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St Louis claims to Have a mcycie
rider who is blind A groat many bi
cyclists ride just that way
An Eastern contemporary asserts
that the falling off in saloons is large
ly due to the influence of the bicycle
And vice versa of course
The Washington Post has discovered
that a few shirt waisted girls do not
make a summer but they can easily
keep a divorce court busy
Several esteemed contemporaries re
cently have asserted that Bob Fitzsim
anons will become an actor Non
sense He will go upon the stage thaf s
all
Hon Flab Izzard of Forest City
Ark has started for Washington to
bag a postoffice appointment That
name clearly entitles him to some
thing
It is understood that the next number
of the Old Womans Home Journal will
contain an article by A Hamid of
Constantinople on How to Remove
Greece Spots
A Boston writer says that the only
thing known about angels is that there
are none How that fellows eyes
would be opened if he were to saunter
along the streets in this town some af
ternoon
The Holland submarine boat is said
to be a success But this government
never has experienced any difficulty in
getting together a navy which will go
under water it is much harder to keep
navy afloat
Mr Langtry insists that he has not
teen divorced no matter whether his
wife has been divorced or not Per
haps Mrs Langtry merely secured a di
vorce for herself to be used In case of
emergency like a fire escape
Laureate Austin has written a jubilee
ode in which referring to the Queen
he says Long may she linger That1
-word linger may have a different
significance in England from what it
has here but if not it is hardly a gra
cious term to apply to the old lady
The man who wrecks a train clearly
intends murder If he does it he should
suffer the death penalty for it Even if
lie fails he should suffer that penalty
as a matter of simple justice and for
the restraint of the most reckless form
of crime except arson known to mod
ern times
In New York the other day a young
fellow cut off the nose of a music hall
singer and slashed her husband with
a razor When he was arrested a let
ter was found in his pocket recommend
ing him as a young man of quiet
tastes and steady habits Wonder
what he would have done if he had not
been a quiet fellow
Chicago Times Herald Out in Iowa
the other day some f ellow tried to rob
a bank in the old fashioned way and
failed completely It served them
right too In this age of progress
when a pretty typewriter can be hired
for 15 a week any one who uses dy
namite drills and revolvers deserves
to fail
Home is the chief school of human
virtue Its responsibilities joys sor
rows smiles tears hopes and solici
tudes form the chief interests of hu
man life Go where a man may home
is the center to which his heart turns
The thought of his home nerves his
arm and lightens his toil For that his
lieart yearns when he is afar off There
lie gathers up his best treasures
Medical science in Europe has disco v
ered that certain forms of bronchial
pneumonia and of tuberculosis are di
rectly communicable by means of par
rots the bird being subject to both
these diseases In Genoa eight persons
out of fourteen stricken with the bron
chial pneumonia died and in every in
stance the disease was traced to sk lr
parrots in the stricken families The
ailment is called psittacosis and is he
rodltary in the birds
The incident in the Spanish Cortes in
which the Duke of Tetuan boxed the
ear- of Senator Comas and which was
followed by the former resigning from
the Ministry now has a sequel in the
-withdrawal of the resignation It is
Also said that no duel will follow the
affair having been arranged The
Spanish sense of honor is certainly not
what it once was or this commonplace
ending would be impossible But then
again a liberal Senator may consider
it a privilege to have his eirs boxed
Ty a duke
The national Womans Christian
Temperance Union is taking steps with
the aid of the postal authorities to put
a stop to the practice of renting post
office boxes to children without the
consent of the parents It is said that
this practice has gained quite a head
way in large cities and that the results
are sometimes for evil It would bs
an exceptional condition of affairs
-which would justify the renting of a
lox to a minor and the department
would perform a great service if it com
municated with the parents before
granting this privilege xo their chil
dren
One would have thought that the sons
of a royal house descended from a na
tion with so glorious a record as Den
mark and reigning over a country like
Greece would Jiave esteemed it a privi
lege to die tipon the field leading their
troops rather than to retreat even be
fore a superior force But the sons of
King George are evidently not made of
that stuff Not only has Constantino
behaved with poltroonry but his broth
er Nicholas if reports do not belie
him also acted with singular cowar
dice During the fight at Dokomis he
remained in a house and watched the
conflict from a window and when his
troops were at last forced to retreat he
led them as usual in a carriage The
house of Denmark may not be descend
ed from vikings but it would seem as
if tradition might count for something
with its princes If Leonidas in the
shades can communicate with any of
those old northmen they must weep
bitter tears
A St Louis man with a picturesque
name who is at the head of a million
aire dry goods firm in that city and Is
also president of the Sunday School
Teachers Union there has been ar
rested in New York on the charge of
trying to smuggle diamonds When he
landed from the steamer S000 wTorth
of the gems were found concealed in a
belt around his waist He indignantly
denies that he intended to smuggle and
says that the diamonds were intended
as presents for the members of thej
Sunday School Teachers Union He
and a companion had declared tliati
they had but 25 worth of dutiable
goods on their persons His partner art
home says that someone will pay dear
ly for the outrage meaning the arrest
and that if the arrested man had dutia
ble goods he was ignorant of that fact
Here is a man wrho imports many thou
sands of dollars worth of goods every
rear and who probably knows the
schedule almost by heart trying to
evade the law and setting up the plea
of ignorance when detected What sort
of an example is this for a respected
man to give the public What would he
do to one of his clerks whom he caught
taking goods from the store at less
than the regular rate or below cost
What will he say to the members of
the Sunday School Teachers Union
The most practical work of providing
cheap and good city and suburban
homes for people of moderate means is
that undertaken by the City and Sub
urban Home Company of New York
City the annual report of which has
just been made This organization
which is a member of the united char
ities of the metropolis is backed by
some of the largest capitalists of the
place It is not a philanthropic insti
tution but proposes to provide these
homes at rates at once satisfactory to
the workmen and to the man who in
vests his money It is no visionary
Utopian scheme but one which has
been thought out by practical business
men assisted by the experience of sim
ilar plans abroad The stock of the
company or at least the first issue of
it amounting to 1000000 has all been
placed since December of last year
and it is good to know that the greater
part of it has been taken by small in
vestors The shares are 10 each and
out of the 510 shareholders 300 own
fifty shares or less each and 1S5 own
ten shares or less Three building
sites have already been purchased and
work has been begun upon one of
these It will contain 375 apartments
of either two three or four rooms each
and five stores These homes will be
sold to people of moderate Incomes upon
the monthly payment plan an interest
rate of G per cent being charged on
deferred payments and a life insur
ance the whole amounting to a little
more than is charged for ordinary rent
als for similar places The second site
Is also in the city but the third is in the
suburbs The apartments will be mod
ern in every respect and will be con
structed with especial relation to the
best sanitary conditions of city life It
will be but -a short time before other
cities will have to tike up this problem
and the experience of New York will
therefore be watched with more than
the usual interest
An Eccentric Novelty
The early muffs were small and made
of satin or velvet lined with fur the
leopard skin came in with Queen Anne
There is a print of an Elizabethan lady
with a small muff hanging from her
girdle before this date it was probably
looked upon as an eccentric novelty
at least in England A full century be
fore a Venetian grande dame had car
ried her lapdog in her muff a fashion
that continued for a long season and
found its way into France In Paris
muffs were made for this express pur
pose French sumptuary laws conde
scended to notice such minor details as
the color of a muff The bourgeois
was obliged to restrict himself to som
ber black the noble might please him
self Under Louis XIV therefore the
manchon of the courtier was brilliant
with gold lace and embroidered rib
bons
Not the Same Thing-
A man who is fortunate enough to
grow old slowly is apt to be disagree
ably surprised when he encounters any
of his less fortunate friends It is re
lated of Emile Augier a French au
thor whose statue was recently dedi
cated in Paris that on a public occa
sion an old bent broken man seized
his hand and exclaimed Why how
are you old fellow Augier who
showed very little effect of advancing
years seemed somewhat taken aback
Why dont you know me old boy
We were classmates Augier greeted
him affectionately and then went on
remarking to other friends who were
present Well I knew that man was
just my age but I didnt dream I was
his
We have always had an idea that
some day scientists will discover thai
the gooseberry has a crop in its stom
ach full of sand and stones like the
chicken
LABOR ON THE FREE LIST
Oneof the best speeches made in the
house while the Dingley bill was being
discussed was made by John C Bell of
Colorado With facts which are indis
putable and logic which is unanswer
able he exposed many of the fallacies of
protection His exposure of the absurd
claim that protection helps the work
ingman is especially good Here is a
part of it
But our friends upon the other side
say that they levy a tariff for the bene
fit of the wageworkers I say to you
that any tariff bill I care not from
whom it comes that does not contain a
provision for prohibiting the free in
flow of immigration from foreign coun
tries is oblivious of the rights of labor
and is opposed to the interest of all
wageworkers Applause
Protection is always asked in the
interest of others Now observe how it
is asked in behalf of the poor laboring
man just enough to cover the differ
ence between the European scale of
wages and our own What hypocrisy
Who ever heard of the laboring man
getting rich manufacturing The sta
tisticians clearly figured from the cen
sus of 1880 that about 6 per cent on
our dutiable list would cover the differ
ence between the European wago sched
ule and ouis or that about 18 per cent
ad valorem covered the entire labor cost
of our list of 1880 While the manufac
turer then asked for the poor laborer
his G per cent he got for himself at the
hands of congress six times 6 per cent
4 Is there any reason why a high tariff
affects wages injuriously Yes by en
abling employers to build up a vicious
trust system for the manufacturer and
against the laborer
In the review of R G Dun Co
in their weekly review of trade dated
Feb 12 it is stated
No other event of the week ap
proaches in importance the disruption
of the steel rail pool In two days says
the report after it a greater tonnage of
rails was probably purchased than the
entire production of the last year re
ported at 800000 tons And instead of
28 in December and 25 in January
17 is now the prico at which works
east and west are seeking orders And
further says the report the Carnegie
company has been selling at 17 Chi
cago delivery These sales will employ
many thousand hands with an impor
tant decrease in the cost of track laying
on renewal of railroads
Now my friends let mo ask you
was it the rising or lowering price that
employed these thousands of men Our
friend Mr Hopkins of Illinois tells of
the benefits of a higher duty on iron
and steel Did the steel rail pool need
more tariff
What is the difference in giving
manufacturer a double profit through a
high tariff or through a pool Do they
ever share the profits of the pool with
labor No Will they ever share the
profits of a tariff Never
It takes no political economist to
answer these questions If the United
States manufacturers can reap twice the
profit under a high tariff by limiting
themselves to the home market and
running half time why should they
run full time and invade foreign mar
kets They never will They will sit
down comfortably and sell their limited
supply of goods for increased profits
making them more than whole while
the laborer tramps the country in search
of work just as he now does under the
trust system
It is unfortunate that the humdrum
of the tariff has been sounded in the
ears of the people until many of them
really believe that foreign trade is un
important if not a curse Why did the
breaking of the steel rail pool put so
many men to work It was because the
consequent lowered price for iron and
steel brought most liberal orders from
abroad as well as at home yuppose
the tariff had been prohibitive and
we would have been confined to the
home market Would the manufacturers
have made so many goods No but they
would have doubled their profits on
what they did make The people could
not have bought so many because of the
increased price Who would have suf
fered First the workmen because they
would have had fewer goods to make
secondly the consumer because he
could not have bought so many at a
higher price Who would have been ben
efited The manufacturer because he
might have made and handled less
goods made a double profit and really
have gained as he would have had few
er to handle for the same profit
This bill will increase the manufac
turers profits on the individual arti
cles but will lessen the power of the
people to buy or use his wares
It is the poverty of the buyer not
the producer that must be relieved be
fore things will thrive
The manufacturer has every facility
to produce but no facility to sell
It is the consumption that must
first be stimulated and that will stim
ulate production
There are but a few crumbs in this
bill to aid the oppressed farmer of the
interior or the laborer but thousands
of things to further oppress him Higher
sugar higher salt higher lumber high
er clothing higher manufactured prod
ucts and absolutely nothing to raise the
price of labor a high tariff on labors
products limiting the demand for his
labor by narrowing the market but
throwing the ports wide open for the
free importation of other laborers from
foreign countries to freely compete with
his work
Consistency thou art a jewel
The Way It Is Done
From the way the Senate is proi ced
ing with the new tariff bill it is easy
to see that the difficulties which have
arisen between the rival monopolies
and trusts that contributed to MeKin
leys election will be smoothed oik not
by a free and open discussion but
through secret conferences and dick
ers The clashing claims for recogni
tion will be harmonized on the dead
quiet and a public scandal will be
avoided
Every interest that contributed its
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money on the Republican side in the
last campaign is tramoring for more
protection than it expects to get on the
did principle that if you aim to hit the
sun you will throw higher than if you
aim to merely knock down the apple
on the tree Each will therefore con
tent itself with what it is awarded and
hold its peace for the sake of the gen
eral cause of public license to plunder
The entire proceedings at Washing
ton is characteristic of Republican leg
islation The underlying principle is in
each tariff schedule that if you want
this I want that and if you take that
I will take this And the robber tariff-tinkers
know too well that they can
not afford to quarrel with each other or
in public New York News
Swappinff Free Hides For Satiable Sugnr
The senate tariff bill as a whole
says ex Congressman John De WTitt
Warner is a notice to eastern manu
facturers of what they may hereafter
expect Hitherto they have considered
protection as a sort of providential ar
rangement by which they were enabled
to feed on the rest of the country Now
like Polonius in Hamlet they are in
vited by a certain convocation of politic
worms to a supper not where they eat
but where thev are eaten The manu
facturers of New England New York
and Pennsylvania are to take their turn
at being mulcted for the benefit of oth
ers who now control legislation This
applies especially to the hide schedule
Cannot the New England senators
secure favorable changes in that sched
ule
I think not The bill as it stands is
satisfactory to the Sugar trust and prob
ably cannot be kept so except by the
votes controlled by the Cattle trust of
the west Were the New England sena
tors willing to risk offending the Sugar
trust they could doubtless defeat the
duty on hides but the fact is that Bos
ton and Providence in proportion to
their size are far more thoroughly sat
urated with Sugar trust influences than
is any other part of the country and
however much Senators Aldrich Wet
more Hoar and Lodge may bewail the
fate of their boot and shoe manufac
turers there is no prospect whatever
that they will sacrifice the Sugar trust
interests to help them
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Senator Hoar That free hide has
been in the family 25 years and it al
most breaks my heart to part with it
Senator Allison You neednt snivel
Keep your old hide if you want to but
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To Promote Trade by Stransrlinsr
McKinley went to Philadelphia the
other day to pronounce his benediction
upon what purports to be a movement
for the promotion of commerce be
tween the tufted States and other
countries
How much his lieart is in any gen
uine movement of that kind appears
from his speech at the big banquet in
the evening He told the Philadelphians
that it would do them no good to grum
ble because a new law to make show
ers of prosperity fall was not passed in
a day And he went on to say A
tariff law half made is of no practical
use except to indicate that in a little
while a whole tariff law will be doue
and it is making progress It is reach
ing the end and when the end comes
we will have business confidence and
industrial activity
This was tine talk surely at a gath
ering ostensibly assembled in the in
terest of foreign commerce Everybody
present knew that the pending bill is
framed from beginning to end not to
promote commerce but to restrict it
Everybody knew that it was hostile to
trade even with those countries for
whose custom the Philadelphians were
bidding and that with its high duties
on wool and hides it was admirably cal
culated to repel the foreign guests of
honor at the banquet
Yet the President fully indorsed this
measure of war on commerce and he
assumed that the Philadelphians pres
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foreigners who also were present were
impatient because Congress was so
slow in passing it
The foreign guests must have thought
our professional friends of commerce
were a strange lot If they have any
grasp on economic truths what must
they have thought of this from the
President of the United States Amer
ican energy has not been destroyed by
the stomas of the past It will yet tri
umph through wise and beneficient leg
islation meaning tariff legislation of
course
What must intelligent foreign guests
have thought of this assumption that
American energy is dependent for suc
cess upon an act of Congress putting
taxes on foreign products What must
they have thought of the energy which
has to be protected against foreign
competition by duties running up as
high as 100 per cent and in some cases
higher What must they have thought
of American enlightenment when they
heard the President of the great repub
lic expressing such superstitious belief
in the magic efficacy of such a fetich as
a bundle of high taxes on imports
Chicago Chronicle
Political Notes
With rigid economy in all the depart
ments of the government there will no
longer exist a necessity to tax the peo
ple out of their boots
In the meantime it will be noticed
that Senator Hoars conundrum has
not been answered Is the United
States Senate a circus
Mr Hoar says the United States
Senate is degenerating What the Uni
ted States Senate is saying about Mr
Hoar has not yet assumed a form fit tc
print
The clash of interests between the
Americans who have lumber invest
ments in Canada and Americans whose
lumber interests are all on this side of
the border places the tariff robbers in
an awkward position
Thirty thousand tailors on strike in
New York City means over a hundred
thousand people in danger of starva
tion How far would the 910000 voted
by Congress to aid the S00 starving
Cuban Americans go in helping the un
fortunates in New York
Despite the higher wages in this
country the labor cost of making a ton
of steel rails billets or bars is less in
this than in any other country In the
world And what is true of steel and
iron is true of many other products on
which the protection mendicants insist
a prohibitive tariff shall be laid
rerhaps you have noticed that the
papers that howl loudest about foreign
discrimination against American pro
ducts are the papers that are most em
phatic in their demands for tariff dis
crimination against foreign goods In
their case that which is sauce for the
goose becomes quinine and aloes for
the gander
If the sugar or any other trust has
been regularly debauching the politics
of the country the Senate several of
whose members have been accused of
helping in the dirty work ought cer
tainly not to drop this matter until it
has satisfied the public of at least its
honest desire to purge itself of the
charge of deserving the contempt of
the nation
Dingleys claim that his tariff bill
was intended to increase the revenue
was so palpably false that even the
Republicans of the Senate Finance
Committee were compelled to expose
it and to offer S00 amendments to pre
vent the government from going into
bankruptcy The Senate amendments
show that the Dingley bill is intended
to increase the revenue but not the
revenue of the government
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THE LOVELY CZARINA
She Is the Most Charminc Sovereign
Lady in All Christendom
Tliey are good honest people
the comment recently made by a
tinguished member of the Society of
St Petersburg concerning his young
Emperor and Empress It is a strange
compliment to be addressed to people
of their rank Yet It serves to portray
them as they are ami to convey the
impression which Nicholas and his
lovely wife produce upon all those with
whom they are brought into contact
Sincerity and absence of affectation are
even still more rare at the courts of
the old world than they are in modem
society Indeed court life is made up
to a great degree of shams and artifi
ciality When therefore one finds
people there who are entirely natural
and thoroughly sincere it is like a sort
of bright and cheering sunshine pierc
ing through the liaze and fog
Tliis sincerity on the part of the
young couple is in a great measure due
to the influence of the Czarina who
may be said to have inherited all the
many qualities not only of her lament
ed mother the late Grand Duchess
Alice of Hesse but likewise of her
venerable grandmother Queen Victo
ria Tlie Czarina lost her mother the
most brilliant attractive and popular
of all British princesses at a very
early age and from that time forth her
English relatives took charge of her
her aunts Princess Beatrice and the
Empress Frederick and her cousins
rrineesses Maud and Victoria of
Wales being especially devoted to r
But the one who most fully assumed
the place of her mother was good old
Queen Victoria herself anl it was to
her that Sunny the pet name by
which the Czarina used to be known
among her relatives turned for counsel
when hesitating between her love for
Nicholas on the one liand and her re
luctance to abandon the faith in which
she had been reared on the other The
advice which Queen Victoria gave her
is best shown by the fact that the mar
riage took place
Wliat is so winning about the Czar
ina is her eagerness to please the man
ifest delicacy of her sentiinenfts the
innocence of a mind that is far above
the average in the quality of its intel
lect and last but not least the lovely
face exquisite ftgureand perfect car
riage all of which contribute to make
hex he mosj charming sovereign lady
in Christendom
A Railroad Above the Clouds
There are several places in the world
where the iron horse actually climbs
up mountain sides to spots which are
situated far alxve the cloud In Tern
they have built a railway over one of
the most elevated ribs of the Andesr
and in Switzerland the steam engine
snorts and puffs around and up the
sides of peaks where it was formerly
considered hazardous for a sure footed
Alpine climber to attempt to worm his-
way
The engineers of the United States
have been equally as enterprising as w
those of Europe and the Spanish AjeT
publics of South America They have v -proven
that there is no mountain too
broad to be tunneled or too high for
them to send a locomotive to the sum
mit The plateau ou the top of Pikes
Peak was once thought to be almost as
inaccessible to human beings as are
the canals of Mars to mundane naviga
tors To day all is changed Since 1S91
the locomotive 1ms made its regular
trips up the tides of the Pride of the
Rockies seemingly doing it with as
much ease as the regular makes the
journey from the Union station at
Kirkwood
At one time the Pikes Peak cog
was the mot elevated railroad in the
world Its upper terminus being at a
spot 14147 fecit above the beach line
at Galveston Texas Since the Peru
vian railway mentioned above was
built the Pikes Peak elevated takes
a back seat It is still a wonder in
engineering however being nine miles
long high and having several grades
of 23 per cent The engines used on
tlii queer railroad weigh forty tons
Have the Lantern Ready
A good lantern should be considered
indispensable on the farm It should be
kept in perfect order ready for quick
use should an emergency require its
use It should have a certain place
where It should Ik kept when not in
use and never should be set aside from
its regular place of storing for any rea
son when not in use
If anything happens at the stables
or there is an alarm at the hen house
at night the lantern will be the first
thing needed If it is in its place ev
ery member of the family knowing
where it is it can soon be ready
Quick investigation is therefore a
mere matter of form under such con
ditions It would be very different
however where a mere haphazard
method of caring for the lantern was
observed An alarm comes John has
heard a great commotion among the
poultry He hastens for the lantern
no one knows where it is Tom had
seen it somewhere and thought the
governor had used it last After five
or ten minutes it is found with no oil
in it and then there is a hunt for the
oil can By the time the lantern is in
readiness for uf no knowing what
damage tld unnecessary delay may
have cost
Birtb Statistics at Berlin
Berlin turned out 4SS0G babies in
1S95 of which 7072 over one seventh
were Illegitimate There were 447
cases of twins and six of triplets One
woman of 45 had her twenty third
child and one of 31 her fourteenth
There were 234 families with rsvelve
children or over
If there are not many visitors at a
house it is a sign that the husband
wears the pants
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