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ARMOR'ED PLANTS. _' ;
Thorns and Spices that Protect Plants
. trom’ Their Enemies..
Did you ever stop to think -\why
thistles are so well armed with sharp
prickles or why the ugly roadside net-
tles are furnished with stinging hairs?
Notice .cattle grazing in a field where
thistles or nettles grow; see- how care-
ful they are to let those disagreeable
plants alone. ,That is the reason for
the stings and the spines. See the
honey locust tree bristling with its
horrid array of three-pointed thorns.
What animal is brave enough to try to
rob it of its leaves ,or great pods?
Hawthorns, too, and rose bushes and
blackberry briars all have their sharp
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little swords and daggers to defend.
themselves againstlbrowsing animals.
Out on the wide, hot deserts of Ari-
zona and New Mexico those oddplants,
the cacti, grow in great numbers. Some
of them take strange shapes—tall, fiu‘t—
ed columns, branching candelabra, or
mere round balls, like the melon-cac-
tus. They are almost the only plants
that grow in some parts of that coun—
try, and there is always plenty of sap
illside their tough skins. To the hungry
and thirsty creatures'that roam those
dreary wastes in search ofrfood'and wa—
ter they are very tempting. Were they
not some way protected, these cacti
«would soon be entirely destroyed. But
nature has made them to be like strong
forts or great armored battle ships
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among plants. They are guarded by'
all sorts of sharp spines and prickles
and fine hairs that burn when they get
into the flesh—St. Nicholas.
American Brisons.
A man who has spent nearly a life-
time studying prisons all over the
world says: That American jails to
be very dirty, but the penitentiaries
a: c the cleanest and [best in the world.
America leads the world in prison re-
turn. it is years ahead of every other
country.
Compensation.
“It must be awful to have a member
of one’s family who is a black sheep.
You don’t know how I sympathize for
you.”
“Oh, it has its joys. Every time
Willie gets into trouble the papers
speak of us and call attention to how
highly respectable we are.”——Cincin-
nati Enquirer.
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FAVORED WOMAN WITH BUNDLES.
in}: lidward Everett Hale Preferred Hus
Society to That of a. Young Woman.
A "Chicago young woman who had
been visiting in Boston, related this
incident of Edward Everett Hale,
Whom she greatly admires, having
met him and become personally in-
' terested in him at the home of friends:
“I was waiting for a car,” she said,
“When Dr. Hale, who, was also wait-
ing for the same car,accosted me with
great cordiality, and I at once antici-
pated a delightful treat, a tete—a-tete
on the car.
however, a large German woman, car-
rying several great bundles, climbed to
the only seats that were vacant, and
filling one, herself, placed her bundles
in the other two, leaving the venerable
pastor and myself standing. Dr. Hale
smiled and took up one Of the bundles
motioning me to the place it had oc-
cupied. Then he dropped the bundle
in my lap.
“ ‘Lend a hand, Miss Jessie,’ he said,
‘this poor woman is overburdened. I
will carry the other myself.’ .
“This he proceeded to do, talking
meanwhile to the woman in German,
and paying no further attention to me.
Was I chagrined? I was more disap-
pointed than I can tell. When he left
the car he bowed to me in his pleas-
ant, fatherly fashion, but to the Ger-
man, as he returned lier bundle, he
said: ‘
“ ‘I have been much interested in
your story. It has given me a. new
view of life. I thank you.’
“And I daresay,” continued the
young woman, “that he has put her in-
to a book or a sermon by this time,
while I wasn’t in it with the woman of
the bundles.”——Chicago Times-Herald.
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Grocer—You butchers have a soft
snap. You weigh the bones with the
meat, and charge meat prices.
Butcher—I don't see as you have any
call to talk. When you sell Swiss
cheese, don’t you weigh the holes and
charge cheese prices for them?—~Bos-
ton Transcript.
It is said that “the '6Tdest newspaper
in the world is the Kin Pan, of Pekin.
For nearly a thousand years it has
been published regularly, first ' as a
monthly, up to the year 1361, when it
became a weekly, and for the last nine-
ty years as a daily.
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Largest package—greatest economy.
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Expected to Bring About 3. Gen-
eral , Financial Debate. .
THE HOUSE WILL KILL IT
The Resolution is Likely to Pass the Sen-
ate. but by a Smaller ' Mini-gin T ian
“'hen It \Vas Taken Up--()pinions of
Sound liloney Men.
Washington, Jan. 25.—The agreement
of the Senate to vote on Thursday next
on the Teller bond resolution is regard-
ed by the sound money members of
the House and Senate as a direct chal-
lenge on the money question, and it is
believed that it ,will result in a. clean-
cut fight between the two contending
forces. It is obvious that the House
will refuse to concur in the action of
the Senate. Careful judges of the sit--
,uation in the Senate declare that the
resolution will pass there, but by a.
much smaller majority than the six—
teen votes by which it was taken up
last week. The roll call, on that oc-
casion was a good deal confused, and it
is known that several sound m'oney\
Democrats and some Western Republi-
cans will'vote against the resolution.
Senator Aldrich had assurances that if
he could get one or two missing votes,
some of the doubtful members would
join him in killing the resolution. He
was not quite able to make up the nec-
essary number, and certain Senators
voted for the consideration of the reso-
lution who would have voted the other
way if their votes would have turned
the scale.
Senator Aldrich has not modified in
the least his opinoin that a bill for the
unlimited coinage of silver by the Unit-
ed States at the ratio of 16 to 1, can-
not pass the Senate. He_ has a list of
forty-five Senators, making a. majority
of one, who have personally pledged
themselves upon the sound money side.
The list cannot be disclosed without in-
viting attacks on some of these Sena-
tors, which are not desirable, but it rep-
resents the bedrock strength of the
sound money members. It does not
include certain Senators of both parties,
who are for sound-money at heart, but
have given pledges to vote for free
coinage. It is expected that some of
the doubtful Senators whom Senator
Aldrich has conceded to the silver side
will be absent when the roll is called,
if a. free coinage bill is presented, and
the actual majority for sound money
will be considerably greater than is
positively claimed.
It is expected that the Teller resolu-
tion will reach the House soon after
its passage by the Senate Thursday,
and that it will be referred at once to
Committee of Ways and Means, nd
that committee will report it adversely.
Speaker Reed will be strongly urged to
permit the resolution to be called up at
an early date and to be voted upon
in the House. An Overwhelming-ma.-
jority for sound money is expected in
that body, which will go far to offset
the action of the Senate in its effect
upon public opinion at home ‘and
abroad.
Chairman Dingley does not think it
practicable to substitute a complete
banking measure and send it back _to
the Senate with a. request for a confer-
ence, but this course is being strongly
advocated by some of the out—and-out
gold standard members of the House.
Their fighting blood has been stirred
by the action of the Senate, and they
declare that the House and the Repub-
lican party should speak with no un-
certain sound in support of the public
credit and the gold standard.
Mr. Updegraff, of Iowa, one of the
most uncompromising gold standard
members, believes that the House
should seize the opportunity to at least
substitute for the Senate resolution the
declaration of the Monetary Commis-
sion, “that all obligations of the Unit—
ed States for the payment of money
now existing, or hereafter entered into,
shall, unless otherwise expressly pro-
vided, be deemed, and helstO be pay-
able.in gold min of the United States.”
It would be difidcult getting the Senate
to concur in an amendment of this sort,
but the gold standard men believe that
the House and the friends of sound
money should at least be as outspoken
and courageous upon the subject as the
narrow margin of free silver extremists
in the upper branch. '
Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, said:
“The Republicans talk about meeting
the financial question, yet they ran
away from it Thursday. ‘liose men
who made millions of dollars out of the
result of the last election imagine that.
the financial question is a dead issue,
and that they are safe from any danger
of Bryanism or free silver. I hold
that it is good politics and good busi-
ness policy to meet the silver men and
assist them in putting the question to
the front, for it gives us a chance to
reform our broken lines and get togeth-
er on ’the St. Louis platform. “We know
as well as the Democrats do that noth-
ing of a radical nature can be accom-
plished on the financial question, and if
the Democrats desire to make it an is-
sue again, we should welcome the ef-
fort.” . '
Didn’t lican to Kill His Chum.
New York, Jan. 25.—-Willia.m I-I. Wat-
SOn, Jr., who Sunday night shot and
killed hisfellow student, Joseph Miller,
in the dormitory of the New York
Trade School, was arraigned yesterday
in the Yorkville Police Court. He
pleaded not guilty and protested that
the shoOting was accidental. He was
held to await the action of the coroner.
The coroner is of the opinion that the
.young men quarreled over two girls,
and that William Youtzy, another stu-
dent, who was present when the killing
took place, knows more about the affair
than he is willing to tell. Miller was
17 years old, and came from Lewiston,
Pa. Watson, who is 21 years old, be-
longs in Rochester, N. H. '
To Boycott American Beef.
Washington, Jan. 25.——An effort has
been made in Scotland to check the sale
of foreigumeats. The butchers buy
in. and...
American beef at‘ 9 to 12 cents per .
pound and sell it at the same price as ‘
the Scotland beef, for which they pay
12- cents per pound.
Report on Gov. Griggs.
Washington, Jan. 25.—The Senate
Committee on Judiciary has reported .
of Gov. '
Griggs, of New Jersey. to 'be'Attorney- 3
favorably the nomiantion
General.
! Elaytians.
MANUFACTURERS-(1F AMERICA '
They Will Meet and Have President Mc-
, Kinley as TheirvGu/est.’
New York, Jan. 24.——Thev.third annual
convention of the National Association
of"Manufacturers will be called to or-
‘der by President Theodore C. Search of
Philadelphia,~ in the Masonic Temple,
this city, to-morrow. This will be the
most important meeting that the or-
ganization has ever held and a num-
ber of topics will come up for discus-
sion which are most vital to the future
development of the great' industrial
and commercial interests of the United
States.
President Search in his annual mes-
sage will give considerable attention
to the subject of the reform of our con-
sular service. He has made for years
a thorough study of this interesting
subject and will appeal for a complete
change in the methods of choosing and
electing our consuls. He belie‘ves
:at our consular representativeswho
vt“:
are sent abroad shall be selected for
(Y
tncss solely, and not for political rea-
PRESIDENT THEODORE C. SEARCH.
sons. He will state that the two great
evils from which the consular service
has suffered have been the appoint-
ment of men lacking in qualifications
and experience.
Among the many topics to be dis-
cussed at this convention will be sub-
ects relating to American trade with
foreign countries and to questions of
home industry. To further our for-
eign relations the following questions
will receive attention: Establishment
of sample ,warehouses, restoration of
the American merchant marine and
restoration of treaties of reciprocity.
The tariff problem, the proper adjust-
ment of duties so as to equalize the
cost of imported articles and of goods
made in the United States and the
matter of obtaining new markets for
American products will be thoroughly
discussed. .
The subjects of home interest to be
considered are these:
tion of the home market, the establish—
ment of a Department of Commerce
and Industry by the Government, uni—
fication of railroad freight rates, the
proper enforcement of the uniform
bankruptcy law recently adopted by
Congress, and the improvement of in-
ternal waterways.
A very important feature of this con—
vention will be the annual banquet,
which will take place at the magnifi-
cent Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Thursday
evening. President McKinley will be
the guest of honor and Senator Frye
of Maine will speak on the subjectof
"Our Merchant Marine.” Other speak—
ers of reputation will be present and
the affair will attract universal atten-
tion throughout this country. A B0-
hemian smoker will be held at the Wal-
dorf-Astoria to—morrow evening. A
stage performance will be one of the
features of this entertainment.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers is the most important and
strongest Commercial organization of
the United States. It was formed in
January, 1893, and has now over a thou-
sand members. Every important in-
dustrial section of the country is rep-
resented.
MOBS PILLAGE IN ALGIERS.
Rioting in the Capital Ends in Bloodshed
--I’olice Prove Powerless.
Algiers, Jan. 24.—Anti-Hebrew riots
were renewed here yesterday. The
.mob invaded the Hebrew. quarter and
pillaged the shops in the Rue Baba—
zoum, driving the merchants into the
streets. A squadron of chasseurs was
ordered to the place and charged the
mob with drawn swords, but the mob
reformed further on, cheering for the
army.
, Revolvers and daggers were used
freely. One man, who was stabbed in
the back and shot in the head, died on
the spot. Many were seriously stabbed,
one named Cayol dying from his
wounds this afternoon. . The crowd,
hearing of this, became dangerously
excited, shouting: “They are murder-
ing us!” “Death to the Jews!” and
resumed pillaging.
The fronts of six shops were destroy-
ed and the loot was burned.
The police repeatedly charged the
rioters, but were stubbornly resisted
and were powerless to restore order
until the troops arrived. Several po—
licemen were severely maltreated.
Many arrests for theft have been made.
The Hebrew authorities recommend
their co-religionists to remain indoors.
Both the men killed in the rioting were
Christians, and their companions have
sworn to avenge them.
Disturbances and the looting of He-
brew shops continued throughout last
evening, despite the efforts of the
troops to quell disorders. At 10 p. m.
acme Hebrew flour stores were pillaged
and their. contents thrown into the
streets. The zouaves then charged the
crowd with fixed bayonets and dis-
persed’ it. Many persons were in—
jured. '
Death of M. J. Cramer.
Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24.—M. J. Cramer,
art-Minister to Denmark and Switzer-
land, brother-in-law of General U. S.
Grant, died suddenly at 2.30 yesterday
morning of neuralgia of the heart. He
was 65 years old. For the last six
months he has been a. professor at
Dickinson College. None of his fam-
ily was here at the time of his death.
Italy After Hayti.
Rome, Jan. 24.—-_-An Italian warship
s on the eve of sailing for Hayti to en-
rorce Italy’s demands for compensaiton
for the violent and illegal treatment to
which Italians have been subjected to
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