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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1897)
WAIL OF THE DAMNED. POLITICAL "STIFFS" AT THE RE FORM CLUB PERFORMANCE. f 1 Cla ela4 Opt Hit Campiiga for INO-itaM to Be the lemo crti Mnw Ftlli to See that tho Peopla Aro 1m with Him. RrpteMItt tha Nbict Trnat. At the dinner of the Reform Club In New Yois Grover Cleveland posed as a uc, philosopher, lecturer and Dem ocrat The self-sufficiency of the ex Prealdent li one of the unaccountable thing! in the politics of these times. He does not seem to be able to catch the drift of things. The mutual mugwump admiration society to which he belongs baa placed a narrow limit on his vision and understanding. His remarks at the banquet were in the line of the dream he has for a good while enter tained of being the candidate of the fold party for President in 1900. The measure of Mr. Cleveland and the handful of his worshipers ha -VMtttlcml&Veoffte-m always be curious to know what an ex-President of the United States has to say, but what Grover Cleveland utters will no longer be influential He is not a factor In politics, except as an example of in gratitude and treachery to be avoided. His entrapment of the Venezuelans and his abject position toward Great Britain in that and other matters will make our patriotic descendants angry when they read his biography. The collusion with the speculators of the world In the management of the coun try finance and the scandalous sale of United States bonds at a figure far be low the market price are circumstances that ought to make Grover Cleveland hesitate to confront an American audi ence, even if it is largely composed of the beneficiaries of a policy that was death to the masses of the people. Mr Cleveland's mental grasp of the actuation is not comprehensive. He will never again be the nominee of any party for anything. The people are done with him. All he can do is to pre vent the repentance and regeneration of those Democrats who made the mis take of attaching themselves to his schemes and fortunes and who have gone so far In association with his in iquity that they cannot retrace their steps. Mr. Cleveland will have these and the sycophants who have no prin ciples. The Republicans have accepted his treacherous aid, but they despise him heartily. Some men may have been deceived. Some may have attach ed themselves to the Cleveland person through a mistaken idea of personal MeJtty. Some are truly sorry that they joined the bolters. The lamp holds out to burn for them. But those who still choose to make their beds with the man who, after being elevated to the highest rank by the Democratic party, baa maligned it and deserted it have uo right to complain if they are ex communicated. They are the victims f the inordinate selfishness of Mr. Cleveland, who would not release them trow their bondage in time for them to get Into good company in either party. The "reform" performance in New York was the wail of the politically damned. Cincinnati Enquirer. Why Banka Fai. Aside from minor sources of revenue, a bank makes its profits by loaning money. When a bank, say. of $200,000 capital, engages in business and se cures deposits of, we will say, $300. 000, it proceeds on the theory that it can loan out its capital arid deposits except about 25 per cent Of its $200, 000 capital it loans all but $.10,000; and of its $.'500,000 deposits it loans all but $73,000. The theory is that with an established line of deposits of about $300,000, the current deposits will equal the current depletion of deposit by those checking their money out. . ' Hence the officials go on doing busi ness by loaning their own money and the money of others; approaching the 25 pt eeut. reserve with caution. A time sometimes comes, however, when a scare comes, and all the depositors want their money at once. In such a ease the bank is forced to close its doors r succeed in borrowing money on the securities It holds. This may happen to a solvent bank and resumption fol low, with no other damage than the bad reputation of having once suspend ed, though even for a day. The more serious failure comes in thla way: A banker becomes avari cious and wants to make as nearly as possible all of the money under his control do service draw interest; and In this case he trespasses on the legiti mate or proper reserve. We will say, also, s is the case now, thai he is de ceived as to a national financial pol ler, and where he Is looking for pros parity to come to the business men Whose paper be hold. Instead, they are able to repay their loans at matur ity. He renews their paper and things Bias drag along till most of his collat eral Is of this classrenewal. He awaat either sue at the .risk of lessen ing Ms line of depositor or let matters drag along awaiting developments. If prices contlnn to fall and busi oaa paralysis continues, as It will uo ar present condition the, time . ar rives. If be ha waited with a false sntdrnce . bi returning - prosperity, Wbe bis whole line -of credits are got- A scare starts, somewhere, and some fiUBOar with the bank's Una of loans eSjr be stockholder who ladlscretely Crt- word, and who draw oat his era Crpostta for fear of loss, adrntlonaJ-i " r v stock, Interest) starts a ran on '"j, ; Tht 25 per tent, reserve, S -ef srCloieni; suspension " tt m t faflawed. . - i,sr not. a failure that drag down with it the president and others who never dream ed of becoming tramp or citizen of Canada till that day arrives. Undpr continually falling values and stagnation of business the inevitable result of demonetization and the di verting of nuney from its legitimate ! function, the circulating blood of civil ization bank failures will continue. The bankers, as a class, are responsible for our present condition. In their blind frenzy to do that which was seemingly to their self-interest; they have brought on a condition in which they are numbered among the victims. There are two classes of bankers. One class Is composed of those who loan money only on Government se curitiesmunicipal, county, school, State and National bonds. In this case the taxpayers are all indorsers on the bonds, and such s?curitles are good so long as the taxing power continues. Panics may come and go, but they do not affect the banks that deal In these securities. Rothschilds & Co., who have bank ing houses and agencies in about all Jhe. nations, principally compose this class. They are not to be broken ex cept by a revulsion or revolution that substantially overturns the present governments of the earth. The other class of bankers loan prin cipally on the class of securitiis first described. There is what might be termed an intermediate class, that loan largely with stocks as collateral secur ity, such stocks as have a market value and which, in case of a panic, may be thrown on the market and sold for cash before they decline below the amount of the loan. But aside from this class of securities, the banks in the second class referred to, may be easily made the victims of conditions produced by falling prices. The class to which the Rothschilds belong is responsible for the gold stand ard; and the members of the other class have fallen into the error of believing that that which comes from the lips of money magnates, greater in wealth than they are, Is wisdom. The fact is that while the first class is making the world pay tribute to it, most of those in the second class will be destroyed along with the other business men and producer.;. Any one familiar with the banking business, and free from prejudice, will admit the truth of what is here said. Patriots' Bulletin. Bob Frier and the l ank. Bob was a business man, before the Cleveland panic came. He owned two farms. lie sold one for $0,000. Not having a safe place to keep his money he took it to a bank for deposit. When he appeared at the "receiving window" he presented his money and it was taken. He was given a slip of paper, which was to certify that Bob Brier had deposited $6,000 with the National bank. Any security? No. Any proof he could ever get the amount? No. Does the bank use this money? Yes, they loan it to the people who pay in terest to the banker for the use of it. Does Bob get interest on his money? No. What does he get? Nothing. When the McKinley prosperity came this bank was a victim and It "failed." Failed to what? To fool the people any longer. The president Is serving a sentence in tjje penitentiary for fraud ulent banking and the cashier commit ted suicide. Where is B.b? He has been working on his farm tnd trying to make an hon est living. His crops have failed and he needs mnney. He goes to another National bfk to borrow some. He asks for mo-'iej'. Although they know his reputati.41 for honesty for twenty years, they fsk him for security and nothing bu a first mortgage on his land will bt acceptable.' They get It. He gets uiojey. Where does this mon ey come rrjm that Is loaned to him? Some is p)a,"-ed in the banks by depos itors; on tjiis the depositors receive Eothing fot tiie use of the money by tlje bank. The balance is borrowed from the government. What do they pay the government? One per cent. While the uotes (bonds issued by the government and which are bought by the bank avl deposited with the gov ernment drap a rate from 3 to 5 per cent This i-ate is paid to the banks by the government. Then, in other words, the government pays interest to the banker cn the note It furnishes, and the banker loans thta same money to other parties who pay Interest on it. In other woris. the bank gets Interest twice on the natiic money at the same time. s on conformist. -. Goldbnora Tebanched the Flag-. We seem to have hit upon an era of corruption, hypocrisy and false pre tense, rjys ex Governor AJtgeld. In the early history of the Republican party It stood for principle. There was no false pretense about LlHroln and his supporter, but to-day It stands for everything thnt Is destructive of man hood and rteffructive of republican in stitutions. Nothing Is sacred in IU eyes. It stands for personal advantajfij and for public plunder. All of Its poli cies and all of Its actions are shaped solely with reference to enabling a few to eat the substance of the many. Last fall this nation witnessed the spectacle of seeing the press bribed, ths religious journals degraded, the pulpit prostituted and the American flag de bauched, all in the name of an honest dollar. That grand old American flag, that has commanded the respect of na tions and has been looked to by the cp preened of all lands, was dragged In the mud end reduced to a mere adver tising sheet. Every form of deception, every form of coercion, moral, fln.-tn-ctal and otherwise, was practiced, sll lor the sake of taming the government over to a class of men who wantoJ to use It for their private ends at the e neuae of the people and who. wanted to perpetuate a financial policy tnat . In, '-Z? our couatry; who wasted to exalrs the dollar and destroys the msa, It was the most gigantic confidence game ever practiced upon the Allied can people. Blavea Frrkiatr for Maatsra, Conditions everywhere appear to be much the same. Periods of so-called prosperity such as Japan and Mexico are now enjoying are only the occa sional bright spots between the black cloud of oppression, liorauoe and su perstitlou which ensb-oud the world. A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, a few days ago, said: "Widespread dis- ts-ea continues among tiu; thousand of unemployed men and women in the South of Spain. A large gatbwing of idle workingmen, with their wives and children, assembled at Liicean and clamored for bread." All over the world there Is the same crying demand of deluded humanity. Idle men and women hunting for a master an employer who will give them board and clothes for tieir labor. Forty yeara ago masters hnnted run away slaves with bloodhounds and United States Marshals, To-day he can buy the idle millions for less mon ey than It cost then to feed the poor wretches. When labor unit. In demanding a right to a place on earth and a right to earn a living thereon, we will have free men and women, but while every law Is in the Interest of speculating land lords there will be a world of slaves, and a widening gulf, between the homeless millions and the- putnpered few. Chicago Express. Festal Kaviasa Banka. For over twenty years each success ive Peatmaster General has recom mended tho adoption of postal savings banks by the Government, but, as each one has elated in his recommendation, as his opinion, that the accumulations would be so great that the Government could make no legitimate use of It without Infringing uion or coming Into competition with the business of her citizens, the recommendations have been of no value. I am of the opinion that a system of K)stal savings banks could be adopted and all the funds accumulated safely loaned to citizens for the purpose of buying, building or paying for a home on the monthly installment plan. The rate of interest could be made very low, as there would be millions of dollars deposited In sums of less than $3, which would draw no Interest, and the balance would probably not draw over 3 per cent., provided it was sub ject to no taxes. Dr. Beeder, In the New Race. Boad Bnpdins by Convicts. Convict labor In road building la be ing put to the test In Florida and in North Carolina. It Is claimed that in the latter case the cost per day per head favors the employment of con victs on the public roads. In the Flor Ida Instance, It Is suggested, and not without apparently sound reasons, tn.it short-term convicts engaged In road work have a better chance of personal reform than they would have If penned up with hardened criminals In a prison. This in itself is an asiect of the cou- j vlct question that deserves more con- j sideration than it has yet had. If the punishment of crime Is a stern and nn- . avoidable necessity for the protection of society, the reform of the criminal Is equally essential. One thing Is sure, that In many ways the employment of convict labor on work that does not ; compete with free labor and at work so much needed for public convenience and betterment deserves the closest at- tention or an tmeresieu, not oniy in the prevention of crime, but the public good. Geoc IV.'s Queer Clock. The timepiece ordered of Bouchier by the Dus d'Aumale's grandfather, Egallte, for George. Prin-e of Wales, afterward fourth king of England of his name, was recently sold In Paris dinner Tirtth r4her enrltiM of ttw Int 1 Leopold Double. Bauohnumont, in his memoirs, devotes a paragraph iragraph to this timepiece. "Every one," he says, "goes to se nn odd clock at Furet's, of the Palais Roy al. It Is a negress' head, modeled ad mirably; Jewel are lnorustexl In the bronze round thp neck to form n neck lace, la the woolly hair, and In the bust as a clasp for the handkerchief. A pair of openwork gold earrings, long and i1..tln.tlu Mrwi h u n tt ftvim ft a tmnra utaiuirij t.j, i.,..,. On pulling oiw of them the hour Is mugmng at nis shown on the right eye and the minute nn!' B"0'1 f8 ,1H ""'l atc on the left, ff tho other earring Is ,b,'!r I'? ? U,,,, ,:hwrfu,,Jr drawn, a m of musical bells, lodged ,'lt V 7 V where the brina should be, chimes out ! f b?ut 0 el,J, k w lnn,e -rted to the time of day." I Jt'hoI tu t,,ere was nu VT J done on the way at a store. The girl Tunneling Snow Drirts. nt tl,e '"T had sat up nearly all In some Northwestern localities, n,ht """Ing a sick brother and looked where the wiow fell unusually deep, !t nn(1 felt B8 c'roH a two sticks. Before is retorted that tunnels under drifts Wl,lnle fairly told her errand the and into stables fend other outbuildings Klrl look,'u plonsanter; lwfore the par were quite common. The La Moure, 0Gl wa" (1,,ue UP "'' ""lled and as N. D Chronic.' says that even the NN lnnl" dlsapiwared through the door bronchos took up tunneling on their tne Kirl rea"y I'X'kfJ though she own hook, and pawed out great paths t""Kht world a very nice place. In the drift along neighboring creeks, 1 n" ,lint Winnie hnd done was to eating the grass on the bottom. They niake fw pleasant remarks about let the snow on tlie side and top stand ,Lo weather and prevent the girl from to oroUjct thm from the wind. North takl," (1"wn n lot of unnecessary boxes Dakot Mis fall back very gracefully on the fact that wtater of very heavy snowfall. In that State especially, are few and far between. A Strange Bet. Tt. fiw.la are not all dend vet. Thoa. Leadbenter, a pugilist of local fame, whose home Is In Owomho, Mich., been sent to the penitentiary for a year for the malicious distinction of prop erty. He made a wager with a friend last fall, the terms of which were that If McKinley were elected Leadbeatar was to demolish. Fred Bartell's saloon, aad In the event of Bryan's winning tbs friend was to do the work of do st ruction. Tat bat was paid a few ai the wiaSWaf .tmtM plaea'tt t aa sat r--5 r-tcx. 1 ' MARGARET A ROMAUNT. Slip of parchment, dim and old Yet a tale it doth unfold; "Farewell, lover; you'll regret;" This wai all, and "Margaret." Yellow bit of gossip! for Ninety years the escritoire Hath its secret kept and yet I would kuow it, Margaret. I can see the lovers now He hath curls about bis brow I'owdered; rings with rubies set; All his thoughts for Margaret. She with garments of the flow, Of a century so; Sweet of disjHtsitioii yet. How your heart ached, Margaret! How your heart ached as you saw Him some other beauty draw In the reel or minuet While you flirted, Margaret! For a lover's quarrel came. Ami you thought your passions' flame Out; but then your eyes were wet, Says this parchment, Margaret Fellow feelings bind us; so I am curious to know If he ever felt regret? Well, I hope so, Margaret! , Boston Globe. WINNIE. Wlrhln 100 miles of my town there lives a girL Her age is somewhere be tween 13 and 19 years. She Is not exactly pretty, though she conies very near being so when she smiles; neith er Is she exactly homely whe" she Is not smiling, though none of her fea tures is classical and she is slightly freckled. She does not dress In the height of fashion, nor, on the other hand, does she ever look shabby or old fashioned, though she does sometimes wear made-over dresses and trirumed- over hats. She cannot really be called accomplished, thotgh she can sing in differently well, play a very little on the piano and write an Interesting let ter. In company she quite often can not think of anything to say, though when with the girls she Is sometimes accused of talking too much. She Is not a brilliant scholar and she is not by any means a dull one. In short, she s just a common, everyday kind of a girl, like dozens you see every time you go where there are many girls to be seen. Perhaps I should not give the Im pression that she hi exactly like other girls, for she does have one peculiar gift, and yet, after all, the only pecu liar tiling about It Is that she chooses to use it right along, while a gool many other girls and boys and grown peo ple, for that matter though they have the same gift, keep It locked up most of the time, and use it only on very par ticular occasions. The only thing I can compare this gift to, at the moment. Is a bit of the , sun, and It might be called a pocket sunshine generator, though a pocket Is the worst possible place for it To show how useful this little gift may be made In cloudy weather is my reason for Introducing you to Winnie, for that is the name of this everyday kind of a girl Winnie Smith, Winnie's life has not !een marked bv any startling events, and a certain win ter day, not long ago, will servo my purpose as well as any other. She rose, then, a little later than usu al that morning. It was cold In her room, and she laughed to hear her teeth chatter together as she made a quick toilet, and then ran downstairs to breakfast Breakfast wasn't quite ready. The baby was crying, his fists doubled up, and very ml lu the face; Mrs. Smith, with an anxious brow, was trying to pacify him, while Mr. Smith was re reading the last night's newspaper with a moody expression of countenance. The instant Winnie appeared on tho f ne t1hIeP0 wa" ,a c,lian th"Kh a , , n l "- I uauy sioppeu crying and Held out his arms to Winnie, who took him and be gan talking to him; Mrs. Smith's brow became smooth and tranquil as she rose to finlwh setting the food on the table, and Mr. Smith smiled over the top of his newspaper. In less than five minutes tlie baby was sitting In bis high chair pounding the tray with his two little fists and crowing, while the , .,,.,II ..... , , ... from the shelves, because she saw the girl was tired, and to smile and iod a good by w hen she turned to go. As Winnie ennie out of the store she caught sight of a little ragged boy sit- l,n ou 1,10 ri)stone, A large leaf ' roiling aown UIS grimy clieeK. -nd 'he ,ool"'d ,ne Pcture ot VVIuuie stopped and spoke to him and ques tioned him, and found out that he was cold, yes, and hungry. "Dear me, this will never dor sa'd Winnie. "Come with me, my little man," and she led him across the street Into the grocery store. As her actool was at a considerable dUuuc-i from her borne, Winnie usually rode 'n the cars one way, and so ehe had Jost S cants with her. . With the S cents aba peffy nines turnover and a akloy boa, and when b bad aafc4 the ttortJcactr to lot its toy rU kcUi C radiator while he ate these dcijcncli-a she went on ber way r-J-n"iijf. The little Imi? un.ed after her, his cheeks distended with pastry, and grin of perfect content on 1 Is dirty lit tle face. The storekeeper, too, wao had boon scolding his chore boy In a frightful manner when Winnie opened the door, now looked as mild as any lamb, quite benevolent. In fact, and the chore boy was whistling softly to himself as he wiped the dust from a shelf. Winnie walked briskly along, for It was getting near school time. A good many of the js-ople she met gianewl at her as they passed, and the glance seemed somehow to have a cheering ef fect on them, for their eyes brightened and they stepped more quickly and held their beads a little higher. When quite near the schoolhouse Winnie overtook one of iier classmates There was a cloud on his face, but the Instant she spoke to hlin it disappeared, and he actually smiled as he inrued to ward her, though the tone of his voice was still somewhat lugubrious. "Have you done those two problems in algebra?" he asked. "No," laughed Winnie, "have yon "I sat up half thtfnight trying, and I don't believe they can be done." said the boy, bitterly. "Oh, yes." answered V;nnic. "Will, Bailey told me last night that he had done one of them and l mean to get at them in good earnest as soon as I get the history lesson off my uiind. 1 think we can do them." ' , "Perhaps we can," sail the boy, more hopefully, and by the time they reach ed the schoolhouse steps' he was not only convinced thnt he could but resolv. oil that he would do them, and was quite cheerful in consequence. As I said before, It was a cold morn ing, and the schoolroom felt the effect of it. The heat didn't come as it should, and the teacher and all the scholars had blue noses and their shoulders were drawn up. Winnie and the boy were two pec. onds late, and Miss Miller frowned us sho hoard their footsteps In the hall, but when she saw Winnie her frown faded out. Moreover, as Winnie calk ed to her sent nearly every pair of shoulders In the room went down a trifle, as though her coming had, lu some mysterious way, tetupervl the prevailing frigidity. Nothing of particular moment hap pened during the forenoon, unless it was the fulling out of Nellie Patterson and Julia Davis at recess. Their eyes were flashing and they were making the most ill-natured remarks to each other, w hen Winnie chanced their way. I don't know whether she said any thing or only looked In their eyes till they couldn't help laughing, but I do know that two minutes later Nellie and Julia were pacing the hall arm In arm and on the best of terms. There were seven scholars who lived so far away that they always brought their dinner, excepting when they for got It. as did Annie and Frank Carroll on this particular day. Winnie spied them standing apart from the others, staring disconsolately out of a window, and Immediately divined the trouble. Almost before you could say "Jack Robinson" she hnd gone to them and before you could count fifty the three were seated, with Winnie's lunch bas ket in their midst, making merry over the shortness of their commons. . Then the other four joined the group and di vided their lunch alsd, and as the moth ers of some of them had been particu larly bountiful in the matter of food that day the whole seven fared well enough, and I dare say ate all that was good for them. On the way home from school at night Winnie saw two lxiy on the side walk ahead of her slyly upset a fruit stand, behind which sat nn old Irish woman. A imliceman who had come up unperoelved scIzh1 one of the boys, the other took to his heels, and the old woman gesticulated and stormed with rage and righteous Indignation. Winnie hastened her steps, and, lay ing her baud on the policeman's sleeve, asked blm very earnestly if he would not please lot tho lsiys go, Just long enough to help pick up the fruit, which was rolling nliout the sidewalk and out Into the street. In an incredibly short time, if you bad !oen there, you would have soon the policeman walking serenely down the street, a strange gentleman right lug the fruit stand, Winnie and the two iMiys picking up apples, oranges, bananas and peanuts, us If for a wager, while the old woman was laughing to see so many working for ber while she sat still, ami saying, leniently, thut "b'ys" would Ik- "b'ys" she supposed, as long as the "wurruld" held together. The boy the policeman bad lot go came running after Winnie when she had started on her way again, and thrust a tremendous big apple, which he had Just Isjught of the woman. Into her band, and then sped awny with nu ear-splitting whoop to Join the other boy. When Winnie came within three doors of her own door she saw the tel egraph messenger leave a message with Mrs. A Men. Mrs. Aldon stood in the doorway after reading It, with ft perplexed and troubled expression, and glanced at Winnie as If she bail half a n !.', to say something to her. "Is It bud news, Mrs. Alden?" ven tured Winnie, sympathetically. Then Mrs. Aldeu spoke quickly enough. Yes," she said, "my sister Is 111, and I ought to go to her on the very next car, but I let my girl go away for the afternoon and evening, and father Isn't feeling well, and I don't dsre leave blm alone " "Why, I will come In and atay with blm," said Winnie heartily. "I'd just as lief as not I'd like to." , . . "Would your said lira. Alden, the troubled look vanishing. -I ahonld be to much obl'-god." 5 "111 rtn kaa axi t3 txttr, rzl bo Im. k In a inluiit,- .il! Winnie, hur rying along. When she returned Mrs. Aldon was coming out of tho g.ite with bonnet and cloak on. "You won't have to stay more than an hour, she said a sho put on her gloves, "for Mr. Aldon will come home at ," and, giving Winnie a few directions, sho hastened away. Old Mr. Aldeu was in one of his mel ancholy moods and Insisted, in spite of Winnie's protestations, that he had outlived his usefulness: that he took no comfort In life and was only a bur den and an expense; that everybody would be better off and happier if he was out of the way; that ho ought to have died years before, and the Lord had surely forgotten him. Winnie knew the old gentleman was fond of telling stories of bis younger days, and so, when there came a little pause in his lamentations, she artfully led up to the subject of those same younger days, and It was hardly any time at all before the old man was tell ing with groat gusto the story of a fa vorite horse he had once owned, and Winnie was listening as Interestedly as though she had not hoard already the same story at least throe times. It was long In the tolling, and when the end was reached and old Mr. Alden was laughing in great glee over the cli max it was tisie to get his tea. Win nie toasted his bread and made the tea by the sitting-room tire. Ihcn, when young Mr. Aldon did not come, old Mr. Alden said Winnie mi st eat something, so she toasted more "bread and ate it while ho started a new story, which sho had beard only once before. This was a longer one and It branch ed off Into so many other stories that it was almost 8 o'clock before It was finished. Just then young Mr. Aldon came. He had boon delayed and was exceedingly tired and dispirited, having boon sorely tried by a foolish witness and lost his case for he was a lawyer. He had dreaded coming into his own house to see his father's mournful visage and hoar his querulous complainings. hen, therefore, ho found his father fairly radiant with cheerfulness, with a smlling-facod girl sitting beside him, ho sank into a chair and drew a deep breath of relief. When Winnie explained why she was there and rose to go he rose also to go with hor, though sho told him she wasn't th least bit afraid, .Indeed, she would have preferred to go alon. for young Mr. Aldon was so polite and dignified ami know so very much that sho stood a good deai In awe of him. As they walked along she wished she could thhik of something to say to urn. The stars were shining and It suddenly occurred to her that she had forgotten the names of three very bright stars that wore always close to gether In a line, and so she asked him timidly about them. Now It happened that astronomy bad always been a favorite study with ,-oung Mr. Alden and he not only an iwercd Winnie's question gladly, but stood for several minutes after thoy had reached tho gate, telling her about the different constellations. Then ho thanked hor oourti-otisly for faying with Ids father, bade hor irood- nlght and wont buck, looking up at t!m itars and reeling restea aixt rerresiie-l. Winnie tripped up the walk and lut' he house, also thinking of tho sturs, After sho had had a little talk wltb hor mother and gone to look adorltiLiv t tho baby sleeping In his crib Winnie lit a lamp and went upstairs to hr room to bod. So ended tho day for Winnie Smith, uid she foil asleep, never sitioct!ng that sho had a gift or drcniuinir that iliu was otherwise than a most ordl iary, commonplace kind of a girl. Outlook. How Girls (Should Consider Proposals 'My dear girl, when a man asks von to become bis wife you ought to put some questions to yourself," writes Ruth Ash more to girls on "The Profes sion of Marriage." in the IjhIIos' Home Journal. Siitlsfy yourself that vou love this man well enough, not only to bo happy with him. but. if need bo. to suffer with him. Decide for yourself If this bo tho mini of nil others in whom you will liud your ideal companion, for companionship moans as much In mar rlago as la friendship, 'i hcn, you must think of the future. Ask yourself, too, whether this loan brings out lu you all that is best, whether lie provokes that which Is little aud nuaii In you, or whether ho plqm-s you into making light of thnt which is good. Decide whether this man is the one with whom you would Is- willing to grow old; whether this man Is the one to whom you would, without hesitancy, submit questions that trouble your conscience. Then, too, you must ask yourself what seems, perhaps, like a trivial question, whether this man Is one whose mime you will fool honored in bearing, not becaime of any material wealth he may possess, but because of tt 1m being au honest gentleman. Think out nil those things, ask yourself question -"upon question, not only as to bis fitness, but as to yours, arid then, f yo gve him the loving answer that ho wishes, try to become thoroughly ni'ijiinlm,., w,u blm." Heiiartllcaa of Coat. A countrr eounle m.u.i. " v iii'.iniMi, wont to a Ilostou married - - - - i oiuer day and the groom called for some wlue Vlk,.. !,...! li ... .- wiun sum, ne replied; "We want that kind of wine rviiere the cork busts out and the stuff lieglns w one oiio Kt'ejHI Oil Dllln till you ge trio worth or your money Post. Not Conl..!... Tescher Jlve an example 0f ot tne word contagious," Pupil-Street can are not They are bard to catch. 7 script. Every unmarried aw CtKTl a wousaa. 1 J , , .