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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1896)
p V 15 K f ff W 1 Ml r J MKINLMTS LETTER rfJ FORMALLY ACCEPTS THE UTCM I IMk MUIVIIIIH I list Xa His Very LongLcttcr He Criticises the Democratic Doctrine and Its Supporters Gold Standard Protec tion and Reciprocity Supported Written by McKinlcy Vm McKinleys letter formally accept ing the Republican presidential nomina tion has been issueu Republicans con eider it a strong presentation of the prin cipal issues of the pendfng campaign It is devotQd principally to the discussion of what he considers the three great ques tions of the campaign protection mon ey and reciprocity About one third of the message is de voted to a consideration of the free silver question He announces that he is unal terably opposed to any such policy He -says that the Republican position in the pending campaign is no new departure but that its proposition to maintain gold and silver coin at a parity has been the unbroken policy of the Republican party since 1S7S He says it has inaugurated no new policy It -will he declares keep in circulation and as good as gold all of the silver and paper money which arc now included in the currency of the country It will maintain their parity It will -preserve their equality in the future as nas always aone in rue past it win aui consent to put the United States on a ilver basis which would inevitably fol low independent free coiuage It will oppose the expulsion of gold from our circulation He says that the farmers and laborers would suffer most by the adoption of free silver The silver question in his merit is not the only issue altecting our mopey in the pending contest He consid ers the decln ration of the Democratic and Peoples parties for unlimited irredeem able paper money as the most serious menace to our financial standing and credit that could be conceived He con demns as in the highest degree hensible all I efforts to array class against class the classes against the masses section against section labor against capital the poor against the rich or interest against interest J He considers protection as an issue of supreme importance and observes that while the peril of free silver is a menace to be feared we are already experiencing the effect of partial free trade The one he would avert the other correct He recommends the immediate restoration by Congress of the reciprocity sections of the tariff law of 1S90 with such amendments if any as time and experience sanction as wise and proper The underlying princi ple of this legislation he declares should Tie sfrictly observed This he explains as to afford new markets for our surplus agricultural and manufactured products without loss to the American laborer of a single days work that he might otherwise procure He discusses foreign immigration brief ly He commends legislation that will pre sent the coming here of all who make war upon our institutions or profit by public disquiet and turmoil He favors liberal pensions for the soldiers and sail ors and expresses gratification that old -sectional issues are passing away VILAS AND BRAGG RULE Wisconsin Gold Convention Chooses Presidential Electors The Wisconsin gold Democracy was marshaled in the Pabst Theater at Mil waukee Wednesday under the joint lead ership of Gen Bragg and Senator William F Yilas and the State organization of the -National Democratic Party came into being Senator Yilas was chosen permanent -chairman and delivered a carefully pre pared address Gen Bragg also made an address speaking without notes He was vitriolic and peppery and he was en thusiastically cheered A solid gold plat form was adopted A full electoral ticket was chosen an organization arranged for and all the business transacted necessary to insure a gold campaign in the State Not more than 200 delegates were present from outside the city The convention was called to order shortly before noon with 229 delegates in the theater John H Brennan of Ste vens Point was the temporary chairman No State ticket was nominated by the convention The question of following the lead of Illinois and going into the fight from national ticket down was the only thing that came near causing a brush in the proceedings as there were several present who wanted things arranged that way A resolution was finally adopted leaving the matter of a State ticket to the discretion of the State Central Commit tee which was given power either to name Candidates and have them duly placed on the official ballot or to call a State nom inating convention The platform is rath er long but it deals with just one subject and that is the financial issue There is no mention of any other issue being pres ent in the campaign LOX V STVEYEXS Democratic nominee for Governor of Missouri By the closing down of the Brilliant Tube and Pipe Company at Brilliant Ohio D H Browder Co of Atlanta Ga are heavy losers to the extent of 40000 and are involved in an embar rassing situation Browder Co charge the closing of the mill to the cotton tie trust The captain of the steeoser Costa Rica which has arrived at San Juan del Sur Nicaragua from El Rama reports that heavy floods have occurred at that place destroying -houses and plantation- k causing great loss of life SPRAGUE FOR GOVERNOR Michigan Gold Democrats Make a Fisht All Alonr the Line The gold standnrd Democratic State convention was held at Lansing Wednes day There were about 150 delegates present when the convention was called to order by Thomas A Wilson of Jack son the provisional chairman The reso lutions read in part We renounce the late Chicago convention as undemocratic in its representation arbitrary and dis honorable in its methods revolutionary in its platform and populistic in its nomi nations We refuse to support its candi dates or obey its mandates The present national administration is indorsed the maintenance of the exist ing goldstandard demanded and the free and unlimited coinage of silver opposed A full State ticket was nominated as follows Governor Rufus T Sprague Green ville Lieutenant Governor A B El dridge Marquette Secretary of State S L Boyce St Clair State Treasurer Wilder D Stevens Kent Auditor Gen eral Irving W Conkey Berrien Land Commissioner A M Tinker Jackson Attorney General Cyrus E Lathrop De troit Superintendent of Public Instruc tion William Heap Muskegon Member of State Board of Education John S Taggert Shiawassee The following were named as presiden tial electors At large John S Farr of Kent and Samuel T Douglas of Wayne First Dis trict R W Gillette Wayne Second Dis trict John Strong Monroe Third Dis trict H H Hamilton Eaton Fourth Dis trict John E Barnes Berrien Fifth Dis trict John W Champion Kent Sixth District Joseph T Titus Livingstone Seventh District W T Mitchell St Clair Eighth District John Moore Sag inaw Ninth District Alex D Mann Muskegon Tenth District C J Pale thorp Wayne Eleventh District Edward W Hudnut Mecosta Twelfth District A L Sawyer Menominee MICHIGAN SJIVER MEN Name Charles K Slisrh as the Head of Their State Ticket The Michigan silver men in convention at Bay City late Wednesday night agreed upon a State ticket It was announced in the Democratic convention shortly after 11 oclock that Justin R Whiting -had withdrawn fromthe field in favor of Charles R Sligh of Grand Rapids for Governor who was thereupon nominated by acclamation Mr Whiting was then nominated by acclamation for Lieuten ant Governor For Treasurer Otto E Karste of Ironwood a Democrat was named for Auditor General Arthur E Cole of Livingstone County a Populist for Attorney General Alfred J Murphy of Detroit a Democrat for Land Com missioner Martin G Loenecker of Jack son a Populist Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction David E Haskins of Mills dale a Democrat When the Democrats met Wednesday morning the Conference Committee re ported that after a lengthy discussion of the claims of all parties to the agreement it had decided to recommend a union ticket and first that the ticket be headed by the word Democratic Not a voice was raised in opposition to the report The Conference Committee was instructed to report the action of the convention to the other parlies and the gathering then took a recess When the afternoon session opened the that the Peo ples party and Union Silver conventions were at the door An order to admit them was given and as they entered the spa cious auditorium the new arrivals were given an enthusiastic greeting T E Tarsney Dr Nichols and Mr Wilson of Jackson were appointed a committee on permanent organization and order of busi ness Nominating and seconding speeches were limited to five minutes Mr Wat kins of Ionia nominated Mr Sligh who was seconded by a half dozen speakers When the Sixth District was reached T R Shields of Livingstone nominated Solo mon R Bignall of Fowlerville OBrien J Atkinson of Port Huron nominated Mr Whiting Then followed a score of supports for both Mr Whiting and Mr Sligh Mr Bignalls name being with drawn in favor of Mr Whiting IOWA GOLD DEMOCRATS Select Their Electoral Ticket and Cheer Clevelands Name With cheers for President Cleveland gold and true democracy as they see it the Iowa gold Democratic State conven tion was called to order at the Des Moines Grand Onera House Wednesday morning by HenryVollmer State chairman More than 700 delegates were present ninety- three counties being represented Each wore a badge of gold silk and each mount ed his chair and cheered with a will Temporary Chairman Markleys speech in which he arraigned Gen Weaver Till man Gov Altgeld and the silver Democ racy generally He applauded the admin istration of Grover Cleveland and de clared that democracy as an organization had fallen into the hands of the enemy The electors at large W W Witmer of Des Moines and J E E Markley of Mason City and all of the district elect ors were nominated with the understand ing that they would enter upon a vigorous canvass which should last until election day The platform was written by Henry Yollmer of Davenport and W W Bald win of Burlington It recognizes the value of party organization but denies the right of the majority of a convention to adopt a platform at variance with the cardinal principles of the party It de nounces various undemocratic planks in the Chicago platform and adheres to the time honored principles of the Democratic party The convention gave no attention to State issues and the fight this fall will be along national lines Opposed at Any Ratio The gold Democrats of Rhode Island Wednesday repudiated the Chicago con vention and passed this resolution We insist upon the maintenance of the present gold standard of money and op pose the free and independent coinage of silver at any ratio Political Points A W Files is the Populist nominee for Governor of Arkansas Utah Populists and Democrats will have but one electoral ticket Oklahoma Populists indorsed the nomi nation of Bryan and Watson Bourke Cockran New Yorks great Democrat orator has declined to support Bryan The new Populist National Committee is now in charge of the affairs of 9 party SHELLED A PALACE BRITISH GUNBOATS BOMBARD ZANZIBAR Oaurplncr Snltan Said Kahlid and His Followers Driven Out by Storm of Missiles and Fire His Gnnboat Snnk Fugitives Hemmed In Ultimatum Backed by Force The palace of the Sultan of Zanzibar was bombarded by the British Thursday morning and at noon was a mass of blaz ing ruins The usurping chieftain Said Kahlid and the commander of his forces Said Sales succeeded in escaping to the German consulate where they have sought refuge and remain under the pro tection of the German flag Said Khalid seized the palace and pro Claimed himself sultan on the death of Sultan Hamed Bin Thsaid Bin Said and had been strongly re enforced and posi tively refused to surrender Said Khalid had with him at that time about 2500 well armed and well disciplined men including 900 Askaris who have been trained under British officers plenty of ammunition and a number of field cuns and other nieces of artillery which were trained on the British warships The latter were The flagship St George the third class cruiser Philomen the third class cruiser Rac coon and the first class gunboats Sparrow and Thrush Wednesday cabled instructions from London announced an ultimatum to Said Khalid He was ordered to haul down his flag and surrender with his force no later than 9 oclock Thursday morning It is understood that Said Khalid re ceived re enforcements from the slave dealers who flocked to his support as the formal hoisting of the British flag over Zanzibar would mean the liberation of about 250000 slaves and a deathblow to slavery in that part of East Africa Shortly before 9 oclock a naval officer was sent to the palace with another mes sage for Said Khalid asking him if he was prepared to surrender Said replied that he would die sooner than surrender Warships Begin to Fire At 9 oclock the Thrush and Sparrow and two gunboatsopened fire with their heaviest guns and ten minutes later they had sent a storm of shell and shot into the palace tearing big gaps in it scatter ing death and confusion among its de fenders while dismounting some of the guns ashore and putting to flight the gun ners handling the pieces The fire of the warships was admirably directed and smoke was soon seen to be issuing from several parts of the palace Saids followers answered the fire of the warships with great persistency and gal lantly and did not stop firing until in re sponse to the flagships signal of Cease firing the guns of the warships stopped showering shot and shell ashore The losses of the enemy are not known but must have been heavy especially among the defenders of the palace proper During the bombardment the Sultans armed steamer Glasgow opened fire on the British warships but a few well aimed shells from the heavy guns of the Raccoon and a shot or two from the four inch guns of the Sparrow crashed through and through her silenced her fire in short order and ultimately sank her at her moorings Soon after the palace caught fire and the walls and roof were sent fly ing here and there by the shells of the warships Said Khalid and Said Sales the latter being the commander of the usurping Sultans army escaped with a number of their leading followers through the back part of the palace and hurriedly made their way to the German consulate where they asked for protection which was accorded them Admiral Rawson in order to prevent the escape of Said Khalid and his follow ers to the mainland of Africa where their presence would undoubtedly have caused trouble with the slave leaders and their adherents sent detachments of marines bluejackets and local Zanzibaris to occupy iill the roads and avenues of escape thus hemming in the enemy pretty effectually although many escaped to the mainland and islands in dows A dispatch received at London from Admiral Rawson dated Zanzibar 245 p m Thursday says I issued an ulti matum at 7 oclock this morning calling upon the usurper to haul down his flag and surrender to me and directing his followers to pile their arms and leave the palace before 9 oclock or otherwise it would be bombarded Instead of comply ing he commenced increasing his fortifi cations and his corvette trained her guns on my squadron I opened fire atD on the palace and on the corvette which prompt ly replied I ceased firing at 940 when the corvette was sunk all the guns were silenced and the usurpers yielded to the German consul Hamoud has been ap pointed sultan The enemys loss was heavy Only a petty officer of the gun boat Thrush was wounded Before the bombardment all foreign residents had sought safety either on the British boats or at their respective lega tions CONGRESS IS SLOW TO ACT No Arrangements for Representation at Paris Exposition The French Government is rapidly per fecting the details for the international exposition to be held in Paris in 1900 commemorating the birth of the century and in this connection has asked the State Department for the name of the Commissioner General who will repre sent the United States and for such other information available as to the participa tion of this country To this Acting Sec retary Rockhill has replied that the Com missioner General has not been named as the American Congress took no steps at its recent session to provide for Ameri can representation at the exposition He expressed the belief however that the approaching session of Congress will bring about an acceptance of the invita tion of the French republic For ten days an old fashioned camp meeting has been going on near Pawnee O T with hundreds of Indians in at tendance The religious fervor has run high and the Indians shout and dance all night becoming so exhausted that they have to be hauled from the camp grounds The squaws in many instances faint away and do not regain consciousness for hours Elijah Jones residing south of Brazil Ind committed suicide by putting the muzzle of the rifle to his head and dis charging it with his toe Family trouble caused him to commit the QL YANKEE The National Lyric Was Composed in 1755 The origin of Yankee Doodle is by no means so clear as American anti quaries desire The statement that the air was composed by Dr Thackburg in 1755 when the colonial troops united with the British regulars near Albany preparatory to the attack on the French forts of Niagara and Frontenac and that it was produced in derision of the old fashioned equipments of the pro vincial soldiers as contrasted with the peat and orderly appointments of the regularswas published some years ago n a musical magazine printed in Bos ion The account there given as to tho origin of the song is this During the attacks upon the Frencu jutposts in 1775 in America says an exchange Gov Shirley and Gen John son led the force directed against the enemy lying at Niagara and Frontenac In the early part of June while these troops were stationed on the banks of the Hudson near Albany the descend ants of the Pilgrim Fathers flocked In from the Eastern provinces Never was seen such a motley regiment as took up its position on the left wing of the British army The band played music as antiquated and outre as their uniforms officers and privates had pdopted regimentals each man after his own fashion one wore a flowing wig while his neighbor rejoiced in hair cropped close to the head this one had a coat with wonderful long skirts his fellow marched without his upper gar ments various as the colors of the rain bow were the clothes worn by the gal lant band It so happened that there was a certain Dr Thackburg musician and surgeon and one evening after mes3 he produced a tune which he ear nestly commended as a well known piece of military music to the officers of the militia Tlie joke succeeded and Yankee Doodle was hailed by accla mation their own march This ac count is somewhere apocryphal as there Is no song the tune In the United States is a march There are no words to it of a national character The only words ever affixed to the- air in this country is the following doggerel Yankee Doodle came to town Upon a little pony He stuck a feather in his hat And called it Macaroni It has been asserted by English writ ers that the air and words of these lines are as old as Cromwells time The only alteration is in making Yankee Doodle of what was Nankee Doodle Prom High Authority The London Lancet probably tue foremost medical journal printed in the English language is authority for the following A few years ago when diphtheria was raging in England a gentleman accompanied the celebrated Dr Field on his rounds to witness the so called wonderful cures which he performed while the patients of others were dropping on all sides All he took with him was powder of sulphur and a quill and with these be cured every patient without exception that is he put a teaspoonful of flower of brim stone into a wine glass of water and stirred it with his finger instead of a spoon as sulphur does not readily amalgamate with water and on the sulphur becoming well mixed he gave it as a gargle and in ten minutes the patient was out of danger as brim stone kills every species of fungus in mart beast and plant in a few min utes Instead of spitting out the gar gle he recommended the swallowing of it and in extreme cases in which he had been called just in the nick of time when the fungus was too nearly closing to allow the gargling he blew the sulphur through a quill into the throat and after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it then the gar gling He never lost a patient from diphtheria Or if the patient cannot gargle take a live coal put it on a shovel and sprinkle a spoonful or two of the brimstone at a time upon it let the sufferer inhale it holding the head over it and the fungus will die Meaning of Dictionaries It seems that the courts decline to Abide by the high handed way in which the dictionaries settle the spelling and meaning of a word If a court is good for anything it certainly is in sitting In judgment on questions and deter mining what is what even in words One recent decision establishes that when a man is hanged by a mob it is an accident To this a critic takes ex ceptions yet if he had ever served on a jury that was trying to find out any thing about a mob he must have been convinced that it was an accident of the most accidental nature A child whose parents are living has been de clared to be an orphan and a man whose life insurance was taken out before he was married was judicially declared to have effected it as a hus band The most surprising and de lightful of these lawTful definitions of words is the fact that our highest court has declared that an unmarried woman is a single man This is without any reference to whether she wears bloomers or not Now that a single woman is declared a man in the eyes of the law the bachelor girl has nothing else to sigh for New Or leans Picayune Charles and Mary Lamb A picture of Charles and Mary Lamb Aas been placed in the National Por trait Gallery of London with the fol lowing stupid inscription The emi nent wit and essayist with his sister who suffered from periodical fits of in sanity during one of which she killed her mother Lamb devoted most of his life to the care of his sister When It Is said that a woman shows evidence of having seen better days It means that she knows cut glass when ae se 1 and can play the piano The tone of a piano is best Then the instrument is not near a wall The British mint coins half a ton of pennies half pennies and farthings weekly Not until the present time has a Lon don theater been named after Shaks peare The Parisians nickname the pawn broker aunt the Londoners call him uncle The new British army magazine rifle will throw a bullet to a distance of over 4000 yards In Scotland in the case of domestic servants engaged by the month a months warning is required The telegraph lines of the world ag gregate 1069123 miles America has more than half 548832 miles Burmahs whole system of state rail roads 1000 miles In length has been bought up by a syndicate for 30000 000 It is claimed that the claims against the Chartered Company arising out of the Matabele revolt amount to 1000 000 A dealer says there is more steel used in the manufacture of pens than in all the sword and gun factories In the world Cold boiled water tastes flat because it has been deprived of the air To re store air pour water quickly from one jug to another Some Japanese1 magicians are so clev er that while smoking they are able to form letters and short words with the emoke that Issues from their lips There are about 100 grains of iron in the average human body and yet so Important is this exceedingly small quantity that its diminution is attended with very serious- results The Dowager Empress of Russias magnificent Danish bloodhounds crea ted considerable interest during her visit to Nice They had round their thick bull necks broad silver curb chains Some wear mustaches and beards turned up but all wear whis kers which are- shaved off once when an adult of their connection dies The shaving off of whiskers is thus a sign of mourning The Eskimo have a queer custom in regard to doctors At each visit the doctor is paid If the patient recovers the physician keeps the money if the patient dies the money is refunded to the family of the deceased Though Italy leads the rest of Europe in suicide as well as homicide Russia is ahead of her In the proportion of prof fessional men especially doctors who take their own lives Most of these are between 25 and 35 years After Jan 3 1897 the city of Glas gow Scotland will levy no taxes of any kind but will obtain from city street railways water and1 lighting systems more than- enough revenue to pay the expenses of the city government Plans are well under way for the ex pending of 9jG0000 an the canals of New York State for which the people voted at the East election by a majority of 243505 and it Is expected that the work will be done- in the next two or three yeara Japanese houses in the larger cities are of one general shape two stories high and put together with a curious method of mortislngv at which these people are adepts not one nail being used throughout the construction of the building Inside a bust of Victor Hugo which is hollow the leader of the anarchists of Prague imported a large quantity of anarchist writings for circulation In the country The bust has been seized by the authorities and the anarchist has been arrested The total wealth of Great Britain with all her possessions is estimated by an American authority to be 40000 000000 France comes next with 37 500000000 The wealth of the six largest nations in the world aggregates 105000000000 The statistics of life Insurance show that in the last twenty five years the average womans life has Increased from nearly 42 to nearly 46 or more than 8 per cent while mans life aver age has increased from nearly 42 to 44 which is 5 per cent The number of businesses in England worked upon co operative principles that Is where the worker is recognized as a partner in profits and responsibili tieshas grown in about ten years from fifteen to nearly 200 while the failures during the same period have been very few One of the most eccentric church spires is that of the parish church All Saints of Chesterfield England wih its curious spire 228 feet high and sixty four feet off the perpendicular Whichever way the observer looks at this curious spire it appears to bulge out in that direction John Habberton states that mosqui toes are extremely frightened by drag on flies and will not come within yards of them He says that one or two dried dragon flies snspneded from fine silk thread under the roof of an open porch infested by mosquitoes will scare all of the little pests away The street superintendent of Niagara Falls N Y has been suspended by the mayor because he would not clean the streets of the city on Sunday as order ed by the common council The affeir has created much excitement and h Sunday and anti Sunday people are preparing for a vigorous fight Thelarge rate of the incrpse in the incorporations of social clbs with the Secretary Qf State of New York since j the advent 01 tuo Kaiaes Jaw is s23nj iiuvij tuuiuicui tiiuvug JSCSEC Officials The number of such club3 Intxy0Tatej from May 1 to July 13 was 834 as con pared with 134 during the same period last year Upward of 190000000 Is spent an nually on sport in Great Britain Tkls Is the estimate of a writer who has been examining the subject The turf is of course the most expensive sport and accounts according to this author ity for nearly 55000000 A modest sum of 10000000 will it appears cov er the cost of cricket Prof W F Cummins State geologist of Texas in speaking of the recent find of gold In that State declared that samples have been taken that gave as much as 2521 in gold and 5 In silver to the ton Another lot of samples the pieces averaging three or four cubic fnehes assays 1650 in gold A third lotr about one peck in amount consist ing freely of good sized lumps assayed 1600 per ton Genuine egret feathers are sold a aTtlffcial in London Sn order to salve the- conscience of women who think it wrong to- wear bird feathers In their headgear The Society for the Protec tion of Birds has shown that the egret or white- heron would soon be exter minated1 as the feathers must be ob tainedl during the nesting season Its agents- now proved that the only artificial thing about the feathers sold is that they are split in two thus mak ing two plumes Instead of one There Is a boom in new companies m Englandl During June the average was four companies floated every day the capital called for during the first half of 1896 was406000l000 Sixty five million dollars were for foreign govern ment loans for cycling com panies 45000000 for breweries 60 000000 for railroads and 47000000 for mining companies Last year the capital applied for during the same period was 260000000 in 1894 it was 155000000 and in 1893 only 130000 000 LU NAT1CS AS INVENTO R S Various Devices that Are Practical and Promise to Be Valuable A lunatic asylum Is about the last place anyone would search in for inge nious and valuable Inventions Isnt it said the resident physician of one of the largest of those institutions We have a patient in this asylum now who believes he is shut up in the old Fleet prison for the national debt In the hope of raising the money to pay this trifle off and obtain his release he has for the last two years devoted his poor brains to inventing things Strange to say among a host of utterly absurd ideas he actually has produced two which are really practicable His friends and I have supplied liirruKitU such harmless materials as he requires and he has just finished a simple auto matic contrivance for the head of a lawn tennis racquet to pick upthe balls and abolish stooping It acts perfectly well and Im so convinced theres mon ey in It that Ive advised his friends to secure a patent for him in case he be comes cured His- other invention is of a different kind being a really effi cacious preventive of seasickness Its very simple two of its compon ents are in every kitchen and the rest in every chemists shop I have suc cessfully testedi it myself onitwo occa sions recently when crossing the chan nel in very stormy weatiicr As an instance oft the- cleverness or lunatics it may interest you fo know that a very valuable improvement con nected with machinery and now in daily use everywhere was- invented by an inmate- of an asyluin well known to everyone by name As he is now quite cured and Is-a-somewhat promin ent man I wont mention any details but his- invention designed and mod eled as a- diversion while absolutely In sane has- since brought him in thou sands of pounds London Letter to the St Louis Republic Quaker- Cats Eafc Oysters Philadelphia cats are peculiar As a class they show great versatility and a good deal of gastronomic enthusiasm There axe cats in Philadelphia which realize that the only way for an epicure- to really enjoy an oyster is to eat it raw and off the half shell They haunt a certain fish- market and seem to pass their lives in an endeavor to pro vide themselves with well opened bi valves They are not more enthusiastic- in their devotion to oysters than an other Philadelphia ear a pretty Maltese that has learned just at what hour oys ters are delivered weekly at its masters house As the oyster eating Maltese stands in the good graces of the oysterman and the cook It is enabled once a week to indulge its fancy for bivalves It will eat a dozen raw oysters with an enthu siasm worthy of the very best oysters in me market r Picturesque Business Office The office oone of the stove factories in Chicago is in what was form erly a workingmans cottage- and the traditions of the place are still pre served by the present occupants who have a neat flower bed in the littlp front yard and keep nming glories trained ap over the f rotjtj window Skinner- Was Smooth Hax I always shake hands with Skinaer to kefcp hixa from picking my pockets Jax So do I and I always counc my nngers afterward Philadelphia xtecerd Loner Ago She I wonder where the custom of mothers taking their daughters to wa tering places originated He In the days of Abraham Re bekah got her husband at one Trufc No one siiould play another mana game but vre all dq tx
