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as Bible truth; but it was the talk yes-
terday in Wall street, and the talk in
front of Capitol hill, and we Door mortals
can listen and think.
Thomas B. Reed, the man whose re-
tirement occasions so much stir, was
born in Portland, Maine, in the fall of
1899. II he lives until October he will be
60 years old. His birthplace is one of the
oldest IN the state. and is only a few
doors from Longfellow's old home, which,
by the way, was built by one of Reeds
ancestors. Reed taught school and got
money enough together in some way to
go to Bowdoin college. Here he partly
worked his way through, getting along
as well as he could. His family We're
good New Englanders, who had enough
money for themselves not not enough to
give a big strapping boy for book larn-
in" Reed wanted to learn, SO he got the
none for himself.
When he graduated in 1860 he went to
California. and here he was admitted to
the bar, doing very good work, but he
longed to get back home, SO he returned
to Portland and commenced practice: but
there was very little money in it. Then
! began his political career. He was a
member of the state house of representa-
tives in $3.50, n a member of the state
senate in 1870. In '70-'71-'72 he was at
torney general of Maine and for the next
five years was city solicitor. He was
elected to the Forty-fifth congress in II,
and has been in congress ever since. He
was made speaker of the house in De-
cember, $50, and from that time on his
public career is we'll known.
Thomas B. Reed is an excellent exams
pie Of a politician who can work a life
time in politics without getting rich. Liv-
ing in Washington during the sessions Of
ongress n in Portland the rest of the
year and working hard all the time. he
has succeeded in fixing himself so that
he is we'll off, but nothing more. In fact
the money question is one of the reasons
for hrs retirement from the leadership
The income is $50, 900, and Is too great to
be refused, on account Of his family.
The law firm which Mr.. Reed will be-
come the head Of in the fall is the firm
of Simpson, Thatcher & Barnum, which
does business at 10 Wall street. The
firm has made overtures to Mr.. Reed fol
some time, but it is anly recently tina
he arrived there one morning and tol6
them that he had concluded to join them
This firm with which the speaker ha!
identified himself was formed Is year!
ago. 1t consists of John w. Simpson
Thomas Thatcher, William NJ. Barnun
n Philip G. Bartlett.
Mr.. Simpson is a son-in-law of the lat
George 1. Seney, and has been for year.
counsel of the Manhattan Trust an,
: other corporations. as we'll as for Moor
& Schley and other Wall street rok
I Thomas Thatcher is a son of the lat
Professor Thatcher Of Yale university
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becoming so manifestly the center of at
traction on his first appearance in this
unfamiliar afternoon scene.
"Oh, I don't pretend to read hero
glyphs," he said. Only l = know that one
summer day. years ago, when l had not
been long in this country, l was tracking
my way through the woods not far from
the shores Of Lake Superior, and I un-
expectedly came upon a young American
lady who had been fy-fishing, and had
got cut off, standing on a lone stream.
The rain of the early morning had
swollen the stream, but the young lady
had been toe busy with her rod to notice
that"
"Oh, please stop!' Carrie cried, blush
But the audience were not to be denied.
They insisted on hearing the story out.
We'll, 1 saw her danger, but didn't
know quite enough English at that time
to explain it all to her. So I simply
waded in, said, If you please, miss and
carried her bodily from that isolated
rock. When she oun herself on shore,
safe, and realized the danger she had es-
capped, the young lady dropped her rod
knocking off her blue veil and a lot of
maple leaves she had put in her hat to
shade her face-and. reaching her pocket
book, tried to pay me with a silver dol
lar"
Carrie had her fingers in her ears, as
if she could stand no more of the recital.
But Ligrid ruthlessly went on with his
story.
"And then I picked up a sprig of maple
that had two leaves on it. And l think
that what I said was-just the words
which Miss Balke has done me the COM
pliment to have engraved on her spoons"
And on everything that is here!" the
chorus went up.
please. Mr.. Ligrid," piped Annette
Henry, in the moment Of silence that fol-
lowed, have 0 got the original forked
aprig of maple?'
Ligrid only smiled-so far, at least, as
I could see. Annette insisted that he
nodded too.
But after that day he became very
much at home indeed in the atmosphere
of Carries tea parties, and remained SO
for a long time, when there was a brief
intermission-say a month or SO. And
then we all congratulated him, for he
was a general favorite with the crowd.
And now Carries afternoon teas are
held in his house.
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from sheer inability to handle anything
SO small and dainty. Then I heard
Annette Henry say:
Carries mysterious device seems to
have startled you Can o make out
the legend"
No. said Ligrid. mot in this light"
Its This is my pay Isn't 1t
queer?"
"'This is my pay" l heard Ligrid re-
peating to himself aloud Queer"
Yes. Don't you think it an odd motto
to take? Carrie Bake is just like that
all over. She is so secretive. too. I like
that in her; 1t makes her p%iquante. No
body in the world knows what that de-
vice of hers means except herself. And
she has it on sverything:"
l was watching Ligrid and saw him
smile as Annette ran IN like this.
Then he got up and asked her If she
would take some more tea.
She was drinking tea, l think
When he presented the two empty cups
to Carrie l heard him ask her:
rs this design on all your possessions,
Miss Baker,
Annette Henry. too. was watching him
with an interested smile.
Carrie gave him some laughing answer
AS usual with that inevitable question
about the forked maple sprig.
II am not going to ask you to tell me
the history of your device. I-isrld said,
in his own quiet, s~elf-possessed tones.
Then you will distinguish yourself by
you lack of inQuisitiverass,' Carrie said.
Everybody asks about that design"
"If you will only let a rule alone long
enough" said the new a lit is sure
to NEE, with its exception. Haven't YOU
found that? l have"
Yes. l see. You're the exception"
"Only apparently" said Ligrid. stand
ing in a very characteristic attitude, with
his hands folded behind his back, and
looking down at Carrie, where she sat
before the hanging kettle.
Only apparently. Those who ask
don know
And you do. o a
"Hurrah!' Annette Henry shouted,
jumping up and running to the table in
the middle of the room. Here's some
body who can tell us all about the mys-
ferrous h~ieroglyph!"
1 thought that Carrie looked a little
frightened. as we'll as amused. when
there was a general movement towards
Ligrid.
AS for him, he took it all, so far as ]
could see, quite as a matter of course
not the least abashed or discomposed by
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He is a graduate of the university and of
the law school and has been frequently
talked Of for a United States judgeship.
!, William H. Barnum is also a Yale man,
having been a c~lassmate of Frank II.
Plat, son of Senator Thomas G. Platt,
and a member of the law firm of Tracy,
Boardman & Platt. Mr.. Barnum was a
son of the late Senator Barnum, for
many years a democratic leader in Con-
necticut. Mr.. Bartlett is. still another
Yale man.
The speaker is said to have been. as
sured Of an income of $50, 900 a year, and
nus friends say that it will amount to
10000 more.
\, Mr.: Rsd has not yet decided whether
ne VIII lease a house in New York at first
or not. He is very hesitant about Civ
ing up the beautiful residence at Port
land, and he wishes to KEEP his cottage
at Grand Beach, Maine, for summer out
lngs. His wife and daughter, Miss Kitty
Reed. are, however, very fond of his So
c1ety and very fond of home life, so the
speaker finds himself hesitating between
one OF New York's palace hotels and a
residence on Fifth avenue. One thing is
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From the minute it became generally
known that Speaker Thomas B. Reed of
Maine had decided to retire from the
speakership there ensued the hottest kind
of a fight to name his successor as
speaker of the house of representatives,
a position which he has held SO long.
Each party has it's factions and a fac
ton has its candidate for the speaker
ship: and it is with the utmost impa-
fence that they wait to see who will be
appointed at the opening of the first reg
ular session of the Fifty-sixth congress.
There is Congressman Serene f. Payne,
who is looking out for the place. and
James S. Sherman of New York, who has
what is called a chance"
Ambitious Illinois brings out it's two
candidates in Congressman Joseph G..
Cannon of Danville and Albert J.. Hop
kins of Aurora. Both of these gentle
men have served in congress-, Cannon
having entered in the Fifty-fourth house,
as also did Hopkins.
A man who is very strong is General
Grosvenor of Ohio. who was the spokes-
man for President Mckinley on the floor
of the house. GroSvenOr has been in
Washington Size 1895 and has a very
large following among the Mckinley re-
publicans. besidesa great influence among
government officials.
General David B.. Henderson was prom
inently mentioned yesterday on the
streets of Washington, and another man,
William Hepburn, was also frequently
talked about. Hepburn entered ongres
from Clarinda. Iowa, in 1895. and Hen
derson came to represent his state in the
Fffty-fourth house. One of the objec-
ions to Grosvenor is said to be that he
is especially offensive to Platt, because
of the invectives the Ohioan hurled at
Platt in answer to the attacks the latter
made Upon Mckinley in 1896.
The Platt man is said to be Soreno E.
Payne Of Auburn, who succeeded the late
Nelson Dingley as chairman of the house
committee on ways and means.
Though Congressman Sherman has
anti-Platt leaders at the same time, the
fact that Congressman James j. Belden
and other Platt haters are backing him
and induced him to retire as United
States general appraiser to run fol-
speaker, has not helped him to secure
the support of the boss"
There is the rumor of a political swar
which hints at Reed for the republican
candidate for 1900. Platt's preference is
for Congressman Payne of Auburn ant
Reeds preference is for Sherman of New
York, but the democrats who are watch
ing things closely say that Reed will e
over to Platt's man if Plat will throw
his influence in for Reed so that he will
have a chance for the white house a yea.
hence.
All this is political gossip and you mus
not set it down in the back of the Bibl'
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THB F0RKED SPRIG

Being in Australia, living constantly
within the United States n being, to
my certain knowledge, a thoroughly loyal
daughter Of the same, saturated with
democratic ideas, Caroline Bake was not
the sort of a girl one would have expect
ed to find indulging to any great degree
in heraldic ~fancies.
In truth, one would not have suspected
her of INDUCING in fancies Of any kind.
She was not fanciful. but. on the con-
trary, a particularly accountable young
woman-6ne who could, anS sometimes.
in a deliberate, thoughtful Vvxy, would.
give a clear and consistent account of her
own motives-a ~clear-skinned, blue-eyed.
brown-haired girl, with a great deal of
f1rmness in the modelling of her chin and
much cultivated reasoning power under
her smooth, brown coils of hair.
And yet she had one fancy which we
all took to be heraldic. / suppose it was,
strictly speaking, something in that line.
It was the fancy of having a device and
a motto, not only stamped on her note
paper and envelopes. but engraved upon
every silver top of every glass
on her dressing table Il upon every one
of the tiny spoons on her afternoon tea
table. Some of the souvenir spoons Of
fered no surface large enough for the de-
vice, but Carrie never seemed to think
that a new spoon was really hers until
she had had that mysterious significant
mark engraved upon it somewhere,
even if had to be on the back of the bowl;
a sprig of maple, showing two leaves,
with the motto:
This is my pay"
Why l have called it mysterious is be-
cause she never would tell us anything
about it Its origin. or its meaning. We
knew there must be some story connect
ed with it. Carrie Bake would never
have taken up such an idea without a
reason.
Sometimes a new acquaintance, at one
of her afternoon teas-which had been
pleasantly renowned for at least five
years. since Carrie had made her debut
at the age of 1S-some a or woman
who came for the first time would ask:
lis this your family crest, Miss
Balke?'
And the answer would be:
II don't think my family ever had a
crest"
But never by any chance did she tell
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-06
HIS PHYSIOLOGY.

D you think Russia and Great Brit.
ain will disarm?" asked the An~glo-Saxon
caller.
"Really,' answered Lii Hung Chang.
who, of course, does not understand ele-
CANT distinctions in English. IT don't
know that it makes much difference to
me what they do with their arms so long
as their legs remain in pulling distance,'
Washington Star.
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HARD LUCK.

a poor little fellow called Vaughan
was playing one Gay on the ~laughan,
When a whirlwind came nigh,
Took him up to the skigh, -
And none could tell where he had
goughan.
New York World.
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certain. He will bring his library to New
York, and this means that Gotham will
become the nome of the finest law library
in the United States.
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FOLLOWING IN HIS FATHERS STEPS.

New York World,
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-27
American Artists to the Fore

London, April 27.-The press view OF
the Royal gallery exhibition has taker
place. The pictures will be on public
view from Monday next The American
artists are we'll to the front. Sargent
and Shannon divde~the honors in the
portraiture section with Ouless an6
Herkomer Sargent shows three fine
portralts-Mrs. c. Hunter, Miss Octavia
Hill and Lady Faudel Phillips. who is
represented in a perfect blaze OF dia-
monds. Shannon also has three strik'
ing portraits-Lady Ulrica Duncombe
the future bride of the bishop of Step
ney. the Right Rev. Arthur Foley Win
nington Ingram; Lord Cranworth and
Mrs Crombe.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-27

Will Mr.. Hersey's prediction come
true9 Wait, before you fix the price of
the water plant, gentlemen. We have
urged that the price be fixed long ago,
but delays are in fashion and few
months will make little difference. The
price will be the important question of
the present administration. But, good
citizens, give the whole matter thorough
consideration, and DO you not see by
what clever manipulations the die has
already been cast?
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-27

New Rochelle, N. Y, April 27.-NeW
Rochelle. the youngest city in the state
began its official existence at midnight,
when its charter as city became eff
fective. The mayor and the new city
officials were all in their offices in the
morning. receiving congratulations and
transacting business. The passing of
New Rochelle from township to city
government was marked with a big cell
ebration at night. There was a parade
of about 1000 men through the streets
from II p. m. to a few minutes before
midnight. Fireworks were exploded,
and steam whistles were kept going.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-27
HE COPPER COMBINATION.
.rcHs DAILY, the Mining King, Talk
on Proposed Trust.

ON Proposed Trust.
Chicago, April 27.-Marcus DAILY, the
Montana copper king" is at the Au-
ditorium, having arrived from New
York, where he has been for several
weeks. When asked about the copper
combine, he gave it to be understood
that the Anaconda property had not
been secured and professed to have no
knowledge that the trust had been con-
summated.
Il heard of this talk in New York. "
he said, land made inquiries among
some people who, l. thought, would
know something about it if the deal
had been carried through but none of
them knew anything more than l did.
1t may be that something was done in
New York Monday, as the advance in
stocks seemed to Indicate but If so 1
have received no definite knowledge to
that effect"
You think you would be apt to hear
if anything had been accomplishment
he was asked.
well, yes, l rather think | would, y
he replied, with a smile. Before the
scheme can be said to have been con-
summated some business will have to
be done with me. 1t looks as though
of a capitalization of $500 900 is nom
sense. That is a greatly exaggerated
figure. 1t would simply be impossible
to make fair earnings on such a capital
izatiOn"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-27
THE RALEIGH AT PHILADELPHIA.
Captain COHhlan to he In Command
on President'h VISIT.

Philadelphia, April 27.-The cruiser
Raleigh has arrived to take part in the
unwilling of the Grant monument. A
dispatch from Washington says:
Captain Coghlan will be in command
of the Raleigh when President McKin-
ley pays his visit Of state to the cruiser
Friday. 1t has been determined that
prior to the ceremonial visit. if at all,
no change shall be made in the COM
mand as the result of the utterances Of
Captain Coghlan. The president takes
the ground that it would be an unkind
and unwarranted reflection upon the Of
ficers and crew of the ship to abstain
from paying the visit which had been
arranged for and occupies prominent
place on the programme.
AS to the future course of the navy
department with respect to Captain
Coghlan, it is believed that the admin
istration of censure in the shape of a
letter from Secretary Long will suffice
to meet the needs of the case, particu-
larly as he is to be almost Immediately
relieved of his command on account of
the placing of the Raleigh out of COM
mission while undergoing extensive re-
pairs
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-27

The action of the city meeting in vo'
ting thirty cents per hour to the mem
bers of the board of aldermen called
forth discussion. While all believe the
city officials should be paid for actua
labor, vet we are confident that a ma.
jority of our taxpayers would prefer
that the aldermen be paid certain fixed
salary for the year and do away with
the housekeeping business"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-27

Wardner, Ia. April q. - The labor
strike continues with no evidence of
weakness on either side. The miners
have decided to concentrate their fight
on the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine,
which employs about 400 men. Twenty
nonunion men have yielded to the pleas
of the strikers and come out from that
mine. After long meeting the union
miners to the number of 400 marched
in body to the Bunker Hill and Sulli-
van and tried to induce the night shift
to come out. With few exceptions
they We're unsuccessful.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-27

rise in the price of copper is playing
havoc with the leading industries in the
midlands. At Kynochs patches of hun
dreds of men have been discharged
since the rise in the price of the metal
began. and now instead of 1000 men
only 1000 are at work there.
The government has decided not to
give any more orders for cartridge
shells while the present prices prevail,
and orders have been issued stopping
all the work possible. The electrical
firms are also losing business for the
same reason.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-27

st. Thomas, d. w. l., April 27.-Much
regret was expressed here at the sight
of Rear Admiral SIMPSONS fleet pass
ing this island without entering port.
The inhabitants recall the sympathy
expressed here with the United States
during the war with Spain and the coal
ing facilities allowed to the extent per-
mitted by the neutrality laws. 1t is also
pointed out that other islands which
were less sympathetic have been hon
ored by a visit from the American fleet.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-27
NAZDT7ERS At ODDS.
Two Reports Presented to the ASSEM-
bly, at Albany.
ONE URGES CONTINUANCE.
The Other. by Messrx. Hoffman ana
BOIand, Claims That Inquiry II
Futile and Should BE
stopped at Once.

Albany April 27.-The Mazet investl-
eating committee presented to the as
| sembly two preliminary reports one
from the majority and the other from
the minority. The former asks for more
power in the scope of investigation and
urges that the committee be empowered
to sit ad libitum during legislative va
cation, and the latter urges the futility
of further investigation and prays the
assembly to dissolve the inquiry.
The majority report offered by Mr.
Mazet states:
Besides producing public testimony
the committee have been actively en-
gagged in receiving and arranging for
public presentation complaints and spe-
cific acts of maladministration in many
of the departments of the city govern
ment. Your committee at this time pre-
fers not to attempt to draw any specific
conclusions from the testimony already
taken. 1t believes that a continuation
of the investigation will disclose evils
in the administration of the city gov
eminent"
The resolution then asks for an ex-
tension of time and also permission to
investigate New York and Kings county
ment.
The Minority Report.
The minority report signed by Mr.. Bo-
land and Mr.. Hoffman violently attacks
the workings of the committee. 1t states
in part
ut was pretended when the commit
tee was appointed that it's purpose was
for investigation along the lines of the
above enumerated charges. Although
the committee had at the outset been
denounced by both the press and pulpit
as a partisan and spitefu creation, 1t
was promised that in the impartiality
of it's work it would relieve itself in
some degree from the very general ad-
verse comment as to it's motive and real
purpose.
1.-The truth is that day by day public
contempt and Indignation regarding the
committee and it's methods have in
creased. 1t is accepted by an impartial
and intelligent public citizenship to be
a weak device to cloak the questionable
practices through which. during recent
years, legislation has become a profit
able partisan employment.
"The minority members of this COM
mittee believe this to be an imposition
upon the taxpayers of the state and the
public at large, which should be stopped
and not further countenanced by this
Legislature and therefore recommend
that the powers Of said committee be
not continued for the carrying on of its
useless, partisan and dishonest nvesti-
! CATION, the result of which is only to
waste the peoples money and bring
disgrace upon the state"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-27

3. The votes are printed on the inside of the
paper, at the top of the second page. Write
in the name of the lady you wish to vote for
and send to this office. In orderto be eligible to
this contest lady has to be living in Barre on
March 10, 1899, and continue to make her
home here during the contest. the only 9th.
er qualification is that she shall be over ID
years of aye.
4. The votes received each dav will he
counted at o'clock, and after they have been
credited, will he burnd.
All votes received after 1 pm. will be counted
for the next issue. The announcement of the
total vote will be made in the first issue after
June IS, 1899 and not before.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-27

Boston. April 27.-The Massachusetts
Catholic order of Foresters began it's
twentieth annual convention here. The
report of High Secretary Treasurer
James j. Mclaughlin showed the total
assets to be $15,37575; liabilities, $1,6O7;
receipts from endowment assessments,
$1S5 l40; number of deaths, 1920; mortu-
AIRY calls, 9, yielding $135, 344.74, of which
$751; was paid over to the members
or to the families of the deceased.