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Supplement TO TFIE DALLES CHRONICLE. TVHDAY, IEPTEBKR Z, IMMK. HO FALTERING UNDER THE NATIONS DUTY. Silver and Expansion Are the Paramount Issues. H. C. IerallJ, Lite-Loot Sound Money Democrat, Writes of tbe Nece lity for Assuming a Larger National Life. Oat of the most successful, distin guished and popular railway presidents la tlit United Statea ia tbe Hon. Mel ville B. Ingaila of Cincinnati. From the MrT ground of railroad construction he sas worked bia way up to the presidency e( the Chesapeake and Ohio and Big Four railway systems, among the most prosperous of our great trunk lines. Mr. Infills la one of the people, and ia prac tical In every idea, lie ia a lifelong Dem ocrat, and from the September issue of tat North American Iteview the follow ing extracts are made from Mr. Ingalls' Advice to Gold Democrats: What has happened since Xorember, 1890, to warrant reversal of the judg ment which the American people then pronounced at the polls? Under what conditions hare we entered on the pres ent presidential campaign, and what, in this regard, is the duty of patriotic citi sens, independent of pnrtisnn affiliation? To the Democrat who Toted for Palmer and Buckner, as well as to the Democrat who Toted for McKinley four years ago, the situation to-day presents peculiar embarrassments. Preferring to act with his party, when possible, the patriotic Democrat must, nevertheless, answer the call of duty, no matter in what direction It leads him. The second and supreme trial of the great financial issue, which never should Save been dragged into partisan politics, will be made at tbe polls in November, 1000. This test will, I believe, be con clusive. What are the conditions under which It la to be made? There Is in the United States at the W. PATENT LAWS BREED MONOPOLIES. A Drummer Continues His Chats on Trade Changes. Reorganization of Employing Companies Affords Larger Opportunities lo the Meo Expansion Qives Drummers New Fields. (Concluded from last week.) Monopolies in this country are due we to tbe patent system than any oth er cause; the average trust could not ino aopolize ita product, and it will not try. If It does, there is the same old remedy which we free American citizens, who art supposed to have something to say ia the election of our State legislatures, eta apply. We can pass Stat laws for the regulation of those monopolies. And, fcj the way, speaking ot politics, the Itc tubllcaa national platform declares last monopolies and would propose ttlonal legislation against them. Got. Roosevelt, a singularly clear headed public man on civic questions, let nt tell you, sees the point. He would legislate against monopolies. I Srmly believe that this legislation will couie, sad with it other laws intended to regu late Industrial corporations, a good deal Why not? When the trust really get to .totoi so that they themselves know what Itbty cin do, and ao that they won't be sihtmed to show in what a cheap, prlm- t,Te, experimental stage most of their methods now are, then, like the banks nd the railroads, tber ought to be made " snow down," and they will be. Jaen the Wall street investor for whom we don't care anything In pnrtleu will be protected from making bad 'jvntments, and the unwary Investors, he Widows and the ornhnns. whom cei- ln sand-bagging plutocrats like to tell about with so niunv tears, will be Woobly protected. Moreover, the em- H;S of the trusts, the clerks in the lofflces and the hands In the mills, can buy P"t stocks, and they will want to. U 'Poke about the Wall street Investor. fl hasn't been making so very much Pooey In Industrial stocks of late. He P1 Canaht lots nt tm Prhna vou fKall the case of the bicycle trust. The fremoters of that scheme went to cer- f'i bankers In New York on an eighty illllon dollar basis. It wouldn't go. ft run't worth h rtiAnaf 1 haras wan f t1 property In planta, good will, etc. 'boat a year later the promoters, the Promoter, nn itiniht whn hail lparn. f fod deal In the meantime, came ""a with the bicycle trust proposition on forty miuon dollar basis, and It went 't thttj could earn dividends on the forty nilllons. It Is probably true that the r1ran Bicycle Company Is not fully "Bed with eTery single oue of the tnill 1 details of Its business, but doubtless Wl'l get there. Other manufacturers, a big manufacturers, in the bicycle Alness will also get there; and other f trusts In than K las kiiinaa ft res Had to get there, too. Vou can't keep Mood man down or a good proposition. 0 ean't corner all the capital and "" in the country. Remember that. I was speaking about the Investor, S war - . kt ' win,, mo uie wioow or me vi I lit hmm m ...! .., I . ka ....in wm kvwwh, wa ... peeonit day unparalleled prosperity. IB which every citiara has a right to share. If any citizen ! prevented from sharing in that prosperity, ho ia the Tictim of conditione which cannot be righted by the election of Bryan, strongly as he may be tempted to trust in that remedy. , I n der the golj standard we have become the leading creditor nation, am we are financing the world. We have produced three great crops in aucceasion, and we are feeding Kurope. We have bad three yeara of unexcelled manufacturing in dustry, and we are finding a prompt and generoua market all over tbe world. The American farmer, the American laborer and tbe American business man were never as prosperous as they are to-day. It is by their suffrages that this presiden tial election must be decided. In what direction do their interests lie? The American farmer is selling for 37! ceuta a bushel corn which it cot him 13 cents to produce. His wheat and cotton, his beef aud pork are aeliing at profitable prices. He is spending his money in luxuries and enjoying himself. He is riding in railroad trains, and, as he looks from the car wiudows over the bountiful harvests, he is taking a new view not only of his native land, which waa never fairer ot happier, but is also minking of bis new markets aud new possessions" across the seas. Tbe laborer la to-day receiving more wsges than he ever received before, and he is receiving them in a currency that is jom all over the world. In many in mnres, unaouDiraiy, mere must be a readjustment of wages, and the aporadic strikes now reported in various manufac turing centers point probably to the be- ginning ot this readjustment. In my opin ion, these and kindred difficulties will be safely and speedily settled. Now, can any sane man tell me how the laborer will help his condition, or the solution of the problems so vital to him, by voting to debase our standard of Talue and thereby reducing his own wages? What has labor to hope from Bryan, ostensibly the friend of the dissatisfied, the champion of the aggrieved, and the chosen candidate of all the long-hcircd reformers in the United States? Does not the supreme salvation of labor de pend, after all, upon preserving our standard of value, upon the non-pnrtisan regulation of trusts, and upon the appli cation to those great commercial aggre gations, which are so peculiarly a pro duct of this age, of a system of license and taxation? Is it not idle to denounce the trust as an evil, a menace to the na tional welfare? l's not the trust a nat ural and essential development of our time? A quarter of a century ago the word "corpoeiition" implied an inherent reproach in the minds of exactly those citizens who to-day regard the trust, which Is the Incorporation of corpora tions, with tbe same disfavor. Yet it is to the solution of the trust problem that the American business man, as well as stock-watering evil along with the trust "magnate" and the promoter. He is get ting down on the earth again. Some of the trusts in which he Invested have even gone to pieces. They were badly con ceived and badly mannged. They couldn't hold together. They didn't "do business" on a business basis. There was no reason why they should expect to hold together. Perhaps there were too many purely ornamental per sons in the otilces with high salaries. Perhaps there were too many sons and nephews of "the president," who sat around looking handsome and thinking that there was no other task of Impor tance connected with their job. What ever the cause, the badly organized and badly managed trust has gone to pieces or is going. Nothing ran help it, if it enn't help itself. So, too, the people are realizing that the problem is economic after all, thut no person, nor any party, Is to blame for this condition of things; nor, iu fact, that any person, or party, or policy can prevent the good ones from succeeding, can prevent the bad ones from failing. That auggests another thing. I spoke of the more or less handsome nephew of "the president." He has got to be up to his job or he can't stay. It lsn t enough for him to succeed in his new position in doing the same old things that be used to do in the old one. There'is new study for him, new problems; buying, handling the labor situation, aeliing the product at a profit, studying the world's mar kets. All this he has got to do bees use It bns got to be done; snd if he hasn't tbe in clination or the brains to do it, you can wager your last dollar at the risk of walking from Kokoiuo to Kankakee that neither the "President" nor any one else will keep him In. That ia why it is tbe worst kind of fol-de-rol, unworthy of anybody as intelligent as the Great American Traveler, to pretend that there are no opportunities in manufacturing and trade now, and especially none for young men. Fudge! There was never so good a chance for brains, and good health, and sobriety, and acumen, and vitality. Have these things and capital must have yoa. And if it must have you it must pay you. The larger the corporation, the more Impor tant in it Is the man. There sre just aa many large corporations now as there were small ones before. As many big men are required as there were small ones required before. Whnt these so- called magnates want Is somebody who can do the work. Price la no object if tbey can depend upon you. Yon can't strike a $10,000 position all at once. You hare got to show that yon are worth $!, 000. or 12,000, or 3,000. It Is the same old climb ss It always has been; there Is the same old ladder to go np by, and the same old persimmon when you get to the top round and the same old persimmons, too, all the way up at all the rounds. All this seems pretty long unless It also seems to have some bearing upon the drummer question. I don't know whether yon ever thought of it or not, but many different causes have been op erating In the last few years to throw commercial travelers out of work. Man ufacturers have sought to eliminate com mission men, who mint have laid off good many of their travelers. The cata logue houses, ao-eiilled. those doing busi ness direct with the consumer by means of catalogues and other printed matter, have grown enormously. Tliey have Inld off drummers If they ever nnl tnem: ana one of the reasons why they ran sell so cheaply to the consumer Is that one ele ment of selling expense, the drnmmtng, Is eliminsted. Any nonse tnsi corre sponds extensively, that takes care with its correspondence, ny jnsi so raucn ,tt ... ..J ts w - mskes tne selling rssjt im n m ess were kept np long eaouga, tins tbe American farmer and laborer, mast addre- .maelf. And in the solution of that t-.oblem he will find the present goal of patriotism. The businesa man who doe not inquire into the politics of his bookkeeper Is asked by the supporters of Mr. Bryan to allow partisan politics to be injected into the circulating metlium through which he carries on his businesa. He refused in IS I, as he will refuse, I believe, in to impute either Iemocrscy or Republi canism to the dollar. He will say that it ia not a polities! question, and that it should not be made such. Asking him self where he shall seek guidance in tbe casting of his ballot, he, like the laborer and the farmer, looks out upon prosper ity unprecedented. He sees trade follow ing the flag all around the world, and new markets openiug to him under new national responsibilities. He realizes, aa a busiuess man, that these responsibili ties must he grappled with and adjusted on a business basis. No policy of evasion or retreat can commend Itself to him. Yet, into the field of partisan discussion. be nn iJs these responsibilities dragged. like the dollars from his counting room, by the politicians who seek his vote. And, like the farmer and the laborer, he finds bis next national ballot invested with unioue importance. What will be the reply of the American patriot, who U now asked to believe that his home and his pocketbook are staked on tbe next turn of the ballot, that a wrong decision spells ruin, and that he must decide issues of such moment aa were never before submitted to the Amer ican electorate? Bryan's election appears to me Impossible. Good citizens, irrespective of party, should vote for Mc Kinley in November. That it is the duty of patriots to do so I have no doubt. The safety of the American republic Is not ineuaced by a bogey, crowned with an Imperial diadem of straw. The cry of imperialism is simply a pretext of the Democratic leaders to save themselves from the fatal blunder they made In 1SSMI, the blunder of dragging the dollar to the polls aud endeavoring to degrade It. Imperialism is not the paramount issue, despite all efforts to make it so. Now, as in lHiltl, the real issue is the Silver Danger. That Is the peri! threat ening this country, not the Imaginary evils attendant on the acquisition of new territory, which was the inevitable re sult of a war for which the sbriekers against imperialism were largely respon sible. The only peril now threatening the United States is ruin and retrogres sion under silver, the turning back of the wheels of progress and prosperity to the stnndurds of China and Mexico, and the abandonment of our position as the greatest country in the civilized world. Shall we go forward or shall we tnrn back? That is the question for the vot ers in November. Under McKinley we would cause drummers to lose their places. Then consider that millions and mill ions of dollars are spent in this country for advertising purposes, not merely in the newspapers and the magazine,, but on the fences and the bill boards, In signs, In distributions of printed mat ter, and what not. What is all this money spent for? To sell goods. And the study of hundreds of the brightest men in the country is devoted to making advertising more and more effective, so thnt a given expenditure will result in greater and greater sales at a lower and lower expense. Why do the advertisers want to sell more and more cheaply? So that they can beat their competitors by giving the consumer bet ter things for the same money, or just aa good tilings for less money. All this effort to sell things cheaper means that drummers are going to be laid off if they by their methods have been selling things more expensively. There Is another thing that we owe it to ourselves to look fairly in the face. Many drummers in the past have consid ered that the business that tbey helped their houses to do belonged to them and not to the houses. Others, surely all the houses, used to take a contrary view; and of late yeara they have resorted to the various more or less direct methods of selling in order to get their business back into their own bands.- No doubt about it! No doubt about It! One of the things which a trust alms to do Is to reduce its selling expense. If four manufacturers making tbe same ar ticle are drumming Indiana, and their four able and persuasive representatives light into Indianapolis aome day, they all go around among the trade doing lit tle except neutralize one another. About four times the talk, nerve force anj money are spent to sell only as rniny goods as Indianapolis wants that day, as needs be spent. This is one of the many things that the trusts have found out that tbey knew before they started in. Now, It Is Inevitable in the very econ omles, lu the very natural law of the fltuation, that some of those drummers must go some time; they may be sent into new territory, they may be recalled to work In the office at home, or tbey may be dismissed entirely. Just so much of their work as has been unnecessary will surely be dispensed with in time. Competition does that, and we couldn't have any better illustration of the fact that competition is always active. Here it is potent, actually, fn the case of the glucose trust that was afraid to encour age too much competition (of other capi tal and brains) by making more than sev en per cent, It was active potentially. It Is preposterous to say that fifty thousand commercial travelers, or thirty Ave thousand, have been thrown out nt work by the trusts. There are probably not sixty thousand sf them In the whole country. Reside, If ten per cent of them have been thrown out of work by the various changes in producing and dis tributing that have come about in the last few years, other causes have probably rontributed equally with the combination movement. Kven so, and putting the case at its very worst, the general Im provement In business, the wide expan sion of trade at borne and abroad, which all of our producers, manufacturers and trailers .have helped to bring about, and by which they have all inevitably profit edthis has put all of those commercial travelers back Into places just as good. or better, or will do so. It Is Inevitable. More people were employed after ma chinery waa Introduced simply because the want of the human race became greater and wider erery year, and these wants had to be supplied, snd could be, because things were ao much cheaper. We aavo taken over Porto Rice, Ha go forward, ander Bryan wo tura back. The coming test of silver question at the polls must, in ail human probe i bility. bo the final one. The will ot the ffnlM ftwl.A Mai-. m.1 Brill nift k. K third time disputed. Each year that e nri,.. .. . . . .,.... preserve our present money standard gives it additional security. The Amer-j icaa people do not like experiments w ith their currency, their school houses, their; churches or their savings banks. A re-! rersal ot the popular verdict of l&sj I would mean reversal of all the achieve-1 meats that make up our national pros-1 perity, Bryan's election would mean that , the sovereign people had decreed that our j laborers shall be paid in silver, while! our foreign debts must still be paid in gold. Convinced as I am that the financial question is the paramouut issue in No- j vember, 1900. aa it waa in November, j lfCW, it ia worth while for Democrats 1 who supported McKinley, as I did, four years ago, to ask what are the issues upon which our party could have appeal ed to the American people with fair pros pects ot success, and what we can con tend for in future contests, after this economic and financial question is finally settled. To my mind these define them selves as reform in governmental admin istration, economy in governmental ex penditure, the taxation and regulation of oppressive trusts and combinations, and tbe immediate enactment ot a just and honest scheme of colonial government. These would have been Issues upon which every patriot could have been honestly asked to vote. Why should we not act fairly about a reform In our old system of taxation, and, at the same time, initi ate a departure which might well result in throwing tbe cost of government upon those who can best afford it? The silver problem solved once for all, as it will be in November, the colonial prob-i lem at once becomes paramount. We must either give up Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines, haul down our flag, and shamefully abandon the righteoua, fruits ot our prowess by land and sea,; or we must prepare to govern these dis tant additions to our country fairly and honestly and capably. A per. petnal, constitutional barrier must be erected against tbe statehood of all our1 non-contiguous possessions. That su premely important problem is to be met) and overcome, not by cowardly evasion or disgraceful retreat, for the America people will tolerate no such course. We; must institute honestly and wisely and; administer economically an American co lonial system, worthy alike ot our new' possessions and of their mother country. We are not incapable of governing them. We are, as a nation, incapable ot nothing. I fully believe In the future of the! American republic, and thut we are wise, and brave enough to bear the burdens, and fulfill the task Providence haa allot ted us. Let us not falter at the thresh old. M. B. INGALLS. waii and the Philippines, and have some interest in Cuba; and I venture to say that the increased and increasing busi ness in those distant islands has already more than absorbed the work of all the drummers in the country who have lost their positions through industrial com binations. If that is true, and I believe it is, consider whut a chance there is for ten per cent of our commercial travelers, or for fifty per cent of them. In time in foreign lands or at home here, helping their new employers, or their old ones, to meet all the numberless new and in creasing demands of our prosperous and proud American men, women, sweet hearts, wives, cousins, aunts and chil dren, and nil the countless millions, who, as we can be certain, are going to want our American products more and more' because the counted millions that we know of have begun to take them now almost faster than we can supply them. That is expansion. You cannot stop it In a million years! It has been going on since the world began, and It will contiune to go on: faster than ever, I gness, to the end of time. It happens when a people fairly burst Its manufacturing and commercial bounds. There must be an outlet for the1 products of our farms and factories, for the capital and talents of our business men and hustler. Sometimes this expansion of new strength, which amounts to an explosion of new strength, must be preceded by a battleship, even by a part of a standing) army, or a permanent garrison, as in Porto Rico or the Philippines. At other times the battleship and the standing1 army, or a part of it. Just enough to hold our o'.vn and make no doubt of it, must follow. The missionaries (who typify In a way tbe advance of civilization into heathen lands, as we call them) are best of all the daring forerunners of the commerce and the progress that have to get there too. The human race, especially the Anglo Saxon, are always wanting more and better things; they are climbing, climbing, climbing, always upon a higher plane of living. These things they work for, and fight for, and die for. So long a that restless, world-conquering sentiment ex ists, there will be expansion. So long, too, the races of the earth which have found themselves, and are still finding themselves, nnequal to the trading, and selling, and fighting, and civilizing rapac ity of the Anglo-Saxons, must step aside; they must learn to fight and to trade, and to trade and to fight, much better; that Is all. I try to aay these thing thonghtfnllv, a a drummer, notorious as he is for talk ing, may sometime do. This expansion that I speak of I what we optimist mean by destiny; we are not afraid of It. we welcome it. We have done In the last three year a hundred years of work which, however, we couldn't have done. If we hadn't been prepnred, if we hadn't been that kind of people. There I not a true American man In these United States that is not better off. In his patriotism or his pecuniary pros pects, for the tssks of war and of states mnhip thst have been undertaken snd discharged In the last three years. You are better sff. whoever yon are; and I am better off. Kven if T had not been nec essary to my employer in the field and had not been kept on the pay-roll, then there would have been ten times the freedom of opportunity, which Is all any good man can want. There is freedom of opportunity for everybody; but opportu nity won't come looking for ns. We must go running for It, watching every open ing, looking for Improvement, looking for the way which our employer mnt find if we do not make his capital and his ef forts pay him a little bitter. In that way onr effort, which are our capital, will pay ua better and better. DitUMMLR. RULES OF Intt ROAD. three C1asro of Person Ought to Know sad Observe Thesn. , " ru,,T ot ,!le r,mi,1 V'1"' V Indifferently understood by a large uiimlK-r of persons alio use (he st rests, or tuey are willfully disregarded. The ordinary rules of the road, and they apply to road vehicles, horsemen aud tdcyeles, are as fallows: Kur the lriver. Kuow bow to drive, Kec-p to the right. In passing another vehicle going In the same ilircctioa keep to the left Iu approaching crowing slow up, To go around a ooruer o up and make a wide turn to carry you to the right, and avoid vehicles coming down the cross streets on their proper side. A city atrevt la not a tneetltiig track; It Is a highway for the use of uuiny and various vehicles. Therefore drive at moderate ihh1. I'm judgment. If you can not drive do not bnnillo the reins. Let someone do It who can, Keep a cool head. A jtersou who drives should be a re sponsible person. A slight accident or luck of Judgment on Ills part lulisbt cost a life. Senile men, young and untrained boys, ulne tombs of the women, oue luilf the men and a few of the coach men should never tie allowed to drive in the city. It takes knowledge, judg ment and strength to pilot a horse or a ten in of horses lu n crowded city street, For the Pedestrian. If a pedestrian, keep off the roadway, except to pas over It at the proper crossing. lo not stop lu the middle of the street to converse with a person you meet. In crossing a afreet step lively; ob serve all sides for coming teams. They have the right of way. Do not stand In the street while wait ing for a street car. If n bicycle wines behind you and Its bell la Mitldcnly rung, do not get rat tled. Stand still. The wheelman will ride around yoa and avoid hurting you. If you do get rattled, do not try to "balance on the corners" with the wheel; make a bold (lush for the side walk, or else stand still. The sidewalks are for pedestrians, The ro.idwnys are for vehicles. For the Wheelman. lo not ride a bicycle on a crowded street until you arc Its master. Do not "scorch." Do not pass close In front of a ve hicle or a street car. Take your time unless you happen to be going for a doctor. Kven then go with reasonable speed and be extra ob servant and cautious. Keep to the right except when pass ing a vehicle going lu tbe same direc tion, when imihs It to the loft. Do nut turn the corner of a down town street while riding faster than four miles an hour. Do not const on down-town street. It Is dangerous to your owu life and the lives of others. uo not attempt trick riding on a crowded street. When you see a wheelman riding on the wrong side of the Htreet warn 1)1 in This is customary In Chicago, St. Louis, Denver and other large cities. If you are so warnea do not get angry, If you ride at night without a lamp and arc accidentally run into It Is your fault. One of the chief pm-poxes of n lamp Is to keep other vehicles from running you down. Wheelmen should never ride more than two abreast when riding In par ties, enpeclnlly at night. If you are a beginner get off and walk down a bill. You are aure to bo tiervotis and might run Into someone. Every wheelman should know how to dlHinotint from both sldt-s of the wheel. This Is especially necessary In down-town streets to avoid accidents. Men who ride down town should practice dropping off the saddle astrad dle the bind wheel where dismounting from either side Is Impossible. Every wheelman should know how to brake with the foot on the front wheel. Many serious accidents on down-towu streets would thus be averted. Every woman who rides a wheel should have a brake attached to It. No man should take a woman on a teudetu on a crowded street. Tandems are not fit vehicles for down-town streets during business hours. Kansas City Star. A Bear that Could Ititn. Another nmn who depended on the assurance that bears nre nrrnnt cow ards, and will run from any human being who approaches them, has hnd occasion to amend his opinion. On the third of Inst May a wheelman, riding through the country nlxiiit 1-ewlston, Idaho, took It Into his head to go out hunting for grouse. Leaving his wheel In a secure place, ami taking a small twenty-two-ciillber rllle, lie obtained the services of a civilized Indian boy nnmed Matthew, ns a sort of guide, and set forth. The boy also had a rifle of the same size, and they hnd a couple of dogs. Between them they were pretty well armed, ns they thought, and coiint pd upon bringing home a good bng. Itut hunting Is uncertain business. They had not gone far Into the wood on Mission Creek, fifteen tulles from Lewlston, when the dogs stirred up something which, to Judge from their excited actions, was not a grouse. Tho hunter went to see what It was, nncl found the dogs barking at a she cinna mon Iwar, which, with her culm, was In a kind of den tn the rocks. Tho Indian Iniy was In advance, and the War bad no sooner seen lilm thnn she rushed out nt him. Matthew did the best thing he could think of -lie flrrd bis little rllle In the lienr's face. Itut the woundonly enraged her. She sprang on the boy, bore him down, and begnn to tear him with Iter teeth and daws. The white n:: n " :n meantime com- Ing to the rescue with hit little gum Although the sight of tbe bear tearing the boy made him sick, bo poured tnt small bullets Into her body, and at Uurl succeeded In hurt Ing her so much that she let go the boy, and suarllng at th men, fled Into the wood. Poor Matthew was now unconsctooat his clothes were nearly gone, and hut flesh was lucvrated In fifty places, Tbo w hite man thought be was dead, but If turned out that life was In til m. and U luau took It 1 nt to a place where hi frightful wounds could lie dressed. This particular bear Is well known tsj the people. alxiut Mission Creek. Bba bus Kcvcral times attacked men and boys, who have heretofore got off, la the language of Job, by the skin of their teeth. The iHople have resolved not to tol erate longer a bear with such repro lienHible habits, and at last accounts a party bad been organized to go aftef her with more formidable weapon thau twcnty-two-calilx-r rifles. 'Yes, My Iortl." At a meeting of teachers In New York City many suggestions were mad as to the bct methods of clearing tho cloudy uncertainty ot children's mem ories. "It Is almost hopeless," said the prin cipal of a public school. "American chil dren, for Instance, are usually sure of but two dates In history, but they at tach very different events to them. Oue pupil told me yeoterday that Wash ington was born tn 1770 and that tho civil war ended In 1402." "It Is not only their memories, but their minds that are hazy," said a well known literary woman. "Parents sel dom know the strange meanings that timid child puzzles out alone from or dinary phrases. Until I was a large girt and found courage to ask bow all of tho prophets could be hung on one rope, I always believed the two command ments from which 'hang all the law and the prophets' to have been two scaf folds." 'English children are no brighter than our own," said another teacher, and repeated an anecdote told by aa American bishop who, while In York shire, hnd been asked to address a Sun day school. "I am the Bishop of the diocese of Washington and Idaho," he said; "and. by the way, can any of you tell mo whnt it diocese Is?" Several hands were held up. Dr. Tal bot nodded to a yellow-haired, red- cheeked lad In front. "You know," ho said. "Yes, my lord. A diocese Is a hlga point of laud, with a bishop sitting on top and a lot of clergymen all around. It Is not the children who are to blame," said an old professor, who bad listened In silence. "It Is we, who. In these modern days, are urgent to crowd Into their vacant minds the rudi ments of too ninny branches of knowl edge. It Is botter to take a week to plant In a child's mind one Idea, so that It may take root and grow, and becomo a part of bis life, than to pour Into It sv hundred facts In a day, which he doe not understand nor receive." .Iroitu (Seasons. The seasons tn the north frigid zone or arctic circle follow the seasons la the north temperate zone, though, ot course, about the pole and for 1,000 miles south of It In every direction tho winters are much more severe and longer, while there Is practically neith er spring nor fall, three or four months) of unseasonably warm weather consid ering the latitude, being whnt the resi dents In Alaska and Northern Siberia may expect. The equutorlal regions have Hiclr wet and dry seasons, tho change of seasons being usually accom panied by severe storms, which occur In September and March, often attain ing the violence of hurricanes. What we call our'wlntcr Is the dry and pleas ant season In equatorial regions, both north and south, and our summer Is, la the tropical cone, the rainy and un healthy season. St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. ITmbrellae. Umbrellas will hint much longer If, when they are wet they are placed han dle downwards to dry; the molxturo then runs from the edges of the frame and the mnterlnl dries uniformly. If stood handle upwards, as Is usually tho case, all the moisture runs Into the top of the umbrella and Is kept there by the lining underneath the ring, conse quently It takes a long time to dry, and Injures the silk or other fabric with which the umbrella Is covered. The lat ter Is one of the chief causes of um brellas wearing so soon at the top. Um brella cases are not so much used as) formerly, for these nre responsible by their constant friction for the small holes In the fabric that appear very early. When not In use nn umbrella, should be left unrolled, and wlicu wet should be left loose to dry. Trapped, Animals enught In trap have some times mil mi Kill to escnpe with trap and an, but In most cii.se the trap has In the long run been the death of them. This wn the fate of an eagle thnt had flown away with a trap dangling from one of Its legs. For several weeks neither bird nor trap wns seen, till one day, a gentleman noticed a curious ob ject hanging front a tree-branch. Climbing np to find out what It wns, ho discovered that It wns the eagle, qulto dead. The peg ami chains by which the trap had I n fastened In tho ground had lieeome entangled among the boughs nnd the poor eagle had been slowly starved to death. lie's Waiter Now. Sample Hello, Meeker! Are yon still trnvellng for that provision firm! Meeker-No; I'm taking local orders now for anoilicr concern lu the sumo line. Sample What house sre you with' Meeker Hasher's restaurant.