THE OMAHA DAILY BEE , SUNDAY , JTJNE 1 , 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. r 1 UNCLE JOSH'S SOLILOOUEY. Well , if this here's one of them new fangled , fold beds and book cases , combined , as my dear Sally sez it be , I'll be gosh darned if I don't think I'll have to be born agin afore I'll fit into it. She bought it of the Nebras ka Furniture Co. for $ , and she sez it air the cutest , neat est , and most comfortable foldin' bed she ever did see. I'll allow it looks mighty peerty and shiny , but folks is gettin' to have queer ideas of comfort now days , and how on earth I a'm going to sleep in this 'ere pesky thing I dunno. I guess I'll hev to go down to the Ne braska Furniture Co. and find out if they haven't got something - thing more in my line in , their large and elegant stock , or I'll have a creek in my back if I stay any longer in this pesky foldin' bed. We furnish houses and homes at spot cash prices. If parties desire credit , we add 5 per cent for the occommodation. This is fair and just to each. We have everything you want , and it is a pleasure to show goods. Visitors and customers alike vvelcome. NEBRASKA FURNITURE CO. 520 and 522 Nci\h 16th St. AMONG THE TOILING MASSES , An Omalmn Wants Powderly's ' Views on an Inteicstiug Question , LETTER OAEEIEES AND THEIR WAGES An InterchthiB ltc\iow of the Jjabor World in all itH Aspects Both ut Homo anel in Other Placet ) . OMuit , May 27. In ono of your Into pro ductions I Uriel the following expression : "In the party of the future the man who tills the soil will own it , and not the man who deals In mortgages. How do you propose to bring about such n { rand desideratum ? Have you a plan ? If so , give it lo us. If you have no plan permit mete to offer ouo for your calm consideration nnd deliberate reflection. I think I have developed n scheme by which all the poor and needy of this nation may become freeholders having Rood comfoi table homes of their own with land enough to make a good living ; nnd to accomplish this nothing shall bo confiscated neither shall any ono bo taxed nor asked to contribute ono cent. Moreover the inauguration of the scheme , will give employment to all seeking It , force millions of money into circulation , raise the pi ice of labor and all kinds of produce and enable the pecplo to get out of debt dovclopo the resources of the country mid add billions to its taxable property. That you shall have the whole plan before ) you in n nutshell , I shall formulate It in a few short whereascs and resolutions : Whereas , All men nro created with eepjal I'lghts and have , by virtue of their existence ) in this world , an Inalienable right to all the land that Is needful for a good living and no moro ; and , Whereas , Governments nro ordained to so- euro to men their inalienable rights ; and. Whereas , Agriculture Is the base of all other industries the foundation of individual , state and national prosperity , security and happiness : Hesolved , That the government of the United States proceed to furnish Improved homes for all her elttions who desire them and wish to live by cultivating the boil. To this end she can Improve ) all her public lands that are lit for farming and parcel them out In homesteads of suitable size. She can also purelmso lands of parties who have them forsulo and make homes for her citizens who dcsiro them and need them. Under the right of eminent domain , bho can , when It becomes necessary , seize upon lands and thus use them by com pensating the owners , He-solved , To carry out the foregoing reso lution the government shall Issue an rulcquuto amount of legal lender paper currency which shall bo refunded lo her by homesteaders on these lands , who shall bo required to rotund at least 1 per cent per annum on the cost of their homesteads , until the government Is re imbursed for lilting up the same. A failure to pay the annual Installment duo the govern ment shall work n forfeiture of the home steader's claim , but shall not dollar him from taking one elsewhere when all dues on the forfeited clelm arc paid up. Hesolvcd , That thcso homesteads shall bo transferable1 , but no person shall bo permit ted to own moro than 100 acres of thcso lands ut any one time of life. There you have the scheme outlined. I hold that the man who has no homo nor the means to purchase ono Is , from neces sity , forced to work for what others see tit to glvo , beg , steal or starve. The right to live carries with it the right of means to support life hind is Indispensable to life , Nliietccn-twe'iitlcths of all the pov erty and consequent i-rlmo and wretchedness that curses our conn' today is the result of withholding from in ' i Inalienable right to the sol ) . Fiiuu.i \ \ man with n homo you furnish him with everything needful , or the easy means of getting everything. If the government Issued millions of "flat" dollars to employ men to light and kill and To Cash Customers WE SAY SHOP around And get the-Very Best'Figures you can' . and then come and see us. We Want" Your Money but will give you large returns for it. FURNITURE BO 520-522 N. 16th St. tear up homes during the war , she can now issue millions ol "flat'1 money to employ men to build up homes for those who need them. If there was a necessity then there is also a necessity now , for no government is safe when a majority of its citi/ens have no prop erly interest in its perpetuity. The homes of the people are the bulw.uks of the nation. If vou like this plan advocate it ; if you do netlike like it get up something bettor and I will ad vocate it for you. If it bo possible ( and I hold it is ) to help all the poor and needy of the nation to homes of their own and tax no ono to do it , it ought to bo done. No man need bo sorely oppressed by rings , monopolists or trusts if the govern ment stands ready to furnish him a homo on the terms herein proposed If the alliance will adopt n measuie so full of proffered blessing as that set fourth in the above resolutions , millions would { lock to their standard. It has in it somethinp that meets the wants of human natuio the desire for a homo. Some clear , well defined , simple scheme that the masses can comprehend and adapt to their sorest needs is necessary to brim ? about a unity of action. To those who reject this scheme I have this question for them to answer : What do you propose to do with that large class of people who are dependent on others for work U > keep them from starving and nobody wants their services ( JACOU BUCK. The hotter Carriers' llequest. The letter carriers of Omaha , as well as those of other cities of the country where the frees delivery system is in vogue , nro taking decided interest in n bill which is no\v before congress , giving them ? 100 , a year salary after three years ot service. The men hero believe the bill should pass , nnd , with this idea , have petitioned their congressmen to not only vote for the meas ure , but to use their influence with other members. Taking everything Into consideration , the bill is regarded as a good one , bccauso it is held that a letter carrier has as responsible u position to till as many men who rcccivo double the amount of salary paid these men who put in three handred and sixty-live days each j car working for the government. Then there is another measure affecting the e-nrrier , which the late Senator Co.x had in his mind and Intended to present to congress and push pensioning of curriers after thirty years of service. As it Is now , a , man may carry the mall thirty years , walking twenty miles each day and handling letters with the most scrupulous care and honesty ; but , when sickness or old ago comes on , as It will In time , ho must go to the nlnishouso or the hospital , unless ho has been fortunate enough to have saved something from his pittance of $1,000 n year , which it is next to Impossible ) for him to do if ho has a famlny dependant upon him for support. Millions upon millions pass through the hands of these faithful , but poorly paid servants each year nnel the least congress can do It is urged is to give them some incentive ) to their toil nnel rowiml to their honesty. Few people realize , they claim , wh'at the life of n letter-carrier is , and as the latter pass the door day after day , dressed in their neat groy suits , ono is led to believe that such a life is one of cose. But such Is far from the case. The carrier rises at 5 o'clock , cats his breakfast nt 0 nnd , an hour later , Is in the stone building at the corner of Fifteenth and Dodge streets , busily engaged in sorting let ters and papers that go to residents along his route. This work performed , with n pack , weighIng - Ing at least twenty-live pounds , ho starts out , going along muddy streets , up dark and nar row stairways , down into basements and out of the way places , until the delivery Is made. But this elocs not conclude his work. Ex- cent In the heart of the city , the carrier must tnko up the mall along his route , so that , by the tlmo ho Is rcaily to start on his return trip , his load Is cejually as prcat as when ho left the postoftlco In the morning. Alter reaching the oftlee , It Is a repetition of the same story , as the mail for the next trip must bo worked In ardor to have every thing in shape for the delivery which conies n few hours later. This continues until 7 o'clock in the even ing , when the letter currier returns to his homo , tired and exhausted. This must bo repeated the next day and the next and until sickness or old ago cause him to bo placed wtizi&xFSgiSB THIS IS A CUT OF OUR WAREROOMS. and Brightest Line of in the Home ! Sweet Home , where'er we roam , Each voice its praises swell ; No place so sweet , so bright and neat , If home is furnished well. "Which will necessarily follow if buy your goods at the Nebraska Furniture Company , Ease , Elegance and Economy are the characteristics of their household Furniture. S2O and 522 North 16th street. upon the shelf to make way for a younger man. Clerk * and Knrly Closing. Just what will result from the stand taken by the clerks to biing about the early closing of the stoics in the city is something diflieult to predict. Thc-o gentlemen have burned the bridges behind them and there is no retracing the stops they have taken. The meeting held last Wednesday night , at which they organized under the Knights of La bor assembly.placcs them in a position where they will have the support of the unite 1 labor element of tlio city when the limo arrives for making their demand for shoiter hours. The list of charter members now contains the names of nearly two hundred men who earn their daily bread by selling goods over the counters of the Omaha stores. But the work Is not to stop hero. The members of the Central Labor union and the Knights of Labor , reali/iug the work that is to bo accom plished , have carried the war homo to the merchants and not only propose to organi/o tlio mule clerks , but also the female wage- earners into a union , looking to the improve ment of their condition. Interest in tlio Assemblies. A few days ago an Omaha Knight of Labor addressed a personal letter to Grand Master Workman T. V. Powdorly , asking the ques tion , "How can wo make our assembly meet ings more interesting. " Yesterday , the gentleman received an answer which is of unusual interest , not only lo the Knights , but to all other societies. The rcplv is as follows : "A great deal more nt- lenllon ought to bo given to make the assem bly meetings of our order intcie'sting and in structive. Much has boon said from time lo lime by writers and speakers as to the duty incumbent on nil true Knights of Labor of regular atlcndanco on meetings. But It Is difficult to blame men for irregularity in at tendance when night after night thoio Is nothing hut outline business or weari some and profitless discussions over trivial details or points of order. Only the most thoroughgoing enthusiasts will under such circumstances fcol like turning out in bad weather or leaving u pleasant so cial gathering to go to the assembly , it ought to bo a pleasure as well as a duty to attend meetings of labor bodies , ami especially tlioso of our order. These gatherings should bo made attractive , so that those who , in many cases , have to make considerable sacrifices to attend may feel that at least they have not wasted their tlmo. This , however , can not bo done without giving the mailer duo thought nnd nttentlon by loading members. Assembly meetings ought not to bo loft to run themselves , nnd the discussions and pro ceedings to bo determined by Imp-hazard , as as Is too much the case. There should bo inoio endeavor to make , them educational centers nnd training schools in which the younger and less experienced members may obtain n thorough insight into our principles bv means of readings , addresses and debates. Wordy discussions over routine business In volvlng no matter of principle should bo dis couraged , nnd the time llius frittered away given to the consideration of how to advance our cause and the inculcation of sound labor-reform principles , In nearly every assembly there nro pooel readers and speakers , or men who might become so with a little practice. Seek out all such available ) talent , Encourage the young men to speak and tnko p irt In the programme. Don't place too much reliance on getting leading speakers , welt known men , from n distance. It Is always well to have peed lectures when It can bo managed , but It In volves some expenditure of tlmo and money to hold largo publlo gatherings. It is bad policy to put all your strength Into a special effort to hold a grand publlo demonstration , nnd then let the enthusiasm aroused gradually die away and the cause languish for want of keeping up the Interest In the regular assem bly meetings and continuing the educational work among the newly made recruits. " The Cftrpontcrs' Success. Tlio Brotherhood of Carpenters nnd Joiners lu this city is rejoicing over the result of the eight-hour movement. Twenty-seven cities nnd town 23,353 carpenter's have secured the eight-hour day. Nine cities still prolong the light and alx have compromised on uuluo hour day. lu seventy-two cities arid towns a nine-hour day lias been established , with the under standing that eight hours shall constitute a day on Saturday. By this last concession , 1I,1K > carpenters aro"aflcctcd. . In eighteen pthere-ities and towns 2,2(12 ( men have secured increased pay. Everything taken into con sideration , the c 11 pouters think they have won a signal victory. The signers of the union scale in Chicago number almost 1,000 , with others coming in every day. Up t3 the present time iho siriku committee of the old association In Chie-ngo has sent to work 00 men , fully seven-tenths of whom are said to lie from other cities. During the lust few days thei e has been no defection of men from the employ of the old bosses , as was expected. Now Iho general opionion prevails that the second Chicago strike was not deferred -it was simply not intruded. Ijnlon Labor Convention. I. D. Chamberlain , of the Strornsburg Headlight , this st.ite , and who was a mem ber of the Parmera' alliance and Knights of Labor convention , held at St. Louis last December , has issued n call for n meeting which willboheld at Lincoln on Juno'J.I , to co operate for the marntnlnnirco of the platform formulated by the National farmers' alliance and Kniglits of Labor and also to put in nomination a slate licket representing the in dustrial interests of the st.ile. Tlio basis of representation will bo us follows : In counties where there is an organization of tlio Farmernllnnco , of less than fifty voters , sni'h organi/atrou shall bo entitled to ono delegate ; and when such organization has more than fifty voters , it shall bo entitled to ono delegate lor each fifty voters mid major fraction. The sarno representation granted the Farmers' alliance , shall ho granted to the Knights of Labor , the granges , the Fanners' and Peoples' union , Farmers mutual beneiit association , the Carpenters union , and all other labor organizations in Iho stile ; rep resentation to bo by counties and each county shall bo entitled to 'at least two elelegates. Cifiju- Makers Strike. The cigar makers of Now York city arc on a strike that promises to bo an interesting ono baforo it is settled. Thursday ir > JO union men throw down their tools , refusing to work until tlio restoration of the schedule of washes is established. A meeting of all of the unions was called for Friday , ami after discussing the now schedule which reduces the price of manufacturing 5 per cent , 1OJO more of the men , including several hundred strippers , resolved to go out last night. Un less the old schedule is restored it is believed there will bo a general walk cut baforo the cud of the present week. A Iliiit ie ) Secret tiry Koejhe. Frank Bandle , whllo ho docs uot seek the position , would accept an umplreship upon the staff of the western association , nnd in view of the fact that every ono of Secretary liocho's appointees so far , with the exception of Tim Hurat and Hardy Henderson , have been the rawest kind of failures , it seems as if the Omaha management should surely have influence enough with Uocha to induce htm to tender the appointment. Bnndlo is an old ball player , ono of the upright , manly stiipe , and a man thoroughly conversant with every common and technical point of the play ; Is honest and iinpirtlal , quick , but In variably correct in his decisions , and the very man this association is in need of. The re- nppolntment of Blogg was a mistake Bandlo should have had the place. The coal miners' strike In the mines at Cokcdalo , Mont , has , been settled and nt last , the miner's have returned to work. A propo sition in writing was made by a committee representing the Cokcdalo assembly of the Knights of Labor and handed to the chief of the force of detectives at the cainp of the miners during the trouble. The proposition was referred to ox-Governor Hauscr , who. last Thursday , went to Cokcdalo and cttccted n compromise at once. The terms of the agreement were that the miller's shall receive $1.10 for hard coal and f 1.03 for soft coal per ton of : .Y.MO pounds , Laborers' wages around the mines will remain as formerly , $ - ' 60 per day. All of the old hands who commuted no violence were given work , and but few were excluded from the mines. The miner's agreed to boycott two saloonkeeper * who. the com pany claim , have bee.u the principal agitators of the strike , EIGHTY MILES ON A RAIL , Nine Hours' ' Ride on tlio Street Lines of Omaha. SOME FEATURES ON TWO OF THEM. Scones Where ) Crime Has Been Corn- milled , Accidents Happened and Happy Homes arc Found in Numbers. The cable car ruslics across the lower Union Pacific tracks on South Tenth with noise not unlike a. volley of musketry and glides up the hill to the north with the dig nity of n major on dress parade. It casts n scoinftil eye upon many of the old-time rook * cries which the viaduct is soon to relegate to obicurity. Jirn Stcphcnson is sunning his big diamond at the entrance to his cciuino parlor , and the boys of No. i ! arc washing up , tired and sleepy after last night's lire. The car is jerked on to Dodge and is boarded by an offensive cieaturo who requires five minutes to llud her nickel , greatly to the annoyance of .Tacit Pavnter the conductor. Later an old gentleman , who lived near Horatio Seymour - mour and I' . W. Hitchcock in an early day and who is soon to celebrate the sixtieth an niversary of his bridal , with dtfllculty gets on board. A momentary pause at the postofliee , thence pist the First Presbyterian where Mrs. Latey once warbled with angelio sweet ness and Uev. Mr. Ilarsha still preaches ; the house in which John Mel'ormiek died , the train bieasts the sleepy hill audio the accom paniment of an underground muimer turns north on Twentieth street. Tim high school gi omuls , now historical mid the most beautiful of their kind in trio country , does not restrain the forwatd move ment of the car and down the hill it glides past the former beautiful homos of Hov. Mr. Shonill ami the late P. C. Ilimolmugh , the present abode of John A. CreighUm , it shows up Major Halcombo with an anliu.uo collection of cigar ashes in his weather-beaten beard. There is no stop made at Curnlug slrcct. The power houses are passed , the re cessional shouts of flzard's children die away , and the little collages which the cable line brought into civilisation are passed with rapidity , n little lllrtation , however , being in dulged with a couple of Coliseum stars who grace u veranda in the vicinity of that struc ture. ture.At Lake street the voyagcur obeys the Im patient admonition "hurry up" ot the jerk water connection which i mis to Twenty-sixth streol , and off. the belated rattlcrgoes llkotha wind. Heady to moot us at Crissy's corner , Sannders street , is a deer-hound motor train of the Sprague s\ stem glowing In its beauty in the mornings sun. The molorman lets her out , and until Mayor Furay'sclesine'nsois roach , bho shows heels not unworthy of the Iron horse. Then the btrcot becomes crowded and the rein is pulled while are passed the Goodrich hall , the center of Not th Side secret fraternlllos , and the al ways memorable corner of Twenty-fourth , wheio the over-aspiring mortals ot thoKighth annually light their pitch and sanguinary battles. In fancy , one can see the Lanes , the Herolds , the Sanders , the Balcomlics , the Furajs , the Yosls , the darks struggling jur supremacy. Blacksmith shop , grocery , dry goods stoio nnd saloon succeed one another with remarkable regularity and down tlio hill the car rushes lo Sixteenth , the great artery of trade. Heedless ol the thronged sides , the train , with Us clanging bell , cleaves u way for its passage. Heio is a hotel from the windows dews of which on u wintry night bravo llrvmi'ii rescued women from the flames ; there Is Hilly Gentleman's who with his smile docs not feel that ho Is observed\ \ there , too , is Jefferson square with n labyrinth of walks not unllko those w Men guarded Rosa mond' * bower ; ami there , also Masonic hall , which has been waltzed into obscurity , the board of education rooms with the face of a beautiful teacher framed in a window smiling on us us wo pass , nnd 11 K Birkitt receiving a consigned stilt from u country precinct. George J.csilo coutuiii'lutes ' Judge Neutlos We say : We will sell you at cash prices , add ing 5 per cent for the ac commodation , and give you any length of time you wish [ within rea son ] to pay for your goods. The dealer who says he will sell on time as cheap as for cash is simply a very poor busi ness man , and places a very low estimate on amount of sense you possess. bride block with envy , while a hundred people contemplate the bargains of the Bos ton and the llayden's and the Benlsou's store. The horse seems n little tired as he strug gles up the Farnam approach nnd when ho reaches the hoard of trade corner Bill Pavton gets on board after extinguishing his big pipe. Three pretty typewriters catch the conductor's cyo and for them the train waits , gieatly to the satisfaction of the young male passengers , who make the most of the fact that they are not on speaking terms with the ladies Tlio fated southwest corner of Howard and Sixteenth street is reached. Here poor Drago was calcined followed so shortly after by the brutal murder of Poor , who so narrowly escaped destruction as to his laundry on that day. One block further south is passed the spot where Loencisen's carelessness throw him beneath Juggernaut wheels of a South Omaha motor. Kecolloctions of old Browncll hall crowd into the mind , a block still further south. But the girls have all gone , the glorious , happy , pretty gills , the rare nnd radiant maidens , have all gone , but some of the old buildings remain. Tlio girls have become - como sweethearts and wives and mothers , but their alma mater , which was once clearer limn blocks of brick or halls of art , remains in part devoted to ignoble purposes nnd but painfully recalling scones of innocence and pleasure ) which can never die. Fuithur south there is a buildingt in the e\-- tctiorof which there is n suggestion of the design of that of Tin : * Jiu : office , and still further south there is an aggregation of brick and mortar as line almost as any to bo found in this city. The motor evidences a dcsiro to continue southward across the viaduct , but at length turns on Leavenworth street , pumps up the hill , past George Parr's Dr. Jcnscn's.wluther ono stormy night John Frank was carried in a hack to bo treated and wheio ho was found dead in the vehicle when the driver dis mounted to help his passenger alight. Past Leavenwoith school , the principal of which holds u letter in her hand nnd a resolute as- assistant is looking daggers at n naughty boy outside the fence. Hight along , between high walls of eaiih , the culling of which caused so much talk nnd bitter feeling , tlio train rushes. Hero is the plain but comfortable homo of C. W. Hamilton whoso good taslo has preserved what must over bo to him the foiest primeval , and which keeps always before him the natural beauty of the spot which llrst caused him to exclaim many years ago , "Heiowill I build my homo. " Apropos , n passenger remarks : "Seo you that lesidenco with Its antopondiuin of tie'cs and Us gladed lawns , Observe how tlio bliss ful repose of the woodland of a ( inailerofa century ago seems to distinguish the place. What a haven of lest must not this have been to the owner these many years. But see , how rudely scancd is that wall of earth which forms the southern line. That is an evidence ) of the push nnd progress of Omaha , which , for thiity years , has been driving private residences of the larger class farther to the west , even as civilization has driven the original inhabitants of the woods and plains. That wall was made by n cut mill that cut has made Leavenwoith street ono of the promising thoroughfares in the city. Mr. Hamilton opposed the cut. Ho felt , however , that it was coming , and ono day ox pustulated with those who favored the innovation in about thcso woids : 'Now ' , don't press this matter. Your time will como soon enough. Let this go along n little further , Lot these hills remain. I have walked over them these many years. I won't ' or can't \valk over them very much longer. But I do like them .still , and when 1 can no longer walk over them , why let them bo cut down.1 " Mr. Hamilton still walks over the hills all that remains of them. His love of letlremunt and sylvan lest has been violently assailed , but ho mill retains a relic of the ii ist With which modern innovation cannot intcifuro nnd which may not bo deprived of its beauty even though It bo encompassed by the rush of turtle ou every side. On the next corner , poor Sarn Donnelly formerly of The Herald , lived and thencob.ulo good-byo to Omaha when ho loft for New York , whcro ho subsequently fell beneath a ladder a victim to dovotlon ut the shrlno of journalism. Then there Is Milton Ropers' largo resi dence , another well-proborved lelloof by-gono days. Then comes a vlow of Congressman Council's residence , vrhich is equally \lsiblo tram both St Mury s iivcuuo and Leaven wurth strctt. Mr. Council was the apostle uf "Let me out and build the fire. " Mr. Jones has just bougfyfi one of these new folding bed at the Nebraska lAumtmlgi Co , and likes it so well thajf it's next to impossible for l\Ifg \ Jones to get him uplo breakfast ) finds it works so easily she can shut it with a broom , and tln | | cut shows how she docs it. By the way , the Joneses fu/- ' nished their entire house at ' Nebraska Furniture Co.'s s ( from the hat rack where Jonc hangs up his boots on "Lodg' Nights" to the-pretty , chca chamber suit , way up in til garret chamber. Go and sec the Nebraska Furniture COMPANY. ' 520 and 522 North 16th Sired the grade. Ho preached it day and nitrhto Before it , down went his terraces and up wenl Lcvenworth street stock us a mam a\enuo oi trade. Thi-n follows a scries of cuts ami fills , ana finally Phil Sheridan street is rent licii by means of which St. Mary's ' ave'nuc formerly poured its traffic into Leavenworth slrrct/ On Iho next block stands St Peter s c In.relij Iho pastor of which , Father Boyle , so we ntly wont to his reward. Be-yond evCouniilmnii Lee and Jim Nichols seek ducats in the liury business , and still further stands the usi * deuce of Judge Dandy , which ho thuifhtloj ( years would remain in tlio country * i Then around the corner and the train Is on Ptirkavenno. On either side are the happy , homes of well known clti/cns , sunenindecl with every grace and beauty of lawu and' ' terrace. Tlio park is reached but not visited bocau d the man who is traveling eighty mil < s on the ; street cars in n day has not time for such dl-i version. The next car is taken on the11 e-t Iho Soulh Omaha motor is reached and tb follows a succession of rules whuh let. only after night fall when the tour of thei'Itw has been made , every line been ridden oven and the voyager reduced to the condition which promises a good night's sleep. The average mail's politics nnd rclri-U n aid either inherited or accepted second baud Yabsley Mudge tells mo that he clue's lot believe tire Bible. Wickwire-Oh , well , jexi couldn't expect him to. Ho didn't \\iHo it , you seo. Tlio mills of the gods grind slowly enough , but they keep up a continual grind. Elderly nnd Dicnilied Personage What Kind of clrcss should a superannuated inn i trr assume I Clerk Might I suggest ictuuii ; robes ? Ho was a little fellow , nnd when a kcd what ho remembered about the se mum , 10- plicd : "Not very much , but it n.is soinen thing about Paul sending pistols for pJf C penas. " Ono day the organ softly played "From Greenland's icy mountain- . , ' And all the people humbly iiraj cd For shoiter in the cooling simile Near Stloam'H famous fountains AVhcn Johnny Freeze thus roused hiMIO , A monopolist In ice : "When other folks nio In the llro The cost of ice will go much higher For won't wo raise the pi ico' " -J\ciu I'D/i ; lIcinM. Parson This brokerage business of yourt is nothing but gambling , deacon You should glvo It up. Doacorr No muro than you do. Parson What ! you moan that t jamblot Deacon Well , you dual in futun > Uov. Mr. Grimes ( to Judge TortiT and when you have u particularly bail ii y como before you what is the first ip" "nil you risk him ? Judge Tort I asli Inul "Where docs your father preach ( " Ho who his deeds In sin has plunm < 1 And dleth empty handed Will when ho seeks the golden struiid In Jordan's waves ho stranded Chicago Uvomni/ Holwotthy ( entering late ) How lum Dr. Vex been preaching ! Sextmi 'I M ' ' } ' two years sir. Holworthy I giie-.s 1 \\uut go in , then. "Tho mcok shall Inherit the earth , ' 'i > < ' d the minister to a parishioner not imti < i i > > I ' meekness , "Yes , " replied iho hiMiian l"'t Lira hustler to contesting tlio will\'i ) 'fcu- ' rously. " Hov. Longnecker Dear , I wNh I < " ' ' 1 Lhlnk of seine way lo make the n n < ' "t keep their eyes on mo during H" ' ' ' " " Little Tommy You want to it right behind the pulpit. "Now children , who was tins sti ii | ? < * t maul" asked the Sunday school sup i n ' ' ' ' cut. "John L. Samson ! " yelled iii' ) ' " < ' low whoso knowledge of miereel and j n f- " < i lilstory was somewhat mixed. Mr. Simmons So jour son is ir < 'hci ministry ! I suppose you nro quite inuiui e-t iiivlng u son who Is an humble followci.ol the Saviour. Mr. Willcts-1 should say I a > ; uoud. Why ho is making no less than tl.fjWJ i year now , with food prospects of uu ud vunuQ next season. Very dainty nnd elegant Is a photo holder of brass In rustic pattern enunu'lcd In < i4ort < . J'ho frame Is twined with exquisite t.ule'J lowers with rhino stones , like threat Ucw drups , ghalcning in their