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7 ORDINANGE PASSED FOR BOND ELEGTION Aus. il Council Petitioned to Remove Sexi:n Merriman.—Hearing Set for June 13.—More Sidewalks. At the meeting of the city council last evening the ordinance author- izing the calling of an election for the voting of bonds in the sum of $50,000 for the construction of a waterworks sysiem for the City of Feminji was given its third and final reading and passed by unanimous vote of the council. The election is called for August 11, and at that time the people of the City of Be- midji will decide whether or not they want the much needed additional fire protection. The reports of Justice Slocum, with a balance of $39 and Justice Simons with a balance of $70 were read and accepted. City Attorney Gibbons filed his written report as to the purchasing of supplies for the municipal court, which goes into effect and opens August 1, the report was accepted and the city clerk authorized to purchase the necessary supplies. A six-foot cement walk and curb- ing was ordered on both sides of Irwin avenue, from Lake Irwin to Seventh street. A petition to extend the sewer from Eighth street to Dewey avenue, north to Tenth street, was referred to the committee on sewers. A complaint, filed by Mayor Pogue, C. Ritchie, J. H. Crouch and others, asking for the removal from office of Sexton Merriman, was read and Mr. Merriman authorized to appear before the council next Mon- day evening, July 13, to show cause why he should not be removed. In the complaint C. Ritchie alleges that the sexton quarreled with one James Hardy, who was hired by Mr. Ritchie to dig a grave, Mr. Merriman contending that Hardy had no right to do that work; that he was the official sexton and the job be- longed to him. Ritchie further alleges that Merriman interferred with the work at the time the corpse was brought to the grave for burial and upon these assertions asks for his removal from office. J. H. Crouch was authorized to fill all gaps in the curbing and side- walks on Dewey avenue, between Tenth and Twelfth streets. The council then organized into a a canvassing board and canvassed the results of the special elections Councilmen Johnson and Rhea be- ing appointed tellers. The result of the canvas was as follows: Total number of votes cast 290. Toral number of votes cost for the issuance of the $195,000 refunding bonds, 92; against 191. Total number of votes cast for the $50,000 bonds for road improve- ments, 60; against 217 City Warrants Payable. Notice is hereby given that there is money in the treasury to pay all outstanding warrants issued against the general fund prior to March 1, 1908. Interest will cease from and after date of this notice. Dated at Bemidji, Minn., this 7th day of July, 1908. Earl Geil, City Treasurer. $100 Reward! $100 reward will be paid to the party who will produce the evidence that will later convict the party or parties who laid the poison which poisonod the dog “Tootsie,” the property of H. E. Anderson. Charles Knopke. His Good Eye. It is a curipus fact that the loss of any one of the five senses is atoned for to a eonsi;lemhle extent by a pro- nounced iicrease in the efficiency of the other senses. The result is some- times astonishing. A man who had lost the sight of both eyes trained his hearing until he could tell by the sound of his footsteps on the sidewalks as he made his way about town whether he was in the widdle of the walk or at ome side, whether he was walking past a brick or a frame house or a fence or open ground. He knew in what part of the town be was not only by his memory or sense of general direction, but by the difference in the “tones” of his foot- steps, and he walked about freely, sel- dom running into anything or any- body. Some one in his presence once called in question his total blindness. “Which eye do you think I can see with?” he asked the skeptic. “The left one, of course,” was the reply. “I can see that the right one i blind.” In reply the blind man merely opened his penknife and tapped the 1 tributors, and the amounts of their DEMOGRATIC NATIONAL GONVENTION IN SESSION Continued from First Page ot concéaling thé nameés of the con- subscriptions. “It is eminently proper that this convention should define the Demo- cratic attitude toward the regulation of transportation companies and call the attention of the country to the in- disputable fact that it was only after years of Democratic effort that an amendment was made to the inter- state commerce law authorizing the commission to establish reasonable rates whenever it appeared that an existing schedule was unjust and un- reasonable. The national platforms of the Republican party remained silent upon this great question for years and the fact that the necessary change was advocated by a Republican president, who succeeded only through the aid of the Democrats in both branches of congress in placing the amendment upon our statute books, does not affect the credit to which our party is en- titled for having worked persistently for such an enactment. Further amendment to our laws giving the fed- eral government supervision over the issuance of railroad stocks and bonds is demanded. “We search in vain for one syllable in the Chicago platform pledging the Republican party to retrenchment and reforms; and it i3 no mere coincidencs that has given us a billion dollar ses- slon of congress on the eve of a na- tional election and the possible revision of the tariff. “So long as we maintain the pres- ent method of electing United States senators we cannot hope that the up- per chamber of congress will reflect the popular will. The Democratic party will continue to labor for the direct election of United States senators and it appeals to the voters of all America to elect members of the different state legislatures who will pledge themsalves to vote for no candidate for the United States senate that is not in favor of this reform. The affirmative position of the Democratic party upon these great questions will be made clear dur- ing the impending campaign, and dis- daining all subterfuges it will speak in a language that cannot be misunder- stood. Its voice will ring with a genu- ine love for humanity and the charge of insincerity will never be brought to its doors. Let our party declaratiot in this convention present the strong contrast between that which we here propose and that which was declared at Chicago. Let any man take the temperature of the Chicago platform and discover, if he can, any sign of human warmth. Not a single senti- ment i§ there to redeem it from the materialism permeating it through and through. “This national convention meets at a time when the angel of peace is hov. ering over the entire world and the na. ticns of the world each day are strengthening those ties of friendship and common interest that will render war less frequent and permit man- kind to turn their hands to the peacea- ble pursuits of life rather than to the destruction of one another. “The Democratic party realizes the part that America must irevitably play in the affairs of the world, and that we cannot escape participation in the set- tlement of every world problem that arises; but America’s weight and in- fluence must ever be on the side of peace, on the side of justice, on the side of the oppressed; and if the will of the people shall commit to our hands the sceptre of power, it will be used for the realization of the high Amer- ican ideals that raise our own people to loftier and better things and through pur precepts and examples contribute Yo the well being and happiness of all mankind.” B b WILL NAME JOENSON FOR PRESIDENCY AT DENVER B R TR TR R CONGRESSMAN HAMMOND. REBELS WIN IN PARAGUAY Victorious Revolutionists in Complete Control. Buenos Ayres, July 7.—Advices re- ceived here state that the revolution- ists have been victorious in Paraguay and that a new government has been established. These advices have been confirmed by a dispatch received by the minister of foreign affairs from the Argentine legation at Asuncion, officially notifying the minister that the revolutionary party had succeed- ed in overthrowing the Paraguayan government and that several of the Paraguayan ministers of state had taken refuge in the legation. Fighting has been proceeding in the streets of Asuncion for some days past and many of the public buildings have been seriously damaged. Pre- vious estimates of the killed and ‘wounded, howaver, have been exag- gerated, and it is mow believed that the number will not exceed 500. It is left eye with the little blade. It was a glass eye. expected that telegraphic communica- tion with Asuacion soon will be re- stored. il 1 8enal, which e 0 SRR U GO A BREAK 1S COMPLFTE Our Relations With Venezuela Appear Wholly Severed. TEXT OF DIPLOMATIC NOTES Communications Between the United 8tates Charge and Venezuelan Min- ister of Foreign Affairs ' Indicate Considerable Bad Feeling. New York, July 7.—The break in diplomatic relations between the Unit- ed States and Venezuela, which result- ed in the withdrawal of Jacob Sleeper, the American charge d’affaires, from the Venezuelan capital, is far more complete than was at first generally believed. The full text of diplomatic notes which passed between Mr. Sleeper and Dr. Jose de Jesus Paul, the Venezuelan minister of foreign af- fairs, subsequent to the withdrawal of Mr. Sleeper, indicates that not only are the friendly relations interrupted, but completely severed. - In his letter notifying the foreign mnister of his intention to leave the Venezuelan capital Mr. Sleeper wrote that in view of the Venezuelan gov- ernment’s persistent refusal to give redress “for the governmental action by which all American interests have been destroyed or confiscated” and “in view of the tone and character of the communications received from the Venezuelan government” he believed that “the further presence in Caracas of diplomatic representatives of the United States subserved no useful pur- pose.” Dr. Paul's reply to this communica- tion was made in the same tone which characterized previous communica- tions made to the American represen- tative. It declared that President Roosevelt had persisted in asking re- dress for American interests and in- dividuals without any justice and right and that Venezuela is mot blameable if it does not permit the nation to be “wrested of its rights.” A request for “safe conduct” made in Mr. Sleeper’s letter is refused on the ground that as no state of war exists the Venezuelan government did not consider it necessary or fit to grant it. CAPTURED WHILE ASLEEP Officers Secure Alleged Forger in Min- nesota Woods. Duluth, July 7.—After eluding the city and county authorities for months Jake Schuhe, wanted for forgery, was captured in a lonely cabin at the end of the Alger & Smith logging railroad. The arrest was made by Sheriff Nel- son of Lake county and Deputy Mec- Dermott just before sunrise. Schuhe had been guarding the cabin with a rifie and announced that he would never be taken alive. He had been living in the cabin for weeks, but was not located until about ten days ago. The sheriff planned his attack well and Schuhe was handcuffed before he awoke. FIVE PERSONS KILLED. Farm Wagon Hit by Electric Car Near Watts, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal, July 7.—Four children and the father of two of them are dead and six persons are injured as the result of a collision between a farm wagon containing eight children, two men and one woman and an elec- tric car on the Santa Ana line near Watts, about ten miles from this city. The dead are: Joseph Oller, forty-six years old; Joseph Oller, Jr., fourteen years; H. Oller, eight years, all of Lynnwood; Eliza Kuehner, nine years; Theodore Kuehner, seven years, both of Los Angeles. The injured will recover. PURDY AGAIN NOMINATED President Accepts the Resignation of Judge Lochren. ‘Washington, July 7.—The president has accepted the resignation of Will- iam Lochren, judge of the United States district court for the district of Minnesota, and has appointed M. D. Purdy, present assistant to the at- torney general, to the vacancy. Sooialist-Labor Candidates. New York, July 7.—Candidates for president and vice president of the United States were nominated and a platform was adopted by the national convention of the Socialist-Labor party here. The ticket named is as follows: For president, Martin R. Preston, Ne- vada; for vice president, Donald Mun- ro, Virginia. Preston is now serving a twenty-five-year sentence in Nevada for a murder committed in connection with labor troubles. Trying to Save Friend. Superior, Wis,, July 7.—George Thompson, aged ten years, and Percy Day, aged thirteen, were drowned in the bay here. While playing on & raft young Thompson lost his balance and fell into the water. Day plunged in after him and both went down. The bodies were recovered. Bishop Potter’s Condition. Cooperstown, N. Y., July 7.—Bishop Henry C. Potter, who has been crit- ically ill at his summer home here for several days, passed a fairly comforta- ble night. There appeared to be little change in the bishop’s eondition. MANY BUILDINGS IN RUINS Disastrous Fire at Port au Prince, i Hayti. Port au Prince, Hayti, July 7.—The disastrous fire which started in the vicinity of the palace and senate build- ings here and was believed to have damaged many buildings and scattered blazing embers over a wide area. The roof of the National bank was shaken down by the violénce of the concus- sfon. Before the flames started by this explosion were subdued forty more buildings had been destroyed. The chamber of deputies and the large establishment of thre'congrega- tlon of St. Louls were menaced for a tlme by the flames, but they were saved without damage. Fighting Cholera in Philippines. Manila, July 7.—Lieutenant Jones of the First cavalry, who on June 24 was reported to have been stricken with the cholera, is dead. Lieutenant Mul- doon of the Philippine scouts, who contracted the disease while bringing Lisutenant Jones to Camp Gregg from the fleld, is recovering. The cholera is receding at Capiz and even in the province of Pangasinan. The govern- ment is proceeding vigorously and hopes to stamp the disease out of the two provinces within one month. Ma- nila and Central Luzon are free from it. TAFT AT WORK AND PLAY Divides His Time Between Duty and Recreation. Hot Springs, Va., July 7.—When W. H. Taft arose he more than ever rea- lized what & difficult task it is to be a candidate for the presidency and to attempt to secure rest, even amid the isolation of the mountains of Virginia. A dozen big boxes of records were de- livered to his office and his secretary superintended the work of arranging their contents in the fileroom, where they will be accessible dering the next two months. A mass of corre spondence is coming to him, necessi- tating his personal attention and the dictation of many letters. But insist- ing upon dividing his time between work and recreation he accepted a challenge of Frank B. Kellogg for an- other game of golf on the mountain Hnks. The presidential candidate and the “trust buster” started out very soon after breakfast. Mr. Taft’s horses have arrived and hereafter he will alternate golf with riding over the mountain paths. He is a sufticient friend of his big horse to ride only every other day, believing that to use the animal more frequent: 1y would be absolute cruelty. Mr. Taft feels that he is a subject for congratulation because he has signed all of his acknowledgments to letters of congratulation received after his nomination. He brought over 1,500 of them from Washington and has stuck closely to the task of read- ing and signing them. His mail {8 ar- riving with great regularity and let ters needing his personal considera tion are constantly increasing in num- bers. Held for Sensational Murder. Philadelphia, July 7.—Under sus pleion of knowing something of the case of Dr. William H. Wilson of this city, who died June 26 after drinking poisoned ale, Frederick Gies, Jr.,, a foreman in a well known publishing house of Philadelphia, was given a thorough examination by the detec: tives who are investigating the mur- der. Gies is not directly accused of having caused Dr. Wilson’s death, but the police say he answers so closely the description of the man wanted that they were compelled to detain him. Father Wrote National Hymn. Des Moines, July 7.—F. Smith, son of the man who wrote “America,” is before the state board of pardons ask- ing to be released from the state pen- itentiary at Anamosa. He has been serving a term of four years for the embezzlement of a large amount of money. He was mayor of Davenport and a respected citizen until his fall. Burglars Make Good Haul. 8t. Louis, July 7.—When Adolph S. Levi ‘opened the door of his jewelry store and pawnshop he discovered burglars had looted the place and se- cured $900 in cash and $15,000 worth of diamonds and old gold. Marines to Remain at Panama. ‘Washington, July 7.—At a confer- ence between Secretary of War ‘Wright, Admiral Pillsbury, the acting head of the navy department, and General Clarence R. Edwards, chief of the insular bureau, war department, it was decided that the United States marines should not be withdrawn from Panama until after the elections, al- though all information received indi- cated their presence at the polling places probably will not be necessary. No Longer Mission Land. Rome, July 7.—An important pon- tifical document reforming the organ- 1zation and working of the Roman con- gregations has been made public. It removes Great Britain, Holland, Can- ada and the United States from the Jurisdiction of the propaganda, these countries thus ceasing to be consid- ered missionary lands. Killed in Drinking Bout. Cresco, Ia., July 7.—Charlie Brown is dead here as the result of injuries inflicted upon his person, it is alleged, by Albert Crawford in a beer drinking bout at the home of a mutual friend. Crawford is in jail. He is a brother of the Elk River (Minn.) box car mum derer who was hanged. Suction, People often speak of chimneys “drawing.” We also speak of the suc tion of a pump. There is not so much harm in these expressions, except that they are liable to lead us away from the true state affairs. But in truth there is no such thing as suction. Suc- tion is ‘merely partial or entire absence of pressure in one place which enables the- greater pressure of air or fluid in another place to rush in. In the case of the chimney the heated air in it does not weigh so much as an equai volume of cold air, and if the air in the chimney, the air in the room and the outside air were all the same tem. perature there would be no tendency to any motion.. But when the air in the chimney is hot it does not press been comtrolled after 400 buildings | downword so much as the colder sur- ‘were burned broke out afresh and caused further extensive damage. The remewal of the conflagration ‘was caused by an explosion in the ar- rounding air presses upward. Conse- quently an upward current is started and will continue if the air in- the chimney is kept hot.—A. 8. 8. Ackerman in London Express. & To the mind of . Abigail Jen. nings there was a sort of disloyalty in admitting to any outsider that a native of Willowby could be really eccentric, As for anything beyond eccentricity, Mrs. Jennings would never have ad- mitted i, even in the case of Miss Rachel Gregg, who was frankly called .crazy by the summer visitors. “Now, Mrs. Jennings,” said one of the boarders, “do you really mean that you've never known Miss Gregg to do anything that you'd call erazy?” “No, I haven't,” said Mrs. Jennings, with a firm and unyielding expression about her prominent chin. “Why, what do you think of her sending that bag of eggs over to the Corners to Mrs. Cole right in the box Wwith her laundry work and never tell- Ing the stage driver and letting him throw the box right off?” inquired the summer boarder. “Mrs. Cole says there’s one shirt waist she’ll never be able to wear again.” “Well,” said Mrs. Jennings calmly, “I should say about that as I have about a number of little things Rachel does and has done. She may lack in wisdom and forethought now and again. But, then, who doesn’t, I'd like to know ?’—Youth’s Companion. — Showing Our Monkey Blood. The batsman, congratulated on his home run, slapped himself proudly on the chest and began to boast of still finer home'runs that he had made In the past. “Did you see that gesture, the strick- en breast?” said an ethnologist of Har- vard. “Whenever we make that ges- ture in our vanity we prove the Dar- ‘winian theory up to the hilt. “You know the gorilla. Kipling and Du Chaillu describe him—an enor- mous ape that in his indomitable bra- vado beats his breast with a sound like the rolling of the mufed drums of Memorial day. “As Dbig as a bull, as swift as a cat, as powerful as an elephant, the gorilla believes himself unconquerable, and in the vain glory of that belief he inflates his lungs and beats his swollen breast till the jungle rings like a gong. “We in our moments of foolish and excessive vanity inflate our lungs and slap our swollen breasts. “Thus, alas, we show the monkey blood in us”—New Orleans Times- Democrat. Too Much Music. “I like churches to provide fine mu- sic at all times,” sald a prominent clergyman, “but there are cases on record where the music has been given too prominent a place. “An eloquent brother divine from South Carolina once told me that going to preach at a strange church he was taken aside by a deacon, who whis- pered: “‘Beg pardon, sir, but I must ask you mnot to preach longer than ten or twelve minutes. It’s the music that the people come here for. “That was wrong. But worse still was the case of a supply preacher in a church famous for its anthems and choruses. The stranger, not noticing the scraping and tuning of fiddles, rose and began to preach, when the choir leader jumped up and shouted angrily to him from the choir loft at the other end of the church: “‘Sit down, man! When it's your turn we'll tell you.” ” Joys of the Interne. “If you could see some of the vicious home treatment applied to cuts,” the young interne at Bellevue said, “yowd wonder at the comparatively few cases of tetanus. If a playful mongrel pup snaps at you, the east side knows that the only thing to do is to put some of the hair of the dog that did the biting —the hair must be from that particular dog—into the cut. They come with in- cisions reeking with all the filth imag- inable—the dirtiest cobwebs from the garret, for instance, which are even more popular as a poultice than those made of a chew of tobacco. Two boys came in recently the same day with cuts to which cigar butts had been bound down because, they explained, they don’t chew tobacco. You can’t convince the east side that it’s wrong. Don’t waste time, but clean the wound sclentifically, pray for good luck and yell ‘Next! ”—New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispateh. English as Sung. T live opposite to a school where mu- slc is carefully and constantly taught. The children have acquired the diff- cult art of dropping a semitone a min. ute. But the accent employed is even more interesting than the tone system, Here is a favorite school song: Flahrs, luvly flahrs, In a garden yeh my see, The rowses there with their reuby lip, Penks the 'unny by loves teh sip, Teulips, teulips, gy as a butterfiy's wing, Merrygolds rich as the crahn of a king, Rich as the crahn of a king, But none seh fair teh me, None seh fair teh me, As these wildwood flahrs, Sweet wild flahrs. —London Academy. The Tip Terror. “Give me a penny, sir, for something to eat.” “But you've got sixpence in your hand now. What's that for?’ “Oh, that’s to tip the waiter, sir”’— London Globe. Beezlumbots Bad as Dialect. Southern people have much to bear— the articles in the magazines, for ex- ample, in which northern contributors try toput out negro dialect! It's enongh to glve one the beezlumbots.—Galves- ton News, There is none made so great but he may both need help and service and stand In fear of the power and un- kindnets even of the meanest of mor- tals. | An Irish Tale. One dny an Irishman, having put his hat upoh a gate post by which he lay down to sleep, sprang up at midnight and, mistaking the object for an en- emy, deglt it a desperate cut with his scythe. | Perceiving his mistake, the man gave thanks to heaven that he had taken it off before lying down. “For,” said he, “had my head been in that hat,|'tis ten to one I had laid it open with my scythe, and 'tis a dead man I would have been seein’ mesilf at this minute!™ "'First Silver Wedding. The first silver wedding dates back to the time of Hugues Capet. The serv- ants, says Home Chat, belonging to him had grown gray in his service, a man and a woman, and what could he do as a reward? Calling the woman, he sald: “Your service is great, greater than the man’s, whose service is great enough, for the woman always finds ‘Work harder than a man, and therefore I will give you a reward. At your age I know of none better than a dow- ry and a husband. The dowry is here —this farm from this time forth be- longs to you. If this man, who has worked with you five and twenty years, is willing to marry you, then the husband is ready.” “Your majesty,” said the old peas- ent, “how Is it possible that we should marry, having already silver hairs?” “Then it shall be a silver wedding.” And the king gave the couple silver enough to keep them in plenty. This soon became known all over France and raised such enthusiasm that It became a fashion after twenty-five years of married life to celebrate a sil- ver wedding. The Treasury Vaults. The first question the average vis- itor to the United States treasury building asks is, “Couldn’t burglars tunnel under the vaults and rob the government?” Well, that is not likely. An armed guard sits beside the vaults. Every twenty minutes he is required to ring an alarm just to show that he is awake. An armed patrol makes the rounds hourly. Secret service men in plain clothes, with concealed weapons, keep watch and ward outside and in- side the building. As to tunneling, the officials hold that if a man by any pos- sibility should manage to bore under- neath a vault the heavy metal would crush him to a jelly, thus administer- ing a lasting gold cure. Even if the tunnel burglar should get away with his life he could not get away with much gold. Ten thousand dollars in double eagles weighs thirty-eight pounds. Forty million dollars in gold certificates of the $10,000 denomination weighs eleven and a half pounds. Even burglars prefer the gold certifi- cates to the real thing.—Buffalo Times. WANTS ONE CENT A WORD. —_— HELP WANTED. O ST e ST WANTED FOR U. 5. ARMY: Able. bodied unmarried men, betweern ages of 18 and 35; citizeas of United States, of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read, and write English ~ For information apply to Recruit ing Offic r. Miles Block, Bemidji Minn, WANTED:—Man and wife for farm work. Good position. Address Box 501, Bemidji, Minn. WANTED—Girl for general house- work at 602 Mississippi avenue and Fourth street. e e oot SN WANTED—Two girls for kitchen work. Inquire at the Markham Hotel. WANTED:—Good girl for general housework. 716 Minn. Ave. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—House and two lots, situated at 609 Second street. Will sell dirt cheap for cash. Apply to Tom Symington. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE—Three car loads timothy Hay, send us your offer. Gilbertson & FEspeseth, Erskine, Minn. FOR SALE—Lath $1.25, shingles $2.50 per M. Douglas Lumber Co., Telephone 371. Journalistic Revenges. The curious boycott of the press in the Berlin parliament had a precedent in the mother of parliaments, the Brit- ish house of commons. A writer in Harper’s Weekly recalls that the per- son involved was no less a celebrity than the late Daniel O'Connell. He condemned the inaccuracy of the par- lamentary reports, but he forgot to make allowance for acoustic difficulties and the buzz of intervening conversa- tion. He charged the reporters with the malicious suppression of his speech- es, and the gallery then refused to re- port him at all. Dan stormed and thundered in vain, even moving that the ringleaders be brought to the bar of the house. Finally he apologized, and all was well. Lord Lyttleton In 1871 fell foul of the press in the same way, and the late Lord Monteagle had his name omitted from London news- paper reports for two years because he sald something the reporters did not like. A Misplaced Pin, “I was In an uptown tea room where the scenery is all out of proportion to the amount served you,” sald a New York clubman. “I was dallying with some ice’ cream when my spoon struck a common, everyday pin in the bottom of the frozen stuff. I gave a little wave, and a waiter slipped to my side. ‘See, a pin in this ice cream,’ I sald. ‘Why, I might have swallowed that’ He took the glass and disappeared. ‘When he returned he reminded me of an undertaker, he was that solemn. ‘That pin has lost a man his job, sir,} he said. “Well, I replied, ‘I am sorry for that, but it might have cost me my life, when you come to think of it’ ‘Yes, sir,’ said the waiter meekly. Then, ‘You see, sir, most of the folks that eats here just sips their ice cream and don’t chew it.’ "—New York Times. Growth of Pity. No one formerly looked on with any pity or even horror at punishments which are now found too dreadful for description. Men were broken on the wheel, were burned at the stake, were racked, were cut up alive. No one seems to have felt any pity for their agonles. Men were put into noisome prisons, where, with' bad air and in- sufficient food, they died unnoticed and unpitied. It is very different now. Human hearts are more tender. She Voted. “What was the topic of debate in our club today?” asked one member of the feminine soclety. “The topic of debate,” was the re- sponse. “Why—er—let me see—I can’t remember what the topic was. But 1 voted on either the positive or negative Bide of the question. I forget which.” —Washington Star. The Problem Solved. Newed—My wife has a habit of tak- ing money from my pockets when I'm asleep. Oldwed—Mine used to do that, too, but she doesn’t any mose. Newed —How do you prevent it? Oldwed—I spend every cent I have before I go home.—Chicago News. An Exception. “Ah, kind friend,” said the minister, “it is deeds, not words, that count.” “Oh, I don’t know,” replied the wom- an. “Did you ever send a telegram?’— Detroit Free Press. Cheering. Aspirant—You have heard my voice, professor. Now please tell me candid- ly what branch of vocalism it is best adapted for. Professor—Well—cheer- ing! * Reading » Pig’s Tail. - “Don’t buy that pig,” said the older butcher hastily. . “Why not?” asked the younger man. “Look at his tail,” was the reply. “See how loose it hangs, like the tail of a rat. That is a sign that the ani- mal is in bad health. “You can read a pig’s condition by Its tail. The tighter it is curled the fitter is the pig. And when the tail hangs straight, as this one does, the pig ought to take to his bed and send for the veterinary.” — New Orleans [mes-Democrat FOR RENT. 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