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The Senate is still considering the Ship
Subsidy bill. When the session opened,
it was expected that this measure would
be passed before the Christmas recess,
but now vote is not considered likely
until well along in January. One reason
for this is that some Senators who
are interested in trying to get amend
ments for further reductions in the Rev.
enue Reduction bill, think they have
more chance for success if the Ship sub
sidy bill is not passed before the other is
taken up. There has been no attemp5
on the part of the friends of the Ship
Subsidy bill to force vote, but no other
measure can be voted upon in the Senate
before it is, without their consent.
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scored triumph when the Revenue Re-
duction bill was passed by the House
just as reported from the committee with
the exception of one unimportant amend
ment striking out the clause which
abolished one-sixth and one-eighth beer
barrels. Chairman Paynehas received
many congratulations.
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Washington Letter.
president McKINLEY's attitude

president McKINLEY'S attitude
l toward the amended Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty has been SO persistently
misrepresented that the assumption is
fair that much of it has been intentional.
The q. S. Constitution gives the Senate
equal power with the President in the
making of treaties. Therefore, when the
Senate in its wisdom saw fit to amend
the treaty with Great Britain that had
been negotiated by the Executive branch
of the government, it was only exel-
cising its constitutional right, and it is
ridiculous to say it thereby furnished any
legitimate cause for objection, either ON
the part of President Mckinley or of the
government of Great Britain, and it was
an insult to the intelligence and patriot
ism of Secretary Hay, who was the Presi-
dents personal representative in the
negotiation of the treaty, to circulate
stories of his having threatened to resign
because the treaty was amended Why, the
author of bill passed by the House
which is amended by the Senate would
have as much justification for resigning
The large majority of the Senate, which
adopted the Davis amendment to the
treaty, by which this government re-
serves the right to control and defend the
Nicaragua Canal in its own way spoke for
itself, and the other proposed amend
ments, including the abrogation of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty will doubtless get
as large vote in the Senate. President
Mckinley does not regard this as any re-
Election either on himself or Secretary HAY
and when the amended treaty is ratified,
which it is hoped it will be before the
Christmas recess, he will at once forward
it to the British government. If the
British Government rejects it, that will
be its own affair. Opinion differs as to
whether the rejection of the treaty by
Great Britain would delay the Mic
aragua Canal. 1t might delay the begin
ming of that Canal, but 1t is very certain
that the delay would only be temporary,
as it would arouse public opinion in this
country to a pitch that would make the
speedy completion of the Nicaragua
Canal a certainty
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The House opened the third week of
the session by taking up and passing the
regular pension appropriation bill, which
carries little more than $145, ,OO0 900.
The Washington weekly post., 1900-12-04

came a customer. We came to be on quite
friendly terms, and I fiaitered myself
that he had not the slightest suspicion OF
the part L was playing. At one time ard
another ] was the means of enabling
number of householders to recover stolen
goods Saunders had bought, but the man
always evaded the law. 7 got to know
that he lived ir Jane street, only a few
blocks away, where he had a wife and
c2e child. One Of our men occupied q
room in the same house, and In a casual
way he had learned that Saunders was
home only two nights per week He came
and went as did my neighbor. Hadan.
A year after 1 began watching the bric-
a-brac shop there were complaints made
about a certain merchant tailor named
Dawson. He was making suits to order
so cheap that other tailors declared the
goods must be stolen. As a matter of fact
several bolts Of cloth stolen from tailor
in a town fifty miles away were found In
his shop. but he proved himself clear OF
the law by a narrow margin. / became
customer and an acquaintance. j
brought customers to him, as / had to
saunders. There we're many times when
we had glass of ale and pipe togeth-
er, and from the very outset l used my
best efforts TO get on TO his little game.
He continued to make suits to order far
cheaper than his rivals. but though his
shop was searched again and again no
more suspicious goods were found. Dav-
ison was full of talk and seemed TO be
without suspicion, but l got no inf0rma-
tiCn from him to help my case. / early
ascertained that he lived In Montgomery
place and had a wife and two children.
BY the merest accident / further learned
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By NJ QUAD.

When / retired from detective work
after an experience Of sixteen years. the
public press and my many friends were
Pleased TO say that had done excellent
service. On the whole. this praise was
deserved. but at the same time, In one
case at least, / had shown a stupidity
worthy OF the greenest patroIman on Lon
Gen's police force. / had been at Scotland
Yard for three years when ! removed my
family 10 Queen street. II was to an
apartment-hcuse, and We took the second
floor On the floor above was a married
couple named Hadan. The man, as /
came TO understand, was a manufacture
Ing jeweier In a small way. The Hadans
lived very quietly and made no display.
and the wife kept very much TO herself
Not as detective. but as an occupant.
learned that the husband was home only
two nights Per week-that Is, he came
home at o'clock on two evenings out OF
seven. remaining over night ana to break
fast. and was seen no more for FIVE days
This had been the programme for a year
before l came to the house, and / was
not bit curious over IL.
At about the time of my removal I was
set to watch in a general way a certain
dealer in hric-a-brao named Saunders. His
shop was good three miles from Queen
street. He dealt in all manner of art
goods secondhand, ana II had been pretty
well established that he bought goods
without asking any questions. In watch
him / assumed another identity, and be-
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you old beast. get along with you. Nov.
then. hesve. Oh. heave!'
Twenty minutes later the mighty rules
opened MS eyes TO find ammonia at his
nose and ice on his stomach, and when he
asked II the earthquake had killed any
one his grand secretary replied:
20 high and mighty. but the heels Of the
ass were on springs. and the springs
worked"
In other words" said the king. I've
been kicked into the middle OF next week
kY an assG"
That's about IL. o king"
i see. As pushed he kicked. Wei.
can't let things go tlis way. Grand sec
retaFy. for not knowing more about asses
you are bounced from your position: peas
ant. Tor not knowing all about 'em you
shall receive fifty lashes."
But we ask for justieer' cried both men
together.
Then you shall exchange places
But IL was the ass that did it!' they
chorused again
Then he shall die"
20 ruler" said the peasant. 'if you
had kept away from the ass heels you
wouldn't have been kicked"
"Ah. that's something liker' replied the
king as he rose up. las IL now transpires
that there were two asses instead OF one
and as IL is hard 10 tell which ass was mos
20 blame. we'll call the whole thing OF anc
go over and look at those pumpkins.
want TO know how the seeds get inside
en-"
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The Pine Trrs Hau.s.

Prom HsFDsfs HzSszise.
During the long summer afternoon the
children played amid the branches In the
Dine-tree house.
Through the green r0sf overhead they
could see the big white clouds drifting
quietly across the blue sky that glltterea
behind the dark pine needles.
Frem the many gr6sn-curtained win
do.s they could look down gpcn the gar
den far below. where the gravel paths
twinkled in the sunlight. where the gayly
colored butterflies sailed slowly from bios
som to blossom. where the birds hoped
about on the short. cool grazs. and where
the flowers EEayed before the breeze that
wove In and out the thin shadows lying
upon the garden and against the walls OF
the house. The shadow Up in the pine-tTee
house was broad and. dark. IL spread over
the children. and. sliJing down from the
edge Of the platform fiOOr. rested among
the pine needles Ia the remote depths be-
low.
In thsir lofty dinlng-Toom the children
played tea party. The bright tin dishes
and pieces os broken ehiEasare were
spread out on the boards. Thsye was wa.
ter for the tea. sifs cone for shs bread
loaf. grass for the salad. and dish Of
cherries for the dessert. What the ehll.
dren ate tasted very good. In fancy. 10
them, and they thought the doll enjoyed
u quite as much a. themselves.
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By George Ade.
tt; + I asiiti

him in French. which he could not unde--
stand. They said he was a Hommarj,
the same being French for Lobster.
Stop all this Hifalutin' Tomfooleryr'
exclaimed the Old-Timer, with Rising
Anger. Talk United States and don't
Jabber. How are you on the Spell?'
I'VE don't Monkey with Spelling any
more" replied the Boy. I'VE simply start
in and learn TO Read the first Crack out
OF the Box"
We'll, since sou ara so Cay. lei me ask
you il you can make a Bird IN the Free
Arm Movement without taking the Pen
from the Paperg'
Say. you must be Fossil Of the Low
er Silurian Epoch" said the boy. Who
ever dug you up ought to have labeled
you and pat you In a Cabinet. We don't
make Scrolls any more. The Vertical Sys-
tenn is now the Whole Thne<
And l guess ihatn Hold you for a
While" said the Biggest Boy In the
Room. II think you'll Lie Quiet for a
few minutes after that Last One
Where do all you Sophisticated Br1ts
get your Rich Vocabulary of slang?" ask
cd the Old-Timer who was now thor
oughly Warm under the Collar. rs that
included in your Course OF Studies alsoY'
NO, we acquire that at Home" said
the Little Girl who had first spoken.
Yes, and most Of you have acquired
about three Quarts too much for your
own Good" said the old-Timer. II may
be few Stacks shy on this Billy Baxter
style Of Kidding and ] don't claim 10
know how to cut up a Rat or design a
Bolt Of Wallpaper, but think can give
al Of you several Homely Hints on Gen.
eral Department and Respect for your
| Elders"
With that he produced one of the Cads
and made Come-Along Sign to the Big
gest Boy.
What are you going to do?" asked the
Boy. turning pale.
You" was the Response. for the Old
| Timer was On 70 a few OF these Farce
| Comedy Gags.
Surely you must know that Corporal
Punishment has been relegateds TO the
Archives OF our Educational System and
Violates every Tenet OF the new Science
OF Mind-Culture, said the Boy.
i have not read This Years League
Rules, said the Old-Timer "but know
| what is Coming to you"
we must be governed by Moral Sua-
sion, said the Argumentative Youth. "If
am not susceptible to the ordinary Dis
! ciptne, then | may be Punished By being
| Dismissed from the Room"
Il don't call IL Punishment unless Won
/ can count the Welts," said the Old-Timer.
i attribute my own Success as Book
Keeper in Hardware Store TO the Fact
/ that / was pounded Black and Blue at
/ least three times Week, all during those
! Happy Days at the Little Red School
| House. The Only Way 10 dispel the Lat
/ ent Cusse1ness from a Chid's System is
! To Thrash il out" Saying which he
/ grabbed at The Boy, who broke ground
and Feinted with his Left and worked
| the FitZsimmons Shift and had the Old
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Timer spinning like Top. Then the Boy
cid the Jab-dnd-Retreat Act a few times
and waited for an Opening before he put
in the famous Corkscrew Punch and
terminated the Battle.
They helped the Old-Timer back into
his Chair an5 busted his Clothes and cx-
planned TO him that there was g Gymna-
stun in connection with the School. hav-
| ing retired Welter- Weight as Instructor
/ in Physical Culture.
you should have slipped in an Upper
Cut when he spread his Guard" said the
Little Girl with Glasses, as she straight
ened his Cravat for him. You certainly
had your nerve with YOU to'take On our
Plunging Half-Bacl, who has been in
Training all Fall"
children, you are one too many for
me-" said the OldTimer, meekly. II am
q Has Been OF the First Water, and give
In before Neral Suasion. School is dis
pissed."
Moral-Stay with the procession or yon
viii never catch up in these days.
Copyright 1870. by Robert Howard Russell)
The Washington weekly post., 1900-12-04
HEARD IN THE WOODS.

was Jogging along over an Arkansas
highway on horseback, with a settlers
cabin about half mile In advance. when
/ saw something kick up a dust a few
rods ahead and heard the report of a ri
fe. ] reached the cabin TO find a man
with a gun In his hands, and his face
wore a smile as he said:
Stranger, how nigh did the bullet come
to your
mot within ten rods" replied.
"Shoo! She don't carry as fur as /
thought fur
Ibid you aim at meT'
Plumb fur your hat, sab. but / hope
you won't feel put out about IT, She's a
new gum and was Jest tryin' her range
Fine weather. sab. and mebbe you could
git away with drink from a jugy''
AS the train had half an hour TO wait
| on a siding, a dozen or more of us whiled
the time away shooting at a squirrel In a
tree just outside the railroad fence We
had fired perhaps thirty shots when an
old negro came out of the woods beyond
the tree, carrying his hat In bis hand.
Pointing 70 a bullet hole In the dilapi-
dated headgesr, he demanded:
Now, den, whar Is dat white man who
shot dat bulletY
No one could say. as we had all been
firing, but one OF the shooters finally
stepped forward and said
''See here. Moses IL was an accident
and, though IL was close shave, you
have not been hurt"
But fze got q chill, sab. When dat
| bullet went ping frew my ole hat /
Fought was dun fur and killed dead, an
It's brung de ager back on me-"
We'll, how much damages do you
claim?'
"Fo' bits. sah-fo' bits. an not a penny
less doan want 10 rob NOBODY. but dat
bullet might hev went frew my head"
We raised the half dollar and handed IL
over End es Moses dropped II into his
pocket and turned away, he continued:
"Doan feel hard. gemlen, but owed a
duty 10 my family. Ell dat bullet had kill
ed me, oe ole woman would heV stuck out
fur two big dollars. chen If It broke ds
hun crowd" g
Just before reaching the State line d
came upon a squatter's eablr with the
squatter himself smoking MS pipe at the
door. and when / turned In 20 ask him for
gc'rd OF sprins water. he cheerlly cali
ed ou,. tu
''Howdy, stranger! What's the news9'
Wei. II looks IKE war ia Europe.
answered as ! sat down beside M
Il don't keer nuthin' bout Yurup. what
elseY'' he replied 70
They think the cholera may reach us
this year.
'Doa rot the chOleral Haia't thar nu,h.
IN more7''
Perhaps you have heard about the
great coal mine disaster IN EnglaadY" /
asked.
30. and dent wanter"
BEt sou asked for news"
SaTiin did. and want news. I want
ef know u TIE price OF tefbacker has rlz.
! HaHtfF know What moonshine whisky
y wutn down IN knoxville: I Nsnisr
KNOW II you un has met up with anybody
VINO has killed ore OF them d0d fOttsd
Fegenew fsllers lately: i wanter kuoW
WHY IN sin the owner Of this oneTy patch
% land don't cum down yeFe and drive
oie on and rouse up my pesiifcT0us am
blsnun 20 get move on me, II you'ys
got that sDTtsr news. stranger sp4e 'sf
out ana make me happy. III YOU hain'f
why. Jog along % BIZ Whites place. aad
leave me to suck this Old pipe and Keen
on with my thinkinw
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UNCLE ELl'S LOGIC.

Hammer" says I TO my wife. sin ex-
ehangin' dozen eggs with peddler for a
tin dish the ether day. did you put in
three Rad oneg7"
Il did, Eli" she replies.
THAT was well. Always get the advan-
tage of a peddler if you can"
But he beat me, after all. The dish
leaks in three or four places"
THAT is better Not only should a ped
dler always seek 10 get the advantage
over housewife. but the housewife who
will deliberately try TO swindle poor but
honest man deserves 10 be tricked."
l went over TO see ST Williams the other
evening and get his opinion as 10 how the
tion.
"silas." says I. this old United States
is on the verge of ruin"
"She IL, Eli." he replies.
And it's our duty TO save her II we
can"
III certainly is"
me TO the legislature will do the trick.
What do you believer"
Il believe that sendin' me there will do
-
''Sias. you are an ass"
"Eli, you are "A. blamed fool
And the next day | heard that while we
were wastin' our time calm each other
names. a feller who didn't care 2 cents
whether America went up or down got
the nomination away from both OF Us.
Eli" says my Baptist neighbor to me
as we sat on the doorstep one day. ITS
your bounden duty TO embrace religion"
"Mebbe." says l.
"And IN embraein' a religion you want
20 git the right kind-sunthin that will
stand BY you. l want 10 see you a Bap-
tist"
''Thsnkee." rays /. "and I'll think II
over"
Next day my Methodist neighbor gifts 10
beside me on the orchard fence and SAYS:
Ell. you are a good neighbar, but you
amt no pTofessed Christian"
That's H. Gays l.
But you ought TO be one of Us You
ought 10 come out and jine the Metho-
dists. It's plain, straight religion, and
yOu can't 90 amlss with ID /"
said I'd think IL over. and next day
the two OF EN- happened 10 some over to
my barn at the same time. sunthin was
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skin Cap and the tangled Back Hair was
blazing the way for co-educational Nor
nal Schools and Mother Conventions, the
Old-Timer had been regarded as a first
class Instructor.
When be applied for a School in his
Day and Generation he did not have TO go
before a Superintendent I'm a Black Chew
iot Suit and tell why y is to Y as the
Known is to the Unknown. or what Crops
they gather on the Head Waters Of the
orinoco. II the Applicant was big enough
ic throw a Horse and had licked the Bad
Nan Of the Township at a kissing Bee,
be was given the School then and thera
on the First Dls he always selected the
Biggest Boy arI got the Hammer-Lock
ca him and Wrcssled him around on the
Puncheon Floor and upset Furniture II
De made the Boy veil "Enoughr he was
n Fixture even II he did not know the
difference between Diphthong and Semi
colon.
The Scholars brought Red Apples 10
him. and he held the Book at n Spelling
Down with no chance for an Argument.
Now it happeGed that the Old-Timer
had a Daughter who had reached the
Home-Suetch without being Asked. so
she was Teaching. And she was keeping
up with Advanced Methods, which were
as a Sealed Book TO the Old-Timer, who
had not set foot within a School Room
for more than fOrty-five years.
one Morning the Daughter was 1T and
told her Father he had better notify the
Main Squeeze so that her PUPILS could
be given a Holiday. The Old-Timer said
there wac no necessity OF turning into
the Street a Band Of Children who were
Painting for knowledge and anxious to
improve every FlUing Moment He said
IL was rather quiet around the Hardware
Store and they could spare him. so he
would so down end give the Rising Gen
Grafton a slight Boost toward Useful Citi-
zenship.
He went out and cut three Gads OF about
the size needed to convince a Mule. When
the Children, with Faces shining bright
answered the Morning Bell they found
the Old-TimeT seated at the Desk.
Now, Children. which do We tackle
hrit-Readin', 'Ritin', or 'Rithmetic?" he
asked. The assorted Batch representing
our Country's Hope exchanged G'ances
as II TO ask, who left the Door oDen?''
and then they gave him the Ha-Hal
Are YOU having Fun with pe2' asked
the Gd-Timer, severely.
You'd better have some one wake vou
mp" said little Snip of Girl who wore
Glasses. who has been Stringing you?
The idea OF our trihing with the Rudi-
ments YOU mention is really IpskalOrious. -
That's what they used TO Teach, said
tle Old-Timer. who was so Flustered that
D. had 10 Spar for Wind.
Il, must have been a long time since
sll the Fresh Little Girl. you don't
look IS If you had been On Earth since
the Year OF the Big Wind. IF you don't
know how 10 get away with this job, you
ought not to go against It. You are what
Charles Francis Adams would call
TpaCnalorum"
i DO not know who Charles Fraacis
ADAMS Is, and ! never saw a Peachalorum,
bat / am the Boy In charge here to-day
4Hl ! refuse 10 be Joshed," said the Old
Timer, with some Asperity. IF the Cur
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The Art Of Bernhardt.

From Earpers Magazine.
1t is a proof of the genius which is uni
versally accorded to Sarah Bernhardt that
her manner has undergone a constant
modification corresponding to sthe devel-
opment in her own conception of dramatic
art, which has become increasingly more
elevated and comprehensive. In her youth
she was very pretty woman with
fair complexion, and charming counte-
nance. at once sweet and expressive; she
possesses that musical voice which has
been called la yoix dor, and which poet,
in speaking Of her. once described as "une
yoix blonde" Her physical advantages
are all made subservient 10 her ends. She
acts. as 1t Is the fashion to say. with all
the forces of her being. but her gifts,
which were very evenly developed In her
education at the Conservatoire. have made
her as great in tragedy as in comedy; or,
to speak more exactly, she ignores those
limitations of genius TO which custom and
precedent confine the artists Of our day
limitations which only result In an excess
sive restriction of talent from over-spe-
eial!Zation. Sarah Bernhardt, then, Is BY
nature an interpreter Of the French class
les. and in particular OF the works OF Ra-
cine. The phrase psychological stage" Is
modern, but the conception is very old.
Raeine's dramatic art is limited in Incl
dent. and Is satisfied with very simple sit
uations, but II excels all others in its
marvellous analysis OF the emotions. and
Of the struggles 20 which they give rise
in the human soul. Sarah Bernhardts
genius, In my opinion. found the essen
tials OF its evolution in the study OF this
particular authors dramatic art At the
beginning Of her career she was a come
dienne. led thereto by her natural gifts,
by which. however. she was. as always
happens in such cases. very little govern
ed. She developed into a thoughtful and
accomplished actress possessing psyche
logical insight in the highest degree, and
man.festing II in complete detail. al the
same time that she depleted sentiment
and passion In all their delicacy or yio-
lence, and invariably sustained the char
acter OF the heroine, or Of the hero, whom
she reuresented