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The Washington times., 1895-04-20
THURBER'S SMILING VISITOR
He Represented Himself as Vice
President Steyenson's Nephew.
Told q Cock and-Bull Story and Wanted
to Borrow Seven Dollars But
Didn't Succeed.

Mr.. Henry Thurber was selected last
week as the victim OF a confidence scheme
which, however, did not work, for the good
and sufficient reason that the Presidents
private secretary was notably lacking in
confidence i'll the claims preferred by the
young man who essayed TO deplete his
pocketbook.
1t Was i'll the afternoon when Mr.. Thurber
had left the White House and returned home.
While he was enjoying quiet smoke there
was ring at the door and word was brought
him that nephew OF the Weep resident
wished to see him on business of the
utmost Importance.
Without waiting to change his smoking
jacket, Mr. Thurber hastened down stairs
where he found very smiling young man
who introduced himself as Mr.. Stevenson,
jr., nephew of the Vice-Presdent. The
query as 10 the nature of the urgent business
elected the reply that the smiling young
man found himself in a most embarrassing
predicament from which he wished the
immediate aid of the Presidents private
secretary toeXtricate himself.
AS a stranger in the city he had arrived
that morning, only 10 find when he went to
pay his bill at the hotel and purchase his
ticket TO continue his journey that he was
exactly So short OF the requisite amount
or course, had the Vioe-President been in
town the difficulty would have been at once
obviated, but as it was, Deither the Vice
President nor any member of his family
happened to be iIAWashington at that time
and therefore recourse had TO be had to
a stranger.
In this strait, it had suggested itself to the
young man thatifhe could See the Presidents
private secretary things would be settled
at once i'll the most satisfactory manner.
OF course, the nephew went on to explain
that in SO applying to Mr.. Thurber he had
recourse TO plan III which personal mOrti-
fication was mixed. to such large degree
that he had hesitated for long time before
making up his mind to apply for the sum
stated.
Mr.. Thurber responded in the pleasantest
fashion that ii would give him the most
unmitigated pleasure TO accommodate the
Vice-P residents nephew in this or any other
matter provided he could establish his iden-
tity Failing to do SO, the Presidents
private secretary failed to see how or in
what manner he could accommodate the
young man with the desired sum of 81.
Thereupon the young man parted com
pany with his smiles. and after useless
protest that he was being misunderstood
and treated with unfairness in being thus
laid under suspicion, pulled himself to-
gether and made digimfied retreat.
Coincidcnt with bis departure Mr.. Thur
Der communicated with police headquar-
tiers, but SO TAR the young man has nGi
been located. neither has the Vice Presi-
dent the slightest knowledge OF the eX,
istence of any such nephew.
The Washington times., 1895-04-20

The Origin Of Some Great Books.
CHAPTER
The Washington times., 1895-04-20
Washington
Loan & Trust CO.
Cor. 9Th and F Sis.

Worklngmen
and others whose occupations prevent
them from making deposits during;
regular banking hours viii find il con-
veHieHt to visit the
Union Savings Bank, 1922 FN.h.W.
which is open EVERY SATURDAY
NIGHT bet ween the nOursof 8 andS.
-Four per cent interest on savings
account
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28
Corsiai Notes of Courtesy.

wonder whether you are particular
to write notes of thanks very soon
after receiving gifts or acts of cour-
tesy. The yelue of a note of thanks is
greatly increased by it's being prompt.
If some friend leaves bunch of violets
at your door, and you fail to acknowl-
edge it until the flowers have faded,
your thanks, when they do, come, are
tardy. When flowers are sent to those
who are i'll, they, of course, cannot re-
pay the courtesy by a little note them
selves, but some one in the family
should do it for them. Your note OF
thanks should be very genial. showing
that you are really pleased by the kind
attention and the happier because of il.
DO not be afraid to write warmly and
cordially on such occasions. If stiff and
formal you are unjust both to your
friend and yourself.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28
HUNCHBACK'S FIGHTING.
lie Lies on His Hump, Spins Around
and Kicks In All Directions.
TOM MERRITT.
Salem, Ill.

lie Lies on His Hump. Spins Around
and Kicks In All Directions.
John Ryan is known to the police
as "the hump-backed warrior" says
the Indianapolis Journal. He drinks,
and when drinking he is wild. He has
boosted that it takes three policemen
to arrest him. but yesterday afternoon
Patrolman Giblen sent him to head
quarters much the worse Of attempting
to put his boast into execution. Ryan
has a very peculiar manner OF war
fare. He lies on his hump. whirls
around, and kicks. His associates all
fear one of his attacks. for he is a
good kicker, and when he gets started
at whirling they say he spins like a
top. The other afternoon Patrolman
Giblen met Ryan on Malott avenue.
Ryan was bleeding, he was drunk, and
he said he had been in a fight. He
was dirty, and looked as If he had been
whirling. AS Giblen approached some
of Ryan's friends came along. They
were asked to take the intoxicated man
home. Ryan said, mot much" and
his friends backed away as if he might
have been charged with dynamite.
Giblen then said it became his painful
duty to care for Ryan. The latter
walked quietly until the L. Z. G. w.
tracks were reached, where he made
halt. Preparing for a fight he said
to Giblen
81 will not crosss those tracks. One
OF us will have to die first. and I'll
kill you before cross"
Giblen attempted to reason with his
prisoner. but Ryan's reason wheels
were badly clogged by drink. He
began TO prepare for a spin. Giblen
seized him, and the hump-baclIed man
ripped the officers coat up the back.
Ryan got on his hump and began to
spin and kick. Giblen allowed him to
spin, and the dust hid him from view.
Thinking the matter had gone far
enough. the officer closed in on his
quasi-prisoner. The latter, when
stopped in his spinning and kicking,
began to fight and scratch. Giblen
was hit in the neck, and he thought
IL was time to draw his mace. When
Ryan arrived at police headquarters,
twenty minutes later his e'r was split,
his eye was closed. and his cheek was
cut. He said he had enough, and for
a time he was quiet and serene. SEEM
ing to think he had fought a good fight
and met defeat nobly. When the
doctor came he grew hostile again. 1t
took three officers to hold him While
his injuries were examined. Bandages
were put on, which he Immediately
tore off. and it was finally decided to
allow him to do as he pleased in a
cell.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28
Figs and Thistles.

Faith without works is a sign over
the door of an empty shop.
BY seeing how we treat men, angels
can tell how much we love God.
The less gospel there is i'm the sermon
the easier 1t is to fill the church.
No man was ever stoned for his piety
whose religion was all in his head.
All other eyes are full of beams to
the man who has a mote in his own eye.
God certainly loves sunshine, or he
wouldn't have made so much OF II.
1t Is hard to believe that sin we'll
dressed is the same as sin rolling in the
gutter.
All some people want faith for is to
go into the business of moving noun
tains.
The world has often got rid of Gods
man. but 1t has never got rid of Gods
truth,
The preacher who never smiles will
some day find out why his sermons
didn't weigh more.-Ram's Horn.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

both political parties to hold their ears
bling of the mass of the voters who are
coming to the relief of the people from
all sections of this country and Europe.
This is no new issue. 1t is an issue
that has been in existence since the
discovery of gold ard silver. Both
metals were used in this country from
1892 to 1873.
Mr.. Jefferson. when he returned the
report OF Mr.. Hamilton, said: Il re-
turn you the report on the mint, which
read over with great 6eal OF salts
faction. concur with you in thinking
that the unit must stand on both
metals" And there was established the
ratio of Is to 1, afterward 16 to l, which
was in full use up to 1873. At the time
the act passed in 1878 demonetizing
silver wheat was selling at $1.29 a
bushel, and has been reduced in price
since then until the drop to 45 cents
and so cents a bushel.
1t is a we'll knnwn fact in history
that when the country ceased to use sill
dity all prices for farmers produce de-
clined and the only beneficiaries were
those who deal in bonds and securities,
bankers and money lenders.
The people are beginning to study
the alphabet of finance and are think
ing for themselves, so that those men,
no matter to which political party
they belong, who have advocated a sim
gle standard under disguise and got
the people TO follow phantoms and
strange gods must now beware, as the
people are tired of placing them in Of
flee, for when they get in Office they
neglect the interests of the people and
work to make the few rich and the
many poor. / am satisfied that the tar
iff, that has been the issue in the cam
paigns for eight or ten years, was for
the purpose of deceiving the people
and keep them from investigating the
finance question.
TOM MERRITT.
Salem, Ill.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

The Church Union, religious paper
published in New York by Miss Eliza
beth Grannis, and which has for asso-
ciate editors Charles II. Parkhurst,
Bishop ]. p. Newman. Miss Frances E.
Willard, Rev. c. C. Salter, DR.. Joseph
r. Wilson, and others, was excluded
from the mails on the grounds that 1t
contained lottery advertisement, and
that the paper was in fact conducting
a lottery business. The last number of
the paper contained a full-page adver-
tisement offering total of about $4,000
in prizes to aid in securing subscribers
for the paper This is the first insid-
ious attack on the church social grab
bag.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

Nine persons out of ten, IL asked
where the expression. God tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb" can be found,
will answer, I'm the bible" But they
will be mistaken. This is one of the
three or four proverbial quotations gen.
orally believed to be in the bible which
are not there. 1t is from Lawrence
Stern's famous Sentimental Journey"
I'm the chapter called Maria" The other
proverbs commonly credited to the bible
are. Cleanliness Is next to goodness"
which is found In one Of John Wesley's
sermons, and Pour oil on the troubled
waters" which Is derived from a state
ment in Pliny's natural history. written
1900 years ago.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

w. c. Stivers, tobacco raiser of Lam
caster, KY, has sued Miss Catherine
West for $4,000 for breach of promise.
Mr.. Stivers is a widower and Miss West
is handsome school teacher, % years
old. The petition ayers that the de-
PENDANT had promised to wed him on
February q, 1895, but that she had
since declined to become his wife. Mr..
Stivers claims to have been greatly
worried, annoyed, Inundated and dam
aged in the sum named. Since the girls
have begun to wear mems clothes they
have begun to trifle with the sterner sex
and disregard their promises. Make
her whack up, Mr.. Stivers.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

1t is said that the demand for women
fitted to teach the sciences Is greater in
proportion to tho supply than in any
other. The girl with a natural taste
for chemistry. zoology, mineralogy, or
astronomy, may now cultivate her spe-
cial science with reasonable expecta-
ton that she can put money in her
purse" Indeed, II seems to be just now
the one leld OF labor that is not over
crowded.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

The New York Mercury says that Re-
corder Golf is the first judicial officer to
send an unsuccessful suicide to state
prison. In the isolated cases of at
tempted self-destruction that had pre-
viously occurred the judges had some
what yielded to the inevitable English
custom of a coroner's jury awarding
verdict over a suicide to the effect,
committed while of unsound mind"
This decision is apt to again raise the
question, Is suicide crime?
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

Each congress leaves a souvenir of it
self in the shape of few welcome ad-
ditions to the American navy. The Fiji
ty-third ordered eleven new vessels.
Two were seagoing coast line battle
ships Of formidable size. There were
ordered six gunboats, 1000 tons each.
These will be capable of running up
shallow rivers. The gunboats will cost
$230,0O0 each. Three torpedo boats
complete the list. They will cost s175,-
900. The gunboats and torpedo boats
would be more useful than the big coast
defenders If we could not have both.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

The North German Lloyd is the larg-
est steamship company in the world. It's
capital is about twenty million dollars,
and it's fleet consists of eighty-two
steamers, of an aggregate tonnage Of
100000 tons, besides tug-boats. The
staff consists of 5000 men. The traffic
comprises twenty-five separate lines,
eight of which are European, the re-
mainder trading between Germany and
America, Eastern Asia and Australia.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

Munhall, the English statistician,
figures up that from 1860 to 1890 the
United States shows an increase of
SAC, 900, 900, 900 in apparent wealth. That
was in thirty years of republican rule.
We have already lost, according to the
New York World, several billions OF
wealth in two years of democratic rule,
and still there are men who continue
to talk about the prosperity of demo-
cratic times,
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

Preparations are being made for a
wedding in Topeka at which the bride
will wear bloomers. She is an emanci-
pated woman, and will wear no evil
dences Of her recent thralldom to the
altar.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

Charles A. Dana and Colonel Nc
Clure are each trying to convince the
other that he was the better friend Of
General Simon Cameron. They both
deserted Cameron's political principles
an soon as he was dead.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

Tom Reed came neafr losing his
watch the last time he attended polit-
ical meeting .inSNew York. He would
rather mtlSH bzen good dinners with
Chauncey bebt@ than lose the watch
which is a memento Of his two years
as the Gear of the House Of Represen-
fatives."
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SISTERS OF CHARITY" LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
A Companion Sermon to "Woman's OPP
portunitIes''-Be a Grace Darling, n
Marie Antoinette, IA Joan of Aro-1o
the New Woman.

EATRICE, NEB..
June %, 1895. - In
his sermon for to-
day, Rev. DR.. Tai
mage. who is now
on his summer west
ern tour, has chosen
a subject that must
awaken the sym
pathies of all lovers
of humanity, viz. f:
SISTERS of Chari-
mi a. .AIAAN
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

Long-neglected country relatives are
being hunted up by city folk who are
talking to their friends about spending
the summer in Europe.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

Jud Harmon and Hoke Smith will be
sure to hit it off well in the cabinet
meetings.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

There is only one thing worse than
being talked about, and that is not be-
ing talked about
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

Mrs. Ii Hung Chang has 1000 coats
and 1000 pair of trouserettes. and still
she doesn't ride bicycle.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28
NOT A NEW ISSUE.

Bimetaiiis,n Was the Corner Stone of
the Republic.
call the attention of the gold bugs,
the bondholders. and money sharks OF
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

Let the advertiser remember that
plain English and polished English are
synonymous terms.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

What most towns are in need of Is
capital to try experiments.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

A man who can draw good cuts for
your ads can draw good trade to your
store.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

You can't make us believe that fat
man is overworked.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

Don't feel ashamed IL you can't play
the piano; be proud of it.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

Chewing tobacco is not the worst OF
It.; splitting is the worst of it.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

The corn crop has been killed again
1t was first frozen and then roasted.
The Yale expositor., 1895-06-28

EdIson's great grandfather lived 70
the age OF 1902.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-13
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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-13

The electric ear was running to the
exposition grounds at the rate of Is
miles an hour, and was about IS
minutes behind time. when a man APP
Feared in the middle of the track. wav-
ing a red handkerchief exctedly.
The frightened motorman brought
the car TO a sudden halt and yelled:
What in the thunder is the NATTER"
"Nothin' tall" said the man-who
was from the rural districts, and had
decided to walk to the fair grounds
Il jest wanted to know the time O. day,
an how long it'll take me to git to where
the show isl"
The motorman, the conductor and sew
eral enraged passengers were about to
demolish him, but voices from dozen
blockaded cars in the rear yelled ''Move
on" and the man from the country
stepped aside, muttering:
This is the durndest town ever did
seel Git mad as creation ef you Jest AK
'em the time o. day!"-Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-13
WE ALL KNOW HIM.

Listen and you Will hear him say,
About a dozen times day.
When things refuse to go his way:
That's just my luckw
He mingles with the markets throng
And plunges into stocks headlong;
Excusing all his guesses wrong
With Just my luckr
From large events loss and gain
To failures just to catch the train,
The sole CONSIDER of his pain
Is Just my lucki"-
Fools now and then are right by chance:
And when luck seems his way to glance
And all his pleasures to enhance,
Beaming with self-complacency,
Il think ! planned that we'll" says he.
"Ah. mel what fools these mortals be-"
Mary Willard. in Puck
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-12-13
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