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FOMP AND STARVATION
When the military academy bill was
before the Senate the other day ob
jection was made to an amendment to
pay the transportation and subsistence
of the West Point military cadets dur
ing their visit to the capital on the
occasion of the inauguration of Mr
McKinley Mr Gray of Delaware
opposed the amendment and in the
debate which followed Senator Allen
of Nebraska and Stewart of Nevada
made some sharp thrusts at the extrav
agant preparations being made for in
ducting Mr McKinley into olfiee with
great pomp and display
The cost of the inauguration parade
and festivities will run into millions
The ceremony of taking the oath of
office will make Mr McKinley the
President of the United States and this
could be done without any gorgeous
pomp or the expenditure of millions
Moreover such a ceremony would be
more in keeping with the simplicity
oa republic whereas the preparations
HpS under way smack more of the
furore made over the coronation of the
Czar than they do of the customs of
the freest country on the face of the
earth
From every large city in the land
and from thousands of small towns and
villages comes the cry for relief Thou
sands are perishing from the lack of
food and fuel The homeless are driv
en into crime by the pangs of hunger
Will a gorgeous pageant at Washing
ton on March 4 benefit any oue of
these unfortunates Those who sup
port the pomp and ceremony which
will attend the coming inauguration
will claim that most of the money will
come out of the pockets of the mili
tary and political organizations which
would be in the grand parade 1iue
but this does not excuse a frivolous
waste of millions when everywhere
over this broad land comes the cry of
suffering If the clubs and other or
ganizations arranging to visit Wash
ington on March 4 would abandon the
trip and devote one tenth of the pro
posed expenditure to the cause of prac
tical charity the keen misery of many
thousands would be lessened and the
finger of the entire earth would no
longer point to starvation in a land
which prides itself upon its plenty and
glories in its charities
The waste of money in inauguration
furore and pomp in times like these
is a crime Every dollar paid out for
a needless and lavish display means
just so much money turned away from
the7 direction of charity Millions for
kauseless pageant while all around us
thousands are starving is
can unchristian and unnatural The
voice of the pulpit has been raised
against many lesser evils let it now
thunder forth in the interest of Ameri
can humanity Philadelphia Item
Alger Is Attacked
It is whispered about Washington
that there may be serious opposition to
the confirmation of General Alger as
Secretary of War in President McKin
leys cabinet It has been known among
the leading Republicans that General
Algers war record has been alluded to
frequently as one which would put him
on the defensive should he ever be
come the subject of consideration in
executive session General Algers
friends are now privately circulating a
reply to the charges made against him
in the New York Sun in 1S92 The
Suns editorial printed Feb 11 1S92
is as follows
What is this about General Russell
A Alger of Michigan as a Republican
candidate for the Presidency on a
of patriotism and pensions The
various biographies of General Alger
dwell more in detail upon the begin
ning of his military service than on the
end He was major of the Second
Regiment cavalry General Sheridans
old regiment On Oct 16 1S62 he was
promoted to be lieutenant colonel of
the Sixth Michigan cavalry Subse
quently he was transferred to the Fifth
Michigan cavalry and became its col
onel
In September 1SG4 Colonel Alger
and his regiment were in the Shenan
doah valley taking part in Sheridans
great campaign against Jubal Early
About the first of that month Colonel
Alger applied for ten days leave of
absence The application was disap
proved and returned by his division
commander General Wesley Merritt
because of the active operations then
in progress Upon the return of his ap
plication disapproved Colonel Alger left
his Tegiment and went to Washington
without leave There he procured a
detail on court martial duty in that
city
This fact was reported to General
Merritt who reported in turn to Gen
eral Sheridan who brought the matter
to the attention of the war department
recommending that Colonel Alger be
dishonorably discharged from the army
for being absent Avithout leave In
consequence of that recommendation
from Philip H Sheridan Colonel Rus
sell A Alger was discharged from the
service on Sept 30 1SG4
The record does not read that he
was dishonorably discharged The
punishment recommended by General
Sheridan was softened and he was
merely discharged The incident ter
minated his military career After the
war was over he procured in some way
the brevet of brigadier general and ma
jor general of volunteers
These facts are not stated in the
current biographical sketches relating
I to General Russell Absent Alger
According to General Algers friends
he was not aware of this record nor
the recommendations for his dismissal
until twenty four years later It is also
asserted that General Alger was the
victim of Custers jealousy because of
the formers rapid advancement in
rank
Siijrnr Tniats Crime Confessed
Probably to Senator Lexows sur
prise and undoubtedly to his own
chagrin Henry O Havemeyer Presi
dent of the sugar trust made an admis
sion while on the witness stand before
the investigating committee on Friday
which may have very serious results
for all the members of the combination
whose chief confesses that it controls
four fifths of what has become one of
the prime necessities of life
Evidently Mr Havemeyer was rat
tled or he was overmastered bj that
autocratic feeling which seizes on all
men of ability who have been permit
ted to have their own way too much in
the world and which in incautious mo
ments leads them to boast of their own
power When Lexow asked him the
one question that was really of conse
quence the sugar magnate lest his cun
ning in order doubtless to impress his
hearers with his own importance and
with the greatness of the combination
which he represented
The question was based on the testi
mony given by Mr Havemeyer before
a United States Senate Committee in
1894 when he confessed that the trust
was able to control the price of re
fined sugar up to the importing point
and actually did so and that the com
bination was formed for the puipose of
regulating both the output and the
selling price
The President of the sugar trust did
not want to answer plainly as to the
truth or falsity of what he said then
and did some fencing that seemed to
irritate him and when Lexow sudden
ly asked this
Is it not a fact that you do actually
control the price and output to day
he leaned back in his chair and replied
emphatically and defiantly
Yes sir that is undoubtedly the
fact
Section 1G8 paragraph 6 of the Penal
Code of the State of New York declares
this a conspiracy which is punishable
as a misdemeanor
To commit any act injurious to
trade or commerce or for
the perversion or obstruction of jus
tice or of the due administration of the
laws
Regulating the output of a necessary
article of life and fixing its price for all
the purchasers is undoubtedly an act
injurious to trade and commerce and
likewise an obstruction of justice
Ought not the officers of the sugar
trust be put in the criminal dock on the
sworn testimony of their own chief-
New York News
The Old Old Story
When the new Congress is convened
in extra session by President McKin
ley next month a tariff bill on the lines
of the one bearing his name and which
was voted down at the polls in two suc
cessive national elections will be ready
for adoption The Republican mem
bers of the present House are hard at
work on it and they expect to have it
In shape for presentation very shortly
after March 4 In some respects this
new tariff is going to outdo the former
high protective one which made the
President elect famous The duty on
wool on which the issue was largely
fought out in 1S92 and 1S94 is to be
Increased very considerably from what
it was in the McKinley act of 1890
Notable among the features of the
tariff law that is to be is the care taken
of the agriculturists generally The
Republican leaders have evidently con
cluded to coddle the farmers as they
never were coddled before in any meas
ure of this sort Those along the Cana
dian border are to be protected by
the imposition of extravagantly high
duties on almost everything that they
raise including donkeys and chestnuts
Everything that has been learned
about this new tariff bill confirms the
prediction that it will discriminate as
did the former McKinley law against
the poor and in favor of the rich The
raw material that goes into the clothes
that the masses wear will have to pay
double triple and quadruple what it
pays now under the Wilson act
Egff Consumption
A Parisian scientist asserts that he
has compiled trustworthy statistics
concerning the number of eggs annual
ly consumed by the nations of Europe
According to his tables the greatest
egg eating countries are England and
Germany In 1S95 England imported
1250000000 eggs for which was paid
about 20000000 The eggs came prin
cipally from France During the same
year Germany imported 20000000
pounds of eggs also representing about
20000000 Most of these eggs came
from Russia and Austria Hungary Of
all European countries Russia has made
the greatest advance in exportation In
1S90 she exported only 11000000 but in
1S93 the number rose to 1230000000
representing a value of 10200000 A
significant fact in connection with these
statistics is that in those countries
which are the greatest exporters of eggs
the omelet is the favorite dish
Where Friendship Ceases
Cynthia Do you think Frank will
love me when I am old Maud
MaudWell theres one thing dear
youll soon know Pick-Me-Up
THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE
Set on a rounding hilltop
And weather stained and gray
The little mountain school house
Looks down on the lonesome way
No other dwelling is near it
Tis perched up there hy itself
Like some old forgotten chapel
High on a rocky shelf
In at the cobwebbed windows
I peered and seemed to see
The face of a sweet girl teacher
Smiling back at me
There was her desk in the middle
With benches grouped an ear
Which fancy peopled with children
Grown up this many a ywr
Rosy and sturdy children
Trudging there rain or shine
Eager to be in their places
On the very stroke of nine
Their dinners packed in baskets
Turnover pie and cake
The homely toothsome dainties
Old fashioned mothers could make
Where did the little ones come from
Fields green with aftermath
Sleep in the autumn sunshine
And a narrow tangled path
Creeping through brier and brushwood
Leads down the familiar way
But where did the children come from
To this school of yesterday
Oh brown and freckled laddie
And lass of the apple cheek
The homes that sent you hither
Are few and far to seek
But you climbed these steeps like squir
rels
That leap from bough to bough
Nor cared for cloud or tempest
Nor minded the deep soft snow
Blithe of heart and of footstep
You merrily took the road
Life yet had brought no shadows
Cure yet had heaped no load
And safe beneath lowly roof trees
You said your prayers at night
And glad as the birds in the orchard
Rose up with the morning light
Gone is the fair young teacher
The scholars come no more
With shout and song to greet her
As once at the swinging door
There are gray haired men and women
Who belonged to that childish band
With troops of their own around them
In this sunny mountain land
The old school stands deserted
Alone on the hill by itself
Much like an outworn chapel
That clings to a rocky shelf
nd the sentinel pines around it
In solemn beauty keep
Their watch from the flush of the dawn
ing
Till the grand hills fall asleep
-Margaret E Sangster in the
an
Dont Be carcastic
In connection with the work of our
Teachers Bureau I have within a few
weeks had occasion to make inquiries
concerning the work and the success of
a good many teachers In several in
stances these inquiries were made con
cerning people of whom I knew
something already in not a
few cases I know a good
deal concerning the teachers per
sonality ability preparation and con
scientiousness In more instances than
one I have been pained almost shock
ed to receive a reply something like
this Oh Miss is a good woman
she is bright and faithful but the pupils
do not like her she is too sarcastic
This has set me to thinking and it
ought to set every one who reads these
words to thinking real earnest per
sonal thinking The old inquiry Is it
I is in order So use the expressive
American phrase it doesnt pay for a
teacher to spoil or to mar the salutary
influence of ability and earnest labor by
indulgence in this unworthy practice
If you will think carefully you will see
that sarcasm is always the outcome of
some unworthy personal feeling vexa
tion or self esteem or a desire to re
taliate I can think of only one con
dition that would justify its use in
school and then only sparingly and in
perfect good nature I think it some
times happens that a conceited student
one afliicted severely with cranial en
largement can have his disease best
treated by a keen good natured thrust
of sarcasm
Look at the origin of the word
casm and reflect whether the thing is
not true to the original sense of the
word The most helpful thing in a
teachers work is genuine sympathy be
tween teacher and pupil Is this feel
ing possible if the teacher indulges free
ly in sarcasm E C H in Public
School Journal
Teachinsr Reading
The work of the teacher of reading
may be summed up under these three
headings 1 Teaching the pupil how
to read 2 Teaching him what to read
3 Training him to habits of correct
reading The work of teaching how to
read may be divided into two parts 1
Teaching the pupil how to gather
thought 2 Teaching him how to ex
press thought Though a pupil is able
to make out quite readily the words
placed before him he is still often un
able to get the meaning of a sentence
through not being able to combine the
ideas suggested by these words He
experiences the same difficulty that
older people have in listening to one
who speaks too slowly The child is
unable to think slowly After four or
five weeks in word mastery he should
have some exercise in reading groups of
words as a tall oak tree a high
fence a man and his dog Later on
he can read sentences W A Mcln
tvre
Some Simple Devices
The work in any school which is the
most far reaching is the reading work
The teacher combines her reading and
nature work It is always a language
lesson Now to determine one of the
most useful devices that is one of the
most general all purpose materials
to have on hand it will be worth while
to examine some ot tne alusl offered
for the reading work
There are charts that are tofbe used
during the reading recitation There
are many advantages to be derived
from this chart but many of the most
successful primary teachers prefer to
make the lessons themselves which
they wish to use Then all the material
the children bring to school all the
holidays and circuses can be utilized
and the interest in the reading lesson
be increased Probably the most use
ful material is made by having the let
ters of the alphabet printed on card
board and cut so there is but one letter
on a card We have our alphabets
painted so the small letter is on one
side of the card and the corresponding
capital on the other There are three
es two each of the as os and us and
one each of the consonants of the alpha
bet The letters should be good plain
type about a half inch long Eight or
ten of these alphabets put into an ordi
nnry spool box which is thrown away
at the diy goods stores are prepared
for each child This kind of work is
suitable for the First Reader children
so it does not require very many
The busy work with the very small
est pupils may consist in having the
children make lessons from the read
ers or from the board on their desks
each using the letters from the box
given him A little later the teacher
may put stories on the board leaving
blanks to be filled which the children
make on their desks putting in the
proper words Still later when they
have learned to spell or when they
can hunt up words which they cant
spell they can make their own stories
about the flower the bird or the squir
rel There are teachers who object
to having the children do any of this
purely copy work in making their sto
ries exactly like those of the book or
on the board Of course such work as
this is most elementary and just as
soon as the children can spell the neces
sary words they should be encouraged
to give stories of their own When
they put these stories into letters they
frequently wish to use words they can
not spell It is hardly advisable for
them to spell the words as they may
think them likely to be It is better for
them to leave blanks and read the sto
ries just as if the words were really
there If a word is misspelled for a
few times it is a very hard matter to
correct Sarah E Tarney Campbell in
Inland Educator
The Art of Not Hearing
The art of not hearing should be
learned by all There are so many
things which it is painful to hear very
many which if heard will disturb the
temper corrupt simplicity and mod
esty detract from contentment and
happiness If a man falls into a violent
passion and calls all manner of names
at the first words we should shut our
ears and hear no more If in a quiet
voyage of life we find ourselves caught
in one of those domestic whirlwinds of
scolding we should shut our ears as a
sailor would furl his sail and making
all tight scud before the gale If a hot
restless man begins to inflame our feel
ings we should consider what mischief
the fiery sparks may do in our maga
zine below where our temper is kept
and instantly close the door If all the
petty things said of a man by heedless
and ill natured idlers were brought
home to him he would become a mere
walking pincushion stuck full of sharp
remarks If we would be happy when
among good men we should open our
ears when among bad men shut them
It is not worth while to hear what our
neighbors say about our children what
our rivals say about our business our
dress or our affairs New York Led
ger
The French Convention
The old French convention lasted
three years one month and four days
It had 749 members and passed 11 1110 de
crees Of its 749 members 58 were guil
lotined Duray June 20 1793 being the
first and Bishop Huguet the last Octo
ber 5 1795 S were assassinated and
2 shot 14 committed suicide o died of
grief G perished in abject misery 3
died on the highway to be eaten by
dogs 1 Armanville the last wearer of
the red cap perished in a drunken fit
4 died mad 2 were killed in the army
1 was carried away by the Prussians
and never heard of 3 died suddenly 1
expired in prison 1 fell dead of joy on
learning that Bonaparte had disem
barked at Frejus 138 perished in exile
or in penal settlements 23 were never
heard of from the date of the eighteenth
Brumalre 65 vanished after the coro
nation of Napoleon and 25 died in pov
erty and obscurity The convention
had G3 presiding officers of whom IS
were guillotined and 8 transported 22
were outlawed and G sentenced to im
prisonment for life 4 died in mad
houses and 3 committed suicide
A Cruel Gibe
Samuel Rogers the poet was a man
it is said generous of his money but
whose tongue dropped gall
He once visited Paris with his friend
Luttrell a man whom he and every
body else loved and respected One
day a stranger beckoned to Luttrell
on the street and spoke to him apart
When he returned he said
That fellow knew me he asked me
if my name was Luttrell
And was it said Rogers quietlv
Their companions were astonished
to see Luttrell turn pale at fhis simple
question as if he had been struck a
blow There was they discovered
some disgrace attached io his birth
and he had been adopted by a man
who gave him his name
Rogers knew and admired his friends
honorable life but he could not denj
himself the malicious pleasure of this
cruel gibe It hurt Luttrell but for a
moment but published in Rogers
memoirs will always remain to tell of
the poets disloyal malignity
The name wheat is derived from a
Saxon word Hwaete signifying
white because the flour f roca this grain
is lighter in color than that from any
other
jh
In response to an invitation from
Robert Louis Stevenson to visit him
dn Samoa Conan Doyle asked the great
romancer how one got there Oh
said Stevenson you go to America
cross the continent to San Francisco
and then its the second turning to the
left
Bonant the artist sitting next to M
Maspero at a great dinner one night
said to him Maspero you who are
so near sighted tell me how does M
away down there at the foot of the
table appear to you Well replied
M Maspero I see a white spot which
I believe is his shirt front and a flesh
colored spot which I know is his face
Ah cried Bonnat how I wish my
pupils could see things in that way
A sporting writer once included in
his sporting notes an item saying that
the young salmon are beginning to
run It appeared in print The young
salmon are beginning to swim When
the writer asked for an explanation
the proof reader cheerily remarked
Thats all right You had that mixed
up with your turf stuff but I straight
ened it out for you But why didnt
you let it go as I wrote it I
couldnt was the reply who ever
heard of a fish running
To a young lady who declared that
Kentucky produced the handsomest
women the fastest horses and the best
whisky on earth General Grant once
made reply I unequivocally indorse
the first part of your statement As to
the horses I admit that also for I own
some of them myself and I am consid
ered a good judge of horseflesh But ae
to the whisky you will pardon me if I
doubt your position Whisky in order
to be good must be old and your Ken
tucky men drink it up so fast that it
doesnt have time to get old
Near Washington Square in New
York there is housed a small club of
Bohemians the walls of whose quar
ters are modestly covered with tinted
burlap On these walls all visitors of
note are expected to write their names
and a sentiment original to the occa
sion It is told that William Djan
Howells dropped in one day looked
around and wrote I cant think of
a thing William Dean Howells A
jester happened by and scrawled be
low Autobiography of William Dean
Howells
Lord Beaconsfield was the only man
who ever succeeded in getting the
Prince of Wales to piay for small
stakes The Prince was on a visit to
Hughenden and after dinner the usu
al game was suggested When the
stakes were announced Dizzy turn
ed pale He was a comparatively poor
man and feared to risk so muh mon
ej A bright idea occurred to him
It was just after the queen had been
crowned Empress of India and Diz
zy suggested Wouldnt it be more
suitable to make it crown points
The Prince was so pleased with the
mot that he consented
When the Rev David Short was pas
tor of the Penn Avenue Baptist Church
at Seranton he was zealous in the work
of seeuring new members One man
with whom he had labored exhaustive
ly was finally persuaded as to his
Christian duty but could not make up
his mind whether to become a Baptist
or a Methodist Finally he hit upon a
compromise and wrote to the doctor
that he had decided to unite with the
Methodists but would like to be bap
tized in the Baptist Church by immer
sion This so exasperated the good doc
tor that he sent the following reply I
regret that I can not accommodateyou
but this church does not take in wash
ing
White f Kentucky while Speaker of
the House in the Twenty seventh Con
gress was so pressed with business
that when he had to deliver his vale
dictory he got one of these men who
are always on hand to make a little
money to write his address It was
handed him just a little while before
the time he had to deliver it and he put
it into his pocket without reading it
When the time came he rose and slow
ly unfolding the manuscript read the
address It was very brilliant but it
was Aaron Burrs famous- valedictory
to the Senate The Speaker never re
covered from the shock He went home
was taken ill and it was supposed he
killed himself for shame
Rossini was one of the most indolent
of men and In his younger days used
to do most of his composing in bed
Onee he had almost completed a trio
when the sheet fell out of his hand and
went under the bed He could not
reach it and rather than get up he
wrote another The lazy man if he
works at all does so by spurts and
Rossini working against time wrote
The Barber of Seville in thirteen
days When Donizetti was told of this
he remarked It is vesy possible he is
so lazyl The overture to the Gazza
Ladra was written under cu7ious cir
cumstances On the very day of the
first performance of the opera not a
note of the overture was wdtten and
care she had received roncluding rnt
the sorrowful regret lhat I shall uot
be able to return to your service as 3
cannot engage myself to one who Is not
a lady and of course no lady would
have nursed and waited upon a servant
as you have done in my case
The late George du Maurier the artist
and author had a double in Laurence
Alma Tadema R A A certain young
lady however prided herself that she
had no difficulty in determining wjiicb
was which On one occasion finding
herself seated next to Mr du MaurJei
at dinner she remarked I cannot un
derstand how any one can mistake you
for Mr Tadema To me the likeness is
verj slight Presently she added By
the way I have a photograph f you
Do be so good as to put your autograph
to it Mi- du Maurier assenting gra
ciously the photograph was afterward
produced He looked at it for a mo
ment sighed and then very gently laid
it on the table That he remarked
-is Mr Alma Tademas portrait
Senator Coke of Texas was- once
pitted in some kind of race against a
man named Cole who was an eloquent
speaker and was getting rather the
better of him The Coke party gave a
big barbecue but their best speaker
could not be on hand The committee
discovered that no talent was avail
able except a rough-and-tumble fel
low who had been a coal miner in West
Virginia He consented when called
on and the committee was in fear and
trembling wondering what he would
do But they didnt fear and tremble
long Feller citizens said the speak
er I am here to day to talk to you
about Coke and Cole You know me
and you know I know what Im talk
ing about and I want to ask you if you
know the difference between Coke and
Cole But It aint necessary every
man of you knows that the difference
between them is the gas that is in the
Cole
A Chicago man who had been trolling
for muskellunge was returning across
the fields to the farm house where he
was stopping when he met with a re
markable adventure He thus relates
it in the Chicago Times Herald I
hadnt gone far when I heard a savago
growl behind me and the next minute
T was- clambering into the branches of
a convenient tree with a big bull dog
snapping at my heels As I swung my
self up out of reac I struck trantic
ally at the brute with my trolling
spoon One of the heavy hooks caught
him fairly in the nose and in a mo
ment he began pawing and thrashing
about in a wild endeavor to get loose
It took an hour to land him He would
run out a couple of hundred feet dive
Into the deep clover and sulk and
growl Then I would haul him in
hand over hand with a hitch around
a convenient limb Whenever I slack
enedthe line away he would go again
until I brought him up with a sharp t
turn It was great sport Talk about
fishing Landinga twenty pound mus
kellunge is taipe and uninteresting
when compared with landing a thirty
pound bull dog At the end of an hour
he lay down at the foot of the tree
and r couldnt induce him to fight I
tiedlthe line tightly about a limb jump
ed out of his- reach and ran for the
nearest fence But there was -no nec
essity for hurry the dog stayed I told
a farmers boy Imet shortly afterward
where he could find his dog I guesshe
deservedtOkeep iny trolling outfit for
recovering it
While ai well-to-do Parisian was -returning
recently by train from Havre
during the first hour bis only fellow--passenger
in the compartment was ai
young man who made himself very
agreeable Then others got in and talkk
was general Finally the Parisian
Presently the young man
turning to the other passengers with
a wink toward1 the sleeping man said
inaa undertone Illplay a goodtfoke on
my uncle and he unfastened the strap
by which a small traveling bag was
slung over the shoulder of the sleeper
Ill change into the next compartment
at the first stop and my uncle will wtke
up and think he has been robbed It
will be fun to see his face and I cam
watch through the little glass in the
partition Dont give it away The
others grinned appreciatively and the
young man presently slipped out withi v
the bag Soon after the owner of the
bag woke up He missed his poucfcifrom
the strap and jumped up in great es
citment oelaiming Ive beeni rob
bed The response of his fellowvpas
sengers was a roar of laughter Tbis
addedanger to the victims excitement
and he stormed furiously Finally one
of the passengers assured- the- angry
man that his bag was all rigilt his
nephew had it in the nextompactment
My- nephew shouted the bewildered
man haventany nephew I never
had a isephew I dontjknow anything
about any nephew Then it was the
turn o the othor passengers-to-be dum
founded But The thjef got away and
there- were several tiousaadi firincs in
the bag
Toilet Note
-Miss PowlerpufE must- hare a veyc
highly colored imagination said thet
young macawith the chsysaathemum iij
Ms coat
Why asked the odjer one
ornTilTlTTi
the getting hold of Rossini
manager the p a ise she spends so much tl me In
confined him in upper loft of La
Scala setting four scene-shifters- og
suard over him These took the sheets
as they were filled and tLrew them out
of the window to the copyists beneath
Here is an amusing instance of Brit
ish class formality The ladys maid
of Mrs Benevolent was stricken down
with tyhus fever and Mrs Benevolent
having a great liking for the maid de-
I clared she would nurse the girl herself
This she did through a long illness
and after her complete restoration to
health the maid was asked to resmme
her duties Her answer was an expres
sion of gratitude for the kindoess and
making
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up her mind Detroi Free
Nothing Lacking
Citizen Great place this town of
OUT3 aint it Travelers ail seem to
like it
Visitor enthusiastically I should
say so Why youve got eighteen lines
of railroad that a man can get away
from it on Boston Traveler
A theological souvenir spoon is the
latest Boston fad The bowl contains
a mold of Trinity Church and on the
erown of the handle is the head of thft
late Bishop Brooks
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