THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 23 1896.
First National Bank,
NOKTH JPJkATTJE, ATEB,
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A. F. STREITZ
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils,
PAINTEES'
WINDOW GLASS,
IEDIa,:cLa,rLta,
D entsolie Apotiaeke
Corner of Spruce and Sixth-sts.
Davis' Seasonable Goods
Davis, the Bicycle Man,
THE VIKING, is the "biking", Best of cycles.
THE ELDREDG-E, strictly first-class.
, . Jr. THE BELVIDERE, a high grade at a popular price.
THE CRAWFORD, absolutely the best wheel on
earth for the money. Choice of all kinds of handle
bars, saddles and pedals.
ALL KINDS OP BICYCLE ACCESSORIES.
X)avis, the Seed Man,
.Has a full line of
ER SEED from the celebrated Rice's Cambridge Val
ley Seed Gardens.
Davis, the Hardware Man,
Big stock of POULTRY NETTING, GARDEN
TOOLS, RUBBER HOSE and the celebrated" Acorn
Stoves and Ranges.
fisSTDon't forget Davis, "that no one owes" when in need of anything
in his line. Samples of "bikes" now in.
C. F. IDDINGS
LUMBER,
AND GRAIN
Order by telephone from ISTewton's Book Store.
N0ETH : PLATTE : PHARMACY,
Dr. N. McCABE, Prop., J. E. BUSH, Manager.
JSTOIRrs: PLATTE, - - 35TEBBASKA.
"We aim to liaiidle tlic Best Grades of
G-oods, sell tliem at Reasonable
Figures, and W arrant JbCverytliing
Orders from the country and along the line of the Union
Pacific railway respectfully solicited.
jCTIEW LIVELY JJSTU ZETEJIEID STABLE
(Old. "7"2a. I3oraxL Stable.)
Good
Excellent
Prices
ELDEE; & LOOK.
"Northwest corner of Courthouse Bquare.
WALL-PAPER, PAINT AND OIL DEPOT.
WINDOW GLSS, VARNISHES, GOLD LEAF, GOLD
POINTS BRONZES, ARTISTS' COLORS AND BRUSHES, PIANO AND
'furniture POLISHES, PREPARED HOUSE AND BUGGY PAINTS,
. ,..-.-r-.T . - TTTTXTT i T QTT A T"I7"C
KALSOMINE matjskj.au,
$50,000.
$22,500.
H. S. White, -P.
A. White, -
- President
Vice-Pres't.
Arthur McNamara, - Cashier.
A general banking business
transacted.
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SUPPLIES,
MACHINE OILS,
Spectacles.
CAPITAL, -SURPLUS,
-
BULK GARDEN AND FLOW
Teams,
Comfortable Higs,
Accommodations for lie Farming Public,
yxxw w -o
310 SPRUCE STREET.
1RAL BARE, Eoitok and Pbopbietor
SUBSCKIPTION BATES.
Ono Year, cosh in advance, $1.25.
SbJMonths, cash in advance 75 Cents.
Entered at the North Platte (Nebrasta)postofflce as
second-class matter.
THE WINNERS OF 1896.
NATIONAL TICKET.
For President
wm. Mckinley, of Ohio.
For Vice President
G. A. HOBART, of New Jersey.
COUNTY TICKET.
For County Attorney,
T. C. PATTERSON.
For Commissioner, Third District,
JAS.S. BOBBINS.
In selecting a MacColl delegation
to the state convention, the county
convention proved itself loyalty to a
Western Nebraska man, and to the
party of the west end ofthe state.
The delegation will work for Mac-
Coil's nomination from start to fin
ish.
the repuoncan county conven
. i
tion proved an enthusiastic gather
ing, and gave evidence that the re
publicans will go into the camraign
with a firm determination to win.
The enthusiasm displayed for Major
McKinley was a hearty approval of
the work of the St. Louis conven
tion.
Geo. E. French, as chairman
of
the republican count)' central com
mittee, will map out and. carry into
effect a campaign that wil prove
enthusiastic and effective from
start to finish. In P. L. Harper, of
Wallace, he lias an able lieutenant
who will look after affairs in the
south part of the county,
Mark Hanna, the new chairman
ot the republican national commit
tee, will make as aggressive a cam
paig-n for McKinley's election as he
did for McKinley's nomination,
and success is just as sure to crown
his efforts. Mr. Hanua's methods
are those of a straightforward man,
and he will win the fight by the
employment of
straightforward
methods.
The republican fight in the Sixth
mgressional district should be
made squarely upon the St. Louis
platform. It is better to be defeated
upon an out and out declaration
oi uonesc principles, tnan to win
J"t 1 11 .
through a cowardly straddle.
There is no doubt, however, but the
nominee of the congressional con
vention will hansr his banner con-
Lining the principles of the St,
Louis convention on the outer walls,
will defend those principles and will
come out victor.
McKinley is the popular ordeal.
He is of and for the people, a typi-
cai American, a cnnstian citizen, a
politician who has stood the sever
est tests ot time, and passed
through the trying ordeal of the
past four months and come out un
scathed and untarnished. The ei
tnusiasm ior iviciuniey tne norm-
nee win continue to increase as
. mi i .
election draws near, and the
campaign will be one of the most
memorable ever fought by the polit
ical parties of this country. Hub.
No one can doubt T. C, Patter
son ability to competently fill the
position of countv attornev and
there is no question but that he
will transact the business of the
office with fairness and impartiality.
He is an able attornev. a stal-
warf rpnii r1irnn rinrJ is flpconrino-
;he support of all voters who be-
ieve in transacting business in a
business manner. Mr. Patterson
will make a vigorous campaign for
the entire republican ticket and
will do a full share toward redeem-1
ing Lincoln county from the popu-
lsts.
Republican voters of the Third
commissioner district can congrat
ulate themselves that in James S.
Robbms they have a candidate for
whom tliey need make no apologies.
Mr. Robbinsis a brainy man.knows
now tne affairs ot tne county
suouiti oe conducted to Dest serve
i it . , m
he interests of the taxpayers, and
will fill the position of commis
sioner without fear or favor. Un-
ike the present commissioner from
the Third district he cannot be
bull-dozed into voting for measures
which are detrimental to the best
interests of the county. Mr. Rob-
Dins will make an agressive cam
paign, ana tnouxrn ne lias a popu-
ist majority to overcome, we think
ne will
make a winning
fiffht.
The questions is frequentlv
asked by free silver advocates, and
with an air of great triumph, whv
those who bid on the last bond
issue offered more for them with a
gold clause inserted than they were
otherwise willing to pay. The
answer is as easj' as the question
is simple. Those who have money
to invest m Donds expect, and
reasonably too, to receive in pay
ment equally as good money as
they pay for" the bonds which they
1 tti r i J
puicudss. ju earing, nowever, as
all cautious men should, that the
tree silver craze might some time
in the future secure a majority in
congress, they simply wished to
have a gold clause inserted so that
they could not be deliberately
robbed by those whose ideas of
honesty are so elastic that they
would deliberately repudiate one
half the nation's indebtedness.
Is it not possible that Senator
Teller's performance at the St.
Louis convention was due to the
fact that he is on the ragged edge
of retirement as a United States
senator, and that the possibility of
beinjr selected as the silver candi-
date for the presidency offered him
a field for notoriety at least. It the
X rays were turned upon the silver
senator some startling revelations
might result.
Amicable Briatlona Resumed.
A young man in San Francisco and a
young lady in San Jose were for a time
very.muoh in love with each, other, and
during that period each wrote the other
a two pound letter every day weighted
down to the limit with kisses and ex
pressions of love. But they quarreled a
couple of weeks ago.
"Send back my letters, " she wrote.
'Return mine first," he replied.
"If you had been a gentleman, you
would not have waited for me to de
mand their return," wrote she.
"Ethics for the use of women only
don't go," he responded.
Then there came a pause in their cor
respondence. The young man wanted
his letters very badly, for ho knew ho
had made a fool of himself in every line
of every letter. The young lady wanted
hers because any one would think she
was crazy to fall in love with suoh a
brute.
' 'Send my letters on April 5, and I'll
send yours the same date, so we will
both get them at the same time, " wrote
he.
"All right," she answered.
Each waited to see if the other would
really act in good faith and send the
letters, so neither received them.
4 'A man who has so little regard for
his word," etc., wrote she.
"A woman who would deliberately
attempt such a confidence game," etc.,
responded he.
There was another pause in the cor
respondence, during which both tried to
devise some way of effecting an ex
change. The idea of a third party oc
curred to. both, but was abandoned. The
intermediary might read the letters.
jnnairy tne young man decided, to go
after them. Ho effected the exchange,
and now the correspondence has been
resumed.
"You know, dear little sweetheart,
that I was just teasing you, " wrote he.
"Sou horrid boy, to treat me so. 3
have a notion never to love you again, "
answered she, and there will soon be
another stack of two pound letters to
exchange. San Francisco Post
Glimmerings of a Future Lite.
It is easy to suppose circumstances
which would produce the conviction in
all rational human beings that there is
a "future life, " between which and ours
there is intercommunication. Let us
take as a type a form of "apparition''
that is visible and vocally audible, bui
not tangible, that cannot produce
changes in ordinary physical objects,
that cannot be photographed, whose
audibility and visibility, whether tele
pathic or not, are at least not dependent
on our present normal senses.
Let us now suppose that immediately
after death such an apparition of the
deceased was invariably seen and heard
that it affirmed itself to be the deceased i
that it exhibited such knowledge as the
deceased possessed while inhabiting the
ordinary organism, and so on ; that it
affirmed itself to be still "living" undei
very different conditions, most of whicl
were alleged to be inexplicable to us it
terms of our present environment. Lei
us suppose that arrangements for meet
ings could be made with the apparition j
that the apparition, except perhaps foi
its occasional disappearance for hours oi
days, explained by the necessity of ful
filling certain duties in its new sphere,
behaved m general, as regards recogni
tion by living persons and its rational
and social relations with them, much as
an ordinary living person does, the main
exception being that he is not embodied
like us. Were the case like this, I make
no doubt whatever that the human race
would be possessed by a belief in th6
survival after death, which would be
regarded as barely less certain than the
belief in their present embodied exist
ence. Professor Riohard Hodgson in
Porum.
Grant's Offer to General Pickett.
We all criticised Grant for that dras
tic war measure of his by which he dis
continued tne exenange ot prisoners,
but ho certainly behaved very hand
somely to Lee and Leo's troops at Ap
pomattox And when he became presi
dent he was kind in giving places to
ex-Confederatos. Longstreet himsell
profited by Grant's friendship in that
way. Grant offered to make General
Pickett a United States marshal for one
of the Virginia districts, but Pickett
declined the office, telling Graut that
as popular as Grant was with the peo
ple, he (Grant) could not afford to make
such an appointment. This was as
much to say that Pickett could not
change his affiliations, and that for him
not to do so would bo to injure Grant
in the view of the northern public.
President Davis snoke verv londlr in
deed of General Grant in a letter pub
lished about the tune of Grant's death.
Indeed, Grant stands far higher in the
estimation of southern veterans than
any other general of the war on the
northern side. Richmond Dispatch.
Aping Things American.
Human nature is imitative, and in all
countries prone to ape customs and
things foreign. An American writer in
London declares that Americans are no
more given to aping things English
than are Englishmen to aping things
American. This writer recently found a
.London swell strutting in one of the
parks with an American corncob pipe in
his mouth. It was soon all the rage,
and the smoke of this cheap American
article has probably gone up in many a
fashionable club. One of these swells, be
ing reminded that corncobs were smoked
by common folks in America, replied
satirically, "But then, 'tis American,
doncher know!" Smoking American
cigarettes has also become a swell fad
in England, and if one is fishing for a
"Thanks, most awfully, my dear fel
low, " he has to but offer one to an Eng
lish snob, with the supplementary re
mark, "What delicious 'baccy 1" thrown
in. Boston Globe.
Has Some Idea of It.
"Can you grasp the idea of eternity?"
"Almost I loaned a fellow 10 for
three days and hejs had it for seven
years!" Chicago Record.
FIEST SHIP TO JAPAN
THE WILMINGTON SAILED FROM NEW
LONDON IN 1855.'
The Yankee Keceircd tbe Marble Heart at
Hlkdata, bnt the Owncri ef the Ship
Got a Bis Sam From the Japanese Gov
ernment For Violation of Treaty.
In the early fifties, shortly after the
first treaty wa3 inado between the Unit
ed States and Japan, a littlo group of
New Londoners got togethor and secret
ly planned a trading voyago to that far
off and at that time almost unknown
land. Tho pros and cons wcro carefully
discussed, and tho .verdict, which was
unanimous, can bo best oxpresscd in the
language of Colonel Sellora, "Thcro's
millions in it."
Accordingly tho topsail schooner Wil
mington was secured, and clothing and
provisions bought and loaded aboard tho
little craft that lay impatiently waiting
to bo off.
Every detail finished, tho hawser was
cast off on tho 2M of January, 1855,
and the Wilmington, with a saucy littlo
toss of stem, stood out toward tho race.
The Wilmington was owned by Thom
as Pitch, Captain William Brown and
Georgo Fitch, all of this city, and was
officered as follows: William Brown,
captain; Thomas Gagcr, first mate, and
George Fitch, second mate. In addition
to these wero a cook, a colored stoward
and four able seamen.
Fairly clear from tho harbor, the
course was laid for Capo Town, and sho
made the run in 58 days, remarkably
good running for any craft.- But for
this little schooner the run was consid
ered marvelous.
The rest of the story is best told by
George G. Fitch. He said: "We ran in
to Cape Town and traded for about two
weeks or ten days, and had fair success.
Then we ran up to Ange point, on the
island of Java, and traded at the Dutch
settlements for a week or so, and from
there we ran up to Batavia, which was
quite a large city, and did very well
there. After laying there for a short
time, as long as tho natives would
trade, we sailed for Hongkong.
"Tho Malays wero very friendly to
us, though there wero lots of pirates all
around there, but they never molested
us. We watched them pretty closely,
and I guess may bo that had as much to
do with it as anything else.
"We had intended to stop at the is
lands of Borneo, but we heard of an
English bark that had been there but a
short timo before and had all hands
murdered.
"We gave that place the go by and
went on up to Hongkong, as I before
stated. We ran into the last port leak
ing, and discharged cargo for repairs.
After we finished repairs, we reloaded
what wo had not sold of our cargo, and
started for our objective point, as origi
nally planned. That was Hikdata, Ja
pan. We ran into the harbor about
midday, and were immediately boarded
by a lot of Japanese officers, gesticula
ting wildly and swinging their arms
like so many crazy people.
"After awhile and after a mighty
bad lot of pigeon English had been
spoken we began to understand what
they wanted. They were forbidding us
to land, and all around were lots of
Japanese in boats, and as they looked
anything but pleasant we took up our
anchor and cruised back down to Shang
hai, China.
"The action of tho Japanese was en
tirely unlooked for on our part, as a
trading treaty had just been made be
tween them and our government, and
their refusal to allow us to land serious
ly interfered with our plans and caused
us a great loss of money. I don't know
as you know it, but ours was the first
American ship to enter a Japanese port
for trading purposes. At Shanghai we
discharged our cargo and got the most
we could for it and then chartered our
vessel for $1,200 a month to the Em
lish government for cruising purposes.
Captam Brown entered a protest
against tho actions of the Japanese au
thorities, and the officers and crew scat
tered and worked their different wavs
back to New London the best they could.
A short while after the English had the
Wilmington, sho was caught in a ty
phoon in the China seas and torn up
badly. Sho was run back into port, re
paired and finally sold to pay the bill
for the same.
Later the owners of tho Wilmington
received from the Japan government a
sum between 30,000 and 40,000 for
nonfulfillment of treaty. The voyage to
Japan was first planned and mapped
out by Captain William Brown, who
was an old whaling captam and had
been all through, the China seas It was
a failure, and we all lost a great deal of
money, Ye didn't get tho money from
the Japan government until three or
four years ago.
"It was paid tons through Richard
Latimer of Hartford, who also has a
summer house over on the other side of
the river. "
Mr. Fitch is the only living member
of that memorable voyage lef t, and may
be seen at almost any time drumming
up his hacking business at tho Union
depot, as haie and hearty as when he
left these shores to seek his fortune.
New London Day.
Baron de Hlrsch'a Death.
Baron de Hirsch died in a fit of anger
at having been swindled, according to
the Hungarian Deputy de Pazmandy,
writing to Le Figaro. He had sold his
beautiful property at St Johann ou
the March on account of its dampness
and bought the Ogyaka place near Ko
mom with the idea of turning it into a
children's hospital. After spending
$400,000 on the palace without having
goen it, he discovered that it was in a
bog at the confluence of four livers.
Almost IllalJgnant.
M. D. This is queer. Have you taken
anything that disagreed with you?
The Patient Nothing but your ad
vice of yesterday. Harlem Life.
Did Ton Ever
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your troubles? If not, get a bottle now
and get relief. This medicine has been
found to be peculiarly adapted to the
relief and cure of all female complaints,
exerting a wonderful direct influence in
giving strength and tune to the organs.
If you have loss of appetite, constipa
tion, headache, fainting spells, or are
nervous, sleepless, excitable, melancholy
or trouDiea witn dizzy spells, Jiiiectne
Bitters is the medicine you need. Health
and strength are guaranteed by its use.
Fifty cents and SI, 00 at Streitz's drJg
store,
GERMAN PAWNSHOPS.
Some -Are Manaeed by Government and
Others by Individual.
Thero is a royal pawnshop in Berlin,
there are state pawnshops, ducal pawn
shops, county pawnshops, city or muni
cipal pawnshops and private pawnshops.
The municipal and private pawnshops
may both exist in tho same town. The
rate of interest was fixed by a law
passed in 1S81 at not more than 24 per
cent oer annum on loans under 20
marks, and not over 12 per cent on
larger sums.
In Berlin tho pawnshop is a royal in
stitution, and is not allowed to make i
profit Its surplus goes to charitable
purposes. At Hanau no interest is
oharced on loans un to 8 marks if the
articles are redeemed within six days.
At Hof, in Baden, people aro allowed to
raise money, giving as security tho re
ccipt of their wages two or three weeks
ahead.
At Weimar and Hanau anonymous
pawning is tho rule. No nome3 are
asked and no addreas is given. Provision
is made at Memel for merchants depos
iting goods in time of temporary embar
rassincnt
At JJautzcu raw. wool is received in
pledge. At Brombcrg military accoutcr
meuts aro excluded from the articles
which may be pawned. Tho pawnshop
at Dctmold will not receive articles in
pawn from servants without the consent
of their masters. At Altenberg and one
or two other places no one is allowed to
pawn m-ticles of more than 100 marks'
value without tho consent of tho town
council.
Although private pawnbrokers exist
alongside tho municipal institutions, in
many towns the latter refuse to do busi
ness with tho former. Secondhand deal
ers and pawnbrokers aro especially pro
hibited from resorting to the municipal
pawnshop.
A salutary regulation against dealing
with pawn tickets is frequently enforced.
The rate of interest fluctuates a great
deal in Germany, and is highest foi
small sums loaned for short periods.
The average is about 12 per cent and on
loans issued against securities 4 or 5
per cent Berlin Letter.
Cowslip and Bachelor's Bntton.
Tho name of cuckoo flower is given
to at least 10 different plants, cowslip
to 8 or 9 and bachelor's button tc
more than 20. It is the same all ovei
the world. Sir Joseph Hooker says that
"throughout his travels he was struck
with the undue reliance placed upon na
tive names of plants, " characterizing it
as "an erroneous impression that savage
and half civilized peoples have an accu
rate knowledge of objects of natural his
tory and a uniform nomenclature for
them. " Dioscorides made the same ob
servation, and Athenaeus before him
complained that tho same plant was
called by different names in different
parts of Greece.
It is, indeed, well known that plants
have exchanged their names largely.
Tho forgetmenot i ; a good instance of
this. In all the old herbals the name is
given to the ground pine ( Ajuga chamo-
epitys) on account of its offensive smell,
and sometimes, also, to the speedwell.
Mills, in his "History of Chivalry," in
vented the legend of the drowning
knight throwing the flower to his lady
and fixed the name ou the pretty blue
flower which had previously been called
mouse ear, from its old Greek name,
muosotis, and both name and flower be
came popular, but Punch, going back
to its original associations, suggested it
as a delicate name for the onion, and in
Mexico the same name, "no me olvide, "
is given to an orchid. Clote is another
name that has been given to various
plants. In the old glossaries and herbals
it always means the great burdock, but
it was gradually attached to other large
leaved plants, aud in Dorsetshire it is
now given to tho yellow water lily.
Quarterly Keview.
Position and Sleep.
How mauy people aro in the habit oi
troubling themselves about the exact
point of the compass to which theii
heads happen to be pointed when they
lay themselves down for their nocturnal
rest? One might have gone ou suppos
ing, but for the irrepressible Sir Benja
min Richardson, that it did not in the
least matter whether tho head of one's
bedstead were turned north, south, east
or west. But Sir Benjamin is full of
theories on the subject, and now that he
has expounded them we are in a posi
tion to know that if wo "turn our face
to tho west," like Daddy in tho sen
timental ballad, wo ought to get the
soundest sleep, because in that case "the
earth's motion will tend to send the
blood to the head."
Hero is a suggested euro for insomnia
which is at least worth a trial, and in
futuro a compass should be an indis
pensaDie article ot iurmture in every
well regulated bedroom. It may sadly
disorganize not a few bedchambers to
arrange the adoption of this westward
position, which may in some cases cause
almost as much trouble as tho reverse
position has occasioned from time to
time in the ecclesiastical world. But
Sir Benjamin Richardson has spoken,
and it only remaius for those who ac
cept him as an oracle to point their bed
heads due west at all costs and without
delay. London Letter.
The Easter Eg?.
It is far back enough to trace the
mystery of the egg to the egg and dart
pattern, but when we come to study the
history of the Easter egg we engulf our
selves m tho remoteness of time. In a
poached egg what is the definition of
poaoh? Now, Easter and tho Jewish
passover occur at quite the same dates,
and tho pasch egg is the Passover egg,
and from that may come the potch,
poch, poche, potched or poached egg.
The old Aryan myth, so folklorists tell
us, linos its revival in early Uiinstian-
ity's adopting the egg as an emblem of
the resurrection. As to the pecking of
eggs, and tne appropriation or tno bro
ken one by thej&id possessing the hard
er egg, that began as soon as juvenile
greed was developed, and the small boy
of the remote period did not differ much
from tho one of today. New York
Times.
aach Culture.
Atchison, Kan. , has a professor who
teaches folk how to laugh properly. Ho
charges $4 for one lesson and a book.
Then ho goes to his home and laughs at
the dupes ho finds. There are, however,
outside of Kansas, a number of persons
whose laugh is like the buzz of a cross
cut saw wheu it strikes a hickory knot
A littlo laugh culture is a good thing.
Wilmington News.
SAYING GRACE.
Littlo Fay bad accepted an invitation '
To dine with hor littlo friend May, j
And when dinner was done,
And they went out to run.
Fay asked in an innocent way:
"What was it your papa was saying this noon
When you folded your hands, just so,
And sat up so straight.
And bowed to your plate?
I couldn't quito hear him, you know."
Said May, "Ho was just saying Thank you? to
God
For giving ua food every day."
"Oh!" said Fay, with surprise
And with wido open eyes.
"Sly papa for ours has to pay ! "
31. L- Wyatt in American Kitchen Magazine.
THE PLANET MARS.
Both Chemically and Physically It Is Tory
Hike the Earth.
Year after year when politics cease
from troubling there recurs tho question
as to'the existence of intelligent, sen
tient life on the planet Mars. The last
outcrop of speculation grew from the
discovery by M. Javelle of a luminous
projection on tho southern edge of tho
planet The light was peculiar in sev
eral respects, and among other interpre
tations it was suggested that the inhab
itants of Mars were flashing messages
to tho conjectured inhabitants of the
sister planet Elrh. Kb attempt at re
ply was made. Indeed supposing our as
tronomer royal, with our best telescope,
transported to Mars, a red riot of fire
running athwart the wholo of London
would scarce bo visible to him. The
question remains unanswered, probably
unanswerable.
There is no doubt that Mars is very
like tho earth. Its days and nights, its
summers and winters differ only in
their relative lengths from ours. It has
land and oceans, continents and islands,
mountain ranges and inland seas. Its
polar regions arc covered with snow,
and it has an atmosphere and clouds,
warm sunshine and gentle rains. The
spectroscope, that subtle analyst of the
most distant stars, gives us reason to
believe that the chemical elements fa
miliar to us here exist on Mars. The
planet, chemically and physically, is so
like the earth that, as protoplasm, the
only living material wo know, came
into existence on tho earth, there is no
great difficulty in supposing that it
came into existence on Mars. If reason
bo able to guide us, we know that pro
toplasm, at first amorphous and unin
tegrated, has been guided on this earth
by natural forces into that marvelous
series of forms and integrations we call
tho animal and vegetable kingdoms.
Why, under tho similar guiding forces
on Mars, should not protoplasm be tho
root of as fair a branching tree of living
beings and bear as fair a fruit of intel
ligent, sentient creatures? London
Saturday Review.
longer Life In the Country.
The loss cf pure air, sunshine and
other "free" goods and its effect on the
physique of city dwellers is not ade
quately compensated by hygienic re
forms of town life itself, while the in
creased number and complexity of sen
sations impose a greater strain upon the
nervous system. The nervous degenera
tion which thus accrues may perhaps be
checked in time by further hygienic im
provement of the town and by a gradual
readjustment between the nervous sys
tem and its changed environment. But
meantime- grave physical injuries arise
directly from those very economic
changes which have raised the economic
condition of the great mass of tho work
ers and have probably reduced the quan
tity of purely economic poverty. When
wo reflect that the physical injuries of
town life, attested by rates of mortality
and impaired muscular activity, fall
most heavily upon the poor, we shall
see grave reason to doubt whether the
modern conditions of industrial and so
cial life are generally favorable to the
physical vitality of the low paid worker
or the "residuum," that is to say,
whether ho gets any net vital advantage
out of the higher rate of real wages
which he obtains when he is working.
Tho conclusion applied by Mr. Charles
Booth to tho whole body of workers
that "in one way or another effective
working life, is ten years longer in tho
country than in the town" has an impor
tant significance when we rempmber
that each decennial census shows a
growing proportion of workers subject
to tho conditions of town life. Con
temporary Review.
The Monkey's Hatred of the Ti:er.
Fortunately shade was gained before
long, and a troop of monkeys indicated
the way our game had taken. These of
ten aid a tiger hunter, and tho royal
robber no doubt entertains sentiments
toward them on such occasionswhich aro
worthy of himself. They do not fall in
to ecstasies, as at the sight of a leopard,
because intelligence teaches them that
in this caso trees are safe situations.
Still they detest tigers, and as soon as
monkey sees ono he begins to "swear. "
This expression is sanctioned by com
mon use m maia, and it perlectly ex
presses the apparent tenor of their vocif
erations. Each little creature capers
with excitement and vents all the exe
crations of which it is capable. The
band accompany his steps with rovil
ings, and when he looks up it seems as
if they would go out of their senses.
Ontinor.
X Bays In Piracy.
The pitiless pirate scanned tho distant
horizon with ono of his eagle eyes.
"Ha!"
It was a short word, but there must
have been a motive for it
"A sail! A sail!"
Turning to his first mate, ho com
manded him, with a fearful oath, fo
run up tho regulation flag.
That person replied that thero wasn't
one, as the only flag they ever had was
shot away in tho last affair.
"Was tho pirate chief rattled?
Nay!
For the bold buccaueer to rush down
into his cabin, bring up his Roentgen
camera, and by means of tho X rays, to
take an instantaneous photograph of
the mate's skull and of a couple of cross
bones from his twisted leg was but the
work of a moment, and in a wink tho
sable pennant was flying from the fore-
topsail of the saucy Plankwalker.
From that instant, as is usual In such
cases, all was excitement Umcinnau
Commercial Gazette.
1 nate a fellow whom pride or ccav-
M-flicR or laziness drives into a corner
and who does nothing when he i3 thero
hut sit and growL Let inm corno out
as I do and bark. Johnson.
Entries always drive away their voung
as soon as the latter arc able to fly well.
Business is... never very good with the
eagle, and ho does not enjoy competi
tion.
ESTABLISHED JULY 1868.