Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1896, Page 18

18 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 7%, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ALWAYS ON HAND Types of Visitors at the Capitol Every Session. ———— WAITING FOR THEIR HEMBER Daily Haunting the Corridors and Lobbies. THE HOPEFUL AND HOPELESS Se ey = SORTS AND conditions of men— and women—' che Capitol in the course of a day, on pleasure or business bent. but there are some types of character that may be said to be chronically and ep demically prevah there. The old ha- bitue of the building comes to know them “by the cut of their rs say. The persons them- change, but the types they represent do not. Death and the muta- tions of time ireumstances may shift the actors themselves, but their parts are always represented, and the play is con- stantly on the boards. . All day long they surge through the Cap- {tol on the stream of humanity that sweeps along the corridors, or remain stationary in niches and nooks, like driftwood caught in a sluggish -shoreward eddy. Here you will see some of them standing for hour: watching and waiting for tne Congres. man whom they wili not see if the Con. gressmian sees them first. There are oth- ers who do not haunt the corridors with wistful face and despairing step, but who sally boldly in, and are greeted eftu- sively, joyously and with enthusiasm by the Congressman, as he stumbles over ein- ers to get to them. One of the stock characters at the Capi- tol is the old soldier, the applicant for a pension oc an increase of pension. He is perennial You ean find him in almost any part of the building at al- LL A fib. selves may most any time of | the da: He is jf unobtrusi how- ever, because he is Patient, long-set- fering and aceus- | tomed to delays His manner is apologetic, though eravil pardon for Hving. He stumps around the corridors with bis cane, or, per- haps, a wooder leg. and makes nts of je epers and messengers 3h around the halls. It is not Iong until Tke Old Pensioner. tkey all krow him and his little story. and know the Congressmen he to see. Everybody is ind to » old fellow, and it 1s seldom that the try to dodge him. The trou- ase is that there are so many . equaily de: jing. The Cong: me kind in his own dis nd Army button that t in hfs lapel, or the he wears, is the im patient audience wi After a while this o ve up and go ho: the committee's action on his bil, interested some member { . bat his place will be taken by another ore, and after him another, so that there is always a contingent of the lass on hand. war a familiar figure has idors of the Capitol. He has not been the same person all the time, but has been the same kind of per- {| son oF persor a long bert and turn-down col- | lar, and wears a biack string tie. He drawis in his | speech and is ver anctilious and po- lite in manner. This gentleman looking after a southerm war claim. The claim | that he is trying to get through Con- ress is for sup- plies furnished by loyal relatives of his to Union troops €uring the war, or for some cotton in the possession of loyal families which was sent | north and sold, and the proceeds of which sale are now in the treasury. This gentle- man, or one of his kind, turns up at every Congress, ant is frequently supplemented by a dainty little woman in black, soft speech, persuasive of tongue and with a! werld of trouble In her past. It sometimes happens that this war claims man has a colleague from north of | Mason and Dixon's line, a_ substantial | Dutch burgher of one of the Pennsylvania | border counties, who suffered when the con- | federates made their dash for Gettysburg. | This latter gentleman is utterly unable to | understand why his claim is not pald, be- cause there cannot be the slightest imputa- tion upon his loyalty, and he feeis sure that he government is responsible for the loss of his well-tilled, high-roofed, red Dutch barn that went up in smoke when the con- federate hordes swept through the county, and for the sleek cattle that fell under the raiders’ knife, and the sturdy horses upon which they rode off after their work of de- vastation. A daily visitor at the Capitol is the ward pohiti- cian, who runs down to Wash- ington for a day or two to see his Congressman and Teport upon the condition of the Bolities of the dis- trict. You can- not fajl to recog- nize this chap when you see him. The Con- gressman walks through the cor- rider with his arm resting fa- miliarly on the visitor's should-r, and listening to the account of affairs at home with eagerness. ‘The politician is a gentleman of florid com- plexion, suspiciously dark hair, wears a shirt and collar of somewhat pronounced stripe. About Iunch time you willl see the two in the restaurant, withsa big porter- house steak and a bettle of ale for the pol- itician and a more modest lunch for the Congressman, while the talk of ward and county matters goes on. Out in Statuary Hall, in a corner filled with chairs and sofas, you will often find some character- istic types. This is the ladies’ re- ception room in the House wing of the Capitol, where ladies de- siring to converse with a_ member of the House can send in their card ard meet the man they desire to see. The major- ity of those who throng this por- tion of the build- are elderly women, sad-faced women, as a rule, with trouble and DPrivation too . Plainly stamped ~ upon them. They may want work The Old Claimant. From the South. ’ smart woman; tm the departments to support the family | time!” or may be urging a pension case them- selves, or be urging action on that long- standing claim, which wil) very likely atill be shunted back and forth between the committees of the House and ‘Senate long after the claimant is dead and gone. A constant visitor is the old lady whose wayward son has enlisted in the army and is repenting his resh act at leisure while efforts are being made through the Congress- men to get*the Secretary of War to order the young’s man’s dis- charge. Another _ visitor in this ladies’ re- ception room is the young woman who wants a posi- tion in the depart- ments. There is a prevailing impres- sion among many that she is always beautiful, viv a- cious and bewitch- ing, but this is not necessarily the case. Plain girls are sometimes poor and of work. The chances are ten te one that the young woman will sup- port two or three or Seeking Office. other people, rerhaps educate a younger brother or s! ter, and she is in dead earnest about her 2 pplication. A cheery sight is the honest farmer who drops into the Capitol on a visit to Washing- ton or the east, and must call upon his mem- ber. Atthough he may reside a hundred miles eway from the Congressman’s home and never have laid eyes upon him,he feels an.un- mistakable propr!- etary interest in the legislator and would not iss seeing him for anything. He is often accompanied by his wife, and sends in his card and waits with an expectant air, as though antici; ing a hearty wei- come and effusive greeting from | the Congressman, who he thinks | will surely be glad || F to meet him, and flattered at his calling upon him. The chances are the Congressman will send word that he is out and skip into the lobby to smoke a cigar Districts. until the hot granger disappears. If, however. the visitor is a man of consequence in his neighborhood, known to the Congress- man, the latter will come forth in a hurry and escort the delighted granger to the re- served gallery, whence ne will point to him the dignitaries upon the floor of the House or Senate and there leave him in a State of awe and admiration. Like the poor, whom we have always with us. Is the disappointed office secker at the ‘ol. He is there every day:-hopeful in the forenoon, dejected in the afternoon, and despairing in the evening, but coming again on the morrow to renew his suit and revive his hopes. You can see him al- most anywhere in the building, and know him by his listless air, his anx- ious, careworn look,and the frayed fringes of his coat- sleeves and troz ers. Too poor to get home, perhaps, or at least too to return anded and meet the questions and sneers of his old-time associates, on in From the Country proud as best he may, and besieging the mem- bers of his state The Disappointed dejegation for work Office Seeker. that they cannot find for him. He is not a man to be made fun of, for his case is too serious. When he goes down the great marbie steps at the close cf another fruitless day's effort you could not look into his face and read the ish there without feeling sorry for him, uring also the added grief he m he gets home to repeat th old tale of disappointment to those seasons of the year, when Congress ‘on, and when it is not, the ne: ed couple forms an interesting fe: ture of t ‘isit- ing class at the Capitol. Of course, rybody is “on to them" the mo- ment they get into the building. He has hold of her orm as though fearful that she iil get away from him, or that some bad Con- gtessman will sieal her, and they gO ambling through the corri- dors, blissfully un- ious of everything except themselves. They admire the sta- tues, gaze at the paintings and u On Their Bridal Tonr. ua!ly climb the long. winaing stairs to the dome. This is an ideal journey for a bride and groom There are any number of obscure turns gn the stairway where a hasty kiss can he stolen, and the participators emerge into the I'gnt lcoking pleased and foolish. It is a fact frequentiy observed and commented upon.although never explained, that a bridal couple at the Capitol caanot stand for five minutes leoking at a painting but that their hands will instinctively meet, and with fin- gers entwined and uplifted gaze, they look the picture of trusting innocence. e crank, of course, is always on han?. ually he is harmless, although some- times he is not. A great many people, with nothing better to do in the world than to develop ec- centricities find Washington a con- genial field, and to this class Congress seems to be as the lamp that attracts the silly moth. Peo- ple with all kinds of hobbies come to the Capitol to put them into opera- tion. For many years an aged per- son hung around the lobbies besieg- ing members to Pass a bill abolish-_ ing the red stripe in the American flag because red is a syeet of blood. A favorite eccen- tricity very often ‘Fhe Crank. — indulged in is tre effort to have Congress acknowledge some flower as a national em- blem. The rese, pansy, golden rod and the lowly jimson weed have often been ad- vocated, and it is surprising what bitter- ress of feeling is engendered between the advocates of the several flowers. Several ‘crs ago Mr. Butler of Iowa introduced a ll making the pansy the national flower, and from that day to this he has been known as “Psrsy’’ Butler. There are also the people who want Congress to insert the word “God” in the Constitution, and the people who make it their business to see that this is not done. They watch each other like hawks, so afraid that one side will steal a march and accomplish its full purpos2. Tho prohibition crank ts a constant visitor. He thinks that the liquor question can be setiled for all time by the passage of a bill prohibiting igs sale and manufacture in the United States. So impressed is this man with the simplicity of ths scheme and $9 irritated that Con- gress will not sce it his way and effect the reform thet he soon wears himself out chafing against the stiff-necked and de- generaie Congress, and goes his way to give place to another. The dangerous crank is an occasional visitor, but as soon as he makes his presence known he is ‘Promptly ejected. ——_-__ An Astute Woman. From Chicago To Date. Jack Robinsgn (at the door)—“Mrs. Rob- inson (hie), do you knowsh w’'at’s matter with me?" Mrs. J. Robinson (severely)—“Yes, sir.” You are drunk, very drunk?!" J. R.—‘Mrs. Robinson (hic), correct: y'r you guessed it the first in need | hington, living | | } | # in | woman who i | wou A TRIP TO PRISON Journey of a Star Reporter to Albany With District Prisoners. LIFE IN THE PENITENTIARY Men Who Are Paying the Penalty of Crimes Committed Here. CAPTAIN HOWGATE’S : ae A few days ago a Star reporter visited the Albany penitentiary, the prison in which persons convicted here of felonies serve their sentences. Through the co tesy of Warden Leonard of the District Jail, he was permitted to accompany a batch of prisoners who were being trans- ported to the penitentiary. It was not a pleasant journey, either for the reporter or, it is needless to say, for the unfortu- nate beings who were being carried in chains.to the place of detention, for, while the convicts had undoubtedly been justly convicted and deserved their punishment, they were human beings, and keenly felt the disgrace which their chains brought to the notice of every passenger on the car. The band of prisoners was composed of ten men and two women. The men were handcuffed together in pairs, and also chained one to the other at the ankles. Through the handcuffs ran a great trace chain, the couples being about four feet part. The women escaped the indignities f the ch and handcuffs, but they nev- ertheless keenly felt the disgrace of the!r position. ‘Three of the prisoners, two men and one of the women, had been convicted of manslaughter, one of the men being S| tenced to ten years’ imprisonment, other to two years, and the woman young colored woman, to three years. The ten-year man had stavbei another to death; the other, a white man, had ked a little boy to death, and the woman had been gulity of pe.forming an abortion, and thereby causing the death of a nameless infant. One of the party, a young white man, s making hs second trip to the peniten under sentence again for theft, et he nad been but two yegrs out of th prison. But two of the prisoners were hite, and the crimes of which the others had been convicted were adultery, house- breaking and theft. Proud of Hix Sentence. A yeung colored man prided himself upon the fact that he was establishing a record, that of having received the lightest sentence in the penitentiary ever imposed in the District—two months. His offense was a Violation of the Edmunds or Utah act. He was the one person in the party who thoroughly enjoyed the trip, and he now and then amused himself by remarking: “Say, don’t yo" folks wish yo’ was me? Jes" look at me, a-gettin’ a free ride to Albany an’ back, a new suit of clo’es, an’ a five-dollar bill when Ise rested fur a couple of months.” This young than wi!l, learn that he was sudly mistaken as to several of his prem it is true that ordi- narily upon the discharge of a prisoner fro: the penitentiary he Is given a new suit cloties, a ticket back to Washington and but the officials of the pe y informed The Star man, when h ed in . that while that prisoners sentenced r less than one year w: receive neither clothes nor money, and wha more, are required to serve without any ion of them sentences because of good behavior. ile this fellow establi ‘ort sentenc closely followe wo others in Y, a man and 7 three months ‘a for the same crime. Like hia th ere also negroes, and throughout the tire trip the woman kept as near her part- ner in crime as possible, endeavoring to cothe him py whispering that the time 1 soon & The party left here at 11:30 in the ev ing, occupying seats in the smoker of the train. As they were marched through the station to the train they were gazed at with morbid curiosity, and when Jersey City was reached about 7 o'clock next morning quite a crowd of men and boys ‘oHowed them through the station and on the ferry boat, subjecting the unfortunat ones to many coarse end unkind remark: The Public ignominy. All that the women and the two w! men naturally resented, although they bore the additional disgrace and punishment in silence, except now and then when particularly offensive remark was respecting them, when they replied angrily like manner. The officers in charge 9% the prisoners did all they possibly could to protect them from such insults, and when New York city was reached hurried their charges into coeches in waiting for them. The Grand Central depot reached, the prisoners were seated in the public waiting room until the 9.30 train for Albany was made up, when they were again placed in the smoker of the train. While in the waiting room the prisoners were once more surrounded by a curious crowd of people, and the miserable beings were only tov glad when they were march- ed te their train. The spectacle of chained men called forth from one of the specta- tors the remark that it was a sad reflec- tion upon the government of the United Siates that it compelled its convicts to hear the disgraceful punishment of being car- ried in chains hundreds of miles in public view and subjected to coarse and insulting remarks. It was a punishmi which, no matter what the crimes were. was un- worthy of a great and supposedly humane nation, he thought. Albany was reached about 1 o'clock, and Just before the train rolled imto the depot there the chains about the legs of the men were removed, but those on their wrists Were retajned and also the long trace chain which connected them together. At the station the penitentiary van, a somewhat ancient affair, was in waiting, and into it the men and two women were crowded and rapidly driven to the prison, which is sit- uated in an elevated park about a mile from the station. Arrived there, the men were marched to the general’ reception room, were theiz chains were removed for the first time in fourteen hours, the women being at cnce conducted to the female de- partment of the prison. In Prison Garb. The moment the men were unshackled they were directed to an adjoining wing of the prison. Their pedigrees were recorded first, and then they were in turn handed over to the two prison Larbers, convicts, of course, who quickly removed all hair from their faces and about all from their heads, the change being so startling in some case that one would hardly be able to Tecognize them. Then they were sized up by the offi- cer who distribyte to them the prison cloth- irg, and from a pile a convict handed them their outfit. When not being interrogated and barbered the men were forced to stand close to a wall, facing it, with their hands hanging at their sides, no conversation being permit- ted, of course. All this done, the men were conducted to the bath rooms, where they were required to bathe, and then, discard- ing the clothing worn by them on their ar- rival, they donned the prison outfit of striped trousers and jackets and cap, heavy shoes, and coarse underclothing. Then they were conducted to the shops where it had been previously decided they should thereafter be employed, where they remained until the men were marched in the lock step across the yards to the cell rooms. On the way to their cells, which rise in three tiers, the men were told to take on tin plates the supper which they found assorted in huge heaters at the en- trance. Then they ascended to their re- spective cells, and with the hundreds of their fellows were locked up for the night. About the same reception was accorded the two women, although it was gone threugh with more quickly than with the men, the women being put at work in about an hour from the time they arrived. Hard Labor Required. The Albany penitentiary is not a state prison, but an institution of Albany coun- ty. It fs, however, conducted as most state prisons aré, and all prisoners confined therein. are required to perform hard la- bor. 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In ery chance for yet Physic prisoners convicts to 1,125, tus Bowers of Star's reporter that about 45) of thé pris- oners were District convicts. ‘The penitentiary receives both male and female prisoners, but the men and women increased the total number of and Chief Clerk Augus- the prison stated to The never meet, except when detailed for duty in the Immense kitchen of the prison, The women are mostly employed on needle work and in the kitchen, while the men are employed in making shirts, w: ironing them, making shoe bru caning chairs, the short-term mostly employed in -the last dustr: hes and men being named in- workshops are provided, n are empl wherein morning until dark during the win- ler menths, and until about 6 o'clock in the The evening during oners are ¢: eaten 1 the summer months. is betwee lock. Dinneyzts served at noon é iwetS after the close of th @ay’s work. Scbdays religious services a held in the chapel prison, the mus j rendered by a choir of pri tendance at thgBe services is the convicts. - So The prisoner¥ ea, ners. The at- optional with ¢ Prison Rules, t3 of 2 well- 1to are not allow ile they may rec as many le as.gre written to them, they are allowed td Write But one tettér a month. O2 course, where ‘business or materia! in- rule fs relaxed, but only Letters written to the s are delivered once a week, on Sat- urday . The men are compelled to wear the I striped clothingx black and avi d to be vi 1 friends about once a month, and » allowed to receive food and daintics. The long-term convicts, those serving sen- tencés of five years or more, are allow: have ight in their cells until a, 2 evening. No conversation is ween the conyiets or between itors to the prison, and when wishes to speak to an off cer he {raise his hand, indicating his wish sion to ao so. ntenced to one year or more two months’ reduction of the e for good behavior for the first year, | two months for the second year, four months for the third year, four months for tke fourth year, five months for the fifth for perm year. Capt. Howgate Is Librarian, The most distinguished District prisoner now serving a sentence in the Albany peni- tentiary is Capt. Henry W. Howgate, who was sentenced by Judge McComas last July to eight years’ imprisonment upor a con- viction of falsifying his accounts while dis- bursing officer of the United States signal corps in 1879, and also for forging the same. Capt. Howgate entered upon his imprison. ment last fall, and was placed tn charge of the prison library and hospital. His duties are not only light and pleasant, but he en- joys also many privileges because of his prison position. Those who predicted that his sentence would crusk or kill him Httle knew the bravery er the philosophical nature of the man, and when The Star’s reporter was per- mitted to see and talk with Capt. Howgate he was astonished somewhat to discover that he looked heartier than he did before his conviction. His smoothly shaven face was ruddy and full, and he appeared to be in most excellent spirits. “I am, as you see,” said Capt. Howgate, “enjoying splendid health, and, as my duties are light and pleasant, I am as well situated as a man in my position could possibly be. Iam somewhat of a philosopher, you know,” he laughingly explained, “and always be- Heve in ae the best of things. Of course, my ition is one which I could, I think, be somewhat easily prevailed upon to resign,” and again he laughed, “but I hardly think that contingency is likely soon to arise, so you may safely address me here for some time yet.” - He begged his visitor to assure his friends that he was well and nicely situated. “I have so written,” he explained, “but they probably think that I so wrote merely as a matter of fort Fen them, please, that I am not only igen best of health, but also that I am trea: yin the greater kindness and consideration by Superintendent Dear- styne and the other prison officials.” Smothers and: Jack the Sinsher, There are mahy ¢ther noted prisoners in the penitentiary from the District, and asi The Star man was,being conducted through the prison by-Mri: Bowers he observed a veritable negro giant slowly walking about the great yard! of ‘the prison. He appear- ed to be wandérifg’aimlessly, and his slow movements indacetl the belief that he was but a wreck of what was undoubtedly once @ most powerfal min. The negro was Tom Smothers, whd in 188) was sentenced to thirty years fot criminally assaulting Lena Leing, a young white woman, here. His time, assuming’ that he will do nothing be- tween now nd" then to forfeit the usual time allowance, will’expire, through good conduct while in prison, in July, 1898, a reduction in the sentence of eleven years an@ ten months. The next man met exercising was ex-Policeman Terry, who was sent up last July a year ago for three years for shooting Willis Washington, a young colored man, during the “Jack the Slasher” scare. He looked very well, and is sald to be employed as a tiersman. The first shop visited wag the laundry, and there a little dried-up négro was ob- served working in-a listless way, and = ing about now and then with a’ frightened look. The reporter did not need to be told that he was ‘Jack the Slasher,” the man who had for months terrorized the people of the whole District, and whose capture Drought relief’ to ‘thousands of trembling women and children. Jack was sentenced ing and | d from about 7 o'clock | ited by rela- | year and five months for every subsequeat | | while a prisoner in the District jail, by Judge Cole, in April, 184, to fifty years” imprisonment, twenty years of the sentence being suspended. The penitentiary officials, or some of them, at least, believe that this most wonderfully successful criminal is tnsane, or fast becoming so, and it would not be less than merciful for the proper of!i- cials of the government, whose prisoner he ts, to have an investigation made of the man’s mental condition. At his trial he was declared, by medical testimony, to be capable of understanding right from wrong, and it may be that he is feigning. Moore, Cross and Taylor. There is another District prisoner about whose mental condition there is a difference of opinion, and that unfortunate being, The Star man observed, wore a chain and heavy bail. He is a “lifer,” as one serving a life sentence is called in the prison, a negro, and a3 Sam Moore, was well known in Washington police circles as a most desperate criminal. In the fall of 1591, Moore, a young man, by the way, killed another prisoner, Henry Jarndorf, by striking him over the head with a shovel. He seatenced by Judge Bradley to be hanged January 188 ut President Hal jon commuted the sentence to one of nprisonment. Moore wears the ball ain. because of an assault on one of the penitentiary officers, and is kept hard at work making shoe brushes at a little | stand directly in front of the officer in charge of the shop. He is a most dangerous man, according to the officers, and it is be- Keved he is suffering from insanity with a homicidal tendency. Another life-term man noticed was Wm. D. Cross, the colored man who escaped the gallows in 1803 by a commutation of sen- tence for the murder of his wife in the fait of 1589. He is employed in the shirt-making department, where the men are seated at sewing machines run by steam. He looked well, and near him was seated Thomas J. Taylor, the young white man who was sentenced last July to be hanged here for wife murder. Taylor did not appear to be so well, looking pale and thin. Appenrances Are Decelifal. Just across from them was seated a young, boyish-looking fellow, small and slight, with a most innocent air. He was threading needles, and the reporter was not a little astonished to learn that he was a man who came to the prison with a fepu- tation for daring and cr'minal deeds sec- ond to none ever received there. The in- nocent-looking young fellow was the no- torious Bill Cook, who was sentenced in a tern court about a year ago to nearly fifty years’ imprisonment, having been cor victed of about all the crimes in the cal- endar of the wild and woolly west. The man sitting next to Cook was a heavy-browed, ugly-featured, desperate- looking ebeing, and out of mere curiosity The Star man inquired what his offense was, expecting, of course, to learn that it was murder or some kindred crime. He was somewhat surprised to learn, however, that he had only been convicted of petty larceny. And further inquiries developed the fact that in penitentiaries, as else- where, appearances are dece!tful. Be eas GOLD IN THE TRANSVAAL, The Average Product Per Ton in Very Small, bat Still Profitable.- From the Review of Reviews. Meanwhile there are many notable mines . worked with large profit, whose ores are of surprisingly low value. In the Deadwood- Terra mine in South Dakota it costs but $1.25 per ton to mine and mill the ore and convert the preduct into bullion. In the famous Treadwell mine,_in Alaska, the av- erage tutal cost last year was about $1.50 a ton, ninety-three cents for mining and the balance for milling, treatment and shipping the bullion to market. These are, of course, exceptional instances, and, in general, In this country at least, the rock must carry at least half an ounce of gold to be treated with profit. Nevertheless, this limit is being grad- ually reduced, not merely in this country but everywhere over the earth. Five years ago the average amount of gold per ton from the mines of the Transvaal was twenty-two pennyweights, or above an ounce. Today this average is not more than seven or eight pennyweights, or $7 or $8 in the ton, and still the mines are worked to enormous profit: Probably nowhere else has mining been reduced to so fine an art; no- where else are such wonderful machinery and mechanical devices to be found. Par- enthetically, it is not unworthy of nete that the brains which have developed the South African mines, alike with the machinery these brains have employed, have come from the United States. South Africa has found its best mining and enginecring talent, and its machinery as well, not in England, where its mines are owned, but in this country. . ———-eee_______ Why Billy Died. From Harper's Bazar. They Meet for a Brief Time and Then | Me They Part. From the Chicago Record. The man with the overcoat, the clean col- lar and the recently shined shoes was com- ing down towa, and had stopped for a mo- mient to make certain of his street, when | he was aware of the man with the under- shirt end the legistature breath. “Sir.” said the latter personage, “I might attempt to dissemble and to deceive you. I might seek to veil my motives by speak- ing of a starving wife and seven crippled children. I might remark my de: eat for the first tite in three weeks, but I am an honest and candid ma: I believe in being fyank id open in my w. you let me have 5 cents to pu drink of very cheap but very wh Ww The man with the shine, overcoat et al. lcoked at him a moment and then said: “I admire candor. I, 120, an frank and open sort of a man in my wa I will be tree and plain with you, therefore. No, you guzzling, swilling hobo, you walking ¢ Lage, you red-nosed bum, I will not Bi you money. ¥ might say that 1 ha Money with me, but 1 believe “in truthful and perfectly honest with spoiled tripe as you, you huge, biea sewer.” “Thanks,” said the applicant. “I do love a frank man who does not attempt to di guise his real sentiments or motii iam much obliged to you, sir, for the tial and trusting w in which revealed your heart’s secret thou his to me. You have been it and fair with me and I shull not betray your contidence. Farewell.” And the two candid men parted. SS SSEe His Mathematics Lame. From the Minneapolis News. A Scotch tradesman, who had amassed, as he believed, £4,000, was surprised at his old clerk showing by a balance sheet that his fortune was £60". “It canna be; count again,” said the old man. The clerk did count again, and again declared the bal- ance to be £6,000, The master himself counted, and he also brought out a clear balance of £6,000. ‘Time after time he cast up the columns; it was sull a six, and not a four, that rewarded his labors. So the old merchant, on the Strength of his good fortune, modernized his house, and put money in ‘the purse of the carpenter, the painter and the up- holsterer. Still, however, he had a lurking doubt of the existence of the extra £2,000; So one winter night he sat down to give the columns “one count more.” At the close of the task he jumped up as though he had been galvanized, and rushed out in a shower of rain to the house of the clerk, who, capped and drowsy, put out his head from an attic window at the sound of the knocker, mumblin; “Who's there, and what d'ye want?” scoun- drel!” exclaimed his employer. “Ye've ad ed the year of our Lord amang the poons ——_——_ ree There in No Unbelief. ‘There is ro Unbelief! Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod And waits to see it push away the clod, ‘Trusts he in God. 7 ‘There is no Unbeltef: Whoever says, when clouds are in the sky, Be patient, beart, Mgbt breaketh by and by, ‘Trusts the most High, ‘There is no Unbelief! Whoever sees ‘neath winter's fields of snow ‘The silemt harvests of the future grow, God's power must know. ‘There is 19 Unbellef! Whoever les down on his couch to sleep, Content to iock each sonse in slumber deep, Knows God will keep. There is no Unbelief? Whoever says tomorrow, the unknown, The future, trusts that power alone He dare disown. ‘There is vo Unbelict? ‘The herrt that looks ca when dear eyelids close And dares to live when life has only woes, God's comfort knows. Thire is no Unbeliet? For thua by day and night unconscionsty The heart lives by that faith the lips deny. God knoweth way. AZZIE YORK CASE. oo A Soft Answer. From Harper's Magazine. Young Sloam was ever noted for his per- fect breeding, and though as a college student he was sometimes a trifle the worse for a late supper, he never forgot to be true to his code. On one such occasion, after a most determined effort to enter a house which he believed his own, he was met at the door by the scantily tired master of the mansion with information as to his whereabouts, and the added news that the householder had a sick wife and child upstairs, who had been disturbed. Sloam made abject apologies, and depart- ed; but his home seemed to elude him, and again the same irate householder was brought to his door by Sloam’s knocks for admission. “Didn't I tell you this was my house?” cried the indignant man. “And don’t you remember that my wife afid child are f117” “I remember perfectly,” answered Sloam, sobered for the moment, “‘and I merely re- turned, sir, to ask how they were getting along.” being. ou have _——— Toeing the Mark. From the Indianapolis Jourral. ¥absley—“Well, did you make Smithers toe the mark, as you said you would?” Mudge—“Er—yes. I was the mark.” Virginia. and Turkish tobacces. AUSTRALIA. ods Employed Capture These Animals. From Chambers’ Journal. As a rule the herds number from ten ta twelve, made up of mares ard one stallion. No stallion will allow another stallion herd, and stubborn fights frequently 0 between hors 5 to this. The bea males, after being expell clusively of stallions. On any he sighted by hunters, a good ide# 1, join herds ex- d being to which route the Way to the rues variably make when is mapped out to « and the party scat allotted position this, every advant. the n inequali of the grou s to « observation. When the alarm is given, ever, all need for c: on is ai an ¢ each hunter p is steed to full The stallion, the head of the comes out to meet 2, fon from 1 distur it them off, i aken of jo and the g to cut him off from the rest. Sho be accomplished, both he and the become confu: and the lassoers often manage to make two or three per man. In- stances have been known where ho been thrown to the ground by the Siving a violent jerk to the animal's ¢ when it was making an abrupt turr this quarry is brought dow Method or the use of th jumps from his handke is used when there is else procurable) over the prostrate eyes and straps up one of his f Y. If this is properly done lai teed, whips a far Should a man s to capture a branded horse = with a branded mare, he cannot keep it, but all the f the process of bres ranging from The latter figu is, howev ‘dom reached, usless in the case of exceptionally fine stallions. Great numbers of these horses die from statvation in the winter time, but still the herds show no signs of diminut From the New York B An effort is being m: sire variety to introdace the fashion in vogue thirty years ago of having names on calling cards put in Roman letters, How!- ing swells have their cards engraved in this style. It is more expensive than the old-fashioned script. Certain conservatives of the fashiorabie world look askance at these cards engraved in Roman letters, for no matter how exquisitely they are executed they suggest at first glance common print- ing. However, if you w'sh to be very fit, have a thin card embellished with xgur name in sirall Roman capitals. pip oe Am Athletic Patient. From Fliegende Blatter. Je by those who de- Dentist—“Michael, the tooth 1s so deep- rooted that I hardly think it will yield to these forceps.” Michael—"Then I suppose I must give you