1(pC c quarreling among themselves, step i in and help ourselves to the gold lock j ed in the treasury? That is, become i guerillas. They say there is honor I among thieves! Have you. gentlemen, ] found that you have not been robbed ! by your more influential following? | Have you been treated fairly? l have j no excuse to offer for making tne sug | gestion—you know the treatment that “You must be pretty well backed up, Golden, to dare to make such a proposition to me!” worthy of trust. Being told of Lang's plans and the necessity of quick action, Golden approached Rogers as soon as he had a chance. "There is a well organized plan on foot,” said Golden to Rogers in a guarded but determined manner, best calculated to impress the Chief of Po lice, “to cause a rebellion in Para dise. The ostensible plan is for a few to obtain control of the gold in the vaults while the main body of citizens are fighting among themselves. What do you think is the better plan, to fight to maintain the present state of things or jump in with the ring lead ers and get a free pardon from the United States government, at the same time filling our pockets?” “Get a finger in the pie!” answered Rogers. "Is that your idea?” "That’s my idea,” replied Golden, bluntly. "You must be pretty well backed up. Golden, to dare to make such a proposition to me!” "I am.” firmly replied Golden. “Free dom and pardon is quite an induce ment to me. The same is open to you if you want it!” “Then the state’s government is at the back of this?” “Of course. What do you care for these misguided men? You are not such a desperate criminal that you need to hide yourself away here. Every moment you remain here you are placing your neck further in the halter. Don’t you think-it would be better to live in civilization like a white man?” “I presume so. There is no doubt of the success of the rebellion?” “None whatever. The fall of Para dise is assured. You will join us, then?” “Us. Certainly, if you are in it!” “Well, then, show your loyalty by acquainting Sam Pearson with the state of affairs. Any one whom you can trust—good and loyal men whom you would like to see get a dip in the gold bags. Be leery, however, of men who have really committed capi tal crime, whom you know would have trouble to get a pardon. Understand?” “Sure. Where do we meet to draw up a compact." “At the haunted house,” replied Golden. “So Lang is in it?" “Head and front!” “I thought so. That man is a devil. There is no doubt we will win!” By means of Golden, Rogers was won over; Rogers spoke to Pearson; Pearson spoke to Pintzer—in this way a large company was formed, compris ing the most daring and intelligent men in the community. At the right time the conspirators met at the residence of Lang. Among those as sembled in the cellar of the house, where the meeting took place, was Wilson a-d Black Jack, the instigator, the leader of the tunnel gang who had been liberated by the aid of Rogers. The meeting was called to order by Lang as soon as all those invited had assembled. “Gentlemen," he said, “by appearing has been accorded me here. I advo cate the plan that we. while convict is fighting citizen, each trying to sub due the other, we dip our hands, not in human blood, but in the money bags, and make our escape before the loss c?n become known! We need not risk our necks in vain attempt to pro tect a worthless institution nor yet belittle our bravery by pouncing upon helpless women and children. ‘A | country divided against itself will fall. One of these factions will win. Hither or both can live without money, because money is not needed here. Then I maintain that we harm no one. “Now. speaking of the financial side of the question. Suppose there are a million dollars in gold in the vault— which there is—besides bank notes of high denomination. If this sum only was divided between each man. wom an and child in town it would give JobO per man. To ten this sum rep resents a collossal fortune; a hun dred thousand dollars each! Is there any one here who thinks he could not live well upon this sum? Not one. I ween—because even to us. sensible men. this sum is almost incomprehen sible. What joy to control that sum .of money! but this is not all. The United States government has a standing offer for the counterfeitine , fiaie irom wmcn our ten dollar bills ! are made, and free pardons for those who bring it in: there are at least fifty men here who are wanted ‘dead or alive.’ with a price upon their heads aggregating $200,000. Shall we let this generous offer go by?” Then up spoke Golden. ‘‘I thought, Lang, you were sur rounded by a band already! I had no idea you were trying to organize one now.” “I am not,” replied Lang. “I am at the head cf a band. It is a band bent, j however, on robbing the vaults. This | towm is doomed. There can be no doubt of that! But what I want is something more than ruins!” , ‘‘Suppose we should refuse.” de manded Rogers, evidently chagrined : at being “taken in.” , "Do you suppose for a moment, gen ! tlemen. that I would allow any one to warn the citizens, or that a single life i would be allowed to stand between pie and the accomplishment of my pur pose? Not so. all here are not new to this phase of the scheme. Thosc who are new I ask to stand aside out of the scuffle—be saved! Those who wish to refuse—will refuse! I want to trust those who are here, because my purpose can be better accomplished with your help. Be warned! Money j I must, and money I will have! And ! rather than face defeat I would slay with my own hands the man who now stands between me and fortune! It now becomes a case with me, gentle j men. of ki’l or get killed, and you know me!” Then up spoke Black Jack: “The gentlemen present, if they were not blinded, could readily see what Lang says is the truth. He certainly is becked up by a powerful insurgent force n>e ;t«, «>r distance. I am 6 life couwct. doomed to work all nc.v j life in the mints. Then hov. am I ht-r& ! to-night? Some of you have teen m* put upon tha streets before this.' Sl>v ply because I.ang has a means of en trance into our prison, and at his call all the convicts and people in genefral who are dissatisfied with the-present government will arm themselves, break their bonds, and throw them selves upon those who bar their way to liberty!” This powerful argument was sec onded by Wilson, who spoke. “It has long been an understood fact to me that the majority of the people desire to divide the money that is in the vault. This mode of treatment would enrich no one, for no one needs money here: what matters the loss of a paltry hundred or so to those who really hav# no use for money? Such men as Golden and Rogers need not hesitate to throw off the yoke of alle giance to this false state of things. It is only a question of time, any way, when we must be driven from the stronghold we have made for our selves. It is too late to turn back now. ‘Those who are not with us are against us!'” “I think it would be best to join this league,” said one of the spokesmen in the corner. "In it for us there is to be no bloodshed. To remain with the government is to be compelled to put down the insurrection; to side with them is treason; there is no middle course but this.” “I don’t see as we can do better,” said Pearson. "It seems kind of dirty, but still we are bound to protect our selves. I for one. am tired of living in a constant state of fear of assassina tion all the time.” “Then, gentlemen, if you are agreed, sign this paper,” said Lang. "It binds vou to obey me in everything con cerning this insurrection. In return I give you my word of honor that we shall share and share alike in all things. Should I die, divide my share among you—should any one die we will divide his share. If there are any family men amongst us, let us pledge ourselves as brothers to see that not one of our brothers’ families snail want for food nor drink while any of us have something to divide. While the paper was being signed Lang gave some details of his plan. "We have the town at our mercy!” he said, enthusiastically. “We are at the head of a band of over three hun dred. All that is needed now is a few bombs placed around under the walls. At a given signal from me, light the fuse and blow the walls to pieces; open up the prison and pour out the convicts; in the confusion I can lead you by a safe i»oute to the treasury— and the gold is ours! Be ready when the signal strikes!” (To be continued.) CHAMPION MEAN MAN IS FOUND Hard to Beat Character Told of by Prof. Duenweg. “The public goes in for the froth of dancing,” said Prof. Duenweg of Terre Haute at the national convention of dancing masters in New York. “Young men are content with the simplest loot movements that give them a li cense to take a close, clinging grip on a young woman. As far as any real knowledge of dancing goes—well, they know as little of the art as old Mrs. Jane Grey of Mema knows of shop keeping." Prof. Duenweg, who is the inventor of a new waltz—a difficult, complex and graceful dance—smiled and went on: “Poor old Mrs. Grey sells groceries and provisions, doing a good business for a town so small as Mema, but get ting cheated right and left on account of her ignorance. Only the other day a man from Lodi took advantage of her shamefully. He came in to get a pound of Swiss cheese and Mrs. Grey told him h« would have to call later in the after noon. “ ‘But why?’ said he. ‘There’s a Swiss cheese on the counter.’ “ ‘I know,’ said Mrs. Grey, ‘but my weights are all rusty and I have sent them away to be cleaned.’ “ ‘Oh, well,’ said the Lodi man, you’ve got something that will do tor a weight, surely?’ “ ‘Nothing but this here pair of tongs,’ said Mrs. Grey, ‘and they weigh two pounds. You don’t want that much do you?’ “ ‘No, but no matter. Put one leg of the tongs in the scales and let the other hang out. That will make a pound, old lady.’ “Mrs. Grey complied. “ ‘But it looks a large pound,' she said dubiously. “ ’Oh, it’s all right,’ said the Lodi man. ‘How much? A quarter? Here you are.’ "He paid and departed hastily.” Why the Tenor Was Fined. The late Judge (“Biff”) Hall of rhicago took great delight in telling the following story of “Punch” Wheeler. Wheeler, at that time the advance agent of a minstrel company, had re uroed to New York before the close if the theatrical season, and a friend, meeting him on Broadway, asked him how he had found business. “Very bad,” said “Punch;” “so bad hat the only way we could pay the members of the troupe was to fine ’hem. It worked splendidly, too; and by the time we reached Texas the manager had squared up with the whole company excepting the first tenor, who was such a proper chap that there was no chance to find fault with his actions. At Galveston Mr. Tenor sang for his solo ‘The Lighthouse by the Sea,’ and for an encore responded with ‘Over the Hills to the Poorhouse.’ That gave the boss the opportunity he was looking for and he levied on the songster’s salary for the entire amount—first, for telling the business we were play ing to, and second, for giving away the route of the show.”—Judge. In the Boston Suburbs. “Whither away, little boy?” inquir ed the well-meaning stranger. "I go to swim, sir,” replied the spec tacled infant. "And where do you swim?” persist ed the stranger. “I swim, sir,” the infant made an swer, “in the shallower purlieus of excessive dampness.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer. SWOHE AT SEC'RETA'Ry STAffTOff About every one in Portland—in act, all over the state of Maine— inew "Long John” Holmes, some times called "Swearing John Holmes," for he was also one of the-largest hearted.of men. and v.as not awed by .wealth or position. This story about him was related by the Hon. William Pitt Fessenden. He said during the first year of the civil war Holmes was in Washington looking for something to do, while he was in the United States Senate. He was in Secretary Stanton’s office one day, and Stanton said: “I am looking for a good man to buy horses in New England for the army; can you recommend any one for the posi tion?” Fessenden said he could, as one of his townsmen was in Wash ington looking for employment, and a better judge of horses was not to be found in the country. Stanton’s re ply was: “Seed him in to see me and I will give him a place.” Fessenden sent for Holmes and gave him a note to Stanton, The next day Secretary Stanton sent to the Senate Tor Fessenden to come to his office at once. On his arrival Stan ton turned to him and said: “Fes senden, for heaven's sake what did you mean by sending that man Hol mes to me? I must tell you of the interview. I heard a commotion in the outer office, and in came this giant with these words, ‘Where in h—1 is this old Stanton?' I turned and said. 'I am Secretary Stanton.’ ‘Well, here is a letter from Pitt Fes senden. What in h—1 do you want of me?' and the n a string of oaths such as I never heard from any one before. I could not stop him. and could only say, ‘I will see Mr. Fessen den,’ and now I want to know why you sent him here.” Fessenden’s reply was: “You want ed a man to buy horses, and he is your man.” Holmes got the job, and continued as the government agent during the war. with credit to himself and the office. NATIVE HELIGIOJV OF SIAM The Rev. W. C. Dodd, who is sta tioned as a missionary in the Laos country, north of Siam, under the Presbyterian Foreign Board, has sent to friends in this country a report of an interview he recently had with Kun Turn, native chief at the head of eight villages. Kun Turn talks of the native religion, and says that his people do rot worship ghosts and spirits, as do many of the Siamese, but that they believe in one God. who inhabits the ethereal expanse. He is creator of all, including the hu man race. According to this religion, he original man and woman had three sons. The oldest was ancestor of the Asiatic people. The second took to wife a monkey and was ancestor of the white race, which is consequently tctive, energetic and cunning, too much for their other brethren. The roungest son was ancestor of the black race. All the brothers originally wor shiped God and had a book from him. The belief is that the white brother and his family were bad, and were sent away from the others, taking the book with them. Other writings were revealed to those who remained but most of the revelations have been de stroyed. To the people of Kun Turn was given two great piftars of stone. These they were instructed to protect and preserve. They were also instruct-1 ed to keep alien people out of their country, but were told in a revelation to submit to the British. The stone pil lars are to be guarded until God ap pears in human form. This they ex pect soon to occur. The ancient legend, told thus briefly, fits well with the return of the white race with a book, the Bible, and this native chief says that he and many others wait to see how it shall fare with those who have become Christians, in order that they may judge whether the religion with a book was really their primeval religion and the book the one taken from them so long ago. SOy"S IDEAS OF ••CHEETI/fG" Judge Henry A. Shute has a charac teristic boy story in the October Amer ican Magazine. Plupy read a paper on ;‘Cheeting,” in which the following oc curs: “I guess most everybody cheets some, sometimes somebody comes to the house whiteh nobody wants to see and Aunt Sarah will say, for mersy sakes Joanna there comes that dredful woman but when she comes in they say they are auful glad to see her and make her take of her things and stop to super and they put on the best china and have gellv and hot biskit, so one day i asked Aunt Sarah if that ; wasent cheeting and Aunt Sarah she i said perhaps it was, but if we didn’t j do enny wirse cheeting than make ; peeple feel pretty good she gessed it j wasent very bad cheeting. “They is other kinds of cheeting two. once me and Beany was filing I and all of a sudden Beany began to hold on to his stumock as if he was sufering feerful and when a feller is Sting and holds on to his stumock, it aint fair to hit enny more than it is to hit him when he is down, and so i stopped and leaned over to see if he was hurt and Beany stratened up and hit me a feerful paist in the eye and blackened it and so i got licked that time. "Beany he thaught it was a pretty good trick to play on me and i thaught so two after i got over my mad and the next time I had a Ste with Pewt i pre tended i was auful hurt and held on to my stumock and bent up double and wached my chance to straten up like Beany did and black Pewt's eye but Pewt dident give enny chance and gumped on me when i was all bent double and lammed me. I think that was prety meen cbeeting for Pewt.” QUALITY THAT WlffS SUCCESS Mr. Grimshaw. one of whose daugh ters was about to be married, decided that among other presents he would give her a fine sewing machine. With this purpose in mind he stopped at a shop while on his way home one aft ernoon, and inspected the latest and ; best styles of machines, but thought j it best to be in no hurry, and went : away without having made a pur chase. A cay or two later his daugh ter surprised him by telling him that a man had called at the house and j left a machine as a sample, promis ing to call and take it away again if the lady of the house did not wish to buy it. “But it’s just exactly the kind I want, papa," she said. “If you are ; going to give me a sewing machine I 1 would rather have that one than any j other." “Well, child,” he responded j “then we'll let it stay.” The next j morning he called at the address giv- j en by the man who had left the ma chine. It was the shop he had visited a few days .before. "It's all right,” he said, "and I'll take the sewing ma chine, but would you mind telling me how you managed it? I live a mile or two from here and you have no pos sible means of knowing who I was.” “I haven’t the slightest objection to telling you.” replied the shopman, "in asmuch as there's nothing to be ashamed of. When you left here the other day I sent my boy after you. He saw you enter your home, made a lew inquiries in the neighborhood, and fourd that there was going to be a wedding in your family before long. The rest was easy.” Mr. Grimshaw paid for the machine and took his de parture. more firmly convinced than ever before that the man who suc ceeds in business is the man who knows how to “hustle.” JVOJVSESfSE A'BOVT -LOST ATtTS” “Not so many years ago it was Quite commonly asserted that modern work men could not quarry, or, having quar ried, could not handle stones as large as the monoliths of Egypt," says a scientist., "and the writer has heard a public speaker of no e assert that it would be impossible to handle, with modern implements, such large stones as were used in the pyramids or to join them as perfectly as they are joined there. Yet. when occasion arose, larger stones than any of these were quarried in Maine and some of the larger monoliths themselves were transported, not only to the sea, but across it and erected in England, France and America. "There are individuals to-day who might if they chose cause the trans portation to and erection in this coun try of the largest pyramids or build new ones ten times larger and nr.ore durable. Pyramids are not being gen erally built nowadays, because they are not in line with the trend of mod ern ambition; that's all. "It is very doubtful if a ‘Damascus blade’ would stand half as severe usage as a modern bandsaw blade, or even as much as the spring of a 40 cent clod;, while the ornamentation of those wondrous blades, so far as the mechanical execution is concern ed. can be excelled by apprentices and amateurs to-day. “Of the 'lost art' of hardening cop per little is heard of late years, though one occasionally hears a wiseling from the wilds wish that he knew how to do it. as well as the ancients, and, while it is perhaps regrettable that he doesn't, his ignorance is his own fault.” LOffGI/fG FO'R OCEA/TS SECRET Ah! what pleasant visions haunt me As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends. All my dieams come back to m*. Sails of silk and ropes of sendal. Such as gltam in ancient line: And the singing of the sailors. And the answer from the short! Most of alb the Spanish ballad Haunts me oft and tarries long. Of the noble Count Arnaidos And the sailor's mystic song. Like the long waves on a sea-beacll. When the sand as silver shines. With a soft, monotonous cadence, Flow Us unrhvmed lyric lines: Telling how the Count Arnaidos, With his hawk upon his hand. Saw a fair and stately galley. Steering onward to the land: How he heard the ancient helmsman Chant a song so wild and char. That the sailing sea-bird slowly Poised upon the mast to hear. Till his soul was full of longing And he cried with imnulse strong: “Helmsman, for the love of heaven Teach me. too. that wondrous song!** “Wouldst thou,’* so the helmsman an swered. “Learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers Comprehend Its mystery.” In each sail that skims the horison, In each landward-blowing breeze, I behold that stately galley. Hear those mournful melodies: Till my soul is full of longing For the secret of the sea. And the heart of the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me. —Henry W. Longfellow. Korean Woman Comes to Study. Miss Melissa Kim. a native of Ko rea, has arrived in San Francisco, ■where she will study medicine. There is a general movement among the women of China and Korea, Miss Kim says, in favor of higher education, and her intimate friend in Hoo-Chow was Sing Wong Tsing Ling, a Chi nese girl, who has recently gone to Japan to study law there and will practice in the Japanese courts. But few Korean women have come to this country thus far and Miss Kim is tha first to speak English at alL Sha is 28 years old. Money has always been a visible product of methods. In the first cen tury A. D., under the emperors Au gustus Caesar and Tiberius in Rome, the property of criminals was confis cated and converted into money, which was lent free of interest to those poor who could offer security for twice the amount they wanted to borrow. It was in the second century after Christ that the humane custom ob tained in Rome of permitting slaves to deposit extra earnings to create a fund for the final purchase of their freedom. Legion (Regimental) savings banks were also provided under the Roman emperors for the accommodation of the soldiers. Copper was the first metal used in important money transactions, the Roman “as” being originally a pound of copper, just as the modern English pound sterling was originally a pound of silver in the time of William the Conqueror (in the 11th century), al though to-day the silver pound ster ling is only about five-eights of a pound in weight. The word “coinage” comes from the Latin cuneus, a wedge or die with which to stamp the metal. The oldest coins have a stamp on but one side. Gold arrow heads, gold knives and swords, gold rings and bracelets and golden chains were made long before gold was used as money. However, gold was used as money in China as early as 2257 B. C., but was not in common use that is to say, the debt or could not be compelled to pay it. The permanent use of gold as legal money, cannot be traced ba<;k farther than the time of the.Emperor Julius Caesar in Rome in the first century B. C. For the next, thirteen hundred years, i. e., until the Roman empire ended with the fall of Constantinople in 1204 A. D., no prince or Pope, or other potentate within the Roman em ; pire (which meant pretty much all of the civilized world), was allowed to ! coin any gold, except the Roman em I perors. The coinage of gold was reserved as a sacred prerogative by the emperor of Rome as chiefs of the Roman state and high priests of the Roma a relig ion. Money was sometimes legally de based. The Roman denarius, for in stance, was first coined in Rome at the rate of six coins out of an ounce of silver; in B. C. 216 seven were coined out of an oijnee of silver; in 45 A. D., under Augustus Caesar, there were eight to the ounce; under Nero, eight and one-half to the ounce; under Hadrian, nine to the ounce; un der Callus, fourteen to the ounce, and by the year 475 A. D. every bit of sil ver was gone and the denarius was made entirely of copper. The Latin name for money, pecunia, is derived from pecus, a flock, and it is probable that the English word “fee" is connected etymologically with the German word Vieh, meaning cattle. Cattle were also used as money in early colonial days in our own coun try. We find a law passed by the Colony of Massachusetts in 1658 or dering that no man should pay taxes in lank cattle. At this time tobacco was used as money in Virginia. REAL AMERICANS IN KENTUCKY. Whole Counties Without a Resident of Foreign Birth. “There are counties in Kentucky where there is not a single resident of foreign birth,” declared R. B. Baker of Louisville, according to the Milwaukee Sentinel. "The residents are the de scendants of the old families who came to Kentucky when that state was known as the “dark and bloody ground” and who fought to make the state what it is to-day. They haT'e no land to sell to foreigners, they have no business to do with them, therefore the foreign population settles else where. 1 presume the same condition of affairs will be found in these same counties fifty years from now. “Not anywhere else in this country can there be found a settlement which is more truly American. When you stop to consider the number of nation alities one meets gathered together in almost every part of the country, the way these Kentuckians have managed to keep to themselves is little less than marvelous. Kentucky is unlike any other state in the union, anyway. In two counties there they have never held a coroner's inquest. They have a coroner in each county, but they con tend that it is not necessary to hold an inquest over the remains of a man who is killed if you know how he was killed. They always know how the dead ones are killed. In these same counties I do not believe they have ever held court without a company or two of militia. The people are not assassins, but they have so long been accustomed to settling their own troubles with the rifle and the shotgun that they cannot accustom themselves to the vengeance of the law in place of that of the individual.” Old-Time Irish Gentleman Dead. Robert Jasper Martin, J. P., who recently died, was one of the fine old Irish gentlemen who inspired Lever’s novels and was both writer and com poser of “Ballybooley” and “Killaloo” and other famous songs. He was a Galway squire of immemorial family, a brilliant raconteur and prince of diners-out. His favorite anecdote was the one recounting the way he man aged to get a conservative elected by telling his tenants that he had “made more money out of one rotten song than he had from them in his whole lifetime” and that he thought they ought to vote for his friend, which they did. His proudest reminiscence was that a British army had marched into a conquered town—said to be Khartoum—to the tune of "Killaloo.” Calls English Women Frivolous. A writer is the Standard of London boldly asserts that the intellectual level of English women has been low ered in the last fifty or sixty years and bases his conclusion on a ■state ment that English women nowadays read only the lighter forms of liter ature. They read French novels and plays and sensational English fiction generally. Their grandmothers, he de clares used to read Scott's poems and romances, and they also read history for its own sake. Such girls now would regularly read Freeman Fronde, Carlyle and Stubbs. Her Awful Threat. On the sand at Windsor Beach a lit tie girl had a dipper full of water, with which she wet the sand and built marvelous things. The water in the dipper was drawn into its hollow handle, according to the habit of dippers, and, overbalanc ing- the bowl, tipped it over. When this had gone on at intervals of near ly an '.hour, the little girl got angry. She sat up and put the dipper down hard. Then she said threa*eringly: “If you do that again, dipper. I’ll cut your tail ofT and make a basin of you!”—Chicago Inter Ocean. King Edward's Oldest Subject. George Fletcher is believed to be the oldest subject of King Edward. He was born on April 28. 17SS, and lives in a cottage in Kiley. near Pome roy, in County Tyrone. Ireland, and has lived in it for more than 10 years. State Repurchases Estates. For the purposes of closer settle ment, the government of South Aus tralia has introduced a bill for the compulsory repurchase by the State of estates valued at more than £20,000. ORATORY HAS TO BE PAID FOR, The Money Value of Noise and Silence in Parliament. A Belgian statistician has amused himself by calculating the cost to the country of parliamentary oratory, and that of noise, and even of silence in parliament, for, according to him, each second of a sitting costs the same amount, and silence is paid for. during the sittings, as dearly as speech, says the Philadelphia Ledger He calculates that each hour of the sittings of the Belgian chamber costs 7,286 francs, each minute 121.43 francs and each second something more than 2 francs. Starting from this basis bfe calculates that the words of the pres ident at the opening of each sitting, “Gentlemen, the sit'ing has commenc ed.” costs about 5 france. A laugh, for which, when uttered in his pres ence, he could find no reason, was timed by him to cost 6 francs 10 cen times. “Marks of approval on many benches” cost as much as £2 or £3; a suitably “prolonged movement” cac not be produced at less than 18 or 25 francs. “Ironical cheers at the left” are exceedingly costly, while “loud approval at the right” runs to a price beyond all reason. He notes that a few days ago the applause from the government benches at the end of a speech of the railway minister cost exactly 65 francs 45 centimes, and that a sitting of three hours, which was occupied by three Indifferent speakers, cost 28,679.50 francs, or close on to £1,000. Patti could be heard in Brussels for such a sum, he declares; or grand opera, claque and all, be had for less! Recipe for a World. Take one man. a woman and a gar den. Add an apple and a good fresh snake. Stir gently until the pot be gins to boil, then drain off the apple, and keep adding children. Simmer on a slow fire, then put on ice. Alter nate between the two extremes, giv ing the w’^ole a good, sound basting when needed, turning slowly in a proper space. Keep adding time until the mass is of the consistency of a mud pie covered with ants. Multiply the inhabitants and garnish with vil lages. towns, cities and empires. Now introduce a little theology and enough devil sauce to spice. Keep adding bat tle, murder, sudden death and a good layer of cant. Put plenty of salt in The water and sprinkle with bad soci ety. When your world is finished throw it in the fire and begin all over again.—Leesburg (Ohio) Buckeye. Try the Soothing Penance. Did it ever occur to you that your unruly child is probably in a highly excited condition, and it may be part ly due to this that he persists in seemingly sheer obstinacy to yout commands? A whipping at such a time does more harm than good. In stead, try making him lie down on the bed as a punishment. It will calm his nerves, give him a rest, and afford him an opportunity to think Most children have a sensi'ive, ner vous organization. They are •n times more likely to be good if kept in a calm and serene mental atmosphere. —Chicago Journal. Diplomat as Well as Artist. The late Waiter Smith, the artist, was busily engaged upon the portrait of a member of Boston's 400. a lady severely plain in feature, but whose vanity in that respect was well known. A visitor to the studio remarked: ‘ Vou haven't caught Mrs. Beacon Street’s expression at all!” “No,” replied the painter, “but T flat ter myself I’ve caught her notion of her expression.” ' Motor Law in Bavaria. A motorist in Bavaria has had to eppear before the authorities at Mu nich on the ground that he had used a trumpet to give warning of his ap proach, Instead of the more usual horn, blown by rubber “pear.” Ho argued that, though the law stated that a horn was necessary, it did not define how the horn was to be blown. After a long discussion he was ac quitted. Duchess Is Sporty. The Duchess of Newcastle is A great, driver, angler, shot and judga of dogs.