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HE REMEMBERED.

Yes, Bill my boy, Irecollec's II all,
Now that ye've tried them old days to recali.
How you sot Silas Perkins dorg on me,
N how the critter bit my leg in three;
N how, when we was goin' to the school,
Twas got licked when you had broke tho
rule.
N how wo went a-ashin' In the creek,
N you soused me In Grimes pond SO slick.
N how, when we went 10 the candy pull,
You filed my best clo'es pockets chock up full
N how that night, when told my dad,
The hckin that got--'twas purity bad.
" Yes, remember all them boyhood acts
Now that we've chose TO bring up all the
facts;
m I remember, too, when was small,
swore I'd lick yer, Of growed at all;
M growcd has, jess twicet as much as you.
IN now III tell yer what I'm goin' TO do:
:" I'm g6in' to take yer right acrost my knee,
N spank We till We can't most hardly see;
N Then I'm goin' TO sweep We round the
floor
Ontil the hull mex town kin hear We roar.
. dquite forgot We, Bill. ontH We spoke,
NJ H6w7Hiy= e n have my ffttfe; -
And 81 unto hts spoken word was true.
a lovely course Of sprouts he put Bill through
And when he'd lonesome forty minutes
after u o.
The store just rang with Uncle Silas laughter
And Bill departed on his hands and knees,
Resolved no more to call up memories.
John Kendrjck Bangs, in Harper's Magazine
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A GUITARS TALE.
Broken, 1t Reveals = Message FROM
Long Dead Convict.

Broken, 1t Reveals = Message from q
Long Dead Convict.
The daughter of music deAler ip
Troy, N. Y, broke guitar which her
father had given her some time age
It was a Misunderstanding but tinc-toneN
instrument which had belonged to heF
dead grandfather, and no one know
how it came into his possession. In es,
amining the pieces the following
strange inscription written on the wood
was found:
March o, 1ss0.-This guitar is put
together to-day by man who has been
in prison eleven years under a sen.
tence of life, prisoner who is vic
tim of circumstances and to-day is held
as criminal. To carry out revenge
the plan was so laid that Chamberlain
is into it yet unknown to himself. In
time this guitar may be broken and
these words read by some one, and
whoever it may be I ask them to know
and publish this fact:
IA man may be state prisoner for
years and yet sget square with his enc
mics. / have enjoyed mary pleasant
moments even in this prison, for it is a
pleasure to believe tina. there are
those who fear me as a msn. Chamber
lain stood with his hand on his re-
volver Christmas. 1872 oh, how con.
temptible he looked, the poor cur! Yes,
he is a cur Of the mongrel breed. Refs
Of Nebraska, cripple nine years, caused
BY neglect Of prison officials. Z"
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PARAoRAPHIo POINTERS.

Mr.. Harrison's republican league
of office holders is steadily saving wood
for the denomination pile.-St. Louis
Republic.
President Harrison is not likely
to say anything against the Rhode
Island gerrymander. How would Mr..
Harrison's party get senator without
it?-Louisville Courier-Journal.
If the democratic cheap clothing
bill becomes law it will save the peo-
pie at least four hundred million dollars
a year and give them much better cloth
ing for their money than the Mckinley
article. st. Louis Republic.
The cut in the wages of workers
in the highly protected iron mills con-
tinues, both east and west. The wage
earners are finding out why a republic
an congress rejected the proposition to
condition the increase in duty upon an
equivalent increase in wages. That
wasn't their game.-N. Y. World.
The republicans are growing
weary as it becomes more and more APP
parent that tariff reform will be the
leading issue of the presidential cam
paign. They have created war clouds
and turned on their lingo thunder to d.
vert the attention Of the masses, but
they must face the music. Detroit
Free Press. ~
The free wool bill has passed the
house by. an emphatic vote of 192 to 90.
This is the first gun in campaign
planned to attack the Mckinley tariff
law in detail. The result warrants
faith in the success OF other raids upon
fully as in,quitous measures, such as
the binding Irvine, tin plate and lumber
taxes. st. Pail Globe.
The Oregon republicans have met
in convention, applauded the Mckinley
law, denounced the free wool hill and
their delegates 70 vote for
Harrison first, with Mckinley for sec-
cnd choice. The day Of the convention
word was received in Chicago from the
worlds fair commissioners for that
state that Oregon Is too poor TO be rep
resented officially ct *he worlds fair.
In indcrsing McKinls yism the Oregon
republicans lick the hand that robbed
them. Chicago Times
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controlled and enjoyed about sixty
three per sent. Of the national wealth
The non-producing classes-that il
those not engaged in active industry,
but living upon speculative invest
ments comprised the remaining thirty
seven per cent.
Now, after some twenty-cight years
Of republican legislation, ths statistics
show that the producing classes own
but about twenty per cent of the ma
tional wealth. The rest has been
mortgaged, assigned, sold or trans
ferred in one way or another to the
non-producing class, who control at
present nearly eighty per cent. Of the
national wealth. 1t is now nowhere
disputed that thirty thousand men own
more than one-half the national wealth,
while the rest OF the people, over sixty
four million, own the other halt.
It is facts like these which form the
basis of the protests which we hear
coming from Christian pulpits constant
lY.T To such facts the. vast organization
OF labor Is chic by due.
How far legislation is responsible for
this unfortunate drift the mass Of the
people mean to know between now and
next November. That system OF
sweeping taxation, which has thrived
for nearly thirty years, is largely re-
sponsible, great majority Of the peo-
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enemy.
Now there is hardly any doubt that
in the course of centuries accidents
must have furnished countless oppor~
tunities for similar observation; hum
dreds of hunters, farmers, and travel
ers must have witnessed the snap-bite
process with. all its consequences, and
at least one-fourth of such witnesses
must have had acumen enough to re-
cognize the correlation of cause and eff
feet. But the mystery hypothesis al
ways prevailed. To some Of our fell
lowmen life would cease to seem worth
living If the dry facts OF everyday life
could not be sweetened with the spice
of preternatural theories.
The sjoint-snalxe" superstition rests
on an even more slender substratum Of
facts. In certain reptiles the terminal
vertebra would seem to be rather I'M
important part of the anatomy and can
be produced or altogether dispensed
with like long hair or the overgrown
portions of claws and toe-nails. A
lizard tail, for=inst llbrealx
off very easily, that of blindworm at
mere touch, and for few minutes the
cast off fragment may be seen wriggl-
ing in the grass, while the detailed
animal hurries off as nothing had hap
pened Observers of that episode may
now and then have been able to identi-
fly such creatures. A naturalist friend
of mine domesticated a lizard that
made its home in the walls of garden
house and turned out for dinner when
ever an insect was deposited on the
floor near board that had
to be tapped once or twice with a
bunch of keys Mexican prisoners
occasionally tame snakes in the same
way, and even use them to carry,mes-
sages from cell to cell. A pet of that
=sortt may tttirnup a very abbreviated
condition one day, but week after its
patron will be rejoiced to notice that
the lost terminal faculties have been re-
covered. All is well that ends well, but
the How? continues to employ the spec
ulative faculties of the observer till he
happens to remember that the caudal
appendages of reptiles may twist about
for minutes after their original owners
have disappeared in crevice of the
rocks. Have they returned to claim
their own?
Like .Acout's opera text, that conjec-
ture, once suggested, is pretty sure to
recommend itself by it's absurdity, and
the myth-making tendency can be relied
upon to do the rest. At all events
America and Europe still harbor thous-
ands of individuals of our race who will
stick to the assertion that they have
seen snakes expedite their fight by
casting off successive sections of their
structure, and that before long these
scattered fragments will reunite like
the component parts of a broken Tam
many ward ring.
1--WE must accept the testimony of
eye-witnesses,n insist the champions of
miraculism, but they should remember
that Jean Bodin, in his defense of witch
trials, quotes documents recording the
testimony of some eighty thousand such
witnesses to the reality of satanic APP
partitions and aerial excursions of
-broemstick riders Pittsburgh Chron-
ipla
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FLIRTATIoNs ARE ALL WRONG.
al Love You" Means Nothing -ssWin You
Marry Me?" Is Another Matter.

III Love YOU Means Nothing -.win You
Marry Me?" Is Another Matter.
A love affair is apt to be etched on a
woman's heart; on mans it is only a
water color, and the tears of the next
idol will invariably blur and fade it.
Every man has an idol. Sometimes it
is only a hazy ideal; generally, however,
it is warm, glowing flesh and blood. He
loves because he needs to love- When
he is young, If he be poor and prudent,
he avoids entanglements. He calls on
no girl sufficiently frequently ito allow
her rightfufly to build cottages in
the country or furnished fats in Har-
lem. And, If he gets in too deep, he is
quick to beat retrea.
Bht it really makes little difference to
him. He may have the ''remorse" for a
few evenings, but he is soon again up
to his old tricks.
To him love affair once over is to be
buried as far out of sight as possible,
and wary indeed must be the individual
who can get him to resurrect it. 1t
would be well if women could cultivate
the manly philosophy which so quickly
browns out sentiment and allows good
hard sense to take its place. Not that
the idea is beautiful or attractive, but
it is eminently practical. There would
be no need to give this advice if men
were not men.
They can WOO in way to give a
woman an idea that they are sentiment
from the crown of their head to the
soles of their feet. But just wait. The
change is sure to come, and when it
does the woman is sure to wonder at
it and feel that in some way she must
be to blame for not keeping her heart
in pace with this waning affection.
The only thing left for her to do, then,
is to accept the situation and try, so far
as possible, to let reason smooth out for
her the wrinkles of existence.
II love you" means nothing, as socie-
ty is constituted Any woman is fool.
ish to believe that any man is really in
love with her until he asks her to be
his wife. Girls are too anxious to see
in ordinary attentions extraordinary
signs of devotion. They deceive them
selves; and often, by betraying their
thoughts, they lose the friendship Of
honorable men who fear to give ground
for hopes they cannot satisfy, or lead
less scrupulous ones to enter into a
Irritation whose end is estrangement
and unhappiness. Y. Mail and Elk
rrass
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TARIFF THE QUESTION.
n Wow Remains for Democracy 70 sst


This.
With the disappearance Of the silver
issue from the canvass Of this year tariff
reform will resume the importance that
it had in the elections Of 1890, and that
really belongs to It, 1t is true that the
silver issue has not been completely or
permanently banished. It cannot be
that until the law of 1890. with its great
hazards and its conflicting provisions,
shall have been repealed. 1t is also
barely possible that the desperate fac
ton that has failed to fasten free coin
age upon the party by the action Of the
majority in the house may show suffi-
cient strength or sufficient ugliness at
Chicago to force into the platform some
equivocal expression that may cause
embarrassment and confusion. Butsthe
chances all are now that the interest in
the silver question will steadily wane,
and that when the two parties shall
have spoken IN their respective eenven-
tions neither of them will be so wholly
right or so wholly wrong in regard to
this question as TO give it much infu-
ence in the canyassl Some it will have,
and there will be certain number of
voters who will feel, and not unjustly,
that on the whole the republican party
is likely to be safer than the democratic
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MEALS BY SCHEDULE.
Close Figuring on What Can Be Eaten
While Waiting for the Train.

Close Figuring on What Can Be Eaten
While Waiting for the Train.
II have only two minutes to get my
breakfast and catch my train" said a
tall man in an Irish frieze ulster to the
waiter in railway station the other
morning. ''What can you give me in
the smallest possible time? Take into
consideration, too, the fact that have
left my false teeth under the pillow at
my hotel"
"We have just the thing for you, sir, !"
and he Immediately brought cup of
coffee and a piece of lemon pie.
The gentleman sat down, and in less
-than-a minute from the time he gave
his order was rushing toward the Office
for his ticket
He made pretty good time" re-
marked customer who sat at the next
table.
"Oh, that's nothing" replied the
waiter; 1--WE beat that every day.
once knew man who came in here who
had only sixty seconds in which to get
his breakfast, buy his ticket and reach
his train"
what did you give him?'
1.-Two soft baked apples and glass
of milk. He finished in just fifteen
seconds, took another fifteen for the
purchase OF his ticket, and when last
saw him he was walking up and down
the platform smoking cigar, impa-
tiently waiting for the train to start"
81 suppose most passengers who come
in here are in hurryP"
"Never saw but two who were not,
and one Of these was a soldier who had
lost both legs in the war, and the other
was tramp who was waiting for the
night freight.
when a customer comes in and says
he wants something to eat in hurry ]
ask him how much time he has or what
train he wants to catch. Now, l have a
list of those articles that + can serve
and which can be eaten in exactly the
time the passenger has to spare. To
the customer having one minute for
luncheon l serve baked apples and milk;
If he has two minutes, lemon pie and
cold coffee; three minutes, apple pie
and hot coffee; four minutes, slapjacks
and coffee; five minutes, ready cooked
sausages and mashed potatoes; six min
utes, fishballs and hash, cold roast
beef, and so on. tell you we work on
springs all the time" And the waiter
rushed off to serve another customer
who appeared to be in a hurry Boston
Herald.
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"a Little NONSENSE. :

--Offspring-"Ma, what makes pa so
cross to-day?" Mother-"He's writing
q poem ON the beauties of paternal
love. Boston Transcript
--Physician-'I called to collect those
bills which sent you" Mr.. Squills-
|ssYou are perfectly welcome to them,
doctor. Here they are, all In one
packet"
The Woman's Way.--Friend--'sD DO
you permit your wife to have her own
way?" Husband positively mo, Sir.
She has it without my permission. ~
Detroit Free Press
You don't know yet how she feels
toward you?" mo, but I'm going to
make her show her hand" "How?''
II shall present her with diamond
ring."-N. Y. Press.
"Ah," unused Mr.. Hungry Higgins, as
the Charitable officer steered him to-
ward the city woodward, II have once
more struck the popular cord. -
indianapolis journal.
-Tommy--sWhat Is the difference
between sin and a crime, paw" Mr..
Figg-.Well, to steal q million dollars
Is sin; to steal ten dollars Is a crime"
Indianapolis Journal.
Didn't Work.-A--"E Excuse me, dear
friend, am momentarily little en-
barrassed, and 49," B-'sYou lucky
mani ! have been greatly embarrassed
for long time. Fliegende Blatter.
Otherwise She Would Have. Tom
ufy-''You must have given my sister
an orange, too. Didn't your Mrs.
Nabor-"Yes, Tommy. How dill you
know it?' Tommy--"She didn't cry for
mine. Yankee Blade.
1T Was the Woman, of Course
mo, sir; woman can't keep q secret =
"Thinl not?' '.Im sure Of 1t. told
Mrs. Roundshegoes q secret this morn
ing and she told II to her husband, and
now it's all over town. Y. Press.
"A teacher of natural phil ,sophy
once asked the bright boy Of the class
how many kinds of force there were,
and was astonished to receive the fol-
lowing reply: Three, ma'am- Mental
force, physical force and police trce.r
OVERRIDING 1t. Fond MotherI do
so hope that George has studied hard ct
college. have tried to impress upon
his mind the value Of a liberal educs-
ton" Father-7sI am afraid, my dear,
that you have rather oyerdone the mat
ter. / had to send him check for $50
to-day. Funny Folks.
A Satisfactory Conclusion. Mrs
Younghusband and you'll let me
spend the money for that purpose,
dear?r Mr.. Younghusband -- Why
need you ask? Isn't al the money
yours, sweet?v Mrs Younghusband
ssBpt I don't help you earn II, dearest.r
Mr.. Younghusband (tenderly - No
er-zbnt you help me spend 4. darling. =
IN. Y. Sun,
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
A party who had been royerently
studying Greek art and the qrecians q
| the Muscnm Of Fine Arts the other Day
were coming out Of the building They
were preceded BY : number a sr1tIl
boys. One Of these petted one d ~
large terra-cotta yases - ~ {oof a t|1z
entrance steps and celIe1 " ~ notc.
II say. Dick, stn't ttIs w pe~u
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an INDIAN MOTHERS GRIEF.


In the rounds Of duty incident to the
business Of stock raising, camped one
night on a little creek within the bor-
ders of the great Nez Perccs Indian
reservation. 1t was q cold evening in
early spring, and no notes were taken
of the surroundings before darkness
settled over the sheltered little plat of
wild meadow and brought to a close
day Of hard work. There were Indian
cabins Of dingy, implanted boards, and
smoky old log houses up and down the
river, but the peaceful owners were not
astir, and heard not a sound to denote
the presence Of mankind. This silence
and inactivity Is not unusual in the set
Elements of the native redmen. Poor
shaggy saddle ponies were feeding
about on the scanty grass. The dogs
were barking in answer to the shrill
notes of the bowling, hungry coyotes
and the echoes played from side to side
rocky canyon. he river. too.
sent up changing rumble, rising and
falling like signs from troubled heart.
But my loneliness did not keep me
from sleep was tired and slept
soundly for several hours, when l was
aroused by the beating of rain drops in
my face. The wind had whirled down
into my sheltered cove, and carried away
the blanket that formed my tent. The
calm, cold evening had become blus-
tering, stormy night. l gathered my
blanket about me for protection. from
the storm as best could and tried to
81 Ac fha nd ltrl1n cd
/ heard a strange noise. 1t was
the voice of some one-a child,
/ Z ,thonght--in distress. 1t was
dark and it would be impossible in that
storm for me to- prepare a=ligh t.Iried=
to resist the impulse that urged me to
go to the relief of the one in distress,
but again and again / heard the cry
some one weeping and wailing in dis
tress ] hastily put on my clothes and
started in the direction from which
came the pitiful cry. clambered over
stiff, unyielding brush and dragged
rocks till ! reached bare knoll that
stood out from the mountains like a
mound. l came in contact with what /
knew to be the fence around an Indian
grave. The strange cry came to me
more distinctly. 1t was the pathetic wall
of an Indian woman. i had heard the
same sad cry of hopelessness before.
was within few feet of her. She must
have been aware of my approach, but so
intense was her grief that she was not
startled to such an extent that it called
her mind for one instant from the dead.
turned away and left her to bear her
burden with only the darkness of night
and the fury of the wind to help her.
When daylight came I went again to
the grave. 1t was that of very small
child. Its heartbroken mother was
the mourner whom all the world
could not comfort There was rude
fence around the little new-made grave
and there were little flags waving above
it, to brighten the wild beasts that
howled so ghoulishly the evening be-
fore. The storm that came so suddenly
that night was the first to beat upon
the lonely resting place Of the little
one, and the mother came from her
house near by and threw herself upon
the grave because it in some way re-
lieved her to protect all that remained
for her of her hearts treasure.-Detroit
Free Press.
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THE WEALTHY FEW.
Cold Faqts That Republicans Would d.
Well to Explain.


Well to Explain.
Certain conditions have been develop
ing in this country since the repub-
lican party came into power which are
interesting more and more deeply the
great mass of the people.
If these conditions are the result of
republican financial legislation it is
time that the people should know it.
II they are the result OF republican
tariff legislation all the forces Of pro-
test should be concentrated upon that.
If they are the result Of both combined,
then the whole general policy Of the
party is legitimate subject Of dis
cussion.
The conditions are these, and they
have never been disputed: When the
republican party came into power the
DsSducing Glasses In this nation owned,
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Total Eclipses OF the Sun.

Every year there must be two eclipses
of the sun, and there may be five. These
are partial eclipses, however, except in
the comparatively rare case in which
the moon passes nearly centrally over
the suns disk and produces total OBJ
scuration of his light. Since the inven-
ton of the spectroscope, in 1850, there
has been barely score of total eclipses.
and number of these could not be OBJ
served because the belt of totality fell
at the earth's polar regions or upon the
oceans. The belt Of totality is a narrow
strip more than one hundred ami
seventy miles wide where the point Of
the moons shadow falls upon the earth
Total eclipses rarely recur, therefore, al
the same point of the earth. At Lon
don, for example, there has been no to-
tai eclipse since the year 1l40 except
that Of 1715, and there will be none dur
ing the next century. Prof. E. s Hol-
den, in Century.
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HER PET.

pie have already expressed their con-
viction at the polls.
And what financial Legislation has
had to do with it the people are going
to ask, too. This is going to be a cam
paign of education in many ways
When the battle of reason becomes gen.
eral all along the line after the summer
conventions no fact of moment can be
suppressed. The verdict rests ultimate
ly with the people, and they will de-
mand to know the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.-Bos-
ton Globe