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Km Lincoln County Leaden'SlLVER BILL VETOED.' i i J. F. STEW BT, Publisher. TOLEDO OEEGON MATERNITY. Mother of God. what is thy thought tonight. nm ma ucar, pattern luce looks down to the, Moist with the dewb of unguessed agony? Hast thou ths prophet's ecstasy of sight. To scan afar the world's noontide of lightT Art thou rejoicing in the Joy to be? Perchance, but oh that trembling minor key. The mother's heart still clamoring for lie right "Give me my child, if all the world most die." And through the shadows of the scene of death Streams morning sunshine from the former years; Upon thy breast the smiling babe doth lie, And all the happy days in Nazareth, Break on thee through the blinding mist of tears. J. R. Campbell tn Youth's Companion. ITALIAN FISHERWOMEN. They Toll Unremittingly That Their Has bands May Live tn Idleness. The chief feature of the dress of the women of the Italian coast fishers Is a double skirt, the lower portion of which hangs rather scnntily about their nnkle The upper skirt is often hooked up at the front and sides, forming a sort of baa. Ia this they carry seaweed, fuel, flub or shell fish from the sands, and when not in such use It is drawn up over the- shoulders and back of the head as a sort of wrap. Moth ers also wrap this skirt about their babes when needing to carry them for any dis tance. The material is usually the coarsest white cotton, but if the women possess any sort of holiday attire the upper skirt may be of scarlet, yellow or green, looped most gracefully above the lower Bkirt and sur mounted by a black cloth, or in rare In stances a coarse velvet bodice. They rare ly wcur any foot covering and only such head covering as is supplied by the folds of the upper skirt. Although the coastwise Italian fisher men differ from the Venetian lugoon lisuent, who are a hereditarily distinct cluss, making their living by shoal fishing and wading in the mud for crabs and other shellfish, in being invariably deep sea fishers, still they are never fond of long voyuges and rarely pass more than three or four nights on tho water at one trip. They are fond, like the Chioggian fishers, of forming small fleets of five or six crufts for fishing In one locality, nnd keeping one of their "brago.zl" with its crew plying back and forth with the "catches," either di rectly to market with fresh fish or to their own home ports with fish for curing. Tho women do not shrink from even the roughest labor on the sea, and it is no un common sly lit to see wife and daughters handling ropes, nets and sails, cleaning or sorting fish on duck, or vigorously engaged in any necessary labor of tho boat. In deed, so fur as my observation goes, these fishermen's wives nre the propelling, ac tive, Indomitable force of their lives and livelihood. Their movements are vigorous and even virile, while the men are phleg matic and slow. At the tiller, in unfurl ing or reefing the sails, paying outor haul ing In the net, stowing away tho fish, transferring them from their craft to tho market bragn.zo, in hauling tho bouts upon tho beach, in spreading and drying the nets, in fact in every possiblo manner in which tlwy labor beside or in advance of their huBbauds, they lay hold of their ' tiwTwith a visor and muscular vim r. . hibltlng tremendous energy and force. Their reach of arm and stride, of leg are remarkable, and the muscles of their shoulders and breasts show extraordinary development, Studying them as I have often done when they were unconscious of observation, their strange, gruff voices, their b 'awny frames, their Immense brute strength nnd, above all, their savnge en ergy of action, has prompted tho thought that if any future Musuulcllo were to leap from among the fisher folk with the dread shout of "Morto ill mnl governor' the resistless liberator would provo to be an Italian fhiliorwomuu rather than an " Italian fisherman. The lethargic quality of the men is Illus trated by their iuordinute capacity for food and sleep, and especially the latter. Tin moment the fisher arrives on shore Ills la bors, which, if his quests have not been far and dangerous, have ulrcudy been per formed largely by women aliourd bis bia go.zo, nre at un end. His bnnchetto, or horecoming feast, is always ready, and he betakes himself to this, while Ills wife cares for boat, gear and fish, with tho ra pacity of a half furnished dog. I have often seen a single fisherman thus eat nt one sit ting more than a quart of stiifa or hodge podge stow of shredded fish and vegeta bles, n pound of bread, nnd that dearest of all delicacies to an Italian fisherman, a polcnlu, or chestnut flour pudding, bigger than his shaggy head, with a goat's milk cheese ns large as his tUt. This done, he flings himself upon the floor of his hut or hesido his habitation in the warm sand of tho shoresido street and Instantly becomes oblivious to all worldly concerns in sleep, and he will sleep from twelve to twenty hours without chnuglng bis position, Chioggia Cor. Pittsburg Dis patch. Taking Ink Stains Out of Whits floods. Let me tell of a discovery I niodo recent ly. An Inkstand was carelessly overturned on the bed, ruining (as I supposed) the nice, white spread. Feeling that an effort should lie in iido to remove the status, I re sorted to experiment. Gathering up the Inky portions of the spread, I thru.it it Into an earthen bowl and completely covered it with kerosene oil, adding a handful of snap, letting It soak In this until tho next day, I wrung It out and rinsed it In warm water. Tho stains were by this time of a dim color. I again returned it to tho bowl, adding fresh oil and snap, and allowed it to stand until washday, two days later, when, after washing and boiling, the aluins entirely disappeared. Cor. Now York Press. Matrimony's Ten Commandments. When Theodore Parker was married ht entered In his journal on his wedding day the following resolutions! Never, except for the best reasons, to op pose my wife's will. To discharge all duties for her sake freely. Never to scold. Never to look cross at her. Never to worry her with commands. To promote her piety. To bear her burdens. No overlook her foibles. To save, cherish and forever defend her. To remember her always In my prayers. Thus, (iod willing, we shall be blessed. Philadelphia Record. Food for Ihs Coinplvsloa, A well known woman Is reported as say ing: "No sort of food Is liettr for the com. plexion than oatmeal and oranges. Tlit lluMt complexions in the world are thus of the Ititllsn and Span lull ladles, who liva largely on coarse grain food and fruit Ilk the orange or bauuna. It is said that tho fact Is becoming appreciated In the east, and that some ladles, to acquire and pre aerra a good coinplcxlou, ars living almost entirely on oranges." Albany Express, Tli Num'i Itiuliisse. The Caller Do the children mind you when the mother Is out? The Nurse I don't require any mind ing, ma'am. 1 was not hired for them to mind me, but for me to tulud them. t?tr York l'rosa. Grover Cleveland's Reasons for DisapprovaL THE MEASURE IS VERY FAULTY. Would Tend to Check a Return to Pros perity and Deplete the Gold Reserve Secretary of the Treasury Would be Hampered by Its Provisions. Washington. The President sent to the House the following message vetoing the Bland seigniorage bill : To the House of Representatives : I return without my approval House bill No. 4,6(t6, entitled "An act directing the coinage of the silver bullion held in the treasury and for other purposes." My strong desire to avoid a disagreement with those in both Houses of Congress who have supported this bill would lead me to approve it if I could believe the public good would not be endangered, and that such action on my part would lie a proper discharge of myollicialduty. Inasmuch, however, as I am unable to satisfy myself that the proposed legisla tion was either wise or opportune, my conception of the obligations and re- it. t..i..i .i . . ejjuiiniMiiiueo utuieiieii lAi Liio great, oun e 1 hold forbids the indulgence of my per sonal desire, and inexorably confines mo to that course which is dictated by my reason and judgment and pointed out by a sincere purpose to protect and pro mote the general interests of our people. LAST YKAIt'S l'ANIC. The financial disturbance which swept over the country during last year was unparalleled in its severity and disas trous consequences. There seemed to be an almost entire, displacement of faith in our llniinciiil ability and a loss of con fidence in our fiscal policy. Among those who attempted to assign the causes for nnr dirp it, wn very itonernllv con ceded that tho oporation'ot the provision of the law then in force which required the government to purchase monthly a large amount of silver bullion and to is sue its notes in payment therefor was either entirely or to a large extent re sponsible for our condition. This led to the repeal on the 1st day of November, 18!)2, of this statutory provision. We had, however, fallen so' low in the depths of depression, and timidity and appre hension had so completely gained con trol in financial circles, that our rapid recuperation could not be reasonably ex pected. A HI.K11IT KKCOVKItr. Our recovery has nevertheless steadily progressed, and though less than five months have elapsed since the repeal of the mischievous silver purchase require ment, a wholesome improvement is un mistukably apparent. ' Confidence in our absolute solvency is to such an ex tent reinstated and faith in our disposi tion to adhere to sound financial meth ods so fnr restored as to produce the most encouraging results both at home and abroad. The wheels of domestic in dustry have been Blowly set in motion, and the tide of foreign investment is again started in our direction. Our re covery being so well under way, nothing Bhould be done to cheek our convales cence, nor should we forget that a re lapse at this time would almost surely reduce us to a lower stage of financial distress than that from which we nre just emerging. I believe that if the bill under consideration should liecome a law it would bo regarded as a retrogres sion from the financial intentions in dulged by our recent repeal of the pro vision forcing silver bullion purchases; that it would weaken, if it did not do stroy, the returning faith and confidence, in our Bound financial tendencies, and that in consequence our progress to re newed business health would be unfor tunately chocked and a return to our re cent distressing plight seriously threat ened. MAINTAINED ONLY 11 V (ONKII)KN('K. Considering the preHcnt intrinsic rela tion between gold and silver, the main tenance of a parity between tho two metals, us mentioned in this law, can mean nothing less than a maintenance of such parity in the estimation and confidence of the people who use our money in daily transactions. Manifest ly a maintenance of this parity can only lie accomplished, bo far as it is all'ectei'l by these treasury notes and in the esti mation of the holders of the same, by ? living such holders on their redemption n coin either gold or silver, which thev prefer. It follows that while in terms the law leaves the choice ol com to lie paid on such redemption to the discre tion of the Secretary of the Treasury, the exercise of this discretion, if opposed to the demands of the holder, is entirely inconsistent with tho cll'octivo benotlciiil maintenance of a parity between the two metals. If both gold and silver are to serve us as money, and if they to gether are to supply' to our people a safe, stable currency, tho necessity of preserving this parity is obvious. Elicit necessity has been repeatedly conceded in the platforuiB of both political parties and in our federal Btatutes. It is now here more emphatically recognized than in the recent law which repealed the provision under which the bullion now on hand was purchased. IXM.I.UtS OK KQUAL VAI.t'X. This law insists on the maintenance of a parity in tho value of the coins of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times in tho markets and in the payment of debts. The Becro tary of tho Treasury has therefore, for the best of reasons, not only com plied with the every demand for the redemption of these' treasury notes in gold, but the present situation, as well as the letter and spirit of the taw, ap pear plainly to justify, if they do not enjoin upon him, the continuation of such redemption. The conditions 1 have endeavored to present may lie thus sum- manned : First The government has purchased and now has. on hand sufficient silver bullion to permit the coinage ol all the silver dollars necessary to redeem in such dollars the treasury notes issued for tho purchase of said silver bullion. and enough besides to coin, as gain or seigniorage, oft.lStl.OKl additional stand ard silver dollars. Second There are outstanding and now In circulation treasury notes issued in payment of the bullion purchased amounting to 152,M,:.S0. These notes are legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except when other wise expressly stipulated: thev are re- ceivable for customs, taxes and all pub lic dues; when held bv 1'iirkinir associa tions thev may be counted as part of their lawful reserve, and are redeemed bv the government in gold at the option of the holders. ADVANTAOKOl'S ATTK1IUTXS. Those advantageous attributes were delilM'rately attached to these notes at the time they were issued; they are fully understood by our people to whom ' such notes have been distributed as cur I rency, and have inspired confidence in their safety and value, and have un douhtedly thus Induced their continued and contented use as money, instead of an anxiety tor incir redemption. OIUICTIONi TO TUX BILL. Having referred to tome incidents which I deem relevant to the subject, it remains for me to submit a specific statement of my objections to the bill now under consideration. This bill con-1 sii-U of two sections, excluding the one which merely appropriates a sum suffi cient to carry the act into meet. The first section provides for the im mediate coinage of the silver bullion in the treasury, which represents the so called gain or seigniorage which would arise from coining all the bullion on band, which gain or seigniorage this sections declares to be (55,150,081. It directs the money so coined, or certifi cates issued thereon, shall be used in payment of public expenditures, end provides that II the needs ol the treas ury demand it the Secretary of the Treasury may, in bis discretion, issue silver certificates in excess of such coin age, not exceeding the amount of the seigniorage in said section authorized to be coined. COINING THE REMAINDER. The second section directs that as soon as possible after the coinage of this seigniorage the remainder of the bullion held by the government shall be coined into legal tender silver dollars, and that they shall be held in the treasury for the redemption of the treasury notes issued in the purchase of said bullion. It provides that as fast as the bullion shall be coined for the redemption of said notes they shall not be reissued, but shall be canceled and destroyed in amounts equal to the coin held at any time in the treasury derived from the coinage provided for, and that silver certificates shall be issued on such coin in the manner now provided by law. It is, however, especially declared in said section that the act shall not lie con strued to change the existing laws re lating to the legal tender character or mode of redemption of the treasury notes issued for the purchase of silver bullion to be coined. THE ENTIRE IIII.L IS FAULTY. The entire bill is most unfortunately constructed ; nearly every sentence pre sents uncertainty and invites contro versy as to its meaning and intent. The first section is especially faulty in this respect, and it is extremely doubtful w-lmflipi- ifa lnnwnima will Trmit thp consummation of its supposed purposes. I am led to believe that the promoters of the bill intended in litis section to provide for the coinage of the bullion constituting the gain, or seigniorage as it in-called, into standard silver dollars, and yet there is positively nothing in the section to prevent its coinage into any description of silver coins now au thorized under any existing law. I sup pose this section is also intended, in case the needs of the treasury called for money faster than the seiuniorage bul lion could actually be coined, to permit the issue of Bilver certificates in advance of such coinage; but its language would seem to permit the issuance of such cer tificates to double the amount of the seigniorage aB stated, one-half of which would not represent an ounce of silver In the treasury. A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. The debate upon this Bection in Con gress developed an earnest, positive dif ference of opinion as to its object and meaning. In any event I am clear the present perplexities and embarrass ments of the Secretary of the Treasury ought not to be augmented by devolving upon him the execution of a law so un certain and confused. I am not willing, however, to rest my objection to this section solely on these grounds. In my judgment, sound finance does not coin mend a further infusion of silver into our currency at this time, unaccompa nied by a further adequate provision for the maintenance in our treasury of a safe gold reserve. OTIIEII REASONS FOR DISAPPROVAL. In stating the other and more impor tant reasons for my disapproval of this Bection I bIiuII, however, assume that under its provisions the treasury notes issued in payment for silver bullion will continue to lie redeemed as heretofore in silver or gold, at the option of the hold ers, and that if when they are presented for redemption or reach the treasury in any other manner, there are in the treas ury coined silver dollars equal in nomi nal value to such treasury notes, then and in that case the notes will be de stroyed and silver certificates to an equal amount substituted. I am convinced this scheme is ill-advised and dangerous. As an ultimate result of its operation tho treasury notes which are legal ten der for all debts, public and private, and which are redeemable in gold or sil ver at the option of the holder, will be replaced by silver certificates, which, whatever may lie their character ami description, will have none of these qualities. In anticipation of this result and as an immediate ell'ect, the treasury notes will naturally appreciate In value and desirability. The fact that gold can be realized upon them, and the further fact that their destruction has been decreed when they reach the treas ury, must tend to their withdrawal from general circulation, to lie immediately presented for gold redemption, or to be hoarded for presentation at a more con venient season. A REDUCTION OF GOLD. The seniiel of both operations will be a large addition to the silver currency in our circulation and a corresponding re duction of gold in the treasury. Argu ment has been made that these things will not occur at once, because a long tiino must elapse liefore the coinage ol anything but the seigniorage can be en tered upon. If the physical etlects of tho execution of the second section of this bill are not to be realized until far in the future, this may furnish a strong reason why it Bhould not be passed to much in advance, but the postponement of its actual operation cannot prevent the fear and loss of confidence and the nervous prostration which would imme diately follow its passage and bring about its worst consequences. I regard this section of the bill as em bodying a plan by which the govern ment would lie obliged to pay out its scanty store of gold for no other purpose than to force an unnatural addition of silver money into the hands of the peo ple. This is an exact reversal of the Mlicy which safe finance dictates, if we are to preserve the parity between gold and silver and maintain a sensible bimctalism. I hope a way will present itself in the near future for the adjustment of our monetary all'airs in such a compre hensible and conservative manner as will atl'ord to silver its proper place in our currency, but in the meantime I am extremely solicitous that whatever action we take on this subject may le such as to prevent loss and discourage ment to our people at home and the de struction of confidence in our financial management abroad Tho now congressional library in Washington will, Librarian Sixift'ord U'lievea, awmmuHluto conies of nil tho Inxiks of tho world for UK) years to conio nnd still loave sovon-oighths of its available space applicable for other purpoeoti. An English journal some time ago coutuincd tho following announce ment: "To bo sold, 130 lawsuits, tho iiroiH'rty of nn attorney retiring from lnwinos. N. B, Tbo clieuU are rich and obetinute." AGRICULTURAL WORLD The Rapid Advance in Scien- tific Husbandry. AN AGGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT. New Methods That Have Been Adopted r Progressive Farmers A Higher and Better System of Agriculture Is Generally Displayed. J. F. Elsom In Orange Judd Farmer. The agricultural processes as ordina rily observed in this country in fact, have been followed Bince we became known as an agricultural people have had a very exhausting effect on the soil, and could with the utmost propriety be denominated the old system of agricult ure in contradistinction to the new sys tem to be seen in many places, especially where poverty and illiteracy, the former handmaidens, have been superseded by intelligence and wealth, the present as sociates of no mean proportion of our food producers. It is indeed gratifying to read the re ports from farmers in so many parts of the country, in some instances in sections which have-suffered from the old system of impoverishment of the land, showing that farm operations have been brought into increased value and profit by this aggressive and progressive improvement, reduced farms having been reclaimed and enhanced in value while supporting the family and adding to the wealth of the farmer, in some instances the prod ucts having been raised even above the amount produced in the days when ail nature's elements were in the" soil undis turbed and uncalled for. As positive as I am that this condition of things is becoming more and more apparent, I am equally positive that ag ricultural departments of our papers stand second to agricultural societies in fnnt aQ well so nmnfl in fiirtbni-in this improvement. They have set forth the principles and practical details of the new system of agriculture in all its varied conditions, departments and sur roundings. They have demonstrated the advantages resulting from the judicious application of new principles as well as manures, from good tillage, from proper rotation of crops, from the assistance to be derived from root culture, from the substitution for naked fallows of clover and other fallow crops. All these means are to be considered as new methods, and have become gen erally adopted in connection with ample drainage, together with the mechanical advantages to be derived from subsoil plowing, and the chemical results of sys tems of artificial irrigation. Notwith standing all that has been achieved al ready, I believe that the improvement has but fairly started. Many of the processes which may and will be resorted to in carrying out and practically dem onstrating the new system of agriculture are yet to a great degree mysteries to a larire proportion of the farmers of the United States farming in other coun tries I am not interested in, only in a general wayand in so far as their failures may serve as guides forourown people although familiarly known and long ein- filoyed by their more enterprising neigh lor's, often ostracized by them merely because thev farm by rule and not in ac cordance with the phases of the moon or signs of the zodiac, who with less nat ural advantages perhaps are better re warded for their labors. Such has been the agricultural improvement noticeable in many sections that the surrounding country shows the etlects bv better roads, better buildings, better fences, lietter stock, nye, ami better people. The great States bordering on the five Great Lakes havo increased their pro ductive capacity as shown by statistics 20 per cent during the last decade, 2 per cent per annum by virtue of reading and profiting by what others have done or failed to do. The system inculcated by the new principles has, wherever fol lowed up, increased the productive ca pacity of the farms everywhere, some times m re than double. This means an enhanced value of at least 100 per cent. It has in short made every acre of land upon which it has been "practiced ten years, lying contiguous to markets of transportation facilities, worth much more for agricultural purposes. The zeal which apparently pervades this entire country for a higher and bet ter system of agriculture is displayed in all geological and other departmental reports published by the government, in the agricultural survevs of several States, together with the liberal concessions made by some of the agricultural socie ties for the encouragement of everything tendintr to improve and advance agri cultural interests. All have borne the desired fruit. It does not pay to doctor very sick fowls. Use simple remedies in the be ginning of the disease. If, however, the disease has rooted itself, it is generally advisable to kill the bird and bury its carcass. It has never been found profitable to convert the apiary into a curiosity shop till ill with a job lot of hives of all the different patterns. Kndeavor to have all or nearly all hives of the same pat tern and fitted with the best improve ments. In growing rape the aim Bhould be to secure a thick growth of medium plants. Thinning will make heavier yield, but there will be more waste because of the heavy stems. This crop should lie more widely experimented with. It grows well on any reasonably good soil. A smooth meadow makes easy mow ing. It is a good plan to roll the land as eaily as possible in spring, using a heavy roller and carrying a box upon it in which to put all surface stones. It pavs iH-tturto pick these up than to leave them to break your mower knives on. The branch of agriculture which has the very least of a speculative nature about it is to produce such thimrs as can be consumed on the land and marketed on the hoof. Kven if a man has not much business talent, he cannot go verv fur wrong if he sticks to this course right through. It is iust as important to adopt labor- vim 'Vvu-es for the .house as for the field. The separator is one of the things that will relieve the women folks im mensely if even the smallest part of a dairy is oerated. And we believe that the machine not only saves labor, but money as well. Whenever there is surplus manure that you have no especial place or need for, remember that it ran be used to ad vantage on the meadow. A good top dressing will help the growth wonder fully. By the way, did any one ever see a meadow that was manured as highly aa it should be? There are certain principles which are equally essential, whether one is grow ing stock or cultivated crops. One thing that must be done in either rase is to weed closely. Some men never think of weeding out the inferiorralveaor pigs, but go on breeding them and so perpet uate their bad qualities. A WONuEftfUL HAND. Aa Artificial Substitute Kearly u f-erfeet as the Natural Member. Willard A. Lucas, the son of a great woolen manufacturer at Poquetannuck, Conn., wears an artificial hand made of aluminium which is really one of the automatical wondeis of the century. Young Lucas lost his hand in his fa ther's mills, and Lucas. Sr., who grieved exceedingly over the results of the ac cident, wrote or went in person to every known manufacturer of artificial limbs in this country and Enrope, vainly seeking a false hand for his son.. Arti ficial bands could have been procured, from any of them, but what was want ed was not to be found viz. a hand that would perform all the functions of a real flesh and blood member. Finally the elder Lucas, who ia known as a rare mechanical genius, took it upon himself to make bis son a hand not a mere "dummy," but one that would be useful for the manifold purposes to which such members are put. The result is a surprise to every maker of artificial limbs in the world. The automaton is of aluminium and much resembles the steel gauntlets worn by the knights of the middle ages. The fingers are all perfect and lifelike, the joints in each bending as readily as those in a natural hand, making it pos sible for the young man to perform ev ery kind of labor. An expert report on this wonderful piece of mechanism reads as follows: "With it he can grasp and handily use all kinds of tools, pick up things from the ground, drive, handle a gun in fact, use it quickly and skillfully at any kind of work. Like a natural hand, the artificial one consists of a palm that is provided with a fastening by which it is attached to a cork 'stump,' the joints working by a ratchet, so that the fingers may be bent forward at any angle and held there. The hand may be only partly closed or tightly shut. and only one finger or all, as the wear er desires, may be cldsed at once and instantly by striking them against the body or otlipr object. To release the grasp it is only necessary to touch a spring at the back of the hand. The invention is as nearly a perfect substi tute for a natural band as could be de vised and is the only thing of the kind known in the world. St. Louis Re public. The Bead Walter's Cocktail. In a swell hotel on Broadway the bead waiter is not allowed to indulge in bibulous refreshments during the hours be is on duty. The other evening he was filled with an irrepressible long ing for a cocktail. He managed to get it with such ease that it was evidently a well tried and efficacious trick. 1 His method can be best understood by quoting the waiter: t "Sure, we're not charging yes for a cocktail." whispered a waiter to a young gentleman to whom he had just brought a check, "but the head waiter wanted a cocktail and thought yes would be the wan who would moind laste having it put it on to yes bill. I You see," whispered the waiter, confi dentially, "he couldn't put it onto the bill of the gists in the house, they might remark it, so he had to put it onto the j bill of somebody who came in from the strate. I'll bring yes the twinty cents back and thank yes fur the accommo dation. "The head waiter has either discerned that you ure a Hum with a liberal and sympathetic disposition or one who knows how good a cocktail tastes and how bad a man wants it when he can not get it. " remarked the young lady who was dining with the gentleman whom the head waiter rightly singled out as a possible friend to a fellow man in need of spirituous consolation. New York Herald. Tricks In All Trades. The young doctor was sitting in his consultation room chuttmg with a friend when souie one entered the outer office. He stepped out, and the friend heard him say: "Pray take a seat. I'll be at liberty in a tew minutes. . Then he cume back into the consulta tion room nnd closed the door after him. "I'll skip," said the friend. "Not for the world. Sit down," said the doctor. "But you have a patient waiting." "Well, it's a woman. Let her wait about 15 minutes." "You may lose her business." "On the contrary, I'll get it regularly. I always make them wait." "Why?" ' "To give the impression of a rush of business. It is the only way to keep a woman. If she thought I wasn't rushed to death, Bhe'd lose confidence in me and go somewhere else." Chicago Record. A Cabmau's llevenge. A good story is told of a stipendiary magistrate in a Yorkshire town, not given to err on the side of leniency, who heavily fined a cabman for fast driving. A few days after the magistrate, de tained rather longer than usual in the court, was hurrying along to catch his train when, seeing an empty cab handy, he hailed the driver and directed him to proceed to the station, telling him that he was pressed for time. The driver, however, heedless of the hint, kept to a gentle trot. "1 say, I say, my man," exclaimed the fare, with his head out of the window, "drive faster than this!" "It crv' ? done, sir," replied the driver. "Ye see, if we drives faster we're bad up afore the 'beak.' aud we gets fined, so we bus to be careful." He did not alter his pace, and neither did the "beak" catch bis train. London Tit-Bit. Women I'surers. Women are, as we know, Invading Host trades aud professions, but it is iu fterestinir sues tin I ... ,1,1,... I .!.. i . little startling to learn that they have .ven taken to the d.,b.f.,i "rL. ...e v usury, "You would hardly credit," said a well known solicitor recently, "what a huge number of women money lenders there are about." Many of them have small private connections only, obliging femi nine friends or acquaintances pressed for the amount of some dressmakers or mil liner's bill with temporary loans at inter est But there are others who go in for It extensively advertise, aud, in fact, tuako quite a handsome income out of it. Their nelirf. Blooni field-There are rerv fnw tefJ 7 dels In Arizona. New Mexico and oiner lerntones. Bellefield Is that so? Dloonineld Ye, ifm .i. believe lu a future state. ritubli rhrouicle-Teleimubl "FOtt THAT SWEET SILENCE." Along the slope ot yonder bill we went Tbnnh the still air of evening, damp and AO ft. From new plowed earth arose the sharp, sweet Thecrickel shrilled below in the dark croft. Thy dovelike eyes, as if in silent prayer. Were lifted to the stare so still and fain And I, who read thine inmost thought un spoken, . Loved thee for that sweet silence left un broken. oiindoGuerrinL THE TYPEWRITER. I am a business man; I like business methods strictly observed, and no senti ment in business Hours or at ousiueso places. That is, those were my senti ments. But I have become revolution ized 1 don't know what I am I have become, but that is not another story but the tail of this one, and stories and wasps should never be grasped tail end, in spite of the habits of novel reading young ladies and unsophisticated child hood. The fact is 1 advertised for a young lady to do copying for me at the office. I will not deny that my partner advised me not to do so, strongly ad Tised me against it, and in an experience mitten tone said, "Never depend on women." But I persisted and adver tised. The next moruing upon my arrival at the office George, the aforesaid partner, kept hurling remarks at me from the doorway of the inner office about tho "visions of loveliness that would soon illumine the dark apartment, rob it of its severe, businesslike aspect" (here 1 winced) "and even lend an air of beauty to his forlorn room," etc. I growled to him to shut up, that there was to be no nonsense about this thing. The girl was to be engaged for business writing, arid there wasn't to be any sentiment in the matter. Here he gave an ironical laugh, and asked me was I "dead sure?" Iu my luool oeveie louu I luplicd tuat I was. Just then the "visions of loveliness" began to apply for the situation, and George and his voice temporarily disap peared, for which I was very thankful. Well, I was greeted by all shapes and sizes of visions from one specimen with untidy hair and dirty bare hands to an appalling "dream" in blond braids and so much paint that I was tempted to stick in a pin to Bee how recent the ap plication was. I was disgusted.' I closed the door on the last one, and sinking in a chair silently wished I had taken George's advice and not advertised. How did he come to know so much, anyhow, about women, bother him. George's voice was heard, and George again appeareu in tne uoorway. " w hat do want anyhow?" he asked. "What would suit you? Here are six separate girls." "Oh," 1 interrupted, for I con fess I was annoyed, "I understood they were Siamese sextnnlpts!" Ho aia 1 " ''"ftb1 1VJ back from the doorway clasping his head in an extravagant fashion, and I heard him murmuring: "Poor fellow! One girl is too much for a feeble man but six, six, six ahl" with a prolonged sym pathetic vocalization most distressinc in a business office. I wan about tn huVb a hasty rejoinder when the outer door opened ana in came a neat little girl in black, followed by a body guard of "ma" and "elder sister" presumably. The leader was trembling, and so was the body guard. Consequently I grew perfectly calm, placed seats for the three and invited conversation, dimly con scious that George was trying to see wunoui oeiiig seen in order to be primed for further attentions. I soon found out that tlm lady desired to write for me, her mother assuring me ot tier uuugliter's ability, superb penmanship, moral character and amiability. Amiability in a business office! Then the older sister turned up and said how Carol was so thoughtful anu aesirous or neipmg tliem along, and so bad insisted upon trying to get some thing to do, and by a lucky chince that day her eyes had rested on my advertise ment, and how they had all said together in one breath (I have heard of one handkerchief per family, but one breath !) that it was the very place. And how they had come in the Spruce and Wood land avenue ear, nnd it had taken them nearly forty-five minutes. All this time my dear little Carol 1 beg your pardon, there is that wrong end again and all the time the little girl sat there just as quiet as a mouse, which pleased me very much. When they had finished she asked me should she write to show me her hand writing, and I said "yes." So she took her glove off and went to the desk and wrote her name thus Caroline Welton and then I told her to write mine and she wrote Richard A. Yohe-and you have no idea what an extremely unbusi nesslike thought darted into my head when I saw those two names together. I engaged her to come on Monday to begin work, and amid a flood of recol lections from ma of how her dear dead husband "never expected dear Carol would ever have to work," and "how pleased he would have been that she should be employed gentleman"-and a reckless profusion of suiues anu uows irom elder sister, and k demure nod from the little one, I final ly shut the door on them and waited for George to appear. He appeared. "Yon are a Sybarite-an epicure of feminine loveliness, a cr,i .i...! , . , , , wilier wuo has pretended to be indifferent to wom- KS. .. . , heartufoken tone, one will break vnnr hanr .- ' rau IU1U our oinco como. And all thn Hma that .1....1 . there firing remark after remark, 1 sut and sat and felt foolish. I don't know why. Finally he went back to his work wnistlimr "LnmCnnu. t n o a;n4. " n- ""ioummeri Sign. The vnnnv l.lir.! . 1 iT. 1 1 . 0 """" onunaieiy bad, a business engagement and man- -su io gt out, bo the revolution be- Monday morning at 8 o'clock Mis Welton appeared, demure and .ui,.i nervous, bo was I. George was in the next room, inwardly chuckling, I am morally certain. After a deal of r wmlocution (I think that is a most.. word for the operation) I managed to ZZ a h -Py and how .f 11 . . ne' &ll,nce re gned for actually two hours Tl. OT ....- r . sumo man SEL'.1".? 8C?. G?re me. He 1S Z over office, follow by me ""0 vme arter another of business or Quaintanee drnmi vV7?neM on. lowly. Inevknew-sncraTong mornimr ntn it ... in .... ?nS ?hen;u,7slyh0nXfZ ome of the caller, and the aggrTvaZ betting spouse, of oj constant alarm lest she snould overhear nearly gave me a nervous fever. Bufthe worst was to come. Fortunately no one was in the inner office but George and myself. Twelve o'clock struck and in walked elder sister. 1 quailed aud George turned his back on me and shook with laughter. "Well, dearie," chirped elder sister, "has it seemed like a long morning?" "Yes, somewhat, though I have been interested too. How's ma!" "Very lonely without you. She sent me to go with you to lunch so that you would not think we had forgotten you." "Oh, that will be nice," said Carol. "And ma said as it was your first day we should be a little extravagant in our luncheon." That's splendid. 1 11 see if I can go now. I mananed to get on my feet and blind ly got to the door, feeling that I didn't care, and that George could go to the deuce. You may go now, Miss Walton, for your lunch. Please be back by 1 o'clock." Thank you. Yes, sir." So while she got on her coat and hat elder sister ex plained that she liau run in to see now Carol was getting along. (Run in! She certainly wasn't out of breath.) And then they went. I awaited George, lie began: "Wonder who will come tomorrow. Ma? Wonder how many relatives she has got to run in? Pity too. She seems quiet enough. But these girls you never can calculate what they are." I am surprised that I did not mas sacre George, but 1 have always felt that his unpleasant manner should be viewed in the light of an infirmity. He went on: "Very businesslike with 'Dearies' and 'Sweeties' and what not. Nice talk in s business office, eh, Dick? Tomorrow i) will be 'Darling.' " His intonation of the last word was positively distressing. I went out for lunch and left him to take care of the office. It was my only revenge. The days came and left as visitors will do. Our own individuality ia the only thing we can reasonably count upon in this world as sure to remain. For six weeks my little copyiBt came regularly and did her work with neat ness and dispatch. For six weeks her family came almost as regularly at va rious times through the day. Ma would drop in (ma used to drop in and elder sister run in), and would say, "Well, pettie." It struck me the first time she said that, aud afterward, too, what a singularly appropriate name, but ex tremely unbusinesslike. Then sister would run in and say. "Ma is making apple pies, and can you get off a quarter of an hour earlier, dearie, and come home to luncheon?" And Carol would say: "Oh, 1 wouldn't like to ask." Then 1 would speak up and say, "You may go a little earlier today, Miss Wel ton." Then another day her little brother Rob would stamp in with a bag of cookies ma had made or a bit of a rib bon to be matched on Carol's way home. And once an old uncle tottered in and delayed me one-half hour while he bab bled of his deceased brother Andrew and Andrew's family the aamo that used my office for a family room, I sup pose. And after some particularly ag gravating chatter and interchange of feminine, unbusinesslike epithets 1 would go iu to George, forgetting in my vexation his demoniac character, and vow I wouldn't stand it. Then he would get up and implore me not to be harsh and unkind to the dear little thing, and I unconsciously said, "Who could be?" And then he would shake and chuckle and quote, "O woman, woman, lovely woman!" or repeat, "Well, pettie, how's biz?" or "Dearie, sauerkraut today. Come home with me," or "Carol, darling, is the boss just as much gone on you as ever?" or some like idiotic re mark that he had coined out of his own imbecile brain. But when ma came in one day about II o'clock in the mornim? and ant fnr nno mortal hour crocheting 'or knitting or some sucn useless remmine idleness, 1 folt that 1 must speak. My office, a business place rented by me for business purposes only, to be thus desecrated was too much. So that evening when the litHe daugh ter was getting ready to go home 1 started out with her, as I had happened to do some few times before, and on the way to her home I told her straight tip and down that this thing could not con tinue. We finally arranged that I should buy a house in the northwestern part of the city, and that in two months she would wear my wedding ring. It has been fully arranged, however, that ma may drop in and the elder sister run in, but they are not to stay in as permanent inmates. One strange part of it to me is how George could ever have surmised that 1 was in love with her. 1 always had made it a point to use the most business like maimer in speaking to her in the of fice. He says any fool could have seen it. He ought to know best about tho flight of fools. However, he has bought us a tidy lot of silver and is coming to tbo wedding. Dear old boy, it's only his way. Carol says it is his high spirits. Llder sister says Bhe felt in her in most soul what would happen when she road my advertisement. Ma wants to know what 1 will do for nnother office girl. I certainly shan't engage her other daughter. Josephine -"r-tWumn in Philadelphia Press. The Man In the Iron Mask. A letter to Louvois by Louis XTV written in einl ini hna Knn. 1 . . .. I . . .... ,ia inru lUliy 11 1110 archives of the ministry of war and has length been deciphered. In it the Kmg orders Louvois to arest rJeneral uuiiii i n mi hfu.1. 7. Of Collti Without trn.l.i . 1.1... - r.. . r , vu o ,"" w "Kneroi and to conceal hi presumption is therefore violent that the velvet n',' he Ifn M,lRk,,-it was a black the h, Bl,r'nd9. The story tallies with Si I"'! t"e prisoner made nnnm t . i ."1 lo C011""unicate his wi hV -wUbBt he was treated That ffi? hisu miIi,arr Jile". t Jr? 5'who the truth of er of nniaffair' dpclare'1 " t0 be a mat-. ter of no imiK)rtmicei Tfa BHVert 'ekin's for such a comen am' "i ! Wa? ha .ESsJSSSs-i .