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MR. BRYAN AT HOME it _ People of All Political Parties in Town and Country Give Him Hearty Welcome. GREATEST DEMONSTRATION OF HIS TRIP Acres of faces Turned to Nebraska's Distinguished Citizen as he Addressed Them at the State house in Lincoln. LINCOLN—William J. Bryan is at home. His return from a year's trip abroad was marked by the greatest demonstration ever witnessed in the state capital. Citizens of Lincoln, re gardless of party affiliations, augment ed by many thousands from out in the state, were at' the depot to meet him at 5 o’clock, followed him to the home of his brother, Charles Bryan, where he and his family ate dinner, heard him speak in the evening at the state house and then shook his hand. It was a crowd in love with Bryan and a crowd full on enthusiasm. It cheered him before he alighted from the. train, cheered him along the line of march to his brother's home, and cheered him while he spoke. It was Nebraskans paying a tribute to a Ne braskan. Lincoln was lighted and decorated A. in honor of the occasion as never be fore. The principal streets were arched with electric lights; the stores were literally covered wuth flags and gay rib Ik ms and pictures of the distin guished citizen were exposed at every available window. Mr. Bryan’s Lincoln welcome began when the train passed the state fair grounds. Hundreds of people who sighted the dust covered banner, “Bry an’s Home Folks." set up a cheer that reached to the larger crowd at the Bur lington station. As soon as the train Oldham. Edgar Howard and most of the democratic mayors of the state who helped to bring Bryan home from New York. Harry Walker of New York, who, with Walter Hoge. conceiv ed the idea of the New York reception, came clear to Lincoln to sae the finish of what he started. Being introduced by Mayor Brown of Lincoln, Mr. Bryan said in part: Mr. Mayor, Governor. Members of the Reception Committee. I-adies and Gen tlemen: In the Arabic language there are some €00 words which mean ‘'camel,' and for the last few days I have been wishing that there wei;e that many words in the English lan guage that meant “thank you." I have had occasion to use the old fa miliar term ‘t'hank you" a great many times since I landed in New York. In London I had occasion to regret that I could speak but one language in that meeting where the representa tives of twenty-six nations were as sembled. but if I could speak all the languages known to man I would not he able to express the gratitude which my wife and I feel for the generous welcome that has been extended to us on our return home. The home folks met us in the harbor of New York, and I never looked into the faces of a group of friends more gladly in my life. They took charge of us. and they have lloated us ou the stream of welcome l.f.OO miles long, several leagues wide, and of immeasurable depth, until that stream has emptied itself in this ocean of good will. To come home to ; those among whom we live and find this kindly feeling touches our hearts; i to find those who differ from us In po i litical opinion vieing with those who agree with us to make our reception | delightful, more than pays us for any thing that wc have been able to do. It was kind of our dear old minister I to oiler tiie invocation and my heart WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. stopped Mr. Bryan. Mrs. brvan and Miss Grace Bryan came to the plat form of the private car in which they rode. William J. Bryan. Jr., was the first to greet the home comers. He leaped to the steps of the platform, was grab bed in the arms first of his father, who kissed him and then passed him to his mother and sister. Then, while a lusty photographer shouted from the roof of the station, “Mr. Bryan, look up,’’ the distinguished cithsen pushed out into the crowd, shaking hands with all who rushed at him. Almost immediately, however, he was yanked into a car riage with Governor Mickey. Mayor Brown and J. E. Miller and taken to Charles Bryan's residence. The crowd at the state house, which A assembled in the evening to hear Mr. Bryan speak, was a compact mass and numbered not less than 50,000 people. It was here the bars were taken down and the real old-fashioned enthusiasm turned loose. It was 7:30 before Mr. Bryan, headed by Governor Mickey: and Mayor Brown, walked onto the! balcony leading from the supreme I court rooms on the second floor. They 1 were greeted by cheers whie lasted ! several minutes. Dr. George Martin, pastor of Mr. Bryan’s church, prayed, after which Mayor Brown welcomed the Lincolnite j home. The mayor caught the spirit i of the crowd. He was short and to' the point. He was followed by Gov-1 ernor Mickey, whose remarks were! quite extended and who was admonish-: ed by the crowd to “Cut it short.” The crowd turned itself loose when : Mr. Bryan began to speak. When he I told them the Arabic language had 600' words which misant “camel” and he wished the American language had 600 words whch meant “thank you,” he caught the crowd. The people knew the “Peerless Leader" was sincere in his thanks for the great home-coming reception tendered him. Many prominent democrats from ■ over the state were in Lincoln and at l tended the meeting, as did most of the republican state candidates. On the platform among the democrats were State Chairman Tom Alen and Dr. Hall and G. W. Berge, while away down in the crowd were W. H. Thompson, can didate for United States senator. Judge joins his in its ascent to the throne of God in gratitude for that providence that has kept us from the dangers of foreign lands and brought us safely from the perils of the deep. It is kind in the chief executive of the city to welcome us to this, his rich domain; and it is kind in the governor of this great state to join in givig us a greet ing as we come home. The fact that this man. with whom t have not al ways been able to entirely agree, has overlooked the opposition that has sometimes arisen, only shows how much there is in life that we can en joy together, and how little after all political differences ought to count be tween men. I might describe t thus, that the things that we hold in com mon are like sunshine of the day. while partisan differences are like the clouds that come and in a moment pass away. I am glad to be here with you. and 1 speak for my wife and children as well as for myself, when I thank you a thousand, thousand times. I dont' know how I can repay you for the joy you have given us. unless you mill per mit tne as occasion offers to bring such lessons as I am able to bring from what we have observed in other lands. When we conceived this trip around the earth it was with the belief that there would be education In it. We thought SO highly of it that we were willing to take the children out of school for a year, and I believe that it was worth more than a years' educa tion. But it has been instructive far beyond what we imagined, and we have been able to store up information that will not only be valuable in the years to come, but wTill give us something to reflect upon in the closing years of our lives. I .have for years appreciated the honor and the responsibility of American citizenship. Twenty-two years ago when I returned to my col lege to receive the masters 'degree I took as the subject of my address. "American Citizenship." and as I recall the language that I then used I am sure that even then I understand some what of the Importance of our nation’s position among the nations of the earth. During the nearly a quarter of a century that has elapsed my ap preciation of my nations' greatness has increased, but never so much as in the last twelve months have I grown in the pride that I have in my nation. Following the sun in his course around the globe I have notect every where the effect of American influence Before I left home I had spoken at times of aphorism and its part in the world's affairs. But. my friends. I have learned something of aphorism since I was last among you. and I affirm without fear of contradiction that there is no nation on earth which manifests such disinterested friendship ror the human race as this dear land of ours. Not only do I affirm that our nation has no equal living, but I affirm that history presents no example like ours. In many ways our nation is leading the world. I have found in e\er> land I have visited a growth of ideas that underlie our government. A century and a quarter ago certain po litical doctrines were planed or Ameri can soil, and those doctrines have grown and spread until there Is not a nation on earth that has not felt the impu'se that was started in this coun try at that time. There is not a nation in the werld in wMch the democrat!* idea is not moving and moving power fully today. Go into Japan and you will And that they not only have a representative, but that they are con tinually endeavoring to make that gov ernment more responsible to the whole people. Go into China, that great na tion that has slumbered for twenty centuries, and you will find that there is a stirring there and that her em press has within a year sent commis sioners abroad to investigate t«e insti tutions of other lands for the purpose of granting a constitutional govern ment to the flowery kingdom. Within a year public opinion in Rus sia has forced a reluctant czar to grant a douma, and while that douma has been dissolved, it has been dissolved with the promise that another shall take its place. Not only do you find the democratic sentiment—and I need not tell you that I use the word in no partisan sense—I think democracy means the rule of the people—not only is this idea spreading, but education i» spreading throughout the world. But. my friends. I am not here to speak to you tonight. It has been an nounced that we are to have the pleas ure of shaking hands with you as soon as I have concluded my remarks. I have been taking a survey of this a« dience. Mrs. Bryan and 1 have nt times shaken hands with as many as S.ilOO an hour, and 1 have been looking over this audience and wondering how high the sun would be in the sky to morrow morning when 1 got through. As we have not had cur full quota of sleep since we landed in New Tork I think I shall not postpone that sleep too long. I think 1 shall not occupy more of your time than to say that we come home again with delight. We have seen nothing abroad that is so dear to us as home. Tonight we shall not rest on the trembling bosom of the mighty deep; we shall rest rather on these billowy plains of the boundless west, and I am sure that the alfalfa scented air of these lands will be sweeter than the spiey breezes of Ceylon. And I know that in my home upon the hill where we can meet you and-talk over the days when we have been absent we will be far happier than we would be in any castle on the Rhine. I thank you for your attention. Mr. Bryan was cheered lustily and long. The doors of the state house were opened and the crowd filed through. The reception was in the rotunda of the capitol. It was attended by many thousands of people desirous of grasp ing the hands of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan. The crowd was well handled, and al though it moved slowdy, everything was carried out in an orderly fashion. Only the north and south doors of the capitol were opened, and the people entered from the north, using the south entrance as an exit. The re ception committee, appointed some time ago by Dr. F. M. Hall, chairman, formed lints on each side of the re ceiving line, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bryan, Governor and Mrs. J. W. Mickey, Mayor and Mrs. F. W. Brown, and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Miller. The people thronged the capitol grounds and until near the end of the reception it was impossible for one to get within forty feet or more of the entrance to the building. The crowd, while wait ing. however, was entertained by the elegant display of fireworks from the front of the capitol grounds. The re ception was rushed through and ended early, so that the out-of-town visitors might be able to catch their trains, most of which were scheduled to de part at 10 o'clock. Chief Cause of Suicide. The old school of neuropathologists maintained that every case of suicide was a case of insanity, but that the ory has been abandoned because of the preponderance of testimony against it. Acute mania sometimes causes suicide, but in the large ma jority of cases sheer laziness and pol troonery furnish the plain evidence of motive. The lazy theory is, there fore. approximately correct, even though it is improperly restricted to hot weather suicides. It really applies to all. World's Consumption of Rubber. Some idea of the enormous quantity of rubber used every year can be ob tained from the following necessarily tough estimate of French statistical cxper-ts. They calculate that the pres ent total annual production of rubber is not less than 57.000,000 pounds. Of this total about 55 per cent comes from South America and Africa, and considerably over 45 per cent of the finished product is consumed in the United States. Germany is the sec ond largest user of rubber. A Courtship of 25 Years. The recent wedding of Miss Mar garette McCough of New Derry and Oscar Crissinger of Derry was ibe culmination of a courtship which had extended over a quarter of a century. There had been no lovers’ quarrels, but Miss McCough would not set the oay. and the event was delayed from year to year until now the bride is dO years old and the bridegroom is 65. —Latrobe Correspondence. Pittsburg Dispatch. Diamonds in America. Diamonds are constantly being found in the woods of Canada, and last year a stone, picked up by an Indian, was sold to a w’hite man for 85 cents. The white man hurried to De troit with it and got *1.500 from a jeweler for his investment. It is be lieved by scientists that the diamond bed exists in' the north, and that the diamonds were brought into the south central parr bv prehistoric glaciers. Imaginary Diseases. Only an imaginary remedy ran cure an imaginary disease. This may be condemned by the righteous as quackery, and quackery of a kind it undoubtedly is. But if the real end of medicine is to cure, can she. when iegitimate means fail, afford to de spise anything that relieves suffering, even though that suffering be imagin ary?—British Medical Journal. Corn’s Wonderful Productiveness. Under favorable conditions a sin gle kernel of maize or corn may in crease to a million kernels in two years. Many of the lower forms of animal life are capable of multiplying much faster than that astonishing rate, but the necessary conditions— especially freedom from the attacks of destructive enemies—seldom, if ever, exist. British officials are set a task in the Persian gulf as impossible of ac complishment as that of the Israelites of old; for they are expected to fur ther the interests of their compatri ots, maintain the prestige of their country, and right the wrong, with insufficient authority upon the spot and but little hope from home.— Blackwood's Magazine. JAMES 5. HARLAN. Appointed Member of ths Interstate Commerce Commission. ONE MOMENT OF DELIGHT. When American Woman Got Even with Nagging Britichers. Everybody who has lived in Lon don,” said the woman who has trav eled a little, “will agree with Bishop Potter that there is very little good will exhibited toward Americans there, particularly Americans who are not incumbered with wealth, but I got even with them once for eight mouths of nagging at our nation and customs. It was on a Fourth of July. We were on our balcony, in Russel square, watching some Americans start off in a coach with great crack ing of whips and fire of crackers and flourish of flags. '■ ‘Aw—er, don't you know?' asked i an Englishman who stood by me. "What—er—are they making ail that noise for? What is it—er—that they I are celebrating. I should like to awsk?" “ 'They are celebrating the day we licked you,’ said I.” OFFERED UP TO MAMMON. Lives and Health of Children Sac rificed to God of Gain. Irene Macfadyen of England, after inspecting conditions, a year or two ago, wrote: "The physical, mental, and moral effect of these long hours of toil on the children is indescribab PAINFUL SUSPICION. John Chinaman—Wonder what 'Melican man wantee?—He no act natural lv sad. Mill children are so stunted that every foreman will tell you that vou cannot judge their ages. The lint in their lungs forms a perfect cul tivating medium for tuberculosis and pneumonia, and consumption is com- | mon among them. Many die after ! a few years of this service.” The Washington Post, commenting on child-labor in the south, says: “The i average life of the children after they 1 go into the mills is four years. It j would be less Cruel for a state to have children painlessly put to death than it is to permit them to Ire ground to death by this awful process."—The I Cosmopolitan. World's Favorite Fruit. It is estimated by those who know i that the apple is the favorite fruit of: the world, but whether favorite or not, I it is eaten more more than is any other fruit. When William the Con- ! queror went from Normandy to Eng- > land, among the many good things he j did was to have large orchards plant- | ed wherever he and his followers set- i tied, and these orchards consisted ; principally of apples, the fine quality ! that grew so abundantly in Erance. Digging Coal Under the Sea. Up in Cape Breton island, where there are a number of collieries, dig ging out coal from under the sea, the submarine area thus undermined now amounts to about 16 ordinary farms of 100 acres each. The outer end of the hole is something over a mile from the shore. Strange as it may seem, the workings have never been invaded by sea water, although fffesh water streams have been encountered flow ing out in the strata under the ocean bed. The thickness of strata over the mines varies from 500 to 1,140 feet. be forgotten. The school children of Kansas were asked to contribute a penny each to secure suitable mark ers for this pioneer highway of prog ress, and 36D.166 responded. With this fund the trail will be outlined in an enduring manner from Kansas City to Santa Fe, 800 miles as the cara vans made it. the time consumed for the round trip being 110 days. It is believed the trail dates back to 1540, when a Spanish adventurer led an ex pedition from Mexico as far north as Kansas. But it was not until the be ginning of the last century that the American trader and pioieer utilized the long trail that stretched out into the wilderness of the new El Do rado. The Best Hamlet. In his first success at Drury Lane, Edmund Kean overheard a knot of old stage carpenters discussing vigorously the various players of Hamlet they had seen in their day. “Well,” said one, ‘you may talk of Henderson and Kemble and this new man, but give me Bannister’s Hamlet—he was al ways done 20 minutes sooner than any of ’em." Cold Storage for Hay Fever. Here is a cure for hay fever that may not come too late for the sue ceptible victim of that fell malady. The Hospital relates that “a gentle man who was suffering from hay fe ver happened one summer to spend two hours in the refrigerating hold of a steamer." This cured him and he had. no further attack that sum mer. As a remedy, “cold storage” has objections, but there are victims who would even be cured at the ex pense of a frozen foot or fingers, and at any rate the idea 1b refreshing. MEANS END OF OBSERVATORY Power House Threatens Usefulness of Scientific Station. The Greenwich observatory, Eng land. one of the most important astro nomical stations of the world, is about to be “put out of business.” according to the Electrical Review, by the pow er station located near it by the Lon don county council. “The power station is located,” says the Review, “exactly on the meridian, about a mile south of the observatory, and, although it at present has but a smail part of its complement, the entire equipment will have an output of over 50,000 horsepower. Already some disturbance has resulted from the observatory authorities have from th'1 operation of certain generating units, and the ob servatory authorities have brought the matter before parliament, as they fear that when all the ma chinery is in place and running, their instruments will become useless.” As nearly all the world now gets its longitude from Greenwich, all the world will share in the wonder that the British government was so inert as to allow a power station to be put where it will interfere with important scientific work. Marking the Santa Fe Trail. The famous old Santa Fe trail is to be marked so that its location will not INDIAN SWEAT BATH REGARDED BY SOME TRIBES AS A “CURE ALL." Belief In Thie Heroic Form of Treat ment for Disease Was Largely Responsible for the Whit man Massacre. The “sweat” bath of the Indian is a cure-all warranted by the tribal med icine man to cure anything and every thing, from sunburn to corns. It is taken in a primitive but effective man ner. When the Indian feels the languor of disease stealing over his frame he hies himself to a brook and in some convenient place by the side of a deep pool builds himself a “sweat house.” This house is built of wil low and hazel poles, bent like the center wicket in a croquet set. Over these are wrapped skins and blankets Until the place is practically air tight, an opening just large enough to allow a man to crawl through is left close to the ground, and this opening is cov ered with a flap, which may be tight ly fastened from the inside when de sired. When this house has been completed the patient builds a fire close by and into it rolls a number of large stones, which he heats red hot. He then retires to the interior of the house, accompanied by no clothes, the hot stones and a large vessel of water. He closes the door, pours the wa ter over the stones, and endures a primitive but at the same time effect ive Turkish bath. When the sick man can stand the heat and steam no long er he breaks from the house, followed by a cloud of steam and perspiration dripping from every pore and plunges headlong into the icy cold depths of the pool. This treatment is said to be effect ive for a great many diseases. It undoubtedly aided in the creation of a hardy race of warriors by killing off all but those which could not be .killed by anything short of super human agency. In 1847, while Dr. Whitman and his family were camped with the Cayuses. and just beginning to have sume suc cess toward overcoming their preju dices and gaining their friendship, an epidemic of measles broke out in the tribe. Dr. Whitman and his wife did what they could for the suffering Indians. The doctor prescribed for them out of his store of medicines, and would have checked the disease in all prob ability had not the jealousies of the Indian medicine men, coupled with the customs of the Indians them selves, persuaded the sufferers to try the wonders of the sweat cure. It seemed a good idea to the Indian mind. If the white medicine man's prescription was good, the Indian med icine man's remedy would help it i out As a result of this reasoning, hun dreds of the stricken Indians took the sweathouse course of treatment and were fished out of the pool dead as a result of the sudden disappearance of the measles. This plague of death visited on the tribe was placed to the account of Dr. Whitman, and he was accused of having given the Indians poison when he pretended to give them medicine. Partly, largely in fact, on this account the massacre was planned and carried out. It is a fact, therefore, that the Indian sweathouse was the indirect cause of the Whitman massacre. Father Took Son's Whipping. The boy had misbehaved, as he often did, and his father called him to account. “Son," said the father, “I hate to ! lick you. but some one must get a j whipping for what you’ve done." The boy whimpered a little. “Suppose,” said the father, “that I take the whipping for you!" The boy laughed at the idea, but the j father took down a dog whip, called a friend who was visiting at the house, explained the situation to him and then requested the visitor to use the whip on him. The father wore a long-tailed coat I and the visitor hit the tails of that j coat in great style. At the first crack of that whip the boy was wild-eyed. At the second he was clawing, biting and kicking the man with the whip. “Don't whip my papa! Don't whip him!” he cried. “Whip me! Oh, whip me!” That was a year ago. Since then that boy has never done anything seri ously wrong. South Africa's Great Men. Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Beit were equally undemonstrative. A great scheme of Rhodes was once collapsing ' when Wernher and Beit came to the rescue and saved it. Beit for his firm —Wernher & Beit—took up the obli- ; gations. Rhodes said simply: 'That's all right," but the following day, as Beit and he stood together at the bar in the Kimberley club, he abruptly asked the steward for half a dozen promissory note forms, signed them in blank and stuffed them into Beit's I pocket, saying: ‘‘You backed me. If ; things go wrong, you’ll want mine, too." In the success the notes were j forgotten by both and were handed ' back some six months later. From Sandals to Shoes. The first foot coverings were sand als. After these came shoes left open | at the toes, then the wooden shoes of the ninth and tenth centuries, fol- j lowed a little later by shoes with . long pointed and turned-up toes, which sometimes reached as high as the knee. Later a shoe was worn with an exceedingly wide toe, so very wide that it impeded the process of walking. Queen Mary restricted the wearing of this by proclamations. The proclamation ran to the effect that shoes should not be worn wider than six inches. _ / Domestic Bliss. “Of all my women friends." re marked the spinster, “I know of only one who is happily married.” “Is it possible!” exclaimed the mere man. “It is,” replied the spinster. “You see her husband is a naval officer, and is away from home two or three years at a time.” BETTER THAN UNITED STATES? Samland. It Is Asserted, Would Mak* a Good Name. A certain class of minds has been at work for more than 100 years trying to construct an original designation in a single word for the United States of America. It was seriously proposed at first to call the republic Columbia, but no one wanted that, and finally New Granada, in South America, came along and appropriated the title. Samuel Whelpley, author of the "Com pend of History,” conducted a cam paign in behalf of the word ”Fre donia,” which he considered more euphonius than Fredomia,” but suc ceeded only in getting the name at tached to a village in this state, whence it has been passed on to post offlees in a dozen other states of the union, says the New York Mail. Later the English kindly attempted to re christen the country “Usonia ’ and the people “Usonians,” by derivation from the magical initials "U. S." But com mon speech accepts none of these des ignations. ‘•America” and “Ameri cans” are good enough for the people, who see no impropriety whatever in giving a continental designation to the republic and its citizens. But the fact that no original designa tion has yet pleased the fancy of the people is no sure sign that none ever will. The International Mercantile Marine company has hit upon a name for one of its ships which has great popular picturesque possibilities. The steamer Mississippi of the Red Star line is to be rechristened Samland, in honor of Uncle Sam. And •'Samland" is good. Uncle Sam, the genial and shrewd abstraction of the republic, is dear to every heart. We can imagine "Samland" going from mouth to mouth until the applica tion of it is transferred to the nation. After that Americans of the United States may be calling themselves Sam landers and the business will be done. Cures Bright’s Disease. Let those afflicted with one form or another of Bright’s disease take heart! Here comes from some of the grand mothers of the middle wTest and southwest a "sure cure." It was com monly used three-quarters of a cen tury ago. Old Dr. Tip passes it along the line. It comes to him straight from a granddaughter of one of the grandmothers, a relation of Mrs. James G. Blaine: “Get some dried ap ples, the kind we used to have at home; not the evaporated kind. Pour boiling water over a kettleful of them and let them steep, covering the kettle tightly. When the water has absorbed the strength of the apples pour it off and drink it—lots of it—as much as you can hold; keep on steeping apples and keep on drinking the water. It will soon give you a new pair of kid neys. Then you can laugh at all other ailments, which will soon disappear when your kidneys resume opera tions."—N. Y. Press. Don’t Envy the Rich. The real virtue of riches is that they add to the picturesqueness of life. Millionaires and even semi-mil lionaires do a great deal toward bright ening the landscape, and we ought not only to suffer them to live, but to be grateful to them. Who would will ingly miss the gay pageant down Fifth avenue on a spring afternoon, and reduce the beautiful city with its glad decoration of well dressed peo ple to the gray level of the willing poor? No; the world is best consti tuted just as it is, with all the varie ties of the people, and all the varying scales of being and of dressing. Only let the man not yet doomed to being a millionaire realize that, like the pur ple cow, it is better to see than be one. And joy, after all, is really and truly not to be bought with money, nor to be found in any distant corner of the earth, but is, in very deed, as the sages have known in all ages, the kingdom of heaven within.—Harper's Magazine. Yellow Beauty Powder Now. The latest invention of a certain "beauty doctor" is yellow powder. The “doctor" learned his little secret from the fascinating maidens and squaws of a Canadian Indian settlement. The powder is not a really golden yellow; it merely has that rich, creamy brown tint that is seen in the skins of Indian girls and some of the duskier maids of our own race also. It is made by the simple process of burning a little of the chalk on a rock set in the sun and mixing the burnt chalk with the white until the creamy color is obtained. "The only trouble in marketing this new powder." remarked the "doctor." "is to find any woman sallow or black enough to acknowledge that she needs yellow powder. The most bilious look ing creature I ever knew would rather make a whited sepulchre of herself than acknowledge to her own soul that she is anything but milk and roses.” Limited Number of Attorneys. In some old records just discovered tn a Suffolk parish api>ears the follow ing entry of a statute passed in 1054, the second year of the reign of Queen Mary: “That there used to be six or eight attorneys only for Suffolk Nor* folk and Norwich together: that this number has increased to more than 80. most part of whom, having not suf ficient knowledge, ccme to fairs, etc., inciting the people to small trespasses that they may get employment, where fore there shall be hereafter six for Norfolk, six for Suffolk and two for the city of Norwich.” As to Stray Cats. A man of cats declares it is the worst of luck for a pet black cat to forsake your home. A woman of cats asserts it is the best of luck. In the middle ages Satan's favorite form was a black cat. Witches always have a cat as their familiar, stray black pussy in preference. If a white cat races across your yard a child is going to die. If a stray cat of any color takes up with you, making your home its home, you will have good luck. A Bit Fearful. "How shall we treat our critics 7* asked the theatrical manager. “Well, for gracious sakes! Don't give them flve-cent cigars!” replied the leading man.. Diagnosis. Knieker—My wife says she feela like an old rag. Bocker—Then the only cure is to buy her some new ones.