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PLAINDEALEK Mi VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. ILLINOIS. . . . A MA:, AI,O?« ItStas am ..tery vague ficuceruiujt everything else, has a ; \ Utry clear opinion of woman's duties. u__ . . AOB and experience are the best ^1lji|aehers3 How muchmore we learn "yftch succeeding day. A better way fc put It would be to say, how much less we know each day. ,-if WniLE Italy is reported upon the Ifery verge of bankruptcy she goes flsht along expending millions for a great standing army, and millions more tor armed cruisers. Europe never before so bristled with arms. , She world of men will natura^i^ . ^ What does it all mean? - r,0 ^ - • Dm you ever stop to think that in than one hundred years from now none ot us will be worrying or both- , i ,«ring about the petty trials of life? , 'I write these few lines for those who ' a r e continually fretting themselves *bout mere trifles. it don't pay; they don't amount-to anything after •11. of Deputies is but another proof that anarchy is everywhere the same bru­ tal combination of a vile minority to slaughter its opponents. In France the liberty of speech runs to license: The discussion of the theory of anarachy has gone unchecked in Paris?. Anarchy hat> had its candi­ dates for the Legislature. It has as­ sumed all the functions of a party. It cannot be urged in mitigation of the discharge of the bomb that there was a real or mistaken fear of police prevention of freedom of speech. The murderous conspiracy in Paris was of a piece with JUat in Chicaga It was the crime of men whose insane wickedness had been permitted to develop by careless authorites, and it stands as confirm­ atory evidence of the need of "short, sharp, and decisive'1 methods of deal­ ing with anarchistic assemblies. LOCHREN BACKS SOWN JUDGE LONG RESTORED TO THE PENSION ROLLS/ THE editors of doming papers in (Germany leave their offices at 9 • clock, and the papers are on the press at 11 o'clock. By 12 o'clock „ even the orinters have gone home, . jind when Gen. Yon Moltke died at • il o'clock at night there was only one Berlin newspaper that had a line tfbout it in its issue next morning. " , PEOPLE :^feliiever add writing abroad should ^ Esquire" after the name ^ On the envelope. Foreign postoffice people are so ignorant that tbey fre- quently take the word "Esquire" for !'• " ft place, the consequence of which is V that scores of letters go astray in the a year. Don't use "Es- |he proper affix to an address, f course of guire" at all; it. is bad form; DR. JOHNSON says that no man ever became great by imitation, but the experience of Rev. Isaac David­ son, colored, of Alabama, shows that an imitator may obtain a certain de­ gree of notoriety combined with more or less pleasurable excitement. Par­ son Davidson had heard Sam Jones at Birmingham address his congre gations as dirty yellow hound dogs and imps of hell, and upon returning to his flock decided to adopt a simi- lar style of oratory. He had an idea that it would stir up the brethren, it did. Mr. j Davidson opened the campaign by announcing that his parishoners were black devils and imps of hell, whereupon the parish- oners arose as one man and one woman with the avowed intention of killing him. He escaped only by pleading temporary insanity. This teaches us that though you may learn to squint by looking at squint­ ing people, you bad best be sure of your squintee before exercising yottr powers. >o nmM t.l«F--lit* Wan a Hlsfet Thou­ sands of Sufferers Thronghoat the W«t IntarMte* tn the Case.- ̂ ̂ llokA Smithism " v Judge Long, of Michigan, has been restored to the pension rails. The j Pension Office issre l a notice that in view of the act of Congress of Dec. 21, 1893, it no longer had a right to with- j v,f>ads hold from him the money due him from the government. This action of Com­ missioner of Pensions Loehren pending an application in court for a mandamus to compel him to do so is a surrender in advance of his entire position. Law­ yers generally were of opinion that the court would grant the mandamus. If Loehren shall come into court and plead that Judge Long has been re­ stored with full arrearages, he will confess the whole case and be sparrd the humiliation of being driven to that action by a mandamus. The passage of the law cited by Congress, declaring a pension to be & vested right, has taken the ground out from under Commissioner Lochren's pension policy. The truth is tjiat Sec­ retary Hoke 'Smith, who came into of­ fice determined to defeat the Union soldiers if he could, has been driven from his position by an indignant pub­ lic sentiment that forced the recent legislation by Congress; and now Com­ missioner Lcchren, alarmed by the same public sentiment, and threatened by a serious demonstration against him in Congress, is seeking to run away from his own record by restoring J udge Long to,tho pension roll. Judge Long's case has been taken by the pensioners of the country, suffer­ ing under the injustice of the Loehren rulings, as a test of their rights. He was suspended peremptorily by Loeh­ ren, because total helplessness was not proven. i {psvttynd theory that the Amerioan j people would sanction the perversion 1 of tne |>ower of this republic for the purpose of erecting a despotism on the ruins of popular institutions estab­ lished in Hawaii by men of American speech, American blood and American ideas. | Tt. is a notorious faet that t<he r«n»»- r'gado cresham s attempt to bring: about the restoration of the unspeakably dis­ solute Queen was inspired by his in- !sane hatred of President Harrison. But for Mr. Cleveland to endeavor to •make Gresham a scapegoat is an insult to popular intelligence. The whole j nation knows that the President who tries to rule Congress by threats and bribery with patronage, is an absolute autocrat in his own cabinet. The of departments are merely Cleveland's clerks. • .« ORIGIN Off LYNCH LAW* 1 Metft*oHta0 'T«il*one and Tele- -1 graph Ooiipanjr of this city, which is in Virginia »*»<« w»» "Sot violent j expected to do away with 'Tinging off." This device consists cf a min­ iature incandescent lamp in front of the operator, which flashes whenever a receiver is hung .up after trie com- pletim of n convcrsntfon. H .was or MobJlke. Lynch law had its origin in Vir­ ginia, according to the conclusion ot a gentleman who has been investigat­ ing the earlv hMorv of that Stat*. ONE of Rudyard Kipling's ncigh- - bors in Brattleboro is William A. Co- ftant, who might justifiably be called ; / the "American Stradivarius." For •inore than fifty years he has made excellent violins and 'cellos. He C' had a high reputation In Boston and JNew fcork for workmanship as far & back as 1841, and since that time he lias manufactured as many as 700 ' .L1kviolins of fine quality. Mr. (Sonant * Is now 89 years old. Stradivarius y- pnade violins when 92, and it would :ibe a proper thing for Mr Conant to Continue at his trade for three fears ^ to come. THE Medical Record ot New York rls obliged to raise its voice demand- jug police protection for the doctors, f who have been systematically robbed : by sneak thieves in that city. The thieves assume the character of in­ valids, in which they enter the of­ fices and residences ot physicians and steal everything in sight. The ^Record says that "if the police would be a little more alive the doctors K.J would not have to put combination locks on their front doors and chain iheir overcoats to the hall tree after having chained the tree to the bal­ ustrade. " U IT appears from Lady Burton's life o( her distinguished husband that when he was in the diplomatic service in India he grew tired of the society :;|of men and collected about him forty Jnionkeys of all ages, races, and spe- i|$jies, with whom he dined evfery day, . leach simian having his proper chair, %late, and food. Sir Richard sat at :Sfche bead of the table, with a pretty little monkey on a high baby-chair at jbis side. He gave each of the ani- ; mais a title, as doctor, chaplain, ^Bid-de-camp, secretary. What an op- Iportuaity this would have been for •Earner to forward his study of mon­ key dialects and manners ! ,v ^ C M«. CRUMLEY, the Yorkshire farmer who recently declared at th6 meeting of Lord Winchelsca's National Agricultural Union in London that he would not be a party "to any schcme bv means of which the farm­ ers are used to bolster up the decay­ ing squirearchy," seems fully to com­ prehend the purpose of the gather­ ing. The union was founded about a year ago for the special purpose of saving the landlords. Some of the wealthy farmers were admitted to the organization, but only that they might assist the landlords in their schemes. The landlord orators in­ veighed against the tax on land then as they did recently, forgecting that the heaviest tax levied was that for the landlords' benefit It was notice­ able too at this meeting that the resolutions were cut and dried affairs offered by Tory landlords and sup­ ported by Tory squires and landlords and sonpe of their favored tenants. It is becoming difficult to prop up landlordism even in England. m . THE expense of having theilciaold f^ > World's Fair souvenir 50-cent pieces : rccoined was $40,300 and the com- '- mission has paid the amount. The (Government declined to bear theex- pense, and had it not been paid by \ the commission the souvenir coins ^would have been put in circulation at their face value. As the coins un- f isold amounted $1,700,000, the issue of this vast sum at the face value of each piece would have been a great injustice to the people who had pur­ chased coins at a premium. Tnder ithe circumstances it was eminently . ;proper for the commission to pay the ':t cost of recoinage in order to protect those who had in good faith pur- debased the coins at a premium. ONE of the saddest mistakes ever made was when the«devoted wife of John Tyndal administered to him an overdose of chloral for sulphate of magnesia. "My poor darling, you have killed your John," the dying man said, when Mrs. Tyndal told him of her mistake while over­ whelmed with gri$f. The chloral and the magnesia had been kept side by side, and mistakes in similar cases ate frequent No one has the heart to say a word which could in the remotest degree reflect on the poor widow. John Tyndal was an honor to this age. His scientific achievements are world-wide. His bad health would probably have car­ ried him hence soon. The age will miss him. Among the mysteries is the departure, by seeming accident or mistake, from the earth life ot really useful men. There does not seem to be a reason for it unless, in­ deed, they are wanted elsewhere. Otherwise blind Fate rules us. There seems to be some things which are permitted for wise ends. IT really anpears very extraordinary indeed that in Great Britain at the close of the nineteenth century there can exist and agitate a considerable number of people who honestly be­ lieve that vaccination is not only not ' beneficial but positively injurious and gotten fatal. Yet such is the fact, foT "we are informed by the press dis- % patches that "antl-vaccinators," as they call themselves, actually over­ powered and beat back a large force of police which had to calm and, if neccssary, to dis­ perse a meeting of them. We in America have come to regard vaccina-M. tion as unquestionable and to submit to it in perfect confidence that it will work us no injurv and will infallibly protect us from smallpox contagion. In this view 'eind in this confidence | we probably are right Go $9 the Mole, Thou Sluggard. A mole's life is by no means a gen­ tlemanly sinecure, according to the Corn hill Magazine. He has to work harder, in all probability, for his pit­ tance of earthworms than any otber animal works for his daily bread. His whole existence is spent in per­ petually raising and removing large piles of earth by sheer force of mus­ cle In order to sustain such con­ stant toil and 1o replace and repair the used-up tissue the mole requires to be always eating. His appetite is voracious. He works like a horse and eats an elephant. Throughout bis waiting hours he is engaged in pushing aside earth and scurrying after worms in all bis galleries and tunnels. The laborer, of course, is worthy of his hire. Such ceaseless activity can only be kept up by equally ceaslcss feeding, and so the mole's existence is one long savage al­ ternation of labor and banqueting. His heart and lungs and muscles are working at such a rate that if he goes without food for half a day he starves and dies of actual inanition. site is a high pressure engine His drinking is like his eating: immod­ erate in all things he must have bis liquor much and often. So he digs many pits in his tunnele;! ground and catches water in them to supply .his needs at frequent intervals. He been ordered j doesn't believe, however, in the early closing movement. Day and night alike he drinks every few hours, for day and night are alike to him. He works and rests by turn, after the fashion of the navvies employed In digging tunnels, or measures his time by watches, as is the way- of sailors. <% THE cowardly discharge of a mur- deroim bomb in the French Chamb.-r AN uptown saloonist, after being twice route 1 up in the night to warm bottles for the toby, meanly pleaded when he got a third call: ain't got no license for bottling." that he had lost an arm at _ the elbow and has a gunshot wound in the left hip which gives him sueh trouble that, a trained nurse is in almost constant attendance on him. His pension of $72 a month would not pay the expense he is put to by reason of his hurts. That mattered little to Loehren. Judge Long was under suspicion, and his pen­ sion was suspended pending the de­ cision of the Pension Bureau. The confession of the Pension Office in this case that under the act of Dec. 21 the suspension of a pension pending an investigation of charges against its recipient is illegal, is important to ev­ ery veteran on the rdlls. Thousands of crippled and otherwise penniless soldiers of the Union army throughout the West have been deprived of their means of sustenance through the ca­ prices of the Hoke Smith class of re­ formers in the Pension Office. To them the news will come as a happy Now Year's gift that the small x-eturn made j bv the Government for their unself- isn services in the days when the ' country was in danger is notdependent on the Vhim of a seeker after a certain kind of notoriety. Judge Long's vigorous prosecution •. of his claim before the court* entitles him to the thanks of all these sufferers. Commissioner Loehren sought a shin­ ing mark when he made an example of a Justice of the Supreme Court cf Michigan. He wanted a reputation for "purging the rolls," and he saw no way to bring his presence in tho de­ partment so prominently before the country as to select a man of Judge Long's* prominence for a victim. Then it was "me and the bear." Judge Long set the wheels of tho courts in opera­ tion in his application for a mandamus.; It became a case of "the bear and me. "• After his disgraceful backdown Loeh­ ren will probably acknowledge that the onhr object in the lield now is "the bear.*^" W»r Claims v1 The South is certainly "in the sad­ dle" again. The House Committee on Judiciary has reported a bill reviving the famous "captured and abandoned Sroperty" acts, that caused so much ebate in Congress and invoked news­ paper comment a quarter of a century ago. Under the new rule disloyalty will be no bar to recovery from the United States for all the {property cap­ tured or abandoned during the war. It looks, indeed, as though the South would yet get pay for the slaves, as it has been for years demanding, and that the North would have to pay for all the property destroyed in the South during'the rebellion. If the bill re­ ferred to becomes a law a half dozen Wilson bills and hundreds of millions of bonds will ba needed to pay the debt. We are entering into a perfect saturnalia of Southern claims. It is a "change" with a vengeance. To reopen the court for claims of this character at this time is to invite f normous frauds and heavy drafts upon the treasury, but to add to it a clause removing the bar of disloyalty and specifically providing that disloyalty shall not oe considered ia.the examin­ ation of these claims throws down ev­ ery bar and opens to those who were in rebellion the wide door to the treasury of the United States.--Ohio State Jour­ nal. The People Demand the Troth. A genuine investigation into the Hawaiian infamy has begun. The American people will be satisfied with nothing short of the most complete unveiling of the conspiracy against the Provisional Government of Hawaii. Not only should the suppressed dis­ patches be demanded, but Willis and Blount should -be summoned to testify to their verbal instructions, and Ad­ mirals Skerrett and Irwin should be required to lay before the Senate Com­ mittee and the public all the orders which they have received for the dis­ play or the use of force at Honolulu. The fact that the administration has so far succeeded in battling the people's desire to know the truth has only in­ creased the popular demand that all tho truth shall be known. If Cleve­ land has not violated the Constitution he has nothing to fear from investiga­ tion, and the truth will exculpate him. If; on the other hand, he has exceeded his constitutional powers, whether in the appointment of Paramount Blount or by instructing Minister Willis to use or make a demonstration of force against the Provisional Government, or in plotting the overthrow of that government, or otherwise, then he should be held to accountability just as strictly as the lowest employe in the Federal service. WoTk of Wrecker WUsof^ ^ .- On several occasions the Indianapolis Journal has called attention to the in­ jurv which will coma to farmers should the Wilson bill become law. To make the fact of that in jury clearer in regard to a few articles, the following table is presented: ; i ^' »£•• Duty 1'rodnet. u. - , ' - Treaent. Proposed, liutter, jxjr pooBa Cheese, per noona..'.« Milk, per pnllon..... Beaus. per bushel...; Cabbage, each , Cider, prrpalion ,f , Apples, per bushel Kkks. per dozen. w..t Hope, per pound Hay.per ton.. I Broom corn, per ton,.».«%*..: • Honey, per gallon. Onions, per onshel,.. l'eas, per bushel Potatoes The foregoing list, which might be made three times an long as it is, chief­ ly affects what are known as truck farmers: but truck farming is a very largo industry, as flie following figures from the census of 1890 show: Product value. •.'1,102,521 a.il 3,648 4,692,881* 8,784,tiiHi 18.181,616 4,98'i,r>7'.» 4,!»70,7sa i5,«aa,v2M 304,7111 83l,'.)70 2,024,315 HOUSE District. N ew Knglaud New York and Philadelphia Peninsular Norfolk Baltimore South Atlantic Acres. . 8,83* .1<*,135 . 35,714 . 4S,:K5 . 37,181 .111,441 it was not mob law, it 1« «<>w un-1 said by President Cutler of the tcie derstood. It was orderly, methodical - phone company, that the device is and fair in its process, and was : working very well and mav be adopted strongly opposed to tviolence or mob I for use on all the switchboards' Of fete rule. Its distinctive feature was!company. ? R simply that its decrees and findings! „ _ were executed sternly and fcwiftly „ spoopemtike outdone. upon the spot of their delivery. ! Memories of the immortal Spoopen- Charles Lynch, whose name is asso- jdike are revived by an occurrence at ciated with the summary proceedings jour headquarters a few days ago, now known as acts of "lynch law," ! saj'3 the California Fruit Grower. was a revolutionary soldier, and after ] Incidental to our removal to new the war ended took up his residence • Quarters it became necessary to put in Pittsylvania County. The region j «P a stove. The office devil being in which he lived became at one scarcely tall enough to reach the period of the Revolution infested by i PsPe bole in the chimney, and being bands of tories and outlaws, whose ' otherwise eugaged at the time, an depredations upon the defenceless ] order was given to a leading hard- people extended from the lower parts j ware house to send a man over for a of "North Carolina and Virginia to minutes to put up the stove, the passes of the Blue Ridge and the The sequel proves that due consid- head waters of the James and other I ^ration was not given to the fact, mountain streams. Deserters from I that the hardware firm refened to both armies added strength and a i d^al in plumbera* supplies also. J'ree I scmblaace of organization to their! Instead of one man coming, 1 operations. Wherever they appeared j equipped to complete the job in half , the terrorstricken inhabitants were j ac hour, two able-bodied and leisure- plundered. harrassed, and mercilessly j ly citizens appeared upon the scene, subjected to every variety of insult' the second one being Drought along, and outrage. A remedy was needed for this insufferable state of things, a remedy that should at once strike such terror to these miscreants as would relieve a community already suffering from the effects of hostile invasion. Col Lynch was the man to take the lead in such an emer- ( gency. He succeeded in organizing a '• presume) for dinner. body of patriotic citizens, men of 5 was finally resumed on 5"res ,1'ree f 8 2 00 Free 10 30 Free 10 Mississippi V a l l e y . . » » • . . : w , i 8 o This in the^face of the fact! centr^?.8.V.V.V^ Northwest... Mountain Pacinc 1,0M» 3,833 14.33" Totals.... M4.4»i> f79.51T.155 An industry which calls ior over a half million acres, and the value of whose product is $7t>, ">CiO,OOOa year, is a very important one, even if it were confined to one section of the country. But, as much as any agriculture, truck- farming is widely spread. In fact, the acreage devoted to truck-farming in the Central States--Indiana,-Illinois. Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, etc.. is next the largest of any section of the country, and the value of the product is second of any locality--$15,4;{2,22.'l. It may be addeel that truck-farming would he more seriously affected in the central States, whicli'lind their largest markets in such cities as Chicago, i Cleveland, De­ troit and Milwaukee, so near the Cana­ dian farmer. Furthermore,every acre in the Northern States whose product in the markets might be displaced by an acre in Canada will he turned to wheat, corn, hay and other tillage, of which there is already an abundance. Truck-farming gave employment to 220,000 men, 10,001) women and ir»,00O cliildren in 1889, to i-ay nothing of mak­ ing use of 75,000 horses and mules. The Wilson bill pra tieally presents as much of this valuable and growing branch of agriculture to Canada as its people can avail themselves of with their cheaper lands and labor. At a time when the American farmer needs wider markets and is turning to diver­ sified tillage, the tender of any portion of tho valuable truck-farming to Can­ ada is even worse than folly. Fight It! ' As the direct result of Democratic imbecility and Democratic warfare upon American industries, the United States Government is threatened with an enormous deficit in its revenues. The Washington dispatches clearly in­ dicate the gravity of the problem with which the country is confronted. The Treasury gold reserve, which Presi­ dent Harrison was prepared to main­ tain at the established figure of $100,- 000,000 by the issue of bonds to any amount necessary for that purpose, is to-day only $88,914,0tKi, the receipts of the Government, both from internal taxes and duties on imports, ave stead­ ily declining, and the probability is that the deficit by next June will amount to more than $70.009,00J. To this condition the Cleveland ad­ ministration has brought the national finances in the short space of ten months. And now, with insufficient revenues, with a great deficit certain and with a part of tho country's productive labor idle and in want, the administration proposes to force through Congress an economic meas­ ure which will intensify popular dis­ tress and cut down still further the in­ come of the Government! Such egregious folly, such absolute disre­ gard of national necessities and the popular welfare, deserves the unsparing condemnation of every patriotic Ameri­ can, regardless of party. The condition of the Treasury fur­ nishes another potent argument against the passage of the prosperity-destroy ing Wilson bill. Fight the bill every step!--New York Press. lit This Will MM Do, Mr. Cleveland! Special dispatches from Washington contain the interesting report that Mr. Cleveland contemplates getting rid of Walter Q. Gresham in the hope of free­ ing the administration from the infamy of the unsuccessful conspiracy to de­ stroy republican government in Hap This course would bo eminently char­ acteristic on the part of the President, It would' also be densely stupid. The theory that the dismissal of Gresham Eould relieve Cleveland from disgrace as ridioulouslv foolish as the earlier Hoke Smith's Retreat. The decision of the pension authori­ ties relative to the amendments at­ tached to the immediate deficiency bill, declaring a pension a vested right, is as follows: No suspensions will J>e made for any cause whatever uutll the pensioner has had the re­ quired thirty days' notice. In all cases, how­ ever, where the claimant's right to any pen­ sion based on evidence on file, is in serious doubt, or where the rate of pension being paid is deemed manifestly too high, the record will be examined by the Board or Revision as well ax by the primary examiner, an critically and thoroughly as is done on original applications. If it then be fonnd that the pensioner Is not entitled to what he is receiving he will be no­ tified that he hs* thirty days within which to substantiate his claim, failing in which he will be either dropped from the rolls at the end of that «6rlod; or his rate of pension will re­ duced. With this thirty days" notice the pen­ sioner will be informed of the exact status of his case, and in wbat particulars it fails to meet the requirements of the law. But the more important point--that the granting of a pension rate per month upon testimony presented can­ not be legally set aside until the Gov­ ernment presents testimony to prove that it is fraudulent, or excessive, is not met. Secretary Smith and Com­ missioner Loehren reverse a decision of the tribunal preceding that which they constitute, and, with no other testimony than thoy have, annul its decree. If that is good law a Supreme Court may call up and amend or revoke the most important decisions o? its predecessors. '• « T, aPJ-i" i.' r** Worktngiuen Wer® The workingmen who votel! for tai'Jjf reform in 1892 in the belief that it would give them cheaper clothing have lost more in wages since the adfftnt of the Cleveland administration than they could save in a hundred years as a re­ sult of the tariff reductions proposed by the WUson bill.--Cleveland Leader. THE Spaniard, however courteous he may be, never invites a guest to dinner. In Italy, too, the privacy of the family is seldom invaded at the dioner hour. > The members eat in silence. * y; sl . . a . x , * £ A ! • . . . a A . . . . . 4 1 1 1 , * - j known character and standing. Hav­ ing laid his plans before them, and securing their approval, he at once proceeded to put them into execu­ tion. At the head of his followers he promptly got upon the track of tho unsuspecting enemy, captured many and caused the others to flee from the country. When any of these outlaws fell into his hands they were not taken at once to a tree and hangea or tied to a stake and shot, as we soon learned, merely to remind the other one that he had forgotten his tools (an ancient and time-hon- ored custom among plumbers.) There being three tools needed, it took of course three trips to bring them, by which time it was neces­ sary to adjourn (to the Palace Hotel When labor the « gantic undertaking, it was unfortunately discovered that some rivits were needed which of course necessitated other trips of the entire force to lug them to the busy scene of industry. To make a very long story a very short one, a large part of the day was consumed, and a bill of $5. oo sent in for putting up a stove that cost $5.50, including the pipe. The proprietor has therefor about decided to proffer the stove and pipe as is now done under the system of the present day. perverted I in part payment of the bill, and to This was ! dispense with the use of a stove alto- not according to the code of Col. Lynch and his followers. So far from such a lawless procedure a jury was selected from Lynch's men, over which he presided as judge; the cap­ tives were tried separately, the ac­ cused allowed to make his own de­ fence, and to show cause, it he could, why he should not te punished. If found guilty, the punishment was j the tea trade, and. accordingly, the gether. He thinks the bill itself has made him hot enough to last all winter. ' \ The Tea Road. fegl, thcThalf-way hSftfftr on the famous tea road between the Chinese border town Ta-chien-lu and the Thibetan caDital, is the center of The Little Wonixn ViM't te W# Without * *!«*.• "If you can't pay your rent mot# promptly, out you go," the hard, U# feeling landlord said, and to vestffir :hv: wi.tdM it« tucked up a card in front of the house, a card be alitfcyt Kept ready for emergencies, and JJm which he had brought with him: • v y * * * • - - * • - " 5 - ^ ^ . r 'fa uk*. | V • '• .»-•-'&** .• "We've lived here for live years and vou haven't lost a dollar by us. When George comes home he'll have the money,said the little woman, who, with her small family, occupied the house. •'I want ray money when it's due, j not two week's afterwaitl^ rt^te#- ated the landlord: '-I*m losing • Jiesh and turning gray trying to col­ lect my rents." and he shuBled off. **lle's dead mean," said the little ^ woman: he's a shars. that's what be is. I'd like to see him get me out when I pay reut regularly--if it ain*t - just to the minute." Then she sat down and formulated a little plan of action, which is al­ ways victorious. Ting-a-llnsr-a-ling at the^door belt.. > *'This house to let?*® Yes, ma'am. "Can I go through it?" 6 VCertainly: walk r ght In." Then the little woman opened* a * door. "This is the parlor. It's new pa- - pered. We did It ourselves on a©* C count of the dampness." * ! •'Ob. is the house damp? Is* that why you are moving?" "Here's a bedroom off--very con­ venient. When the children bad.;. scarlet fever I used this room for them--" "You don't mean to say you've had • scarlet fever--" <4It was very light. They were mucti worse off with the measles. Copie upstairs, ma'am. Are you afraid of typhoid--" j • Good gracious, let me out! I wouldn't have the house as a gift " 4'Oh, there's no danger. It's* a very convenient hoi|se if it isn't healthy. There's an undertaker in : the next block and the doctor lives next do >r. His bell keeps us awake all night" I She repeated this formula 100 « times a day until renters shunned %? the house as a plague spot, and the puzzled landlord tore down and renewed the lease. inflicted on the spot. The general impression has been that in all cases of Lynch law the penalty was death. This is a mistake. A writer who knew Col. Lynch well ftas assured by him that he never willingly convicted a criminal to capital punishment; that prisoners were frequently let off with a severe flogging and then liber­ ated on condition that they would leave the country. Bushire. Bush ire is the capital of the En­ glish protectorate in the Persian Gulf. Here ourResidcnt lives, who may be styled King of the Gulf, and before whom all the petty potentates along it^ shores, be they on the Ara­ bian or Persian side, bow down. He has his steam yacht and his steam launch provided for him, a British man-of-war is appointed to be always in readiness to do his bidding, and the Biitish Residency, with its flag­ staff and extensive compounds, is by far the most conspicuous building in the town. Bushire is a truly horrible place, built at the edge of a spit of sand running out into the gulf. Its popu­ lation is very mongrel. Arabs, Per­ sians, Hindoos are all hopelessly mixed up therein. It has an English bank. What, with Its English Resi­ dency, English bank, English tele­ graph, English steamers' agents, and English men-of-war. Bushire is as English as it could be wished. Lawn tennis may be seen upon its quays, ladies may r de without incurring more than an ordinary amount of staring from tlip Moolems. it is confidently asserted that if tho Karoun route is opened out into the heart of Persia. Bushire will ceaee to be the seat of our Resident, and the capital of our? Persian Gulf protectorate will be removed to Fao or some other spot which has not yet got a name. If that time ever comes, and Bushire ceases to be the chief resideuce of numerous tea merchants, It has many Chinese inhabitants, a mandarin from Si-nin^, and a man­ darin from Lan-chav. It is the Chi­ nese who chiefly bring the tea here, to sell it to the Thibetan merchants, who forward it to Lhassa. The currency in this trade is the Indian rupee, which, however, is often dispensed with, and then the ! tea is bartered by the Chinese for wool, hides, and l'urs, gold dust, mer­ cury, and other Thibetan products, for importation into China. The tea j (branches as well as leaves) is packed ! in pressed bricks, about 1-1 inches j long, 10 wide, and i thick. Eight of these bricks are sewn in a skiu, and ! a yak carries two skina All Thibe- : tans drink tea. They boil it, branch- j es and all, in water, with a little j soda and salt, and before drinking : add butter, barley flour, (which is j called tsampa, ) and dried native • cheese. The solid part of this mixt- i ure, when merely moistened with a j little liquid tea and made up into | hard balls, is called ba, and^ forms j the staple food of Thibet i The chief meat consumed is mutr I ton, upon which the biack tent peo­ ple almost live. Sheep are cheap. In the interior of the country they tost from l rupee to 2 rupees. For winter consumption, t.hey are killed early in the cold season, and the meat is frozen.--The National Review. Your Jjeglons of Ancestop;; ' Did you ever stop to think how many male and female ancestors were required to bring you into the world? Let us see if we cannot prove it to be a most curious and interesting (heme to write and talk about. First, it was very necessary that you should have a father and mother --that makes two human beings. Each of them must have had a father and a mother--that makes four more human beings. Then, again, each of these four had a father and mother, »utlet for the Persian caravan trade, making eight more representatives of the place will not long survive, for it has no pretensions whatsoever to call itself a harbor. Big steamers have to anchor at least two milee off land outside a sand bar, and, if the sea is very rough, landing is next to im­ possible. Bushire chances to be the outlet for the roads across the Kotals, and if it ceases to be that its reason for existence will cease also.--The Fortnightly Review. Good Lemonade. "I learned a new thing," said a woman recently, "while visiting, last week, an English friend who is living in the country. We had a small dance one evening of my stay, and my hostess served the most de­ licious lemonade I ever drank. I spoke of it next day, and she told me that i| was uiade with freshly boiled water--the secret, she said, of thor­ oughly good lemonade. '1 have a regular rule,' she further informed me, 'which insures success if I am making a quart or a gallon. For a quart I take the juice of three lem­ ons, using the rind of one of them. I am careful to peel the rind very thin, getting just the yellow outside: this 1 cut into pieces and put with the juice and powdered sugar, of which I use two ounces to the quart, in a jug or jar with a cover. When the water is just at the tea point I pour it over the lemon and sugar, cover at once and let it get cold. Try this way once and you will never maae it any other way."1 Will Be a Blessing. The person who uses a telephone and hangs the receiver up without "ringing off" can have no idea to what extent his action works on the mind of Miss Central and suggests to her the hiring of a man to say things for her. There are also things to be said on behalf of the man whom Miss Central cuts off in the middle of a sentence; but perhaps most of these tilings have been said already. An ia rentfon is now being tested by the the Creator's greatest handiwork. So we go on back to the birth of Christ, through iifly-six generations in all. The result of such a calculation, which can be made in a few minutes by any school, will show that 144,- 113,090,924,856,t»70 births must have taken place tin order to bring you into this world. All this, t: o, since the beginning of the Christian era, not Since the beginning of time, by any means. According to Proctor, if from a single pair for 5,000 years each husband and wife had married at 21 years of age and there had been no deaths the population of the earth would now be 2,109,915 followers by 144 ciphers. A Famous Spot to Be Sold* The castle and park of Monte Cristo are advertised for sale at a judiciary auction in the Palais de Justice of Paris. The castle was built by the elder Alexander Dumas, in the village of Port Marly, al<?ng the road to St Germain, and named after his famous novel. There is in the park a miniature Chateau d'If,in the middle of a little pond, and re­ calling to mind the Mediterranean prison in which lived Edmund Dan- tes, the hero of the novel, who be­ came Com to de Mouto Crista The advertisement reads that the whole domain Will be offered at auction, upon a first bid of $30,000.--New York Tribune Gettin* Efficient Medical Attend­ ance* As soon as the Emperor of Cbina|is sick it is a notification to his physi­ cians that|their salary is cut off till he Is perfectly well again. The passion­ ate zeal with which the regulars go to work to get his majesty back where their salary will begin again is said to be something astounding. The result is that the Emperor Is about the healthiest man standing on the planet, and his physicians seldom lose a day's salary. -- Ashtdlt Reporter. •A,;** Gave Him a Costly Mitten. Not satisfied with having given him th( mitten in the most approved | afvl/k o honilaAma f niiiavillA rrirl w J • •'",???! •V $."V. .. ,-v . .V style, a handsome Louisville girl wao is noted for her quickness and witfvf recently played a practical but costly 0? joke on an overambitious love-, who lives in one of the smaller towns the State. The man, says the Post, f ® became enamored ot her several t months ago, and since then he has , written her daily begging her to share, her heart and hand with him. His*. V letters were of no avail, however, and several days since she received a^n|| scorching letter from him demanding the return of his letters and denounc- . ing her as a flirt She realized tbattl; he was playing "the indifferent^ * racket," and while she meant to re-^g turn the letters as soon as possible, !^ she did not tbink it a matter of muchif S importance. A day or two later she - ^ received a second letter, even warmerv ' -J than the first, demanding the re- turn of the letters immediately and laying special stress on those contain- y v-, ing his proposals of marriage. That, afternoon the young lady sent the >s ^ package by express. Ordinarily the<- '?> charges, it no value was placed on it. t" -%- would not have exceeded 50 cents, \ but the young woman placed a valuer ^ of $300 on it, and the rejected lover , a had to give up $5.80 to obtain his"} / letters. ""i* Truly WonderfWL The personal habits of one nation X.-..a are sometimes fearful ancl wonderful . • in the extreme to the citizens of other lands. When the Emperor William. 7 visited Rome, fee was assigned apart- > ments in the Quirinal. The rooms , had t een newly furnished and tilled - ? with flowers, and the Italians who ; had inspected them were delighted ^ ^ with the result of their hospitable ^ forethought $.\ More especially were they pleased , with the dressing room, which one ^ --f and all pronounced to be beautiful and 1 '•truly-wonderful" •! • An Englishman, having heard this encomium, when he visited the *1^ apartments, pressed forward to that , . r ^ room with some curiosity. i What was his disappointment, Sf however, to find it merely an ordl- • nary bathroom, filled, of course, with , vy, modern bathing appliances. A remark bf an Italian friend soon disclosed one cause of the general wonderment. "Do you suppose be will use that?", asked the Italian, pointing to • shower bath. "I suppose he will.** , :'-M "With cold water?** V T "Yes, of course!" •Then." drawing a long breath, "then he is a truly wonderful man!" -v-i Branding Criminals in China. ! Finding that Ions terms of im­ prisonment and flogging do not check;;f |, .v, robbery and piracy and systematic 4 practice of imposition on strangers ia " ' ̂ the nature of thievery in the district, the authorities have resolved v ; ,S to try branding. For the first ot- ^ • "',d fense the thief is to -be branded on^jS , , S the riffht cheek, and for the secondp'fil^^lp on the left cheek. The brand i« to* • * J be the Chinese sign for the word : thief. As the Chinese have a super- -%4 h stitious horror of all facial ment. the belief is entertained,that the new punishment will check criminal element --Sacramento Bso- , v. ord-Cnlon. ' She Got a Seat. A young woman who is holder in the Cathedral was admittance to her seat by w > - v V a pew-, 54 refused another V'.i-; / tt.. , •M:y woman who was occupying a portloe ot hey paw and who said she was *•», . serving the other part for some < friends. The owner stepped into the : next seat and from there over ttti . i back of the scat into her own pew. Buffalo Courier. "WBATdid"llicks say when his wife called him a crank?" 'Told her she was something of a windlass herself." As affair of the hwirt--Tl» "ctw»> lation of die Wood. V s ' V tltS ;U, '<2?.