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Il BIG LEAK.

One of the things which the Presi-
dent was really and properly strenuous
about in his message was the waste of
money in public documents He said:
There is growing tendency to provide
for the publication of masses Of docu-
ments for which there is no public de-
mand. and for the printing of which
there is no real necessity. Large num-
bers of volumes are turned out by the
government printing presses for which
there is no justification Nothing should
be printed by any of the departments
unless it contains something of perma-
nent value, and the congress could with
advantage cut down very materially on
all the printing which it has now be-
come customary to provide. The excess
sive cost of government printing is a
strong argument against the position of
those who are inclined, on abstract
grounds, to advocate the governments
doing any work which can with propri-
ETY. be left in private hands.
Of course. The government prints
tons on tons of documents which are
only useful to kindle fire with. How
leave to print" such stuff is gained is
a puzzle to those to whom it is sent.
The government is badly in need of
discourager of useless printing. If
there were such an officer and if he did
his duty the expenses of the govern
nent would be less than they are by
many thousands of dollars
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the middle, was poked out of the bur-
row, and the pointed nose was raised
to sniff the air. Then slowly and de-
lberately skunk drew himself out of
the hole. His black body had the typi-
cal white markings, two stripes, one
on each side of the back, which met at
the neck, and continued forming cap
at the back of the head. There was
also a white tip to his black tail.
He evidently scented the fowl, for he
turned in the direction I had dragged
it and wobbled along on his short legs
until he came to where it lay near the
wall. After shifting 1t for moment he
seized it, by the neck, and moving
backwards he dragged it under a pile
But this did not quite suit me, for I
wished to observe the details of the
feast. So I walked up quietly and, as
my guest slowly withdrew, removed the
hen to its former position by the wall,
where I secured it with stake. After
wait Of half an hour, second skunk
came shifting out of the burrow, and
waddIed along until he reached the
hen. This one had the typical mark
ings, except that the white stripes on
the sides branched as they approached
the tail. He seized the neck Of the
chicken as the other had done, but
when he attempted to drag the bird
away, he failed on account Of the stake.
But he tugged with all his might, dig
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ging all four feet into the earth, and in
a few moments he succeeded in pulling
off the head. This he ate in plain
sight. sometimes licking it with his
tongue, at others setting his front paws
upon it and tearing off the flesh with
his sharp white teeth. Presently he
returned to the body and began to de-
YOUR it with great eagerness, some
times crouching beside it, as a dog
will crouch with bone, at other times
standing up and Juggling away with
braced feet. Suddenly there was
rustling in the grass and the first
skunk returned to the feast. He was
greeted with snarling squeaI by num-
Der two, who. with puckered lips,
turned and snapped at him, and appa-
rently attempted to strike him with his
front paws. Then both skunks took
hold of the hen, and tugged this way
and that, snarling all the while and
pulling out tufts of feathers, often with
the skin attached. By and by I drove
them away and removed the remains of
the hen for similar use on the morrow,
and when I returned some time later in
evening I was surprised to find that
the skunks had come back and were
eating the grains of corn which had
fallen from the torn crop of the fowl.
ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES.
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The prl.....er.

If could only talk / guess
Id make my cruel mother fear
The things I'd do to her, unless
She comes and let's me out of here.
They've built gate that's two feet high
Across the porch to keep me in,
And 1t does, too, for all that |
Can get above 1t Is my chin.
And when | come out every day
My mother comes along and brings
My blocks and toys, and says: "Now play
Here, baby, with your pretty things"
And just as soon as she Is gone
Those little boys across the street
Come out and run around their lawn,
With railroad cars and things to eat.
And lots of dogs come running past,
SO II | jusr could get away
I'd follow after very fast
And catch one for my own some day.
But must stand here with my face
Pressed hard against these dreadful bars.
And see those lucky children race
Along the sidewalk with their cars.
see all sorts of things | need
The flower pot and garden hose;
know / could be good, indeed,
II | could get my hands on those.
With all my strength | pound and shake
The gate, but it won't move a bit.
It's Just so mean it will not break,
And l cannot climb over it
Some day I'll be a great big man,
And then that gate won't he too strong,
And Ill be happy, for can
Have things I've needed for so long.
And when I've had a good long play
III go and get some other men,
And Wen go off somewhere and stay
Until it's supper time again.
j. ]. Montague In Portland Oregonian.
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PERHAPS.

Janitor~"You can't occupy this fat"
Would-be Tenant-"Why not? We have
only nine dogs" "Oh, all right. /
thought you had children. Life.
Biggs-"It strikes me that the fool
killer is neglecting his business" Diggs
He's pretty busy, 7 suppose, but you
might send him your address. ''-Chica-
go Daily News
"Of course" said the youth who was
in love. two can live as cheaply as
one.' Perhaps" replied his wise IA
Their, "but I never knew them to do it. -
Chicago Evening Post.
Teacher-"Bessie, name one bird that
is now extinct" Little Bessie-"Dick!'
Teacher-'Dick? What sort of bird
is that?" Little Bessie-"Our canary
the cat extincted him!''-Puck.
Relative-"You have put up a stove
in this room. I see." Hostess (who
lives in a steam heated fiat)-"Yes,
that is so baby won't catch cold when
he touches the steam pipes New
York Weekly.
Dicer-"They tell me Fred has been
playing the races
Knickleby-"He thought he was, but
it turned out that the fellows at the
races were working Fred. Boston
Transcript
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No. 1 EoADLEY BUILDING,
New Haven, Conn.

81 tell you, I'll be boss Of my own
house when I'm a MANI said little Ben
ME.
That's what your father thought
when he was your age, Bennie," replied
the boys mother.-Yonkers Statesman.
'T seewhere Missouri man requested
on his death bed that no flowers be used
at his funeral save the artificial ones
from his wife's hat" He knew they
couldn't get anything more expensive,
1 guess. '-Cincinnati Commercial Tri-
bune. .s'A
do you think that the theatrical
profession leads to unhappy mar
riages?" IT have never been able to
decide,'' answered the manager,
whether stage career leads to d.
vorce or divorce leads to a stage ca
reer. Washington STAR .>.sTszss=:@
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THE WAYS OF THE SKUNK.

In these days when so many field
naturalists are reporting the doings of
the wood folk. it seems remarkable
that there are so few who attempt to
pry into the private affairs of the
skunk. But there is a good reason for
this, as most people know who have
had many dealings with skunks, and
not few there are whose brief per-
sonal experience has convinced them
that there are many more desirable
subjects than this, requiring their val
liable attention. To this class belongs
a neighbor of mine who recently had
an interview with skunk, and, who
got decidedly the worst of the aTgu-
ment which ens1ed. ] confess that in
directly was the cause of the trouble.
I was passing my neighbours farm
about dusk, and I noticed the skunk
entering the hen house. Knowing him
to be an old offender, whom my neigh
Dor was anxious to meet, I reported to
the latter, who was spading celery in
TIE LlcAI AElu. ne IlppSu pul an SuAA
about nine feet long, and, spade in
hand, started on a run for the hem
house. The saying that ''three's a
crowd is especially true when skunk
is one of the three, so, as I had no
quarrel with either the skunk or the
farmer, I decided that it would not be-
in good taste to interfere between
them. My neighbor had no sooner
reached the door of the henhouse, than
he began to address the skunk in Ian
guage most supplementary, not only
cursing him for his misdeeds, but visi-
ting his iniquitfes upon his ancestors
unto the third and fourth generations.
The skunk kept his temper admirably
and would have gone home without an
swering this abuse, but as he was
passing out Of the door the farmer
aimed savage blow at him with the
spade. Guided by passion, the weapon
flew wide of the mark, but the skunk
gave his foe full credit for his inten-
tons and vigorously returned the as
sauIt. Being calmer than his enemy,
. his aim was better and bullseye was
the result. At least, it was one of the
results, but the others chiefly con-
cerned the farmer, and, having done
my duty, did not think it necessary
for me to remain.
Feeling satisfied in my own mind
that skunks were not disposed to be
aggressive without cause, determined
to see how they acted under kindly
treatment. So hunted up family of
worthy but INDECENT skunks, and, buy
ing fat hen, I gave it to them for
dinner. At first I hesitated to do this,
as I had heard of the dinner Of the
monkeys at Newport, and hated to fol-
low too closely the dictates Of fash
ionable" society. However, the dinner
was given in the woods, and that made
the difference. I took the hen to the
skunks' burrow, pushed it little way
inside and then dragged it off along the
ground to q convenient spot near a
stone wall, where 1 dropped it. I then
hid myself and awaited results. Along
In the afternoon, a black, Weasel-like
face, with a narrow white stripe down
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TROUBLE IN MEYfCO.

The indications are that there will
soon be crime against silver in Mex
leo like the ''crime of "a in this coun-
try. There will have to be If that coun-
try Is going to continue to prosper. Gold
is now in the neighborhood of S2S5 in
the City of Mexico, and there Is con-
slant trouble. The Mexican Herald
says the situation for the country is
pressing one; the dollar cannot be trim
med off week after week without great
injury to all interests. Importing is re-
duced to a gamble. So also is the pur-
chase of foreign supplies for mills,
factories and railroads. Prices of every
thing of foreign origin rise, and often
out'of proportion to the exchange prem
iurn, for the merchant is seeking to
guard himself against all contingencies.
He fears that as prices advance buy
ing will fall off, and in that case a suf-
ficient profit to meet his fixed charges
of rent, clerk hire, ETC., must be derived
from a smaller volume Of sales.
How fortunate 1t was that this coun-
try wasn't "Mexicanized." If it had
been there would have been trouble
enough, just as there is in Mexico. If
the Democratic party had succeeded six
years ago the United States wouldn't
be the prosperous place it is now.
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MORE TROUBLE FOR THE NEGRO

| MORE TROUBLE FOR THE NEGRO.
1t is very hard for Virginia demo-
crat to read the blank suit forms
| which it Is proposed to circulate among
the negroes Of this state without hav-
! ing his Indignation aroused to the
| boiling point. A while ago the people
of Virginia determined to call con-
/ vention to revise the constitution, and
elected as delegates some of the truest
and noblest and most patriotic men in
| the commonwealth. The convention
| was in due course assembled, and the
delegates set about to frame a consti-
tuition. For twelve months they la
bored, most of them at great personal
sacrifice, and in the fear Of God and in
love for their state they addressed
themselves earnestly and conscientious
ly to their task. It was ended by and
by, and the best constitution Virginia
ever had was promulgated. But the
author of this bill of complaint alleges
that the members of the constitutional
convention were a board of conspira-
tors, assembled for a wicked purpose,
and that their acts We're illegal and
void. If any negro who was not per-
mitted to register and vote under the
new constitution shall take the hint
which this circular gives him and
bring such suit as is suggested, he, too,
will allege that the members Of the
convention were conspfrators and reb-
els against the Federal government
1t is alleged that this is another of Mr..
John S. Wise's movements, as attorney
for the negroes, to test the validity Of
the Virginia constitution. We do not
know about that and We do not know
who instigated this mischievous pro-
ceeding. But the man who did it Is
false friend ar a foolish friend of the
negro The suits which it is proposed
to bring are ridiculous. The idea that
men who were duly elected to discharge
a great public duty, and discharge it
conscientously as the highest repre-
sentative body that Virginians could
create can be convicted Of conspiracy
and mulcted in damages is too absurd
to command a serious thought. But If
the suits are brought they will cause
much annoyance and they will arouse
Indignation, and the breech between
the races in Virginia will be widened.
Poor negro! Well may he again ex-
claim: Save me from my friends!"-
Richmond Times,
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STR NGfl Az FiCEIOs.

That truth continues to be as strange
as fiction is shown by the case of
George Dickinson, jr., Of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Dickinson was a partner in a man
ufacturing firm in Philadelphia; he
lived in the same apartment house
with his own brothers and managed to
commit robberies which are thought to
have netted him $4,000 while keeping
such regular hours at home and in his
Office as not to excite suspicion. His
method was simple. He made a great
number and variety of pass keys, with
which almost any door would open to
him. He succeeded in letting himself
into houses after the family had gone
upstairs, looting the dining rooms and
silver closets and getting home to his
own lodgings early enough so that peo-
pie did not question his occupation.
He had a crucible in his own rooms
in which he melted the silver he stole
and was able to dispose of it without
suspicion. Finally a policeman Stun
bled by accident upon one of these
midnight raids and Dickinson almost
killed the man in his desperate fight to
escape arrest. He was caught, how
ever, and the whole story came out.
1t included the fact that Dickinson has
served terms in three State prisons
since 1895, yet his own brothers did not
know his record and he was able to
win position Of trust in business and
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to make love to a girl Of good social
position.
A strange story. Is it possible that
Dickinson had made any trips to New
Haven lately? Some of the burglaries
committed here have been slick enough
to do credit or discredit to a man like
Dickinson,
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Food

You will save much money in the household by
baking at home instead of buying at the bake-shop
or grocery You will also get fresher, better, more
tasty, purer and cleaner food.
Besides there is pride and satisfaction in
serving beautiful, novel and dainty food which has
been made by the hands of mother or daughters,
and which is certain to win admiration and praise
from every one at the table.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER helps the
housewife to produce at home, quickly and
economically fine and tasty cake, the raised hot
biscuit, buildings, the frosted layer cake, crisp
cookies, crullers, crusts, mullins and other bread
foods with which the ready-made food found at
the bake-shop or grocery does not compare 1t is
the greatest of bake-day helps.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small
advertisements, One Cent a Word each IN
sertion. Five Cents Word for full week
tseven timesl.
Display advertisements, per inch, one IN
sertton, S120; each subsequent insertion, III
cents; one week, $500; one month, $40; one
year, $40.
Obituary Notices, in prose or verse; 10
cents per line. Notices of Births, Marri-
ages, Deaths, and Funerals, 30 cents each.
Local Notices. 10 cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to their
own immediate business taIl matter to be
include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
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Storm cannons are very common in
Italy now along the southern slopes of
the Alps, where damage from hail
storms during harvest time is always
imminent, says the Argonaut They
are the invention of Padua firm. They
look like huge megaphone and they
are set, with their wide mouths gaping
skyward, beside little houses that look
like sentry boxes When they are fired
they boom like sure enough" cannons,
but instead of ball or shell, or other
similar projectfle, they emit a ring Of
smoke which grows larger and larger
as 1t ascends, until at last, before it
breaks, it is big enough to surround a
ten-acre field. Instead of hail, only
rain falls when the guns are used, and
damage to crops is prevented.
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Those who have really wanted to see
a football game will understand the ac-
ton Of the young woman who betrayed
a pickpocket to the New York police be-
cause he refused to take her to game.
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The German Samoan company, with
the permission of the government, de-
signs to import Chinese laborers to
work on the plantations in Samoa, on
which cocoa Is chiefly grown. The COM
pany has engaged former contractor
of the New Guinea company to proceed
to southern China and engage agricul-
tural workers. The probabilities are
that native labor later will be wholly
displaced by Cinnamon. The German
concessionaries find they can get more
work out Of Cinnamon.
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The Hon. Charles Algernon Parsons,
r. r. s., to whom the British Royal So
ciety has just awarded it's Rumford
medal "for the successful application
of his invention Of the steam turbine
to industrial purposes, and in naviga-
tfon,' is brother of the Earl of Rose
and a son of the builder of the famous
Birr telescope. When Mr. Parsons built
the Turbina, in 1895, she was the first
vessel to be propelled by the steam tur-
bine. At the present time there is only
one turbine-engined war vessel in the
world. This is the British Velox. and
she has the distinction of being the
fastest vessel in the world.
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The village church at Upleatham,
North Yorkshire, is claimed to be the
smallest in England. 1t measures sew
enteen feet nine inches long and is thir-
teen feet in breadth. The church dates
back 900 years.
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During a trial in Paris between the
partners of corset firm the defense
revealed that one Of, the branches of
their manufacture was mems corsets.
The judge having demanded an expla-
nation it was shown that more than
eighteen thousand corsets were made
yearly for Frenchmen, and three thou
sand We're shipped to England, prin-
cipally for army officers. German Off
GERS also created quite demand till a
rival Berlin firm offered cheaper
article.
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Somebody in Gainesville, Georgia, has
written to Sir Alfred L. Jones that
many negroes Of that region-expert
cetton-field hands-would like to go to
West Africa and engage in cotton cul-
tivation if satisfactory arrangements
can be made as to the expenses of the
journey, etc. Sir Alfred has brought
the matter to the attention of the Liv-
erpool Chamber of Commerce.
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President Woodrow Wilson of Prince
ton thinks it is love of power, and mot
a desire to spread learning or do an
act of charity, which moves rich men to
give money to universities. ''They like
to think of the influence that their
money will have after they are dead,
through the institutions they have
founded and the graduates who come
from them. You see,' he ended, with a
ject'
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According to the report of the secre-
tary of the treasury, smallpox was re-
ported in forty-four States and terrific
ries during the last fiscal year, the
number of cases being 55,S56, deaths
1852, mortality of 3.31 per cent. The
reason why these statistics come under
the treasury department is because the
marine hospital service is there, and
the marine hospital service also covers
the land hospital service.
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OF FOREIGN INTEREST.

Commercial travellers in Brazil pay
a tax of $23 year.
Potatoes in Greenland never grow
larger than a marble.
The census of the sexes in Canada
shows that there are: Single males,
1,747,842; females, 1868, 450; married
males, 929,915; females, 9O5,O
Burnt ale," the liquid refuse from
the manufacture of Scotch whisky, has
been used with great success in the
GIenlivet district this year as soil
fertilizer.
Among a band of revoiutionists
which recently fought with Turkish
troops near Monastir was a. woman
dressed as man. She was killed in
the fighting.
The governor of Italy's African col
ony, Erythraea, has placed fine of
!, 300 francs per head on every elephant
killed, 700 francs on giraffe, $50 on
zebra, so on monkey, etc.
Most of the principal products of
Brazil, including tobacco, coffee, cocoa,
sugar, manganese, have recently fallen
SO much in value that sometimes il
does not pay to gather them.