Show w W the its j man who would have a large life must wort work and pray that he may nave a large heart there are an thousands thousand of people in the world who would be happy it if somebody did not hunt up grievances for them t 5 a edgar minard a farmer fanner living near ne ar S anderson And ereon ind raised a pumpkin this season that weighs eighty four and one half pounds it was reported some time oso aim o so that had lost his mind it is ia now reported that he is writing an opera if it is a comic opera the first BM report was true the body of poke wells the outlaw and desperado is now in a pickling vat in the central medical college ega at st joseph mo he will soon become the sport of the dissecting knife young men who anticipate going west to rob banks and hold up trains ought to see a moral in these facts the incipient highwayman cerIta certainly is not seeking to get ino info the pickle mr wells lain Is in now new york has a tenor singer who Is ia so BO handsome that he has to have a woman chaperon to protect him from emotional young women this may be the case in new york anything in the shape of a male biped outside of dudes and other forms of insanity is very scarce but if the pretty tenor will go to chicago he be will not be there a week before he will have discharged hill hia chaperon and started advertising in matri matrimonial papers I 1 an important decision has been given givan by a now new york court to the effect that bicycle coasting is not scorching it if a bicyclist while coasting runs into anybody then he is subject to arrest but otherwise he be la is at liberty to coast all he wants to without fearing the intervention of the stern arm of the law it is interesting to know that the judge who gave the decision is a wheelman himself and therefore he may be supposed to have spoken from the standpoint of an eipert witness in the alcoholic ward of bellevue hospital Jo spital in new york lies a man dying it would serve no purpose to give his name but for the sake of an object lesson his case may well be recounted A rich cotton manufacturer died four years ago leaving an enormous fortune and four sons the eldest son died at 36 of alcoholism having made a large hole in the inheritance his second brother died a year later of the same disease aged 28 having done his share toward dissipating his fathers earnings the third son died a year ago also from drink at 24 and left only of the fortune to the last brother which he has ha spent in his turn ana now at 22 lies dying of the same thing in the public ward of a charity hospital surrounded by drunks of all forms of lowness and degradation this is a horrible tale but it is true and it should serve as a warning A story of two flags is told by a correspondent of an american newspaper who has bas verified accounts of spanish cruelty in cuba the foreman of a plantation attacked by the spaniards was a french citizen he retreated in to his house and wrapped himself in the french flag in spite of this significant ant Cant protest he was seized and put to death no such contempt was shown tor for the colors of another country whose protection was invoked A spanish force appeared at the estate of a british consul in search of a young man against whom they had some cause causa of complaint putting the young town man in a room the consul nailed the british sag AU across the door and dared the spaniards to tear it from its place the as callanta eai sal lanb lanta knew that the power of the britina empire was represented by that flag and the colors were undisturbed TU the world has learned thoroughly the lesson that chat the british flag protects the tum humblest blest subject of the queen may 5 fir never tail fall to be true that the amer Ici lean allag flag Ls is a defence for an american citizen the world over 9 at in this land we do not believe te in the 7 ni right of kings to never W th eless ess we must acknowledge edge the great ia ower of the monarchs ot of the he earth reason for gratification there tee recently P ex X 4 by the emperor of germany bhea vb J I 1 referring i of athe to that A e t used wily n this thit the tsar is ia alth bie hi ani are am toward peoples of a and or cc i 1 K |