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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1906)
, .Timni U U K III; I IIMIilkV ma .. no. PrlcUy. Mfl! linn .Lion. executive "jllil tf'"?1"".'.,,! -,r. Iter considering m noO.000, ter Vi.. feature ol ..!. was wiu H0 f dorks, a proviB- .l.b Hi"" - . ii ..inn ami IB"' l nAh lllBCUUuim. tbVcarilo7nonrly $700,. 11 fS tlS"t appropriation ilflllr Pu.r !..lnn. "' . .. ii... ..ill. in."" . . . a nil liiii . .... . i.-Ai in diiv.v..- , i I. h i VI it ...I.I..I. ..-n. i. wi rat"" . . ii u. - ...i.i twin oi iiiu ...- it. Tiririii" . ii . - itm nrmv 1)7 nun""- ..lmIll Ol I"" ; '! l F"v" i . ..,.tn nn I 10 nuu Mitori VII" ' ? . nnn-l. It. . . ...- ft hi nui'i'vi i kku"' ,i. i.ntm ml it J 1.1 MM Ifl M11I1IU M "I Tw oi the orders of T,l iWcrce conimUalon. f.i.i., trm win"" ----- .... it inowi" " " '. . ... I IV - i t I. .....m .w.l iini ri iiml nf neace. ... 1. MMmted and. hn.i no . a i a i i r 1 1 1 1 iiiu Wco tin, tl.n ..aViMHUUU W ... . . T he railroad rate bill na it 1,1 .V .ill. ..tflnir nUltloilft .i i h ran mid c ? rj wh1nBton between Capo tidjoorned until Monday. . . . i.1.l. 00 Tnilav WBH Wl' I tl .1.1- for the house, commic.". . i ... .-..In ,.n ilin nr. i ..in. rippn IIUUU UN Ui ii ve anu iiiuiumi " n t ii i. 'm.. nn minronr auoiuiD dui- i defeat, tlio commiiieo o win t,T0teof68U) 22, cxpung ....I. tlin nil W1C MiKIpI'" 'IV" .' .: u. n..nm1v nnrt nf tint UI UU IIU""J i-..-- -- - - t 1 1 i.iii a ii in. iimnM iMi.r Mm nnnroiiri i k. tl.aiitli u-itit Vdlrd for Ml UI kit V " ' ' atnll ill I II II 1I11UK1UI UU" . II.. . IH . 1 Wednesday, March zu. utioMch In tlio ecnato today. flfi inn naiiiiinii iniu mvui'iui'i . I T...:....lf tt'Ifl tltA .i . 11. tirAlalAltt. WllPn .j. nnarii oniiirnii iiiimi o.fMi inn rcuaiu uiiivinu v v ti(h!!l regarding tbo final lla- 111 . .M.f. .1 II OllQOlunrfl ui viitj mu win- i if . .... I I. 01 maiani anu iiiucii uuiiv uDrewed to many of tlio Semal eonators. IncltitlinR tmefstd dleannroval n( tho i .... .i.t-i... .i... proYition auuioniuiK iu ol tee interior to Icaao Inml. unnn. iiirrn ' n iiit nri'ni t !.- 1 i . it- I- .- A . rinnimiiTiwi rn rint nniiNfi inn W fllC DtS'lk LJLXI I. 1111 lA UbttlU ' - - -- - u I), relrce, re:ardlng tlio urt ce id i io uricni. tiiit of Mr. Peirce Inrluded iim mil inp aiitfii.it niinnifl tit in lAf T.Pjinnl fiiinurnl Mi-Wtiilit (i-mnial at Canton, nru drunk nrBA nor 1 1 Ana raa . w tw w tVMHWItlVUI (,uuuu iu V4fi11.nj.1Ui1 who M AlBrirSM nliynna. ttAru6nn. ( ,.vn , w - imnlan ell irons for purponca ninBi vioounow nre r . i . n 1 1 1 1 iRrimit ii 1111 n -i it.iuuo iiii nyiuu Botllt ire tnffirlnnl in ninnntl t ur inn ttitt. i - . it iu ciiumiin ill iriira UlfiffiMI. Till. hI..I... -f It... . uv U1IIIIIUII UI lllll watnt was unfavrablii in nlm T....J .aiy, March 27. -vm. WBILI1 .1 mmm I I I I m fl Tt mm rliaai.l. .1 11 it . .. the North Dakota een. UUQf Illm.Alf I. 11 II -- luicuii io inu raiiroaci -v"utiy ami me aontn or uiBcuMlng various 'IIUIBII 1 1 1 H I I II Tl u 'iuu u riruuini a ii Bt. 1 ll . U IVe tO the UBO of linHnnal 6l n" n"i CT Bnu olUcntally SL!n 'lct ,Attorny Jofotno'a tiDCM and of Jn.li ii...nnu. -- ... wiu iitoi triiat cfliiiB. IN ue I n n,.il .11 .. - Mai. i ...llor ",M "? aur B;,l for CmiIa cuit aurpii J7 w. t ii . a. nil iniiinii micrntittn M,, i- nilhl. . '"tintu.i.ij mi ""7 rennrtmi . .i,.m..i. . .-" rronn h'a nn it... Ill Tl "-lVlllI llVIlt ' lURPAin. ii. .... - -.1. OltlHTK Hill 11 tTit on t m w tin !n ta.ni..' ..'v "wiuiary couia -rce iue proaent Sfi.l.n.,-. ML P!r.oU !'iP"ont8 for -i aa iidihm.i. i i ir--v.u,U8U uy gome, lMt. - '"'"Mif.a. i ' . i Marni, f (..1. . fa - r-inriDTm "uo were t.k.;i , - ' uutni 1 1 v ... t 'I I , , v unnin... n . I fa.. " MUftl. HTltl tlinl Hiu:7.wfflosnt annrnnrl.. WHHv .n',n uieev9Ht that "lll, toll. , 1'oraker dofended Judgo Ilumnhrov and Tillman declared that lie had not meant to attack the Indue, but tlio law McOumbor picked innumerable flawB In the rate bill, predicting that, if en acted into n law, it would fail entirely 111. 1 .4 to meet uio ucmanuB oi tiiu public Ho eaid, iiowovcr, he would vote for tho bill if properly amended. Washington March 27. Tho houao today witnvmeu a moat unuaual aceno, the npeaker rlnlng on the floor in tho midst of a nplrltcd dlncimnlon on reelp rocity and tariff ruvlnlon and dicclnlm ing rcBponeiltility for dlffcrenres be tweon minority mombora. It was to ward tho cIobo of tho debato on tho nru out deficiency bill, which appropriated, among oilier imnga, lor tho forthcom ing conforenco nt Illo do Janeiro. Tlio bill wan punned. On motion of Tawney, tho leglulativo and judicial bill wan taken up. when Prince, of Illinois, and Ifardwick. o Georgia, rcBtimed tho tactics Inaugurat ed laut week by raining a point of order against every paragraph in which thcro watt a doparturo from extoling law. A half dozen polntnof order were madu and aiitaiued affecting tho officera of tho hubtroaauriefl at Now York, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Ht. IiOUifl. Monday. March 20. Washington, March 20, Following tho president's suggestion, the houeo today pawed resolutions to correct the usoleM printing of documents and to empower the printing committees of the two executive bodies to fix the number of documents to be printed, and, should the demand arise for ad ditional copies of a publication, then to have authority to order another edi tlon. It waa claimed this action would reatilt in saving tho government upward of $1,000,000 annually. Nearly tho entire day was devgfed to District of OlnmblA business. Tho fortifications appropriations bill oill waa sent to conference. Washington, March 20. There was a hint in tho eonate today at an effort to fix a time for a final vote on the railroad bill, but it was surrounded by so much circumspection and doubt that no prediction as to the time would bo luatlfled. Tillman stated that he would bring the matter up tomorrow and, unlcsa objection was made, he may ask to have a day specified. Tho suiirettion as to a time arose in connection with the more or less fieri ous effort on the part of a number of senators to secure Imraediato consider ation of amendments offered by them selvea. Saturday, March 24. Washington, March 24. Hazing at tlio Annnpollfl Naval academy waa dealt with by tho hnuae today in the parsnip of a senate bill with a house substitute The action was taken after a protracted ddbato, which pi need on record the improaslons at the special ccmmitUe which investigated the subject recently and a severe criticism by Hepburn of efforts to condone hazing. Several amendments wero proposed, but all wore rejected save one, it bolng the duty of cadnt ofllcers, ae well as othor academy authorities, to report infrac tions of tlio rules. Tho bill repeals that portion of existing laws wjiieii makes it compnlcory to diBtnips mid shipmen guilty of hazing in any de gree, and substitutes punishment ac cording to tbo nature of the offense. Cruel and brutal hazing may bo pun ished by dismissal. Previous to con sideration of tho hazing bill, 205 pen sion bills wero dieenseud and passed. Waihinsrton, March 110. General Luke E. Wright today took the oath of ofllce as ambassador to Japan. Ho ceased to bo governor goneral nf tho Philippines today. Henry 0. Ido, of Mio rhilipplnca commission, tho pres ent acting govornor, will conlinuo until April 2, when tho will bo inaugurated governor general. Washington. March 30. Tho legis lation prompted by tho recent wreck of the steamer Valencia off tho Straits of Fuca was authorized to bo reported favorably by the Iioubo committed on commerce today, It appropriates $200,000 for an ocean-going llfe-aavlng tug and fur tho establishment of a life saving station at Noah bay. IkZ. robbed 1 Main, l 'leiamuni- raih, War.Tblll Wall K a " f 1 ol v'HB 0OBJ' Oonfer on Bristol. Washington, March 20. President KooHovolt today Bont forBonator Fulton and Attornoy Genoral Moody to talk ovor tho case of District Attorney llris tol. What tho conference accomplish ed cannot bo stated, as nouo of tho par ticipants will discuss it or give any ink ling of what disposition will bo .made of the case, It Is stAtod, though not olflclally, that tho Oregon liar associa tion has declined to take any action in the premises, having returned tho pa pers submitted by tho attorney genoral several weeks ago. Reports Timber Land Bills. Washington, Maroh 20. The sonato publlo lands committee favorably re ported the bill to repeal the timber and stone act and to provide for the sale of Umber on public land at not less than iti appraised value. Senator Fulton had an amendment inserted providing that 10 per cent of the proceeds of sales of timber shall be expended for public roads and tehoola in the counties in which the tlmberv is sold, the balance to go to the reclamation fund, OUR TRADE WITH CANADA. Growth Has Boen Enormous, DospHe Atlomptod Reduction. Warrington, March 27. Trado of tho United SlalcB with Canada in tho fiscal year 1005 aggregated $202,940,. 218, against $80,420,000 in 1805, ac cording to a bulletin issued by tho de partment of Commerce and Labor. It biiowb mat in tno years from 1875 to 1805 our trade with Canada increased 07,000,000, and from 1805 to 1005 it Increased $114,000,000. The larger portion of this growth has beon on tho export Bide. The imports increased from $27,807,015 in 1875 to $02,400,432 in 1905, and exports ad vanced from $34,547,219 in 1875 to $140,620,681 in 1005. 'This rapid growth in trado relations with Canada," says tho bulletin, "is especially interesting in viow of tho varying conditions to which commerce with Canada has beon subjected. Dur ing tno period from 1855 to 1800 a re :lprocity treaty waa in fnrcn hnttvApn Canada and the United States, but in the the latter year it was determined, SO that cornmnrnn tintwncn Dm lun co'untrlefl was unaffected bv snccial trade airanccments until Anrll. iHfiR when tho United States was placed at a Biignt disadvantage as compared with tho United Kingdom, products from that country rnlnrlntr thn TWnlnl nn nf Canada being admitted, by special ar rangement, at a reduction of 12 per cent of tho tariff levied on imports from other countries. "August 1. 1808. tho rudnctlnn nf British products was increased to 25 nor cent, and on July 1. 1000. was still further increased to 33 por cent. Desnito these advantages in favnr nf goods entering Canada from tho United Kingdom, exports to Canada from that country grew from $20,743,712 In 18 7 to s iy,uu3,oou in 1VU4, while exports from the United States grew from $04,028,825 in 1807 to $140,520,581 in 1005." Tho porcentaeo of imports to Canada from the United States in 1005 wan 00.6 and from the United .Kingdom 24 per cent. MISERY OF STARVING. Japanese Live on Flour Mixed With Straw and Weeds. Tokio, March 27. The misery and suffering in the famine district has been slightly relieved by the prompt and llboral aid from foreign sources and the abatement of tho rigors ot winter. The local authorities are try ing to provide work for the ablebodied, but the extent of the work is inade quate, and tens of thousands are still on the verge of starvation. Many parents aro parting with their children, sending thorn to the already crowded Olcayama orphanage. Several children aro quartered at the Ueyno railway station in this city. Among them waa a girl 0 years old. who waa found treasuring a package of dirty old nMwspnpers. On examination the pack- ago was found to contain a postal card, with the address of the parents of the child, who had been told to mail the card upon her arrival at lior destina tion. The severity of tho suffering un dergone by the children is clearly de pleted in tho faces of those who are compelled to part from their homes, where tho food conaiats of flour mixed with straw and weeds. The mixture Is beaten fine, forming a paste, which contains only 25 per cent actual food value. The government has remitted the lowest tax in tho famine district, but this will not affnrd immediate relief. The liberal contributions from Ameri cans aro already effectivo, and tbo re lief in tbo form of food and clothing is commanding tho heartiest apprecia tion. Another appeal for aid is presenterd by the sufferers from tho earthquake in Formosa, hundreds of wnom are homeless. Tho local govornment is busy providing food, caring for the in jured, and recovering and removing corpses, several hundred of which are biried under tho debris. San Jacinto In Danger. Tnn Ammlpfl. March 27. A dianatch to tho f imoa from San Jacinto, Cal , H a i i - 11. says; itagtng uown us course in rue maddest fury known in L'o years, tno San Jacinto river threatens great dam age to tho town of San Jacinto, to tho extonsivo ranching regions near by and to many other places down tue vaiioy. Bridges have been washed away, lands liavo toon flooded, and it has been only ith tho greatest dimcuuy mat tno aters have been prevented from throuch tho main street of San Jacinto and ontailing heavy loss. Ship Afiro Hits Rocks, ct Tnii.m N. V.. March 27. After bolng in peril from firo at sea and man aging by dosporato efforts to reach this port In tno miust oi a gaio anu a uimu incBirbw storm, tho British freight trnimnr Tltanla struck a submerged rock in onterlng the harbor lato last night, had a holo torn in hor hull, and today lies on the beach, where she was InWfnr. Tho' fir e in the cargo of the midship hold Ib Btlll burn- ng fiercely. Fire Destroyed Eleven Buildings. FAVBttevllle. N. 0.. March 27, A flre which started in the Frank Thorn- ton Dry Gooes company's Btore last nlaht. In the center of the city, de stroyed 11 buildings. Loss, $800,000, No one was killed, but eeveral persons were injured. NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers, HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of tho Past Week. The Chinese boycott is bolievod to bo dying out. 8toror is still recognized as ambas sador at Vienna. Troops have been called out to sup press riots at Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Iowa legislature has passed a bill which will not allow any state offi cer to use a railroad pass. Tho miners convention has decided to accept the advanco wherever granted by the 'coal operators and work will continue in those mines. Representative Lacey, of Iowa, wantB all agricultural lands now embraced in forest reserves thrown open to entry under tho homestead laws. , Thirteen miners who were entombed in the French coal mine have just been found alivo. They wero in the mine 20 days and lived on horse feed. Another $25,000 has been sent to Japanese famine sufferers through tho National Bed Cross. This makes $125,- 000 sent through this source. Announcement is made at Cleveland, Ohio, of an advance of from 14 to conts per gallon by tbo Standard Oil in the price of gasoline and naphtha Governor Pattison, of Ohio, is grow ing worse. Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme court, may resign. The Chicago beef trust trial has been Bet for tho second Monday in Decem ber. The Ohio legislature has provided for a commission to revise the insurance laws of the state. The president fears congress will take no action on the Panama canal at the present session. Winnipeg, Manitoba, is in the hands of a inob. A street car strike is the cause of the trouble. President Roosevelt has again sent Bristol's name to the senate for con fir mat ion na district attorney for Ore gon. The Mississippi river is rapidly ris ing and the danger line has been reached at several poidta near St. Louis. Great Britain has asked China for 5,000 taels for the recent Nanchang murder and the opening of the port of Wucheng vJlil. . . Tho Iowa legislature has pasaeu a resolution providing for an insurance lnve'tieation similar to that had in Now York last fall. xsow xoric last tan. Tho fire in the big natural gas well near Caney, Kansas, has again been extinguished by means of a huge iron cap dropped over the opening. The Iowa legislature haB killed the direct primary bill. Revolutionists of China are planning to depose the dowager empress. Germany iB planning a navy equal to that of both Franco and England. Charles S. Francis has been appoint ed United States ambassador to Aus tria. A wealthy New York merchant haB left $005,000 to the colored school at Tuskegee, Alabama. American delegates have solved tho problem of the Moroccan conference and an agreement Ib assured. Steamship companies expect a weekly average of 2,000 Russian emigrants to the Uoitod Slates during this summer. Firo at Johnstown, Pa., destroyed nearly $1,000,000 worth of property. One fireman waa killed and several seriously injured. Attorney General Hadloy, of Mis souri, has completed the taking of evi dence in New York regarding Standard Oil operations in his stato. Tho first of 18 brldgo agents and cor porations to be tried at Sundusky, Ohio, on a charge of conspiracy in re straint of trado has boen found guilty. Attorney Genoral Moody believes a new man should be selected as district attorney for Oregon, but United States Attorney Honoy sayj Bristol iB all right. The Moroccan conference is rapidly approaching an agreement. New York Republicans will aBk Ohurles E. Hughes to run for gover nor. The Benato committee on public lands has had n now timber law referred to them. Tuff Hftva the eovornment mid the cost of General Wood's trip around the world. Standard Oil officials are giving At torney General Hadloy, of Missouri, all the evidence he asks. Four New York firemen lost their lives while attempting to save lives from a burning factory. Commiseiener of Corporations Gar field has agents at work In Kansas se curing information relative to the working of the oil trust, "It's funny about a person's teeth," remnrked tho man who had ordered soup and chicken hash for his lunch, "At least It isn't bo blamed funny n It's curious. You take tho teeth and the finger nails, for Instance." "Well," said tho man opposite. "A man's finger nails grow, don't thcy7" "Certainly. So docs his hair." "Well, what's tho use? We don't need our hair or our finger nails not more than a certain length any way but they keep sprouting right along, Just as If we did, and Just as long as we live." "Oh. I don't know," said tho other man, passing his hand over the top of his head. "Well, your finger nnlls do, nnyway. But you Just get your one crop of teeth and they've got to ao you. There's nothing more coming to you." "I always understood there were two crops." "Yes, the baby teeth. That's so. But that's only another instance of tho foolishness of tho whole arrangement How do wo start in? "Without any teeth nt nil. Then we begin cutting 'em. They worry us night and day, and make us drool all over our bibs, so that we inust have our white dresses changed every few hours, and they wnke us up at night so that our pa rents have to carry us around and sing to us, and give ua soothing sirup that makes morphine fiends of us In after life; and not only that, they disorder our little stomachs and send us Into convulsions, from which we frequently die. Why?" "Ask mo something easy." "That keeps up for about two years and, having gone through with all that, you'd suppose a kid might bo pro vided with teeth for life. But no. The last stomach tooth Is hardly in be fore the front tooth begins working loose. And then there's toothnche. Tho first toothache. My land I Then your mouth getu filled with salt or tho tooth does and cloves arc wedged In them, and cotton batting soaked with creosote that takes the skin off the in side of your mouth and camphorated chloroform and all manner of stuff. You go through the mental anguish of having n string tied to some cuspid or Incisor and to tho handle of a door. You arc taken to the dentist and obliged to use a tooth brush, "Then the now teeth como and they have to bo straightened. Then If fs noticed that one has begun to decay, and it is scooped out nnd inlaid with precious metals. Others follow. Then como the drilling and filling of the back teeth, ulceration, desperation, distrac tion nnd extraction. One by ono they are .crowned, bridged, buttressed nnd otherwise repaired until nt the age of 40, perhaps, nerhaps 50 or CO nnyway with' twenty or thirty good years of life before him a man is practically toothless, after having been troubled more or less all his days. Now, I claim nature Is dead wrong there. Teeth ought to grow like bair, as fast as they are worn off well, finger nails, then. I keep forgetting you are bald. Teeth are to the majority simply a nuisance and nn expense." "Why don't you have the snags out and an artificial set put in, and have done with It? Haven't you got tho nerve?" "Snags? Me? Why man I could bite off the end of a ten-penny nail and chew it like gum. I never had a toothache or lost a tooth in my life. I'm speaking generally." Chicago Daily News. The lady of the house bit off a thread of tho floss silk and readjusted her em broidery frame. "I might say some thing, but I won't," she observed. 'About Susie?" asked the visitor, with interest "Well, never mind. It wouldn't do any good-to tell it even if I could, and I promised not to." "If you promised, of course you can't Has Mr. Paxton been to the house late ly, do you kuow?" "There it is. If I told you about that you might guess the rest of It and I'm Just not going to do it Susie's one of the dearest girls I know, and I wouldn't do or say anything that she wouldn't like for the worldeven if I hadn't promised her or as good as promised her. I think it's perfectly scandalous the way that man behaves, though." "Oh, Tdon't know," Bald the visitor. "I don't suppose he's any better or any worse than the rest of them. Susie has her faults, too, you know, thotfo'h you never will admit It" "Yes, 1 do. I know she Isn't perfect ; none of us Is. I very often talk to her quite frankly of the Indiscreet way she has of speaklug, for Instance. She says things that nobody who really knowB her and understands her would mind, of course, bud It's different with strangers and mere acquaintances; they're opt to put a wrong construction on it Yes, I lecture her, I can tell you. Dear girl I She never minds and Bhe always comes to me with her trou bles and I sympathize with her una scold her and pet her. She's ratller reserved with most people, even her own relatives, so that's rather strange, and of course I'vo always been very careful not to betray her confidences." "Nnturally." "But It must seem a little strango about that to any ono who doesn't real ly know the circumstances. Mind you, I didn't nsk her to tell me about it It was entirely voluntary on her part; still, I think there was an impned ob ligation of secrecy. If it had been any one else thap Susie I don't know that I would have regarded it in that light exactly, but she knows that anything she says to me is sacred." "Do you know that you're working green into that rosebud?" "Why, so I am! Isn't that aggravat ing? Now, I've got to go and pick it all out" 'You might make a moss rose of it It seems a pity. And then the pink and green, ure so sweet together. I made the loveliest little moss rose dolly last week. I like it so much that I believe I'll work a set of them and give it to Phyllis Gardner for a wedding pres ent I've got to give her something, of course. Have you thought of any thing?" "Perhaps I'll give her bread and but ter plates. I've got three sets of them and they're not doing me any good. I half thought of giving them to Susie, but I don't know whether she'd need them now." "Why, you don't mean " "Oh, I wish you wouldn't nsk me. If Susie should ever find out that I told you she'd never forgive me, I know. But she never would find out from you, of course. You wouldn't breathe a word of it would you?" "I think you ought to know mo bet ter than that" "Of course, I know j'ou wouldn't dear. I know you too well for that But not even to Jim. I believe in a husband and wife not having any se crets from each other that Is. no se crets of their own but it's different with other people's. A man sometimes gets careless and tells some other man nnd he tells his wife and presently it's all over town." "I won't even tell Jim, I promise." "Very well, then." The lady of tho house laid her embroidery frnme ou her sewing table, bent over and whis pered. Chicago Dally News. USED AX ON BEAR STEAK. Colli AVenthcr Yarn la Followed by a Hot One. "I see," said Captain Hopklnson of tho nrtillery, "that they have a market ui) In Alaskn. nt a place nnmed Fair-. hanks, whero they cut your stenks "with nil ux irom irozeu uciire iniu ucer iro- zen stiff In a temperature 6omo twenty- seven degrees below zero nnd which stand about tho market as If they were n'lve. "That Is a peculiar sort of market, I will admit, but It Is no stranger than ono I ran across onco In Cartagena, Co lombia. It was awfully hot instead of awfully cold down there and things wero melting Instead of freezing, as you can imagine. And what do you think tho stock of that market consisted of? Well, there were dogs and cats and somo lard and somo rice, You see they happened to have a revolution on and tho city hud been besieged for some ttmowheu I got through the lines and then wished myself out again. The cats and dogs for sale wero dressed nnd nklunod, aud unless somo one told you what they wero you would hardly guess. "I remember they charged ?3 each for tho cats, nnd when made Into n stow you could not tell them from rab bit Tho dogs, on tho other hand, wero pretty poor eating, being very tough and string-. As to tho other delicacy, lard nnd rice, n combination ot thwo two Ingredients fried together does not go bad when you aro hungry. "In Corsica onco I saw a market es tablished on tho sidewalk It was In AJncclo at which nothing was for sale except goats. They wero tho black, mountain goats of tho Island aud mighty good eating." New York Press. DHBieroHi, "I hope they will never put that old Dryasdust on tho naval committee." "Why not?" "Because he has an Inveterate habit of always trying to got at the bottom of things." Baltimore American, When a man's conscience beglaa to approve of his evil deeds he has reek ed the bottom. 1 UK