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'IIEITNE11 GAZETTE.
NO FALTERING UNDER
THE NATION'S DUTY.
Silver and Expansion Are the
,f.'r Paramount Issues. '
M. E. logalls, a Life-Long Sound Monty
Democrat, Writes of the Neces
lity for Assuming a Larger
National Life.
On of the most auccessful, distin
guished and popular railway presidents
U the United States is the Hon. Mel
ville B. Ingall of Cincinnati. From the
very ground of railroad construction he
has worked his way up to the presidency
f the Chesapeake aud Ohio and Big
Four railway systems, among the, most
frosperous of our great trunk lines. Mr.
ngalls la one of the people,' and is prac
tical in every idea. He is a lifelong Dein
ecrat, and from the September issue of
the North American Iteview the follow
ing rxtracts are made from Mr. I ngalls
Advice to Gold Democrats:
What has happened since November,
1896, to warrant a reversal of the judg
ment which the American people then
pronounced at the polls? Under what
conditions have we entered on the pres
ent presidential campaign, and what, in
thla regard, is the duty of patriotic clti
sens, Independent of partisan affiliation?
To the Democrat who voted for Palmer
end Buckner, as well as to the Democrat
who voted for McKinley four years ago,
the tltuation to-day presents peculiar
embarrassments. Preferring to act with
bis party, when possible, the patriotic
Democrat must, nevertheless, answer the
Call of duty, no matter in what direction
tt leads him.
The second and supreme trial of the
great financial issue, which never should
nave been dragged into partisan politics,
will be made at the polls in November,
1000. This test will, I believe, be con
clusive. What are the conditions under
which It la to be made?
There U in the United States at the
THF. PATENT LAWS
BREED MONOPOLIES.
A Drummer Continues His Chats
on Trade Changes.
Reorganization of Employing Companies
Affords Larger Opportunities to the
Men Expansion Gives Drummers
New Fields.
(Concluded from last week.)
j Monopolies in this country are due
oaore to the patent system than any oth
er cause; the average trust could not mo
aopolize Its product, and It will not try.
If tt does, there is the same old remedy
which we free American citizens, who
are supposed to have something to say
to the election of our State legislatures,
can apply. We can pass State laws for
the regulation of those monopolies. And,
fcy the way, speaking of politic, the Re
publican national platform declares
gahist monopolies and would propose
national legislation against them.
Gov. Roosevelt, a singularly clear
headed public man on civic questions, let
ta tell you, sees the point. He would
legislate against monopolies. I firmly
believe that this legislation will come,
end with it other law intended to regu
late industrial corporations, a good deal
S raUroads and banks are regulated now.
ftVay not? When the trusts really get to
going so that they themselves know what
they can do, and so that they won't be
shamed to show In what a cheap, prim
itive, experimental stage most of their
method now are, then, like the banks
and the railroads, they ought to be made
to "show down," and they will be.
Then the Wall street investor for
'whom we don't care anything in particu
lar will be protected from making bad
Investments, and the unwary Investors,
the widows and the orphans, whom cer
tain sand-bagging plutocrats like to tell
as about with so many tears, will be
doubly protected. Moreover, the em
ployee of the trusts, the clerk in the
efScee and the hands in the mills, can buy
trust Mocks, and tbey will want to.
I spoke about the Wall street investor.
He hasn't been making so very much
money In Industrial stocks of late. He
got caught lots of times. Perhaps you
recall the case of the bicycle trust. The
promoters of that scheme went to cer
tain bankers In New York on an eighty
million dollar basis. It wouldn't go. It
wasn't worth the money. There wasn't
'the property In plants, good will, etc.
About a year later the promoters, the
a me promoter, no doubt, who had learn
ed a good deal in the meantime, came
back with the bicycle trust proposition on
a forty million dollar basis, and It went
at that; could earn dividends on the forty
millions. It is probably true that the
American Bicycle Company Is not fully
satisfied with every single one of the mill
ion details of its business, but doubtless
Jt will get there. Other manufacturers,
Sad big manufacturers, in the biyele
business will also get there; and other
tig trusts In the bicycle business are
bound to get there, toe. Yon can't keep
a good man down or a good proposition.
You can't- corner all the capital and
araina la the eountry. Remember that
' Bat I vu ipeaking about the iavester,
tie wary one, aot the widow or the or
kkaa. He has suffered ea account of the
present day unparalleled prosperity, in
which every citizen has a right to share.
If any citizen is prevented from sharing
in that prosperity, he is the victim of
conditions which cannot be righted by
the election of Bryan, strongly as he may
be tempted to trust in that remedy. Un
der the gold standard we have become
the leading creditor nation, and we are
financing the world. We have produced
three great crops in succession, and we
are feeding Europe. We have had three
years of unexcelled manufacturing in
dustry, and we are finding a prompt and
generous market all over the world. The
American farmer, the American laborer
and the American business man were
never as prosperous as they. are to-day.
It is by their suffrages that this presiden
tial election must be decided. In what
direction do their interests lie?
The American farmer is selling for
ZIY2 cents a bushel corn which it costs
him 15 cents to produce. His wheat and
cotton, his beef and pork are selling at
profitable prices. He is spending his
money in luxuries and enjoying himself.
He is riding in railroad trains, and, as he
looks from the car windows over the
bountiful harvests, he is taking a new
view not only of his native lunii, which
was never fairer or happier,, but is also
thinking of his new markets aud new
"possessions" across the seas.
The laborer Is to-day receiving more
wages than he ever received before, and
he is receiving them In a currency that Is
good all over the world. In many in
stances, undoubtedly, there must be a
readjustment of wages, and the sporadic
strikes now reported in various manufac
turing centers point probably to the be
ginning of this readjustment. In my opin
ion, these and kindred difficulties will be
safely and speedily settled.
Now, can any sane man tell me how
the laborer will help his condition, or the
solution of the problems so vital to him,
by voting to dehase our standard of value
and thereby reducing his own wages?
What has labor to hope from Bryan,
ostensibly the friend of the dissatisfied,
the champion of the aggrieved, and the
chosen candidate of all. the long-hcired
reformers iu the United States? Does
not the supreme salvation of labor de
pend, after nil, upon preserving our
standard of value, upon the non-partisan
regulation of trusts, and upon the appli
cation to those great commercial aggre
gations, which are so peculiarly a pro
duct of this age, of a system of license
and taxation? Is it not idle to denounce
the trust as nn evil, a menace to the na
tional welfare? l's not the trust a nat
ural and essential development of our
time? A quarter of a century ago the
word "corporation" implied an inherent
reproach in the minds of exactly those
citizens who to-day regard the trust,
which is the incorporation of corpora
tions, with the same disfavor. Yet it Is
to the solution of the trust problem that
the American business man, as well hs
stock-watering evil along with the trust
"magnate" and the promoter. He is get
ting down on the earth again. Some of
the trusts in which he invested have even
gone to pieces. They were badly con
ceived and badly managed. They couldn't
hold together. They didn't "do business"
on a business basis.
There was no reason why they should
expect to hold together. Perhaps there
were too many purely ornamental per
sons in the offices with high salaries.
Perhaps there were too many sons ftnd
nephews of "the president," 'who sat
around looking handsome and thinking
that there was no other task of impor
tance connected with their job. What
ever the cause, the badly organized and
badly managed trust has gone to pieces
or is going. Nothing can help it, if it
can't help itself. So, too, the people are
realizing that the problem is economic
after all, that no person, nor any party,
is to blame for this condition of things;
nor, lu fact, that any person, or party,
or policy can prevent the good ones from
succeeding, can prevent the bad ones
from failing.
That suggests another thing. I spoke
of the more or less handsome nephew of
"the president" He has got to be up to
his job or be can't stay. It Isn't enough
for him to succeed in his new position in
doing the same old things that he used
to do In the old one. There is new study
for bim, new problems; buying, handling
the labor situation, gelling the product
at a profit, studying the world's mar
kets. All this he has got to do because It has
got to be done; and if he hasn't the in
clination or the brains to do it, you can
wager your last dollar at the risk of
walking from Kokomo to Kankakee that
neither the "President" nor any one else
will keep him In. That Is why it is the
worst kind of fol-de-rol, unworthy of
anybody tin intelligent . as the Great
American Traveler, to pretend that there
are no opportunities in manufacturing
and trade now, and especially none for
young men.
Fudge!
There wa never so goed a chance for
brains, and good health, and sobriety.
and acumen, and vitality. Have these
things and capital must have you. And
if it must have you It must pay you. The
larger the corporation, the more impor
tant in it is the man. There are just as
many large corporations now as there
were small ones before. As many big
men are required as there were small
ones required before. . What these so
called magnates want Is somebody who
can do the work. Price Is no object if
they can depend upon you- You can't
strike a $19,000 position all at once. You
hare got to show that you are worth $1,
000, or $2,000, or $3,000. It is the same
old climb as it always has been; there is
the same old ladder to go up by, and the
same eld persimmon when yon get to the
top round and the same old persimmons,
too, all the way up at all the rounds.
All this seems pretty long unless It
also seems to have some bearing upon
the drummer question. I don't know
whether yon ever thought f it or not,
but maay different causes have been op
erating in the last few years to throw
commercial travelers out of work. Man
ufacturers have sought to eliminate com
mission men. who must haTe laid off a
good maay of their travelers. The cata
logue houses, so-called. tbee doiag busi
ness direct with the consumer by means
of catalogue snd ether printed matter,
have grewn enormously. They have laid
oil drummers if they ever had tbem; and
one of the reasons why they caa cell so
cheaply to the eoasumer is that one ele
ment ef selling expense, the drumming,
is eliminated. Any house that corre
spond extensively, that takes care with
tt correspondence, by just so muoh
makes the selling easy; and If the pro
cess were kept up long eaougk, this
the Americas farmer and laborer, must
addre.' .imself. And In the solution of
that i.oblein he will find the present goal
of patriotism.
The business man who does not Inquire
into the politics of his bookkeeper Is
asked by the supporters of Mr. Bryan to
allow partisan politics to be injected into
the circulating medium through which he
carries on his business. He refused in
1800, as he will refuse, I believe, in 1000,
to impute either Democracy or Republi
canism to the dollar. He will say that
it is not a political question, and that it
should not be made such. Asking him
self where he shall seek guidance in the
casting of his ballot, he, like the laborer
and the farmer, looks out upon prosper
ity unprecedented. He sees trade follow
ing the flag all around the world, and
new markets opening to him under new
national responsibilities. He realizes, as
a business man, that these responsibili
ties must be grappled with and adjusted
on a business basis. No policy of evasion
or retreat can commend itself to him.
Yet, Into the field of partisan discussion
he finds these responsibilities dragged,
like the dollars from his counting room,
by the politicians who seek his vote. And,
like the farmer and the laborer, he finds
his next national ballot invested with
uniaue importance.
What will be the reply, of the American
patriot, who Is now asked to believe that
his home aud his pocketbook are staked
on the next turn of the ballot, that a
wrong decision spells ruin, and that he
must decide issues of such moment as
were never before submitted to the Amer
ican electorate?
Bryan's election appears to
me Impossible. Good citizens,
irrespective of party, should vote for Mc
Kinley in November. That it is the duty
of patriots to do so I have no doubt.
The safety of the American republic Is
not menaced by a bogey, crowned with an
imperial diadem of straw. The cry of
imperialism is simply' a pretext of the
Democratic leaders to save themselves
from the fatal blunder they made in
1896, the blunder of dragging the dollar
to the polls and endeavoring to degrade
it. Imperialism Is not the paramount
issue, despite all efforts to make it so.
Now, as in 1890, the real Issue is the
Silver Danger. That is the peri! threat
ening this country, not the imaginary
evils attendant on the acquisition of new
territory, which was Hie inevitable re
sult of a war for which the shriekers
against imperialism were largely respon
sible. The only peril now threatening
the United States is ruin and retrogres
sion under silver, the turning back of
the wheels of progress and prosperity
to the standards of China and Mexico,
and the abandonment of bur position as
the greatest country in the civilized
world.
Shall we go forward or shall we turn
back? That is the question for the vot
ers in November. Under McKinley we
would cause drummers to ' lose their
places.
Then consider that millions and mill
ions of dollars are spent in thi country
for advertising purposes', not merely In
the newspapers and the magazines, hut
on the fences and the bill boards, in
signs, in distributions of printed mat
ter, and what not.
Wbat is all this money spent for?
To sell goods.
And the study of hundreds of the
brightest men in the country Is devoted
to making advertising more and more
effective, so that a given expenditure will
result in greater and greater sales at a
lower and lower expense. Why do the
advertisers want to sell more and more
cheaply? So that they can beat their
competitors by giving the consumer bet
ter things for the same money, or just
as good things for less money. All this
effort to sell things cheaper means that
drummers are going to be laid off if they
by their methods have been selling things
more expensively.
There is another thing that we owe It
to ourselves to look fairly in the face.
Many drummers in the paRt have consid
ered that the business that they helped
their bouses to do belonged to them and
not to the houses. Others, surely all the
houses, used to take a contrary view;
and of late year they have resorted to
the various more or less direct methods
of selling in order to get their business
back into their own hands. No doubt
about it! No doubt about itl
One of the things which a trust alms
to do is to reduce its selling expense. If
four manufacturers making the same ar
ticle arc drumming Indiana, and their
four able and persuasive representative
light Into Indianapolis some day, tbey
all go around among the trade doing lit
tle except neutralize one another. About
four times the talk, nerve force and
money are spent to sell only as many
goods as Indianapolis want tbat day,
as needs be spent. This is one of ibe
many things that the trusts have found
out that tbey knew before they started
in.
Now, It Is Inevitable in the very econ
omics, iu the very natural law of the
situation, that some of those drummers
must go some time; they may be sent
into new territory, they may be recalled
to work In the office at borne, or they
may be dismissed entirely. Just so much
of their work as has been unnecessary
will surely be dispensed with In time.
Competition doe that, and we couldn't
have any better illustration of the fact
that competition Is always active. Here
It is potent, actually. In the case of the
glucose trust that wa afraid t encour
age too much competition (of other capi
tal and brains) by making more than sev
en per cent, It wa active potentially.
It Is preposterous to say tbat fifty
thousand commercial travelers, or thirty
five thousand, have been thrown out of
work by the trusts. There are probably
not sixty thousand ef them In the whole
country. Beside, if ten per cent of
'hem hare been thrown eat ef work by
tbA various change in producing and dis
tributing tbat have come about in the last
few years, other causes have probablv
contributed equally with the combination
movement. Even so, and putting the
case t It very worst, the general Im
provement In business, the wide expan
sion of trade at borne and abroad, which
all of onr producers, manufacturer and
trader have helped to bring about, and
by which they have ail inevitably profit
ed this ha put all of those commercial
traveler back Into places Jost as good,
or better, or will do a. It it Inevitable.
More people were employed after ma
chinery was Introduced simply because
the want of the human race became
greater and wider every year, and these
want bad to be supplied, snd could be,
beans tbing were so much cheaper.
We biT takes over Porte Hies, Ha
go forward, under Bryan we turn back.
The coming test of ' silver question
at the polls must, in all human proba
bility, be the final one. The will of the
voters twice registered will not be the
third time disputed. Each year that we
preserve our present money standard
gives it additional security. The Amer
ican' people do not like experiments with
their currency, their school houses, their
churches or their savings banks. A re
versal of the popular verdict of 1898
would mean a reversal of all the achieve
ments that make up our national pros
perity. Bryan's election would mean that
the sovereign people had decreed that our
laborers shall be paid in silver, while
our foreign debts must still be paid in
gold.
Convinced as I. am that the financial
question is the paramount issue in No
vember, 1900, as it was in November,
1896, it is worth while for Democrats
who supported McKinley, as I did, four
years ago, to ask what are the issues
upon which our party could have appeal
ed to the American people with fair pros
pects of success, and what we can con
tend for in future contests, after this
economic and financial question Is finally
settled. To my mind these define them
selves as reform in governmental admin
istration, economy in governmental ex
penditure, the taxation and regulation of
oppressive trusts and combinations, and
the immediate enactment of a just and
honest scheme of colonial government.
These would have been issues upon which
every patriot could have been honestly
asked to vote. Why should we not set
fairly about a reform in our old system
of taxation, and, at the same time, initi
ate a departure which might well result
in throwing the cost of government upon
those who can best afford it?
The silver problem solved once for all, as
it will be in November, the colonial prob-
lem at once becomes paramount. We
must either give up Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Philippines, haul down our flag,
and shamefully abandon the righteous;
fruits of our prowess by land and sea,,
or we must prepare to, govern these dis
tant additions to our country fairly and
honestly and capably. A per-1
petual, constitutional barrier must be
erected against the statehood of all our1
non-contiguous possessions. That su
premely important problem Is to be met)
and overcome, not by cowardly evasionj
or disgraceful retreat, for the American,
people will tolerate no such course. WeJ
must institute honestly and wisely and
administer economically an American co
lonial system, worthy alfke of our new,
possessions and of their mother country..
We are not incapable of governing them.
We are, as a nation, incapable of nothing.!
I fully believe in the future of thai
American republic, and that we are wise,
and brave enough to bear the burdens
and fulfill the task Providence has allot
ted us. Let us not falter at the thresh-i
old. M. 13. I NGALLS.
waii and the Philippines, and have some
interest in Cuba; and I venture to say
that the Increased and increasing busi
ness in those distant islands has already
more than absorbed the work of all the
drummers in the country who have lost
their positions through industrial com
binations. If that is true, and I believe
it is, consider what a chance there is for
ten per cent of our commercial travelers,
or for fifty per cent of them, In time in
foreign lands or at home here, helping
their new employers, or their old ones,
to meet all the numberless new and in
creasing demands of our prosperous aud
proud American men, women, sweet
hearts, wives, cousins, aunts and chil
dren, and all the countless millions, who,
as we can be certain, are going to want
our American products more and more'
because the counted millions that we
know of have begun to take them now
almost faster than we can supply them.
That is expansion.
You cannot stop it In a million years!
It has been going on since the world
began, and it will coutiuue to go on,'
faster than ever, I guess, to the end of
time. It happens when a peoplo' fairly
bursts its manufacturing and commercial;
bounds. There must be nn outlet for the1
products of our farms and factories, for
the capital and talents of our business
men and hustlers.
, Sometimes this expansion ef new
strength, which amount to an explosion
of new strength, must be preceded by a
battleship, even by a part of a standing!
army, or a permanent garrison, as in
Tort Rico or the Philippines. At other
times the battleship and the standing1
army, or a part of it, just enough to hold
our owa and make no doubt of it, must
follow.
The missionaries (who typify In a way
the advance of civilization into heathen
lands, as we call them) are best of all the
daring forerunners of the commerce and
the progress that have to get there too.
The human race, especially the Anglo
Saxons, are always wanting more snd
better things; they are climbing, climbing,
climbing, always upon a higher plane of
living. These things they work for, and
fight for, and die for. So long as that
restless, world-conquering sentiment ex
ists, there will be expansion. So long,
too, the races sf the earth which have
found themselves, and are still finding
themselves, unequal to the trading, and
selling, and fighting, and civilizing capac
ity of the Anglo-Saxons, must step aside;
they must learn to fight and to trade, and
to trade and to fight, much better; that I
all.
I try to say these things thoughtfully,
a a drummer, notorious as he is for talk
ing, may sometime do. This expansion
that I speak sf I what we eptimlst
mean by destiny; we are not afraid of It,
we welcome it. We save done In the last
three years a hundred year of work
which, however, we couldn't have done,
If we hadn't been prepared, If we hadn't
been that kind of people.
There is not a true American man In
these United State that is not better off,
Id his patriotism or his pecuniary pros
pects, for the task of war and of states
manship that have been undertaken and
discharged In the last three year. You
re better efT, whoever yon are; and I am
better off. Even if T had not ben secr
etary to my employer in the field and
had not been kept on the pay-roll, then
there would have been ten time the
freedom of opportunity, which Is all any
good man can want. There Is freedom of
opportunity for everybody; but opportu
nity won't come looking for on. We must
go running for It. watching every open
ing, looking for Improvement, looking for
the way which our employer must find If
we do not make bis capital and bi ef
fort pay hira a little better. In that
way our efforts, which are our capital,
will pay as better and better.
A DUUMMKB,
RULES OF ln ROAD.
three Classes of Persons Ought to
Know and Observe Them.
The rules of the road appear to be
Indifferently understood by a large
number of persons who use the streets,
or they are willfully disregarded. The
ordinary rules of the road, and they
apply to road vehicles, horsemen and
bicycles, are as follows:
For the Driver. Know how to drive.
Keep to the right.
In passing another vehicle going In
the same direction keep to the left.
Iu approaching a crossing slow up.
To go around a corner slop up and
make a wide turn to carry you to the
right, and avoid vehicles coming down
the cross streets on their proper side.
A city street Is not a speeding track;
It Is a highway for the use of many
aud various vehicles. Therefore drive
at moderate speed.
Use judgment.
If you cannot drive do not handle the
reins. Let someone do It who can.
Keep a cool head.
A person who drives should be a re
sponsible person. A slight accident or
lack of judgment on his part might
cost a life.
Senile men, young and untrained
boys, nine-tenths of the women, one
half the men aud a few of the coach
men should never be allowed to drive
In the city. It takes knowledge, Judg
ment and strength to pilot a horse or a
ten ni of horses In a crowded city street.
For the Pedestrian. If a pedestrian,
keep off the roadway, except to pass
over It at the proper crossing.
Do not stop in the middle of the
street to converse with a person you
meet.
In crossing a street step lively; ob
serve all sides for coming teams. They
have the right of way.
Do not stand in the street while wait
ing for a street car.
If a bicycle comes behind you and Its
bell Is suddenly rung, do not get rat
tled. Stand still. The wheelman will
ride around you and avoid hurting
you.
If you do get rattled, do not try to
"balance on the comers" with the
wheel; make a bold dash for the side
walk, or else stand still.
The sidewalks are for pedestrians.
The roadways are for vehicles.
For the Wheelman. Do not ride a
bicycle on a crowded street until you
are Its manter.
Do not "scorch."
Do not pass 'dose In front of a ve
hicle or n street car.
Take your time unless you happen to
be going for a doctor. Even then go
with reasonable speed and be extra ob
servant and cautions.
Keep to the right except when pass
Ing a vehicle going In the same direc
tion, when pass It to the left.
Do not turn the corner of a down
town street while riding faster than
four miles an hour.
Do not coast on down-town streets.
It Is dangerous to your own life aud
the lives of others.
Do not attempt trick riding on a
crowded street.
When you see a wheelman riding on
the wrong side of the street warn him.
This is customary In Chicago, St.
Louis, Denver and other large cities.
If yon are so warneu do not get angry.
If you ride at night without a lamp
and are accidentally run Into It Is your
fault. One of the chief purposes of a
lamp Is to keep other vehicles from
running you down.
Wheelmen should never ride more
than two abreast when riding In par
ties, especially at night.
If you are a beginner get off and
walk down a bill. You are sure to be
nervous and might run Into someone.
Every wheelman should know how
to dismount from both sides of the
wheel. This Is especially necessary lu
down-town streets to avoid accidents.
Men who ride down town should
prnctlco dropping off the saddle astrad
dle the hind wheel where dismounting
from either side Is Impossible.
Every wheelman should know how
lo brake with the foot on the front
wheel. Many serious accidents on
down-town streets would thus be
averted.
Every woman who rides a wheel
should have a brake attached to It.
No man should take a woman on a
tendem on a crowded street. Tandems
are not fit vehicles for down-town
streets during business hours. Kansas
City Star.
A Dear that Could Bite,
Another man who depended on the
assurance that bears are arrant cow
ards, aud will run from any human
being who approaches them, tins had
occasion to amend his opinion. On the
third of Inst May a wheelttinn, riding
through the country about Lewlston,
Idaho, took It Into bis head to go out
bunting for grouse. Leaving his wheel
In a secure place, and taking a small
twenty-twd-callber rifle, he obtained
the services of a civilized Indian boy
named Mutthew, as a sort of guide, and
set forth. The boy also had a rlIe of
the same size, and they bad a couple of
dogs. Between them they were pretty
well armed, as they thought, nnd count
ed nn bringing home a good bag. But
bunting Is uncertain business.
They had not gone far Into the woods
on Mission Creek, fifteen miles from
IewIston, when the dogs stirred up
something which, to Judge from their
excited actions, was not a grouse. The
hunters went to see what It was, and
found the dogs barking at a she cinna
mon boar, which, with her cubs, was In
a kind of den In the rocks.
The Indian boy was In advance, and
the bear had no sooner seen hlin than
she rushed out at him. Matthew did
the best thing he could think of be
fired his little rifle In the beiir's face.
But the wound only enraged her. She
sprang on the boy, liore bim down, and
began to tear hlra with her teeth and
claws.
The white man was meantime con
st
Ing to the rescue with his little gun
Although the sight of the bear tearing
the boy made him sick, be poured the
small bullets into ber body, and at laaf
succeeded In hurting ber so much, that
she let go the ooy, and snarling at the
man, fled into the woods.
Poor Matthew was now unconscJonaj
his clothes were nearly gone, and bit
flesh was lacerated In fifty places. The
white man thought he was dead, bat It
turned out that life was In htm, and the
man took him to a place where hi
frightful wounds could be dressed.
This particular bear Is well known ts
the people about Mission Creek. Bh
lias several times attacked men and
boys, who have heretofore got off, la
the language of Job, by the skin 0!
their teeth.
The people have resolved not to toW
erate longer a bear with such repre
hensible habits, and at last accounts m
party had been organized to go after
her with more formidable weapon
than twenty-two-caliber rifles.
"Yes, My Lord."
At a meeting of teachers In New
York City many suggestions were made
as to the best methods of clearing the
cloudy uncertainty of children's mem
ories. "It Is almost hopeless," said the prin
cipal of a public school. "American chil
dren, for Instance, are usually sure of
but two dates In history, but they aU
tach very different events to them.
One pupil told me yesterday that Wash
ington was born In 1770 and that the
Civil war ended In 1492."
"It Is not only their memories, but
their minds that are hazy," said a well
known literary woman. "Parents sel
dom know the strange meanings that a
timid child puzzles out alone from or
dinary phicses. Until I was a large girl
and found courage to ask how all of the
prophets could be hung on one rope, I
always believed the two command
ments from which 'bang all the law and
the prophets' to have been two scaf
folds." "English children are no brighter
than our own," said another teacher,
and repented an anecdote told by an
American bishop who, while In York
shire, had been asked to address a Sun
day school.
"I am the Bishop of the diocese of
Washington and Idaho," he said; "and,
by the way, can any of you tell me
what a diocese Is?"
Several hands were held up. Dr. Tal
bot nodded to a yellow-haired, red
cheeked lad In front. "You know," he
said.
"Yes, my lord. A diocese Is a high
point of land, with a bishop sitting on
top and a lot of clergymen all around."
"It Is not the children who are to
blame," said an old professor, wbo had
listened In silence. "It Is we, who, In
theso modern days, are nrgent to
crowd Into their vacant minds the rudi
ments of too many branches of knowl
edge. It Is better to take a week to
plant In a child's mind one idea, so that
It may take root and grow, and become
a part of his life, than to pour Into It a
hundred facts In a day, which be does
not understand nor receive."
Arcito Hensoim.
The seasons In the north frigid zone
or arctic circle follow the seasons In
the north temperate zone, though, of
course, about the pole and for 1,000
miles south of It In every direction the
winters are much more severe and
longer, while there Is practically neith
er spring nor fall, three or four months
of unseasonably warm weather consid
ering the latitude, being what the resi
dents In Alaska and Northern Siberia,
may expect. The equatorial regions
have their wet and dry seasons, the
change of seasons being usually accom
panied by severe storms, which occur
In September and March, often attain
ing the violence of hurricanes. What
we call our winter is the dry and pleas
ant season In equatorial regions, both
north and south, and our summer Is, In
the tropical zone, the rainy and un
healthy season. St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Umbrellas.
Umbrellns will last much longer If,
when they are wet they are placed han
dle downwards to dry; the moisture
then runs from the edges of the frame
and the material dries uniformly. It
stood handle npwards, as Is usually the
case, all the moisture runs Into the top
of the umbrella and Is kept there by
the lining underneath the ring, conse
quently It takes a long time to dry, and
Injures the silk or other fabric wlta
which the umbrella is covered. The lat
ter Is one of the chief causes of um
brellas wearing so soon at the top. Um
brella cases are not so much used aa
formerly, for these are resjionslble by
their constant friction for the smalt
holes In the fabric that appear very
early. When not In use an umbrella
should be left unrolled, and when wet
should be left loose to dry.
Trapped.
Animals caught In traps have some
times managed to escape with trap and
an, but In most eaaes the trap has In
the long run been the death of them.
This was the fate of an eagle that had
flown away with a trap dangling from
one of Its legs. For several weeks
neither bird nor trap was seen, till on
day, a gentleman noticed a curious ob
ject hanging from a tree-branch.
Climbing up to find out what tt was, he
discovered that It was the eagle, quite
dead. The peg and chains by which
the trap had been fustened In the
ground had become entangle among
the boughs and the poor eagle had been
slowly starved to death.
He's a Walter Now.
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still traveling for that provision firm)
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nw for another concern In the same
line.
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Meeker Hasher's restaurant.