ALMOST A BOOM.
,EX-CANDIDATE BRYAN'S OWN
STATS CONTRIBUTES.
from KtlltaM la All Farts of
Nebraska Attest tha Gradually Im
WO'Ini Conditions and Growth of
Bnslaoss and Contentment of Farmers.
(Washington Letter.)
That genuine prosperity has struck
Mr. Bryan's own state even without
the free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver is quite apparent from the follow
ing letters which have been received
from time to time during the past
month. by the literary bureau of the
Republican national committee from
editors in Nebraska:
Wymore, Neb., Aug. 6, 1897.
Business Is improving. The fruit
and small grain crop in Nebraska was
good. The state is well supplied with
hogs, sheep and cattle, and the greatest
corn crop in the history of the state
is assured. Prices are fifty per cent
better than last year at this time and
are getting better every day. Rail
roads and factories of all kinds arc
hiring new men every week and pros
perity is here to stay.—J. M. Burnham,
Editor Wymorean.
*1' Madison, Neb., Aug. 3, 1897.
.Ouc section is purely agricultural
but there Is a general feeling that times
are Improving and money easier than
in many months. There has been
shipped from this station within the
past CO days 376,000 worth of cattle
besides a large number of hogs and
a great amount of grain. Qur old
creamery, after lying Idlo (or four
years, has been remodeled and is mak
ing. 300 pounds of butter per day and
another one near here will be In oper
ation soon. Even our most calamitous
Pops are beginning to see an Improve
ment.—Carl T. Seely, Editor Chron
icle. . , < * ,
Ponca, Neb., July 24, 1897.
Our city is putting in an extension
of waterworks equal to 80 per cent of
the present works, a telephone line has
just been completed to communicate
with^ Sioux iCity; the Milwaukee rail
road la talking of putting in a bridge
t at a coat of $400,000. There is an ap
parent ground swell that everybody
feels and money is more freely offered
for investment.—B. W. Wood, Editor
Gazette. > .
Culbertson, Neb., July 24, 1897.
Business is Improving in this section
of the country very much. Of course
the Pops have control of Nebraska but
they , cannot last long where there are
good crops, ao that we will get rid of
most of them In time. There is more
money in circulation now than for tour
years; everybody at work here. Any
one who wants to can see improvement
all over the country: The'Culbertson
roller mills and elevators are being re
fitted and will start soon.—Robt. J.
Cole, Editor Era. < I,
Nelson, Neb., July 28,1897,
Notwithstanding the continuous wall
of our Popocratic friends there is a
growing spirit of confidence here. The
proprietor of our brick-making ■ con
cern reports larger business In 1897
than in all of 1894 and 1896. A large
.portion of our 1896 crop Is still here
to be marketed and the good crop of
1897, oottpled with good prices make
prosperity and activity certain.—F. A.
Scherxlnger, Editor Gazette,
Weeping Water. Neb., jhlV 35,1897.
This is a farming and stock feeding
community and our only other indus
try is that of stone quarrying. When
Harrison was president as high as 300
men were employed but for three and
...A halt years during the Cleveland ad
ministration the industry was Idle.
Work has now been resumed with
prospects for good business this fall.
There l^plenty of work In the coun
try end few able bodied men who want
-work are Idle. Merchants say business
Inconsiderably Improved.—J. K. Keith
,Nfy. Etdtor Republican.
. Wilber, Neb., July 29, 1897.
WithinThe past three months a large
; iteaih flouring mill which had been
idle for some time, has commenced
operations again. At Crete, 10 miles
AWay> a bank has been Incorporated by
loca^ capttaHats * with* a - capital of
§50,000, and all over the county much
pudding is being done.—J. A. Wild,
tttdltorRepubllcan. ^ *
Nellgh, Neb., July 20, 1897.
Improvement Is seen In increased
#»l|jnlop pf merchants, general em
ployment of labor and better collec
tloosthau one year ago. Heavy shlp
;j||ents of "produce are being' made
• weekly. Outside of the Populist’s
ranks,ithe feeling is hopeful.—E. T.
JBest,'Editor Leader.
Ainsworth, Neb., July 22,1897.
k,'. Boslneas of all kinds Is Improving
r*' rapidly." MerchanU are purchasing
■ore goods and selling almost double
Mur • amount.. sold at corresponding
times In the past two years. The Ex
- welplor Lumber and Milling company
„. fens' doubled Its force In the past two
♦ months. Manufacturing Is not much
— of an Industry here but the general
''"better feeling has reached us without
1 doubt.—J.:0. Berkley, Editor Star
> Journal.
Blue Springs, Neb., July 20, 1897.
). Taking stock aud grain and averag
lag them with the prices received last
wear and the two yeare prior ahows
that the farmers are receiving 33 j-3
get cent more for their products.—J.
V H. Casebeer, Editor Sentinel.
> ' Gothenburg. Neb., July 22, 1897.
^ * A|| men who desire employment are
' mow occupied at reasonable wages.
*- About 5,000 acres of land In a nearly
State was broken up this spring
‘ tarnishing employment for a good
wumber of men.—W. C. Becker, Editor
^‘ indppendeut. \ -
/Grand Island. Neb., Aug. 2, 1897.
-■ There is a general Improvement In
£ business and employments The 11. P.
wstlroad shops have increased their
forces. There is much improvement of
property in this place and vicinity,
more building than for three years
past. This one city would perhaps be
a small item but the same condition
Is reported all over the state.—Editor
Independent.
Sidney, Neb., Aug. 1, 1897.
The business of the U. P. railroad at
this point has increased so that the
number of men employed has been
nearly doubled, and the force Is larger
than at any time at this season for
the past eight or ten years. Our busi
ness men all feel hopeful.—Chas. Calla
han, Editor Telegraph.
Stuart, Neb., Aug. 2, 1897.
We have no manufactures at this
place. Eastern capital, however, is
being used in putting up a creamery
here and no one Is Idle; all hands arc
well employed and there are calls for
more than can be supplied.—J. M.
Sturdevant, Editor Ledger.
McCook, Neb., Aug. 3, 1897.
This Is exclusively a stock raising
and fanning section. Depending upon
crops and having good ones this year,
everybody Is consequently happy pros
perity Is with us.—F. N. Kinnell, Edi
tor Tribune.
Greeley, Neb., July 20, 1897.
Farmers have not seen any better
circumstances for a long series of
years. Sales have brought more cash
and crop prospects were never better.
—W. B. Morgan, Editor Leader, Ind.
GEORGE H. WILLIAMS.
McKinley tariff, there were quite a
number ot Americans in Liverpool who
acted as agents for American import
ers of Welsh tin plate, Liverpool being
fhe chief port of export. Since we
have been making.our own tin plate,
all of these agents have returned home
with the exception of one who is ex
pected back this month to take charge
of a tin-plate factory in Pennsylvania.
This will practically conclude the
American trade In foreign tin plate and
practically complete the acquisition of
the American market by the Ameri
can tin-plate industry which was es
tablished under the McKinley protect'
lve tariff of 1890.
A RELIC OP FREE TRADE.
Mew York StUl Feels the Effects at
Democratic Legislation,
Mr. Editor: Kindly pass around the
folllowing extract taken from the
New York World of August 18:
A Summer of Suffering.
From day to day the World has been
telling of cases ot starvation in this
city. There is another index of it—
the line in front of Fleischmann’s
bakery, just below Grace church, on
Broadway. Every night at midnight
the proprietor gives the bread left
from yesterday’s baking to all who
ask.
Three hours earlier tho hungry line
begins to form. These poor wretches
are willing to wait for hours to get
their food five minutes earlier. Some
nights the line is two blocks long.
“I never saw it so long before,” said
the policeman on the beat, “and this
Is summer, too, when the tramps are
gone. The people here are all deserv
ing.”
In the bakery It was said the line
had never been so long in the summer
as this year.
It would be well to reproduce the
World’s picture of the "Hundreds of
hungry men” who "gather nightly at
Fleischmann’s bakery on Broadway, to
receive the remnants of the previous
day’s baking of bread that is given
away;” and also to reproduce the por
trait of the young man, Frank Kanapa.
who died from starvation in Bellevue
hospital, after losing several positions
and then seeking employment which
he could not find.
It is to be sincerely hoped that the
World will continue to give publicity
to the unfortunate fact that Prof. Wil
son’s tariff law, which the World ad
vocated, succeeded in transferring so
many opportunities for work from this
country to Europe, that it left our
people In misery never before expcrl
occed.
If the World will continue to give
the facts, until the people recover from
the blight of the Wilson tariff law,
fewer people will be deceived when
the World begins again to curse pro
tection and bless the un-American,
blighting principles of the free trade.
EDWIN A. HARTSHORN.
i WAITING FOR FREE BREAD -
f- ■’ 1 ■ Rfeproduced from the New York World, August 13, 1897. ''
Democratic Admission.
The crash came In 1893, when for a
time the great industries of the United
States came to a dead standstill. We
should probably have recovered in a
few months or a year but for politics.
—The Journal, New York.
This is a wonderful admission for a
Democratic paper to make. It is true
that “the great Industries of the
United States came to a dead stand
still” In 1893. It la also true that “wo
should probably have recovered with
in a few months or a year but for poli
tics”—"the politics” of the Democratic
party, “politics” that Insisted upon
compelling the great industries of the
United States to come “to a dead
standstill” by promoting “the great
industries” of Europe. Had it not
been tor these Democratic "politics”
there would have been no check to our
prosperity of 1892, no subsequent
crash, and no need tor a recovery.
Vi' The Mew Sign.
British Tin Plat* Kxcludnd.
Before the tin-plate industry was
established In the United States by the
How Sheffield Ii '‘Strangled.”
At one time our trade dealings with
the United States formed the key-note
of Sheffield commerce. That Is so no
longer. By successive turns of the
tariff screw one Sheffield trade after
another has been strangled, until the
condition of affairs is sharply sum
marised in the words, given elsewhere,
of a gentleman whose firm for many
years did a large and valuable business
with the states. ThingB have now
Come to such a pass In that market, he
Informed our representative yesterday,
that “it was hardly worth while cal
culating upon as a means of profit."—
Sheffield (Eng.) Telegram.
We can sympathize with Sheffield.
There was a time, under the McKinley
protective tariff, when trade dealings
In American goods “formed the key
note” of American commerce. That
“key-note” got sadly out of tune just
as soon as we were threatened with the
Democratic free trade policy. There
has been a sad lack of harmony here
ever since, because the “key-note" of
our commerce was pitched to suit the
Clamorous voices of our foreign friends
at Sheffield and elsewhere in Europe.
But turn about is fair play, especially
as it should be our privilege to legis
late for our own interests. Sheffield
knows very well that, while her manu
facturers were supplying us with Shef
field cutlery, the American market
“was hardly worth calculating upon as
a means of profit” to the American
manufacturers of cutlery.
Their Favorable Balance.
The fifteen countries from which
hints of dissatisfaction with our tariff
have come have sold us in the past
decade $4,848,943,523 worth of goods
and bought from us only $3,059,220,782
worth, a balance in their favor of $1,
784,722,841. It is scarcely probable un
der these circumstances that they are
going to take any steps which will em
barrass or complicate commercial
relations so advantageous to them.—
Clinton (Iowa) Herald.
TURN OUT THE POPS.
SENATOR THURSTON SAYd IT
CAN BE DONE.
Republican, should Stand Together and
Redeem the State From Mi.rale—*
What Animates the I’opocratio
Party—What Brought About
Prosperity In Nebraska.
Thnrston on the Situation.
On the occasion of the republican
convention at Lincoln, Senator Thurs
ton made quite a lengthy address, but
not until now has there been found
room to give some extracts therefrom.
In part, the senator said:
Our state government is in the
hands of the opposition. Some of the
republican officials have proven un
faithful to their public trusts, and
have brought suspicion and discredit
upon the party. It will require united
action by all the republican forces of
Nebraska to redeem the state. It can
be done. If we stand together we can
grandly win this year, next .year, and
for many years to come. So far as I
am concerned, so far as my friends are
concerned, there will be no factional
ism, no division, no favoritism. So far
as I am concerned the only test of re
publican qualification will be loyalty
and devotion to republican principles
and to republican tickets. All I ask is
that the wishes of the rank and file of
the republicon party may find full and
free expression in every convention
and in every legislature controlled by
a republican majority.
*•»*«•»
After election the opposition said
‘Where is your general prosperity?'
AM through the special session of con
gress they sneered and taunted us and
said ‘Where is prosperity?’ The other
day prosperity came—came quickly at
the bidding of the republican party—
and now they say providence brought
it and not the republican party. Did
you ever stop to think that providence
never gave prosperity to the country
save during a republican administra
tion?
Last November one Mexican dollar
bought one bushel of wheat. Today
one bushel of wheat buys two and one
half Mexican dollnrs. I am not rejoic
ing at the decline of silver. I believe
the 16-to-l-or-bust party killed silver
by insisting on holding it to an artifi
cial place it could not sustain.
Prosperity has come to Nebraska.
Did you ever stop to consider that the
combined products will make Nebraska,
the first agricultural state in the
union? They would have you believe
you ar« the victims of a great conspir
acy, a conspiracy to increase the circu
lation of gold among farmers. Free
silver coinage will never again be an
issue. The Ki-to-l-or-bnst people
killed it off.
The eternal spirit of discontent, the
spirit of lawlessness, the spirit of ha
tred and enmity and distrust, the spirit
of communism and of anarchy is the
animating spirit of the popoeratic party
in the United States. The republican
party has taught men to love one an
other as the only key to success. I had
rather suffer eternal defeat with a party
that teaches hope than share victory
with a party of discontent.
The people are satisfied that the re
publican party keeps its promises. Last
fall it promised a tariff. Before five
months it kept its promise. Some say
it is a tariff for trusts and for syndi
cates. I am satisfied it will enhance
the chances of capital in business, but
while it is doing that it will spread its
benificent influence to the people.
Wouldn’t you rather have a tariff that
will open manufactories of this coun
try rather than those of foreign coun
tries? They once said as you lower
the tariff to other nations they will
trade with us. It was tried and failed.
They said one of our troubles was not
enough money to do our business.
Great God! It Aid not take much mon
ey to do what little business we had.
vToday it will take millions to move our
crops, but you don’t hear any cry of not
enough money to do it.
What will the other side do now?
Every argument of theirs has been ex
ploded, every statement denied by
events. I know they are fertile in ex
planation, pleasant in address, and can
state more propositions than any other
set of men. I know they con say that
certain men have betrayed trusts, but
history shows that where one dollar
was taken by republican office holders
one hundred dollars have been taken
by other parties. History shows fif
teen democratic defaulters to one re
publican. When it is discovered that
an offlcial has broken, his trust, say, as
Grant said, “Let no guilty mau es
cape.” _|
Rewards of Industry.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Among
familiar assertions is one that the poor
ore growing poorer. It is heard mast
frequently in times of business depres
sion. When the real data of the ease
are taken in hand it is found that the
poor are not growing poorer, but de
cidedly the reverse. No better evi
dence is available than that contained
in the last five national censuses, nor
is any one better qualified to search
out their meaning than Carroll B.
Wright, United States commissioner of
labor statistics. In an article on the
comparative condition of the poor in
this country, Mr. Wright clearly dem
onstrates that their earning capacity
and their comforts have greatly in
creased within fifty years. His deduc
tions of the official census is that “the
rich are growing richer, many more
than formerly are growing rich, and
the poor are growing better off.” The
calamity demagogues will scorn the
most of this statement, but it rests on
the best mathematical proof, and will
be accepted by all except those who
prefer the guesswork of a wild talker
to the dispassionate tables of the cen
sus office.
, Whenever the stereotyped com- I
plaint is heard that the poor are grow
ing poorer, it is in order to demand
the proof. A generulty is no answer.
The most careful analysis of the cen
sus reports shows that the workers of
this country command lnrger and not
smaller rewards and that average
wages have nearly doubled since 18115.
with prices of commodities moving
downward. It would not be easy to
arrest the gradual rise in wages, for it
is manifest throughout the world,
though not to the same extent as in
the United States. No right-minded
person wishes to see it arrested. Hut
It is strange that the facts in the case
are so distorted by those who coll
themselves labor leaders. Not one oi
them ever gees to the census reports
for his arguments, though that is the
highest authority as a reflex of th«
industries ef the people.
The Campaign la Nebraska.
Milwaukee Sentinel: The election is
to be made a test of the relative
strength of the three parties—republi
can, national democrats and silver dem
ocrats. Each of these parties has a
particular object. The republicansfeel
confident of demonstrating that they
have regained the upper hand and are
anxious to establish the fact. Because
Nebraska is the home state of W. J.
Bryan, the presidential candidate of
the silver party* they regard it as of
particular importance to obtain a de
cisive victory. The silver democrats
for the same reason propose to get out
oil the votes they can, while the na
tional democrats entertain the hope of
showing a large increase of strength
that will bring them forward as the
leaders of the democracy again.
This test campaign in Nebraska is
expected to he of utility in indicating
the present political sentiment of the
people of Nebraska. According to re
publican authority, the free silver
party is badly demoralized. The re
publican campaign will be conducted
oti the theory that the free silver delu
sion is a thing of the past. The free
silver issue will be ignored or ridi
culed. Mr. Bryan and his followers
are expected to do their utmost to
maintain their position in spite of the
discouraging cfFect that the prosperity
with which Nebraska is blessed this
year is likely to have on their cause.
The national democrats are entering
the campaign for the purpose of per
suading some of the deserters to the
free silver folly to return to their form
er, allegiance. Speakers of national
reputation have been secured by all
three parties, and the result, it is ex
pected, will determine the status of the
silver question as a political issue. The
republicans and national democrats of
Nebraska and of other states as well
believe that the grave is yawning for
the reception of this issue and expect
to begin the process of burying it with
this fall's campaign.
Populist Oversight.
York Times: In their platform the
populists denounce the republican
party for electing a defaulter as mayor
of Omaha. So far as we can learn Mr.
Moores hah never been convicted of
any crime and claims to be able to show
that the county owes him instead of
being himself indebted to the county.
However that may be the municipal af
fairs of Omaha arc hardly a proper
issue for a state campaign. But if our
populist friends are going into the busi
ness of denouncing local defaulters
they might mention the populist dis
trict clerk of Lancaster county, who is
a defaulter to almost the full amount
of the fees collected by him. They
should not forget the defaulting popu
list county treasurers of Custer, Har
lan, and Gosper counties, the latter of
whom burned up the court house and
fled the country. Out of half a dozen
or so township treasurers elected by
the populists in York county, four at
least are defaulters. While our popu
list brethren are diving into municipal
affairs it might not be out of place for
them to express their opinion of these
several defaulters, and many others
not here enumerated.
The Hated Money Fower.
_ Minneapolis Journal: The Nebraska
silverites of all kinds are again togeth
er in convention. It is a pretty badly
demoralized crowd. They haven't any
thing in particular to complain about
now, but must fall back on the general
calamity howl about “the money pow
er.” What this “money power” is lias
been very well set out recently by Will
iam Cornwall of BufFalo in his Sound
Money Monographs,” in which lie
shows that the money power in this
country consists of 4,875,000 people,
who have 81,810,597,000 in the savings
hanks, an average of 8371 each; 1,500,
000 people who have 81,340,888,000 in
state banks and trust companies, an
everage of 8000 each; 1,939,000 people
who have 81,701,053,000 in national
banks, 1,734,000 of whom have less than.
81,000 each to liis credit; also 1,800,000
persons who have 8500,000 in building
and loan associations, an average of
8380 each. These are the people at
whose hands the popnlistic hatred of
accumulated wealth is clumsily di
rected.
Republican* Can Carry Nebraska
Globe-Democrat: We are told that
in their canvass this year the Nebraska
pops are going to make the campaign
of their lives. Nothing short of this
will give them any chance to win.
Bryan, Teller, Tillman, Altgeld,
Weaver and other chiefs of the silver
part}' are, it is said, to stump the state.
The Bryanitcs know that if their lead
er's state forsakes them, their career
as a party is ended, and they will make
a desperate attempt to hold their own.
The chances, as they see thciu, are
overwhelmingly against them. Last
year their lead in Nebraska was only
13,000, while the many millions of dol
lars of extra money that are goinginto
that state's farmer’s pockets this year
on account of the increased wheat and
corn product and the increased prices
will turn thousands of votes to the re
publicans. If the republicans take in
telligent advantage of their opportu
nities they will carry Nebraska by a
rousing majority.
Lost the Charm.
Burlington (Iowa) Ilawkeye. The
silver fetich has lost its charm and its
scare and its champion, who posed as
an enemy of corporations, has been
found guilty of accepting their favors.
Truly, there has been a great change
in the influence that impelled the voters
of Nebruska last year and we look for
a marked change in the balloting this
year. We reason from cause to effect,
and so reasoning, we conclude that a
great political battle is to be fought in
Nebraska in which sound money and
common sense will prevail. To make
the victory complete it is desirable that
the job lot of political gorillas who
joined forces at Lincoln shall have a
regular Phil Sheridan matinee and be
.“whipped out of their boots.”
Ought to He Happy.
Cleveland Leader: Democratic tariff
reform plunged the country into mis
ery and idleness. Protection is putting
the people to work and making them
happy and contented. If nature is
helping the republicans in the grand
work of restoring prosperity, then tho
republicans and everybody else ought
to be supremely happy.
THE BUSHMAN’S TACTICS.
llow the Apache of Arelca Hints the
Ostrich.
The Bnshman divests himself of alt
hia incumbrances; water vessels, food,
c’oak, assegai and sandals are all left
behind. Stark naked, except for the
hide patch about his middle, and, arm
ed only with his bow, arrows and knife,
he sets forth. The nearest ostrich is
feeding more than a mile away, and
there is no covert but the long, sun
dried, yellow grass, but that is enough
for the Bushman. Worming himself
over the ground with the .greatest cau
tion, he crawls flat on his belly to
ward the bird. No serpent could trav
erse the grass with less disturbance.
In the space of an hour and a half he
has approached within a hundred
yards of the tall bird. Nearer he dare
not creep on this bare plain, and at
more than twenty-five paces he cannot
trust his light reed arrows. He lies
partially hidden in the grass, his bow
and arrows ready in front of him,
trusting that the ostrich may draw
nearer. It is a long wait under the
blazing sun, close on two hours, but
his instinct serves him, and at last, as
the sun shifts a little, the great ostrich
feeds that way. It is a magnificent
male bird, jet black as to its body
plumage, and adorned with magnificent
white feathers upon the wings and tail.
Kwaneet’s eyes glisten, but he moves
not a musclce. Thirty paces, twenty
five, then twenty. There is a light
musical twang uepon the hot air and a
tiny, yellowish arrow sticks well into
the breast of the gigantic bird. The
ostrich feels a sharp pang and turns
at once. In that same instant a sec
ond arrow is lodged in its side, just
under the wing feathers. Now the
stricken bird raises its wings from its
body and speeds forth Into the plain.
But Kwaneet is‘quite content. The
poison of those two arrows will do its
work effectually. He gets up, follows
the ostrich, tracking it, after it has
disappered from sight, by its spoor, and
in two hours the game lies there before
him amid the grass, dead as a stone.
GENERAL. BLISS AS A HUNTER.
Believes In Snake PalKou Antidote and
Its General Diffusion.
Col. Zenas Bliss, who has just been
made a brigadier-general in the regular
army, was for several years com
mander at Fort Hayes, Kansas, where
he is well remembered for his many
exceptional qualities. He was an
enormously fat man, weighing more
than 300 pounds, and had a proverbial
good nature that lurks in avoidupois.
He was a great sportsman, and a fine
shot with both shotgun and rifle. He
loved to hunt prairie chickens, and al
ways went into the fields seated in n
low barouche, with a soldier for a
driver. When his dogs came to a
“point” he would have the driver pot
his horses ahead of the dogs and flush
the game at which he would shoot
without dismounting from the car
riage. It was a great privilege among
I the private soldiers to be permitted to
go with the colonel as a driver. He in
variably had a comfortable supply of
snake antidote under one of the seats,
and was always careful to antidote the
driver every time he antidoted himself.
At short distance off-hand shooting
Col. Bliss was undoubtedly the cham
pion of the army. The writer once
saw him win every dollar in the pock
ets of the officers of his regiment at a
picnic, where shooting was made, part
of the program. He put a silver half
dollar up In a forked stick at a distance
of seventy-five yards and offered tn
wager that he could lilt it with an ordi
nary army rifle. The young lieu
tenants fell over each other in cover
| ing that bet, and when the gun cracked
they lost. It tickled the colonel so im
| mensely that he spent all he had won
and twice that sum over in getting
| these officers and certain friends from
Hays City a Mumm’s extra dry supper.
| There never was a regular army offi
cer who possessed so much of the love
1 of his subordinates as Col. Bliss.
Staving Oil Gonaamptlon,
An Indiana man who claims to‘be
115 years old and in the enjoyment of
robust health has informed a reporter
that his parents died of consumption
before they were 30 and that ho hae
used whisky and tobacco exclusively
for llfty years.
FOR CYCLISTS.
A good and cooling beverage is made
by straining and beating a fresh egg
and adding to a bottle of ginger beer.
Water-proof road maps are now to be
obtained and if one is caught in a
sudden shower they make a good pro
tection for one’s head.
When the muscles are tired and lame
a fine liniment to use is made of 5
cents' worth of castor oil added to 5
cents’ worth of hartshorn. Shake well
and keep tightly corked.
Soap is sold in book form and when
needed a leaf can be torn out. This
is a handy and almost necessary article
for bicycle tourists to take if a long
out-of-town run is contemplated.
The latest novelty in handle-bars ia
made hollow and contains those arti
cles usually relegated to the tool bag.
This removes the fear of having the
bag stolen if the wheel is left alone by
its owner.
Dust is worse for a bicycle than murl,
for the latter can bo cleaned off at
once, but dust gets into every corner
and hides. A pair of good bellows can
be used with marvelous effect after a
run over country roads.
The Japanese begin building their
I houses at the top. The roof is first
built and elevated on a skeleton frame,
i then It affords shelter to the workmen
| from storms. •