Show AN UNPOPULAR FREE BALLOT it must make the decent and respectable pec table portion of the liberal party heartily ashamed of their editorial when they see themselves referred to by their own organs as contemptible temp tible traitors a bad lot pretended friends dirty j ack cormona and BO on through all the category of reproachful epil heta only disappointed political know how to use their crime is that they voted against the ticket framed by their party that they exercised the right to cast 9 free ballot a right which their party liaa glor iCed to the skies and to secure which it has announced itself as with singleness of heart and unity of purpose that they asserted their belief in that american form of one man power which of each man giving hia suffrage for the men and the principles of bia choice and that they did merely what their oft n oracles are always calling upon the cormons mormons to do show their independence pen dence and assert their manhood by voting for whomsoever they please regardless of party or any other dictation we cannot know what the motives of these independent voters here we do not even know who alie particular voters flere but ne do inow that aliey havo dine party good and have administered to it a rebuke which coming from friends will in all likelihood be heeded it is not fair to chaase thena with and there is no reason to accuse them of dishonesty either the men on the liberal ticket were all ta them which ia scarcely probable or the course of the liberal party has baba such as to convince them that any increase of its power would prove detrimental to the general welfare ala la ter is the only theory it furnishes an impregnable defense of their action and would have been equally for many of their political friends who felt as they did but lacked the courage to follow their example in the deed if the party and its organs are wise they will accept the reproof in kindness hard names and bitter eions will only the estrangement and drive others over the line for ourselves we think it much more honorable to act as these voters did than to prate as some of their fellow liberals did and still and vote for a continuance of a rule v lucli they despise tikon at hii word chiist about one hundred miles below abbyville Ab byville we passed bircket Burc ket s ferry St andine on the bank of the stream was an old man with a long grey beard he supported eup ported himself with a stick and atas trem bling in every linia you see that old man said the captain his right arm and tongue are paralyzed the story is a ead one and a leaann to men who are extravagant in their words the old man had been running this ferry fr many years but be runs it longer about a year ago he was a strong and vigorous man he was fond of deer hunting and aldaya left a boru at the ferry to be blown when any one heaired to cross he was on a deer hunt a year ago the dogs were in the heat of the chase and he waa thoroughly when suddenly the sound of the horn called him to duly ho wheeled around to return to the ferry leaving the dogs to run the race out and with an oath said if I 1 dont give up that ferry I 1 hope to be paralyzed As he uttered the worda bis right arm fell to his side and hi tongue refused to articulate he was paralyzed A queer canal st louis globe democrat the canal in the world is one I 1 never saw mentioned in any book or newspaper it is a canal sixteen miles long between forslev aud st helens in the north of england and is underground from end to end in lancashire the coil mines are very extensive half the country being un lerminez ler mined and amny years ago the duke of bridgewater s managers thought they could save money by transporting trana porting the coal underground instead of on the surface so the canal wai constructed ted the kuinca conne connected cled and drained at tha same time ordinary canal boata are used but the power is by men on the roof of the tunnel arch are cross pieces and the meu alio do the work of propulsion lie on their backs on the boal and push with their feet against the cross bars on the roof frix or eight men will draw a of four or five boats and as there are two divisions in the tunnel boats pass each other without lady duff gordons pet snake ilor lady gordon had a tame snake and used to carry her pet about with her wound round her aria inside the large baggy that were then the fashion and it would put iti slender head out at the and lap milk out of the palm of her band it was as fond of glittering things as lucie herself hera elf and when she took her many rings off her finders and placed them on dif lerent parts of ahe table it would go about col lee ting them stringing them on its little body an finally tying itself into a tight knot so that the rings could not be recovered ered until it clomae to untie itself again 1 S aart bat boston globe A waiter at the hotel on washington street says there la a rat of uncommon intelligence which haanes the hotel kitchen and food from the cook he baya this rat ought to be and exhibited as a marvel at chri dime museums mus euma several stories of sagacity are told about thia rodent of which the is one A few evenings ago said the waiter 1 I had occasion to go down into the litchen it atas dusky when I 1 arrived and as soon as my eyes donld permit me to get aoud to the saw a rat up to a dish of doughnuts and beta to take them out one by me and string them on bia tail as you string beads when he had put on five and idled ahli tail all up lie turned around took the end of his tail between bis teemu and walked off as if he were going to |