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* was fixed by the Board at $1,000.00 ' All the records provided by Sec. 110 (1, 2 and 3) and Sec. 111, R. L. ’05, are kept by the clerk and all cases are filed in consecutive order accord- ing to number on the Index’Register. The jury fees paid into court have been properly accounted for, Superintendent of Schools—W. B, Stewart. The Superintendent of Schools has filed the enrollment report with the county auditor, as required by Sec. 1384, R. L. 1905, and his salary was fixed by the county board as provided by Sections 573-600, R. L. '05. County Attorney—Chester McKusick. Salary— The salary of the county attorney per annum, An appeal was taken to the District Court and the salary was fixed by the Court at $1,600 per an- num, Contingent Fund— The contingent fund of the county attorney for 1908 (Funkley) was $500.00. Of this amount $203.00 was disbursed and the balance transferred to the Revenue Fund as provided by Chap. 339, G. L. 1907. Deputy Auditor Brose’s Statement. The attention of the Grand Jury was called to the following affidavit received by mail. As it is a matter that can be substantiated or refuted by testimony only, I respectfully re- ferred the subject to that body for consideration. M. F. KAIN, ~ 1 Asst. Public Examiner. Dated June 4, 1909. “Blackduck, Minn., 9-18-08. “To the Public Examiner, St. Paul. Dear Sir:—Please read the enclosed circulars and if possible make some suggestions as to what we can do in this matter. The auditor admits having loaned the asst. books to the Crookston Lumber Co. Yours truly, S. W. ELLIS.” “Oct. 5, 1908. “Mr. S. W. Ellis, Blackduck, Minn. Dear Sir:—I am in receipt of an opinion from the attorney general’s office in regard to the matter submit- ted by you, regarding the county auditor of your county. The opinion is as follows: “If the charges contained in these} printed circulars are true, it is prob- able that the auditor is guilty of mal- feasance in office and subject to re- moval therefrom by the Governor on substantiation thereof. Very truly yours, (Signed) C. Louis Weeks, Special Assistant. “Trust that this is what you want. Yours truly, A. SCHAEFER, Public Examiner.” The circulars referred to follow: Blackduck, Minn., Sept. 1, 1908. Mr. A. B. Allen, Editor Sentinel, Be- midji, Minn. Dear Sir:—Your letter of Aug. 21st, in which you submit four questions relative to the official conduct of our present county auditor, is received and noted. I answer these questions as follows: 1. One day while I was Mr. Wil- mann’s deputy, an employe of the Crookston Lumber Company entered the auditor’s office with a package under his arm and placed it on the table. I asked him what he had there | and he answered, “Some assessment books that Mr. Wilmann loaned us.” I opened the package and placed thel books, several in number, in the vault. Mr. Brose, the other clerk, was pres- ent and saw those bhooks returned, and, I have no doubt, remembers the incident as we discussed the matter after the company’s agent went out,| For we were somewhat shocked to think that the taxpayers of this; county had paid over $50,000.00 for a} court house, with safety vaults in which to keep their records and then have a trusted and paid custodian of those records permit them to be car- ried away by a corporation of any one else, and returned at their leisure. Had the office of the Crookston Lumber Co. burned while those books were in their possession, the county| might have lost the real record upon which all legal actions in tax matters rest—thc assessment record. 2. Yes. 3. Yes. 4. I have no personal knowledge that he ever issued warrants to his deputies or clerks in excess of their salaries, and then required them to give him the difference between the amount of the warrants and salaries. i But the deputy who succeeded mef complains that he was so treated and | is prepared to make oath to that ef-| fect. If anyone doubts the truth of thel rumors implied in your questions, 1 would suggest that they ask Mr. Wilmann himself regarding them. Yours truly, | C. O. MOON. Blackduck Enterprise,-Sept. 3, 1908. In Re the Auditor’s Office: Mr. C. O. Moon of this place has rece d a letter of inquiry from the Bemidji Sentinel in regard to the manner in which the county auditor’s office has heen conducted, which he has answered. The Sentinel’s letter and Mr. Moon’s reply follow: Bemidji, Minn., Aug. 21, 1908. Mr. C. O. Moon, Bannock, Minn. Dear Sir:—It is rumored that our present Auditor, Mr. John Wilmann, has, during his administration, done! certain things unbecoming the head of | that important office. We desire to satisfy ourselves as to the truth of these charges, and being aware that you were his deputy for some time. believe that vou are in as good a position as anyone to confirm or refute these charges. Hence we respectfully ask you to answer the following questions to the best of your knowledge: 1. Did he ever loan any of the tax records of this county to the Crooks- ton Lumber Company? 2. Did he ever have an emplove of that company at work in his office, without fee, changing the valuations in the assessment books, after the Board of Equalization had made a E ping reduction of said Company’s sment ? Did he ever keep a special clerk in the office for nearly a year, at a salary of $50 per month, at work on the Current Business of the office, when the commissioners’ resolution authorizing his employment, specially provided that said clerk ould work only at correcting old reco: thereby taking out of the taxpay pockets $50 a month for current clerk hire, to which he was not legally entitled? 4. Did he ever issue warrants 10 his deputies or clerks for more than their salaries, and then require them to pay back to him the difference be- tween the amount of their warrants and their salaries, thereby taking il- legally out of the county treasury, for his own personal benefit, the amount of that difference? If you will kindly oblige us with an early reply to the above questions, you will greatly oblige. Yours truly, A. B. ALLEN. {der, Series B, No. { with the one on your letter. of John Wilmann, Auditor of Bel- trami County, from about November, 1905, to about November, 1906, and that from the last date to about Oc- tober 3rd, 1907, he was deputy aud- itor of the said county, under said John Wilmann. That during all of said time he was familiar with the manner in which the office was con- ducted, and with the official conduct of said Auditor, John Wilmann. That during said time said John ‘Wilmann, county auditor, permitted several tax assessment books of said county to be removed from his office by employes of the Crookston Lumber Co., to be returned at their will. That employes of said company were allowed to insert figures in the assessment books, while they were in the office of said Auditor. Affiant further says that during the year 1907, said Auditor drew from the funds of said county, during seven months of said year, certain sums for the alleged purpose of paying the sal- ary of affiant, and that during said seven months, said auditor compelled affiant to pay to him, the said John ‘Wilmann, the sum of $10.00 per month, out of said salary, for the per- sonal benefit and use of said Wilmann. That affiant was during part of the time employed by the County Board, to work under said Wilmann, as a clerk, in correcting the old records of the office, and that during a large por- tion of said time affiant was compelled by said Wilmann to work on the current business of the office, the ex- pense of which it was the dQuty of said County Auditor to confine to the amount of clerk hire allowed by law. (Signed) ARTHUR BROSE. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of September, 1908. H. A. SIMONS, Notary Public, Beltrami County, Minnesota. My commission expires May 7th, 1914. In the Matter of the Henderson Per- sonal Tax for 1905. In the 6th Unorganized District, the original amount of tax was $3.48; judgment $5.00; expense attached was $82.90, making total of judgment, $87.90. The following is the record of the case: ‘“‘Spooner, Minn., 10-27, 1908, “Mr, G. H. French. “Dear Sir:—Your letter to hand this morning, and will say if you have lost the number of that order I would gladly give it to you again, but at present writing I have not got it with me. But I do not care to take it up with the Express Company, as I have the stuff and I consider it is not my duty to do so; all I want is the un- necessary expense of the sheriff taken off. When the order arrived, before the sheriff started out,—I don’t see why he or anyone should add on ex- pense to a poor unfortunate home- steader when it could be avoided in some manner. $So I earnestly request | you to look into this matter carefully | and give me a square deal. I remain, “Yours truly, “F. A. HENDERSON.” “P. S.—I sent in my remittance for my land tax, and now if there is any- thing more against me in the line ofl taxes, please let me kno\\' i A H” “Jan. 26, 1969. “Can. Northern Express' Co., ‘“Winnipeg, Can. “Gentlemen:—Will you kindly give me the endorsements on express or- 71781, for $3.48, issued at Beaudette June 5th, 1906, to Ashley Henderson, in favor of Geo. H. French. I ask this for the reason that there is some question as to who | received the money on this order, | Hoping to hear from you at your ear- liest convenience, I am, “Respectfully yours, “G. H. FRENCH, “Beltrami Co. Treas., Minn.” “File 1063. “Winnipeg, January 29th, 1909. “Mr. G. H. French, eltrami County Treasurer, “Bemidji, Minn, “Dear S Referring to your let- | ter Jan. 26th: Money Order B-71781! [ bears endorsements— “‘G. H. French, Co. Treas.’ ‘“‘Thos. Bailey. i “I might add that the signature on the Order agrees very well indeed “Yours truly, (Signed) J. A, HILL, . Auditor.” In this matter, the treasurer says: | “The express order was endorsed by me and handed to the sheriff, as thisl tax was in his hands for collection.” I have advised the county attorney| jof the facts here set forth; he will act | in the case at once, by demanding payment by the sheriff of the tax col- lected by him and _satisfaction of judgment against Henderson. I read this report to the Grand Jury on June 3rd, and after consideration thereof the Jury returned indictments | on June Tth, charging malfeasance in| office against County Commissioners Sibley, F. O.; Wright, We: Gunder- son, Geo.; Danahar, A, W.; and Coun- ty Auditor John Wilmann. Geo. Gun- derson retired as County Commis- sioner on January 1, 1909. In conclusion, I would recommend that the matter be presented to the Governor and all indicted officials in office be removed. All of which is respectfully sub- mitted. M. F. KAIN, Assistant Public Examiner. Catching a Tartar. A Pennsylvania trout fisherman had an adventure which is a warning to thoughtless persons. He was in his boat, casting his flies, when he saw something swimming across the creek | several rods up stream. He thought it was a mink, but when it got within a couple of yards he saw it was a wild- cat. Without stopping to think he cast his line toward the animal and the next instant regretted his hasty action. The hook caught in the cat’s ears, and it promptly turned and swam toward the boat. He paddled away, but the cat overtook the boat and proceeded to climb in. The fisherman knocked the animal on the head with the paddle, and the movement capsized the boat. Then there was a fight in the water, end the fisherman defended himself so well with the paddle that he was able to reach the shore. The wildcat fol- lowed, but a few well directed blows finished 4t. There was a two dollar bounty on the animal, but as the fish- erman lost all his fishing tackle and had his clothing badly torn he thinks he had the worst of the bargain. At any rate, he will never again fish for a wildeat. He Was Sensitive, Blobbs—You’re pretty much stuck on Miss Gobbs, aren’t you, old man? Hobbs—I was once, but after what she said to me last night I'm not going Deputy Auditor Brose's Affidavit. State of Minnesota, County of Bel- trami, ss. Arthur Brose, being duly sworn, says that he was a clerk in the office to pay any more attention to her. Blobbs — Gee! What did she say? Eobbs—-"No"'—Cleveland Leader. 4 B (- e Utilizing Sharks’ Teeth. The natives on some of the Pacific islands, being provided with neither metals nor any stone harder than the coral rocks of which the atolls they inhabit are composed, would seem bad- ly off, indeed, for material of which to make tools or weapons were it not | that their very necenfl%hus bred an invention no less ingeniCus than curi- ous and effective. This is nothing less than the use of sharks’ teeth to give a cutting edge to their wooden knives and swords. The mouth of the shark contains 300 teeth arranged in five rows, all closely lying upon each other, except the outer row, and so construct- ed that as one tooth 18 broken or lost another takes its place. The teeth are not only pointed and keen edged, but are finely and regularly serrated, 8o that the cutting power is greatly in- creased. Indeed, so great a faculty have these teeth for wounding that the implements and weapons upon which they are used have to be handled with great care. The Kingmill islanders make many strange articles of sharks’ teeth. A Monster of Learning. The famous Cardinal Mezzofanti knew an amazing number of languages and dialects. Perhaps he is best known to the modern English reader from the eulogy to be found in one of Byron’s memoranda,. published by Moore. “Your literary everyday man ' and I,” says Byron, “never went well in company, especially your foreigner, ‘whom I never ‘could abide. I don’t re- member & man among them whom I ever wished to see twice, except per- haps Mezzofant, who is a monster of learning, the Briareus .of ‘parts “of speech, a walking polyglot and, more, who ought to have existed at the time of the tower of Babel as universal in- terpreter. He is indeed a marvel—un- assuming also.” I'tried him in all the tongues of which I knew a single oath (or adjuration to the gods against post- boys, savages, Tartars, boatmen, sail- ors, pilots, gondoliers, muletéers, camel drivers, vetturini, postmasters, post- horses, post houses, post everything), and, egad, he astounded me, even to my English.” Gulls and Clams. The discussion continues between those who think that all the acts of the lower animals are satisfactorily explained by the hypothesis of inher- ited instinct and those who hold that there is an element of intelligence, if not of reasoning, in these things. W. L. Finley, in a work on American birds, mentions an observation of his which may perhaps be explained either way, but which in any case is interest- ing. A gull seized upon a clam and, rising to a height of about fifteen feet, allowed it to fall upon hard ground. The clam kept its mouth shut. Again the gull rose with it to the same height and dropped it once more, with the same result. This operation was re- peated fifteen times, when at last the shock had the desired effect, the shell { was opened, and the gull enjoyed fits dainty contents. The Bachelors’ Excuses. At a wedding breakfast the bach- elors were called upon to give their reasons for remaining single. The fol- { lowing were among the reasons given: “I am like the frog in the fable who, though he loved the water, would not jump into the well because he could not jump out again.” “I am too selfish and honest enough to admit it.” “I prefer, on the one hand, liberty, refreshing sleep, the opera, midnight suppers, quiet seclusion, dreams, ci- gars, a bank account and club to, on the other hand, disturbed rest, cold meat, baby linen, soothing sirup, rock- ing horses, bread pudding and empty pockets.” “I have a twin brother, nnd we have never had a secret from one anotber. Heis marrig’_‘ e s Suspicious. A man entered a Tenderloin drug store the other day and asked for & telephone, says the New York Tribune. He was evidently from out of town. “Do I pay you first or afterward?”’ he asked the clerk when the instrument in question was pointed out to him. “You call your number and then put your dime in the slot,” snapped the clerk. The stranger was suspicious. “In that hole there?” he asked, looking all around the telephone and fingering the slot dubiously. *“Yes.” “I gues: Rot,” said he, turning away, with de- cisien. “I ain’t lookin’ fer no savin's bank.” Saw Him With Her Own Eyes. “It is too bad,” said Mrs. Oldcastle, “that our curate seems likely to be a valetudinarian all his life.” “Why, he ain’t, is he?’ replied her hostess as she toyed with her diamond studded lorgnette. “I’'m almost sure I seen him eatin’ beefsteak at the dinner in the parish house night before last.” --Chicago Record-Herald. Followed Copy. Father: (to little son returning from horseback ride)—Got a fall, did you? Well, I hope you didn’t ery like a baby. Son—No, dad, I didn’t cry. I just said one word—the same as you'd have said. —Punch. Another Authority. Mr. Howe—1I suppose you have studied all the authorities on social and economic questions? Mr. Wise—Not quite all. My daughter’s graduation es- say is not out yet.—Life. A Paradox. “Since Footlight inherited a fortune he is a paradox.” “What’s the answer?” “He is both the richest and poorest |’ actor on the stage.” 7" The Other Great Man, i Dr. Russell Cool of California lmp- pened to suppress an epidemic of measles while on a vacation trip to Tahitl, and Chief Oreaori gratefully vited him to a banquet in his primi. ve palace. The south sea-potentate d his white guest sat amiably on the floor and dined off roast pig and ther native delicacies served on broad eaves and eaten with the fingers. ter dinner host and guest adjourned 0. seats outside the palace, lit long, fat, black cigars and gazed out over the moonlit Pacific. In the eyes of Chief Oreaori, Robert Louis Stevenson, who did so much to improve the condition of the south sea islanders, was the greatest white man that ever lived. The chief related to Dr. Cool many Incidents to fillustrate Steyenson’s kindliness, then asked & score 6f ques- tions about the health of Stevenson’s widow and of his stepchiliren. When g:e last question had been answered ere followed a long period of silence. The two friends puffed slowly at their cigars and luxuriously regarded the radiant tropic moonlight giowing upon rustling palm fronds and the silvery ocean. Then Oreaori turned to the doctor and demanded, “Now tell me about John L. Sullivan!"—Harper's Freezing Flesh. It is a curious fact that, although dwellers in northern climes must have known for ages that a low temperature preserves flesh from putrefaction, it never seems .to have struck any one that this natural fact could be turned to artificial advantage until Lord Bacon stuffed the historic chicken with snow and thereby caught a chill which killed him. It is perhaps even more curious that an experiment resulting in the death of one of the most eminent men in the world should not have called any attention to an already well known principle which might have been read- ily turned to.great advantage. As a matter of fact, it was not until the year 1875 249 years after Lord Bacon’s fatal experiment, that freezing was prac- tically employed as a method of pre- serving flesh. This was the commence- ment of the frozen meat trade between ‘America and England. Four years later a dry air refrigerator was per- fected. Thought He Had Died. A prominent member of a German- '‘American society told a story about a German friend of his who was taken ill. For many days the German was close to death, but after a time he showed improvement in condition. The doctor told the German’s wife that her lhusband might have anything to eat that he liked. The German expressed a desire for limburger cheese, and the wife, being a generous woman and pleased at the Aimprovement and in order that her husband might have a' nibble at any time he had a taste for it, put some cheese in every room in the house, It is easy to imagine the aroma. The next morning the doctor called at the house, and as soon as he opened the door he asked: “When did he die?”—Hartford Post. How It Works Out. “I never tell funny stories in my speeches,” remarked Senator Sor- ghum. “The audience always enjoys them.” “Yes. A man hears you tell a funny story, and he thinks it is so good he tries to remember it. He regards you as a first rate fellow and feels thank- ful to you for giving him a new one. Then he tells it to the first friend he meets, and as he isn’t a good story teller the friend doesn’t laugh. Then he tries it on the blase hotel clerk and the stolid drug store man and several others. and by the time he gets home he concludes you have passed him a gold brick. He not only refuses to vote for you, but tells all his friends he doesn’t think it’s dignified to keep in office a man who tells funny sto- ries. "—Washlngton Star. "l pm HEI Spelled In Full. “We had an editor in.chief on our paper years ago who was a stickler for no abbreviations,” said a veteran news- paper man. “He didn’t believe in ab- breviating anything but the word mis- ter. The names of states had to be spelled out. One time one of the boys wrote a news story which contained ‘this clause: ‘And Mozart's mass was played.’ The proofreader who got the story had been under the exacting di- rection of that editor for years, too many years to allow any proper name w get by him without being spelled ,but, s0 when he came to this ‘mass’ he /' ‘rung’ the word, and it came out ‘Mo- zart's Massachusetts.’ "—Omaha Bee. 4 Radical. “I hear that your new school super- intendent is rather radical.” i “He 1{s that” /Haw. “He’s cut out the higher head- ‘work and the perforated tattling, and he’s advising teachers to handle the ichildren according to the rules of com- mon sense. Oh, yes! Our new super- iintendent is radical, all rlgh ‘ville Courier-Journal. Ambiguoul. . Parishioner (a little worse for uqnor) '—I hearsh you preazh las’ night. responded Farmer’ That ecompetition is at least the back- bone if mnot the life of trade is illus- trated by the big city department stores, especially those located in the same district, where rivalry runs high and the efforts to attract trade are studied with particular care in time of depression. That this same incentive for progress is not given to stores in the country may be one cause—or is it effect?—of the degeneration of some of our rural districts in the east. One of the heads of a prominent New York concern who spent a vacation in New England last summer weat to the local “‘general store” to buy a few yards ot a certain cloth. . “We don’t keep it,” said the store- keeper. “Why not?” was the reply. “This is a staple. How can you get along with. out it?” “Waal,” was the indifferent explana- tlon, “we jest can’t keep it. I laid in some a short spell ago, but it was bought out, and every time I've got some it only gets sold. There’s no use trying to keep it here!”—System. Too Particular. The finical customer at the fish mar- ket pointed at a sign in the window with this inscription upon it: “Anjo vis.” “What does that mean?’ he asked. “What 1s an anjovis?” “Anjovis,” answered the proprietor, “are little fishes. Didn’t ye never hear of ’em?” “You mean anchovies, don’t you?”’ “Not unless you want to buy some, sir,” sternly spoke the proprietor. “If a man wants to buy my fish he can call ’em what he durn pleases. When I'm puttin’ up signs on my fish I’ll call ’em what I durn please, and anybody who don’t like ’em don’t have to look at ’em, sir.” The finical customer muttered an apology and escaped further trouble by purchasing a dime’s worth of smoked herring, a harmless, unassuming fish about whose name there could be nc possible dispute.—Chicago Tribune, The Elephant at Bay. Twenty years of experience tells me that a whole regiment of lions cannot produce the same moral effect as one twelve foot African tusker when he cocks his big, sail-like ears, draws him- self up to his full height and looks af you, letting off at the same time a blood curdling scream, while in all probability others invisible to you are stampeding on all sides with the din and vibration of an earthquake. Sur rounded in a dense jungle by a herd of elephants, they seem to block out the whole horizon. One I measured was actually sixteen feet from edge of ear to edge of ear. No wonder my insig nificant self seemed to shrivel and my huge express rifie to dwindle into a mere pea shooter. Try as I will on such occasions, I can never overcome my sense of terror and always feel inclined to throw down my elephant gun and run for safety till I drop.— W. G. Fitz-Gerald in Success Maga- zine, The Too Faithful Dog. A party of young Australians want ing a fish dinner filled a bottle with dynamite, attached a waterproof fuse and flung it into a pool in a creek One of them had a retriever who had been taught to retrieve anything flung into the water, and the bottle had hardly touched the surface before Watch was after it. They yelled at him to leave it alone, but he paid no attention and soon was swimming shoreward with the fizzing bomb in his mouth. The young men ran for their lives, and the poor beast, thinlk- ing it all a great joke, came galloping after. He was within twenty yards of the hindmost when there was a stunning crash. Two of the men were thrown down, though, fortunately, not badly hurt. But of the unfortunate dog hardly a trace was left.—Fry’s Magazine. The Strainer. It was the first time she had ever used a telephone, and the drug clerk detected the fact by the nervous way in which she held the receiver. “Dear me!” she exclaimed timidly. “Why are all those sievelike holes in the mouthpiece?” “They are there for a purpose,” re- plied the drug clerk solemnly. “What purpose?” “Why, so you can strain your voice.” And she was so embarrassed she forgot the number she was to call up. He Would Return. “Fifty dollars is the price,” said the magistrate, “and I hope, sir, never to see you here again.” “Never to see me here again? ‘Why, you’re not resigning, are you?” And with a nonchalant laugh Toor- ing-Karr threw a crisp fifty dollar bill to the clerk, entered his waiting ninety, ‘horsepower racer and set out to break ,another .speed law.—New York Pmu New Minister—You didn’t hear much, | re 1 fancy. “Thaz what I thought mysel.t Lon' ‘don Pick-Me-Up. Inquisitive. " “One half of the world doesn’t know ihow the other half lives,” observed the imoralizer. 3 . “How provoking?’ exclaimed Mrs. ‘Gossyp.—Lippincott’s. hnson. Mind no business but your own—Dr. | Lherry History. It 1s still asserted in schoolbooks that cherries were introduced to Ehgland by the “@ruiterer” or greengrocer of Henry VIIL; also, that they were not common fiyr a hundred years after that time. Thfs is: an error. Mr. Thomas ‘Wright found the name in every one of the Amglo-Saxon vocabularies which he edited. So common were they and’ 50 highly esteemed that the time fop gathering them became a recognized. festival—“cherry fair” or “feast.” And this grew into a proverbial expression. for.fleeting joys. Gower says the fri- .ars taught that “life is but a cherye-- fa; ” and Hope “endureth but g§. throwe, right as it were a cherye-- There is more than one record. of the purchase of trees for the king's: feste.” garden at Westminster centuries be- fore Henry VIII. was born. But Pliny contradicted the fable, as if in pro- phetic mood. After telling that Lu- cullus first brought cherries to Rome (from Pontus, in 680 A. U. C.), he adds. that in the course of 120 years they have spread widely, “even passing over sea to Britain.”—Cornhill Maga- zine. The First English Bookmaker. Both the Derby and the Oaks owe their names to that Earl of Derby who' kept a pack of staghounds near Epsom during the last quarter of the eight~ eenth century and resided at a hunt- ing box called the Oaks. Fifty years later a spiteful description of the Oaks and its jockeys was recorded in the diary of Oharles Greville. In the re- port of the first Derby run the names of five starters and of all the riders are missing and there 1S no ‘betting quotation. As the earliest kmown bookmaker,. Vauxhall Clarke, was hanged, not for welshing, but for highway robbery, betting on the race course could not at that period have been a particularly ‘profitable profession. Jockeys did not then possess their present princely sal- aries, but with a fee of a guinea were more richly rewarded than those of King James I, who were regaled by our British Solomon with long speeches, delivered half in Latin and half in Caledonian.—Westminster Ga- zette. Financial Poetry. An unusual album was presented to’ Willis Clark, brother of Lewis Gaylord Clark, a poet, on one occasion, with: a request for “some rhymes.” Mr. Clark was at the house of a- farmer, and the man’s daughter had turned an old account book fnto an autograph” album in which were in- scribed the names of her various: friends and relatives below appropriate sentiments. Mr. Clark saw his opportumity, and after turning over the leaves for 2 mo- ment or two he took a pen and wrote the following verse: £ 8 4. This world’s a scene as dark as Styx ‘Where hope is scarce worth 2 e Our joys are born so fleetimg hence That they are dear at k] And yet to stay here many gre willing Although they may not have 1 —Londom Graphic. Pepys on May Deaw. In Pepys’ time May &gw—that is, dew gathered from the gmass on a May morning, and especially en the morn- ing of May day—was higRly prized for bleaching linen and improving.the com- plexion. Pepys wrote in 1667: “My wife away down with Jane and W. Hewer to Woolwich in order to a lit- tle air on to lie there tonight and so to gather May dew tomorrow morning, which Mrs. Turner bath taught her is the only thing in the world to wash her face with, and I am contented with it.” Two years later he made this en- try in his didry: “Troubled, about 8 in the morning, with my wife’s calling her maid up and, rising herself, to go with her coach abroad to gather May dew, which she did, and I troubled for it for fear of any hurt going abroad so betimes happening to her, but I to gleep again. She came home about 6.” . Yery Sagacious. A farmer had a very sagacious dog which he had trained to count his Bheep as they passed through a partic- ular opened gate, against which a pile of stones were placed for the dog’s use. As each sheep passed through the dog placed one of the stones aside. One day, much to the farmer’s surprise, he found the dog trying to break a stone in half, and on himself counting the flock he found there had been an ad- dition in the night of a lamb. Knew the Value. “Do you know the value of an oath?” asked the judge of an old darky who was to be the next witness. “Yes, sah, I does. Omne ob dese yeah lawyers done gib me foah dollars for to swear to suffin. Dat’s de value of an oath. Foah dollars, sah.” And then there- ‘was consternation in the courtroom.— St. Joseph News. Tit For Tat. “We thonghl: we'd rather move than: