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About The Wealth makers of the world. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1894-1896 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1894)
6 THE WEALTH MAKERS. October 2b, 1894 MASSES Oombinatiopi of Capital Inciting Anarchy and Fomenting Lawneasneet Money Changers Compel Patrons to Put Up Their Citizenship as Collateral. Corporations Dominate Party Machines and Sap the Foundations of Justice. Shall we Hare Honeet Government , ' (Reprinted Fromths 8vnday Bee) To the people of this commonwealth: A recent letter from an intelligent gentle- man living in a neighboring city asks, in apparent sincerity, "Why is it that the businessmen of Omaha, regardless of party, are combining to defeat the elec tion of the Populist candidate for gover nor?" The "business men" of Omaha who take the position that we, the citi sens of Nebraska, are not entitled to have pure and honest government in this state are largely the bankers and those unfortunate business men that they can oppress, and the railroads and their pass holders. These two interests are not for honest government. Itis they who breed anarchists, they who, in combining against the people tocorruptlegislatures and elect dishonest men to office, prey upon the people, and, in the results they accomplish, visit upon state and nation all the evils of anarchism. It is not an uncommon thing for these banker to keep in their offices petitions or addresses which they ask those who come to bor row their money, or to get extensions, to sign; they have them in their banks now; in other words, they insist that the un fortunate customers that they have in their power shall put up their citizenship as collateral! The banks and railroads must be taught that they are servants, and not masters; that each must stick to its legitimate business and not seek to usurp the functions of the people. Last year this country was plunged into financial distress by the bankers; while seeking to interfere with law making they started a scare that artificially created a money atringency that ended in a panic that, unexpectedly to them, nearly involved all of them in the ruin that they had planned for others. Thousands of their victima met bank ruptcy. Their constant aim is to make money scarce, andao to increase the power of their store to the hurt of the Eoor and middle classes. It is time the auks kept to their tasks, or to take away from them their powers and turn them down. They must not take the position that the people of this state cannot have honest government! LOOK HIRE, UPON THIS PICTURE. What about the railroads? Go to the Bitting of our legislature, and what do you find? You And their lobby organized to corrupt Who stood behind Mosher and his guilty crowd? Who stood be hind the corruption in the penitentiary ring? Who defends all the public plun derers and thieves? The railroad ring. They are co-partners in corrupting the public service. And banks trot in their class. They did not dare to have Mosher open his mouthl He knew too rauchl Mosher, liable, aa indicted, to sentence for an hundred years, got off with five! He was "confined" in our county jail in stead of being sent to the penitentiary and such scandals arose in that regard as we never before heard of in connection with a convict incarcerated in prison 1 The wrongs that these banks and rail roads have countenanced and encourag ed in conspiring against the common weal in Nebraska is a foul list. The true and lofty citizenship of this common wealth will not tolerate the rottenness in our public service that these banks and railroads stand for any longer. The people are slow to anger and to move. When publio affairs get so rotten that they stink then the people clean their honse. Nebraska, under railroad and bankers' rule, is so rotten that it stinks. It is time to move! The banks and railroads raise the cry to deceive us that it would hurt the credit of the state to elect a Populist. The credit of the state! The credit of a million peoplel Who made these corporations the guar dians of the public credit? Of our good namel When rottenness and corruption stand for purity and .soundness, then will they stand for honest government. They tell ts that if we elect an honest man governor it will ruin the credit and fair name of the state, and that if we electa dishonest roan governor it will preserve the credit and fair name of the state! . CHOOSE YE THIS DAT. I believe that the civilization of Ne braska is better than the civilization of Wall Street. Choose ye between the civilization of the people and the civiliza tion of money, Nebraskansl We are a million and more in number. Here we are, just as we are. We have such and such measure of honesty; such and such measure of justice; such and such mea sure of refinement; such and such sense of right. No more, no less. Are we not intelligent enough, honest enough, just enough, true enough, to rule ourselves? Shall we go abroad to find another rule of honesty to guide us; another sense of right to control us; another estimate 01 justice to be our standard? Shall we go to Wall Street for its ethics to corpora tions and trusts to tell us what are rules of right? Verily, I believe that the mil lion and a Quarter of people who live within our borders are able enough, honest enough, just enough, to make up our ko vera men tl We are entitled to honest government in Nebraska, and we are entitled to rule ourselves. For these Eriuciples we should be ready with our loodV for it is the blood which in all times past has beeen shed for these things. We must say to corporations, von are our servants and not our mast ers; to money, you are our slave and not our ruler; you shall not impose upon us public agents who will betray the people to serve you in the future to reward them for nerfidy to the people in the nut! We stand for our civilization against all comers! Either the corpora tions shall rule this state the next two years, with corruption installed upon the throne of power, or the people shall do no in the purity and simplicity of the fathers in which our foundations were laid. To the great middle class citizens of the state: You who seek neither offices, nor franchises, nor plunder; who are content to live honestly and faithfully; who love this country and its flag; are we not entitled to honest government in Ne braska? Can't we afford it? Why should we allow ourselves to be frightened by the noise and clamor of banks and rail roads turned "calamity howlers?" who ask us to pull their chestnuts out of the fire: to elect their servants to omee to destroy us forsooth, to preserve "the credit of the state" the good name of Nebraska!" TIME FOR THE GIANT TO AW AKK. To our best citizenship: It is not time you turned round and stopped this anar chy? What anarchy istbeie sohatelul, so destructive and ruinous, as that of the banks and railroads who corrupt our legislatures and defy our laws? It is this that makes the other kind of nnarchists those of the bomb and red flag! Let us down with anarchy by making the corporations, the bankers apd railroads obey the lawsl Let us not give them immunity for their crimes. Tbey must be made by you the great middle class, the great citizenship of the state to take their place as servants at the roaster's table! We, the people, are not to be furmedoutas the operatives of these corporations as we Were cattle! Their eagerness to fatten upon the substance of the people must be curbed. What is your duty in reference to the great labor ing classes, the poor and the ignorant? Will you let them see that our best citizenship is coming to the relief of the situation in that you shall decree that the laws shall be obeyed by all! Think of it, in candor and seriousness. The labor ing men today see their champions in their contests with capital under indict ment and being sent to jail for violating laws by corporations, which daily vio late the laws and defy the courts and sap the fountains of justice and of pure citizenship, and whose ministers walk the earth as they were its lords and Kingsl When the poor man violates the law they put him in jail with rats and vermin, while his family sleep on the sidewalk and eat the soles of their shoes for their breakfast, their dinner and supper. To the rich violater of law and despoiler of justice is given the freedem of the earth to his family is brought rare food and rich raiment from the east and from the west for be has his yoke upon the peo ple. This is what makes the red flag and bomb anarchists. Are our best citizens our great middle class going to follow the lead of the corporations because they appoint themselves the guardian cf our good name and credit only, to consum mate the ruin of both? or one, 1 shall help to put down anarchy, wherever found however high the place wherein it seeks refuge, or whatever its masquer ade! These corporations tell us that dire calamity will visit us by reason of a name the name of Populist! Time was when the name abolitionist was held in dis honor, but greater knowledgehath made it great. I am no Populist. Neither will 1 be a Democrat, or Republican, or any sort of partisan whatsoever, on the great Issue which ia the only issue in our state politics namely: Shall we have honest government in Nebraska? Neither the Republican nor Democratic parties offered us a ticket that honest and self respecting citizens could vote for except in so far as an honorable, capable and straightforward man was put forward in Judge Holcomb. True, the Democrats have named him, but it was by the true Democracy of the people in revolt against the bosses that have dominated the party so long in the interest of corpora tions our servants and not our masters! The kingdom is at hand; the kingdom of the people is at hand! John D. Howe. Maryland Negro Brute Lynched. Upper Marlboro, Md., Oct. 2 2. Stephen Williams, the negro who as sauted Mrs. Hardesty Wednesday night and confessed, was taken from the county jail at 3 o'clock this morning and hanged. TH8 NAMES OF CITIES. The wed Minneapolis is a com pound of an Indian word meaning cur ling water and a Greek word meaning city. Pittsburg was originally called Fort Du Quesne, then became Fort Pitt, in honor of the great British premier. Chicago was named from the Chica go river, which in turn took its name from an Indian word meaning place Of the wild leek or polecat plant St Louis was named from Louia IX., bf France. The name was orig inally given to his depot and trading Etation by Pierre Laclede Liguest Detroit took its name from the river, which was called by the French De Troit, the narrows. The settlement was originally called Fort Pontchar train. Albany is named from the second ti tle of the duke of York, afterward James II. The title is Scottish, from the Celtic word Albyn, a native name for Scotland. - New York was named from the first title of the duke of York, afterward James II,, who took the city from the Dutch in 1664. The Dutch called it New Amsterdam. Boston was originally named Tre mont, or Trimountain, from being built on three hills Beacon, Eopp and Fort hills. In 1630 the court of Charleston ordered the name changed to Boston. Cincinnati was originally called Lo aantiville. The present name was given by General St Clair as a re minder.of the Cincinnati society, an association of the officers of the revo lutionary war. General Francis Nash of the revolu tionary army gavj a name to Nash ville, Tenn. It was first called Nash borough, which was objected to on account of being hard to spell. Nash ton was suggested, but Nashville finally accepted in 1784. Baton Rouge, La., was named from the fact that for many years after the town was established a gigantic cy press the bark of which was red, grew on the site. The name means ted stick, and was bestowed by the French settlers. 0UK BOYS AND GIRLS. THE STORY OF LITTLE WOLF AND YELLOW HEAD. An Kplsode of Border Life In the South went A Novel Way of Savior Ves sel oa Fire Wisht I Could Here's a Queer (iame. Little Wolf. 'Keep close to the house, Frank." The little pioneer mother smiled fondly at the pretty boy, who was al ready brown with tan and glowing with health, though only a month had passed since they ventured into the wilderness. , "I never go far, mamma just down by the spring." She watched the sturdy little fellow with pardonable pride as he bounded away down the slope towards the spring. A cluster of laurel-bushes almost hid him from sight when he was there, but every day his mother looked down that way whenever she catch the glint of the sunshine on his tumbled curls. , . But here, in this great wilderness, what reason there might be for fear! Tbey said that all the wild animals had been cleared out of the country long ago, but she was not so sure of that And as for the Indians, who knew when they might swoop down upon the settlement, as they had done upon others? They were barely twenty miles to the north, and though they were friendly and in a reservation, why Indians were Indians in Mrs. Grey's eyes. Horses feet sunk noiselessly into the soft earth and Mrs. Grey did not know that any one was near until a long shadow fell across the floor. She was not given to screaming, but she came very near it when she saw the four mounted Indiana sitting se- 1 renely on their horses and gazing in at her. i But the brave little woman did not utter a sound. Her first thought was of her boy, and so she controlled her self. If only the could keep them from seeing the child. I , "White woman cook, we eat' said one of them gruffly, and they swung themselves down from their horses. Pale as her face was, she managed to smile on them; and hastily adding more wood to the dying Are in the fiVtva a Via aAtif nAnLi . r:y .rcr . , - -" auo Indians watched her silently, and when everything was ready they ate, with scant ceremony. The meal over, they gave a grunt that might have been construed into thanks, and mounting their horses again went on their way. But alas, their way led them past the spring. In an instant Mrs. Grey was speeding after them, stealing through the bushes and trying to keep from being seen, but intent on reach' ing the boy first There he was she could just see him jumping back and forth over the little stream that flowed from the spring. Perhaps tney wouia pass without seeing him, after all! No, she heard the grunt of surprise that came from one of them when he caught the glint of sunshine on the boy's curls, and instantly one of the horses was turned in that direction. The mother darted forward, but it was too late. The Indian had stooped j from his saddle and snatched the boy up. Mrs. Grey rushed forward with a scream of fear, but the savage turned j his horse to one side and deftly eluded ner. "Little Wolf teach Yellow Head to swim," he said, and at once set out in a sharp trot down the slope, followed by the others.' Wildly Mrs. Grey ran after them. Her home and everything in it was forgotten. She was crazed with fear. The river was not more than half a mile away and they were going straight towards it What did they intend to do with the child? She ran until her knees seemed to give way under her. The brambles caught at her dress and tore it when she pulled away from them, and still she ran and stumbled ou. The In dians were out of sight and she was following their tracks on and on and now the river was near and there on the bank were the horses. And such a scene as met the moth er's eyes. There was Little Wolf standing on the bank with Frank in his arms, and he swung the child as easily as though he had been a rabbit and flung him far out into the stream. Then Little Wolf and his compan ions leaped in and dived, and as Frank came to the surface, struggling and aputtering, the four Indians rose around him. Merrily as Tritons they sported about him, sometimes hold ing a hand to him and keeping just out of his way when he reached for it; but always taking care that he kept his head above the water. After a little while they scrambled out with him, only to toss him in again. Surely more fantastic sport was never seen. The mother watched as though turned to stone, yet she could not help seeing that the child was not frightened, and she heard his laugh ring out merrily when he had really learned to strike out boldly for himself. "Did you see that mamma?" he cried when they brought him out. "I swimmed! I sure enough swimmed! Little Wolf taught me!" With a prayer of thankfulness In her heart she took the child in her arms, while the Indians mounted their horses again and rode away. She carried the boy home, crying over him all the way. But as for him he was wild with enthusiasm. Once again Little Wolf visited the log cabin where the Greys had planted a home in the wilderness. One night I they were rouse I from sleep by , hand's shaking the rude door and a I voice that cried: 'Wake up, white woman! Little Wolf come to save Yellow Head!" i j nere was somettung in the voice that made Mr. Grey unfasten the door and let the Indian in. "Come!" he cried. "Iujuns be here soon they on the war-path coma hide with Little Wolf!". '. He snatched the sleeping child from ; his cot, wrapped a blanket about him and darted out into the night The parents could do nothing but follow to what fate they did not know.but .they believed in their guide simply Decause ne loved their child. ! As they fled through the night they saw a glare on the sky to the north ward. Little Wolf stopped and pointed , to it. I 'Red men been there farmhouse burning," he said laconically. . He led them to the top of a hill that overlooked the valley and prairie farms for miles away; and they sat there and watched fire after fire kin dled, each fire nearer than the last, and each one marking the destruction of om hom Then he made them watch the patch of moonlight through which the road passed at the foot of the hill and presently there they went a dark band of them, up towards the little home that the Greys had learned to love. t ! Soon in the deep silence they heard the wild whoop with which the sav ages surrounded the house. Then there was a pause and the sound of heavy blows the door was beaten in. i Then came a hubbub of angry voices as they discovered that they had been robbeil of their prey, and amid the shrieks and imprecations, the glare of torches began to light up the scene. lhe horfled group on the hill could see the Indians waving the torches and throwing them and then, in an instant the house was on Are. i Then something else happened. Suddenly the road the Indians had come resounded with the tread of galloping horses; and through the patch of moonlight galloped a com pany of rangers. A fusilade of gun shots roused the startled echoes, and away swept the Indians to the West with the rangers in fierce pursuit Two or three remained behind to put out the fire, and in a little while the country was wrapped in darkness and silence. Then Little Wolf put the sleeping child in bis father's arms. . he said; -now r mi. vtrit i i. vs i. And so Little Wolf wentont of their life. Philadelphia Times. v A Novel Way of Savins; a Teasel on Fire. One of the , most brilliant pieces of ocean-wrecking seamanship on record, whereby the vessel, far out in the Atlantic with her cargo on fire, was saved and brought safely to port, was performed on board the American Ship John Jay, commanded by Cap tain Samuel Jackson. When two weeka out the oargo was discovered to be on fire. The captain determined upon his course of action. He had the carpenter lowered over the rail, and instructed him to bore several holes low down by the water j line. The vessel was then put on the other tack so that she would be , heeled over on the aide where the holes had been made. The water shot through these openings, and after the ship had been allowed to sink almost to the level of huu ucuh, bub w aa pub aruuuu oa tae I other tack again, so that the holes came within three or four feet of the .1. I 1 1 A J A 1 water. Several of the sailors, with lines made fast under their arms and holding long wooden pegs and ham mers, slid down along the side, steadying themselves by ropes that had been passed under the vessel and hauled taut, so that they came alongside of the holes. The tapering pins were thrust into the openings and knocked tight then tb.3 vessel was put before the wind to get her on an even keel, and the crew turned to and pumped her out Harper'a Young People. - Wight I Could. Wisht I could go baok, a little, 'a be a boy a?ln a-jerkln' o' the minnors with a little crooked pin Nhear the fro, '3 a-gruntin' as I git 'em on the jump . 'N me skeered wuiser'n they was, when they hit the water plump Wisht I could no loafla', cross the medder smellln' sweet. 'Nfeel the sassy daisies a ttcklin' o' my feet. All the while a-noddia' 'a a smtlln' up at me Wisht I could o back 'n be like I a ter. be Wisht I could so t'morrer, n' find 'em all the same As they was tbe day I ler t' make a bigger name 'N see dear oil mother always sk eery at the gate, Like she uster wait for me. whenever I was late Wisht I could look in heaven 'n see her thare t'day. N git a tender smile o' love, like when I went away: I feel like it would help me to battle here with sin Wisht I could go back awhile, 'a be a boy aiia. Here's a Queer Game. Among Indian boys a favorite gam bling game is played with bows and arrows. A boy will shoot an arrow and all the other boys will shoot at it If their arrows hit it or stick Within a certain distance the boy who shoots first pays an arrow. If they do not come within the stated dis tance he gets an arrow. Cheating predominates here as in all other forms of Indian gambling, and many of the larger Indian boys treat the younger ones outrageously, deliber ately robbing them of their arrows by false representations, just as I have seen big white boys cheat their smaller playmates out of their mar bles. "Are you sure you took laughing gaa when your tooth was taken out?" 'Mercy, yes! I cried the whole time I was under the influence of it" HIS PE0P0SAL. Mr. Softheart had always been a ro mantic! man, and he was still. Mr. Softheart had never desired to be a bachelor. He admired the other sex too much, but although he had been in lore with four blonds, threa brunettes and five young ladies who were neither one nor the other be had never been able to pop the question point blank, but delicately insinuated it in such a way that his meaning would have been s riddle to the sphinx, and was, nat urally enough, never successful. Now, at 40, and growing extremely stout he was as romantio as ever. Mr. Softheart was very well off and not ill looking. For six months Belinda Bellows had been waiting for Mr. Softheart to pro pose and growing every day more cer tain that he positively intended to place his brownstone mansion and bank ac count zt her disposal But, though Mrs. Bellows was kind enough to allow the cook to summon her to consultations when Mr. Softheart called, and so leave the pair tete-a-tete, and although Miss Angelina was equal ly considerate, and invariably remem bered that something she wanted very particularly was up stairs when her mother went to speak to the cook, poor Mr. ooitneart could never bring himself to the point ofesaying, "Will you have me?" "I'll do it by letter, " he said to him self after long consideration. "Women, so far, have misunderstood ma I'll do it in black and white now. " And so, on the last day of March. Mr. Softheart wrote an offer of his hand and heart enveloped, sealed it and put it in his pocket before he made his evening call on his beloved Belinda Now, it so happened that that very evening Belinda herself had come to a resolution. Her twenty-fifth birthday was approaching, and she could not a ford "to waste tima " If Mr. Softheart meant anything, he should say it; if he did not, she would accept young Spooney. When Mr. Softheart rang the belL he found the field quite clear at the Bel lowses'. Miss Belinda had artfully con trived that it should be so That per fidious young person had actually pur chased tickets lor a concert; requested young Spooney, who was half mad with joy at the idea, to accompany Angelina and herself and on the evening in ques tion was smitten with a terrible attack of neuralgia; but, after all, Mr. Spooney should not have his trouble for nothing mamma and Angelina would go. Ten minutes after the departure of the trio Miss Belinda, arrayed in blue silk, was playing at such a rate on the piano that it seemed quite certain that the demon neuralgia must have vanish ed. She did not even hear Mr. Softheart's ring and started in sweet confusion on his appearanoa "I'm all alone," she said. "Mamma and Lina won't be home until ill o'clock," and the two talked together in very low voices, sitting very close to each other on twin chairs. Mr. Softheart looked and sighed and uttered romantio sentiments, but he did not pop the question. Miss Belinda did all that a modest young lady could to further this object but in vain. She did not know how should she? that at the door Mr. Softheart had said to Biddy: . "Look here, girl, pat this in Miss Belinda's room, where she will be sure to see it and I'll give you a quarter," and had presented her with the billet containing his proposal, crowned by a silver 25 cent piece. If the man did not avail himself of such a chance after six months' court ship, plain even to the servants in the kitchen, why, he meant nothing. And the unhappy, unlucky Mr. Softheart did not utter the expected words and left at 10:45. "He's a contemptible thing," said Miss Belinda. "I'll show him my heart is not broken. I'll marry Spooney. " And Belinda wept for she was bit terly mortified, and Spooney did not own a brownstone honsa Belinda wept, as we have said, and went to bed in the dark. Of course she did not see the letter in the work basket, and no one else saw it until the 1st of April dawned. Now, in their normal condition, with no love affairs on the tapis, the Bel lows were merry people, who indulged in practical jokes, and April Fool's day was always religiously kept in the fam ily- But this year the three particular Bel lows with whom we have to deal were not prepared with any practical joke, though each suspected the other. And when Angelina, sitting up in bed beside ner Eister, saw tne glittering wmte note in the workbasket she immediately made up Tier mind that it was a trick. She crept softly toward it and read the inscription "Miss Belinda Bel lows" and retired to her pillow again. 'What a flat trick!" she said to her self. "Why, Bell will guess at once unless she forgets that it is the 1st of ApriL" Then a thought struck her. She crept tiptoe out of the room and down stairs to the kitchen, where Bridget, with a smutty face, was making the fire, tak ing the letter with her. "Biddy," she said in a whisper, 'come np stairs and awaken my sister and tell her Mr. Softheart brought this this morning. " And Angelina tiptoed back to bed. But Belinda was awake this tima "She is going to try to fool me, I know," said she to herself, with her eyes shut and in a very cross mood, and awaited the denouement Biddy meanwhile had recognized the letter. And up stairs she stumped and knock ed at Belinda's door. "Misther Softheart bade me give ye this, mum, " she said. "I'll teach you to tell lies, " said Be linda. "You know Miss Angelina gave it to yon." Biddy was confounded. "He gave it to me last night miss, as true as I hope to go to heaven, " she said. "Last night?" said Angelina, with a warning glance, supposing Biddy to have forgotten her lesson. "I mane this morning," said Biddy, taking the hint "Give.me the letter, " said Belinda. Then, snatching it she tore it deliber ately into four pieces and threw them on the floor. That evening Spooney called to in quire after Miss Belinda's health and found her well enough to walk out with him, and Angelina and her mamma be gan to compare notes. Then, and not till then, the letter began to be a mys tery, and Biddy, being sent for, explain ed that to the best of her belief, Mr. Softheart gave it to her to put in Miss Belinda's room the night befora Then in dismay the ladies rummaged the dust bin and after an hour's search appeared ia the parlor with dusty dree sea and soiled hands and nine little pieces of paper. These, deftly pieced together, made a whole note, which, being pe rused, revealed a proposition. Belinda returned very late with a very conscious look upon her face and stared in astonishment at the dusty ob jects, who met her with excitement on j their countenances. It was a good while before the truth could be extracted from the interjections and ejaculations with which she was greeted, but when at last it was made manifest Belinda lis tened like, one in a tranca She had in deed been made an April fool of. Mr. Softheart had really proposed. The brownstone house had been offered to ! her, the bank stock and all that made the bachelor an eligible match, and she that very evening had accepted Spooney. It was not very complimentary to her betrothed, but she went into hysterics at once and kept them np for an hour or two. As for Mr. Softheart he never pro posed to any one again. Toledo Blada Clever Japanese Devices. The Japanese have a mode of prepar ing stencils which is better thanrours. In our method complicated figures must be divided by broad lines of paper in order to glue the paper together and make the stencil strong enough for use, ' and these bands of paper leave blanks in the design which must often be filled in by hand. The Japanese cut their stencils out of two or sometimes three thicknesses of thin but tough paper. Then between each two of these sheets they lay, crossing one another in all directions, human hairs or fibers of raw silk. These are specially laid across the open parts of the design, and when the several layers of the stencil are glued together they serve the same purpose as the bands of paper left by our stencil cutters, but 'they form no obstacle to the ' application of the color and leave no . blanks in the design. The same clover workers use rice pasta applied with the brush or with stencils, for "stopping out" in dyeing ar In painting with dyes. When the color is fixed, the rice paste can be washed away. They also obtain the op posite effect on silks of European or American manufacture. Having found that these often fade quickly, they exe cute a design on them in rice paste, then treat them with chloride of lime until they are bleached. The rice paste is then washed away, leaving the de sign in the original color. Art Ama teur. Long; Sleepers. When the heat of a tropical or semi tropical summer dries up every pool and parches the ground to such an extent that it is difficult for animals not en dowed with great powers of locomotion to obtain water, they compromise with nature by sleeping off the season of heat and scarcity. The winter sleepers are all pretty well known; but owing to the summer sleepers being for the most part inhabitants of tropical countries, far removed from the path of trained observers, we are less acquainted with the species practicing that means of es caping the heat and drought of summer. Indeed at present only one mammal, the teneo, a hedgehoglike beast of Mada gascar, is known to do so In South America and Africa various reptiles sestivata In the plains of Venezuela the alligator, the land and fresh water tortoise, the boa constrictor and several , sorts of the smaller kinds of serpent lie motionless during the hottest period of the tropical summer. But their dorman cy is not so perfect as that of some hi bernators. In Brazil, Australia and the Cape Colony lizards, frogs, tortoises and insects pass months of the rainless sea son inclosed in hard earth, and in India many species of fishes live during the hot season in a torpid condition, imbed ded in the hardened clay. Brooklyn Eagla How Carnot Was Named. The way in which the late President Carnot was named after the Persian poet Sadi, who is little read nowadays, is interesting and recalls a deal of French history. Sadi was the favorite poet of the French revolutionists of the last century, and the literature of the day is full of quotations from him. Carnot 's father of the directory was, like the rest a great admirer of Sadi and named one of his sons after him. This son was the late president's uncle, and the name was continued in the fam ily. After the death of his father the late president was simply M. Carnot Before that he had been M. Sadi Car not Chicago Tribuna His Blonder. The mayor of a small Italian com mune had to receive the king of Italy, who, with his accustomed kindliness, pressed his hand like an old friend. Totally overcome with pride and emo tion at this honor, the poor man lost not only his head, but his tongue alto gether, and stammeringly exclaimed: "Now that I have seen your majesty you can die content " Exchanga "