ONE BEET-LOVED OP ALL.
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Tttna new dolls nt (m three little chair*,
. Walling ter Christmas dvr:
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And they sronderw, when she new them.
Vriet the little girl would say.
The; hoped thet tho nursery lire was say;
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fife
__jyhopod that they would find
UttlO girl often played with dolls;
" the; hoped that sho was kind.
Near by sat an old doll noatly dressed
In n now frock, blaok and red:
Bho smiled et the French dolls—“As to that.
Don't feel afraid," she said.
Tho new dolls turnod tholr waxen heads,
And looked with n hauxhtv stare,
As It they nevor had seen before
That a doll was sitting there.
“Oh, wo'ro not in tho least afraid," said ono,
“Wo arc Quito too lino and new;
But perhaps you yourself will find that now
She will scaroely euro for you."
The old doll shock her head and smtlod:
Sho smiled, although sno know
Herplostor nose was almost gonn,
And her cheeks wore faded too.
And now It was day: In camo tho child,
And there all i ay and brlsht
Sat thro j new dolls in;ilttlo chairs—
It was a lovely sight.
She praised their curls, and noticed too
How finely they were dressed:
But the old doll all tho whflo was hold
Clasped close against her breast.
—St Nicholas.
| BLIND JUSTICE.
BT HELEN B. MATHERS.
chapter r.
The woman flashed across the
eourt at me a lcok of scorn, ay, and
of contempt, but of fear not a traco.
And yet I, who had placed her in
,• the dock whore sho stood, I, who
had made those purely disinterested
efforts to hung hor, that socmed cor
if-;, tain to bo crowned with success, felt
that howevor much I might deserve
her detestation, I in no sense was or
looked the mistaken fool that she
supposed me.
Judith they called hor, ahd a Jud
ith she was, with the grand frame
and limbs of a daughter and mother
of the gods, and like her groat name
sake, she too had slain her man,
though not to such heroio purpose
and results.
This woman had no tribe to glorify
her crime, and only one friend on
! v earth with a heart,to.bo w^ung by it,,
/ a%d that man now Mood as closely
as might be, beside hor, his comeli
ness all aged and dimmed by the an
guish through which she had brought
him.
And yet I felt, for tho first time,
•orry for my work, when that look
of hers, in which spoke a virile inno
; cence, so sure of itself as easily to
' afford contempt, flashed upon some
: inner consciousness of mine, leaving
outsiue it the brain and that had al
ready tried and found hor guilty.
&■* But, no—I had seen this strong,
calm woman in the throes of fear and
agony, her not easily moved nature
shaken to its vory depths, and no
criminal yet ever had ctruuinstantial
evidence so pitilessly arrayed against
her. 1 forced my eyes from her, and
fixed them on the oounsol for the
prosecution, who had already com
li menced his indictment against her.
"This woman," no said, "little
more than a child at hor marriage,
had lived a notoriously mlsorable
life with Seth Trcloar, though to do
her justice, no blame of uny kind at
, tached itself to hor conduct as a
wife; and when within the year ho
; disappeared, leaving no trace, she
'if remained in her native viilago, sup
porting herself by any sort of work
: that came in her way. She does not
appear to have encouraged any
lovers; but when seven years had
passed, she boldly announced that
she felt herself legally free of Tro
loar, and married a man whose char
y acter was as good as her former hus
band Is had been the reverse, and
: whom 6ho loved with a passion more
than equal to that detestation she
had foil for the other. From being
the butt of a drunken and brutal
scoundrel, she became tho cherished
w and adored wife of the best looking
and best natured man in the village,
and for Some brief months tasted
that supreme happiness which is
known only to those persons who in
tho past have acutely sulfored. Per
haps so much content irritated the
on-lookers, fOr only cold looks were
/ cast upon the two, while tho mali
cious prophesied that Treloar’s ro
turn would cut short the pair's feli
city, and affected not to consider
them man and wife at all; so that by
degrees they became completely iso
lated from their neighbors, ahd no
|v: living feet save their own ever
crossed the threshold of Smugglers’
Hole.
This house had formerly been the
rendezvous of smugglers who were
. said to have within it some hiding
place in which to dispose of their
stolen goods; but though smugglers
went there no more, its bad charao
v ter remained, and its lonely position
.. at the end of the parish made it
loarod, so that the rent was a mere
trifle, and as Treloar had brought
■v Judith back to it a bride, so now
Judith brought Stephen Croft thither
as bridegroom, and there they dwelt
as much alone as on a desert island.
The woman defied her world, car
ing nothing, but the man felt her
.... position keenly, and at last per
r’ buaded her that it was best to eml
isf grate, and to this she at last very
, reluctantly consented.
Six months, then, after the cere
mony that the villagers declared no
ceremony, Judith Croft sat one night
by the fire in the almost empty cot
tage from which she was to depart
is! on tho morrow, with the man who
? represented all the sweetness and
happiness she had found in her life.
She heard steps on the path, the
latch lifted, and wo may surely pity
the unhappy woman whon, springing
■ through the dusk, she found herself
clasped In the arms, not of Stephen
XJl-Oit. but of Seth Treloar.
Of what passed between them. Cod
■ alone was witness, and God - alone
■ knows the truth; when the man
she loved came in an hour later, she
<was sitting alone by the hearth, with
no sign of exdtomcnt or anxiety
about her.
Sho prepared tho fish ho had
brought in for supper, ate with him,
and from that moment ho never left
her until they rose early next morn
inf', to be in time for tho train that
was to take them to Liverpool. So
much Stephen Croft said in his evi
dence, most reluctantly given, but
still more reluctantly two damning
pieces of evidence against her wore
drawn from him.
lie said thoy had arranged for
their landlord to tako over tho few
poor sticks of furniture they pos
sessed, and had sent on their small
personal belongings the day before,
but there were some few odds and
cuds to be carried batwocn them,and
ho hnd brought in a coil of stout rope
for binding them togother. At start
ing, the rope was missing, but his
wifo could not account for its disap
pearance more than himself, and did
not "fuss” about it as most womon
would have dono undor the
circumstauccs. At breakfast (this
was only dragged from him bit by
bit) ho noticed that she ato very
little, but furtivoly collected food on
a plate, and 6et it aside, as if for an
unexpected guost. He asked her
why she did this, and sho said tho
neighbors would bo all over the
house tho moment their backs wero
turned, and sho would gratify, their
curiosity as to what they had for
breakfast. He reminded her that
tholr landlord was trawling that day,
and several subsequent days, at a
distance, and that no one could
know the secrot piece, previously
agrood upon, where they wore to
hide tho key of tho house. Sho
laughed strangely, and said that
though you may lock people out, you
could not lock them in; but this
speech, though he did not under
stand it. was afterwards distinctly
quoted in her favor. Then they col
lected their small effects, and with
out a God-speed from a friend, or a
kindly eye to follow them on their
path, passed away from tho home in
which they had been so happy, to tho
one that had yet to be earned in the
uncertainty at tha. Juture. Perhaps
the man looked back, but at some
distance from the house the prisoner
did more, she alTected to have for
gotten something, and bidding him
go forward, retraced hor stops quick
ly. But he reluctantly admitted
that she returned empty-handed,that
she was pale as a corpse, with wild
eyes, that she gasped for breath,
stammering and presenting every ap
pearance of a woman who has re
ceived somo horrible shook, but when
he asked her if she had met with some
insult from a passing neighbor,
she shook her head, but would give
no explanation of her state. She
showed extraordinary eagerness to
reach the train, but did not utter a
syllable during tho journey, though
a sinister incidont occurred during
it That incident (here tho counsel
turned and looked steadily at me) was
witnessed by a gentleman, to whose
keen observation, swift action, and
roastorly manipulation of fact and
surmise was duo tho brilliantly con
clusive chain of ovidonce that had
brought the prisoner to where sho
stood that day.
This gentleman had in his hurry
jumped into a third instead of a first
class carriage, and congratulated
himself on his mistake when he saw
the two other occupants of the com
partment They were simply the
two most magnificent, specimens of
man and womanhood that ho had
ever seen in his life, but the man
looked troubled and perplexed, and
the woman gave one the same im
pression as of some usually calm
majestic aspect of nature, now con
vulsed and shaken to its very core.
He saw tho fine hands clonched be
neath her woolen shawl, tho splendid
eyes blind to all save some awful in
ward sight, and he recognized that a
tragedy had been, or was to bo en
acted, and he watched her, with en
tire unconsciousness to horsolf, un
remittingly for m!le upon mile.
Tho vigilance was unexpectedly
rewarded. She moved abruptly,
searched her pocket for a handker
chief with which to wipe hor damp
brow, and pulled out with it a small,
curiously shaped silvor box that foil
into the man's lap. The blank hor
ror of her eyos slowly quickened
with some recollection, she stretched
her hand to take it. but he drew
back, and with astonishment in his
face lifted the lid, and found the
contents to be a white powder. Into
this powder ' he thrust his
fore-finger and instantly applied it
to his tongue, on the moment crying
out that his tongue was burning,
then that his throat and stomach
were on fire, and violent nausea com
pleted the symptoms of having swal
lowed a violent irritant poison.
“You have taken arsenic!” cried
the stranger present, whereon the
prisoner shrieked out, snatched the
box from Stephen's hand, and threw
it far out the window.
lhe stranger, approaching the
] window, took the exact bearings of
1 the spot where it must have fallen,
; they were then close to a station,
| and there he got out, having
| watched these two until the last
I moment.
The man was. urging questions on
! her as to who gave it her, or where
I she had got it, but bevond that ono
] shriek, the stranger hoard no sound
I issue from her white lips from first
to last.
Only as the other closed the door,
he saw her lean forward, and press
the fisherman's hand with a passion
of tenderness, that startled the
gazer: clearly the poison was not
intended for the husband, therefore
j for whom?
.! The stranger bade the guard watch
the pair, and communicate to him,
at an address he gave the station at
which they descended, then ho re
traced tho distance ho hud come
from a certain point, and with very
little difficulty found what ho wanted.
Tho box was of pure silver, of for
eign make, which ho subsequently
discovered to be Austrian, and it
was three parts full of arsenic. He
locked the box away, said nothing
to anybody, but watched the dally
papers carefully.
Ho had not very long to wait; on
<ho fourth morning he read how in a
cellar, formerly used by smugglers
beneath a cottago at Trcvonick, in
Cornwall, had been found the dead
body of a man whose appearance
gave rise to suspicions of foul play,
and who, on examination was found
to have in his viscera sufficient
arsenic to kill three or four men.
The man was well clothed, well
nourished, un.l concealed In a belt,
upon him was found one hundred
gold pieces of money. He was at
once identified as tho long missing
husband of u woman who had within
the past few days left the villago
for Australia with her second hus
Jake George, a fishorman. swore
to sooing a man entor the house at 7
o’clock the evening before the pair
left, but ho saw no one come out,
though his work kept him near by
till 8, when Stephen Croit liirasolf
camo home. He was not near enough
to hear voices, though ho could
easily have heard a cry had there
been one. He peeped, as would bo
shown in the evidenco, but he could
seo nothing. With what superhu
man swiftness and strength must
this woman have overcome hor vic
tim, so that not even a moan or cry
reached the spy without! What self
control must have been hers that
she could meet hor husband with a
smile, and sit at board with him
that night, howevor absolutely she
might break down on the morrow!
In one short hour she had done as
much, and more, as a man could do,
and she had done it thoroughly.
Secure by hor hearth, the murdered
man hidden at her feet, she sat with
undaunted front, no smallest trace
around of the man who had visited
her. Without that hollow cave be
low, she might have murdered, but
could not have concealed him; but
as it was, this hiding place favored
the swiftness and subtleness of the
crime to an oxtraordina'-y degree.
For who could believe that he, the
former master of that house and the
woman in it, walked of his own
free will to the disused trap-door,
and deliberately elected to be low
ered by a rope to a cold and noisome
dungeon peopled only by rats? No!
It was for Stephen Croft to quail, to
shrink away out of sight as a de
frauded man, or, if Treloar showed
himself moved by his wife’s en
treaties, and actually consented to
leave her to her happiness, would he
not have left, as he came, by the
houso door?
Wo see no such thing when, in
imagination, we project our gaze
upon that bare, dismantled room; we
see a man who. whatever he may
have boen to her in the past, had
since possibly repented, and pros
pering in his new life (as his clothes
sufficiently proved), had remembered
the woman who once loved him, and
returned to share his prosperity with
her. He found her more beautiful
than ever, and probably the very
I thought of taking her away from an
other man enhanced her value in his
not over-fastidious mind; he meant
to take his rights and told her so,
while the miserable woman only half
heard him in straining her ears for
her lover's step without. She must
have acquiesced to all appearance in
his demands, or he could not have
tuken from her hand the cup of milk
with which she had stealthily mixed
the poison; strangely enough, she
must have also been possessed at the
time of a strong narcotic, since
traces of one were found in the
stomach, so that the cool, firm hand
doubly doctored the draft sho handed
to the unsuspecting man.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
Not a Target of That Kind.
One of the deputy commanders of
the state naval force employed to
prevent the depredations of oyster
pirates in Chesapeake bay, says a
writer in Harper’s Weekly, accepted
the captaincy of one of the sloops,
because it was an easy berth and the
pay was sure. His duties consisted
in sailing over his district and avoid
ing pirates. One fateful day he fell
in with a lot of depredators, and, be
fore he could got away, they were
impolite enough to fire at his boat.
Acting quickly, he put on all his
canvas, and sailed shoroward with
all possible speed. When he reached
the harbor, ho went promptly to the
telegraph office, and sent his resig
nation to Annapolis. A week later
Commander Seth met him and asked
him why he had resigned. “General
Seth,” ho replied, “during the war I
paid three hundred dollars for a sub
stitute, and, at my time of life, I
have too much self-respect to allow
myself to be shot by an oyster-pi
rate. "
Rigged for Comfort.
An Aroostook, Maine, farmer
travels in great comfort through the
long reaches of snow and in the faoe
of the bitterest north winds in a one*
horso sleigh, hooded over like a prai
rie schooner and with a stove inside,
the funnel sticking through the top.
It is a rig of his own invention, and
while not architecturally beautiful in
appearance, it is mighty comfortable
in use.
I-ondon Sandwich Men.
Sandwich men on the streets ot
London are required by.Jaw to walk
near the curbstone, but not on the
sidewalk, and not less than thirty
yards must separate each sandwich
man from his placarded comrade.
The fine for violating the regulations
j is $2.50 for each offense.
REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE.
PAYMENT OP PENSIONS.
Extract From tho Speech of Hod. William
W. Croat, of Vermont, In the Hoaie of
Bepreeentattves, Friday, March a, 1804.
Tho house, being in committee of the
whole on the state of the Union, and
having under consideration the bill (H.
R. 0482) making appropriations for the
payment of invalid and other pensions
of the United States for the fiscal year
ending Juno 30 ,1805, and for other pur
doscs—
Mr. Grout said;
Mr. Chairman; The bill before ua
carries $151,581,570. The appropria
tions for the present fiscal year was for
$160,530,350, which makes the present
bill $15,950,780 less than the one of a
year ago.
Upon this statement the question at
once arises: Is the sum named in this
bill sufficient to meet the expenditures
of the pension bureau for the next fis
cal year?
COMMISSIONER BAUM’S ESTIMATE.
At first glance it seems altogether
improbable, in fact almost incredible,
that this reduced sum will meet the
requirements of the bureau, especially
when we remember that the late com
missioner, Gen. Raum, than whom no
commissioner ever had the business of
the peusion office better in hand, esti
mated when before the committee a
year ago that if the work of the bureau
were pushed for the next two years as
it had been for the two years then last
past the expenditure for the fiscal year
1895, the year for which this bill pro
vides, would amount to about $180,000,
000.
But he also estimated that at that
time, with a continuance of the same
energy, there would be upon the roll
1,050,000 pensioners, there now' being
but 996,140. roll and as to expenditure,
which would, as you see, have been
nearly $15,000,000 more than the ap
propriation for the present year, the
fiscal year 1894. But instead of that
this bill carries almost $16,000,000 less
than the appropriation for the current
year, and in round numbers $30,000,000
less than Gen. Raum could see going to
the old soldiers in the year 1895 under
a vigorous and friendly yet fair admin
istration of the Bureau.
Nevertheless, Mr. Chairman, I feel
constrained to say that I think the sum
named in this bill is all that will be ex
pended by the pension bureau under
its present management; indeed, 1
think it is more than will be expended,
and that several millions will be left
over at the close of the year 1895. Mark
you, I do not say it is all I think ought
to be expended'under the pension laws
as they stand on the statute book of to
day, but I think it is all that will be
expended, unless a great change takes
place.
And now that the friends of this ad
ministration may understand how suc
cessfully it has been in cutting down
pension expenditure, a matter of sin
cere congratulation, of course, among
themselves, let me give just a glimpse
of the work of the pension bureau for
the past few years, with certain com
parative results under the last and
present administrations. That, I think,
must satisfy all, not only that under
republican administration would the
old soldiers, their widows and orphans,
receive at least $30,000,000 for the next
fiscal year more than now, but it will
also satisfy you that the smaller sum
reported by the committee is all or
more than will be paid them under the
present management
Remember 1 am standing by the bill
as reported by the committee, so far as
the amount appropriated for the pay
ment of pensions, and 1 present the fol
lowing facts and figures simply for the
purpose of showing how completely the
present administration has reversed the
liberal pension policy of the past, and
if possible to bring its friends to a real
izing sense of the great injustice being
done the men who preserved the Union
of the states, and made possible the
greatness of this rich and prosperous
American people. [Applause on the
republican side.
UNSETTLED CLAIMS. ^
In the first place, I want you to fix
in mind that on December 31, 1893,
there were 811,572 unsettled claims
pending in the pension bureau. 244,706
of which have been examined and re
jected, but are always open' to further
consideration on additional evidence.
This leaves 567,866 claims that have
never yet been taken out of the pigeon
hole for examination. ,
Now, please fix another fact in mind,
viz., that for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1892, Commissioner Raum is
sued 311,589 certificates. How many
certificates do you suppose Commis
sioner Lochren issued in the first six
months of the present fiscal year?
Only 33,999. This shows that Raum ad
mitted claims or, in other words,
granted pensions more than four times
as fast as Lochren is doing.
REJECTIONS.
But there is another side of this
work in which Judge Lochren far ex
ceeds Gen. Rauin. It is in rejections.
For six months, viz., for June to Novem
ber, inclusive, in 1892, Commissioner
Raum rejected 48,398 claims and allow
ed 110,266. Commissioner Lochran for
the same months in 1893 allowed 35,755,
but rejected 67,383.
in other words, Kaum admitted four
cases just about as often as he rejected
one. But under the present adminis
tration the order is entirely reversed,
and under Lochran two cases are re
jected almost as often as one is admit
ted. And during the sultry month of
August last the proportion was very
much larger, only 5,173 cases being ad
mitted and 23,663 rejected—a case re
jected a little more than four and one
half times ae often as one was admit
ted. It should also, perhaps, be stated
that during this dismal month of Au
gust rejections in the office seem to have
culminated.
In a single month 23,663 sad messa
ges had gone to as many anxious, and
in many instances destitute homes,
scattered over the whole country. Such
a flood of adverse decisions, together
with over 12,000 suspensions, could
hardly help stirring the atmosphere in
every section; and when the veterans
were met in national encampment at
Indianapolis early in September last no
one was surprised when they entered
their protest against this indis
criminate slaughter of the innocents. I
say "indiscriminate slaughter,'’ for it
must have been such. From the very
1 nature of the case, so many rejections
in so short a time could not have hap
pened had not the spirit of resistance
to pensions been rife, like an evil
genius whose fell influence had reach
ed the whole pension force.
It may be as Doesticks would say,
only a "remarkable coincidence," but
from that time the number of rejec
tions became suddenly less, In Septem
ber being only a little more than half,
and in November a little less than one
half as many. It was a little time be
fore the meeting of this encampment
that a halt was called in the wholesale
suspension of pensions, without notice
to the pensioner. Mark you, I do not
say that this meeting of the veterans
had anything to do with staying the
hand of the executioner, but as a faith
ful chronicler of these sorrowful times
I give you the facts and the dates, and
let you draw your own inference.
More directly to the point, however,
as showing the sufficiency of this re
duced appropriation, is a comparative
statement of the amount of the first
payments for the same half of the fis
cal years 1S93 and 1893. These first
payments, remember, depend alto
gether upon the number of cases ad
mitted or certificates issued; and as the
issue of certificates is increased or les
sened the expense is increased or les
sened, approximately, at least, for the
payment to those already on the roll
is all the time very nearly a fixed quan
tity. Hence, it is perfectly clear that
the way to keep down pension expendi
ture is to keep down the issue of cer
tificates—and that is just what this
democratic administration is doing with
a vengeance; and that, too, “in a way
that is peculiar,” though all the time
“with a smile that is clildlike and
bland.”
PENSION ACT OV JUNE 27, 1890.
While President Cleveland and Sec
retary Gresham have been struggling
to reverse the march of liberty in the
islands of the Pacific, Secretary Hoke
Smith, more successful in the work of
undoing, under date of May 27, 1893, re
voked order 104 and directed the com
missioner of pensions to formulate new
rules for the allowance of pensions
under the act of 1890, and also to have
the 400,000 claims already allowed un
der order 164 re-examined and read
justed according to the new standard.
And right here let us see what that
new standard is. It will be found in
Commissioner Lochren’s order 225 of
June 9, and in the new “rules for rat
ing.”
THE PINCH IN THE NEW PROCESS.
I will not stop to read order 225,
which, except in the negative, unfrindly
spirit that pervades it, quite incompat
ible with the benevolent intent of the
act itself, is not so very different from
Kaum’s order 164. The pinch in this
new process does not lie in this order.
It is to be found in the “rules for rat
ing,” which the commissioner said
would be prepared by the medical
referee; and three days later, June 12,
that official brought forth, with the ap
proving midwifery of Commissioner
Lochren, the following monstrosity.
I say monstrosity! And Mr. Chairman,
when you get a square look at this
newcomer in the pension office you will
also say mostrosity. Here it is. 1 will
thank the clerk to read.
The clerk read as follows:
[Clrcular.l
Department op the Interior, 1
Bureau op I’Ensioxs. Medical Division, >•
Washington. D. C., June 12, 1*9.1. )
In the matter of rating cases under the act
of June 27, 1S9D, the following directions will
serve as landmarks only, and will be subject
to such variations as the particular case may
require:
The ratings will be $12, 310. ?S and $6.
The rating of 312 will bo allowed only In
the following class of cases:
1. In ca es where the Claimant is clearly
disabled from performing any effective man
ual labor.
2. In loss of el her band or arm.
3. In loss of either leg or toot.
4. In total (leafties■> of both cars.
The minimum rate shall be allowed for a
disability equivalent to anchylosis of elbow
joint, double inguinal hernia uncomplica
ted, and double inguinal hernia, one incom
plete.
The ratings between 812 and fG will be
given in proportion as the claimant is dis
abled from earning a support oy manual
labor.
If there are two or more disabilities each
demanding a rate of $U, the rating of $3, the
rating of 310snail be allowed, and if there
aro two or more disabilities, each demand
ing a rating below 36, shall not be added to
make a minimum rating, and such shall be
rejected.
All specific ratings as published In the
book of instructions have no application in
adjudicating claims under this act.
Thus. Fkathekstonhaugh,
Approved: Medical Referee.
William Lochren,
Commissioner.
Mr. Chairman, here is not only a new
system of ratings, ignoring the wisdom
of thirty years’ experience as expressed
in the standard schedule, but wonder
ful indeed; yes, monstrous even; here
is a new arithmetic with a new rule
for addition, in which twice 6, or any
larger number of times 6, make 3, and
twice 8, or any larger number of times
8, make 10; ancTirtl the numerals below
6 count for nothing.
Mr. Chairman, if these were nominal
ratings, like some under the old sched
ule, substantial, as will appear from
section 2 of Commissioner Lochren's or
der 225;
2, No specific Injury or disability can, as
such, have a pensionable rating under that
act (June 27, nor be considered other
wise than as it affects the capacity of claim
ant to perform ordinary manual labor.
Now, let us, for just a moment, see 1
what you would have under this sys
tem. Remember the new “rules for
rating” say the minimum rate, which
is 86, shall be allowed for a disability
equivalent to anchylosis of elbow joint {
rated at 810, or double inguinal hernia,
uncomplicated or one incomplete, rated
at 812 in old schedule.
Wow, suppose a claimant has anchy
losis of elbow and knee joints: has
nearly total deafness of both ears; has
double inguinal hernia and anchylosis
of shoulder joint; has lost thumo and
iddex finger, and all the toes of one
foot, and is also suffering general de
bility in a degree equivalent to double
inguinal hernia; and what will his pen
sion be? Only 88 per month. Prepos
terous and impossible, you will exclaim!
But it is even so, for the new rules of
rating say: “if there are two or more
disabilities (remember, two or more),
each demanding a rating of §«, the rat
ing of 88 only shall be allowed.” Ia
this case 8 times 0 make 8.
Now, suppose another claimant has a
stiff wrist and ankle, is blind in one
eye, has severe, not total, deafness of j
both ears, has lost index and middle
fingers, has inguinal scrotal, or ventral
hernia, not double, but single, and is j
at the same time suffering from gen- j
eral debility in a degree equivalent to j
a stiff wrist or ankle, what pension do
you suppose he has under tiie new rules?
None at all. More preposterous still,
you say; but all these ratings would be
below 88 each; and do not thlse rules
say, “two or more disabilities each de
manding a rating below 88 shall not be
added to make a minimum rating and
such cases shall be rejected. ' So say
those monstrous, these hideous] v
strous now rules. *»>usiy mon
Mr. HopUius of Illinois tw
G™nt' .Of course it does
Isow, Mr. Chairman, suppose a
claimant has all the disabilitf^ „,blr<l
nliranfr TV* 1 _n lU6S 01 ap
plicant No. 1 and all theTnfirmit°„ S
No. what pension ought he to have’
Can you help thinking, sir, that V
ought at least to hare 313 a month es
pedally when you recall that the W
congress with the approval of Hen*!1
mm Harrison to show our brelhrenrf
the south that a republican administra
tion con d be fair, could be generous
even, raised the rate of disabled Me*?
can war pensions from 88 to 812 in ?
cognition of their early defense of the
flag, though most of them had after
wards been in rebellion, an increase ot
which, by the way, I have never heard
the pension reformer complain'’ I <,•>„
can you help feeling that claimant No
3, loaded with nearly all the ills flesh
is heir to, though he might be able to
hoe potatoes and pick up chips, ought
to have 813 under the law? b ‘
Mr. Chairman, I cannot say what his
rating would be. except that it would
not be $73. Here again the new “rules
of rating” stand in the way of manifest
justice. Here they are:
tZyteoZ^g°Llf^m be aUowed cnly In
1. In cases whero the claimant Is clearlv
mauuUaborl:,n perfo m,n» effeciua5!
2. In loss ot either hand or arm.
3. In loss of either leg or foot.
4. In total deafness in boih ears.
“Allowed only” in the above cases
is the language, and this man could get
at most only 810 per month.
Mr. Chairman, I might multiply illus
trations to Bhow the systematic hostil
ity to the soldier of these new rules.
But the foregoing must suffice as show
ing how completely he is barred from
the benefits of the act of 1890 by the in
genious work of the nullifiers; and this
is democratic administration of the
pension bureau.
MEANING OF FEMININE NAMES.
Bachel is Hebrew, the lamb.
Margaret is Greek, the pearl.
Clara is Latin, the bright one.
Florence is Latin, the blooming one.
Ruth is Hebrew, and means beauty.
Beatrice is Latin, the one who makes
happy.
Catherine, a Greek name, means th# ,
pure one.
Agnes is of German origin, the
chaste one.
Charlotte is a French name, mean
ing all noble.
Blanche is of French origin and sig
nifies the fair one.
WITS AT WORK.
Clara—Don't you think he is too old
to love? Maude—That may be, my
dear, but he’s too wealthy not to.
Traveler—1 see you advertise shel
ter for man and beast? Tavernkeeper
—Yes, sir; I can give you either.
Which do you prefer?
Maud—Why don't you give young
Sewers some encouragement if you
love him? Nell—Oh, he ought to be
able to press his own suit. He's a
tailor.
Aunty—What a lot of pretty dolls
you have. Little Niece—Yes'm, they
is real pretty; but I do have so much
trouble wi? zem. Sometimes I fink
they must be all boys.
Prisoner—It's hard to charge me
with forgery, for you see I can’t even
sign my own name. Judge—That
point is immaterial; it’s auother man's
name you're accused of signing.
“Brinkles says you owe him $10,”
said the man who has no tact what
ever. “That’s very true,” was the re
ply. “I’d have paid it long ago, only
1 was afraid of hurting his feelings.”
“What do you mean?” “I was afraid
he would think I thought he needed
the money.”
Company had unexpectedly“dropped
in” to dinner at the home of the small
boy who was fond of pie. His mother,
not having an ample quantity, dimin
ished the generous slice he usually
received. But he objected and, push
ing his plate aside, said; “I ain’t going
to take that piece of pie; it’s long and
slim and thin and not a bit wide and
hardly any thick.”
An Artist.
The visitor at the boarding house was
entertaining one or two of his friends at
the piano, and two boarders were listen
ing at the head of the stairs.
“Who’s that at the piano?’ asked one.
■ “Blamed if I know,” was the reply;
“he hits the piano as if he were a black
smith, but he murders the music like a
butcher.”—Detroit Free Press.
A Contrary Influence.
“Did yon tell anybody that funny
story I gave you yesterday?” asked young
Woodby Witte.
“Yes. I told it to an old gentleman
who works in our office.”
“Did he laugh?’ ’ .
“No. He cried. He said it reminded
him of his childhood days.”—Washing
ton Star. ■_
A Definition.
Teacher—What is the feminine of man,
Thomas?
Thomas—Woman. .
Teacher—And the feminine of gentle*
man?
Thomas (unhesitatingly) — Dude!—
Puck.
Hadn't Any Kalb
“Confound you, sir! I’ve a notion to
pull your nose. What do you mean by
telling people that I’ve got a temper* _
“I take it all back, sir. When I sai;
that, I wasn't aware that yon bail lost it
this morning.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
Completely Gone.
“He is madly infatuated with her.
“Indeed?”
“Yes. He even went so far as to tell
her that if she. were only a^few y®819
younger he would marry her.’ —Lite.
Not That Kind of a Toon* Man
Maud—What did young Fitznoodlo «
when you rejected him. Did be get <lo
on his knees?
Ethel—No, he went off on his ear.
Trnth.
