wr-tum ntNUS in CONVENTION
Tuay to OpiMw Bin Pending In
th MuacKuwn Lrglalalar,
Fully 300 Chinese opium-smokers.
representing New England, assembled
t&emselves at 24 Oxford street Friday
night for the purpose of finding ways
10 stop the Qulnn bill, which Is now
Pending before the General Assembly,
js tne Boston Herald. The meeting
commenced at 8 o'clock and lasted un
til after midnight. Every member
ieemed to be talking at the same time,
and consequently, there seemed to be
more speakers than listeners. Reso
lutions were passed that a petition be
sent to the Assembly, asking that if
Mr. Qulnn wanted a bill to pass against
me smoking or opium, an exception be
made In favor of the Chinese com
munities.
"There Is no man under God's rrea
tlon that knows the hardships which
molrera endure," said one of the dele
gates from Hartford. "If Mr. Qulnn is
an intelligent and free-minded uentle
man he should take conscientious con
sideration before he made such a law
as would stop a person from smoking
wnen the smoker has had the habit
tor thirty years."
"We are bound to smoke, anyhow,
whether we have the right or take it
for granted," said another smoker from
Providence, R. I. "We committed the
Bin before the law was made and we
are compelled to sin after the law la
made. We must either sin or we must
top living."
The most interesting remarks
throughout the meeting were made by
LI Sam, who came to the convention
a a representative from New Bedford.
He said: "People who do not smoEe
will never know a smoker's troubles. I
bad the habit grow Into me for the
past thirty-seven long years. I have
tried and tried again to stop smoking,
bat my strength failed me. At last I
gathered up my nerve to try again for
the last time. I decided if I failed to
do what I pledged I would die a fiend.
Two weeks ago I stopped smoking for
twenty-four hours. My dear fellow
men, there are not enough words In
Confucius' dictionary to tell you how I
felt I had rather have all the devils
In the great hell torment me than to
take the right of smoking away from
me. We smoking men do not ask the
people to encourage us, but we would
ask the public pity."
THE FASHIONABLE CANINE.
The Blenheim Spaniel la an Expensive
tittle Midget Heloved by the Fair.
The dog considered most desirable as
a pet for a woman is at present the
Blenheim spaniel, a tiny, ten-pound
midget, with long fluffy ears and paws
fringed with white. He is all lemon
and white, and much prettier than the
black and tan varieties of his family.
He Is worth all the way from $125 to
300 to the man who has raised aim.
The Japanese spaniel was a favorite
this winter, and would be still if he
could be persuaded to live long enough,
but the climate or the food, or some
thing in this country disagrrees with
him, and his owner seldom has the
pleasure of his society longer than two
or three months. This little foreigner
Is smaller, If any thing, than his Eng
lish cousin, and is all black and white,
and has a supreme advantage over the
King Charles, the Prince Charles, and
the rest of them in the matter of his
tail, which is beautiful and long, and
curls over his back. "The closer a
Japanese spaniel's tall clings to his
back the better his pedigree," said a
dog fancier, stroking one of these pets
approvingly. "He eats only fish and
rice in his own country, and some peo
ple think that it is because his food
Is not prepared to suit him that he
cannot live here. Be that as it may,
I have known a number of people to
use the greatest care in looking after
bis welfare, only to meet with disap
pointment In the end. Perhaps some
lucky fellow may be able to hit on a
specific for keeping him alive, after a I
while, and then he will make a fortune. I
I sold a Blenheim to a woman last !
week who would have been glad to i
A MAN OF RESOURCES.
The DratUt Strained a Volnt to hni a
Good t'aaioium
The dentist didn't want to talk shop,
he said, but he thought the story worth
wiling so he told it: "Not long ago."
he said, "a Western railroad president
came to New York and one night was
Invited to dine with some of his friends
bere." says the New York Tri
bune. "The dinner was a par
ticularly Jolly affair, and when
the western man reached his
hotel he was in a merry mood. It was
his custom to place his set of false
teeth under the pillow every night Just
before going to bed. and he was cer
tain he had done so on this particular
evening. Nevertheless, in the morning
he was unable to find them. Searching
high and low In the room was of no
avail, and finally he came to me for a
new set.
" ' How long will it take you to make
them?' he asked. I told him four or
five days. 'Can't listen to anything
like that,' he replied. 'I'll give you
triple money to make them in twenty
four hours ' You see people from Chi
cago think that money laughs at every
thing, even time.
"All my arguing with the old fellow
did no good, so I set to work on his
teeth. In the meantime, however.
told my assistant to hasten around to
the old man's hotel and make a sclen
tlflc search of the room. The westerner
Insisted that he had drunk no more
wine than usual at the dinner, but I
was satisfied that he was deceiving
himself. I had not been long at the
preliminary measurements when my
assistant called me out and banded me
the teeth. He had found them in the
pillow case, where the owner had put
them Instead of under the pillow.
I returned the teeth and the rail
road man was so overjoyed that he did
not cancel the order, but told me to go
ahead with the teeth. They might
come In handy some time, he said. He
even unbent so far as to admit that
perhaps, after all, he had drunk a glass
of wine too much the night before, and
when I sent him my bill I received a
check for double the amount from
him."
THEATER TICKETS.
A Boston Barber Glvea One Avar will
Each Shave.
"I see sometimes in the papers," said
a theatrical man the other day, "about
a theater In a Michigan town that only
charges 5 cents for a seat in any part
of the house. That's pretty cheap, but
Boston goes it one better.
"Here's a sign I saw In a barber shop
window over there the other day, 'A
shave and a theater ticket for 15 cents.'
'I went in to see what It meant, and
I found that the barber had a big stack
of 'passes on one of , the handsomest
theaters in the city which he was giv
Ing away to his patrons. I made some
further inquiries and found it was all
right. The house in question, It is well
known, hasn't been doing good business
recently, and its, audiences have been
largely made up "of 'deadheads.'
"The barber was Just helping the
manager fill his house." New York
Recorder.
The Talne of Minutes.
A party of ladies and gentlemen wert
lately visiting a large carpet factory,
and the manager took them over the
different floors of the establishment
On ascending one of the staircases they
came to a locked door, on which the
following Inscription was painted in
white letters:
"Strangers not admitted under any
circumstances."
The curiosity of the ladles was ex
cited to a high pitch, and they Inquired
almost in one breath, "Whatever is to
be seen inside?"
"That is one of our workrooms, in
which 150 women are employed in em
brolderlng carpets," answered the man
ager.
"Oh, how we should just like to have
a peep at them," exclaimed the ladles.
"I am sorry I cannot comply with
your wish," said the gentleman, with
ft ohrntr nf hid shnll nnra "hnr nnr
pay a n.gner pr.ee tor a Japanese u x .rueg do nQt admt of th Mghiat
ception. Truth to say, and there is
could have guaranteed that he would
stay with her over three months.'
nothing special to be seen, nor Is there
any question of trade secrets. The rea-
Fhlladelphla Trolley Partiea. son Why admission Is forbidden to
The trolley parties are reviving and , Btrangers is simply because every wom
promlse to put all former attempts in an naturally looks up and her attention
this line in the shade. There is notice- j is distracted from her work for from
able absence of noise in those that have one to five minutes. Supposing, now,
been perpetrated so far this summer. 1 each woman wastes a cbuple of mln
Instead of the objectionable blowing of utes in this way, that will make in the
horns and the ringing of bells, there case of 150 women a loss to the firm of
Is a grat singing of alleged popular 800 minutes, or five hours, and we can
nones, which Is. perhaps, even a worse not allow that."
offense, although not a punishable-one.
The cars are decorated with small
American flags and bunting, and il
luminated with small electric lights,
that are scattered all around the cars,
both inside and out. The brightness
of the lights is a means of attracting
crowds of people, who cheer the trol
leyltes to the echo. Judging from
present indications, the trolley parties
promise to be more the go than last
year, and the "trolleyosls wards" in
Darkest Time In the Revolution.
The close of the year 1780 was, In
the southern states, the darkest time
of our revolutionary struggle. Corn
wallls had Just destroyed the army of
Gates at Camden, and his two formid
able lieutenants, Tarleton, the light
horseman, and Fergusaa, the skilled
rifleman, had destroyed or scattered all
the smaller bands who had been fight
ing; for the patriot cause. The red dra-
the hospitals for the Incurably insane ' goona rode hither and thither, and all
will probably be taxed to their utmost through Georgia and South Carolina
extent Philadelphia Record.
Bleeding Gratis.
The following medical advertisement
appears in an old Stamford newspaper:
"Whereas, the majority of apothecaries
In Boston have agreed to pull down the
price of Bleeding to Sixpence, let these
certify that Mr. Richard Clarke, Apoth
ecary, will bleed anybody at his shop.
Gratis."
Biz Centenarians In One Town.
There are in Early County, Georgia,
according to a local newspaper, six
men over 100 years old, the oldest be
ing 103. They are said to be hale and
-roug, and to work in the fields regu
- - veek.
none dared lift up their heads to op
pose them; while North Carolina lay
at the feet of Cornwallis as he started
through it with his army to march into
Virginia. There was no organized
force against him, and the cause of the
patriots seemed hopeless. It was at
this dark hour that the wild back
woodsmen of the western border gath
ered to strike a blow for liberty.
A Constitutional Defect.
"What has become of your club,
Harry?"
"Oh, it's broken up. We made a
rule that no boy could be President
twice, and after we'd all been Presi
dent once we could not go on with It
Harper's Round Table.
THE NEW DAILY SCHEME
The friends at Omaha are trjlnf to
raise sufficient capital to start an
American daily. TI.ey already have
a fair start, but d-lre the assistance of
riends everywhere In the Unite
i tales. Can you take one or more
bares, on account of true Americanism
This is their plan:
Id answer to repvaUd request we
have finally contented to undertake the
tk of starting a Daily American 1
Omaha. This would be an eat-y thing
to do if people were to act as they talk
Yet It will not be Impossible, even if
they oo not, for there are thousands of
patriots who are anxious to have the
oews anxious to give the Protestant
preachers as fair a hearing as is ac-
oi did to R( n an rit-ts aid Itinerant
lecturers of the Jesuit Sherman stain
who will it snood to our call for sub
scribers for stock to enable us to estab
lish a Daily American.
We have consulted with our friends,
and they have suggested this plan:
Increase the capital stock of tbe
American Publishing Co. to f 150,000.
Divide into 10.000 shares of $15 each
Bepin business .when $100,000 has
been subscribed
Each stockholder must bo a sub
criber.
Subscription price of the puperi nr'
year, will be $10;. (3 the second, and
whatever tbe directors decide there'
after.
Tbe management of the company will
be placed in the hands of a board of
directors, who will be elected from
among the stockholders by a majority
of the stock represented at tbe regular
annual meeting.
Tbe indebtedness will not be over 40
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share is $15. payable when llOo.OtHl has
btMn nuWrlla d. The capital stock l
U le $15n.uo(. How many shan will
you want? Let us have a dally.
Whfrt Thvr in u OJura.
"In that country ouoe kuown a the
'Great American Desert,' embracliiK a
portion of Texas and Arlsona, there are
no odors." said K. I. Seuler, of Dullas.
"There luscious grapes and many other
fruits prow, especially near the cross
timber couutry, but there Is no per
fume. Wild flowers have no smell, and
carcasses of dead animals, which In
dry seasons are very plentiful, emit no
odors.
"It was always supposed to be a tree
less plain, upon which no plant could
grow or breathing thing could live, but
a large part of It Is now successfully
cultivated, and but for the rarity of
the atmosphere, causing the peculiari
ty I have nnmml, and the mlrflK,
which are even mure periect than in the
Desert of Snharn, no nn would look
upon It as a barren country now. An
other Angular feature com me j to the
desert land is that objects at a dlstnce
appear greatly magnified. A few
scraggy mesqulte bushes will look like
a noble forest. Stakes driven into the
ground will seem like telegraph poles.'
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Nation
Monthly Magazine.
A WESTERN MAGAZINE
FOR WESTERN READERS.
It is replete with Articles on Questions of
Local, National and Social Interest.
Price, 10c Single Copy'; $1 a year, in advance.
FOR SALE BY ALL FIRST-CLASS NEWSDEALERS.
Mr. Ilowvll Ild Not Accept th Ilrlb.
I found that there were stations
which were considered particularly de
sirable by the fruiterers, and that the
chief of these was In front of the old
United States court house. A fruiterer
out of place, whose family I visited for
the charities, tried even to corrupt me,
and promised me that if I would get
him this stendlo (they Italianize
"Btand" to that effect, Just as they
translate "bar" into barra and so on),
he would give me something outright
"E pol, cl sara sempre la mancla"
("And then there will always be the
drink money"). I lost an occasion to
lecture him upon tbe duties of the citi
zen; but I am not a ready speaker. V.
D. Howella, in the Century.
HOT SPRINGS, S. 1).
If indications count for anything, the
Hot Springs of South Dakota are des
tined to become the most popular resort
between Chicago and the Paclflo Coaot.
They are situated in the gontlo and
beautiful canon of Fall Rlvor, and are
the center of a splendidly built little
city of three thousand permanent In
habitants. The efficacy of their waters
for rheumatism, dyspepsia, and, in fact.
almost every chronic disorder of the
system, is too well known to require
statement. It Is testified to bv the an
nual arrival of thousands of invalid,
and the departure of these same per
sons, after a few weeks, in much im
proved or wholly restored health. The
Springs are surrounded by many ob
jects of surpassing natural interest, as
Wind Cave, equal in extent to the
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and far
more wonderful Information, tilled with
striking beauties and strange fantasies
of structure. Not far away are the
romantic Cascades, and near by are
extinct craters of geysers standing up
like holes that had been built rather
than excavated, and by their puzzling
appearance meriting the name they
have receivedThe Devil's Chimneys."
This is but a beginning of the list of
attractions in the vicinity, to fairly see
which would entranclngly occupy a
month.
The hotels and the bathing accom
modations for guests are unsurpassable,
and nothing is left to be desired by any
grade of people, from the nabob travel-
ng for amusement to the poverty
stricken Invalid in search of cheap and
speedy restoration to health.
The Passenger Department of tbe
Burlington Route has issued a well
written and beautifully Illustrated
folder, containing a great deal of inter
esting matter relative to this famous
resort. For a copy or for Information
about the Burlington Route's rates and
train service to Hot Springs, write to
Fraiici, General Passenger and
Ticket Agent, Omaha, Neb.
P. S. Half rates to Hot Springs
May 24, June 7 and 19, July 3 and 19,
August 2 and 23.
Protect the Game and Fish.
Shoot or fish only in the proper season
and escape the game warden by ob
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new game and fish laws this year, and
if you don't know them, send five 2
stamps for a copy of the Game Law
issue of The America Field, 255 State
street, Chicago.
A Fast Train for the Yellowstone Park
Leaves Omaha via the Burlington
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daily. Lands passengers at the Park
inside of 40 hours. Full information
about the Park tour, what it costs,
what's to be seen, how to get there,
etc., is contained in our Yellowstone
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G. P. & T. A., Burlington
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