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iois. MICE. btwan. rawBEUE nifkl <ty, iSnEr **lL'*§ **(ch«d the mow wwfso'sc irooi widlaw*, ^.afea * . Saffirisv, ^WtoiSSBSSuSS flow aiwwrw i® OOMP^» ihi vn^a > f slttirew Lang. A GOO© BEGINNING. i r "Well," impudently queried the man as he stood in the door of a ilbarth(kM>r*room and looked into the jtaofe of a woman whose cheeks had .mom* while as she heard hisstep on land log. - •T»« «r»rty, sir, bnt----" - ««Same old story, is it?*' •"I've had to tell yon tor the last %we months that I was oat of work *od boutdn; pay my rent. That was feed enough, bat now my Tom is out i ff work, too. He's thereon the bed, , s offy air, and the doctor says it^a touch j #® f ®fl •f paeunbonia." "You owe two months' back re« V and jit yourself? Champagne pation. Going rgfctto tb% tbegailop At like a marf of fif peels and the whole outfit foiriffto the devil, and what are yon fretting in exchange? You are the son of your father and a high roller--that's all. When you come to figure it down you j?re a champion fool~-~noth- ing else." He lazily turned over, sat upon the ||ide of the bed and <ontinu«d: • "Head as big as a home, and your stomach full of vitriol. Kioe chap yon am A decent mulq ought to be ashamed to kick you. No sand--no energy--hardly strength enongh to get into your clothes and wash up. You and I are going to ha?e a talk after a bit. Had no idea where the boys tucked me away this morning, but I guess this is a hotel, and I'll order a bite to eat" Half an hour later the high roller sat down to his cigar, and as he smoked he said: . "What 1 want to know if how much longer you are going to con­ tinue this sort of business. You've I had six or seven years of it* and it seems to me that you ought to be through. When a young man gets to that point where he realizes that he is an ass, he's ready for a chungn. Suppose we , surprise tbe old folks by dropping this high-roller business and living a «ld M he iospected the poor old ! SfSSW •furniture and wondered if it would jpay to attach it. "Yes, sir, but ii you'll only have a • little patience we'll pay you." i "Patience wen't pay taxes nor make ffepairs. I'll give you the day to pack S your traps." ••But where will I go?" "Beat some other landlord oat of two months' rent" ,(I haven't a shilling in the house ^aod there lies my sick boy! Give me • week anyhow. It will be the death of Tom to be carried out It's too eeid in the room hfefe, but I've only :tm little coal and have to use it more ?J«a»fttlly than you do gold." "Yon can talk to the constables •hen they come; I'm sick and tired bearing these yarns." "Before tbe week is out I may find work. If Tom was we 1 1 wouldn't uaar %w4sA bat don't set us out with Mas so tjflteiy off tbat the doctor " to the constables!" shouted ^ tha anm, as fce turned to go. .1/ "bat, sir, if you would r>nly let us Wtf another week, I'm sure yon VpaUoH loose by it There's such a ttiilig as the Lord raising up a friend . lortfcewklow and the fatherless just i. „ |whe« they are ready to give up." % - * ' Can't stop--talk to the constable ' > . two months' back rent or oat yon ! i Tk*t was the way the year opened | if- larHMS Widow Flint and her boy j It was hard times ail around, i 'A" InattP of energetic, skillful mechan- j H ioi Were out of work and behind in ^ . Sh<irrent% and dealers and manu- , 11 Jenifer? who generally had plenty of £7 watt u> give out were holding back \ : j to «atch the business outlook. Tom & - a^hl have kept his place at $3 iter lr mmkiD the box factory, but the want &•*" af proper food and clothing had made f Ua' susceptible to exposure and 0->, fereefcht him low. There wasn't money enough in the house to get E*V tlM doctors prescription filled out at kf* MMinig storey and it was well that p-s;:r lay's lever blunted his appetite, as a loaf of bread was the only pal* 0" atabie thing in the house. Neigh- tiers! Ves, plenty of them. There were forty families under that roof, %•/ hut most of them had little else bat bread. When poverty begins to + Imager their poverty is selfish. ft mattes people selfish to herd together. The sight of each s destitution blunts all sentl- W "But--lie's like the mayor, ain't he --never noticing anybody but well- off folks?" •Tom, the Lord looks down anon us all--the poor as well as the rich. ;• Wo ape ail in His keeping. Don't #l^||$ fllS goodness. It's hard work ta heaick and freezing and hunger- U&t M& if it's our burden to bear, we ^raftdoit You must have medi­ cine, Tom. I'm going out to see if 1 Ota MWitny shawl". "Aad then you can't go out to IOOK for work." •'But it may save yon." 8he went oat and walked about for «W hour,hat pawn-brokers and second- ling dealers were taking a irfththe rest of the world, entered a drug store, and „ _ mrbane proprietor, who niiiri fnrtr ird rahning his hands, to 1- tbe shawl and fill toe prescrip- bat we "Medi- and ^he shawl is old kMk ttd oot worth anything." is threatened with sir." "Y-e a Just the sort of weather lor pneumonia, and most of the cases seem to prove fatal." "And must he die for the want of this medicine?" •Kjood-day. ma'as--good-day. I notice the thermometer is down to *e*o, and I shouldn't wonder if :l$ wovid go lower before night." Bhe had assured Tom that there was only one God, aad that Bfa watshsd over THE IKKIF A» well as the* wh, but as she weaded her way ,8he had t0 «ombat her aouhia. His fever was worse, and he was out of his mind, and all day long and about, and she eooW do no more than hold a CUD of water to his lips ^ and the" Whaa oight began to fall she made a*a»ttadle of Tom's clothes. The* Wgflaw, but of more value than her •bapfl. If he died she would not re- 4e«a them; if he got well w«u she tad said that the Lord sometiauia raited u^» fried for the poor anddis- < trerjed. ̂ • • • * » » . . * • ' ••J^itOfpb! Four o'clock p. m , and Haw Year's Day, and you not out of cards, songs, cigars, and all that last j night till you weradr.nnk as, an old j bum. That reminds me. £eems to j me I had a streak of luck* Let's j He had money ln eTerypCcket-- I twos fives, and tens. The bills were crumpled and rolled, but he j smoothed them out on his knee and • counted them over and said: i - A fool for luck! Here's an oven i $300, and 1 must have had luck, just i about enough to pay for a wine sup- j pei, and just about a hundreth part I of what I've lost at cards. Weil, what are you going to do about the other matter--swearing off? Strikes | you as about the correct thing, does j it? All right Hold up your right ; hand and repeat after ma i "I, James Forbush, being in my | right mind for the first time in sev- I eral years, and fully realizing that 1 | am the biggest idiot in Rorth ^mer- ' lea. do hereby alfl.m and declare j that I am no longer a high-roller on | wheels. In other words, I pledge ' myself to eschew cards, drink, and other rapid transit matters, from and after this Orst day of January, 189---, and if I break my word may I be de> sp sed by men and kicked by ani­ mals." "That's all right hid man--all right May come hard, bat you'll wobble through. Now, as to the money. You <lon't need it It was won at cards, and there's wine stains on ever bill. In be ng a high-roller you've forgotten all about charity. You've been read? to flip a dollar to the waiter who held your overcoat bat never a nickel to the beggar on the street Let's take a walk." * » * * * • "Well, what's the matter with yoo?" "Don't arrest me, air; ril move on." ••Arrest nothing! What's in the bundle?" ( 'Tom's suit, sir.* ,/j "And who's TouH "My boy, sir, and he's star with pneumonia, and I'm trying to sell his clothes to get medicine." "Come off! I never heard of such a thing!" "Here's the prescription, sir, and will you come with me and see for yourself?" She led the way and he followed. When he saw tbe pinching poverty and heard her story--when he stood by the bed and saw bofr sick poor Tom was. he smiled Grimly, and said: •Then tnere are high rollers and low rollers! Never knew that be­ fore. Never had any idea that peo­ ple really suffered from poverty. So this is poverty, eh?--no money--no hopes--boy sick--rent due^-coal oat --and vou trying to sell the boy's clothes for medicine!" At that moment 'PDom ceased his moaning and opened his eyes and saw tbe strange man iu the room. I thought it was' a draam rf» \^-K * jrwuu$£ ui«u of 2. : at t o'ctecdc that morn w uu uau •a 'face was pinched and;" pale, hollow and bloodshot, and at him might have taken mother. "What Tom?" ' "At out the Lord. I was talking the streets and looked ail over for Him, and He was right here all tbe time! Now we'll have the medicine and a good tire and something to eat! You said there w^r^Lord, but--I-*" "What does he meai^?" asked the highroller. , ,r "Why, sir, 1 told him the Lord might raise up a friend for u& He was so ill and we were so poor that he doubted if the Lord watched over the poor." One by one he counted tbe bills liito her hand--just $300, and put on his bat to go. "Why, sir--but you see--you don't mean ail this for me?" ••Get medicine--a doctor--coal-- provisions--saved Tom's life!" he said, as he went out She sat down in a chair, da/ed and faint and wondering* if she had passed from earth to Heaven, and as he clattered down stairs aad got out into the cold and the night--he mut­ tered: ' Old man, you've made a begin­ ning and now see if you can't keep •Detroit Free Press. „ .. ....... . '""fa;;';' • ^ ^ ^ ' A sharp speech sometimes ways. James Francis Oswald, anew queen's counsel, was the junior who, on being told by Justice Kay that "although he could teach him law he could not teach him manners," quietly remarked, "That Is so, mylud." An encounter w th Justice Chitty was hardly so successful. He had been addressing the court at great length in a bill of sale case and at last said, I "And now, my lud, I adress myself j w> >ne furniture.?' "You have been doing that for some time past" sal*" Justice Chitty. - * IFCERS Tlw OMMM>«Mdw 9mm ttM» Sarwnmiit MMK ItflM to Aee*f»k--BttllrMMl OM«la^ rmiM ffcauto TOP® Vp-Coz«jr Movow«|| fUeiiilit awrkB--. _ For tea hours Friday 25,000 m«n of Omaha, Council Biuffli and South OaiSr ha stood ready to go to any ond to help Kelly's army. Mass-meetings were held in all three cities, men marched .from one to another, appeals were made to the railway officials, to Gov, Jackson and to other sources, and finally a train was taken by a commit* tee of railroad men to the camp tai Weston. The Bock Island agent at Weston andva man named Chitteadea sent sc^tlNt hands outside the switches to tear up the track. The faot that a train of ten cabs with a couple of hundred men on board would be ditched was over­ looked in the desire to prevent any a£ti from reaching Kelly. Kelly's ari$y was anxiously waiting for result) of the efforts of friends in Omaha and Coun­ cil Bluffs. The people near the place imitated the example of Omaha's citi- feeos aad gave the army food. Twenty- one citizens of Persia filled tevoral wagons with provisions and drove uver to the place. They could not get the railways to move the provisions. The citizens of Underwood sent over a load ot oomforters and blankets. The Mil­ waukee Company ran a,l their trains and cars out from the Bluffs in the afternoon, and then pulled up the tracks near Neola, so that if the men captured a train they could not go far. About 3 o'clock word was passed around that unless something was done before 4 o'clock a move would bo made on the railroads. The throng which was packed about Bayless Park in Council Bluffs had been getting cold and was gradually fading away when the beating of a arum was heard on the west side of the square, and a crowd of 200 women headed by Mrs. Herman was seen on the march to the depots. The line was made up of well- clothed mothers and wives, and at al­ most every oorner an accession was received. When the Rock Island depot was reached there were nearly 1,00j women in line. Arrived there "a committee was detailed to make ah inspection of the neighboring roundhouses. This was done, but not an engine was found. While the throng was in deliberation another drum was heard and a few blocks west was seen a line of flutter­ ing flags. These were carried by the main body of men on the way to the transfer. These were joined by the women and a procession of over 2,000 wound its way down over tbe tracks toward the depot. On the walk to the depot an engine labeled Union Pacific, No. 1268, was met. and answering to the argument of railway ties on the rails it came to a stop. Nick Wicks, a veteran engineer, was in charge, and a-t he looked out of the cab window in surprise half a dozen women and a lot of men climbed into the cab and on the tender. Dozens of others boarded the pilot and ranged themselves on the sides of the boiler. Then a vouthiul-looking man wearing a tail silk hat and giving his name as George Wicks climbed into the cab and said: "Papa, you had better get off," and papa got off. The young man with the tall nat evidently knew his business, and after shooting the en­ gine up and down the tracks for half an hour, bad attached to his engine twenty-seven cars with which he pulled out for Weston. D«sperate Effort to Stop the Train. When the news reached Weston that a train was coming over the Rock Isl-' and tracks to rescue Kelly, Agent Chit­ tenden sent for the section boss. This individual was ordered to take his men and tear up enough track west of the west switch to prevent the train from reaching town. Work was begun at once, but before it proceeded far the Kellyites had surrounded the section men and persuaded them to desist. The section men threw down their tools, one rail having been removed. Kelly's men quickly replaced the rail and drove home the spikes. Then Agent Chittenden came up and or­ dered the section boss to tear up the track again. His deliberate attempt to wreck the train aroused the wrath of the Kellyites. Their demon­ strations were such that the agent fled back to the depot, followed by the sec­ tion men. The attempt to ditch the train was abandoned and in a moment the headlight shone along the frosty rail and a scream from the whistle an­ nounced the coming of relief. Gen. Kelly was up-town at the Lemen meet­ ing, bat came to the depot, when a big engineer came forward and said: "Gen. Kelly, we have here a train of cars to take you bask to Council Bluffs. Come, get on board." -Kelly, after a consultation with his friends, declined to take the train. It would put his men in the light of law­ breakers. Besides, the train was the property of the Union Pacific, and that road, being in the hands of the Federal courts Kelly was afraid he would bring the United States authorities down upon him if he took the train. Wlr* to Railroad Presidents, While these scenes were being en­ acted, committees were besieging the telegraph offices with messages to the presidents of the fowa trunk lines. The following, signed by the Hon. W. H. M. Pusey "and 5,000 others, was sent to Marvin Hughitt, President of the Chicago and Northwestern; R. R. Cable, President Chicago, Ro ;k Island and Pacific; Hoswell Miller, President Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail­ way, Chicago: Kelly's army la at Weston exposed to tbe elements, with provisions for two dam; are suffering terribly. Irat patient «nd turned In tfaelr determination to no throtiffh. Have thns rar _ committed no trespass whatever; an or­ derly, obedient to all commands of their lead­ er, and are being famished with provisions STRIAE. ARanr. it .of mm-4- mf thf ci 'i-iu.. ) haa ioti the IMpf bin ¥e«ttiaff the warn tit, thn aimmrtrtfefl and IUIin tliin rh» tTwr tativ reUury of War to immediafeiy enlist ndustrial volunteer "500,1)091111 |n an ir araifWiMnNI for the year . - to b*> uiareol are to suoh I public lega -̂1 forms pstiitfr>! one anlistment." The army la fed and paid as reg- tead of drilling they ed on public works, rivers, and harbors, eta To defray the army the Secretary of to issue notes and certain ot&ftr currency. The biiiifieelSSs the following issues of money to pay the army: millions to replace tho wisie and^deetruction of ndtee under the act of 1878; *150,000,000 to replace natioaal-bank currency retired; $lo0,000,000 annually heieafter to keep up the volume of money. The Peffer resolution for the ap* pointment of a reception committee for Corey's army of the commonweal, to, be known in Senate parlance as "the committee on -communications," came up in the Senate and received some very rough handling. Senator Haw- ley, who dealt the blows, said he would have preferred to have some member of the dominant party in the Senate take the floor, for certainly the speech of Senator Allen, of Nebraska, ought not to be allowed to go forth to the country as representing in any degree the views of the Se nate. Provision for the accommodation of the army of the commonweal is con­ templated in a resolution introduced in the House by Representative Boen (of Minnesota. This resolution in­ structs the Secretary of War to pro­ vide within the District of Columbia a camping ground and tent* for all or­ ganized bodies of laboring peoole who may coma within the District,*and to see that their rights a* citizens are respected and protected during their stay here. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. C'oxey Has to Pay Tolls. Hageratown, Md.--The march of the commonweal over from Williamsport was made under most favorable cir­ cumstances. The pike was dry but dustless and the trees and fields green with the recent rains. At the toll gate, a mile outside of Hageratown, there was a delay, the old, white- haired gate man refusing to let the army pass without paying tolls on tbe horses. Browne declared that this was another extortion of monopolists, and ordered forward the flag. The old gateman respectfully doffed his hat to the stars and «tripes, but shut down the bars tight on the horsemen and carriages. Coxey was forced to pay 98 cents tolL The army was accompanied into town by a constantly growing crowd of cyclists, horsemen and pedes­ trians, ana the march through Hagera­ town to the camp was, relatfvelyjequal to an inaugural procession in Wash­ ington. With Hofsn in Command. Helena, Mont.--Coxey's army, under command of Hogan, have started from Butte, 500 strong, to march to Wash­ ington. Two miles out they attempted to capture a Northern Pacific freight train. Officers of the railroad com­ pany wired Gov. Richards, demanding protection and intimating that they would hold the State responsible if the men compelled them to grant trans­ portation, Recrnlts at Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Ind.--A hundred In­ dianapolis men have joined the branch of "Gen." Frye's army being organized in this city by "Col." Aubrey and "Lieut." Salisbury. • *? 11 - 11 I 11 > LIQUOR TO GIVE AWAY. ^ Sttpreme Court Settles the Soath Caraffilif Dispensary L»w< A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says that Gov. Tillman has decided not to fight any further the decision of the Su­ preme Court declaring the South Car­ olina dispensary law unconstitutional, and every dispensary in the State will be closed. Tne State Board of Control will meet and i>sue orders closing the dispensaries. There are at least three hundred, dispensary employes in the State and they were all paid off in an­ ticipation of the State going out of the liquor business. Attorney General Buchanan, who is also a member of the Board of Con­ trol, says that as there is considerable doubt among lawyers as to whether the decision of the Supreme Court really inaugurates prohibition or not, the State authorities in the course of a day or two will institute proceedings by a test case in order to get the court to declare itself explicitly on the sub­ ject. He is of the opinion himself that the effect is to absolutely prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in the State. The State now has on hand about $50,00) worth of liquors which cannot be disposed of excjpt by act of the Legislature. The general opinion is that an extra session will be called in a short time and some dis­ position matle of this immense stock. In case it is determined that the State is really under prohibitory law by reason of the decision, it is quite likely that the Legislature will pass some stringent law 1.0 king to its enforcement. The Attorney General intimated that in such case about 300 constables will be appointed to see that the law is enforced. The general opin­ ion of the people is that the Governor is glad to get rid of the dispensary law. CONOITIOKTOF-THE"TREASURY. tti^*i»akylight twper ciipplmrs on ln aa adjoining . Mat table, mora gifla and a of men sit aad read ' ' daylong. Theyget pert a day, and - except wbea they draw .tbit* salaries, !! . curse the day that printing fcas in vented, says the New Tork Sun. It is a clipping bureau. Yon would* ouio*ly discover that if go ibto tbe thfrd room, whi^iimM man, armed witb the longest shears on record, cut and slash wherevdrtfie Woe pencil has left its w ̂ f̂eer* ire over 3,000 subscribers' names down on the books. Three thousand wptp have enough cariosity or in­ terest aboat what the papers say of them to pay $5 a hundred for the clippings. Of this number quite one- half are women. They are mostly writers, or authoresses, as tbe liter­ ary girl in the first room calls them. That girl is a marvel of information. You can go through the whole 8,000 names and catechise her on them all and she wont miss a question. She Is said to bean oraole in her family and among her friends. Her par­ ticular work is sifting out the notices of literary people, . and she hasn't much of an opinion of the craft She doesn't aspire to write a book. She thinks it's too common. But authoresses are not the only women who want to know what the world says about them. Society queens are quite as carious as to the expression in the eye of the public as it looks at them. And there are actresses on the list, and artists--a few of them only, because they are generally too impecunious--and wives of prominent men, and, in fact, all sorts and conditions ot women. Mrs. Potter Palmer has been tbe most popular woman, journalistically speaking, in this country during the last year. In May alone Mrs. Pal­ mer received 1,311 notices of herself through this bureau. This was a comparatively small proportion of those that were printed, for she ex­ cluded all Chicago papers, which, of course, teemed with references to her, and received only important ones from other papers. '• Miss. Clara Barton is another wo­ man who enjoys a steady newspaper popularity. Miss Barton baa to put a stop to the large shipments of clip­ pings sent her on account of a cer­ tain experience not long ago. A story was started to the effect that when she went into the Patent Office some years ago she was penniless, and It was intimated that she was ou the verge of starvation when she took the place. This made Miss Barton, who is very jealous of the memory of ber father, very indignant But the worst was yet to coma The fib seemed to catch the fancy of the ex­ change editors throughout the coun­ try, and inside ot a week tbe clip­ ping bureaus began to Are notices at her at 5 cents a clip from papers from every State In the Onion. Wh£ft Miss Barton had paid $5 or $10 for the. pleasure of reading repetitions of an untrue story about herself she had had enough, and notified the bureaus tbat she didn't want reprints and wouldn't have them A certain Con­ gressman's wife received in thirteen months 114 clippings of one para­ graph about her. HI8 CLIENT WAS GUILTY. tbe srsat gravity of the aitttaileii. Gaaaot yoa. gentlemen, tor the neat corporations jros rep­ resent aMnme. to do, in the interacts of hu­ manity, what you would not be Joatlflad to oolng except In this Brest emergraor? This was followed by several others in the same strain, aad. then the > com­ mittee of six of the worklngmen'* army sent the following: To K. R, Cabl>', Marvin Hutfhftt. BosweU Mil­ ler. Chleaco Omaha ana Co* Bluffs ate transportation tor Kelly and^SuTs Conn ell Bluffs to Chlcasro. Immedl- army trom who 8toals bases aeed not h*Uobt angered* Replies were received from the mes­ sages to the railway presidents denving the request, and then the conference between the citizens' com­ mittee and the railroad officials ended Chalrman Tlchnor announced the re­ sult of the conference, and it was greet­ ed by » roar of howls, jeers and hisses. President B_ U. Cable, 'of 'the Rock Island, stated that their company couki not carry Kelly's army, and gave as a reason that such a movement would only be transferring the scene of trouble from one city to another. Ho says Gov. Jackson is in full possession Of the railway company's views of the Situation and he is the one to look to lor relief. The replies of .President - < J, 4% i «r> t .. 'VT-u.i '/A* . A Loss of aio.ooo.ooo Looked For on tfea April Balance. A Ices of nearly $10,000,000 it ex­ pected in the general balance of tbe national treasury for the month of April, Five miuion dollars of this will be due to tbe payment of inteiest on the 4 per cent, bonds and $5,000,1*00 to the excess of current expenditures over receipts. The low thus far, savs a Washington dispatch, without in­ cluding interest, ha* been tS.479,031, the total receipts having been #12,149,. aad the expenditures $17,62 V™}. The customs rece pts still lag behind and do not seem likely to excced $J0,- 000,000 for the month. The internal revenue receipts have already reached $6,938,443, and will be nearly 913,000,000 for the month. The pension expenditures thus far have been $7,- 925,000 and will be abotft $12,000,000 for the entire month of April. The ex­ penditures for April, 1893, were $12,- 871,701, and for the first twelve months of tbe fiscal year, »13,«78,345. The fig­ ures for the corresponding ten months ending April 30, 1894, will be about 8119,000,000. The general cash balance on May 1 Will be between $124,000,000 and $126,000,00$. The Treasury gained $2&0C0 in gold Wednesday ana no fear is felt for the gold reserve, while for­ eign exchange shows no permanent ad­ vance and the excess of exports of merchandise continues to be large, it is expected that favorable crop reports, with the early summer shipments, will Tfwfc* the situation still more favorable to this country and that such email shipments of gold as occur will be gargy supplied by Hw^Kow York are parents do net lniMf«taa,ji writes Ddwa Home Journal. That an man or even amaa childless mamedstynW concern himself about liie future of a race iu which he may argue that he will have no personal stafta,4s conceivable, though such indifference is not morally edify­ ing. ' From tbe Ume their children are Hŝ £~t.F3 themselves aball no longer be on •if#.- To tlllf end tftpf painfully spare ana save and plbtand plan to secure from their offspring all the ad­ vantages that may give them a bet­ ter chance than other man's children inithe struggle for existence. They do this, knowing sadly well the while, for observation and ex­ perience, how vain all such safeguards may prove, how impossible It is for even the wisest and wealthies of fathers to make sure that, the cherished child he leaves behind may not be glad to earn his bread as & servant to the children of his father's servants. Still the parent toils and saves, feeling tbat this Is the best and all he can do for his offspring, little though it be. But is it? Surely a moment's throught will show tbat this is a wholly unscientific way of goinjt aboat the work of providing for the future of one's children. This is the problem of all problems to which the individualistic method is most inapplicable^ the problem be­ fore all others of which the only ad­ equate solution must necessarily be a social solution. ? ;IB g«.w .mt lus pro Am Indian Lawyer's Discovery After Ha- carina: a Counterfeiter's Acquittal. Several years ago, when Judge Francis J. lleinhard, the well-known German lawyer of Indianapolis, was s^young but enthusiastic attorney practicing at Crown Point, says the Indianapolis Sentinel, he was called in to defend a man charged with cir­ culating counterfeit money. He talked with the accused several times in jail and became impressed with the idea that tbe man was honest and was literally being outraged by tbe authorities. Mr. Beinhard entered into tbe case with characteristic earnestness and prepared himself thoroughly to make the defense. When the case came to preliminary hearing the lawyer made a terrific fight and secured the discharge of his client. Outside the courtroom, after the trial, the client button­ holed Lawyer Reinard and, leadimr him into an altoy out of sight of the gaping crowd, paid him his fee with twelve silver dollars. Then with tears in his eyes he thanked tbe law­ yer and went his way. Mr. Relnhard Immediately proceeded to the office of a friend to whom he owed a debt ot 65 Icents, ajfigl tendered one of bis newly-made dollars. '•Say, Frank" said the friend, af­ ter an inspection of the money, < 'tbis money is counterfeit." "You're certainly mistaken," re­ plied Lawyer Beinhard, "I just took it as part of a fee from a man whom I am confident Is honest and per­ fectly reliable. I am not easily mis­ taken in my estimate of the charac­ ter of my clients.'V i "That may be sot* replied the friend: "but this mosey is spafious Just the same, and to Drove it we will Just go over tonbajMnk." Thereupon the gentlemen'went to the bank, not far away, and laid down the dollar, asking tor change. The teller, an elderly and conserva­ tive man, adjhstedia monocle to his eye, gazed: long and. earnestly at tbe coin and shoved it back through tlfe window with the remark: "Gentlemen, we don't take such money as that here. It is a rank counterfeit." Judge Beinhard, at that time, as now, was very gentlemanly in dic­ tion and manner, but he couldn't help himself, and with the one ex­ pression, "Well, I'll be dwd," turned on his heel and went out on tbe street. Every last one of tbe silver dollars he had work so hard to earn was a counterfeit, and within a short time thereafter his honest client was sent to the Prison South for five years for making «and^clrca- latiilg crooked money. ^ limits of Ivory. It Is difficult to obtain from an elephant's tusk a perfect slab of ivory more than six inches in diameter, as the upper end of tbe tusk, which la A ConseientloM Railroader. ' ' I once met with a conscientious railroad man. 1 don't mean that there are not lots of 'em but this fel­ low was peculiarly sa It it was a lit­ tle town up the Chenango Valley, where 1 was doing the usual "flgbt act" with a hotel man for a "out rate" for our company. I got to the station about balf an hour before train time and, as I had to do some writing, stepped into the yard- master's office and politely asked him' for some paper. There was lots of it lying on the desk and telegraph table, but do you think that old cuss would let me use a sheet of it? No^ sir! He unlocked a drawer and taking out a pad of linen paper banded it to me with the observation: "That's mine; the other is the company's and I don't use its property for private purposes" I didn't know whether to get mad or not* but i needed the paper ana cepted it I thought to get even by oflering to pay for it. That blasted yardmaster took my quarter and gave me back two dimes, remarking: "Well, that's the first time In years that a drummer or showman has of­ fered to pay for anything." 1 got well accqualnted when we opened there and a jollier, bigger-hearted fellow 1 never met --Pittsburgh Poet ^ - - * The Devil's Mirror. •One of the most peculiar of stone formations is the 'devil's looking- glass,' on the Rolaobucky River," said L. D. Taylor at the Lindell. "It is a palisade which arises abruptly from the river to a height of 200 feet It is perfectly smooth and about 100 feet wide. When the sun is at a certain stage it throws a shadow over the water and reflects the sunbeams as a mirror would, dazzling the eyes of the beholder, sometimes almost blinding him with its brightness. To go upon the river in a skiff and look down Into the water, Is to see an image reflected, but always distorted. It is this which gave tbe name to the forma­ tion, and there are several interest­ ing legends connected with it, some of which are devotedly believed by the mountaineers. One of those which is generally given credence is tbat every night at midnight, when the moon shines, the devil goes there to bathe and makes up his toilet, using the rock, with the reflection of the moonlight, as a looking-glass."-- St Louis Globe-Democrat. • o.,; f5'! ^Mi'4ii 1w 4 fj? ^ ' . , 4 1 • r • V#' • > 'J* * ' •> % : •$£ • . • -•> ( 1 „ r jJ? jO itl t -MM , An Example to Kickers. There was uoon a lime an old lady who had known many sorrows and heartaches, who had lost children, husband, friends, and who was alone and poor in her old age. One day a lady who had gone to see ber, p.tying her sad fate, said: "Why, grand ma, what a dreary oat- look there is from you window--only tarns and back doors!" "Yes," said the old lady cheerily, "but there are people who are blind, and who, although they live always by the ocean, cannot see it There is always a bit of sky for me to look at and when it is very blue and sweet I always think of the blind people and pity them even though they be citili and X be poor." iY " , - -- ' ; No Flag There. „ ; Great Br tain has long bad the unique distinction of being the only nation which does not display the national flag over tbe houses of Parliament. Protest and appeal fmm varfnsm nat.rihfcss b&V9 beeil With­ out avail, the government at last taking refuge behind tbe excuse that no money was appropriated for the puepose. A member of Parliament offered to furnish the funds, fcwhere- upon the government gave in, and a few days ago it was announced in the House of Commons tbat it> future the national flag (the anion Jack, not the royal standard) will be hoisted on the Victoria tower of the bouses of Parlia­ ment daring the sessions of Parlia­ ment Lighting Ita Nest. The bays bird of India ingeniously illuminates its nest, it catches fire­ flies, and, without killing them, with moist clay sticks them to its nest. On a dark night the bays's nest is like a bright beacon. THB oaly time a girl doesn't object to handles is wben tbey contain new one --each telling tbe tato stomach, or Am or so in thin shoes along a snow-bound road in search of employment. , Heory Irving, Ing, with an air ot 4eep attention, bad not spoken and did not speak un­ til the others, having exhaasted their •took, turned to him. He had oxperl- encad harder luck than any of them, and they knew it He looked up at them for a moment, and then after a pause, said: "The recollections uppermost lot my mind just, now, while you boys have been talking about tramping and winter roads and all thaV of a certain Christmas dinner at which 1 was present I wonder whether any of you remember a poor fe.low, long since dead--Joe Bobint--who played small parts In London and outside it, and who made the one big mistake of his life wben he entered tfijR,profession. Joe had been in the men's underwear business, and was doing well, when an amateur per­ formance for a charitable object was jprganized, and he was east for the bart of the clown in a burlesque of pGuy Fawkes.' Joe belotupd to one of the bohemian clubs, and on the night of the show his friends among tbe actors and journalists attended in a body to give him a 'send-off.' He played the part capitally, and the mischief might have ended there, out some one compared him to &rihiaidL His fate was sealed. He s£|& his stock, went on the stage, and a tew months later I came upon him playing gen­ eral utility on a small salary in a small theater In Manchester. One relic of his happy days still remained to him - He had retained shirts, col­ lars, and underwear sulBcient to latt him for a generation. "But if Joe lacked ability as an actor he had a heart of gold. He would lend or give his last shilling t^ a friend, and piece by piece his stock of underwear had diminished until! only a few shirts and underclothes re­ mained to him. The Christmas of that year--tbd year In which we played togethei**-- was perhaps the bitterest I ever knew. Joe bad a part in the panto» mime. When tbe men with whom he dressed took oft their street clothes he saw with a pang at hie kind heart how poorly some of them were clad. One poor fellow without an overcoat, shivered and shook with every breath of the wind that whit­ tled through the cracked door, and; as he dressed there was disclosed m suit of the lightest sailmer gause underwear, which he was wearing in the depth of that dreadful winter. Poor as Joe was he was determined to keep up his annual cuflftrfm of giv­ ing his comrades a Christinas dinner. Perhaps all that remained of hl» stock of underclothing' want to the pawnbroker, but that is neither here! nor there. Joe raised the money somehow, and on the Christmas day was ready to meet his guest*. "Among the crowd that died into the room was his friend with the gauze underclothing. Joe beckoned him into an adjoining bedroom and, pointing to a chair, silently walked out On that chair hung a suit of underwear. It was of a comfortable scarlet color; it was of silk and wool; it was thick and warm, and it dung around the actor as if it had been Duilt for him. As the shirt fell over his head there was suffused through his frame a gentle delicious glow that thrilled every fibre ot his body. His heart swelled almost to bursting. He seemed to be walking on air. He saw all things through a mist of tears. The faces acound him, the voices in his ears, the familiar objects in his sight, the very snow falling gently outside the windows seemed as the shadows ot a dream, with but one reality--the suit of underwear." "His feelings seem to have entered your heart," said one of the listeners. "They might well do (so," replied Mr. 1 Irving, "for I was that actor."- - The Yellow Jasmine. • it is difficult to guess why the yel­ low jasmine of the South is not ex­ tensively cultivated by tbe fiourista of the North. It is rarely beautiful not only from the form and color of its blotisoms, but from their peculiar­ ity of arrangement on the branches, and from the waving grace of tbe branches themselves. Hie peculiarly tough and elast c quality of the plant Enables it to throw out long streamr ers tbat wave in golden splendor when blooming, yet do not fall to the ground. Plants brought North live easily indoors, and blossom when very young and smalt The individ­ ual blossom lasts a long time, and there is a perpetual succession of buds in various stages of develop­ ment, so that tbe blooming season covers many weeks. As a living decoration for the house, the bloom­ ing plant is peculiarly effective, while long (streamers of the. blooming branches will live long when dipped and placed in water. It blooms aMRH this season. ; ' Counsel for AOOUMI. '-T; The Russian Ministry of Justice If considering a system of providing"1 state-paid people's attorneys for thi gratuitous defense of the poor in criminal and civil casea The argu­ ment is that whenever tbe state provides a prosecutor it ought also to provide an advocate for the accused. This p?ac@ice already exists in Aus- trla-Ruagary in the form of es- offlcio'c^unsei: but thi# is for criminal C4«es only. An association exist la Vienna to provide counsel for poor in civil < >;}i V't* S'V, .U.;" 114*'« t % P *1 /'• ji A&ihi SA 'tf&isi'.jLiiM.;.-.: