A Suggestion.
Much depends on the title of a book.
It should be one that can be easily
spoken and adapted to attract atten
tion. How many authors meet these
conditions ? To give a book the mime
' of a man or woman is easy , but it is
only a sneaking way of escaping the
responsibility of finding a real title.
Two On a Tower , Many Inventions ,
Kidnapped , are all admirable titles ,
since they fulfil the conditions just
named , and are , moreover , found after
the books to which they belong are
read , to be eminently appropriate. Still
they are not ideal titles , for they lack
the merit of marked originality that
of the manufacture and sale of titles.
"Why should not some man make a
study of the subject and prepare titles
which can be sold at a modest price to
authors who have written new books ?
It would be a relief to the author of a
new historical novel if he cpuld send
to the title bureau and ask for a list
of suitable titles.
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The Certainty of Fato.
The Mohammedans have a fable
which they repeat to illustrate the
certainty of fate. The Philadelphia
Times quotes it as having been told by
Robert Barr , the celebrated novelist.
A sultan was once asked by his fa
vorite , the grand vizier , for permission
to leave at once for Sinrrna , although
a brilliant court fete was then in prog
ress. Upon being asked his reason for
such haste , the vizier replied :
"Because I just saw the angel of
death yonder In the crowd. He looked
at me so earnestly that I know he has
come for me. I wish to escape him. "
"Go ! Go at once ! " said the sultan ,
who then beckoned t6 the angel and
asked why the latter had looked so
earnestlj' at the vizier.
"I was wondering. " replied the angel
of death , "why he was here , for I have
orders to kill him in Smyrna. "
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Nature Study that Failed.
A certain clever teacher in a public
school once congratulated herself on
having given her geography class a
vivid Idea of Islands by cutting out
pieces of brown paper and pinning
them on the wall. "That's all very
well , " said the master of the school ,
speaking from a longer experience of
the youthful mind , "but those children
will go out Into life with a fixed Idea
that an Island Is a piece of brown pa
per pinned on the wall. " The New
York Evening Post says that two lit
tle "fresh air" girls were noticed , on
the morning after their arrival , gaz
ing at the landscape with evident dis
approval.
"What's the matter , children ? " asked
their hostess. "Why are you disap
pointed with the country ? "
"Why , there's no grass here , " said
one , pulling a blade and biting the end
of it.
The lady could only stare. "What is
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Little by little the truth came out. To
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about the height of a man.
"If this were taller , would it be like
grass ? " asked the lady.
"Oh , no ! "
"How is it different ? "
"Why , grass is black , " said one child.
"Black and white , " added the other.
Then the explanation became appar
ent. They had drawn their ideas of
vegetation from the black and white
prints of newspapers and books.
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Strict Discipline.
A lawyer and politician of a Western
city is regarded by his friends as the
most indulgent of fathers. The New
York Times tells this story in proof
of his consideration for his children
and for their belongings. He has a
large family of children , and each
child has a number of pets.
On a recent evening a very dignified
gentleman and his wife were making
a formal call upon the lawyer , when
one of the sons of the house burst riot
ously into the room , accompanied by
his pet goat. The agitation of the vis
itors was plainly evident.
"John , " said the father , reprovingly ,
"how many times have I asked you not
to bring that goat into the drawing-
room ? I must insist that you keep
him in the library. "
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Encouraging Him.
"There is only one reason why I have
never asked you to be my wife. "
"What is that ? "
"I have always been half afraid you
might refuse. "
"Well ( in a vrhisper , after a long * i-
lence ) , I should think you'd have curi
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Tit-Biti.
OF THE DAY
Protection and Trusts.
The downfall of protection will not
be long delayed , a big blow having
been struck by those who were its
warmest friends. The protection
theory is built on selfishness and when
its votaries cease to receive what they
consider their full measure of protec
tion they are not only willing to see
the whole fabric crumble , but to ex
pose its fallacies and freebooting. The
sugar planters are the latest to com
plain , they are bluming Cuban reci
procity and the monopoly of the sugar
market that the tariff gives the sugar
trust. It has hardly to be expected ,
though , that the American Ecouio-
mist , the organ of the Protective Tar
iff League , would publish these evi
dent truths about the tariff on sugar
and the extortion of the sugar trust ,
but in the last issue of the Economist
there is an article by Mr. Martin
Glynn , President and Manager of the
Modern Sugar Factories , Glynn. Louis
iana , Avhich tells the sad story , . He
says :
"While the sugar industry has ap
parent protection in the Dingley bill ,
it is only apparent. The annexation
of Hawaii and Porto Rico , together
with reciprocity with Cuba , enable the
trust to so manipulate the sugar mar
ket in their own 'interest that they
keep down the price of raw sugar and
put up the price of refined as high as
they want. They will not allow us to
make a fine sugar that will go straight
into consumption , as they will not il-
low the grocers to handle it.
"When the sugar industry of this
country is killed , which is being done
pretty fast , there will no longer be
any inducement to have a tariff on
sugar any more than there is on coffee.
Then the people will not allow them
selves to be taxed for the benefit of
Hawaii , Porto Rico or Cuba , or for
the sugar trust. The people will de
mand free sugar absolutely free , r < > -
.thiert as well as raw. Then we will
get rid of the sugar trust , the first and
the worst trust we ever had in this
country. "
The sugar trust magnates are om
nipotent ; they decree to the sugar
growers what kind of sugar they shall
manufacture from their cane and dic
tate to the grocers that they must
only sell trust sugar. Lots of people
would prefer for many uses the "raAv"
brown sugar , as it comes from the
mills of the planters , but it cannot In *
bought at any ordinary grocer's shop ,
for , us Mr. Glynn says : "the trust will
not allow the grocers to handle it. "
That is the way the trusts most of
them are monopolizing not only the
manufacturing but dictating the
wholesale and retail terms and prices
on which their product shall bo sold.
The sugar trust is no worse than the
steel trust and lots of other trusts , ex
cept that its production is a necessity
that all must purchase.
Now that the protectionists are borating -
rating the sugar trust as "the worst
trust , " and saying "the people will de
mand free sugar , absolutely free , re
fined as Well as raw , " and "then we
will get rid of the sugar trust , " shows
the quicksands upon which the house
of protection is builded. The whole
structure is liable to collapse at any
moment , for if the protection to sujjav
is removed why should the enormous
protection on iron and steel , fence
wire , axes , nails and numerous other
articles that the steel trust is inter
ested in bo maintained. Why should
nearly all the other trusts be protect
ed so that they can charge a greater
price for their products hero than
abroad ? That is the question for the
voters to ponder over and inquire into
and instruct their representatives up
on. Don't be fooled by the fallacious
talcs that the protective tariff brings
prosperity. That it conduces to high
prices is certain , for the cost of living
is now at the top notch , as every one
who is obliged to count the cost and
economize knows full well.
The Protective Tariff League , which
ia a league of trusts and protected
monopolists , is of course interested in
making the taxpayer believe that ho.
too , is protected , but the palpable
massing of the wealth of the country
is in the hands of a few and the con
tinued struggle for existence of the
many is an unanswerable argument to
the farmer , the storekeeper , the clerk ,
the artisan and the laborer , that they
have the worst of the bargain. As the
protectionists therefore acknowledge
that the sugar , trust is the worst
trust because it dictates the price of
its products and who shall deal with
it. and boars hardly on the susrar
planter , why are not the other tru t
that protection pampers equally hurt
ful to the American people. Tariff reform -
form is the only way to reach them.
Rottenness Rampant.
The Postoflice Department investiga
tions unearthed frauds and corruption
the stench from which almost suffo
cates honest people , and the farce of
judicial prosecutions is being enacted
with the result that probably some
measly little cierk or mayhap two or
three of them , poor little pen-wipers ,
working on starvation salaries , will be
convicted ; but the genuine grafters ,
the bigger fish who pocket the rake-
offs , will be exonerated or not prose
cuted at all , as in the case of Hon.
Perry Slick Heath. What a spectacle ,
the government attorney positively re
fusing to prosecute Heath ! If hon
esty and decency do not blush , then
they have indeed fied to brutish boasts.
What a travesty on justice , what a
mockery of the law was the trial and
acquittal of Congressman Lattimer in
New York. Although the jury brought
in a verdict of nominal guilt , the good ,
kind-hearted Republican judge saidi
"This faithful Republican servant only
technically violated the law. It Ifi
true he got § 25,00 for buncoing the
government , but , poor man , he says he
didn't know he was doing wrong , and
I will only fine him $1.000 and send
him to jail for one day.Every kindly
hearted person must sympathize with
that judge for being forced to do his
stern duty in passing the cruel , tortur
ing judgment upon the unfortunate
victim. The tears he shod are no
doubt bottled up with those of the
saints. Southern Mercury.
A Chameleon President.
It is said that there is in the White-
House , over the door going into the
President's room , a stuffed chameleon.
It is dead and no longer has the power
to change its color. Were it alive and
susceptible to the changing political
opinions and economic beliefs of th
strenuous occupant of the AVhito
House , it would , if we may believe
the President's latest and most vocif
erous champion in the House , be kept
busy changing its complexion. It
would take on a different hue every
time a politician more or less at vari
ance with the President's former opin
ions , emerged from the President's
room.
The authority for this statement is
contained in the last attempt of G n-
eial Grosvenor to eulogize the Presi
dent. It is found in the Congressional
Kecovd of April 27. Here is an ex
tract from this supposed eulogy :
"I have never had access to anil
knowledge of public men , and I will
say that I have never known a public
man holding a high position that was
more amenable to the sentiment of
public declarations and the advice of
his party and those surrounding him
that is Theodore Koosevelt. ( Applause
on the Ilepublican side. ) If it wen )
proper I could go into details , show
ing where he here changed his policy
upon a certain thing and there chang
ed his declarations in his message ,
and here did this to accommodate the
opinion of men surrounding him. ' '
It would have been extremely in
teresting if General Grosvenor ha-1
thought it proper to have gone into de
tails. He might , for instance , have
told us of the change of opinion that
took place a | day or two before the
President left on his Western trip ,
about a year ago. The officials of the
Protective Tariff League called at the
White House to tell the President that
if he did not stap talking tariff reform
and join the " "
"stand-patters" they
would do their utmost to defeat his
nomination. He is reported to have
changed so quickly that he had to de
stroy several good tariff reform
speeches Avhich he had ready for de
liverance on that trip. Why did not
General Grosvenor give us the de
tails ?
Is our President , then , the living
personification of that old-time states
man who used to close his long and
windy stump speeches with the mild
declaration :
"Gentlemen , them's my principles ;
if you don't like them , I can change
them. "
There is 110 doubt but that our Pres
ident can change his opinions. In
fact , as compared Avith former Presi
dents , he may be said to be a light
ning-change statesman. He has , as
various times , been a free-trader and a
protectionist ; a Cobden Club member
and a "stnnd-patter ; " an anti-boss man
and a boss man ; a civil sen-ice reform
er and a spoilsman : for law and order
and against law and order ; for union
labor and against union labor.
In fact he is not only "all things
to all men , " but he adjusts himself
quickly to the changing conditions of
changing times. Consistency may bo
the bug-a-boo of small , minds , it ( lees
not disturb our versatile President in
the least
The occasion for Grosvenor's last
eulogy grew out of his twenty ight-
pajre eulogy , printed in the Congres
sional Record of April 4- . Knowing
that General Grosvenor said all the
mean things that he could think of
against Governor Roosevelt , Avhen ! > c
Avas about to be nominated for Vice
President , and selecting quotations
from several of the books and articles
Avritten by President Roosevelt Con
gressman Claude Kitchen , on April 22.
made one of the most interesting
speeches of the present Congress. It
shOAved up both General Grosvenor
and the President in such a variegated -
ed and bad light that the General felt
called upon to make a reply. If the
President feels flattered at this last
eulogy he is about the only one of
that way of thinking.
Just His Style.
It is just Mr. Roosevelt's peculiar
style. He shows his superiority over
ail his great predecessors in the Presi
dential office by covering up scandal ,
refusing investigation and defying de
cent public opinion. Memphis Scimi
tar.
U. S. SENATOR PROM SOUTH CAROLINA
Recommends Pe-ru-na
For Dyspepsia and Stomach Trouble.
EX-SENATOR M. C. BUTLER
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An August Month.
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Baltimore Herald.
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Client Except where I hid the money.
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Chapels Had Been Churches.
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Visitor Do you belong to it ?
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They Are Strangers Now.
First Dear Girl Congratulate me ,
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Second Dear Girl Congratulate me ,
dear. Mr. Simpkins proposed to ine
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The Same Thing.
Uncle George Harry , I suppose ycu
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Harry Xo , Uncle George , I haven't
got so far as that ; but I keep an ex
pense account. Boston Transcript.
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These Remedies Do Not Reach the
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. U. S. Senator M. C. Butler from
South Carolina , was Senator from
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