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    THKWEKKLY HERALD: PliATTSMOU f II. N E1JHASKA, J aNUaII Y II), 1893.
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IT is Governor Lorenzo Crounse
of Nebraska now.
The robberies at Lincoln will
uowHtop as we huve a republican
governor.
Tub people of thin country are
luminous in the opinion tli.it immi
gration should be suspended until
the cholera germs in the old world
have been entirely destroyed.
THE New Kugland tobacco grow
era demand the duty on tobacco he
relumed, and their arguineet in
made forcible by the fact that the
crop increased from Sfl,lX),(XlO in
value in 1S80 to if"i,(XH,0X) in li2.
Cl.KVK.LANi fought Kdward Mur
phy for the N. Y. senatorship, and
Murphy got every vote hut live.
Tammany evidently don't intend to
be bossed by Cleveland, and we
predict that before the year is half
Hone Cleveland will do just an
Tammany says.
It is understood that the cabinets
which are being formed by the
students of the High school don't
go until Cleveland's "O. K " is put
on them, nevertheless they will he
found to he aw near correct us those
being formed by the newspapers
all over the country.
Ik White is made senator from
California and Ilrown succeeds Car
lisle in Kentucky and Gray already
there, we won't quite have the na
tional colors in the senate, hut per
haps White, Brown and Gray will
correspond with the politics better
than the "Red White and Blue."
Wkst Vikoinia will have two
Senators to chose. One ia a suc
cessor to Faulkner, whose term ex
pires with the present congress, and
the other is to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Kenn, whose
term runs on to march, lH'.tfi. Fulk
ner will probable succeed himself.
TliK editor of the Louisville-Courier-Journal
wants to bet the Star
Kyed Goddess and every shred of
her new inauguration ball costume
against a last year's Harrison and
Keid election ticket that the next
secretary of the treasury will he
John G. Carlisle of Kentucky. This
does seem to settle it. It will be
Secretary Carlisle without a doubt.
A DISPATCH has beeu published
from Springfield, 111., to the effect
that the victorious democrats now
in office there, have ordered the re
moval of the portraits of Lincoln
Grant and Logan from the state
house. It is probable a fake. Still
it may be necessary to do some
thing of the kind so as to give room
for the real partriots of 'til, like
Adlai Stevenson and his brethren
of the Golden Circle. The republi
cans have had tilings their own
way so long in Illinois that the old
copperhead have been corwded to
the rear.
TlJB plans for the newspaper ex
hibition at the World's Fair have
been completed and it is announced
that one morning and four evening
papers will be printed on the big
fast presses on exhibition in ma
chinery hall. The evening papers
will be duplications of those prin
ted in the city. Kach paper will
send down its sterotype plates and
print supplementary editions there
in the presence of the wondering
people. The morning issue will he
a conglomeration, each of the six
morning papers sending down a
page of its own mutter, and the re
maining space being filled with of
ficial bulletins and programmes
l'lie newspaper exhibit will be a
striking feature of the exposition.
I'll K democratic organs are an
noyed because Mrs. Lease has not
yet forgotten that littleegg episode,
that happened down in Georgia,
persists in referring to it, when she
makes a public address. The dem
ocrats are of the opinion that a lit
tie circumstance like that should
have been forgetten long ago. It is
characteristic ot democrats to ob
ject to anything being brought up
that has occurred in the past. The
past is a perfect blank to the demo
crats, except that they still reinem
- her Thomas Jefferson and A ndre w
Jackson, who belong to a genera
tion that is gone. Democrats wish
to draw the veil of oblivion across
the past, and the tenacity with
which Mrs. Lease remembers the
egg episode, vexes thein sorely.
Beatrice Times.
THE TWO STRIKES.
The two governors of Pennsyl
vania and New York devote consid
erable space in their messages to the
strikes which occurred in their
states last year. They do not pres
ent any new facts of importance;
but they (emphasize those already
known in an interesting and in
structive wny. The total cost of the
Homestead affair to the state was
about $:M),fXX, and that of the Buf
falo outbreak was about $'2(X),(XX). It
cost $o:),00(), in other words, to en
forchthe laws in those two instan
ces; and that was practically noth
ing in comparison with the vast
losses that ensued, not onlj to
those immediately concerned, but
also to the general public. There
was no profit in cither case for any
body. The interests of labor were
not in the least promoted, but, on
the contrary, seriously retarded.
Notmeot the, questions involved
in the contioversy was settled; arid
certainly the relations between em
ployers were not improved The
strikers lost their places, and the
corporations were compelled to
hire such men as they could get.
That was a final outcome of efforts
to vindicate the rights of labor by
compulsory and revolutionary pro
Cesses. From every point of view
there wns more harm done than
good accomplished. If does not
matter what the merits of the dis
pute may have been on either side,
so far as the practicul effects were
concerned. The great lesson re
mains that strikers do not pay; and
if they do not pay, then men are
foolish to eng'ige in them and pay
the price that attends them.
Gov. Flower states the matter
fairly and soundly when he says
that employes have the right to
strike in the sense ot refusing to
work upon terms which are not
satisfactory to them, and that pub
lic sympathy is always with them
so long as they use peaceful and
responsible means to better their
condition; but the moment that
they report to riotous expedients
they forfit popular support and in
vite certain defeat. The authority
of the law must be respected, no
matter what the nature of the grie
vances may be. Society will not
tolerate violent and criminal pro
ceedings for the adjustment of any
problem. In so far as the laws can
be properly shaped to benefit the
laboring population, it is entitled
to such assistance; but it is not
authorized under any circumstan
ces to take the law into its own
hands and destroy life or property
to gain a desired advantage. The
failure to comprehend and observe
this important fact is the fatal
weakness of the striking theory
When employes are not satisfied
with the treatment they are receiv
ing from employers, they have the
liberty to quit and to persude
others to do so; but this does not
include the privilege of intimida
tion and wanton spoliation. There
is. a limit beyond which they must
not go iu the assertion of their
power. The law plainly fixes that
limit, and provides for the severe
punishment of those who disregard
it. This is necessary for the pro
tection of the interests of the whole
community, which are superior to
those of any class; and whenever
strikes antagonize the general
peace and welfare, as they usually
do, they are certain to end in fail
ure and mockery. Globe Gemo
crat. Tun New Peterson for Feburnry
is an advance on the January num
ber, admirable as that was in every
respect. The illustrations are still
better and more numerous, and the
stories and miscelleneotis articles
ure as good as they are varied. "The
Involution of Comic Opera." by Kd
ward Stephens, is a very clever re
cord of that favorite amusement
and gives capital portraits of the
leading singers of the day. "La
Perdida" is one of Gertrude Ather
ton's most dramatic stories of early
California days and is effectively
illustrated. "Art in Mikado-Land,"
by Robert B. Graham, is an ex
ceedingly well written paper, and
the illustrations are capital. "One
Clergyman and One Suburban Ser-ving-Maid,"
by Joseph Kirklaud, is
in the popular Western author's
happiest vein, "Agigail Jane Per
kins, Her Skull," by Duflielr Os
1 borne, will add to its writter's al
I ready enviable reputation. The
fireside department is rich in en
tertaining and instructive matter
from the pens of Minot J. Savage,
Mary K. Mumford, F.lla Higginsou,
etc. There are poems by Clinton
Scollard, Angie De Yen', Minna Ir
ving, and various other singers,
The New Peterson is meeting from
the outset with a complete success
which is certain to last, because it
is thoroughly deserved. Terms, two
dollars a year. Address Peterson
Magazine Co., Philadelphia.
A HOTKt. keeper at Huron, S. P.,
has written to a priest in New York
to send him a car load of Irish
girls anil he will supply them with
husbands.
THE DIRECT TAX.
The present legislature should in
dicate to the general government
a willingness to uccept the $19,000
due Hie state in the return of the
direct taxes. This money will pro
bably be placed in the hands of
the government as trustee for a
number of years (as was the case
in other states) to be held subject
to the redemption of outstanding
receipts, as many of these receipts
are doubtless yet in existence, the
balance to be appropriated as tin
legislature may direct. In Mis
souri the direct tax returned to the
state amounted to $40,000, and con
trary to the iustructionsacompany
iug the return of the money, the
governor recommed to the legisla
ture in session, that the amount be
transferred to the State University
as a permanent endowment fund,
and this disposition was made of
it, says the Beatrice Times. This
unwarranted appropriation of this
money created much unfavorable
comment and discussion through
out the state, the prevailing opin
ion being that it should have been
held, as the act providing for its re
turn to the states, required, for the
redemption of outstanding re
ceipts, before any final disposition
was made of it. It was also urged
that it should have been applied to
Hie outstanding debt of the state,
orof the state public school fund,
rather than the state university,
thus disturbuting the benefits ac
curing from it more uniformly
among the people. Iu July, l.Nul
congress passed an act authorizing
the collection of $'J0,(XX),XX) from the
citizens of the several states, based
upon incomes an salaries, to be
used by the government in defray
ing the expenses of the war. In all
the states this law was enforced ex
cepting those in rebellion. When
the war ended the question was
forced upon the government either
to collect the pro rata amounts from
citizens of the southern states or
refund the respective amounts back
to those who had paid; and as it
would have been oppression on the
former in their depressed condition
the latter alternative seems to have
been accepted. And after a long
struggle in the fifty-first congress
(1801) an act was passed according
ly, and received the presidents
signature, making it a law. This
is the direct tax and Nebraska's
quota, it appears, is $19,000. Get the
money and apply to the state in
debtedness say we.
ROAD LAW.
A representative in ,the Missouri
legislature has introduced a bill
contemplating a toad law that will
repeal the"property road tax,"which
is now worked out, and make it
payable in cash. Then the county
court shall appoint a county super
visor whose duty it shall be to over
see all the roads of thecouuty. The
road districts are to be greatly en
larged and one supervisorappoint
ed for each who shall devote his en
tire time to road work. The repre
sentative thinks the plan of work
ing out the road tax is a mistake if
we want good roads, and contends
that the way to get good road work
is to hire the work by contract
under a supervisor who shall de
vote hi whole time and attention
to road work. He contends says the
Beatrice Kxpress, that if country
roads are worked on,the same plan
as railroads there is chance for
competition in good road beds.
This looks like a step iu the right
direction of good roads that our
Nebraska soloas might profitably
consider.
COMBINATION QUARANTINE.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The senate has passed the quar
antine bill which provides for a
combination of state and national
quarantine and increases the pow
ers and duties of the marine hospi
tal service. Its most important
provision, perhaps, is that which
authorizes the president to prohibit
iu whole or in part the introduction
of persons and property. A deal of
responsibility is thus thrown upon
the president, for he may, on the
hand, cripple commerce to keep dis
ease out, or admit disease rather
than disturb commerce, but it
seems to be necessary to have dis
cretionary authoaity lodged some
where, as a fixed rule would be sure
to do injustice or work a hardship.
I r is reported that the Canadian
government has concluded to abol
ish discriminating tolls on the Wei
land canal kuud against American
routes to the seaboard, if such is
the fact it is a vindication of the re
taliatory policy of the United
States, and at the same time is a
gratifying evidence that the Cana
dian government is experiencing a
wholesome change of feeling re
garding its relations toward this
country. It is to be hoped says the
Bee that this is the case and that
it springs from an'honest desire to
cultivate more intiniatecomniercial
acquaintance, which it is quite pos
sible to make mutually beneficial.
Fkom the dispatches about the
inauguration of . the democratic
governor of Illinois we would
judge the crowd was a thoroughly
democratic one, for as the
judge of the supreme court pushed
through the throng, to administer
the oath of the office to the demo
cratic governor, he was relieved of
of his pocket-book, by one of the
invited guests, and diamond pins
and other valuables were stolen
from members of the general as
sembly. This must be democratic
reform.
There is a wrong idea afloat that
the west wants more immigrants.
The west has been covered by the
poor hovels of homesteaders, whose
only ambition is to get a farm an i
then sell it to a foreign syndicate
forja good sum. We don't want any
more of these. What we do need is
more mechanics, and more of these,
who are willing to undertake some
thing and win stiscess is what we
must have. Nebraska City Press.
There are no strings of any kind
on Governor Crounse. He goes into
his office unhampered and un
pledged and it is safe to say the exe
cutive affairs will be administered
solely at the dictation of the gov
ernor himself. It was different two
years ago, Then the man who was
unpledged and free to exercise his
own choice and prerogative was not
elected, and for that reason. We
are progressing. Fremont Tribune
The silver issue is bothering the
democrats just now more than the
tariff is. If they are wise, however,
or have any regard for their plat
form or their promises, they will
pitch in and jhelp Sherman mid
his fellow republicans repeal the
silver law.
James G. Blaine is still alive his
struggle with death seems like the
struggle of a mighty ship on the
tempest tossed ocean. Tossed and
buffeted repeatedly by the angry
gusts it rights itself each time for
another fight with the waves.
NOTES FROM EXCHANGES.
From the Echo.
W. W. Conn, father of Mrs. II. L.
Clapp, is laying dangerously sick
at his daughter's home three miles
west of town.
Bert Hardy informes us that he
intends establishing a cob pipe fac
tory in Klmwood as soon as spring
opens up. The pipes will be made
from the cobs of the mammoth corn
he raised on his farm last summer.
C. D. Kunz has decided to move
his house in north part of town
back several feet and build a good
addition to it. A. Yoder has secur
ed the rent of it for the insueing
year, and will also do the carpenter
work on the addition.
A novel foot race was run on our
streets Monday bet wsen Bart Hardy
and John Kunz. Hardy carried all
foot board a foot wide, and run
straight, while Kunz run free hand
ed but had to turn round a man in
the middle of the race. The.'dis
tance was 100 feet and Hardy came
out ahead.
M. D. Bailey feels happy, even
though he has been a poor renter.
He rented a farm last year and was
in town Saturday to pay the rent
which he did and had a little left.
He sold $:X) worth of hogs, a lot of
cattle which has paid his expenses
and then has his entire crop to fall
back on. He has bought a farm' a
few miles further west will move on
it in the spring. Who says renters
are oppressed?
We received a letter from Joseph
Chapman which disclosed the fact
that he and his family are in Win
lock, Washington. He says "the
grass and clover are up and that
flowers are in bloom and never
freezes enough to hurt the vegeta
bles in the gardens.
From the Ledger.
Section Foreman Weston became
tired of drawing upon his salary
every month to pay rent, and
is erecting a snug little cottage in
the "Y" north of town. He expects
to be at home iu his now house in a
few days.
Mrs. Hastings arrived here Thurs
day afternoon for a visit of several
days with her daughter, Mrs. Dan
iel Lynn. She came here from York
where she has been visiting with
the family of James Wiley, formerly
of this county.
II. S, Upton, who for some months
past has been connected with the
Medal Gold C ure Institute at Blair
came down last Wednesday to at
tend to some business for the In
stitute and to visit his relatives and
friends in and near Union.
We call attention of our readers
to the continued story beginning in
this issue on page six entitled Chat
tanoga written by F. A. Mitchell,
late of the United States army, It
is a thrilling story of an occurrence
of the late war and should be read
hy everyone.
OUR GREAT CITIES.
Interesting Farts About the I-rwatlun of
Amerlra'i HiminrM Crntcn,
It Is upon ths business of transferring
freight from one syBteni to another, from
external to internal, or from land to water,
or vice versa, that the growth of com- !
mercial cities largely depends, and as the '
most advantageous locatiou for such
"break of bulk" is at the head of nav'ga- 1
tion, enabling freight!) to be carried as far .
as practicable by water, the cheapest I
known medium of transit, the locus of the
city will be found at that point farthest
iulaud which can be reached by ocean ves
sels of the deepest draft.
iiut alt houh water is nonproductive of '
freight, it is a very convenient medium of ,
transportation, and hence, wherever there '
exists a large body of productive land sur-
rounding or contiguous to a navigable
channel, there will be found the elements
of a great emporium. Thus London, the
metropolis of Great Britain, is not at
Land's Kud, the point of Kugland nearest
to the foreign commerce of the world, but
at the head of navigation of the River
Thames; Paris is not on the sea, but on
the .Seine, and ho situated as to place it in
the center of the most highly developed
system of interior waterways in the world.
Canton, Constantinople, Liverpool, Glas
gow, Antwerp and many other foreigu
cities might be cited in illustration of this
principle. In our own country the same
conditions prevail. Baltimore and Phila
delphia are at the heifd of navigation
New York and Chicago are weIdd to
get her by a thousand miles of waterway,
at each extremity of which there must of
necessity lie a break of bulk.
Situated at t lie re-entrant angle of the
coast, and having the great water artery
draining the heart of the country flowing
into her magnificent bays, New York has
exceptional facilities for controlling inland,
coastwise and foreign commerce. There is
one link, however, which needs to be
opened to render t! u southwestern com
merce more fully accessible, and that is
the ship canal across New Jersey from
Karitan bay to the Delaware river, and
thence across the Delaware peninsula to
Chesapeake bay.
A review of the returns of the eleventh
census shows that the twenty-eight cit ies
in which the population exceeds 100,000
are located at the stragetic points of trans
portation systems, and that with few ex
ceptions they are commercial cities, situ
ated upon navigable waters. It will also
be observed that as a general rule these
great centers of trade follow iu the wake
of immigration and are on the western side
of the great waterways, as well as at the
points of transshipment between water
and land carriage.
Viewing the Tinted States as a whole, It
will be found to consist of four great
transportation Areas, namely, the region
tributary to the Atlantic, to the Pacific,
to the lakes and to the gulf, and t he strate
gic points of these four systems are those
where the lines of least resistance to trailic
are most numerous.
In the center of the transmississippi re
gion, and equally distant from lake, gulf
and ocean lies Denver,' the bub of this
great territory, from which ramify more
than a dozen lines of railway reaching to
all parts of the continent, and in its cen
ter there is to be seen a depressed basin
forming a natural site, where the streams
of commerce can be readily commingled
in the great transfer yards and stations
which are being rapidly developed in this
enterprising city of Colorado. Cosmopoli
tan. Early Rinlng.
The excellence of early rising and its in
spiring influence on both lody and mind
have been themes for the poet's song
and the sage's sermon. Early rising pn
motes cheerfulness of temper, opens up
new capacities of enjoyment and channels
of delight to which the sluggard must be
insensible.
It increases the sum of human existence
by stealing from indolence Lours that
would else be utterly wasted, and, better
still, unquestionably conduces to longevity.
All long livers have been early risers.
Now the habit of retiring to bed at late
hours will hardly admit of early rising;
therefore the necessity of refraining from
the one in order to secure the advantage
of the other. From six to eight hours are
generally held to be sufficient, and no
doiiht on the average are so.
Our sleep is regulated much by the sea
son. In winter people lie longeron account,
as they say, of its being too dark to get up
early. There is some plausibility in the
reason, but the system in cold and dark
weather is more prone to sleep than in
light and sunny times. Invalids need
generally plenty of bed rest, and they
should procure it by going early to bed.
There are more health and strength to be
found in the practice of seeing the sun rise
than in looking at it iu any other part of
the day. tit. Louis Republic.
One til Charles 1I ken' Prank.
While I am writing of my father's fond
ness for dancing, a characteristic anecdote
occurs tome. While he was courting my
mother he went one summer evening to
call upon her. The Hogarths were living
a little way out of London, in a residence
which had a drawing room opening with
French windows onto a lawn. In this
room my mother and her family were
seated quietly after dinner on this particu
lar evening when suddeuly a young sailor
jumped through one of the open windows
into the apartment, whistled and danced a
hnrnpiM, and before they could recover
from their amazement jumped out again.
A few minutes later my father walked
in at the door as sedately as though quite
innocent of the prank, and shook hands
with every one; but, the sight of their
amazed fines proving too much for his at
tempted sobriety, his hearty laugh was
the signal for the rest of the party to Join
his merriment. Hut, judging from his
slight ability in later years, I fancy that
be must have taken many lessons to secure
his perfection in that hornpipe. Mamie
Dickens in Indies' Home Journal.
Speaking Frankly,
Hypochondriac Patient (detailing real
and imaginary uilmeuts to sympathetic
physician) And then, doctor, there's my
head.
Doctor Ob, don't alarm yourself about
that; believe me, there's nothing in it!
Exchange.
lieynncl Her J iirUtlii t lint.
Little Johnnie Wen Miss Nexdoor got
married, her mother threw an old slipper
after her. What was that for?
Little Kthel-Oh, they always do that
That means that her mamma isn't never
goin to spank her any more. Good News.
An Inti-rrat In thtt ftatntt.
"Ho you enjoy football?" he asked of
the man who sat next him at the game.
"Somewhat."
"Are you a player?"
"No. I'm a surgeon." Exchange.
Welcome Rain.
The author of "Round the Compass i
Australia" had put up for the night with
the manager of a stock farm. It was a
time of drought, and the evening passed
amid stories of frightful suffering and ?
losses. The manager thought it would 1
be hardlv Possible to hold out a week
longer. "Shady Jack's well is done," h i
said, "and the Frenchman's tank is
empty." Ilis wife tried to encourag.
him.
"Hope for the best," she said.
"My oathl" answered the manager,
"but the best things never come off."
"Yes, Dick," responded his wife, "but
the worst things never come off."
Night after night this man had walked
the room, alternating between prayers
and curses, as each day's record was an
other thousand sheep dead, another emp
ty well, until at last he had come to this
grim courage of despair.
"I shouldn't care so much," he said ta
the traveler, "but then my wife, my
girls in there!"
He drew his sleeves across his eye
and bowed his head on the table. For
ten minutes he sat there so. Then th
visitor saw him raise his head, start,
spring to his feet and listen with strained
attention. What was that? Something'
pinged on the corrugated roof overhead."
"Rain, rain, rain!" he shouted as hl
rushed outside and fell on his knees
with his hands stretched out toward the
clouded sky.
"Thank God! Thank God! Wifei
Girls! Mary! Rain!"
Even so. The flood gates of the sky
were opened, and before morning ths
visitor was helping to put up a dyke on
one side of the house. The march of de
struction was staid. '
Hunting Zebra.
After crossing the usual heated yel
low plains, looking for all the world like
an expanse qf orerpurched hayfields and
dotted here and there with droves of
springtxik, we outspanned two and so
rode back again across the hot, weary
plain for camp. We had not long quit
ted the forest before we sighted a good
troop of Uurchell's zebra, feeding quiet
ly. We spread out in line and rode up
to them.
The troop, which consisted mostly ot
mares with a yearling foal or two, was
guarded by an old stallion, who stood
sentinel nearest to us with hia head up.
Presently, turning half round, he gave
some sort of signal and the rest of the
band galloped briskly off, curveting
and capering as they ran. After moving
a few hundred yards the troop suddenly
wheeled round in line to have a good
look at us again.
These tactics of the zebras were dis
played in a retreat of some miles, the old
stallion always covering the rear, until
the troop, outflanked by Dove, shot off
to the right and my chance came. I gal
loped hard to intercept them, and as
they stood fur a minute on seeing me in
the line of flight, got a steady shot at
200 yards. The bullet clapped as if on a
barn door, and as the troop continued
their flight I Raw one zebra turn away
alone. Presently she stood again. I
was soon within sixty yards, and with
another bullet finished her. She proved
to be a fine mare in beuutiful coat, and
her head and skin now decorate a room
at home. Longman's Magazine.
A Story of Millionaire Lick.
James Lick, of San Francisco, was an
unlovable millionaire, of whom a curious
story is told. When a poor youth in
Pennsylvania he was rejected by the
daughter of a wealthy miller on accouut
of his poverty. He vowed at that time
that he would some day build a mill
that would far surpass that of his sweet
heart's faUier. Many years later he
kept his vow and constructed at San
Jose a mill of highly polished California
wood valued at $.'00,000. During his
lifetime Mr. Lick had few friends and
apparently enred for none. He lived
plainly and was seen very little in pub
lic. The larger part of his fortune was
left to charities and public institutions,
one notable bequest being the snm of
$60,000 for the erection of a statue to
Key, the author of the "Star Spangled
Banner."
While many institutions profited by
Mr. Lick's posthumous gifts, his most
famous achievement was the establish
ment of the Lick observatory on Mount
Hamilton, under the management of the
University of California, Mr. Lick's
body was placed in 1887 under the base
of the pier sustaining the great telescope.
New York World.
The Value of Thought.
It is hardly necessary to say that all
men need to "swing" the moral compass
from time to time and to take their
bearings in the sea of life. The advice
is as true as it is conventional. Upon
the use of thinking for such purposes
we shall not, then, dwell. We may, how
ever, point out, as a means of strength
ening and invigorating the mind in a
secular and worldly sense, the habit of
thinking is of the greatest possible value.
The minds of those who dread think
ing, as if it were a penance, become like
the bodies of those fed solely on spoon
meat soft and unable to stand the
slightest strain. Heading, as one or
dinarily reads, is like swallowing pap;
thinking, like eating solid food. Ths
man who trains his mental powers by
meditation and by following outlines of
thought obtains an intellectual instru
ment a hundred times more powerful
than he who is content never to think
seriously and consecutively. London
Spectator.
Not II Keniwly.
Mother (returned from a call) Why,
you have taken cold. You are feverish.
Don't you feel hot?
Little Ethel Yes'm. I've been havin
Johnnie tell me some ghost stories, so's
to make coli1 chills run down my back,
but it doesn't do a bit of good. Good
News.
He Van M illing.
"Do you think you can supjwrt me,
George?" she asked an hour after he had
proposed.
"Yes, if you'll get ou the other kne,"
e said. Exchange.