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I've walked a Krent deal. Tm footsore nti l weary. I won't lo a IkiIIht lmicti loiiKT. I'll hootj throw in iny checks." He had the pitllor of h uth. "I never take in any one at 3 in the morning," kimlly replieil Sereiuit Ui K it, "but I'll make an exception in J'oui cane. Poor fellow, you look played out." Yesterilay'momiiif? Policeman Crou!; an took the oM man, who ave tho n;uu of John Irin, to thw Tomlw po!itv court. He wanted to be committed t the workhouse. "Tho top o' th' morning, yer honor,' he said to Justice Duffy. "This'll 1h t)i last time I'll bother ye. Give me a gK (j lonar Ken fence. Tlio justice, howeviT, lid not fix nv.y FjK-cilieil time. Under the coininitnie u the old man could get his liberty whe he wanted it. "Take your time," said the policcm;...-! as he assisted Irving down the windi:i. flight of stairs leading into tho prison. "My wife!" gasied the old man dowi. stairs. Uy this time they had reached tl warden's ofiice, where the jK-digrees ci the prLsoners are taken anew. "Well, what's the matter with youi wife'" asked a keeper. "She's in Heaven!" replied the tramp. The next instant he fell back dead into the policeman's arms. New York World. Cain from Culm to Vot. The bust vote deposited in Rhode Is land at the recent election w:us the vote of Eugene McAuliffe, of Providence. The gentleman was in Cuba when he re ceived a cablegram telling him of the urgent necessity for every vote. Con sulting the shipping register, he fount that by taking a steamer which sailed that night he might with good weather reach IJoston the day before election. Two hours later found him aitoard the ship. Adverse weather delayed the ves sel, and at the dawn of election day the steamer was still out in the Atlantic. Port was reached late in the afternoon, and McAuliffe was just in time to take a train to Providence due jnst ten minutes before the time for closing the polls. The train was four minutes late. Hurling himself into a hack he bribed the driver to get to the wardroom in six minutes or kill the horses. The clod: was about to strike the hour as Mr. McAuliffe bounded into the booth. His cross marks were made with lightning rapidity, and he got in his ballot right on the last stroke. He will return to Cuba to complete the business he dropped to come back to vote. And yet there were some thousands of people in Providence who, 1 have no doubt, forgo i to go to the polls or were "too busy" Id give the time required for walking to the wardroom. Cor. Boston Globe. Canoeing In Scotland. Lord and Lady Mount Stephen, who have spent very many j-ears in Canada, have introduced canoeing in Scotland. They have taken the beautiful estate of Faskally, Perthshire, belonging to Mrs. Butler, which comprises a stretch of the picturesque river, Tummel, which rum through the Pass of Killiecrankie to Athole and all that district, and, in order to explore more fully, Lord Mount Stephen has brought home a Canadian canoe and two real Canadian boatmen. They have already shot . some of the dangerous rapids of the Scotch river, and been investigating the salmon pools among the bowlders in otherwise unseen spots. Lord 31 cant Stephen intends to use his canoe later on for salmon fishing. The novelty has created a great deal of interest in the neighborhood, extending to the ducal party at Blair Athol castle. London Queen. Utalt'H First Pavements. After a long fight in the Ogden city council over the relative merits of sand stone, brick and asphaltum for street paving purposes, it has been decided to use native sandstone from the quarries a few miles distant from Ogden, and that only home labor shall be employed by contract. The district to be paved includes a number of blocks in the busi ness part of town, for which paving bonds are now being negotiated. It will be the first paving done by this city or in this territory. Utah Cor. St. Lotus Globe-Democrat. A Priceless Diamond Found. A remarkable diamond has been re cently four.d on the Koffeyfontein Dia mond Mining company's ground in Aus tralia, which appears to be of such value that even competent judges hesitate to name a price commensurate with its worth. It is said to be of a beautiful shade of pink, entirely devoid of spot or blemish, and to weigh 13J carats. Natural Gas in Utah. A flow of natural gas has been struck at Salt Lake City at a depth of 600 feet, the pressure being 160 pounds to the square inch. Several companies are en gaged in sinking wells in that locality, with favorable indications of finding the gas in considerable quantities. New York Journal. Pig Iron in March. In the first week in March the iron furnaces in this country are said to have produced more pigs 193,900 tons than in any previous week in history. One curious circumstance is that there were fewer furnaces in blast than in the pre ceding month. Xew York Times. The largest shipment of apples ever made from the United States left Port land recently in the steamship Labrador, which carried more than 13,000 barrels of fine fruit to England. A fine collation of Seventeenth cen tury tobacco pipes has just been found under an old London cellar and deposited in the Guildhall museum. The states west of the .Missouri alone will cast one-fourth of the popular vote in the United States this fall. THE HEAL LOBBYIST. THE WOMEN ARE NUISANCES JUST THE SAME AS THE MEN ARE. Tlirre Ha I!r-n a Grat Oral of Komunr ' Circulate! AlHiut the I.obbyUts, ami It ; Is Time Tt;:it tin- Trutli "Vus Known, j The Ileal Thing Is Very Ilapoln t iue- "Show me a lobbj'ist" was the request j of a friend who was walking through ; theCapiiol with tho writer. This visitor was a reader of the newspajM-rs, a m::n of intelligence, and a leliever in most cf the interesting stories he had read about tho numlter, ingenuity, boldness, slcill and usefulness of the body of lobbyi.-t." that is Hupposed to Vie almost a necessary part of the legislative machinery. I showed my visitor a lobbyist. Ib was one of the best known of the 1 about the Capitol. He was leaning ha'-' against the corridor wall, oppoi lin en trance of the house of representatives. with his hands thrust into the Nckets of a pair of trousers tliat were so raveled about the heels that they might be sail, to wear whiskers without provoking t la remonstrances of the mobt thorough de tester of slang. If this man had an overcoat it was hung up somewhere, but tho dusty con dition of his rather thin frock coat, which carried the polish on its back that ought to have been on his very disrepu table looking sloes, justified the conclu sion that he was not finding an overcoat necessary this winter. Ho was a spare man, with a gaunt face, crossed by a white mustache stained at the ends with tobacco juice. His shirt was not clean, and he showed a good deal of it, but he wore a white tie, which only added em phasis to his otherwise forbidding lack of neatness. When he moved away from his place against the wall to meet a member of congress who had come out of the chamber upon the call of one of the doorkeepers to see him, his gait was a slouching one, and he might have been mistaken for any other loafer about the hall if he had not been so much more re pulsive than the others. My friend was disnppointed. He could not understand when 1 told him that this man was one of the best of the lot of lobbyists about the Capitol, that he had been a meinber of congress, that he was, therefore, entitled to the privi lege of the floor, and that the house of representatives has never yet had the sense to makes its rules so strong as to keep out this man and several others i'ust like him who are well known to be lOthing more than strikers and lobbyists who linger here to pick up odd jobs to help them hang on to a miserable exist ence. They do not, one ought to be thankful, thrive as they are popularly supposed to do. If the public knew what a mistake the professional lobbyist is they wrould be driven to sawing wood or working on the railroads, or into doing some other useful and laborious busi ness. Then I showed my friend another lob byist. This was a thin, sliding fellow, with a gray close beard, who toed in as he walked quickly along the passage, and who glanced furtively about as he went, as if watching to pounce down upon some one. This man was not an ex-member of congress; but he had been an employee of the house many years ago, and had been caught taking money to enable a corporation to reach, through the door of which he hail charge, the men who were to be pur chased to get through a subsidy bill. He was dismissed, and he at once went into the service of the corporation that had led to his disgrace. He is in that employment still, and he associates wath a great many senators and representatives who do not know, or have forgotten that others know, his odious history. He is an errand runner and a sneaking watcher of members who are to bo encouraged to vote this way or the other on bills to be reported or killed. He would buy a member without hesitation if it were safe to buy him, but ho is cautious. He finds out his venal man before taking any risks. He is not ingenious, nor is he bold. He follows the instructions of the corpora tions that keep him here, and he gets off in the course of the year very well in deed if he does not get kicked out of a gentleman's house more than half a dozen times. The female lobbyist is, generally speaking, a myth. The women who come to the Capitol as promoters of the bills for pensions or for claims, come on their own account, and the only skill they exhibit is that which consists in so persistently bothering the members who have introduced their bills for them that they undertake to have them passed in order to get rid of terrible afflictions. The marvelous woman of charming manners that cannot be resisted is to be found only in the syndicate stories. The women who undertake to promote legis lation are, almost without exception, bunglers and failures. Few women know enough about the ways of legisla tion or the ways of the legislators to qualify them to undertake lobby work or to approach members to direct their actions, except by the most vulgar spe cies of blackmail made possible by con tributory immorality. Generally speaking, the lobbyist is a fraud and an unnecessary nuisance. He exists mainly because most people do not know anything about the methods ef legislation, and because nearly every body interested in a bill not public be lieves that the lobbyist is a creature who can tide over difficulties and remove them. As a rule the employment of one of the throng of disreputable lobbyists, and most of them are disreputable on their f acea, is prejudicial to the legisla tion they are employed to promote. They thrive on account of the general ignorance about the legislative methods of procedure. "Washingson Cor. Provi dence Journal. Breakers Ahead. "Yes, I shall embark on the sea of matrimony myself before long." "Then you'll soon le a-marryin her, won't yon?" Kate Field's Washington. Ia the C-oualry Star. Some of tho snowbound passengers at one of the dejoU near Utlca were tell ing stories the other day, and a travel ing man was relating his experience in a country store in a smaM town in Jef ferson county. He said ho was th re nearly the entire forenoon, mid had oc casion to note tho peculiarities of tho Btorekeeper, who carried a general stock, but a pretty small one. Every little while a customer would come into the store and inquire for some article that the merchant did not hap'eii to have in stock. For instance: "Have you any dried beef, Mr. Ca.-!i-d rawer'" "No, we have no drid tn-ef today, but we have some nice codfish. John, show this lady the cllish." "Do you keep any such thing as wicks for those big. round lamp burners?" "We generally do, but hapK-n to lie out just now. We have some line cot ton clotheslines, though. John, show tho gentleman the clotheslines." "My gals wanted me to bring tin in home some confectioner's sugar. li:ue you got any of it, Cashd rawer?" "Sold the last ounce ubout un hour ago, Henry. We've got an excr'l.-nt quality of toilet soap, though. John, show Mr. Adams tho soap." "Do yon keep ready made fl.ninel skirts?" "Have had them all winter, 1 I three to a lady yesterday, whic h i 1 the stock out. But we have a large s ..p ply of overalls. John, show this lady the overalls." Utica Observer. Civilization and WililernesM. Upon the J ,500 miles cf tho shore of Lake Superior there are living now less ! than 150,000 persons, and these are mainly in bustling cities like Diiluth. Superior and Marquette, in industrial colonics like Calumet and Ih-1 Jacket, or in struggling little ports iiKe i-ort William and Port Arthur. Even there the wilderness ami primeval conditions are face to face with the robust civiliza tion which is shouldering its way nscajn ital is accustomed to do rather than as i natural growth usually asserts itself. Not that it is not a wholly nat ural growth ' which we find at all jKjints on the lake j shore, for it is all in response to t ne inex orable laws of supply and demand. Yet the communities there have sprung into being far apart from well settled regions in answer to these laws. Thus it happens that today one may ride in an electric; street car to the start ing point for a short walk to a trout stream, or one may take the steam rail road and in an hour alight at a forest station, breakfasting there, but enjoy ing for luncheon a cut of the deer or a dish of the trout or tho partridge which he has killed for the purpose. It is, so to say, a region wherein the wholesale fisherman with his steamboat disturbs the red man who is spearing a fish for vupper, where the wolf blinks in the glare of the electric lamp, and where the patent stump puller and the beaver work aide by side. Julian Ralph in Harper's The Moqnl Indiana. A hundred miles north of the Petrified forest and well into the edge of the Ari zona desert are the seven strange and iMddom visited Pueblo cities of Moqui. They all hz wildly unpronounceable names, like liualpi, A-hua-tu and Mish-ongop-avi, and all are built on the sum mits of almost inaccessible mesas islands of solid rock, whoso generally perpendicular cliff walls rise high from the surrounding plain. They are very remarkable towns in appearance, set uon dizzy sites, with quaint terraced houses of adobe, and queer little corrals for the animals in nooks and angles of the cliff, and giving far outlook across the browns and yellows and the spectral peaks of that weird plain. But they look not half so remarkable as they are. The most remote from civilization of all the Pueblos, the least affected by the Spanish influence which so wonderfully ruled over the enormous area of the southwest, and practically untouched by the later Saxon influence, the Indians of the Moqui towns retain almost entirely their wonderful customs of before the conquest. Their languages are different from those of any other of the Pueblos; and their mode of life though to a hasty glance the same is in many ways un like that of their brethren in New Mex ico. Charles F. Lummis in St. Nicholas A Detroit Man's Cane. A Detroit man has a novel walking j cane that represents the work of odd j hours every day for six wetaS. It 13 made of old postage stamps of various denominations and six nationalities United States, Canadian, English, French, German and Italian. It took 5,014 stamps to make a cane. The face value of the stamps was $100. The sur face of the cane, when the stamps were all on, was filed smooth and finished un til it glazed. A heavy gold knob com pletes one of the handsomest and most unique canes ever seen in Detroit. Philadelphia Ledger. Telling the IJees. The curious custom of "telling the bees" is observed in some parts of nearly every country in the world. Those who observe the custom always go to the bee hives and tap gently on each one, then stoop and whisper under the cap or lid that Mary, Jane, Thomas or William is dead. This is done to keep the little honeymakers from forsaking their place of abode should they have to wait and find out the news of the calamity thein eelves. The custom is alluded to in Whittier's poem, "Telling the Bees." St. Louis Republic. East and West. The failure of the people of the Atlan tic states to understand the area, condi tions, products and needs of the west is not infrequently illustrated in national legislation. 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