within two years the McKinley tariff, then derided by so many, would vindi­ cate the sagacity of its supporters. Al­ ready there are thousands of voters in every close or doubtlul state in the Union whno« r>«Nnn;i iTilcrcst" ~r." ii lectly identified with the maintenance of the tariff of 1890. and establish­ ments have come into being all over the country because of provisions of that measure which employ a great army of workers. It is not a bad thing to build up the industries of the country and trust the people.--New York Tribune. Th« Hmm tk» Nation'* Bulwark u4 Mope. Not long ago a distinguished English man and jurist visited our country. On the eve of his return, in a public ad* dress, he alluded to the fact that wher­ ever he went he was asked whether he was not amazed at the great size of our country. This student of law and gov­ ernment very kindly, but very decid­ edly. rebuked this tc*> prevalent pride of bulk, and called our attention to the finer and higher things that he had ob­ served in our American civilization. So to-day, as 1 look into these intelli­ gent faces, my thoughts are turned awav from those things that are scheduled, that have their places in our census re­ turns, to those things which belong to the higher man--his spiritual and mor­ al nature. I congratulate you, not so much upon the rich fann lands of your county as upon your virtuous and happy homes. The home is the best, as it is the first school of good citizenship. It is the great conservative and assimilat­ ing force. I should despair for my couutry If American citizens were to be trained only in our schools, valuable as their instruction is. It is in the home that we first learn obedience and respect for law. Parental authority is the type of the beneficent government. It is< in the home that we learn to love, in the mother that bore us, that which is virtuous, consecrated and pure. I take more pride in the fact that the Republican party has always been the friend aqd protector of the American home than in aught else. By the benificent home­ stead law it created more than half a million of homes; by the emancipation proclamation it converted a miljion cat­ tle-pens into homes. And it is Btill true to those principles that will pre­ serve contentment and prosperity in our homes. I greet you as men who have been nurtured in such homes, and call your thought to the fact that the Reptiplican party has always been, and can be trusted to be, friendly to all that will promote virtue, inteltigance, and morality in the homes of oju peo­ ple.--Bcnj. JlarrUon. Which Wilt He Stand Hyf THE "nOBBEn" MANU- | Tin "ROBBE^* WAXO- FACTUIiKR. FACTUKKR. W« discover that the The manufacturer fortunes realized bjronr who »e«s in l'ree raw mi- manufacturers aru no'terinlii h reduced coatol lunger obtained solely,hl* product*, resulting by reward of >turdy In- In un increased con­ sumption aud an exten­ sion of hU markets, and a constant activity and return tor his invested capital, can hardly trust the perty v.'ha tlrat resisted any rcioria in the tariff, then jugglod with it ami last ilutljr refuted him the- relief he still need*. --Mr. 'irover Cleveland, Look- •tig for Offlw, Providence, R. /.. April -i. im. ciuatry and ejiUxhtened foresight, but tbat they result lrom the discrim­ inating taTorofthegoT- cruiiieni, and are large­ ly built upon undue ex­ actions lrom the masses of the people.--Preaidcnl Grovtr Cleveland, in of- fiee, WaMbingUmf D. XtoXMfcrfc MSa Aifsttraat Sb "ieturoa. The duty on the working girl's calico dresB is A 5 cents per yard. fS But the actual cost of the protecte material in New York City is only 4 cents per yard. FF It would be interesting toliave the free traders explain where the "tariff tax" comes in. Here is a result of Republican reci­ procity which free trade papers will carefully abstain from discussing. The imports of American flour into Havana r the months of January and Februa­ ry, 1891, were 5,758 sacks. For the same months in 1892 they were 83,648 sacks. The McKinley law is~^R~Tjest tariff measure the American farmer ever had. This is the way imported carpetmgs aro coming down under the alleged "tax" of the McKinley bill. Average price of imported caroetings for Feb- ruary. 1891. * $2.31 per tquare yard. Average import price of the carpetings imported in February, 1892. $1.82 ' J. per square yar The Democratic House of Representa­ tives has just passed a bill to put cotton ties on the free list. Before the Mc­ Kinley bill was passed we got our cotton ties from England. During the calen­ dar 1890 we imported $521,451. The McKinley law set the American cotton tie factories at work. Result: In the calendar year 1891 we imported cotton ties to the amount of only 416,550 pounds. For these we paid foreigners $13,45ST This means a saving of over half a mill­ ion dollars to American producers. This is one of the industries, now firm­ ly established here, whidh the Demo­ crats propose to hand back to Great Britain. HEMORRHAGES of the lungs or stomach are promptly checked by small doses of salt The patient shau'd be «s quiet as possible. Spurs o«*a iMithf The Rev. Charles Haddon Spar* •reon, the famous English Baptist dl« vine who died recently, revealed in his childhood the characteristics which he showed in his later life. Few cases of such precocity in relig­ ious work are on record- He became the regular pastor of the Baptist Church or "chapel" at "VV'aterbeach when be was 17 years old, and went to London to take charge of an important city congre­ gation when he was 19. His first evangelizing tfork was done, probably, when he was 6 years old. At that tender age he heard his grandfather, a Congregational minister, lamenting the habits of one of his flock, who was often found drinking beer in a public bouse. Before long little Charles informed his grandfather that "old Rhodes would never grieve poor grandfather any more." "What do you mean, child?" asked the minister. "I have not been doing any harm, grandfather," said the 6-year-old; "I've been about the Lord's work, tbat is all." The mystery was presently ex­ plained by "old Rhodes" himself. He had been sitting in a public house when a small child came to him and said: ~ "What doest thou here, Elijah, sit ting with the ungodly? You, a mem­ ber of a church, and break your jes­ ter's heart! I'm ashamed of you! I would not breac my pastor's heart, I am sure." Rhodes was angry for a moment, but came to the conclusion that, the child was right. He went and begged the pastor's pardon, and gave up going to the public house. When he was 18 years old he was invited to preach an anniversary ser­ mon for a neighboring octogenarian minister who had heard of hifti, but who had never seen him ;jimi wh/x no idea that he was so young a man. When the old minister at last saw* Spurgeon he lost his temper, for it seemed to him that the anniversary would be spoiled. "Tut, tut! a pretty kettle of fish!" he exclaimed. "Boy going up and down the country before their moth­ ers' milk is well out of their mouths!"' In the pulpit the boy preacher read the sixteenth chapter of Proverbs, and upon the verse, "The hoary head is a crown of glorv if it be found in the way of righteousness," delivered a little homily upon uncivil tongues in hoary heads, and declared that rude­ ness brought no glory. The aged minister was present, and for a wonder took the rebuke in very good part. He was indeed delighted and was therafter a great admirer of Mr. Spurgeon. -^Youth's Companion. Haw to Hm Ap*««blt. Everybody wants to be popular. And to be popular one must be agree­ able. How shall it be accomplished? In the first, place, never forget yourself. Bear always in mind that you are'flrst and other people second. "Take care of No. 1.'^ Consult your own conscience in everything. It is no matter who is incommoded, if only you are satisfied. Don't put yourself out to consider other people's feelings. Let them keep their feelihgs out of the way if they don't want them trifled with. In society always take the lead in conversation. If you want to say anything, say it--never mind whom it hits. They needn't take it if they don't deserve it. % It doesn't matter who else is talk^ ing, just you say your say; you have as good a right to'talk as anybody. If vou have an idea, promulgate it at once; if you let it alone too long it might get lonesome and depart for­ ever, and the world woula be tfyo loser. • « Talk continually. Fill all the pauses. It Is wicked to suffer valuable time to run to waste. Interrupt al­ ways when you see fit. It teaches people to hurry up and not be too long-winded. If a person is telling an interesting story, smile knowingly all through, and just as he has reached the de­ nouement, exclaim: "Oh, I heard that story years ago!" It will prevent the narrator from feeling too important, and it is your duty to always cultivate a spirit of due humility.in--your neighbors. If anyone tells anything particular­ ly striking--just you go to work and tell something a little more so. Try and not be beaten. If any lady plays or sings, whistle an intermittent accompaniment, and be sure to remark the Instant she has ilnished: "You ought to hear Miss A. play that! It is something like --the way she handles a piano!" Always monopolize the Are. It shows your independence. Great men are always independent of the shackles of conventionality. Toss over all the books and trifles on the tables; it will keep someone out of idleness to set them to rights. Put your feet on the chairs. If your boots are dirty, never mind; somebody will dust things in the morning, and they 'might as well have something worth while to dp. Follow faithfully these few, sim­ ple suggestions, and if you fail of be­ ing popular, one of two things is cer­ tain--you were either born too early or two late, and the world is not in a condition to appreciate you. For which, blame the werld--but never yourself. A I'alaca Under W»t*r. A suijimer-house under water, tha occupmts of which does not get wet, )'.% one of the luxuries enjoyed by the Xing of Siain. In the center of a beautiful marble basin a glass house is standing 28x14. The sides, floor and roof of the house consist of plat8 glass held together by a transparent cement. The King enters the house when the heat of the day begins to row unpleasant The door U then closed and cemented. After that a floodgate is opened and the basin is tilled with water until it stands onlj a few inches below the roof of the house. It is clear that the temx-era- ture in this submarine palace cannot fail ?.o be always cool and delightful­ ly fresh. There the King spends the hot hours of the day. After they are past the water is drained off and the door taken out, when his majesty re­ traces lil« steps to his dining hall. in- rttfc SLY OLD cbott. 9M (M UM Sijilrfcii AntmsU 4 , Betwen Canada and the Gulf of Mexico and the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic coat there is no better known animal to the farmer than this same old coon--he is not known as a friend either, and he ia treated ac­ cordingly. He likes chickens and be dotes oo sweet corn, and therefore he is voted a nuisance and an enemy; for his cun­ ning and perseverance in robbing hen roosts, and in foraging through the garden make him a marked coon iu every sense of the word. Hut, com­ ing out only at night time, be mwt be hunted then, or never, since he never moves by daylight. The raccoon (iMsrvon tetos*) the only animal of its kind in America. It is a very near relative to the black bear and has been playfully called the "wash bear" by many observers who have watched its antics as it sported in the water edges of creeks and rivers, where it is very fond of goins. since it greedily eats frogs and e»y~ iish, and on the sea coast and its estuaries it is a great fisherman for crabs, and when thus engaged it af­ fords an entertaining study and has given rise to no end of queer fables about its method of ashing anu crab­ bing, using its tail as bait, &c. From the strict habit of this in­ teresting animal to do all of its mov­ ing about only during night, it is verv difficult to give more than a general outline of its peculiar method of foraging for existence. It is a tree «lweller and always resorts to the hollow of some tree trunk to rear ite young in and to pass the daytime in­ tervals in sound sleep. It has from four to six young, and rears these in this arboreal retreat. They are brought forth usually in the spring, and the coon mother devotes herself to their care for several months, or, at least, until tney are about as luge as herself: she leads them down at night into the best resorts of their chosen prey, and she has not got to go far, for they can and do eat most • everything--such as mice, birds' eggs and the helpless young turtles and eggs, clams, crabs, crayfish, insects, nuts of all kinds and orchard fruits, sweet corn in especial, and any green corn for that matter, and frequently, far too frequently, they visit the farmer's hen house, more for eggs and young chickens than the old birds. Thus it will be observed that though the coon lives in the tree top, yet it does not find- its food there, though it is a most expert climber. It is a rather slow traveler when on foot over the ground, and it would be eAsily run up a tree by an active man. could that man see it and where* to run when it is out prospecting; therefore the services of Uie coon dog --that yellow cur that sportsmen's tales have fastened in our mind--are called into play, i Brer coon is en­ dowed with a very lresh scent, and it is a very poor stick of a dog that can­ not track him. Small as the coon Is, vet it can make an ugly light and s winning one usually if pitted against only one dog, but it seldom offers battle when pursued if it can reach any kind of a tree trunk or sapimg. It will, if possible, gain the largest tree in the thicket, knowing that it . is just so much more inaccessable to the noisy dogs and men that arc on its trail.--Washington Star. I£ % A Wona«rl«U Voter. WFKRE are all the men who tendoi toge-t riuhoOI rig|l*f The worthy clerk of a country church, which the writer once fre­ quently atteuilecl, says London Tit. Bits, was the happy possessor of a tremendous has* voice--not musical. His resonant "amen" made the win­ dows rattle--so the folks said. Cer­ tainly it awed every playfully inclined youngster into rigid attention. The distance the villagers said it could be heard, ii."writ" down, would provoke derision. In course of time the vicar died, and a stranger took his place-- a nervousgentleman. When the tremendous 4lah-b-h- men!" reverberated down the aisle He shivered and shrank as if a blow had been struck him. Unable to suffer in silence, he one day remonstrated with the too audible clerk. Said he: "Mr. G , 1 should be glad if you would speak the responses in a more gentle voice. Your 'amen' particularly gives me a shock." "A--a--shock, sir!" stammered the astonished offender, in a voice that appeared to proceed from his boots. "Why--why--I've been parish clerk here for thirty years, and--and--" He could not finish the sentence^ The idea that his "grand amen" should be shocking to anybody pre­ vented utterance. "Arc you so attached to that un­ musical bull's organ of yours that you are unwilling to moderate its roar?" the vicar asked. "That'sit, sir," was the deep re­ ply. "I couldn't do it Gives you a shock? I think it's, something to be proud of. ^lie old vicar wat very proud of it." In brief, the worthy fellow offered to surrender his office. So long as he occupied the lowest seat in the ••three decker'* he must be allowed to roar. The vicar gave in, for his parishioners were almost as proud of the clerk's "amen!" as that wort himself. ^ f""*' awlxt <• Customer (at office of gas company) --There is an error of $3.73 in this bill you sent me the other day. Cashier (looking it over)--I think you are mistaken. I have made no error in \,he calculation. ."But there is a mistake of $3.15 in the bill, all the same. I've come here to have it rectified, and, by George, I'm not gqinjf to be bluffed out of it. "Mv clear si.r we have to go by the meter. If there is aiivtning wrong with it we'll send a man down toybui house to look at it." "You don't go by the meter. That's where the mistake in this bill comes in. I can read the meter aa well as you or anybody else can, and 1 kept track of it last month for my own satisfaction." "And you find we charged JOU $3.7"> too much last-month?" "No. sir. You hr.ve charged BM $3,75 too little." (Ringing the telephone bell violenty) •*Send a policeman here quick!' There's a ^t cago Tribtiaa * - , > i > ^ 1 rH=m. :tr-sC® .