THE FAUMEKS ALLIANCE, LIXCOUN. XER. THUI(SIAV. DEC 3 1W11.
OWNERS Or THE UNIVERSE.
1M m earner ap tb. anbMiu
Lying all round our path;
Oat trust om wheat ud loaee.
Giro t2i poor the thorns and chaff.
tM as find oar chiefeet pleasure
Hoarding bountiee of to-dy,
fle) the poor (ball bar eoaat meaturt 2
Aad two price bar to pay.
Yea, wall reaerrotr tha rlrera,
Ami we'll tory on tha lake.
Ami wa'U lay a trifling toil-Ur
Oa each poor man who partakes;
Wa'U brajsi bis number on blin
That he ll carry through hi life;
at u unrniun au oia canureu.
0t a mortgage oa bis wife. J
W will capture e'en the wind god.
Ami confine him in cave;
Aa4 then, through oar patent process.
We tha atmosphere will tare;
Tha we'll squeeze our little brother
When be tries bU lungs to fill,
Fat metre on bis wind-pip. t
And present our little bill. J ,
We will syndicate the starlight,
And monopolize tbe moon I
Claim a loyalty on rest-days, T'
A proprietary noon;
For right of way through ocean's spray
We charge just what it's worth;
We'll drive our stakes around the lakes
la fact, we'll own the earth.
From Great Thoughts, Loudon, Eng.
Boys the Farm.
Boys, stay on the farm.
Who has noticed the almost univers
al practioe of "quitting the farm"
without apprehensions of evil results?
Tbe first ambition of youth Is, or
should be, education. The second is,
but should not be, a "profession."
When the inspirations of approach
lag; manhood fasten themselves about
the nature of beardless youth tbe spell
of ambition blinds the eyes of philsso
pby and reason and al1 determination
becomes bent on a soft job for life.
Another element of young men, and
we may say a more deserving class,
have their eyes fastened on the top
most rung of fume. Tholr ambition
Is to make an impression on the period,
if aot the age in which they live.
They hear and heed the popular whim
cf profession." In it they are told
lies the key that will unlock the way
up the ladder of fume. This accounts
for the unwarranted drift each year
from the quiet simplicity of rural
homes to the evil influences within the
confines of great cities.
Boy stay on the farm.
There, in the future, you can sow
for after greatness and reap a boun
teous crop. You are needed on tho
farm to-day. not for your physical
worth, but because of your ambition,
which is the result of intellectual de
velopment - The great American pur
emit agriculture, has been mode the
foot-rug for all enterprise, and why9
Because it was wanting in intellectual
Individuality. For more than a gen-
oration the polioy with young men of
means and education baa boon to quit
tha farm; this left the greatest of - our
country's avocations in the bands of
Ignorance and destitution, with here
and there a notable exception. The
intelligent farmers to-day realizing
the error of the tendency of the post,
are exerting every power to elevate
and dignify their calling. They appeal
to you. They know the need of educa
tion in their effort to elevate the
standard of their profession. There
Is no agricultural section in the coun
try but that is keenly sensitive of its
dwarfed social and political signiQ
canoe. - Then is it not an inviting field
for ambitious youth P Yes, stay on
the farm, boys, and direct your ener
gies to the upbuilding of tho honest
profession of our fathers. Shirk not
the responsibility. Give agriculture
the prestage it rightly deserves and
claim your share of the honors. The
agricultural classes never exercised
their individuality as they have in the
last few years. The tide has already
turned, so stick to the farm, boys. -The
Toiler.
HI raacd Be the McKinley TarlK
Farmers, how much have you saved
during the past year on binding twine,
sugar and eggs? The price of the arti
cles were all effected by tho McKinley
bill Enterprise Journal (Rep. ).
The exhibition of gall in the above
brief paragraph entitles it to take the
cako. The only redeeming features
of the McKinley bill, and the only ones
referred to by Republican journals
and politicians when 6inglng pcans to
its praise, are its free trade provisions.
They point the farmers to the saving
they have realizod from tree sugar, and
attribute this saving to the blessed poli
cy of high protection.
Farmers are also reminded of the
saving realized on bind in o- twin, and
they are asked to credit this also to
we Aicjuuiey larui. xma kind of
nonsense mlcht ttO if the fftrmfli-a AM
not know as well as they do just what
was ine means or tne saying. Having
bad something to da with thin IIuIa
transaction themselves they think they
understand the reason why binding
twine was cheaper during tho past
harvest than durinsr the one nreiradinir
it. The reason is simply because they
themselves controlled the largest out
put and were therefore enabled to fix
the price. Had thsre been no Alliance
exchanges thvre would have been no
cheap binding twine for wblch the
McKinley bill could be credited. The
day is past for catching suckers with
this kind of bait
The) Advantage or Free ro'nige.
A. standard argument with those
who oppose the free coinage of silver,
is that it would give the worklngman
dollar worth only 80 cents. With
out noticing the sophistry of the idea
it is worthy of note that a silver dol
lar will pay a dollar debt, or buy a
dollar's worth of service in postage
stamps anywhere in the United States,
sad ttiat is all any dollar will da That
the silver in a silver dollar is only
worth 80 cents means that the.gold in
gold dollar will buy 25 per cent,
mors of everything, labor included,
than it would before silver was de
asonetized. Hartford Examiner.
Plachlnj to IHake It Go Around.
Ata recent meeting of the Rhode
Island weavers, a distinguished aud
popular, conservative, economic writer
a addressed the hard struggling work
ing men. During his remarks he
sought ti) make thorn blindly and con
tentedly accept their lot by saying in
honeyed tones: "Why, my dear friends,
the production of this country only
furaishes 200 a head annually, end it
la hard to make it go around. - It Is
only by hard pinching and careful
ooonomy that we can make it do so."
While almost within gunshot of the
speaker roe the peJaces of America's
millionaires at Newport where gigantio
fortunes are annually squandered with
lavUh hands, where Mr. McAllister and
his butterily coterie of wealthy gour
mands eat drink and dance away the
summer, and illustrate how these chil
dren of idleness and wealth have to
pinch and plan" to make their share
of the 200 go around, of which the
distinguished conservative economist
spoke. If the onuses ot our people
were unable to read or write, if they
had been accustomed to centuries of
oppression, a policy so glaringly un
just and disingenuous might succeed
for a time. Hut with conditions as
they are, the persistent crying of peace
when there is do peace; and attempt
ing to juggle with facts, is more than
foolish It is criminal. One who does
not regularly read the labor and agri
cultural press of the country is inca
pable of forming an intelligent idea of
tbe nature or extent of the discontent
at the present time. H. O. Flower in
the Arena
The Weary Rich.
The 'weary rich" are discussing
through the magazines how to dispo e
of their money. . Carnegie suggests
that it is better to dispense charities
while living. Gladstone proposes a
rich man's corporation in which each
binds himself to give away annually a
certain portion of his income. There
always will be room in the world for
charity. To multiply provisions for
free giving only increase the number
of applicants. The gospel among both
poor and rich will solve many a vexed
problem. "Let him that stolo steal no
more." The man who steals coal to
warm himself and children is not as
bad as he who corners wheat and rob
every man of a Dickie on each sack of
flour. One (-teals contrary to statute
the other according to law.. To carry
on the present system of commerce,
immense combinations of capital are
necessary, and there must be men to
control them, captains of industry. In
131)6 Dinde Disponda, a London mer
chant suid to the Duke of Burgoney:
Trade find Its way everywhere
and rules the world." With how much
more truth can it bo said now, when
the ends of tho earth are bi ought to
gether and traie Knows no day, no
mirlit, and in Its transaction It out.
speeds tha start in their course. It
rules kings and cabinets and bids the
churches obey Hi b'.-hosts. Farmers'
Friend.
. Hungarian Rallroada,
In Hungary, under government
ownership of railroads, the rates are
so low that It costs only $1.92 to travel
a distance equal to that botween Chi
cago ' and New York. A system ot
tickets somewhat like postage stamps
has been adopted which travelers quo
use on all lines, and with which
freight can also be prepaid. The sav
ing is enormous, and the people get
the full benefit of It In this country
the tiukot freight and advertls ng
agencies which competing railroad
companies are employing cost over
$'.'00,000,000 a year." The princely
salaries and "pickings" of presidents,
directors, contractors and a host of
parasites, amount to fully an equal, if
not larger sum. Then comes the in
terest on stocks abundantly watered.
For all this the people pay. It Is safe
to say thtit of tho gross earnings over
$800,000,000 would be saved to the
poople by government ownership and
operation of national highways. Tbe
1'eoplo.
Tactical Organization.
SritiSGFiELD, Neb., Not. 23. HI.
Editor Alliance: If the recent
election is any lesson at all to the hosts
of reform, the necessity of organization
it occurs to me is that lesson.
'It has now been three weeks since
the election, and during this whole time
we bare had nothing but the reports of
the subsidized press of tho great falling
off of the people's party vote. I have
had other reasons aside from a natural
desire for wanting statistics of the party
vote, and with bated interest I watched
for the coming numbers of The Alli
ance, but it appears that the reform
papers, like myself and the people, have
to depend on a subsidized press for
tbolr information.
The great falling off of the people's
vote has been lm pressed upon the pen
pie, n hen the probable facts are that
when the truth is once known Instead
of a falling off there will be found to be
a positive gain. In Kansas where the
falling off was the most remarkable as
per subsidized press it has already
been demonstrated that the vote was
actually increased over last year, against
the fact that the total vote is 80,000
loss; and the stay-at-home vote is known
to be the farmer, fov.' the reason of its
being the busiest part of the farming
year ana it oeiug an on year election.
We have learned from a knowledge
of humau nature ti at first Impressions
are hard to efface, and of course first
impressions arc tho result of first in
formation. Consequently to get out an
unfavorable impression is to get out an
unfavorable report; and this we find has
been pretty thoroughly accomplished
in this election.
Your suggestions of the election of
the central committees, in last week's
paper, was well timed. Now when such
live and wide-awake committees have
been elected let it be made a part of
their duty to appoint a committee of
one or three who will volunteer their
services and ca be depended npon, In
eacn voting precinct, to report the elec
lion therein. Let that committee of
one or three remain at tho polls until
the vote is counted, and then telephone
or telegraph the result Immediately to
a county committee appointed for the
same purpose, ana tne county commit
tee in ti.rn to a state committee, and
the state committee to the reform press.
If such an arrt.'gement is made
general over tbe United States, the
party will not again be made to suffer
from the adverse reports of the old
party press, as it certainly has this year,
as the reform vote ;an and would be
practically knovn the next morning
after the election, and the good impres
sion created by it would bo worth as
much 1 dare say as all the literature of
the campaign.
These election committees are of such
vital and paramount importance as to
rail for a uniform system over tbe
United States, the arrangements and
provisions and instructions of which
should be made by the national ce Ural
committee, or the central committee of
the respective states; and the way to
get this on foot is for the reform press
to begin to talk it. .Will our reform
papers instruct themselves enough on
the subject to do sot -
At another time I wish to extend the
subject of organization to a considera
tion of a better support of the reform
press, which is the entire hope and sal
vation of all reform measure
S. M, Komkkl.
Aa Able Letter From Mrs. Lucas.
Editor Farmers' Alliakci: I bave
hist been reading a clear, forcible article
on the danger of "gold contracts," which
brings to my mind the fear, that possibly
our third psrty movement is "too late."
If this evident plot of tbe gold power is
successful, that most dreaded thing, a
revolution of blood, may be precipitated
upon ns, and the thought forces to my
remembrance the boast of Sen. Sharon,
that "this administration (corporate ad
ministration) will not be changed with
out bloodshed and ricers of if Oh!
must it bet Must we bow meekly to
each snd all of plutocracy's laws, or
meet tbe foe in deadly combat?
Terrible as the latter would be, we
bave do account of criminal hesitation
on the part of tbe patriots of nor of
wives and mothers in tbe dark days,
when this same dreadful alternative
was their lat resort. Shall we at this
day be less brave and patriotic, less
mindful of posterity's claims, less able
to preserve a republic than they to
erect f I think not. Of course the pos
sibility is something 10 try one's sonl,
but the crafty designs of this wicked
"power behind the throne," are every
day more apparent. .Mrs. Vanderbilt's
appearance at the theatre bedecked
with a Jeweled crown, was premature.
but significant to ordinary Intelligence.
How many farmers nre now ac
quainted with this neat little scheme of
the "gold contracts?" The exception
clause upon the late treasury notes is
sued In pay mint of silver bullion, was
procured by Wall it recti influence with
the ultimate intention to use it as a
clincher for tbe "gold standard" mon
etary system. The plan to change
present mortgages for those payable in
gold, at a tower rale ofinterett. would
probably be a great temptation to the
unwary tax-burdened farmer, especially
if that or foreclosure is the alternative.
Tight place, that!
Add to the number who would be
sure to accept the Immediate relief thus
offered, any considerable portion of
wage-earners won to the "gold con
tract" fraud by insinuations of benefit
from wages paid in gold, and the "gold
standard" advocates with their present
army of ready purchased tools, and
moss-backed subservients to the party
lash.wlll be almost Invulnerable through
the ballot. "Free coinage" will have no
charms for the farmer tlod to a "gold
contract" mortgago, nor yet would the
nation's savior, thu greenback. The
"mortgage fiend" would certainly own
their votes, and tbe picture has n
bright side unless we make one by
prompt, decisive blows. This then is
the plutocrats hope, and their last card.
Will it win? X tremble for the conse
quence if we do not thwart this last
and "eighth financial conspiracy"
against our freedom and constitutional
rights, uu, tnat tne complete history of
these eight were familiar to every voter;
no neea then to "call for volunteers."
We should not give way to discouraee-
nient if we have tailed to secure a peo
ple s candidate for supreme judge,
which we so greatly need; we must re
member only our brilliant success, and
rellect that we were too sanguine, in too
great a hurry for entire victory. Let'
develop toe bull dog tenacity and
practice the motto, "Make haste slowly."
To the best of my remembrance, we
bave made astonishing gains in Omaha,
tho stronghold of monopoly, and if the
Labor Wave is sustained it will make
many more votes for independence be
fore another election day. It is sad
that independents could be so ignorant
or heedless of the importance of this
"ou year in politics, and stay at homo
to pick corn for the "railroads;" but
certaiuly it is true, and these luke warm
reiormers condemn us to six years more
of corporate plunder and domination.
ut thero is no time for repining, we
will "gird on our armor" and prove to
the enemy we are "Greeks." Like
biirnaby's raven, wo will ' never sav
die"
Our cause cannot languish with so
much talent and avmnathv enlisted. aud
tho blood ot the Kansas martyr, Sam
wood, crytug out against corruption
and misgovernment. The new party
must organize more thoroughly at the
next convention and put a systematic
plan in operation, which will insure
positive victories next year, though as
a matter ot fact we have a powerful
enemy guarding the White house por
tals, and 'must not be demoralized if
our presidential candidate is defeated
the first run; but we must continue the
charge.
It seems the combination depend on
the ever-potent "boodle" and plans to
disrupt the Alliance. The first has been
their strong right arm, and it is confi
dently expected that sheer disappoint
ment over late elections and adroit
lying will accomplish the rest. Soldiers
of reform. If you have by word or
thought retreated in the Hue of march
toward a better day; if you are tempted
by craven fears to abandon struggling
humanity, to its fate and perils; it you
feel weary In the good fight take heart
of courage, heed tbe command, "about
face," on the "double-quick." "Retrent"
and "submission" were not the watch
words in those great conflicts which are
o justly our greatest pride, and were
the gate way to political freedom.
Our reform papers have warned us of
the great odds against us this year, bid
us come out in torce u we would win,
their predictions have been verified.
We will rally to the "bugle blast" aud
make systematic efforts to rout the
enemy in IS!)'-'.
Now, I feel, against my wishes, that
the educational work of the Alliance is
nearly ended as a measure for political
reform, unless a moke thorough
I'LAK IS ADOPTED AT ONCE, tO place
Alliance literature before Alliance
voters. Too many "mixed tickets" are
the partial result of so many Alliance
men reading old party papers to the
exclusion of our own. They are hard
to wean from these artful en emiej and
unable to detect the frauds in them, be
cause they do not read with open eyes.
They are but little interested in the
cause and easily turned by the wily
foe.
The non-partisan plan of the Alliance
was originally proper, but it takes but
half an eye to see that the man who is
republican or democrat tint, and Alli
ance afterward, is a clog to the organ
ization and a stumbling block to re
form. It is the duty of independents
fully armed with a knowledge of the
evils wo must combat to immediately
provide a way to show these tardy
brothers their mistakes and only hope
of any relief from existing wrongs.
I would have the state Alliance at the
next session appoint a committee in
vah County Aiiiaiic to aiotrttia in
each eub-AiUaoee the name of even
member who takes no reform tap-r
lheae ahouid be sent in list form to the
secretary of S:ate Alliance or other
proper aouLoiitv, and the amount
uecmsary to furnish them (those on th
IU'k) with our Alliance for a period oi
four or six months. ( lbs seaaou during
acampaign lor offices is not the time t
educate tne f aimer whose nose is held
to the gr indstone ) Voluntary contri
butions from interested ttvrkers aud
small assessment on male members ol
each sub(wii& their conseut) would
rabe a euflkitnt general fuud to meet
this requited turn and "spread tot
light" more effectually than the hap
hazard sty'e of gratuitous distributiuii
through the mails. This expei sive ana
nei baps fruitless "work in the dark" im
probably confined to our "cranks" who
thus bear the whole burden; but all
converted to our principles should tak
an oar. I believe investigation wou.d
reveal the fact that the so-cailt-d inde
pendents who do net stand by our can
didates are generally held in tbe "traces'
of the twiu frauds by the influence ot
tneir subsidized press, and we must
strike at the root of the evil by con
certed action, or reconcile ourselve to
the inevitable resu'ts. The Alliance U
tbe back-bone of the third party and it
cannot stand still It a ill go back if we
do not push ahead vigoiously. Oui
eaders are brave and able, our reform
papers tne truest and cleanest literature
for an enlightened civilization.
Next year the whole country win be
at fever heat on these live issues, foi
the people are torryirhere waking to th
needs and dance s of the nour, 1 Lev
are beg nning to think, in all circles, all
sections, that this broadcast misery,
poverty and crime, are ut just unneces
sary and in toera ble. We niusttriduiph
at lust, since we are the only "God and
morality" party in the union, and thai
determines the fate of our cause.
Tbe next four months are the time to
prepare our Alliance men to shoulder
their muskets of truth aud single out
tho man they will briDg down (to vote)
in 1893. J he time to Instruct delegate
for a nominating preshleLtial couven
lion, which will not be side-tracked
fnto the republican fold by the old
machine under the ruise of a "land
loan bill" to relieve the people. I bave
got more faith ia the hay-seed than to
think ne will consider lor one moment
the question it "compromise" with our
enemy, by endorsing or nominating
Senator Stanford as people's candi
date.
It would assuredly be success, but not
ours, wnat else does this enori to
assemble the republicans in national
convention in California mean, together
with the Stanford "boom?" Work,
watch and wait. Yours for victory,
Mks. A. Lucas.
THE DREAD OF GHOSTS.
IndUn Oboitt Supposed to Be MIscMeT.
a and HiUoieas.
The dread of ghosts, so well known
all uncivilized and semi-uncivilized
countries, is common in the aborigines
of India to an unusual degree; the
same may bo said of their Aryan con
querors and the lower classes of Mo-
nammeaans. All Indian gnosis are
supposed to be mischievous, and some
of them bitterly malicious. The only
means employed to appease the rancor
ot these unlaid spirits is to build
shrines for them and to make them
offerings, such as a fowl, a pig; and,
on grand occasions, a buffalo. Any
severe illness, and more especially
any epidemio disease such as small
pox or cholera, is attributed to the
malignancy of certain of these spirits,
which must be propitiated accord
ingly.
The "man-tiger ' is, perhaps, the
most dreaded of all the Indian demon
ghosts; for, when a tiger has killed a
man, the tiger itself is considered safe
from harm, the spirit ot tho man be
ing supposed to ride upon the beast's
head and guide him clear of all dan
ger. Accordingly, it is believed that
the only sura mode of destroying a
tiger who has killed one or more per
sons is to begin by making offerings
to the spirits of his victims, thereby
depriving the animal of the valuable
services rendered by the ghostly
guides. The ghosts most propitiated
are tho spirits of those who have met
violent deaths, whether by design or
accident Including death by poison
and contagious diseases. Even
wretches who have been hanged for
tholr crimes are supposed to have the
same powers of causing evil to the
living as those who have boon killed
by tigers or by lightning. In parts
where serpent worship is common it is
considered a great honor to die from
the bite of one of the poisonous crea
tures. St Louis Republic.
Curious Little Experiment.
Prof. Bruylants, of the Uuiversity
of London, is credited with a curious
littleexperiment. He writes a word
with a peneil on a sheet of paper rest
ing on several other sheets, from which
ha draws one bearing no traoa of the
pencil marks. On exposing it, how
ever, over a heated capsule contain
ing iodine tor a tew minutes, the paper
is seen to grow yellowish, and the let
ters of the word stand out of a violet
brown coW. On moistening the pa
per, the letters appear as violet on a
blue ground. M. Leconte, who gives
an account of this experiment, says
that it will also rev ial the words ef
faced from paper by a correspondent.
Prof. Bruylants explains it on the
ground that paper contains starch,
and under the influence of moisture
and pressure forms a slight quantity
of hydramide, a substance analogus
to hydrated starch, which forms at a
temperature af 60 degrees C The
iodine colors the starch blue. In writ
ing, the pressure of the pencil forces
the water from the fibres of the paper,
and a little hydramide is formed,
which is colored by the iodine more
deeply than the rest of the paper.
Philadelphia Ledger.
A Polish nobleman was rocently con
victed of murder in Austria. Ho
killed an old woman for her money, in
hopes it would enable htm to marry a
young lady to whom he was engagod.
The prosecuting officer demanded,
after his imprisonment that he should
bs punished by imprisonment for life;
but the court adjudged that as he was
only twenty-five years old, his "tender
age" was a negating circumstance,
and sentenced him to eighteen years'
imprisonment and loss of raaU. Had
the criminal been an ordinary man's
son we should not have hoard any
thing of his being of "tender age" at
twenty-five. The nobility rlpon slowly.
For cheap mosey on real estate, call
on or address A. J. Kigbt & Co.,
21U) Newman blk, r21, Lincoln, Neb.
LINCOLN'S WIT.
( Aim4 Itltratlaf HI Oeaa.
Im AatertcM Ummf.
Many such clever sayings are cred
ited to the martyred President Lin
coln. Two of bis friends were dis
cussing tho appearance of public men,
particularly the length of their legs,
when Linco'a happening just then to
enter the room, was asked what be
thought the proper and proportionate
length a man's letri should be, when
be replied: "Really, I've never given
the subject any thought but it strikes
me they ought to be just long enough
to reach from his body to the
ground."
It was an Irishman that call e J on a
singing teacher to inquire his terms.
"I charge $3 for the first lesson, but
only $1 each for as many as you want
afterward." 'Oh, bother the first
lesson, then. said Patrick; "let us
begin at once with the second."
Another of bis countrymen exhibit
ed an equal comprehension of economlo
possibilities when he went to have bis
bunns of marriage proclaimed. In
answer to his inquiry as to cost the
registrar told him that tbe fee for be
ing proclaimed in one day was 10 shil
lings; for two . proclamations it was 5
shillings, and for three times it was
half a crown. "Bedad," said the
Irishman, "but that's an illigant ar
rangement You can just go on pro
claiming me and Biddy till there's
nothing to pay at alL"
Like the rest of mankind, military
men are not altogether exempt from
making mistakes, otherwise we never
should have heard ot a certain ad
jutant of a volunteer corps who, being
doubtful whether he had distributed
rifles to all the squad, cried out "All
you who are without arms hold up
your hands;" or of that affectionate
Irishman who enlisted in the Sixty
fourth regiment in order to be near his
brother, who was in tho Sixty-third.
It is somstimes much easier to give
an order than to see it properly exe
cuted, as an Irish sergeant once dis
covered. "Attention, company, and
'tend to your roll-call.' All of ye that
are preslut say 'Here,' and all of ye
that are not presint, say "Absint"'
Chicago Herald.
A HARD LIFE.
Pity a Poor Henpecked Kins The King
of Annam'i Trlule.
An Oriental dispatch casually men
tions the fact that the King of Artnara
has at present 679 wives. This leads
an analytical Jacques of the Minne
apolis Tribune to moralize as follows:
Consider for a moment what this
statement entails.- Glancing back a
few years in the life of the king, it is
evident that at one time, not long
past Annam's ruler must have had
679 sweethearts. If he bad visited
each one a whole evening It would
have been impossible to have gone
through the list in a year. Now, no
self-respecting girl Will be satisfied
with a lover who calls once a year.
Twice a week is a good average. On
this basis let us do a little figuring.
The King of Annam visited 678 girls
twice a week. That would be 1, 158
visits a week, or, counting Sundays,
1C6 visits a night To any one who
knows how hard it is to tear himself
away from the front gate under the
circumstances in which Annam must
have found himself, the terrible wear
on the. King's constitution is evident
at the glance. Besides keeping on
the. jump. to cover; 166 assignments
there were on each evening 165 cases
of mental anguish occasioned by
'tearing-himsolf-away" process.
Suppose, next that Annam said to
each girl: "Hove you, dearest You
are the loveliest woman in the world. "
Suppose, if you cun, that he said this
only. That is twelve words to each
woman, 1,980 words to each evening.
That is over a column and a half of
minion type, such as this paper is
printed in.
Again, if each of the 679 papas kept
bulldogs, as' all self-respecting papas
are supposed by the newspaper para
graphers to do, there wore 165 bull
dogs per night to be guSrded against
But the worft is not yet. Annam has
579 mothors-in-law. Every sprine he
has, instead of one, 579 bills for East
er bonnets; every winter he has 67P
bills for sealskin.
A GENIUS.
A Prisoner Who Mai Invented
Jail
Look Warranted Sare.
There is a convict in the Maryland
penitentiary who is a genius, says an
exchange. His name is Tobias F.
Hudson, and he is serving a nine-year
sentence for horse-stealing. Hudson
is a close student an inventor and a
man of remarkable mechanic skill. He
has a library in his cell of over 200
volumes of scientific works. He has
invented various electrical appliances,
including a burglar alarm now used
in the Warden's bed chamber. To
prove to tho officials the Insecurity of
some of the locks used he recently
made his escape from a cell opening
on the prison yard by hammering ou
the padlock which fastened his cell
door until the bolt dropped back
and the lock opened. Hudson
determined to invent a padlock that
would preclude future escapes in like
manner. The result was the produc
tion of a lock which seoms to be all
that he claims for it being so arranged
that hr.mmering on it drives tho bolts
deeper into their fastenings. Castings
for the new locks were made in tho
prison foundry, a lathe was furnished
and set up in Hudson's cell, and he
was relieved of all other tasks so that
his entire time could be occupied in
the manufacture of locks. In a short
time they will be used in all the dor
mitories of tbe prison. The locks are
neatly finished with brass rivets and
keyholes, and to ail appearance might
have come out of somo factory. Hud
son has always been an exemplary
prisoner, and is entitled to 26 months'
commutation ot time. He will be re
leased April 5, 1894.
Between London and New York.
It is not generully-knownthat on the
average about eight hundred messages
are cent daily from New York to Lon
don between the hours of 10 and 12.
says Electricity. Although half an
hour is considered a fair allowance
for the delivery of a message within
the city, messages aro sent to London
and replied within four minutes. The
result of this wonderful service Is that
New York and London markets are
brought close together and that either
city feels the slightest fluctuation In the
markets of the other almost instan
taneously. t
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