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JOBBER TRUSTS IMPALED
Strong Words to a People Suffering from
Monopolys Unfailing Greed
Congressmen Denounce the Tariff Bill as a Thing of
Monstrous Iniquity
In the great debate upon the tariff
bill many speeches were made by men
who have devoted years to a study of
the economic needs and conditions of
this country At times the debate was
marked with acerbity but as a gen
eral thing the spea leers trusted to as
sumed facts The opponents of the
measure said many tilings that the peo
ple should remember Day after day
they stripped the robe of pretense from
n bill that has been railed the most in
iquitous of modern legislation It will
be UnoAvn in history as the Dingley
bill but it has been much changed
from its original form when introduced
in the House of Representatives from
which body all laws affecting revenue
must -me Some of the things said
iegiven below
Taxpayers Not Foriroltcn
Senator Rale of Tennessee felt sure
that the taxpayer was not forgotten
by the trainers of the measure and that
he would not forget them He said
I raniHT irr Mr President with the
Seimior irtnn Texas Mr Mills when he
siys the Mxjinv r is the Turcot ten man
On the fiinmrv carter the operation of this
bill he will lie the best remembered man in
ill the liird
Lord Tlmrlow one exclaimed When I
former my sovereign may Cod forget me
To winch Wilkes replied Forget
yon Ile see yon dammed first And so
of this 1511 and the taxpayer it will not for
get the taxpayer Forget him lie cannot
draw a wonlen shirt over his had nor a
pair of socks m his feet nor warm his wife
with a shawl without experiencing how
much the Republican party has not forgot
ten but remembered him
Forget him Iron the inseparable com
panion of h taxpayer from tin- ore in the
oarth thrniiirh all the changes to pig from
wroiigli Iron i serin from armor plates to
trace chains from nails in his rooftree to
screws in his cotlin lid is taxed with double
triple quadruple and ipiintuple taxes the
evidences of remembrance by the Republi
can party of the taxpayer Forget him lie
cannot bwild a cabin nor a boat nor fence
his potato patch nor lay his body in a collin
without paying tribute to the protection of
the Republican party Forget him Is lie
not reminded of the Republican partys ten
der regard for the taxpayers purse by the
luiies levied to protect his cabbages eggs
jnions ami garlic
Mr President the first creditor of every
people is the plow and upon the furrows
SKXATOi AL1EX
Avhich it turns reposes the great mass of na
tional wealtn After fully and amply sup
plying the home market of which so much
is heard in these days the plow supplied
ngiicultjrai exports for the fiscal year of
3Slt to the enormous amount of jS727
r l02 per cent of all the export trade of
the country What became of that vast
sum -the tiroduct of the plow It was not
given away It bought in foreign lands
what the plow needed at home and the
cheaper foreign goods were bought
the greater were the profits of the plow
Rut tlii iroteetion bill is to change all
that and teach the plow the unlearnable
lesson that higher priced home made articles
are cheaper than lower priced imported
goods The plow is not so dull a scholar as
protectionstssuppose it may be fooled some
times but experience teaches that the royal
ruail tfi comfort and sutiiciency lies not
along the pathway of protection
It is a matter of financial impossibility to
give relief and encouragement to the plow
by increasing the taxes on articles of neces
sary consumption to farmers As for the
building up of a home market it is not only
a twice told tale but an old old song sung
for political effect ever since the enactment
of j lie bill of abominations in lvjs Rut
not aP the tariffs that have been enacted
will bring this country any nearer to an
adequate noun- market for the consumption
at remunerative prices of our vast agricul
tural products than the country was in IS
The fact that last year with over Tlouo
000 if people as the home market our farm
ers were compelled to send to foreign coun
tries Sr7oemoo0 of the products of the
plow demonstrates the inability of this
ountry To consume the immense volume of
the iiroducts of its agriculture That great
creditor the plow must seek the markets of
the world No pent up Itica will do for
his products The boundless continents
are reQuirea lor America s pnxtucts iut
Mr 3resident every duty levied for protec
tion upon a foreign product is an impedi
ment east into the furrow of the American
plow
Thcy Dine Off the Farmer
Mr Kelly of South Dakota has the
far Wests frankness His arraign
ment of the prosperity howlers has
called forth responses from press and
politicians Secure in his facts he has
declined to retract anything he has
said and has circulated his speech just
as it was spoken
Of course the same farce is acted out iu
This bill that Is in every tariff bill the Re
thefamicr 1 wish to say to the
nninbers of this house that you can no
longer deceive she farmers of this country
They kn that it is impos ible to afford
markets of the world more than tiiioi0KM
Annually of the products of their industry
Rut however bad this bill may be however
much it favors trusts and monopolies a ma
jority of the people of this country voted
fr the uepuoiiean party knowing mat somi
three men of acknowledged leadership In
wealth amazed the Idle and unemployed by
proclaiming simultaneously with a flourish
of trumpets In the East that the wave was
upon us and the slow plodders would have
to clear the Crack or he engulfed Seventy
live millions of Americans have waited In
silence for the onset but as usual have been
doomed to disappointment It is well to add
that these three false prophets had no soon
er heralded these tidings of their imagina
tions than they hied themselves aboard a
boat and departed for a foreign and far-distant
country
Following this faith in fiction the advance
agent of the advance agent the honorable
Secretary of the Treasury Mr Gage having
heard the rumbling from Chicago Canton
and Cincinnati went to the latter city and
proclaimed to the business world that pros
perity was aain our own that our birth
right had returned again
Since that time the newspapers of the
Fast played upon their fancy and tried to
play upon the credulity of the people by an
nouncing In one column that prosperity was
upon us anil in another recounting a list of
failures strikes and despondency With
this conies the evidence of Itradstreet that
improvement has not appeared that the
metropolitan press is false in efforts to an
nounce it that any increase in the quan
tity of trade is lessened in comparison with
other years by the reduced price of the
commodity Supporting Rradstreet is the
still small voice of ex Secretary John A
Wanamaker bewailing the fate of himself
his party and his country and charging that
the administration was false and faithless
It is time Mr Speaker that the controllers
of prosperity should treat this stubborn
case heroically and instead of trying to re
juvenate this inanimate object by blowing
into it the blighted breath let them turn
their hoarded wealth into the Western ar
teries of trade The people want more mon
ey not promises and unless they get it they
will perish In the desert before they reach
the promised land Without it they cannot
pay hose new imposed enormous taxes and
live in happiness No false promises of re
lief by whomsoever made or howsoever giv
en will convince a suffering man that he
has no pain False lights of safety will no
longer deceive Men who are deluded them
selves or who seek to delude others will not
be believed A people may excuse a failure
to acknowledge the independence of n isl
and near the southern shore they may ex
cuse your failure to pass a bankruptcy bill
but they will never excuse the fastening of
the enormous tariff taxes on the toilers of
the West in favor of the Fast unless the
Fast shall give to those toilers the means
with which to bear these burdens
On Raw Materials
Representative Bailey of Texas has
been the leader of the Democracy on
the iloor of the House during the past
session lie too is a young man and
is gifted with much eloquence lie is
opposed to free raw materials for the
manufacturer and protected materials
for the consumer
Why should the manufacturer who ships
his woolen goods to other countries and ex
changes them for raw wool be allowed to
bring that wool into this country free of
duty when the wool grower who ships his
wool to other countries and exchanges it for
woolen goods is compelled to pay a high
duty on the woolen goods which he brings
home If anybody needs an advantage in
the export trade of this country it is not
the manufacturers who furnish less than
0 per cent of our exports but it is the
farmers who furnish more than 70 per cent
of our exports and it is illogical and inde
fensible for a Democrat to insist that those
who furnish but one fourth of what we ship
to foreign countries shall be permitted to
return with their exchanges free from taxa
tion while those who furnish three fourths
shall be compelled to pay a tax on almost
everything for which they exchange the
products of their land and labor Why
should the manufacturer be permitted to buy
the farmers wool free from duty while the
farmer is compelled to pay the manufac
turer a high duty on the goods made out of
ins nee wool rue nianuiacturer is not
compelled to buy his wool and only buys it
for the sake of the profit which he can
make out of it by manufacturing it into
woolen goods the people are compelled to
buy woolen goods and yet we are asked to
increase the profit of buying wool bv in
creasing the cost of buying clothes Mr
Speaker we might with justice demand that
those who buy wool for the sake of profit
should be taxed and that those who buy
clothing for the sake of comfort should go
untaxed but we do not demand this All
that we demand is that the men who buy
wool for the sake of profit shall lie com
pelled to contribute toward the support of
the Government equally with those who buy
woolen clothes for the sake of comfort For
twenty years I have heard protection de
nounced as a species of favoritism to manu
facturers and I have heard manufacturers
described as selfish and rich beyond the
dreams of avarice and sir I was astounded
when our old leaders suddenly changed their
position and proposed a system which tliey
openly averred was more favorable to the
manufacturers than that of the Republican
party
If the manufacturers are as pItish and
as prosperous as we have been taught to
believe then sir it is an unpardonable
crime to exempt them from taxation and
thus increase the burdens of the patient and
unnumbered multitude I cannot find lan
guage strong enough to denounce a policy
that would lift the burden of this Govern
ment from the great manufacturing
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publican party enacted namely protecting j uslnuents and lay it with crushing weight
upon the farms 1 know the agricultural
people of this land and I know their un
selfish devotipn to their country I know
i on mar it is as true in tlie economic as it
Jhcmnnv cmuieji urale degree of protection is in the physical world that all things rest
when they -end abroad T be sohi lit the open i upon the carta and when those who
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ine wie Miii Jim- inaue in sun or ine nation
must suffer with them The farmers are
the most useful and the most conservative
of all our citizens Their -labor siipidies us
with food and clothing and to them we turn
when the riots and bloodshed of our cities
such measure would be the result if they i render the future of the republic gloomv
were sucressiul ami J know oi no Hotter
way prove to them the utter folly of ex
pecting relief from such a measure than to
give them all they want of it Hence I
want to see tho Republicans make this bill
exactly to their liking and 1 believe that it
will prove quicker than anything else the
hollowness of the claims that are made for
It
Not deterred by the facts but a few weeks
sgo a triumvirate of prosperity inflaters
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luiMinuii i iii uiii iiu hi ciass
antagonisms from the greed of the rich who
oppress the poor and from the desperation
of the poor who would despoil the rich we
turn to the rural homesteads of this land
and there we find a rugged independence
tempered with a reverence for the law which
constitutes the nations best and wisest
safeguard Around those humble firesides
even in this age of selfishness and greed the
love of country is above the love of self ami
second only to the fear of God A repur Jlc
which practices injustice against homes like
these which multiplies their burdens and
drives their impoverished and discontented
occupants to the already overcrowded towns
and cities invites its own destruction
I do not plead for special privileges for
Hie fanners I onlv plead in defense of the
Democratic partv for having said that in
dealing with this question it will keep Its
pledge that none shall enjov a special favor
nor shall any suffer a special burden but
that all shall stand equal before the law
Applause To establish and maintain the
equal rights of men wis the great mission to
which its founders dedicated the Democratic
party a hundred years ago ami to which we
reconsecrated it last year If we adhere
steadfastly and faithfully to this the most
vital of all our principles the American peo
ple will reward our fidelity with their con
fidence and we can reward their confidence
by perpetuating forevermore this the great
est free st and therefore the best govern
ment that ever rose to animate the hopes or
to bless the sacrifices of mankind
Farmer Is Mulcted
Senator Butler of North Carolina
has found much that is inimical to tho
husbandman in the Dingley bill
It costs your State 40000 under this duty
if you use 200000 tons of guano as I think
your State used last year It costs the farm
er of every State Unit much extra that uses
as much as 1200000 tons of guano There
fore if it were guano sacks alone this arti
cle should be on the free list according to
the argument made by the Senator from
Iowa Rut the Increased cost on guano sacks
is a bagatelle compared with the Increased
cost on cotton Wanting and grain sacks and
all the other jute material put together used
by the farmers
Mr President as I said in the beginning
this tax is indefensible either from a pro
tection or from a revenue standpoint It
cannot be defended It is sectional It is
a direct tax on the farmer He must pay It
It is that much taken out of the small reven
ues that he now gets for his products I
feel very much like the Senator from South
Carolina I am ready to join you to take a
week if necessary and longer before this
iniquity shall be put through here this in
MAItlOX BUTLER
iquity robbing a class of men who are forced
to pay higher for everything they buy be
cause of this tariff bill
People Left Onaided
Representative Hunter of Illinois
says what he means and means what
he says The speech from which the
following is excerpted has made a de
cided sensation and its author was
warmly congratulated by his col
leagues
The herald of fraud and deception an
nounced to the country six months ago that
the new President would come with healing
in his wings and that prosperity would
gladden every home What has the Presi
dent done to redeem any of these pledges
Nothing
What have the Senate and House done to
relieve the people of their burdens Noth
ing
No legislation has ever been proposed by
them to relieve the necessities and wants of
the people
The Presidential ollice has been substan
tially abdicated and we now have a general
business manager who arranges all matters
of legislation and diplomacy
Secret meetings are being held by the
trusts corporations and other bosses daily
and nightly to influence legislation in their
interests
I believe that the legislation on this tariff
bill is controlled absolutely outside ami in
dependent of the Senate and House by less
than thirty interested gentlemen The peo
ple and their representations are not allowed
to know what is going on and what this ad
ministration is doing or is going to do
There is a studied effort seemingly upon
the part of the managing party of this Con
gress to conceal every movement in the crea
tion and construction of this bill Hide-
and-go-seek has been adopted as the new
method of governing the people of this
country
The Republican portion of the Committee
of Ways and Means go to their room and
close the door bolt every Democratic mem
ber out and there in secret patch up what
they call a revenue bill then they come into
this house adopt an arbitrary rule denying
to the peoples representatives the right to
examine and discuss the product of their
deliberations Fuller this gag process tliev
pass the bill send it to the Senate then to
conference close the doors again against
every Democratic member of the conference
committee and in this ex parte way force
upon the people of the United States parti
san laws fraught with all the schemes of
human selfishness
Here is a secret conclave of eight men
presuming to lix the amount of gratuities
under the name of taxation that 14000000
taxpayers have to pay to 100 trusts corpora
tions and individuals
Mr Speaker this bill is not intended to
raise revenue to pay the expenses of the
Government to help the farmer aid the la
boring man and stimulate legitimate trade
and business of the whole country
It is not the intention of its authors to
bring prosperity to the homes of the toiling
millions those that produce the material
wealth of thi country It is limited and
specific in its application and effect
It is for the protection of the classes that
they may collect millions of bounties from
the consumers of their goods
It it had been innocently created as a
revenue measure its logical and natural ef
fect would be the same to foster trusts and
combinations that rob the people under it
provisions
Consumers Held Up
Senator Pettigrew is strongly oppos
ed to the lumber provisions of the bill
lie believes that the consumers of lum
ber have been robbed in wholesale and
was not backward in saying so
In other words the proposition is to take
Siirjoooo out of the pockets of the people
who consume lumber in the States tributarv
to Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota and
put it in the pockets of this little group of
men who gathered in Rurrows room I have
watched the passage through the two houses
of Congress of the last three or four tariff
bills and this is the worst tariff bill ever
conceived or produced
As tariff bills are produced their f miners
become more expert in juggling with
phrases covering up what they intend to do
and so fixing them that the classes will be
enabled to plunder the masses This lumber
duty is one of the worst features of the
whole transaction bald barefaced and
without any apology
The Height of Cruelty
The height of cruelty is uudonbtecily
the practice of smotherng a beefsteak
iu onions We do not believe the lob
ster broiled aliv or the crab thrown
into scalding water suffers for long
time the shock is innnediate and fatal
But think of a steak cendemed to
such a lingering death struggling in
vain against the lethal pungency Bos
ton Journal
Education in Morocco
A Moorish college is a simple af
fair no seats no desks a few books
For beginners boards about the size
of foolscap whitened on both sides
with clay take the place of book pallet-
and shite On these the various
lessons from the alphabet to the Ko
ran are plainly written iu large black
letters A switch or two a sand box
in lieu of blotter and a book or two
complete the paraphernalia The dom
inie squats on the ground tiilor fash
ion as do his pupils before Lim They
from ten to thirty in numb imitate
him as he repeats in a sonorous sing
song voice accompanying he words
by a rocking to and fro which some
times enabled them to keep time A
sharp application of the switch to bare
pate or shoulders is wonderfully ef
fective in recalling wandering atten
tion and really lazy boys are speed
ily expelled Girls as a rule get uo
schooling at all
After learning the letters and figures
the youngsters set about committing
the Koran to memory When the first
chapter is mastered the one which
with them corresponds to the Pater
Noster of Christendom it is custom
ary for them to be paraded round the
town on horseback with ear splitting
mush and sometimes charitably dis
posed persons make small presents to
the young students by way of encour
agement After the first chapter the
last is learned tht th last but one
and so on backwariis to the second as
with the exception of the first the
longest chapters are at the beginning
Though reading and u little writing
are taught at the same time all the pu
pils do not tirriva at the pitch of per
fection necessary to indite a respect
able letter so that there is plenty of
T TYTTP A TITO Y I PnTTTAfM employment ror the numerous scribes
VUVJlVAlJjJlJUmri imi notaries vho make nrnfoinn
NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND
THEIR MANAGEMENT
The Dispute Between Professors on
the Subject of Discipline in the
Schools Education in Morocco
Donts for Teachers
Discipline in the JrChoole
The dispute that has arisen between
Prof Small and Superintendent Lane
on the subject of discipline in the
schools is of the widest possible inter
est It concerns every home in the
land as a personal matter it concerns
our entire citizenship as an affair of
state
Prof Smalls contention was that pu
pils must be made to obey He would
not have the master stand around
club in hand to administer corporal
punishment for every fancied offense
against his authority He would not
resort to corporal punishment at all ex
cept in the last emergency But if it
came to the point of defiance after rea
soning and persuasion had failed then
his rule would be compel obedience
even if it is necessary to use force
The superintendent replies by calling
the professor an educational trilobite
and a solitaire and by disingenuous
suggestion in referring to his oppo
nents contention He says We are
living in a blessed reaction from the
child slavery in the schoolroom This
is to intimate that the professor is an
advocate of child slavery in the school
room which is not the case No uphold
er of it decent discipline believes that
government should be entirely by the
birch rod The exaggerated language
of the superintendent shows that he is
an extremist and we are not surprised
to learn upon his own confession that
it was commonly reported that he used
to thrash every pupil of the Franklin
school when he was its principnl The
liercest of total abstainers are always
the ones who have previously indulged
too freely
We have to thank Mr Lane however
for a statement of his theory of child
government which reveals all its weak
nesses at a glance It is as follows
Children cannot ho taught to think by
having some one think for them they
cannot he taught to act by having all
their actions prescribed by others they
cannot he taught to have judgment by
never being permitted to exercise their
choice they can never be taught self
governiient by being forever subjected to
the government of others 1 do not say
that the rein should he thrown entirely on
their nocks nor that they should he left
without help and guidance But I believe
with almost the entire profession of teach
ers in the United States that in teaching
the young force and authority should he
reduced to a minimum and self control
and self direction encouraged to the maxi
mum compatible with safety and progress
What now are the minimum and
maximum This is a practical ques
tion that can not be disposed of by a
mere flight of rhetoric Sentimental
niouthings about child reason will not
solve it They excite the suspicion that
almost the entire profession of teach
ers in the United States is allowing it
self to be captivated by pretty sound
ing sentences
Benson is the last thing to be devel
oped in man It is so difficult to devel
op that some people sentimental peo
ple especially prefer to get along with
out ir It exists in a rudimentary state
only in children They should be taught
to employ it as far as that may be pos
sible but the spectacle of a world bow
ing and ducking to a childs reason
Avould be the silliest spectacle imagina
ble There must be an effective as
sertion of the authority of parent and i
teacher
Subordination is one of the rules of
human existence but in this country
the insubordination of children is pro
verbial Nowhere else are boys and
girls so rude and disrespectful to their
elders Intelligent foreigners marvel
at their self assertion their insolence
their bad manners But they are the
natural result of the lax discipline of
home and school The theories of Su
perintendent Lane have a great deal to
answer for Chicago Journal
of this art These sit in a little box
shop with their appliances before them
reed pens ink paper and sand with
a ruling board with strings across it
at regular intervals on which the pa
per to be lined is pressed They usual
ly possess also a knife and scissors
with a case to hold them all In writ
ing they place the paper on the left
knee or upon a pad or book in the left
hand The plebs who cannot read nor
write and all who wish to make argu
ments appear with their statements
before two of these there are gener
ally four In a shop and after it has
been written out and read over to the
deponent it is signed by two of the
notaries Such a document is the only
one recognized by Moorish law In
dividual signatures except of high offi
cials are worthless and even then the
signature of the local judge kadi is
necessary to legalize the others Nat
urally this system like so many others
in Morocco is open to serious abuses
as notaries often make more by twist
ing a statement to suit a client behind
the scenes than ever a simple fee could
amount to Harpers Magazine
Teaching Percentage
When a class is ready to study per
centage they should begin with simple
interest because here is the least
abrupt transition from what they
know to what they are to learn No
lesson should be assigned for study be
fore the class come to their first recita
tion in this subject The class should
not be paralyzed with preliminary def
initions nor have their enthusiasm
smothered under the wet blanket of
a rule nor should it be anethetized
with illustrative examples in the text
book Money should be conceived as
so many dollars each earning so many
cents in a year Small sums should be
dealt with until process and reasoning
are perfectly familiar Definitions
should be taught only after the
things which they define have been
perfectly realized and the pupil should
make his own rules by simply telling
what he has done Is it necessary to
separate questions of percentage into
cases neatly labeled and warranted
not to mix Is it necessary to attach a
rule and illustrative example and mod
el solution To do these things is to
do an almost wicked act It is an at
tempt to rob the children of their birth
right the right to think C T Lane
Uonts for Teachers
Dont be late at school
Dont allow tale bearing
Dont give too many demerit marks
Dont censure trifles too severely
Dont be careless about your habits
Dont dispute with an angry parent
Dont command when a suggestion
will do instead
Dont allow pupils to play in the
school room during intermissions
Dont call on principal or trustee to
settle trivial affairs except as a last
resort
Dont make too many rules Normal
Instructor
Needs of the Common Schools
The common schools primary gram
mar or whatever they may be termed
deserve the lirst and most serious at
tention of educators There is need
of clarifying and strengthening the
methods of teaching the rudiments
and there is some sort of need of new
ly defining those rudiments of a use
ful working education The three lis
do not alone suffice New York Times
To Win the Children
Treat the children fairly kindly
Lend them gently on their way
Let them feel the power of sunshine
As they toil from day to day
Make their labor happy pleasant
Win them by the love of truth
Lure them on by sweet incentive
Oer the slippery paths of youth
Smoker and Xon Smoker
Advice may be excellent in itself and
yet come with poor grace from tho per
son who offers it Two men of Mar
seilles were one day walking together
when one of them took out a cigar and
proceeded to light it
What do you call that thing asked
the other man
A Londres answered the first
Expensive I suppose
Bah Six sous
Only six sous eh And how many
years have you smoked
Thirty
Thirty years three cigars a day
six sous apiece Why if you had not
spent that money for cigars you could
have owned a house on the Cannebiere
ti day
The other said nothinir The Canne
biere is the richest and most famous
street in Marseilles Presently the
two promeuaders came out on the
Cannebiere
You dont smoke I believe said
the man with the cigar
Smoke No
Well which is your house here
And the abstemious man had to con
fess that he owned no house either on
The Cannebiere or anywhere else
In Bad Company
When a vote is to be taken on some
important measure a Congressman
who cannot be present pairs himself
with some representative Avho would
vote aye to the Congressmans
nay or vice versa The Washing
ton correspondent of the Chicago Rec
ord fells an amusing story of this cus
tom of pairing
A Democratic member of the House
has received a letter from an active
politician of that party in his district
calling attention to the tact that he is
reported in The Congressional Rec
ord almost every day as being pair
ed with a Republican
dont doubt your loyalty to the
party reads the letter but I think
the boys would like it a good deal bet
ter if you paired with Democrats in
stead of Republicans
The women are always looking for
something to be indignant about
LATEST BICYCLE GAME
Feature of n Novel Chnritahlc Knter j
tainment in British Columbia
A charity entertainment recently
given iu British Columbia con
tained a feature of novel interest con
tributed by amateur bicyclists This
was a wheeling gymkhana The word
gymkhana comes from India and
means something much like a circus
The entertainment can be given any
where by bicyclists who are sufficiently
expert to make sharp turns and sud
den stops The one given in British
Columbia included all sorts of fancy
riding one of the prettiest specimens
being tilting at the ring by the younff
women riders This is among the most
difficult feats which the amateur bi
cyclist can attempt It means being
able to carry a long spear while riding
at full speed and putting this through
THE rICYCTE GYMKHANA
a series of rings which are Mispended1
from a gibbotlike arrangement over the
riders head The show began with
Avhat a circus man would call tho
grand entree or parade of perform
ers around the ring The men wore
white knickerbockers red coats red
and white jockey caps red stockings
and white shoes the girls white duck
skirts red and white striped shirt
waists red leather belt white sailor
hat with red band red stockings ami
white shoes Then followed a musical
ride by eight couples the riders first
appearing in single file and doubling
up as in the grand march at a ball untilf
the entire sixteen rode in one line
Other graceful evolutions of a similar
kind followed A potato race of tho
usual picnic kind furnished amuse-
meat a Maypole ride was pretty andj
the entire entertainment was voted a
success It will be seen that such ij
form of amusement could be easily
gotten up anywhere the only neces s
sirics being good riders and a hirga
hall
OLD HOSS HOEY
The Celebrated Farce Coined inn VhoJ
Died in New York Recently
The death of William P DToey Old
lloss as he was familiarly known oc
curred in New York recently and toolc
from the farce comedy stage one of thej
best known and most pleasing actora
in that line lie was insane for a week
before his death Iloey was born in
New York in ISjo and as a boy wast
famous in his neighborhood for his
cleverness in singing negro and other
songs At IS he played at Tony Pas
tors and he and John Fields toured tho
country for three years doing variety
work Next he formed a combination
with Bryant Niles and Evans and
finally in 1SS4 he and Evans started
out in the farce written by Charleyj
Iloyt which made Evans and LToeyj
famous This was A Parlor Match
which the two men played until 1894
WILLIAM F HOEY
when they parted having each made w
fortune Iloey lost his in speculation
This year he again took up the greati
farce and made His last an-
pearauce was in Cleveland early ia
May
Charles Kean Capped It
When Charles Kean was playing the
part of Richard III his fearful
grimaces in character paralyzed all the
other actors with fright much to hia
amusement
On one occasion a new man had to
take the part of the sentinel who
awoke Richard When asked Who is
there he had to say Tis I my
lord the village cock hath twice pro
claimed the hour of morn
But as Kean was making such fear-
ful grimaces and scowling at him thet
poor fellow forgot his part and couldj
only stammer Tis I my lord the i
ih village cock
By this time there was a decided tit
ter all over the house and Kean said
Then why the mischief dont you
crow which needless to say brought
down the house Tid Bits
This is the season of the year when
we would rather have the moth eat upj
ail the woolen goods in the house thaa
go down town in the sua for camphoa
bails
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