Ibarrfoon 3ournaL
BO. D. CAVUK, Mliamrny
HARRISON,
NEB
How many troubles might mankind
be spared if they would only stop to
bear each other explanation.
A New York publisher advertises for
ale " a few soiled poets, half price.
A. wiled poet would le dear at any
price.
The Holland submarine boat is said
to be a success. It see-nia to be no
trouble at all to develop the submarine
Bide of the American navy.
Wherever higb-elass diplomacy Is In
volved It at once becomes apirent
that young Mr. Romanoff of St. Peters
burg Is really an "I deal" ruler.
If New York can abolish its Salva
tion Army on the ground thai it Ls a
nuisance why can't that town dispose
of its police force in the same way?
. Alfred Austin's jubilee ode with its
line, "Long may she linger," seems to
be a palpable plagiarism of that popu
lar music hall lyric, "Linger Longer,
Lucy."
The Washington (Iowa) Democrat
say that "Sam Jones intends to tight
only the devil hereafter." Well, a great
many persons probably will do that
hereafter.
We have employment assigned to us
for every circumstance In life. When
we. are alone we have our thoughts to
watch, in the family our tempers, and
In company our tongues.
El Dlario de la Marina of Havana
ays that in a war between the United
States and Spain the latter would not
get the worst of It. That journal clear
ly ls entitled to another guess.
Two Boston papers are discussing
whether the word "measles" should be
followed by a plural verb or not
Measles may be plural, but they pro
duce most singular effects somehow.
Chicago Is a hustling, rushing, rapid
town; but the fellow who entered a
Wells street saloon the other day and
drank whisky until he dropped dead
seems to have had a rather exaggerated
idea of speed.
A leading London paper explains to
its readers that "the plot of 'Secret
Service is laid In Richmond, which
was one of the most Important points in
the late civil war between North and
South America."
The Cherry Creek (N. Y.) News asks:
"Why shouldn't the ladies of Cherry
Creek be consulted In the purchase of
hoe for the village?" If Cherry Creek
ls thinking of stocking up this is a
good suggestion.
It Is they who are nearest to us, and
whose affection for us la the greatest,
who are rendered happy by daily cour
tesies. Graciousness of manner Is of
great value in the world of strangers.
It Is of still greater value In the world
of home.
"What has become of the old-fashioned
man," asks the Atx-hlson Globe,
"who used to borrow a dollar and pay
It back at the end of the following
week?" He has been succeeded by the
fellow who borrows whatever he can
and never pays back anything.
There is no longer any doubt that the
Indian is susceptible of the highest
civilization. A full-blooded Nez I'erees
brave has been arrested in Washington
for executing some of the cleverest for
geries which have come und:r the eyes
of the police for some time.
A South Carolina moonshiner who
has recently been sent to the peniten
tiary made a very strong plea for clem
ency. He explained to the court that
he was the sole support of six wives
and thirty-nine children. It seems too
bad to suppress such enterprise as this.
A Tennessee paper very soulfully re
marks that "Crock Fulton died last
night owing this paper for ten years'
subscription. Crock had got so low
down that he had to slide up hill to get
Into perdition." "De mortuls nil nisi
bonum" evidently doesn't go In Tcn
neasee. The very best impulses, unguided by
wisdom and foresight, will often lead
to disasters worse than those which
they long to core. The unrestrained
desire to give alms to every beggar ls a
ore promoter of pauperism. The sac
rifice of self for others may, without
judgment, be carried to such lengths
as to ensure the absolute loss of power.
A fH. Lou! man who Is now in a hos
pital with a bad case of perforation of
the lungs explains to' the police that his
wife found him making love to an
other woman and shot him. "Yon see."
ka adds, "she must have been very
deeply in lore with me or she never
'would have shot me to pieces like
e St Louis spouse most have
tr peculiar ways of expressing
affectloa.
feocb army pensioners living m the
.Ertat da Invalid, who bare all rc
patvad medals for bravery on the field,
jgacaala Hy mora than la good
Cam Ta pravsat such veterans
VjK4Srtsoa gf tnanwdw. m
rnrsaj af 15 oaatots paid to
""7v.v3Cr:a aa icanbrlalad la-
't''ta..,Bay, lav
ing Increased greatly, it was discovered
that a trade In rescuing had arisen, r
knock-out drink coating 5 cents and
warranted to act at once having beet
devised, which left a clean profit of 1C
cents per drunk.
At least two plays by American au
thors and played for the most part by
American actors are at present delight
ing the theater-goers of London, and
several prominent British actors are
said to have American plays on the
stocks for next season. This is a de
cided change from the old custom, and
indicates that our playwrights are pro
ducing fleeter material, or, at least,
plays belter suited to English tastes.
At the same time there is a falling off
among us In the desire we once had for
stage material from England. The
craze for the ridiculous melodrama
from Drury I-ane has almost died out,
and what we take from the London
stage succeeds here for other reasons
than the wfle one that It is English. We
have rising among us if not a school of
dramatists, at least a number of very
promising playwrights who are pro
ducing plays Infinitely better thar
many which we have imported fron?
England.
The proneness of attorneys to quib
ble over matters of small Importance
when they can do so to the advantage
of their clients was amusingly illus
trated the other day when a lawyei
was pleading for the pardon of a con
demned murderer before the Goveruoi
of California. He sought to Impugn
the reliability of a witness for the
prosecution because he could not re
member how many steps there were
before his own door. The Goveruoi
said that that need not necessarily in
dicate unreliability on the witness'
part, as he himself did not know the
name of a certain street one block
above his residence, and which he hail
Iassed almost every day for twenty-
Ave years. He then aked the attorney
If he knew how many stps there were
before his own house. The lawyei
mentioned a number, but investigation
proved that he was far from right. A I
of which proves that when one under
takes a bluff In so serious a matter he
should be certain not only of his op
ponwnt's hand, but of his own.
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The tipping system, which has been
so much deprecated and which so manj
foolltth people have beljed to fastei
upon this oountrj't bid fair to settle
Itself and go out of fashion from unex
pected causes. The extreaue hard time
of the last five years have reduced th
emolumeuts received by waiters, por
ters and others who heretofore ha!
their chief subsistence in that font
lower than ever before, and the colored
men whom the I'ullmaji company com
pel to prey ujxwi the public have uu'.te
in a statement to that effect to the!)
employers. They say that where thej
formerly received dollars they now
have to content themselves with dimes
Coincident, with this come the newi
that the wealthy Senator Penrose ol
Pwiusylvajxia, whose election gladden
ed the hearts of the Washington wait
ers, has aeiusefl to grease me palm or
single one of them with so much as I fraught with war and revolution with
copper coin, preferring to brave st.irva fln ultinu.te despotic form of govern
tlon rather than pay tribute. If then nient, Is -me of the most superb possi
were more like hinbthe abuse could In billties. Never before In the history
done away with in a year or two. Thet 0f Amerl.-a's dowrfall has there been
servants would receive fair wages and 8Ueh gra'id opiwrtunitles. I,et us look
recover their self -respect.
Nobody ever sympathizes with a irac
tlcal joker. If his so-called fun act!
as a boomerang, as it sometimes! does
and knocks him, everybody Is glad. Ii
fact, if he dies of his own joke, as hi
has been known to, few tears are shed 8ud all the brain pewer we need to put
Nevertheless, he continues to exist ii these resources into proper operation,
all lands, for the fool -killer cannot bi what cuore could t, teople ask? Noth
everywhere at once, but It is gooi ng. Under these conditions If we cau
news to learn that the courts of law Qot sav ourselves we are not worth the
have now takuu a hand and may per- saving. "But," some one says, "self
naps exert a repressive Influence ujki ' govern ment has thus far proven n fail
this detestable humorist. The Euglist urtf." Vot yet, uij good friend, wait
courts have decided that theixrpitra ' nutii re uave trl.ul self-government,
tor of a hoax b liable for all the consejA representative f.rm of government
queuces of his jocosity, no matter wha ' counts for nothing. The trial of self
they are. The case was where a mat ( government cannot bo made except
returning with others from the racei tbrougl direct legislation; national,
stopped at a public house and told f' state, County and municipal. The
woman there that her husband had had great, piiln, common i-ople are ubiq
a "smash-up." Thereupon the womai ,Jit0US (R tl,elr iowr. They, only, can
promptly fainted and a serious illne K trusted. Place 'lie reins of govern
resulted. As a matter of fat, her bus j InHlt iut0 h,.ir hauls, through this di
l.and hod not had a niash-up, and th'rect systcu of legation, and I would
story was told her simply as a praetlea not fear tc hazard my hoj.es for eter
joke. The Court held that the jokei uitr, it fiat thei would unload our
a name ioi au ullages i:iiiu(vouw grailC Old ship of State of the
by the woman's lllncs. such as ex
penses of medical attendance and fo:
lotss of time. This ls only a step. Mon
will follow hi the course of time niBIUl(, her w.fely b; the imtUous rocks
some day a court will sentence soim
practical Joker to death or to a lonj
term in the penitentiary. And every
body will say, served him right.
Implicated.
A real .Mr. Mulaprop was discovered
recently one afternoon in the persor
of a Broadway cable car conductor
The car was on a down town trip and
had few passengers until It reachec
14th ertreet There half a dozen ieopli
Ave women and one man, got aboard
Three of the women and the mat
found seats together, but the other fcw
went to another part of he car, there
they wore members of .the party or not
The man with the throe, instead of glr
ing the exact change, offered a half doi
lar in payment of the fares, and fh
conductor was aa much in the dark at
ever. To inquire waa plainly the ooij
way to arrive at the truth. With I
polite wave of his hand toward the twi
women In the farrher corner be askat
blandly:
"Are those ladle Implicated?'!
Enrlchla the Laaaraaca.
"Paw," aaked the little boy, '"wna
does kt mean wtoes a man la frowne
down?"'
"It er means to discourage bim."
"Then was hi tkejr eacoorc ham bj
ankans Un nyf -Imttaaapalk law
tuL
TO SAVE THE PEOPLE.
DIRECT
LEGISLATION
ONLY HOPE.
IS THE
BepreeeatatlTe OsTtriant la la No
Seaee a Uoveraaieat br People
Principle of Direct Legielatiaa Will
Vemtrvy Political Boeelea
jJ-C
Maud Together!
Political party will not save the peo
ple, writes Anna D. Weaver, In the Chi
cago Express. Office-seeking politi
cians will not save them. Representa
tives whom the people elect and send
to the various Legislatures will not
6ave them. There is only one remedy.
The people must save themselves or
they will never be saved. There Is only
1 one road t3 follow; that is straight and
plain as is the road to heaven. It is
through direct legislation. The people
must do their own work. They must
legislate for themselves. "If you
would have your work well done, do
It yourself," is as true a maxim a in
Benjamin Eranklin's time. It is as
true of a nation is of an individual;
for a nation is only a collection of in
dividuals. The one only way for the
American people is through a direct
legislation the use of the Initiative and
referendum and the imperative man
date. The people must speak for them
selves. They, only, can repeal the
ruinous class system of laws which
are, more and more, every day, le
gally robbing and enslaving them; and
can replace Ihem with Just laws for
the equal and exact good of nil.
Since the downfall of the republic
through its devastating system of class
laws, I have never before beheld such
superb possibilities for the American
people as at the present time. There
Is nothing at all disheartening regard
ing the present universal wretchedness,
want and woe among the Industrial
classes
Those who produce all are
the worst robled of all. The idlers live
In luxury. The tollers must beg for the
price of a day's work or starve. It Is
a legitimate result. It ls an eye-opener.
If a patient Is broken out well
with the measlt or the small-pox
there Is nothing discouraging about his
symptoms. On the contrary, It ls a
good sign. Then disease is making lt-
self manifest. It is coming to the sur-
face and the patient will be treated ac-
cordingly. So with the body politic,
The disease ls coming to the surface,
to be seen and kuowi of all. A Cleve-
laud adhesive plaster was a failure iu
results. It did not even act as a pal-
liative; but instead, only increased and
accclarated the disease. A McKiu!.y
plaster Is equally futile to aceompi'sii
results. Both are precisely alike, dif
fering only in the label. Both alike
allow their patient to sicken and die
while the;- contiLue like a leech to
suck the mst drop of life-blood from
the discard carcass they have thus
debauched and polluted.
There is nothing saddening about the
present universal distressing condi-
tions. Th y are only legitimate results,
They Just bad to 1. The present out
,.k. inst-ad of bfclmr oessimlstle and
at the situation a moment ot ourselves
and our opportunities. Ours ls a na
tion of itilimlted resources. We have
all the "Ime we want, and God never
blessed t eople with a finer brain ca
pacity. Here we are, all the resources
at hand we need; ail the time we need,
heinous ch&s system of class laws tin
ner which i.he Is t hopelessly floun
dering, and with n firm hand would
that thrcatet he-: destruction and
would brinp her nce more into the
blessed havfc'i of peace, plenty and
prosperity foi all ',er iM-ople.
The masse o' the plain, common
people see chvir! what is to ! done.
All their effoMs jnd sacrifices for the
past quarter 'jf a century have not
been made In va:n. The seed hns not
been "sown 1 ) vhe wind to reap the
whirlwind," irwh of It has fallen In
good ground, h Is In the hearts and
the conviction i jf the people. The
r'armers' A II I a Ires In the country and
:he Knight of ?bor orders of the city
with nil their kindred organizations
have done a grYJd and glorious work.
The time is at hand to unify and ap
propriate the h.rrest. Because a few
political tools u I demagogues whom
the people bav 10 foolishly trusted,
have proven fal, to them have "swd
their birthright dor a mesa of pottage"
-Is no good prot f that they can deliver
the goods. As fyn as cornea ttae teA
through a direct legislation the world
will note that thi ifreat, plain, common
people of A merle possess the brain aa
well as the brawn for not only setf
fovernment bat tir self-protection.
The spirit of tU Golden Roto could
be Incorporated, lto a platform con
taining only twojUI-eaaenttal planks.
These two plank; all traa raforaw
could agree epos,
First We demand the adoption of
the system of direct legislation known
as the Initiative and referendum with
the imperative mandate in all legisla
tive proceedings; national. State, coun
ty and municipal.
Second We demand a national cur
rency issued by the general govern
ment only; every dollar to be made a
lull legal tender for all debts; and In
sufficient quantity to make the per cap
ita circulation not less than fifty dol
lars. With the people and not political
tools and tricksters at the helm, and
with the above two pre-eminently es
sential planks In the platform, every
other needed reform would step Into
j line soon; naturally, and In order, be-
cause the people wished them. Then
i and then only, when the American peo
! pie are in the actual iossess!on and use
I i.f direct legislation, will they have the
' government lieheld In prophecy by the
immortal Lincoln "a government of
the people, for the people and by the
Ieople."
The Velocitr of Money.
The velocity of money Is an element
rarely taken Into account, and we do
not remember of swing It referred to
In any modern writings and only on ft
has It lieen referred to hi an address to
which we have listened. The term
"velocity of money" refers to the rap
idity with which It moves In the chan
nels of trade. In a sparsely settled re
gionthe plains of Nebraska, Dakota
and Montana for Instance the morey
moves slowly from band to hand.
Sometimes It remains weeks Idle, in a
cabin, before its ownur sees a creditor
to pass it along. It ls dlffereut In a
thickly settled community. There
money passes quickly from man to
man. In passing from San Franclsvo
tc New York, a week Is lost d irlng
which the money has done no "work."
If it had been during the week In New
York or Boston, It would probably have
settled an hundred balances and done
a marvelous amount of "vo-k. ' In a
sparsely settled country the velocity
cf money Is less than In thickly settled
countries, and more money is accord
ingly1 required to perform a gi.cn
amount of "work." Hon. Alexander
Del Mar, the distinguished Secretary
of the Monetary Commission of 187'i.
and one of the ripest scholars on finan
cial matters In the whole world, says
that the velocity of money Is three
times as great In France as In the I'nl
ted States, and two and a half tines
as great in Great Britain as In the
United States. It follows, then, that
In order to perform a given amount of
"work" or exchange, we need three
times as much money In proportion to
population and business as Is found iu
France, But the French have nearly
?4J per capita. With a velocity of
money here only one-third of the veloc
ity In France, we need three times as
much money per capita, or f l'JO. The
natural "velocity" Ix-lng low here, and
the volume small, It In-comes necessary
to use a given piece of money many
times by borrowing nnd the Interest
on repeated lendlngs of the same piece
soon absorbs the piece and leaves a
debt In Its place, which Is to continue
for all time to grow larger and still
farther enslave mankind. A correct
money system will not bind the world
to the fortunes or misfortunes of a
mining venture for a medium of ex
change, nor neither will It tolerate the
slave-breeding tendencies of the usuri
ous system now practiced alike by Jew
and Gentile and at which churches
wink and connive If not openly cham
pion because forsooth invested funds
draw interest to pay the instructors'
salaries and pay for their opinions.
The Gold Standnrd.
The results of the demonetization of
silver in lf73 were plainly foretold by
the opponents of the measure. And in
the discussion of the measure soon
after Introduced to restore silver to its
rightful place In the coinage, not only
was the fall In prices that had already
occurred nscriljed to the gold standard,
but further predictions made as to the
further decline that could be looked for
If the gold standard were to be contin
ued In force.
We quoted a few days ago from the
Republican campaign book of 181)2 to
show that prices had declined since
IKTU nlwmt 50 per cent. We will now
show that the demonetization of silver
by England In 1819 resulted In an enor
mous fall In prices, bringing wide
spread ruin to the Industries of that
country. Sir James Graham, In his
"Coins and Currency," lfsl'ii, says:
"Whether we regard private debts or
public burdens, the effects of the meas
ure of 1810 have teen to cuact that for
every less sum owing a greater shall be
paid; prices falling but iwcunlary en
gagements remaining undiminished,
the farmer has no profit, the landlord
no rent, the manufacturer no custom
ers, the laborer no employment; a rev
olution of property and a derangement
of the whole frame of society must nec
essarily ensue."
And the same author significantly
adds: "Amidst the ruin of the farmer
and of the manufacturer, the distress
of the landlords and the Insurrections
of a populace, without bread and with
out employment, one class flourished
and was triumphant; the annuitant and
the taxeatcr rejoiced In the increased
value of money, In tho sacrifice of pro
ductive Industry to unproductive
wealth, in the vMory of tho drones
over the bees." Farm News.
Fattiaa Prices anil V!mrem.
The effect of a decline in prices ia to
Increase the creditora' ortiou of the
products of Industry, thereby leaving
a less portion to be divided among the
other producers of wealth.
In whatever manner the remainder is
divided lietween the employer and
wage earner the fact still remains that
falling prices leave them less aa a re
anlt of the Joint lanora.
!f the loaa tie saddled on the employ
er K decreases by Just go macs tk
profits of his bustneaa, and so tends M
check enterprise and often cauaea tba
closing of factories. If this loaa ba
saddled on the wage earner be ia mad
to suffer that the creditor may enjoy
unearned wealth.
As a general thing falling prices ml
only diminish the profits of employ
ers, vat at the same time decrease the
wage earners' share in the product of
his laltor and inevitabfy lead to strife
between the employer and wage earn
er by reason of each attempting to
saddle the loss on the other.
History shows that since 1873 strikes
and lockouts have increased beyond all
precedent, and there Is a general agree
ment among the ixdltical economist!
that falling prices are the most proline
source of labor troubles.
Herman on "Cheep Lnhor."
Although the statement that Japan
ese are being extensively employed In
the sugar beet fields of Santa Cruz and
Monterey ls authoritatively denied, it
would be well for those who are en
gaged In promoting this great Industry
In California to look shandy after Its
"cheap labor" phases. If the sugar
!eet business is to be turned over to
the Chinese and Japanese, a some
other industries in California have
lx'en in the past, it had better bo for
bidden by law In the lcg:uiiim. So
carried on. It will simply liecoim? a
means of depressing the price of laboi
and sending out of the country I he cir
culating medium a drain no State can
stand and exist.
When Chinese labor was frst Intro
duced Into California the excuse wtis
that white labor could not be pn-ctirid
To a certain extent this was true. In
the early days white men wen; scarce
and came high. But the result of thp
necessity was that the very men who
introduced and employed Chinese were
finally run out of business ty 'hem.'
For a long time the manufacture of'
shirts and underclothing, lioots and
shoes, cigarg and some other things lir
this city have teen exclusively carried
on by Chinese. Instead of a factory
If pulatlon of white people voters, tax
payers and citizens for twenty-live j
years we have been maintaining In San
Francisco 30,(KMj Chinese, who not only
underbid our civilization In everything
but send So per cent, of all they ej-.m
to China. Resides lieing a "cancer,"
Chinatown is a sponge which annually
sups the very life of th Sirte. (
If sugar beet raising, which promise
In the near future to be one of the mon!
Important Industries in the State, Is to
he conducted with cheap labor, it had
better be suppressed at once. Indeed
In the natural order of things so con
ducted. It will be but a short time be
fore all the beets will be raised by
Chinese and Japanese, for it Is an eco-(
nomle feat easily proved that in the
struggle for bread the Caucasian can
no more compete with an Oriental that
a horse can compete with a rat.
The thing to do In this matter Is i
dispose of "cheap labor" at the start.
The sugar beet raisers can afford tc
employ Caucasian lalxr, and they
should he forced to do so by public
opinion, if possible, otherwise by law j
San Francisco Chronicle.
V a ei fend I'ri - m.
Last fall Bourke Cockran, the chief
orator of the goldbug Democracy, wa
paid about $4,000 pr night to go about
the country proclaiming the doctrine
that as the price of what a man pro
duces by his labor declines his wages
advance.
To illustrate, suppose I get ?1 pet
cord for chopping wood and yet get $1
per cord for hauling it to market,
where It sells for $3 per cord.
Bourke Cochran's theory ls that II
the price of wood goes down to $2 io
the market my wages for chopping
will Increase to $I.."0 per cord and yout
wages for hauling $l.f0, and our em
ployer will pay us a dollar a cord more
than he gets, until such time as cord
wood advances to say $0 per cord
when, of course, he can cut our wngej
down to say 50 cents per cord.
For fear that there might be some
who were not convinced by the above
argument, Edward Atkinson, who gain
ed his chief reputation by figuring out
how a lalmring man could live on 1C
cents iM-r day, produced a set of fig
ures to show that the average laboring
man could purchase with a day's waget
aliout as much now as In 1872.
He forgot tw note, however, that It
J872 every one was employed, nnd thai
since 1872 the products of a giver,
amount of labor were greatly Increas
ed. Against these authorities we will
place E. Benjamin Andrews, president
of Rrown University, and formerly
professor of political economy In Cor
nell University. He says; "The wage
of wage receivers, classing all togeth
er, have been steadily falling since
1873. And that must always take place
when prices are falling. Since 187J
we have had n ie strikes In this coun
try than In the history of the countrj
before, and more In England' aud
France."-Chlcago Dispatch.
Loalns Our liirthrl-ht.
Sixty thousand acres of lan 1 has heet
purchased in the White Mountains, In
New Hampshire, by a Boston syndi
cate. It Is forest land, and the presi
telegram that gives the news, says thai
the syndicate has In view 40,000 acrei
more. And then adds, "the entire ter
ritory to be preserved as a sort of re
serve." And. "that, furthermore, th
comxiny's Idea Is to stock the wood
with game and the lakes and streams
with fish, and Interdict poaching." Wi
have stood on an Island of 80,000 acres
In Michigan, owned by an English syn
dlcate, where an Englishman la Id
charge, engaged In "stocking It," aa he
told us, "with English pheasants, prin
cipally;" and when the owners of thli
White Mountain purchase are known
we will not lie surprised to hear that
they, too, ere Englishmen. Hut whetb
er so, or not, the principle la the same,
Americans! Organlael Yon are loslni
yoor birthright I Patriots' Bulletin.
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BUTTONS MADE OF MILK.
the Hewerkable Iaeotloa of
never EaalUaaaa.
For a long time buttona and other
articles for which bone Is generally
used have been made from -ongealed
blood, purchased at the slaughter
buuees and treated with some sub
stance that hardens It to the proper
consistency. An Englishman has in
vented a prts-ess whereby the same
articles that are now made from blood
can be made from milk and it will soon
be Introduced Into this country.
The milk used is the skim milk. The
process of turning this liquid Into but
tons, iool balls, combs, back of malr
brushes and similar articles consists,
first, of straining the milk through a
cloth in order to remove every vestige
of croam, and then mixing It with a
substance, the Ingredients of which are
a secret of the Inventor, and compres
sing It. At the end of three days the
substance Is as solid as celluloid and Is
ready to le cut and shajH-d In any way
the manufacturer wishes.
At present a factory in Holland is en
gaged In fashioning the hardened milk
Into various articles, buttons being the
chief. The buttons made in this pe
culiar way differ very little in apicar-ain-e
from ordinary lme buttons. They
are a creamy white iu apH-araiix, but
can be colored black or red or any
other color by simply mixing the color
ing matter with the milk before the
hardening process begins. They ar
said to iXfRsew advantages over the
Isme and celluloid article In being less
brittle and less liable to chip. For this
reason tlie blHUurd IniII and p balls,
which liave Ix-cn made in England
from this sulmtancc have found favor
where a cheap Imll is required Instead
of the expensive Ivory ones.
For combs the milk sulstance has
Iteen found to Is1 especially well adapt
ed, as It. Is smooth and delicate to the
touch, and derives from lis creamy ori
gin a glossy surface that is Just the
thing for com l)s.
War on the Wing.
Although niucji remains to be ac
complished before either submarine or
aerial navigation becomes so perfected
as to come In usefully for purpom-s of
war, it weiiw pretty nafe to predict
that by the end of the twentieth cen
tury' tlwv will le regarded much as we
view tebidiones and eh"ctric light. It
is little more th.in h.tif a century ago
since the kh-a of propelling vessels
acrosH the Atlantic by steam iowit was
not only ridiculed by the learned In
such matters, but proved to be sibso
hitely liiipo.--slb!f. There is no iiiipra
ficabil'.ty lu living under water or in
the upper air; given pr:per appliances,
and both are within the hcm' of hu
man endeavor. All tlutt r'-malus, there
fore, is to discover trustworthy meant)
of propulsion and of steering, of Kink
iug at will In the one case and of rUing
at will in the other. Such trifles as
tins- should 1h- tbe merest nothings to
mechanical science; indeed, claim are
already made on bebilf of certain tal
ented inventors thru both problemi are
practically solved. What warfare it
will 1m' when one power holds suprem
acy lu the a'raixl n:i(;h'r ower dowu
among the fishes! Timt would. Indeed,
be a practical illustitMlon of the grim
Itlsmarckiflii jest nliiit the whale and
the elephant. I'crh ijH, however, by
that time the winged otdier will be
rendered hupable of diving as . well
as of Hying, w Idle the Milmmrne war
rior may be given the Hying (Uh fac
ulty of shoeing into the air. We make
sure tlni.t we f-lull soon hear these
claims put forward on bohalf of the
miraculous Edison and the little lc
miraculous Goubet,
Canned or Dried Fruit.
The cajiutd-fruit industry ls an
enormous one, but the doniaud does
not increase as rapidly as the domand
for dried fruit, prmcljially because the
former Is much more expensive. Dried
fruit sells ji.t about half the prW a
pound that canned fni'.t commands,
and yet the material In one pound of
dried fruH will make !x pounds of
canned fruit. A not her reason for tin
Increasing demand for dried fruit la
Unit when cured by the 1ks1 modern
proces-u-K it Is much superior to what
It once wn. In California thev have
learned to prepare prunea so well thai
large quantities of thini are shipped to
France, the home of the prune; dried
apricots and pears go to Europe by the
tlioiis-mnd pounds, while California rai
sins have practically driven foreign
rabdn out of Easitern markets In this
country, and are now exported iu con
sidcr.iblc quantities.
Had Keen Them,
"Now, children," said the school
teacher, "you have Just read tho story
alK.ut the little bird that fell Into a
spring and was drowned. Who cau
tell me what a t-pring ls?"
Several bright little boys and girls
held up their hands, and one was asked
for her answer. t
"It comes before the Fourth of July,"
he answered.
"Oh, no, I do not mean the season,"
explained the teacher. "I mean the
spring that the little bird was drowned
In."
A little girl waved her bam fran
tically. "Well, yon may answer," said the
teacher.
"A fprlng Is water coming np out of
the ground with a health resort btrlll
up around It."
The Subject.
Rhe Have you read "A Hundred
Years to Comer"
He No. What ls It about; a meaaen.
ger boy? India na polls Journal.
"Bill," the ohl editor said to hla as
sistant, "wheu I die, don't turn tb
column rules."
Nearly every man believes that hla
business Is too large for the iowo l
which be lives.