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PIE, kiHtiyt SLOW
spoken old man, with the gentlest face,
framed with white hair. s. q. Griswold,
the president Of the State Bankers as
ISOLATION, is n country-bred diamond
merchant. Ellis Ii. Roberts, Of the
franklin, is a country editor from
Utica. Joseph G. Hendrix was coun-
try boy, and was Brooklyn reporter
IS years ago. 4. b. Hepburn. of the
Third, was barefooted schoolboy in
northern New York not so very long
ago. W. II. Kimball, of the Seventh,
comes from the same little village of
1000 people, away up In st. Lawrence
county. II all the villages of the coun
try furnished bank presidents to the
city in like proportion, there would be
thousands OF them instead of dozens.
All these men are plain people, liking
plain ways, not in society as in a coun-
try village they might be. And just as
uuaffectedly glad 10 see or be Of use to
an old friend rs If they had stayed on
the farm. They all gained their posi-
tions through politics; through APP
pointmeHts as bank examiners, or
through displaying understanding OF
financial questions as members Of con
gress or as comptrollers of the cur
reucy.
The city is perpetually on the look
out for bright men from the country
who can do things. The enormous
growth Of business makes IL the hard
est problem to find men of sufficient
ability TO run big machines.
\ man who directs business employ
ing 1000 employees said TO me the other
day:
''Do you know what is the hardest
thing 10 do these days? 1t is 10 find
competent men. That's the real prob
lem of the trusts. They consolidate
and merge interests; the thing looks
right on paper; then comes the diff
culty-there isn't anybody who can
run so big an enterprise. They put in
the best man they can get hold Of, and
he's usually very good; but he'd have
TO be more than mortal IL he could man
age 80 different factories in as many
different parts OF the United States.
That's why quality of product falls off.
They can't get the men"
When they look for the men to man
age banks they look for them In the
country.
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any SO encyclopedia II yen had asked

any SO encyclopedia If yen had asked
me. They're in Egypt.
Good girl! Who says the higher
education lis wasted on womeng They
didn't tell you about the Subian pyra-
mids at the seminary, did they, OF the
Mexican pyramids7 Didn't happen to
mention them? ! guess little course
of home instruction wouldn't damage
you. That's the idea I had in get
ting that set. thought naturally
ambitious and intelligent woman like
you would be anxious TO store her
mind with the knowledge and the Wis
dom Of the ages. / expected that these
long, dark winter evenings We would
pull down the window shades and
turn on the cheerful gas CRATE, and
then we'd start in at Aaron Aar'
and ''Abacus' and work our way
through to 'zwei beer II there hap
pened to be anything that the ency-
clopetlia didn't have the very latest
on then I'd be there TO supply the
lack OF information
well. I'll tell him 10 call around
and see you at the office"
''You can do that n you like.
guess that would be about as good a
way ms any. lie can explain his little
system TO me, and can understand 1t
so that there won't be any trouble
when the payments come due. Yes.
don't you bother your head any more
about IL. just send him around TO
me-"
Yes, and then you'll say you don't
want the piano"
"I'd be telling the worst kind Of q
10 II said did"
"oh!"
Now, see here, Elizabeth. my queen.
you talk about me geeting useless
things, and I'm free 10 admit that that
folding bed was against my better
Judgment"
THAT folding bed is the most useful
piece OF furniture we've got In the
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Possibly Future whose name was
Hank President, not heard even 1--we
years ago, He is the hrother-iu-law OF
William Rockefeller. and William
Rockefeller is the brother Of John u.
Rockefeller, the richest man in the
world. The power Of this enc family
has made the bank not only by far the
biggest in the United States. but con-
parable with the great banks ahroad
the Bank 81 England. The Bank Of
France. the Ruthsehilds.
The hauk corporation has bought
from the United States government
the old customs house site. As seen as
the new custom house is built, the old
Que will be torn down, and a new sky
serapsr costing SEINE S5.eo0.o0 viii
take its place. The hank paid some
$500 600 for the land. which is at the
eostliext corner in the world. With a
single sheet OF newspaper spread out
sou can cover s.. AGO worth OF land al
the corner of Wall and Tread streets.
Just below the custom house site, plans
have iast been approved for the erection
% another so-Story building costing
"a. 00o. 0oo.
II the National city hank Is the pet az
the Roekefellers, the Chemical national
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
SHE GOT THE PIANO.
By Kenneth F. Harris.


WE don't get 1T this way l
don't see how we're going 10 get
IL at ALL" said Mrs. Bolcombe, refer
ring TO the new piano.
ITS quite likely" replied her bus
band, as he bent down to iaes lis
shoes. II don't quite see the necesd-
~ Of getting II at all myself"
"You don'tl Why, james Boleombe.
II you've complained about this one
once you've complained about IL 40
times. And the last time the man
tuned II you said II was IA useless ex-
peuse, and that he could never make
IL sound like anything again"
II deny that most positively"
ayes, ] suppose mnde that all up.
II seems as II couldn't say anything
any more without you as much as
telling rue I'm saying something that's
not true
II said he could never make 10 sound
like anything but drny load Of steel
rods rafting over granite pave
meut."
Il suppose you thought that was
smart"
"Why, not particularly. Have you
got that button sewed ON my over
coat?''
NO, I haven't. You will have 10
get another set, guess. ! haven't
got u button In my basket that will
come anywhere near matching. Hut
about that piano7"
"Neii, what about it7"
well, you own yourself that II .an-
noys you 10 hear IL played"
THAT'S easily fixed don't play H."
Thank you. I'm sure you're very
Kind and very considerable. 1 ought to
have known TINT you were opposed TO
my having any kind OF amusement.
] suppose | ought 60 be attending TO
the homework instead OF thinking
about pianos. You might just as well
tay IL. | know you want to-
You're % mind reader. Past, pres
ent and future revealed. Nothing hid
from my mysterious power Can tell
II the one you love is true. All bust.
ness 49,"
"oh, hushi"
II didn't begin the conversation.
Well, ] believe it's about time for me
20 go, anyway Was there anything
you wanted downtown"
II wish you would sit down and talk
this matter over seriously and sen.
sihly.
"Whnt natter"
III believe you are just trying 10 be
aggrayatlng. The plano, of course.
What am 10 tell the agent II he calls
today"
81 don't know. I'm sure. Take the
most II them and you cant tell them
anything -ihcy know II all, Stlil. 4
you find him willing 10 learn. you
might think up something or either to
tell him. What kind of "a looking man
Is heP Would you say he was posted
on archaeology, for instancee''
"IIe seemed to recognize the make
OF our old piano. and he gave a pref
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-
and does not care much fer simple
pleasures. Mrs. Gould has always been
the pink Of propriety. and IL is a signiti-
cant fact that no one doubts for an in
slant that she will accommodate her
ways TO the less conservative ones Of
her new associates,
But there is a set TO which Mrs. Gould
is not yet admitted. IL is headed by
the Astors, Gerrys and Gallatins, has
Wilson's for doorkeepers. and would in
clude the Nanderbilts but for the an
fortunate quarrel in tina family over
the marriage of Cornelius, Jr., to Miss
Wilson. Mrs Stuyvesant Fish is the
great lady of the younger element in
this set.
The Nanderbilts really form. with
their numerous connections, a party
by themselves. Then there Is on the
outside Of all the truly smart groups
another composed OF the Tuxedo
crowd" and the "Westchester crowd. :"
Not one OF these sundered and some-
times warning clans has the claim to
undisputed primary. II the Aston
Gerry-5allatin combination have a
shade the best Of Il. the Belmont ranks
come easily next. So Mrs Gould hasn't
done 50 badly in securing an admit
lance Ia il.
From a social viewpoint. Of course.
But there are others.
OWEN I.ANGDoN
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~ good guess as TO its date. Now.
James, seriously. don't you think we
could afford a new plano by cutting
down little ON some of our other ex.
penscse'
II suppose We might. There's tho
rent. Of course. | don't see how we're
going 20 get around that proposition
still. here We are eating three times
n day, week Ia aud week out We
might try 10 do without food The
flrxt thing doctor tells you when he
comes is that you've been eating some-
thing or other. | suppose yen know
that there's five months more ON that
folding bed
That's only three dollars month. :"
And a year On the encyclopedias -
"That was Nour idea. getting that
! don't see what earthly use they are
20 you. You hayen'i locked into one
Of them since the night they came.
and l don't suppose you ever will.
The idea of paying $40 for a few old
books And then you talk as II was
20 blame for Il"
Il never accused you Of anything 80
sensible, The fact that don't have
TO refer 20 them very often myself il
merely heearse-well. because I'm
pretty well Informed on most Suh-
iec4s. AZ the same time Il was only
the other day | had forgotten about
the exact location Of the pyramids
mi--.
y could have told you that without
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r,..,,... c.nro, ne curea

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way TO cure deafness, and that Is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an infiamed condition OF the mu-
eous lining of the Eustaehian Tube. When
this tube gets infiamed you have rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases of of ten are caused by eatarrh,
which is nothing but an infamed condition
OF the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case OF Deafness fcaused by catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, BE.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Near Unto Greatnes..

A Louisville woman who spent the sum-
mer at famous mountain resort in Vir-
ginia declares that, like all other places
of the kind, it has its star boarder.. This
one was a young southern girl..she was
not pretty, yet far from being homely;
there was no special style about her, and
she was as heavy on hand as log, and,
last OF all, she was not particularly rich.
But she iorded il over the place, and all
the other boarders walked behind like the
sister OF #giddy "Dodo. - The Louisville
woman lost sleep-trying TO find the key to
this social mystery. One day she chatted
with the female potentate. They talked on
and on until finally the subject turned on
the Davis fam. you know any OF
them" she asked z.-
No" replied the girl-who walked before,
grandly, "but / just missed travelling on the
train once with Winnie Davis. "
And then the other women from the south
gazed reverently at the "ipst missed, and
the Louisville lady exclaimed, softly:
Eureka! "-Louisville Times. ~
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Sullivan is no liar. This that he said
was the truth.. He is poor man. and
one Of the most remarkable ones that
ever walked Broadway. His poverty is
almost solely the result OF bad business
capacity and unreasoning generosity.
The man never spent even ten thousand
year upon himself. A whole continent
Of things ardently desired by the ay-
erage spend thrift were unknown 20
him. He does not care for rare etchings
or finely bound books or paintings or
luxurious quarters. lie hasn't Travelled
for fun. But he has made fortunes for
other men. which Is an expensive bust
ness. And while his hand held dollar
IL has never been shut TO the call of
want, renl or assumed.
Even IN the days when Sullivan was
enrning sums vastly beyond his needs
he always had "backer." lie seemed
incapable of managing his own
finances. lie set up in saloon of his
own, first in Boston. afterward In New
York. hut neither lasted long. Yet there
isn't In New York to-day-althoug
there have been three champions since
he left the ring man who is so truly
a popular fayorite as he. His name is
worth money. lie could earn $4,000 or
$4,000 year even now ms q dealer in
sporting goods or an actor or in any
such capacity. He prefers. as he has
always preferred, 10 take less money
from some one who will do his thinking
for him.
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booze an -~ then
fight" And this comes near being the
truth. The man has done his best to
destroy a magnificent constitution, but
he is to-day in apparently good health
and fine muscular condition. barring
the curse OF nearly all prize fighters,
Int
think the last great tour made by
Sullivan was when he went 10 Carson
City to report the Corhett-Fitz prize
fight for the New York World. OF
course not word of the report was
written hy him; a stenoRrapher sat at
his elbow and took down his comments
as they fell from his lips. All the way
10 the scene Of the expected contest
throngs gathered TO see the train which
bore thceX-champion No matteratw what
hour the train stopped there would be
great crowd some Of whom had
driven 20 miles. clamoring for a sight
Of the great man. And with reason
able amount OF growing sullivan would
arouse himself, go out upon the plat
form and rra,ely bow to his admirers;
perhaps make his one famous speech
for the nobody knows how manyth
time that speech that ends with
yours truly, John l.. sullivan"
When the outfit got back TO New
York some one asked the sporting cd
itur who had II In charge:
How did old John behave"
Gle bore himself like a Roman en-
peror. weary with adulation, but re
solved 10 suffer It for the public good, ="
replied the editor. II was pretty good
phrase; Il describes John H. as well now
as Il did the day It was uttered.
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The MASTER.

'"rhere IL an artist greater far
Than any child OF earth
His touch nsade bright the Christmas star.
And glorifieA each mortaFs birth.
lie draws the deep and vital lines
On chiidhsod's careless face.
o. brew and lips ne sets his signs.
The hard-woa battles lasting trace.
''fIs holds the throbbing heart Of man
In strong and tender hands;
lie moids It as no other can.
unttl at last II understands.
And all who win ON earth below.
And all who losing. gain
Must, dyIns. all His beauty know,
And bless the loving master Palm
John Curtis Underwood. In Ainslee's
Magazine
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house. What do you suppose we'd have
hadn't had IT,"
THAT'S so. I didn't think Of that.
Well. we'll say you made wise play
when you got the bed. hui what | want
to know is what you want with a pi.
ano2"
"To play, OF course
81 think you are just politely string
ing me. You've got a pianoin the house
now. How often do you play Il. tell me
that? Once day? Twice week.
Once month"; Say. have you touched
that piano half dozen times In the last
year except when you've busted it?"
"rhe last time played II you got
mad and kicked over the music rack -
and | don't blame you"
well. I'm glad YOU do me justice. or
course, | know that I'm not properly
accountable for the deficiencies OF your
musical education; az the same time
what I'm properly accountable for
doesn't always cut Ice"
"fou know perfectly well what
mean Nobody could play that old
thing and get any music out Of H..
There was time when you thought
could play James You didn't talk
about the deficiencies OF my musical
education hrnl"
well, guess didn't, What 30 YOU
take mo fora bid think you we've In.
,itluE criticism Ia those daysP Not 1T
tie Elizabeth She wanted me to tell
her how sweet she was and how
II wish you'd talk sense. Now, look
here, james, this isn't going 60 cost us
SO very much, and the agent save he
viii allow Us 500 on the old one I'm
sure We couldn't get that for it II we
wanted TO sell H."
"Will he throw in an electric blue
plush cover and an imperial expansion
stoolP"
II don't know whether he will or not.
IN do without them II you get the
piano"
u was going 60 propose getting you
the stool and the cover - compro-
mise, suppose We struggle alonr Ave
or six years and get this Instrument
about half paid for, and then lose my
iohg How about thatF DO We acquire
any eegaity as We so along. or will they
send round d van and tear Il out Of our
happy home the first time We fall down
on an inStallments II could get uon-
contestable policy on a good piano and
arrange my own terms OF surrender |
might take day Oft and think il over.
As IL Is. and taking into consideration
the vanity of earthly hopes aud the nu-
liability Of Jobs, | must ask you II you
will kindly hunt up m, gloves I'm pret-
" sure laid them dawn with the pack
ages / brought In last night Hurry,
please. my dear"
I'm not To have that piano. then 90
II har,ity see how we can manage ID
for a few years"
And you've been talking FOR the last
hour as II YOU meaut to buy IL, leading
me on TO believe We We're going 70 have
something decent al something
that l Wouldn't he mortified to death
all the time 60 have our friends SEE
just to disappalnt me at last think
YOU are Just as m.m mean a. You ran
h.b.hs, aud
"oh, we'll. II you really want the thing,
OF course You ear have IL. Sure thingi
Well, you just bet you can have Il. Let's
look over the catalogue. Chicago
Daily Record.
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Stnte.mnn.hlp.

II suppose" she said to the distin-
guished senator that the man who Is
most successful in politics never votes
on a question until he has found out
where the majority Of his constituents
stard on H."
No." he replied; "the most success
full man in politics votes for the thing
that will bring him the largest returns.
and then eonstnees the majority Of his
constituents that IL was the right thing
TO do. Chicago Times-Herald.
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An Appeal to Humanity Generally.

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will Immediately give your order attention.
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new Cable lines.

France is absolutely dependent upon Eng
land for news of the Transyaal war, because
the cables are under her control, and she is
ready to spend vast sum OF money to free
herself. This is like many people, who, after
SLOWING dyspepsia to settle upon them, spend
fortune seeking deliverance. Save your
money and try Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
the medicine which never fails to cure dys-
pepsia, constipation, biliousness, malaria,
fever and ague.
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Whore she Wa. reeII.h.

Il wish now. shrieked the angry
Young wife. II wish now, Frederick
Harrison. zen had married Edith Mac
m&hon instead OF mel That's what
wish"
al would have married her" YELLED
the Infatuated husband. only she
wouldn't have use aud you would. -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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sszzaszzZgss 80
MoneU, Philosophy and
Society," in Gotham :. :.

bank Is that of the vanderbilts. 1t is
very different affair. Its capital is
only $3o0. 900, but every share CO the
nominal value Of SfG0 is worth in the
market from $4,000 upward; or more ac-
eurately, nobody knows how much it is
worth, as it never comes into the mar
ket.
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The Million polar Potato.

Most talkedof potato on earth; the next
is Sunlight; which is fit to eat in IS days
Send this notice and Sc to John A. Salzer
Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, for their great
eatalog. nj
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II years. > n y,
Young Teller. ! was
somtthin' m ore
ilan that. | was
= fighter. 1hey's
bceH n heap o
fighters. but old
John l.. was the
only man Of them
all tiInt could fight
an drink am booze
an sight an drink
sOiIR' more an go
IN lats from one
md Of the country
to he other
for IL years an
fight an drink an
-
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That little boy % links Is won
derfuils bright chap"
"Tho one Who reei,edg"
"Yes."
'nne ot the brlehtest enildrrn eve,
met IN bet that v hen he gets to be as
old as his fats-r he'n he too slnar, to
make his children get up and speak
pieces ~ ushlugten Sta.
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wealth In Northern Arkansas.

Is the title of an illustrated pamphlet CIV
ing detailed information relative to the min
ing region OF Northern Arkansas, conceded
by experts to be the richest zinc and lead
mining district in the world. This district,
practically undeyeloped, offers investors the
opportunity OF lifetime. The pamphlet will
be mailed free. Address j. 4. Lockwood,
Kansas City, Mo.
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lion dollars DF MS
puissant fists. Call
Ing his public ca
reer 20 years, that
would be at the
rate of $4,000 per
year upon an ay-
eruge. Yet John
went into court
the other day and
testified that he
has 70 means ex-
cept his salary as
manager of anoth.
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wbnt wn.LnckInr.

''That waiter of yours is the slowest ever
struck, said fat customer.
"Well, if you had a wagon, and the wheels
didn't work TO suit you, what would you dog
asked the restaurant proprietor.
"Why, I'd grease 'em."
"Weil, why don't you grease the
waiter?"-Yonkers Statesman.
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Old Surliboy-"H ullo, fellowl What are
you doing here?" Rustic-"0nly courtin'
sir. Use courtin' Mary" Old Surliboy-
"Nonsensel What do you want lantern
for? Do you think used one when was
a young man." Rustic-"No, sir; don I
think as yer did, judgin' by t misss!"-
London Fun.
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are the most pleas
ant aud approach
able Of men. There
isa reason for
this.
They are almost
without exception
o u n try bred.
5tillman was born
and brought up in
central New York.
ge e. VIII
liams, the presi-
dent OF the Chem
zeal bank, is a sim
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the temporary de-
pository of the In
ternal revenue
funds, which has
ten millions Of
capital, FAR over a
hundred million
OF deposits, and Is
a power in Wall
street.
Mr.. Stillman. the
president of the
bank. is a man