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WEBSTER’S PRESIDENTIAL FEVER.
The Vote for Him, in the Party Conven-
tions Was Always Distresslngly Small.
Carl Schurz in an article ‘in Harper’s
Magazine says of Webster that he was
not satisfied with the theater of action
in which his abilities fitted him for the
greatest service and on which he
achieved his highest renown. At a
comparatively early period of his ca—
reer he ardently wished to be sent as
Minister to England, and he bore a
grudge to John Quincy Adams for his
failure to gratify that desire. Ever
since his “Reply to Hayne” had made
his name a household word in the
country an ungovernable longing pos-
sessed him to be President of the Uni-
ted States. The morbid craving com-
monly called “the Presidential fever”
developed in him, as it became chron-
ic, its most distressing forms, disor-
dering his ambition, unsettling his
judgment and warping his statesman—
ship. His imagination always saw the
coveted prize within his grasp, which
in reality it never was. He lacked the
sort of popularity which, since the Ad-
ministration of John Quincy Adams,
, seemed to be required for a Presiden-
tial candidacy. He travelled over the’
land, South and North and East and,
West, to manufacture it for himself,
but in vain. The people looked at
him with awe and listened to him
with rapture and wonder, but as to
the Presidency the fancy and favor of
the politicians, as well as of the mass-
es, obstinately ran to other men. So
it was again and again. Clay, too, was
unfortunate as a Presidential candi-
date. But he could have at least the
nomination of his party so long as
there appeared to be any hope for his
election. Webster was denied even
that. The vote for him in the party
conventions was always distressingly
small, usually confined to New Eng-
land or only a part of it. Yet he never
ceased to hope against hope, and thus
to invite more and more gelling dis-
appointments. To Henry Clay he
could yield without humiliation, but
when he saw his party prefer to him—
self, not once, but twice and three
times, men of only military fame,
without any political significance what
ever, his mortification was so keen
that, in the bitterness of his soul, he
twice openly protested against the re-
sult. WorSe than all this, he had to
meet the fate—a fate not uncommon
with chronic Presidential candidates—
to see the most important and most
questionable act of his last years at-
tributed to his inordinate craving for
the elusive prize.
The welfare, much less the independ-
ence of Hawaii, has never' been en--
dangered by the operations of that
treaty. 0n the contrary, Japanese im-
migration was zealously promoted and
encouraged in the islands until politi-
cal contingencies rendered'another pol-
icy advisable. Japan did not seek the
treaty, but her people have been in-
duced to resort to Hawaii under the
guarantees it provides, and certainly
no one with any Sense of justice can
now blame her for endeavoring to
conserve their rights.
No Leap Year Till 1904.
The familiar rule that leap year is
every calendar year with a number di-
visible by four will be broken in 1900,
which fact need not be regarded as an
indication that even then it will be
time for a change. This rule of the
almanac may account for the proverbi-
al activity of the new woman at the
close of every century. Then there is
no leap year for eight years. Febru-
ary, l0tl0, will have but twenty-eight
days, the extra day not appearing
from .1896 to 1904. Centenary years
are not leap years. That year will be
broken in the leap year 2300, when the
interruption may be regarded as an
indication that it is time for a change.
_.eutenary years divisible by four hun-
dred are leap years, consequently there
were twenty—nine days .»in February,
.tGd’tl, and the same number of days
will be given to February, 2000, and
again to 2400. The object of this rule
is to make the calendar year coincide
'ith the solar yearn—Buffalo Commer-
cial. '
A Dog; that ‘vVoultln’t Br.- (flit-atoll.
A'dog which belonged to the Forty»
Second Regiment (Black Watch)
forms the subject of an amusing an»
ecdotc. “Jock” had a. favorite trick of
begging for a penny, upon receipt of
which ll‘c would trot off to the synteeu
and buy a. large biscuit. Once {1.3. can-
teen man‘ thought to gel: the best; of
him, and only handed hima small bro-
ken biscuit in exchange for his penny.
.lock made it great inns. running-.3 tip
and down the canteen howling" and
bud-:ing, until iil.i1‘..‘-.:i?e‘zy one o" the
31cm gave him cumhcr penny. "._‘.l1!€'-
diiitely Jock t52:12peti up to the cama-eu,
showed his coin. and belted out .
canteen of the next regiment, where
his purchase was duly made. li‘iom
that day he tabcoed his own canteen,
and whenever he got, :1 penny only put
in an appearance there to show his
money, and then took his custom else- -
where.
A School for Rat-Catchers.
In Chicago rats are timorous. They
know that not only the feline instinct
and canine instinct are arrayed against
them, but that there is actually a
school of training for rat catchers.
The teacher of the school is Topsy,
a fox terrier of renown. She has won
fame as a practical rat-catcher. Now
she merely instructs others in the art.
With classes ranging from three or
Four to a dozen'pupils she enters the
hit. ' ' 3
The rats which she has already dis-
patched are left. for the new recruits
to practice upon. They thus learn
:‘earléssness, and that, it seems, is the'
chief: requisite among rat—catching
dogs.
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. THE NOST CURIOUS 0F ORGANS.
Perfect in Tone, but. No Ordinary Musl-
clau Can Use It.
An organ which the leading organist
of New York could not play is now
being used by professors of Cornell
college. This organ is not, as might
be supposed, out of tune. It is because
it is in perfect tune that it differs sc
radically from an ordinary organ. The
ordinary organ, such as is used in
churches and drawing—rooms, is not
in tune, even after the maker has just
declared it to be in perfect order.
The Cornell organ was invented by
Von Helmholtz, and it contains a pure-
ly mathematical scale. It is made for
the composition of chords such as are
not to be obtained on an ordinary in-
strument, and is used to study the vi-
bration of notes, and of what tones an
organ note is made. Every tone in
music is to be found on this organ.
For instance, what are known as
sharps and flats on a piano are not
really sharps and flats. C sharp and
D flat ’are struck on the same black
key, but, strictly speaking, that black
key is neither; it is a note or tone
situated midway between C sharp and
D flat. If both of the latter were on
the piano, however, the difference be-
tween them is *so slight that it would
confuse the player. So a compromise
is made, and the two are blended, or,
rather, the tone midway between them
is used.
.But in Cornell the organ contains
keys for every note in the scale, no
matter how fine the gradation. With
it students can see just how a note on
the organ is built up. Certain notes
on the organ are made up of certain
other tones. 0n the ordinary piano
you would not be able to illustrate
what these notes are. You would need
the true sharps and flats in Order to
compose the notes. The overtones on
the domestic instrument would be
quite different. The pure fifth, which
can here be accurately denoted, is very
much curtailed on the piano. Used in
connection with this organ are a com-
plete set of resonators or tuning forks.
In order to find out how many resona-
tions are contained in a given tone, it
is only necessary to strike that note.
Those forks which resound in sympa—
thy with it are sure to be included in _
the makeup of the note. The silent
ones are not included in it.——-Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
THE QUEEN OF SPAIN’S BUSY LIFE.
Site Rises Early and Begins Work will;
Her Secretary at eight O'clock,
Spain is essentially a lazy country.
In all ranks the people rise late and
turn night into day; but the queen re-
ygent—a tall, graceful woman, looking
younger than her yearse—sets them an
,excellent example. Up at 7, her first
,care is given to her children, and by 8
' o’clbck she is already at work with her
secretary. It is only after lunch, to-
.ward 2 o’clock, that she allows herself
an hour 'of well-earned rest. And
some idea of Queen Christina's thor—
oughness may be gained by the fact
that she no longer speaks German—her
native tongue—save to those few Teu-
tons who find their way to‘Madrid.
When she first came a bride from Vi—
enna to Spain she had mastered but
imperfectly the language. Now she
talks Spanish correctly, and has, alone
and unaided, acquired a real knowl-
edge ot the splendid literature of her
adopted country. When speaking of
her son she seldom refers to him as
“his majesty” or “the king!” usually it
is, “my boy” or “my little one.” She
makes no outward difference between
the three children, but it is easy to see
that. her heart is specially bound up in
Alfonso XIII.——London Figaro.
Not Up on Musical Terms.
One of Chicago’s bands went to
Grand Rapids last year to help keep
up the enthusiasm at the mail carri-
er’s convention. The day before the
band left for Michigan the regular bass
drummer was seized with the fever,
and a substitute had to be engaged.
The first evening of the convention
the band was playing in the lobby of
the Morton House. During one of the
pianissimo movements the new man
beat a terrific tattoo on his drum. In
fact, he was the whole band.
The bandmaster glowered at him all
the way through the selection, but the
substitute bass drum player wastoo
busy with the notes to be distracted.
At the close of the number the direct-
or went yer to him and said:
“Say, Schmidt, don’t you know what
‘pp’ means?”
“(.‘crtainiy I do,” replied the driura
mer. as he wiped the perspiration from
his forehead. “It means '30qu plen-
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'Slti- Abba .‘IIHI :zi. Elimriliantl.
T3 s, Abbe Prieur had invented a
kind 0’? shorthand which he thought
wOuld he of some use to the ministry.
But the ministry would none of. it,
and the aLI:e made known his little in-
vention to the King of Prussia, a pa-
tron of such profitable things. But one
of his letters was opened at the Post
Oliice by the Cabinet Noir, and the
next morning M. Abbe Prieur awoke
in the dungeon of Vincennes. He in-
quired the reason, and in the course of
months his letter to the King of Prus—
sia was shown to him.
“But I can explain that in a moment”
said the abbe. “Look, here is the
translation.” .
The hieroglyphs, in short, were as
innocent as a verse of the Psalms, but
the Abbe Prieur never quitted his dun-
geon—T. Hopkins in “The Dungeons
of Paris.”
“May I ask which of the city’s polit
. ,ical factions you belong, to?” said the
stranger, The boss. locked at him
sternly and then responded: “What
you doubtless mean to ask, sin is
Which. political faction belongs-to ’mefi’
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cemt. preferred stock.
PRO RATA DIVISION OF ALL SURPLUS EARNINGS.
Joseph Ladne was the pioneer of the Klondike.
" '5 was the founder of. Dawson City.
“ “ obtained a mono 1 of the adjacent timber lands.
“ “ purchased the ogogisr’lal quartz discovery in the Klondike .
thou ht to be the “Mother bode."
“ “ established the only saw—min 1n the Klondike district.
“ " controls the Canadian patent on Dawson City.
Mr. Ladne came east with this basic wealth and interested the most conservative
and highest class of financiers, forming one of the strongest and most owerful com;
panies yet organized. His Klondike placer claims of 500 feet each. “ other Lode
Quartz, propert on Gold Bottom Creek, saw-mill plant, timber rights, and some of
the best lots in awson City have been turned over to the above company.
The above company has since purchased the
Fine Passenger s.s. “ MORGAN CITY.”
300 feet long. 2.500 tons burden, and carrying capacity for 750 passengers, which wrll
operate between San Francisco or Seattle and Skaguay‘up to about the rst of June,
wh en she will be put in com miss ion to St. Michaels in connection With four river coats
and four or more freight scows on the Yukon River.
All the valuable assets of the company are behind this stock and investors are
are tired of ample protection. ' . _
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balance on allotment of shares. (Right reserve to withdraw stock Without notice.)
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