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If on law can be ret at defiance, any other may be, and the foundation of all
government broken up. Those who In the history of political societies have been the
first to set themselves up against the law have been the surest victims of the disor
der which they have created. The poor have a far deeper Interest In maintaining the
Inviolability of the law than the rich. Property, through the means It can command,
la power. But the only security for those who have little more than' life and the
labor of their own hands to protect Ilea In the supremacy of the law. On them and
on thoae who are dependent on them social disorder falls with fatal effect. John
Adams Dix.
ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION
, The Morrison-street bridge. accident, which
In other ways and places will be endlessly
repeated. Is only another Illustration of the
Shiftless system of public administration. An
ordinary Inspection of a competent engineer
must have disclosed the defect In the rotten
timbers and a prompt repair have prevented
the . accident The fault of the system Is
- made apparent by the very fact that It is
difficult. If not Impossible, to lay Anger upon
the responsibility for the disaster. Whose
business was It to Inspect this bridge?
Whose promptitude was It that was lax.
What. Is everybody's, business is nobody's
business. Is there any requirement fd that
frequent and rigid inspection of bridges and
highways which the most ordinary prudence
dictates? Of course, the municipal or county
authorities did not know that this bridge was
dangerous, or. If It was known or suspected, ;
no one felt himself singly charged with the
. duty of making It safe.
Yet everybody knows that a heavily bur
dened bridge like the Morrison ought to be
safe beyond peradvehture. ' The limit of
safety ought to include crowds. It will not
do to say that t&e bridge is to be traveled
and not to hold the spectators of a swim
ming exploit. On occasions like this the
people will congregate on the bridge. It Is
not practicable, If desirable, to keep them off.
It Is practicable and desirable to make the
bridge safe.
Let those who assert their own capability
by assuming Jo control public affairs formu
late a system wherein the details of public
administration shall be confided to compe
tent subordlnateo with accurately specified
duties, then responsibility will be fixed, in
competents can be dispensed with, and the
safety of people assured. No improvement
can be expected by change of men where the
system Itself Is at loose ends. An executive
mind capable of grasping and an executive
band capable of executing the infinite details
of public business can organize order out of
the present chaos.
Public officials will wince at the public
criticism that holds them responsible for re
sults. The criticism may not be discrimi
nating in its details. It may even be unjust
In particulars. But the broad truth remains
that in public affairs things ought to go
right. Is Is the natural and ought to be the
normal condition that they should go right.
Hence when they go all wrong, and when the
wrongness results In a normal condition of
disorder, crime, negligence, accidents and
death, the public have a right to cry out. It
is their business that Is going wrong, their
suffering that Is felt by them and their serv
ants that are responsible.
Excuses and defenses for the situation do
not change the situation. People are not
concerned as to how things shall be done or
as to who shall do them, but rather that they
shall be done. They want results. The only
yalid defense, therefore, against the public
complaint is results. Let those charged with
tape-measure system of writing a story, the
Inventor of the "flnd-the-subject" puzzles
appllable to editorials, and the builder of a
tall tower and tall taxes, haa fallen' from its
high estate, and, unlike beauty on a monu
ment, refuses to smile at grief.
In Its period of "the lean and slippered
pantaloon" our ancient friend forsakes the
warmth of Its own fireside and throws Its
walking-stick at the "American Hog" who
alms' the tissue-paper torpedo at his thresh
old, displays Its coat-of-arms to the labor
unions and. cries "Down with the populace!"
shouts that the small boy must be suppressed
during vacation time and be made to work
in the cotton mills, and finally empties his
pepper-box at cruel Truth.
But let us be charitable. The down road
Is a hard road, and as the old Trust sheet
travels It, let us all put up with Its errors
and Its crabbed ways. It haa run the gamut
of the seven stages of man and Is In Its sec
ond childhood.
me sarety ot tne people mane me people : falf( t0 g,ye generou8 re8p0nse to the
Bare, ana complaints win cease.
AN OBJECT OF PITY.
Unable to get the news, and after having
been repeatedly beaten by Its more enter
prising contemporary, The Journal, the
morning edition of the newspaper trust has
come to the conclusion that it is time to
shout- "fake." The Journal has refrained
from calling attention to the columns of mis
representation published daily In the trust
papers, foe the reason that space could not
be spared for lengthy discussions on the
core of 'the trust's blunders they are so
pestiferously frequent.
Not a day passes but that a complaint Is
received, at 'The Journal office of gross mis
representation in a newspaper that in years
gone by was considered infallible and above
error. Today we witness a tottering relic of
ange of Journalism long dead, shaking its
bony finger in a threatening manner at him
who would print th news and print It right.
, Alas that Portland should have come to
this? The once proild factor In Western poll
tics, the maker, and tinmaJcer of Presidents
and policemen, the creator of the, famous
AID LETTER CARRIERS.
Vigorous efforts are being made to Induce
the National Association of Letter-Carrlers
to hold its biennial convention In this city
two years hence. Members of the local
branch of the organization are working un
tiringly to this end, and they should have
the heartiest co-operation from the civic arid
commercial bodies of the city and from the
Lewis and Clark Fair directors.
Throughout the country the letter-carriers
are an exceedingly popular body of men.
Wide awake, keen and Intelligent, they come
In contact with all classes of people, and the
attitude of the public toward them is that
of friendliness and sympathy. If Portland
ahall be selected as their convention city for
1905, the letter-carriers all over the United
States will be infused with a personal Inter
est In our coming exposition, and thousands
of them will be planning to see it. They
will constitute a great army of advance
agents for the Fair, and through them it will
be extensively advertised.
This year's convention of the Letter-Carriers'
Association Is to be held at Syracuse,
N. Y, and at that gathering the convention
city for 1905 will be selected. The delegates
chosen by the local branch will soon leave
for Syracuse, and they will carry with them
pledges from many of the large delegations
in other parts of the country to support 'the
movement to bring the next convention to
Portland. If the proper degree of financial
and moral support is given by the mer
chants, the railroads, the hotels, the Fair
directors and the commercial bodies of Port
land, there is little doubt that the movement
will be crowned with success.
It la weir to remember that no class In th.9
community subscribed more liberally to the
Fair than the letter-carriers. They have
shown a public Spirit which entitles them to
expect generous aid in the undertaking in
which they are embarked. Portland will bs
both ungenerous and short-sighted if she
boys
in gray."
Organized labor probably has no more
virulent enemy than Harrison Gray Otis, the
editor of the Los Angeles Times. For years
he has been conspicuous by his unceasing
misrepresentation and vilification of labor
unions, and he has used all the influence of
his paper to obstruct and defeat all efforts
at organization on the part of the working
classes. Recently a small body of citizens of
Lob Angeles took occasion to commend tho
attitude of Otis toward labor, and he re
sponded to their flattery with an address
which is republished In the columns of the
Morning Oregonlan. It la doubtless the pur
pose of the Oregonlan to give, tacit indorse
ment to the utterances of Otis, for it is fully
In accord with his hostility to the cause of
organized labor.
The taxpayers have scored first blood in
the struggle to recover the funds lost through
the mismanagement of the last county ad
ministration. There is good reason to expect
that the first suit instituted will result in a
substantial victory f$r tb.e people.
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IN CIUDAD BOLIVAR
, Cludad Bolivar, the scene of the Venezuelan revolutionists' last stand against Castro's
army, Is an exciting place to live in, even at the best of times.
"It Is a aeml-clvlllzed sjot on the verge of the unknown Jungle," said a New Yorker
who has been there. "I was condemned, for my sins, to spend a week there shortly
before the town fell Into the hands of the revolutionists last year.
"I noticed that if anybody went out after dark he alwaya aluck his revolver.
In his belt, and I was warned by several friendly citlzena not to stay out late In tho
streets unless I wished to be held up and perhaps murdered.
"It waa a paradise for the adventurous. One day I aaw a rum-shop keeper chase
the local barber down the street with a loaded pistol In one hand and a machete in
the other. I offered up a prayer for the tonsorlal artist, because I had no rasor and
he waa the only one. Luckily he escaped.
"The trouble was about an overdue account. The purveyor of liquid Joy waa simply
trying to collect his money according to the approved local custom.
"Another day an imprisoned revolutionist escaped from tha cuartel, or barracks,
and a couple of soldiers ran out to stop him with bullet. lie got one In the leg and
pulled up howling. The people thought the revolutionists had come, so in a trice shops
were shut, doors bolted, and everybody disappeared off the streets like magic.
"The doors ond shutters of the merchants' stores are made of sheet Iron. When they
are closed the stores become veritable fortresses.
"Most of the private houses are similarly protected, and have little grilles through
which the Inmates can spy out to see whether visitors are enemies or friends. Truly,
a soothing place for a nervous man to live In.
When the shots were fired at the runaway I happened to be in the British Consulate,
spinning yarns with the Vice-Consul. Immediately he heard the shots he locked his safe
the clerk shut and barred the steel doors, and then, we got our revolvers and went out
on the balcony to see the fun. But It was all over In a moment, and the poor, wounded
wretch was dragged roughly along the street bock to the cuartel.
"Cludad Bolivar Is probably the hottest place on earth. It is built on solid black
rock which retains the day's heat far into the night, so that there la practically no respite.
New York's recent heat wave would have been welcomed as a cool spell by the in
habitants of this Orinoco hades.
"All day long one Is plagued by myriads of mosqultos more aggressive, even, than
those which have made New Jersey famous; and at night battalions of frogs croak hor-
Vibly and murder sleep.
"The walls of the houses are badly pitted with bullet marks grim relics of former
revolutions and many are In ruins. Cludad Bolivar has often been been a battlefield
before today.
"The streets are unpaved, and in the center of each there la a green, stagnant ditch, j
Where streets Intersect, a plank Is thrown across to bridge these ditches.
"There are no vehicles, and Indeed very little civilization of any kind. The place If
always swarming with nickel-plated generals and bandit soldiers, who fatten on the
unfortunate Inhabitants, sip aguadlente, smoke their eternal brown cigarettes and
discuss the glorious victories they are going to win." New Tork Sun.
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS
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BUSINESS CONDITIONS.
The commercial situation Is promising. Reports from all sections of the country
Indicate Improvements, with fairly active markets and a steady tone as to prices.
Labor controversies and weather conditions have been two disturbing elements In the
general situation during the past two months, but the outlook has become better from
week to week, and at present is anything but discouraging.
Crop prospects are favorable, and there Is less than the customary midsummer
quiet In the wholesale market. Retail trade In seasonable merchandise shows no dimin
ution, and preparations by Jobbers and manufacturers Indicate that a large fall busi
ness Is expected. The traffic of the railroads continues heavy, and the earnings thus
far reported for July exceed those of the corresponding month last year by about 15
per cent, while In cemparlson with July, 1,901, the Increase Is about 20 per cent.
The. production of pig iron surpasses all previous records, latest figures on such
showing It to be over 400,000 tons a week. Last year's record was 311,000 tons, and at
the present rate of production the year's output is expected to reach 18,000,000 tons,
as compared with a total production of 17,821,000 tons last year and 9,652,000 tons In 1897.
This is an Increase of nearly 100 per cent In six years.
Notwithstanding this heavy output stocks of pig iron have failed to Increase
much and the actual supply Is believed by many to be not more than sufficient
to meet existing requirements. Consumption and production have run so close to
gether that at times It has" been practically Impossible for manufacturers to obtain
the raw material necessary to fill orders. While the figures on domestic production
break will former records. Imports are still necessary, and It Is estimated that the
United States last year consumed 18,500,000 tons of pig Iron, which Is 700,000 more than
the year's domestic output.
The downward trend of values In Wall street has been the subject of much comment
recently In financial circles. What the real cause of the weakness Is speculators them
selves seem not to know, and opinions as to whether or not the decline has reached its
limit vary. That the situation Is intrinsically sound, however, no one doubts. We have
entered the summer with prospects equally as bright as a year ago, and If the crops
turn out well there la nothing to prevent the continuance of a heavy volume of business.
Baltimore Herald.
A MARYLAND VULCAN.
The storm was severe, and almost everybody In the place was reminded of meteor
ological disturbances as bad or worse. Freaks of wind, hall, rain and lightning were
described with that attention to detail which stamps the brand of truth on all narratives.
Old Swallow, however, remained quiet until the flood of reminiscences ceased. Then
tie remarked:
"I hate liars."
The general movement In his direction was checked when he continued:
"I'm not hitting at any one here. I was thinking of a blacksmith I knew down In
Maryland. You fellows think you can tell storm stories. Why, one of his tales beats
all of yours put together. He told me that he was standing In the door of his smithy once
when a thunderstorm came up. He was Idle at the time because, unexpectedly he had
run out of a certain kind of Iron he needed to make a set of shoes for a trotter called
Mabel B., entered In a big race to be run the next day.
"The lightning, he said, was nothing out of the ordinary, although It was pretty
sharp.' All at oftce he was struck. He declared that he did not know where the bolt
hit him, but claimed that he was not even stunned. "The bolt dropped to the floor, and
he was seized with an idea. Picking up the bolt with his tongs, he hastened to work,
and before It cooled he forged it into a set of shoes for the trotter."
"Of course you don't believe that?" said a listener.
"Of course not! How could he handle that bolt quickly enough to forge four shoes
out of it before it cooled? I do hate liars." New York Times.' '
THE PROCE8SION OF GENERAL8.
President Roosevelt, In the language of the ranch, has "rounded up" 33 veterans of
the civil war now In the army, promoted them to be brigadier generals and then retired
them at once, finishing the work of promoting a 34th officer who will remain on the active
list.
All but one of .the officers selected served for at least a year during the civil war,
and all have served at least 35 years In the army. None of them could attain the stars
of a brigadier were it not for the plan of promoting and retiring officers first practiced
by President McKlnley and since followed on several occasions by his successor. This
plan, It is announced, will not' be followed hereafter. It has served, however, to honor
and reward more than 70 deserving officers during the past six years, and has been
accepted by the country as proper, although owing to a disagreement between the two
houses of Congress Its principle has never been recognized by statute, and Its practice
might almost be described as extra-legal.
Seventy-seven officers who saw service during the civil war still remain on the active
list as colonels, lieutenant colonels and majors, some of them more deserving of promo
tion than some of those who are now to Join he "procession." If the Senate and House
shall still fail to agree upon a law that gives to the army the same right of promotion
that the navy has retirement with advanced rank after a certain number pf 'years,
including civil war service It is to be hoped that the present wholesale promotions may
not be the last and that the comparatively few war veterans now on the active list may
yet receive the honors and rewards given to their seniors. New York Sun,
There Is a youngster on the Eaat Side who
has received what ia to him convincing evl
denec that fortune-tellers are sure and cer
tain prognosticates of future events. The
lad in question haa not yet reached his elev
enth year, but he haa already chosen hie pro
fesslon for life. He intends to be a banker.
and says no position outside of a financial
institution will satisfy him. Yesterday he
and a couple of companions were wandering
about with their weekly allowance of spend
Ing money In their pockets, when they hap
pened across an old man who was telling
fortunes at the rate of 10 cents a head. The
boys had th'elr fortunes told, and the on
who wants to be a banker waa told that waa
the career he will enter upon when he
reachea manhood. He immediately carried
the news home to his father, and no argu
ment of the parent would convince him that
the seer did not possess real powers of prog
nostlcatlon.
'The only time I ever aaw Daniel Webater
was at Martha's Vineyard In 1848," said A.
Waldman, bailiff of Department No. S, State
Circuit Court, thla morning. "Webster wore
the- blue coat and brass buttons, the fashion
of the period, and his appearance was very
striking. He was broad-shouldered, but not
corpulent, was as dark as an Indian, and had
the eye of an eagle. He asked for lodgings
for the night at the hotel where I was stay
ing, but his looks were suspicious to the pro
prietor, and he advised the great statesman
to go to a sailor boarding-house. Some one
who recognized Webster told the proprietor
who he was, and then the best room In the
house was speedily got into order for his reception."
.
Wllhelm Saul, known as "Bill" when he
tended bar, Isn't serving drinks , nowadays.
He Is working In a mill. Incidentally Bill
got mixed up with a flywheel the other day
and had his nerves shaken somewhat.
Some 280 odd revolutions p. minute the fly
wheel la alleged to make. Bill Isn't a curi
ous man, but somehow or other he got too
close to the thing, and In a twinkling Jie was
taking a rapid ride and waa finding against
his will how fast It was traveling.
Minute and a quarter, to be exact, was the
time Bill "spent on the wheel, and when he
dropped and had relieved himself of the cus
tomary "Gee whiz!" he began to figure:
"If a wheel goes around 280 times In one
minute, how many times will It go around In
one and one-fourth minutes, providing a
man weighing 160 pounds Is attached there
tor .
It was too deep for . Wllhelm. so he went
back to the bar where he used, to work and
propounded the example to the, new bar
tender. "I hate to tell," and Chief Clerk A. H. Oat
tls, of the Hotel Imperial, who had been re
lating the ending of a Bruin with his trusty!
revolver, and had been asked by "me" if he
killed any other game during his recent va
cation. "I hate to tell," grinned the sunburned
clerk. "You know the closed season for deer
Is on."
"I" didn't know whether It was on or off.
but "I" salu "Uh-hu." and Mr. Oattis moist
ened his chapped Hps with his tongue and
continued:
"I found a deer with its neck broken in the
woods the other day. and. of course, I took
u io camp.. Tne poor thing must have col
lided with a stump. ' t was awfully sorry, "but
I couldn't leave it out there Jn tLe timber. '
"Had an awfully nice time out at Collins
Springs, Wash, but I couldn't 'stay always.
Had to get back to buslnets. Frontl"
Many and varied are the schemes to ea
tke the cash from the pockets of the thou
sands of "easy" Americans, in the sense that
they are always looking W an opportunity
to get something for nothing," and the latest
Is the Cripples' Employment Company. A
lowlnr letter, self-axnlarintnrv
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r un me iioeny oi inciosing eight sjr
sorted collar-buttona, made especially for n
and guaranteed not to break or pull apart.
and which you cannot buy anywhere for leas
than 60 cents, and for which. we only ask 2(
cents.
"We trust you will favor us by keeping
these buttons and send ns the IS cents in In
closed cardboard carrier and stamped en
velope. In the event of your not being able
to use the buttons or sell them for us to a
friend. vwe will thank you to kindly return
them promptly In inclosed stamped en
velope.
'.'Our object Is to crlve employment to crip
ples, thus making them self-supporting,"
etc- etc.
The official In question took the buttons,
but wrote, across the face of the money en
velope, the words: "I don't like the gal:
it's too coarse.' Incidentally the clrculat
tella of magnificent 1100 watches, gold-filled.
etc. ror a cents.
i
Just so long as the farmers continue to
ask such a high price for wheat," said a
well-known local exporter, "there will be
very few grain vessels chartered on the Pa
cific Coast. At precent wheat Is quoted
higher here than In the Liverpool market,
and as long aa this condition exists thero
will be no shipments to the United Kingdom.
look for the price of wheat to remain low
in Europe, because the demand for the cereal
Is being fully supplied. Russia raised an
enormous crop this year, and great cargoes
of wheat are l,eavine Odessa dally for vari
ousEuropean ports. For the first time In
many years India will export considerable
grain this season, as will also several other
sections of the Orient There will be no
failure of crops In Australia this year, and
South Africa will probably be supplied by
Russia. Therefore the outlook for the grain
exporters on the Pacific Coast is not the best
In the world, unless the farmers of the In
land Empire are willing to accept a reason
able price for their wheat.
"In time I believe the United States will
cease entirely to export wheat to Europe.
Russia is going to hold Manchuria, and will
convert It into a great grain-growing coun
try. Other Oriental sections will become ex
porters Just as soon as the great railway
projeots now under way are consummated. '
Then it will be all off with the wheat export
ers on the Pacific Coast"
That they may be educated in the lore and
language of their native land, Wong Oule, a
Chinese merchant of this city, will send his
four little children to China. The officials
will take depositions in order to establishes
complete identity of the children should they
wish to return to this Country in the future.
ODD THINGS WE DO.
People do odd things at critical moments. In a fire at Marshall, Mo, last week, T.
B. Gill, a book-dealer, whose store was In danger, rushed outdoors carrying nothing but
a box of matches. Being asked what he meant to do with them, he said he rescued them
to prevent them from becoming Ignited. It turned out that he had 100 boxes more in
the store, which, in his excitement he had forgotten. A few days ago a cyclone atruck
a farm in Atchison county, Mo., The family were aroused, and, thoroughly frightened,
began grabbing whatever was closest and most worth saving and rushed downstairs with 1
it. When the excitement partly subsided it was discovered that one good old. woman
had come down in her night dress carrying in one hand an unllghted kerosene lamp and
in the other a cup of water that she had beside her bed. -New York Tribune.
There are more than 17.000 machine tending operatives in Lowell, Mass.,
838,000 spindles and earning over $500,000 a month in wagerf. - '
caring for
FIVE BILLIONS OF TRUST STOCKS.
Walter Wellman, In the Chicago Record
Herald, says: "One of the greatest indus
tries of New York has gone all to smash and
nothing Is doing in that line now. It Is the
promotion business. After an epoch of un
exampled activity In the company organlz
Ing and stock selling line, the financiers and
promoters are now out of business. No one
wants to subscribe for new stocks, and prob
ably It would be impossible to float a new
company, no matter how sound Its condition
or how excellent its prospects. Even Mr.
Morgan, the king of promoters, has quit
The Bhlpplng trust was his latest venture In
the combination line, and his syndicate fol
lowers, are paying the bills. .There may be
more worlds to conquer, but he. Is in no hurry
to complete the Job.
!'I am told that during the last 18 months
fully 60 corporations, capitalized at from
$1,000,000 to $50,000,000 each have gone com
pletely out of existence.
"Hundreds of Industrjal stocks the ordi
nary reader never hears of. I saw today a
list of 287 such corporations, some of which
have collapsed, and many of which are now
pretty near dissolution. Most of these 287
corporations were formed during the last
four years. Their issue of stock amounted
to the stupendous total of $5,800,000,000. And
their bond issues amounted to $1,169,000,000
more, a total of nearly $7,000,000,000 of se
curities. The actual market value of this
prodigious product of the printing press to
date is probably about 26 cents on the dol
lar. The rest was water, and the water has
been squeezed out. Let us quote a few out
of hundreds that could be given : ,
American Malting, $14,600,000 Issued, quot
ed at 3. - (
Grass Twine, $13,000,000, quoted at 10.
Shipbuilding $25,000,000, quoted at 4.
Bag and Paper, $16,000,000, quoted at 8.
United States Leather, $63,000,000, quoted
at 9.
United States Rubber, $26,000,000, quoted
at 12. ( . v.
American Can, $86,000,000, 'quoted at &.
International Mercantile Marine, $60,000,
000, quoted at 6. ' ...
International , Salt; $30,000,000, quote at
104- "' .."
IN LIGHTER VEIN.
"It has been said that all you care for la
money."
"They, wrong me," said Senator Sorghum.
"I prefer good securities to actual cash any
day." Washington Star.
No man ever undertakes to define love un
less he Is up against the real thing himself
and then you can't believe him under oath.
Chicago News.
Miss Rocks Do you go to the theatre to
see or to hear?
Mrs. iMewiyricn neither; I go
Buffalo News.
to be seey "
"Snlfklns says that when he gets married
he wants not only a pretty girl, but a good
one."
"The bigamist!" Town Topics.
"When a man gits to thlnkln' he's smahter
dan anybody else," said Uncle Eben, "you
kin look foh a bran' new set o' hahd-lUck
stories befo' long." Washington Star.
Today, today, let's all be gray;
Tomorrow we may sorrow.
My dear, don't fret for what's not yet;
For you make a trouble double
When you borrow. J. E. V. Cooke.
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A DEEP-SEA TRAGEDY,
Flora Too bad 'about Qussle, wasn't it? .
ClaraDear me! I. haven't heardKTell
me quick! ', v. r-'i V:;'r:.':'r ?,.
Flora He fell desperately in love with a
girl he met on an ocean steamer, but she
threw him over. Chicago Tribuna. k .
Silence is g)den. When you
price for a telephone that is out
the time, you have been gold-bricked. Chi
cago Tribune. j
pay a a-h
of order flk
Young Mr. Style was about to leave for
Europe, and his friends were at the ferry
to see him off.
When the time came for "good-bys" the
correct Mrs. De Jones pressed his hand and
murmured "Bon voyage," in her sweetest
tones. .
-"Yes," said her good husband, "and, may
X be permitted to add,a pleasant Journey."
San Francisco Wasp.
Royal Adviser The world expects, Your
Majesty, that you will Inflict some punish
ment upon the assassins that ' kllled Your
Majesty's royal predecessor. -
New King (with emotion)-I -shall punish
them by letting -them live to suffer the re
morse that follows the commission- of a
crlme.-lficago Tribune.'
An old darky who said he had once seen
the devil, . being asked to describe him, said;
"Well, sub, he .was ,no blacker dan whSVJ .
is ef es black! -t-Atlanta Constitution.
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