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Hdw Russia Favors tho Women
Although the Russians are not noted
for their gallantry toward women
they have scored one on other people
St Petersburg has recently been pro
vided with new taxameter cabs They
work on a dual system one for ladles
and the other for gentlemen the au
thorities having been thoughtful
enough to introduce a new tariff ac
cording to which ladies are only re
quired to pay half the fare demanded
of mere men
Very Much In tho Family
The fifth of an extraordinary series
of weddings has just been celebrated
in Paradise Valley near Oroville Cal
The first was that of John Weer a
Cornish widower with four good look
ing daughters Some years ago he
wedded Mrs Malarin a French widow
with four sons The boys and girls
have now been all mated and the five
couples live under the same roof
Sho Used to Run a Theatre
r Miss Helen Bennett of Deadwood
S D has just been elected a county
superintendent of public schools She
is a Wellesley graduate and has some
years been manager of the theater in
Deadwood
Why tho King Dropped Albert
Many theories have been put for
ward with regard to King Edwards
choice of name that is the dropping
of the appellation Albert It Is how
ever no secret that the king never
lied the name of Albert and it was
only in deference to his mothers wish
that he signed himself Albert Ed
ward -More than once he asked to
be allowed to sign himself Edward
but the queen was obdurate The king
A fcnew that the name of Albert would
t not be congenial to the British nation
and as soon as Queen Victoria had
passed away he communicated to Lord
Salisbury his wish to be known as
Edward VII
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Only One PotwoIIoper
The parliamentary register for 1896
showed that there was then only one
potwalloper in all England One see
ing the term for the first time might
easily imagine that a potwalloper was
a species of ichthyosaurus or some
other reptile of a past age It will
be discovered upon inquiry however
that the term potwalloper is liter
ally one who boils a pot and was
applied to voters in certain boroughs
of England where before the passage
of the reform bill of 1832 the qualifica
tion for suffrance was to have boiled
walloped his own pot in the parish
for six months
A Plutocratic Cat
A Philadelphia woman well known
for her fine collection of highly breil
cats recently paid 36 for the care of
Balthazer a Persian cat on shipboard
in addition to his passage money Bal
thazer was obliged to have a special
attendant to take him on deck for an
hours walk three times a day and he
also had to have a fresh blanket ev
ery day There is a great deal of
money in cats of high degree and all
that are sold have authenticated pedi
grees
A Detectives Description of Golf
When the detective who arrested
Adams the acquitted Yonkers N Y
Sunday golfer was asked to describe
how the game is played he said
Why theres a little ball like an egg
and one of them hits it with a stick
and it goes off in the grass and the
rest go and look for it That is all
there is to it
Most anybody can laugh in the face
-of Death when his call Is not per
r sonal
Those who can command them
selves command others Hazlitt
x PIsos Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as
a cough cure J W OBriek 322 Third Ave
Nf Minneapolis Minn Jan G 1900
Some Drink Others Do Not
Fourteen prelates of the Church of
England are total abstainers The
archbishop of Canterbury is one of
them the new bishop of London is
another A majority of the bishops
still take their wine temperately of
course
Ask your grocer lor DEFLANCE
STARCH the only 16 oz package for
10 cents All other 10 cent starcn con
tains only 12 oz Satisfaction guaran
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Bier Decennial Jag
A London woman arraigned in court
for being drunk pleaded that she was
entitled to her spree as it was pre
cisely ten years since she had com
mitted a like offense The magistrate
coincided with her view and discharg
ed her
Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH the only 16 oz package for
10 cents All other 10 cent starch con
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One kind word spoken is worth two
left unsaid
Northern Wisconsin
Railway Farm Lands For Sale
The Chicago St Paul Minneapolis
Omaha Railway has choice farm
lands for sale in Northern Wisconsin
at low prices and easy terms of pay
ment
-Early buyers will secure the advan
tage of locations on the many beauti
ful streams and lakes which abound
with fish and furnish a never ending
and most excellent water supply both
for family use and for stock
Xand is generally well timbered the
soil fertile and easy of cultivation and
this is rapidly developing into one of
the greatest sheep and cattle raising
regions in the northwest
Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Minn
eapolis Duluth Superior Ashland and
other towns on The North Western
Line furnish good markets for stock
and farm produce
For further particulars address Geo
W Bell Land Commissioner Hudson
Wis or G H MacRae Asst Gen Pass
Agt St Paul Minn
All nature is at war If we dont
slay and eat we will son be slain
i and devoured
TKe Best of It
A Jivenile Sketch
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Independence Bey
The Crosspatch Man was sick again
and this time it must be pretty bad
for all the morning Meredith had been
watching the servants spread straw
before the house and muffle the big
shiny doorbell
Poor man mamma said pitingly
He is sick so often
But hes a Crosspatch Man mut
tered Meredith stiffly Then he re
pented and looked as shamefaced as a
very little boy with a very round dim
pled face could look Im so sorry
hes ve ry sick he said slowly I
spose it hurts even Crosspatch Men
Mamma did not notice She was
having her little noon gossip with
papa and they were still talking about
their invalid neighbor
It isnt quite so bad as it seems
you know papa was saying He al
ways has the straw laid down and
things muffled when he has one of
his worse nervous attacks It doesnt
mean all that it does in most cases
He is terribly afflicted by noise at al
most any time
Noise I should think so That
was from Meredith who pricked up
his ears at the word Didnt he know
how the Crosspatch Man felt bout a
noise Didnt he belong to the Rudd
Street Second Wasnt he captain
And oh my the times hed seen the
Crosspatch Man a scowling and a-
fuming when they marched past his
window
But Fourth of July will be a terri
ble day to him poor man went on
mammas gentle voice That made
Meredith start a little He had been
thinking about Fourth o July too
Did he think of much of anything
else nowadays He had been going
over in his mind all the glorious pro
gram of the day For the Rudd Street
Second was going to celebrate in a
worthy manner They were going to
even outdo themselves this year and
hadnt they had the proud honor of
being the noisest street in the city for
two Fourth o Julys a running Let
em just wait till they heard this
Fourth o July
It was three days off That would
give the Crosspatch Man time to have
the straw taken up and the bell un
muffled for his worst times never
lasted more than two or three days
Then hell have to cotton up his
ears mused Meredith philosophic
ally watching the big foreign servant
that wore a turban go back and forth
past the Crosspatch Mans window
The houBe Meredith lived in and the
Crosspatch Mans house were quite
close together so it was easy to watch
things
Unfortunately for an invalid with
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MEREDITH STOOD IN SHEER
AMAZEMENT
the terrible affliction called nerves
Rudd Street was a regular nest of
boysThey were boys everywhere on
it You ran against boys when you
went east and boys ran against you
when you went west Boys sprang up
in the most unexpected places The
houses seemed to be running over
with boys And really there was at
least one boy and on an average two
or three in every house on Merediths
side except in the Crosspatch Mans
house Oh dear me no there werent
any boys there v
On the other side of the street you
had to skip the middlest house and
alias Quilhot and Miss Eromatheas
oh yes and the ministers house of
which Miss Quilhot and Miss Eroma
thea were old maids and the minister
oh no he wasnt an old maid but
you couldnt expect him to have boys
in the house for how could he ever
write his sermons
So it was as I said an unfortunate
street to havs nerves on And the
Crosspatch Man had so many
The three days between soon went
away and it was the night the very
night before it There were only a
few hours more for of course you
didnt have to wait till the sun rose on
Fourth of July
Meredith had drilled the Rudd
Street Second for the last time and
dispersed his men He was on his
way home to supper Going by the
3to 5w
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HE MADE A LITTLE SPEECH
Crosspatch Mans house he heard
voices distinctly issuing from an open
window He couldnt help hearing it
was so quiet in the street Perhaps it
was the lull before the storm
The sahib cannot bear t a gentle
soothing voice was saying but Mere
dith recognized the indignation mixed
with the pity in it The sahib will
be again sick
Then came Merediths astonishment
for the Crosspatch Mans voice was
answering and it was quite calm and
gentle and it said
Of course I shall be sick again
HariIve made all my plans to perish
But what can you expect The little
chaps must have their Fourth o July
I was a little chap myself once Shut
the windowHari Theres a suspicion
of a draught
Meredith stood still in sheer amaze
ment and watched the turban man
close the window He was a little
chap himself once the Crosspatch
Man was And how kind his voice
had sounded too It made him sorry
for the crasspatch Man sorrier than
he had ever been before
Hes a dreadin it like sixty Hes
spectin jto perish Meredith said
aloud Its goin to make him sick
of course thats what he said to the
turban man An he was a little chap
once an his voice was kind an tired
out
Then Meredith went home and
perched himself up on the banister
post in the hall to think That was
where he always thought things big
things you know This was oh my
such a big thing
Im capn mused Meredith knit
ting his little fair brows I can say
Go an thou ghost like the man in
the Bible but theyll be dreadful
dispointed the Rudd Street Seconds
will be Still well he sick an he
had a kin4 spot in his voice an he
used to be a little chap too so of
course he used to bang things an
make noises I dont think he sound
ed much like a Crosspatch Man
In a little while after a little more
tough thinking Meredith slipped
down and out of the door up the
street He got together the Rudd
Street Seconds and made a little
speech as a captain may to his men
The next day the city and all Amer
ica celebrated Fourth o July and
Rudd Street was famous again but
this time for being the very quietest
street in all the city There were just
as many boys in it too as ever
The Crosspatch Mans white nor
vous face smoothed and calmed as the
day wore on and at last it actually
smiled in a gentle way as if he was
thinking about something pleasant
And the captain of the Rudd Street
Seconds and his brave men drilling
and popping and banging in a distant
street were happy too Annie Ham
ilton Donnell
The Hon Joel R Poinsett a native
of South Carolina and one of her
most gifted sons during the latter part
of the administration of John Quincy
Adams it will be remembered repre
sented the United States at the capital
of Mexico which was then much dis
tracted by Internal dissensions While
Mr Poinsett resided there the city
was captured by one of the contending
factions and he and his family in
curred no small degree of personal
danger from the violence of the sol
diers by whom they were suspected
of affording concealment to certain ob
noxious individuals In the height of
the nullification controversy after his
return in an address delivered to the
people of Charleston the following elo
quent passage occurs
Wherever I have been I have been
proud of being a citizen of this great
republic and in the remotest corners
of the earth have walked erect and
secure under that banner which our
opponents would tear down and tram
ple under foot I was in Mexico when
that city was taken by assault The
house of the American ambassador was
then as it ought to be the refuge of
the distressed and persecuted it was
pointed out to the infuriated soldiers
as a place filled with their enemies
They rushed to the attack My only
defense was the flag of my country
and it was flung out at the instant that
hundreds of muskets were leveled at
us Mr Mason and myself placed
ourselves beneath its waving folds
We did not blench for we felt strong
in the protecting arm of this mighty
republic We told them that the flag
that waved over us was the banner of
that nation to whose example they
owed their liberty and to whose pro
tection they were indebted for their
safety The scene changed as by en
chantment and the men who were on
the point of attacking my house and
menacing the inhabitants cheered the
flag of this country and placed senti
nels to protect it from outrage Fellow-citizens
in such a moment as that
would it have been any protection to
me and mine to have proclaimed my
self a Carolinian Should I have been
here to tell you this tale if I had hung
out the Palmetto and the single star
Be assured that to be respected abroad
we must maintain our place in the
Union
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Over thirty five thousand persons In
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The greatest of sacrifices Is to sac
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A wise man amongst fools feels
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He who is forever grumbling about
this world is apt to find a worse one
hereafter Chicago Journal
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Extended tour leisurely itinerary
with long stops in the Park Private
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