ONLY A BABY'S SHOE.
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tui:
A STANCE KIDK.
On the highway between Appleby
and Ambleside, just bordering t he
roadside green Willi hawthorn bushes,
stood ilie very pretty cottaifi- wtiich
liobert familiarly know n as ' l!ot"j
butteiworth had tamed by faithfully
following the tat ow business
Nicely finished without and neatly
furnished within, with a Harden of
roses in iront and no pigpen in the
rear, it only needed the smiling face
of Its happy little, mistress to make it
a very haven of delight to the t.red
husband when he came home aln.ght
sick of the suiell of td.uw.
Not a cloud had iiiai red her mar
ried life, not a wrinle had crossed
Mr, "bob's" Mnooth little forehead.
Jler biscuit always rose an wer,
light, her hired tfirls had no "follow
ers;" her children never had the
umuips nor the uieaslesand the small
allowance (in which she dressed her
self suil'ccd to make her the eny of
the farmers' wives in the nelghbor
hood. and provided her with that
self-satlslie i iceiing which does more
to tone up the nervous sv-tein than a
dozen bottles of tieef, wine and
Iron.
It all came about, through a pink
bo;;net, for there are as many ser
pents connected with tine feathers as
with fresh fruit.
Mrs. bob had a school friend who,
having mairied a r it; d gro.-er, could
live in the city, owned a real seal
skin Jacket, ana u-ed lump sugar all
the ear round.
one day it o - urred to Mrs. liut
terworth's fertile mind that as her
triend was not feeling ve y well, a
breath or country air would d i her a
"world of goof
.So she persuaded ea-y-goipg Bob to
call on the grocer, ami invite his wife
to come out and s, end a week or
two.
The consequence was mat soon
afterward, on a lovely July afternoon,
the stage stopped at the tallow-manufacturer'
cottage and a very fash
ionably dressed woman got out, and,
embracing Mrs. liutterworth de
clared slie was "delighted to see her
dear Kitty again. '
hverything went beautifully for a
while. The grocer's wife st u (fed her
self with country dainties, and in re
turn played a song so sweetly for
' theui every evening, that Mr. liut
terworth wished to send lor a uiuslc
teacher at once for his daughter, aged
4 years.
If there was any cloud in the hor-
, lon. it was only that Mrs. bob felt a
twinge of jealousy every Sunday
when she saw her friend's face sur
rounded by the nodding pink feath
ers that I rimmed a terry velvet bon
net as she said to her hushaud,
"I'm ierf' ctly happy, '('"b, and I
' wouldn't change places with C'elia for
the world, but. "
"Hut what?" echoed Mr. Hutter
. worth, putting down his patier and
looking at her.
"Oh, nothing," gald Kkty. won
dering the while how much such a
bonnet would cost without the feath
ers. Without the feathers: Yes, but
that would be Hamlet" without the
ghost.
Pretty little Mrs. bob sighed.
That sigh was an era in her life, and
she and the Serpent" made each
other's acquaintance for the Urst
time.
About a mile and a half from the
liutterwortb's lived in great seclus
ion a young widow, who had just
settled there, and between whom and
Mrs. bob there was a slight, formal,
calling acquaintance. 'Ihe widow
was rich, dressed In elegant aiourn-
. lag, owned a pony carriage and drove
up to Kitty's cottage in style, when
' she came at all: but Mrs. Butter
Worth had returned the visits on
foot, tripping along the country
lanes In stout walking shoes, In the
plainest and quietest gowns, and
kid felt no pang of Jealousy, but
now, as she remembered that she
. owed a call at the Sunset Villa (the
.widow's residence), It occurred to her,
' . with regret, that her best bonnet
.was but a shadow of last summer at
best and that the eghoru she had
- bought for her daughter made It Itn
. , posslbli for her to dream of a pink
bonnet herself. '.
About this time the gro cr's wife,
having satisfied herself with four
' week's fare of crearn and fruit, began
to grow weary of the monotony of Hie
- at the Hutter worths' and to yearn lor
change
, "1 believe," she said languidly,
, one morning, picking daintily the
Wing of one of Kitty's pet fowls,
cooked especially for her, "I will go
' 'and stay over Hundsy with Kvelyn
Tbotoas. isn ! lives oniy a lew nines
' '' from here,' and I have not scn her
" -Im'e she was married. I know she
tMIt btart to see me, and 1 can go'
Just as I am, without dressing, and I
will I back on Monday, to stay one
uore week with you before I go
wont-"
i f- vc protest, but
o "J iiielu all
i.c ic! ;.iiwuij an a hnustu
ot tiei ,'j n tc-iK 1 fioui tlie m--:ety
oi the fntud i! her youth and
die !-aw b-r drive off on I'riday witli
an exi resiou of lite regret oo her
face, but a paluilat ion of joy in tier
hejrt
( in aturday iiinriiii! she went,
wiih a bou ekeeir'- careful for giit.
i t) sweep out her pretty t irooui.
diisiina here, a'ld ni if-U ro,-?s In a
vaie there, ami making A' h nok
and 'on.er fhe visiud IhesvfeeU-r lor
her pre-eiice.
Toe Ur-.l thing he I il iced on en.
tering ttie apart iiienLO.'i'upied by the
griC.e.S Wife her w.liUrol) (l()Or
leita ar. Temptingly m view lay
the winte io within winch Mrs.
I'.oti knew, lay the loveiy p uk bonnet
tor h c i lier le an ycirne
''I h r no bai in in in v looking at
It,'' she wn:ieied, putting down a
bloo ii-
Tiiere it ,'ay, light and I'eecy as a
pliiK aurora, and i.itty, liftinir it
carefully out, ran to the glass and set
It daintily on her pretty little head,
becoming: 1 should say si My: if
bob 111..1 only ,ust see her. Mie
la.ighed and nodded to herself in the
I" iron then, tui rung sideways, gave
ba kward i o uettuli glances at ber-S'-lf
over Her shoulder.
All at once an audacious Idea oc
curred to her. Why not go over and
make a ca:l on the widow who bad
never seen the bonnet, and weird-"
No one would meet her. There was
not a house on the way; It was a
lovely day, and
"I'll just dress nr.self and see how
it looks, any way.' said she.
i Here the serpent got his own way
entirely, you see i
After an hour or two spent In eat
lm a hasty luucn, putting on her
best white dressing, doing up her
hair in four different ways and pull
ing it down as often, she uga n, and
with less hesitation, took out the
bonnet
Alas! what woman could have wit h
stood that smilliug face with its halo
of p nk, nodding plumes, its bows of
pink satin rinbon tied so c.ouettishly
under the chin' Mrs. boh could not.
So much in love was she, in fact,
with lieiself under this new aspect
that she could hatdiy tear herself
away from her Image. Gliding cau
tiously down stairs to avoid meeting
any one, she tripped along the lane,
glancing coquettish!' at herself in !
the little pools she came to. j
The widow was delighted to see !
her or she appeared to be.. .o
charming, in fact, did she make her
Milf that Mrs. boh staved lwrtiours, j
and noticed not the gathering clouds i
or tlie lal disappearing glory of the j
hummer afternoon. Hearing at last'
the little gilt dock on the mantel
strike live, she rose to depart, feeling
well pleased with herself, the widow,
and he caiL
As stie went Bayly down the warden
path she noticed for the llrst time,
with aiarrn, that the sun bad hidden
himself, and that a black cloud hung
over her head. ; he hurried on, glanc
ing uneasily at the sky.
Wtiat was that on her nose? A
drop of rain? l'ooh. it couldn't he
Yes, it was, though, and she J.i mile
I mm home and no umbrella.
Have you ever seen one of those
sudden storms that come without
warning? They are very common n
!,he lake districts in the north ot En
gland. This was one of them. First,
two or three drops, then a deluge.
l'oor, guilty Mrs. Hob! She stood
for a moment, horrow-struck, look
ing vainlv for a place oi refuge, and
then throwing her skirts frantically
over her borrowed plumes, crushed
under a big bush that skirted the
roadside.
This was not very comfortable, as
you may imagine, and Mrs bob had
plenty or time to chew the cud of
sweet an I bitter fancy. .Meanwhile
the rain came down in torrents, pat
ter, patter, patter, son sop, sop,
soaking through her thin shoes,
dripping through the bushes on her
nose, her hands, and on the skirts
that covered the bonnet. Had It
soaked through? She dared not look.
"Oh, dear!" she thought. "If some
carriage would only go by."
That day a funeral had taken
place: an old man who had been suff
ering many years with rheumatism
had teen taken away, iind that very
afternoon he had gone to his last
resting place a graveyard two miles
beyond the widow's.
As If in answer to Kitty's thoughts,
she now saw coming down the road
at a speedy jog trot the hearse which
had conveyed the mortal remains of
old Deacon Totter to Appleby, and
which was then on its homeward
Journey.
Now In England the hearses are not
like those In this country. There
are no glass sides, no transparen
cies, nothing to show to the outside
public the sad contents that they
bear, and as Mrs. bob saw this com
ing toward her, horrible with Its
black, nodding plumes, and dreary in
its wet gloominess, a strage and aw
ful Idea took possession ot her. She
knew the driver; be bad taught -Ide
by side with ber husband In the Sun
day school.
,he now waved ber stiffened and
dripping hand to hi in, calling him
by name.
Mr. Knighton! Mr. Knighton!""
Now Mr. Knighton's calling did
not allow him to be over-sensltie in
II.a mutler of norvna and hi hurl
looked upon many a blood curdling
horror unmoved, but this woman's
hoarse vo ce calling him so strangely,
at such a time and In such a place,
made hlni considerably agitated,
'by Jupiter! nla'am who the '"
"It is only I, Mr. Knighton," cried
1 Kit; , -
dripping ltttl Mrs. dob, putting her'! omnipresent Duty performed or
head out from under the bush.' "I'm i duty violated Is ever with us, for our
caught In a storm with' all rny good i happiness or our misery, i , ;..
clothes on, and' rio urubiellla-!-M 1 j i , . j , ,
"You don't say!'' exclaimed the a woman looking for a rich bus
nuzzled and embarrassed driver. , band is wonderfully like a conOdanoa
Y "You don't say."
I -b.'H yet drenched:" coii t nued
'Cif.y, hiking dubiously at hnu.
whi e a -old stream trickled doviu
the side o! her lace iu a dangerous
fi jti i.iity to Ihe l.oimet
'1 o you think if i - ao yo i think
It would be any harm if I dj you
supixtse I would d e oi fright if I "
"If you -what?" e hoed the man,
looking mi her In open -mouthed as
tonishment Now Mrs bob w.is a healthy wo
man with no ne ve. To her a wet
bonnet and ruin to crib's l-st clothes
weighed heavy in the balance w th
any uuph-asaut i ea or faise s -a e.
She rea hed up on her tipt'iesand
unfastened tie i or of the venicle
and looted in. Sue reMche.! up her
hand and ieit the out ide of tbesklit
that covered the pink Unmet.
baiup very damp
"If vou will help me Mr. Kriltht
on." said she turning red to herear-,
"1 lieiieve 1 will '"
In a dream the hearse diner de
scended from his box. in a dream
he "t ousted" pretiv lit tie '!rs lob
up into a depressed heap on the floor
of the carriage, where, having taken
oil a:.d taretuily examined her feath
ers, he saw her give a sigh of relief,
and, having made herself as com
fortable as the cir uintaiices jr
mitted, she motioned to him to go
on.
"Shall Idrive fast or slow, ma'am?"
he asked, not feeling sure just what
pacft decorum would demand under
such extraordinary circumstances.
'bast " cal ed nitty, "iinveme
to the livery staUe, tnen you can
lend uie an umbrella and I'll get
home safely."
What that drive was to Mrs. liut
terworth no one knows, but when
she sat on her husband's knee that
night and confessed the whole thing
to him, she added patheth ally, -
"I don't feel as if it had paid,
bob. "
"1 should think not," said he, try
ing to straighten hU fare so as to
show tiisapp oval. '-What pos eased
you, anyhow?"
"'The serpent tempted me,'"
quoted hitty, rubbing her eves and
looking foolish.
"if you had ruined that pink rag
It would have cost me three guineas,"
said he, purcnthetl ally
". agi" cr.ed Kitty. '-Tlie lovel est
thing you eer "
Just think how it would be to
have the unday school get hold of
the story!" criel Hob, unfeelingly.
"Celia woiild ueer have spoken to
in again," ined tatively.
And the servant," added Mr. liut
terworth. "Whenever you clin-ie to
lepnhj.ihd her, she would look at you
and a-k, 'i:o ye mind the time ye
rode in the carse.
"Oh!" exclilmed
-sev' "
Kitty, overcome
by the suggestion.
"Tne ixi ral is " began bob.
Mrs. bob put her fingers In her
ears.
"I know the moral," said she, run
ning upstairs and leaving him laugh
iug.
'i.h, you silly woman," said she,
pausing once more to look at her own
rellection in tlie mirror, wh-ch had
that morning so flattered her. "wh,
you we:ik, sdly, vain, foolish, absurd,
ridiculous thing I'm ashamed of
you." And with puckered lip, and
one more reproving glance at herself,
Mrs. J(oh made a final ad eu to the
serpen", and went to lied.
On his way to town the next morn
ing, Mr. butterworth called at the
livery stable and spent ten minutes
alone with Mr. i.nighVon.
What passed between them no one
can tell? I'm sure I can't, and bob
did not, and maybe Mr Knighton
dare not.
Indeed. I should never have known
an;, th.ng about it if I had not been
Mrs. bob's sister. Wuverly Maga
zine. I'owdered sugar for Hiccoughs.
'Why don't you stop that hic
coughing?" asked a man of a friend,
who was convulsed with the annoy
ing convulsions in the street near
the Astor House the other day.
"Stop them," gulped the other.
"I 1 wish I could. Held my
breath llf teen minutesdrank nbe
swallows- water; nine times. Tried
to - scare myself; made believe - lost
my watch. No good. They won't go."
"Will you buy, If I cure them for
you?" asked the first speaker, laugh
ing at the frequent interrupt ions in
his friend's description of bis
troubles.' The other gasiied an
affirmative reply, and the two
en-1
tered the rotunda.
"Give this man a heaping bar
spoonful of powdered sugar," said the
friend to tbe barkeeper. The man
did so. "Now, swallow it," con
tinued the speaker to the victim of
hiccoughs. The latter essayed to do
so, and succeeded alter some little
effort, for it is not an easy matter to '
swallow a mouthful or powdered su
gar. When he mastered it he looked
Inquiringly at hia friend.
"Well, where are jour hiccoughs
now?" remarked tbe other with a
smile
"They seem to have gone," be re
plied, but they'll come back again, I
suppose, after a little while."
"If tbey do," said tbe
will be the first case
friend ''It
1 know of
where powdered sugar has failed to i
give relief for hiccoughs. If one
spoonful of sugar won't do It, two
certainly will. So far as 1 know, it's
a pasltive remedy." New York llcr-
a'd
IMiir.
There is no evil that we cannot
either face or llec from but tbe con
sciousness of duty disregarded. A
sense of duty pursues us ever. It Is
man looking for a farmer.
THEIR KlCULDS I OMPARED.
The Eepnblican Prtj'i Wie Admin
istration of btate Affairs.
MONEY OF THE STATE SQUANDERED.
Stittriul-lit r Farts Concerning I he Fml-
Uliut-ft of Ibe Populiat Ouve. uuient.
1 he advocates of a change instate
government in Nebraska are denounc
ing past republican state administra
tions and calling upon the business
men, I :rmrrs and laborers of the stale
to vote the populists into power on the
ground that economy demands that
another than the republican party
should control the collection and dis
bursement of tlie stale funds. Nebras
ka for years past has been among the
few states w hich, under republican rule,-
nave kept expenditures within appro
priations. L'nlike other slates, its levy
for state purposes has been in small
proportion to those for municipal and
County governments. One ot the new
states of the union winch came into
the sisterliood of stales in 180", it lias
built up its various institutions for tlie
care of the unfortunate and (he criini
nal classes and has paid for Iliein with
out extending its bonded debt and up
on a tax levy so small that it will com
pare favorably with the oldest states of
the union.
When there is a demand for a change
rood reasons should be shown for the
change demanded, in business iusti-
U'tions. if a manager is to be super
seded by another one, those in control
are able to show why it is to the inter
est of the business instution that the
transfer should be made So, too, in
state govern menu. The record of the
republican party's administration of
jtate affairs in Nebraska will stand the
closest scrutiny. When (iovernoj
Crounse, in an Interview a few days
ago, stated that there was no common
wealth in the United ."states where the
affairs were more honestly and econ
omically adminjgieri-d than in theState
ot iVebraska, he made such statement
as governor, as a citizen who had been
honored, as an Hcomplished lawyer and
s judge, as a representalive in congress
and one wiio had been chosen by Mr,
Harrison as assistant secretary of the
treasury, and later and now Jills the po
sition of chief executive of this state.
Close investigation of tlie affairs of
Nebraska will bear out fully Governor
Crouuse's statement that the republi
can party which stands today for con
servatism in business administration
as ugaiust the lunacies of the populists,
is prepared to invite the closest scru
tiny of its past record.
in business affairs a citizen who de
sires to keep his business in the proper
condition regulates his expenditures
according to Ids income. Today, while
the republican party is being accused
by the populists and their allies, of ex
travagance in appropriation, tlie fact
is that during tlie past twelve yeais
there has been but one instance in
which the appropriation made by a re-
niihlicun InLMsbitnre has exceeded Mm
,., UvlaA Tnut .. aa . 1HW7
when there was more than half a mill
i Ion dollars of the levy of the previous
two years unappropriated. At that
time the legislature yielding to tlie de
mand for new charitable institutions,
caused by the overcrowded conditions
of the ones then in existence, txceded
the levy by f 11)0,000 and appropriated
tH()0,000 for new construction. This was
due to the urgent appeals on the part
citizens, of managers then in control of
state institutions which were daily
turning away from their doors unfor
tunates unable to rjecure the advan
tages intended to be provided for them
by tlie stale, and in response to a uni
versal demand based on charity, phi.
iauthiopic ideas and appeals of those
who most intimately knew the pressing
necessity for increased facilities m this
direction.
In contrast with the conservative
action of republican legislatures, it. is
interesting to note the action of the
populist party when they obtained con
trol of the legislature In 1891 . With
all their howl for economy, with all
their pledges to contract expenditures
and to limit them to the taxable ca-
pacity of the state and the needs of
state administration, they appropri
ated in that session of tbe legisla
ture over 9428,000 more than the possi
ble income of the state. While accus
ing the republican party of making too
liberal appropriations for the benefit of
institutions built and maintained for
th re of the unfortunate charges of
Nebraska, they proceeded at once to
belie all their professions and to vote
moneys far in excess of the amounts
ever appropriated by their predecess
ors.
j The prior republican legislature was
in 1889. The populist legislature met
I in 1891. Let us compare the appro-
I r i
Pr,auulB uiwia iur Bittio luaiitutiuus uy
tu lwo tegislatures.
The Deaf and Dumb, imi, ;
1891, 08.800.
Home for the Friendless, 1881), $30,
000; 1891, 45,540.
Industrial Home at Milford, 1889,
15,710; 1801, 130,050.
RolJIers Home, 1889, f00,780; 1891,
t7A,710.
Feeble Minded, 1889, $77,483; 1891,
$90,975.
Insane Asylums, 1889, 9402,438; 1891,
$452,890.
I Institute for the blind, 1889, 832,600;
1891, 130,900. .
The amount of the appropriations
' made need not necessarily ba called In
to question. If the institutions In the
year 1891 actually needed tbe amounts
appropriated, and e I. r the uellaie
of the people demanded them, such lh
stituliona, created ar.u iiisin-aiued by
the republican party, were entitled tu
what ibey received within tlie total
amount of tne lax levied and winch
was likely to be collected within the
period for which such appropriations
were made, but iu tfce face of tlie
charges on the stump and hnr.ed by
sneakers during the campaign to the
effect that tlie republican party was
iruilty of reckless appropriations dur
ing their tenure of power.it was ab
surdly ridiculous, if consistency, which
no populist evvr considered, was taken
into consult ration, that such appro
priations should be made. Two years
later tlie populist legislature which
met seemed to have secured a dawning
idea of the fact. With statistics of
the economy of the preceding republi
can legislature as compared with tlie
appropriations made by the legislature
of lhlU, the populist legislature of 18113
felt that it must do something to at
least esiabli h a reputation for econ
omy. Prodded and pricked by criti
cism, il decided to establish its reputa
tion for retrenchment, by cutting down
ihe appropriations made lor such insti
tutions. Without any regards to the
nteds of the unfortunate charges of
the state it put the knile in the moneys
appropriated for their maiutaiuauce as
follows:
For tlie Institution of tlie Deaf and
Dumb. 113,000; Home for the Friend
less, 812,540; Industrial Home at Mil
ford, $5,000; Soldiers Home at Grand
Island, $yi,i)'.i0; Institution for the
Feeble Minded, 14,57a; I.isane Asv
1 ims, 2)6,990. This action seriously
crippled a number of these establish
ments, but the populist party burning
under criticism cared little for that
fict, while tbey were at last attempt
ing to make a reputation for economy
and reform at tlie expense of the com
fort and welfare of the helpless charges
of the state.
With a turtlif r desire to reform ex
travagance in Nebraska tlie populist
party, which for some strange reason j
claimed to have a horror of a state
militia, an organisation wnich was the
care of the llrst president of tlie United
States, and which during George
Washington's presidential term he
never j'ailsd to urge upon the states as
an element in tlie perpetuity of the
union, at lirst increased and then de
creased tlie appropriation as an ex
pense which could be materially de
crease, although Nebraska's militia is
one of the least expensive of the
militias of any of th other states in
the union. In 18H'.I under a republi
can government the expenditure lor tlie
militia support was only 820,100, which
was increased by tlie extravagant
populist legislature of 18'.1 to .$35,000.
This appropriation did not include the
payment of the militia or consequent
expenses for the quelling of the Indian
disturbances in the I'ine Kidge cam
paign, but in 1893, under the criti
cism ot their alleged relorm legisla
ture, they cut down the appropriation
to 30,000 and their papers and speak
ers have since been upon the stump
denouncing the existence of a militia
and its use in maintaining order iu tbe
state when threatened bv internal dis
turbances which local authorities are
unable to suppress.
Tbe people of Nebraska are now be
ing informed by men who are unable
to balance a bank account of their
own, by speakers who can not secure
credit for len dollars at stores in their
own towns, by orators whose only
material interest in the state is their
own ambition to secure olhce, by
writers whose desire for populist suc
cess is coincident with their ambition
to pander to elements for which they
have no respect or regard, that eco
nomical state government demands
the election of a populist state gov
ernor and with it the choice of a popu
list legislature. Let such men be
pointed to the record. There has been
no populist control or assistant popu
list control ot the state of Nebraska
which has not been against the inter
ests of the state, financially considered,
which has not been outrageously ex-
travagaut in its administration, or
swinging to the other extreme, absurd
ly parsimonious. The ranting of ora
tors and the creeds of writers against
republican administration of tbe state
of Nebraska will not bear investiga
tion, because a search of the records
will show that siuce its admission Into
the union there has been no state
whose government has been more hon
estly and economically administered
under republican auspices than has
been that of Nebraska. The experi
euce of the past is the best possible
guarantee of the future. .
The Nebraska Campaign.
They have an unusual condition of
things in their present political cam
paign over in Nebraska. Ever since
Nebraska became a state she has been
dominated by Republicanism. Her
constitution, her statutory laws, and
all the machinery of her state govern
ment have been created and controlled
by Republican thought. Her state In
stitutions, of which she has many, have
been built, paid for and controlled on a
broad and liberal basis, and yet oh tbe
line of practical economy, so that her
state tax rate has been lower than that
of many western states. Her reputa
tion for good government and business
progress has been such as to attract
emigration and commend the confi
dence of eastern capital. Her borrow
ers have obtained eastern money on
better terms and at lower rates than
have obtained iu Kansas, Colorado or
the Dakotaa. Her municipal securities
have besn rated A No, 1 In the e as Urn
markets and Uie enterpra .Hi.d ent-ij;
of ber railroads and local capitalist
have advertised ber as a proresgiv
State from Maine to California. Her
cities have grown rapidly, on a sub
stantial basis, and the thrift of her
farmers ha been almost phenomenal.
In a few years they have p issed out of
the peiiod ot cheap land, sod houses and
poverty, into comfortable conditions
with their farm laud, excepting a few
counties on tbe western border, selling
readily when offered, at f30 to 80 per
acre.
Now the unusual condition which
exints in the present political campaign
in Nebiaska is this: That a portion
o' these thrilty farmers led by a hungry
crowd of irresponsible agitators, in the
name of the eople. styling themselves
reformers, should rise up and assault
the reputation of tbe state and threat
en its future progress and credit, by a
campaign ot slander and falsehood
icainst the men and methods that have
enabled the state to reach its present
high mark. It is not unusual that shy
ster politicians assail tlie cliarac er and
methods of good men and good laws
for temporary advantage to themselves,
but it is an uuiiMial ai d an ui natural
thing that these I'opulist politicians
should huve even a small following
anion? thrifty farmers and working
men win se future prosperity is so de
pendent on the guiding force of bus
iness energy, rarmer Brown can pro
duce, aud tiie workingman can sell his
muscle for money, when there is work
to do, but the value of farm laud and
product, and the employment of the
artisan, depends and always will de
pend on tlie guiding force of capital and
usinessuiiud. Let the state of Nebraska
depart from the business instincts that
have guided her in the past and put her
reputation into the hands of irrespon
sible Populist leaders, and she will soon
know and feel what it is to have a
blighted credit abroad and a humiliated
and disorganized condition at home, i
Republicans are natural organizers
and creators of confidence. Populists
are natural disorganizes and destroy
ers of character and credit. As it looks
now from this standpoint, the business
men of Nebraska are united, regardless
of old party lines, to save the State
from Populism, and thev will likelv
wipe out the "Pops" from Nebraska
politics. burington Hawkeye.
Noaty aniJ Dangerous.
A couple of years ago we called at
tention to the danger' and nastiness
of putting money coin in the mouth.
A few days ago we witnessed another
exhihltion of this lilthy habit. We
were in the st.eet car going to the
capital. At the Savcry House a col
oied man got in going east also. ,He
was no sooner seated than he pulled
from his pocket a nickel and placed
it between his teeth and kept it there
until the car nearly reached the
bridge. As he held it in bis mouth
tbe saliva spread over it and his lips
would occasionally protrude and hile
it irorn view then recede and tbe
nickel could be readily seen. This
hide-and-seek" arrangement kept
up until the conductor reached for
him when, without wiping or clean
ing it in any way, it was transferred
into his hand aud then into his
pocket. It is possible the next
person getting into the car may have
been a lady and she be. aine the pos
sessor of the nickel. It may have
trone into ber mouth also for we
have often seen 1 dies put 'coin into
their mouth on the street car.
Now the i.rst party may not have
had any disease about bis mouth, may
not even have been chewing tobac o.
and no harm come to the .air mouth
to woich it was next transferred.
Hill there Is something repulsive Id
the thought and more in the practice,
but oh, if tbe first party had had
some loathsome infectious disease
bow serious the results might have
been! o mouth, especially a lady's
mouth, was ever intended as a sub
stitute for a porte-monnaie and
sh uld not be put to such vile pur
poses. Stitches in Time.
One of the most distasteful ot
housekeeping duties is tbe weekly
mending, aud still worse the monthly
mending for the inch darn that
would have been all sufficient three
weeks earlier now demands a full
half hour of steady work that raises
strong doubts as to whether the gams
is worth the candle, while toes and
heels have come through stockings
that needed only a few stitches when
first noticed. The woman who hesl.
tates about mending at the outset,
nipping decay in the bud, as it were,
is assuredly! lost so far as any further
satisfaction in the neglected gar.
ments is concerned, and every time
they are washed (fresh gaps are sura
to appear.
The smallest thin place should be
darned as evenly as though it were
embroidery, and tbe darning stitch
is often used for this purpose. When
tine and regular, tbe work is really
beautiful, and In imparting this fact
to a ch id will greatly mitigate ths
woes of her first lesson in darning.
The evenness and regularity of
darn give It dignity and elevate It
into a work of art.
It Is Important, however, to know
when to darn and when not to dam,
as most women's time In these busy
days Is of far more value than ordi
nary material in a half-worn cond
tlou. Harper's bazar.
No matter how large a woman ul
when a man likes her he says shs ia fl
dear little thing.
The see of Baltimore Is tbe primacy
of the Catholic church in America. ,
The air vesicles of the lungs ato
about one seventy-fifth of ' an trci la
diameter. , " r'"'
On an average ths lung. oewUiHi'ta
cubic Inches or nearly flvo tjMrts of
air.