h ++++++++++++++++++++++++♦+++-¡•+-!-+-;--i.-.'-^+^.++++++++++ ley. nor did I at any time attempt to
+ t> get over Into the east wing of the
building. It was on that side that ths
flames were fiercest, and the elevator
shaft and stairway between that wing
and the main building were roartng
like a furnace. Suddenly the halls be-
gan to Uli with tiremen In long coats
and helmets. Some with axes and otb-
ere draggiug up hose.
HEN a tuuu has passed bis some time, even though you are un
There seemed to be nothing more for
fiftieth year. Is unmarried, able to anticipate a reasonable excuse me to do. so I ran down the main
has no near and dear relatives therefor. Let me give It to you in stairway and out Into the street, where
lends to whom be is especially at- more concrete form. A year or two a great crowd was assembled. I no
•d, wheu bis life, whether in busi ago 1 hau a dream of a peculiarly vivid ticed that their faces were turned to
er lu leisure. Is methodical aud and Impressive character. It waa of ward the east wing, aud. as I instinct
angiag. aud when things that di- my suddeu awakening here In bed. in ively glanced In that direction. I re
aud give pleasure to others have this room, to behold a man leaning membered Dawley and the man of bis
me a burden—then let him beware over me. He was In strange, uncouth fearsome dream.
ils own mind, for he knows not dress—not of the modern day. I should
The man was on bls way—a hugs
t trick It may be making ready to Judge—and he was surrounded by. and bulk of a tire man. running up the long
upon him.
seemed to give out. a fierce red light. ladder that had been hoisted from the
is with souls as with animals— He shouted some words to m»?—I don't wagon and now rested against the
vatlou aud ill treatment will ren- know what they were; only, at the wall. Just below the window of Daw
even the most gentle of them un- sound of them, such a mighty and ley'» room.
ageable, eccentric and dangerous, overwhelming terror came upon me
But was It possible that be still slept
am moved to set down these re that I lay paralyzed as to motion and through all this uproar and ths glare
Ions by the peculiar fate that re thought. Then I awoke, really awoke of the flame, and the odor of burn
ly overtook Andrew Dawley—a this time, and I found my body wet ing wood? Surely, he must be asleep,
i whom I had known for ten years *'itb perspiration, and my heart beat else be would have appeared at the
lore with some degree of intimacy, ing so fieH'ely and with such great window. Then It suddenly flashed In
whom I hesitate to describe as a pain that I feared some blood vessel to my mind what was the meaning of
nd of mine, for the reason that I must give way."
the white skin and sunken eyes- a nar
e once or twice heard him say—
At this point I Interrupted him. for cotic! Without doubt, he waa still
ly and without bitterness—that he hfs voice was trembling with excite sleeping.
ment.
The fireman made his way through
no friends,
lere were twenty years between
"You say you are not superstitions.” the heat to the top of the ladder, and
ages, an Interval that would be I said. "Then you surely are not go swung into the open window. Streams
ly to forbid close relations between ing to allow yourself to be affected of water played upon the flames be
men who were without common by a dream? An overloaded stomach neath him. to protect bis retreat. Two
es and interests. Propinquity gave Is always likely to disturb the heart. other men ran up the ladder, and had
acquaintance, for I occupied at that Its rapid movement causes a sensation Just reached the top. when he re
e the room next but one to his, on exactly similar to fright, and the wan turned to the window, carrying a hu
fourth floor, in the east wing of dering brain conjures up a scare situ man figure wrapped In a blanket. The
Hotel MacMahon; but it was an ac- ation to fit it. Did you never dream others assisted him, and they made
Intnnce that was as slow of growth out an elaborate serie* of events, cul their way slowly down the ladder
minating in a pistol shot, and then again.
almost as frigid as a glacier.
“Overcome by the smoke," said a
he first year, I think, we merely awaken to find that a window sash
ded when we met in the hall, bur- htul dropped, and you had pieced out man standing near me. But I noticed
that no smoke came out of the open
tile second and third years we ex- the dream backwards, as it were?”
"How do you account for my having window.
nged an occasional word. About
I ran forward to a pile of mattresses
t time. 1 remember, he captured this same dream, without an lota of
neak thief on the stairway, over- change, half a dozen times since that and bed clothes that had been carried
out from the hotel, and arranged a
le his fierce resistance, aud held first experience?” asked Dawley.
"It results,” I answered, with the place for him to be laid. The call
1 until the police came, and I, hear-
: of IL went to his room to talk it easy confidence one shows in dispos for a doctor flew along the line of
ing of the problems of others, "from spectators, and presently one came
ir.
'hen I left the hotel for a matter of the profound impression tbe first running. I asked the fireman what
> or six years, and on my return dream made on your mind and mem had happened.
“Ke was sound asleep when I en
ind Dawley the only one I knew in ory.”
lie smiled, and looked at me with tered the room through the window,"
place—still occupying the same
tn. and living the same unvarying half-closed eyes. Then he relighted he said. “I had to shake him hard
i. And now, at rare intervals, we his pipe, which had gone out. and I to wake him up. He Just stared at me
nt an evening together, usually on remember that tbe hand holding the a moment, and said. 'Ah! You have
come.’ and then his face turned kind
invitation, aud in his room. He match trembled a good deal.
Ry this time the subject had become of black, and his Jaw dropped, and
med to be ill at ease elsewhere.
p to the time that he explained tome distasteful to me. revealing a mental he went Into a dead faint.”
“How is It?” I asked the doctor, as
peculiar theory on tbe subject of weakness or eccentricity In Dawley
,r. I bad regarded him as a dull aud that was not pleasant to contemplate. he rose from stooping over the pros
amonplaee character. Conversation So I turned the conversation into oth trate figure.
"Heart action ceased entirely,' he
;h him was difficult, by reason of er channels.
Only on one other occasion did we replied. “Man Is stone dead from
apparent Inability to discover a
Ic In which be was genuinely lnter- speak again of this fear and the dream, mere terror."—San Francisco , Argo-
ed.
There were
Interminable and then, as before, it was brought up naut
ises, during which he drew slowly by a careless question.
EPITAPHS IN NEW ENGLAND.
Entering his room one night, I no
1 regularly at his pipe, and stared
ticed a powerful bolt that bad been Old-Time Ways of Taking Leave of
o the fire.
the Proud World.
)ur discussion on the subject of fear newly fastened on the inside of his
Among those time-worn burying
jan with my commenting on the door, and I asked if the lock bad been
grounds in which New England la ao
!t that a light was burning in his broken.
It was a natural inquiry, and there rich are many doggerel mementoes of
*m the night before at one o'clock,
ilch 1 had noticed, coming in at that seemed to be no cause for the tremble the departed which, but for the solem
in his voice and the peculiar light In nity of death in which they are en
ar, after a dance.
shrouded. would partake of the farci
I keep a light in my room all night,” his eyes as he replied to me:
“A lock can be picked. I wished cal. In an obscure corner of York’s
d he; “I hate the dark.”
iow, this had not been bls custom to satisfy myself that it was impossl ancient cemetery is an epitaph which
len I was a neighbor of his some ble for a human being to enter this quite evidently was not dictated by the
occupant of the grave which the stone
trs before, and I commented upon room while I sleep.”
I glanced up at the transom, It was marks, for it thus meinorlallz.es the
t change.
T suppose It Is an evidence of the held shut by a heavy Iron bar. Then departed:
light of years,' »» said he; "but I am I looked out of the window. I It faced Here lies the body of Jonathan Drew,
>ubled of late with peculiar fancies the court between the wings I of the Who cheated all he ever knew.
nearly Hia Maker he'd have cheated, too,
d dreams. Sitting alone here In the building, with a sheer drop of
But that his God he never knew.
forty
feet
ening. things somehow get on my
Here is one worthy of emblazonment
"Utterly Impossible,” said I.
rves, and the thought of suddenly
Then I noticed for the first time a- for the warning of the indiscreet:
king out of a sound sleep to find
»self shut in by blackness is quite certain waxiness In the texture of the ’’Emma, daughter of Abraham and Ma
skin over bls forehead, and a sunken tilda Cox. nnd wife of Theodore Shal-
olerable to me.”
len, died July 9, 1.847, aged 2(1 years,
iow this sentiment was so utterly depth to his eye«,
leaving
five children; married too
"Has
the
dream
reappeared?
”
I
variance with my conception of An-
young against her father's will, Hiu-
asked.
•w Dawley—a cold, practical uian of
gle women, take warning.
"Frequently.”
siness and of the world, as I knew
In the quaint old Kittery Point
“
The
trouble
with
you.
Dawley."
I
n—that instead of dropping tbe sub-
(Me.) cemetery, prostrate upon the
mused
aloud,
“
Is
that
you
are
too
't. as I might have done with a
bank of the Piscataqua, is a granite
ire sensitive man. 1 pursued it some- much alone.”
block bearing these words, rough hewn
“
I
have
no
friends,
”
he
said.
In
a
>at farther.
by the hand of a member of the only
'As a child,” 1 remarked, “I had a calm, dispassionate tone, such as one race In the world that could have orlg
eat terror of the dark; but It ceased might use In speaking of some trivial inated such a "bull":
of business.
ttlrely when I was old enough to matter
“Yon should make them,” I said, Bridget and I have two children dear.
ason with myself.”
One in Ireland and the other here.
with emphasis.
“What was the course of your rea
“I am over the Divide," he answered.
Maine is particularly rich tn grave
ming?" he asked.
“My course of life will not change stone oddities, but no Inscription of
"Well, I had become convinced that very readily. I fear.”
them all can cap this one, which dis
ipernatural beings did not exist—such
Then he deliberately nnd pointedly plays to such advantage the bitterness
i ghosts and goblins aud guome*— changed the topic, nnd 1 did not recur of a local warfare over the Individual
id. on the other band. I knew that to it again at any time. As I say. he medicinal qualities of the noted springs
a well-protected house there was was twenty years my senior, nnd we of two old towns:
actically no danger from burglars or had little in common. I had many
Here liea John Jones and bis two daugh
ild animals. So. having completely friends and many Interests, and Daw
ters.
sured myself that there was nothing ley and his oddities formed an unim Who died of drinking Cheltenham wat
the dark, any more than there was portant episode.
ers;
.
the light, I ceased to be afraid of
If they had drunk the waters of Howe,
But it was only a week after this They
might have all been living now.
conversation that the terrible evtnt
"Good logic,” said Dawley, with a
Beneath a leaning slab in an eld
mile. "I remember working out the took place, which every newspaper Massachusetts burying ground slum
reader In the city will remember.
nine conclusion when I was about
It was at two In. the morning that I bers an ancient cynic, caustically re
Reive years old. And it has held with
buking. even In death, the curloua:
suddenly from a profound slum
»e ever since, until recently I dlscov- awoke
1
1 was somebody;
her, with the consciousness that some
red a flaw In the reasoning. Oh, It
Who, is no business of yours.
scream -
one
had
run
past
my
door,
oesn't apply to anyone else." be added
The old First Parish cemetsry of
astlly. "as I undertook to «peak. “It Ing.
I sprang out of bed. and as I did so Alfred. Me., says the New York Mall
i purely personal, and I hesitate to
beard
the crash of breaking glass in and Express. Is fruitful in unique cu
Isturb your equanimity by describ-
the
court
below, and saw a brilliant riosities of epltaphy, of which thia
ng it...
red gleam through tbe blinds at the legend Is a fair sample:
"Never fear,” said I. with a laugh. window. I looked out; the kitchen
• John Hall. 1762-1813. May he rest
These sentiments are largely based
and dining room In tbe rear of the ho In peace till we meet again. His loving
>n temperament, and I don’t believe
tel bad already burst Into flame, and wife."
mythlng Is likely to change my point
a
great volume of smoke poured out of
A Neat Remark
•f view.”
the lower windows of the east wing.
Edmund
About once wrote In a feull-
“Our boyish logic,” said he. after a
My own room was on the second
>ause, "dlspos«*d of everything that floor. In the center of the building, and letou that Albonl's singing-she was
vas objective—from tbe outside— I «aw that there was plenty of time very stout—was "like a nightingale
vhether real or supernatural; but it for me to escape, and to help others piping out of a lump of suet.” The In
lid not touch the subjective element* in that vicinity. I Jumped Into a bath dignant prime donna «ent him a goose-
•f the problem, of which the chief robe and slipper*, and. rolling my quill through the agency of a certain
Is fear itself. Now. I do not believe clothe* Into a bundle under my arm. marquis. About received the pen with
Ills most charming smile. “I regret,
I am phys.i-ally a coward— ”
ran out into tbe hall.
n et fleur." he said, "that Madame Al
"I know you are not,” I Interrupted.
I hammered at each door that I boat should have plucked you for my
"I remember your capture of that
thief. Re was armed, and resisted passed, and yelled In a frenzy of ex rake’"
The place wn
citement and horror. Tbe
was
fiercely, but you bung on.”
For Weak Ntomaeha.
"Yes.” he said. “■ man finds out rapidly filling with smoke, and, the
"What kind of breakfast food hare
Presently
I
no-
whether he Is a coward or not by the light grew brighter Ur;
you?” Inquired tbe New-Yorker In the
time he reaches my age; and I have tlced that my clothe* were gone, I Boaton hotel.
had
dropped
them
while
helping
r»x><4 reason to know that my courage
••We have pumpkin, custard, apple
Is not deficient. And I bare no super woman who seemed to l>e unable to and meringue pl*." replied the waiter,
stitions—which disj»o«es of ghosts and walk through pure terror The man carefully adjusting hie glasses -Yonk
•upernatnrai thing*. Ro there 1* noth who had first roused me had gone up ers Statesman.
Ing for me to fear. Here I* where the | to tbe fourth floor. an»1 the people
Jos« tha Maa.
raa* nlng faculty stop*, and something were pour.ng down tbe stairways. In
“Do yo® think be would keep tally
else you rail It t»tnperament. do you? their night robe*, or wrapped in blan
■ begins. I (j,> suffer from fear—at kets. some carrying children—of all right r
times to the very edge of my self con j which, thank heaven, there were few .“Sure. You can count on him every
What la It? Why Is it? I be 1 In the house—other* bird rage*, and time "—Philadelphia Bulletin.
Bev» that what I fear I* fear Itself." some dragging trunks, bang. b*ngl
When a man makes a very long pray
1 «hook my bead. "Thaat statement over tbe Wept.
I bad several good friend* in the er In church, somehow bls bearers get
is meaningless to me." I said.
the lmpreaalon that when be scold« la
■ "I* It?" be asked, almost wistfully.' hotel «nd now that tbe alarm seemed the privacy of hla fa mil» be keeos s
to
t*
generally
gir*n.
I
ran
to
their
c*n t you Imagine being In terror of
long time at it
• <rant fright that may overtake yoB ( s*«;.t«jjc». but I did not think of D*w
THE
ORIGINAL REPUBLICAN.
Major Alvan K. Bovay, W ho Keceatly
Died in California.
he Fear of Fear
AAHY PIBIICITY IS NOT UY OR 11)
B» It. O. Harrmritr, Prraldent American Hugar Ketlnlng Co.
consists of this undesirable element undesirable becaus«
It Is ofteu found to be unintelligent, of low vitality, of poor
physique, able to perform only the cheapest Lind of matt
uni lalxir. desirous of locating almost exclusively In the
cities, and unfitted mentally or morally for gisxl citizenship.
At the present stage . f the discussion it Is as unnecessary
as It would Is- Imp sslble to state what Is the relative per
centage of the desirable and the undesirable. It Is auttl-
elent for the pre- -,it purp. — s to know that at hast a
eonshleruble number of those coming here, more particu
larly from eastern and southern Europe and Syria, are
people who, although they nitty be able to earn a living, are
not wanted, will lie of no benefit to the country, and whose
presence, on the contrary, tends to drag down Its stand
arils. It is of this undesirable minority alone that I atn
speaking That It should exist Is only natural. In view of
the poverty of parts of the old world and of the efforts
made abroad to stir up emigration. Specific evidence of
lta existence results not only from observation at Ellis
Island but from the tact that large numbers of these
peopl»- tire almost destitute at the time of their arrival,
have since found It impossible to earn a living In this coun
try. have become public charges, anil are eventually de
ported.
I ant of the opinion that Itefore long the necessity will
be realized of enacting a law the effect of which will be
to exclude all persons w ho are not physically vigorous anti
whose presence will tend to lower our staminid of living or
civilization.
A man died recently In Santa Mo
nica. Cal., who won the right to be
called the original Republican. This
wus Major Alvan
E Bovay Born .a
New York eighty-
five years ago, Ma
jor Bovay emi
grated to Wiscon
sin In early life,
settling In Ripon,
became a lawyer
of prom I nence.
Joined the Whig
party, acted some
times with the
Free Boilers, and
started the first systematic movement
known anywhere In the United States
to unite the anti slavery men of all
parties Into the coalition which as
sumed the Republican name. This
took shape in a meeting at Ripon ou
February 28, 1854, four days ix-fore
thi- imsstige of the Kansas Nebraska
bill through the Senate, but wheu Its
enactment waa seen by the country
to lx- Inevitable.
At that meeting,
which was participated In by Whigs,
Free-Sollers nnd Democrats, and
which was followed by another on
March 20, in each of which Bovay was
the master spirit, a new partlsau com
bination wits formed, which adopted
the name Republican, suggested by It
self. At nearly the same time, though
a little later lu each Instance, gather
ings of freedom'* champions were
held In various parts of the country,
the participants In which. In most
cases, joined the new party.
May 23. 1854. three months ofter the
first of Bovay'* meetings, and a day
after the passage of the Kansas Ne
braska bill In the House, thirty Whig
nnd Denioeratle memtiers of that body
met In Washington, pledged themselves
to aid In forming a party to combat
slavery extension Into the Territories,
and agreed that It should be called Re
publican. Between Bovay’* meetings
and this one many other gatherings
with the same object In view took
place In the free Staten. In time, dnte
ami circumstance that was the origin
of the Republican party of to-day.
My company has heretofore gh eu
such information to stockholders as
they as a body have asked for. It lias
informed to the action heretofore tak
en at annual meeting* that »pedal lu
formation shall not lx» given to Individ
ual stockholder*. This recognize* that
business which Is to lx* done by eorpor
at Ions In competition with Individuals
canuot satisfactorily be done if the
Individual
may withhold all Infortna
H. O HAVEMEYEB.
tlon atx»ut his business and th»- cor
poratlon shall be compelled to make public Information
about its business.
The average price at which refined sugar hits been sold
Is 4.55 cents a pound. This includes 1.81 cents a ixiumi
which goes to the government. It tliUH appears that the
net price has been reduced to 2.64 cents a pound, as against
a net price which lu 1877, at the time of the formation of
the Sugar Refineries Company, wits 3.50 cents. The low
price leads to Increased consumption and enables the
business to lie done at the lowest possible margin. The
natural increase of couaumptlon year by year may be
stated to l>e 4.75 per cent, buritig the last year the in
crease was 8.17. This must be attributed to the reduction
In price brought about by 'be combination, it Is only
by keeping the price down 'that competition cau la* met.
and If our legislators would Inform themselves of the sit
uatlon they would learn that In our industry there Is no MARL Hit I RISI S SHOAA UP.
such thing as preventing competition and the building of
By James J. mil, President hreat WortAern Wallnar.
new refineries.
There are different kinds of trusts.
The above makes it Impossible to understand what rea
Some of them are formed for good pur
«unable motive there cun be for much of the so called anti
poses and serve the public welfare, und
trust legislation. The consumer is certainly benefited by a
the President and members of Congress
low price. My company will adhere to the policy which It
and other Intelligent people ought to
has heretofore pursued of doing business at a minimum
lx- able to discriminate between honest
of margin, relying for Its profits upon enlarged roiisuinp
and dishonest corporations. Take Herr
tlon.
Krupp, the great German Ironmaster,
who died the other day, as an example.
He was a very rich and powerful and
MEED or RESTRICTION 01 IMMIGRATION.
By William William'.. C'ommHtloner of Immigration. benevolent monopolist and made Germauy richer and more
It is generally conceded that immigration in prosperous and his 45,000 employes happy. There are
the past has been an Important factor in ena other gistd mono|M>llt*s,
The large number of consolidated corporations are
bling this country to attain the position of eml
nence which It now occupies, and that it has honest and well managt-d and are for the public welfare.
contributed In a large degree towards the won Others, however, were organized for speculative purposes
derful material development of the United and capitalised at enormous figures to sell stock to people
States. The Northwest Is in tills respect under who don’t know any better than to buy It. and such
a peculiar obligation to the okl world, and In scheme* ought to be crushed out. The remedy Is simple.
some of Its sections the voters of foreign extra»' Compel them to make a showing before they are allowed
tlon outnumber thoae of native birth. But such develop to put stock on the market. Make them show what they
ment has lx-en caused not by the mere fact that hundred- have got and what it Is worth. If a company In Rhode
of thousands of foreigners have been coming here annuall.’i Island wants to sell stock In Cullforula. It ought to I m *
One-half of the imports into this
but by th»- further fart that they have gone out Into tbe required to give people out there an honest statement of
agricultural regions ami that they have come from Great Its business, as national bttuks and insurance companies country art- of materials for uiauu-
facture.
Britain, Germany and Scandinavia, countries whose Inhab are compelled to do.
Frau Theresia Rulla. the oldest
ltants more closely resemble our people In bltxxl, traditions
woman In Vienna, has Just celebrateti
nnd Ideals of government than Is the ease with any of the DOGS Bl I HR THAN Tilt BABY.
her 103d birthday.
other larger countries of Europe from which our Intml
■r Dr. S. r. HOradr. Editor Hedlcal Record,
grants come. I| Is almost certain that had our early intml
Only the church steeple at Zudyco-
The fashionable woman of today does not
gr.itIon procetxled from tins»- portions of eastern anti south
want children. If site bears them she does not tec, near bunkirk, now rises above the
ern Europe which are now sending such large numbers of
rear them properly and they become sickly nnd sand which overwhelmed the entire
Illiterate aliens Into our great cities, this country would not
die. That this aversion to children Is rapidly village In 1777.
now enjoy its present civilization.
spreading through all classes of society la gen
One of the Russian railway compa
Statistics show, and It Is a well known fact, that th.
»■rally recognized by the medical profession. It nies has built a special Pullman car,
great stream of migration to-day is a city Immigration, and
Is true among the well to do everywhere, In the containing luxuriously fitted dining,
that the bulk of the Immigrants do not go and cannot lx
country ns well as in cities. Wt- nre following 1 smoking, sitting and sleeping compart
urged to go into the unsettled parts of the United States
rapidly In the path of France, where the subject ments, for the sole use of honeymoou
for the purjxise of developing them. The pauper statistics has occupied the attention of statesmen alttl lawmaker* couples.
show that alwiut thirty aliens out of every ten thousand for years and prizes art- offered by the government for
A resurvey of the one hundredth me
become objects of charity, whereas In the case of th»- na large families. In this country, however, our Anglo Saxon ridian, forming the boundary between
tlve lx>rn, iHitli white and colored, only nine out of every prudery will always stand In the way of any general cam Texas and Indian Territory, takes a
ten thousand persons tx-com»- such.
paign of education on this subject. Physicians can do strip of land nearly n mile wide and
Tin- question at issue to-day is not the total restriction something In the way of educating their own patients, but 125 tulles long away from Texas. The
of Immigration but only the proper regulation thereof their efforts in tin- aggregate- amount to but little. The de State will lose this Territory unless
Europe has a great many desirable people, nnd also mil mands of society and the life of our people In flats, where Congress approves the old one.
lions who are undesirable, and each nation of Europe has the baby Is more unwelcome »nan a dog, are among the
The development of the modem rail
Its quota of both. At least a portion, and many of us factors responsible for this state of affairs, and 1 see no
road and steamship makes |x>sslble a
believe a considerable jxirtlon, of our Immigration today hope for the future.
trip around the world In twenty seven
days, as follows: From New York to
Hamburg, 4.8(H) miles, 7% days; Ham
FIGHTING THE BIG PACKERS.
PASSING OF THE BICYCLE
burg to Vladlvostock, 7,600 miles. 614
National Live Mock Aaaociation En
days; Vladlvostock to Seattle, 7.00*1
ter. on a Mammoth struggle.
HERE were 3(H) bicycle factories In the United States In miles, lOVs days; Seattle to New York.
A great struggle is now on between
1895. They produced annually 5(H),(HH) machines. These 3.300 miles, 2% days; total, 22.600 miles
the cattle growers of the West and
machines cost the users 837,500,000 each year, ami the In twenty seven days.
the big meat packers, the forces of the
supply was not equal to the demand. Nearly 8(H),(HH)
Hutch fishermen make astonishing *
former being mar
bicycles were manufactured in 189(1, but the price de
catches by means of a very simple ex
shaled by John W.
dined 40 per cent In the next two or three years and pedient. They put a number of live
Springer, recently
the supply was In excess of the demand. In 1898 the worms nnd Insects Into a ls>ttle partly
elected for the tlfth
membership of tbe League of American Wheelmen was filled with water, which la then secure
time President of
103.000; It la now 5.830. In 1898 there were In tbe United ly corked. The bottle Is dropped Into
the National Live
States fifty newspapers devoted to cycling; now there the water nnd the fisherman sinks hla
Stock Association.
la only one. Five years ngo city boulevards and park
line alongside. It appears that the
Unless better terms
ways were crowded with bicycle riders; last summer wriggling contents of the bottle ao
can be secured by
there were comparatively few on street« or Ixrulevards.
tempt the fish that they fall easy vlc-
the cattle growers
The bicycle has fallen from It* high |w>pularlty. Wheeling has ceased tlms to the baited books.
from the packers It to be
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The disappearance of alxtrlglnal peo-
la probable that the Invested In bicycle factories linn lx-en turned
channels
JOHN W. BPHINQEH. stock raisers will |n sales of wheels are not one-twentieth as large as In 1898, ami the mem pies before our advancing civilization,
a short time be running packing
bership of the league has declined In the same proportion. There were ns seen In the Islands of the Pacific, Is
bouses of their own. Mr. Springer Is twenty bicycle stores In Chicago In 189* where there Is one now. Of the lx-lng repeated In various settlements
a young man who has come to the many bicycle clubs In 1898 only one maintains Its organization now. The of the far North. In twenty years the
front rapidly lu affairs of the live local sales of wheels declined 90 per cent In live years. No other reactionary Inhabitants of I-abrador have de
stock world, which means a great movement In American trade is so sweeping and striking as tills passing creased from 30.000 to 15,000. The na
tives of southwestern Greenland now
deal in these days. Five years ago of the bicycle. Chicago Inter Ocean.
number but 10.0(H), and they require
the live stock men of the West, prln
assistance from the banish govern
ci pa lly grazers of cattle and sheep.
met at Denver and formed an asso- years ago the Grand Duchess liecaine course, a soap of good quality and pre ment. The extermination of the seal,
elation intended to be national In Its a convert from the Lutheran religion ferably free from alkaline excess is walrus nnd polar tx-ar by whalers has
scope, Mr. Springer took an active to that of her husband, and the change <leslriil>le. On the other hand, it might reduced the Alaskan Eskimo from per
part In Its organization and was elect tended to popularize her. She Is one be thought that an excess of alkali haps 3.000 to about 600. The Eskimo
would prepare the beard more read at Smith's sound, who a dozen years
ed President, Mr. Springer brings to
lly than a pure soap or superfatted ago numbered 300, are reported by
his position large experience In the
soap. The corrosive effect of alkali, I'eary as being reduced to about 200.
management of the affairs of the cat
however, leaves no doubt it* to which
tie trade. lielng Interested extensively
description of soap should be used.
Tea-t>rtnklng In Russia.
In one of the biggest grazing outfits
Soap probably plays a more Impor
Enormous quantities of tea are con
In the West. In addition to this prac
tant role than that of snismltler of the sumed by the Russians, btu they do
tical experience, he possesses the
natural oil of the hair.
genius for organization and a remark
not suffer any evil effects owing to the
In spite of the fart that those who way In which they concoct the bever-
able capacity for details, so that he
use the razor frequently cut them- nge. With them It Is not a cup of tea.
has l»een enabled to bring Into Hue a
selves, yet It Is rarely that anything hut a glass of tea. A sprinkling of
number of conflicting Interests and
more serious than a cut follows, the leaven Is put Into the pot. lulling wa
consolidate them to the point where
he van present an unbroken front to
slight wound generally healing quick- ter In poured on them, and It Is allow-
the natural foes of the cattlemen In
ly. and the risk of septicemia art* ed to stand not more than thlrty see
a business way the railroads and the
Ing In this way would «eem to be al onds. A small quantity of the brew —
packers. In this regard Mr. Springer
most nil. In the majority of iases aliout two tablespoonfula- Is poured
has had several testa of strength and
therefore It 1» clear that tbe razor Into a glanf. which Is then filled with
has made a record that has won for
blade must lie bacteriologlcally clean Isdling water, and a slice of lemon and
him the confidence of hla supporters
—I e., free from septic matter— which «ugar are added. It Is said that this
and the respect of his antagonists
may lie attrlbutisl to the fact that make* one of the most refreshing and
probably It Is dlp|Mil Into a hot or ster piquant drinks Imaginable. The color
BEAUTY OF RUSSIAN COURT.
ilised water liefore n«e, or else that of the ten an drunk In a pale amber,
Ortnl llo<h«H Merge, the Caarlaa'a
the soap lather la antl«rt>tlc. Tbe lat and. of course, no milk Is used.
Meter* Hold« the First Rang.
ter explanation meins the more proba
Amoug the ladies of the Russian
ble of the two. The amount of soap
French China In White House.
court there is none that equals In per
French china manufacturers will
nibbed on the «kin Is considerable If
GHA5D IH < HUB MEHOF..
social liesuty Grand Itucbes« Serge, ein
the shaving 1« to lie In any degree plume themselves on the decision of
ter of the Czarina, and niece of King of the few Intimates of the Czar ami comfortable, and soap has considerable the government authorities having
Edward of England Before her mar- Czarina Her busband Is govet mor of antiseptic power, a 6 per cent *<>lu- charge of the fittings and decorations
rUge she was ITin<e«e Elizabeth of Moscow, and there the couple • spend tlon being sufficient to destroy the ty of the White House to provide an en
Hesae Darmstadt, Germany, second a portion of each year.
phoid bacillus.
There can be little tire new service of Sevres porcelain
daughter of Prln <•«• Alice of England,
doubt therefore that the skin Is render for the fine old home of the Presidents,
who was a daughter of Queen Victor a
RISKS OF SHAVING.
ed sterile by the liberal application in order that state entertainments may
Although a sister of »he Czarina, the
of soap. arid this fact is In favor of I m - more artistic ami ln-sutlful. Such
Grand Dwheaa stand« In the curious banger from the Barillas In the Rar any cut that may lx- made remaining action In furnishing the executive man
ber'e «hop.
relation of being her aunt by mar-
h'-ulthy anti without any serious con- «Ion Is an official admission of the su
Tbe uae of soap lather prior to shav sequence. In a word, soap, in the op premacy of France in the fine art of
rh go, for the Grand bake Serge Is one
ing tbe beard la regarded merely aa a eration of sharing, not only facilitates working In clay. It will gratify
of the younger undes of the C«ar.
The Grand D*cbe*s might have been tn*ana f facilitating tbe tronblt-aom*- the process, but plays the same valua French pride, and It will also be worth
German Empress for at one time her operation. H**ap I* Mid to extract tbe ble role when the sharer Is unlucky money to French manufacturers of
Cousin. the present Emperor, was deep oily matter* from the hair and tbit* to enough to cut himself as does tha an IMircelaln Cleveland Leader.
ly devoted to her 8 he prefered. bow render It brittle, so that the )>la<le of tis- pile In surgery.—Ixtndon Lancet.
A widow ha« nothing but words of
ever, to wed the Russian Grand Duke, tbe razor *aw* through It tasliy. for.
wboee elder brother was then czar, un after all, ahavfng la a delicate sawing
A rigid lower Jaw is often more effec praise for her late husband, but U'e
different with a sleepy wits.
der the title of Alexander III. Nine process. With senaltlve sklna, of tive tha* a stiff upper lip.
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